WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 26, 2016

Listener comments!
	8:02pm Rev. Turnip Druid: BOING!
	♥ 8:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Boing boing!
	8:03pm MONEYBAG$: I have missed those moon monsters every week since the schedule changed
	8:04pm Rev. Turnip Druid: …what the BAG$ said.
	8:05pm JakeGould: Yip!
	♥ 8:08pm common: i say yip!
	♥ 8:09pm Joe McG: Hey folks, hope you're having a nice evening. I'm here filling in for my pal MAC. Hope you'll stick with me as we listen to some country, some Indian sounds, and some blues/gospel.
	♥ 8:10pm Matt from Springfield: Old Timey Surface Noise! Hey Joe! Glad to be listening!
	♥ 8:10pm Matt from Springfield: I've heard "Pan American [Blues]" before, this is a legendary harmonica piece from the '20s. I love it!
	8:10pm JakeGould: Remember Abe Vigoda.
	♥ 8:11pm Ken From Hyde Park: I presume that MAC has an old-timey snowblower that's like ninety years old. It'll be a couple more days until his driveway is cleared out.
	♥ 8:11pm Joe McG: Ah, Jake, how can we forget him. I'll talk about that next mic break.
	8:12pm Listener Robert: The amazing thing about this little stn. is that so many of you, both at the mic & behind the guys at the mic, are so well versed in so many types of recorded matter & have such resources to draw on that you can do something like this.
	♥ 8:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: WFM- yodel-ay-ee UUU...
	♥ 8:13pm Matt from Springfield: @Ken HP: Like an old silent slapstick, it will probably be some big, tubey grammophone like contraption that won't start, and when it does, hardly moves through the snow. MAC will kick it, and then it will start zooming through the snow, chasing him...
	♥ 8:13pm Ike: Hello Joe!
	8:14pm Rev. Turnip Druid: A nice surprise, this fill-in. Rare that I can tune in at this hour. Somehow a couple of snow-days turned into extra hours via telework. But headphones bring salvation. And harmonicas.
	8:14pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Jeezus, it's like the full gang up in this joint. MY PEOPLE...
	8:14pm Listener Robert: I mean, could you imagine the sports talkers or irish-music DJs, for example, at WFUV taking over for Rich Conaty?
	♥ 8:15pm Matt from Springfield: REV! And REV RAB! And OTHERS!!
	♥ 8:15pm Joe McG: @Ken: Ha ha ha! Hey, Robert, Ike, RR63, Matt, Rev, Common, everybody!
	8:15pm Rev. Turnip Druid: JOE: got anything with a classic BASS harmonica way up front? I've been wanting one for ages but they're freakishly expensive. Love that sound.
	♥ 8:17pm Joe McG: @Rev: I LOVE that sound, too. If you think of one, let me know! Most harmonikeys from this era are more shrill in general because they were easier to record.
	8:18pm Listener Robert: Could you imagine the real estate advice guys subbing for Jerry Hickey to give dietary supplement info on WOR?
	8:20pm Listener Robert: Could you imagine anyone subbing for anyone else at WBAI, when half of them couldn't stand to be in the same room as the other half?
	♥ 8:20pm Joe McG: There have been a lot of crazy fill-ins lately. Therese was just here earlier this evening, Meghan was on for Trouble this morning, and Micah did Dr. Gameshow last night. Not to mention all the weekend shows!
	♥ 8:22pm Matt from Springfield: More locomotive harmonica! C&O, that's local to me! Canals, and railroads! :)
	♥ 8:26pm melinda: Nice to hear you in this time slot!
	♥ 8:26pm Matt from Springfield: Chesapeake & Ohio had quite a network (they in fact did connect w/ Chicago, among others). Great map of their many lines: en.wikipedia.org...
	8:27pm jon: nice. great playlist as always joe. evening noisy listeners
	♥ 8:27pm Matt from Springfield: Chennai-a Twain?! ;D
	♥ 8:28pm Joe McG: Hey melinda, nice to see you! Jon, thanks so much. Matt, it's great to see your little avatar on my playlist again!
	8:30pm JakeGould: @JoeMcG: In light of Abe Vigoda’s passing, I would like to pass along a sexy Halloween costume idea in hopes someone will be brave enough to attempt it. Ready? Here it is: Babe Vigoda!
