Teacher On The Radio

Little Jeannie's Lovelist (TOTR 156)

2011-12-19T20:06:00.001-08:00

MagnoliaElectric Co – Knoxville Girl

EltonJohn – Little Jeannie

TheAvett Brothers – I and Love and You

VanMorrison – The Way Young Lovers Do

KDLang – Constant Craving

JoniMitchell – All I Want

LizzWright – Thank You

AlGreen – Let’s Stay Together

MarvinGaye – Let’s Get It On

MarvinGaye – Just To Keep You Satisfied

AnthonyHamilton – Sucka For You

Prince– Take Me With U

SnowPatrol – Shut Your Eyes

Coldplay– Paradise

UncleKracker – Smile

GooGoo Dolls – Slide

EltonJohn – Your Song

AnthonyHamilton – Fine Again

Yeasayer– I Remember

OneeskimO – Amazing

Mumford& Sons – Roll Away Your Stone

U2– All I Want Is You

TheAvett Brothers – January Wedding

Winter Hymnal / Joyful Noise (TOTR Preshow)

2011-12-19T18:03:00.000-08:00

GillianWelch – I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll

VanMorrison – Astral Weeks

AnnieLennox – Into the West

FleetFoxes – White Winter Hymnal

FleetFoxes – Sun it Rises

FleetFoxes – Helplessness Blues

TheBlack Keys – Mind Eraser

AnthonyHamilton – Life Has A Way

Florence+ the Machine – Shake It Out.

TedeschiTrucks Band – Simple Things

IndigoGirls – Yoke

LauraMarling – Rest In Bed

WitheredHand – No Cigarettes

MerleHaggard – Working in Tennessee

SteveEarle – Lonely Are The Free

TheCivil Wars – My Father’s Father

Coldplay– Us Against the World

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Hopeand Social – You’re the Lighter Side of Life

Radiohead– Give Up the Ghost

NEEDTOBREATHE– Angel At My Door

DrewHolcomb & The Neighbors – Mercy

Gungor– Church Bells

RaphaelSaadiq – Day Dreams

Sting– Soul Cake

Enya– Trains And Winter Rains

SarahMcLachlan – The First Noel/Mary Mary

BruceCockburn – Early On One Christmas Morn

JackJohnson – Someday At Christmas

JohnPrine – Christmas In Prison

JohnDenver – Please, Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)

She& Him – Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree

MasonJennings – Santa Claus is Coming To Town

TheBrian Setzer Orchestra – Angels We Have Heard On High

StraightNo Chaser – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Angels We Have Heard On High

BrightEyes – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

DavidCrowder Band – Go, Tell It On The Mountain

SufjanStevens – Away In A Manger

SmokeyRobinson & The Miracles – Deck The Halls/Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella

TheTemptations – O Holy Night

MahaliaJackson – Silent Night (46bliss Remix)

TheStaple Singers – Holy Unto The Lord

KathyMattea – Sing, Mary, Sing

SarahMcLachlan – What Child Is This (Greensleeves)

AnnieLennox – The First Noel

Enya– O Come O Come Emmanuel

SaraBareilles – River

TheChieftains – The Rebel Jesus

With Love - Favorites From 2011 (TOTR 155)

2011-12-12T17:40:00.000-08:00

Podcast, part one:

Podcast, part two:

Playlist:

MyMorning Jacket – The Day Is Coming (Circuital)5.31.11

TomMorello - The Nightwatchman – A Wall Against the Wind (Union Town) 7.19.11

FrankTurner – I Still Believe (England Keep MyBones) 6.7.11

Coldplay– Charlie Brown (Mylo Xyloto) 10.24.11

Hopeand Social – Back to the Green (SleepSound) 5.10.11

Puscifer– Green Valley (Conditions of My Parole)10.18.11

SteveEarle (w-Allison Moorer) – Heaven Or Hell (I’llNever Get Out Of This World Alive) 4.26.11

TheBlack Keys – Hell of A Season (El Camino)12.2.11

RaphaelSaadiq – Go To Hell (Stone Rollin’)3.25.11

MayerHawthorne – A Long Time (How Do You Do)10.11.11

TVOn The Radio – Will Do (Nine Types OfLight) 4.11.11

LauraMarling – Don’t Ask Me Why (A Creature IDon’t Know) 9.9.11

GillianWelch – The Way It Goes (The Harrow &The Harvest) 6.28.11

JillAndrews – Sound of the Bell (The Mirror)6.7.11

TheCivil Wars – Birds of a Feather (BartonHollow) 2.1.11

RyanAdams – Rocks (Ashes & Fire) 10.11.11

Elbow– With Love (Build A Rocket Boys!)3.4.11

TheRapture – In the Grace of Your Love (Inthe Grace of Your Love) 9.2.11

PaulSimon – Love and Blessings (So Beautifulor So What) 4.12.11

Dawes– A Little Bit of Everything (Nothing IsWrong) 6.7.11

FleetFoxes – Lorelai (Helplessness Blues)5.3.11

JamesVincent McMorrow – Early In The Morning, I’ll Come Calling (Early In The Morning) 1.25.11

Florence+ The Machine – Never Let Me Go (Ceremonials)11.1.11

TedeschiTrucks Band – Bound for Glory (Revelator)6.7.11

Gungor– You Are The Beauty (Ghosts Upon The Earth)9.20.11

Mercy Mary Now (TOTR 154)

2011-12-05T17:09:00.001-08:00

MikeFarris – Mercy Now

BlindWillie McTell – Lord Have Mercy If You Please

BigWalter Horton – Have Mercy

JuniorKimbrough – Lord, Have Mercy On Me

MarvinGaye – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

DepecheMode – Mercy In You

Plantsand Animals – Mercy

OneRepublic– Mercy

CreedenceClearwater Revival – Proud Mary

JimiHendrix Experience – The Wind Cries Mary

PeterGabriel – Mercy Street

ToddRundgren – Mercy Mercy

TheStrokes – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

AlStewart – Angel Of Mercy

MichelleShocked – Quality Of Mercy

SatelliteSoul – Mercy Maker

AndraeCrouch – Mercy

CastingCrowns – Mercy

MaryGauthier – Mercy Now

Odetta– Mary Had a Baby

KathyMattea – Mary, Did You Know

KathyMattea – Sing, Mary, Sing

More Real Than The Better Thing (TOTR 153)

2011-11-28T04:21:00.001-08:00

Vertigo– Beautiful Day

Vertigo– New Year’s Day

U2– Blow Your House Down

U2– Salomé

U2– Satellite of Love

U2– Down All The Days

U2– Paint It Black

U2– Fortunate Son

NineInch Nails _ Zoo Station

U2– Even Better Than the Real Thing [Fish Out of Water Remix]

U2– ‘Baby’ One

PattiSmith – Until The End Of The World

U2– ‘Baby’ Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

DepecheMode – So Cruel

U2– ‘Baby’ The Fly

U2– ‘Baby’ Mysterious Ways

TheFray – Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World.

TheKillers – Ultra Violet (Light My Way)

U2– ‘Baby’ Acrobat

JackWhite – Love Is Blindness

U2– Everybody Loves A Winner

Hard Times (TOTR 152)

2011-11-21T17:15:00.001-08:00

TheKingston Trio – Shady Grove/Lonesome Traveler

Bittersweetand Briers – Hard Times, Come Again No More

TheNew Lost City Ramblers – Breadline Blues

TheNew Lost City Ramblers – No Depression in Heaven

ArloGuthrie – Chilling Of The Evening

HarryChapin – November Rains

HarryChapin – Thanksgiving Hunger Drives

TheByrds – Pretty Boy Floyd

BobDylan – Poor Boy Blues

BobDylan – Hard Times In New York Town

JanisIan – Hunger

GillianWelch – Hard Times

EddieVedder – Hard Sun

RyanBingham – Hard Times

JohnMellencamp – Hard Times For An Honest Man

JohnLee Hooker – Hard Times

SavoyBrown – Poor Girl

Drive-ByTruckers – The Thanksgiving Filter

SteveEarle – Steve’s Hammer

SteveEarle – God Is God

UncleTupelo – No Depression

TheFairfield Four – Swing Low Sweet Chariot

NatalieMerchant – Poor Wayfaring Stranger

HarryChapin – Cat’s In The Cradle

Nothing But The Water (TOTR 151)

2011-11-14T16:49:00.001-08:00

SimpleMinds – Waterfront

JustinTownes Earle – Harlem River Blues

TheCivil Wars – Barton Hollow

RyanAdams – Invisible Riverside

IndigoGirls – Feed and Water the Horses
John Hiatt – The River Knows Your Name

MelissaEtheridge – Bring Me Some Water

NinaSimone – Take Me to the Water

GracePotter and the Nocturnals – Nothing But The Water

JoniMitchell – Wade in the Water

LennyKravitz – Baptized

ArrestedDevelopment – Washed Away

NEEDTOBREATHE– Washed By The Water

Dawes– Moon in the Water

DeepPurple – Smoke On The Water

HotTuna – Water Song

WidespreadPanic – Meeting of the Waters

Live– Run to the Water

TheWaterboys – This Is the Sea

Puscifer– Oceans

U2– North and South of the River

Jarsof Clay – Flood

Enterthe Worship Circle – Rush River Rush

A Celebration (of 150 Radio Shows)

