Beach Bonfire

Summer - We all have summertime rituals and traditions. — BBQ’s, Baseball and, if you’re lucky enough to live near the ocean or a lake, bonfires. You could head off to the beach in the early evening, start a fire with driftwood that you found lying around, cook hotdogs and roast some marshmallows.  More often than not, a couple of the gang would bring their guitars and sit around singing songs while   watching the firelight dance.

This show Beach Bonfire will feature some of those songs.  As the first sparks leap into the night, shadows stretch and twine across the sand. The fire whispers ancient secrets, drawing hearts closer, as if each flicker is a promise of magic about to awaken.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:17

This is Acoustic Avenue. I'm Ted Crouch, your host with co-producer Joe Little. We respectfully acknowledge that we live, work, and make our music on the traditional lands of the Sequekma nation who have cared for their territory within Turtle Island since time immemorial and continue to do so today. Summer. We all have summertime rituals and traditions, barbecues, baseball, and if you're lucky enough to live near the ocean or a lake with bonfires, you could head off to the beach in the early evening, start a fire with driftwood that you found lying around, cocottos, and some marshmallows. More often than not, a couple of the gang would bring their guitars and sit around singing songs while watching the firelight. In today's show, beach bonfire, we will feature some of those songs. To get things started, the Doobie Brothers play Blackwater. Following is JJ Hale with cocaine. Then Max Silver sings Midnight Special, and we end this set with the fluke of John B from the Beach Boys.

SPEAKER_15 1:58

Keep rolling all past just the same. Oh black water, keep on rolling. Oh black water, keep on rolling. Miss the moon won't keep on shen on me. Yeah, keep on shed me on that. Make everything all right. And I ain't got no work. Cause I ain't in your home. I don't care, don't make no difference to me. Just take that street car, let's go with the town. Yeah, I like to hear some funky ticks and let them dance on you, don't I find everything's over? Keep on rolling, miss, keep on shining on. More black water, keep on rolling this tip, keep on shining on. Oh black water, keep on rolling, this tip and moon, keep on chinin' on me. Keep on shining on that for make it all the things. Everything on make everything all that's take back to work. Pretty mama come and take me by the hand.

SPEAKER_08 4:30

By the hand, take me by the hand, pretty mama come and dance with your daddy all night long.

SPEAKER_15 4:36

I like to hear some fucking Dixie Land, pretty mama come and take me by the hand.

SPEAKER_08 4:41

I love the hand Take me by the hand, pretty mama come and dance with your daddy all night.

SPEAKER_15 4:47

I like to hear some fucking Dixie Land, pretty mama come and take me by the hand.

SPEAKER_08 4:52

I wanna hand me on the hand, pretty mama, come and dance with your daddy all that love.

SPEAKER_15 4:58

I like to hear some fucking Dixie Land, pretty mama, come and take me by the head. I like to hear some fucking Dixie Land, pretty mama, come and take me by the head. I wanna hair pretty mama on the day. I like to hear some fucking dicks and pretty mama come and take it by the head.

SPEAKER_23 5:54

If you wanna get down down on the ground, cocaine. Cocaine got the boots you want, give them blues, cocaine.

SPEAKER_18 6:27

Wait a day.

SPEAKER_23 6:32

Okay. Don't forget this fact, you can't get back to cocaine. Shit, don't lie, shit, don't lie, shit, don't lie. Cocaine Shit don't lie, shit, don't lie, shit, don't lie.

SPEAKER_19 8:03

Cocaine When you get up in the morning, you the work about the ring and the march into the tea bow. You see the same old thing Ain't no food upon the T-Bow Ain't no fork up in the pain. But you better not complain, boy. You get in trouble with the manight special, shine a light on me. Left the midnight special, you shine a light on me. We left you every news now. I said you better do right. You better not get about. I said you better not fight, boy. Or the sheriff you'll grab you, and the boys will be down. Well, the next thing you know, boy, you will be preserved special, shallow me. Let me not special. How do you else know? And the club that you walk out gorilla and shoot out and beat people in the head. She wants free black bell in that special me.

