Episode 15. 2011 New Year Mix
January 1, 2011
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/15070
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“I Walked”, Sufjan Steven’s from the Age of Adz http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/track/i-walked 5.
“One Day”, Sharon Van Etten from her EP- EPIC, http://www.myspace.com/sharonvanetten.
“Climbing High Mountains”, Sam Amidon from I See the Sign, http://samamidon.bandcamp.com/album/i-see-the-sign.
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“On Melancholy Hill” Gorillaz, Plastic Beaches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QBwtHzdSFM.
“The Princess and the Troubadour”, Pierre De Gaillande from Bad Reputation, http://www.barbesrecords.com/brassens.html
“Kingfisher”, Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuMsDbUmyM8&feature=related.
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“If You Call”, Sharon Jones from I Learned the Hard Way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSvRMiemEGc&feature=related.
“Neil Young”, The Mittenstrings from The Mittenstrings. http://www.mittenstrings.com/about.php
“Love and War”, Neil Young from Le Noise, 2010.
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“A Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”, Das Racist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04.
“Got Nuffin”, Spoon, Transference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Q9zngV52U.
“The Wild Hunt”, The Tallest Man on the Earth from The Wild Hunt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= pHe-C1sO9LM.
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“A Change is Going to Come”, Darlene Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZQyW303XiA&feature=related.
“Tighten Up”, Black Keys from Brother http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpaPBCBjSVc.
“Transcontinental Hustle”, Gogol Bordello from Transcontinental Hustle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8-3NI7qEjE.
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“Sinner or Saint”, Sarah Vaughn from 16 Most Requested Songs.
“Broadminded” Louvin Brothers.
“Apalachia Spring” Aaron Copeland from Bernstein Classics.
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Mary Oliver from New and Selected Poems Volume One.
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,
the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders
of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is
nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
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The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
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“Ready to Start”, Arcade Fire from The Suburbs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNn6mimskt0&feature=related.
“Come On Come On”, Poison Tree, from The Poison Tree http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=10150092432676414&comments.
“Be the Man” Jo Williamson from Be the Man www.jowilliamson.bandcamp.com.
