Meat & Potatoes #63

Aired Sunday January 9, 2012

1. Mothers of Invention--Trouble Comin' Every Day
2. Dolly Parton--Jolene
3. Maria McKee--Absolutely Barking Stars
4. Iris Dement--Leaning on the Everlasting Arm
5. Paul Simon--Papa Hobo
6. Tim Buckley--Once I Was
7. Stuart Murdoch--Another Saturday
8. Ray Charles--You'll Never Walk Alone
9. Eartha Kitt--Angelitos Negros
10. Roberta Flack--I Told Jesus
11. Dinah Washington & Brook Benton--Baby (You've Got What It Takes
12. Stevie Wonder--Signed, Sealed, Delivered (DJ Smash Essential Funk Mix)
13. Me'Shell Ndegeocello--If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)
14. The Clovers--Love Potion Number 9
15. The Emotions--Blind Alley
16. Junior Walker & the All Stars--Shotgun
17. Llyod Price--Stagger Lee
18. TV on the Radio--Modern Romance
19. Angus & Julia Stone--Paper Aeroplane
20. Cat Power--Metal Heart
21. Tune-Yards--Es-So
22. Mirah & Thao--Rubies and Rocks
23. Scissor Sisters--Invisible Light
24. Chromeo--Don't Turn the Lights On
25. Gonzales--Working Together
26. Duck Sauce--Barbara Streisand
27. Hall & Oates--You Make My Dreams
28. Leo Sayer--You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
29. Sanford & Townsend--Smoke from a Distant Fire
30. Andy Kim--Rock Me Gently
31. David Bowie--Magic Dance

Meat & Potatoes #56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62

Okay... time to get caught up on all those radio show playlists in the laziest manner possible: with pictures of my radio notebook.  Apologies for the poor handwriting; click to make bigger.

Meat & Potatoes #54

Aired Sunday October 30th.  A short show because I slipped away early for a film screening, and let the capable Mr. iTunes DJ take over.

1. Mothers of Invention--Trouble Comin' Everyday
2. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings--Inspiration Information
3. Duffy--Live and Let Die
4. The Emotions--Blind Alley
5. Albinia Jones--Give It Up Daddy Blues
6. Etta James--Teach Me Tonight
7. BB King & Bobby Bland--I Like to Live the Love
8. Freddie Scott--(You) Got What I Need
9. Leo Sayer--You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
10. Andy Kim--Rock Me Gently
11. Hall & Oates--You Make My Dreams
12. The Juan Maclean--Love Is In the Air
13. Hot Chip--One Life Stand
14. Jem & the Holograms--Truly Outrageous

Meat & Potatoes #53

Aired Sunday October 23.

1. Mothers of Invention--Trouble Comin' Everyday
2. Jefferson Airplane--Plastic Fantastic Lover
3. The Rolling Stones--Beast of Burden
4. Eric Clapton--Motherless Child
5. Faces--Stay With Me
6. The Beatles--Come Together
7. The Doors--Strange Days
8. Bob Dylan--Like a Rolling Stone
9. Glen Campbell--Rhinestone Cowboy
10. Hank Williams III--You're the Reason
11. Honky Tonk Hustlas--Hallways of the Always
12. Rae Spoon--Living a Country Song
13. Kitty Wells--It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
14. k.d. lang & the Reclines--Rose Garden
15. Heather Myles--Playin' Every Honky Tonk in Town
16. Lindi Ortega--Little Lie
17. Hamilton Camp--Pride of Man
18. Judy Henske--Baltimore Oriole
19. Tim Buckley--No Man Can Find the War
20. Roberta Flack--Ballad of the Sad Young Men
21. Regina Spektor--Summer in the City
22. Be Good Tanyas--What Are They Doing in Heaven Today
23. Great Lake Swimmers--Pulling on a Line
24. Willie Tee-Walkin' Up a One-Way Street
25. The Drifters--Under the Boardwalk
26. General Johnson & the Chairmen of the Board--On the Beach
27. Junior Walker & the All Stars--Shotgun
28. Marion Black--Who Knows
29. Joe Simon--Drowning in the Sea of Love
30. Gloria Jones--Get It On pt. 2
31. Edwin Starr--War
32. Bob Dylan--Lay Lady Lay
33. Tennessee Ernie Ford--Sixteen Tons
34. Andy Kim--Rock Me Gently

Meat & Potatoes #52

Aired Sunday October 16th.

