ELECTION 2000 SPECIAL
We’ll hear the campaign songs, protest music and tunes about politics and politicians. Nick talks with lawyer Len Garment about his love of Jazz, and the days with Richard Nixon. Plus the tales of Louisiana governors, Huey and Earl Long.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Washington Post March Bill Frisell
Have A Little Faith, Electra Nonesuch
Jordan for President Louis Jordan
Let The Good Times Roll Box, Bear Family
Mr. President Big Boy Henry
Work's Many Voices Vol.1 LP , JEMF
SEGMENT: Campaign Songs
The Harrison Yankee Doodle Oscar Brand
Presidential Campaign Songs 1789-1996, Smithsonian Folkways
Silent Cal Joe Glazer
The Music of American Politics, Collector
High Hopes Frank Sinatra
Complete Capitol Singles, Capitol
This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land
Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen
Born in the USA, Columbia
Christ for President Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra
Dead Presidents Little Walter
Essential, MCA
Instrumental: Water Baby Speedy West
Swing West Vol.2: Guitar Slingers, Razor & Tie
INTERVIEW: Len Garment
Only in America The Drifters
Rockin' & Driftin': The Drifters Box, Rhino
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself Franklin Roosevelt
20th Century Time Capsule, Buddha
Roosevelt in Trinidad The Atilla
Roosevelt in Trinidad, Rounder
Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again Cox Brothers
Old Time Southern Dance Music, Old Timey
M.T .A. Kingston Trio
Folk Song America, Smithsonian
Instrumental: Wailin' & Whoopin' Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
A Long way from Home, MCA
INTERVIEW: Dave Obey
Guitar Pickin President Jimmy Martin
Sunny Side of the Mountain, Decca
Campaigner Neil Young
Decade, Reprise
Watergate Blues Howlin' Wolf
The Back Door Wolf, MCA
Richard Nixon Resignation Address
Great Speeches of the 20th Century, Rhino
You Can Have Watergate But Gimme Some Bucks and I'll Be Straight James Brown
Funky People Part 2, Polydor
The Watergate Blues Modern Jazz Quartet
Warner Jazz Les Incontournables, Warner Music France
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Happy Days are Here Again Ben Selvin Orchestra
Songs of the Depression, Bear Family
Every Man a King Huey Long and Castro Carrazo
Companion CD by Cyril Vetter in Fonville Winans Louisiana book
SEGMENT: Randy Newman
Kingfish Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Warner Bros
SEGMENT: Earl Long speech
Ballad of Earl Long Jay Chevalier
45rpm
You Can't Tell About the Women Nowadays Jimmie Davis
Nobody's Darlin' But Mine, Bear Family
INTERVIEW: Joe Wilson
Liberty Will Keys
A Banjo Original, County
INTERVIEW: Dalton Roberts
Bobby Kennedy Corrido Lalo Guerrero
Folkmasters DAT
SEGMENT: R Kennedy on MLK's death
20th Century Time Capsule, Buddha
Redemption Song Bob Marley
Uprising, Island
Power to the People Curtis Mayfield
Curtis, Rhino
Backlash Blues Nina Simone
Livin' in the House of Blues: Defiance Blues, House of Blues
The House I Live In Paul Robeson
Songs of Free Men, Sony Classical
Instrumental: In Christ There Is No East Or West John Fahey
John Fahey / Peter Lang / Leo Kottke, Takoma
Long Walk to DC Staple Singers
Soul Folk In Action, Stax
Washington D.C. Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs, Merge
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
Back in the USA Linda Ronstadt
Sing America, Warner Bros
End Bed: Stars and Stripes Forever Eubie Blake
The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake, Columbia