Mostly Folk Playlist April 14, 2013

Host: Terry Hayden

The Vientos del Pueblo show is usually on before Mostly Folk, but this week it was pre-empted by baseball.  Baseball ended before 6:00, and during that time, I played three songs from Guardabarranco, which is a group sometimes played on Vientos del Pueblo.  The songs I played were:

Suena prohibido
Banderas de libertad
Casa abierta

The Mostly Folk show
April Morning | Broadside Electric | With Teeth
Only an April Fool | Dan Berggren | Fresh Territory (Ndakinna Education Center May 19)
Plenty O’ Nothing | Jamcrackers | Jamcrackers (Ndakinna Education Center May 19)
I Ain’t Got No Home| Brother Sun | Some Part of the Truth (Old Songs April 19)
Home | Dougie MacLean | Inside the Thunder (8th Step May 14)
Home by Dark | Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen | Home by Dark (A Place for Folk, First Unitarian Society of Schenectady, May 3)
Merrimack County | Tom Rush | Live from Symphony Hall, Boston (8th Step May 11)
Louisiana Eyes | Tom Rush | New Year (8th Step May 11)
Creole Belles | Del Rey | Four and Six (Caffe Lena April 17)
Pianoforte 2010 | Jake Shimabukuro | Peace Love Ukulele (Troy Savings Bank Music Hall April 27)
Corrina, Corrina | Leo Kottke | Standing in My Shoes (The Egg April 26)
Itasca Rag | Dakota Dave Hull | Reunion Rag (Caffe Lena April 20)
Cindy | Peggy Seeger, with Mike and Pete Seeger | Three Score and Ten (8th Step May 12)
Bring Me Home | Peggy Seeger | Bring Me Home (8th Step May 12)
Any Way I Do | Tracy Grammer | Flower of Avalon (Caffe Lena April 21)
Amazon | Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer | Little Blue Egg (Caffe Lena April 21)
The Butterfly | Patrick Ball | Music On the Wind: Selected Pieces 1983-2003 (Old Songs May 10)
Two Left Feet | Chuck Brodsky | Tulips for Lunch (Middleburgh Public Library April 16)
North Country Waltz | John Kirk and Trish Miller | Quicksteppin’ (Crandall Public Library April 25)
No One Left to Turn To | Lustre Kings | That’s Show Biz (Linda Norris Auditorium April 20)
Hello NSA | Roy Zimmerman | Faulty Intelligence (Middleburgh Public Library May 1)
A Bridge to Somewhere | Tom Chapin | Let the Bad Times Roll (Proctors May 10)
Old Apples You | Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt | A More Perfect Union (8th Step May 12)
God's Counting on Me…God's Counting on You | Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt | A More Perfect Union (8th Step May 12)
Keep the Flame Alive | Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt | A More Perfect Union (8th Step May 12)

Wanting Memories

Wanting Memories is an interesting song.  I heard it on the NPR web site about two months ago performed by Cantus, but it has also been performed by Sweet Honey in the Rock, and I think I must have heard them do it, because the song seemed familiar.  The lyrics can be found at http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/k/kealii_reichel/wanting_memories.html.  Often when I'm having difficulty with life, I enjoy songs like this, which are about being in darkness and seeking light.

Here's a snippet of the lyrics:


I think on the things that made me feel so wonderful when i was young.
I think on the things that made me laugh, made me dance, made me sing.
I think on the things that made me grow into a being full of pride.
I think on these things, for they are true.
I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me,
To see the beauty in the world through my own eyes.
I thought that you were gone, but now I know you're with me


The performance by Cantus is at http://www.npr.org/event/music/170856332/cantus-tiny-desk-concert.  In this video, Cantus does three very different songs.  It's cool.