2011-11-07T04:49:00.000-08:00

U2– A Celebration

LoneJustice – Shelter

LizzWright – Old Man

CaseyNeill – Radio Montana

R.E.M.– We All Go Back To Where We Belong

Bandof Horses – On My Way Back Home

BillyBragg – Sing Their Souls Back Home

Puscifer– Tumbleweed

Mumford& Sons – Ghosts That We Knew

TheAvett Brothers – The Weight of Lies

TheCivil Wars – Poison & Wine

JillAndrews – Blue Sky

Vespers– High Hopes

GillianWelch – Tennessee

JerryGarcia & David Grisman – Been All Around This World

RyanAdams – Come Home

MyMorning Jacket – It Makes No Difference

SleepyEyed Fox – Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

MikeFarris – Know Good, Know How

AshleyCleveland – Revive Us Again

Enterthe Worship Circle – Can’t Thank You Enough

Gungor– This Is Not The End

AnneWeiss – Day of Celebration

NatalieMerchant – Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Gone (TOTR 149)

2011-10-31T16:45:00.000-07:00

BillMonroe and His Blue Grass Boys – Summertime Is Past And Gone

ElizabethCotton – When I’m Gone

JohnLee Hooker – You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone

JohnMayall & The Bluesbreakers – When I’m Gone

MemphisSlim – When I’m Gone

GratefulDead – I Know You Rider

GratefulDead – He’s Gone

NancyWhiskey – He’s Solid Gone

BessieSmith – He’s Gone Blues

AlisonKrauss & Robert Plant – Gone Gone Gone

IndigoGirls – Gone

ViolentFemmes – Gone Daddy Gone

Dr.Dog – Goner

PhilOchs – When I’m Gone

WaylonJennings – She’s Gone, Gone, Gone

Foghat– She’s Gone

DeadConfederate – Goner

Pixies– Monkey Gone To Heaven

U2– Gone

TheBlack Crowes – Gone

BobMarley & The Wailers – She’s Gone Dub

Eminem–When I’m Gone

GnarlsBarkley – Gone Daddy Gone / I Just Want To Make Love To You

CharlieHaden & Pat Metheny – He’s Gone Away

JohnHarle – Three Spirituals (Don’t You Weep When I’m Gone)

SweetHoney In The Rock – Wanting Memories

Ring of Fire (TOTR 148)

2011-10-24T17:51:00.001-07:00

U2– Fire

JohnnyCash – Ring Of Fire

JamesTaylor – Fire And Rain

RyanAdams – Ashes & Fire

LizzWright – Fire

Matisyahu– Fire of Heaven-Altar of Earth

GratefulDead – Fire On The Mountain

The13th Floor Elevators – Fire In My Bones

TheDoors – Light My Fire

Earth,Wind, & Fire – Fan The Fire

OhioPlayers – Fire

ThePointer Sisters – Fire

StarliteSingers – Fire Burning

Aggrolites– Burning Bush

Shinedown– Burning Bright

Fugazi– Burning Too

BadCompany – Burnin’ Sky

BlueOyster Cult – Burnin’ For You

TalkingHeads – Burning Down the House

TheStone Foxes – Through the Fire

KingsOf Leon – Sex On Fire

BruceSpringsteen – Into the Fire

AshleyCleveland – Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning

U2– The Unforgettable Fire

JosephFire Crow – Fire Keeper

Occupy Radio (TOTR 147)

2011-10-10T16:50:00.000-07:00

APerfect Circle – What’s Going On

JohnLennon – Power To The People

TheStaple Singers – For What It’s Worth

PhilOchs – What’s That I Hear

SteveEarle – The Revolution Starts Now

DavidRovics – The Commons

AniDiFranco & Utah Phillips – Bread and Roses

BillyBragg – The World Turned Upside Down

JoanBaez – Joe Hill

Bob Dylan– Union Sundown

TomMorello – Union Town

MobyGrape – Ain’t That A Shame

M.L.Liebler & The High Strung – The Hollow Men

TheWhite Stripes – The Big Three Killed My Baby

Defiance,Ohio – Expect the Worst

AgainstMe! – High Pressure Low

BruceSpringsteen – How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live

TheLayabouts –Work to be Done

BlackUhuru – Solidarity

MichaelFranti & Spearhead – Hey Now Now

MarthaReeves & The Vandellas – Dancing In The Street

LizzWright – Get Together

Kim& Reggie Harris and Magpie – Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around

SweetHoney In The Rock and James Horner – Eyes On The Prize

WoodyGuthrie – This Land Is Your Land

PeteSeeger – We Shall Overcome

Sleepyheads Wake (TOTR 146)

2011-10-03T07:35:00.000-07:00

PassionPit – Sleepyhead

Hopeand Social – Sleep Sound

Belleand Sebastian – We Are The Sleepyheads

BlindMelon – Sleepyhouse

Nirvana– Where Did You Sleep Last Night

Smashing Pumpkins– In The Arms Of Sleep

DaveMatthews Band – Sleep To Dream Her

Fiona Apple– Sleep To Dream

NekoCase – Vengeance Is Sleeping

BatFor Lashes – Sleep Alone

MelissaEtheridge – You Can Sleep While I Drive

JasonMraz – Sleep All Day

Ironand Wine – The Devil Never Sleeps

RobertJohn – The Lion Sleeps Tonight

R.E.M.– The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

CountingCrows – I’m Not Sleeping

APerfect Circle – Sleeping Beauty

SeventhDay Slumber – Awake

Switchfoot– Awakening

Leeland– The Great Awakening

Gungor– Wake Up Sleeper

SleepyEyed Fox – Wake

TheBand – When You Awake

TheRomantics – Talking In Your Sleep

BillyJoel – Sleeping With The Television On

Animal On The Radio (TOTR 145)

2011-09-26T16:57:00.000-07:00

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Pearl Jam – Animal
Genevieve Goings – Animal Sounds
Iron and Wine – Kingdom Of The Animals
Arlo Guthrie – Howdy Doo
Sam Cooke – Little Red Rooster
Harry Nilsson – Me And My Arrow
Al Stewart – Year of the Cat
Cat Stevens – Kitty
Ian Anderson – Rupi’s Dance
The Lovin’ Spoonful – Nashville Cats
Ma Rainey – Black Cat, Hoot Owl Blues
Say Anything – Yellow Cat (Slash) Red Cat
Stray Cats – Stray Cat Strut
Tricky – The Love Cats
TV On The Radio – Love Dog
Cat Stevens – I Love My Dog
The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
Stear – Feed Jake
Lyle Lovett – Which Way Does That Old Pony Run
Sara Watkins – Pony
Allman Brothers Band – Pony Boy
The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
U2 – Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Maria McKee – The Horse Life
America – A Horse With No Name
Echo & the Bunnymen – Bring on the Dancing Horses

Sophia Wisdom (TOTR 144)

2011-09-19T18:20:00.000-07:00

Rita Lee – Pistis Sophia
Soweto String Quartet – Sophiatown
Ismael Lo – Sofia
Bob Marley and the Wailers – Wisdom
India Arie – Strength, Courage and Wisdom
Emm Gryner – Wisdom Bus
Ferron – Higher Wisdom
Happy Savage – Sophia
Laura Nyro – Sophia
Laura Marling – Sophia
Shyneboxx – Sophia
The Blackwater Fever – Sophia’s Waltz
Brian Wright and the Waco Tragedies – Sophia
The Damnwells – Sophia
Live – Sofia
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Wisdom
Franz Ferdinand – All For You, Sophia
The Cruxshadows – Sophia
Circle In The Round – Sophia
Dead Can Dance – Song Of Sophia
John Michael Talbot – Sofia (Wisdom)

The Waiting List (TOTR 143)

2011-09-12T15:58:00.000-07:00

Bob Marley - Waiting In Vain
Ben Harper - Waiting For You
Jimi Hendrix – Wait Until Tomorrow
John Mayer – Wait Until Tomorrow
Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Needtobreathe – Don't Wait For Daylight
Ryan Bingham – Don't Wait For Me
Sleepy Eyed Fox - The Mountain
Bob Dylan – Can't Wait
The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man
The Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend
Bruce Springsteen - Waitin' On A Sunny Day
The Smiths – Stretch Out And Wait
Radiohead - True Love Waits
Kings of Leon - California Waiting
The White Stripes - I Can't Wait
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Pretenders – The Wait
Iron & Wine - Waitin' For A Superman
Alexi Murdoch – Wait
Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line
Moby – Wait For Me
Sarah McLachlan - Wait
Annie Lennox- Waiting In Vain

Oh Boy! (TOTR 142)

2011-09-05T17:20:00.000-07:00

Weezer - Buddy Holly
Sonny Curtis - Real Buddy Holly Story
Fiona Apple - Everyday
My Morning Jacket - True Love Ways
Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Everyday
Buddy Holly - Listen To Me
Buddy Holly - Baby It's Love
Buddy Holly - Queen Of The Ballroom
Buddy Holly - Moonlight Baby
Buddy Holly - Love Me
Buddy Holly - Midnight Shift
Buddy Holly - Don't Come Back Knockin'
Buddy Holly - Blue Days, Black Nights
Buddy Holly - It's Not My Fault
Buddy Holly - I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down
Buddy Holly - Rock-A-Bye Rock
Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Doin' Like Elvis
Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day
Buddy Holly - Oh Boy!
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue Got Married
Lou Reed - Peggy Sue
John Doe - Peggy Sue Got Married
The Black Keys - Dearest
Paul McCartney - It's So Easy
Cee Lo Green - (You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care
Karen Elson - Crying, Waiting, Hoping
Julian Casablancas - Rave On
Jenny O - I'm Gonna Love You Too
Justin Townes Earle - Maybe Baby
She & Him - Oh Boy!
Nick Lowe - Changing All Those Changes
Patti Smith - Words Of Love
Modest Mouse - That'll Be The Day
Kid Rock - Well All Right
The Detroit Cobras - Heartbeat
Graham Nash - Raining In My Heart
Florence + the Machine - Not Fade Away
Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away

