The Songs Vin Played for 09/28/2002

     Respect The Elders.
     Embrace The New.
     Encourage The Impractical and Improbable,
     Without Bias.
                                                       -  David Fricke

These are the songs I played on
Vin Scelsa's IDIOT'S DELIGHT®

These are the songs I played on member supported 90.7 FM  WFUV in  New York
on VIN SCELSA'S IDIOT'S DELIGHT®  - 9/28/02 - Saturday, 8 PM to Midnight

SATURDAY,  SEPTEMBER 28,  2002  -  8 PM-12 Midnight:

The "Cool Blue Halo Over Rose Hill" Edition of Idiot's Delight

They tell us that the world is about to end
I tell you that it won't, my friend ...

    - Richard Barone and Tony Visconti, "Yet Another Midnight"

Constant noise!
It's the new religion
It's the opium of the masses ...

    - Richard Barone and Mike Thorn, "Opium Of The Masses"

JACK McDUFF   Walking The Dog   (opening theme)

ROD STEWART   Maggie May
SUZANNE VEGA   (I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May
TOM CLARK & THE HIGH ACTION BOYS   Small Town,
                                                                            New Semester
JENIFER JACKSON   Since You've Been Away   (pre-release)
MIA DOI TODD   Autumn
THE JAYHAWKS   Take Me With You (When You Go)

WILL KIMBROUGH   This Modern World
SLOBBERBONE   Springfield, IL.
THE SOFT BOYS   Sudden Town
(yes, they've reunited for a new album!)
SIMON & GARFUNKEL   My Little Town
RANDY NEWMAN   Dixie Flyer
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE   rejoyce
MIA DOI TODD   Digital
MIKE DOUGHTY   True Dreams Of Wichita
RYAN ADAMS   Tennessee Sucks

ROBYN HITCHCOCK   4th Time Around   (Bob Dylan)

RICHARD BARONE  - performance and conversation

A mainstay of the independent New York music scene since his days as a founding member of the legendary Bongos in the early 1980s, Richard is a composer, guitarist and vocalist of rare sensibility and unique vision.  He's the music director of the annual "Downtown Messiah" (which is aired live on WFUV and will be nationally syndicated this year via Public Radio International), has composed for theater and film, and has lately been collaborating with Tony Visconti, the man acclaimed for his production work with early David Bowie and T. Rex.  Richard will be appearing at Joe's Pub on Friday October 4.

Richard Barone - lead vocal, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Lisa Haney - cello
Johnny Rodgers - keyboard, backing vocal, percussion

RICHARD BARONE   (live)   Yet Another Midnight
RICHARD BARONE   (live)   Opium Of The Masses
RICHARD BARONE   (live)   Clouds Over Eden

RICHARD BARONE   (live)   Silent Symphony
RICHARD BARONE   (live)   Silence Is Our Song
(cowritten with Paul Williams)

THE SNAILS   Shopping Mall Queen
(cassette recording of  Richard's high school band in the late 1970s)
THE BONGOS   Numbers With Wings
THE BONGOS   The Bulrushes

RICHARD BARONE   (live)   Gravity's Pull
RICHARD BARONE   (live)   Barbarella

"After Richard"

TIM BUCKLEY   Morning Glory
BECK   The Golden Age
LUNA   Renee Is Crying
THE VENTURES   Telstar
BIKERIDE   Moonracing
ART GARFUNKEL   Young And Free   (Richard Julian song)
RUBÉN BLADES  First Circle   (Mays/Metheny
(with the vocal group Boca Livra)
ECHO   Sparks From A Wheel
(Joy Askew and Takuya Nakamura)
WES MONTGOMERY   Bumpin'   (1965)
(arranged by Don Sebesky)

RICHARD "GROOVE" HOLMES     Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
(closing theme)

Thanks to Engineers Kevin and Erich ... to AP Caitlin
and, as always, to Producer Kara "Booker T." Manning  ...

It's 2002 - Our Year Of Living Palindromically!
Keep safe ...

