WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from February 7, 2022

Listener comments!
	9:01am G: Another Monday... :-)
	9:02am Rick from SC: Morning Joe and all.
	👻 9:02am 12539: Yiiiiiiiippppp!
	9:02am Asheville Jon: ray dio
	9:02am Mike W: yip yip yip yip bom boom boom boom
	9:02am nathan: mornin'
	9:02am Handy Haversack: Slipping on the Yipping! Morning, Joe and everyone.
	9:02am clarke: i am actually consious enough to type: good morning JMcG and all!!
	9:02am Mike W: gonna play the Country Gentlemen, huh?
	9:03am common: Joe, all
	9:03am listener james from westwood: Morning, Joe and all!
	👻 9:03am LastWhiteRhino: Hey there.
	9:03am Strandlund: Yip Yip Hurray!!
	9:03am clarke: but not consious enough to add the C to conscious
	9:04am JeremyB: Good Morning Joe & everyone!
	9:04am Asheville Jon: my grass is blue
	9:04am Handy Haversack: It's a start, clarke!
	👻 9:04am yerfriendpaul: Good morning Joe! Enjoyed your distant Sabbath scream at the end of Wake!
	👻 9:05am DjLorraine: Gmorning folks. Ann Arbor born Evan Bates won ice dancing in the 2022 olympics.
	9:05am clarke: it's a day unless you fall down.
	9:05am melinda: howdy Joe and everyone
	9:07am KWilde: Morning Joe!
	👻 9:07am Webhamster Henry: I'm pretty sure Tom Paxton is still alive! Give him a call!
	👻 9:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Yip yip and good morning from ice & snow country. ⛄
	9:09am Handy Haversack: Gentlemen Gazette Fever!
	9:11am PKNY: Some nice country funk right here!
	9:11am PaulRobeson1920: Morning all! Peter, Paul & Mary do this song well
	9:11am TDK60: Good morning, Radio Joe.
	9:11am Fredericks: Don't think I ever heard this Country Fever version of Too Much of Nothing. I like it.
	9:11am Handy Haversack: Gentlemen Gazette Fever Coalition! Sign me up!
	9:12am Fredericks: All country bands, I see.
	9:12am Kotzwinkled: Saw the Cactus Blossoms cover this live and knew then I was going to propose to my now wife. Music!
	9:12am dale: the charlie rich original is a heartbreaker.
	9:12am chris_in_space: Loving this opening set!
	9:12am PaulRobeson1920: Tom Paxton!! What did you learn in school today?!!! Love Tom Paxton
	9:12am Mike W: are we down the country or up the country here’n?
	9:13am clarke: what the hell has happened to this Country?!?
	9:13am JG: Happy Monday Joe, Yipsters. Digging this set. The theme seems to be " good songs".
	9:14am Fredericks: Is the DJ's name Country Joe?
	9:14am TDK60: My dad used to live in the same apartment building as Tom Paxton in the Green Witch Village, back in the '60s.
	9:14am steveo: Good morning, Joe Great to hear your show Everyone, hello
	9:15am JG: Tortilla Flat by DOug Sahm or SDQ would fit into this set nicely
	9:15am listener james from westwood: Country Joe and the Surface Noise.
	👻 9:15am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe and noise enthusiasts
	9:16am Handy Haversack: Gentlemen Gazette Fever Coalition Store. I wonder if they accept credit accounts.
	9:16am clarke: outstanding tuuunz.
	9:17am clarke: they take food stamps HH
	👻 9:18am YETI BOB: Wondering if we'll hear Country Teasers. I saw them once, they were not that good. But they'd fit the theme...
	9:18am Handy Haversack: Whew. This set brought to you by the retirement of MLB umpire Country Joe West?
	9:18am clarke: i thought CT were VERY great.
	👻 9:19am karlward: Does the band Country have a song titled "Country" on the album Country? And if so, is that song a country song?
	9:19am Joe McG: Welcome to the show, folks! Country Joe here bringing you all the Country bands, just because.
	👻 9:19am karlward: We might be chasing deeper reaches of the Belock Index, this could be dangerous
	9:19am clarke: play 'em if ya got 'em
	👻 9:20am YETI BOB: clarke: sorry, might have been an off night when i saw them.
	9:20am Brendan: Damn you, The Country Store . Presenting your moral crisis, too early in the morning! Come back when I’ve arisen, and have my wits about me. Good morning Joe and Co., looking forward to some surface scratching.
	9:20am clarke: well, ALL of their nights might have been 'off' but in the best way possible!!
	9:21am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @karlward: Only Dave Hill knows.
	9:21am Handy Haversack: Gentlemen Gazette Fever Coalition Store Funk. That's a Sunday-morning problem if ever there was one.
	👻 9:22am Webhamster Henry: That is, Country Joe and the Yips.
	9:23am G: Country Joe plays Country Joe
	9:24am ChukAmok: How 'bout "In a Big Country" by Big Country? Good morning everyone!
	9:24am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Southern Culture on the Skids -> Country Funk
	9:24am bil OHara: joe ..my childhood memories ...my fathers home movies soundtrack
	👻 9:25am YETI BOB: hey karlward! thanks for the amaro negroni suggestion. Used this "Amara" b/c it's what we had. www.amaroamara.com... . they were DELICIOUS, tasted a bit like maple syrup. Added to the house cocktail menu!
	9:26am ChukAmok: @karlward Check your email. The one that is named after a doomed planet.
	👻 9:27am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. I seem to recall a recent Premium of yours with a country angle.
	9:28am Asheville Jon: interesting song. they should get together with Tonetta
	9:28am Handy Haversack: His earthlink account, ChukAmok? Yeah, I went there!
	9:29am common: Well, this is great!
	9:29am Joe McG: @Brian: Yes, this seems to be some sort of obsession! @Bill: Hey, Bill!
	9:29am Mike W: I knew this set would conclude neatly for me if the Country Teasers appeared
	9:30am Eric the Hat: Howdy Joe! Harkening back to yr roots this morning?
	9:30am ChukAmok: @Handy Boom!
	9:30am jabsonik: Yeehaa!
	9:30am Dean from Old Bridge: 🤠
	9:31am TDK60: Country Rockers need a bit more practice? Or is that drumming on purpose?
	9:31am clarke: drummer was around 80 years old when record was made.
	9:32am Listener Baby: Hi Joe. Hi friends.
	9:32am clarke: that's a lot of practice.
	9:32am Mike W: jump to the Counts, Ossie and Five and whomever else
	9:33am clarke: BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	9:33am Cal Zone!: Roger Miller is smiling down from heaven
	9:33am TDK60: Clarke. I'm now leaning to the thesis that that drumming was on purpose.
	9:33am Rock Ridge Chess Club: I think Roger would approve of this Dangin´
	9:33am Mike W: Count Bass D; Count Basie; Count, Body
	👻 9:34am captain beef fart: I knew we'd get to Big Country
	9:34am Rick from SC: Are we gonna get any Kountry songs?
	9:35am TDK60: Haven't heard Steeltown in ages! Heavy mood as I recall.
	9:35am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Oh Joe, thank you for Big County!
	9:36am Rick A: Good Morning Joe and All, I guess Country Dick Montana never put out any solo releases.
	9:36am Joe McG: Good morning, Karen! :)
	9:36am Listener Baby: Hi Clarke. Didn’t know you were a Baby Joe fan?
	9:37am Eric the Hat: In my head a precious image of McGasko and Warhol “chorin’” outside a fog shrouded barn. Of course, the mind also is shrouded now with lack of coffee and no lack of tinnitus.
	9:37am clarke: always a fan - hardly ever awake.
	9:38am Listener Baby: Noted!
	9:38am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I sliced my left pinkie cooking dinner on Saturday. Typing with nine fingers is super-annoying. Also, I don't think I've ever heard a Big Country song that wasn't In A Big Country (or whatever it was called).
	9:39am clarke: and you are up quite early BABY. guess them vines are callin' in the dark.
	👻 9:39am DjLorraine: George Henry Crumb, composer, passed on Feb 6
	👻 9:39am DjLorraine: At 92
	👻 9:40am DjLorraine: :D
	9:40am clarke: ouch Woods! you can't drink tea for a while.
	👻 9:40am yerfriendpaul: games are good!
	9:41am clarke: (properly)
	👻 9:41am DjLorraine: My smile was for Joe McGasko comment “from a country“
	9:41am dano59: That about covers it, Joe. (I often end up with some unexpected discoveries while searching my iTunes library)
	9:41am Listener Baby: You bet they are. Plus, I just friggin’ wake up. If I could sleep, I would.
	9:42am clarke: i know - i am getting that way, too, Baby. sux.
	9:42am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @clarke: Ha! Well, the good news is that I didn't have to go to the hospital.
	9:43am clarke: VERY good news!!
	9:43am Brendan: Shakespeare was a horn dog. Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2 Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: Did you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs. Spelled country, but a pun on the pronunciation.
	9:43am geoff: First two Big Country albums are all you need Joe. Real big quality drop off after those ones.
