By Michael Stevenson / WRIU Kingston, RI
On the final Kingston Coffee House program of 2025, we remember the Scottish fiddler/record producer Johnny Cunningham; give a listen to the latest installment of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg series; look back to the Another Day, Another Time concert; and celebrate the great country-bluesman Paul Geremia.
Along the way, we’ll hear from several of the UK’s best folk acts of 2025, including Jennifer Reid, Spafford Campbell, and Lisa Knapp & Gerry Driver.
OPEN / JUST SURVIVE
• KATHLEEN EDWARDS “Christmastime (Let’s Just Survive)”, 2019
• JOHNNY CUNNINGHAM & SUSAN MCKEOWN “Auld Lang Syne” A Winter Talisman, 2009
ZIMMERMAN’S BOOTS
• BOB DYLAN “Days of 49” (traditional) Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18
• BOB DYLAN “Dink’s Song” (traditional) Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18
• BOB DYLAN “He Was a Friend of Mine” (trad) Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18
MEET THE BOYS
• Dialogue from Little Caesar, 1931
RAILROAD MORRIS (RIDE, RIDE, RIDE…)
• BOB DYLAN “Railroad Bill” (traditional) Another Self Portrait: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10
• BOB DYLAN “If Not For You” (Dylan) Another Self Portrait: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10
MY KINDA PLACE
• PAUL GEREMIA “Silver City Bound” (Leadbelly) My Kinda Place, 1986
• PAUL GEREMIA “Money is King” (The Tiger) My Kinda Place, 1986
• PAUL GEREMIA “Shuckin’ Sugar Blues”(Blind Lemon Jefferson) My Kinda Place, 1986
NATALIA ♥
• NATALIA LAFOURCADE “Alma Mia – En Vivo” (M Cavagnaro) Live at Carnegie Hall, 2022
• NATALIA LAFOURCADE “La Cometierra” 2025
BIRTHDAYS
• BONNIE RAITT “Home” (Karla Bonoff, born December 27, 1951 )
• PATTY SMITH (born December 27, 1946 ) “One Too Many Mornings”(Dylan)
MOVIE TRACKS
• DAMIAN JURADO “Silver Joy” (from the film The Holdovers, 2023)
• CORRINA ROSE & The Rusty Horse Band “Green Mountain State” (From the film Take This Waltz, 2011)
REMEMBERING Johnny Cunningham (August 27, 1957 – December 15, 2003)
• SUSAN MCKEOWN with Johnny Cunningham “Through the Bitter Frost and Snow” 1997
• JOHNNY CUNNINGHAM “A Christmas Childhood” A Winter Talisman” released 2009
• THE RAINDOGS “Under the Rainbow” 1990
ROLLING ALONG
• PAUL GEREMIA “I Just Roll Along” (P Germia) I Really Don’t Mind Livin’ 1991
THE HOBBLEDEHOY SET
• SPAFFORD CAMPBELL “Look Up” Tomorrow Held 2025
• BENEDICTE MAURSETH & MORTON KVENILD “Kalven Reiser Seg”
• SEAN COONEY & ELIZA CARTHY “The Road to Peter’s Field”, 2025
• JENNIFER REID “Victoria Bridge on a Saturday Night”
• JENNIFER REID “Patience Kershaw”
• LISA KNAPP GERRY DIVER “Train Song” 2025
• POOR CREATURE “Bury Me Not” 2025
• SCOTTISH FISH “Jigs” / Upcoming concert info at the Blackstone River Theater
“VICTOR’S SONG”
– “EVEN THE LONESTAR STATE GETS LONESOME” from the film Local Hero, 198
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER TIME, 2013
(Concert celebrating the music of the Coen Brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis)
• The AVETT BROTHERS “That’s How I Got to Memphis” (Hall)
• JACK WHITE “Did You Hear John Hurt” (Tom Paxton)
• OSCAR ISSAC & THE PUNCH BROTHERS “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me” (trad)
• MARCUS MUMFORD “Dink’s Song” (Fare Thee Well)
FARE THEE WELL 2025
• KATHLEEN EDWARDS “Billionaire”, 2025
• JESSE WELLES & JOAN BAEZ “No Kings”, 2025 [ official website No Kings info ]
• SUSAN MCKEOWN & JOHNNY CUNNINGHAM “Auld Lang Syne” (R Burns)