A Sonic Season of Light & Evergreens
Our “Sonic Season” includes Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Boxing Day. We celebrate with New Orleans Zion Harmonizers live in our studio. Woody Guthrie sings a Hanukkah song while Bob Dylan tells of “Three Angels.” We interview a black Santa about his Christmas days in Vietnam, and Bob Dorough sings “Blue Xmas,” the song he wrote for Miles Davis. Meanwhile, life in America goes on… in hopes and dreams that bring light to the darkness…
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Anji Simon & Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence , Columbia
California Dreaming Bobby Womack
Why Do Fools Fall in Love Soundtrack, Rhino
River Joni Mitchell
Blue, Warner Reprise
Winterlude Joe Ely
To Kate: A Benefit for Kate's Sake, Western Beat Records
Seasons of My Heart George Jones
Cup of Loneliness, The Classic Mercury Years, Mercury
Baby It's Cold Outside Ray Charles and Betty Carter
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You, Rhino
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday, Columbia/Legacy
Instrumental: The Hidden Light Andy Statman
The Hidden Light, Sony Classical
On the King's Highway Andy Statman
Old Brooklyn, Shefa
Abi Gezunt Klezmer Conservatory Band
Oy Chanukah!, Rounder
Sleigh Ride Bela Kleck & the Flecktones
Jingle All the Way, Rounder
Hanukkah Dance Woody Guthrie
Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways
Three Angels Bob Dylan
New Morning, Columbia
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve
Christmas Night in Harlem Louis Armstrong
Hipster's Holiday: Vocal Jazz and R&B Classics, Rhino
Instrumental: Santa's Second Line New Birth Brass Band
A New Orleans Christmas, Putomayo
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Mississippi Fred McDowell
15 Down Home Gospel Classics , Arhoolie
We Free Kings Rahsaan Roland Kirk
We Free Kings, Mercury
CLIP: Zion Harmonizers
End Bed: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Jimmy Smith
Christmas Cookin' , Verve
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Christmas Blues Ramsey Lewis
The Joy of Christmas Past, GNP
Faraway Christmas Blues Johnny Otis
The Johnny Otis R&B Caravan/Complete Savoy Recordings , Savoy
Baltimore Oriole Bob Dorough
Devil May Care, Bethlehem Archives
CLIP: Bob Dorough
Blue Christmas Lumineers
Blue Christmas- Single, Lumineers
Merry Christmas Baby Charles Brown
Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics , Rhino
Instrumental: Greensleeves Jimmy Smith
Christmas Cookin' , Verve
Christmas in Vietnam Johnny & Jon
Merry Christmas Baby, Ronn
SEGMENT: Chuck Siler
Santa Claus is Skating to Town Granville Williams Orchestra
Natty and Nice, A Reggae Christmas, Rhino
Christmas Is A Coming Leadbelly
Leadbelly Sings for Children, Smithsonian Folkways
J'ai Vu le Loup, Le Renard et la Belette Balfa Brothers
Balfa Brothers Play More Traditional Music, Swallow
Bachata en Navidad La Sonara Matancera featuring Celia Cruz
Celebremos Nochebuena con Sonora Matancera, Codigo Music
Feliz Navidad Los Straightjackets
'Tis the Season for Los Straightjackets, Yep Roc
Instrumental: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) Duke Ellington
Three Suites, Columbia
Sherburne (While Shephers Watched Their Flocks by Night) Sacred Harp Singers
Songs of the Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
Cherry Tree Carol Pentangle
Solomon's Seal, Reprise
Greensleeves John Coltrane
The Best of John Coltrane: His Greatest Years, Vol. 2, Impulse
O Day Bessie Johnes/ Georgia Sea Island Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
End Bed: Auld Lang Syne John Fahey
John Fahey Christmas Soli, Fantasy