Friday Random Ten

The dog days of August Edition

1. "Sad Eyes" Josh Rouse from Nashville

2. "Art of the Gun" The Nields from Play

3. "My Bride and I" Dan Frechette from Lucky Day

4. "Starkville" Indigo Girls from Become You

5. "Greenville" Lucinda Williams from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

6. "Lay Me Down" John Gorka from Old Futures Gone

7. "Easy Pearls" Girlyman from Joyful Sign

8. "Bird in a Cage" Old 97s from Satellite Rides

9. "The Princess and the Frog" Michael Smith from Such Things are Finely Done

10. "Monty Got a Raw Deal" REM from Automatic for the People

Friday Random Ten

The dang, I haven't done one of these in months! Edition*

1. "Arcadian Driftwood" Richard Shindell from South of Delia

2. "Song of Sand" Suzanne Vega from 99° F

3. "Anything with Wings" Carrie Newcomer from Bare to the Bone

4. "Defying Gravity" Mark Erelli from Innocent when you Dream

5. "Love Song for No One" John Mayer from Room for Squares

6. "City" Dan Bern from Fleeting Days

7. "Love, the Magician" Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer from Drum Hat Buddha

8. "Someone Else's Tomorrow" Patty Griffin from Children Running Through

9. "Different World" Patty Larkin from Red = Luck

10. "Girl Shanty" Sons of the Never Wrong from Consequence of Speech

*Alternatively, the go see Peter Mulvey live tomorrow at the South Shore Farmer's Market (at South Shore Park in Bay View) starting at 10:15 edition. I'll be the one with the big white dog.

Friday Random Ten

The Long and Short of It Edition

1. "Short Work" Kris Delmhorst, Songs for a Hurricane
2. "Come a Long Way" Michelle Shocked, Mercury Poise
3. "Long Road" Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses
4. "Long & Desperate Day" Bill Camplin (as Doët), Love Songs and Other Trios
5. "It's a Long Way Home" Jennifer Kimball, Veering from the Wave
6. "This Long" Carrie Newcomer, My True Name
7. "Long Way to Go" Disappear Fear, Live at the Bottom Line
8. "The Long Goodbye" Cliff Eberhardt, Borders
9. "Just How Long" Kate McDonnell, Next
10. "Short Ode (Stephen Vincent Benet)" Andrew Calhoun

Friday Random Ten

The because the Journal Sentinel asked me to Edition
I mean, it's been a while since I've done one, and they asked so nicely . . .

1. "The Knuckleball Suite" Peter Mulvey from The Knuckleball Suite

2. "A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress" Richard Shindell from Courier

3. "Drive" R.E.M. from Automatic for the People

4. "Northbound 35" Richard Shindell from South of Delia

5. "Summertime" Josh Rouse from Subtitulo

6. "Gas Station Girl" Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer from Seven is the Number

7. "Juice and June" Kris Delmhorst from Songs for a Hurricane

8. "Sarah in the Summer" Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from Acoustic

9. "Summer Evening" Gillian Welch from Going Driftless

10. "Drive You Home Again" Chris Smither from Live at McCabe's

Friday Random Ten

The I go away for a week and this place falls apart Edition
I mean, there's record-breaking snow, Don Imus gets fired, Kurt Vonnegut dies, the Thompson-Biskupik show goes national . . .

1. "The Dream" Peter Mulvey from Rapture
2. "Do You Remember" Jack Johnson from In Between Dreams
3. "If This Were a Movie" The Nields from Bob on the Ceiling
4. "He Never Mentioned Love" Kirsty MacColl from Electric Landlady
5. "Holy Now" Peter Mayer from Million Year Mind
6. "Standing" Patty Griffin from Impossible Dream
7. "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" Dar Williams from My Better Self
8. "Will I Be Married" The Jayhawks from Blue Earth
9. "Laughlin Boy" Tracy Grammer from Flower of Avalon
10. "Little Martha" The Allman Brothers Band from Eat a Peach

Friday Random Ten

The Spriiiiiiiing Breeeeeeaaaaak!!!!! Edition

1. "Breaking Through the Radio" Ellis Paul from The Speed of Trees
2. "Spring Street" Dar Williams from The Green World
3. "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart" Whiskeytown from Faithless Street
4. "Spring Wind" Greg Brown from If I Had Known
5. "Spring & All" Mary Chapin Carpenter from Going Driftless
6. "I'm Not Going to Let You Break My Heart" Carrie Newcomer from The Bird or the Wing
7. "Southland in the Springtime" Indigo Girls from Nomads Indians Saintd
8. "Piper Road Spring Boogie" Dan Frechette from Lucky Day
9. "Postcards from Mexico" Girlyman from Remember Who I Am
10. "Breakdown" Jack Johnson from In Between Dreams