Open For Business (TOTR 141)

2011-08-29T15:40:00.001-07:00

The Ventures - Open for Business
James Horner - Open for Business
Stephen Fearing - Open-Minded
Jimmy P - Open Minded
Lizz Wright - Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly
Santana - Open Invitation
Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open
Bruce Springsteen - Open All Night
Gnarls Barkley - Open Book
Cake - Open Book
Madonna - Open Your Heart
Marty Willson-Piper - Can't Ever Risk An Openness With You
The Cure - Open
Snow Patrol - Hands Open
Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes
David Crowder Band - Open Skies
The Test Tube Twins - Openness
Shan Di - Openness mind

Gravity (TOTR 140)

2011-08-08T15:09:00.000-07:00

Laurie Anderson – Gravity’s Angel
A Perfect Circle – Gravity
R.E.M – Feeling Gravity’s Pull
Alejandro Escovedo – Gravity / Falling Down Again
Bottle Rockets – Gravity Fails
Switchfoot – Oh! Gravity
The Verve – Gravity Grave
Will Diehl – Gravity
The Whitest Boy Alive – Gravity
Sam Heilig – Gravity
Matt Lewis Band – Gravity
Nimbaso – Gravity
Maxwell – Gravity: Pushing To Pull
John Mayer – Gravity
Alison Krauss – Gravity
Sara Bareilles – Gravity
Brook Keppler – Gravity
Cheryl Wheeler – Defying Gravity
Enigma – Gravity Of Love
Her Space Holiday – Gravity Fails Us
Delerium – Dust In Gravity

Tats, Frogs, & A Spiritual Journey That’s More Than Skin Deep

2011-08-08T04:37:00.000-07:00

When photographer-artist Brooke McPhate Byars put out the call for her “Diversity of Tattoos” show in Cookeville, Tennessee earlier this year, I knew I wanted to participate. When the show opened not long after she shot images of me for it, I was relieved to see that I wasn’t the only Tennessee Tech professor whose inked and naked arm adorned the wall at Sweet Sallies on the town’s funky West Side.

Research cited at The Vanishing Tattoo website suggests that about 15% of Americans have tattoos, with the percentage spiking significantly higher among people 18-40. It’s no wonder, then, that tattoos have been a topic of some interest among my students over the years. After seeing a tattoo-based photo essay in a composition textbook and when the possibility of a tattoo-inspired “anti-essay” became an assignment idea in the English 1020 course I taught this summer, I decided to respond as well by writing this piece.

This isn’t the first time tattoos have been a part of a class I taught at Tech. About two years ago, a team in a writing class did primary research by visiting various establishments around town that provide tattoos and piercings. To make a video component of their final assignment, one of the team members decided to get a tattoo while his classmates filmed him. Earlier this year, a student was so inspired by a Saul Williams poem that we read in class that he got some lines from it tattooed on his leg.

With neotribal artwork decorating my deltoids, I’m marked as part of the tattooed subculture. For years, I identified with the hippy-punk wing of American rebellion. But the statement my arms make is more spiritual than sociological, and the evolution of my religious journey gets narrated on my skin.

Back in 1994, just a few weeks before the birth of my daughter, her mom took me to get my first tat on my 27^th birthday. The decision to go with a “sunfrog” was an easy one, since Sunfrog had been my poetic pen name, performance art moniker, and partier’s nom de plume for some time. The meaning of this nickname has evolved since I first encountered it when it came to me in a poem that I wrote in early 1988.

Combining the celestial and terrestrial, from elements of fire and air, water and earth, the “solar amphibian” first symbolized for me an earthy and horizontal take on spirituality in contrast to the more vertical and hierarchical notions of God that are more popular among mainstream folks. The idea of a frog who could survive on water or land also embraced a “both/and” logic in relation to identity. As a new parent, I was excited to learn about the mythological and maternal significance of a midwife toad.

I didn’t add the tattoo to my left arm until 2002. At the time, I’d been experimenting for many years with various earth-based spiritual practices most easily dubbed as New Age or neopagan, so the tattoo as “tribal shield” of man, snake, dolphin, and bird boasted a deep connection with the wild and a more pantheistic perspective. Although too artsy to be entirely vulgar, the art at the center of this pantheon denoted the man’s genitals, which despite my generally immodest disposition at the time, still made me a little self-conscious to show the art in public.

In 2010, a year after my reconversion to Christ at age 41, I altered the second tattoo by adding a cross. The placement of the cross not only covered—or “put some pants on”—part of the man, it created a truly interspiritual symbol and statement; this new tattoo created from a previous one hopefully connects me to the green threads within Christianity. We are stewards of our home and advocates of “creation care,” readers of a “green letter” Bible and part of a movement for compassionate planet protection that unites many contemporary Jesus-followers. This tradition has always existed and includes St. Francis, Hildegard of Bingen, Celtic mystics among many others who see God as alive in the cosmos, integrated and interconnected and “panentheistic” (God in everything as opposed to the God as everything of pantheism). Today, I like to think of the frog as “fully relying on God” and still dream of adding more art to my body at a future time.

Grace Vs. Karma (TOTR 139)

2011-08-01T03:34:00.000-07:00

Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues – Amazing Grace
Throwing Muses – Saving Grace
John Mellencamp – Forgiveness
Lauryn Hill – Father Forgive Them
India Arie – Wings Of Forgiveness
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals – Forgiven
Patty Griffin – Forgiveness
Ida Maria – Forgive Me
Ida Maria – Bad Karma
John Lennon – Instant Karma!
Radiohead – Karma Police
Sarah McLachlan – Full Of Grace.
Steve Winwood – State Of Grace
Elbow – Grace Under Pressure
Ed Kowalczyk – Grace
Magnolia Electric Co. – O! Grace
Jeff Buckley – Grace
U2 – Grace
Jars Of Clay – Amazing Grace
Steve Miller Band – Your Saving Grace
Bob Dylan – Saving Grace
Ashley Cleveland – Your Saving Grace
Mahalia Jackson – Amazing Grace

Ladder Songs (TOTR 138)

2011-07-25T15:14:00.000-07:00

Amy Winehouse – You’re Wondering Now
The Inspirations – They’re Holding Up The Ladder
Diana Ross & the Supremes – Up The Ladder To The Roof
Greg Brown – Jacob’s Ladder
The Staple Singers – Jacob’s Ladder
Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band – Jacob’s Ladder (Live In Dublin)
Toubab Krewe – 51 Ft. Ladder
David Gray – White Ladder
Andrew Belle – The Ladder
Vetiver – Hook & Ladder
Bright Eyes – Ladder Song
NOFX – Suits and Ladders
Silver Shampoo – Ladders
Crooklyn Dub Consortium – Jacob’s Ladder
The Octopus Project – Hold The Ladder
Chumbawamba – Jacob’s Ladder (Not in My Name)
Of Montreal – Climb The Ladder
Prince And The Revolutio –The Ladder
Rush – Jacob’s Ladder
Men at Work – Snakes And Ladders
Huey Lewis & The News n– Jacob’s Ladder
Bruce Hornsby & the Range – Jacob’s Ladder.
One Man Mormon Blues Band – Jacob’s Ladder
SoundGospelTrain – Jacob’s Ladder
Baraka – Ladder of the Cloud

Hey, All You Hippies! (TOTR 137)

2011-07-18T16:27:00.001-07:00

Bugs Multiply – the hippy song
Blue Mountain – Hippy Hotel
Franklin Lounge – Cowboys and Hippies
The Low Anthem – Hey, All You Hippies!
North Mississippi Allstars – I’d Love To Be A Hippy
The Aquarians – Hippy Standing
Lee Griffiths – Hippy Dippy
Karma Farmers Collective – We’re Hippies, We Don’t Hate
Art McCloud And The NVK – Old Hippies Die Hard
Bob Margolin – Maybe The Hippies Were Right
The Dead Milkmen – The Thing That Only Eats Hippies
Frank Lenz – Tree Swinging Hippies
Joe Sample – Hippies On A Corner
Beck – Nitemare Hippy Girl
Soho – Hippychick
Swinging Blue Jeans– The Hippy Hippy Shake
Ocelot – Russian Trance Hippies
Funkatron – Dance Hippies Dance
Strawberry Walrus – Dance of the Hippies
Dempsey – Hippydream
Quantum State – Hippies With Credit
Jonah K – Hippies

What We're Still Looking For (TOTR 136)

2011-07-11T17:50:00.000-07:00

Dead or Alive – Even Better Than The Real Thing
Mxpx – I Will Follow
String Cheese Incident – Mysterious Ways
Dublin Gospel Choir – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
U2 – The Wanderer / Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (Nashville, TN 7.2.2011)
A Tribute To U2 – Elevation
Soweto Gospel Choir – Pride (In The Name Of Love)
U2 – Miss Sarajevo (2005 Live From Milan)
U2 – Zooropa
U2 – I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (Dirty South Full Mix)
U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday (South Bend, IN 10.10.01)
U2 – Scarlet (Richard Skinner BBC Session - September 1981)
U2 – Bad (Glastonbury, 6.24.2011)
Derek Webb – One
U2 – Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
Craig Honeycutt – Moment of Surrender
U2 – All I Want Is You (Blind Adam Bevell Mix, Nashville 7.2.2011)
U2 – One Tree Hill (Chicago Soldier Field 7.5.11)
Various Artists – 40 (at When Love Comes to Town in Nashville 6.29.11)

Summer Wonder (TOTR 135)