	👻 9:43am karlward: YETI BOB: I'm a regular Handy these days! Just kidding, I know barely anything about cocktails. Glad it was good.
	9:43am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): In A Big Country...duh, duh, duh, duh.... Not a lyrics person so that's how I hear stuff.
	👻 9:44am karlward: ChukAmok: I'll be there!
	9:44am dano59: @TDK: Country Rockets came out of a sloppier tradition - punk/post punk
	9:44am McGroovey: I've somehow never heard Big Country's "Steel Town". I loved the one after it. Is it called "The Seer"? And the EP that came right before or after the third album. Those were on my turntable and on my mixtapes a lot on the eighties
	9:47am TDK60: dano59: Thanks, gotcha. I have never minded a bit of sloppiness in music, if it fits the moment.
	👻 9:47am YETI BOB: saw GBV at Aragon Ballroom in Chicago a few years back. It's definitely still there. But maybe the song's about a different Aragon?
	9:48am TVP: Yeah, looks like there's a second one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragon_Ballroom_(Ocean_Park,_Santa_Monica,_California)
	9:48am clarke: maybe it was an epithet for a really great show!
	9:48am melinda: I love Last Thing On my Mind too
	9:49am dale: ready for city goups now.
	9:49am TVP: Also, every time I hear of the Aragon Ballroom, I think of Stan Freberg's Lawrence Welk parody, where the ballroom floats away to sea thanks to a rogue bubble machine.
	9:51am KWilde: Uncle Michael used to end his show with a version of Last Thing On My Mind - check it out
	9:51am clarke: different country.
	9:52am Handy Haversack: I'm such an easy mark. The "Guitar Polka" definitely got me in the mood for some accordion. Hey, KWilde -- adored the skunk song on Sat.!
	9:52am melinda: My father would play Last Thing On My Mind on the guitar when I was little, it's one of the earliest songs I remember. Like me he was bad at remembering song lyrics but got the first few lines.
	9:52am clarke: bongo joe.
	9:52am HyperDose: "Bongo Joe" haha
	9:54am steveo: Having some trouble counting this one ... Love it
	9:55am clarke: 5/4
	👻 9:55am queems: a banger
	👻 9:55am YETI BOB: I see that last winter the snow caused a partial collapse at the Aragon: "The wall collapsed after two storms dumped nearly 18 inches of snow on Chicago. ... Chicago's Department of Buildings missed its annual inspection of the Aragon in July because the venue was closed for the pandemic and an inspector was unable to gain entry".
	9:57am djsheilab: Ooh! Digging this Hamid El Shaeri track. Morning Joe!
	9:58am Joe McG: 'Morning, Sheila B.!
	9:58am clarke: even had the inspector gotten in - it probably wouldn't have passed?? unless the damage has been repaired.
	9:59am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): For programming/game nerds "of a certain age," a short article on how Battlezone was made -> spectrum.ieee.org... That might be the last video game I played, come to think of it.
	👻 9:59am YETI BOB: WP says: "A fire at an adjacent cocktail lounge in 1958 forced the Aragon to close for several months. After the reopening, crowds declined significantly, to the point that regular dancing ended in 1964.". Maybe that's what the song is referring to.
	👻 10:00am karlward: The only trouble is many people don't have one
	10:00am TomTom: Donald Dump!
	👻 10:00am YETI BOB: clarke: I think the suggestion is that the missed inspection (in July) might have revealed the structural weakness that led to the later collapse (in Feb)
	👻 10:00am Webhamster Henry: "And let your superego be your guide!"
	10:00am dale: love cliff edwards.
	10:01am clarke: ah!
	👻 10:02am yerfriendpaul: I spent my childhood trying to mimic that Donald Duck voice but never could do it
	10:02am steveo: Someone bring a bucket to studio A, the dj is on fire
	👻 10:02am Webhamster Henry: Joseph Spence - Donald Duck growl off!
	10:04am KWilde: Thanks Handy!
	👻 10:08am 12539: Donald Duck, Woody Guthrie, Swamp Dogg...that's just one way to spell Wfmu.
	10:08am clarke: a bucket full of..... confetti!!!
	10:09am Cal Zone!: Swamp Dogg, unfettered by excessive autotune! Huzzah!
	👻 10:09am karlward: I would follow Swamp Dogg through the autotune, to anywhere
	👻 10:11am karlward: Oh that synth
	👻 10:12am karlward: This song is just too good
	10:12am clarke: she's lettin' us have it alright!
	👻 10:12am yerfriendpaul: laser beams are flying!
	10:13am Handy Haversack: We haven't even got to Single File yet. Joe's throwing rocks this morning!
	10:14am Cal Zone!: @karlward I fully support anything performed, written, produced, or associated in any way shape or form by anything Jerry Wallace and everything Swampdoggish! But I prefer his natural pipes!
	👻 10:14am Brian in UK: It is a subtle ploy, pre Marathon catnip.
	10:14am clarke: i want to say that the Aragon Ballroom was prominently featured in a Robert Taylor flick from the 40's?? he plays a lawyer caught up in mob business in chicago??
	👻 10:14am DjLorraine: Down by the Riverside was the tune we used as kids to sing a McDonalds' parody. I can only remember the line: They slap you in the face, take away your license plates.
	👻 10:18am karlward: Might want to dump before the next chorus
	10:18am Cal Zone!: Don't buy the Liverwurst! youtu.be...
	10:21am clarke: might be Johnny Eager????
	10:23am clarke: heading out to exercise, but shall return.
	10:26am Jason from Houston: OH YESSSSS...
	👻 10:32am karlward: Conway Twitty perm is best perm
	👻 10:35am YETI BOB: Trying to figure out what movie Clarke is referring to. Searched for "Robert Taylor movie Chicago lawyer" and came up with ... PARTY GIRL! "Party Girl (1958) was a return to the crime genre, starring Cyd Charisse as a 1920s Chicago showgirl who questions her ties to a syndicate boss (Lee J. Cobb) when a mob lawyer (Robert Taylor) wants her to make a break with him."
	10:37am Roberto: I met Lee J. Cobb's daughter Julie once.
	10:39am Joe McG: I just watched Lee Cobb in "Exodus," a very long movie.
	10:39am clarke: that's IT Bob - Party Girl!!!
	👻 10:40am YETI BOB: DON'T MISS PARTY GIRL!
	10:40am clarke: good flick!!!!
	10:41am Handy Haversack: "Infidele" is a lot more ominous a title than "Runaround Sue."
	10:41am bradford: the black socks!
	10:41am clarke: Exodus is over-long but has intermission. ha ha.
	10:41am Joe McG: @Handy: Ha ha ha
	10:42am Cal Zone!: Runaround Infidel on the other hand....
	10:42am Handy Haversack: Maybe it has ebullient connotations in French, I dunno.
	10:43am Jeff Golick: Oy.
	10:44am Joe McG: @Jeff: This one would've gone great with that Jewish Aerobics record from a couple of weeks ago!
	10:44am Cal Zone!: @Handy...in France those infidels maintain a certain joie de vivre! Happy go lucky infidels!
	10:44am Brendan: She was infideleing around
	10:45am Handy Haversack: Joe throws the best bat mitzvahs!
	10:46am Brendan: The devil loves an infidele. Especially a shiny one made of gold.
	10:46am Mister Dobalina: Cookin' with fire on this one!
	10:46am Jason from Houston: ꒰｡• ◡ •｡꒱
	10:47am βrian: Listening, waiting for the second cup of coffee to take effect.
	10:47am Jason from Houston: Total fire!
	10:47am clarke: ok. NOW i'm heading out for a run. will try to stream on phone. be back.
	👻 10:47am chresti: Morning Joe and surfies! Checking in from the tennis booth. It's supposed to get warm and windy this week.
	10:48am bradford: hoo boy
	👻 10:48am 12539: Thanks for the breather, Joe.
	10:48am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I am rhythmically waving my lighter left and then right....
	10:49am Brendan: Slow dance kids.
	10:49am minkwest: Hi gang! Hi Joe! WFMU is my safe place, my escape from the anxiety of looking at "news" in all its various forms. Grateful to be able to tune in and turn on and drop out.
	10:49am anne: I do very much love this song
	10:49am Matt Fiveash: Ah the song that is stuck on a loop in my head 24/7!
	👻 10:50am yerfriendpaul: The guitar spaceship - I could look at it for hours as a kid
	10:50am Asheville Jon: ooooh, tappin' into boston iii. daring choice
	10:50am Joe McG: @Matt: You're a lucky man!
	10:50am Lord Jimz: sounds like sugarbear
	10:50am steveo: surprised to find myself clicky-starring boston in 2022 lol
	10:50am Jason from Houston: Serious couple skate song right here.
	10:51am Roberto: Amanda Hugginkiss?
	10:51am Matt Fiveash: @Joe be that as it may, I still don't want the ELP song played at my funeral
	10:51am Greg from ZONE 5: Yo Joe!