1. Chromeo feat. Ezra Koenig--I Could Be Wrong
2. Edward Sharpe & the Magnificent Zeros--Home
3. Arcade Fire--Modern Man
4. Modest Mouse--Missed the Boat
5. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--Learning to Fly
6. Eric Clapton--Motherless Child
7. T. Rex--Bang a Gong (Get It On)
8. Grizzly Bear--Southern Point
9. Fleet Foxes--Sun It Rises
10. Iron & Wine--Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car
11. Neko Case--This Tornado Loves You
12. Joe Cocker--Bird on the Wire
13. Paul McCartney--Maybe I'm Amazed
14. Pablo Cruise--Love Will Find a Way
15. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!--Gimme Some Salt
16. TV on the Radio--Shout Me Out
17. Destroyer--Kaputt
18. Neko Case--Deep Red Bells
19. Billy Bragg & Wilco--One by One
20. Cat Power--Love and Communication
21. Velvet Underground--Sweet Jane
22. Jefferson Airplane--Embryonic Journey
23. The Beatles--Hello Goodbye
24. Antony & the Johnsons--Fistful of Love
25. Belle and Sebastian--The Boy With the Arab Strap
26. Devendra Banhart--Now that I Know
27. Nick Drake--Cello Song
28. Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons--December 1963
29. Sandford & Townsend--Smoke From a Distant Fire
30. Los Bravos--Black is Black
31. Barry White--Oooo...Ahhh

Meat & Potatoes #51

Aired Sunday October 9th.

This week's show was a (somewhat) logical progression from last week's show.  The music was a combination of bands and songs referenced by Michael Herr in his Vietnam War memoir, Dispatches, as well as some other Vietnam War related songs--so I went from the early sixties one week to the late sixties in the next.

I also read from Dispatches, which is a really incredible book.  I hope I was able to convey that on the radio (although it's possible no one was listening, what with it being Thanksgiving this weekend).

1. Wingy Manone--Stop the War (These Cats Are Killing Themselves)
2. Anita Carter--(Love's) Ring of Fire
3. Kenny Rogers--Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town
4. Tom Paxton--Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation
5. Johnny Cash--Ring of Fire
6. Los Bravos--Black is Black
7. Mothers of Invention--Trouble Comin' Every Day
8. The Clash--Sean Flynn
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Purple Haze
10. Cream--Sunshine of Your Love
11. The Doors--Strange Days
12. The Beatles--Day Tripper
13. Tim Buckley--No Man Can Find the War
14. Bob Dylan--Visions of Johanna
15. Buffalo Springfield--For What It's Worth
16. Edwin Starr--War
17. Aretha Franklin--Satisfaction
18. Junior Walker & the All Stars--Shotgun
19. Archie Bell & the Drells--Tighten Up, part I
20. Otis Redding--(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay
21. Bobbie Gentry--Ode to Billie Joe
22. Glen Campbell--Galveston
23. Scott McKenzie--San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
24. The Beatles--Magical Mystery Tour
25. The Animals--We Gotta Get Out of This Place
26. The Rolling Stones--Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In the Shadow?
27. Paul Revere & the Raiders--Hungry
28. Hair soundtrack--Aquarius
29. Hair soundtrack--Hair
30. Sam Roberts--An American Draft Dodger in Vietnam

Meat & Potatoes #50

Aired Sunday October 2nd.

This week's show was inspired by the 1980s dance movie, Shag.  Set in 1963, four girls head off for a weekend of fun in Myrtle Beach and get into all sorts of trouble with boys.  I hadn't seen this movie until recently; I saw Vogue's Dress the Part slideshow this past summer and was instantly enamoured (although in retrospect I disagree with their assessment of Pudge as a tomboy.  She's really not).  It's actually a pretty awful movie in a lot of ways, but the Pudge and Chip storyline makes it worth watching for me.  They're the dancers.

