Alive & Picking playlist for 11/14/09. The format is ARTIST/song title/album title/label

Started the show this morning with a set of music by artists whose birthdays fall in the month of November. Birth dates are in parentheses after the artist’s name.

First two songs are written by John Lennon, whose birthday was actually in October.

CHARLES RIVER VALLEY BOYS (J. Lennon 10/9)/I’ve Just Seen a Face/Beatle Country/Rounder

JUDY COLLINS (J. Lennon 10/9)/In My Life/In My Life/Elektra

ECK ROBERTSON (11/20/1887)/Brilliancy Medley/Vintage Recordings 1922-1929/County

NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS (Tracy Schwarz 11/13) The Girl I Left Behind Me/There Ain’t No Way Out/Smithsonian Folkways

BLUEGRASS CARDINALS (Don Parmely 11/19)/Sweet Hour of Prayer/The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals/CMH

BOIS SEC ARDOIN (11/16) Allon Danser/Allon Danser/Rounder

STAN ROGERS/Second Effort/Turnaround/Fogarty’s Cove

WILMOUTH HOUDINI (11/25)/No More Bench and Board/Poor But Ambitious/Arhoolie

MERLE TRAVIS (11/20) Sixteen Tons/The Legend of Merle Travis/Intermusic

STEVE GILLETTE (11/23)/Darcy Farrow/Steve Gillette/Vanguard

ROY ROGERS (11/5/1911)/I’m Gonna Gallop Gallop Gallop to Gallup New Mexico/old LP, track rec. in 1948

JUDITH EDELMAN (11/14)/Ride on a Train/Perfect World/Compass

GORDON LIGHTFOOT (11/17)/Bitter Green/Sunday Concert Plus/Bear Family

JIM WATSON (11/7), MIKE CRAVER & TOMMY THOMPSON/Dixie Darling/Meeting In the Air/BSAP

LULUBELLE & SCOTTY (11/8/1909) WISEMAN/I Told Them All About You/Sweethearts Still/Starday

SAM & KIRK (11/4) McGEE/Roll on Buddy/old LP, track rec. 1957

JONI MITCHELL (11/7)/Morning Morgantown/Ladies of the Canyon/Reprise

Then a calendar set: all these artists are appearing locally this week.

PETER YARROW/Gilgarra Mountain/Peter, Paul & Mary: A Song Will Rise/Warner Bros.

JIM KWESKIN JUG BAND/Morning Blues/Greatest Hits/Vanguard

THE OLD TIME BAND/Gospel Ship/Down By the Brazos/Hen Cackle

ANNE HILLS & CINDY MANGSEN (with Priscilla Herdman)/Wait Till the Clouds Roll By/Never Grow Up/Flying Fish

ANNE HILLS & CINDY MANGSEN (with Tom Paxton)/Mary Anne/Never Grow Old/Flying Fish

RICK SHEA/No Good Time for Goodbye/Shelter Valley Blues/Tres Pescadores

CHARLIE HADEN with DAN TYMINSKI/Ocean of Diamonds/Rambling Boy/Decca

And the final set:

JIMMY MARTIN/Hit Parade of Love/Live at the Louisiana Hayride 1958-1960/Music Mill Entertainment

EMMYLOU HARRIS & CARL JACKSON/Nobody’s Darlin’ But Mine/Always Needed You/Eldorado

CROOKED JADES/The Evening Train/The Unfortunate Rake/Crooked

SQUEAKIN’ WHEELS/High On a Mountain/Devil’s Racetrack/Grease Axle

LAURIE LEWIS/Here We Go Again/Restless Ramblin’ Heart/Flying Fish