Friday Random Ten

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The Guess where I was last night? Edition

1. "When I'm Up" Great Big Sea from Rant and Roar
2. "The Old Black Rum" Great Big Sea from Road Rage
3. "Ordinary Day" Great Big Sea from Rant and Roar
4. "Fisherman's Lament" Great Big Sea from Great Big Sea
5. "A Boat Like Gideon Brown" Great Big Sea from Sea of No Cares
6. "I'se the Bye" Great Big Sea from Great Big Sea
7. "Captain Kidd" Great Big Sea from The Hard and the Easy
8. "Donkey Riding" Great Big Sea from Play
9. "Consequence Free" Great Big Sea from Turn
10. "General Taylor" Great Big Sea from Rant and Roar

Friday Random Ten

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The President's Day Blowout Sale Edition

1. "Lowside of the Road" Tom Waits from Mule Variations
2. "Blue Divide" Richard Shindell from Blue Divide
3. "When Jimmy Falls in Love" Vance Gilbert from Somerville Live
4. "Paint the Sky" Darryl Purpose from Right Side of Zero
5. "Indian Dreams" Ferron from Phantom Center
6. "Surprise" Lynne Saner from This is Boston ... Not Austin
7. "Revelator" Gillian Welch from Time (The Revelator)
8. "Down and Dirty" Shannon McNally from Live at the World Cafe
9. "Drunk Lullaby" Redbird from Redbird
10. "Last Kisses" The Nields from Play

Friday Random Ten

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The Maybe it's Love Edition

1. "He Never Mentioned Love" Kirsty MacColl from Electric Landlady
2. "Crazy Love" Erica Wheeler from Almost Like Tonight
3. "I Know What Kind of Love This Is" The Nields from Gotta Get Over Greta
4. "What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)" Jon Svetkey from YeahYeahYeah
5. "I Wanna be Loved" Elvis Costello from The Very Best Of
6. "Annie's Lover" Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer from When I Go
7. "My Love Has Gone" Josh Rouse from Nashville
8. "When Jimmy Falls in Love" Vance Gilbert from Edgewise
9. "Love Takes the Best of You" Catie Curtis from My Shirt Looks Good on You
10. "Blind Love" Tom Waits from Rain Dogs

Friday Random Ten

The The Snow is Now Getting Old Edition

1. "Closer" Joshua Radin from We Were Here
2. "You Can Always be Gone" Catie Curtis from Truth from Lies
3. "Salt Peanuts" Miles Davis from Steamin' with the Quintet
4. "Clarity" Ellis Paul from American Jukebox Fables
5. "All in Time" Don Conoscenti from Paradox of Grace
6. "Too Little Too Late" Michelle Shocked from Mercury Poise
7. "Crazy Love" Erica Wheeler from Almost Like Tonight
8. "New Deep" John Mayer from Heavier Things
9. "Like Bonsai" Susan Werner from Time Between Trains
10. "Tecumseh Valley" Townes Van Zandt from Live at the Old Quarter

Friday Random Ten

The Don't you just sit there feeling sorry for yourself Edition

1. "Cupid's Got a Gun" Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from Acoustic
2. "If Love is Not Enough" Peter Mulvey from Rapture
3. "I Can't Stand It" Eric Clapton from Another Ticket
4. "Are You Out There" Dar Williams from End of the Summer
5. "The River, Where She Sleeps" Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer from When I Go
6. "Like Bonsai" Susan Werner from Time Between Trains
7. "My Stupid Mouth" John Mayer from Room for Squares
8. "Blue Sky" The Allman Borthers Band from The Essential . . .
9. "Sister Clarissa" Michael Smith from Such Things are Finely Done
10. "Chief" Patty Griffin from 1000 Kisses

Friday Random Ten

The Have You Met Bert? Edition
Bert will be sitting in with the band here at the blog for a while. Show him love while he's here. We may get another guest player or two as well.

1. "Early" Victoria Williams from Going Driftless
2. "Folksingers are Boring" Andrew Calhoun from Shadow of a WIng
3. "Train to Jackson" Jeffrey Foucault from Ghost Repeater
4. "The Captain" Kasey Chambers from The Captain
5. "Pound of Prevention" Vance Gilbert from Fugitives
6. "Closer to You" Dan Bern from Fleeting Days
7. "New Thing Now" Shawn Colvin from A Few Small Repairs
8. "El Otro Lado" Josh Rouse from Subtitulo
9. "Hallelujah" Jeff Buckley from Grace
10. "Don't Blame Me" Thelonious Monk from Straight No Chaser

Friday Random Ten

The Harry Potternalia Edition
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Though I do not have a publication date yet, I am announcing the title of my next book. It will be called Little Timmy Mitchell and the Closet of Doom*. I'm sure your local bookseller will be happy to pre-order it for you.

