WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 2, 2018

Listener comments!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Helloooooooooooo!!!
	10:06pm Jeff Ash: Why, hello again, sir!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Fancy seeing you here!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: It seems like it was only this afternoon...
	10:09pm little danny: Hey Larry, hey all
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: I really feel like I ought to be drinking something stronger than lemon seltzer.
	10:10pm Jeff Ash: That NF Porter finisher still pleasantly rattling around in my head.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: Such a great record!
	10:16pm still b/p: In a few months of using this phone and its keypads and corrects and weird-ass behaviors, I’ve come to harbor a hot hot hate for it. The first comment I was trying and retrying to type, I gave up on.... and almost this one too. This is my testimony.
	10:17pm Little Danny: Such a pitch-perfect encapsulation of the UK mod blues aesthetic, that Right Track compilation
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP, my large thumbs are perpetually at war with my iPhone.
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Yeah, that's one that I had to pick up even though I had a bunch of it on vinyl already, Really well done
	10:24pm Parq: Hi, Larry. Welcome back. (Or should you say that to me?) In the interim, I listened to Drummer-Stream alum Matt Fiveash's birthday tribute to Little Walter, so it's a blues evening.
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: I want to check that out. Love Little Walter!
	10:39pm Little Danny: Annnnd "Dark Was the Night..." was the inspiring force behind Ry Cooder's soundtrack to "Paris, Texas"
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: I did not know that!
	10:48pm Parq: Was Dave Van Ronk the coolest human being ever to walk the face of the earth? I say he's definitely in the running.
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: I would certainly put him up there. Have you read his autobiography?
	10:50pm Parq: No, I didn't even know he had done one! Post a link if you've got it handy.
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: www.amazon.com...
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: It's amazing.
	10:55pm Jeff Ash: Dave Van Ronk used to play a dive bar in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a couple of times a year when I was going to college there in the late '70s. I confess I had no idea who he was at the time.
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: i never got to see him in person, much to my great regret.
	10:59pm Jeff Ash: I never saw him, either. It seemed like a place, and a gig, I just wasn't cool enough to be part of it.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: I missed out on some cool things for the very same reason. I don't think we had to worry.
	11:01pm Doctorjazz: I saw Van Ronkonkoma in some Village dive years back, though I don't think I knew much more about him than he was somehow connected to Dylan.
	11:02pm Doctorjazz: Van Ronkonkoma, like that spell check error!
	11:02pm Funky16Corners: One of the problems is that the stylistic breadth of his career has not been well served by reissues.
	11:06pm Doctorjazz: Missed the first half of the show, it was a goodn, have to check it out Tomorrow. Love his Clouds take! What a great/bad voice, love it!
	11:08pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I love to play this for people. It's so emotional, and so different from most of the famous versions.
	11:08pm Doctorjazz: He always sounds like he's battling his vocal cords to hit his notes, but he gets it right in the end.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: The sound of whiskey and cigarettes
	11:14pm rw: Hey! Just got here. Damn, I missed a lot.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: Hey rw!
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: Listen to the lyrics on this one
	11:16pm rw: Did hear most of Clouds. Man, that version is amazing.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, a big fave
	11:22pm Doctorjazz: Take that, Jim Morrison!
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: Brecht/Weill is one of my personal obsessions. Some night I'm going yo let it rip here on Testify
	11:26pm Doctorjazz: I think I need this album...
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: I think you can still find it around. I love it.
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: This is one of those CDs that I lost between apartments and had to repurchase
	11:29pm northguineahills: Well, I made it! Good to hear you again, twice in the same day!
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH! Good to be heard!
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: In case anyone from out of the area is wondering what's going on, these are all New Jersey town names
	11:31pm Doctorjazz: Yup, it's in my Amazon carr
	11:37pm northguineahills: How am I not familiar w/ Van Ronk? (although I believe I've heard Garden State Stomp before on WFMU).
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: I guess it depends on your proximity to/interest in the NYC folk scene of the early 60s, from whence he emerged
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: Or if you'd seen Inside Llewyn Davis which borrows a lot of his life
	11:44pm Dean: Van Ronk gets a lot of play on a longstanding KPFA folk music show, Across the Great Divide. (Kate Wolf, props!) Just played a bunch of Jimmy LaFave at home tonight. Would love to hear him on WFMU now and then.
	11:45pm Doctorjazz: The retooled hip Darin.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: It always amazes me that there's only 6 or seven years between that stuff and Splish Splash
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Just checked, more like 9 years
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Still, a pretty big spread
	11:46pm northguineahills: That's the problem, Larry, I know and own plenty of the artists Greenwich Village folk scene, and have biographies. How did I miss him???
	11:47pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry, I'm out!
	11:47pm Dean: And very happy to hear Testify! twice in a day!
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: Nite Jeff!
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Dean!
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - I don't know. I guess he was kindof left behind by history, but there's a lot of stuff out there. Unfortunately the only career spanning collection was put out in 1992 on a really small label
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: I also posted a link above to his autobiography, 'The Mayor of Macdougal Street. A great read.
	11:54pm Doctorjazz: Thanks Larry, great show! Isn't Testifying twice some kind of Double Jeopardy? Night all!
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Nite Doc!
	11:55pm northguineahills: One of my favorite covers of Down By the River is by Low. This one hits well too. Thanks for the link, Larry, and if I don't get back in time, thanks for the double duty today!
	11:58pm Dean: I'm pretty sure that "White Summer" is taken from a public domain folk tune.
	11:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks NGH!
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: It is indeed, as were the other twp songs I mentioned, but Page picked them right out of Jansch's basket
	11:59pm rw: Thank you F16C! Sleep well tonight. You deserve it!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Nite rw! I will sleep well tonight!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 2, 2018

