Spring Awakening: A Corona Global Companion
It’s a Spring Awakening and we’ve got songs about bunny hops, rockin’ robins, and fragrant flowers but also lonely hours, gospel prayers and sad losses. In hopes that the real and surreal can commingle with joy and hope in our Corona Global Companion for your consideration and pleasure, including music from Gillian Welch, Stevie Wonder, Bob Wills and Fats Waller… as well as our recently passed musical heroes and friends, the late John Prine and Ellis Marsalis.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Echo of Spring Willie "The Lion" Smith The Spirit of Ragtime, ASV
Spring Cleaning Fats Waller The Centennial Collection, BMG
(Me And My Baby) Doin' The Bunny Hop Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years, Mercury
Bunny Bread Sunpie Barnes American Routes Original Recording from French Quarter Fest 2019,
Bunny Hop Dance Mary Ann Meanus and Verbena Green Heartbeat - Voices Of First Nations Women, Smithsonian Folkways
Rockin' Robin Bobby Day Rockin’ Robin Bobby Day, Class Records
Instrumental: One Dime Blues Etta Baker Blues Routes, Smithsonian Folkways
Acony Bell Gillian Welch Revival, Acony
Hello in There John Prine John Prine, Atlantic
Give Me the Roses While I Live Ralph Stanley Old Country Church , Rebel
Sally Go Round the Roses Pentangle Basket of Light , Transatlantic
Green Garden Laura Mvula Sing to the Moon, Sony
Light Blue Ellis Marsalis Open Letter to Thelonious Deluxe Edition, Nu Jazz
Instrumental: Old Time Spiritual Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou’s Mass, Smithsonian Folkways
Highlands Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind, Columbia
Closing Bed: Appalachia Waltz Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer & Mark O'Connor Appalachia Waltz, Sony
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Birdsong in Coastal Alabama American Routes original recording
One of These Days Neil Young Harvest Moon, Reprise
Blowin' in the Wind Stevie Wonder Uptight, Tamla
Down By the Riverside Mahalia Jackson The Essential Mahalia Jackson, Sony
Why Me Kris Kristofferson Jesus Was a Capricorn, Monument
Old Ship of Zion James Cleveland The Soul of James Cleveland, Savoy
Instrumental: Blues Walk Lou Donaldson The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60, Blue Note
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Al Green Al Green--Call Me, Hi
Those Lonely Nights Dr. John Gumbo, Atlantic
In My Room The Beach Boys Surfer Girl, Capitol
Isolation John Lennon Plastic Ono Band, EMI
21st Century USA Drive-By Truckers The Unraveling, ATO Records
Wooden Ships David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash Crosby, Still and Nash, Atlantic
All My Trials Charles Lloyd and the Marvels I Long to See You--Charles Lloyd and the Marvels, Blue Note
Instrumental: Do You Know What it Means Ellis Marsalis Heart of Gold, Sony
Times Like These Jack Johnson On and On, Universal
Hard Times Come Again No More Emmylou Harris At the Ryman, Warner
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Louis Armstrong "Sugar"-The Best of the Complete RCA Recordings, RCA
Closing Bed: "We Shall Walk Thru the Streets of the City" Joe Lastie Jr. and The Lastie Family Gospel Singers Joe Lastie Jr. and The Lastie Family Gospel Singers, Preservation Hall Recordings