Kingston Coffee House

Folk radio show celebrates Thanksgiving in song

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The Kingston Coffee House WRIU 90.3 FM

OPEN

  • Fairport Convention “Now Be Thankful” Full House, 1970
  • Louden Wainwright III “Thanksgiving” Career Moves, 1993

Psalm 136 MESS AROUND

John Candy in "Trains, Planes, and Automobiles"
John Candy
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter “Thanksgiving Song” Come Darkness, Come Light 2008
  • Brigid Mae Power “I’m Grateful”
  • Ballake Sissoko & Piers Faccini “Special Rider Blues” Our Calling, 2025
  • Mahalia Jackson “I’m Grateful”
  • The Avett Brothers “I Thank God” Move Your Heart, 2021
  • Bela Fleck & Chris Thile “Psalm 136” My Bluegrass Heart, 2021
  • Monks of Senegal “We Praise You Invisible Father”
  • IMH Moloka’ai “Ho’onani O Ka Makua Mau”
  • Ray Charles “Mess Around” (RIP John Candy)
Brigid Mae Power
Brigid Mae Power

A FRENCH HARVEST

  • Jane Birkin” Harvest Moon” (N Young) Jane Birkin, 2006
  • Lukas Nelson & Sierra Ferrell “Unknown Legend” (N Young)

COME ON HOME

  • Vince Guaraldi “Theme” from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, 1973
  • Bob Dylan “Turkey Chase” from the film Pat Garret & Bill the Kid, 1973
  • John Prine “Summer’s End” The Tree of Forgiveness. 2018

OK, WITH ONIONS

  • Ivor Cutler “Wheely Down” (R Thompson) The World is a Wonderful Place
  • Karine Polwart “I Burn But I Am Not Consumed” Laws In Motion, 2019
  • Jesse Welles “No Kings” 2025

TABLES, CHAIRS & MORE LOVE

Andrew Bird
  • Avett Brothers “Murder In the City” The Second Gleam, 2008
  • Connie Converse “Ash Grove”
  • The Brothers Four “Trouble” from the film Happy, Happy
  • Andrew Bird “Tables and Chairs” The Mysterious Production of Eggs, 2005
  • Ólöf Arnolds “Heimurinn Nuna” Spira, 2025
  • Tim O’Brien “More Love” (J Hartford) A Tribute To John Hartford – Live From Mountain Stage. 
  • Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington “Callie Rose” from the film Rebuilding, 2025

STOP YOUR TEARS

  • Arlo Guthrie “1913 Massacre” (W Guthrie) Hobo’s Lullaby, 1972
  • Laura Marling “The Valley”)” Semper Femina, 2017
  • Muireann Bradley “These Days” (J Browne) Rose Songs, 2025
  • Aldous Harding “Stop Your Tears” Aldous Harding, 2014

HONEST AND ORDINARY

  • Sam Robbins “Rosie” So Much I Still Don’t See, 2025
  • Ordinary Elephant “Harriet” Honest, 2025
  • Jesse Welles “The Poor”

PSALM 118, NORWEGIANS & THE BIG GUNS

  • Ancient Jewish Air – “Hodu l’AdonaI KI Tov” (Psalm 136)
  • Highasakite “Heavenly Father” (Justin Vernon) 2018
  • The Lucky Four “So Glad I Got Good Religion” from the film Happy, Happy
  • Jenny Lewis “The Big Guns” Rabbit Fur Coat, 2006

CLOSE

  • Barbara Dare & the Chambers Brothers “Go Tell It On the Mountain”
  • The Band “The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down” The Last Waltz

Music from Todd Snider, Dion’s classic folkrock LP “Kickin’Child,” and more on The Kingston Coffee House

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WRIU Kingston Coffee House 11/18/25

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)

Hear Bonnie Prince Billy, Freakons, The Rheingans Sisters on “The Kingston Coffee House”

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WRIU Kingston Coffee House 10/28/25

By Mike Stevenson

On tonight’s KINGSTON COFFEE HOUSE, you’ll hear songs about heroic union organizers, deadly mine disasters, wailing orphans, and coal mining’s grim history of economic and ecological devastation in a set we call Dark As a Dungeon. We feature the wonderful collaboration between Freakwater and The Mekons! (“Freakons”, of course!)

