When The Saints Go Marching In (TOTR 177)

Magnificent Seventh’s Brass Band – What A Friend We Have In Jesus

Emmylou Harris – Wayfaring Stranger

Alison Krauss – Down To The River To Pray

Gillian Welch – I’ll Fly Away

Etta James – We’ll Fly You to the Promised Land

Dr. John – When The Saints Go Marching In

Ralph Stanley – O Death

Dric Mingus and Gary Lucas – Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting

Allen Ginsberg – Father Death Blues

Grateful Dead – Death Don’t Have No Mercy

The White Stripes – Death Letter

Gungor – When Death Dies

Live – Heaven

Wilco – Airline To Heaven

Lord Huron – The Man Who Lives Forever

David Crowder Band – Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven

The Blind Boys Of Alabama – Jesus Built a Bridge to Heaven

Etta James – Walk All Over God’s Heaven

Ashley Cleveland – Going To Heaven To Meet The King

Ladysmith Black Mambazo with Dolly Parton – Knocking On Heaven’s Door

Mike Farris – Can’t No Grave Hold My Body Down

Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon

Magnificent Seventh’s Brass Band – Taps/Battle Hymn Of The Republic

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird

Brothers & Sisters (a show preview & happy birthday)

Birthday Playlist (& future show preview) for my brother Arthur & sister-in-law Laurie who had birthdays recently!

Ghosts (TOTR 176)

Band Of Horses – Is There a Ghost

Dan Fogelberg – Ghosts

Gordon Lightfoot – Ghosts Of Cape Horn

Tom Waits – The Ghosts Of Saturday Night

The Low Anthem – To the Ghosts Who Write History Books

Lord Huron – The Ghost On The Shore

The Head and the Heart - Ghosts

Laura Marling – Ghosts

Florence & The Machine – Ghosts

Mumford & Sons – Ghosts That We Knew

The Police – Spirits In The Material World

The White Stripes – Little Ghost
Cake -- Sheep Go To Heaven (by request)

Charlie Peacock – Ghost of the Kitty Cat

Damion Suomi & The Minor Prophets – Holy Ghost

Live – Ghost

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – Natural Ghost

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – The Ghost Of Tom Joad                       (Live featuring Tom Morello)

Puscifer – Telling Ghosts

Rage Against The Machine – Born As Ghosts

Explosions In The Sky – Welcome, Ghosts

Radiohead – Give Up the Ghost

Passion Pit – Cry Like A Ghost

Band Of Horses – The Funeral

I Will Wait (TOTR 175)

Tom Petty – The Waiting

City and Colour – Waiting

Dr. Dog – How Long Must I Wait

Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait

Ryan Adams – Do I Wait

Justin Townes Earle – Ain’t Waitin’

Bob Dylan – The Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar

Adele – I’ll Be Waiting

Santana – I’ll Be Waiting

The Flaming Lips – Waitin’ for a Superman

Depeche Mode – Waiting For The Night

Kings Of Leon – California Waiting

Bob Mould – Briefest Moment.

Blue Oyster Cult – Deadline

The Killers – Deadlines And Commitments

Seabird – Patience

Super Furry Animals – Patience

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Patience

Damian Marley & Nas –Patience

Anthony Hamilton – I’ll Wait (To Fall In Love)

Michael Franti – I’ll Be Waiting

Lenny Kravitz – I’ll Be Waiting

Michael Kiwanuka – Always Waiting

I am clarity & confusion -- poem recited on air 10.8.12

I am clarity & confusion

I am life chasing death

I am delight & depression

I am an oil & water mix, up & down, optimist & pessimist

I am daisy-dancing butterfly-chasing supernatural sunrise agape

I am 45 years of adventure & addiction, fighting gravity & finding grace

I am rainy-day Monday mood-swing into melodramatic misanthropy

I am too much yes & not enough no but give as I go & live anything but slow

I am urban hiking at Cane Creek & Ensor Sink no matter the season

I am recycling & bicycling & hybrid car

I am tossing yesterday’s compost into the yard

I am watching the weeds grow

I am cooking breakfast, foraging dinner, consulting cookbook, chopping garlic for pesto or baba ghanouj

I am hot chili on a cold night

I am the first Thursday in October craving the fallen leaves

I am the feast of St. Francis

I am the first Friday in October watching my friends perform Macbeth in the park

I am the first Saturday in October & the onset of autumn chills

I am the first Sunday in October making blueberry cornmeal pancakes for my baby

I am okay that the Christmas decorations have been out at Hobby Lobby & Goodwill since Labor Day

I am that guy who leaves the little white Christmas lights up all year

I am “Ballerina” by Van Morrison

I am “I Will Wait” by Mumford & Sons even though I hate waiting

I am every U2 song ever released

I am John Lennon, Bono, & Martin Luther King Jr.

