#182: What Bob Sang To Us - L'Amphitheatre, Joliette, Quebec, July 31, 1989

Playlist for Sunday November 4, 2012.
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Jon Johnson

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1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

I went to my first ever Bob Dylan concert with my dear friends Lorraine & Roger Field. They showed up in my painting studio at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design one afternoon in late July 1989 and announced that we were going on a road trip. We left Nova Scotia on Sunday July 30th headed for Joliette, Quebec (just north of Montreal) where Bob Dylan was doing a show at an outdoor theatre there on Monday evening, July 31, 1989. It was concert #115 of what Dylan had deemed The Never-Ending Tour (still ongoing). The weather was perfect, sunny, and mild. Steve Earle opened and Bob's pared down band consisted of G.E. Smith (of Saturday Night Live fame) on guitar, Tony Garnier on bass (who is still on the road with Bob today), and Christopher Parker on drums.

Roger Field, at the age of 67, was taken from us by cancer in the early morning hours of Sunday October 28, 2012. His 3 great heroes of art, literature, and music were all Roberts: Robert Frank, Robert Creeley, and Robert Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan). This episode of This Un-Godly Hour is for Roger.

These tracks are not the actual concert recording, but these are the songs that Bob Dylan sang to us that magical summer evening.


2. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - Bob Dylan
3. Don't Pity Me - Dion & The Belmonts
One of two cover songs Bob Dylan played that night. Don't Pity Me, composed by Lou Stallman & Sidney Jacobson, was never performed by Bob either before or since. That night was the one & only. It was originally recorded by Dion Dimucci with his band Dion & The Belmonts in 1958 and made it to #40 on the U.S. Hot 100. Dion was on tour with Buddy Holly and declined a seat on the airplane that crashed and killed Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper on Feb 2, 1959. Bobbie Vee, who was then unknown, and who Dylan one time claimed both to be, and to have played with, filled in for Holly at the very next concert. Wikipedia mentions another connection to Bob Dylan in 1967: " Although by this stage Dion’s career appeared to be nearing an end, he retained enough credibility to be, along with Bob Dylan, featured on the album cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Why Dylan chose to sing this song on this one night, and never again, will be a mystery forever.
4. Ballad Of Hollis Brown (demo) - Bob Dylan
5. Shelter From The Storm - Bob Dylan

6. I Want You - Bob Dylan
7. Ballad Of A Thin Man - Bob Dylan
8. Don't Think Twice It's Alright (live at the Gaslight 1962) - Bob Dylan

9. One Too Many Mornings - Bob Dylan
10. Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
11. Seeing The Real You At Last - Bob Dylan

12. One Irish Rover - Van Morrison
The other cover song of the concert. The European leg of Dylan's 1989 tour wrapped up in June with a couple of shows in Athens with Van Morrison. While there the BBC was filming a documentary on Van Morrison, titled "One Irish Rover". The song itself was written and  recorded by Van Morrison for his 1986 album No Guru, No Method, No Teacher. Dylan & Van Morrison sang a duet of One Irish Rover as part of a little 4 song jam on an Athens hilltop that was staged for the BBC film (Do a YouTube search)! Dylan started occasionally adding it to his sets immediately afterward on July 1, 1989, when the North American leg of the tour began. He played it six times that month and continued to play it sporadically through to the end of that tour in Oct 1989. He later played it three times in 1991, once in 1993, and hasn't played it again since. 
13. Silvio - Bob Dylan
14. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
15. It Ain't Me Babe - Bob Dylan

16. All Along The Watchtower - Bob Dylan

#181: Downtown Boogie

Playlist for Sunday October 21, 2012
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Wes Harper

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1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. Tonight I'm Gonna Go Downtown - The Flatlanders
3. Cakewalk Into Town - Taj Mahal
4. Cat Just Got Into Town - Bill Mack

5. Downtown Blues - Jim Kweskin Jug Band
6. Downtown Boogie - The Milo Twins
7. Back In My Hometown - Lester 'Pete' Bivins
8. This Side Of Town - Leon McAuliffe

9. Small Town Hero - Blaze Foley
10. Bully Of The Town - The Holy Moly Rounders
11. Hipster Town - Rodney Decroo & Rae Spoon

