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Basement Vibezzz

Feb 17, 2025 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Music

With DJ Jupiter

the basement welcomes you <3

37. Storytime, gather round

Songs tell stories, from the Appalachian mountains to Broadway. Why sing instead of recite poetry? Are musicals that different from sea shanties?

3:00 PM		Sarah Calderwood Wild Mountain Thyme Sarah Calderwood As Night Falls ABC Classic 2011
3:02 PM		The High Kings Step It Out Mary The High Kings Memory Lane Celtic Collections 2011
3:11 PM		The Wailin' Jennys The Parting Glass The Wailin' Jennys 40 Days Red House Records 2004
3:13 PM		Sean Dagher, Nils Brown & Michiel Schrey Leave Her Johnny Sean Dagher Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag (Sea Shanty Edition) [Original Game Soundtrack] Ubisoft Music 2013
3:15 PM		The Irish Rovers Finnegans Wake The Irish Rovers 50 years- Vol.1 Rover Records 2014
3:19 PM		Clarence Ashley Cuckoo Bird Clarence Ashley Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2002
3:21 PM		Estil C. Ball The Farmer's Curst Wife Sounds of the South V/A Rhino Atlantic 1993
3:24 PM		Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band How Firm a Foundation Maddy Prior Emma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Back Lot Music 2020
3:27 PM		The Watson Family The Lost Soul Classic Southern Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2005
3:30 PM		Jean Ritchie Young Man Who Wouldn't Raise Corn Jean Ritchie Clear Waters Remembered Master Classics Records 2011
3:31 PM		Bill Cornett Pretty Polly Mountain Music of Kentucky V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1996
3:34 PM		Stan Rogers Northwest Passage Stan Rogers Northwest Passage Borealis Records 1981
3:39 PM		Diane Taraz Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier Diane Taraz Songs of the Revolution Diane Taraz 2010
3:44 PM		Bruce Molsky The Blackest Crow Transatlantic Sessions - Series 3: Volume One Whirlie Records 2007
3:47 PM		Cat Stevens Father and Son (2020 Mix) Tea For The Tillerman (Super Deluxe Edition) [2020 Remix & Remaster] UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2020
3:53 PM		Rachel Zegler The Hanging Tree (from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Music From & Inspired By) Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. under exclusive license to Geffen Records 2023
4:04 PM		Sara Bareilles When He Sees Me Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording) DMI Soundtracks 2016
4:07 PM		Sophia Anne Caruso & Beetlejuice Original Broadway Cast Recording Ensemble Dead Mom Beetlejuice (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Ghostlight Records 2019
4:10 PM		Adam Pascal One Song Glory Rent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Warner Records 2005
4:13 PM		Reneé Rapp Someone Gets Hurt Mean Girls (Music From The Motion Picture) Paramount Pictures/Interscope Records 2024
4:16 PM		Annaleigh Ashford, Delta Nus,Dequina Moore, Laura Bell Bundy, Lesly Kritzer Omigod You Guys (from "Legally Blonde") Legally Blonde the Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Sh-K-Boom Records 2007
4:21 PM		Laura Osnes "In My Own Little Corner" Laura Osnes Cinderella (Original 2013 Broadway Cast Recording) Ghostlight Records 2013
4:24 PM		Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Alfred Molina, Filddler on the Roof Company Tradition (From "Fiddler On The Roof") Fiddler On The Roof (New Cast Broadway Recording) PS Classics 2004
4:32 PM		Leonard Bernstein, Jim Bryant, Johnny Green, West Side Story Orchestra West Side Story: Act I: Somethings Coming West Side Story V/A Sony Music Entertainment 2007
4:34 PM		Faith Prince Adelaide's Lament Guys and Dolls (New Broadway Cast Recording (1992)) Masterworks Broadway 1992
4:38 PM		Christian Borle, 'Legally Blonde' Greek Chorus, Laura Bell Bundy & Legally Blonde Ensemble Legally Blonde Legally Blonde the Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Ghostlight Records 2007
4:41 PM		"Les Misérables Original London Cast" Ensemble One Day More Les Misérables (Original 1985 London Cast Recording) First Night Records 1985
4:45 PM		Brian Stokes Mitchell The Impossible Dream (The Quest) Man of La Mancha (New Broadway Cast Recording (2002)) Masterworks Broadway 2003
4:55 PM		Write Out Loud Little Miss Perfect (feat. Taylor Louderman & Joriah Kwamé) Write Out Loud 2019 - EP V/A Write Out Loud Project 2024

Chat is archived.