	10:52am dale: this sounded great coming out of the 40 watt 6x9 speakers in the package shelf of my friends ford torino.
	10:52am Joe McG: Hey Greg! @dale: Ha, music MADE for a Ford Torino!
	10:52am listener james from westwood: This Boston puts me back in friends' attics or basements during high school, roleplaying on Friday night or Saturday morning, before we got our learners' permits and still had to rely on rides across suburbia.
	10:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ..& I will fully get away with innumerable trite cliches - Umanduh. ...Mornin'.
	10:54am The Oscar: Been busy working, but holy cats that Claire Hammill!
	10:54am Brendan: Yes, when the Boston album came out, I think the sound production was light years ahead of anybody else. Even with some of the densely layered stuff, the sonic separation was amazing.
	10:54am βrian: Boston reminds me of washing dishes for less than $2 per hour.
	10:54am solo mon: Flowers for Grandma marks my mood for the day.
	10:55am dale: joe - wheel in the sky by journey too!
	10:55am Joe McG: @solo mon: Oh no, stay away from your house plants! @dale: I wish I had that on 45!
	10:56am solo mon: LOL i promise
	10:56am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Boston reminds me of being in high school and not having to worry about anything heavier than do my jeans fit and I hope that girl goes to the dance on Friday.
	10:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...no - I do appreciate that Boston hit huge - & the label's like You Must Tour ...& Schultz is like - just one problem - the band doesn't actually exist...
	10:56am Mister Dobalina: HiYA Solo Mon !!
	10:56am Handy Haversack: 1986: Marvel Super Heroes RPG was out! And I think the last of the Dragonlance adventures came out that year, James.
	10:57am solo mon: Mister Dobalina! goooood mornin to you
	👻 10:57am chresti: I heard part of a song that went "American girls, driving their car...", on KXLU on my way to work.
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I do tend to forget how fond of my Ten Years After Greatest Hits LP I was...
	10:58am listener james from westwood: @Handy: Yes, and likely we were playing our homebrew characters in that very system! FASERIP is one of my two favorite mechanics, along with d6 SW:RPG, which debuted the next year and to which my gang of Star Wars geeks flooded like a tide.
	10:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: StarWars began & ended with me with the 1st in 1977.
	11:00am Handy Haversack: You are speaking my language, James. FASERIP is fantastic. I love that game so much. Though the published adventures were almost all garbage. I had the SW game but never a group to play it with. Picked it up again a couple years back.
	11:00am Greg from ZONE 5: The Bellamy Brothers chant down Babylon inna roots stylee.
	11:00am solo mon: "don't care If I'm hurtin charlie's pride" ha
	11:01am Joe McG: @Greg: Ha ha ha
	11:02am Barney Grubbs: Handy, I still occasionally find the little character cards from Marvel Super Heroes when I open up an old box. They are persistent, like superheroes ought to be.
	11:03am Rachel Bo Bachel: Baby Arlo and I are just tuning in! Gm Joe McG :)
	11:05am Boomer: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/take_a_trip_to_beatles_hell_with_members_of_negativland_and_the_church_of_t
	11:05am Handy Haversack: This is the third year in a row we're not going to GaryCon in Wisconsin, but my friend Manny and I always tried to get in this one guy's MSH game. Super fun. Last time we were the street-level NYC heroes (Daredevil, Nightwing, Luke Cage, etc.) trying to get a witness from Hell's Kitchen to the courthouse downtown during the '77 Blackout. It was a blast. I, er, accidentally killed Daredevil at the end, but we got the job done!
	11:06am wplj: No that’s not true they’ve had three more albums
	11:06am David Redbranch: The closest thing to Boston Stage IV is the band Return To Zero (RTZ): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTZ_(band)
	11:06am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I'd never noticed until today how much Runaround Sue sounds like Quarter To Three.
	11:08am listener james from westwood: @Handy: Those published adventures were basically conveyances for new hero and villain stats for me!
	11:08am wplj: Boston released six albums in the greatest hits album Come on Joe do your homework
	11:09am Glistener MW: Amazon truly is this “Fulfillment Colon” of America.
	11:09am Handy Haversack: Barney, James, if I ever run a game of MSH on Zoom or something, I will make sure to let you know! Or we could start a band called Karma Pool.
	11:09am PMD: How is that possible! 8 million!
	11:11am solo mon: Adam is such a great guy. And Ruth: they both used to be my neighbors.
	11:13am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @David Redbranch: True. Barry Goudreau put out some decent stuff too.
	11:13am morphe': I was multi-tasking but I thought I heard "disco" in the 45s? Was that the Boston? Were there Disco 45s or no because the Disco tunes were generally longer???
	11:15am Handy Haversack: The Charlie Calello was sort of disco "Hava Nagila," morph. Looking forward to this tribute, Joe!
	11:17am morphe': Was just visualizing Ivan O'Martin (Jimmy Cliff) trying to get the DJ to play his "hit" 45 .."The Harder They Come" but Ivan is on the outs with the producer dude and not on the playlist .. The Dj says no way ".. this show business - no business ... no show..."
	11:18am Joe McG: @Glistener MW: Ha, so right!
	11:19am morphe': Who is being Tributed??? of the Watersons??
	11:20am PigeonsAndRust: Folks who dig this would also enjoy the various Roycroft Singers records from the late '20s
	11:21am morphe': Found it:(text) https://www.npr.org/2022/01/31/1076926232/norma-waterson-folk-music-died
	11:21am Barney Grubbs: Norma Waterson died on Jan 30th
	11:21am spugbum: is this phase 2 of The Handsome Cabin Boy?
	11:22am Rachel Bo Bachel: Delightful set Joe!
	11:22am Brendan: This is magically delicious
	11:23am Barney Grubbs: Jim Ghedi has put out some nice dark Yorkshire folk tunes recently, too.
	11:23am morphe': Set is working with my current reading: "...Stoker specifically refers to the process of a Felo de Se burial, the unnamed hero recalling “the old custom of burying suicides at crossroads”without ceremony and with a stake through the heart..." http://eastwallforall.ie/?p=3833
	11:24am Joe McG: Here's the link to the great doc about them early in their career: www.youtube.com...
	11:26am Spinning Giant: Marnin' all late to the party, as usual - enjoying the lilt - larvely cheers @Joe McG
	11:28am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe do you know the song “the Gypsy Laddie” by David Hammond and Donal Lunny? Early St. Patrick’s Day request 💚
	11:29am Joe McG: @RBR: I know that one, but not by Donal Lunny! I'll look for it, thanks! :)
	11:30am Rachel Bo Bachel: Morphe oof! What are you reading? Top o’ the Morning Spinning Giant!
	11:30am Hubig Pie: My bagpipe teacher said this song should only be performed at a funeral
	11:31am Barney Grubbs: If you're up for a deep dive, the excellent Fire Draw Near podcast (Ian Lynch from Lankum) has a whole episode tracing the evolution of various versions of the Gypsy Laddie soundcloud.com...
	11:31am Joe McG: @Hubig: Ah, appropriate then....
	11:31am Spinning Giant: Back'atcha Rachel-Bo-B' :)
	11:31am Jeff Moore: I do enjoy these old-British-Isles harmonies, as I do Baltic ones. They're a little painful in a really enjoyable way.
	👻 11:32am DjLorraine: Wassailing with WFMU <3
	11:33am TDK60: Sounds like Richard Thompson on the guitar on "Hard."
	11:33am Joe McG: @Jeff: I hear the similarity you're hearing!
	11:33am clarke: unmistakable richard thompson'ing
	11:34am Handy Haversack: Rache, at some point after Joe's show and Joe's show, see wfmu.org... Continental SUbway for many variations of "The Gypsy Laddie." No Donal Lunny, though -- now I'm curious, too!
	11:35am P-90: this gives me chills alright, or maybe just shudders
	11:35am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe McG it’s by David Hammond and Donal Lunny, I think the album is called “the musicians house”. I can’t believe I found a song you don’t know! My brother found it, he used to have a radio show on KDVS, the U.C. Davis radio station, and he played it on his St. Patrick’s Day show many years ago :)
	11:35am Joe McG: Yes, all-star band on that Norma solo LP: Richard Thompson, Danny Thompson, hubby Martin Carthy, etc.
	11:35am morphe': Rachael Bo... happened by chance upon a reference to a sliver of land in more or less Central Dublin that was never developed because it was the crossroads where Suicides, criminals, etc were buried ... Stoker lived near there as a child and the website writer places it as important in Bram Stoker's "Dracula." It is off a website(focused on inner North Dublin) but the writer(s) did the history work .... http://eastwallforall.ie/?p=3833
	11:35am clarke: was able to stream during my whole run - a first! nice set, Joe
	11:36am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy thank you I will check that out for sure :D
	11:38am Jinx: enjoyed the show, Joe. thanks for hipping me to Mabilene in the 2nd set. also your Cowpunk premium has my favorite cowpunk song, The Conductor Wore Black.
	11:38am Ian: Thank you for this tribute Joe. Smiling through tears.
