"Freight Train" by Elizabeth Cotten. Frequencies of Fading Light Sat Aug 16 with DJ Bohr on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Hey hey, DJ Bohr!

Howdy TAndy! long time no see!!

Yeppers. My sleep schedule has kept me from waking up any earlier than 8:30 some days, but I have off this weekend so I'm locked in.

summer sleep schedules always get pretty crazy. glad you got some time off!!

Same, man! It was nice to have a Saturday off for a change.

i bet!

I was just hanging out with my bud earlier, jammed out to the rest of Tim's show before I came back home to check in now! I love this theme tonight, so much history and emotion behind much of the music tonight.

JAM ALERT 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

yep! theres such a cool intersection between americana and the wild west and such with trains

yeah no train show would be complete without Folsom Prison blues

I don't doubt the feeling is the same elsewhere, but I like how the feeling about trains used to be a longing for absolute freedom. Like, way back when, all you had to do was hop aboard a train going west to a new frontier. Knowing there's a whole other world out there just a train ride away. It ain't the same now that we can just drive anywhere.

yes! especially in earlier stuff i feel like that is prevalent. I think later on though, trains become more reliable and time becomes the main focus, ie being on time, the last train concept, subways, etc etc

Ahoy bohrrrrrrrr, enjoying the choo choo tunes

...and s'up Tandy 💥💥💥

hey thanks!

Yeoooooooooo

@ DJ Bohr (host) I'm lovin' the train theme. Thanks for including Michael Daves' version of "Train on the Island." He's one of today's great generation of bluegrass lead singer/guitars.

Hey Richard!

Hi ya TAndy!

Digging the train thing. Knew you'd get to Berlin. Always liked them and it wasn't because I thought Teri Nunn was hot.

@ RoRH thanks! im glad you liked it. Im always fascinated by more modern artists reviving/rethinking/reshaping a genre

Ok yes it was. Haha

@G Jax, glad you liked the berlin track!

But NOW I dig the music. Gotten into the electronic thing more and more the older I get

the funny thing is i think the more i do my show and music and such, the less appealing electronic music becomes. Dont get me wrong, I LOVE my synths and blown out electric sounds, but i do have growing respect for the rock and folk and jazz etc genres that dont have as many electronic elements

It's all what your roots are. I'm like you in reverse

And I'm old enough to have been around when that synthy electronic stuff was new and that was so not my scene.

what its sounding like to me is that when you listen to music, your ears and brain always trend towards something new and interesting

Sup G Jax!

Actually most people don't. They like what they like and don't stray far from it. People who listen to - and are DJs - of college radio don't fall into that camp

What up Tandy

true, i suppose that Djs and listeners of WPRB are stuck in a bit of a positive feedback loop, and that everyone pushes everyone else to get out of their comfort zone in a good way

I was legit listening to the same music all the time until I started listening to PRB more regularly. My taste has expanded very much since then.

Similar Tandy except for me it was WKDU in the 80s that opened my mind to different music

I actually had a chance to meet with the current DJs and student board of KDU

That wss a fantastic station at one time. They've lost their way in the last 10 or 15 years

yes sadly that appears to have been the case, iirc they only have live music a few hours a week

I've heard that sentiment a lot regarding XPN. Radio really seemed like such a wild place back in the day.

Yeah every so often I give em a listen - I still keep em on the preset in the car - and it never not disappointing.

i think a lot of college stations are facing some fairly large hurdles in terms of keeping Djs and listenership etc etc/....

could be a generalization but, with most students just listening to spotify and such, its a bit of a dying art

it seems the general population is happier giving money and clicks to sp*tify instead

no community building with sp*tify :(

XPN is terrible. I still will listen to them before ANY commercial stations but I don't know, I can't stand the DJs. I love the syndicated Many Moods Of Ben Vaughn though. That might actually be on now. I listen on podcast though

Yeah Spotify a

And a that streaming crap is huge with younger ones. None that I know listen to the radio at all

Next train themed show please do Desperados Waitin For A Train

o7

i think I am going to be ending up wiht more train music than i have time for so i will see if i can find enough music to do another show (or maybe just a train set, probably a good pun in there somewhere)

This one is my favorite phase of Paul Simon's career

i am a big paul simon fan

Yeah me too

i am beginning a baby little vinyl collection, pleased to say one of the first adds was graceland

LOVED listening to this train show--thanks, DJ Bohr!

thanks for tuning in! glad you enjoyed it!!

