Barking Dog: February 16, 2023

Written By Juliana Young

This Week’s Theme: Recordings from Community Radio

This week, to celebrate community radio during CKUW’s annual Fundrive, we played recordings from non-profit radio stations from all over North America.

  • Ellen Froese - Life Oh Life

    • Artist who grew up on a dairy farm in Saskatchewan

    • Originally off her 2017 self-titled album

    • This version was recorded for CFCR in Saskatoon in 2016

  • Bruce Cockburn - 40 Years in the Wilderness

    • Canadian singer-songwriter and skilled guitarist who’s been playing professionally for over 40 years

    • Originally off his 2017 album Bone on Bone

    • Recorded at KRCB in California in 2017

  • Sam Amidon - Pat Do This, Pat Do That

    • Contemporary folk artist from Vermont

    • Recorded at NEPR in Massachusetts in 2017

    • You may hear the lyrics “folly follaroo” which initially seem like nonsense filler lyrics, but actually imitate the original Gaelic lyrics, which would have translated to "I'll go back, time to get up for work”

    • The song seems to be a combination of newer American work song and traditional Irish music, like the song “Shule Aroon”, the American version of which is called “Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier”

  • Godfrey & Tod - Blue Ridge Mountain Blues

    • Contemporary old-time duo from Calgary

    • Recorded at Calgary’s only campus and community radio station, CJSW, in 2017

  • Big Bill Broonzy (Pete Seeger, Studs Terkel) - Love You Baby

    • From Studs Terkel’s Weekly Almanac on WFMT in Chicago, from 1956

    • Broonzy was an American blues singer and guitarist, and one of the leading figures of the emerging folk revival of the 1950s

    • Traditional American gospel song first recorded in 1922

    • We catch the three of them in the middle of a conversation about the blues

  • Honeyboy Edwards - Interview

    • He was a Delta blues musician from Mississippi who began his career as a travelling bluesman at the age of 14 with Big Joe Williams

    • He played with other Delta blues musicians like Charley Patton and Tommy Johnson, and became close friends with Robert Johnson—his account of Johnson’s death has since become the definitive version of events

    • I find this so interesting to think about because we often consider Robert Johnson this mythical, ancient figure, but many people who knew him personally have only recently passed away

    • Edwards didn’t record professionally until 1951, though folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax made field recordings of his music in 1942 for the Library of Congress

    • His career spanned about 80 years—he received a Grammy award in 2008 for one of his albums, and was also awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010

    • Here, in this WBEZ interview from 2008, he was 92 years old

  • Pete Seeger - Interview

    • An interview he did with Mike Jarmus on WCTC in New Brunswick, NJ in the 80s, focusing on his environmental work

    • Includes a short rendition of “This Land is Your Land” by his friend Woody Guthrie

  • Lead Belly - Boll Weevil

    • This is from his Folk Songs of America radio show on WNYC, recorded in 1941

  • Big Dave McLean - I Feel Like Going Home

    • Recorded at CFCR in 2015

  • Jake Xerxes Fussell - Pork and Beans

    • Recorded live at KDHX in St. Louis, Missouri in 2017

  • Stan Rogers - Main Street Soliloquy

    • Here’s a recording from Stan Rogers that we wouldn’t have were it not for community radio

    • Stan died far too young at the age of 33 in 1983

    • This is his recording of David Bradstreet’s “Main Street Soliloquy,” recorded at KPFK in Los Angeles in 1981

  • Pharis & Jason Romero - Waitin’ on the Evening Mail

    • They recorded this live for KEXP during The Pickathon Music Festival in Oregon in 2013.

  • Son House - Empire State Express

  • Bob Dylan - Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor

    • On Billy Faier’s radio show on WBAI in New York in October of 1962

  • The Small Glories - No Friend of Mine

    • From Winnipeg

    • Recorded at WEXT in New York

  • On-Air Jam Session - Union Maid

    • This recording of “Union Maid” was performed during the first annual On-Air Jam Session on NCPR in New York in 2009

  • Chris Coole, Ivan Rosenberg - Stage Fright

    • From Washington, DC station WAMU’s Bluegrass Country in 2016.

  • Kaia Kater - Saint Elizabeth

    • On WEXT in New York in 2016

  • Kacy & Clayton - The Rio Grande

    • Recorded at CKUA in Edmonton, Alberta in 2016

  • Odetta - Another Man Done Gone

    • On Studs Terkel’s Weekly Almanac on WFMT in Chicago

  • Old Man Luedecke - Tender Is the Night

    • From Chester, NS

    • Recorded at WAMU in Washington, DC in 2013

  • AA Bondy - When the Devil’s Loose

    • Recorded at WNRN in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2009

  • Skip James - Illinois Blues/I’m So Glad

    • Recorded for WTBS in Massachusetts in 1954

  • Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project - Foreign Lander

  • Marcoux Corner Vocal Quartet - Johnny Saucepan

  • Indiana Public Radio Broadcast from Indiana State Fair 2004

  • The Barking Dog Singers - Donate to Fundrive

  • Woody Guthrie - Jesse James

    • From WNYC

Juliana Young
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