Vin Scesla's Idiot's Delight playlist for 1/31/99
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Subject: The Songs Vin Played -- 1/31/99
Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight
WNEW
888 7th Avenue, 10 fl
New York, NY 10106
There are three essential Commandments:
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
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These are the songs I played on WNEW-FM / NY on IDIOT'S DELIGHT 1/31/99
"Blue moon you saw me standing alone
without a dream in my heart
without a love of my own ... "
ó Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart (1935)
NANCI GRIFFITH Once In A Very Blue Moon
ELVIS PRESLEY Blue Moon
TOM WAITS Drunk On The Moon
BILLIE HOLIDAY What A Little Moonlight Can Do
ELVIS PRESLEY Blue Moon
FRANK SINATRA Fly Me To The Moon
BILL MONROE Blue Moon Of Kentucky
PAT ALGER Once In A Very Blue Moon
STAN GETZ Winter Moon (Laurindo Almeida)
ELLA FITZGERALD & LOUIS ARMSTRONG Moonlight In Vermont
ELVIS PRESLEY Blue Moon
THE RAMONES Howling AT The Moon (Sha-la-la)
ROLLING STONES Undercover Of The Night
DRIVER QUARTET (CD) Night Time Was My Mother
DRIVER QUARTET ó guests ó performance and conversation
David Driver ó vocals
Adam Bernstein ó upright bass
Peter Kiesewalter ó soprano sax, bass clarinet, accordion
Fil Krohnengold ó keyboard
DRIVER QUARTET (live) Here Lies Love
DRIVER QUARTET (live) Room For The New
DRIVER QUARTET (live) Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Paul
Simon)
THE ANGSTONES Something Good (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
(Peter Kiesewalter's group)
DRIVER QUARTET (live) Theme From High Noon
DRIVER QUARTET (live) A Long Way Down
DRIVER QUARTET (live) Moon River (Mercer-Mancini)
DRIVER QUARTET (live) Caravan (Ellington-Mills-Tizol)
THE ANGSTONES My Favorite Things (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
COLLECTIVE SOUL No More, No Less
P.M. DAWN Misery In Utero
NIRVANA Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
NANCY WILSON Even It Up (new live acoustic version)
SEX MOB Live And Let Die
SOUL COUGHING Miss The Girl
PAUL McCARTNEY Live And Let Die
ANI DIFRANCO Angel Food
BOOKER T & THE MGs Green Onions
MARTIN'S FOLLY Two Times A Day
MARTIN'S FOLLY Two Times A Day (twice)
BOB DYLAN Queen Jane Approximately
PETER WOLF If You Wanna Be With Somebody
Last week, when Peter Wolf was on the show, we talked about the famous Bob
Dylan appearance on Cynthia Gooding's "Folksingers Choice" radio show on
WBAI, 3/11/62, just before the release of his first album. It's a
fascinating performance during which you can hear him, at age 20,
"inventing" himself on the spot. The show has been bootlegged almost from
the day it originally aired. I played several selections from an excellent
quality European boot CD I came across a few years ago. I normally don't
play bootlegs, but this one is so special, so historic and so unique, that
I'm quite willing to bend my rule and dip into it from time to time. As
Dylan and Columbia begin to officially release some of the legendary
"boots" (like "Live 1966") maybe they'll consider putting this one out
someday ó it's a classic.
BOB DYLAN (solo live) Lonesome Whistle Blues
BOB DYLAN & CYNTHIA GOODING conversation
BOB DYLAN (solo live) Fixin' To Die
BOB DYLAN & CYNTHIA GOODING conversation
BOB DYLAN (solo live) Tell Me Baby
BOB DYLAN & CYNTHIA GOODING conversation
BOB DYLAN (solo live) Hard Time In New York Town
MARTIN'S FOLLY Man, It's Cold
PINK FLOYD Us And Them / Any Color You Like / Brain Damage / Eclipse
MARTIN'S FOLLY Man, It's Cold (again)
EVA CASSIDY Fields Of Gold
MARTIN'S FOLLY Here Lies A Fool
HERB ALBERT This Guy's In Love With You (Bacharach/David ó 1968)
NEIL YOUNG Harvest Moon
STEVE EARLE & THE DEL McCOURY BAND I'm Still In Love With You
(duet with Iris Dement)
XTC I'd Like That (new single)
BUDDY HOLLY Everyday
(Feb. 3 marks the 40th anniversary of Holly's death)
I read a section from Larry McMurtry's new novel "Duane's Depressed" (Simon
& Schuster) ó the third book in the "Texasville trilogy" which began in
1966 with "The Last Picture Show."