	♥ 8:30pm Matt from Springfield: Century old Indian 78s! Amazing arty-facts! @Joe: Too often I stay up and enjoy Therese on my Mondays off, but I really need to get up early for SN sometimes! It's so much better live and commenting! :)
	♥ 8:31pm Joe McG: Jake, you're a sick man. I like it! @Matt: Would love to have you along, although I can see why your heart is with Therese. She's tops!
	♥ 8:32pm melinda: Love the Indian guitar w/scratchiness.
	♥ 8:33pm Joe McG: This guy playing the water bowls is amazing!
	8:33pm jon: wow. incredible sounds
	♥ 8:35pm Matt from Springfield: Water bowls!!
	♥ 8:37pm Joe McG: These sisters have such similar voices that you can hardly tell they are trading off lines....
	♥ 8:38pm Stevel: Joe McG in the eve! Always engaging.
	8:39pm JakeGould: Like this show. Always appreciate it when fill-in DJs make some effort to program material the regular audience would be into. Kudos!
	8:41pm bobdoesthings: whoah fill-in time
	♥ 8:42pm melinda: That was lovely.
	♥ 8:42pm Stevel: I'm no Gramophone nerd, but these seem like pretty sharp recordings from this time. Were they heavily remastered (or whatever nerdy word applies)? (I'm a nerd). I love the name at the end too.
	♥ 8:42pm Matt from Springfield: @Jake: Joe's original Surface Noise actually WAS this kind of material, one hour of old timey records, alternating every other week with MAC. The main difference being MAC is an acoustic recording purist, while Joe McG plays mainly early electrical recordings.
	8:42pm bobdoesthings: hare krishna everyone.
	♥ 8:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: How far back into Indian Music would it have sounded about the same? Couple thousand years?
	♥ 8:43pm Matt from Springfield: Hare Hare! bob! Wow! Miss Gauhar JAAN even has a Wiki! en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 8:45pm Stevel: I'm always learning great WFMU history. The Wiki is worth it for the photo alone. In the studio, I'd guess.
	8:46pm JakeGould: www.abevigoda.com
	8:46pm bobdoesthings: isabevigodadead.com
	♥ 8:46pm melinda: I read 94 too.
	♥ 8:47pm Matt from Springfield: Yes, 2016 is stacking up to be another 2012, in famous people's deaths. Wow, there have been false reports of Abe's death ever since '82!
	♥ 8:47pm melinda: I wonder if anyone will play the Barney Miller theme.
	8:47pm MONEYBAG$: Abe appeared onstage with Phish a couple of years ago, dressed in a wombat costume
	8:47pm JakeGould: @bobdoesthings: I prefer “www.abevigoda.com” because it’s simply his status. It was respectful of his life as well as death.
	♥ 8:48pm Joe McG: @Matt: Very nice summary of my original show! @Stevel: The British and Indian engineers were doing amazing things in the teens in India, yes!
	8:48pm bobdoesthings: @jake - ah, nice distinction. yes.
	8:48pm MONEYBAG$: Brian Turner played some Barney Miller theme earlier
	8:49pm JakeGould: Whoa! That website I linked to has a remix of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” for Abe Vigoda. www.abevigoda.com...
	8:49pm bobdoesthings: undead undead undead
	8:50pm Listener Robert: Interesting, Matt -- I remembered Thos. Edison's Atttic's alternating weeks with Antique Phonograph, but I don't remember Surface Noise's doing so.
	8:51pm jon: that blind willie was great
	♥ 8:52pm Matt from Springfield: @Joe: Always happy to be a historian/archivist here! @Robert: If you look at the SN playlists link, you might be able to piece out the schedule based on when Joe's earliest shows aired.
	♥ 8:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - this set - I have not words. The real stuff.
	♥ 8:52pm Matt from Springfield: A Capella gospel!
	8:52pm Listener Robert: I remembered the acoustic-electric divide between MAC & R. Crumb, though.
	♥ 8:54pm Matt from Springfield: "Resort Vacations In Hell: A Travelogue"
	♥ 8:55pm Ken From Hyde Park: Poor Abe. I can picture him in the afterlife and all the people there are going "Come on, you don't belong here! You're not dead! It's just a rumor!"
	8:55pm JakeGould: Hell?
	♥ 8:55pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Hi Joe! Such a fun show.
	♥ 8:56pm Matt from Springfield: @Jake: HELL!!! At least that's what I heard..
	♥ 8:56pm Joe McG: Well, we took Abe to Hell, but now the Storm is over, and all will Rise! Thanks for listening, everybody! See some of you bright and early on Monday morning!
