[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof an American address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from New York City again.]
Quotation Of The Week ~ Napoleon Bonaparte: Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Ah, the weekly trip down memory lane. Let's see here: two of my favourite male singers (James Taylor and Dan Fogelberg) and my all-time favourite guitarist (Rory, of course): how can i give this week's show a grade of anything other than "A+"? Although i must admit that, without those three songs, we might just have managed an "A." Other favourite songs included The Band's opener and Arlo Guthrie's version of the Steve Goodman song. The number by Earth Quake -- a group i don't think i'd heard of before -- was a delight -- some seriously good musicianship there -- and there wasn't a single annoying moment (apart from some of the ads, naturally) although i was shocked when John Ulett, our host, in introducing the CSN track, supposed that Marrakesh is somewhere in south-east Asia! (Americans on the whole are not famous for their knowledge of geography: if it's outside the USA, they don't seem too interested.)
The Fogelberg / Weisberg collaboration (they made two albums together and Weisberg also pops in on Dan's live DVD) -- a song about the evils of greed -- was kinda ironic when you consider that Mr Weisberg later sued Dan for breach of contract and failure to adequately compensate him for his efforts (which, IMO, were pretty feeble) and won. I may be naive but i do see a touch of hypocrisy on someone's part here.
There were technical problems, and not on my local machine for once: Uman doesn't always announce the song but the website usually displays what it is. (A godsend when i don't recognise it!) Occasionally they will mis-identify one, but today they screwed up thrice: the Badfinger song was not, as suggested, The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy; it was Mike Harrison's version of Smokestack Lightning, not Manfred Mann's (i doubt the Manfreds ever recorded it) and Marrakesh Express certainly wasn't April Wine's Big City Girls...
As
it does every week, the show ended far too soon. Here's the playlist. And a raccoon for y'all
Badfinger – Perfection
The Pure Prairie League – Two Lane Highway
Justin Hayward – Country Girl
James Taylor – Country Road
Mike Harrison – Smokestack Lightning
George Harrison – Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg – The Power Of Gold
38 Special – Stone Cold Believer
Stillwater – Mind Bender
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Marrakesh Express
Paul McCartney – Another Day
The Babys – California
The Marc-Almond Band – The City
Hudson Ford – Free Spirit
Mastermind – Too Much To Ask For
The Who -- A Legal Matter
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers -- A One Story Town
Leon Russell -- A Song For You
Roger Daltrey -- Say It Ain't So, Joe
Journey -- Too Late
Rory Gallagher -- Philby
Z.Z. Top -- El Diablo
Earth Quake -- Things
Arlo Guthrie -- City Of New Orleans
Jay Ferguson -- Snakes On The Run
Golden Earring -- Are You Receiving Me
Santana -- I'll Be Waiting
Three Dog Night -- Eli's Coming
Robert Palmer -- Johnny And Mary
The Rolling Stones -- Let It Bleed
Gary Wright -- Love Is A Rose
Heartsfield -- Another Man Down
Sugarloaf -- Green Eyed Lady
The Doobie Brothers -- Nothing But A Heartache
And here's my personal playlist for the week:
Pink Floyd – The Endless River
Various Artists – Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration
Zaz – Effet Miroir
Dead Can Dance – Aion
Foo Fighters – Skin And Bones
The Moody Blues – Gold
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet – Landfall
Mari Boine – Gula Gula
Wilson Pickett – The Very Best Of Wilson Pickett
Saga – 10,000 Days
Jane Siberry – Bound By The Beauty
Kate Rusby – Sleepless
The Albion Band – Stella Maris
Steeleye Span – Parcel Of Rogues
Various Artists – Great Grandson Of “Morris On”
Various Artists – A Little On The CD Side, Vol. 13
Dan Fogelberg – Phoenix
Colin James – One More Mile
Martin Carthy – Shearwater
Jeff Beck & Jed Leiber – Frankie's House
Rob Hyman et al. -- Largo
Stan Rogers – The Very Best Of Stan Rogers
Sinéad O'Connor – Throw Down Your Arms
Cat Stevens – Buddha And The Chocolate Box
Bonnie Raitt – Fundamental
Radiohead – Hail To The Thief
Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden
The Beatles – Love
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Paper Airplane
Shooglenifty – Solar Shears
The Who – Odds & Sods
The Albion Band – Live In Concert
Maddy Prior – Woman In The Wings
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