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Blaze's Blues
BOB DYLAN Watching The River Flow
BRIAN BLADE FELLOWSHIP Red River Revel
(featuring Melvin Butler, tenor sax; and Daniel Lanois, mando guitar)
JIMMY WEBB The Moon's A Harsh Mistress
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Lake Charles
CHRIS THOMAS KING Raining Angels
JANIS JOPLIN Me & Bobby McGee
THE WATERBOYS The Pan Within, including Because The Night (live 1986)
THE WATERBOYS The Whole Of The Moon (live 1986)
MERCURY REV Holes
MILES DAVIS Stella By Starlight
(with John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, 1958)
WARM JETS Vapour Trails
HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH (cast) Midnight Radio
(John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask and Cheater;
performed live on Idiot's Delight on 5/31/98)
DAR WILLIAMS Play The Greed
(with the Scud Mountain Boys; on "Hempilation2: freetheweed" V/A)
RICHARD JULIAN The Restless Sea
JOAN JONES The Lonely On
B.B. KING If That Ain't It I Quit
ERIC ANDERSEN Memory Of The Future
HAMELL ON TRIAL Blood Of The Wolf
IMPERIAL TEEN Hooray (pre-release)
IMPERIAL TEEN Seven (pre-release)
JENIFER JACKSON Yesterday My Heart Was Free
RICHARD "GROOVE" HOLMES Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (closing
theme)
Show ended approximately 3:00 AM.
NOTES:
DRIVER QUARTET is a local band named for its vocalist, David Driver. They
have a 5-song CD-ep entitled "Big And Strong And Lonely" on Comma Records.
They can be reached at Driver Quartet, P.O. Box 1694, NY, NY 10009-8908;
e-mail: <dri...@gis.net>.
THE ANGSTONES album "The Hills Are Alive" (1995) is comprised totally of
quirky and wonderful versions of songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's
classic musical "The Sound Of Music." It's on Canal Records, P.O. Box
57029, 797 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1R 1A1. There's
a phone order number listed in the liner notes: 1-800-JOE RADIO.
Their latest album is entitled "Bytown ... It's My Town" also on Canal
Records. More contacts for the band: Angstones Productions, 1594 Claymor
Avenue, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada, K2C 1T3; e-mail: <angs...@aol.com>; web
site: <http://www.capitalnet.com/~ipp/angstones>.
NANCY WILSON (of HEART fame) has a solo acoustic album entitled "Live At
McCabe's Guitar Shop" (Epic).
SEX MOB is a downtown jazz band featuring Steven Bernstein (slide trumpet),
Briggan Krauss (alto saxophone), Tony Scherr (acoustic bass), and Kenny
Wollesen (drums). Their album "Din Of Iniquity" is on Knitting Factory
Works <http://www.knittingfactory.com>. In addition to original
compositions it features some wonderfully bizarro arrangements of such
familiar songs as "House Of The Rising Sun," "Goldfinger," "Sing ëO' The
Times," and "Let And Let Die." The band has a web site at
<http://www.sexmob.com>.
The new ANI DIFRANCO album, "Up Up Up Up Up Up" is on her label, Righteous
Babe Records, P. O. Box 95, Ellicott Station, Buffalo, NY 14205; phone:
1-800-on-her-own.
MARTIN'S FOLLY is a Brooklyn-based group; their second album, "Man, It's
Cold" (produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel) is on Tar Hut Records, P.O. Box
441940, Somerville, MA 02144; <http://www.tarhut.com>; (617) 776-5106. The
band can be reached at P.O. Box 220524, Brooklyn , NY 11222-0524; e-mail at
<manit...@aol.com>.
PETER WOLF's latest album, "Fool's Parade" is on Mercury. He has a web
site at <http://www.peterwolf.com>; snail mail address is: P.O. Box 0092,
Boston, MA 02199-0283.
The new MERCURY REV album "Deserter's Songs" is on V2 Records.
