PLAYLIST TRADITIONS FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Once again my ---and Ron's-- great thanks for the support you have shown the program and the artists we present---old and new. Thanks also for all the kind words today about today's program and the wonderful conversation with Tom Paxton---do follow my suggestion about visiting his website and offering kind thoughts for his wife.

One more item---a correction. Buskin and Batteau join me on March 22 for some live music in the studio and James O'Malley is on with me for that on March 8. I mentioned it correctly but it was incorrect on the Program Notes web page---now corrected.

A few shots of the faces to put with some voices:

TOM PAXTON at Dave Van Ronk Tribute photo by Otto Bost

BILL/KATE ISLES

ARTIST/
PIECE/
ALBUM/
LABEL -/
Website/

Theme: HARVEY REID
Dirty Dish Rag
Solo Guitar Sketchbook
Woodpecker Records -
http://www.woodpecker.com/

ED TRICKET
The Telling Takes Me Home
Singing Through The Hard Times
Righteous Babe
http://www.righteousbabe.com/

MAGPIE
Michael
Singing Through The Hard Times
Righteous Babe
http://www.righteousbabe.com/

DAVID POTTS-DUPRE
The Bowling Song
The Preacher & the Teacher
self
http://www.potts-dupremusic.com/

STEVE JAMES
The Same Thing Could Happen To You
Short Blue Stories
Hobemian records
http://www.stevejames.com/

KIM BEGGS
Pioneer & Doctor
Wanderer's Paen
Yukon
http://www.kimbeggs.com/

JAMES O'MALLEY
Just Like A Woman
Tales To Tell
self
http://www.jamesomalley.com/

SUSAN WERNER
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Classics
self
http://www.susanwerner.com/

BILL & KATE ISLES
The Sutra (comma) Polka
Matching Baggage
self
http://www.kateandbillisles.com/

THE JUGGERNAUT STRING BAND
Old Joe s Hitting the Jug
Jugstaposition
self
http://www.juggernautjugbanad.com/

CAROLYN HESTER
Geronimo
Texas Songbird
Road Goes On Forever records
http://www.caroynhester.com/

STILL ON THE HILL
Ghost of The Crescent Hotel
Ozark
self
http://www.stillonthehill.com/

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TOM PAXTON GUEST WITH MUSIC FROM THE FOLLOWING CDs

How Beautiful On the Mountain
Comedians & Angels
Appleseed Records
http://www.tompaxton.com/

Comedians & Angels
Comedians & Angels
Appleseed Records
http://www.tompaxton.com/

Out On The Ocean
Comedians & Angels
Appleseed Records
http://www.tompaxton.com/

Even A Gray Day
Even A Gray Day
Rounder
http://www.tompaxton.com/
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I'm Changing My Name To Chrysler
Live At McCabe's Guitar Shop
Rhino
http://www.tompaxton.com/

EAGLES
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Single
Asylum
http://www.eagles.com/

JACK TEMPCHIN
Slow Dancing
After The Rain
Night River

NIGHT SUN
Didn't I Try
One Moment of Grace
Borealis
http://www.borealis.com/

ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER
Denali, Not McKinley
You Don't Have To Like them Both
Red Beet records
http://www.redbeetrecords.com/

BUSKIN & BATTEAU
Good Luck In The Promised Land
MP3 Download

HANK WILLIAMS
From Jerusalem to Jericho
HANK The Unreleased Recordings
Time/Life
http://www.timelife.com/

TEX RITTER
High Noon
78 Single
Capitol

JIM REEVES
Blue Without My Baby
78 Single
RCA

GRANDPA JONES
Night Train To Memphis
Personal tape

HARRY BELAFONTE / NAT KING COLE
Mama Look At Boo Boo
VHS TAPE Personal Copy

KATE CAMPBELL
See Rock City
Moonpie Dreams
Compass
http://www.katecampbell.com/

DON MCLEAN
American Pie
Rearview Mirror
Hyena records
http://www.hyeanrecords.com/

DAVID BUSKIN
Widow's Cadillac
Wealthy Man
Inverted Turtle
http://www.modernman3.com/

