PROGRAM 21: AND SHE NEVER HOLLERS COO-COO TILL THE FOURTH DAY OF JULY [07.05.12]

It's the day-late July 4th show (and the week late podcast!). The Mighty Grouse pays tribute to his sister bird, The Cuckoo, who only sings "cuckoo" each year on Independence Day. Then it's on to a big America set, which in true Grousey fashion has to end up in Trinidad eventually.

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• Charalambides - "Can You Count the Stars" (from The Historic 6th Ward)
• The Mighty Grouse talks out his ass about pneumonia and forgets the name of Trish Keenan
  • Charalambides - "Pieta" (from The Historic 6th Ward)
• Clarence Ashley - "The Coo-Coo Bird" (from Roots of Drone)(really!)
• Tom Carter and Christian Kiefer - "The Coo-Coo Bird" (from From The Great American Songbook)
• Dorothy Carter - "The Cuckoo" (from Troubador)
• John Fahey - "Variations on the Coocoo" (from The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites)
• Robert Wyatt - "Cuckoo Madame" (from Cuckooland)
• Antiteater - "Opening" (from Cloud Cuckooland)
• Genesis - "Cuckoo Cocoon" (from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
• Erik Darling - "Cuckoo" (from True Religion)
• Gary Higgins - "Cuckoo" (from Red Hash)
• Holy Modal Rounders - "Cuckoo" (from Holy Modal Rounders Vol 1)
• Monks - "Cuckoo" (from Black Monk Time)
• Obscure album liner notes read by the Mighty Grouse!
  • Joseph Byrd - selections from Yankee Transcendoodle
• Bill Orcutt - "The Star-Spangled Banner" (from YouTube)
• Liquor Store - "Proud to Be an American Man" (from Yeah Buddy)
• Prince - "America" (from Around the World in a Day)
• Ray Charles - "America the Beautiful (followed by a Coke Commercial)" (from Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection)
• Lord Invader - "Intro (with Alan Lomax) / Rum and Coca-Cola" (from Calypso At Midnight)
• Duke of Iron - "Intro (with Alan Lomax) / Roosevelt in Trinidad" (from Calypso After Mignight)
• Mighty Zebra & La Motta Brothers - "We Like Ike" (from Muriel's Treasure)
• Mighty Terror & His Calypsonians - "Heading North" (from Trojan Calypso Box Set)
• Mighty Sparrow - "Jean and Dinah" (from 16 Carnival Hits)
• Mighty Sparrow - "Yankees Gone / Steel Band Procession" (from Calypso Awakening: From The Emory Cook Collection)
• Van Dyke Parks - "Stars and Stripes Forever" (from Discover America)
• Grouse, your instincts proved right for once, that was Packy Axton. Also Grouse enjoys saying "yank me" a little too much.
  • Baracudas - "Yank Me (Doodle)" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• The Liberty Belles - "Shing-a-Ling Time" (S-209)
• Funkadelic - "Groovallegiance" (from One Nation Under a Groove)

PROGRAM 20: DEATH SET, PT II [06.07.12]

The Mighty Grouse is a lazy bird. It is known. But I've been meaning to post this podcast for weeks. It almost went out right on the tail of the first half of the DEATH SET, but late night Audacity cleanup sessions can only take you so far before a 6 AM flight to Minneapolis. And now it's been in the can for a week waiting for Verizon to recover from THE GREAT STORM OF 2012. Goodbye DSL, you are dead to me, literally.

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• The Dillards - "Intro/Band in the Hollow" (from There Is a Time (1963-70))
• The Dillards - "There Is a Time" (from There Is a Time (1963-70))
• The Dillards - "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune" (from Wheatstraw Suite)
• The Dillards - "Last Thing On My Mind" (from Let The Music Flow: The Best of 1963-1979)
• Dillard & Clark - "Don't Let Me Down" (from Through The Morning, Through The Night)
• King Grouse jumps on top of the breakdown to introduce the show. With perfect timing!
  • Doug Dillard & Frank Wakefield - "Dixie Breakdown" (from Marin County Bluegrass Festival)
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Doc & Merle Watson - "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (from Marin County Bluegrass Festival )
• Doc Watson - "Talk About Suffering" (from Doc Watson)
• Doc Watson - "St. James Hospital" (from Doc Watson)
• Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley - "Old Ruben" (from The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962)
• Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley - "I'm Sitting On Top of the World" (from The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962)
• Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson - "The Coo-Coo Bird" (from The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962)
• Sahilin and Siti Rohmah - "Terang Bulan" (from Music of Indonesia, Vol. 20: Indonesian Guitars)
• A Passage from Part I of Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, read by Christopher Hurt
  • Windy & Carl - "Antarctica" (from Antarctica)
• Grouse says goodbye to Death.
  • The Meters - "Darling Darling Darling" (from Funkify Your LIfe: The Meters Anthology)
• The Apples in Stereo - "The Narrator/Tidal Wave" (from Fun Trick Noisemaker)
• King Tuff - "Hit & Run" (from King Tuff)
• Grass Widow - "Disappearing Industries" (from Internal Logic)
• B-52's - "52 Girls" (from Rock Lobster (DB-52))
• Henry Cow - "Industry" (from Western Culture)
• Günter Schickert - "Side A" (from Uberfallig)
• Giuseppi Logan - "Curve Eleven" (from More)
• The Girls - "Jeffrey I Hear You" (from Reunion)
• Normally jumping at the chance to go over into Uncle Matt's time, Grouse instead gets out while the gettin's good.
  • Stereolab - "Les Yper-Sound" (from Emperor Tomato Ketchup)