SPEAKER_12 11:16

All we come on this loop, John B, my grandfather and me around that sound we did roam drinking all night got into a fight.

SPEAKER_17 11:53

Well, I feel so broken. I wanna go home.

SPEAKER_10 12:01

So voice up the giant B sail. See how the main sail set. Call for the captain ashore.

SPEAKER_14 12:12

Let me go home. Let me go home.

SPEAKER_10 12:19

I wanna go home. Yeah, yeah. Well, I feel so broken. I wanna go home.

SPEAKER_15 12:42

Take him away.

SPEAKER_14 13:13

Let me go. Let me go. Let me go home.

SPEAKER_10 13:33

What could he cut the fill?

SPEAKER_12 13:37

Threw away on my grill. Then he took any ate up all of my corn.

SPEAKER_17 13:47

Let me go home. Why don't they let me go home?

SPEAKER_14 13:55

This is the worst trip I've ever been alone.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

This is a Christian. Keeping the mood warm and intimate with the dawn.

SPEAKER_11 15:06

Shining through the tree. Baby Reddy. Across the field where the cricket turns back by the oldest on the road. I'm gonna take it to a special place that nobody knows. Baby get ready.

SPEAKER_15 15:40

You and me go fishing in the dark, line on our backs and count the stars where the blue grass grows. Down by the river in the full moonlight, we'll be falling in love in the middle of the night. Just moving slow.

SPEAKER_14 16:08

Feels so good to be with you.

SPEAKER_11 16:17

Spring is almost over and the summer's come and the days are getting long. Wait it all in and for the time to be right just to take you along. Baby get ready. Jump in a river and cool ourselves from the heat of the night. Baby get ready.

SPEAKER_15 17:53

On the back, then count the stars where the cool grass grows. Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shannon go a river. Life is older, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze. Country roads, take me home to the place I belong, West Virginia, Mamma, take me home, country roads, all my memories gather round her. Dark and dusty painted on the sky. Misty taste of moonshine. Teardrop in my eye. Take me home. Country roads. I hear her voice in the morning hours. She calls me. Driving down the road, I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday. Yesterday, country road, take me home to the place. I be home West Virginia. Take me home. Take me home to the place.

SPEAKER_14 20:53

Take me home.

SPEAKER_18 20:59

Take me home. Take me home.

SPEAKER_16 21:35

Your way and my way, seem to be one and the same. Mama don't understand it. She wants to know where I've been. I have to be some kind of natural bone for the woman has that way again. But you know what you feel it. Country road, sail on home to Jesus. Won't you? Good girls and boys. I'm all in pieces. You can have your own choice. But I can be a heavenly band full of angels, and they're coming to set me free. I don't know nothing about the wild wind, but I can tell you that it's bound to be. Because I could feel it, child yet. On a country road. I guess my feet know where they want me to go. Walking on a country rope. Take to the highway, won't you? Lend me your name. Your way, my way. Seem to be one and the same child. Mama don't understand it. She wants to know where I've been. I have to be some kind of natural bone fool. I wanna pass that way again, but I could feel it low on a country road. Walk on down, walk on down, walk on down, walk on down, walk on down a country road.

SPEAKER_01 23:54

La la la la la la la Cunnery. Oh yeah, walking on a counter road.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

The minstrel love that dawn is here to make you laugh and bend your ear. Up the steps you'll hear him climb all full of thoughts, all full of rise. Listen to the pictures flow across the room into your mind. They go listen to the streams, they jangle and dangle the old guitaries. The minstrel love the dancy, not too wise, but also free. You'll talk of life out on the street, you'll play it sad and say it sweet. Look into his shiny face of loneliness. You'll always find a trace just like me and you he's trying to get into things more happy than blue. Just sit him down upon that chair, go fix him while sit it there. Listen to the pictures flow and follow the fingers where they go. Listen to the streams, the jangle and dangle of the old guitar in menstrual love, the dawn is near, just like a stepping fetch it here. Look into his shining eyes, and if you see a ghost, don't be surprised. Like the Ed He's trying to get into things more happy. He talks to the better days with your children's dream. Listen to the pictures blow across the room into your mind to go. Listen to the stream. I hope you'll come before too long. And if you need him, you must be the victim of this minstrel sing.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

In this next set, we have four songs that create a flow from playful and communal, intelligent, and romantic and spirited and late night. We have no bananas.

