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Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs August 10th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs

We listen for poetry in music and music in poetry, songs as poems and poems as songs with Langston Hughes, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Nordine. Plus, a visit to New York’s City Lore with poet-folklorist Steve Zeitlin, who rides the POEMobile to the People’s Poetry Gathering and then back to New Orleans to meet Louisiana’s poet laureate, Mona Lisa Saloy.

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DREAMERS THEN & NOW: ERIC ANDERSEN & SAMANTHA FISH

June 6th, 2018

As the promise of summer rises with the heat index, we explore the world of daydreams, nostalgia, fantasy and future selves. Time travel with songwriting scenester Eric Andersen back to his days hanging with the Beats at City Lights bookstore and Greenwich Village’s folk music scene, train-riding across Canada with Janis Joplin, Buddy Guy and the Grateful Dead and tripping out on music and hallucinogens. Sit in with youthful blues guitar-slinger Samantha Fish for an in-studio performance and convo as she waxes political and poetic about the “American Dream” and tells of growing up in Kansas City pursuing her childhood dream to take the stage. And hear moon-eyed romantic numbers from Bobby Darin and Patsy Cline and riverine reveries from Lee Dorsey and Roy Orbison.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: I Shall Go Unbounded Eric Andersen
    'Bout Changes 'n' Things Take 2, Vanguard
  • Blue River Eric Andersen and Joni Mitchell
    Blue River, Columbia
  • Woodstock Darlingside with Heather Maloney
    Woodstock, Signature Sounds Recordings
  • Violets of Dawn The Blues Project
    Back Door Man/Violets of Dawn, Verve Folkways
  • Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat Bob Dylan
    Blonde on Blonde, Columbia
  • Chauffeur Blues Jefferson Airplane
    Jefferson Airplane Takes Off 1965, RCA
  • Instrumental: Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From? Hot Tuna
    The Phosphorescent Rat, Grunt
  • SEGMENT: Eric Andersen

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  • Me and My Bobby McGee The Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead Skull & Roses, Warner Brothers
  • (Try) Just a Little Bit Harder Janis Joplin
    I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Dream of the Origins of the French Broad River John Fahey
    Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years 1958-1965, Dust-to-Digital
  • Save Some Time to Dream John Cougar Mellencamp
    No Better Than This, Rounder
  • Walkin' After Midnight Patsy Cline
    Patsy Cline, Decca
  • Dream Lover Bobby Darin
    Dream Lover/Bullmoose, ATCO
  • Dream a Little Dream of Me Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
    Dream a Little Dream of Me/ Can Anyone Explain, Decca
  • Closing Bed: Sleep Walk Santo and Johnny
    Santo & Johnny, Canadian-American Records

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Gone for Good Samantha Fish
    Belle of the West, Ruf
  • Write Me a Few of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues Bonnie Raitt
    Takin' My Time, Warner Brothers
  • Pearline Son House
    Legendary Son House Father of Folk Blues, Columbia
  • Blood in the Water Samantha Fish
    Paste Sessions 2017,
  • Ode to Billie Joe Tammy Wynette
    Take Me to Your World/I Don't Wanna Play House, Epic
  • You Are My Sunshine Ray Charles
    You Are My Sunshine, ABC-Paramount
  • Instrumental: Jim Lee Blues Pt. 1 Samantha Fish
    Wild Heart, Ruf Records
  • SEGMENT: Samantha Fish

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  • Instrumental: Blues on Purpose Nina Simone
    I Put a Spell on You, Philips
  • I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl Nina Simone
    The Very Best of Nina Simone, 1967-1972: Sugar in My Bowl, Sony
  • Either Way I Lose Samantha Fish
    Chills & Fever, Ruf
  • Belle of the West Samantha Fish
    Belle of the West, Ruf
  • River Boat Lee Dorsey
    Lee Dorsey- Soul Mine: The Greatest Hits & More 1960-1978, Charly
  • Walkin' to Louisiana Clifton Chenier
    Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie
  • Blue Bayou Roy Orbinson
    In Dreams , Monument
  • Closing Bed: Aloha Golden Meadow Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Kalenda, Rice Pump

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