Uncontrollable Urge (Music)
Wed Apr 27th 2011 10.00am–12.00pm
R=listener request.
N=music new at the station.
L=local music. Your
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Time zone: central
10:01am | Hazel and Alice “Working Girl Blues” from Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard (Rounder 1998) —Happy May Day RIP Hazel DickensBuy it! |
10:04am | Hazel and Alice “Mining Camp Blues” from Hazel And Alice (Rounder 1973) —Welcome to the annual Uncontrollable Urge May Day show.Buy it! |
10:07am | Strange Creek Singers “Black Lung” from Strange Creek Singers (Arhoolie Records www.arhoolie.com 1972) —Workers of the world, exhale.Buy it! |
10:11am | Kilby Snow “Ain't Going to Work Tomorrow” from Masters of Old-time Country Autoharp (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings www.folkways.si.edu 2006) —Today's music bed.Buy it! |
10:13am | Johnny Paycheck “Take This Job & Shove It” SINGLE (CBS 1977)Buy it! |
10:16am | Woody Guthrie “Union Burying Ground” from My Dusty Road (Rounder 2009)Buy it! |
10:20am | Tennessee Ernie Ford “Work Song” from The Ultimate Collection (Razor & Tie 1997) —1962. Nice version of Nat Adderly/Oscar Brown Jr. song.Buy it! |
10:24am | Merle Haggard “Tulare Dust” from Down Every Road 3 (CAPITOL NASHVILLE 1996)Buy it! |
10:26am | Bobby Bare “Daddy's Been Around The House Too Long” from Hard Time Hungrys (Curb 1975) —Shel Silverstein SongBuy it! |
10:28am | Joe & Eddie “Ox Drivers' Song” from Joe & Eddie (GNP Crescendo 1967)Buy it! |
10:32am | Big Bill Broonzy “Sixteen Tons” from Big Bill Broonzy: Absolutely the Best (Fuel 2000 2000) —Maybe 1967 too?Buy it! |
10:35am | John Doe And Jill Sobule “Under The Bridge” from A Day at the Pass (Pinko Records 2011) N Buy it! |
10:38am | X “The New World” from More Fun In The New World (Elektra 1983)Buy it! |
10:43am | Chumbawamba “The World Turned Upside Down” from Timebomb ep (One Little Indian Records www.indian.co.uk 1994)Buy it! |
10:45am | The May Day Orchestra “The Red Flag (Another Song For Lucy Parsons)” from May Day, or Songs For Lucy Parsons (Folk Opera 2009) L —Performing the whole album at Black Bear Bakery on Sunday, May 1, 2011 8:30pmBuy it! |
10:51am | The Decemberists “The Chimbley Sweep” from Her Majesty The Decembrists (Kill Rock Stars 2003) —At The Pageant tonight. A work song if you will.Buy it! |
10:54am | Bee Gees “New York Mining Disaster 1941” from Best of Bee Gees, Vol. 1 (Polydor 1969) —In the event that something happens to me.Buy it! |
11:00am | Utah Phillips “Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!” from We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years (Philo / Rounder 1984) —Main Wobbly singer of the later half of 20th C.Buy it! |
11:06am | Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock “The Bum Song” from Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! (Rounder 1990) —Recorded in the early 30s. Early Wobbly singer and general roustabout. Big Rock Candy Mountain man.Buy it! |
11:11am | The Three Johns “The World of the Workers Is Wild” from Live In Chicago (Buried Treasure Records 2004)Buy it! |
11:13am | Billy Bragg “There Is Power In a Union” from Talking With The Taxman About Poetry (Elektra 1986)Buy it! |
11:17am | Ford Pier “Employed” from Organ Farming - EP (Warner Music Canada 2007)Buy it! |
11:23am | Skafish “Work Song” from Skafish (I.R.S. 1980)Buy it! |
11:27am | Minutemen “The Struggle” from The Punch Line (SST 1981)Buy it! |
11:29am | Tsigotti “Children Slaves Make Children's Toys” from Private Poverty Speaks To The People Of The Party (ESP Disk 2010)Buy it! |
11:32am | Devo “Working In The Coal Mine” from Pioneer's Who Got Scalped: The Anthology (Warner Brothers 2000) —1981. Going down down to find that canary.Buy it! |
11:35am | Gang Of Four “To Hell With Poverty” from The Peel Sessions Album (Dutch East India 1990)Buy it! |
11:39am | The (International) Noise Conspiracy “Bigger Cages, Longer Chains” from A New Morning, Changing Weather (Epitaph / Burning Heart 2001)Buy it! |
11:44am | Magazine “Model Worker” from Urgh! A Music War (A&M 1981)Buy it! |
11:47am | X-Ray Spex “Warrior In Woolworth” from Germ Free Adolescents (Deluxe Version) (Castle Music 2001) —RIP Poly Styrene. Not really a May Day song but close enough.Buy it! |
11:50am | Midnight Oil “Sell My Soul” from Diesel and Dust (Columbia 1987) R —For and delivered by, Scott.Buy it! |
11:54am | The Clash “Clampdown” from London Calling CD ALBUM (Sony Legacy 1979) —I do wear a fair amount of blue and brown...Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate.
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