WFMU: Everybody's Songs with Cricket: Playlist from April 19, 2025

Everybody's Songs with Cricket: Playlist from April 19, 2025

Folk music with no single author and no single audience. Songs by everybody, for everybody.

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April 19, 2025: Strange Things Are Happening in This Land

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Buster "Buzz" Ezell	Roosevelt and Hitler (Pts. 1 & 2)	Field Recordings, Vol. 2: North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, & Arkansas (1926-1943)	Document Records	1997	recorded at Fort Valley State College in Fort Valley, Georgia in June 1943		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
James Crase	Old Joe Clark "Old Joe Clark" by "James Crase"	Mountain Music of Kentucky	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings	1960 / 1996	recorded in 1959 & originally released by Folkways Records in 1960; later included on expanded reissue released under the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings imprint in 1996		0:05:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers	Sail Away, Ladies	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be: Early American Rural Music, Vol. 2	Yazoo	1997	recorded in New York City on May 7, 1927		0:07:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Childers	Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad	Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in Northern Georgia, Vol. 2	Folkways Records	1984	Roud 4958		0:10:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Old Baptist Church	When Shall We Meet	Mountain Music of Kentucky	Smithsonian Folkways	1996	recorded in 1959		0:13:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Virgil Anderson	Trouble "Trouble" by "Virgil Anderson"	On the Tennessee Line	County Records	1980			0:19:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Douglas Quin	Frog Nocturne #2 "Frog Nocturne #2" by "Douglas Quin"	Caratinga: Soundscapes from Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest	Earth Ear	2001			0:30:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Anne Grimes	Logan's Lament "Logan's Lament" by "Anne Grimes"	Ohio State Ballads: History Through Folksongs	Folkways Records	1957			0:30:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Erik Darling	Paul and Silas "Paul and Silas" by "Erik Darling"	Erik Darling	Elektra	1958			0:34:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cleek Schrey & Weston Olencki	Rockingham (300)	The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion	Pagans	2024			0:36:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Matt Geary	I "I" by "Matt Geary"	III Meditations	self-released	2025	https://mattgeary.bandcamp.com/album/iii-meditations	*	0:39:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Glenn Jones	Nora's Leather Jacket	This is the Wind That Blows It Out	Strange Attractors Audio House	2004			0:44:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shovel Dance Collective	IV: Ova Canje Water	The Water Is the Shovel of the Shore	Memorials of Distinction / Double Dare	2022			0:49:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Masa Nazzal & Ilyas Titaou	no instruments in the forest	Slovenia Inshallah	GLARC	2025	https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/slovenia-inshallah	*	0:50:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Bisset	C G G E G B "C G G E G B" by "John Bisset"	o- -o	self-released	2025	https://johnbisset.bandcamp.com/album/o-o-2	*	0:53:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Douglas Quin	Frog Nocturne #2 "Frog Nocturne #2" by "Douglas Quin"	Caratinga: Soundscapes from Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest	Earth Ear	2001			0:56:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Schwartz	Introduction "Introduction" by "Tony Schwartz"	The World in My Mail Box	Folkways Records	1958			1:07:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Schwartz	Norwegian Student Sings	The World in My Mail Box	Folkways Records	1958			1:08:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Schwartz	Farmwife in New Mexico	The World In My Mail Box	Folkways Records	1958			1:08:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Schwartz	Kentucky Dulcimer "Kentucky Dulcimer" by "Tony Schwartz"	The World in My Mail Box	Folkways Records	1958			1:11:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Schwartz	Peruvian Guitar "Peruvian Guitar" by "Tony Schwartz"	The World in My Mail Box	Folkways Records	1958			1:11:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Schwartz	Song from African Nightspot	The World in My Mail Box	Folkways Records	1958			1:15:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Schwartz	Closing Comments "Closing Comments" by "Tony Schwartz"	The World in My Mail Box	Folkways Records	1958			1:18:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Martin Young & Corbett Grigsby	No Letter in