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.
Bold text indicates relatively new releases (including reissues and comps).
- Charalambides - "Can You Count the Stars" (from The Historic 6th Ward)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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