2011-06-20T17:43:00.000-07:00

Billie Holiday – Summertime
Ben Sollee – How to See The Sun Rise
Ben Sollee – Huddle On the Rooftop
Ben Sollee – Electrified
Janis Joplin – Summertime
Regina Spektor – Summer In The City
Sly & The Family Stone – Hot Fun In The Summertime
War – Summer
Sam Cooke – Summertime
Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness
Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues
The Airborne Toxic Event – The Girls In Their Summer Dresses
Bruce Springsteen – Girls In Their Summer Clothes
The Decemberists – Summersong
Jane’s Addiction – Summertime Rolls
Death Cab For Cutie – Summer Skin
Vetiver – Wonder Why
Rob Thomas – Little Wonders
Keane – Is It Any Wonder
O_a_r – Wonderful Day
Oasis – Wonderwall
Nomad – I Wonder
The StereoFidelics – You Are Having A Wonderful Time
My Morning Jacket – Wonderful (The Way I Feel)
Mavis Staples – Wonderful Savior
Caedmon’s Call – God Of Wonders

Named & Nameless (TOTR 134)

2011-06-13T17:55:00.000-07:00

Jim Croce – I Got A Name
Garlic & Moonshine – The Nameless Blues
Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue
Gillian Welch – No One Knows My Name
The Mamas & The Papas – I Call Your Name
Beth Orton – She Cries Your Name
Dawes – When You Call My Name
The White Stripes – Sister, Do You Know My Name
Carrie Underwood – Last Name
Sheryl Crow – Sign Your Name
Ani DiFranco – Names and Dates and Times
Antony and the Johnsons – Kiss My Name
The Thompson Twins – In The Name Of Love
Black Lung Brass Band – The Name’s Not Important
America– A Horse With No Name
Bob Dylan – Man Gave Names to All the Animals
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – Crossed Out Name
Iron & Wine – Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me
Ben Harper – Number With No Name
Sting – Whenever I Say Your Name
Goo Goo Dolls – Name
Jason Mraz –Man Gave Names To All The Animals
Tony Allen – Where The Streets Have No Name
Newsboys – Blessed Be Your Name

Flying Upside Down: pre-Bonnaroo Playlist 2011 (TOTR 133)

2011-06-06T14:33:00.000-07:00

Justin Townes Earle – Ain’t Waitin’ (6.10 @ 230pm – The Other Tent)
Abigail Washburn – Burn Thru (6.10 @ 4pm – The Other Tent)
The Decemberists – June Hymn (6.10 @ 530pm – What Stage)
Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs – For The Summer (6.10 @ 615pm – Which Stage)
Florence & The Machine – Cosmic Love (6.10 @ 645pm – This Tent)
My Morning Jacket – Victory Dance (6.10 @ 8pm – What Stage)
Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait (6.10 @11pm – What Stage)
Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens – What More Can I Do (6.11 @ 1230pm – Which Stage)
The Low Anthem – Champion Angel (6.11 @ 145pm – That Tent)
Mumford & Sons – Lover Of The Light (6.11 @ 615pm – Which Stage)
Loretta Lynn – High On A Mountain (6.11 @ 645pm – That Tent)
Dr. John & The Lower 911 – Feel Good Music (6.12 @ 1230am – That Tent)
Scissor Sisters – Whole New Way (6.12 @ 1245am – This Tent)
The String Cheese Incident – Give Me The Love (6.12 @ 1245am – Which Stage)
STS9 – Looking Back On Earth (6.12 @ 230am – That Tent)
Mavis Staples – I Belong To The Band (6.12 @ 115pm – What Stage)
Amos Lee – Windows Are Rolled Down (6.12 @ 230pm – Which Stage)
Black Dub (feat. Daniel Lanois) – Nomad (6.12 @ 330pm – This Tent)
Iron & Wine – Glad Man Singing (6.12 @ 430pm – Which Stage)
Gregg Allman – I Believe I’ll Go Back Home (6.12 @ 430pm – That Tent)
Cold War Kids – Flying Upside Down (6.12 @ 5pm – This Tent)
Explosions in the Sky – Trembling Hands (6.12 @645pm – This Tent)
Robert Plant – The Only Sound That Matters (6.12 @ 6pm – What Stage)
Widespread Panic – Dirty Side Down (6.12 @ 830pm – What Stage)

Graduations! Dedications! (TOTR 132, for Ruby Jazz & Kassi Thomas)

2011-05-30T16:19:00.000-07:00

Part 1: School’s Out
Sonny Boy Williamson – Good Morning School Girl
Chuck Berry – School Days
The Ramones – Rock N Roll High School
Alice Cooper – School’s Out
Paul Simon – Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Steely Dan – My Old School
Supertramp – School

Part 2: We Are Nowhere and It's Now
Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton – Our Hell
The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
Bright Eyes – A Machine Spiritual
Bright Eyes – We Are Nowhere and It's Now
Whispertown 2000 – Done With Love
Kate Nash – Pickpocket
Broken Bells – October

Part 3: Welcome to the Occupation
Broken Bells – Vaporize
Noah & the Whale – 5 Years Time
Cold War Kids – Welcome to the Occupation
Phoenix – Countdown
Dawes – How Far We've Come
Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
Roman Candle – Starting From Scratch
The Features – Still Lost

Part 4: Original of the Species
The Beach Boys – Graduation Day
The Drive-By Truckers –Days Of Graduation
Travis – Graduation
Chris Isaak – Graduation Day
U2 – Original of the Species

One More Cup of Coffee (TOTR 131, Sponsored by Sweet Sallies)

2011-05-23T17:08:00.001-07:00

photo by Liz Kassera

Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
Bob Dylan – One More Cup of Coffee
Coffee Project – Easy Does It
Elliot Randall & The Deadmen – Caffeine & Gasoline
Jack Barlow – Hot Cup of Coffee
The White Stripes – One More Cup Of Coffee
Squeeze – Black Coffee In Bed
Sarah D – Caffeine Mom
Craig Austin – Coffee Lover’s Morning Song
Regatta 69 – Addicted to Coffee
The Hungry Food Band – I Love Coffee/I am so Addicted to Caffeine
Leopard Zeppard – 12 cup Espresso coffee maker
Abigail Washburn – Coffee’s Cold
Courtney Leigh Heins – Hot Coffee, Mississippi
Blur – Coffee And TV
Green Day – 409 In Your Coffeemaker
Jordan Lee & Gene Jones – Java Cafe Blues
Scott Brookins – Java, Jazz & Jesus
Rare Blend – Java Jam
Johnny Hammond Smith – Black Coffee
The Most Holy Trinity – Caffeine
The Radioactive Sago Project – Caffeine Jolt Jazz
TV On The Radio – Caffeinated Consciousness
Robert Plant – One More Cup Of Coffee

Helpless (TOTR 130)

2011-05-09T15:21:00.000-07:00

Neil Young – Helpless
Crosby, Stills and Nash – Helplessly Hoping
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes – The Shrine / An Argument
Joni Mitchell – Help Me
Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends
Ben Harper – Cryin’ Won’t Help You Now
Patty Loveless – How Can I Help You Say Goodbye
Bonnie Raitt – I Can’t Help You Now
Sara Watkins – Lord Won’t You Help Me
UB40 – Can’t Help Falling In Love
Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner –by request
John Lee Hooker – Helpless Blues
Ray Charles with Gladys Knight – Heaven Help Us All
Lenny Kravitz – Heaven Help
Maxwell – Help Somebody
Usher – Can U Help Me
U2 – Help
The Flaming Lips – Powerless
Gratidude – Powerless
A Perfect Circle – Weak and Powerless
Jethro Tull – With You There To Help Me
Wishbone Ash – Helpless
Amy Fradon – Helpless Again
k.d. lang – Helpless

After The Storm (TOTR 129)

2011-05-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

Second Annual Clean & Sober Show

Part 1 – What It Was Like
Cold War Kids – We Used To Vacation
The Avett Brothers – Ill With Want
The Avett Brothers – When I Drink
Uncle Tupelo – I Got Drunk
Pistol Pete & Popgun Paul – The Party Zone
The Dolly Ranchers – Too Drunk To Go Home
Kris Kristofferson – From The Bottle To The Bottom

Part 2 – How It Changed
U2 – Unknown Caller
U2 – Running to Stand Still
Mumford & Sons – After The Storm
Old Crow Medicine Show – Take ‘Em Away
Kelly Clarkson – Sober
Ashley Cleveland – Deeper Walk
My Second Head – Recovery Prayer
Dirty Guv’nahs – Recovery

Part 3 – What It’s Like Now
Ryan Adams – Magnolia Mountain
Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
TV On The Radio – Killer Crane
TV On The Radio – Province
Anthony Hamilton – Fine Again
Michael Franti & Spearhead – I Got Love For You
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Hey World (Don’t Give Up Version)

Jesus Gave Me Water (TOTR 128, Jesus Mix 2)

2011-04-25T11:42:00.000-07:00

Curtis Mayfield – Jesus
Ben Harper – Pictures of Jesus
Amos Lee – Jesus
The Soul Stirrers – Jesus Gave Me Water
Rev. Otis Moss III – Gangster’s Paradise
The Gospel Harmonettes – Jesus Is On The Mainline
The O’Neal Twins & The Interfaith Choir – Jesus Dropped The Charges
Bishop Veron Ashe – Prize of the High Calling
The Dixie Hummingbirds – I Must Have Jesus
Alison Krauss & The Cox Family – I’d Rather Have Jesus
Dolly Parton – Jesus & Gravity
Carrie Underwood – Jesus, Take The Wheel
George Strait – I Found Jesus On The Jailhouse Floor
Tim McGraw – Drugs Or Jesus
Jars Of Clay – Jesus, I Lift My Eyes
DC Talk – Jesus Freak
Tracy Chapman – Save Us All
Peter Rollins – I Deny The Resurrection
Ashley Cleveland – I Need Jesus
Mike Farris & The Cumberland Saints – Wrapped Up, Tangled Up
Patty Griffin – The Strange Man (Feat. Regina McCrary & Mike Farris)
Larry Norman – The Outlaw