In hour two, we will be taking a deep dive into the music of Will Oldham (aka “Bonnie Prince Billy”)

In the third hour, we play a set called Little Devils and Dark Angels – haunting music for the Halloween season provided by Faun Fables, Lankum, The Rheingans Sisters, Josienne Clarke and Róis 

Along the way, you’ll hear some classic Greenwich Village folk music from Fred Neil, Tim Harden and Karen Dalton

PLAYLIST

Ann Sheridan – Coffee shop banter from “They Drive by Night” (1940)
Freakwater – “Waitress Song” (Old Paint, 1995)
Rod Stewart – Tomorrow Is a Long Time (Dylan) Every Picture Tells a Story, 1971

DARK AS A DUNGEON
Merle Travis – Dark as a Dungeon (Folk Songs of the Hills, 1947)
[From the LP Freakons, 2019:]
Freakons – Blackleg Miner (traditional)
Freakons – Abernant 84/85 (The Mekons)
Freakons – Dreadful Memories (Sarah Ogan Gunning)
Freakons – “Corrie Doon”/”A Coal Miner’s Lullaby” (Matt McGinn)
Cowboy Junkies – “Mining for Gold” (traditional)
The Journeymen – “Dark as a Dungeon” (Travis) Coming Attraction: Live! 1962

GREENWICH VILLAGE FAVORITES
Fred Neil – Everybody’s Talkin'(Fred Neil, 1967)
Fred Neil – Ba Di Da (Fred Neil, 1967)
Tim Hardin- “Misty Roses” Tim Hardin #1 (1966)
Karen Dalton – “Something On Your Mind” (Dino Valenti)
Bobby Darin “If I Were a Carpenter” (Hardin)
Rod Stewart “Reason to Believe” (Hardin) Every Picture Tells a Story, 1971

Featured Artist: Will Oldham
Will Oldham/Palace – “New Partner” Viva Las Blues (1995)
Will Oldham/Palace – “Oh Lord, Are you in Need?” (There Is No-One Who Will Take Care of You, 1993)
Bonnie Prince Billy – The Dragon Song (from the film “Pete’s Dragon”, 2016)
Bonnie Prince Billy – “Intentional Injury” (from the film “True Detective”)
Bonnie Prince Billy & Dawn Landes – “Dark Eyes” (Bob Dylan)
Bonnie Prince Billy & Dawn McCarthy -“What Am I Living For” (What the Brothers Sang, 2013)
Joan Shelley “The Fading” (Like the River Loves the Sea, 2019)
Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy – “I’ll Be Looking Out for Me”
Bonnie Prince Billy “One of These Days” (The Purple Bird)
Johnny Cash “I See a Darkness”(American II; Solitary Man, 2000)

The HOBBLEDEHOY SET: Little Devils and Black Angels
ROIS – “Angelus II” (Mo Léan, 2024)
Jean Ritchie – “The Little Devils” (traditional)
ROIS – “Caoine” (Mo Léan, 2024)
The Rheingans Sisters – “Devils” (Devils, 2025)
ROIS – Oh, Lovely (Mo Léan, 2024)
Lankum – Fugue
Faun Fable “Black Angels” (Counterclockwise, 2024)
Lankum “What Will We Do When We Have No Money?” (Cold Old Fire, 2017)
The Rheingans “The Great Devil / Mr. Turner’s (Devils, 2025)
Josienne Clarke “The Madler Horror Story” (Far From Nowhere)

Hear early Tom Waits and more on “The Kingston Coffee House”

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WRIU Kingston Coffee House 10/14/25

By Mike Stevenson

Early Tom Waits
Early Tom Waits

In the first hour of THE KINGSTON COFFEE HOUSE, we feature tracks from Tom Wait’s first three albums, Closing Time (1973), The Heart of Saturday Night (1974), and Nighthawks at the Diner (1975), which were more folk-leaning.

Hard to believe, but Waits released The Heart of Saturday Night 51 years ago on October 15, 1974.

During the second hour, we play music from 1950s-era folk singer Terry Gilkyson (The Easy Riders), as well as the music of his children, Cowpunk guitar twanger Tony Gilkyson (Lone Justice, X, Exene Cervenka) and singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson, performing tracks from her acclaimed new release Dark Ages.

In hour three, a box of Kleenex® is required for a set of heartbreaking “confessional” folk music from the 1970s love-triangle involving songwriters Loudon Wainwright III, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and the Roche sisters.