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May 2, 2018: The Rhythm and The Blues In Many Forms

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
Jimmy McCracklin	The Walk "The Walk" by "Jimmy McCracklin"	Get On the Right Track Baby	Fantastic Voyage	1958	CD
The Megatons	Shimmy Shimmy Walk "Shimmy Shimmy Walk" by "The Megatons"	Get On the Right Track Baby	Fantastic Voyage	1962	CD
Elmore James	Shake You Moneymaker	Get On the Right Track Baby	Fantastic Voyage	1962	CD
John Lee Hooker	Dimples "Dimples" by "John Lee Hooker"	Get On the Right Track Baby	Fantastic Voyage	1964	CD
Muddy Waters	You Need Love "You Need Love" by "Muddy Waters"	Get on the Right Track Baby	Fantastic Voyage	1962	CD

Blind Lemon Jefferson	Matchbox Blues	Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta and Chicago 1926	Proper Box UK	1927	CD
Blind Lemon Jefferson	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean	Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta and Chicago 1926	Proper Box UK	1928	CD
Blind Willie McTell	Stomp Down Rider	The Definitive Blind Wilie McTell	Columbia	1931	CD
Riley Puckett	A Darkey's Wail "A Darkey's Wail" by "Riley Puckett"	A Darkey's Wail	Sony	1927	CD
Blind Willie Johnson	If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down	Dark Was the Night	Columbia	1928	CD
Blind Willie Johnson	Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground	Dark Was the Night	Columbia	1928	CD

Dave Van Ronk	Come Back Baby "Come Back Baby" by "Dave Van Ronk"	Folksinger	Prestige	1962	LP
Dave Van Ronk	Dink's Song "Dink's Song" by "Dave Van Ronk"	Dave Van Ronk Sings	Folkways	1961	LP
Dave Van Ronk	Cocaine Blues "Cocaine Blues" by "Dave Van Ronk"	Folksinger	Prestige	1962	LP
Dave Van Ronk	Talking Cancer Blues	Inside Dave Van Ronk	Prestige	1964	LP

Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	Alley Oop	Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	Verve	1967	LP
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	Chelsea Morning	Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	Verve	1967	LP
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	Head Inspector	Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	Verve	1967	LP
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	New Dreams	Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	Verve	1967	LP
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	Clouds (Both Sides Now)	Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters	Verve	1967	LP
Dave Van Ronk	Hesitation Blues "Hesitation Blues" by "Dave Van Ronk"	Dave Van Ronk Sings	Folkways	1961	LP
Dave Van Ronk	Just a Closer Walk With Thee	Dave Van Ronk Sings	Folkways	1961	LP
Dave Van Ronk	Sunday Street "Sunday Street" by "Dave Van Ronk"	Sunday Street	Philo	1999	CD
Dave Van Ronk and Frankie Armstrong	Alabama Song	Let No One Deceive You - Songs of Bertolt Brecht	Aural Tradition	1989	CD
Dave Van Ronk and Frankie Armstrong	Tango Ballad	Let No One Deceive You - Songs of Bertolt Brecht	Aural Tradition	1989	CD
Dave Van Ronk	Garden State Stomp "Garden State Stomp" by "Dave Van Ronk"	Going Back to Brooklyn	Reckless	1985	CD

Bobby Darin	If I Were a Carpenter	If I Were a Carpenter	Atlantic	1966	CD
Bobby Darin	Don't Make Promises "Don't Make Promises" by "Bobby Darin"	If I Were a Carpenter	Atlantic	1966	CD
Bobby Darin	Me About You "Me About You" by "Bobby Darin"	Inside Out	Atlantic	1967	LP
Bobby Darin	Darling Be Home Soon "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin"	Inside Out	Atlantic	1967	LP
Bert Jansch	Poison "Poison" by "Bert Jansch"	Birthday Blues	Transatlantic	1969	LP
The Yardbirds	White Summer "White Summer" by "The Yardbirds"	Little Games	Epic	1967	LP
Roy Buchanan	Down By the River "Down By the River" by "Roy Buchanan"	45RPM Single	Atlantic	1978	45