12. Skin Deep Town - The Knitters
13. Clean Town Blues - Benny Leaders
14. Dirty Old Town - The Pogues

15. The Houses In This Town Are All Falling Down - New Country Rehab
16. Cemetaries Downtown - Old Man Luedecke

17. Blowin' This Town - Charlie Rich

#180: The Cold Hard Facts

Playlist for Sunday September 30, 2012
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Wes Harper

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1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. Would You Believe It (I've Got A Cold) - Huey "Piano" Smith
3. Cold Brains - Beck
4. Cold, Cold World - Blaze Foley
5. Out In The Cold - United Steel Workers Of Montreal

6. Coldest Woman - The Holy Modal Rounders
7. Cold, Cold Heart - Hank Williams Sr.
8. My Cold, Cold Heart Is Melted Now - Kitty Wells
9. Sell The Coldest Stuff In Town - Homer Zeke Clemons

10. Cold Penitentiary Blues - George Edgin's Corn Dodgers
11. Cold Iron Bed - Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band
12. Cold Iron Pillow - The Chestnuts and The Trees

13. The Cold Hard Facts - The Del McCoury Band
14. The Cold Hard Facts Of Life - Porter Wagoner
15. Cold Dog Soup - Guy Clark

16. The Cold Black River Stream - Steph Yates

#179: Head In The Clouds

Playlist for Sunday September 23, 2012
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Arni Mikelsons

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1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. The Flying Cloud - Ewan MacColl
3. Watches The Clouds Roll By - The Kruger Brothers
4. Clouds - The Jayhawks

5. You'll Meet Him In The Clouds (alternate take) - The Louvin Brothers
6. The Uncloudy Day - Reverend Gary Davis

7. Smoke Clouds - Herbert Payne
8. Storm Clouds - The Cracker Cats
9. Storm Clouds - Willie P. Bennett

10. Brain Cloudy Blues - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
11. Cloud Nine - Charlie Rich
12. ...& The Clouds've Lied - Richard Buckner

13. Cloud Rider - The Sadies

#178: Waiting For My Cappucino - Songs About Cafes and Restaurants

Playlist for Sunday Sept 16, 2012
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Roelf Zantinge

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1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. Waiting For My Cappucino - Dan Reeder
3. Milly's Cafe - Fred Eaglesmith
4. Harry Irene - Captain Beefheart
5. Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Holy Modal Rounders

6. Alice's Restaurant Massacree - Arlo Guthrie

7. The Beautiful Waitress - Terry Allen
8. The Waitress Song - Freakwater
9. Do You Want It (Come And Get It) - Julia Lee

10. Ihop - Tom Heinl

#177: I Think I'll Move

Playlist for Sunday August 26, 2012.
Hosted by Greg Denton with guests Sonia Preisler & Kat Ross

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1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. She's About A Mover - Sir Douglas Quintet
3. Gotta Move - Lightnin' Hopkins
4. I Think I'll Move - Michael Hurley

5. Moving Day - The Holy Modal Rounders
6. Moving Day In Jungle Town - The Hoosier Hot Shots
7. Moving On #3 - Wayne Hancock
8. I'm Moving On - Hank Snow
9. Move On Down The Line - Hank Davis

10. She Moves Me - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
11. The Way You Move - Mike Stevens & Matt Andersen
12. Move Your Hand, Baby - Crown Prince Waterford

13. You Oughta Move Outa Town - Sheesham & Lotus
14. When I Move To The Sky - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
15. Nellie Moved To Town - The Louvin Brothers

16. Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

#176: The Box That It Came In

Playlist for Sunday August 19, 2012
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Meredith Grant

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1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. Little Boxes - Pete Seeger
3. The Box - Jake Willis
4. An Old Box Of Memories - Peter Wernick
5. The Box That It Came In - Wanda Jackson

6. Matchbox - Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
7. Match Box Blue - Larry Hensley
8. Tinderbox - Fred Eaglesmith
9. Soap Box Blues - Jack Pierce
10. Your Old Gearbox - Michael Hurley

11. Red Box - Ian Reid
12. Box Of Rain - The Grateful Dead
13. (I Love To Play Your Piano) Let Me Bang Your Box - The Toppers

14. Squeeze Box - The Who