Barking Dog: December 5, 2024
Purna Das Baul - Mr. Tambourine Man
He’s an Indian musician who plays in the Baul tradition
The Baul are a group of Bengali spiritual minstrels from many different sects who share a musical traditions
This is off the 2013 album From Another World: A Tribute to Bob Dylan, which is a collection of interpretations of Dylan’s songs from around the world
Purna Das became good friends with Dylan in 1967 when their manager took all their money and split during a tour of the US, and Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman hosted the band on the grounds of his home, where Dylan was also staying
He and his brother appear on the cover of Dylan’s album John Wesley Harding, from that same year
This song comes from Dylan’s 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home
Fairport Convention - Si tu dois partir
They’re a folk rock band from London, England that formed in the late 1960s and have remained active since then except for 6 years in the early 1980s
This is from the 2018 compilation album A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And Friends And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
This song is known in English as “If You Gotta Go, Go Now,” and Dylan wrote it in 1964
Kulu Liang - The Times They Are A-Changin’
From the 2020 EP Retrospectrum Bob Dylan, which was created in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of the same name that presented a selection of his visual art, including paintings, sketches, and metal sculptures at the Today Art Museum in Beijing
Neal Jones (Singing Grandpa) - Blowin’ in the Wind
He’s an American singer known as “Singing Grandpa” on social media
Dylan released this song on his 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Linda Mason - Farewell
This is from the 1964 album How Many Seas Must a White Dove Sail: Linda Mason Sings Bob Dylan, which is quite possibly the first Bob Dylan cover album
Dylan recorded the song as a demo in 1963, and his version was only officially released in 2010
Richie Havens - All Along the Watchtower
He was a musician from New York City and was the opening act at Woodstock
This is from the 1990 album Live At The Cellar Door
It’s from Dylan’s 1967 album John Wesley Harding
Bob Dylan - Two Trains Running
Seems this is a Muddy Waters song, though Bob Dylan clearly learned this one from his friend Dave Van Ronk
This was recorded in Montreal on July 2, 1962
The Golden Gate Quartet - I Looked Down the Road and I Wondered
They are a vocal quartet formed in Virginia by four high school students in 1934
They are still active today, but have undergone several changes in membership
This seems to be a little-known gospel song, also recorded by Reverend Gary Davis and Leon Redbone
The Golden Gate Quartet recorded it in October of 1939
Jeff Tweedy, claire rousay - How Sweet I Roamed
He’s a musician, author, and producer from Illinois who’s best-known as a member of the bands Uncle Tupelo and Wilco
rousay is a Canadian-American musician born in Winnipeg and based in California, known for using field recordings to create experimental musical compositions
This is from the 2024 compilation album TRANSA, released by the Red Hot Organization to bring awareness to trans rights
The lyrics are a poem by William Blake (believed to be the first he ever wrote), adapted into a song by Ed Sanders of the Fugs and released on their first album, aptly titled The Fugs First Album, in 1965
Gary Green - The Hammer
A Tennessee folksinger
Off his 1977 album Gary Green, Vol. 1: These Six Strings Neutralize the Tools of Oppression
Rosalie Sorrels - Revolutionary Mandate #1
She started out as a folksinger and collector of folk songs, and left her husband in the 1960s to travel across America with her five children, establishing herself as a performer and making connections with other folk musicians, writers, and artists
This is from the 2008 album Strangers In Another Country
It was written by Julius Lester, an American writer, musician, and civil rights activist
Mamadou Diabaté - Segou Blues
He’s a Grammy-winning Malian kora player now based in the United States, and he’s the cousin of Toumani Diabaté, another musician we’ve often played on the show
This is off his third album, Heritage, from 2006
Segou is a town in Mali
Pete Seeger, Brother Kirk, Big Bird, The Sesame Street Kids - Sweet Rosyanne
This is from the 1974 album Pete Seeger and Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street
This is a sea ballad, likely from England, from at least the mid 19th century
Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Privateers
It’s off the 1979 album Between the Breaks Live!
