Episode 56 - "Who's that Bird?"

Veritable Infusion

"Who's that Bird?" (Podcast Title) Thanksgiving! I thought tonight would be a good time to work in some farming songs, harvest songs, food songs, family songs and the odd tokin' tune. For some background, I talked about the history of Thanksgiving, and the English harvest festivals that inspired our fall holiday. Also worked in a couple of ancient grain songs by way of a couple of folk songs, with a live rendition of John Barlycorn, related to the Indo-European myth of the dying corn god, whose remains we consume to this day... Finally, worked in a moment about Ernest Charles Dury, 8th Premier of Ontario, some of his policies and his opinion about moving the date for Thanksgiving Day. We have our own election in a week, all shows are pre- emptied next week for that reason... Track list- *Allan Capson- Down In The Boondocks (RIP Billy Joe Royal) Elvin Bishop- Fishin *Blue Rodeo- Stealing All My Dreams *Jarvis Street Revue- Uncle Benny *Swank- Hey Jeb *Wilf Carter- Waiting for the Maple Leaves to Fall *Ray Materick- This Season of Plenty *George Hamilton IV- Gonna be a Country Boy Again (Buffy Ste Marie cover) *Buffy Sainte Marie- Men of the Fields *Bob Burchill- Black Creek (ex Perth County Conspiracy) *The Band- King Harvest- Live Hollywood Bowl l.p. *Neil Young - Harvest Moon (live) *Good Brothers- The Rabbit *Jughead- Barn Song *Don Garbutt- Turkey in the D.A.W. The Blues Rockers- Calling all Cows Cheech and Chong- Up in Smoke Bettye Lavette- Thankful and Thoughtful (Sly Stone cover) ...and now some food toones... Elijah and the Ebonites- Hot Grits! Chuck Womack and the Sweet Souls- Ham Hocks and Beans J.B.s- Pass the Peas Rufus Thomas- Old MacDonald's Farm (live) Johnny Morisette- I'm Hungry Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings- Fish in a Dish Raynel Wynglas- Bar B Q Ribs Giants- Fried Neckbones and Homefries (odd l.p. w/ Santana, War, etc) Obie Plenty- Beef Stew Fatback Band- Yum Yum Gimme Some *Poppyseed Love Explosion- Bales of Pot John Holt- Police in Helicopter Carlton Livingston- Trodding through the Jungle Neville Brown- Babylon Don't Touch My Sensi Stevie Wonder- You Ain't Done Nothing... Dedicated to our current P.M. *=Canadian cut Veritable Infusion: CIUT.FM Mondays 8-10pm, A party featuring rare cuts of funk, reggae, jazz, soul, blues, traditional & modern African music. Your donations pledged through paypal go 100% directly to CIUT.FM fund-drives and support community Radio. Original Broadcast: October 12, 2015.