Saturday Morning Coffee House – January 2, 2010 – Playlist

Saturday Morning Coffee House (Music) with Matthew Baya 01/02/2010 06:00AM to 10:00AM

06:00AM Lui Collins “Rooty Toot Toot For The Moon” from Baptism Of Fire (Folk)

06:05AM Jonathan Edwards “Howl At The Moon” from Man In The Moon (Folk)

06:09AM Nick Drake “Pink moon” from Way To Blue (Folk)

06:12AM Gaelic Storm “Me & The Moon” from Bring Yer Wellies (World) on Lost Again

06:17AM Harvey Reid “The Coming of Winter” from Overview (Folk)

06:26AM Anne Dodson “The Coffeepot Song” from Almost Grown…For Kids And Their Adults (Folk)

06:23AM John Gorka “St. Caffeine” from After Yesterday (Folk)

06:32AM John McCutcheon “Wintersong” from Wintersongs (Children’s Music)

06:28AM Anne Dodson “The Duchess At Tea” from Almost Grown…For Kids And Their Adults (Folk)

06:36AM Mad Agnes “Winter Snows” from Magic Hour (Folk)

06:39AM Lui Collins “Awaiting The Snow” from Baptism Of Fire (Folk)

06:43AM Rod MacDonald “The Coming Of The Snow” from Highway To Nowhere (Folk)

06:48AM Kreg Viesselman “New Hampshire Snow” from Kreg Viesselman (Folk)

06:52AM Joel Mabus “Five Kinds Of Snow” from Promised Land (Folk)

06:55AM Dar Williams “February” from Mortal City (Folk)

07:03AM Dar Williams “Mortal City” from Mortal City (Folk)

07:16AM Anni Clark “Bill Shepard’s Van” from Live (Folk)

07:11AM Bobbi Lane “Suspended” from Suspended (Folk)

07:21AM Anni Clark “I’m From Maine” from Live (Folk)

07:23AM Schooner Fare “County Song” from A Twentieth Anniversary Party (Album, Folk, 1996) on Outer Green Records

07:26AM Schooner Fare “Portland Town” from Schooner Fare – The First Ten Years (CD, Album, Folk, 1986) on Outer Green Records

07:35AM Loudon Wainwright III “Christmas Morning” from Social Studies (Folk)

07:39AM Dar Williams “Christians and Pagans” from Mortal City (Folk)

07:42AM Stan Rogers “First Christmas” from Between The Breaks… Live! (Folk)

07:50AM Tom Lewis “Christmas At Sea” from 360º (Folk)

07:55AM Jack Kid “New Year New England” from Espresso Ecstasy (Folk)

08:04AM Robert Earl Keen “Merry Christmas From The Family” from Party Never Ends (CD, Album, Rock) Request

08:08AM Pat Humphries “Another New Year” from Hands (Folk)

08:12AM Bill Morrissey “Birches” from Philo 20th Anniversary (Album, Folk) on Philo

08:15AM Small Potatoes “Woodcutter’s Song/Star of Munster” from Time Flies (CD, Album, Folk)

08:19AM Rounds Galore “Snow” from Rounds Galore … and More (Folk)

08:22AM Rounds Galore “Long Is Our Winter” from Rounds Galore & More (CD, Album, Folk)

08:25AM Lou and Peter Berryman “When it Blows It Snows” from Cow Imagination (CD, Album, Folk, 1990) on Cornbelt (http://members.aol.com/berrymanp/)

08:28AM Lou and Peter Berryman “Cheese & Beer & Snow” from House Concert (CD, Album, Folk) on Cornbelt (http://members.aol.com/berrymanp/)

08:35AM Mike Agranoff “Ballad Of The Sandman” from The Modern Folk Musician (Folk)

08:48AM Finest Kind “No More Fish, No Fisherman” from Heart’s Delight (CD, Album, 1999) on Fallen Angle

08:52AM Stan Rogers “Make and Break Harbour” from Fogarty’s Cove (Remastered) (CD, Album, Folk, 1990) on Fogarty’s Cove Music

09:02AM Great Big Sea “Fisherman’s Lament” from Great Big Sea (Album, Folk, 1998) on WM Canada

09:07AM Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen “Sink the Constitution” from Aces High (CD, Album, Rock, 2007) on Relix Classics Request

09:11AM Fred Small “If I Were A Moose” from I Will Stand Fast (Folk)

09:15AM Joel Mabus “Freeport” from Promised Land (CD, Album, Folk, 1994) on Fossil Records

