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August 25, 2015 Favoriting
Here's to the freedom fighters of Blair Mountain
on this 94th anniversary
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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
 James Brown  		Cold Sweat (pt. 1)   Favoriting b/w Cold Sweat (pt. 2)
(King 1967)

Sarah Ogan Gunning  Come All You Coal Miners   Favoriting Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miner's Struggle
(Rounder 1972)
Sonny Scott  Coal Mountain Bues   Favoriting Sonny Scott: 1933
( 1933)
The Evening Breezes Sextet  The Coal Loading Machine   Favoriting Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?:
American Song During the Great Depression
(New World 1940)
Lou Killen  The Black Leg Miner   Favoriting The Waters of Tyne
(Prestige 1961)
Jazz Gillum & His Jazz Boys  I'm That Man Down in the Mine   Favoriting b/w Good Old 51 Highway
(Bluebird 1938)
Jerrel Stanley  Coal Diggin' Blues   Favoriting Songs and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners
(Library of Congress 1940)
Hazel Dickens  Black Lung   Favoriting
(Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife 1971)

Talkover Music:
 Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers  		Load of Coal (Lode of Cole)   Favoriting b/w Mississippi Mildred
(Victor 1930)

Nimrod Workman  Coal Black Mining Blues   Favoriting Mother Jones Will
(Rounder 1978)
Walter Taylor's Weatherbirds  Coal Camp Blues   Favoriting b/w Do You Love Me Blues
(Victor 1931)
Marion Underwood  Coal Creek March   Favoriting b/w DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters: Evening Star Waltz
(Gennett 1927)
Frank "Springback" James  Poor Coal Loader   Favoriting b/w Lonesome Love Blues
(Champion 1935)
Memphis Jug Band  Coal Oil Blues   Favoriting b/w Papa Long Blues
(Victor 1928)
Orville J. Jenks  Sprinkle Coal Dust on My Grave   Favoriting Songs and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners
(Library of Congress 1940)

Talkover Music:
 Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers  		Load of Coal (Lode of Cole)   Favoriting b/w Mississippi Mildred
(Victor 1930)

Loretta Lynn  Coal Miner's Daughter   Favoriting Coal Miner's Daughter
(Decca 1969)
Jean Ritchie  West Virginia Mine Disaster   Favoriting Live at the Caffè Lena:
Music From America's Legendary Coffeehouse
(Tomkins Square )
Charlie Parr  Last Payday at Coal Creek   Favoriting Roustabout
(Misplaced Music 2008)
Louis Armstrong  Coal Cart Blues   Favoriting b/w Down in Honky Tonk Town
(Decca 1940)
Archie Conway  A Coal Miner's Goodbye   Favoriting Songs and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners
(Library of Congress 1940)
Yorkshire Relish  Close the Coalhouse Door   Favoriting The Celebrated Barnsley
( 1978)

Closing Theme:
 Specks Williams  		We Gave the Drummer Some   Favoriting b/w Specks Blues
(Jax 196?)

Listener comments!

Avatar 5:57pm ndbob:

evening Doug and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:58pm Doug Schulkind:

Well hello, ndbob!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:58pm Gary:

Looking forward to this
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:58pm Doug Schulkind:

Never look backward, Gary. (Unless you want to.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:00pm Gary:

Speaking of which (looks backward): What happened to Peter's show today?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:01pm Doug Schulkind:

Will splain in a minute, Gary...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:03pm listener james from westwood:

How do, Doug and all. Sober, somber stuff ahead no doubt.
Avatar ♥ 6:04pm Carmichael:

Sheez, too much vacation. I forgot what day it is ...
Avatar 6:06pm Mayuko:

Good evening Doug, everyone! Been stuck at my desk working all day, radio is my only friend today.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm Uncle Michael:

I didn't think Peter was back on till late September.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm Doug Schulkind:

Somber almost rhymes with bomber, Listener James. And these coal miners were BOMBED from airplanes hired by the mining companies. Good evening!

@Gary
Peter Nelson's new GTDR show Eclectic Music for Mind and Bodhi begins officially on 29 September. He did two "sneak preview" shows to get out the chinks and glitches and he will begin in earnest, in a month or so.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:07pm Uncle Michael:

I saw me a coal miner's daughter a few weeks ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:07pm Doug Schulkind:

@Mayuko
Hope you get unstuck, soon!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:08pm Gary:

Aha, thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:09pm Uncle Michael:

I oughter watch Matewan again sometime.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:10pm Doug Schulkind:

John Sayles' film "Matewan" focusses on an incident that led to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:14pm Doug Schulkind:

Sorry your vacation has seemed so endless, Carmichael :-)
Avatar ♥ 6:19pm Carmichael:

Doug, I wore my FMU shirts all around Portland, but only got a few puzzled looks. I was hoping someone would mention Tony Coulter, but no luck.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:23pm Doug Schulkind:

I think you mistook hushed reverence for silent puzzlement, Carmichael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm Doug Schulkind:

Mistook look like an Inuit word.
Avatar 6:26pm Mayuko:

These songs are beautiful. Reminded me that there are some old cole miners' folk songs in Japan too. Musically of course they are very different but still feels like they got somewhat similar, kind of blues feeling as well. I should look into them some more and play them sometime.
Avatar ♥ 6:26pm Carmichael:

Got some fun vinyl, though. I should make a list of the strangeness and post it somewhere.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:28pm Doug Schulkind:

"Coal mining in Japan." It sounds like the title of a great novel. But no, it's non fiction!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:29pm Artie Haywire:

Bitumen ain't nothin' but the blues.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:31pm Doug Schulkind:

Bitumen your tongue, Artie Haywire!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm Artie Haywire:

Gesundheit!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm Doug Schulkind:

I bet you all can guess the one track that absolutely positively will make it onto today's show...
Avatar ♥ 6:38pm Carmichael:

The Lee Dorsey version, or Devo's??
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:38pm Doug Schulkind:

Loretta Lynn's, you silly!
Avatar ♥ 6:39pm Carmichael:

:)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:39pm listener james from westwood:

You play sixteen tracks, and whaddya get?
Avatar 6:40pm ndbob:

@Doug Excellent film - saw it long ago.
Avatar ♥ 6:41pm Carmichael:

The Folksmen (the Spinal Tap guys) Do a song about a train wreck in a coal mine called Blood on the Coal.
Avatar ♥ 6:44pm Carmichael:

@ljfw: If turntable 1 don't get ya, turntable 2 will ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:44pm Doug Schulkind:

Ernest Tubb, speaking truth to power, Listener James!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:45pm Doug Schulkind:

I mean Tennessee Ernie Ford, of course.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm Jeff Golick:

Don't mine me....
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:47pm Doug Schulkind:

I dig that comment, Jeff Golick. (Here we go, down the pun hole.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:48pm Jeff Golick:

Guess I'll be shoveling off now. My work here is done.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:49pm Doug Schulkind:

At a the launch party for Rounder Records' huge Alan Lomax archives series of releases, Jean Ritchie bumped into me and mistook me for some folk singer whose name I now forget. It was still a huge fucking thrill!
Avatar 6:49pm Flash Strap:

Just tuning in. Here's to the brothers and sisters of the revolution. May we finish the job of dismantling the ruling class in our own lifetimes, may the hard-won advances of the early 20th century not be undone in the early 21st. Solidarity motherfuckers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:49pm Doug Schulkind:

R.I.P. Jean Ritchie who passed just about a year ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:50pm Doug Schulkind:

Trump this, you filthy bastards! Greetings unsharkeaten Flash Strap!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:51pm Doug Schulkind:

Next track is one you weren't expecting...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:52pm Gary:

That Charlie Parr was amazing
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm Jeff Golick:

Wut Gary Said.

Hi, Gary!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:54pm Jeff Golick:

Do you have to stop, Dug? Ore can we keep going...
Avatar 6:54pm Flash Strap:

glad to be entirely outside the belly of any shark and listening to the mothership's broadcast
Avatar ♥ 6:55pm Joe McG:

Wonderful show, Doug, very close to me! I'm from coal country.
Avatar ♥ 6:55pm Carmichael:

@Joe McG: Wales?
Avatar 6:55pm ndbob:

Excellent show Doug!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm Doug Schulkind:

@Gary
Parr is a treasure. Once got an email from the great guitarist Mike Cooper who heard a Parr track on the stream and he was plotzing.

@Jeff Golick
I could go another four or five hours with coal miner songs. Happyily and, sadly sadly.

@Joe McG
A treat to have you aboard, Sir!
Avatar 6:57pm Mayuko:

Joe is from Fukuoka the former cole mine city, and he speaks Japanese.
Avatar ♥ 6:58pm Joe McG:

@Mayuko: Ha ha ha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm listener james from westwood:

That's why you never tick off Joe. Instead of your pledge swag, he'll see that you get a mailer full of coal.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm Doug Schulkind:

Next week: All Coltrane!
Avatar ♥ 6:59pm Carmichael:

Good Lord, Doug ... :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Jesse Kaminsky is next, here: wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm Gary:

That was great; thanks, Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm listener james from westwood:

Happy to have caught the anniversary in music and GIF form; thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm Gary:

Yay Kim! Yay New Show!
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