Dreamers Then & Now: Eric Andersen & Samantha Fish
As the promise of summer rises with the heat index, we explore the world of daydreams, nostalgia, fantasy and future selves. Time travel with songwriting scenester Eric Andersen back to his days hanging with the Beats at City Lights bookstore and Greenwich Village’s folk music scene, train-riding across Canada with Janis Joplin, Buddy Guy and the Grateful Dead and tripping out on music and hallucinogens. Sit in with youthful blues guitar-slinger Samantha Fish for an in-studio performance and convo as she waxes political and poetic about the “American Dream” and tells of growing up in Kansas City pursuing her childhood dream to take the stage. And hear moon-eyed romantic numbers from Bobby Darin and Patsy Cline and riverine reveries from Lee Dorsey and Roy Orbison.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: I Shall Go Unbounded Eric Andersen
'Bout Changes 'n' Things Take 2, Vanguard
Blue River Eric Andersen and Joni Mitchell
Blue River, Columbia
Woodstock Darlingside with Heather Maloney
Woodstock, Signature Sounds Recordings
Violets of Dawn The Blues Project
Back Door Man/Violets of Dawn, Verve Folkways
Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde, Columbia
Chauffeur Blues Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off 1965, RCA
Instrumental: Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From? Hot Tuna
The Phosphorescent Rat, Grunt
SEGMENT: Eric Andersen
Me and My Bobby McGee The Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead Skull & Roses, Warner Brothers
(Try) Just a Little Bit Harder Janis Joplin
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Columbia
Instrumental: Dream of the Origins of the French Broad River John Fahey
Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years 1958-1965, Dust-to-Digital
Save Some Time to Dream John Cougar Mellencamp
No Better Than This, Rounder
Walkin' After Midnight Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline, Decca
Dream Lover Bobby Darin
Dream Lover/Bullmoose, ATCO
Dream a Little Dream of Me Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Dream a Little Dream of Me/ Can Anyone Explain, Decca
Closing Bed: Sleep Walk Santo and Johnny
Santo & Johnny, Canadian-American Records
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Gone for Good Samantha Fish
Belle of the West, Ruf
Write Me a Few of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues Bonnie Raitt
Takin' My Time, Warner Brothers
Pearline Son House
Legendary Son House Father of Folk Blues, Columbia
Blood in the Water Samantha Fish
Paste Sessions 2017,
Ode to Billie Joe Tammy Wynette
Take Me to Your World/I Don't Wanna Play House, Epic
You Are My Sunshine Ray Charles
You Are My Sunshine, ABC-Paramount
Instrumental: Jim Lee Blues Pt. 1 Samantha Fish
Wild Heart, Ruf Records
SEGMENT: Samantha Fish
Instrumental: Blues on Purpose Nina Simone
I Put a Spell on You, Philips
I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl Nina Simone
The Very Best of Nina Simone, 1967-1972: Sugar in My Bowl, Sony
Either Way I Lose Samantha Fish
Chills & Fever, Ruf
Belle of the West Samantha Fish
Belle of the West, Ruf
River Boat Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey- Soul Mine: The Greatest Hits & More 1960-1978, Charly
Walkin' to Louisiana Clifton Chenier
Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie
Blue Bayou Roy Orbinson
In Dreams , Monument
Closing Bed: Aloha Golden Meadow Lost Bayou Ramblers
Kalenda, Rice Pump