	11:38am Rachel Bo Bachel: Morphe WOW will check that out too I always learn so much here
	11:39am TDK60: Thanks for the Waterson tribute, Joe. Love that you include the folks music in the mix.
	11:39am Handy Haversack: Rachel, also check out the BBC shorts series Posh Nosh (I think all available on toxic YouTube), which uses it as the theme music and is hilarious.
	👻 11:39am Ken From Hyde Park: Not affiliated with Calvin and Hobbes artist Bill Watterson, I presume?
	11:40am clarke: toxic youtube?
	11:40am dale: eliza carthy too.
	11:42am Handy Haversack: clarke: see, oh, all the TechTonic episodes! Short answer: Google makes money on YT by monetizing hate speech, animal cruelty, and pedophilia.
	11:43am Rachel Bo Bachel: Ian hugs hi mr. dale!
	11:43am clarke: well - sorry - they have the records that we need on there!!
	11:43am Brendan: Fox on the run!
	11:44am Carmichael: @Rachel, did you go to UC Davis, or live out that way?
	11:44am clarke: i am the fox!
	11:44am steveo: i am the cheese
	11:45am PMD: Ruhe ich ihr...
	11:46am Enscars: sehr gut!
	11:46am Robm: @Rachel i do see a lot of interesting conversations on here from time to time about stuff other then music
	11:46am Joe McG: Very reminiscent of the Pentangle, as well, I would say, in addition to Steeleye Span.
	11:47am eva: love this! enjoyed today’s show. thanks!
	11:47am Hubig Pie: Ich bin ein kase
	11:47am Joe McG: Thanks for tuning in, eva!
	11:47am morphe': Ougenweide - would seem to mean something that pleases the eye???
	11:48am clarke: yes, the drums especially are Span'esque
	11:48am Rachel Bo Bachel: Carmichael no but my brother lived out there for a while and was involved w/ the radio station, and my dad did go there for law school! I was a kid in Palo Alto, then good old NJ. What about you? Ps for some reason I’m finding this German hilarious
	11:49am bobobob dublon Plasticland: I'm boycotting Jethro Tull ..ian Anderson calls The Stones and the Who "Generic Dismissable bands" after hearing this that fuckin wanker is generic!!!!!!!!!
	👻 11:50am chresti: Thanks Joe, the internet is getting spotty here today...
	11:50am David Redbranch: @TDK60 Richard Thompson talks about working with the Watersons in his new book, Beeswing. Highly recommended!
	11:50am clarke: like to read that!
	11:51am Joe McG: @David R: Just was given a copy as a gift, so I can't wait to read it!
	11:51am PMD: @Rachel Bo Bachel... did you listen to KFJC back then? :-)
	11:51am bobobob: Ian Anderson can get Fuched ..hes mad bc they dont play his generic band as much on AOR as the stones or who sore loser
	11:51am clarke: fun show JMcG!! as usual.
	11:51am morphe': Thanks Joe for a great show!!! And thanks to all the amazing Mad Professors here at WFMU online University - Tax Free EDU !!!!
	11:52am dale: carole pegg's solo album is great.
	11:52am Handy Haversack: Mr Fox a candidate for Joe B's self-named-self-named-self-named show. Thanks, Joe! Fantastic show today. Really loved the tribute, too. Stay on top, Surfactants!
	11:53am Mike Sin: Hi Joe -- Just checking in to say that I've been enjoying the parts of the show I've been hearing. A Monday and back from vacation... work has me looking at about 100 spreadsheets!
	11:53am Joe McG: @Mike: Hope you had a great time!!
	11:54am steveo: fantabulous show today, thank you Joe
	11:54am TDK60: Thanks, Monday Joe.
	👻 11:54am 12539: Colossal thanks for today's show, Joe!
	11:55am listener monica: you're 86'd for playing that one.
	11:55am Joe McG: As an antidote to the gruesome Mr Fox, here's something fun by Redd Foxx to end the show. Thanks for listening and commenting, all! Have a great week!
	11:55am Carmichael: @Rachel, I live in Sacramento and worked at UC Davis for 10 years. That's where I met Liz Berg, who was leaving KDVS for "a station on the East Coast". That was about 25 years ago.
	11:56am Mister Dobalina: I'm liking this analogy..
	👻 11:56am yerfriendpaul: Thanks Joe. Loved today's show - much like I do every week!
	11:57am PMD: Red Foxx! Thanks Joe!
	11:57am Rachel Bo Bachel: PMD no what was that? I was rather mainstream I would say- Live 105 and KOME. Lots of Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Cranberries, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, with some flaming lips and Beck mixed in… I still stand by all that shaving cream tho! We’re you from the Bay Area?
	11:58am listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Joe!
	11:58am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe thanks this has been great! Hey Paul! Ps Joe my baby loves your theme music I think :D
	11:58am Brendan: Timely set. We have some gray and red foxes ‘round here. One of the latter has had a busted leg for a couple years. Throw him some chicken from time to time. Glad to see him show up every year.Winter’s tough on the little fellas. Thanks Joe!
	👻 11:59am yerfriendpaul: Hey Rachel Bo Bachel!!
	11:59am Mister Dobalina: Good stuff, Joe.
	11:59am P-90: Thanks, DJ Joe McG
	11:59am PMD: @Rachel I'm in the bay area. KFJC is out of Los Alto Hills
	👻 11:59am DjLorraine: Fabulous Joe
	👻 12:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for today's countrarian show, Joe!
	👻 12:02pm Brian in UK: Nice one, Joe.
	12:08pm Cal Zone!: A fine show, Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from February 7, 2022

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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February 7, 2022: Country Joe and the Yips

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Country Gentlemen	This Morning at Nine	The Best of the Early Country Gentlemen	Rebel	1970	LP			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Country Gazette	Last Thing on My Mind	Out to Lunch	Flying Fish	1976	LP			0:04:35 (Pop-up)
Country Fever	Too Much of Nothing	single	Bell	1969	45			0:08:40 (Pop-up)
Country Coalition	Life's Little Ups and Downs	Time to Get It Together	Bluesway ABC	1970	LP			0:11:03 (Pop-up)
Country Store	To Love You "To Love You" by "Country Store"	single	T-A	1969	45			0:13:48 (Pop-up)
Country	Aragon Ballroom "Aragon Ballroom" by "Country"	Country	Clean	1971	LP			0:16:25 (Pop-up)
Country Funk	Phoebe (Mourning Pink)	Country Funk	Polydor	1971	LP			0:19:27 (Pop-up)
Country Joe and the Fish	Janis "Janis" by "Country Joe and the Fish"	The Life and Times of Country Joe and the Fish from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock	Vanguard	1986	LP	From 1967		0:21:45 (Pop-up)
Cross Country	Today "Today" by "Cross Country"	Cross Country	Atco	1973	LP			0:24:10 (Pop-up)
Country Teasers	Space "Space" by "Country Teasers"	W.O.A.R.	Holy Mountain	2008	LP			0:27:04 (Pop-up)
Country Rockers	Guitar Polka "Guitar Polka" by "Country Rockers"	Free Range Chicken	Telstar	1992	LP			0:28:40 (Pop-up)
Country Bob & the Blood Farmers	Dang Me	Goin' to Hell in a Handbasket	Manster	1985	LP			0:31:13 (Pop-up)
Big Country	Come Back to Me "Come Back to Me" by "Big Country"	Steeltown	Mercury	1984	LP			0:33:30 (Pop-up)

Meridian Brothers / Conjunto Media Luna	Mi primo el boxeador	Paz en la Tierra	Bongo Joe	2021	LP	"My cousin the boxer"	*	0:51:30 (Pop-up)
Hamid al Shaeri	Yefkini Nesma'sotak	The SLAM Years! 1983-1988	Habibi Funk	2022	MP3	"I Know How to Relax"	*	0:55:20 (Pop-up)
Donald Duck and His Friends	Hail Hail the Gang's All Here	Sing a Song with Jiminy Cricket and Your Disney Favorites	Disneyland	1960	LP			0:59:30 (Pop-up)
Joseph Spence	Down by the Riverside	Encore	Smithsonian Folkways	2021	LP	From 1965		1:01:16 (Pop-up)
Woody Guthrie	Do Re Mi "Do Re Mi" by "Woody Guthrie"	Dust Bowl Ballads	RCA Victor	1964	LP	From 4/26/40		1:04:36 (Pop-up)
Swamp Dogg	Dust Bowl Refugee "Dust Bowl Refugee" by "Swamp Dogg"	Home in This World: Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads	Elektra	2021	MP3			1:07:00 (Pop-up)
Gary & Sandy	Gonna Let You Have It	Country Funk III	Light in the Attic	2021	CD	From 1977	*	1:09:40 (Pop-up)
Mabilene	Against the Wall "Against the Wall" by "Mabilene"	The Other Side	Mabilene	2021	CD		*	1:12:08 (Pop-up)
The Rave-Ups	Brigitte Bardot "Brigitte Bardot" by "The Rave-Ups"	Tomorrow	Omnivore Recordings	2022	MP3		*	1:16:17 (Pop-up)
Tex and the Horseheads	Lucky Hand	Cowpunk Deluxe: My 2013 Marathon Fundraiser Premium	WFMU	2013	CD-R	From 1985		1:19:14 (Pop-up)
The Shondells	Wonderful One "Wonderful One" by "The Shondells"	This Love Was Real: L.A. Vocal Groups 1959-1964	Ace	2021	CD	From 1963	*	1:22:38 (Pop-up)
Johnny Guitar Watson	You've Got a Hard Head	Listen	Fantasy	1973	LP			1:24:43 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour
Nick Lowe	Born a Woman "Born a Woman" by "Nick Lowe"	single	Stiff	1977	45	from "Bowi" EP		1:34:25 (Pop-up)
Gladys Knight & the Pips	It Should Have Been Me	single	Soul	1968	45			1:36:20 (Pop-up)
Les Chausettes Noires	Infidéle "Infidéle" by "Les Chausettes Noires"	single	Barclay	1961	45			1:39:11 (Pop-up)
Charlie Calello	Dance, Dance, Dance (Part I)	single	Ariola America	1976	45			1:41:57 (Pop-up)
LiliPUT	Split "Split" by "LiliPUT"	single	Rough Trade	1980	45			1:45:26 (Pop-up)
Boston	Amanda "Amanda" by "Boston"	single	MCA	1986	45			1:47:25 (Pop-up)
Claire Hamill	Flowers for Grandma	single	Island	1972	45			1:51:46 (Pop-up)
Ten Years After	Let the Sky Fall "Let the Sky Fall" by "Ten Years After"	single	Columbia	1971	45			1:53:15 (Pop-up)
Bellamy Brothers	You're My Favorite Star	single	Warner Bros.	1980	45			1:57:36 (Pop-up)

Norma Waterson, R.I.P. "Norma Waterson, R.I.P."
