Nighthawks at the Diner

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 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.