Playlist for Wednesday July 30, 2008
Walking Through The Streets Of The City
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Christopher Reaume

1. Sugar In The Gourd - The Holy Modal Rounders

2. Walking Through The Streets Of The City - Pink Anderson
3. Streets Of Toronto - Stompin' Tom Connors
4. Streets Of Laredo - Brownie Ford

5. Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
6. Fourth Street Mess Around - Memphis Jug Band
7. Positively Fourth Street - Bob Dylan

8. Basin Street Blues - Louis Prima
9. Church Street Blues - Norman Blake
10. Hasting Street - Charlie Spand & Blind Blake
11. Madison Street Rag - Gus Cannon
12. Peach Tree Street Boogie - The Delmore Brothers
13. Railroad Street - John Hartford

14. Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street) - Hank Snow
15. My Heart Was Trampled On The Street - The Louvin Brothers

16. Dark End Of The Street - The Flying Burrito Brothers

Playlist for Wednesday July 23, 2008
Gathering Flowers From The Hillside
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Arthur MacInnes

1. Sugar In The Gourd - The Holy Modal Rounders

All songs about hills, this show was an oblique tip of the hat to The Hillside Festival www.hillsidefestival.ca taking place, not on a hill, but on 'The Island' at The Guelph Lake Conservation Area from July 25 to July 27. This year marks the festival's 25th anniversary.

2. I'm Climbin' On Top Of The Hill - Blind Boy Fuller
3. Gathering Flowers From The Hillside - The Carter Family
4. Up On The Hill Where They Do The Boogie - John Hartford
5. Hillbilly Hula Gal - Junior Brown

6. Little Cabin Home On The Hill - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
7. Little Cabin Home On The Hill Waugh Waugh - John Hartford
8. Cabin On The Hill - Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass
9. Little Poplar Log House On The Hill - The Carter Family
10. A Mansion On The Hill - Hank Williams

11. Over The Hills To The Poorhouse - Flatt & Scruggs
12. Wake Up Hill - Old Man Luedecke

Old Man (Chris) Luedecke is the only artist from tonight's playlist actually performing at The Hillside Festival this weekend.

13. Sugar Hill - Homer Walker

14. Hills Of Home - Hazel Dickens
15. The Hills That I Call Home - Front Range

Front Range is a band that "emerged" out of Colorado in the 1990s, here singing a song about Vermont: "In the land of Ethan Allen/Where the sugar maples grow/Where the wild grass fills the meadows/And the rocky rivers flow". Noted for their "smooth" (I'd say edgeless) harmonies, the band sure pulls a lot of 'sap' out of those maples.

In the early 1770s, The Province of New York was selling land claims to prospective settlers in Vermont, ignoring those (Ethan Allen among them) with established title to land grants in the Bennington area. Ethan Allen led a group called The Green Mountain Boys in a guerilla rebellion against New York and was instrumental in the establishment of the "republic" and later the "state" of Vermont.

16. My Home Among The Hills - The Carter Family

17. Bottom Of The Hill - Harry Manx & Kevin Breit

Playlist for Wednesday July 16, 2008
Hollywood Cowboys
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Glacio De Fluvial

1. Sugar In The Gourd - The Holy Modal Rounders

2. The Ballad of Jed Clampett - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
3. Back In The Saddle Again - Gene Autry
4. Ghost Riders In The Sky - Gene Autry
5. Blue Shadows On The Trail - Roy Rogers
6. I'm Going To Gallop, Gallop, Gallop to Gallup, New Mexico - Roy Rogers
7. Lonely Is The Hunter - Jimmy Wakely

8. Cool Water - The Sons Of The Pioneers
9. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo - The Sons Of The Pioneers
10. Yippi Yi Your Troubles Away - The Sons Of The Pioneers
11. Sagebrush Symphony - The Sons Of The Pioneers
12. Tumbling Tumbleweeds - The Sons Of The Pioneers

13. Lady Killin' Cowboy - Tex Ritter
14. High Noon - Tex Ritter
15. (I've Got Spurs That) Jingle Jangle Jingle - Tex Ritter
16. My Rifle, My Pony And Me - Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson (with John Wayne Intro)

17. Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies - Weird Al Yankovic

Playlist for Wednesday July 9, 2008
Petting Zoo!
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Laura Harrison

1. Sugar In The Gourd - The Holy Modal Rounders

2. Milk Cow Boogie - The Maddox Brothers & Rose
3. Whoopin' Up Cattle - Mike Seeger
4. Jersey Bull Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
5. Thrown By The Bull - Old Man Luedecke

6. The Horse Named Bill - Carl Sandburg
7. The Horsetrader's Song - Jimmy Driftwood
8. High Horse Momma - Terry Allen
9. Flop-Eared Mule - The Holy Modal Rounders
10. Go Along Mule - Uncle Dave Macon

11. He Said, If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep - The Stancer Quartet
12. Glory To The Lamb - The Carter Family
13. Piggy Wiggy Woo - Danny Marks
14. Marmora Pig - Washboard Hank & The Country Squires
15. I'm Hog Tied Over You - Tennessee Ernie Ford & Ella Mae Morse
16. Hog Of The Forsaken - Michael Hurley

17. Goatburger Boogie - Cousin Deems Sanders & His Goatherders

Playlist For Wednesday July 2, 2008
Building You Up To Let You Down
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Corinne Maloney

