Beste Loafers Glory Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 85 / Pete Seeger & People's Songs 55:53

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An interview with Pete Seeger, co-founder of the 1946 People's Song movement, which became the seed bed for the folk music revival.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 84 / White Pine Shorty 55:51

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Song tales about the West - my West. Diamond Mountain to old Nebrasky...oh, and some of the unknown places.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 83 / Tickle Up the Trout 56:31

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Every-thing from Simon and Garfunkle in Hebrew to George Gobel's "You Are My Sunshine." Also Baby Gramps will show you how to go wash an elephant.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 82 / Andrew Carnegie's Library 55:48

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Includes one of the best songs I ever heard, "Cry of the Morning."This program goes out to the young people who need to know what the boss has in store for them.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 81 / Anybody's Guess 55:33

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Musical Saw, Pompelli's Cave, Talkin' Ma Nature-who knows where the human mind will take you.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 79 / Thunder, Lighting & Rainbows 55:24

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Tramp songs and lore with an edge. The life of a "jolly hobo" -oh,yeah.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 80 / No American Music 55:02

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Here you get Mickey Katz and Yiddish parody, kids on strike, and Dan Bern's extremely moving ballad about the school shooting in Colorado.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 78 / Women In My Life 55:59

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From Lake George to Timbuctu, a protracted dither including Judi Bari's scathing rant on Francis Bacon.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 77 / Palm Trees and Polotics 55:54

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What I know about the Hawaiian music. Also an interview with the prime minister of the reinstated government of Hawaii.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 76 / Utie and the Blowhards 55:32

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This one's a live concert of The Rose Tattoo, a conclave of me and some old friends of the road singing and yarning about life on the trains.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 75 / What Is It About John McCormack 55:11

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Here are concert singers John McCormack, Jan Pierce, and Paul Robeson, plus rare old pieces from Peter Dawson and Clifford Jackson.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 74 / Paul Durst 55:57

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Episode 73 / Broke Toe 57:05

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A mix of labor, civil rights, and oddball cowboy songs. Don't miss the rare paean from Broke Toe Rezo himself.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 72 / The Streets Take You In 54:27

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Ruminations, perturbations, and rants about homelessness, including Terminal Neon by the great John TrudellVon The Long Memory

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Episode 71 / United Front 54:51

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Episode 70 / Tell Me a Story 55:31

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Some ideas on why stories work, how they're hung together. From the roar of Johnny Handle's Jordy sermon to the quiet of Kathryn WindhamVon The Long Memory

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Episode 69 / Good Company 45:58

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Songs and stories of political prisoners to nurture the spirit of civil disobedience.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 68 / Now I Really LIke This One 53:30

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Something of everything. My very own "NPR Talking Blues," rolling on to Studs Terkel reciting "The Scab's Lament."Von The Long Memory

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Episode 67 / Annual Labor Day Program 55:39

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From red batting to down sizing, the labor movement continues to growl and sing.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 66 / The Fading of the old West 53:19

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A winding tale from "An Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight" to Walking Jim Stolz's "The Spirit Is Still on the Run."Von The Long Memory

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Episode 65 / "The Wild Dogs of Kitiwanga" 55:54

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More new tramp songs from Mark Ross, Kuddie, Luther the Jet, Larry Penn, and Al Grierson.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 64 / Maine 56:36

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Songs, stories and poems collected while traveling through Maine several months ago.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 63 / Sad Old Songs 56:29

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"The Drunkard's Son," "Old Shep," and more.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 62 / Me Being Weird 56:26

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My first trumpet recital and field recordings from the jungles of Columbia. This one makes no sense.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 61 / Folk Songs 56:33

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What are they? How do they grow and change? I define this once and for all.Von The Long Memory

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episode 60 / New and Old Friends 56:40

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Here's a collection of songs and stories from some of my oldest friends, including "A Poem in Early Spring" by my wife Joanna Robinson.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 59 / Mulligan Stew 56:33

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Off again with old and new: hobo songs, poems, and lore, including Nat Willis, Josh White, and Rube Waddle (who captures the madness.)Von The Long Memory

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Episode 58 / Poetry 55:38

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Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, Robert Service, Gill Scott Heron, and great poets you have likely never heard off.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 57 / California 55:32

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From the Spanish conquest to the Farmworkers' picket line, from Julia Butterfly to the Suburban Shaman, songs to explain some kind of real California.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 56 / Another Dealers Choice 55:11

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I'll take you from Reverend Gary Davis to throwing the TV out the window.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 55 / Labor Gazette 55:29

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Songs ranging from the railroad strike of 1887 to the battle of Seattle.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 53 / Dealer's Choice 54:53

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Behan singing Behan, Robert Service reciting his own work, and songs of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 53 / Down Under 54:29

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A collection of old songs from Australia: drovers, drunks Anzacs, and the first people.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 52 / The Event That Shaped the 20th Century 56:48

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World War I songs, stories, poems, and rants, mostly from original material.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 51 / The Elegant Hobo 55:13

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The wanderer's mail service, Feather Ben, and new songs about tramping.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 50 / Labor Today 56:37

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Walmart, the boycott at Dunn's Department Store, and my first experience with job action.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 49 / My West 56:47

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Personal reflection and songs about wandering the West, including the the amazing but true story of the dreaded Moscow Hold.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 48 / Christian Music 56:02

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This is all Christian music intended to restore my faith that this oft benighted faith might yet attain a useful social role.Von The Long Memory

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episode 47 / Labor Day 55:48

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Saco and Vanzetti to the bank job in Kutlesburg.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 46 / 55:14

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A collection of comedy.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 45 / More Spoken Word 55:54

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The sound of words well spoken: Gamble Rodgers, Judi Bari, Norman Thomas and Lord Buckley (as Mahatma Gandhi.)Von The Long Memory

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Episode 44 / Bodie Wagner 56:01

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A Singing interview with busker, carpenter, hobo, song-crafter, and longtime friend Bodie Wagner.Von The Long Memory

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Episode 43 / Live Concert 57:04

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A recording from a live concert that I did in Ithaca, New York, which became the groundwork for my collaboration with Ani DiFranco on "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere."Von The Long Memory

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Episode 42 / More Spoken Word 55:05

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Spoken word, poetry, including "Upon the Wooded Hill" by my wife, Joanna Robinson, and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew'" recited by Lord Buckley.Von The Long Memory