I am making mixtapes for a million Monday nights

I am wearing headphones in a crowded room

I am a Yankabilly, adopted southerner, a Midwestern city boy lost in a Tennessee college town

I am not ashamed of loving sports or of my Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago roots

I am repeating “to be” verbs like a broken alarm clock screeching

I am sadly a “to be” verb wishing for action inside the noun of reality

I am asterisk & ampersand

I am period & semicolon

I am catching comma splices for a paycheck

I am teaching not because I know but because I am spilling ink & imagination just to find out

I am insomniac inspiration

I am a morning so early that it meets the end of your night

I am up at 2am when I know I should be slumbering in your arms

I am caffeinated aggravated dilapidated but not sedated

I am afraid of how much I’ll eat when Ben & Jerry’s is on sale at the local Kroger

I am expresso shots not whisky shots

I am Jack Kerouac & Jim Morrison thirsty but abstaining anyway

I am Jimi Hendrix & Kurt Cobain if they’d lived to see recovery

I am not hungover but still remember the faded sweet-sour taste of Pabst Blue Ribbon on my tongue

I am not drinking just for today but the veil between me & intoxication remains forever thin

I am sober but still crazy

I am chillin but not lazy

I am dry but still high on life

I am crying at movies & weeping at concerts

I am Saturday love & Sunday romance

I am Jeannie’s husband never cured of cuddling snuggling forever love

I am writing every poem about Jeannie or Jesus while under the influence of java

I am walking with her, eating with her, dancing with her, sleeping with her

I am cards & chocolate, flowers & poetry

I am the waning of the week

I am the naming of the meek

I am shouting with my smile

I am daring to my knees

I am unafraid but still experience fear

I am still carrying a silent megaphone & an empty sign to the protest at end of the galaxy

I am in the war & against the war that rages in my belly

I am disturbing the peace that pounds in my chest

I am a solar amphibian flopping from lily pad to laser beam 

I am that Jesus Freak ex-hippy who went back-to-the-land

I am Godspell & Jesus Christ Superstar & Hair

I am YouTube concerts by all my favorite bands

I am Almost Famous, We Bought a Zoo, & all six Star Wars installments

I am loving my enemies on my better days

I am wishing the worst in a dry drunk haze

I am peacenik tree hugger yet not vegetarian & also TV-watching omnivore

I am civil rights for all my kin, no exceptions for when even one sister or brother loses nobody wins

I am Catholic Worker but not Catholic

I am Presbyterian but only occasionally Calvinist

I am Buddhist & Jedi & Taoist & Rumi-reading extra-ecumenical

I am “try not—just do”

I am still looking for you

I am right & I am wrong

I am ready for something different

I am satisfied with more of the same
I am loneliest when I am hungry

When I am wanting, I am still filled beyond need

I am Saturday morning sermon-writing

I am Saturday evening rocking-out

I am preaching not because I am saved

I am preaching because the sin didn’t silence me

I am in love with the possibility of impossibility

I am in love with a lost wreath of flowers

I am in love with dancing barefoot in the grass

I am burning suns & setting moons

I am pursuing a peace that passes understanding

I am seeking God in a place called everything

I am softly kissing you on a planet called everywhere

Watch a video of Andrew reading this poem:
https://youtu.be/DYroctr9vZA

I Am (TOTR 174)

Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians – What I Am

Tired Pony – I Am A Landslide

City and Colour – In The Water I Am Beautiful

Fun – Why Am I the One

Neon Trees – I Am The DJ

Neil Diamond – I Am …I Said

Dave Matthews Band – Why I Am

David Byrne & St. Vincent – I Am An Ape

Withered Hand – I Am Nothing

Steve Earle – Here I Am

Simon & Garfunkel – I Am a Rock

Bono – I Am The Walrus

The Plea – I Am The Miracle

Pearl Jam – I Am Mine

Moby Grape – I Am Not Willing

My Morning Jacket – I’m Amazed

Dawes – Love Is All I Am 
Larry Norman – I Am the Six O’Clock News

Maria McKee – Am I The Only One (Who’s Ever Felt This Way)

Jennifer Knapp – The Way I Am

Waterdeep – I Am

David Crowder Band – I Am a Seed

Aaron Neville – I Am A Pilgrim

Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens – Am I Asking Too Much

UB40 – Here I Am (Come And Take Me)

Lover's Eyes (TOTR 173)

Snow Patrol – Open Your Eyes

NeedToBreathe – Keep Your Eyes Open

Uriah Heep – Tears In My Eyes

Good Old War – Amazing Eyes

Mumford & Sons – Lover’s Eyes

The Grass Roots – Temptation Eyes

Jackson Browne – Doctor My Eyes

Crosby, Stills & Nash – Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

Vespers – Eyes Wide Open

Zac Brown Band – Goodbye In Her Eyes

Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

The Holy Modal Rounders – Black Eyed Suzie

The Rolling Stones – Far Away Eyes

Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl

Nina Simone – Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Ben Harper – Brown Eyed Blues

Jesse Colin Young – Eyes On The Prize

Animal Collective – Guys Eyes

Passion Pit – Eyes As Candles

Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes

Coldplay – Green Eyes

U2 – Spanish Eyes

Snow Patrol – Shut Your Eyes

Taylor Swift & Civil Wars – Safe & Sound