DAVE POTTS
Old Chevelle
$12.99
Looking Up Records
http://www.davepotts.com/

JOAN BAEZ
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Blessed Are...
Vanguard

LACY J. DALTON
16th Ave
Greatest Hits
CBS

RICHARD BERMAN

You Me and Bobby McGee

Aries Records

http://www.richardberman.com/

PLAYLIST SUNDAY SIMCHA FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We start with great thanks to those of you who pledged to keep "Yiddishkeit" on the air and also for the lovely notes I have rcvd. Seems we may have to make this the Allan Sherman Corner---though Mickey Katz is a contender--oich---he could'a bin a contendah.

Some of you wrote love notes and I know that in these hard economic times it may well be hard to donate so your kind words are certainly welcome. Mike Burstyn, in his interesting interview, made a good point--Lansky was a mobster but he cared for the Jewish People and Madoff just bilked them and others.

If you have any requests just e mail them to sundaysimcha@yahooo.com and if you know any artists that would want to be played on the program have them contact me.

A few shots of some of the faces to put with the voices this week:

MIKE BURSTYN--as Lansky

TOVA

ARTIST / PIECE

ALBUM / LABEL

MARGOT LEVERETT & THE KLEZMER MTN. BOYS
A Redl & A Volich (Theme)
Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mtn. Boys
http://www.margotleverett.com/

EITAN MASURI
Od Yishama Hora Chassidic Medley
The Very Best of Jewish-Israeli Party Vol 2
http://www.musicfromisrael.com/

THERESA TOVA
Play A Little For Me In Yiddish
Telling Stories
http://www.theresatova.com/

MIKE BURSTYN: GUEST TALKING OF HIS ACTING AND INVOLVEMENT IN "LANSKY"
http://www.mikeburstyn.com/

PESECHTE & MIKE BURSTYN
Kuni Lemle
Personal Copy
http://www.mikeburstyn.com/

MICKEY KATZ
Yiddish Mule Train
Greatest Shticks
Koch

MICKEY KATZ
it’s a Michaye In Hawaiye
Greatest Shticks
Koch

ROBERT KLEIN
Civil War Chess Set
Let's Not Make Love
Rhino

SHMUEL ACHIZER
Yevarechecha Chassidic Klezmer Medley
The Real & Very Best of Jewish Israeli Party Music Vol 2
http://www.musicfromisrael.com/

EITAN MASURI
Hine Ma Tove Medley
The Real & Very Best of Jewish Israeli Party Music Vol 2
http://www.musicfromisrael.com/

HAGEVATRON KIBUTZ SINGERS
Shalom Medley
The Real & Very Best of Jewish Israeli Party Music Vol 2
http://www.musicfromisrael.com/

PLAYLIST TRADITIONS FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Once again myriad thanks to all of you who have supported the program during our annual fund-raising efforts. Thanks also to the first time pledgers---and I thank Tom who I met while joining my dear friend Jerry Treacy. Gratitude, of course, to all our regular listeners who have so generously supported our humble efforts over all these years---as an aside I offer my thanks for the great lead-in Rich Sibello offers us from his program and who I have the pleasure, every other week, of sitting in on for a few minutes for some banter and he with me. Rich seems to own every recording known to mankind and even some that were first scratched onto cave walls and then hummed---you know we should have a picture of Rich as we do of the artists we feature on Traditions:










And since we are on WFDU personalities why not a picture of Jerry Treacy who I had the pleasure of joining on his program this past Saturday and where --if you were listening--you heard my touching tale of Jerry's caring and sensitive side aside from his knowledge of Americana Music.

Last but certainly not least compliments to my co-host Ron Olesko who started TRADITIONS way back in the cave writing days of 1980 and has allowed it to evolve into these days of new media.

Thanks to you, our listeners, we shall be able to keep up what you have come to expect from WFDU and from us---an eclectic mix that can include Blues, Bluegrass, Folk---and let us not forget the ever popular (to me) "story songs" and as always---"...the thrills of the hills, the best in the west, and the tops in pops".

