American Roots with Greil Marcus

Playlist for Folk Music & Beyond, 2/16/08

Sandy Miranda invites American music and culture historian Greil Marcus in to talk about the links between the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, the Basement Tapes of Bob Dylan, and the new film, I'm Not There, by Todd Haynes.

ARTIST/SONG/ALBUM/LABEL

John Mellencamp / The Wreck of the Old 97 / The Rose & The Briar (ed. Marcus & Wilentz) / Columbia

Richard "Rabbit" Brown / James Alley Blues / Anthology of American Folk Music / Smithsonian Folkways

New Set

Glen Hansard & Markíta Irglová / You Ain't Goin' Nowhere / I'm Not There / Columbia Sound Track

Bob Dylan / You Ain't Goin' Nowhere / A Tree with Roots / complete Basement Tapes recordings bootleg

New Set

Bob Dylan / Apple Suckling Tree / A Tree with Roots / complete Basement Tapes recordings bootleg

Bob Dylan / I'm a Fool for You / A Tree with Roots / complete Basement Tapes recordings bootleg

New Set

G.B. Grayson / Ommie Wise / (1927) murder ballad / from Greil's personal compilation

Blind Lemon Jefferson / (1927) See That My Grave Is Kept Clean / from Greil's personal compilation

Uncle Dave Macon / (1926) Way Down the Old Plank Road / from Greil's personal compilation

New Set

Bobbie Gentry / (1969) Ode to Billy Joe / from Greil's personal compilation

Ruth Gerson / Ode to Billy Joe / Deceived / Ruth Gerson

Bob Dylan / Answer to Ode to Billy Joe: Clothesline Saga / complete Basement Tapes recordings bootleg

New Set

Bruce Springsteen / Nebraska / The Rose & the Briar / Columbia

Bob Dylan / Ballad of a Thin Man / from Greil's personal compilation

New Set

Geechie Wiley / Last Kind Words / from Greil's personal compilation

Bob Dylan / I'm Not There / complete Basement Tapes recordings bootleg

New Set

Jim James / Goin' to Acapulco / I'm Not There / Columbia

John Doe / Pressin' On / I'm Not There / Columbia