Universal Sound - The Best of 2017! (TOTR 318-319)

No time for reflection now -- although I have been reflecting, about all this music, about this crazy world, & about how time just flies. 

For today, I have decided to just post the Top 10 list of my favorite albums of the last year year & a playlist including samples from a few more! This aired as part of a special edition of Teacher On The Radio on Tuesday, December 19. The parts of the 3.5 hour daytime show that were not "best of," these represented my insatiable obsession with Christmas/holiday/seasonal songs. 

1. Jason Isbell -- The Nashville Sound
2. U2 -- Songs Of Experience
3. Arcade Fire -- Everything Now
4. Rhiannon Giddens -- Freedom Highway
5. Iron & Wine -- Beast Epic
6. Margo Price -- All American Made
7. Chris Stapleton -- From A Room Volume 2
8. The Collection -- Listen to the River
9. The Gray Havens -- Ghost of a King Live
10. Valerie June -- Just In Time

Shout For Joy (TOTR 317)

Three Dog Night - Joy To The World

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy

Phish - Joy

The Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas

Snow Patrol - When I Get Home For Christmas

Coldplay - Christmas Lights

Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas

The Killers - Joy Ride

Odetta - Shout For Joy

James Brown - Christmas is Coming

Fee - All Creation Sing

All Sons & Daughters - Creation Sings

The Sons of Champlin - For Joy

Future of Forestry - Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring

Tracey Thorn - Joy

Iron & Wine - Joy

Rend Collective - Joy

Trans Siberian Orchestra - Good King Joy

Sufjan Stevens - Joy To The World

Akash & Ruby Dookheet - I Am Peace I Am Love I Am Joy

Hanson - Joy to the Mountain

The Sing Team - The First Noel

Gungor - Silent Night

Andrew Bird -Auld Lang Syne

Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World

Thrill of Hope (TOTR 316)

My Morning Jacket - When The Bells Start Ringing

Bob Mould - (Shine Your) Light Love Hope

Nippon Art - Love, Peace and Hope

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Hope The High Road

Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes

Glen Hansard - High Hope

Wilder Adkins - Hope & Sorrow

Wendell Kimbrough - Christmas Eve

Wendell Kimbrough - The Hope Of The Poor

Christian Akridge - Hope

Deer Tick - Hope Is  Big

Sidewalk Prophets - Hope Was Born This Night

Switchfoot - Only Hope

The Brilliance - Hope

The Gray Havens - A Living Hope

The Gray Havens - City of David

Branches - It Won’t Be Long

Linda Thompson - Won’t Be Long Now

Robbie Seay Band - Song of Hope

Joshua Eller - The Thrill of Hope

Josh Garrels - Hosanna

Page CXVI - O Come All Ye Faithful

Beta Radio - The Song The Season Brings

Rend Collective - For All That You Have Done

Jennifer Knapp & Margaret Becker - Go Tell It On The Mountain

Aaron Neville - O Holy Night

Penny & Sparrow - Silent Night

Cosmic Love (TOTR 315)

U2 -  Love Is All We Have Left

Florence + the Machine - Cosmic Love

My Morning Jacket - Wear Your Love Like Heaven

U2- Tomorrow

U2- Love Comes Tumbling

U2- Pride (in the name of Love)

U2- Everlasting Love

BB King - Christmas Love

U2- When Love Comes To Town

U2- Love & Peace or Else

U2- Magnificent

U2- Miracle Drug

U2- Original of the Species

U2- Kite

U2- California (There is No End to Love)

U2 - Summer of Love

U2- Love is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way

U2- Ordinary Love

My Morning Jacket - True Love Ways

Grateful Dead - Turn On Your Lovelight

Mayer Hawthorne - Cosmic Love

Jars of Clay - Love Came Down On Christmas

Joshua Eller - I Need Emmanuel

The Gray Havens - Far Kingdom

U2 - 13 (There is a Light)

Gives Thanks & Praises (TOTR 314)

(this program originally aired on Monday 11/27/2017)

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Give Thanks & Praises

Freddie McGregor - O Come All Ye Faithful

Judah & the Lion - The Christmas Song

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Baby It’s Cold Outside

We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - Dan Auerbach

Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real - Find Yourself

Gregg Allman - My Only True Friend

Duane & Gregg Allman - Morning Dew

Grateful Dead - Corrina

U2 - American Soul

Bob Seger - Forward Into The Past

Bob Seger - Blue Ridge

Eric Bogle - Singing The Spirit Home

Rob Nelson & Ryan Hyland - Brokedown Palace

Jim James - The World Is Falling Down

Arlo Guthrie - Children of Abraham

Arlo Guthrie - My Peace

Mavis Staples - Peaceful Dream

Bruce Cockburn - Jesus Train

The Decemberists - Jesus Christ

Jordan Tyler Poole - Least of These

Sufjan Stevens - The Midnight Clear

Sufjan Stevens - The Greatest Gift

Elizabeth Mitchell & Friends - Baby Born Today

MUNA - Pipes Of Peace

Ready or Not (TOTR 313)

This edition originally aired on Monday, November 13, 2017.

