Hear Me Howling with Chris Strachwitz and Sandy Miranda

Folk Music & Beyond Playlist for December 11, 2010
Chris Strachwitz, with author Adam Machado,
produced and hosted by Sandy Miranda in San Francisco.
(audio at Sandy Miranda's site under Playlists)

We played selections from the forthcoming release:

Hear Me Howling: Blues, Ballads, and Beyond (as recorded by the San Francisco Bay in the 1960s), a book and four-CD set to be released in January 2011.

First Set

Country Joe and the Fish / I Feel like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag

Toni Brown / You Turned Your Back

Crabgrass / Charles Giteau

Second Set

Steve Talbot / Depression Gone from Me

Lightnin' Hopkins / Up on Telegraph

Third Set

Skid Band / Tight Like That*

Fourth Set

Hackberry Ramblers / Big Texas (Grand Texas)*

Fifth Set

Mance Lipscomb / Willie Poor Boy*

Sixth Set

Rev. Overstreet / Working on a Building*

Vern & Ray / The Touch of God's Hand*

Big Mama Thornton / Hound Dog*

Seventh Set

Barbara Dane / Deportees

Eighth Set

Fred McDowell / Shake 'Em on Down

Ninth Set

John Semien & The Opelousas Playboys / Monsieur Leonard* (notice the heavy drone in this one)

Rev. Gary Davis / I'm a Soldier*

Clifton Chenier / Mr Charlie*

Bob Neuwirth / Come See*

Lonnie Johnson / Brenda

Bob Mielke's Bearcats / Moose March*

*previously unreleased

Thanks to JoAnn Mar for Engineering, Adam Machado for writing and research, and Rob Robinett for fried oyster & shrimp po'boys.

Sandy Miranda
KALW San Francisco
Bay Area radio host since 1988
www.SandyMiranda.com