Jesus Mix 1: Cannot Keep You (TOTR 127)

2011-04-18T16:13:00.001-07:00

Jars Of Clay – Small Rebellions
All Saved Freak Band – Peace, Love, and Rock & Roll
Keith Green – Your Love Broke Through
Rob Bell – Love Wins In Nashville, Part 1
Agents of Future – Peace On Its Feet
Agents of Future – Sewn In My Skin
Psalters – Gloria
Psalters – Creed
Psalters – Hosanna
Psalters – All Who Are Weary
Rob Bell – Love Wins In Nashville, Part 2
Ollabelle – Everything Is Broken
Rickie Lee Jones – Nobody Knows My Name
Rob Bell – Love Wins In Nashville, Part 3
Mewithoutyou – Paper Hanger
Mewithoutyou – Carousels
Rob Bell – Love Wins In Nashville, Part 4
Needtobreathe – Garden
Rob Bell – Love Wins In Nashville, Part 5
Switchfoot – Always
Gungor – Cannot Keep You
Gungor – Heaven [feat_ Israel Houghton]
Rob Bell – Love Wins In Nashville, Part 12
The Michael Gungor Band – You are the Light
The Michael Gungor Band – White Man
Jars Of Clay – Benediction

Peace Beneath The City (TOTR 126)

2011-04-11T15:50:00.000-07:00

G. Love & Special Sauce – City Livin
Parliament – Chocolate City
Thievery Corporation – Blasting Through the City
Cee Lo Green – Bright Lights Bigger City
Matisyahu – Jerusalem
Rodriguez – Inner City Blues
Firewater – Electric City
Mat Kearney – City Of Black & White
Iron & Wine – Peace Beneath the City
Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs – New York City’s Killing Me
Arcade Fire – City With No Children
Bob Dylan – Marchin’ To The City (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)
The Avett Brothers – Murder in the City
Abigail Washburn – City of Refuge
Steve Earle – City Of Immigrants (With Forro In The Dark)
Arlo Guthrie – City Of New Orleans
David Bowie – Suffragette City
Snow Patrol – Take Back The City
Muse – City Of Delusion
John Mayer – City Love
Tegan And Sara – City Girl
Keb Mo – City Boy

Get Lost (TOTR 125)

2011-04-04T17:53:00.000-07:00

Band of Horses - The Funeral
Centro-Matic – Trust To Lose
The Holy Modal Rounders – Bound to Lose
Jim Clark – Staying Lost
Hank Williams – Lost Highway
Gorillaz & Danger Mouse – Don’t Get Lost In Heaven
Elliott Smith – Let’s Get Lost
Lauryn Hill – Lost Ones
Rusted Root – Lost In A Crowd
Shinedown – Lost In The Crowd
Bread – Lost Without Your Love
Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson – Lost Inside Of You (with)
Cat Power – Lost Someone
Sarah McLachlan – Lost
Lauren Mann – Lost in the Sound
Lauren Mann – When I Feel Lost
Chris Isaak – Lost Our Way
The Doors – You’re Lost Little Girl
Eric Clapton – (I) Get Lost
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Lost In The Flood (Live at Hammersmith Odeon Audio)
The Clash – Lost In The Supermarket
Okkervil River – Lost Coastlines
NEEDTOBREATHE – Lost
Mutemath – Lost Year
Coldplay – Everything’s Not Lost
Coldplay – Lost!

A Show Named 'Truth' (TOTR 124)

2011-03-28T17:36:00.000-07:00

Radiohead – True Love Waits
Buddy Holly – True Love Ways
John Prine – Glory of True Love
Aaron Ross – Speak the Truth
Alexander – Truth
Amos Lee – Truth
Dixie Chicks – Truth No. 2
Sara Evans – Three Chords And The Truth
Mother Mother – Love And Truth
Kings Of Convenience – Love Is No Big Truth
Duchess & Duke – You Can Tell the Truth Now
Last Shadow Puppets – Only The Truth
JJ Grey & Mofro – The Truth
Monsters Of Folk – Man Named Truth
Kaiser Chiefs – Half The Truth
Goo Goo Dolls – Truth Is A Whisper
The White Stripes – Truth Doesn’t Make A Noise
Depeche Mode – Policy Of Truth
Anthony Hamilton – The Truth
India Arie –The Truth
Lecrae – Truth
Enigma – The Eyes Of Truth

This Is The Day (TOTR 123)

2011-03-21T14:46:00.000-07:00

Secret Garden – First Day Of Spring
Stevie Wonder – Love’s In Need Of Love Today
The The – This is the Day
Elbow – One Day Like This
David Byrne & Brian Eno – One Fine Day
Eurythmics – I Saved The World Today
Robert Earl Keen – All I Have Is Today
Everybodyfields – Leaving Today
R.E.M. – It Happened Today
Nick Cave – Today’s Lesson
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream
The National – About Today
The Grass Roots – Let’s Live For Today
Jefferson Airplane – Today
Pete and the Pirates – Song For Today
Smashing Pumpkins – Today
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Smile The Day After Today
U2 – Some Days Are Better Than Others
Gungor – Brighter Day
Fred Hammond – This Is The Day
Zero 7 – Today
Matisyahu & Akon – One Day

We Walk (TOTR 122)

2011-03-14T17:55:00.000-07:00

Vaneli – Walking

Fats Domino – Walking To New Orleans

Peter Tosh – (You Gotta Walk And) Don’t Look Back

Ziggy Marley & Paul Simon – Walk Tall

Ernest Tubb – Walking The Floor Over You

Jim Clark – The Man Who Walks Out

The Avett Brothers – Walking For You

Jim Croce – Walking Back To Georgia

James Taylor – Walking Man

Patsy Cline -- Walkin' After Midnight

Iron & Wine – Walking Far From Home

Breeders – Walk It Off

Green Day – Walking Alone

Duke Spirit – The Step And The Walk

Dirty Guv’nahs – Walk With Me

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Walking On The Water

The Cult – Spiritwalker

Depeche Mode – Walking In My Shoes

Throw Me the Statue – About To Walk

R.E.M – We Walk

R.E.M – Walk It Back

U2 – Walk to the Water

U2 – Walk On

John Hiatt – Walk On

Ben Harper – Walk Away

Out Of The Cold (TOTR 121)

2011-03-07T17:13:00.000-08:00

Bob Marley – Coming In From The Cold
Amos Lee – Out Of The Cold
Cold War Kids – Cold Toes On The Cold Floor
The Cave Singers – Cold Eye
Richard Hawley – The Nights Are Cold
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman – Hot Corn, Cold Corn
Willie Nelson & Norah Jones – Baby It’s Cold Outside
Patty Griffin – Cold As It Gets
Annie Lennox – Cold
Maxwell – Cold
Anthony Hamilton – Stone Cold
Rainbow – Stone Cold
The Black Crowes – Stare It Cold
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Cold Shot
The Rolling Stones – She’s So Cold
Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
Bob Dylan – Cold Irons Bound
Ryan Adams – Cold Roses
The White Stripes – In the Cold, Cold Night
Kings Of Leon – Cold Desert
The Arcade Fire – Cold Wind
Damien Rice – Cold Water
Gordon Lightfoot – Cold On The Shoulder

New Shalom (TOTR 120)

2011-02-28T16:24:00.000-08:00

Teacher On The Radio welcomes special co-host Robert Owens.

Sweet Honey In The Rock – Calypso Freedom

Sweet Honey In The Rock – Wade In The Water

Sweet Honey In The Rock – In The Upper Room

The Soul Stirrers – Lord Remember Me

The Soul Stirrers – Joy, Joy to My Soul

The Fairfield Four – My God Called Me This Morning

The Winans – Restoration

The Winans – Love Is A Spirit

Tye Tribbett – Your Blood (The Communion Song)

Tye Tribbett – Hallelujah

Keith Wonderboy Johnson & The Spiritual Voices – Send A Revival

Keith Wonderboy Johnson – Let Go And Let God

Ricky Dillard & New G – Take Me Back

Ricky Dillard & New G (with DeAndre Patterson) – Testimony Medley

Ricky Dillard & New G – I Give It To You

Lecrae – New Reality

Lecrae – New Shalom

Lecrae – Children of the Light

Golden Eagle Women's Basketball Shoutout & Mixtape 2011 (TOTR 119)

2011-02-21T17:47:00.000-08:00

(photo by Matthew Bimstein)

Kurtis Blow – Basketball

Roscoe Dash – All The Way Turnt Up

DJ Khaled – All I Do Is Win

Jim Jones – We Fly High

House Of Pain – Jump Around

Damian Marley – Move!

