Carter's Solo Show

This week we had a very special episode of Hobo's Lullaby, where I, Carter, hosted all by myself. Jenna was cooking latkes at the co-op and so was unable to attend. I know you probably missed all the witty banter and pointless conversations, but hey, this time my mic was on. It was somewhat of an accomplishment for me to have filled up the whole two hours with only my own music, although it did stray somewhat from the folk theme, but not from the revolution. The twenty minute Godspeed song definitely helped. So heres the playlist:

Jolie Holland-The Grey funnel Line
Melanie Beautiful People-Look what They’ve Done To My Song, Ma
The Ditty Bops-Fish To Fry
Melanie Beautiful People-Brand New Key
Ash Reiter -Wide World
Beatbeat Whisper-Try Not To Let The Rain In Your Boots Child
Paul Baribeau-Christmas Lights
Woody Guthrie-Talking Hard Work
Tracy Chapman-Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
Black Ox Orkestar-Violin Duet
Defiance, Ohio- Eureka!
Rosa-Hit The Bottle
Ryan Harvey-Riding My Bike To Work In The Rain
Merle Haggard-Someone Told My Story
Jesse James-Southern Casey Jones
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band- Mountains Made of Steam
Willie Scarecrow Owens-Traveling Blues
Blind Blake-Georgia Bound
Ghost Mice-Figure 8
Tom Waits-Fumblin’ With The Blues
Desert Rat-Bloody Fascist Cargo Cans
Weakerthans- My Favorite Chords
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb-Selma
The Everybody Fields-Hobarts
Adhamh Roland-Tina Turner
Against Me!-We Laugh At Danger And Break All The Rules

December 2nd Hobo's Lullaby!

Despite Jenna not being able to press buttons, we made it through another episode of Hobo's Lullaby Radio Opry! And our good friends Aimee and Matt came to visit! Aimee, Matt, and Jenna hung out at the station until 4, playing a second two hour rock block of Heart Attack Fart Attack! Listen in to hear a side of Jenna you probably never wanted to!

Hobo's Lullaby Playlist:

1. Phil Ochs: When In Rome
2. Jonathan Byrd & Dromedary: I've Been Stolen
3. Gillian Welch: Ruination Day Part 2
4. Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins & Johnny Cash: Down by the Riverside
5. Ash Reiter: Movin On
6. Chris Isaak: 5:15
7. Adhamh Roland: Light A Fire
8. Doc Watson: Roll On Buddy
9. Against Me!: Cavalier Eternal
10. Defiance, Ohio: Lullabies
11. The Everybody Fields: Silver Garden
12. The Weakerthans: One Great City!
13. Woody Guthrie: Little Black Train
14. Beatbeat Whisper: Lulu
15. Cheese On Bread: Cornfields, Cornfields!
16. Simon & Garfunkel : A Poem On The Underground Wall
17. Chris Isaak: Return to Me
18. Gillian Welch: I Dream A Highway
19. Okkervil River: Dead Dog Song
20. The Carter Family: Black Jack David
21. Old Crow Medicine Show: Union Maid
22. Adhamh Roland: Bicycle Ride
23. Willie Nelson: The Harder They Come
24. Woody Guthrie: Worried Man Blues
25. Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues


Heart Attack Fart Attack Playlist:

1. Johnny Cash: Daddy Sang Bass
2. Loretta Lynn: Don't Come Home A Drinkin'
3. Jimmy Cliff: The Harder They Come
4. Tom Ze: Teatro (Dom Quixote)
5. Of Montreal: This Feeling
6. The White Stripes: Little Ghost
7. Loretta Lynn & Patsy Cline: You Ain't Woman Enough
8. Dave End: Teen Movie
9. Whiskeytown: Easy Hearts
10. The Weepies: Jolene
11. Stevie Wonder: We Can Work It Out
12. Tom Waits: Earth Died Screaming
13. Sarah Vaughan: Sinner or Saint
14. The Blow: Knowing the Things That I Know
15. Ray LaMontagne: Till The Sun Turns Black
16. The Mountain Goats: Riches and Wonders
17. Daniel Johnston: True Love Will Find You In the End
18. Merle Haggard: Honky Tonk Mama
19. Ricky Skaggs : Drunken Driver
20. Carl Perkins: Be Bop a Lula
21. Neko Case: Loretta
22. Iggy Pop: Real Wild Child
23. The Butchies: Send Me You
24. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps: Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back
25. Amy Ray: Johnny Rottentail
26. Kaki King: Yellowcake
27. Jeff Buckley: Bluebird Blues
28. Flight of the Conchords: I'm Not Crying
29. Cat Stevens: Miles From Nowhere
30. Girlyman: My Sweet Lord
31. Hedwig & The Angry Inch: Sugar Daddy
32. Hayseed Dixie: I Love Rock & Roll
33. Devendra Banhart: It's A Sight to Behold
34. Eartha Kitt: I Want To Be Evil


Also, please take the time to read THIS article.
And visit the Iraq Veterans Against the War website: http://www.ivaw.org/ to learn more about what you can do to really support the troops.