EVA CASSIDY, an obscure and wonderful vocalist from the Washington D.C.
area, died in 1996 at the age of 33, having recorded several albums of
standards from various genres, released on Blix Street Records, 11715 Blix
St., N. Hollywood, CA 91607; (818) 763-9151 or (800) 851- 5825. The Blix
Street albums are entitled "Eva By Heart," "Live At Blues Alley" and
"Songbird" (a compilation). She also recorded an album with a D.C.-area
Go-Go (funk/swing/blues/R&B) artist named Chuck Brown, entitled "The Other
Side" (on Liaison Records, 800-841-6201). Here is a web site with further
information about her:
<http://www.crosstownarts.com/CrosstownArts/client_music/eva/evahome.html>.
The Blix Street CDs are available at the CDNow.com web store
<http://www.cdnow.com>.
The STEVE EARLE AND THE DEL McCOURY BAND album "The Mountain" is on E-
Squared, 1815 Division Street, Suite 101, Nashville, TN 37203. Guest
artists on the album include Iris Dement, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch and
John Hartford.
The BRAIN BLADE FELLOWSHIP album is on Blue Note. Brian is the great New
Orleans drummer who has recorded and performed with a variety of
genre-crossing artists over the years, from the Daniel Lanois, Bob Dylan,
Victoria Williams and Emmylou Harris to McCoy Tyner, Joshua Redman, Kenny
Garrett and Joni Mitchell.
The latest CHRIS THOMAS KING album "Red Mud" is on Black Top Records, P.O.
Box 56691, New Orleans, LA 70156; (504) 895-7239.
Chris has a web site at <http://www.christhomasking.com>.
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the rock musical, is being performed at the Jane
Street Theatre, 113 Jane Street (in the historic Riverview Hotel),
212-239-6200 (Tele-Charge). Michael Cerveris is now playing Hedwig while
John Cameron Mitchell works on the film version. The show has a web site
at: <http://www.hedwig.com>. The cast album is scheduled for release on
2/9. This just in: John Cameron Mitchell will be coming up this Sunday
(2/7) to premiere the album! Stephen Trask (the composer) and Miriam Shor
may drop by as well!
RICHARD JULIAN's new album "Smash Palace" is on Blackbird/Sire. The
label's web site is <http://www.blackbirdusa.com>.
B.B. KING has a terrific new album entitled "Blues On The Bayou" (MCA),
recorded in a rural studio outside Lafayette, Louisiana. The 73-year-old
master says in his liner notes, " .... this one is especially close to my
heart .... No one was telling us what to do .... All live, all real. No
overdubs, no high-tech risks. Just basic blues." He and Lucille have
never sounded better!
ERIC ANDERSEN's latest album "Memory of The Future" is on Appleseed
Recordings; (610) 701-5755; e-mail: <FOLKR...@aol.com>.
IMPERIAL TEEN's album "What Is Not To Love" (Slash) will be released on
February 23.
JENIFER JACKSON does not currently have a label deal (I play material from
her unreleased demos); she does, however, have a web site:
<http://www.web-ho.com/JeniferJackson>. Ah, the modern age!
FURTHER NOTE:
I am appearing as V.I. Lenin at the Luna Stage in Montclair, New Jersey in
that theater's new production of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties." Here are the
particulars:
Luna Stage
7 Oak Place
Montclair, NJ 07042
Box Office: (973) 744-3309
The run is January 28-February 21,1999
Ticket Prices: Thursday $10.00 Friday, Saturday and Sunday $20.00- $15.00
(Students and Seniors)
Thursday January 28, February 4,11,18 8:00p.m
Friday January 29, February 5,12,19 8:00p.m
Saturday January 30, February 6,13,20 8:00p.m
Sunday January 31, February 7,14,21 2:00p.m
January 30 is the official opening night, with a reception following the
performance.
Take James Joyce, Lenin, and Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara. Add two World
Wars, Modern Art, song-and-dance, international spies, the Russian
Revolution and "The Importance of Being Earnest." Stir vigorously with the
half-cracked reminiscence of long-retired civil servant Henry Carr, and you
get "Travesties" ó a wild and woolly romp through our now-closing
century. Stoppard is the author of "Arcadia," "Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead" and the co-author of the current hit film
"Shakespeare in Love."
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
2/7 JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL, who will premiere the cast recording
of "Hedwig & The Angry Inch"
2/14 CHRIS THOMAS KING
2/18 RICHARD JULIAN
3/7 PETER HIMMELMAN
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
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