Folk Surrealists: Songs of Dreams and Imaginative Depths
The program for May 21, 2016, offered some songs arising from the greater depths of the imagination.
First hour:
| Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
|---|---|---|
| Anne Lister | The Well Beneath the Sea | Singing on the Wind (Hearthfire) |
| Pearls Before Swine | Sail Away | These Things Too (Water) |
| Jack Hardy | Gossamer Thread | Fast Folk: A Tribute to Jack Hardy (Smithsonian Folkways) |
| New Set | ||
| Dick Gaughan | Scarecrow | Shining Bright: The Songs of Lal & Mike Waterson (Topic) |
| Jo Freya | The Bird | Lal: Jo Freya’s Lal Waterson Project (No Masters Co-operative) |
| Lal Waterson and Oliver Knight | Foolish One | A Bed of Roses (Topic) |
| Michael Hurley | How Can I Leave? | Migrating Bird: The Songs of Lal Waterson (Honest John’s) |
| Music Under Announcements | ||
| Six Organs of Admittance | They Fixed the Broken Mirror Today | For Octavio Paz (Holy Mountain) |
| The Owl Service | Fine Horseman | She Wants to Be Flowers, but You Make Her Owls. You Must Not Be Surprised, Then, When She Goes Hunting (Horn) |
| Espers | Dead King | The Weed Tree (Locust Music) |
| Mark Fry / The A. Lords | We All Fall Down | I Lived in Trees (Second Language Music) |
| New Set | ||
| Pearls Before Swine | There Was a Man | Balaklava (ESP) |
| Stone Breath | Wasp-Sting, Thorn, and Arrowhead | The Silver Skein Unwound (Hand/Eye) |
| Bob Dylan | Gates of Eden | Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia) |
Second hour:
| Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce Cockburn | When the Sun Falls | Sunwheel Dance (Columbia) |
| Birch Book | Zephyr Through Willows | Vol. II: Fortune & Folly (Helmet Room) |
| Marta Topferova | Surreal Dream | The Other Shore (Harmonia Mundi) |
| Mark Fry / The A. Lords | Ruins of Stone | I Lived in Trees (Second Language Music) |
| New Set | ||
| Suzanne Vega | Saint Clare | Fast Folk: A Tribute to Jack Hardy (Smithsonian Folkways) |
| Judy Mayhan | Swallow Song | When I Think of You (Shayomi Productions) |
| Martha Tilston | 350 Bells | Lucy and the Wolves (Squiggly) |
| Roy Harper | Solar Wind Sculptures | The Green Man (Science Friction) |
| New Set | ||
| Birch Book | The Carnival Is Empty | Vol. II: Fortune & Folly (Helmet Room) |
| Jack Hardy | Eclipse | Omens (Prime) |
| John Gorka | Down Where the Rabbits Run | Fast Folk: A Tribute to Jack Hardy (Smithsonian Folkways) |
| New Set | ||
| Guy Clark | Mud | The Dark (Sugar Hill) |
| Townes Van Zandt | Highway Kind | Highway Kind (Sugar Hill) |
| Stone Breath | Let the Towers Fall | The Silver Skein Unwound (Hand/Eye) |
| Scott Ainslie | (faded under) Hammons’ Piece | Banjo Gathering (Steve Baughman) |