Cigarette trees

Hi DJ Bohr! Tuned in late, but enjoyed the last several tunes. And now Big Rock Candy Mountain!!! 🪨🍬⛰️

Thanks for the show dude, I'll try to be around before your last show for the season!

absolutely! glad everyone enjoyed the tunage. have a great saturday evening and night guys!

5:59 PM		M83 Train to Pluton M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming M83 Recording Inc/naïve 2011
6:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:02 PM		Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra Take the "A" Train (1999 Remastered) The Essential Duke Ellington Columbia/Legacy 2005
6:06 PM		Oscar Peterson Trio Night Train Oscar Peterson Trio Night Train Verve 1963
6:12 PM		Papa Lightfoot Mean Old Train Papa Lightfoot Rockin' Train Songs Red Devil Records 2013
6:12 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:15 PM		Elizabeth Cotten Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1989
6:18 PM		The O'Jays Love Train Back Stabbers Legacy/Epic Associated 1972
6:21 PM		Woody Guthrie Little Black Train Woody Guthrie The Asch Recordings, Vols. 1-4 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1999
6:23 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:25 PM		Vansire From the Subway Train (Extended Version) Vansire Silver Lake Listening Companion - Single Vansire 2023
6:27 PM		Gorillaz Ghost Train Gorillaz G-Sides Parlophone UK 2001
6:33 PM		Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express (1991 Remix) Kraftwerk The Mix (Remastered) Rhino/Elektra 1991
6:38 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:40 PM		The Kingston Trio M.T.A. Kingston Trio At Large Capitol Records 1959
6:43 PM		Gordon Lightfoot Steel Rail Blues Gordon Lightfoot Lightfoot! CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1966
6:46 PM		Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues (Mono) I walk The line Columbia Nashville Legacy 1964
6:48 PM		Johnny Duncan & The Bluegrass Boys Last Train to San Fernando Johnny Duncan Last Train to San Fernando - Single Columbia Nashville Legacy 1957
6:51 PM		Michael Daves Train on the Island (Bluegrass) Michael Daves Orchids and Violence Nonesuch 2016
6:55 PM		Brendan O'Dowda Are You Right There Michael The Immortal Percy French Emerald 1957
6:58 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:00 PM		The Doobie Brothers Long Train Runnin' (2016 Remastered) Rhino/Warner Records 1973
7:04 PM		Electric Light Orchestra Last Train to London Electric Light Orchestra Discovery Epic/Legacy 1979
7:08 PM		Berlin The Metro Berlin Pleasure Victim Geffen 1982
7:12 PM		The Jam Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (1997 Remaster) All Mod Cons (1997 Remaster) Polydor Records 1978
7:16 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:17 PM		Soul Asylum Runaway Train (2022 Remaster) Grave Dancers Union (2022 Remaster) Columbia 1992
7:22 PM		Grateful Dead Casey Jones Workingman's Dead Rhino/Warner Records 1970
7:26 PM		Jimi Hendrix Hear My Train a Comin' People, Hell and Angels Legacy Recordings 2013
7:32 PM		Pure Prairie League Kansas City Southern Two Lane Highway RCA Records Label 1974
7:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:37 PM		Paul Simon Train In the Distance The Essential Paul Simon Legacy Recordings 2007
7:41 PM		The SteelDrivers Midnight Train To Memphis The SteelDrivers Rounder 2008
7:44 PM		Silver Jews Trains Across the Sea Silver Jews Starlite Walker Drag City Records 1994
7:47 PM		Mike Doughty Thank You, Lord, For Sending Me the F Train Mike Doughty Skittish / Rockity Roll Snack Bar 2004
7:50 PM		Harry McClintock The Big Rock Candy Mountain Harry McClintock Bona Fide Bluegrass & Mountain Music RCA/BMG Heritage 2002
7:55 PM		Applesauce Tears The Gentle Indifference of the World Applesauce Tears Commuters Black Cottage Records 2017

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