	8:56pm Listener Robert: Where was that he was recommending for eternity? I didn't catch the name, maybe he should've said it more.
	8:56pm bobdoesthings: there was a guy on my subway home tonight who preached like this for the last 7-8 stops.. I tuned him out mostly.. until he got to a part where he was naming all the other religions and said something like "THEY ARE ALL FALSE!" and I burst out with a chuckle.
	♥ 8:58pm Matt from Springfield: Thanks Joe! Great sets tonight!
	8:58pm JakeGould: @bobdoesthings: Someone is going to punch you for doing that. That someone will be named… Jesus1 Thanks for the show, Joe!
	8:59pm bobdoesthings: thanks joe!! @jake - my inner buddhahood will graciously accept my suffering
	♥ 8:59pm melinda: Thank you for the helpful, on-point sermon. Great show!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 26, 2016

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Palmer McAbee	McAbee's Railroad Piece	The Railroad in Folksong	RCA-Victor	1966	LP	From 1928		0:00:00 (Pop-up)

DeFord Bailey	Pan American Blues "Pan American Blues" by "DeFord Bailey"	Nashville: The Early String Bands, Volume 2	County	1976	LP	From 1928		0:08:20 (Pop-up)
Jimmie Rodgers	The Mystery of Number 5	The Singing Brakeman	Country Stars	2000	CD	From 1930		0:10:51 (Pop-up)
Red Gay & Jack Wellman	Flat Wheel Train Blues (Parts 1 and 2)	Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-1936	Tompkins Square	2012	LP	From 1930		0:14:17 (Pop-up)
Frank Hutchison	C&O Excursion "C&O Excursion" by "Frank Hutchison"	Worried Blues	JSP	2005	CD	From 1927		0:20:03 (Pop-up)

Sembannarkovil Ramaswamy Pillay	Sowrashtra-mangalam	Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record and Gramophone Collecting on the Sub-Continent	Sublime Frequencies	2016	CD	From 1910	*	0:27:41 (Pop-up)
Professor Barkatullah Khan	Indian Guitar Instrumental: Piloo	Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record and Gramophone Collecting on the Sub-Continent	Sublime Frequencies	2016	CD	From 1905; the "guitar" is a sitar	*	0:29:48 (Pop-up)
Brahma Sri T. Appadurai Aiyengar	Karaharapriya-Rupakam	Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record and Gramophone Collecting on the Sub-Continent	Sublime Frequencies	2016	CD	From 1908; "jalatharangam": water bowls	*	0:32:49 (Pop-up)
Nagamma and Sister	Lakshmi Saraswait samvada (surati)	Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record and Gramophone Collecting on the Sub-Continent	Sublime Frequencies	2016	CD	From 1910	*	0:35:27 (Pop-up)
Miss Gauhar Jan	Thoomri, Pahari Junjowti	Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record and Gramophone Collecting on the Sub-Continent	Sublime Frequencies	2016	CD	From 1906	*	0:38:22 (Pop-up)

Blind Willie Johnson	Lord I Just Can't Keep from Crying	The Complete Blind Willie Johnson	Columbia Legacy	1993	CD	From 1928; dedicated to Abe Vigoda		0:47:10 (Pop-up)
T.C.I. Womens Four	I Got a Home in That Rock	A Warrior on the Battlefield: A Capella 1920s-1940s	Rounder	1997	CD	From 1927		0:49:53 (Pop-up)
Black Billy Sunday	Will You Spend Eternity in Hell?	Blues Images Presents 20 Classic Blues from the 1920s - Vol. 13	Blues Images	2015	CD	Ha! A copy of this recently sold for $666!	*	0:52:22 (Pop-up)
Blind Joe Taggart	The Storm Is Passing Over	Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long	Mississippi	2008	LP	From 1927		0:55:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	8:02pm Rev. Turnip Druid: BOING!
	♥ 8:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Boing boing!
	8:03pm MONEYBAG$: I have missed those moon monsters every week since the schedule changed
	8:04pm Rev. Turnip Druid: …what the BAG$ said.
	8:05pm JakeGould: Yip!
	♥ 8:08pm common: i say yip!
	♥ 8:09pm Joe McG: Hey folks, hope you're having a nice evening. I'm here filling in for my pal MAC. Hope you'll stick with me as we listen to some country, some Indian sounds, and some blues/gospel.
	♥ 8:10pm Matt from Springfield: Old Timey Surface Noise! Hey Joe! Glad to be listening!
