Barking Dog: February 17, 2022
This Week’s Theme: Recordings from Community Radio
This week, to celebrate community radio during CKUW’s annual Fundrive, we played recordings from non-profit radio stations from all over North America.
The Small Glories - Time Wanders On
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread and Butterbeans
Recorded at WDVX in Tennessee
Mississippi John Hurt - The Angels Laid Him Away
Recorded for WTBS-FM in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1964
We’ll hear Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James interviewed briefly before the song
AA Bondy - When the Devil’s Loose
Recorded at WNRN in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2009
Odetta - Muleskinner Blues
Performed for Studs Terkel’s Weekly Almanac on WFMT in Chicago
Kacy & Clayton - Dying Bedmaker
Recorded at CKUA in Alberta in 2016
Son House - Death Letter
Performed for a Chicago radio program in April of 1965
Corey Harris - Everybody Oughta Make a Change
Recorded at WNRN radio in Charlottesville, VA in 2010
Charlie Parr - Mag Wheels
Contemporary Minnesota artist
Recorded at KEXP in Seattle in 2019
David Francey - Paper Boy
Carpenter and railyard worker turned folksinger
Recorded at KCBX in California
Townes Van Zandt - Farther Along
A gospel song from the American south, the oldest printed version of which is from 1911
The Simon Sisters - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Performed on the Oscar Brand Show in 1964
Adapted by Lucy Simon from the poem written by Eugene Field in 1889
Old Man Luedecke - I Quit My Job
Recorded at WAMU in Washington, DC
Tony Saletan - Rattlin’ Bog
Off his show Let’s All Sing
Woody Guthrie - Tom Joad
From the WNYC show Folk Songs of America from December of 1940
Lead Belly - Grey Goose
Recorded for WNYC’s Folk Songs of America program in 1941
Pete Seeger, Big Bill Broonzy, Studs Terkel - The Frog / Alberta
Interviewed by Studs Terkel on his Weekly Almanac on WFMT in Chicago in 1956
Eric Bibb - With a Dolla in My Pocket
Recorded at CKUA in Alberta in 2018
Bruce Cockburn - States I’m In
Recorded at WFUV in New York City in 2019
Ry Cooder - Death Valley
On VPRO in the Netherlands in 1973
Pharis & Jason Romero - It Just Suits Me
Recorded for KBOO in Portland, Oregon, in 2013
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?
Recorded at KDHX in Missouri in 2017
A Jimmy Lee Williams song
Freshwater Trade - Canadee-I-O
Recorded at C.H.C.R. in Killaloe, Ontario
Fred Penner - The Cat Came Back
He recorded this at the University of PEI in 2011
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer - Goodbye Anne
A married duo who have released about 35 albums and received 14 Grammy nominations and 2 Grammy awards
