Song of the Open Road

Episode 23, aired April 24, 2009. Featured text was "Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman. Dedicated to Pearl & George, a couple of real road warriors!

Part 1

1. Rocky Road Blues - Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys
2. Song of Nymphs I - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. I Put a Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
6. Clarinade - Benny Goodman
7. I Want To Be Your Driver - Chuck Berry
8. Song of Nymphs II - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
9. Shivers Down My Spine - King Khan & the Shrines
10. Little Demon - - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Part 2

1. Footprints in the Snow - Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys
2. Song of Nymphs III - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Land of the Freak - King Khan & the Shrines
4. Alligator Wine - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
5. Destroyer - King Kahn & the Shrines
6. All the Cats Join In - Benny Goodman
7. Back in the USA - Chuck Berry
8. Song of Nymphs IV - Marjan Mozetich / Erica Goodman (harp)
9. Heavy Traffic Ahead - Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys

Never Be Dead

Episode 22, aired April 17, 2009. Featured several poems by Milton Acorn read with Papineau-Couture's String Quartet.

Part 1

1. Charge - Asian Dub Foundation
2. Humanoid Boogie - Bonzo Dog Band
3. String Quartet, 2nd movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
4. C.C. And O. Blues - Pink Anderson
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Free Satpal Ram - Asian Dub Foundation
7. String Quartet, 1st movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
8. You Got it Wrong - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
9. Dub Mentality - Asian Dub Foundation

Part 2
1. If You Don't Give Me What I Want - Blind Boy Fuller & Floyd Council
2. String Quartet, 4th movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
3. Never Be Dead - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. Culture Move - Asian Dub Foundation
5. Take My Hand - Jennifer Gentle
6. String Quartet, 3rd movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
7. Who Are the Brain Police? - The Mothers of Invention
8. Dumb It Down - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
9. Charge - Asian Dub Foundation

Bacillus Anthracis

April 8, 2009. This episode concerned Anthrax, the bacteria & the band. Featured text was the audiobook The Demon in the Freezer: a True Story by Richard Preston.

Part 1

1. elementary particles - The Hylozoists
2. Chromatic Death - Anthrax
3. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme - Frank Zappa
4. Reverb 10,000 - Man ... or ASTROman?
5. the fifty minute hour - The Hylozoists
6. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
7. Bring the Noise - Anthrax (with Public Enemy)
8. smiley smiley - The Hylozoists
9. Nine Types of Industrial Pollution - Frank Zappa
10. Protest and Survive - Anthrax

Part 2

1. Pipeline - Anthrax
2. The Dancing Top - Violet Archer
3. Zolar Czakl - Frank Zappa
4. Singing Bells - Violet Archer
5. warning against judging a christian brother - The Hylozoists
6. Name of Numbers - Man ... or ASTROman?
7. In the Woods - Violet Archer
8. Milk (Ode to Billy) - Anthrax
9. hearts & harps - The Hylozoists
10. Gay is the Rose - Violet Archer
11. Uncle Meat Variations - Frank Zappa
12. Music Everywhere - Violet Archer
13. Sects - Anthrax
14. straight is the gate - The Hylozoists

Lungbuttered Souls

Episode 20 aired April 1, 2009, featuring the music of Lungbutter, an anticommercial dada-rock combo that apparently thrived in 1990s Regina without me knowing about them. I played music from their masterpiece debut, Available Now, with music by Sun Ra, Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser, with poems read from Dennis Cooley's tounge-in-cheak satire Soul Searching, in which souls are imagined as material, not spiritual, entities, vulnerable to electric storms and vacuum cleaners.

Part 1

1. Lungbutter Theme - Lungbutter
2. Carowinds - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
3. Kingdom of Not - Sun Ra
4. Intestinal Fortitute - Lungbutter
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Wascana Lake - Lungbutter
7. Captain Fortune - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
8. Music For People People With Short Attention Spans - Lungbutter
9. Thither and Yon - Sun Ra
10. Ecstasy Girl - Lungbutter

Part 2

1. Medicine for a Nightmare - Sun Ra
2. Boogerchair - Lungbutter
3. Twilight in Duckburg - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
4. That Bitch - Lungbutter
5. Rocket Number Nine - Sun Ra
6. Space Wiener - Lungbutter
7. Number Twenty-Two Is - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
8. Underwear - Lungbutter
9. We Travel the Spaceways - Sun Ra