When I was in Kindergarten, our Canal Street class went on a field trip to West Brattleboro, to the Chelsea House– a converted barn which served as a folk music venue back in the day. Unlike many of the other 5 and 6 year-olds in the crowd, I had been to the Chelsea House before, presumably to see the Arwen Mountain String Band or (my mom’s group) Pearly and The Waistband, or some other artist popular among the counterculture adults, who were my constant companions in my earliest years.
When the singer onstage decided to enhance her repetoire of kid’s songs, by taking requests, I think she was expecting my fellow kindergarteners to shower her with requests for “Old MacDonald” or “The Wheel’s On The Bus.” This would explain the awkward moment of silence and chuckling that followed, when the hi-pitched five-year-old with the tangled head of red curls shouted out a request for “One More Cup Of Coffee ‘Fore I Go”!
What? It was a folk club, wasn’t it? Are you telling me they don’t know any Dylan?
Well, tomorrow I’m heading down the Newport Folk Festival for the first time (to catch a truly amazing line-up). And so for today’s podcast, I’ve chosen to pay tribute to the gentleman who has made the most famous and controversial appearance ever at the fest (and the author of my favorite song when I was 5).
Yep, all the songs on today’s mix are by Bob Dylan and for fun I have chosen to alternate between classics performed Bob himself and a truckload of my favorite covers– several of which come crashing down on that very same folk/electric divide that shook Newport all those years ago.
Enjoy. Full Playlist is beyond the fold.
O’Pinionated Mix 4 – Zimmerman’s Wake
Playlist for O’Pinionated Mix #4 – Zimmerman’s Wake
- Nina Simone – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
- Bob Dylan (w/Scarlet Rivera & Emmylou Harris) – One More Cup of Coffee
- Cat Power – Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
- Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Like a Rolling Stone (Live)
- Bob Dylan – Maggie’s Farm (Live)
- PJ Harvey – Highway ’61 Revisited
- Bob Dylan – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- The Byrds – You Ain’t Going Nowhere
- Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue
- Gillian Welch – Billy (Live)
- Bob Dylan – Summer Days
- Jim James & Calexico – Goin’ To Acapulco
- Bob Dylan & The Band (w/Last Waltz Ensemble) – I Shall Be Released (Live)
- The White Stripes – One More Cup Of Coffee
evan,
one of the great stories, however, i have to make a correction before this goes on any longer.
pearly and the wasteband was fronted by a singer, Pearly Gates. i sat in w/ them as w/ other bands. unfortunately, it would have been difficult to have my own band because of being a mom. anyone, i think i’ll have one more cup of coffer fore i go.