The Watersons	Winter - Here We Come A-Wassailing	Frost & Fire: A Calendar of Ceremonial Folk Songs	Topic	1965	LP			2:15:09 (Pop-up)
The Watersons	The North Country Maid	The Watersons	Topic	1966	LP			2:16:12 (Pop-up)
The Watersons	The Pretty Drummer Boy	A Yorkshire Garland	Topic	1966	MP3			2:18:41 (Pop-up)
The Watersons	Swarthfell Rocks "Swarthfell Rocks" by "The Watersons"	"For Pence and Spicy Ale"	Topic	1975	LP			2:21:15 (Pop-up)
Lal & Norma Waterson	The Flowers of the Forest	A True Hearted Girl	Topic	1999	CD	From 1977		2:26:46 (Pop-up)
Norma Waterson	Hard Times Heart "Hard Times Heart" by "Norma Waterson"	Norma Waterson	Hannibal	1996	CD	written by Norma		2:30:17 (Pop-up)
Waterson:Carthy	Fare Thee Well Cold Winter	Broken Ground	Topic	1999	CD			2:33:33 (Pop-up)

Ougenweide	Der Fuchs "Der Fuchs" by "Ougenweide"	Ougenweide	Polydor	1973	LP			2:43:54 (Pop-up)
Mr Fox	Mr Fox "Mr Fox" by "Mr Fox"	Mr Fox/The Gipsy	Transatlantic	2000	CD	From 1970		2:49:11 (Pop-up)
Redd Foxx with Kenny Watts & His Jumpin' Buddies	Redd Foxx Blues	Open the Door, Richard!	Savoy Jazz	1987	LP	From 1946		2:54:03 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:01am G: Another Monday... :-)
	9:02am Rick from SC: Morning Joe and all.
	👻 9:02am 12539: Yiiiiiiiippppp!
	9:02am Asheville Jon: ray dio
	9:02am Mike W: yip yip yip yip bom boom boom boom
	9:02am nathan: mornin'
	9:02am Handy Haversack: Slipping on the Yipping! Morning, Joe and everyone.
	9:02am clarke: i am actually consious enough to type: good morning JMcG and all!!
	9:02am Mike W: gonna play the Country Gentlemen, huh?
	9:03am common: Joe, all
	9:03am listener james from westwood: Morning, Joe and all!
	👻 9:03am LastWhiteRhino: Hey there.
	9:03am Strandlund: Yip Yip Hurray!!
	9:03am clarke: but not consious enough to add the C to conscious
	9:04am JeremyB: Good Morning Joe & everyone!
	9:04am Asheville Jon: my grass is blue
	9:04am Handy Haversack: It's a start, clarke!
	👻 9:04am yerfriendpaul: Good morning Joe! Enjoyed your distant Sabbath scream at the end of Wake!
	👻 9:05am DjLorraine: Gmorning folks. Ann Arbor born Evan Bates won ice dancing in the 2022 olympics.
	9:05am clarke: it's a day unless you fall down.
	9:05am melinda: howdy Joe and everyone
	9:07am KWilde: Morning Joe!
	👻 9:07am Webhamster Henry: I'm pretty sure Tom Paxton is still alive! Give him a call!
	👻 9:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Yip yip and good morning from ice & snow country. ⛄
	9:09am Handy Haversack: Gentlemen Gazette Fever!
	9:11am PKNY: Some nice country funk right here!
	9:11am PaulRobeson1920: Morning all! Peter, Paul & Mary do this song well
	9:11am TDK60: Good morning, Radio Joe.
	9:11am Fredericks: Don't think I ever heard this Country Fever version of Too Much of Nothing. I like it.
	9:11am Handy Haversack: Gentlemen Gazette Fever Coalition! Sign me up!
	9:12am Fredericks: All country bands, I see.
	9:12am Kotzwinkled: Saw the Cactus Blossoms cover this live and knew then I was going to propose to my now wife. Music!
	9:12am dale: the charlie rich original is a heartbreaker.
	9:12am chris_in_space: Loving this opening set!
	9:12am PaulRobeson1920: Tom Paxton!! What did you learn in school today?!!! Love Tom Paxton
	9:12am Mike W: are we down the country or up the country here’n?
	9:13am clarke: what the hell has happened to this Country?!?
	9:13am JG: Happy Monday Joe, Yipsters. Digging this set. The theme seems to be " good songs".
	9:14am Fredericks: Is the DJ's name Country Joe?
	9:14am TDK60: My dad used to live in the same apartment building as Tom Paxton in the Green Witch Village, back in the '60s.
	9:14am steveo: Good morning, Joe Great to hear your show Everyone, hello
	9:15am JG: Tortilla Flat by DOug Sahm or SDQ would fit into this set nicely
	9:15am listener james from westwood: Country Joe and the Surface Noise.
	👻 9:15am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe and noise enthusiasts
	9:16am Handy Haversack: Gentlemen Gazette Fever Coalition Store. I wonder if they accept credit accounts.
	9:16am clarke: outstanding tuuunz.
	9:17am clarke: they take food stamps HH
	👻 9:18am YETI BOB: Wondering if we'll hear Country Teasers. I saw them once, they were not that good. But they'd fit the theme...
	9:18am Handy Haversack: Whew. This set brought to you by the retirement of MLB umpire Country Joe West?
	9:18am clarke: i thought CT were VERY great.
	👻 9:19am karlward: Does the band Country have a song titled "Country" on the album Country? And if so, is that song a country song?
	9:19am Joe McG: Welcome to the show, folks! Country Joe here bringing you all the Country bands, just because.
	👻 9:19am karlward: We might be chasing deeper reaches of the Belock Index, this could be dangerous
	9:19am clarke: play 'em if ya got 'em
	👻 9:20am YETI BOB: clarke: sorry, might have been an off night when i saw them.
	9:20am Brendan: Damn you, The Country Store . Presenting your moral crisis, too early in the morning! Come back when I’ve arisen, and have my wits about me. Good morning Joe and Co., looking forward to some surface scratching.
	9:20am clarke: well, ALL of their nights might have been 'off' but in the best way possible!!
	9:21am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @karlward: Only Dave Hill knows.
	9:21am Handy Haversack: Gentlemen Gazette Fever Coalition Store Funk. That's a Sunday-morning problem if ever there was one.
	👻 9:22am Webhamster Henry: That is, Country Joe and the Yips.
	9:23am G: Country Joe plays Country Joe
	9:24am ChukAmok: How 'bout "In a Big Country" by Big Country? Good morning everyone!
	9:24am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Southern Culture on the Skids -> Country Funk
	9:24am bil OHara: joe ..my childhood memories ...my fathers home movies soundtrack
	👻 9:25am YETI BOB: hey karlward! thanks for the amaro negroni suggestion. Used this "Amara" b/c it's what we had. www.amaroamara.com... . they were DELICIOUS, tasted a bit like maple syrup. Added to the house cocktail menu!
	9:26am ChukAmok: @karlward Check your email. The one that is named after a doomed planet.
	👻 9:27am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. I seem to recall a recent Premium of yours with a country angle.
