Playlist: The Moonshine Show - 12 October 2008

On today's show, we featured some music from Cherryholmes -- although not our scheduled interview with Jere Cherryholmes unfortunately -- and gave away some tickets for their appearance on Wednesday night at The Highline Ballroom. In addition, we looked back at the winners from this year's International Bluegrass Music Awards. And as part of our monthlong tribute to Doug Tuchman, we played an archival recording from October 1998 featuring The Rockhouse Gamblers (Bill Christophersen, Gil Sayre and Aron Weinbech) live on Honky-Tonkin'. Matt Matlack, 'The Rowdy Redneck', who had been Doug's co-host on that program gave us a call from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to let us know that he was listening!

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The Moonshine Show - 89.9 WKCR-FM, NYC
Sunday 12 October 2008 - 10 a.m. to Noon
Host: Matt Winters

Cherryholmes; "Tallahassee," "Makin' Time"; _Cherryholmes_ (Skaggs Family)

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[IBMA Award Winners for Entertainer of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year, Album of the Year, Emerging Artist of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year (Jamie Dailey) and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year ("By the Mark")]

Dailey & Vincent; "Poor Boy Workin' Blues," "Sweet Carrie," "By the Mark"; _Dailey & Vincent_ (Rounder)

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[IBMA Song of the Year]

Blue Highway; "Through the Window of a Train"; _Through the Window of a Train_ (Rounder)

[Dobro Player of the Year]

Rob Ickes with Blue Highway; "The Fatal Shore"; _Big Time_ (Rounder)

[Fiddle Player of the Year]

Michael Cleveland; "Hello City Limits"; _Let 'er Go, Boys!_ (Rounder)

[Guitar Player of the Year]

Josh Williams; "Cold Virginia Rain"; _Lonesome Highway_ (Pinecastle)

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[Banjo Player of the Year - Kristin Scott Benson]

Larry Stephenson Band; "Lonesome Day," "Bully of the Town"; _Two Hearts on the Borderline_ (Pinecastle)

[Bass Player of the Year - Barry Bales; Mandolin Player of the Year - Adam Steffey]

Dan Tyminski Band; "The One You Lean On," "Knock Knock!"; _Wheels_ (Rounder)

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Cherryholmes; "Don't Give Your Heart to a Knoxville Girl," "Darkness on the Delta"; _Black and White_ (Skaggs Family)

Cherryholmes; "Devil in Disguise"; _Don't Believe_ (Skaggs Family)

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Three Tall Pines; "Jenny Mule"; _Short While Ago_ (self-released)

Stripmall Ballads; "Point of View"; _Since Jimmy Died_ (self-released)

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Rockhouse Gamblers Live at WKCR-FM; Archival Recording from 20 October 1998
"Fiddler's Dream"
"Stagger Lee"
"Goin' Back to Jericho"
Fiddle Tune
"Think of What You've Done"

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Michael Cleveland; "Rye Straw"; _Flame Keeper_ (Rounder)

Ralph Stanley; "I've Got a Mule to Ride," "Old McDonald/Cindy"; _Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection_ (Rebel)

Third Robert Johnson Photograph Discovered

Read the story in Vanity Fair.

Mother Banjo on MN Soundtrack

I had a really fun time being a guest on KFAI's local show MN Soundtrack last Friday...kind of fun to be on the other side of the interview! To hear me play some Mother Banjo tunes live and to hear a slice of our local music scene, click here.

Playlist: Womenfolk (October 5, 2008)

Sunday's show was jam-packed with live guests--Natalia Zukerman and Willy Porter in the first hour and local country/roots vocalists Eliza Blue and The Dimestore Dames in the second hour, previewing the kick-off to to this year's Womenfolk concert series at Gethsemane Church. They put on a great concert last night so big thanks to them for starting things off in fine fashion!

Next Sunday tune in for a fall pledge drive show with co-host Pam of KFAI's Pam Without Boundaries and guests from SPNN's television show "It's a Woman's World." There will be lots of autumn tunes, new music and special thank-you gifts! To get your pledge in early, just click here.

Thanks for listening and for your support of Fresh Air Community Radio!

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WOMENFOLK (October 5, 2008)
Hosted by Ellen Stanley.
Fresh Air Community Radio, KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis/106.7 FM St. Paul
Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
*New Releases
**Womenfolk Theme Song


**Kris Delmhorst / Everything Is Music / Strange Conversation / Signature Sounds


Shawn Colvin / I Don’t Know Why / Live ‘88 / Plump Records
Ruthie Foster / Heal Yourself / The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster / Blue Corn Music


*Catie Curtis / Are You Ready to Fly? / Sweet Life / Compass Records
*Amy Ray / Out on the Farm / Didn’t It Feel Kinder / Daemon Records
*Brianna Lane / Learn to Fly / Let You In / Self