1. Sugar In The Gourd - The Holy Modal Rounders

2. I'm Working On A Building - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
3. The Building - Fred Eaglesmith & The Flathead Noodlers
4. What's He Building - Tom Waits
5. Meeting At The Building - Leadbelly
6. In Tall Buildings - John Hartford

7. Little Boxes - Pete Seeger
8. Little Poplar Log House On The Hill - The Carter Family
Whoops, we miscued this one and played A Goodbye To The Plains instead.
9. Bring It On Down To My House - Derwood Brown & His Musical Brownies
10. Hungry Hash House - Charlie Poole & His North Carolina Ramblers
11. The House Of Blue Lights - Merrill Moore

12. A House Without Love - Hank Williams
13. House Of Cards - The Backstabbers
14. There's A Leak In This Old Building - Brother Claude Ely
15. The School House Fire - The Dixon Brothers
16. I Was In The House When The House Burned Down - Warren Zevon

17. Tower Song - Townes Van Zant

Playlist for Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Strung Out, Upside Down, and Stuffed With Cotten
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Amelia Ettinger

1. Sugar In The Gourd - The Holy Modal Rounders

2. Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten
3. Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - Elizabeth Cotten

4. Darling Corey - Pete Seeger
5. Poor Ellen Smith - Peggy Seeger
6. Josh Thomas's Roustabout - Mike Seeger

7. Shake Sugaree - Elizabeth Cotten with vocals by her 12 year old grandaughter, Brenda Evans
8. Shake Sugaree & Banjo Story / Rattler - Elizabeth Cotten
9. Guitar Story - Elizabeth Cotten
10. Oh, Babe It Ain't No Lie - Elizabeth Cotten

11. Vastopol - Elizabeth Cotten
12. Spanish Flang Dang - Elizabeth Cotten

13. I'm Going Away - Elizabeth Cotten

Playlist for Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Bound To Leave You Wanting
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Josee Germain

1. Sugar In The Gourd - The Holy Modal Rounders

2. What Was It You Wanted - Willie Nelson
3. I Want You - Bob Dylan
4. All I Really Want To Do - Bob Dylan

5. I Want To Live & Love - The Maddox Brothers & Rose

The Maddox Brothers & Rose formed in 1933 after parents Charlie & Lula Maddox took their family (Calvin, Fred, Kenneth, Henry & Rose) from Alabama to California, hitchhiking and hopping boxcars, to find work as itinerant field labourers. They were a little ahead of the so-called "great Okie migration" and managed to find work in the San Jaoquin Valley as "fruit tramps". But the second eldest, Fred, hated the work and with his audacious and enterprising spirit convinced The Rice Furniture Company to sponsor the family as a musical act on the local radio station. The Rice Furniture people insisted that the band have a girl singer, so Fred, promising they had the "best girl singer" around enlisted his sister, Rose, to sing their decidedly raucous, rowdy, and sometimes raunchy slap-bass country boogie songs. This was remarkable, in part, since Rose was only 11 years old at the time and knew maybe 3 songs all the way through. Still, despite Rose's age, they managed to use the radio publicity to get jobs playing barrooms and area honky tonks for tips, and eventually won a nationally syndicated radio spot during the California State Centennial Festival in 1939, sponsored by the Anacin Company. Known for their ornately embroidered suits (tailored by the famous Nudie Turk) and outlandishly animated stage antics (dance hall audiences often stopped dancing just to watch), The Maddox Brothers & Rose earned the sobriquet of "Most Colorful Hillbilly Band in America". When the group disbanded in 1956, Rose continued on with an illustrious solo career until she passed away from kidney failure in 1998 at the age of 71.

6. I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - Patsy Montana & The Prairie Ramblers
7. I Want To Be Good - The Hoofbeats
8. I Want Two Wings - Rev. Utah Smith
9. I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll - Gillian Welch

10. I Want A Tall Skinny Papa - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
11. I Want A Man (Who's Gonna Do It Right) - Annisteen Allen & Her Home Town Boys

From the various artist compilation Eat To The Beat: The Dirtiest of Them Dirty Blues. Annisteen Allen was born Ernestine Allen in Champaign, Illinois in 1920 and started her career of jazz inflected blues singing in 1945. She worked with the Lucky Millinder Orchestra, Big John Greer, Wynonie Harris, The Orioles, and Joe Morris' Blues Calvacade, and recorded for Federal, King & Capitol. She had a hit in 1955 being the first to record Earl Burrows' song Fujiyama Mama, before Eileen Barton and Wanda Jackson. Here she wants a man who's gonna do it right and she doesn't care how her man even "looks" as long as he "fooks" nobody but her. Now that's a rhyming couplet!

12. I Wanna Know (What Cha Doin' Down There) - Dolly Cooper
13. I Wanna Waltz - Wanda Jackson

14. I Want You To Want Me - Dwight Yoakam

Yes! Dwight Yoakam sings Cheap Trick! Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I feel like cryin'?

15. When Someone Wants To Leave - The Allen Brothers

The sons of bluegrass legend Red Allen: Harley, Greg & Ronnie. A brother act with actual brothers! Heartbreak and resignation in stupendous vocal harmony. This song was written by Dolly Parton.