Solidarity,
Jenna

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!

October 29th Episode of Hobo's Lullaby!

Today on Hobo's Lullaby, we heard some breaking news on Dumbledore's sexuality, got an awesome call-in from honorary host Andrea Calderon, heard some No War No Warming stories from Carter, and listened, mouths agape, as Jenna accidentally cursed on the radio while talking about how the South will rise again (from the grave). Good job Jenna. We also got an update from Rae in Argentina, and heard some info about how y'all can help Red Emma's and 2640 recover from a recent break-in that left them devoid of some pretty important sound equipment:

"We were dismayed this afternoon to find our sound cabinet at 2640 broken open, with most of our sound system missing. About $2000 worth of gear was taken, almost all of which we had bought with money borrowed from our own (meager) personal finances in order to help get the space off the ground. We used this equipment for most of the events we do at the space, from talks to concerts to film screenings, and until we can replace it, we're pretty much screwed. We're trying to raise money to replace the stolen equipment - any support you can offer is greatly appreciated, and will help us get community events running smoothly and audibly at 2640 that much more quickly. You can donate online via paypal (at redemmas.org, or end checks made out to "Red Emma's" to: Red Emma's ATTN: Kate 800 St. Paul St. Baltimore, MD 21202)

If you come across any of the following equipment, please let us know at (410) 230-0450 or at info-at-redemmas.org:
-3 AKG D8000S Mics. labeled "2640"
-Yamaha EMC 5016C powered mixer
-Elation Stage setter 816CH DMX Stage Light Console
-2 c. 1970 Silver Realistic Mics."

Thanks!

To listen to this week's episode of Hobo's Lullaby, click on this: PRESSE LIBRE.
Today's playlist:

1. The Everybody Fields: His Pontiac
2. Will Bennett: Railroad Bill
3. God Gays and Guns: Hanging On The Ol' Barbed Wire
4. Umlaut: Let's Go(originally performed by Bette Midler)
5. Ash Grunwald: Tobacco Road
6. Bob Dylan: Pretty Boy Floyd
7. Bikini Kill: Rebel Girl
8. This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb: Trains and Cops
9. Bill Monroe & Doc Watson: Where Is My Sailor Boy (What Does The Deep Sea Say?)
10. Cisco Houston: The Cat Came Back
11. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Sweet Hitch-Hiker
12. Adhamh Roland: Ol' Timey Music
13. Daniel Johnston: Go
14. Dave End: Fruits Commonly...
15. Defiance, Ohio: Lambs At The Slaughter
16. Hayseed Dixie: Fat Bottom Girls
17. The Weakerthans: Aside
18. Ricky Skaggs: Ridin' That Midnight Train
19. Ryan Harvey: John Brown
20. Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Cold & Wet
21. Leadbelly: Ain't Gonna Study War No More
22. Janis Joplin: Mercedes Benz
23. Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie: Salt Peanuts
24. Bukka White: Special Stream Line
25. Brenna Sahatjian: Rise Like Lions
26. Old Crow Medicine Show: Take 'em Away
27. Defiance, Ohio: Road Signs Always Look Better Looking Over Your Shoulder

From Rae:

"Los turistas llaman a esta miseria color local." ~Piglia

I’ve thought for months that I was sad here, but I misunderstood. It’s Buenos Aires that is sad. It’s a sadness so full and unmoving that has settled in this place that it makes the air heavy and hard to breathe and spills out into the cracks in the ever-deteriorating sidewalks. It’s in the shit smeared all over the streets, the torn posters that line them, the eyes of the cartoneros and the little boys dressed in rags ever searching through the trash-cans. It presses against the women so slowly and forcefully that they are always shrinking to make room for it, their faces growing ever more hollow and corpse-like, like ghosts walking amongst us. There are real ghosts too. Dictators and caudillos whose legacies are buried deeply in the people’s memory, authors who walk purposefully into the sea to never return, desaparecidos whose stories never found endings, and madres still marching for answers but dying off without finding them. It’s a city surrounded by water so dirty it can’t be touched, where the tourists visit cemeteries and the corpses of the politicians dissapear. It's a culture where the people are always waiting and never sleeping. No one can sleep and no one can admit they’re tired. They dress to the nines, and dine on steaks, and drink cafecitos, and tango until morning, and it’s all too much and all too garish and obvious not to be a distraction, like silence is a collective fear.

There is beauty in Buenos Aires, though. You can find it at an old landfill that was filled and forgotten about. Years later, the nutrients the soil had absorbed from all of the waste began to nourish wild flowers that spread through it, until they seized the entire space. Rooted in the rubbish, they radiate through it, making the trash look like it was just put there as a foil to their beauty. It’s been named an Ecological Reserve now, because Buenos Aires needs to protect it. They're begging it to be a metaphore that if a place holds enough sadness for long enough, something beautiful is eventually bound to take root there and resist.

Just a reminder, we are still (as always) accepting submissions, of pretty much anything-- travel stories, DIY stuff, activist information, whatever. My friend BF sent us some vegan recipes he created, that Carter and I are definitely going to try out and report back on.

Solidarity,
Jenna