[Womenfolk Find - Featured Artist of the Month]
*Natalia Zukerman / Brand New Frame / Brand New Frame / Self


Edie Carey / Lonely / Another Kind of Fire / Self
*Rose Polenzani with Session Americana / You Were Drunk / When the River Meets the Sea / Self
Linda Thompson / Dear Mary / Fashionably Late / Rounder


[Live in the Studio: Natalia Zukerman with Willy Porter]
Natalia Zukerman with Willy Porter / Better Me
Natalia Zukerman with Willy Porter / Only Trees


[Behind Twin Cities Women’s Calendar]
Karen Mueller / Heart of the Heartland / Landscape of the Heart / Self
Becky Schlegel / Cheyenne / Drifter Like Me / Self
*Linda & Robin Williams / When a Thread Gets Caught / Buena Vista / Red House


*Eliza Gilkyson / The Party’s Over / Beautiful World / Red House


[Live in the Studio: The Dimestore Dames, featuring Kim Roe & Jennifer Markey]
The Dimestore Dames / Custom Made Woman Blues
The Dimestore Dames / Someday You Will Pay


Eliza Blue / Freight Train / Screen Doors & Back Doors / Lucky Micah Records


[Live in the Studio: Eliza Blue]
Eliza Blue / Mending Fences
Eliza Blue / Gospel Song


Liz Stahler / Miles Left / Stitches in My Sleeve / Self

Folk Brothers Setlist from Sunday

Somehow it escaped my notice that The Folk Brothers (Jack Hardy and David Massengill) would be performing this past Sunday at the Uptown Coffeehouse, but they did. And WJFF-FM radio DJ (and Jack Hardy devoté)Jonathan Mernit posted the setlist on the Jack Hardy e-mail list, so I thought it worthwhile to reproduce here.

The Folk Brothers perform next in New York on December 13th at the People's Voice Cafe, and their complete itinerary can be found on Jack Hardy's web site.

And please let me note my extreme pleasure that Massengill's "The Pissed-Off Eunuch" might make it on to the second Folk Brothers CD.

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The first set was pretty much The Folk Brothers CD, Partners in Crime:

Peggy-O
Losers(Van Ronk)
Fairfax County(Massengill)
Worst President Ever(Hardy)
Rider on an Orphan Train(Massengill)
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
Ode to a Mouse(Massengill)
Go Tell The Savior(Hardy)
Mauve(Hardy)
Saint James Infirmary Blues

The second set was The Folk Brothers soon to be recorded 2nd CD:

Reason To Believe(Hardin)
I Ought To Know(Hardy)
Another Time & Place(Van Ronk)
God Smiled Down(J. Byrd)
Derry Down(Massengill)
Baby Loves a Banjo(Hardy)
May Day(Hardy)
My Name Joe(Massengill)
The Goodnight Loving Trail(Utah Phillips)
Eunich Song(Massengill)
Deep, Deep Blue(Hardy)

Anthony da Costa Back at the Postcrypt

Back in February, I had the pleasure of seeing Anthony da Costa at the Postcrypt (as I described here) with Abbie Gardner. And he was all over the place at Falcon Ridge as well (as I described here). Well, I was pleased to be able to catch up with him again last Saturday evening there in the basement of St. Paul's Chapel back at the Postcrypt Coffeehouse.

Playing before Anthony was Tanner Walle, a songwriter and guitarist, who was playing with a second guitarist and a bassist. The band played as a pretty tight unit, and they whipped out covers of Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" and (for my generation) Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," both of which were major crowd-pleasers. Walle's originals, I'm afraid, didn't do much for me -- almost none of the lyrics took hold in my head -- but the band sounded good, and it was easy to get into their groove.

Anthony da Costa opened with a John Elliott song -- called something like "Let's Go Out Tonight Like It's Last Year" -- which had some great lyrics (references to "time wasted with your tongue" and how nice it must be to be a Mormon). (The photo to the right is of Anthony and John Elliott performing together.) He followed up with "Call Me Spent Tonight" and 'a song about falling in love for two weeks and then kidding yourself for another two or three,' "Upstate Living." "Hush Little Boy" was a new number. All of these were solid, although I find myself shaking my head and going, 'This guy writes a lot of broken hearted songs for a 17-year-old kid! How many relationships has he had?' (But I bet if I pulled down some notebooks full of poetry from high school...)

There's always free popcorn at the Postcrypt, and Anthony started riffing on kettle corn -- which has become a ubiquitous festival feature over the past few years -- and he revealed to all of us than John Gorka is a huge kettle corn fan (perhaps Ellen can verify this): 'We turned around for a second to watch Judy Collins sing about where the time goes, and Gorka was just shoveling it in! And who knows where the time goes?' Out of that story, he went into "Okemah Sunrise," receiving our applause at the end of the song by saying, 'Thank you very much. That was a sissy song for you.' On "Back of My Mind," Anthony had his foot stopping on the creaky old Postcrypt stage such that he came back to the same post-song motif as before: `That was a lot of testosterone for such a sissy song!' He followed with "At My Window Sad and Lonely," the Woody Guthrie lyric to which Jeff Tweedy put music for the Mermaid Avenue project. And then we got "The Wrestler," about a professional wrestler who always loses. "Snakes on the Plane" was followed by "Ghost is Back" to close the show.