U2 - The Blackout

Neil Young & Promise of the Real - Already Great

The Gray Havens & Propaganda - High Enough

Fugees - Ready or Not

Mavis Staples - Little Bit

Queen Latifah (from Chicago) - When You’re Good To Mama

Bill Horwitz - Sing Me

Jefferson Airplane - When The Earth Moves Again

Stoneground - Won’t Be Long

The Fool - Rainbow Man

The Bergerfolk - Rainbow Race

Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman - Throwing Stones

John Prine - Paradise

Jason Wilber & Iris Dement - Heaven

Ryley Walker - On the Banks of the Old Kishwaukee

Dave Rawlings Machine - Ruby

Shearwater - Mistakes

Drive By Truckers - Baggage

Ben Harper - I Want To Be Ready

Ashley Cleveland - Ready Or Not

Penny and Sparrow - Well You Know It Ends Well

Penny and Sparrow - Go Tell It On The Mountain

The Gray Havens - At Last, The King

Bob Dylan - When He Returns

Guy Carawan - Amen

Highways & Clouds (TOTR 312)

Amos Lee - Highways & Clouds

Blitzen Trapper - Lonesome Angel

Son Volt - Angel Of The Blues

Blessed Feathers - Wide World

Amos Lee - Running Out Of Time

St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Sanctify

Jim James - Here In Spirit

Ray LaMontagne - Forever My Friend

The Chieftains & Pablo Nutini - Hard Times Come Again No More

Counting Crows - This Land Is Your Land

Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Helplessly Hoping

St. Paul & The Broken Bones - All I Ever Wonder

Alabama Shakes - Future People

Ed Sheeran - Autumn Leaves

Jesse Woods - Gold In The Air

Frontier Ruckus - Dark Autumn Hour

Monica Heldal - Boy From The North

Nathaniel Rateliff - A Lamb on the Stone

The Wild Reeds - Let No Grief

John Paul White - The Martyr

Sufjan Stevens - Drawn to the Blood

The Band - Long Black Veil

Nathan Partain - I Am One Of Those

Enter The Worship Circle - Trouble Won’t Go

Steven Delopoulos - May I Always Keep My Feet Upon The Ground

First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn - Guide My Feet

You Gotta Move (TOTR 311)

Originally aired on Monday, October 23 with special guest co-host Randal Williams. 

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every Day

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Jesus

Jerry Lee Lewis - Jesus is on the Main Line

Son House - John the Revelator

Son House - Preachin The Blues

Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Gotta Move

The Rolling Stones -  You Gotta Move

The Rolling Stones - Prodigal Son

Reverend Robert Wilkins - The Prodigal Son

Frank Hutchison - Hell Bound Train

Clarence Ashley - Little Sadie

Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady

Casey Bill Weldon - Sold My Soul to the Devil

Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

Darby and Talton - Slow Wicked Blues

Robert Johnson - Hellhound on My Trail

John Lee Hooker - Burning Hell

Tom Jones - Burning Hell

The Louvin Brothers - Satan’s Jeweled Crown

Billy Joe Shaver - Get Thee Behind Me Satan

Billy Joe Shaver - If I Give My Soul

Johnny Cash - If I Give My Soul

Life To Come (TOTR 310)

Snow Patrol - Crack The Shutters

Tea Leaf Green - Don’t Curse At The Night

The Gaslight Anthem - Miles Davis & the Cool

The Killers - Life To Come

Iron & Wine - Right For Sky

The Cave Singers - Elephant Clouds

Jason Isbell - Cover Me Up

The Avett Brothers - Swept Away

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Peaceful Valley

Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias

John Lennon - Mind Games

R.E.M. - Belong

The Decemberists - Calamity Song

Michael Franti & Spearhead - Bomb The World

Violent Femmes - No Killing

Bob Dylan - When You Gonna Wake Up

Indigo Girls - All Along The Watchtower

Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line

U2 - The Playboy Mansion

My Morning Jacket - Compound Fracture

Miley Cyrus & Dolly Parton -Rainbowland

Mahalia Jackson - God Put A Rainbow In The Sky

Enter The Worship Circle - You Are So Good To Me

Road Goes On (TOTR 309)

 
 James McMurtry - Choctaw Bingo 
Robert Earl Kean - The Road Goes On Forever
 Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm 
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road 
Charlie Daniels Band - Long Haired Country Boy 
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It in a Love Song 
 Steeldrivers - Ghosts of Mississippi 
The Highwaymen - Highwayman 
Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach, Texas 
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger 
Hank Williams - Honky Tonkin' 
Hank Williams Jr. - Family Tradition 
Hank Williams III - Crazed Country Rebel 
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 
Chris Stapleton - Broken Halos 
 Sturgill Simpson - The Promise 
Jason Isbell - White Man's World 
My Morning Jacket - The Way That He Sings 
R.E.M. - Driver 8 
Kings of Leon - Back Down South 
 Drive-By Truckers - First Air of Autumn 
 Judah & the Lion - Seasons Colors

special guest co-host Troy Smith