	9:28am Asheville Jon: interesting song. they should get together with Tonetta
	9:28am Handy Haversack: His earthlink account, ChukAmok? Yeah, I went there!
	9:29am common: Well, this is great!
	9:29am Joe McG: @Brian: Yes, this seems to be some sort of obsession! @Bill: Hey, Bill!
	9:29am Mike W: I knew this set would conclude neatly for me if the Country Teasers appeared
	9:30am Eric the Hat: Howdy Joe! Harkening back to yr roots this morning?
	9:30am ChukAmok: @Handy Boom!
	9:30am jabsonik: Yeehaa!
	9:30am Dean from Old Bridge: 🤠
	9:31am TDK60: Country Rockers need a bit more practice? Or is that drumming on purpose?
	9:31am clarke: drummer was around 80 years old when record was made.
	9:32am Listener Baby: Hi Joe. Hi friends.
	9:32am clarke: that's a lot of practice.
	9:32am Mike W: jump to the Counts, Ossie and Five and whomever else
	9:33am clarke: BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	9:33am Cal Zone!: Roger Miller is smiling down from heaven
	9:33am TDK60: Clarke. I'm now leaning to the thesis that that drumming was on purpose.
	9:33am Rock Ridge Chess Club: I think Roger would approve of this Dangin´
	9:33am Mike W: Count Bass D; Count Basie; Count, Body
	👻 9:34am captain beef fart: I knew we'd get to Big Country
	9:34am Rick from SC: Are we gonna get any Kountry songs?
	9:35am TDK60: Haven't heard Steeltown in ages! Heavy mood as I recall.
	9:35am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Oh Joe, thank you for Big County!
	9:36am Rick A: Good Morning Joe and All, I guess Country Dick Montana never put out any solo releases.
	9:36am Joe McG: Good morning, Karen! :)
	9:36am Listener Baby: Hi Clarke. Didn’t know you were a Baby Joe fan?
	9:37am Eric the Hat: In my head a precious image of McGasko and Warhol “chorin’” outside a fog shrouded barn. Of course, the mind also is shrouded now with lack of coffee and no lack of tinnitus.
	9:37am clarke: always a fan - hardly ever awake.
	9:38am Listener Baby: Noted!
	9:38am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I sliced my left pinkie cooking dinner on Saturday. Typing with nine fingers is super-annoying. Also, I don't think I've ever heard a Big Country song that wasn't In A Big Country (or whatever it was called).
	9:39am clarke: and you are up quite early BABY. guess them vines are callin' in the dark.
	👻 9:39am DjLorraine: George Henry Crumb, composer, passed on Feb 6
	👻 9:39am DjLorraine: At 92
	👻 9:40am DjLorraine: :D
	9:40am clarke: ouch Woods! you can't drink tea for a while.
	👻 9:40am yerfriendpaul: games are good!
	9:41am clarke: (properly)
	👻 9:41am DjLorraine: My smile was for Joe McGasko comment “from a country“
	9:41am dano59: That about covers it, Joe. (I often end up with some unexpected discoveries while searching my iTunes library)
	9:41am Listener Baby: You bet they are. Plus, I just friggin’ wake up. If I could sleep, I would.
	9:42am clarke: i know - i am getting that way, too, Baby. sux.
	9:42am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @clarke: Ha! Well, the good news is that I didn't have to go to the hospital.
	9:43am clarke: VERY good news!!
	9:43am Brendan: Shakespeare was a horn dog. Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2 Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: Did you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs. Spelled country, but a pun on the pronunciation.
	9:43am geoff: First two Big Country albums are all you need Joe. Real big quality drop off after those ones.
	👻 9:43am karlward: YETI BOB: I'm a regular Handy these days! Just kidding, I know barely anything about cocktails. Glad it was good.
	9:43am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): In A Big Country...duh, duh, duh, duh.... Not a lyrics person so that's how I hear stuff.
	👻 9:44am karlward: ChukAmok: I'll be there!
	9:44am dano59: @TDK: Country Rockets came out of a sloppier tradition - punk/post punk
	9:44am McGroovey: I've somehow never heard Big Country's "Steel Town". I loved the one after it. Is it called "The Seer"? And the EP that came right before or after the third album. Those were on my turntable and on my mixtapes a lot on the eighties
	9:47am TDK60: dano59: Thanks, gotcha. I have never minded a bit of sloppiness in music, if it fits the moment.
	👻 9:47am YETI BOB: saw GBV at Aragon Ballroom in Chicago a few years back. It's definitely still there. But maybe the song's about a different Aragon?
	9:48am TVP: Yeah, looks like there's a second one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragon_Ballroom_(Ocean_Park,_Santa_Monica,_California)
	9:48am clarke: maybe it was an epithet for a really great show!
	9:48am melinda: I love Last Thing On my Mind too
	9:49am dale: ready for city goups now.
	9:49am TVP: Also, every time I hear of the Aragon Ballroom, I think of Stan Freberg's Lawrence Welk parody, where the ballroom floats away to sea thanks to a rogue bubble machine.
	9:51am KWilde: Uncle Michael used to end his show with a version of Last Thing On My Mind - check it out
	9:51am clarke: different country.
	9:52am Handy Haversack: I'm such an easy mark. The "Guitar Polka" definitely got me in the mood for some accordion. Hey, KWilde -- adored the skunk song on Sat.!
	9:52am melinda: My father would play Last Thing On My Mind on the guitar when I was little, it's one of the earliest songs I remember. Like me he was bad at remembering song lyrics but got the first few lines.
	9:52am clarke: bongo joe.
	9:52am HyperDose: "Bongo Joe" haha
	9:54am steveo: Having some trouble counting this one ... Love it
	9:55am clarke: 5/4
	👻 9:55am queems: a banger
	👻 9:55am YETI BOB: I see that last winter the snow caused a partial collapse at the Aragon: "The wall collapsed after two storms dumped nearly 18 inches of snow on Chicago. ... Chicago's Department of Buildings missed its annual inspection of the Aragon in July because the venue was closed for the pandemic and an inspector was unable to gain entry".
	9:57am djsheilab: Ooh! Digging this Hamid El Shaeri track. Morning Joe!
	9:58am Joe McG: 'Morning, Sheila B.!
	9:58am clarke: even had the inspector gotten in - it probably wouldn't have passed?? unless the damage has been repaired.
	9:59am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): For programming/game nerds "of a certain age," a short article on how Battlezone was made -> spectrum.ieee.org... That might be the last video game I played, come to think of it.
	👻 9:59am YETI BOB: WP says: "A fire at an adjacent cocktail lounge in 1958 forced the Aragon to close for several months. After the reopening, crowds declined significantly, to the point that regular dancing ended in 1964.". Maybe that's what the song is referring to.
	👻 10:00am karlward: The only trouble is many people don't have one
	10:00am TomTom: Donald Dump!
	👻 10:00am YETI BOB: clarke: I think the suggestion is that the missed inspection (in July) might have revealed the structural weakness that led to the later collapse (in Feb)
	👻 10:00am Webhamster Henry: "And let your superego be your guide!"
	10:00am dale: love cliff edwards.
	10:01am clarke: ah!
	👻 10:02am yerfriendpaul: I spent my childhood trying to mimic that Donald Duck voice but never could do it
	10:02am steveo: Someone bring a bucket to studio A, the dj is on fire
	👻 10:02am Webhamster Henry: Joseph Spence - Donald Duck growl off!
	10:04am KWilde: Thanks Handy!
	👻 10:08am 12539: Donald Duck, Woody Guthrie, Swamp Dogg...that's just one way to spell Wfmu.
	10:08am clarke: a bucket full of..... confetti!!!
	10:09am Cal Zone!: Swamp Dogg, unfettered by excessive autotune! Huzzah!
	👻 10:09am karlward: I would follow Swamp Dogg through the autotune, to anywhere
	👻 10:11am karlward: Oh that synth
	👻 10:12am karlward: This song is just too good
	10:12am clarke: she's lettin' us have it alright!
	👻 10:12am yerfriendpaul: laser beams are flying!
	10:13am Handy Haversack: We haven't even got to Single File yet. Joe's throwing rocks this morning!
	10:14am Cal Zone!: @karlward I fully support anything performed, written, produced, or associated in any way shape or form by anything Jerry Wallace and everything Swampdoggish! But I prefer his natural pipes!
	👻 10:14am Brian in UK: It is a subtle ploy, pre Marathon catnip.
	10:14am clarke: i want to say that the Aragon Ballroom was prominently featured in a Robert Taylor flick from the 40's?? he plays a lawyer caught up in mob business in chicago??
	👻 10:14am DjLorraine: Down by the Riverside was the tune we used as kids to sing a McDonalds' parody. I can only remember the line: They slap you in the face, take away your license plates.
	👻 10:18am karlward: Might want to dump before the next chorus
	10:18am Cal Zone!: Don't buy the Liverwurst! youtu.be...
	10:21am clarke: might be Johnny Eager????
	10:23am clarke: heading out to exercise, but shall return.
	10:26am Jason from Houston: OH YESSSSS...
