By Mike Stevenson
A bittersweet show is planned for tonight’s KINGSTON COFFEE HOUSE. We’ll listen to music by Todd Snider, the much-loved Folk artist who tragically passed this week. There’ll also be more cheerful stuff from Bert Jansch’s classic “LA Turnaround”, the lovely Leyla McCalla, John Hartford, birthday-boy Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, and selections from Dion DiMucci’s unheralded folkrock classic “Kickin’ Child.”
PLAYLIST
OPEN: Coffee Time
- Mississippi John Hurt “Coffee Blues” (Live)
- Dion “Spoonful” (The Road I’m On: A Retrospective) 1997
- Dion “Farewell” (m.Trad / l.Dylan) Kickin’ Child 1967
BROKEN HEARTS AND DIRTY WINDOWS
- Todd Snider “Beer Run” (Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live, 2003)
- Todd Snider “Conservative Christian, Right Wing Republican, Straight White Male” (East Nashville Skyline, 2004)
- Todd Snider “I Can’t Complain” (Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live, 2003)
- Todd Snider “John Prine” (Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live, 2003)
- John Prine “Souvenirs”
- Franz Casseus “Lullaby” (Haitian Dances, 1954)
WISH YOU WERE HERE
- Leyla McCalla “Money Is King” (Neville Marcano) The Capitalist Blues, 2014
- Yael Naim & Leyla McCalla “Ima” (traditional) Older, 2016
- Leyla McCalla “Little Sparrow” (A Day For Hunting, A Day for Prey, 2004)
- Dom La Nena & Rosemary Stanley “Wish You Were Here” (Waters/Gilmour) Ramages, 2020
- Neil Young “Til the Morning Comes (After the Gold Rush)
- Tunde Adebimpe Unknown Legend” (N. Young) from Rachel Getting Married, Johnathan Demme, 2008
- Lukas Nelson & Sierra Ferrell “Unknown Legend” (single, 2025)
MORE LOVE
• Tim O’Brien “More Love” (J. Hartford) A Tribute to J.Hartford: Live From Mountain Stage, 2001
• Tim O’Brien & Kathy Mattea “Gentle on My Mind” (J. Hartford)
• John Hartford “Presbyterian Guitar” Aere-o Plain, 1971
• Sam Robbins “Rosie” So Much I Still Don’t See, 2025
BERT, MONKEE MIKE & SUSAN COWSILL
- Bert Jansch “Fresh As a Sweet Sunday Morning” (L.A. Turnaround,1974)
- Bert Jansch “Needle of Death” (L.A. Turnaround, 1974)
- AJ Lee & Blue Summit “I’m a Believer” (N. Diamond)
- The Cowsills “Thinking of You” (Cocaine Drain, 2025)
- The Continental Drifters “Meet on the Ledge” (R.Thompson) Drifted in the Beginning and the End, 2015
- Fairport Convention “End of a Holiday” (R.Thompson) What We Did on Our Holiday, 1969
KICKIN’ CHILD
• Dion “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue” (Dylan) Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965
• Dion “Time In My Heart For You” (D. Dimucci) Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965.
• Dion “I’m In the Mood for You” Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965.
• Dion “Abraham, Martin and John” (Dick Holler) Dion, 1968
Selections from RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, 2008
- Zafer Tawil “Wedding Waltz”
- Zafer Tawil “Kym’s Homecoming”
- Robyn Hitchcock “America”
OH, MY GORD
• Gordon Lightfoot “Early Morning Rain” Gord’s Gold, 1975
• Gordon Lightfoot “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” Summertime Dream, 1976
• Connie Caldor “If You Could Read My Mind” Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot, 2003
BLUES RUN THE GAME: Paul Simon in London 1963–1965
• The Secret Sisters “Kathy’s Song” You Don’t Own Me Any More 2017
• Jackson C. Frank “Blues Run the Game” (1965)