Hey hey!

helloooo

bruh we're irish today

some, but not all!

we do have a very popular sea shanty coming up though haha

y0y0!

hello!! thanks for tuning in

Irish folk songs are great at telling sad stories in a very jaunty way

@ DJ Jupiter (host) Enjoying the Scots-Irish segment. "Step It Out Mary" shows that the tyranny of arranged marriages was certainly known ~and protested by ~ folk music traditions.

Sea Shanty 2?

i want to request some Rune Scape 2 music

Loving the trad stuff today!

@Richard of Rocky Hill, yes! discontent with the law and folk songs have always been closely intertwined, especially since it was very hard to trace back to the original source

thanks bud! Glad you're enjoying it

It's always cool to listen to Scots/Irish and American trad music in close proximity. You can really hear the similarities.

agree! story telling and music seems to be a pretty universal language

Pretty Polly: A Warning Tale To All Women

Don't follow you're boyfriend into the woods alone

I love Doc Watson's music, and the Smithsonian/Folkways recording with him and kinfolk, recorded at home in North Carolina, is a classic.

I have ti also really thank you for playing "Northwest Passage." I'd never heard it before, but it's clearly about Sir John Franklin's ill-fated ship expedition of 1845-47 to try and find a northwest sailing passage shortcut from the Atlantic through the Canadian artic region to the Pacific.

wow that's very impressive! I have to look up what a lot of the songs are about, but you are absolutely locked in!

one of the many reasons the PRB community is so near and dear to my <3

@ DJ Jupiter (host) Thanks for the kind words. I like to share what I know, because I keep learning so much ~ and hearing awesome new (to me) music ~ on WPRB. :-D

did you like the ballad of songbirds and snakes ( the movie) !?

@Richard of Rocky Hill, ofc! always appreciate the sharing of knowledge :)

@Michael gudgeon, I actually never saw the movie, but I enjoyed the book!

do you recommend the movie? I know that the movie increased sympathy for President snow bc people found the actor attractive haha

Re: Folkways Records, it was founded in New York City by Moses "Moe" Asch in 1948. Asch was recording and producing world music before that term was even invented. Folkways albums typically came with richly researched booklets about the music and the people who created it. Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Peter Seeger were among Folkway's most famous perofmers. When Moe was ready to retire in the mid-1980s, he hoped to sell the label plus its invaluable archives in one transaction, not piecemeal.

Jupiter - Nice nice, Sara Beatles song sounded like music from a Disney Princess and Glinda( Wicked )

ooo I can definitely hear that

especially with the dead parent motif that seems to be an almost integral part of most Disney movies

Ralph Rinzler, the far-sighted first director of the Smithsonian Division of Folklife & Cultural Studies gathered the funding to acquire Moe's holdings. And it continues today as the very successful non-profit label Smithsonian/Folklife, releasing excellent new recordings every year. I'm writing Ralph's biography, so it's a topic dear to me ~ so glad you featured it today!

(referring to Dead Mom song)

WOAH! Writing Ralphs biography is super cool! Props to you!!!

OOPS! Correction: it's the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage.

@ DJ Jupiter (host) Thanks for the encouragement, much appreciated!

Wiki has a good entry on Folkways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkways_Records

I have so much love for the smithsonian

I personally liked it, i also enjoy the movie as well, yes he is quite attractive, and paint him out to be a good guy in some ways. Was the book like that as well?

no, I think the book does humanize him more than in the original hunger games series, with his background, but he isn't made to be the good guy

yeah i mean, it's tough to root for him truly cause you know what he becomes, but he has a run there in the middle of it where he's a good guy, considering circumstances, he totally shows his true colors by the end. +

agree, it was sad to see how different everything could have been and also knowing what would end up happening

Tradition is one of my favorite songs from a musical!

@ DJ Jupiter (host) What a fab, funny, touching and totally seamless Broadway medley you've created! Major enjoyment ... :-D

yippee!! glad to hear it

Hey, I'm glad I'm hearing Basement Vibezzz this afternoon.