Their big dance at the end of the movie--with Pudge looking so happy and so in love it just kills me--is set to a Lloyd Price song by the name of "Stagger Lee", and when I was getting music together for a Shag-themed show, I discovered that there is a whole lot of history and folklore surrounding this song, and many other songs about Stagger Lee.  To begin with, there are two versions of the Lloyd Price song.  One version has Stagger Lee killing Billy over a gambling dispute; in the other version, Stagger Lee and Billy argue over a girl, then sort out their differences and become friends.  This non-murder version was recorded at the request of American Bandstand, who thought the murder version was not appropriate for their audience.  This is the version that plays in Shag, although it's the murder version that hit #1 on the Billboard Chart.

Lloyd Price's Stagger Lees are just two versions of the story out of about 400 different interpretations; the real-life murder of Billy Lyons at the hands of "Stag" Lee Shelton has inspired many artists in the 115 years since it occurred.  The Wikipedia page and associated links are pretty interesting--but certainly need to be taken with the usual grain of salt.

Having somewhat obsesssed over Shag and Stagger Lee for a week, I devoted this radio show to music either on the Shag soundtrack or from the same era (with maybe a dash of Dirty Dancing and a pinch of Joe Versus the Volcano), as well as to some of the different versions of the Stagger Lee legend (tracks #2, and #28 through #35 below).

1. Jakki O--Ooo-Aah
2. Lloyd Price--Stagger Lee (American Bandstand Version)
3. Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs--Stay
4. The Contours--Do You Love Me
5. Archie Bell & the Drells--Monkey Time
6. Del Vikings--Come Go With Me
7. Dionne Warwick--Walk On By
8. The Four Tops--It's the Same Old Song
9. Martha & the Vandellas--Dancing in the Streets
10. The Coasters--Young Blood
11. Tennessee Ernie Ford--Sixteen Tons
12. Herman's Hermits--(What a) Wonderful World
13. The Dominoes--Sixty Minute Man
14. Lloyd Price--Personality
15. Bob & Earl--Harlem Shuffle
16. The Freshmen--Go Granny Go
17. The Hollywood Argyles--Alley-Oop
18. The Heptones--Our Day Will Come
19. Elvis Presley--Blue Hawaii
20. The Animals--I'm in Love Again
21. General Johnson & the Chairmen of the Board--On the Beach
22. The Tams--What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)
23. The Sensations--Let Me In
24. Aretha Franklin--Baby I Love You
25. Brook Benton & Dinah Washington--Baby (You've Got What It Takes0
26. Jackie Wilson--Baby Workout
27. The Ronnettes--Be My Baby
28. Lloyd Price--Stagger Lee (murder version)
29. Mississippi John Hurt--Stackolee
30. Ma Rainey--Stack o' Lee Blues
31. Josh Ritter--Folk Bloodbath
32. The Clash--Wrong 'em Boyo
33. The Black Keys--Stack Shot Billy
34. The Grateful Dead--Stagger Lee
35. Beck--Devils Haircut
36. Barry White--Oooo-Aaah

Meat & Potatoes #49

Aired Sunday September 25, 2011.

No reading this week, and actually, I think every time I opened my mouth I sounded like an idiot.  But I think the music was pretty good; the whole night was largely inspired by track three.

1. The Lovin' Spoonful--Do You Believe in Magic?
2. Faces--Stay With Me
3. T. Rex--Bang a Gong (Get it On)
4. David Bowie--Young Americans
5. The Traveling Wilburys--Handle with Care
6. The Rolling Stones--Beast of Burden
7. Meatloaf--You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth
8. Thin Lizzy--Dancing in the Moonlight
9. Eric Clapton--Motherless Child
10. Mott the Hoople--All the Young Dudes
11. Jefferson Airplane--White Rabbit
12. Bruce Springsteen--I'm on Fire
13. Cat Power--The Greatest
14. Creedence Clearwater Revival--Up Around the Bend
15. Lynrd Skynrd--Saturday Night Special
16. The Band--The Weight
17. Bachman Turner Overdrive--You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
18. Sanford & Townsend--Smoke from a Distant Fire
19. KC & the Sunshine Band--That's the Way
20. The Beach Boys--Good Vibrations
21. The Ronnettes--Be My Baby
22. The Monkees--I'm a Believer
23. The Velvet Underground--Sweet Jane
24. Donovan--Mellow Yellow
25. Paul Simon--Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
26. Melanie--Brand New Key
27. The Beatles--The Ballad of John and Yoko
28. Queen--Crazy Little Thing Called Love
29. Miles Fisher--New Romance
30. Janelle Monae--Cold War (Wondamix)
31. TV on the Radio--Modern Romance
32. Bryan Adams--Can't Stop This Thing We Started

Meat & Potatoes #48

Aired Sunday September 18.

