Muldaur and More

From the desk of Peter Crowley:

Geoff Muldaur has been a blues singer/guitarist, jug band revivalist, film score arranger, chamber music writer, birder and Prairie Home Companion. Now he's been on the Ten Dollar Radio Show, too. Quite a career.

Seriously, though, the wonderful Mr. Muldaur, who will perform at Saranac Lake's Bluseed Studios this coming Sunday at 7:30 p.m., covered some interesting ground in a 23-minute phone interview May 13. He was in California, and I was at my desk at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, our local newspaper, which on Thursday published a pared-down version of the Q&A in its Weekender section and a longer version online. But first I aired the entire interview, completely unedited, here in Ten Dollarland. He quizzed me on acid rain (on which I sputtered and probably got all my facts wrong), and I quizzed him on loving small towns more than his hometown (L.A.) and why he's playing places like Saranac Lake these days. By the way, he thinks the "golden era" of American music is long gone and that the last half-century has been a desert of musical creativity. Oh, well - I still find plenty of great stuff to play on this show ...

... like the funky (skippy, too) lead cut from George Harrison's "Thirty-Three & 1/3" album, back-to-back bass fiddles from Slim Gaillard and King Wilkie, and new songs from T-Bird & The Breaks, Scott H. Biram, Leatherbag, Bob Dylan, Conor Oberst, Neil Halstead, Jeffrey Foucault, Wayne "The Train" Hancock and my man Ramblin' Jack.

Keep your dial tuned here: Geoff Muldaur plans to do a studio session with me after his gig. If it comes together, it'll air the following Sunday, May 31. 

He's a good writer, too. To know him better, click here and read a narrative he posted on his Web site in December.

You heard it all here on the Ten Dollar Radio Show - sounds like the golden era of American music and plays for free.

The evil robots are hungry again; they ate an entire computer here in the Rock 105 mothership, so this podcast is posted four days late. Sorry.

This week's playlist:

 

Never Swat a Fly - Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me - Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band

Wild About My Loving - Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band

--Interview with Geoff Muldaur--

Woman Don't You Cry for Me - George Harrison

Shackles and Chains - T-Bird & The Breaks

Ain't It a Shame - Scott H. Biram

Caroline - Leatherbag

Ohio River Boat Song - Palace Music

I Feel a Change Coming On - Bob Dylan

Hang on Little Tomato - Pink Martini

Nikorette - Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band

You Are the Glue - Neil Halstead

Souvenirs - Jeffrey Foucault

Golden Rocket - Hank Snow

Freight Train Boogie - Wayne "The Train" Hancock

All Been Planned (Pat Tillman) - David Was and Wayne Kramer

White Line (live, Fort Worth, Texas, 11/10/76) - Neil Young

Richland Woman Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Poor Elijah-Tribute to John (live) - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

Struttin with Some Barbecue - Louis Armstrong

Bassology - Slim Gaillard

Tale of Woe (recorded in the Ten Dollar Radio studio) - King Wilkie

I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water - The Cats & the Fiddle

Milk Fever - Work Boots

Parkin' Lot Pickin' Party - Jody Kramer and Co. Live

As always:

-On the air: 102.1 or 105.5 FM in the Adirondacks, 6 to 8 p.m. Sundays

-On the Web: www.tendollarradioshow.com

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