Secret Lives, Secret Loves, Secret Treasure

Original air date August 4, 2018 | Time 59:00

Everyone has an inner life, a personal view of the world and a unqiue path through life. Songwriters give us a look into the hidden desires of the heart and the deeper beliefs of the mind.

Leonard Cohen "In My Secret Life" composed by Leonard Cohen from "Ten New Songs"
Steve Winwood "Secrets" composed by Steve Winwood from "Nine Lives"
Adele "Rumor Has It" composed by Adele / Paul Epworth from "21"
Stevie Nicks "Secret Love" composed by Stevie Nicks from "In Your Dreams"
Stevie Wonder "The Secret Life of Plants" composed by Stevie Wonder from "Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants"
Paul McCartney "House of Wax" composed by Paul McCartney from "Memory Almost Full"
Traffic "Hidden Treasure" composed by Steve Winwood from "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
Fotheringay "nothing more" composed by Sandy Denny from "fotheringay"
Nick Drake "Things Behind the Sun" composed by Nick Drake from "Pink Moon"
Joni Mitchell "the silky veils of ardor" composed by Joni Mitchell from "Don Juans Reckless Daughter"

Families Reunited, Immigration and Refugees in America

Original air date June 30, 2018 | Time 59:00

Today, alll across the United States people are marching. Here's a link to an article in the NY Times: Protests Across U.S. Call for End to Migrant Family Separations

Musicians, and singer songwriters especially, have always played a pivotal role in the conversation on issues both political and personal. Today's music addresses the issue of refugees, immigration and families in very specific references. Paul Simon's "Mother and Child Reunion" is eerily appropriate, along with David Crosby's "Look in Their Eyes" where he reminds us "She's holdng her child the way your mother held you."

Paul Simon "Mother and Child reunion" 1971
David Crosby "Look in Their Eyes"from "Lighthouse" 2016
Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Wayfarin' Stranger"from "Americana" 2012
Moxie Raia "Follow Me (feat. Wyclef Jean)" 2016
David Crosby "Capitol" from "Sky Trails" 2017
Phil Ochs "Power and the Glory"
David Crosby and Graham Nash "Immigration Man" 1972
Neil Young "Rockin' in the Free World" from "freedom" 1989
Bruce Springsteen "American Land" from "we shall overcome the seeger sessions" 2007
Gregory Porter "Running (Refugee Song)" featuring Common 2016
Sting "Inshallah" composed by Sting from "57th & 9th" 2017

Like a River (Steve Chinske) - Live at the Speakeasy in 1990

This song was written by Steve Chinske in New York City in 1990. I performed it at the Speakeasy on MacDougal St in the Village on May 30, 1990. There's a lot of tape hiss but it's the only recording made. And it also speeds up and down a little... Lovely song!

Literary Rock - Shakespeare to James Joyce - Joni Mitchell, Donovan, Joan Baez, Becca Stevens, Sting, Jeff Buckley

Original air date June 23, 2018 | Time 59:00

Joni Mitchell "if" composed by Joni Mitchell from "Shine" - poem by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Donovan "Under the Greenwood Tree" composed by Donovan from "a gift from a flower to a garden" - Sonnet by Shakespeare
Joan Baez "Of the Dark Past" composed by James Joyce / Peter Schickele and "London" composed by William Blake / Peter Schickele from "Baptism"
Becca Stevens "Queen Mab" composed by Becca Stevens from "Regina" on GroundUP - Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Act I Scene IV, Mercutio
Jeff Buckley "Corpus Christi" composed by Benjamin Britten from "GRACE" - Early English Hymn 1504 set by Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
Becca Stevens "Ophelia" composed by Becca Stevens from "Regina" - character from Shakespeare, lyrics and music by Becca Stevens
Joni Mitchell "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" composed by Joni Mitchell from "Night Ride Home" - poem by W.B. Yeats The Second Coming (1865 - 1939)
Joni Mitchell "Night Ride Home" "Passion Play" composed by Joni Mitchell from "Night Ride Home"
Sting "Be Still My Beating Heart" composed by Sting from "Nothing Like the Sun" - album title is a quote from Shakespeare