I nearly fell over one day in the library last week when my wandering eyes happened upon this book:

I have wanted to read Invisible Cities for years and years and years, but have never come across it so conveniently before.  Despite the long wait and the anticipation, it did not disappoint.  I shared the love on the radio last Sunday, and read several of the short chapters, interspersed with (totally unrelated) music.

1. Elvis Presley--Suspicious Minds
2. Chad VanGaalen--Sara
3. Orillia Opry--Lucky Wind
4. Jane Vain & the Dark Matter--C'mon Baby Say Bang Bang
5. Final Fantasy--The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead
6. Bell Orchestre--Quintet
7. Beirut--Brandenburg
8. Chic Gamine--Say It
9. Melissa McClelland--A Girl Can Dream
10. Luke Doucet & the White Falcon--Cleveland
11. Fleet Foxes--The Sun It Rises
12. Iron & Wine--Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog)
13. Bon Iver--Bracket, WI
14. Slow Club--Giving Up on Love
15. Wintersleep--Weight Ghost
16. Patrick Watson--Giver
17. Jefferson Airplane--Plastic Fantastic Lover
18. Velvet Underground--Sweet Jane
19. Led Zeppelin--You Shook Me
20. Queen--Fat Bottomed Girls
21. David Bowie--Young Americans
22. Daryl Hall & John Oates--Maneater
23. Robbie Williams--Millenium

Meat & Potatoes #47

Aired Sunday September 11, 2011

This show was sort of an anniversary of sorts: I have been hosting my radio show for one whole year now.  I definitely revisited some old favourites this week, but at the end I did include a few tracks I haven't played on the air before.

1. Sufjan Stevens--All Delighted People
2. Neko Case--Runnin' Out of Fools
3. Iron & Wine and Calexico--History of Lovers
4. Conor Oberst--Sausalito
5. Justin Rutledge--I'm Your Man, You're My Radio
6. Bell Orchestre--Stripes
7. Basia Bulat--In the Night
8. Hank Williams III--You're the Reason
9. Hank Williams Jr.--A Country Boy Can Survive
10. Hank Williams--Move It On Over
11. Jay Malinowski--There's A Light
12. Justin Nozuka--Swan in the Water
13. The Arcade Fire--We Used to Wait
14. Patrick Watson--Big Bird in a Small Cage
15. Michael J Sheehy--Twisted Little Man
16. Jenn Grant--Dreamer
17. Antony & the Johnsons--Knockin' on Heaven's Door
18. Joshua James--To Be Alone With You
19. Jeff Buckley--Hallelujah
20. Junior Walker & the All Stars--Shotgun
21. Sly & the Family Stone--Hot Fun in the Summertime
22. The Emotions--Blind Alley
23. Leo Sayer--You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
24. Starland Vocal Band--Afternoon Delight
25. Andy Kim--Rock Me Gently
26. Pablo Cruise--Love Will Find a Way
27. Miles Fisher--New Romance
28. Cults--Go Outside
29. Gossip--Listen Up!

Thanks for listening this past year.  I love being on the radio and am looking forward to many more shows.

Meat & Potatoes # 46

Aired Sunday September 4th, 2011

1. Shout Out Out Out Out--In the End It's Your Friends
2. Don Henley--All She Wants to Do Is Dance
3. Alfie Zappacosta--Overload
4. Rupert Holmes--Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
5. The Arcade Fire--Neighbourhood #1
6. Feist--My Moon My Man
7. Spoon--I Turn My Camera On
8. Cat Power--Metal Heart
9. Iron & Wine--Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car
10. Neko Case--Middle Cyclone
11. Billy Bragg & Wilco--Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
12. Monsters of Folk--Say Please
13. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros--Carries On
14. Devendra Banhart--Baby
15. Yo La Tengo--Periodically Double or Triple
16. Jill Barber--Hard Line
17. Junior Walker and the All Stars--Shotgun
18. Stevie Wonder--Signed, Sealed, Delivered (DJ Smash Essential Funk Mix)
19. The Temptations--Ain't Too Proud to Beg
20. Sly & the Family Stone--Hot Fun in the Summertime
21. Bill Withers--Lovely Day
22. Al Green--Take Me to the River
23. The Emotions--Blind Alley
24. Diana Ross and the Supremes--My World Is Empty Without You (Tranzition Remix)
25. Amy Winehouse--Love Is a Losing Game
26. Gloria Jones--Tainted Love
27. Antony & the Johnsons--Fistful of Love
28. Antony & the Johnsons--Knockin' on Heaven's Door
29. Antony & Bryce Dessner--I Was Young When I Left Home

