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From: Vin Scelsa
Subject: The Songs I Played -- 1/5/97
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 06:03:47 -0500
There are three essential Commandments:
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
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These are the songs I played on WNEW-FM / NY on "IDIOT'S
DELIGHT"--1/5/97:
On New Year's Day, January 1, 1997 a great songwriter and a dear old
friend,
TOWNES VAN ZANDT, died at his home in Tennessee. I spent the first
3-plus
hours of tonight's show paying tribute to Townes, playing his music,
reminiscing, and celebrating his life.
PETER FALK The "companero" scene from Wim Wenders' "Wing Of Desire"
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold
(tape from the December 7, 1991 "In Their Own Words" show that I did
with
Townes at The Bottom Line in New York; including my "Mt. Rushmore"
reference
to Townes, Guy Clark and Jerry Jeff Walker)
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Tower Song
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Dead Flowers
(the old Rolling Stones song which Townes often performed -- "And I
won't
forget to put roses on your grave ...")
TOWNES VAN ZANDT No Lonesome Tune
EMMYLOU HARRIS w/DON WILLIAMS If I Needed You
TOWNES VAN ZANDT If I Needed You
I then spent a lengthy period of time talking about Townes and some of
the
adventures I shared with him back in the late-60s / early-70s.
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Waiting Around To Die
(tape from the December 7, 1991 "In Their Own Words" show that I did
with
Townes at The Bottom Line in New York; including a discussion about
Townes'
family and how this song came to be written)
TOWNES VAN ZANDT No Place To Fall
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Quicksilver Dreams Of Maria
NANCI GRIFFITH w/ARLO GUTHRIE Tecumseh Valley
STEVE EARLE Tecumseh Valley
I spoke on the phone with songwriter and friend GREG TROOPER who lives
in
Nashville and attended the Sunday afternoon memorial service that was
held for
Townes at the Belmont Church there. Greg reported that many of Townes'
songwriting and musician friends spoke and performed his songs at the
very
emotional event including Guy Clark, Susannah Clark, Steve Earle, Nanci
Griffith, Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris.
GREG TROOPER Every Single Day
(a sad and beautiful song about the lose of a loved one)
COWBOY JUNKIES The Cowboy Junkies Lament
TOWNES VAN ZANDT The Cowboy Junkies Lament
(tape from the December 7, 1991 "In Their Own Words" show that I did
with
Townes at The Bottom Line in New York; including Townes telling how he
came to
write the song for them while touring with them)
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Blaze's Blues
COWBOY JUNKIES Townes Blues
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Rex's Blues
GUY CLARK w/EMMYLOU HARRIS To Live Is To Fly
EMMYLOU HARRIS Pancho & Lefty
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Pancho & Lefty (version without horns)
HANK WILLIAMS I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
(Hank Williams also died on a New Year's Day, January 1. 1953)
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Pancho & Lefty (version with horns)
JONELL MOSSER Nothin'
TOWNES VAN ZANDT The Hole
JIMMIE DALE GILMORE & MUDHONEY Buckskin Stallion Blues
JERRY JEFF WALKER I'll Be Here In The Morning
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Snowin' On Raton
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Colorado Girl
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Our Mother The Mountain
TOWNES VAN ZANDT None But The Rain
JONELL MOSSER & JOHN HALL Tower Song
(tape of live performance on the show in September of '96; Jonell
released an
entire album of Townes' songs in 1996 entitled "Around Townes")
TOWNES VAN ZANDT For The Sake Of The Song
At this point I began to work back into the show, playing other artists
and
talking about other subjects, but Townes' spirit and the sadness over
his
passing continued to infuse the show and color my other musical
selections. I
don't think the show was morose, but I certainly felt a profound sense
of lose
and the musical atmosphere stayed fairly melancholy.
DONOVAN Nirvana
PATTI SMITH Beneath The Southern Cross
THE BAND Whispering Pines
JIMMY SMITH What A Wonderful World
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Sweet Old World
BOB DYLAN World Gone Wrong
LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS Death Bells
BESSIE SMITH Any Woman's Blues
MARTIN ZELLAR & THE HARDWAYS Haunt My Dreams
AMY RIGBY Down Side Of Love
KATE CAMPBELL Waiting For The Weather To Break
DOUG HOEKSTRA Cottonwood Tree
LOU REED Hang On To Your Emotions
KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE Hang Out Your Heart
JERRY DOUGLAS & PETER ROWAN When You And I Were Young, Maggie
DIRE STRAITS Tunnel Of Love
MARTIN ZELLAR & THE HARDWAYS Haunt My Dreams (again)
LOU REED Dirty Boulevard
RANDY NEWMAN Dixie Flyer
(these are both live radio performances on KGSR in Austin and appear on
"Broadcasts Vol. 4" -- the current KGSR live performance CD featuring
numerous
artists who have appeared on that station in the last year)
MERRIE AMSTERBURG This Will Never Be My Year
MERRIE AMSTERBURG This Will Never Be My Year (again, 'cause it's so
good!)
THE BEATIFICS Something/Anything?
GEORGE HARRISON What Is Life?
THE BEATIFICS This Years Jessica
THE BEATLES You Won't See Me
WILCO Outta Sight (Outta Mind)
PAUL WESTERBERG Love Untold
WILCO Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
(doesn't the intro to this version sound just like the intro to TV's
"Sesame
Street" theme?)
MUNDY Pardon Me (UK import)
TRAFFIC Paper Sun
KULA SHAKER Into The Deep
JOE HENRY Trampoline
BRUCE COCKBURN The Charity Of Night (advance release)
GIDON KREMER Oblivion (Astor Piazzolla composition)
"ROUND MIDNIGHT" film soundtrack Round Midnight
(performed by Bobby McFerrin, Herbie Hancock. Ron Carter and Tony
Williams)
JONI MITCHELL Slouching Towards Bethlehem
(Joni's musical setting of the W.B.Yeats poem)
JACKIE LEVEN Some Ancient Misty Morning
GREG BROWN Two Little Feet
TINA TURNER & BARRY WHITE In Your Wildest Dreams
JOHN MARTYN Sunshine's Better (UK import)
MERRIE AMSTERBURG Say Good-bye
EMMYLOU HARRIS Goodbye
DAN BERN Live Another Day
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Racing In The Streets (Springsteen song)
TOWNES VAN ZANDT No Place To Fall
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended at approximately 3:40 AM.
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