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A SONIC SEASON OF LIGHT & EVERGREENS
Our “Sonic Season” includes Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzza and Boxing Day. We celebrate with New Orleans Zion Harmonizers live in our studio. Woody Guthrie sings a Hanukkah song while Bob Dylan tells of “Three Angels.” We interview a black Santa about his Christmas days in Vietnam, and Bob Dorough sings “Blue Xmas,” the song he wrote for Miles Davis. Meanwhile, life in America goes on… in hopes and dreams that bring light to the darkness…
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Anji Simon & Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence , Columbia - California Dreaming Bobby Womack
Why Do Fools Fall in Love Soundtrack, Rhino - River Joni Mitchell
Blue, Warner Reprise - Winterlude Joe Ely
To Kate: A Benefit for Kate's Sake, Western Beat Records - Seasons of My Heart George Jones
Cup of Loneliness, The Classic Mercury Years, Mercury - Baby It's Cold Outside Ray Charles and Betty Carter
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You, Rhino - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday, Columbia/Legacy - Instrumental: The Hidden Light Andy Statman
The Hidden Light, Sony Classical - On the King's Highway Andy Statman
Old Brooklyn, Shefa - Abi Gezunt Klezmer Conservatory Band
Oy Chanukah!, Rounder - Sleigh Ride Bela Kleck & the Flecktones
Jingle All the Way, Rounder - Hanukkah Dance Woody Guthrie
Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways - Three Angels Bob Dylan
New Morning, Columbia - Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve - Christmas Night in Harlem Louis Armstrong
Hipster's Holiday: Vocal Jazz and R&B Classics, Rhino - Instrumental: Santa's Second Line New Birth Brass Band
A New Orleans Christmas, Putomayo - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Mississippi Fred McDowell
15 Down Home Gospel Classics , Arhoolie - We Free Kings Rahsaan Roland Kirk
We Free Kings, Mercury - CLIP: Zion Harmonizers
- End Bed: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Jimmy Smith
Christmas Cookin' , Verve
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Christmas Blues Ramsey Lewis
The Joy of Christmas Past, GNP - Faraway Christmas Blues Johnny Otis
The Johnny Otis R&B Caravan/Complete Savoy Recordings , Savoy - Baltimore Oriole Bob Dorough
Devil May Care, Bethlehem Archives - CLIP: Bob Dorough
- Blue Christmas Lumineers
Blue Christmas- Single, Lumineers - Merry Christmas Baby Charles Brown
Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics , Rhino - Instrumental: Greensleeves Jimmy Smith
Christmas Cookin' , Verve - Christmas in Vietnam Johnny & Jon
Merry Christmas Baby, Ronn - SEGMENT: Chuck Siler
- Santa Claus is Skating to Town Granville Williams Orchestra
Natty and Nice, A Reggae Christmas, Rhino - Christmas Is A Coming Leadbelly
Leadbelly Sings for Children, Smithsonian Folkways - J'ai Vu le Loup, Le Renard et la Belette Balfa Brothers
Balfa Brothers Play More Traditional Music, Swallow - Bachata en Navidad La Sonara Matancera featuring Celia Cruz
Celebremos Nochebuena con Sonora Matancera, Codigo Music - Feliz Navidad Los Straightjackets
'Tis the Season for Los Straightjackets, Yep Roc - Instrumental: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) Duke Ellington
Three Suites, Columbia - Sherburne (While Shephers Watched Their Flocks by Night) Sacred Harp Singers
Songs of the Christmas fromt he Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder - Cherry Tree Carol Pentangle
Solomon's Seal, Reprise - Greensleeves John Coltrane
The Best of John Coltrane: His Greatest Years, Vol. 2, Impulse - O Day Bessie Johnes/ Georgia Sea Island Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder - End Bed: Auld Lang Syne John Fahey
John Fahey Christmas Soli, Fantasy
