Radio Free Song Club

Sweet Sixteen Tons

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All new music from:
Don Piper, Jody Harris, Laura Cantrell, Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby, Dave Schramm, Kate Jacobs, Victoria Williams, Peter Blegvad, Freedy Johnston, and Peter Holsapple with special guest Jennie Lowe Stearns.

Presented by: Nicholas Hill

The Radio Free All Stars: Dave Schramm, David Mansfield, JD Foster, Paul Moschella, Andy Burton and Doug Wieselman

Our first show in a club with an audience! On a beautiful May evening we met at The Living Room on Ludlow Street. Many songs were quickly learned by the All Stars before the doors opened. Victoria was in town! Her first time live on the show and what a TREAT as Nicholas would say. Freedy, Don, Laura, Dave, Kate, Jody and guest Jennie Lowe Stearns all played live and the All Stars outdid themselves with instant renderings. Peter Holsapple and Wreckless & Amy sent recordings, which we listened to in rapt silence, gazing at the ceiling. Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge sent a song and the All-Stars augmented. It happened to be Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, so Nicholas acknowledged the elephant in the room, and Victoria too, with a Townes van Zandt song.

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Un deg Pump (Chapter 15)

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All new music from
 Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, Peter Holsapple, Kate Jacobs, Peter Blegvad, Dave Schramm, Robin Holcomb, and Don Piper with special guests Howe Gelb, Katell Keineg, Michael Hurley, and Jennie Lowe Stearns.

Presented by: Nicholas Hill

The Radio Free All Stars: Dave Schramm, David Mansfield, JD Foster, Andy Burton, and Konrad Meissner.

A hot day in New York City, down on Clinton Street in The Maid’s Room. Michael Hurley and Katell Keineg were in town and joined the Radio Free All Stars for some gorgeousness. Some of it in Welsh. Howe Gelb and Jennie Lowe Stearns were virtual guests; regular members Dave Schramm and Don Piper went live. Holsapple, Wreckless & Amy, and Robin sent finished songs and Kate and P. Blegvad were somewhere in between with layered vocals and Words of Power (wop bop a loo bop etc.)

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Seven and Seven Is

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All new music from
 Peter Holsapple, Kate Jacobs, Peter Blegvad, Dave Schramm and Jody Harris with special guests Jennie Lowe Stearns, Stephen McCarthy, Steve Wynn, JP Houston and Jay Sherman-Godfrey. Poetry by Robin Rosemond. Nicholas Hill keeps honoring Canadians.

Presented by: Nicholas Hill

The Radio Free All Stars: Dave Schramm (electric guitar), David Mansfield (dobro, mandolin, violin), Doug Wieselman (clarinet and bass clarinet, electric guitar, vocals), Andy Burton (piano), Paul Moschella (drums) and Al Greller (bass).

Peter Holsapple kept his promise and made the trek from N.C. It was inspirationally sublime to have him in the studio with a brand new song and a Byrds cover, playing with yet another great All Star gang. Victoria and Laura took the new “sub” option and sent us JP Houston (Vic’s neighbor in the desert), and Jay Sherman-Godfrey (Laura’s neighbor in Brooklyn). In an overflowing evening, Stephen McCarthy and Steve Wynn showed up with a song they wrote that day, special for the show. Kate’s song was deconstructed and arranged by the All Stars. Dave is falling deeper down the hole of wondrous pop melody and Jody could barely keep a straight face singing a lyric that came to him in a dream and kept his wife up. Jennie Lowe Stearns sent a beautiful, brief song and the All Stars played along, showing their most delicate side.

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