	👻 10:32am karlward: Conway Twitty perm is best perm
	👻 10:35am YETI BOB: Trying to figure out what movie Clarke is referring to. Searched for "Robert Taylor movie Chicago lawyer" and came up with ... PARTY GIRL! "Party Girl (1958) was a return to the crime genre, starring Cyd Charisse as a 1920s Chicago showgirl who questions her ties to a syndicate boss (Lee J. Cobb) when a mob lawyer (Robert Taylor) wants her to make a break with him."
	10:37am Roberto: I met Lee J. Cobb's daughter Julie once.
	10:39am Joe McG: I just watched Lee Cobb in "Exodus," a very long movie.
	10:39am clarke: that's IT Bob - Party Girl!!!
	👻 10:40am YETI BOB: DON'T MISS PARTY GIRL!
	10:40am clarke: good flick!!!!
	10:41am Handy Haversack: "Infidele" is a lot more ominous a title than "Runaround Sue."
	10:41am bradford: the black socks!
	10:41am clarke: Exodus is over-long but has intermission. ha ha.
	10:41am Joe McG: @Handy: Ha ha ha
	10:42am Cal Zone!: Runaround Infidel on the other hand....
	10:42am Handy Haversack: Maybe it has ebullient connotations in French, I dunno.
	10:43am Jeff Golick: Oy.
	10:44am Joe McG: @Jeff: This one would've gone great with that Jewish Aerobics record from a couple of weeks ago!
	10:44am Cal Zone!: @Handy...in France those infidels maintain a certain joie de vivre! Happy go lucky infidels!
	10:44am Brendan: She was infideleing around
	10:45am Handy Haversack: Joe throws the best bat mitzvahs!
	10:46am Brendan: The devil loves an infidele. Especially a shiny one made of gold.
	10:46am Mister Dobalina: Cookin' with fire on this one!
	10:46am Jason from Houston: ꒰｡• ◡ •｡꒱
	10:47am βrian: Listening, waiting for the second cup of coffee to take effect.
	10:47am Jason from Houston: Total fire!
	10:47am clarke: ok. NOW i'm heading out for a run. will try to stream on phone. be back.
	👻 10:47am chresti: Morning Joe and surfies! Checking in from the tennis booth. It's supposed to get warm and windy this week.
	10:48am bradford: hoo boy
	👻 10:48am 12539: Thanks for the breather, Joe.
	10:48am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I am rhythmically waving my lighter left and then right....
	10:49am Brendan: Slow dance kids.
	10:49am minkwest: Hi gang! Hi Joe! WFMU is my safe place, my escape from the anxiety of looking at "news" in all its various forms. Grateful to be able to tune in and turn on and drop out.
	10:49am anne: I do very much love this song
	10:49am Matt Fiveash: Ah the song that is stuck on a loop in my head 24/7!
	👻 10:50am yerfriendpaul: The guitar spaceship - I could look at it for hours as a kid
	10:50am Asheville Jon: ooooh, tappin' into boston iii. daring choice
	10:50am Joe McG: @Matt: You're a lucky man!
	10:50am Lord Jimz: sounds like sugarbear
	10:50am steveo: surprised to find myself clicky-starring boston in 2022 lol
	10:50am Jason from Houston: Serious couple skate song right here.
	10:51am Roberto: Amanda Hugginkiss?
	10:51am Matt Fiveash: @Joe be that as it may, I still don't want the ELP song played at my funeral
	10:51am Greg from ZONE 5: Yo Joe!
	10:52am dale: this sounded great coming out of the 40 watt 6x9 speakers in the package shelf of my friends ford torino.
	10:52am Joe McG: Hey Greg! @dale: Ha, music MADE for a Ford Torino!
	10:52am listener james from westwood: This Boston puts me back in friends' attics or basements during high school, roleplaying on Friday night or Saturday morning, before we got our learners' permits and still had to rely on rides across suburbia.
	10:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ..& I will fully get away with innumerable trite cliches - Umanduh. ...Mornin'.
	10:54am The Oscar: Been busy working, but holy cats that Claire Hammill!
	10:54am Brendan: Yes, when the Boston album came out, I think the sound production was light years ahead of anybody else. Even with some of the densely layered stuff, the sonic separation was amazing.
	10:54am βrian: Boston reminds me of washing dishes for less than $2 per hour.
	10:54am solo mon: Flowers for Grandma marks my mood for the day.
	10:55am dale: joe - wheel in the sky by journey too!
	10:55am Joe McG: @solo mon: Oh no, stay away from your house plants! @dale: I wish I had that on 45!
	10:56am solo mon: LOL i promise
	10:56am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Boston reminds me of being in high school and not having to worry about anything heavier than do my jeans fit and I hope that girl goes to the dance on Friday.
	10:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...no - I do appreciate that Boston hit huge - & the label's like You Must Tour ...& Schultz is like - just one problem - the band doesn't actually exist...
	10:56am Mister Dobalina: HiYA Solo Mon !!
	10:56am Handy Haversack: 1986: Marvel Super Heroes RPG was out! And I think the last of the Dragonlance adventures came out that year, James.
	10:57am solo mon: Mister Dobalina! goooood mornin to you
	👻 10:57am chresti: I heard part of a song that went "American girls, driving their car...", on KXLU on my way to work.
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I do tend to forget how fond of my Ten Years After Greatest Hits LP I was...
	10:58am listener james from westwood: @Handy: Yes, and likely we were playing our homebrew characters in that very system! FASERIP is one of my two favorite mechanics, along with d6 SW:RPG, which debuted the next year and to which my gang of Star Wars geeks flooded like a tide.
	10:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: StarWars began & ended with me with the 1st in 1977.
	11:00am Handy Haversack: You are speaking my language, James. FASERIP is fantastic. I love that game so much. Though the published adventures were almost all garbage. I had the SW game but never a group to play it with. Picked it up again a couple years back.
	11:00am Greg from ZONE 5: The Bellamy Brothers chant down Babylon inna roots stylee.
	11:00am solo mon: "don't care If I'm hurtin charlie's pride" ha
	11:01am Joe McG: @Greg: Ha ha ha
	11:02am Barney Grubbs: Handy, I still occasionally find the little character cards from Marvel Super Heroes when I open up an old box. They are persistent, like superheroes ought to be.
	11:03am Rachel Bo Bachel: Baby Arlo and I are just tuning in! Gm Joe McG :)
	11:05am Boomer: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/take_a_trip_to_beatles_hell_with_members_of_negativland_and_the_church_of_t
	11:05am Handy Haversack: This is the third year in a row we're not going to GaryCon in Wisconsin, but my friend Manny and I always tried to get in this one guy's MSH game. Super fun. Last time we were the street-level NYC heroes (Daredevil, Nightwing, Luke Cage, etc.) trying to get a witness from Hell's Kitchen to the courthouse downtown during the '77 Blackout. It was a blast. I, er, accidentally killed Daredevil at the end, but we got the job done!
	11:06am wplj: No that’s not true they’ve had three more albums
	11:06am David Redbranch: The closest thing to Boston Stage IV is the band Return To Zero (RTZ): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTZ_(band)
	11:06am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I'd never noticed until today how much Runaround Sue sounds like Quarter To Three.
	11:08am listener james from westwood: @Handy: Those published adventures were basically conveyances for new hero and villain stats for me!
	11:08am wplj: Boston released six albums in the greatest hits album Come on Joe do your homework
	11:09am Glistener MW: Amazon truly is this “Fulfillment Colon” of America.
	11:09am Handy Haversack: Barney, James, if I ever run a game of MSH on Zoom or something, I will make sure to let you know! Or we could start a band called Karma Pool.
	11:09am PMD: How is that possible! 8 million!
	11:11am solo mon: Adam is such a great guy. And Ruth: they both used to be my neighbors.
	11:13am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @David Redbranch: True. Barry Goudreau put out some decent stuff too.
	11:13am morphe': I was multi-tasking but I thought I heard "disco" in the 45s? Was that the Boston? Were there Disco 45s or no because the Disco tunes were generally longer???
	11:15am Handy Haversack: The Charlie Calello was sort of disco "Hava Nagila," morph. Looking forward to this tribute, Joe!
	11:17am morphe': Was just visualizing Ivan O'Martin (Jimmy Cliff) trying to get the DJ to play his "hit" 45 .."The Harder They Come" but Ivan is on the outs with the producer dude and not on the playlist .. The Dj says no way ".. this show business - no business ... no show..."
	11:18am Joe McG: @Glistener MW: Ha, so right!
	11:19am morphe': Who is being Tributed??? of the Watersons??
	11:20am PigeonsAndRust: Folks who dig this would also enjoy the various Roycroft Singers records from the late '20s
	11:21am morphe': Found it:(text) https://www.npr.org/2022/01/31/1076926232/norma-waterson-folk-music-died
	11:21am Barney Grubbs: Norma Waterson died on Jan 30th
	11:21am spugbum: is this phase 2 of The Handsome Cabin Boy?