Meat & Potatoes #45

Aired Sunday August 28, 2011.

1. Lisa Hannigan--Just Like Tom Thumb Blues
2. Ezra Koenig--Papa Hobo
3. The Tallest Man on Earth--Love Is All
4. Will Oldham--Am I Demon
5. Iris Dement--Leaning on the Everlasting Arm
6. Lindi Ortega--Angels
7. Nancy Sinatra--Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
8. Loretta Lynn--You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man
9. Cake--Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
10. Tom Petty--Learning to Fly
11. David Bowie--Young Americans
12. Gowan--Moonlight Desires
13. Nena--99 Luftballoons
14. Wang Chung--Dance Hall Days
15. Gloria Jones--Tainted Love
16. Tina Turner--What's Love Got to Do With It
17. Donna Summer--Bad Girls
18. Junior Walker and the All Stars--Shotgun
19. Sly & the Family Stone--Hot Fun in the Summertime
20. The Emotions--Blind Alley
21. Chromeo feat. Ezra Koenig--I Could Be Wrong
22. Duck Sauce--Barbara Streisand
23. Gary Numan & Tubeway Army--Are "Friends" Electric?
24. Herman's Hermits--I'm Into Something Good
25. The Monkees--I'm a Believer
26. Tommy Jones & the Shondells--Mony Mony
27. John Paul Young--Love Is In The Air

Meat & Potatoes #44

Aired Sunday August 21st, 2011.

1. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros--Home
2. Michael Andrews & Gary Jules--Mad World
3. DeVotchKa--Til the End of Time
4. Yo La Tengo--Gentle Hour
5. Tim Buckley--Once I Was
6. Joni Mitchell--You Turn Me On I'm a Radio
7. Paul Simon--Papa Hobo
8. Marvin Gaye--What's Going On
9. Undisputed Truth--Smiling Faces Sometimes (Futureshock Main Ingredient Mix)
10. The Staple Singers--I'll Take You There
11. The Tragically Hip--New Orleans is Sinking
12. 54-40--Ocean Pearl
13. Pearl Jam--Black
14. Aretha Franklin--I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
15. Tina Turner--What's Love Got to Do With It
16. Dolly Parton--Jolene
17. Procol Harum--Whiter Shade of Pale
18. Joe Cocker--Bird on a Wire
19. Leonard Cohen--Suzanne
20. Chad VanGaalen--Sara
21. Chic Gamine--Don't Think That I Can Stay
22. Asobi Seksu--Transparence
23. Mott the Hoople--All the Young Dudes
24. Them--Here Comes the Night
25. The Lovin' Spoonful--Summer in the City
26. Wang Chung--Dance Hall Days
27. Nick Gilder--Summer in the City
28. Sanford & Townsend--Smoke from a Distant Fire
29. Hall & Oates--You Make My Dreams
30. Beach Boys--Barbara Ann
31. Beach Boys--Surfin' Safari

And the bonus-because-Ben-and-Brendan-were-late-track was "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred (because, you know, Ben and Brendan are too sexy to show up on time).

Meat & Potatoes #43

Aired on Sunday August 14, 2011.

This week I unearthed two tracks I love to have but never listen to.  I was inspired by the questions about oral tradition and storytelling raised by the short documentary Cry Rock, in which the filmmaker wonders whether or not to record her grandmother's stories, and I played a few minutes from interviews given by my Granny and my grandfather in the early 1970s.  A few years ago, my dad had the old reel-to-reel tapes of the interviews digitized and gave my brothers and me each a copy.  I have never really managed to listen to the interviews: my grandfather died long before I was born, and Granny died in 2001, and it has just always seemed really painful to listen to these interviews.  They evoke such loss.