	♥ 8:10pm Matt from Springfield: I've heard "Pan American [Blues]" before, this is a legendary harmonica piece from the '20s. I love it!
	8:10pm JakeGould: Remember Abe Vigoda.
	♥ 8:11pm Ken From Hyde Park: I presume that MAC has an old-timey snowblower that's like ninety years old. It'll be a couple more days until his driveway is cleared out.
	♥ 8:11pm Joe McG: Ah, Jake, how can we forget him. I'll talk about that next mic break.
	8:12pm Listener Robert: The amazing thing about this little stn. is that so many of you, both at the mic & behind the guys at the mic, are so well versed in so many types of recorded matter & have such resources to draw on that you can do something like this.
	♥ 8:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: WFM- yodel-ay-ee UUU...
	♥ 8:13pm Matt from Springfield: @Ken HP: Like an old silent slapstick, it will probably be some big, tubey grammophone like contraption that won't start, and when it does, hardly moves through the snow. MAC will kick it, and then it will start zooming through the snow, chasing him...
	♥ 8:13pm Ike: Hello Joe!
	8:14pm Rev. Turnip Druid: A nice surprise, this fill-in. Rare that I can tune in at this hour. Somehow a couple of snow-days turned into extra hours via telework. But headphones bring salvation. And harmonicas.
	8:14pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Jeezus, it's like the full gang up in this joint. MY PEOPLE...
	8:14pm Listener Robert: I mean, could you imagine the sports talkers or irish-music DJs, for example, at WFUV taking over for Rich Conaty?
	♥ 8:15pm Matt from Springfield: REV! And REV RAB! And OTHERS!!
	♥ 8:15pm Joe McG: @Ken: Ha ha ha! Hey, Robert, Ike, RR63, Matt, Rev, Common, everybody!
	8:15pm Rev. Turnip Druid: JOE: got anything with a classic BASS harmonica way up front? I've been wanting one for ages but they're freakishly expensive. Love that sound.
	♥ 8:17pm Joe McG: @Rev: I LOVE that sound, too. If you think of one, let me know! Most harmonikeys from this era are more shrill in general because they were easier to record.
	8:18pm Listener Robert: Could you imagine the real estate advice guys subbing for Jerry Hickey to give dietary supplement info on WOR?
	8:20pm Listener Robert: Could you imagine anyone subbing for anyone else at WBAI, when half of them couldn't stand to be in the same room as the other half?
	♥ 8:20pm Joe McG: There have been a lot of crazy fill-ins lately. Therese was just here earlier this evening, Meghan was on for Trouble this morning, and Micah did Dr. Gameshow last night. Not to mention all the weekend shows!
	♥ 8:22pm Matt from Springfield: More locomotive harmonica! C&O, that's local to me! Canals, and railroads! :)
	♥ 8:26pm melinda: Nice to hear you in this time slot!
	♥ 8:26pm Matt from Springfield: Chesapeake & Ohio had quite a network (they in fact did connect w/ Chicago, among others). Great map of their many lines: en.wikipedia.org...
	8:27pm jon: nice. great playlist as always joe. evening noisy listeners
	♥ 8:27pm Matt from Springfield: Chennai-a Twain?! ;D
	♥ 8:28pm Joe McG: Hey melinda, nice to see you! Jon, thanks so much. Matt, it's great to see your little avatar on my playlist again!
	8:30pm JakeGould: @JoeMcG: In light of Abe Vigoda’s passing, I would like to pass along a sexy Halloween costume idea in hopes someone will be brave enough to attempt it. Ready? Here it is: Babe Vigoda!
	♥ 8:30pm Matt from Springfield: Century old Indian 78s! Amazing arty-facts! @Joe: Too often I stay up and enjoy Therese on my Mondays off, but I really need to get up early for SN sometimes! It's so much better live and commenting! :)
	♥ 8:31pm Joe McG: Jake, you're a sick man. I like it! @Matt: Would love to have you along, although I can see why your heart is with Therese. She's tops!
	♥ 8:32pm melinda: Love the Indian guitar w/scratchiness.
	♥ 8:33pm Joe McG: This guy playing the water bowls is amazing!
	8:33pm jon: wow. incredible sounds
	♥ 8:35pm Matt from Springfield: Water bowls!!
	♥ 8:37pm Joe McG: These sisters have such similar voices that you can hardly tell they are trading off lines....
	♥ 8:38pm Stevel: Joe McG in the eve! Always engaging.
	8:39pm JakeGould: Like this show. Always appreciate it when fill-in DJs make some effort to program material the regular audience would be into. Kudos!
