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The Songs Vin Played for 12/14/1997
There are three essential Commandments:
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
__________________________________________________________________________
These are the songs I played on WNEW-FM / NY on "IDIOT'S DELIGHT"
12/14/97,
another working day in a temporary state of grace.
WILLIAM BURROUGHS Spoken word excerpt from "Naked Lunch"
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Idiot's Delight (opening
theme)
FRANK SINATRA Young At Heart
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Thunder Road
KATELL KEINEG One Hell Of A Life
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS It's A Hell Of A Life
PATTI SMITH (CD) Looking For You (I Was)
Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers' new album entitled "Coming
Home" is finally out in Europe; it will be released domestically
in February '98. It's terrific! I featured it throughout the
show.
PATTI SMITH with band — live performance, acoustic and electric
PATTI SMITH (live) Beneath The Southern Cross
PATTI SMITH (live) I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (the Hank
Williams song)
PATTI SMITH (live) Spell (footnote to Howl by Allen
Ginsberg)
PATTI SMITH (live) Don't Say Nothing
PATTI SMITH (live) Dead City
PATTI SMITH (live) Dancing Barefoot
PATTI SMITH (live) People Have The Power
PATTI SMITH (live) Last Call
PATTI SMITH (CD) 1959
J.D. Daugherty - drums
Lenny Kaye - electric and acoustic guitar, backing vocal
Oliver Ray - acoustic guitar
Tony Shanahan - bass guitar, backing vocal
Patti Smith - vocal, acoustic guitar, clarinet
LULLABY FOR THE WORKING CLASS This Is As Close As We Get
BOB DYLAN Not Dark Yet
HARRY CHAPIN Tangled Up Puppet
BELLE & SEBASTIAN Judy & The Dream Of Horses
RAINRAVENS Empty
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Soul Survivor
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Soul Survivor
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Soul Survivor
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Soul Survivor
(Yes, four times!)
ROLLING STONES Salt Of The Earth
DANNY & DUSTY Song For The Dreamers
(this was a Steve Wynn project from 1985)
STEVE WYNN If My Life Was An Open Book
DEL AMITRI Not Where It's At
MARSHALL CRENSHAW Someday, Someway
STEVE EARLE (with the Fairfield Four) Telephone Road
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Everything's Going To Work Out
Right
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS 1945
GLENN MILLER BAND Tuxedo Junction
NANCI GRIFFITH Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War)
KANSAS CITY BAND Cherokee
(more terrific music from the awful Robert Altman film "Kansas
City")
HEATHER EATMAN Face Down (unreleased demo)
DON BYRON St. Louis Blues
CHRIS STILLS If I Were A Mountain
CHRIS STILLS Rattlesnakes
CHRIS STILLS Desert Sands
Chris is the 23-year-old son of Stephen Stills; these songs are
from his album entitled "100 Year Thing" which will be released
in January '98. The CS&N-like harmonies and instrumentation are
downright goose-bumpy! Talk about déjà vu!
DAVID POE Blue Glass Fall (produced by the great T-Bone
Burnett)
THE DEVLINS Waiting
WHISKEYTOWN Avenues
FREEDY JOHNSTON This Perfect World
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE Comin' Back To Me'
VICTORIA WILLIAMS Nature Boy (pre-release)
(the old song made famous by Nat King Cole)
BETTY CARTER Lonely House
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill")
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO Pissed Off 2 AM
DAVID POE Apartment
HORACE SILVER QUINTET Song For My Father
DON BYRON If 6 Was 9 / Happy Together
(live recording from the 50/30 Party at the Bottom Line —
12/12-13/97 )
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & GARRY TALLENT The Fever
(live recording from the 50/30 Party at the Bottom Line —
12/12-13/97 )
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS I'm Not Sleeping
VEDA HILLE 26 Years
SOUL COUGHING Maybe I'll Come Down
(live performance on Idiot's Delight — 8/10/97 — new song)
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE The Ghost Of Tom Joad (Springsteen's
song)
JANE SIBERRY Hockey (live version from her new album "Child")
JANE SIBERRY The Twelve Days Of Christmas (live version from
her new album "Child")
COOLIO C U When U Get There
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping
CHRIS STILLS Rattlesnakes
CHRIS STILLS Desert Sands
DAVID POE Telephone Song
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Innocence Is Beautiful
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 3:05 AM.
List typed up by Vin on Tuesday 12/15/97 at 12:30 PM; all
omissions are inadvertent and all typos and spelling mistakes are
solely mine.