SPEAKER_21 30:33

A beautiful bunch, a ripe banana.

SPEAKER_06 30:37

Daylight come as we want. Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, punch.

SPEAKER_20 32:14

We have no bananas today. We've got string beans and onions and big juicy lemons and all kinds of fruit and same. We've got an old fashioned tomato. A long island potato. Oh yes, we have no bananas. We have no bananas today. Whose name is Mr. Peach. And he keeps good things to eat, but you should hear him speak. When you ask him anything, he never answers no. He just yeses you to death and then he takes your dough.

unknown 33:08

Oh yes!

SPEAKER_20 33:09

We no God of the banana. We no God of the banana today. Got a little beans and the bigger beans and a red the beans and a white the beans and all kinds of beans instead. We gotta the old fashioned salami. We even got a the Brooklyn pastrami. We not got a the banana.

unknown 33:40

We not got the banana today.

SPEAKER_20 34:12

Send for squallinick and gym. I need help right away. When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet. Someone asked for bananas, and then the whole quartet. Oh yes, we have no bananas. We have no bananas today. We have bananas and the carrots and celery and olives. But we got no bananas today.

SPEAKER_08 34:43

Who asked you for bananas anyway? Who asked you? I only want a hot dog sandwich. Hot dogs are better than bananas. I know what's the end?

unknown 34:52

Oh yes!

SPEAKER_20 34:53

We have no bananas.

SPEAKER_10 34:57

We have no bananas today!

SPEAKER_15 35:19

It was just after dark when the truck started down the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania, carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas, carrying thirty thousand pounds, hit it big junk of bananas. He was a young driver, just out on his second job, and he was carrying the next day's based boots for everyone in that cold scarred city, where children played without despair in backyard slack miles, and folks manage to eat each day.

SPEAKER_13 36:11

Open a just about their death thousand pounds. Dreaming again, John He passed the sign that he should have seen, saying shift the low gear of 50 dollars, find my friend. He was thinking perhaps about the warm breath woman who was waiting at the journey's end.

SPEAKER_15 36:39

He started down the two-mile drop, the curve and the road that wound from the top of the hill. He was pushing on through the shortening miles that ran down to the depot. Just a few more miles to go.

SPEAKER_13 36:56

Then he'd go home and have her ease. His long cramped the day away. And the smell of 30,000 pounds. A banana. Yes, the smell of 30,000 pounds. A banana. He was picking up speed as I said that spread its twinkling lights below him. But I paid no heed as a shivering thought of the night's delights who went through him.

SPEAKER_15 37:36

His work nursed the wits to slow him down. But the pedal floored easy without a sound. He said you could raise.

SPEAKER_13 37:58

Yellow green. I'm telling you, 30,000 pounds. Yes, there were 30,000 pounds. A bananas.

SPEAKER_15 38:32

And I won't. And it's the dog to make it a dream. And the road is last track down. It's the dog to make it a drink. And his sideswipe 19 eat bar cars. Clipped all thirteen telephone poles. Hip two houses, bruised eight trees, and blue crossed seven people. It was then he lost his head. Not to mention an arm or two before he starts.

SPEAKER_07 39:10

And he smeared for 400 yards along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania. All those thirty thousand pounds.

SPEAKER_13 39:27

Oh, the banana.

SPEAKER_15 39:39

You know the man who told me about it on the bus as it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_04 39:48

He shrugged his shoulders, he shook his head, and he said. And this is exactly what he said. Boy, it sure must have been shown. Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas. Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas of banana.

SPEAKER_05 40:30

Just banana. Thirty thousand pounds of banana. Not no driver now, just banana.