Now a few pics to put a face with the voice for this week:

JOHN FLYNN photo by Hedy Bergsman

ARTIST/
PIECE/
ALBUM/
LABEL /
Website/

Theme: HARVEY REID
Dirty Dish Rag
Solo Guitar Sketchbook
Woodpecker Records -
http://www.woodpecker.com/

JOHN FLYNN
Two Wolves
Two Wolves
MettaFour
http://www.johnflynn.com/

BILL STAINES
Stewball
Journey Home
Red House
http://www.billstaines.com/

PAT WICTOR
Gathering Flowers for The Masters Bouquet
Temporary
Risky Disc
http://www.patwictor.com/

PAUL ROBESON
On My Journey
On My Journey
SmithsonianFolkways
http://www.folkkways.si.edu/

KIM& REGGIE HARRIS
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
Git On Board

http://www.kimandreggieharris.com/

MAGPIE
If It Ain't Love
In This World
Sliced Bread -
http://www.magpiemusic.com/

ARLO GUTHRIE
Tom Joad

THE YOCKAMO ALL STARS
Blow Blow Tenor
New Orleans Brass
Putamayo
http://www.putamayo.com/

VANESSA PETERS
The Grammar of A Sinking Ship
Sweetheart, Keep Your Chin Up
self
http://www.littlesandwichmusic.com/

MICHAEL SMITH
Palomino Pal
Live\ At Tales From The Tavern Too
tales from the tavern
www.artistsofnote.com/michael

HAYES CARLL
She Left Me For Jesus
Trouble In Mind
:Lost Highway
http://www.hayescarl.com/

RED ROCK RONDO
The Boy Who Never Saw A Train
Zion Canyon Song Cycle
Steamboat Mountains Records -
http://www.redrockrondo.com/

STAN ROGERS
Forty Five Years
Fogarty's Cove
http://www.stanrogers.net/

NATHAN ROGERS
Hold The Line
True Stories
Halfway Cove Music -
http://www.nathanrogers.com/

ANTJE DUVEKOT
Reasonland
The Near Demise of the Highwire Danger
Self -
http://www.antjeduvekot.com/

DAVY GRAHAM
Angi
Fire in the Soul
Topic Records -
http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/

KATE CAMPBELL
Bus 109
The Portable Kate Campbell
Compadre -
http://www.katecampbell.com/

JAMCRACKERS
The Good In Living
Jamcrackers
Esperance
http://www.berggrenfolk.com/

JOHN BOUTTE
I'll Fly Away
New Orleans Brass
Putamayo
http://www.putamayo.com/

THE JUGGERNAUT STRING BAND
Jug Band Music
Jugstapsition
self

RALPH MCTELL
Streets of London
Troubadors of British Folk

TOM RUSH
Drift Away
What I Know
Appleseed Recordings -
http://www.tomrush.com/

DANNY SCHMIDT
This Too Shall Pass
The Americana Agency Sampler
Americana Agency -
http://www.dannyschmidt.com/

ED MCCURDY
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream

PLAYLIST TRADITIONS FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Both Ron Olesko and I were in attendance and alternated our hosting duties while we asked for your support in the annual WFDU fund-drive. The drive lasts for only 3 short weeks---not even close to the amount of time other non-commercial stations spend in fund drives yearly. I am certain that many of you will also agree that WFDU---and WFDU alone---has a personal relationship with the listeners. As I always say on the SUNDAY SIMCHA program--"..the eclectic weekend sound of WFDU"---which is accurate given the diversity of programming---Yiddish, Beatles, Americana, Doo Wop, Folk, etc;

Our sincere thanks for the support many of you showed us yesterday---actually "some" would a better word. Hopefully we will hear from more of you next week so that we can continued doing what we love and you can keep getting something I believe you treasure on the air---music with commentary and humor and not just music with the title scrolling along the bottom of your car radio dial.

If you would like to pledge via the web you can do this by going to http://www.wfdu.fm/ and following the prompts---you can also do it by writing to me at wfdutraditions@yahoo.com and just give me your name, address, amount and we will send you an envelope so you can fulfill your pledge.