I am really proud of my family history.  My great-grandfather (who has come up on the radio before) was a speculating adventurer who amassed something of a fortune by first running, and then selling for a healthy profit, a tramway around the Whitehorse Rapids during the Gold Rush.  He later lost almost everything in a recession--except for a "vacation" property on one of the Gulf Islands.  When my dad was growing up, they grew almost all their own food.  Granny worked as a teacher, and my grandfather was (among other things, I think) a telephone lineman.  They knew almost everyone on the island and threw great square dancing parties.  The farm is now in its third iteration--retirement home for my parents--and while I never grew up there, it functions as a sort of ancestral home and is important to me emotionally.  I'd rather hear, however, my father's reports of how much rain has or hasn't fallen and how the Christmas trees are doing, and would rather listen to my mom talk about having to mow the lawn (there is a lot of it), than listen to these old interviews that could put me in closer touch with an era I would love to know more about.  Hearing Granny's voice is particularly painful.  Her voice is very distinctive--even forty years younger than when I knew her best, when she was frail and loopy, it sounds so familiar.  I think in some ways it is her voice that I remember best.

Seeing Cry Rock for the first at the film festival back in April (it won the Audience Favourite award) got me thinking about the interviews, and seeing the film again during Arts Fest a couple of weeks ago made me want to listen to them.  I'm a little jealous of Banchi Hanuse; I grew up thousands of kilometres away from both of my grandmothers (and in lots of ways I never really had a grandfather--my mother's father died when I was quite young, and I actually think my one memory of him may be just... made up by my grieving child's brain).  Learning stories from that generation first hand--hearing them so often as to create an oral tradition--wasn't possible.  I understand the decision Hanuse reaches in her film, and have great sympathy for First Nations struggling to preserve their cultures, but I'm glad someone recorded my grandparents while they had the chance.

And then I made people listen to it on the radio.  I also played some music:

1. Beach Boys--Kokomo
2. LCD Soundsystem--Dance Yrself Clean
3. Braids--Lemonade
4. CocoRosie--Lemonade
5. The Rolling Stones--Under My Thumb
6. Chester Knight--Love Me Strong (requested by Charlie, who walked in off the street)
7. Bruce Springsteen--I'm On Fire
8. The Band--Ophelia
9. Opening few minutes of the interview with my grandfather, Arthur
10. The Vern Williams Band--Oh Susanna
11. The Be Good Tanyas--The Littlest Birds
12. Hank Williams--Move It On Over
13. Opening few minutes of the interview with my Granny, Florence
14. Helen Humes--Song of the Wanderer
15. Bing Crosby--Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean
16. Ethel Merman--You're the Top
17. Okkervil River--A Stone
18. Neko Case--Lion's Jaws
19. Jenn Grant--Britt 'n Kip
20. Chic Gamine--Don't Think That I Can Stay
21. Elvis Perkins in Dearland--Shampoo
22. Patrick Watson--Big Bird in a Small Cage
23. Alex Ebert--A Million Years
24. Wil--Tell You Twice
25. Gowan--Midnight Desires

The family farm... as of a few years ago.

I looked for a more recent picture--the gardens have come a long way since this was taken--but for some reason whenever I'm on the Island I only take pictures of all the partying we do.  It must be the legacy of all that square dancing back in the day  (but I don't think my mom wants those hilarious photos from our Christmastime vodka tasting put on the internet).

Meat & Potatoes #42

Aired Sunday August 7th, 2011

1. Nat Baldwin--Lake Erie
2. Joanna Newsom--Sadie
3. Calexico--Alone Again, Or
4. Neko Case--Runnin' Out of Fools
5. Luke Doucet & the White Falcon--Bombs Away
6. Monsters of Folk--Baby Boomer
7. Fleet Foxes--Helplessness Blues
8. Tim Buckley--Once I Was
9. Joni Mitchell--You Turn Me On I'm a Radio
10. Paul Simon--Papa Hobo
11. The Black Keys--Never Give You Up
12. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings--Inspiration Information
13. Stevie Wonder--I Wish
14. Dr Hook--Penicillin Penny
15. Joe Cocker--Feelin' Alright
16. Tommy Jones & the Shondells--Mony Mony
17. The Like--You Belong to Me
18. Maximum Balloon & Tunde Adebimpe--Absence of Light
19. Miles Fisher--This Must Be the Place
20. Talking Heads--This Must Be the Place
21. Hot Chip--Transmission
22. Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah!--Gimme Some Salt
23. Procol Harum--A Whiter Shade of Pale
24. The Rolling Stones--Beast of Burden
25. Lindi Ortega--I'm on Fire
26. Cadence Weapon--I'm Yours

Meat & Potatoes #41

Another Sunday night, another radio show...

