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ELECTION 2000 SPECIAL
We’ll hear the campaign songs, protest music and tunes about politics and politicians. Nick talks with lawyer Len Garment about his love of Jazz, and the days with Richard Nixon. Plus the tales of Louisiana governors, Huey and Earl Long.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Washington Post March Bill Frisell
Have A Little Faith, Electra Nonesuch - Jordan for President Louis Jordan
Let The Good Times Roll Box, Bear Family - Mr. President Big Boy Henry
Work's Many Voices Vol.1 LP, JEMF - SEGMENT: Campaign Songs
- The Harrison Yankee Doodle Oscar Brand
Presidential Campaign Songs 1789-1996, Smithsonian Folkways - Silent Cal Joe Glazer
The Music of American Politics, Collector - High Hopes Frank Sinatra
Complete Capitol Singles, Capitol - This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land, - Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen
Born in the USA, Columbia - Christ for President Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra - Dead Presidents Little Walter
Essential, MCA - Instrumental: Water Baby Speedy West
Swing West Vol.2: Guitar Slingers, Razor & Tie - INTERVIEW: Len Garment
- Only in America The Drifters
Rockin' & Driftin': The Drifters Box, Rhino - The only thing we have to fear is fear itself Franklin Roosevelt
20th Century Time Capsule, Buddha - Roosevelt in Trinidad The Atilla
Roosevelt in Trinidad, Rounder - Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again Cox Brothers
Old Time Southern Dance Music, Old Timey - M.T.A. Kingston Trio
Folk Song America, Smithsonian - Instrumental: Wailin' & Whoopin' Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
A Long way from Home, MCA - INTERVIEW: Dave Obey
- Guitar Pickin President Jimmy Martin
Sunny Side of the Mountain, Decca - Campaigner Neil Young
Decade, Reprise - Watergate Blues Howlin' Wolf
The Back Door Wolf, MCA - Richard Nixon Resignation Address
Great Speeches of the 20th Century, Rhino - You Can Have Watergate But Gimme Some Bucks and I'll Be Straight James Brown
Funky People Part 2, Polydor - The Watergate Blues Modern Jazz Quartet
Warner Jazz Les Incontournables, Warner Music France
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Happy Days are Here Again Ben Selvin Orchestra
Songs of the Depression, Bear Family - Every Man a King Huey Long and Castro Carrazo
Companion CD by Cyril Vetter in Fonville Winans Louisiana book, - SEGMENT: Randy Newman
- Kingfish Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Warner Bros - SEGMENT: Earl Long speech
- Ballad of Earl Long Jay Chevalier
45rpm, - You Can't Tell About the Women Nowadays Jimmie Davis
Nobody's Darlin' But Mine, Bear family - INTERVIEW: Joe Wilson
Listen - Liberty Will Keys
A Banjo Original, County - INTERVIEW: Dalton Roberts
- Bobby Kennedy Corrido Lalo Guerrero
Folkmasters DAT, - SEGMENT: R Kennedy on MLK's death
20th Century Time Capsule, Buddha - Redemption Song Bob Marley
Uprising, Island - Power to the People Curtis Mayfield
Curtis, Rhino - Backlash Blues Nina Simone
Livin' in the House of Blues: Defiance Blues, House of Blues - The House I Live In Paul Robeson
Songs of Free Men, Sony Classical - Instrumental: In Christ There Is No East Or West John Fahey
John Fahey / Peter Lang / Leo Kottke, Takoma - Long Walk to DC Staple Singers
Soul Folk In Action, Stax - Washington D.C. Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs, Merge - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia - Back in the USA Linda Ronstadt
Sing America, Warner Bros - End Bed: Stars and Stripes Forever Eubie Blake
The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake, Columbia
