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That Was Then
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That Was Then features an eclectic lineup of songwriters and composers who have created significant bodies of work in their lifetime.
Welcome to Acoustic Avenue. My name is Ted Crouch. I live in British Columbia, and I'll be your host for the next hour with today's program called That Was Then. We recognize with respect and gratitude that in the shoeswap, the land on which we live, work, and play our music is the unceded traditional territory of the Sequnik people. This week's program features an eclectic lineup of songwriters and composers who have created significant bodies of work in their lifetime. We start things off with an instrumental featuring Jesse Cook and Tommy Emmanuel. On the song, Jesse says, with Tommy, I don't know. I think that guy is just a creativity tap. He turns it on and whoosh! Out it comes. Here is Tommy and me with Jesse Cook and Tommy Emmanuel from Jesse's ninth studio album called One World, released in 2015. We continue featuring another duet of the guitar masters, and this time adding vocals to enhance their musical offering. Here is Mark Knoffler, joined by Chad Atkins, and a song called Yakity Axe.
SPEAKER_01Poverty stricken, but still I'ma stickin' to the things I know to be facts. One little feathers and the next a chicken while I'm picking my yakade-axe. Everybody says that I never will get far. Keeping out of work by picking this guitar, living on a shoestring, putting off things like a shave and a haircut. Money don't matter as long as I scatter a little bit of happiness around. If people keep a grinning, I figure I'ma winning with my good old yakkade sound. City folks go around turning up their noses, yachting their green backs, and smelling the roses. But I wouldn't trade my yakity axe even for a T-bone. I'm confessin' I never took a lesson. All my notes are of matter of guessin', hoping they'll come out in some kind of manner that'll make a yakadee sound. So if you're in the mood and your feet start tapping and you feel laid back and your hands start clapping, then I'll have done what I wanted to from way back here digging my yakadee axe.
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SPEAKER_00With her song Walking the Floor Over You Well, you left me and you went away.
SPEAKER_12Said that you'd be fine yesterday. Well you broke through your promise. And you left me here. I don't know why you did it me. But I do know that you're gonna lie. Do not team the blow over you. And sleep away. But I hope that your heart breaks running. While I'm walking in the floor, over you something, you may be lost in two Walking floors When your teeth don't walk it, and you walk up Remember that I don't know what you're doing. You know it's true.
SPEAKER_00Includes the song Mr. Jones. It describes the desire of working musicians to make it big and the fantasies they entertain about what fame might bring. The song became a breakthrough head for the band, and the album went on to become a seven times platinum success in the US alone. Let's listen to The Counting Crows and Mr. Jones.
SPEAKER_02Black hair make content She teams on his following So she's so beautiful All something beautiful beautiful So content so that's the bone Sha la la la la la la La Yeah Yeah Show me some Helps me follow Mr Jones Believe in me Believe in Fake Wanna be someone who believes Yeah She's looking at Know She Line Everybody Love You Kong Blue Red Black Beautiful Fabi Fabrico I'll never be lonely I will never be lonely So I'm never gonna be lonely I wanna be like Everybody wanna pass this castle I wanna be big stars Yeah but we got different reasons for that Believe in me Cause I don't believe in anything And I wanna be someone Joe Believe Joker Just believe Joe Believe me starting to be somebody When you have these blues And there's someone you're about to lose There'll be a time Yeah you can't sleep at night She would believe in you You would treat her right I say every day When the sun is almost down you remember When your baby left was town Some people were born to lose That's why lovers have the blue I said every day about five You hang your head and cry That it's the time your baby step by when you wanna Put your travel shoes on Now you feel like crying Where you get these kind of blues Yeah all these blues
SPEAKER_00You were listening to the Paul Butterfill Blues Band and All These Blues. The Season of the Witch reflects the dawn of the psychedelic pop era. Both lyrically as well as musically, the languid and trippy content project a dark, foreboding atmosphere, and a sort of sinister tale of the paranoia and the paranormal. Written by Donovan and Sean Phillips and released in 1966 on his third studio album, Sunshine Superman, here is that season of the Witch.