1. Van Morrison--Astral Weeks
2. The Books--Beautiful People
3. Sufjan Stevens--Redford (For Yia Yia & Pappou)
4. Alexander--Truth
5. Calexico--Stray
6. Grizzly Bear--Southern Point
7. The Tallest Man on Earth--Love is All
8. Sufjan Stevens--I Walked
9. TV on the Radio--Family Tree
10. The Arcade Fire--Ocean of Noise
11. Antony & The Johnsons--Knockin' On Heaven's Door
12. Nick Drake--Cello Song
13. The Books--Cello Song (feat. Jose Gonzalez)
14. Braids--Lemonade
15. Neko Case--John Saw That Number
16. Human Highway--The Sound
17. Sea Wolf--Middle Distance Runner
18. Wil--Tell You Twice
19. Sanford & Townsend--Smoke From a Distant Fire
20. Spiral Staircase--More Today Than Yesterday
21. Hall & Oates--You Make My Dreams
22. Freddie Scott--(You) Got What I Need
23. The Cult--She Sells Sanctuary
24. Nena--99 Luftballons
25. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings--Inspiration Information

Meat & Potatoes #40

Well... finally back to posting, it seems.  The month has rather slipped away.

This week I read some selections from the introduction to the Coles Notes to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.  Ben and I went to Keno yesterday, and the Coles Notes were my souvenir from the adorable little library.  See:

Adorable!

Besides reading from my new handy-dandy (if a little dated) Coles Notes, I chatted with a listener who is visiting Dawson from Morocco and played some music:

1. Hall & Oates--You Make My Dreams
2. Arthur Russell--Let's Go Swimming
3. Aaron Dessner & Justin Vernon--Big Red Machine
4. Feral Children--Ancient Videotape
5. Calexico--Blacktop
6. Alexander--Truth
7. Grizzly Bear--He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)
8. Asobi Seksu--Transparence
9. Handsome Furs--Radio Kaliningrad
10. Yo La Tengo--Periodically Double or Triple
11. Florence + the Machine--Addicted to Love
12. Tegan and Sara--Where Does the Good Go
13. The Postal Service--We Will Become Silhouettes
14. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros--Home
15. Of Montreal--Hydra Fancies
16. The Books--Group Autogenics Part I
17. The Arcade Fire--Ocean of Noise
18. Timber Timbre--Black Water
19. Patrick Watson--Big Bird in a Small Cage
20. Scissor Sisters--Filthy/Gorgeous
21. Lykki Li--Get Some
22. Gary Numan--Are "Friends" Electric?
23. Tina Turner--What's Love Got to Do With It?

Meat & Potatoes #39

Aired Sunday July 10th.

I satisfied a few more requests this week, and played some Arthur Russell for Meg and "Portable Radio" for Elaine.  I also re-visited Dan's request for some Tangerine Dream and played the the first (17 1/2 minute) side of Rubycon for him.

1. Madonna--Like a Prayer
2. Cal Smith--The Lord Knows I'm Drinking
3. Faron Young--It's Four in the Morning
4. Loretta Lynn--The Pill
5. Loretta Lynn--You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man
6. Hank Williams--Move It On Over
7. Judy Henske--Oh You Engineer
8. Dave Rawlings Machine--Monkey and the Engineer
9. Crooked Still--Come in My Kitchen
10. Iron & Wine and Calexico--Burn That Broken Bed
11. Dolly Parton--Jolene
12. Rae Spoon--Living a Country Song
13. Tina Turner--Stand by Your Man
14. Arthur Russell--Let's Go Swimming
15. Tangerine Dream--Rubycon (Part I)
16. Daryl Hall & John Oates--Portable Radio
17. Sanford & Townsend--Smoke From A Distant Fire
18. Nick Gilder--Hot Child in the City
19. Rick James--Superfreak
20. Donna Summer--Bad Girls
21. KC & the Sunshine Band--That's the Way (I Like It)
22. Shalamar--Dancing in the Sheets
23. Buck Owens--Waitin' In Your Welfare Line
24. Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan--Tennessee Bird Walk
25. David Allan Coe--You Never Even Called Me By My Name

