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DREAMERS THEN AND NOW: ERIC ANDERSEN & SAMANTHA FISH
We explore the world of daydreams, nostalgia, fantasy and future selves. Time travel with songwriting scenester Eric Andersen back to his days hanging with the Beats at City Lights bookstore and Greenwich Village’s folk music scene, train-riding across Canada with Janis Joplin, Buddy Guy and the Grateful Dead and tripping out on music and hallucinogens. Sit in with youthful blues guitar-slinger Samantha Fish for an in-studio performance and conversation as she waxes political and poetic about the “American Dream” and tells of growing up in Kansas City pursuing her childhood dream to take the stage. And hear moon-eyed romantic numbers from Bobby Darin and Patsy Cline and riverine reveries from Lee Dorsey and Roy Orbison.
HOUR ONE
- Open bed: I Shall Go Unbounded Eric Anderson
'Bout Changes 'n' Things Take 2, Vanguard - Blue River Eric Andersen and Joni Mitchell
Blue River, Columbia - Woodstock Darlingside with Heather Maloney
Woodstock, Signature Sounds Recordings - Violets of Dawn The Blues Project
Back Door Man/Violets of Dawn, Verve Folkways - Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde, Columbia - Chauffeur Blues Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off 1965, RCA - Instrumental: Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From? Hot Tuna
The Phosphorescent Rat, Grunt - Segment: Eric Andersen
Listen - Me and My Bobby McGee The Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead Skill & Roses, Warner Brothers - (Try) Just a Little Bit Harder Janis Joplin
I Got Dem Ol' Kizmic Blues Again, Columbia - Instrumental: Dream of the Origins of the French Broad River John Fahey
Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years 1958-1965, Dust-to-Digital - Save Some Time to Dream John Cougar Mellencamp
No Better Than This, Rounder - Walkin' After Midnight Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline, Decca - Dream Lover Bobby Darin
Dream Lover/Bullmoose, ATCO - Dream a Little Dream of Me Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Dream a Little Dream of Me/ Can Anyone Explain, Decca - Closing Bed: Sleep Walk Santo and Johnny
Santo & Johnny, Canadian-American Records
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Gone for Good Samantha Fish
Belle of the West, Ruf - Write Me a Few of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues Bonnie Raitt
Takin' My Time, Warner Brothers - Pearline Son House
Legendary Son House Father of Folk Blues, Columbia - Blood in the Water Samantha Fish
Paste Sessions 2017, Ruf Records - Ode to Billie Joe Tammy Wynette
Take Me to Your World/I Don’t Wanna Play House, Epic - You Are My Sunshine Ray Charles
You Are My Sunshine, ABC-Paramount - Instrumental: Jim Lee Blues Pt. 1 Samantha Fish
Wild Heart, Ruf Records - Segment: Samantha Fish
Listen - Instrumental: Blues on Purpose Nina Simone
I Put a Spell on You, Philips - I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl Nina Simone
The Very Best of Nina Simone, 1967-1972: Sugar in My Bowl, Sony - Either Way I Lose Samantha Fish
Chills & Fever, Ruf - Belle of the West Samantha Fish
Belle of the West, Ruf - River Boat Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey- Soul Mine: The Greatest Hits & More 1960-1978, Charly - Walkin' to Louisiana Clifton Chenier
Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie - Blue Bayou Roy Orbison
In Dreams, Monument - Closing Bed: Aloha Golden Meadow Lost Bayou Ramblers
Kalenda, Rice Pump
