Celebrating Nick Drake's birthday (with birthday guests!)

Had my kids come down June 19 to the station to sit in on the show which was fun. They picked a few tracks and I used the sound off their video games as a bed for announcements.

I played an okay Nick Drake cover and had a caller ask for some real Nick Drake because it was his birthday! I'm an avid Nick Drake fan -- at the top is the picture I took in 2000 of his "shroud" which was on display in a record store in Dublin. So I just had to dedicate an entire set for Drake. Here was the complete setlist:

Boards of Canada	music is math
john lurie	freezing guitar
Monkey Mafia	Ward 10
Buckethead	Speed Flux Quadrant
Eskimo	Happy Home
Hans Reichel	Le Bal
Tom Lehrer	Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
MGMT	Future Games
Daniel Johnston	True Love WIll Find You IN THe End
Anna Kendricks	Cups (Pitch Perfect's "When I'm Gone"
Scott Matthews	Place To Be
David Bowie	The Bewlay Brothers
Joanna Newsom	Peach, Plum, Pear
Dj Qbert	Redworm
	Science is Fun
DJ Spooky and Karsh Kale	Variation Cybernetique rmx
C418	Minecraft
Nick Drake	Way to Blue
Nick Drake	Things Behind the Sun
Nick Drake	One of These Things First
Lisa Hannigan	At the Chime of the City Clock
Nick Drake	Hanging on a Star
Lucinda Williams	Which WIll
Nick Drake	From the Morning
Mr. Scruff	Feel free
Napolian	Incursio
Sam Amidon	He's Taken My Feet
Linda Perhacs	Intensity
The Eels	Mistakes of My Youth
Chad Van Gaalen	Cut off My Hands
The War on Drugs	Red Eyes
Wye Oak	Before
Blk Jks	Zol!
Caetano Veloso	Terra
Gashcat	Til the Morning Comes
Death	We Are Only People

There will be a sub for me on June 26, but I'll be back July 3rd. Have been working on a setlist of marshy, boggy, swampy, moist, mushy, fungus songs. Probably fantastical, so psychedic/progressive rock would probably work pretty well. Let me know if you have any suggestions!

Marxist Minstrels Setlist

Below you'll find the setlist for my June 5, 2014 Marxist Minstrels show -- it went pretty well. I had some station matters to attend to but had planned everything out enough that I could go on autopilot for a little while.

The interesting thing I noticed about what Rev. Noebel had to say is that most of it was not inaccurate -- his facts were pretty solid! Now, what you interpret from those facts is, where you might differ. . .

So here's the list -- I took out some electronica I played as a bed for soundbites (and most of the songs I played after the main content was over.)

Lulu Belle and Scotty	I'm No Communist
The Almanac Singers	Talking Union
Pete Seeger	Solidarity Forever
The Weavers	Pay Me My Money Down
Pete Seeger	Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
Woody Guthrie	This Land is Your Land
Malvina Reynolds	Little Boxes
Sis Cunningham	No More Store Bought Teeth
Ewan MacColl	Dirty Old Town
Chad Mitchell Trio	Moscow Nights
Earl Robinson	Black and White
Joan Baez	Blowin in the Wind
Bob Dylan	Ballad of a Thin Man
New Lost CIty Ramblers	When First Unto this Country
Guy Carawan	We Shall Overcome
Cisco Houston	The Tramp
Phil Ochs	I Ain't Marchin Anymore
The Serendipity Singers	Beans in My Ears
Phil Ochs	Draft Dodger Rag
Dave Van Ronk	Willie the Weeper
New Christy Minstrels	Hallelujah I'm a Bum
Bessie Smith	Careless Love
Burl Ives	Foggy Foggy Dew
Earl Robinson	Joe Hill
Long Haired Preacher	Harry McClintock
Mats Paulson	Should I Ever Be a Soldier
Alexander Zelkin	Meadowland
Woody Guthrie	Jesus Christ
Barry McGuire	Eve of Destruction
Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips	The Internationale

Bonus Track: Antiflag 1914

June 5, 2014 -- Marxist Minstrels!

For my June 5th WCBN show, I'll be examining "the Communist Subversion of AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC" using Rev. David Noebel's 1966(?) spoken word album "The Marxist Minstrels" as a guide.

From the very first issue of Pete Seeger's People's Songs in February 1945, to the latest album by Bob Dylan, Noebel shows us the continue presence of the far-left in folk music.

The spoken word excerpts I'll feature from the album will give history and context to the music -- I've already picked over 70 minutes of songs so I may be able to almost make a complete three hour show of this. If not, I'll turn the show over to requests so the listeners can help me keep the mood going.

Or if I get a lot of angry callers I have this Orrin Hatch album which I'll just put on repeat.

Thursday 12-3 pm on wcbn.org.