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TRANSCENDING NEW ENGLAND
We travel the New England soundsacpe from rural dances to urban folk clubs, from Maine truckdriving songs to regional rock. Also music from Boston Irish and Italians, French Quebecois and Cape Verdean Portuguese. Plus stories from eel fishermen and cranberry farmers, urban gardeners and country fiddlers. Massachusetts-raised troubadour Jonathan Richman stops in from the road to converse, and author Peter Guralnick reminisces about how the blues found him in New England.
HOUR ONE
- Farewell to Whiskey / Silver and Gold Two-Step Rodney Miller's N.E. Dance Band
Choose Your Partners!: Contra & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire, Folkways - Postcard Lawrence Cole
- Redwing Marcel Robidas
Mademoiselle, Voulez-Vous Danser?, Folkways - Tombstone Every Mile Dick Curless
Tombstone Every Mile, Capitol - On the Road Again Tom Rush
The Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets, Columbia/Legacy - Dirty Water Standells
Nuggets from Nuggets, Rhino - Instrumental: Boston Boy Ricky Skaggs
Ancient Tones, Skaggs Family - The Boston Burglar Delia Murphy
From Galway To Dublin: Early Recordings of Irish Traditional Music, Rounder - Miss Bruce / The Absentminded Man / Welcome to Cork Joe Derrane w/ Felix Dolan
Give Us Another, Green Linnet - Clay Pipe Medley Joe Cormier
The Art of the Fiddle, Rounder - INTERVIEW: Peter Guralnick
Listen - Harvard Blues Jimmy Rushing
Rushing Lullabyes/Little Jimmy Rushing and the Big Brass, Columbia/Legacy - Sweet Woman (From Maine) Robert Junior Lockwood
Blues Masters Volume 2: Postwar Chicago Blues, Rhino - Postcard Bertha McCrarey on gardening in Boston
- Instrumental: Morna Di Freddie Toi Grace & The Verdatones
So Sabi: Cape Verdean Music From New England, Rounder - The ‘Saint-Gaudens' In Boston Common Bill Frisell
Have A Little Faith, Elektra - Moonlight In Vermont Billie Holiday
Songs for Distingué Lovers, Verve - Moondance Van Morrison
Moondance, Polydor
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Hornpipe For Harpsichord Played Upon Guitar Davy Graham
Fire in the Soul, Topic - Postcard Milton Jeffers on how to catch and cook eels
- La Pied du Mouton Larry & Henry Riendeau
The Art of Traditional Fiddle, Rounder - Postcard Lucien Mathieu on practicing fiddle
- Entre Moi Chanterelle w/Josie Vachon
Mademoiselle, Voulez-Vous Danser?, Smithsonian Folkways - So Sabi Creole Sextet and Joe Livramento
So Sabi: Cape Verdean Music from New England, Rounder - Señor Blues Horace Silver
Blue Note Years 1939-1999, Blue Note - Instrumental: Banned In Boston Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet, Sony - Postcard Parading with Boston Italians
- Root Hog and Die Woody Guthrie
Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti, Folkways - Baby Let Me Follow You Down Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, Sony - Pal of Mine Joan Baez
Joan Baez Vol.2, Vanguard - Love Me Like a Man Bonnie Raitt
Give It Up, Warner - Give It To Me The J. Geils Band
Anthology: Houseparty, Rhino - Instrumental: I Know You Morphine
Good, Ryko - No Good to Cry The Wildweeds
45rpm, - New England Jonathan Richman
The Best of Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, Rhino - SEGMENT: Jonathan Richman
Listen - End Bed: Roadrunner Jonathan Richman
Radio On!, Snapper