Steve Kirkman accompanied Anthony on guitar for the evening and did a fine job but stayed clearly in the background to the wunderkind.

Along with John Elliott (see my review here) and Raina Rose, Anthony da Costa will be at the Living Room this Friday night, 10 October.

Playlist: The Moonshine Show - 5 October 2008

I had the great pleasure of having Matt Brown and Brittany Haas (and her five-string fiddle) on the show this morning. They played some wonderful twin-fiddle old-time tunes for us. And we began our Doug Tuchman tribute with an archival interview of New Lost City Ramblers founding member Tom Paley from 2001.

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The Moonshine Show - 89.9 WKCR-FM, NYC
Sunday 5 October 2008 - 10 a.m. to Noon
Host: Matt Winters

New Lost City Ramblers; "Colored Aristocracy," "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down," "Railroad Blues"; _Tom Paley, John Cohen and Mike Seeger Sing Songs of the New Lost City Ramblers_ (Folkways LP)

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WKCR Archival Interview with Tom Paley Conducted by Doug Tuchman (3 July 2001)

New Lost City Ramblers; "Soldier's Joy," "Brown's Ferry Blues"; _20 Years -- Concert Performance__ (Flying Fish LP)

The Mysterious Redbirds; "I'll Fly Away," "Oh My Little Darling/Did You Ever See the Devil?"; _The Mysterious Redbirds_ (Copper Creek)

The New Deal String Band; "Didn't He Ramble?," "Done Gone"; _Dealing a New Hand (From the Same Old Deck)_ (Wild)

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New Lost City Ramblers; "Who's That Knocking on My Door"; _...Sing Songs of the New Lost City Ramblers_

Chicken Chokers; "Diamond Joe"; _07_ (self-released)

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Matt Brown and Brittany Haas LIVE in WKCR-FM Master Control

"Roscoe"
Swedish Polska
"Carroll County Blues"

"Train 45" from Matt Brown's _Falls of Richmond_ (5-String)

"Ways of the World"

"Oh, Agamemnon" from Crooked Still's _Still Crooked_

"Fire on the Mountain"

"Dry and Dusty" from _Brittany Haas_

Chris Thile Watch

As regular readers know, we do our best to keep tabs on Chris Thile here on the Sound of Blackbirds (see here and here), and as I mentioned in the last post, he'll be making a Moonshine Show appearance in the near future.

So we certainly would be remiss if we were not to point out this crazy combination concert at Le Poisson Rouge next Friday -- mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau together! Wow! (If you need some Brad Mehldau exposure, check out these Radiohead covers on YouTube: "Exit Music (for a Film)" and "Paranoid Android".)

(100 percent of receipts from the concert go to some guy who is running for president apparently...)

(Alex Ross tipped me off.)

Also Coming Up on the Mooshine Show

I mentioned on Tuesday WKCR's tribute to the late Doug Tuchman this month. But there are a number of other fun things happening on The Moonshine Show in the next few weeks.

This Sunday, 5 October, young old-time fiddlers Matt Brown and Brittany Haas will be live in-studio with us. Matt has just released his second CD, whereas Brittany, I'm sure, will have much exciting news to report from what it's like to be on the road with Crooked Still. I have never heard these two play together, but individually, they are two of the finest young old-time fiddlers out there -- with Brittany having learned extensively from the master himself, Bruce Molsky -- so it should be pretty amazing to hear what they sound like together.

On 12 October, I'll be talking to Jere Cherryholmes on the phone. He is the leader of Cherryholmes, the 2005 International Bluegrass Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award winners. They have a new CD out, their third on Skaggs family records, and will be appearing at the Highline Ballroom in Manhattan on Wednesday 15 October.

And at the end of the month, on 26 October, Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer are going to join us live in studio to talk about their new CD on the Nonesuch label, which features 12 original tunes, as well as their appearance at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday 29 October. They're going to be playing the BIG room at Carnegie, for the record. Also, I believe that Edgar Meyer will be the first MacArthur Genius Grant winner ever to appear on The Moonshine Show.

Moonshine airs on Sunday mornings from 10:00 a.m. to noon (EST) on 89.9 FM in the New York area and www.wkcr.org elsewhere.

Ralph Stanley for Obama Radio Ad

Check it out here.

Virgina is pretty close to a toss-up state right now. FiveThirtyEight.com has it going in Obama's favor by 4.4 points today. So the Ralph Stanley radio buy might really help Obama sure up the state.