"Who's that Bird?" (Podcast Title)
Thanksgiving!
I thought tonight would be a good time to work in some farming songs, harvest songs, food songs, family songs and the odd tokin' tune. For some background, I talked about the history of Thanksgiving, and the English harvest festivals that inspired our fall holiday.
Also worked in a couple of ancient grain songs by way of a couple of folk songs, with a live rendition of John Barlycorn, related to the Indo-European myth of the dying corn god, whose remains we consume to this day...
Finally, worked in a moment about Ernest Charles Dury, 8th Premier of Ontario, some of his policies and his opinion about moving the date for Thanksgiving Day. We have our own election in a week, all shows are pre- emptied next week for that reason...
Track list-
*Allan Capson- Down In The Boondocks (RIP Billy Joe Royal)
Elvin Bishop- Fishin
*Blue Rodeo- Stealing All My Dreams
*Jarvis Street Revue- Uncle Benny
*Swank- Hey Jeb
*Wilf Carter- Waiting for the Maple Leaves to Fall
*Ray Materick- This Season of Plenty
*George Hamilton IV- Gonna be a Country Boy Again (Buffy Ste Marie cover)
*Buffy Sainte Marie- Men of the Fields
*Bob Burchill- Black Creek (ex Perth County Conspiracy)
*The Band- King Harvest- Live Hollywood Bowl l.p.
*Neil Young - Harvest Moon (live)
*Good Brothers- The Rabbit
*Jughead- Barn Song
*Don Garbutt- Turkey in the D.A.W.
The Blues Rockers- Calling all Cows
Cheech and Chong- Up in Smoke
Bettye Lavette- Thankful and Thoughtful (Sly Stone cover)
...and now some food toones...
Elijah and the Ebonites- Hot Grits!
Chuck Womack and the Sweet Souls- Ham Hocks and Beans
J.B.s- Pass the Peas
Rufus Thomas- Old MacDonald's Farm (live)
Johnny Morisette- I'm Hungry
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings- Fish in a Dish
Raynel Wynglas- Bar B Q Ribs
Giants- Fried Neckbones and Homefries (odd l.p. w/ Santana, War, etc)
Obie Plenty- Beef Stew
Fatback Band- Yum Yum Gimme Some
*Poppyseed Love Explosion- Bales of Pot
John Holt- Police in Helicopter
Carlton Livingston- Trodding through the Jungle
Neville Brown- Babylon Don't Touch My Sensi
Stevie Wonder- You Ain't Done Nothing... Dedicated to our current P.M.
*=Canadian cut
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