Spring Break Radio

 

 

As a bonus for doing the Salt Creek Show on WVBR on Sunday mornings, I get to go into the studio whenever I want if the Cornell students are away on break.  Unlike the obligation to stick to the various genres of Salt Creek, these evening shows have no standards.  I can play whatever I feel like, what gets requested, or pops up surreptitiously.  The Salt Creek setlists get posted to its Facebook page every week, and I'm told there are people who actually look at them.  I was also told I should post my free-form shows setlists.  I guess people want to check them to listen to what they missed.  It's about 150 songs so good luck.  I got into the groove of starting each show with "Joe's Garage" and due to political mayhem by the current administration, felt the need to play "Dance in the Street" every night.

  All week I was highlighting songs by Chip Taylor as he died a few days before.  I'd also gone on a little shopping spree at Angry Mom Records and played songs from my new CDs and albums.  I celebrated birthdays each day: in this case my friend Lauren who requested the Frank Sinatra, and the birthdays of Tracy Chapman, Nora Jones and Eric Clapton.

   Tuesday was the birthday of Angus Young of AC/DC and Chuck Berry.

   Wednesday was April Fools Day so songs of fools and jokers were the focus.  It was the birthday of John Barbata, who played drums with everyone and their mother, and Ronnie Lane, who also had a fool song he did with Pete Townsend.  It was also the night of an incredible series of thunderstorms.  The first one delayed my walk to the station.  When I did go up, there were raging rivers flowing down the streets on East Hill.  The second one prompted an interruption by the Emergency Broadcast System.

   Thursday was a night to play my favorite artists, as well as sneak in a few songs for Connie who turned 70.

  Feeling the end of the week coming, I was reluctant to quit as early as the other nights and stayed almost four hours.

  Friday, I figured I'd play all long songs.  I tried to make them be at least eight minutes, but there were a few exceptions.  I thought it would be a chance to relax a bit more without so much running around the studio looking for records and CDs and more time to sit and listen, but that really wasn't the case.  I did fix the latch on the basement door during the first three minutes of Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well."  It had been broken for at least two winters and blew open a couple times resulting in frozen pipes.

  It was just a couple weeks later before I got to do the Salt Creek Show again.  The date was 4/19 so I did a special 4/20 Eve Show.  Had to stick with the format, so no Afroman, and I didn't find a countrified version of "Rainy Day Women 12 and 35" which I believe was the real reason 420 became associated with pot.  Here's the setlist (in the format required) that got posted to the Salt Creek Facebook page:

6 AM

Joe/ Fred Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels/ Things is Changin’/ Sweetwater

Illegal Smile/ John Prine/ John Prine/ Columbia

Greencastle Blues/ Todd Snider/ The Excitement Plan/ Yep Roc

Too Stoned to Cry/ Andrew Combs/ Worried Man/ Loose Music

Getting High in Hotel Rooms/ Christina Vane/ Hear My Call/ Lossless

Morning Again/ Paper Wings/ Mountains on the Moon                           New

Stars Fell on Alabama/ Tara Nevins/ Wood and Stone/ Sugar Hill

Lonestar State of Mind/ Nancy Griffith/ Lonestar State of Mind/ MCA

Okie From Muskogee/ Merle Hagard/ Oh Boy Classics Presents Merle Haggard/ Oh Boy

Cigarettes and Truckstops/ Lindi Ortega/ Cigarettes and Truckstops/ Last Gang

Sunday Morning Coming Down/ Kris Kristofferson/ Super Hits/ Monument

Waiting on Horses/ Janet Batch/ You Be the Wolf

Fine Time at Our House/ Foghorn String Band/ Rattlesnake Tidal Wave/ Foghorn Music

Another Day/ Tim O’Brien/ Traveler/ Sugar Hill

Barcelona Lighthouse/ Western Centuries/ Call the Captain/ Free Dirt

7 AM

This Train/ Sister Rosetta Tharpe/ Rock Me [Disc 2]: The Original Soul Sister/ Gospel Train

You’re Finally Hurtin/ Brennen Leigh/ Don’t You Ever Give Up on Love/ Signature Sounds

We’ve Got It Made/ Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms/ Gold in Your Pocket/ Free Dirt

Morebud4me/ Billy Strings/ Highway Prayers/ Reprise

Me and My Baby Love to Wake and Bake/ Asylum Street Spankers/ Spanker Madness/ Yellow Dog Records

Stoned/ Old 97s/ Hitchhike to Rhome/ Big Iron

One Toke Over the Line/ Brewer and Shipley/ Tarkio/ Kama Sutra Records

Were You There?/ Johnny Cash/ Ultimate Gospel/ Columbia

Dance In the Street/ Donna the Buffalo/ Dance In the Street/ Self

Lonesome Fiddle Blues/ Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/ Will the Circle be Unbroken/ EMI

8 AM

Stoned at the Jukebox/ Hank Williams Jr./Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels Vol 7/ MGM

Worry B Gone/ Guy Clark/ Workbench Songs/ Dual Tone

Alabama Hightest/ Old Crow Medicine Show/ Tennessee Pusher/ Netwerk

Long Haired Country Boy/ Charlie Daniels/ Fire on the Mountain/ CBS-Embassy

Please Help Me (I’m Falling In Love)/ Charley Pride/ The Essential Charley Pride/ Pride Music

Buffalo Street/ Driftwood/ Driftwood

I Must Be High/ Wilco/ A.M./ Sire

Rain and Snow/ The Lonesome Sisters with Riley Baugus/ The Lonesome Sisters with Riley Baugus/ Tin Halo

The Rat Race/ The Rabble Rousers String Band/ Rat Race

Walking After Midnight/ Cyndi Lauper/ Detour/ Rhino

How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away/ Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks/ The Most of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks/ Sony Legacy

Kelly Joe’s Shoes/ Tim O’Brien/ Traveler/ Sugar Hill

I’ll Go Stepping Too/ Emmylou Harris/ Roses in the Snow/ Rhino-Warner Bros

Lovesick Blues/ The Burnett Sisters Band/ Easy Come, Easy Go/ Pinecastle     New

Silver Dollar/ Sierra Ferrell/ Long Time Coming/ Rounder

Holding/ John Hartford/ Aereo-Plain/ Warner Bros

Granny Wontcha Smoke Some Marijuana/ Sam Bush/ Radio John: Songs of John Hartford/ Smithsonian

Julie/ Rhiannon Giddens/ Freedom Highway/ Nonesuch

The Riveter/ Sami Braman/ The Riveter/ Padiddle Records

Rain Again/ Alison Brown. Look Left/ Vanguard

Danville Girl/ Bobbie Henrie and Aaron Lipp

9 AM

Easy on Your Way/  The Steel Wheels/ Sideways/ Big Ring Records

Betty and Dupree/ Dave Alvin and Jimmy Dale Gilmore/ Mexicalli/ Yep Roc

Broke Down Engine/ Dave Alvin and Jimmy Dale Gilmore/ Mexicalli/ Yep Roc 

It’s All Going to Pot/ Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard/ 

Seeds and Stems/ Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen/ We’ve Got a Live One Here/ Warner Bros

Crooked Piece of Time/ Todd Snider/ new connection/ Oh Boy

(Burn One with) John Prine/ Kasey Musgraves/ Self

Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die/ Willie Nelson/ Heroes    

Keep Off the Grass/ Todd Snider/ Happy to Be Here/ Aimless

Winning the War On Drugs/ Asylum Street Spankers/ Spanker Madness/ Yellow Dog Records

The Basement/ Sami Braman/ Riveter/ Padiddle Records