The Great Leap Forwards (TOTR 249)

My Morning Jacket – One Big Holiday

Tedeschi Trucks Band – Hear Me

Run River North – Run Or Hide

Macklemore – Growing Up

Chumbawamba – Don’t Try This At Home

Ben & Ellen Harper – City of Dreams

Turkey Mountain Sunset Band – Big Rock Candy Mountain

Billy Bragg – Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

The Cave Singers – Leap

Greensky Bluegrass – Leap Year

Tracy Chapman – Talkin’ Bout A Revolution

Nina Simone – Revolution

Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco – Bread & Roses
Against Me! – I Was A Teenage Anarchist
Defiance, Ohio – A Lot To Do

Violent Femmes – Candlelight Song

Dead Can Dance – American Dreaming

Chris Robinson – Burn Slow

Anderson East – Keep The Fire Burning

Abigail Washburn – Burn Thru

Pete Seeger with Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick and James Collier – The Cities Are Burning

Bernie Sanders & Friends – This Land Is Your Land

City Folk – I Am A Patriot

Neil Young – Rockin in the Free World 

#Music Madness 2 (TOTR 248)

#MusicMadness – Bracket of 32 in head-to-head matches for the championship of the show!  Week two!

First bracket: Soul Stirrers

Nina Simone vs. Mavis Staples
Winner: Nina Simone

Van Morrison vs. Marvin Gaye

Winner: Marvin Gaye

Michael Franti vs. Alabama Shakes

Winner: Alabama Shakes

Sam Cooke vs. Curtis Mayfield

Winner: Same Cooke

Second bracket: Decades

60s Beatles vs. Rolling Stones

Winner: Beatles

70s Led Zeppelin vs. Eagles

Winner: Led Zeppelin

80s U2 vs. R.E.M.
Winner: U2

90s Pearl Jam vs. Radiohead
Winner: Pearl Jam

Playlist:

Nina Simone – Do I Move You?

Mavis Staples – Love And Trust

Nina Simone – I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl

Van Morrison – Crazy Love

Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On

Michael Franti – I Got Love For You

Alabama Shakes – Hold On

Alabama Shakes – The Greatest

Sam Cooke – Twistin’ The Night Away

Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions – People Get Ready

Sam Cooke – Wonderful World

The Beatles – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

The Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock n Roll (But I Like It)

The Beatles – Come Together

Led Zeppelin – Misty Mountain Hop

Eagles – Take It To The Limit

Led Zeppelin – Rock and Roll

R.E.M. – So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)

U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

U2 – One Tree Hill

Pearl Jam – Even Flow

Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place

Pearl Jam – Alive

#MusicMadness 1 (TOTR 247)

#MusicMadness – Bracket of 32 in head-to-head matches for the championship of the show

Week one – February 15, 2016 

First bracket: house bands

Black Keys vs. The White Stripes

Winner: Black Keys

My Morning Jacket vs. Mumford & Sons

Winner: My Morning Jacket

Gungor vs. The Collection

Winner: The Collection

Matisyahu vs. Vampire Weekend

Winner: Matisyahu

Second bracket: Outlaws, hippies, & mystics

Janis Joplin vs. Amy Winehouse

Winner: Janis Joplin

Jim Morrison vs. Kurt Cobain

Winner: Kurt Cobain

Sturgill Simpson vs. Jason Isbell
Winner: Jason Isbell

Phish vs. Grateful Dead

Winner: Grateful Dead

Playlist:

The Black Keys – Next Girl

The White Stripes – Icky Thump

The Black Keys – When the Lights Go Out

My Morning Jacket – Compound Fracture

Mumford & Sons – Roll Away Your Stone

My Morning Jacket – Wonderful (The Way I Feel)
Gungor – Beautiful Things

The Collection – Dirt

The Collection – Some Days I Don’t Want To Sing (O Death, Where Is Thy Sting)

Matisyahu – Time of Your Song

Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance

Matisyahu – Sunshine

Janis Joplin – Kozmic Blues

Amy Winehouse – Rehab

Janis Joplin – Me & Bobby McGee

The Doors – Break on Through

Nirvana – Serve the Servants

Nirvana – Come As You Are

Jason Isbell – Dress Blues

Sturgill Simpson – Living the Dream

Jason Isbell – Children of Children

Grateful Dead – Touch of Grey

Phish – When The Circus Comes

Grateful Dead – Brokedown Palace

Let's Groove (TOTR 246)

Coldplay – Up & Up

Michael Franti – Once A Day

Earth, Wind, & Fire – Let’s Groove

The Young Rascals – Groovin

The Wild Magnolias – All On A Mardi Gras Day

The Wild Tchoupitoulas – Meet de Boys on the Battlefront

Grateful Dead – Iko Iko

Dr. John – Kingdom of Izzness

Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air

Keb Mo – For What Its Worth

Crosby, Stills, & Nash – Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

The Byrds – You Ain’t Going Nowhere

Richie Havens – High Flyin Bird

If 6 Was 9 – Jimi Hendrix

Jefferson Airplane – Wooden Ships

The Electric Prunes – Kyrie Ellison Mardi Gras

The Wild Magnolias – Life Is A Carnival

Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild

The Youngbloods – Get Together

America – Simon & Garfunkel

Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers

Bernie Sanders & 3o Vermont Artists – Where Have All The Flowers Gone 

Tell It Like It Is (TOR 245)

Roots – Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round

The Freedom Singers – Oh, Freedom
The Freedom Singers – Get On Board, Children

John Hammond – So Many Roads, So Many Trains

Albert King – Born Under A Bad Sign

Muddy Waters – (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man

Jimmy Reed – Bright Lights Big City

Little Richard – I Don’t Know What You’ve Got But It’s Got Me

Marlena Shaw – Liberation Conversation

Rotary Connection – I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun

Sonny Boy Williamson – Fattening Frogs For Snakes

Etta James – I’d Rather Go Blind

Maurice & Mac – You Left The Water Running

Marvin Gaye – You’re The Man

Philadelphia International All Stars – Let’s Clean Up The Ghetto

Segments of Time – Song To The System

Sons of Slum – Right On

SOUL – Tell It Like It Is

Earth, Wind, & Fire – Mighty Mighty

Huey Newton – Power to the People

Chi-Lites –Give More Power to the People

The O’Jays – Give the People What They Want

James Brown – Say It Loud (I’m Black & I’m Proud)

Ben Harper – Gather Round The Stone

Michael Franti – I’ll Be Waiting

Anthony Hamilton – Life Has A Way

The Staple Singers – Be What You Are

The Freedom Singers – I’m On My Way
The Freedom Singers – We Shall Overcome