Old Man Luedecke - Wakeup Hill
From his live album, recorded at the Chester Playhouse in his hometown of Chester, Nova Scotia
It’s originally off his 2008 album Proof of Love
Kumiko Yokoi - Hanoi Where Bougainvillea Flowers Bloom
She was a Japanese folk singer who began performing in the 1960s and is known particularly for her anti-war protest songs
She recorded this one live in North Vietnam and it’s from her 1974 album Singing to Hanoi
Damien Dempsey - Landlords in the Government
Dempsey is an Irish musician who’s been playing since the mid 1990s
This is from his recent album Hold Your Joy, which came out in October
Dyad - None but the Sun
From Victoria, BC
Off their 2006 album No Pedlars or Preachers
Star Thistle - Bye Bye Baby
A project from the mind of Winnipeg artist Uncle Sinner
This is a cover Star Thistle released in 2022
It’s a song by Hayes Carll, a Texan songwriter and musician
Robbie Basho - If I Had Possession
One of the 3 guitarists signed to the Takoma record label who aimed to raise steel string guitar to the level of a concert instrument, along with Leo Kottke and John Fahey
It’s a version of “Roll and Tumble Blues,” first recorded by Hambone Willie Newbern in 1929
Robert Johnson adapted it in 1936 using the name “If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day”
This comes from the 2020 compilation album Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes, which is a collection of unheard tapes that Basho recorded between around 1965-1985
Tinariwen - Assuf Ag Assuf
They’re a Grammy-winning group of Tuareg musicians from Mali who formed in 1979 and are considered one of the pioneering forces behind desert blues
This is from a new unreleased & rarities album
Fred Eaglesmith - Things Is Changin’
He’s an Ontario musician who hopped a freight train going west as a teenager and began writing and performing his music
Off his 1993 album, also called Things Is Changin’
Antonia Lamb - Everything Changes
She was a musician, dancer, actor, writer, and astrologer who was active in the Greenwich Village and LA folk scenes of the 1960s
This is from her 1978 debut album Easy to Love Her
Eric Wood - Wait for the World
He’s a musician from Ohio who got his start in New York City in the late 1970s, playing with musicians like Suzanne Vega and John Gorka
This is from his 1997 album Letters from the Earth
David Rovics - The General’s Plan
He’s a topical singer-songwriter based in Oregon who’s been playing since the 1990s
This is from his new album, Jabaliya
Michaels - Sleep Softly, My Boy
This is a Japanese translation of the Vietnamese song “Go to Sleep Baby” by the songwriter Trịnh Công Sơn
Mama’s Broke - Black Rock Beach
They’re a duo from Nova Scotia who have been playing together for a decade
This is from their 2017 album Count the Wicked
John Angaiak - Iluarachungaqa
A Yup’ik singer-songwriter born in Nightmute, Alaska in 1941
After serving in Vietnam in the US Armed Forces, he enrolled in the University of Alaska and became active in the school’s indigenous language workshop
He recorded this one live in Nuuk, Greenland in 1983
Okkervil River - Trouble in Mind
They’re a band from Texas that was formed by the musician Will Sheff in 1998
This is from the 10th anniversary edition of their 2005 album Black Sheep Boy
“Trouble in Mind” was written by jazz pianist Richard M Jones in the vaudeville blues style, and first recorded by Thelma La Vizzo in 1924
Has since become a standard in multiple roots genres
Grace Clergy - In Cupid’s Court
From the folksong collector Helen Creighton’s 1962 album of Canadian maritime folk music
She recorded this one from Grace Clergy of East Petpeswick, Nova Scotia, in July of 1951
It was a popular traditional song when she recorded it from him, and it likely comes from the maritime provinces
Leonard Podolak - Paddy on the Railroad
He’s a banjo player and founding member of Winnipeg folk band the Duhks
His father Mitch was the founder of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and he taught Leonard to play the banjo
Off a compilation album of banjo music from 2007 called Old Time Banjo Festival
John Showman, Chris Coole - Wild Hope in the Maple Grove
Si Kahn, John McCutcheon - Signs of the Times
