Here's the playlist for the June 16th edition of Sunday Street on WUSB-FM.
This program was pre-recorded on Saturday, June 15, 2024
Theme: Dave Van Ronk, Sunday Street (SUNDAY STREET, Philo)
Opening set
*Christian Parker, Wild Mountain Thyme (CHANGE IS NOW, EMG )
The Decemberists, June Hymn (THE KING IS DEAD, Capitol)
John Martyn, Sing a Song of Summer (THE TUMBLER, Island )
Jonathan Richman, That Summer Feeling (JONATHAN SINGS!, Sire)
Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow, Summer Fly (READY FOR THE TIMES, Red Guitar, Blue Music )
Peter Mulvey & Sista Strings, Early Summer of ’21 (LOVE IS THE ONLY THING, Righteous Babe)
Set # 2
*Richard Thompson, We Roll (SHIP TO SHORE, New West)
George Harrison, Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll) (ALL THINGS MUST PASS, Apple)
*Bruce Cockburn, On A Roll (O SUN, O MOON, True North)
Set # 3
*Richard Thompson, Life’s a Bloody Show (SHIP TO SHORE, New West)
The Kinks, Celluloid Heroes (EVERYBODY’S IN SHOW-BIZ, RCA)
Janis Ian, Stars (STARS, Columbia)
This edition of Sunday Street featured a conversation with acclaimed luthier John Monteleone in conjunction with an exhibition (‘Musical Masterworks – John Monteleone’s guitars and other instruments’) presently on view at The Long Island Museum in Stony Brook. We also spoke with Joshua Ruff, Co-Executive Director of the Museum, who was instrumental in curating the exhibition. Additionally, we spoke with Trevor Lawrence, the Director of ‘The Chisels Are Calling,’ a documentary about John Monteleone.
We played the following in conjunction with these conversations:
Mark Knopfler, Monteleone (AN EVENING WITH MARK KNOPFLER, via YouTube)
David Grisman, Dawgma (QUINTET 80, WB)
Ben Harper, Islip (WINTER IS FOR LOVERS, Anti-)
Chris Hillman, Eight Miles High (THE OTHER SIDE, Cooking Vinyl)
Woody Mann, Heading Uptown (at The Met, via YouTube)
Set # 4
*Willie Nelson, Hank’s Guitar (THE BORDER, Columbia)
Guy Clark, The Guitar (SOMEDAY THE SONG WRITES YOU, Dualtone)
Set # 5
Guy Clark, The Randall Knife (DUBLIN BLUES, Asylum)
Greg Brown, Billy From the Hills (THE LIVE ONE, Red House)
Loudon Wainwright III, A Father and a Son (HISTORY, Charisma)
Dylan
*Rory Block, Mother of Muses (POSITIVELY 4TH STREET, Stony Plain)
Bob Dylan, Crossing the Rubicon (ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS, Columbia)
*indicates new release or recent re-issue
Sunday Street is heard Sundays from 9 AM to 12 noon on WUSB, 90.1 fm and wusb.fm from Stony Brook, New York. The program is now in its 46th year. You can reach the program’s host, Charlie Backfish, at charles.backfish@stonybrook.edu