Eminem – Lose Yourself

The Crystal Method – Name Of The Game

Little Big Town – Only What You Make Of It

Carrie Underwood – Temporary Home

Joe Nichols – Believers

Casting Crowns – Praise You In This Storm

Sanctus Real – Lead Me

Mercy Me – I Can Only Imagine

Hillsong United – From The Inside Out

Hillsong London – How Great Is Our God (Remix)

Love Generation (TOTR 118)

2011-02-14T16:03:00.000-08:00

Voice Squad –When a Man’s in Love
John Prine & Iris Dement – In Spite Of Ourselves
Tom Waits – In Between Love
Band of Horses – Marry Song
St. Vincent – Marry Me
Dirty Guv’nahs – Song For My Beloved
Adele – First Love
Gillian Welch – My First Lover
Anthony Hamilton – My First Love
The Bird And The Bee – My Love
Jill Scott – My Love
Maxwell – For Lovers Only
Wooden Birds – Believe in Love
Foals – Big Big Love
Cloud Cult – Love You All
Bob Sinclar – Love Generation
Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
The Rolling Stones –You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
Lizz Wright – Get Together
Lizz Wright – Thank You

Wholly Holy (TOTR 117)

2011-02-07T14:16:00.000-08:00

Afro Celt Sound System with Robert Plant—Life Begin Again

Florence & The Machine—Howl

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club—Howl

Johnny Flynn—Howl

Bill Cosby—Wholly Holy

Moby—I Love To Move In Here (Holy Ghost! Remix)

Linfinity—Holy Rain

Rain Machine—Hold You Holy

Jakob Dylan—Holy Rollers For Love

Michelle Shocked—Holy Spirit

Kris Kristofferson—Holy Woman

King Missile—Heavy Holy Man

Soundgarden—Holy Water

The Cult—Holy Mountain

Blind Melon—Holyman

Kings Of Leon—Holy Roller Novocaine

White Lies—Holy Ghost

Canton Spirituals—Holy Ghost Guitar

Steven Delopoulos—Holy Sunlight

Aretha Franklin—Wholly Holy

Down To The Wire (TOTR 116)

2011-01-31T15:53:00.000-08:00

The Go-Betweens – The House That Jack Kerouac Built

Jethro Tull – From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser

Paul Simon – A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission)

Death Cab For Cutie – Bixby Canyon Bridge

Son Volt – Down to the Wire

Son Volt – Roll On

Son Volt – Cocaine and Ashes

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – California Zephyr

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – Low Life Kingdom

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – Williamine

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – All In One

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – Breathe Our Iodine

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – These Roads Don’t Move

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – Big Sur

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – One Fast Move Or I’m Gone

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – Final Horrors

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – Sea Engines

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – The Void

Son Volt – Highways And Cigarettes

Son Volt – Adrenaline And Heresy

Son Volt – Circadian Rhythm

Son Volt – Methamphetamine

Son Volt – Bicycle Hotel

Bob Weir (The Grateful Dead) – Cassidy

Nina Simone – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

Prodigal (TOTR 115)

2011-01-24T17:22:00.000-08:00

Josh White – Prodigal Son

Steel Pulse – Prodigal Son

OneRepublic – Prodigal

Casting Crowns – Prodigal

Sleepy Eyed Fox – The Prodigal

7th Day Buskers – Prodigal Son

Michelle Shocked – Prodigal Daughter (Cotton Eyed Joe)

Two Gallants – The Prodigal Son

The Rolling Stones – Prodigal Son

Amboy Dukes – Prodigal Man

Bad Religion – Prodigal Son

The Revenants – Prodigal Son

The Gatlin Brothers – Prodigal Son

Hank Williams, Sr. – The Prodigal Son

Dierks Bentley – Prodigal Son’s Prayer

The Blues Preachers – Prodigal Son

The Bill Davison Family – Prodigal Son

Fred Hammond – Prodigal Son

Heavenly Gospel Singers – The Prodigal Son

Fairfield Four – Amazing Grace/The Prodigal Son/I Believe I’ll Go Back Home

Dreams (TOTR 114)

2011-01-17T08:42:00.000-08:00

Eurythmics –Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Meat Loaf – Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through

Fleetwood Mac – Dreams

Talking Heads – City of Dreams

Cold War Kids – Dreams Old Men Dream

TV on the Radio – Dreams

Miracle Fortress – Have You Seen In Your Dreams

Wilco – Dreamer In My Dreams

Iron &Wine – Fever Dream

Adele – Daydreamer

Lightning Dust – Dreamer

Rilo Kiley – Dreamworld

Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – Beyond My Wildest Dreams

Alison Krauss – Dreaming My Dreams With You

Brandi Carlile– Dreams

Jim Croce – These Dreams

Van Morrison – These Dreams of You

Billy Joel – The River Of Dreams

John Mellencamp – Save Some Time To Dream

Colin Meloy – Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect > Dreams

Tallest Man on Earth – Pistol Dreams

The Allman Brothers Band – Dreams

Yonder Mountain String Band – Dreams

January Morning (TOTR 113)

2011-01-09T19:12:00.000-08:00

Zahir – January Morn

Ian & Sylvia – January Morning

UB40/Chrissie Hynde – Breakfast In Bed

The Band – Orange Juice Blues

Poi dog pondering – Postcard from a dream

Joni Mitchell – Chelsea Morning

Jill Andrews – Sweetest In the Morning

Norah Jones – In The Morning

John Legend – Good Morning

Ben Harper – Morning Yearning

Jack Johnson – Tomorrow Morning

Grateful Dead – Till The Morning Comes

The Black Crowes – Good Morning Captain

Tom Petty – High In The Morning

Kings Of Leon – Red Morning Light

Oasis – Morning Glory

Radiohead – Morning Bell

My Morning Jacket – At Dawn

Plants and Animals – Early In The Morning

Gram Parsons – We’ll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning

Iron And Wine – Morning

Bob Dylan – Meet Me in the Morning

Kris Kristofferson – Good Morning John

Cowboy Junkies – Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning

Greg Ellis – Epiphany

"I Remember, I Believe": The Best of 2010 Playlist (TOTR 112)

2011-01-03T12:58:00.001-08:00

Kanye West–Lost In The World (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, released November 22, 2010) Without weighing in on the layers of love, hate, and hype that surround Mr. West, “I'm lost the World/I'm new in the city” captures a year of much transformative transition for me where the angels and devils of reality revealed their faces oh-so-clearly.

Cee Lo Green – Old Fashioned (The Lady Killer, released November 5, 2010)In a century where old-school has felt entirely fresh, it’s hard not to get intoxicated by records that sound this timeless.

Yeasayer – I Remember (Odd Blood, released February 8, 2010) A hidden spring gurgles up tribal memories for the future, narrating liberation and romance as it goes down, outside my head and in my headphones.

Jonsi – Go Do (Go, released April 5, 2010) Euphoric Icelandic vegetarian falsetto sings in English what could easily be the anthem for my life (and also, apparently, for car commercials) on an album of sweet affirmation. “You will survive we´ll never stop wonders/You and sunrise will never fall under/We should always know that we can do anything.” May it be so! And what are we waiting for?

SufjanStevens – Now That I’m Older (The Age of Adz, released October 12, 2010) Wisps of wisdom, whispers of reflection, and in this refraction, I finally got infected by Sufjan’s vision. Impending maturity feels better by the day.

Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land (The Winter of Mixed Drinks, released March 1, 2010) An anthem and epiphany of letting go and moving on. Song still moves after multiple listens. Listen: “Swim until you can't see land/Are you a man or are you a bag of sand?/Up to my knees now, do I wait? Do I dive?” And finally: “Let's call me a baptist, call this the drowning of the past.”

Band Of Horses – Evening Kitchen (Infinite Arms, released May 18, 2010) Crafted songcrafters come crisply into cozy maturity, singing songs that linger on the soul, leaving a sweet aftertaste of truth: “And if you're ever left with any doubt/What you live with and what you'll do without/I'm only sorry that it took so long to figure out.”

Kings Of Leon – Pickup Truck(Come Around Sundown, released October 19, 2010)When I moved to the mid-south from the midwest in the mid-90s, I had no idea that our music city would become the icon of rock that it is. These kings follow the footsteps of the king and give good guilty pleasure and hometown pride.

J RoddyWalston And The Business – Used To Did (J RoddyWalston And The Business, released on July 27, 2010) I “used to did,” but “now I didn’t.” Tell it like it is (!) in balls loose lightning boogie.

The Black Keys – Next Girl (Brothers, released on May 18, 2010)On Brothers, the Keys get honest, and so must I: as in life, so in love, we make mistakes, and we move on. I am so glad that I too got another chance.

John Mellencamp – No Better Than This (No Better Than This, released August 17, 2010) It defies and fulfills logic that the same man who thrilled the radio with “Hurt So Good” or “Jack and Diane” some three decades ago would be a wise-and-fit elder and prophetic poet of a country-church-meets-hotel-room Americana. Go John.

Robert Plant – Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down (Band of Joy, released September 14, 2010) Traditional and medicinal, this magical hymn makes amends and bends the narrative. Nothing against Zepheads pining for a reunion, but these Nashville-fueled folk-fusions bury the dead of that epic past with a musical dawn we all hope will last.

Laura Marling – Devil’s Spoke(I Speak Because I Can, released March 22, 2010)Forget all notions that folk this good, this haunting, and this beautiful is all pentangled up in the past. Marling moves the mountain of your soul with her sole sincerity and stunning singing.

Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs – Devil’s In The Jukebox (God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise, released August 17, 2010)Maple syrup slips on an old mountain road as Ray rips Joe Cocker-croons about yellow moons, a slinky serenade with slow sexy steam—kitchen kicking summer soundtrack still soothes on winter playback.

Delta Spirit – Devil Knows You’re Dead (History From Below, released June 8, 2010) Give a man a roof and road and a lyric sheet to pen eulogies like this.Matt Vasquez visualizes with his mouth a musical truth outside time but for our times and of our time. I am honestly surprised this record has not found a wider audience and a higher acclaim.

The Tallest Man On Earth – Burden of Tomorrow (Wild Hunt, released April 13, 2010) Gritty folksinger Kristian Mattson is “carving riddles,” and we are fed when we listen.