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
12/21 JOHN BERENDT — author of "Midnight In The Garden Of
Good And Evil"
12/28 YO LA TENGO
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
__________________________________________________________________________
These are the songs I played on WNEW-FM / NY on "IDIOT'S DELIGHT"
12/14/97,
another working day in a temporary state of grace.
WILLIAM BURROUGHS Spoken word excerpt from "Naked Lunch"
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Idiot's Delight (opening
theme)
FRANK SINATRA Young At Heart
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Thunder Road
KATELL KEINEG One Hell Of A Life
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS It's A Hell Of A Life
PATTI SMITH (CD) Looking For You (I Was)
Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers' new album entitled "Coming
Home" is finally out in Europe; it will be released domestically
in February '98. It's terrific! I featured it throughout the
show.
PATTI SMITH with band — live performance, acoustic and electric
PATTI SMITH (live) Beneath The Southern Cross
PATTI SMITH (live) I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (the Hank
Williams song)
PATTI SMITH (live) Spell (footnote to Howl by Allen
Ginsberg)
PATTI SMITH (live) Don't Say Nothing
PATTI SMITH (live) Dead City
PATTI SMITH (live) Dancing Barefoot
PATTI SMITH (live) People Have The Power
PATTI SMITH (live) Last Call
PATTI SMITH (CD) 1959
J.D. Daugherty - drums
Lenny Kaye - electric and acoustic guitar, backing vocal
Oliver Ray - acoustic guitar
Tony Shanahan - bass guitar, backing vocal
Patti Smith - vocal, acoustic guitar, clarinet
LULLABY FOR THE WORKING CLASS This Is As Close As We Get
BOB DYLAN Not Dark Yet
HARRY CHAPIN Tangled Up Puppet
BELLE & SEBASTIAN Judy & The Dream Of Horses
RAINRAVENS Empty
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Soul Survivor
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Soul Survivor
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Soul Survivor
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Soul Survivor
(Yes, four times!)
ROLLING STONES Salt Of The Earth
DANNY & DUSTY Song For The Dreamers
(this was a Steve Wynn project from 1985)
STEVE WYNN If My Life Was An Open Book
DEL AMITRI Not Where It's At
MARSHALL CRENSHAW Someday, Someway
STEVE EARLE (with the Fairfield Four) Telephone Road
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Everything's Going To Work Out
Right
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS 1945
GLENN MILLER BAND Tuxedo Junction
NANCI GRIFFITH Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War)
KANSAS CITY BAND Cherokee
(more terrific music from the awful Robert Altman film "Kansas
City")
HEATHER EATMAN Face Down (unreleased demo)
DON BYRON St. Louis Blues
CHRIS STILLS If I Were A Mountain
CHRIS STILLS Rattlesnakes
CHRIS STILLS Desert Sands
Chris is the 23-year-old son of Stephen Stills; these songs are
from his album entitled "100 Year Thing" which will be released
in January '98. The CS&N-like harmonies and instrumentation are
downright goose-bumpy! Talk about déjà vu!
DAVID POE Blue Glass Fall (produced by the great T-Bone
Burnett)
THE DEVLINS Waiting
WHISKEYTOWN Avenues
FREEDY JOHNSTON This Perfect World
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE Comin' Back To Me'
VICTORIA WILLIAMS Nature Boy (pre-release)
(the old song made famous by Nat King Cole)
BETTY CARTER Lonely House
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill")
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO Pissed Off 2 AM
DAVID POE Apartment
HORACE SILVER QUINTET Song For My Father
DON BYRON If 6 Was 9 / Happy Together
(live recording from the 50/30 Party at the Bottom Line —
12/12-13/97 )
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & GARRY TALLENT The Fever
(live recording from the 50/30 Party at the Bottom Line —
12/12-13/97 )
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS I'm Not Sleeping
VEDA HILLE 26 Years
SOUL COUGHING Maybe I'll Come Down
(live performance on Idiot's Delight — 8/10/97 — new song)
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE The Ghost Of Tom Joad (Springsteen's
song)
JANE SIBERRY Hockey (live version from her new album "Child")
JANE SIBERRY The Twelve Days Of Christmas (live version from
her new album "Child")
COOLIO C U When U Get There
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping
CHRIS STILLS Rattlesnakes
CHRIS STILLS Desert Sands
DAVID POE Telephone Song
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS Innocence Is Beautiful
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 3:05 AM.
List typed up by Vin on Tuesday 12/15/97 at 12:30 PM; all
omissions are inadvertent and all typos and spelling mistakes are
solely mine.
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
12/21 JOHN BERENDT — author of "Midnight In The Garden Of
Good And Evil"
12/28 YO LA TENGO