Roots & Branches / 15 March 2014

Well, Here we are, it’s almost St. Patrick’s day but we are focusing on songs about working people in the 9:00 portion of our show, since this is the big day for our community. It is the 60th anniversary of the film, “Salt of the Earth” which is about the 1950 – 1952 Empire Mine Strike. The film, like the makers of the film, was blacklasted, apparently the only film that was blacklisted. We encourage any of you out there that are interested, to check out some of the programs here on the KURU website at gmcr.org and listen to some of the interviews on the strike and the film. You can go to the main page and look down the right side until you get to the META section and in there you can click on ‘entries RSS’  and you will find a great interview with Rachel Valencia and another with Dr. Luis Quiñones.
Next week we will be doing more Irish music to honer St. Patrick’s Day and to think about all the immigrants that came across the Atlantic in the holds of ships. Many of them ended up here in the southwest and in Mexico. Some even fought with the Mexican Army, in the Mexican American war (1846 – 1848) and were known as the San Patricio’s.

So here is the playlist for 15 Mar 2014:

Artists  /  Album  /  Song

• Anna Laura Edmiston  /Allons Boire un Coup  / 03 Mon Bon Vieux Mari
• Ann and Joel Savoy / Allons Boire un Coup / 06 Si J’aurais des Ailes
• Ann Savoy, Jane Vidrine / Allons Boire un Coup / 14 Quand J’etais Vaillante
• Bon Soir Catin / Vive L’Amour /08 Listen To Me When I Talk To You
• Creole Belles / Cajun and Creole Traditional Music / 01 Bernadette
• Billie Holiday with Tiny Grimes Sextet / The Alladin Records Story d1x2 / 23  Blue Turning Grey Over You
• Waters, Ethel / Cabin In The Sky / 15 Taking A Chance On Love
• Alison Krauss and Union Station / Treasury of Bluegrass v1 d1x2 / 15 Two Highways
• Keane, Sarah and Rita /Once I Loved / 11) An Droighnean Donn (The Brownthorn Tree)
• Makem, Sarah / As I Roved Out d2x3 / 23 – The Magpie’s Nest
• Waterson, Lal and Oliver Knight / Once in a blue moon / 5    Altisidora – Saxophone [Sax],  Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Jo Freya
• Waterson Carthy / Broken Ground /05 Fare Thee Well Cold Winter
• Goddess Of Arno / Balkan Dance Party / 03 Apton Kai Mo Mou
• Balkan Kafe Orchestra / Moon Over Mendocino / 4   Syrto in E
• The Decibelles  / American Fogies v2 / 09 Lucy’s Blue Yodel
• Harmony Sisters / The Early Years / 07 Safety’s Sake
• Bovee, Bob & Gail Heil / Rural Route 2  / 03 Chased Old Satan Through the Door
• John ”Black Sampson” Gibson / Deep River of Song Black Appalachia / 19 Track-Lining Song
• John ”Black Sampson” Gibson / Deep River of Song Black Appalachia / 17 Steel-Laying Holler
• Leadbelly / Alabama Bound  / 01 Pick A Bale Of Cotton
• Cisco Houston / Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie / 05 Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
• Ramblin’ Jack Elliot / Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie / 16 1913 Massacre
• Odetta / Blues Everywhere I Go / 14 W.P.A. Blues
• Waterson Carthy / Broken Ground / 08 We Poor Labouring Men
• The Watersons / Early Days / 06 Rap Her To Bank
• Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins \ Old Days / 16 Dream of the Miner’s Child
• Ford, Tennessee Ernie / Greatest Hits  / 01 Sixteen Tons
• Mac Wiseman / Treasury of Bluegrass v1 d1x2 / 06 Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
• Haggard, Merle / 8 Rare Classics / 07 A Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today
• Hendrix, Terri and Lloyd Maines  /  MRAC / 14 I Found the Lion
• Haggard, Merle / Greatest Hits Volume 1 / 09 Workin’ Man Blues
• Lynn, Loretta / Honky Tonk Girl d2x3 / 11 Coal Miner’s Daughter
• Mendoza, Lydia / Vida Mia (1934-39)  / 06 La Bamba