Justin Townes Earle – Workin’ for the MTA (Harlem River Blues, released September 13, 2010)Just his name conjures a jones for his voice, Justin Townes Earle owns retro folkabilly with metro sensibility and sears the ears and banishes fears.

Ryan Bingham – The Weary Kind (Crazy Heart Soundtrack, January 19, 2010) Bingham brings it on this song and on his album Junky Star. I began the year in a ball of tears in an almost-empty Nashville movie house on a weekday afternoon. We drove an hour to see a film which unrolled our lives on celluloid. This song won an Oscar for its plaintive summary of the alcoholic artist’s path. It sounds so sad, but its message is ultimately so hopeful.

Mumford & Sons – Roll Away Your Stone (Sigh No More, released February 16, 2010)On the hottest and dustiest of afternoons that would be Bonnaroo, I crammed to the front of the tent to sing this song out-loud with a few thousand other frenetic fans. Like so many other songs this year, the lyrics here say what I am thinking before I think, tapping my feelings with profundity: “It seems that all my bridges have been burned/But you say that’s exactly how this grace thing works/It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart/But the welcome I receive with the restart.”

Anais Mitchell – Why We Build The Wall(Hadestown, released March 9, 2010) Duets and collaborations remind that music is ultimately a community affair for campfires, barn-raisings, work parties, weddings, funerals, rallies, protests, and prophecies. Mitchell and an army of friends make it real for all-of-the-above-and-them-some, preachin’ it with such precise passion that we don’t mind her preachin’ about walls and how wars are never won and how poverty is the enemy.

Natalie Merchant – Peppery Man (Leave Your Sleep, released released April 13, 2010) While some critics cast aspersions at Merchant for getting too maternal and professorly on this dynamic and dissertationesqe collection, the combination of folk genres and folksy themes is anything but sleepy. When Natalie toured through Nashville and brought these songs to the Ryman Auditorium, she mentioned the powerful experience of working with our own gospel luminaries the Fairfield Four on this phenomenal track.

Mike Farris &The Cumberland Saints – Down On Me(The Night the Cumberland Came Alive, released October 26, 2010)Another great gift of the last year: further discovering rock-blues-gospel-Americana sparkplug Mike Farris and getting the spirit at the revival of his live shows.On this disc, a cast of collaborators (including the McCrary Sisters, daughters of the aforementioned Fairfield Four) and local champions take it to church (literally, in this live recording cut in a local sanctuary) to offer musical healing and Nashville flood relief.

Patty Griffin – Move Up (Downtown Church, released January 26, 2010) Mike Farris most likely got the idea to record at Nashville’s Downtown Presbyterian Church after collaborating on Patti Griffin’s deeply personal, heartfelt, and universally-appealing folk-gospel album simply called Downtown Church, one of many recent efforts to tastefully and dramatically bridge the indy-folk-Americana and traditional gospel genres.

Mavis Staples – Wrote A Song For Everyone (You Are Not Alone, released September 14, 2010) Getting “born again” (again!) as a Christian in middle agecan really alter one’s music-listening-as-meditation habits, and I am so thankful for all the great gospel that crosses-over to indy and inclusive and intelligent, making an altar of sound in my heart and mind. Mavis Staples is a grand matron of rock-pop-gospel anthems, and this new record really earns an “Amen.”

Lizz Wright –I Remember, I Believe (Fellowship, released on September 28, 2010) Following in the steps of the Staples family tradition as well as that of Bernice Johnson Reagon, Lizz Wright spins so much sweet honey to soothe the sinner’s soul with a testimony towards salvation and liberation.

Joyful Noises Mixtape 2010

2010-12-22T10:53:00.001-08:00

Ludwig Van Beethoven – Ode To Joy
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Enya – Journey Of The Angels
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Annie Lennox – As Joseph Was A Walking

Indigo Girls – The Wonder Song

Mary Chapin Carpenter – Children, Go Where I Send Thee

The Band – Christmas Must Be Tonight

Take 6 – Go Tell It On The Mountain
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Harry Belafonte – Mary, Mary

Bruce Cockburn – Mary Had A Baby

St. Olaf Choir – Here’s a Pretty Little Baby

Durant – O Holy Night

Kathy Mattea – Christmas Collage

Amy Grant – O Come All Ye Faithful

Kathy Mattea – Somebody Talkin’ About Jesus

Sufjan Stevens—Joy To The World

This Little Light (TOTR 111)

2010-12-20T13:36:00.000-08:00

Sam Cooke – This Little Light Of Mine

Ben Harper – There Will Be a Light

Sweet Honey In The Rock – This Little Light Of Mine

U2 – City of Blinding Lights

The Rolling Stones – Shine A Light

Neil Young – Light A Candle

Wilco – What Light

Patrick Park –Starry Night

Annie Lennox – Shining Light

Scissor Sisters – Invisible Light

Madonna – Ray Of Light

The Black Keys – Everlasting Light

Dirty Guvnahs – We’ll Be The Light

Wishbone Ash – Keeper Of The Light

Chris Bathgate – A Flash Of Light Followed By

Sam Phillips – Reflecting Light

Glasvegas – S.A.D. Light

Ed Kowalczyk – In Your Light

Phish – Light

Yusuf Islam – God Is The Light

Lone Justice – You Are the Light

Kathy Mattea – Brightest And Best

Eden’s Bridge – Into The Light

The Edible Final Exam!

2010-12-16T08:09:00.000-08:00

This semester, we wrote about food. This semester, we planted, harvested, & feasted on food. This semester, we discussed & described our family recipes & our favorite restaurants. This semester, the professor required students to record & produce a YouTube-ready cooking video & called it the Edible Final Exam.

These projects were all created by first-year Tennessee Tech students enrolled in the Environmental Learning Village sections of English 1010. It’s always hard to pick a top five of anything, but these were some of my favorites from the more than sixty videos I had the pleasure of watching.

Waking Up!--or "Warm Songs for a Cold Night" (TOTR 110)

2010-12-13T17:29:00.001-08:00

Sarah McLachlan—Awakenings

Lizz Wright—Wake Up, Little Sparrow

U2—Beautiful Day

Bob Marley & The Wailers—Wake Up And Live

Green Day—Wake Me Up When September Ends (live)

Uncle Kracker—Smile

Okkervil River—Savannah Smiles

The Killers—Smile Like You Mean It

Chicago—Wake Up Sunshine

Dave Matthews Band—Everybody Wake Up

Los Lobos—Wake Up Dolores

Lyle Lovett—If You Were To Wake Up

Norah Jones—Wake Me Up

Pet Shop Boys—I Want To Wake Up

Wilco—When You Wake Up Feeling Old

R.E.M—The Wake-Up Bomb

Arcade Fire—Wake Up

U2—Rise Up

Eddie Vedder—Rise

Fleet Foxes—Sun it Rises

Jimmy Cliff—I Can See Clearly Now

Grateful Dead—Eyes Of The World

Ashley Cleveland—My God Called Me This Morning

Odetta—Rise Up Shepherds & Follow

Keith Green—Your Love Broke Through

Angel Joy (TOTR 109)

2010-12-06T13:11:00.000-08:00

Ludwig Van Beethoven—Ode To Joy

George Winston—Joy

Sufjan Stevens—Joy To The World

Three Dog Night—Joy To The World

Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble—Pride And Joy

Ben Harper—Waiting On An Angel

Lizz Wright—Another Angel

Elvis Costello—(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes

Robert Plant—Angel Dance

U2—Angel of Harlem

Chris Whitley—To Joy (Revolution Of The Innocents)

Phish—Joy

Lenny Kravitz—Fields Of Joy

Lucinda Williams—Joy

Michelle Shocked – Can’t Take My Joy

Ashley Cleveland—Joy Joy

The Cluster Pluckers—O Come, Angel Band

Old and in the Way—Angel Band

Pistol Pete & Popgun Paul—Wearing An Angel’s Wings

Rilo Kiley—The Angels Hung Around

Laurie Anderson—Gravity’s Angel

Enya—Journey Of The Angels

Annie Lennox—Angels From The Realms of Glory

Kathy Mattea—Angels We Have Heard On High

Indigo Girls—There’s Still My Joy

Aaron Neville & the Blind Boys Of Alabama—Joy To The World

A Spoken Word Show (TOTR 108)

2010-11-29T17:47:00.001-08:00

Allen Ginsberg – Wales Visitation

Jack Kerouac – San Francisco Scene

Jack Kerouac – The San Francisco Blues

Jack Kerouac – History Of Bop

William S Burroughs – The Sermon On The Mount 1

William S Burroughs – The Sermon On The Mount 2

William S Burroughs – The Sermon On The Mount 3

Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Christ Climbed Down

Kenneth Patchen – Nice Day for a Lynching

Kenneth Patchen – As Beautiful as the Hands of the Winter Tree

Jim Carroll – A Child Growing Up With the Sun

Anne Waldman – Fast Speaking Woman

Anne Waldman – Skin Meat Bones

Cassius Clay – Do You Have To Ask

Gil Scott-Heron – And Then He Wrote Meditations

Saul Williams – Bloodletting

King Missile – Happiness

Derrick Brown – Amateur Realist, Ascending

Derrick Brown – Cheap Rent

Derrick Brown – How To Kill Your Writing

Allen Ginsberg – Gospel Noble Truths

Allen Ginsberg – Father Death Blues

U2 – Walk to the Water

Cornbread Time! (TOTR 107)

2010-11-22T17:52:00.000-08:00

James Brown – Mashed Potatoes

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Mama’s Fried Potatoes

Tom Waits – Filipino Box Spring Hog

Dick Kimmel – Wild Turkey Rag

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys – Crippled Turkey

Ray Charles – Sweet Potato Pie

Billyblues – Pumpkin Pie

Guy Clark – Texas Cookin’

Travis Tritt – It’s A Great Day To Be Alive

Dry Land Fish – Cornbread and Guitar Strings

Sonny Terry – Cornbread Meat And Molasses

The Lilly Brothers And Don Stover – Cornbread & Molasses & Sassafras Tea

Mississippi John Doude – Cornbread Time

Carolina Chocolate Drops – Cornbread And Butterbeans

Loco Zydeco – Give Him Cornbread

Harmonica Buzz – The Cornbread Jinx

Lee Perry – Roast Fish & Cornbread

Joe Houston – Cornbread & Cabbage Greens

Don Miller – Cornbread, Chittlins, and Your Love

Cyrus Chestnut – Cornbread Pudding

Chris Barber Jazz and Blues Band – Cornbread, Peas and Black Molasses

The Bolton Brothers – Cornbread & Black-Eyed Peas

Iris Dement – Childhood Memories

Bonnie Raitt – Thank You

Newbury Park – Thank You

Enter the Worship Circle – Can’t Thank You Enough

Durant – Thank You

Bill Withers – Grandma’s Hands

Bill Withers – Lean On Me

How Granola Are We!

