Route 78 West Sunday 1/19/2003 back
Show #99 Preserving Freeform Radio audio unavailable
 track  artist, song-label, format
  01     George Jones, There's no Money in the Deal-Mercury, CD
02     George Jones, Why Baby Why-Mercury, CD
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03     Webb Pierce, Holiday For Love
04     Jim Eanes, Gloomy Tomorrow-Cowgirlboy Records, 33 Lp
05     Pete Seeger, Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream-Folkway, CD
06     Byrds, The Times They Are A Changing-Columbia, CD
07     Bob Dylan, Ballad of Hollis Brown-Freewheelin' Ottakes, CD
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08     Jim Eanes, Beginning of the End-Cowgirlboy Records, 33 Lp
09     Hank Williams, I Don't Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes-Proper Records, CD
10     T. Texas Tyler, In the Land Where We'll Never Grow Old- King, CD
11     Del Gillman & the Bar X Boys, Rotation Blues-Proper, CD
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12     Big Bill Broonzy, Trouble in Mind-Smithsonian Folkway Recordings, CD
13     Stanley Brothers, I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow-Columbia, CD
14     Bob Dylan, Let Me Die In My Footsteps-Freewheelin' Outtakes
15     Sparklehorse, Heart Of Darkness
16     Ryan Adams, I Still Miss Someone
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17     Blue Mountain, Shady Grove
18     Uncle Tupelo, Effigy-Legacy, CD
19     Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth
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20     Jayhawks, Trouble
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21     Joni Mitchell, You Turn Me On I'm A Radio
22     Giles Giles Fripp, I Talk To The Wind-Mister E, CD
23     Mohawk & The Rednecks-Enchanted Forest, CD
24     Hank Williams, Too Many Parties Too Many Pals-Proper Records, CD
25     George Jones, Tender Years-Mercury CD
26     Dave Dudley, Six Days On The Road-Koch Records, CD
27     Bob Dylan, Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues-Freewheelin' Outtakes
28     Wilco, Misunderstood
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29     Blue Mountain, What Am I Going To Do
30     Elvis Costello, Radio Radio-Columbia, CD
Notes: Tonight's show may have had you worried that Route 78 West was changing to a talk format resembling NPR's "All Things Considered". That is not the case. The third trak, Holiday for Love, set the tone for a show of random sets with listener calls for more honky tonk. Loki reined supreme setting the political tone while Uncle Jeff stuck to more historical rhetoric and choreographed the background "frequency" sound bites.

Pete Seeger's song, "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream", bent the show to the political side. 60's standbys including "The Times They Are A Changing" and "For What It's Worth" combined with pointed civil rights lyrics by Dylan in "Ballad of Hollis Brown" sent a strong message of support for Martin Luther King's legacy.

The anniversary of Marconi's trans Atlantic radio broadcast incited the songs, "Radio Radio" and "You Turn Me On I'm A Radio" which Loki dedicated to Alicia.

Possibilities of war with Iraq were rebutted with Rotation Blues and Creedence Clearwater's Effigy, done with energy and power by Uncle Tupelo.

Nowhere else on the dial can "Freeform Radio" like this be heard. Believe it or not some of these signals are moving out across space. It's true cause Star Trek did an episode about it.

Post show at Tom's Tavern... where they don't mind if you order half a martini.
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