SPEAKER_03 41:00

After midnight, we gon' let it all hang out. After midnight, we gon' chill and shine. We're gon' cause talk and suspicion. Get an exhibition. Find out what it is on leave out. After midnight, we gon' let it all hang out. After midnight, gon' shake your temper After midnight. We're gonna cause talking to speech in exhibition. And that all is a whole event after midnight. We gonna let it all have token suspicion. Give me submission. Find out what it is on lay back. After midnight, we're gon' let it all hang out.

unknown 42:58

After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang out.

SPEAKER_00 43:10

This is the final set for today's special on fire on acoustic avenue. Stillness as the fire fades. To take us home, here is Hank Snow, John Denver, Cat Stevens, and Otis Redding.

SPEAKER_09 44:12

I was towed in my path along the dusty win a muck a road. When along came a semi with a high canvas cupboard load. If you're going to win a muck a mite with me, you can ride. So I climbed into the cabin and I settled down inside. He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand that I said, Listen, bud, I've traveled every road in this earland. I've been everywhere, man. I've been everywhere, man. Across the desert spare man, I breathe them out. An airman, I'll travel out of my share man, I've been everywhere. Mandarino, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Windsor, Sarasota, which you're talking about, so on the wall, on my tapa, paddam, at a moment, apple my van on a salvador. I'm a little down kill, I'm the dealer, I'm a killer, I'm an empty wear, man. I'm an empty where the mat. Airman, I breathe the mountain. Airman travel, I've been much airman, I've been every Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana, Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texas I can on a rave for a day, Santa Fatal. Hennessy, Chippakey Spirit, like Grand Lake, double lake, cradle lake for beats. Again, an empty wear, man. I've been everywhere, man. Such spare man, I breathe amounts and air, man. Travel about the pleasure, man. I've been everywhere. So wander to come to recognize springs to make a few street pocket cattle, like on the like devil, put out a whole job. Argentina, diamondina, Pasadena, Catalina, see when I mean sort of everywhere, man. I've been everywhere, man. Airman travel out of the mushroom, I've been expert, pocketable, ramble for Colorado, Elm's burger, Rexburg, Vicksburg, Elm, Ramalaramo, Atlanta, have a stretch, ascending, Nebraska, I'll ask, hopefully, like a bearable, wanna look how Mazoo, canvas, city, shoes, city, see the city, done, city, walk up, city. I'm an empty word, man. I'm an emptyware, man. Cause the desert spare man, I breathe the mountain, airman. I travel out of the pleasure, man. I know someplace you haven't been. I've been everywhere.

SPEAKER_15 47:12

Seventh year, coming home to a place he'd never been before. He left yesterday behind him. You might say he was born again. On the road, hanging by a song, but the strings already broken and he doesn't really care. It keeps changing fast, it don't last for long. Shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullaby. Rocky mountain high. And they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sun. And he lost a friend with kept a memory. Now he walks in quiet solitude. The forests and the streams, seeking race in every step you take. I've seen it a raining fire in the sky. Off the goddess and to the casual vlog. Rocky mountain high logo. Rocky mountain high logo. Now his life is full of wonder, but his heart still goes to fear of a simple thing we cannot cover. While they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more. More people, more scars upon the land. The Colorado, Rocky Mountain High. I've seen it raining five sky.

SPEAKER_08 53:48

Oh, did it take long to find me? And I don't stay tonight. And I be followed by a moon shadow.

SPEAKER_24 54:35

I'll be sitting in the heavy. Watching the ships rolling. Yeah. I'm sitting on the dock of the bay. Watching the tide. Sitting on the dock of the bay. Waste the time. I left my home in Georgia. Headed for the Frisco Bay. I've had nothing to do for. So I guess I'll remain the same. Sitting here, resting my bones. And this loneliness won't leave me alone. This two thousand miles I roam just to make this dark my home. Now I'm just gonna sit at the dark of a bay, watching the tie.

SPEAKER_00 56:36

Wasting time, thank you very much for listening to Until next time. This is Ted Crown. And on behalf of Jolene, from our hearts to yours, stay safe and love the ones you're with.