SPEAKER_08When I look out my window, many sights to see. And when I look in my window, so many different people to be that it's strange.
SPEAKER_11So strange. Must be the season of the win. Must be the season of the witch. Must be the season of the wheel.
SPEAKER_08What do you think I see?
SPEAKER_11And he strange Shoe is strange. You got to pick up every stitch. You got to pick up every stitch. Let's be a season up for the six up for six up.
SPEAKER_08When I look out my window, what do you think I see? And when I look in my window, so many different people to be expensive.
SPEAKER_11You got to pick up a bristle. You got to pick up a bristle. Let's pick up freezing up to go, let's pick up freezing up to go, bring the season up. Where'd I go?
SPEAKER_00And just before the station break, we played The Season of the Witch by Donovan. Corina Corina was written by Mitchell Parish, Old Chapman, and J. Mayo Williams, and first released in 1928 by Charlie McCoy and Old Chapman. More than 200 versions of this recording have been released by the Jackson Blues Boys. You get the point. A lot of great musicians have recorded this song. All of them are fabulous renditions. And today we'll play Bob Dylan's version. This is from his second studio album, The Freewheel and Bob Dylan, released in 1963. Here is Corina Corina.
SPEAKER_07Get away a bit so long. I got a bird that whistles. I got a bird that sings.
SPEAKER_00Her father, Leon Cole, was a noted CBC radio broadcaster. Throughout her career, she has impressed as one of the most inspired and inspiring contemporary interpreters of popular songs. From her album, The Holly Cole Collection Volume 1, she selected a song written by Sting, a tribute to Ben Linder, an American civil engineer who was killed by the Contras in 1987 while working on a hydroelectric project in Nicaragua. Holly is joined on this recording by fellow Canadian Jesse Cook and Fragile.
SPEAKER_04Blood would flow, flesh and steel our one, drying in the color of the evening sun. Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away. Something in our minds will always stay on. The rain will fall like tears from a star. Like tears from a star. All day we'll stay. How fragile we are. How fragile we are just fine life was meant. But nothing comes from violence, and nothing ever could. Tears from a sky. On rain will stay how fragile we are. How fragile we are. How fragile we are.
SPEAKER_00Released on October 21st, 2018. Seventeen days before his death. The album was created towards the end of his life and focuses on death. And humor. It was released to critical acclaim, and the title track received a 2018 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance. It was Cohen's last album released during his lifetime, and was followed by the posthumous album Thanks for the Dance in November 2019. Here is He Wanted Darker.
SPEAKER_05Magnified, sanctified be thy holy name. A million candles burning for the help that never came. You want it darker. We kill the flame. I struggle with some demons, they were middle class and tame. I didn't know I had permission to murder into maim. You want a darker? I'm ready, my lord. You want it darker. We kill the flame. If you are the healer, I'm broken and lame. If that is the glory, mine must be the shame. You want it darker.
SPEAKER_00In 1977, Private Dark Records released an album called Robert Gordon with Link Ray. Robert Gordon was a retro rockabilly artist who toured and recorded two albums with Link Ray in the late 1970s. The second album was Fresh Fish Special. Link Ray was often described as an innovator for being one of the first guitarists to use power chords with distorted sounds, facilitating the emergence of punk and hard rock with his first instrumental hit, Rumble. He was a major influence on Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend, and Neil Young. This is Robert Gordon with Link Ray and Flying Saucers Rock and Roll.
SPEAKER_09Rock and roll all the way from the ball.
SPEAKER_00That was Robert Gordon with Link Ray and Flying Sorcery and Robert Roll. It was released on YouTube on the thirteenth of May twenty thirteen. This was the first music video to be made in space. Here is space audit.
SPEAKER_06Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. Commencing countdown engine done. Check it in and make us life dumb with your control to make the dumb.
SPEAKER_03Now it's time to be the top, that's good. I'm feeling bad.