Radiothoning

Early in July, CFYT hosted a radiothon to raise funds for our community station.  I took on two extra time slots that week, and during my Midnight Snack show I got to play a song that I would never ever be able to air on a Sunday evening.  And then Thursday morning I let Matthew the Station Manager go home for a much needed nap, and played some disco and reggae to get people through their workday.

Midnight Snack (aired July 7th 12 to 1 am)

1. The Temptations--Get Ready
2. George Michael--I Want Your Sex
3. Pointer Sisters--I'm So Excited
4. Andy Kim--Rock Me Gently
5. Tangerine Dream--[a selection from] Rubycon
6. Falco--Rock Me Amadeus
7. Wang Chung--Dance Hall Days
8. Daryl Hall & John Oates--Maneater
9. Donna Summer--Bad Girls
10. Nick Gilder--Hot Child in the City
11. KC & The Sunshine Band--That's the Way (I Like It)
12. Clarence Carter--Strokin'
13. Mary Clayton--Yes

Thanks to Dan for requesting the Tangerine Dream, and Ben for requesting Rock Me Amadeus.  Impeccable taste, the both of you!  The late-night light outside the studio was fabulous:

Elevenses (aired July 7th 10:30 am to noon)

1. Debbie Jacobs--Hot Hot Hot (Give It All You Got)
2. Kenny Loggins--Footloose
3. Culture Club--Karma Chameleon
4. Beach Boys--Kokomo
5. Chi-Pig--Stinking Skin Sac (Involuntary Body Functions)
6. Talking Heads--Making Flippy Floppy
7. Helen Reddy--Delta Dawn
8. Tavares--Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel
9. Thelma Houston--Don't Leave Me This Way
10. Nick Gilder--Hot Child in the City
11. Donna Summer--Bad Girls
12. Vicki Sue Robinson--Turn the Beat Around
13. Regina Spektor--Summer in the City
14. Justin Rutledge--Come Summertime
15. Page France--Say Wolf in the Summertime
16. Bob Marley--Buffalo Soldier
17. Horace Andy--Ain't No Sunshine
18. Musical Youth--Pass the Dutchie
19. Alex Ebert--A Million Years
20. Neko Case--Outro With Bees
21. OK Go--I Want You So Bad I Can't Breathe

Thanks so everyone who donated (and if you think you missed your chance--you didn't!  That oh-so-convenient donate button is still up at CFYT.ca!).

Meat & Potatoes #38

Aired Sunday July 3rd.

I played:

1. David Bowie--Young Americans
2. Tommy James & the Shondells--Mony Mony
3. Donovan--Mellow Yellow
4. Herman's Hermits--I'm Into Something Good
5. The Monkees--I'm a Believer
6. She and Him--You Really Got a Hold on Me
7. The Head and the Heart--Rivers and Roads
8. Regina Spektor--Summer in the City
9. Young MC--Bust a Move
10. LL Cool J--Going Back to Cali
11. Tone Loc--Wild Thing
12. Justin Bieber--Runaway Love
13. Janelle Monae--Cold War (Wondamix)
14. Cadence Weapon--Baby I'm Yours
15. Jypsi--Shame on Me
16. Lindi Ortega--Little Lie
17. Hank Williams III--Six Pack of Beer
18. Joni Mitchell--Raised on Robbery
19. Andrews Sisters--Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
20. Judy Garland--Battle Hymn of the Republic
21. Foreigner--Jukebox Hero
22. The Cult--She Sells Sanctuary
23. Quiet Riot--Cum on Feel the Noize
24. John Paul Young--Love is in the Air
25. Leo Sayer--You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
26. Andy Kim--Rock Me Gently
27. Yo La Tengo--Periodically Double or Triple
28. Of Montreal--Our Riotous Defects
29. Deep Cotton--Self!
30. Bonnie "Prince" Billy--In Spite of Ourselves