My Kind of Tri

From the desk of Peter Crowley:

 

Today being race day for the 11th annual Ironman triathlon in Lake Placid, I avoided my next-door-neighbor village as if two tons of plague-bearing rats had just airdropped there. Not that triathletes are anything like rats - I have no quarrel with the former and hate the latter - but 2,500 Ironpeople plus friends, family and support staff means somewhere between 7,000 to 10,000 bodies, plus thousands of regular old tourists, added to Lake Placid's 3,000 or so year-round residents. I know, that's small change for you city folks, but it's a lot for us small-towners.

 

For that reason, I had pretty much dismissed the notion of playing triathlon songs. But then the ideas started flowing, and I realized how good the songs were and how well they fit the theme ... and I was off to the races.

 

Mind you, the Ten Dollar Radio Triathlon that takes up the first hour of this show is no Ironman. It requires jeans instead of spandex, beer instead of Gatorade. The Swim is a dance, a bike wheel is on fire, and a fair bit of the running involves ladies - or chickens with their heads cut off.

 

The tempo stays brisk for the TenDoR-Tri after-party until it eases into a rather beautiful fatigue in the last half-hour. Enjoy.

 

The Ten Dollar Radio Show - sounds like a relaxed champion and plays for free.

 

This week's playlist:

 

The Race Is On - George Jones

SWIM - Sly & The Family Stone

Lightnin's Stroke - Lightnin' Hopkins

I'm a Wheel - Wilco

Wheels, No Engines - Awesome New Republic

This Wheel's on Fire (live 1969) - The Byrds

(I'm a) Roadrunner - Junior Walker & The All-Stars

Road Runner - The Rolling Stones

Run, Run, Run - The Gestures

Run Chicken Run - The Felice Brothers

Running Man - Galactic

The Running Kind - Johnny Cash and Tom Petty

Run on for a Long Time - Blind Boys of Alabama

Run Thru - My Morning Jacket

Looking Tired - The Rolling Stones

The End of Our Road - Marvin Gaye

Zombieland - T-Bone Burnett

Baltimore Is the New Brooklyn - JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound

(Doin' the) Boom Boom - Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves

Xanax and Wine - U2

Tower of Song - The Jesus & Mary Chain

Fine and Mellow - Billie Holliday

Overtime - Lucinda Williams and Willie Nelson

Hey Old Man - King Wilkie

Crazy Daisy - King Wilkie

Rockabye - King Wilkie

Try Again - Big Star

The Man I Keep Hid - Joe Henry

West Palm Beach - Palace Music

Gulf Shores - Palace Music

 

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