Now a few faces to go with the voices you heard today:

THE YELLOW ROOM GANG

DAN BERGGREN





















And since we forgot to list John Prine and the song In Spite of Ourselves why not a shot of him and Iris DeMent ( who sang with him)


JOHN PRINE










IRIS DeMENT

















ARTIST/
PIECE/
ALBUM/
LABEL -/
Website/

Theme: HARVEY REID
Dirty Dish Rag
Solo Guitar Sketchbook
Woodpecker Records -
http://www.woodpecker.com/

DIRDY BIRDIES JUG BAND
Give to the Cause
Endangered Species
self -

ZACHARY STEVENSON
It Doesn't Matter Anymore
While I'm Here
self -
http://www.zacharystevenson.com/

JOHN GORKA
House in the Fields
Pure
Windham Hill -
http://www.johngorka.com/

RANDALL WILLIAMS
I Will Come for You
Praying for Land
self -
http://www.whereisrandall.com/

STEPHANIE BETTMAN
Evening Prayer Blues
Get Close To Me
self
http://www.stephaniebettman.com/

ELLIS
Coffee song
demo
self -
http://www.ellis-music.com/

RED MOLLY
The Mind of a Soldier
Love and Other Tragedies
self -
http://www.redmolly.com/

AMY SPEACE
Weight Of the World
2008/2009 Music to Life
Public Domain Foundation -
http://www.ellenbukstel.com/

DAN BERGRREN, PEGGY LYNN, DAN DUGGAN
Simple Faith
Jamcrackers
self
http://www.berggrenmusic.com/

TOM RUSH
River Song
What I Know
Appleseed Recordings
http://www.appleseedmusic.com/

DAVE VAN RONK
Entering Marion
To All My Friends Inn Far Flung Places
Gazzelle

ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER
Omar's Blues #2
You Don't Have to Like Them Both
Red Beet Records -
http://www.redbeetrecords.com/

THE STAIRWELL SISTERS
Swing Low
Get Off Your Money
Yodel-ay-hee-
http://www.stairwellsisters.com/

GUY DAVIS
Ain't Goin' Down
Sweetheart Like You
Red House Records -
http://www.guydavis.com/

HANK WILLIAMS
Lovesick Blues
24 Hank Williams Greatest Hits
Polydor

THE YELLOW ROOM GANG
They Used To Play Baseball Here
Happy New Day
self
http://www.yellowroomgang.com/

KATE CAMPBELL
Galaxie 500
The Portable Kate Campbell
http://www.katecampbell.com/

ANTJE DUVEKOT
South
Big Dream Boulevard
Black Wolf Records -
http://www.antjeduvekot.com/

CAROLYN DOCTOROW
Mainline Prosperity Blues
Another Country
self -
http://www.carolinedoctorow.com/

REV. GARY DAVIS
Lovin' Spoonful
Rev. Gary Davis Live At Newport

Of course the final thought----the diversity which you proably see here. SO -- wfdutraditions@yahoo.com if you are so inclined---or even if your are standing up

PLAYLIST SUNDAY SIMCHA FEBRUARY 1, 2009

A brief update since there will no posted playlists for this and the next 2 Sundays due to the Fundraising efforts and, you must realize, there are only 2 hands available. One hand is on the CD machines and the other is anticipating your calls and is hovering over the telephone.

I have a great suggestion. Why not pledge via e-mail to sundaysimcha@yahoo.com It will make life simpler for us all---just send me your name, address, amount, and e mail address (in case of a glitch---no other reason). The station will mail you an envelope for your generosity---and that envelope will mean a lot to you and me---it will help to keep YIDDISHKEIT on the air.

You may also mail any requests for music to that address with no obligation---although----well know the rest.

Now, as far as TRADITIONS is concerned you can do the same as above but just use this address: wfdutraditions@yahoo.com Everything else applies.

Finally, my greatest thanks to the people who called in to pledge today---mille grazie (for the Italian Jews) and Viel Danke for everyone else. I promise to honor the request for Sara Jackman next Sunday.

Do you feel that a picture of me might help? After all we want to be mespucha---and for Traditions listeners just part of the wonderful extended family that is holding on to the values we grew up with and, damn it, we won't change.