playlist: 22 October, 2005

the texas chainsaw acoustic hour
Saturday 0900-1100
KWVA, 88.1, Eugene, OR
listen:  while I'm still on the air
contact:  your congressperson and complain

(www.kwvaradio.org/chainsaw881@comcast.net)

blogalicious at www.chainsaw881.blogspot.com 
(hoping for real content this week)

the program for 22 October, 2005

What do you want to know?  That the phones didn't work?  That the guest was
running behind schedule?  That I lack the proper emotion to be affected by these
circumstances? 

chapter one:  Theme song of the week

Milt Jackson/The Spirit Feel/Plenty Plenty Soul

Chapter two:  One for the censors

Todd Snider/Double Wide Blues/That Was Me

chapter three:  Colin Makes it Happen...

Recently received Colin's latest release...A most pleasant surprise. 
Wonderfully underproduced and with more than one winner--many of you folks
should get the disc just for "Cornbread" (trust me, it's the kind of thing that
works in "folk" radio).

Anyway, Colin also turned me on to the Nels Andrews disc (more full production
but still several closer-to-acoustic numbers)...listened to this one on the
freeway to Portland, not to be confused with the Highway to Hell (and you
thought I couldn't work an  AC-DC reference in here), although the trip did have
a more than slightly hellish theme (speaking of themes, my new one:  Nearly all
people suck)...where was I?  Oh, yeah, anyway Nels' lyrics really created a lot
of images and gloriously irrelevant (to the song) associations (in case you are
wondering, that's a good thing).  Colin also says that Hisaw is cool, but I
already knew that.

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Eric Hisaw/Speaking With No Grace/Thing About Trains
Colin Brooks/Blood in the Water/Blood and Water
Nels Andrews/Jesse's Mom/Sunday Shoes

chapter four:  And it's up against the wall...

Still hard to hear Grierson's songs without thinking about the loss...Make what
you will of the song selection in this set.  Just one question:  what if Ray
Wylie had written a song about Pflugerville???

Ray Wylie Hubbard/Resurrection/Dangerous Spirits
Ray Wylie Hubbard/The Messenger/Loco Gringo's Lament
Ray Wylie Hubbard/Conversation with the Devil/Crusade of the Restless Knights

chapter five:  We now return you, if only temporarily, to our regularly
scheduled programming

Hobart Smith/John Brown's Body/In Sacred Trust
Mike Seeger y Robert Zimmerman/The Ballad of Hollis Brown/Third Annual
    Farewell Reunion

chapter five:  Shameless plugging 101

Alison is in town this week

Alison Brown/The Wonderful Sea Voyage(0f Holy St. Brenda)/Replay
Alison Brown/Etouffee Brutus?/Look Left

chapter six:  It's what I do best, remembering, of course, that best is, at best
in
this case, a relative term

Am in the process of  developing the lobbying strategy for getting a jazz
program on another station...Seems like much of the jazz programming I hear is
too "programmed."  Sets like these are my "bop' excursions, or, to put it closer
to the folk leanings of this list, my David Rawlings guitar solos.

It is also the stall, waiting for my radio guest to arrive

Sharon Isbin/La Catedral: iil Alegro Solemne/La Guitara
Baden Powell/Bach's Jesus Alegria dos Homens/Live a Bruxelles
Patty Larkin/Bound Brook/La Guitara
Simpson, Krishnan, Hildago y Srinivasen/The Running Kind/Kambara Music...
Ravi/Shantiseven/Afro-Indian Project
Badi Assad/Preludio e Toccatina/La Guitara
Amalia Rodrigues/Povo Que Lavas No Rio/The Art of Amalia

chapter seven:  Let us speak of Comoros

An interview with Nawal, the first female professional singer of Comoros. She's
a good talker and I did enough research to launch three good threads. 
Programmers who have "world music" leanings should check her out at

www.nawali.com

We were also joined by one of her musicians, a former KWVA programmer.

songs featured during the chat include:

Nawal/Al Djalilu/Kweli
Nawal/Hima/Voice of the Comoros