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>>> List For Week of October 26, 2008
Gene Shay WXPN Philadelphia // Annotated And Verbose Edition
10-26-08
Last night's show was produced while the Phillies were playing the Rays in the 4th game of the World Series. This whole town has gone baseball crazy and we had the game on the TV in the studio with closed captions. Yes it was a distraction but what a thrill to see our guys win---and come just one game away from a much deserved World Championship. Go Phillies!
Guests: (live)
Chris O'Brien
Met Chris in Memphis at last year's Folk Alliance and before that at NERFA. I had never heard his CD and asked him what was on the cover. He told me it was a yellow and black cover and damned if I didn't find it when I got back from Memphis.
Chris was in town to play the Tin Angel and working with bassist Austin Nevins who also plays with Josh Ritter's band.
David Kleiner
This is the Philadelphia area David Kleiner (as opposed to the New York based David Kleiner who did the song about the Mexican Rabbi).
Who would think there would be two songwriters named David Kleiner.
Last night this David Kleiner sang songs from his new album--a story telling, "Broadside" style collection of true events. He's a huge Phil Ochs fan and told me that he used to tune into my show when he was a youngster---and heard me interview Phil one Sunday night when Phil said "Here's a new song I'd like to do for you" Then David heard Phil unfolding a piece of paper by the microphone---he heard the wrinkling of the paper---and then Phil sang his "new" song "Changes". Wow! --I don't remember Phil doing that---reading it because it was so new.
8 PM
Arlo Guthrie
All Over The World
All Over The World
Rising Son
Arlo is coming to town first week in November ---Keswick Theatre ---with Abe and The Burns Sisters. I hope to be there.
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Moneyland
The Del McCoury Band
Moneyland
McCoury Music
I just found out that the late John Herald of the Greenbriar Boys wrote "Moneyland".
There was a time when John lived in Philly and I wound up managing him for about a year. What a great talent he was. Do you know he wrote the most popular version of "Stewball". Yup. I'll tell you the story about that sometime.
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Roy Zimmerman
Thanks For The Support
Thanks For The Support
Metaphor
Roy is coming to NERFA in November. Funny guy with clever songs, I look forward to meeting him.
Greg Brown
Who Woulda Thunk It ?
Red House Silver Anniversary Retrospective / (advance)
Red House
A longtime listener called me and said she thought Lui Collins wrote "Rooty Toot Toot For The Moon". I did play her recording of the song for a long while. But that's because I loved tht melody---and Greg Brown did not sing it that way. Unless I missed something. I know there was a verse added by Dick Pinney but Greg did write it---Right?
Colleen Crosson
Rooty Toot Toot For The Moon
Singing Into Being
Self
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Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
Fence Post in the Front Yard
Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
Nonesuch
Unbelievable ensemble virtuosity from these two guys. A knockout performance!
Jonatha Brooke
King Of My Love 3:57
The Works
Self
A Co-write with Woody Guthrie using a deck of cards as a metaphor for this love song. In a way I helped Jonatha get into the Woody Guthrie Archive when I suggested her to Nora Guthrie. I was producing a fund raiser for the Philadelphia Folksong Society and the idea was to have a number of "new" Woody Guthrie songs with music written by Contemporary folk artists. John Gorka, Cathy Fink and Jonatha--and Jonatha took it a few steps further. She asked Nora about looking for more Woody poetry she could work with---and wound up with a whole album of them.
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Ewan MacColl
The Card Song
The Best Of Ewan MacColl
Prestige/Fantasy
My mentor the late Dr. Kenny Goldstein produced this song for Prestige International years ago (The Best of Ewan MacColl).
This too is a song about playing cards but it was a drinking song sung by British Soldiers who were stationed in India a century or more ago.
So now has anyone recorded "The Queen of Hearts" recently ?..Used to play that by Cynthia Gooding . And where is the Baez version of that card/love song?
9 PM
Anne Hills
My America
Mission Street Project 2
Hudson Harding
Erik Balkey did a magnificent job writing or co-writing these songs and he got some of my favorite artists on board. Anne Hills song is poignant, loverly and oh so topical.
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Iris Dement
Our Town
Infamous Angel
Philo
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Archie Fisher
Ontario Dust
Windward Away
Red House
Robin & Linda Williams
Mayebelle's Guitar And Monroe's Mandolin
Buena Vista
Red House
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The Carter Family
Bear Creek Blues
Clinch Mountain Treasures
County
One of the least know of the Carter Family tunes---but a great one for me. John Prine recently covered this song on one of his Red Pajamas CDs.
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Greenbriar Boys
The Blues My Naughtie Sweetie Gives To Me
The Best Of The Greenbriar Boys Featuring John Herald
Vanguard
This time John Herald shows of his great voice and fast paced flat picking. Also you get to hear Ralph Rinzler and Bob Yellin trying to sound like hillbillies.
Mark Erelli
Five Beer Moon
Delivered
Signature Sounds
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Ian Robb
Garnet's Home-Made Beer
From Different Angels
Fallen Angle
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Boris Garcia
Through The Window
Once More Into The Bliss
Concert feature: Chuck Brodsky sings a few songs- From his Double CD titled "Two Sets"
Chuck's Uncle was engaged to my wife a few years before I met her. Small world.
Dory Previn
The Lady With The Braid
Live At Carnegie Hall
BGO
Andre Previn's ex. I used to play this tune a lot when my show was on WMMR in the 70s.
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Tony Trischka and Skyline
Stranded In The Moonlight
Ticket Back: A Retrospective
Flying Fish
This past Saturday Carl, My partner in Sliced Bread Records celebrated his birthday by inviting Tony Trischka and Skyline (Danny Weiss, Barry Mitterhoff of Hot Tuna and bassist Larry Cohen) to play at his party. And fortunately Anne Hills, was at the part and sang Stranded In The Moonlight--a great song by Michael Smith. What a treat that was.
Darrell Scott
American Tune
Modern Hymns
Appleseed
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Joel Rafael
Promised Land
Thirteen Steps
Inside
Joel is also a great interpreter of Woody Guthrie. I spent some time with he and his daughter Jamaica at the Woodyfest in Okema OK in July. Joel's other daughter Cree manages Jackson Browne and a lovely lady to work with.
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The Sacred Shakers ( Eilen Jewell)
Twelve Gates To The City
The Sacred Shakers
Signature Sounds
Tony Rice
Urge For Going
Night Flyer
Rounder
At this point the Phillies were out front by 6 runs---
11 PM (end of show)
Production:
Eric Schuman
Dan Kirshtein
Josh Pannebacker
Adam Stan
These guys---my interns--- are all in their 20's and are really interested in music, recording, production. Every Sunday they show up to set up mics, run the board, answer phones and enter my playlist---in real time---into the XPN website. I don't know how I could operate the show without them. Bless 'em!
Gene Shay
Host of the Folk Show, WXPN, Philadelphia
Folk Correspondent, World Cafe Live
Host, Folkalley.com
Board Member, Philadelphia Folksong Society
Co-Founder and Emcee, Philadelphia Folk Festival
Workshop Committee Director, NERFA
Charter Board, International Folk Alliance
Board Governor, The Recording Academy, Philadelphia Chapter
Resumé Chairman, National Inflated Ego Task Force