	11:22am Rachel Bo Bachel: Delightful set Joe!
	11:22am Brendan: This is magically delicious
	11:23am Barney Grubbs: Jim Ghedi has put out some nice dark Yorkshire folk tunes recently, too.
	11:23am morphe': Set is working with my current reading: "...Stoker specifically refers to the process of a Felo de Se burial, the unnamed hero recalling “the old custom of burying suicides at crossroads”without ceremony and with a stake through the heart..." http://eastwallforall.ie/?p=3833
	11:24am Joe McG: Here's the link to the great doc about them early in their career: www.youtube.com...
	11:26am Spinning Giant: Marnin' all late to the party, as usual - enjoying the lilt - larvely cheers @Joe McG
	11:28am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe do you know the song “the Gypsy Laddie” by David Hammond and Donal Lunny? Early St. Patrick’s Day request 💚
	11:29am Joe McG: @RBR: I know that one, but not by Donal Lunny! I'll look for it, thanks! :)
	11:30am Rachel Bo Bachel: Morphe oof! What are you reading? Top o’ the Morning Spinning Giant!
	11:30am Hubig Pie: My bagpipe teacher said this song should only be performed at a funeral
	11:31am Barney Grubbs: If you're up for a deep dive, the excellent Fire Draw Near podcast (Ian Lynch from Lankum) has a whole episode tracing the evolution of various versions of the Gypsy Laddie soundcloud.com...
	11:31am Joe McG: @Hubig: Ah, appropriate then....
	11:31am Spinning Giant: Back'atcha Rachel-Bo-B' :)
	11:31am Jeff Moore: I do enjoy these old-British-Isles harmonies, as I do Baltic ones. They're a little painful in a really enjoyable way.
	👻 11:32am DjLorraine: Wassailing with WFMU <3
	11:33am TDK60: Sounds like Richard Thompson on the guitar on "Hard."
	11:33am Joe McG: @Jeff: I hear the similarity you're hearing!
	11:33am clarke: unmistakable richard thompson'ing
	11:34am Handy Haversack: Rache, at some point after Joe's show and Joe's show, see wfmu.org... Continental SUbway for many variations of "The Gypsy Laddie." No Donal Lunny, though -- now I'm curious, too!
	11:35am P-90: this gives me chills alright, or maybe just shudders
	11:35am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe McG it’s by David Hammond and Donal Lunny, I think the album is called “the musicians house”. I can’t believe I found a song you don’t know! My brother found it, he used to have a radio show on KDVS, the U.C. Davis radio station, and he played it on his St. Patrick’s Day show many years ago :)
	11:35am Joe McG: Yes, all-star band on that Norma solo LP: Richard Thompson, Danny Thompson, hubby Martin Carthy, etc.
	11:35am morphe': Rachael Bo... happened by chance upon a reference to a sliver of land in more or less Central Dublin that was never developed because it was the crossroads where Suicides, criminals, etc were buried ... Stoker lived near there as a child and the website writer places it as important in Bram Stoker's "Dracula." It is off a website(focused on inner North Dublin) but the writer(s) did the history work .... http://eastwallforall.ie/?p=3833
	11:35am clarke: was able to stream during my whole run - a first! nice set, Joe
	11:36am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy thank you I will check that out for sure :D
	11:38am Jinx: enjoyed the show, Joe. thanks for hipping me to Mabilene in the 2nd set. also your Cowpunk premium has my favorite cowpunk song, The Conductor Wore Black.
	11:38am Ian: Thank you for this tribute Joe. Smiling through tears.
	11:38am Rachel Bo Bachel: Morphe WOW will check that out too I always learn so much here
	11:39am TDK60: Thanks for the Waterson tribute, Joe. Love that you include the folks music in the mix.
	11:39am Handy Haversack: Rachel, also check out the BBC shorts series Posh Nosh (I think all available on toxic YouTube), which uses it as the theme music and is hilarious.
	👻 11:39am Ken From Hyde Park: Not affiliated with Calvin and Hobbes artist Bill Watterson, I presume?
	11:40am clarke: toxic youtube?
	11:40am dale: eliza carthy too.
	11:42am Handy Haversack: clarke: see, oh, all the TechTonic episodes! Short answer: Google makes money on YT by monetizing hate speech, animal cruelty, and pedophilia.
	11:43am Rachel Bo Bachel: Ian hugs hi mr. dale!
	11:43am clarke: well - sorry - they have the records that we need on there!!
	11:43am Brendan: Fox on the run!
	11:44am Carmichael: @Rachel, did you go to UC Davis, or live out that way?
	11:44am clarke: i am the fox!
	11:44am steveo: i am the cheese
	11:45am PMD: Ruhe ich ihr...
	11:46am Enscars: sehr gut!
	11:46am Robm: @Rachel i do see a lot of interesting conversations on here from time to time about stuff other then music
	11:46am Joe McG: Very reminiscent of the Pentangle, as well, I would say, in addition to Steeleye Span.
	11:47am eva: love this! enjoyed today’s show. thanks!
	11:47am Hubig Pie: Ich bin ein kase
	11:47am Joe McG: Thanks for tuning in, eva!
	11:47am morphe': Ougenweide - would seem to mean something that pleases the eye???
	11:48am clarke: yes, the drums especially are Span'esque
	11:48am Rachel Bo Bachel: Carmichael no but my brother lived out there for a while and was involved w/ the radio station, and my dad did go there for law school! I was a kid in Palo Alto, then good old NJ. What about you? Ps for some reason I’m finding this German hilarious
	11:49am bobobob dublon Plasticland: I'm boycotting Jethro Tull ..ian Anderson calls The Stones and the Who "Generic Dismissable bands" after hearing this that fuckin wanker is generic!!!!!!!!!
	👻 11:50am chresti: Thanks Joe, the internet is getting spotty here today...
	11:50am David Redbranch: @TDK60 Richard Thompson talks about working with the Watersons in his new book, Beeswing. Highly recommended!
	11:50am clarke: like to read that!
	11:51am Joe McG: @David R: Just was given a copy as a gift, so I can't wait to read it!
	11:51am PMD: @Rachel Bo Bachel... did you listen to KFJC back then? :-)
	11:51am bobobob: Ian Anderson can get Fuched ..hes mad bc they dont play his generic band as much on AOR as the stones or who sore loser
	11:51am clarke: fun show JMcG!! as usual.
	11:51am morphe': Thanks Joe for a great show!!! And thanks to all the amazing Mad Professors here at WFMU online University - Tax Free EDU !!!!
	11:52am dale: carole pegg's solo album is great.
	11:52am Handy Haversack: Mr Fox a candidate for Joe B's self-named-self-named-self-named show. Thanks, Joe! Fantastic show today. Really loved the tribute, too. Stay on top, Surfactants!
	11:53am Mike Sin: Hi Joe -- Just checking in to say that I've been enjoying the parts of the show I've been hearing. A Monday and back from vacation... work has me looking at about 100 spreadsheets!
	11:53am Joe McG: @Mike: Hope you had a great time!!
	11:54am steveo: fantabulous show today, thank you Joe
	11:54am TDK60: Thanks, Monday Joe.
	👻 11:54am 12539: Colossal thanks for today's show, Joe!
	11:55am listener monica: you're 86'd for playing that one.
	11:55am Joe McG: As an antidote to the gruesome Mr Fox, here's something fun by Redd Foxx to end the show. Thanks for listening and commenting, all! Have a great week!
	11:55am Carmichael: @Rachel, I live in Sacramento and worked at UC Davis for 10 years. That's where I met Liz Berg, who was leaving KDVS for "a station on the East Coast". That was about 25 years ago.
	11:56am Mister Dobalina: I'm liking this analogy..
	👻 11:56am yerfriendpaul: Thanks Joe. Loved today's show - much like I do every week!
	11:57am PMD: Red Foxx! Thanks Joe!
	11:57am Rachel Bo Bachel: PMD no what was that? I was rather mainstream I would say- Live 105 and KOME. Lots of Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Cranberries, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, with some flaming lips and Beck mixed in… I still stand by all that shaving cream tho! We’re you from the Bay Area?
	11:58am listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Joe!
	11:58am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe thanks this has been great! Hey Paul! Ps Joe my baby loves your theme music I think :D
	11:58am Brendan: Timely set. We have some gray and red foxes ‘round here. One of the latter has had a busted leg for a couple years. Throw him some chicken from time to time. Glad to see him show up every year.Winter’s tough on the little fellas. Thanks Joe!
	👻 11:59am yerfriendpaul: Hey Rachel Bo Bachel!!
	11:59am Mister Dobalina: Good stuff, Joe.
	11:59am P-90: Thanks, DJ Joe McG
	11:59am PMD: @Rachel I'm in the bay area. KFJC is out of Los Alto Hills
	👻 11:59am DjLorraine: Fabulous Joe
	👻 12:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for today's countrarian show, Joe!
	👻 12:02pm Brian in UK: Nice one, Joe.
	12:08pm Cal Zone!: A fine show, Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from February 7, 2022

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