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45

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Listener comments!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Helloooooooooooo!!!
	10:06pm Jeff Ash: Why, hello again, sir!
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Fancy seeing you here!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: It seems like it was only this afternoon...
	10:09pm little danny: Hey Larry, hey all
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: I really feel like I ought to be drinking something stronger than lemon seltzer.
	10:10pm Jeff Ash: That NF Porter finisher still pleasantly rattling around in my head.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: Such a great record!
	10:16pm still b/p: In a few months of using this phone and its keypads and corrects and weird-ass behaviors, I’ve come to harbor a hot hot hate for it. The first comment I was trying and retrying to type, I gave up on.... and almost this one too. This is my testimony.
	10:17pm Little Danny: Such a pitch-perfect encapsulation of the UK mod blues aesthetic, that Right Track compilation
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP, my large thumbs are perpetually at war with my iPhone.
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Yeah, that's one that I had to pick up even though I had a bunch of it on vinyl already, Really well done
	10:24pm Parq: Hi, Larry. Welcome back. (Or should you say that to me?) In the interim, I listened to Drummer-Stream alum Matt Fiveash's birthday tribute to Little Walter, so it's a blues evening.
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: I want to check that out. Love Little Walter!
	10:39pm Little Danny: Annnnd "Dark Was the Night..." was the inspiring force behind Ry Cooder's soundtrack to "Paris, Texas"
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: I did not know that!
	10:48pm Parq: Was Dave Van Ronk the coolest human being ever to walk the face of the earth? I say he's definitely in the running.
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: I would certainly put him up there. Have you read his autobiography?
	10:50pm Parq: No, I didn't even know he had done one! Post a link if you've got it handy.
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: www.amazon.com...
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: It's amazing.
	10:55pm Jeff Ash: Dave Van Ronk used to play a dive bar in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a couple of times a year when I was going to college there in the late '70s. I confess I had no idea who he was at the time.
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: i never got to see him in person, much to my great regret.
	10:59pm Jeff Ash: I never saw him, either. It seemed like a place, and a gig, I just wasn't cool enough to be part of it.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: I missed out on some cool things for the very same reason. I don't think we had to worry.
	11:01pm Doctorjazz: I saw Van Ronkonkoma in some Village dive years back, though I don't think I knew much more about him than he was somehow connected to Dylan.
	11:02pm Doctorjazz: Van Ronkonkoma, like that spell check error!
	11:02pm Funky16Corners: One of the problems is that the stylistic breadth of his career has not been well served by reissues.
	11:06pm Doctorjazz: Missed the first half of the show, it was a goodn, have to check it out Tomorrow. Love his Clouds take! What a great/bad voice, love it!
	11:08pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I love to play this for people. It's so emotional, and so different from most of the famous versions.
	11:08pm Doctorjazz: He always sounds like he's battling his vocal cords to hit his notes, but he gets it right in the end.
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: The sound of whiskey and cigarettes
	11:14pm rw: Hey! Just got here. Damn, I missed a lot.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: Hey rw!
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: Listen to the lyrics on this one
	11:16pm rw: Did hear most of Clouds. Man, that version is amazing.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, a big fave
	11:22pm Doctorjazz: Take that, Jim Morrison!
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: Brecht/Weill is one of my personal obsessions. Some night I'm going yo let it rip here on Testify
	11:26pm Doctorjazz: I think I need this album...
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: I think you can still find it around. I love it.
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: This is one of those CDs that I lost between apartments and had to repurchase
	11:29pm northguineahills: Well, I made it! Good to hear you again, twice in the same day!
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH! Good to be heard!
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: In case anyone from out of the area is wondering what's going on, these are all New Jersey town names
	11:31pm Doctorjazz: Yup, it's in my Amazon carr
	11:37pm northguineahills: How am I not familiar w/ Van Ronk? (although I believe I've heard Garden State Stomp before on WFMU).
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: I guess it depends on your proximity to/interest in the NYC folk scene of the early 60s, from whence he emerged
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: Or if you'd seen Inside Llewyn Davis which borrows a lot of his life
	11:44pm Dean: Van Ronk gets a lot of play on a longstanding KPFA folk music show, Across the Great Divide. (Kate Wolf, props!) Just played a bunch of Jimmy LaFave at home tonight. Would love to hear him on WFMU now and then.
	11:45pm Doctorjazz: The retooled hip Darin.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: It always amazes me that there's only 6 or seven years between that stuff and Splish Splash
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Just checked, more like 9 years
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Still, a pretty big spread
	11:46pm northguineahills: That's the problem, Larry, I know and own plenty of the artists Greenwich Village folk scene, and have biographies. How did I miss him???
	11:47pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry, I'm out!
	11:47pm Dean: And very happy to hear Testify! twice in a day!
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: Nite Jeff!
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Dean!
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - I don't know. I guess he was kindof left behind by history, but there's a lot of stuff out there. Unfortunately the only career spanning collection was put out in 1992 on a really small label
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: I also posted a link above to his autobiography, 'The Mayor of Macdougal Street. A great read.
	11:54pm Doctorjazz: Thanks Larry, great show! Isn't Testifying twice some kind of Double Jeopardy? Night all!
	11:55pm Funky16Corners: Nite Doc!
	11:55pm northguineahills: One of my favorite covers of Down By the River is by Low. This one hits well too. Thanks for the link, Larry, and if I don't get back in time, thanks for the double duty today!
	11:58pm Dean: I'm pretty sure that "White Summer" is taken from a public domain folk tune.
	11:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks NGH!
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: It is indeed, as were the other twp songs I mentioned, but Page picked them right out of Jansch's basket
	11:59pm rw: Thank you F16C! Sleep well tonight. You deserve it!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Nite rw! I will sleep well tonight!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 2, 2018

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