the Mail	Mountain Music of Kentucky	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings	1960 / 1996	recorded in 1959 & originally released by Folkways Records in 1960; later included on expanded reissue released under the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings imprint in 1996		1:18:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Rev. Howard Finster	Five to My Five	Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in Northern Georgia, Vol. 2	Folkways Records	1984			1:20:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The McGee Brothers & Arthur Smith	Pig at Home in the Pen	Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues	Folkways Records	1968			1:21:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Burnett & Rutherford	Billy in the Lowground	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be: Early American Rural Music, Vol. 4	Yazoo	1999			1:24:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ted B. Prillaman	The Life and Death of Charlie Poole	Virginia Traditions: Native Virginia Ballads and Songs	Blue Ridge Institute	1981	recorded in Martinsville, Virginia in 1974		1:27:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Band	Ain't No More Cane "Ain't No More Cane" by "The Band"	The Basement Tapes	Columbia	1975	Roud 10063; recorded sometime between late 1967 & early 1968		1:29:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bessie Gordon	Gambler's Blues "Gambler's Blues" by "Bessie Gordon"	Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946	Dust-to-Digital	2015			1:33:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Country Girl Kay	No One Loves You Like I Do	Barnyard Beehive	Numero Group	2025	originally released by the Whitkay Record Co. in 1961		1:36:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Douglas Quin	Frog Nocturne #2 "Frog Nocturne #2" by "Douglas Quin"	Caratinga: Soundscapes from Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest	Earth Ear	2001			1:38:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Codeine	W "W" by "Codeine"	Barely Real	Sub Pop	1992	performed by David Grubbs		1:48:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Susan Alcorn	Hello Goodbye Hello "Hello Goodbye Hello" by "Susan Alcorn"	The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne	Scissor Tail	2017	https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/the-hired-hands-a-tribute-to-bruce-langhorne		1:52:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🪕 ♥ 9:00am luca v: hey gmgm
	🪕 ♥ 9:01am fred: Good morning Cricket and cricketeers
	🪕 ♥ 9:01am newton: good morning Cricket, grasshoppers
	♥ 9:02am Wendy del Formaggio: Good morning, Cricket and friends.
	🪕 ♥ 9:03am chresti: morning cricket and errbody!
	♥ 9:03am cricket: good morning, everybody!
	♥ 9:05am Crafty: ↳ Song: "Roosevelt and Hitler (Pts. 1 & 2)" by "Buster "Bu... hi cricket, hi everybody! you can say that again
	♥ 9:07am common: hello!
	9:09am LiXiviated Life: Hey Isn’t this our song(s)?
	♥ 9:09am Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Sail Away, Ladies" by "Uncle Dave Macon & His Fru... this is a beautiful recording.
	🪕 ♥ 9:09am TDK60: Good morning, Cricket.
	🪕 ♥ 9:10am chresti: ↳ LiXiviated Life @9:09 Everybody's songs!
	🪕 ♥ 9:10am melinda: good morning cricket and chums!
	9:12am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Cricket and Everyone.
	♥ 9:13am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Song: "Roosevelt and Hitler (Pts. 1 & 2)" by "Buster "Bu... An appropriate piece for these times.
	♥ 9:16am Lixiviated Life: ↳ Song: "When Shall We Meet" by "Old Baptist Church" Please More of this
	♥ 9:18am Lixiviated Life: ↳ Song: "When Shall We Meet" by "Old Baptist Church" Spent some time in Dunlow WV and this was the feeling.
	9:18am Nate K: This hymn is beautiful
	9:19am Eric the Hat: Saw Delight. Tuned In. This Saturnday.
	9:19am Eric the Hat: Glad
	9:21am Eric the Hat: See?
	♥ 9:36am Mark T: Good morning and greetings from Scottsdale, Arizona.
	9:43am Cooh John: Anne Grimes. O-H.....
	9:43am rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you,Cricket and Everyone. I must skedaddle.
	9:43am Noodle: Listening from Vineland, NJ today—howdy everyone!
	♥ 9:45am Lixiviated Life: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @9:43 See ya
	🪕 ♥ 9:46am Barney Grubbs: ↳ Song: "I" by "Matt Geary" this is hitting nicely on a long island spring morning—cherry blossoms & maple leaflets (and a runny nose)
	♥ 9:46am Lixiviated Life: ↳ Noodle @9:43 👋
	♥ 9:49am Eric the Hat: ↳ Song: "Nora's Leather Jacket" by "Glenn Jones" Dope
	9:51am Lulah: hello from the UK :) i saw shovel dance a few months ago in a small venue, they are great
	♥ 9:52am Yes: Morning
	♥ 9:52am cricket: ↳ Lulah @9:51 that's amazing! i'd love to see them live someday, too. such a talented & inspiring group
	♥ 9:58am Eric the Hat: ↳ Song: "C G G E G B" by "John Bisset" Outstanding.
	10:01am robotashley: Good morning!!!