09:19AM Schooner Fare “Mary L McKay,The” from Classic Schooner Fare (7sel) (Folk)

09:24AM Stan Rogers “The Wreck of the Athens Queen” from Fogarty’s Cove (Remastered) (1990) on Fogarty’s Cove Music

09:27AM Great Big Sea “A Boat Like Gideon Brown (Live)” from Courage, Patience, & Grit (CD, Album, Folk) on Zoe

09:31AM Celtic Connection “The Last Shanty” from Higher (CD, Album, Folk)

09:34AM Boarding Party “One More Day” from Fair Winds and a Following Sea (CD, Album, Folk)

09:36AM Boarding Party “Alabama, The” from Tis Our Sailing Time (CD, Album, Folk)

09:40AM The Revels “Sailing Home / Leave Her, Johnny” from Blow, Ye Winds, In the Morning (CD, Album, Folk, 1984) on Revels Records

09:44AM Geoff Kaufman “Leave Her Johnny” from Sea Music Festival: 22nd Mystic Seaport (CD, Album, Folk)

09:46AM Stan Rogers “Finchs Complaint” from Fogarty’s Cove (CD, Album, Folk) on Fogarty’s Cove Music

09:49AM Dave Mallett “Main Street” from This Town (Folk)

09:53AM Zoe Speaks “Money’s Our God” from Pearl (Folk)

09:55AM Carla Ulbrich “We Don’t Need A WalMart” from Live From Outer Space (Folk)

I feel so moved

So for some combination of guilt and boredom I feel like I should make an actual blog entry. There have been a number of times when I’ve been commuting where I had an idea for a short, glib, interesting and inciteful blog entry but by the time I got in front of a computer it had long since faded away. Plus having an entry like that here wouldn’t really fit in with the current contents anyways 🙂 So I figured I’d start an entry and put a few thoughts in here, revise it a few times and call it good enough. I know my masses of fans are eagerly awaiting my brilliant entries 🙂

Taking a page from the Colbert Report, here’s my Tip of my hat & Wag of my finger thoughts for the day:

Wag of my finger:

  • Borders Books – I am pissed off at whomever the big wigs are at Border’s HQ that decided to make 1/4 of there store a Toy Store. The reason we bring our kids to Borders, and not Toys R Us is to show them that we are willing to buy them books and that reading is exciting and fun. It was hard enough keeping them away from the books that came with a matchbox car but now that you’ve got an entire section for Legos and other plastic stuff visiting your store has become exponentially less fun and as a result we will be shopping there less. Oh and to top it all off, I see Toy stores clossing left and right… great idea to jump on that bandwagon, maybe you should investigate selling Dot Matrix Printers, Video Cassettes and possibly even start renting DVDs too. But actually, thank you, I really should be supporting smaller more local book stores anyways, and now that your true colors are shining through I’ll be more likely to do that. I did speak with the Bangor Border’s Store Manager the first time we encountered this and he totally agreed and basically said the order came from on high that this is what they had to do.  So again, whoever the expert consumer marketing strategist at the Border’s main office that came up with this idea, I have nothing but ill wishes for you this holiday season. Hrumph. grumble. grumble. grumble. <waves cane>.
  • Democrats – My favorite tweet about them from last September still seems quite on target – “BREAKING NEWS: Democrats Hoping To Take Control Of Congress From Republican Minority In 2010″.

Tip of my hat:

  • The Sing Off – While neither Emily or I are particularly skilled singers we’ve always enjoyed listening to acapella groups and have stack of BOCA (Best Of College Acapella) CDs that we bought a number of years ago when the folks who organized BOCA actually had a retail store right next to the school she was teaching at (it’s now web only at http://www.a-cappella.com/ ). Marshall has a CD we play in his room every night as he’s going to be which features almost all acapella songs, and for years Owen had a variant of this CD playing in his room too. So the new short but fun series NBC has on right now, The Sing Off, has been fun to watch and listen to.
  • Phineas & Ferb – Owen asked to watch this show sometime last year, and I had never heard of it before. Around the same time some other friends posted links to some videos of songs from the show and I saw it stream by once or twice on Facebook. Despite it’s actually being shown on the Disney Channel it’s surprisingly good. One of those shows which is fun for kids and has stuff parents giggle at too. Lots of repeating jokes. Admittedly predictable and dumb at times, but overall I give it a thumbs up. We just ordered it (though since it’s not arriving until after we leave for xmas travels I grabbed a copy off the salty pirate seas as well. arr.)