UPCOMING GUESTS

OCT   5   ECHO.  Echo is the latest project of vocalist-
composer-multi-instrumentalist Joy Askew.  It's a collaboration
with trumpet player/programmer Takuya Nakamura, featuring
state of the art electronic grooves wedded to great standard jazz
songs by the likes of Cole Porter, Howard Arlen & Johnny Mercer,
Antonio Carlos Jobim and others, as well as originals by Askew &
Nakamura.  Joy was born and raised in northern England, but has
lived and worked in New York for many years now.  She is
acclaimed for her vocal and keyboard contributions to recordings
and live performances with Peter Gabriel, Joe Jackson, Laurie
Anderson, Rodney Crowell, Phoebe Snow and Jules Shear, and
has released a number of highly regarded albums of her own.
She will perform tonight on keyboard with Takuya Nakamura on
trumpet and electronics and Echo guitarist Mark Wood.

OCT  12  JENIFER JACKSON.  One of
my favorite local singer/songwriters, Jenifer and her band will
be radio premiering some new songs from her forthcoming
album So High as well as revisiting work from her albums
Slowly Bright and Birds.  Her music has been described
as "wistful" and "autumnal" - so it's rather nice timing that
she'll be on in early October.

OCT  19  MIKE DOUGHTY.  Mike was the vocalist and
songwriter of one of the best bands of the 1990s - Soul Coughing.
Since their breakup he's changed his name from Doughty, to
M. Doughty to Mike Doughty and in the process his work has
become increasingly personal and revealing.  His latest recording is
a limited edition live album entitled Smofe + Smang Live In Mpls.
Mike has been a columnist for the New York Press; his book of poetry,
Slanky, has been published by Soft Skull Press.  I like to describe
his music as New York punk-rock beat-hipster hip-hop urban-folk!

OCT 26   WFUV FALL MEMBER DRIVE.

NOV   2   WFUV FALL MEMBER DRIVE.

NOV  9   PAUL AUSTER.  Brooklyn based author Paul Auster
returns to Idiot's Delight upon the publication of his latest novel
The Book Of Illusions (Henry Holt), which deals with a man's
obsession about a silent film star.  Auster is the author of such highly
regarded novels as City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
(known collectively as "The New York Trilogy"), In The Country
Of Last Things, Moon Palace, and The Music Of Chance. He
wrote the screenplays for Wayne Wang's Smoke and Blue in The Face,
and wrote and directed the film Lulu On The Bridge.  Auster has
published collections of poetry, biography and essays. He is an
esteemed translator of French poetry and prose and served as an
editor for NPR's  "National Story Project" - which yielded the
collection I Thought My Father Was God And Other Tales.

NOV  23  LAURA CANTRELL.  Such wonderful things are
happening these days for this "radio sister" of mine (Laura is the
host of the highly esteemed "Radio Thrift Shop" on WFMU).  Her
second album, When The Roses Bloom Again (Diesel Only Record),
has just been released to the same critical accolades which greeted
her debut album, Not The Tremblin' Kind in 2000.  She's on the
road opening for Elvis Costello this Fall!  Nashville-born
New York-based Cantrell is a "real country" music authority,
a talented radio performer, a terrific songwriter and a singer with
a great ear for wonderful material.

PLEASE NOTE:  THE ANDY SNITZER DATE HAS BEEN
POSTPONED; A NEW DATE WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR
LATER IN THE FALL.
ANDY SNITZER.  Tonight's show will be entitled
"Give The Sideman Some" as saxophonist Snitzer takes to the
spotlight to celebrate the release of his new album Sugar (on
A440 Records).  As a "sideman" Andy has played in Paul Simon's
touring bands since1999, with The Rolling Stones on two major
tours in the 1990s and with Sting, James Taylor, Beck, Eric Clapton,
Elton John and Hank Jones.  Some highlights of his recording credits:
Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, The Rolling Stones,
Anita Baker, Eric Clapton, Carly Simon, Al Green, Paul Simon,
Daryl Hall, Dr. John, George Michael, Roberta Flack, Chaka
Khan, Bob James, The O'Jays and Dusty Springfield!  He will
appear tonight with a quartet including Alain Mallet on piano.

NOTES:

Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight is heard every Saturday night on broadcast radio in New York on member supported public radio 90.7 WFUV ...  http://www.wfuv.org ...  WFUV streams its broadcast signal live on the internet ... and most of the weekend specialty shows - including ID) - are now archived for a period of time so that they can be listened to "on demand."

Vin Scelsa
Idiot's Delight
c/o WFUV
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458