	🪕 ♥ 10:03am Handy Haversack: Morning, cricket, cricketeers, everybody.
	🪕 ♥ 10:12am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Farmwife in New Mexico" by "Tony Schwartz" If they were mailing in audio in '58 this likely meant mailing big reel-to-reel tapes.
	♥ 10:17am cricket: ↳ TDK60 @10:12 one of the correspondents featured on this record does refer to having received a "spool" from Mr. Schwartz...
	♥ 10:18am Mark T: Which one is a free download?
	♥ 10:19am LynnsBrother: Morning all. This sounds like The Soundtrack to a Coup d' tat.
	🪕 ♥ 10:19am TDK60: ↳ cricket @10:17 Cricket: I think it was too early for cassettes, which didn't appear till the very late 1960s I think.
	♥ 10:23am cricket: ↳ Mark T @10:18 this Matt Geary EP (fingerstyle American primitive guitar) is, for one: mattgeary.bandcamp.com...
	🪕 ♥ 10:26am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Five to My Five" by "Rev. Howard Finster" Did Wendell Gee provide assistance?
	♥ 10:30am Mark T: ↳ cricket @10:23 Thanks much. And he is from my neck of the woods. I'm from The Cherry Hill area, just across the river.
	10:31am annette: the BAND !!!
	♥ 10:32am Steve Del Sol: ↳ TDK60 @10:19 Was it the late 60's? Seems like yeserday....
	10:33am annette: PINK HOUSE
	♥ 10:34am Mark T: ↳ Steve Del Sol @10:32 Yes it was, and yes time flies. Do you remember bands like Genesis started making their albums longer so people could not record it onto a 45 minute length cassette?
	🪕 ♥ 10:35am chresti: ↳ annette @10:33 The big pink!
	10:35am mark: morning cricket and all...thanks for the band song didn't expect it ..thiss music reminds me of the first bluegrass festival I went to..3 of us drove from East Hampton to North Carolina..we were only ones from out of state ..traditional bluegrass music ..cool experience..we were 21
	♥ 10:36am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Mark T @10:34 Bas*HARDS!!
	🪕 ♥ 10:38am TDK60: ↳ Steve Del Sol @10:32 Hi Steve: They were out in the '60s but didn't take off till later in the '70s-'80s.
	🪕 ♥ 10:40am RCU-Keith: Morning, Cricket! I'm really loving this episode. Have you heard the Ella Hanshaw release on Spinster?
	♥ 10:41am JG: Richard. He was amazing
	10:43am Michael Shelley: All are great. Sometimes Richard sings like he's afraid he's about to be punched.
	🪕 ♥ 10:43am melinda: I didn't know Finster also made music
	♥ 10:44am JG: ↳ Michael Shelley @10:43 All great. Fear is a powerful emotion, and Richard's singing was powerfully emotional.
	10:47am Annette: never fear.
	♥ 10:50am cricket: ↳ RCU-Keith @10:40 i hadn't heard of it, but this seems super interesting - will definitely listen asap. i really appreciate the recommendation!
	10:52am egould: Thanks cricket!
	10:52am mark: that festival in North Carolina was the only time I saw Bill Monroe and flatt and Scruggs (highlight)....Sunday morning gospel..in 1972
	🪕 ♥ 10:53am chresti: Thanks cricket!
	♥ 10:54am cricket: ↳ mark @10:52 seems like such an incredible experience. i'm jealous! greatly appreciate you sharing your stories
	♥ 10:54am Mark T: What a fantastic show today Cricket. Thanks
	🪕 ♥ 10:54am TDK60: Thanks, Cricket deejay.
	♥ 10:54am Yes: pleasure to be here
	🪕 ♥ 10:55am Handy Haversack: Thanks, cricket!
	♥ 10:55am cricket: gonna be heading out soon. thanks so much for listening and chatting with me today, everybody! hope you all have a great weekend
	🪕 ♥ 10:56am newton: thanks Cricket!
	10:57am Cosmic: What a beautiful piece of music!
	♥ 10:57am Mark T: ↳ Steve Del Sol @10:36 I believe there was a lawsuit from The RIAA and the manufacturers of cassettes and a portion of their sales went into a fund to be distributed to the three PRO's at that time
	10:57am mark: no problema ..love your show! here in Denver snow still on the cars..
	10:58am Cosmic: Re Hello Goodbye Hello
	10:59am Noodle: Thanks for the music, Cricket :)
	11:00am tonyb: @Mark T: I believe the same arrangement was made for cd-rs?