FM 90.3
Airshift Playlist
Friday, December 23, 2005
10pm – 2am
(‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas…)
Christmas In Nevada
Willard Grant Conspiracy
Everything’s Fine
Jesus The Missing Years
John Prine
The Missing Years
When Jesus Came To Play
Jethro Tull
Catfish Rising
Jesus Gonna Be Here
Tom Waits
Bone Machine
(Something wintry and pretty from the delightful Irish folk singer, Cara Dillon…)
The Lonesome Scenes Of Winter
Cara Dillon
Cara Dillon
On Grafton Street
Nanci Griffith
Flyer
River
Roseanne Cash
Spirit Of ‘73
No End
Sandy Denny
Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
California Snow
Dave Alvin
Blackjack David
(…You often hear Joni Mitchell’s River at this time of year. Roseanne Cash gives this favorite a fresh twist.)
(We started the next set with one of my favorite familiar holiday treats, from Shawn Colvin…)
Have Yourself A Merry Little
Christmas
Shawn Colvin
Acoustic Christmas
Ballad of Mary Magdalene
Cry Cry Cry
Cry Cry Cry
Christmas in Washington
Joan Baez
Dark Chords On A Big Guitar
(…I mentioned that Joan Baez introduced that Steve Earle song in a recent mid-summer concert as one that is
not about Christmas at all, but about the need for true heroes in our world. Timely, in either sense.)
Peace Tonight
Indigo Girls
Come On Now Social
Peace
Los Lobos
Rare On Air, Volume One
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace,
Love and Understanding
Lucy Kaplansky
Flesh And Bone
Peace In The Valley
Carole King
The Living Room Tour
(An upbeat, seasonal favorite from Dar Williams…)
The Christians And The Pagans
Dar Williams
Mortal City
Angel In Manhattan
Ellis Paul
Translucent Soul
Too Many Angels
Jackson Browne
Solo Acoustic Volume 1
(…I was happily reminded of that wonderful Ellis Paul tune. Did you notice Dar Williams’s angelic backup
vocals?)
We Sing Hallelujah
Richard & Linda Thompson
I Want To See The Bright Lights
Tonight
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
T Bone Burnett
Acoustic Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Jethro Tull
Christmas Album
Ring Out Solstice Bells
Jethro Tull
Songs From The Wood
Bells Of Morning
Stephen Fearing
So Many Miles
Jingle Bells
Bing Crosby
Christmas Through The Years
(Everybody has one holiday song, without which the season is incomplete. I must guiltily admit, this Robert Earl
Keen song is the one for me…)
Merry Christmas From The Family
Robert Earl Keen
Gringo Honeymoon
The Night Before The Night Before
Christmas
The Bobs
Too Many Santas
White Christmas
Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim’s Christmas
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Daniel Johnston
So This Is Christmas
Merry Christmas, Y’All
Robert Earl Keen
Walking Distance
(…I mentioned that the Bing Crosby Christmas album we have doesn’t include the Irving Berlin classic, White
Christmas. So, naturally, I went to the next best option: Tiny Tim.)
Your Still Standing There
Steve Earle & Lucinda Williams
I Feel Alright
Angel From Montgomery
John Prine
Souvenirs
You Never Get What You Want
Patty Griffin
Living With Ghosts
You Can’t Always Get What You
Want
The Rolling Stones
Hot Rocks
(Once again, the night has gone quickly. It’s homestretch time…)
Song For A Winter’s Night
Quartette
Beautiful – A Tribute To Gordon
Lightfoot
Winter Snowscape
Martin Barre
Stage Left
Looking For Eden
Ian Anderson
Walk Into Light
A Long December
Counting Crows
Recovering The Satellites
Cry Of A Tiny Babe
Bruce Cockburn, w/ Lou Reed,
Roseanne Cash & Rob
Wasserman
Columbia Records Radio Hour,
Volume 1
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Willie Nile
Acoustic Christmas