Hobo's Lullaby Radio Opry!

On this week's episode, we reveled in the fact that the show is now at noon, which means Carter and I are at least awake enough to brush our teeth. The downside being that they usually run out of everything bagels at the cafeteria by that time.

Click HERE to listen to this week's episode.

This week's playlist:

1. Neko Case: Wayfaring Stranger
2. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Just a Simple Flower
3. Jeff Buckley: Mama, You Been On My Mind
4. The Red Rose: The Everybody Fields
5. This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb: Grampa
6. Neko Case: This Little Light
7. Doc Watson: There's More Pretty Girls Than One
8. John Prine, Lyle Lovett & Robert Earl Keen: Rollin' By
9. Pine Pill Haints: Wade In the Water
10. Gillian Welch: Red Clay Halo
11. Sam Johnson: We Done Quit
12. The Weakerthans: Wellington's Wednesdays
13. Against Me!: Eight Hours Full of Sleep
14. Defiance, Ohio: Promises
15. Henry Thomas: Railroadin' Some
16. Merle Haggard: My Rough and Rowdy Ways
17. Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Band: Baby Please Don't Go
18. k.d. lang: I'm Down to my Last Cigarette
19. Harry McClintock: Big Rock Candy Mountain
20. Willie Nelson: Can I Sleep In Your Arms
21. Th' Legendary Shack Shakers: Misery Train
22. Patsy Cline: Walkin' After Midnight
23. Old Crow Medicine Show: Rub Alcohol Blues
24. Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters: West Virginia Gals
25. Th' Legendary Shack Shakers: Agony Wagon
26. The Velvet Underground: Send No Letter
27. Bill Monroe & Doc Watson: What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul?
28. Bumble Bee Slim: I Done Caught My Death Of Cold
29. David Rovics: After the Revolution
30. Tom Frampton : Five String

I also shared with our listeners some thoughts on the appeal of hoboing from The Texas Madman Grand Duke of Hobos:

"What's the appeal of Hobo Life? So what appeal to this kind of life is there really?, to the neo-phyte, imagine a way of life where you are not bound by time schedules, home owner bill, job expectations, the IRS, you can live where you want, sleep where you want, travel wherever you want as long as its' in the continental US and Canada. Never pay a travel fare unless you want to, never pay rent, electric, gas, water, or cable bills, never pay taxes, and see places in the US and Canada others only see in the movies, or in a magazine. Sound like the lifestyle of Bill Gates, or Donald Trump?, well hundreds of folks live that kind of life every day, in fact that kind of life/culture has been going on since just after Americas' Civil War. A lifestyle/culture so sweet, so addictive, so seductive, so intoxicating, that those of us who retire after 20, 30, even 40 years of are never really free of it. Because Lady Freedom has gotten too far in our blood to gotten rid of her completely. Freedom, complete freedom, and the ability to pursue that ultimate free life, and the vehicle to propel you ion such a quest, and a constitutionally base right to free movement. It's truly a drug, a greasy steely drug that once it gets in your blood it's there for good, and no matte how you've retired, no matter how much you deny it, you'll never be free of it. Whenever you hear a train whistle, whenever you see a moving train, or just train cars, or even train tracks, that longing in your heart will tug at you so tight you'll realize that you're addicted for life!" (hobo.com)

See you next week on Sunday at noon! Send us cool stuff for our zine/show!

~Jenna

New time!

Hobo's Lullaby will now be on wmuc radio (88.1 FM on the dial in College Park, or stream it live on wmucradio.com) from 12-2 pm on Sunday afternoons.

Hope y'all listen in!

~Jenna

This week's episode...Just the basics.

Well, we're all tired kids, so let's just listen to the show.

This week's playlist:

1. Johnny Cash: You Are My Sunshine
2. Gillian Welsh: Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
3. Ray LaMontagne: Trouble
4. Cat Stevens: Trouble
5. The New Lost City Ramblers: Jordan Is A Hard Road To Travel
6. Odetta: Bourgeois Blues
7. Shannon Murray: Hallelujah I'm A Bum
8. The Almanac Singers: Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
9. Doc Watson: Rank Stranger
10. Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins:
Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley
11. Dave End: When I Grow Up
12: Brenna Sahatjian: Moonsong (Trash Monster)
13. Evan Greer: Picketline
14. Sergio Ortega: El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido
15. Keith and Rusty McNeil: Ten and Nine
16. Sleepy John Estes: Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues)
17. Tom Frampton: Ambush
18. Cloud Cult: Transistor Radio
19. John Denver: Leavin’ On A Jet Plane
20. Rosa: Leah's Song
21. Subhumans: Worlds Apart
22. Joni Mitchell: Parking Lot
23. Robert Johnson: Last Fair Deal Gone Down
24. Country Joe & The Fish: I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die
25. Laura Cantrell: Sam Stone
26. Adam Tanner: Sic' em Dogs On
27. Sentridoh/Lou Barlow: Open Door War
28. John Denver: Looking For Space
29. Odetta: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
30. Manu Chao: Clandestino
31. Tom Waits: Home I'll Never Be


Sorry there's no exciting shit this week. Here, look, a cool picture:

Andrea enjoying vegan burrito goodness that Jenna made in the TOTALLY PUNK ROCK DORCHIE KITCHEN.

~J

This week's episode!

This week, Carter and I were saddened to have to say goodbye to our friend and fellow DJ, Bryan Massoff, the host of Moroder Lives on WMUC. Bryan was found dead in his apartment last Monday (there is an article from our school paper here). He will be sorely missed by all, and various WMUC DJs will continue to play his favorite music and tell stories about what an awesome dude and brilliant dresser he was, during his regular time slot from 10 pm-12 pm every Monday night. You can stream it live at wmucradio.com, or check the archives under Monday, Moroder Lives.
This week we also heard a report back from Powershift '07, the nation's first youth led summit to solve the climate crisis. Jenna shared some excerpts from "What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way," and Carter talked about mountaintop removal and how it sucks on pretty much every level of suckiness.

You can listen to this week's episode HERE.

This week's playlist:
1. Scott Matthew: In The End
2. Woody Guthrie: Will You Miss Me?
3. The Fools: Ambiguous Utopia
4. Tin Tree Factory: Grown Up Kids
5. The Weakerthans: Illustrated Bible Stories For Children
6. Wind And Rain: Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, and David Steele
7. Lost Highway: Jeff Buckley
8. Cross Road Blues: Robert Johnson
9. TCI Section Crew: Track Linin'
10. Tom Waits: Bottom of the World
11. Woody Guthrie: Along In The Sun & Rain
12. Ryan Harvey: Making The Road As We Go
13. Phil Ochs: Days of Decision
14. Bread And Roses: Bedtime For Plutocracy
15. The Fools: Heart Strings
16. Lia Rose: Awake
17. Evan Dando: Why Do You Do This To Yourself?
18. Heavenly Gospel Singers: We Shall Not Be Moved
19. This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb : We Shall Not Be Moved
20. Rosa: Bike Rides & High Fives
21. Mirah: Bella Ciao
22. Ryan Harvey: 'Til It's Worker-Run!
23. Against Me!: Beginning In An Ending

More to come, but right now Jenna is at her internship at NCTE and needs to freak out over ENDA some more.

Solidarity,
J

p.s. My friend Eitan pointed me in the direction of this website, which talks about how hoboes played into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Hoboes, they're everywhere!