2010-11-17T07:42:00.000-08:00

In the 80s and 90s and early 00s, I came from the culture where “granola” is an adjective, a word when coupled with “crunchy” that conveys the convergence of everything earthy and edgy and all-natural to the extreme. Examples of this include conscious cloth consumers, reduce-reuse-recyle renegades, and the more fragrant dudes who forgo deodorant for a dab of patchouli under the ear.

In the common counterculture vernacular, I could be easily described by an observer as “the granola professor who does the workshop tent at Bonnaroo.” Even as I try to retire from my hippy-punk roots into more a more modest middle-age in relative middle-class comfort in my cozy college town, there’s one place that I’m still all-granola, and that’s the kitchen, where I try to be as buy-local, grow-your-own, DIY, all-natural, organic, and homemade as possible.

So the breakfast stapleat my house is, of course, homemade granola, which I usually serve with organic, whole milk yogurt and drizzled with local honey.

We make this in batches once a month and that lasts to keep our morning bellies happy on busy workdays. My recipe for granola breaks down into three basic components: the oats, the goo, and the accessories.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and get out your best, large (such as 9 x 12) baking or cake pans. Begin with a 42 ounce cylindrical box of Whole Grain Oats (these are available at your grocer, and the boxes can be re-used to store the finished granola). Pour the oats into a large mixing bowl and add your crunchy accessories – which for us might involve an assortment of raw nuts like cashews, walnuts, almonds, pecans, pepitas, or even sunflower or sesame seeds, depending on the batch. The choice of nuts really caters to your tastes and/or what you keep around your pantry.

Next, you need to prepare the sweet gorgeous goo to fill, and simmer in, a small or medium saucepan. I encourage you to experiment from batch to batch with what you like best in your goo and what the best quantity of goo is for your perfect granola. For me, it’s a medium saucepan with a mixture that’s about half sweets like organic sugar, honey, and maple syrup and half oils and fats—stuff like olive oil, canola oil, butter, peanut butter, tahini, almond butter. I never use too much nut butter and tend to stick with one kind per batch.

When the goo gets good and warm and melted and mixed, pour it over the oats and nuts, stirring carefully with a wooden spoon. If you’re an animated cook like me, it’s easy to make a mess at this stage, so be careful. Once the goo evenly coats the oat mixture, pour into your baking pans, which it wouldn’t hurt to oil or spray lightly. Bake for approximately an hour at 350 or until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Let cool and eat.

I’ve been making granola like this for years, and it’s always delicious and relatively nutritious. Dig in and get crunchy!

Tennessee Me (TOTR 106)

2010-11-15T14:12:00.000-08:00

Homesick James – Homecoming Blues

Sleepy John Estes – Easin’ Back To Tennessee

Steve Earle – Tennessee Blues

Levon Helm – Tennessee Jed

Jerry Garcia – Sweet Sunny South

Hazel Dickens - Hills Of Home

Hayden Mattingly – Green Hills Of Home

Hayden Mattingly – Mom’s Song

Drew Griswold – Tellico

Kings Of Leon – The Face

Kings Of Leon – Back Down South

New Found Glory – Tennessee

Sam Cooke – Tennessee Waltz

Joe Gilder – Tennessee Moons

Magnolia Electric Co. – Nashville Moon

The Byrds – Nashville West

Indigo Girls – Nashville

Sheryl Crow – Long Road Home

TV On The Radio – Halfway Home

U2 – A Sort of Homecoming

Dan Auerbach – Goin’ Home

Ryan Adams – When Will You Come Back Home

Widespread Panic – When You Coming Home

Allman Brothers Band – Please Call Home

Get Real Get Right (TOTR 105)

2010-11-08T17:50:00.000-08:00

David Gray – Real Love

Lucinda Williams – Real Love

Mary Chapin Carpenter – That’s Real

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – My Love For You Is Real

U2 – Even Better Than the Real Thing

The Who – The Real Me

Mason Jennings – Keepin’ It Real

Plants and Animals – Keep It Real

Jeff Buckley – So Real

Rusted Root –Virtual Reality

Sufjan Stevens – Get Real Get Right

Adele – Right As Rain

Susan Tedeschi – Rock Me Right

Dr. John – Right Place Wrong Time

G Love and Special Sauce – Ain’t That Right

Sons of Slum – Right On

Radiohead – Everything in Its Right Place

M_ Ward – Right In The Head

Drive-By Truckers –The Righteous Path

Ryan Bingham – Self-Righteous Wall

The Flying Burrito Brothers – Do Right Woman

John Mellencamp – Right Behind Me

Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Larry Norman – Righteous Rocker #1

Mike Peters – Absolute Reality

Takin' It To Heaven (TOTR 104)

2010-11-01T18:11:00.000-07:00

Dr. John w/ Mavis Staples - When The Saints Go Marching In

Grateful Dead - St_ Stephen

Carrie Newcomer - All Saint's Day

Patty Larkin -All Souls Day

Ollabelle - Heaven's Pearls

Garth & Maude Hudson (The Harry Smith Project) - No Depression In Heaven

Sinead O'Connor - I Am Stretched On Your Grave

Anais Mitchell w/ Justin Vernon, Ani DiFranco - Way Down Hadestown

The Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell

The Clash - Straight 2 Hell

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Wilco - Airline to Heaven

Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven

Guadalcanal Diary - Fire From Heaven

R.E.M - Near Wild Heaven

Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven

Blitzen Trapper - Heaven and Earth

Talking Heads - Heaven

Traffic - Heaven Is In Your Mind

Loretta Lynn - Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven

Ashley Cleveland - Going To Heaven To Meet The King

The Soul Stirrers - Heaven Is My Home

Neville Brothers - Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Haunted Show (TOTR 103)

2010-10-25T17:15:00.000-07:00

Hank Williams –The Angel Of Death

Me Without You – The Angel Of Death Came To David’s Room

Michael Hurley – The Werewolf

Gordon Gano & The Ryans – Way That I Creep

Screamin Jay Hawkins – I Put A Spell On You

John Fogerty – Haunted House

Roy Buchanan – Haunted House

Roky Erickson – The Haunt

The Specials – Ghost Town

The Cure – Fear Of Ghosts

Bauhaus – Who Killed Mr. Moonlight

Siouxsie And The Banshees – Halloween

The Misfits – Halloween

Ministry – Stigmata

Skinny Puppy – Worlock

OhGr – Chaos

Switchblade Symphony – Witches

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand

Steeleye Span – Long Lankin

The Incredible String Band – Witches Hat

Pentangle – Rain And Snow

Vashti Bunyan – Rose Hip November

Neko Case – Deep Red Bells

Dead Can Dance – Yulunga

Indian Summer Wanderlust (TOTR 102)

2010-10-18T16:10:00.001-07:00

Jesse Winchester—Wander My Way Home

Dion—The Wanderer

Marc Broussard—The Wanderer

Jonny Lang—Wander This World

Ryan Bingham—The Wandering

Justin Townes Earle—Wanderin

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band—Zig Zag Wanderer

Flogging Molly—The Wanderlust

Jim Brickman—Wanderlust

James Taylor—Wandering

Mark Knopfler—Wanderlust

R.E.M—Wanderlust

Bjork—Wanderlust

Patti Smith—Wander I Go

Yellowjackets—Indian Summer

Nu Soul Guru—Indian Summer (Hotel Costes Mix

The Doors—Indian Summer

Jesse Malin—Indian Summer

Chris Whitley—Indian Summer

Poco—Indian Summer

Luna—Indian Summer

Manic Street Preachers—Indian Summer

U2—Indian Summer Sky

U2—The Wanderer

Spirituals—Wanderings

Jesse Winchester—Wander My Way Home

Teacher On The Radio's 100th Show!

2010-10-04T17:39:00.001-07:00

TV on the Radio – Province

The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

R.E.M - Radio Free Europe

R.E.M - Radio Song

Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio

Joe Jackson - On Your Radio

Queen - Radio Ga Ga

John Hiatt - Radio Girl

Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs - Like Rock & Roll And Radio

Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me I’m a Radio

Regina Spektor - On The Radio

Dar Williams - Midnight Radio

David Rovics - The Pirate Radio Song

The Blasters - Border Radio

The Clash - This is Radio Clash

The Doors - The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)

Talking Heads - Radio Head

Warren Zevon - Mohammed’s Radio

Wilco - Radio Cure

Jethro Tull - Radio Free Moscow

Rush - The Spirit Of Radio

String Cheese Incident – Come Together