	8:41pm bobdoesthings: whoah fill-in time
	♥ 8:42pm melinda: That was lovely.
	♥ 8:42pm Stevel: I'm no Gramophone nerd, but these seem like pretty sharp recordings from this time. Were they heavily remastered (or whatever nerdy word applies)? (I'm a nerd). I love the name at the end too.
	♥ 8:42pm Matt from Springfield: @Jake: Joe's original Surface Noise actually WAS this kind of material, one hour of old timey records, alternating every other week with MAC. The main difference being MAC is an acoustic recording purist, while Joe McG plays mainly early electrical recordings.
	8:42pm bobdoesthings: hare krishna everyone.
	♥ 8:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: How far back into Indian Music would it have sounded about the same? Couple thousand years?
	♥ 8:43pm Matt from Springfield: Hare Hare! bob! Wow! Miss Gauhar JAAN even has a Wiki! en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 8:45pm Stevel: I'm always learning great WFMU history. The Wiki is worth it for the photo alone. In the studio, I'd guess.
	8:46pm JakeGould: www.abevigoda.com
	8:46pm bobdoesthings: isabevigodadead.com
	♥ 8:46pm melinda: I read 94 too.
	♥ 8:47pm Matt from Springfield: Yes, 2016 is stacking up to be another 2012, in famous people's deaths. Wow, there have been false reports of Abe's death ever since '82!
	♥ 8:47pm melinda: I wonder if anyone will play the Barney Miller theme.
	8:47pm MONEYBAG$: Abe appeared onstage with Phish a couple of years ago, dressed in a wombat costume
	8:47pm JakeGould: @bobdoesthings: I prefer “www.abevigoda.com” because it’s simply his status. It was respectful of his life as well as death.
	♥ 8:48pm Joe McG: @Matt: Very nice summary of my original show! @Stevel: The British and Indian engineers were doing amazing things in the teens in India, yes!
	8:48pm bobdoesthings: @jake - ah, nice distinction. yes.
	8:48pm MONEYBAG$: Brian Turner played some Barney Miller theme earlier
	8:49pm JakeGould: Whoa! That website I linked to has a remix of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” for Abe Vigoda. www.abevigoda.com...
	8:49pm bobdoesthings: undead undead undead
	8:50pm Listener Robert: Interesting, Matt -- I remembered Thos. Edison's Atttic's alternating weeks with Antique Phonograph, but I don't remember Surface Noise's doing so.
	8:51pm jon: that blind willie was great
	♥ 8:52pm Matt from Springfield: @Joe: Always happy to be a historian/archivist here! @Robert: If you look at the SN playlists link, you might be able to piece out the schedule based on when Joe's earliest shows aired.
	♥ 8:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - this set - I have not words. The real stuff.
	♥ 8:52pm Matt from Springfield: A Capella gospel!
	8:52pm Listener Robert: I remembered the acoustic-electric divide between MAC & R. Crumb, though.
	♥ 8:54pm Matt from Springfield: "Resort Vacations In Hell: A Travelogue"
	♥ 8:55pm Ken From Hyde Park: Poor Abe. I can picture him in the afterlife and all the people there are going "Come on, you don't belong here! You're not dead! It's just a rumor!"
	8:55pm JakeGould: Hell?
	♥ 8:55pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Hi Joe! Such a fun show.
	♥ 8:56pm Matt from Springfield: @Jake: HELL!!! At least that's what I heard..
	♥ 8:56pm Joe McG: Well, we took Abe to Hell, but now the Storm is over, and all will Rise! Thanks for listening, everybody! See some of you bright and early on Monday morning!
	8:56pm Listener Robert: Where was that he was recommending for eternity? I didn't catch the name, maybe he should've said it more.
	8:56pm bobdoesthings: there was a guy on my subway home tonight who preached like this for the last 7-8 stops.. I tuned him out mostly.. until he got to a part where he was naming all the other religions and said something like "THEY ARE ALL FALSE!" and I burst out with a chuckle.
	♥ 8:58pm Matt from Springfield: Thanks Joe! Great sets tonight!
	8:58pm JakeGould: @bobdoesthings: Someone is going to punch you for doing that. That someone will be named… Jesus1 Thanks for the show, Joe!
	8:59pm bobdoesthings: thanks joe!! @jake - my inner buddhahood will graciously accept my suffering
	♥ 8:59pm melinda: Thank you for the helpful, on-point sermon. Great show!

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