Playlist for Alive and Picking, 4/9/11. Format is ARTIST / Song Title / Album title / label or contact info

Today's show was originally going to be one set of songs about rabbits, in honor of Easter coming up, but as I was putting it together it evolved, or devolved, into a whole show about fur, fins and feathers.

JOHN McCUTCHEON / All God's Critters / Howjadoo (out of print LP) / Rounder
ANY OLD TIME / Free Little Bird / I Bid You Goodnight / Arhoolie
HANK PENNY / Rabbits Don't Ever Get Married / (out of print LP) rec. 1949
HOT RIZE / Walking the Dog / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
ED TRICKETT / Yea Ho Little Fish / The Telling Takes Me Home / Folk Legacy
YOUNG TRADITION / Chicken on a Raft / Transatlantic Folk Box / Sanctuary
JODY STECHER / Turtle Dove / Gong Up on the Mountain / Acoustic Disc
JOHNNY LEE WILLS & HIS BOYS / Milk Cow Boogie / (out of print LP) rec. 1941
KATHY KALLICK / The Tailor and the Mouse / My Mother's Voice / Copper Creek
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS / The Old Bell Cow / 40 Years of Live Performances / Rounder
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS / The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake / Bear Family box set
MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT / C-h-i-c-k-e-n / Memorial Anthology / Genes
NICKEL CREEK / The Fox / Nickel Creek / Sugar Hill
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD / The Cuckoo Is a Pretty Bird / Hand Hewn / Rounder
WAYNE HENDERSON / Gray Eagle / VA: Folk Masters Live at Wolf Trap / Smithsonian-Folkways
WALTER SMITH / Cat's Got the Measles, Dog's Got the Whooping Cough / Walter Smith & Friends, 1929-1920 / Document
HOT MUD FAMILY / Stewball / Meat and Potatoes and Stuff Like That (out of print LP) / Flying Fish
LOUIS JORDAN / Two Little Squirrels (Nuts to You) / (out of print LP) / rec. 1941
MIKE, PENNY, BARBARA AND PEGGY SEEGER / Racoon and Possum / Animal Folk Songs for Children / Rounder
GORDON BOK, ED TRICKETT AND ANN MAYO MUIR / Waltzing With Bears / The First 15 Years / Folk Legacy
DOC WATSON / The Intoxicated Rat / Doc Watson / Vanguard
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND / The Boll Weevil / Blue Flame String Band / Carrot
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT / Tennessee Stud / The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott / Vanguard
ALICE GERRARD & MIKE SEEGER / Old Blue / Bowling Green / 5-String Productions
JOHN McCUTCHEON / Dog's Lfe / Spring Songs / Rounder
REELTIME TRAVELERS / Little Bird of Heaven / Livin' Reeltime Thinkin' Oldtime / www.reeltimetravelers.com
LONESOME RIVER BAND / Stray Dogs and Alley Cats / Window of Time / Doobie Shea
NEW GOLDEN RING / The Kangaroo Song / Five Days Singing Vol. 2 / Folk Legacy
KENTUCKY COLONELS / Listen to the Mockingbird / Livin' In the Past / Sierra
FERLIN HUSKY / Wings of a Dove / Vintage Collection / Capitol
MIKE SEEGER / Tennessee Dog / Solo Oldtime Country Music / Rounder
MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK / Skewbald / Skin and Bone / Topic
RALPH RICHARDSON / Little Dog Yodel / (out of print LP) / Rec. 1928
MIKE, PENNY, BARBARA AND PEGGY SEEGER / The Kicking Mule / Animal Folk Songs for Children / Rounder

Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK in Los Angeles and streaming and archived on the web at www.kpfk.org. Past playlists are at www.aliveandpicking.com