Transcending New England
We travel the New England soundsacpe from rural dances to urban folk clubs, from Maine truckdriving songs to regional rock. Also music from Boston Irish and Italians, French Quebecois and Cape Verdean Portuguese. Plus stories from eel fishermen and cranberry farmers, urban gardeners and country fiddlers. Massachusetts-raised troubadour Jonathan Richman stops in from the road to converse, and author Peter Guralnick reminisces about how the blues found him in New England.
HOUR ONE
Farewell to Whiskey / Silver and Gold Two-Step Rodney Miller's N.E. Dance Band
Choose Your Partners!: Contra & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire, Folkways
Postcard Lawrence Cole
Redwing Marcel Robidas
Mademoiselle, Voulez-Vous Danser?, Folkways
Tombstone Every Mile Dick Curless
Tombstone Every Mile, Capitol
On the Road Again Tom Rush
The Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets, Columbia/Legacy
Dirty Water Standells
Nuggets from Nuggets, Rhino
Instrumental: Boston Boy Ricky Skaggs
Ancient Tones, Skaggs Family
The Boston Burglar Delia Murphy
From Galway To Dublin: Early Recordings of Irish Traditional Music, Rounder
Miss Bruce / The Absentminded Man / Welcome to Cork Joe Derrane w/ Felix Dolan
Give Us Another, Green Linnet
Clay Pipe Medley Joe Cormier
The Art of the Fiddle, Rounder
INTERVIEW: Peter Guralnick
Harvard Blues Jimmy Rushing
Rushing Lullabyes/Little Jimmy Rushing and the Big Brass, Columbia/Legacy
Sweet Woman (From Maine) Robert Junior Lockwood
Blues Masters Volume 2: Postwar Chicago Blues, Rhino
Postcard Bertha McCrarey on gardening in Boston
Instrumental: Morna Di Freddie Toi Grace & The Verdatones
So Sabi: Cape Verdean Music From New England, Rounder
The ‘Saint-Gaudens' In Boston Common Bill Frisell
Have A Little Faith, Elektra
Moonlight In Vermont Billie Holiday
Songs for Distingué Lovers, Verve
Moondance Van Morrison
Moondance, Polydor
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Hornpipe For Harpsichord Played Upon Guitar Davy Graham
Fire in the Soul, Topic
Postcard Milton Jeffers on how to catch and cook eels
La Pied du Mouton Larry & Henry Riendeau
The Art of Traditional Fiddle, Rounder
Postcard Lucien Mathieu on practicing fiddle
Entre Moi Chanterelle w/Josie Vachon
Mademoiselle, Voulez-Vous Danser?, Smithsonian Folkways
So Sabi Creole Sextet and Joe Livramento
So Sabi: Cape Verdean Music from New England, Rounder
Señor Blues Horace Silver
Blue Note Years 1939-1999, Blue Note
Instrumental: Banned In Boston Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet, Sony
Postcard Parading with Boston Italians
Root Hog and Die Woody Guthrie
Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti, Folkways
Baby Let Me Follow You Down Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, Sony
Pal of Mine Joan Baez
Joan Baez Vol.2, Vanguard
Love Me Like a Man Bonnie Raitt
Give It Up, Warner
Give It To Me The J. Geils Band
Anthology: Houseparty, Rhino
Instrumental: I Know You Morphine
Good, Ryko
No Good to Cry The Wildweeds
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New England Jonathan Richman
The Best of Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, Rhino
SEGMENT: Jonathan Richman
End Bed: Roadrunner Jonathan Richman
Radio On!, Snapper