1. "Faking" Melissa Ferrick from Willing to Wait
2. "Twilight" Shawn Colvin from Cover Girl
3. "City Love" John Mayer from Room for Squares
4. "I Want to Sing that Rock and Roll" Gillian Welch from Time (The Revelator)
5. "Pocket" Sons of the Never Wrong from 4 Ever On
6. "Georgia O" The Nields from Play
7. "All I Really Want to Do" Bill Camplin from Bob Dyan: Project One
8. "Astronaut Dreams" Peter Mayer from Elements
9. "Who Woulda Thunk It" Greg Brown from In the Dark with You
10. "You're Still Standing There" Lucy Kaplansky from Every Single Day

* I actually wrote a short story by that name in high school. I thought it was good at the time.

Friday Random Ten

The it's beginning to NOT look a lot like Christmas Edition

1. "What Do You Want From Me" Pink Floyd from The Division Bell
2. "Solitary Man" Tracy Grammer from The Verdant Mile
3. "Zachary" Sonia Dada from E-Town Live 2
4. "Blue Guitar" Susan Werner from New Non-Fiction
5. "Everybody's Gotta" Sons of the Never Wrong from 4 Ever On
6. "Somewhere Out There" from Lucy Kaplansky
7. "For Sascha" Béla Fleck from Tales from the Acoustic Planet
8. "Everytime" Sarah Harmer from You Were Here
9. "The Restless Consumer" Neil Young from Living with War
10. "Dictator" The Nields from 'Mousse

Friday Random Ten

The brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Edition

1. "Road Buddy" Dar Williams from End of the Summer
2. "This Train Revised" Indigo Girls from 1200 Curfews
3. "Even Better Than the Real Thing" U2 from Achtung Baby
4. "Long Way Down" Luce from Live at the World Cafe
5. "Every Day I Write the Book" Elvis Costello from Punch the Clock
6. "On a Bad Day" Kasey Chambers from Barricades and Brick Walls
7. "Evening's Curtain" Mark Erelli from Hope & Other Casualties
8. "Weightless" Old 97s from Satellite Rides
9. "Move Over Mr. Gaugin" Michael Smith from Such Things are Finely Done
10. "The Beast in Me" Martin Sexton from The American

Friday Random Ten

The World AIDS Day Edition

1. "#253 in the Red Book/ Bridge Over Troubled Water" Sons of the Never Wrong from Consequence of Speech
2. "Red Heaven" Disappear Fear from Live at the Bottom Line
3. "Red = Luck" Patty Larkin from Red = Luck
4. "You Are Everything" Redbird from Redbird
5. "Cowboy Singer" Lucy Kaplansky from The Red Thread
6. "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" Elvis Costello from The Very Best of
7. "Red Man Sky" Don Conoscenti from Paradox of Grace
8. "The Red One" Jon Scofield and from I Can See Your House from Here
9. "Red Accordion" Patty Larkin from Perishable Fruit
10. "Red Moon" David Gray from Lost Songs

Friday Random Ten

The sleeping off the turkey Edition

1. "Sleeping Dogs" Brian Joseph from Somewhere it's True
2. "Awake" Peter Mayer from Earth Town Square
3. "When You Wake Up (And It's Snowing)" Jay Bullock (unreleased)
4. "Sleeper" Eliza Gilkyson from Going Driftless
5. "Sleeping in the Flowers" They Might Be Giants from John Henry
6. "The River, Where She Sleeps" Darryl Purpose from A Crooked Line
7. "Darling Wake Up" Kat Eggleston from Second Nature
8. "Keeping Awake" The Innocence Mission from Glow
9. "Sleeping Bag" Sons of the Never Wrong from One if by Hand
10. "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" R.E.M. from Automatic for the People

Friday Random Ten

The It's Friday? Already? Edition

1. "Elsewhere" Sarah McLachlan from Fumbling Toward Ecstacy
2. "Elvis Presley Blues" Gillian Welch from Time (The Revelator)
3. "Willie and the Hand Jive" Eric Clapton from 461 Ocean Boulevard
4. "Damn Love Song" Kris Delmhorst from Five Stories
5. "The Kenworth of My Dreams" Richard Shindell from Courier
6. "Wayfaring Stranger" Neko Case from The Tigers Have Spoken
7. "House That Used to Be" Old 97s from Too Far to Care
8. "Glad" Traffic from The Very Best of
9. "Swandive" Ani DiFranco from Little Plastic Castle
10. "City of Angels" 10,000 Maniacs from In My Tribe

Special Bonus YouTube: Richard Shindell doing "Fishing"

Friday Random Ten

The no gloating here Edition

1. "Gentle Soldier of My Soul" Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer from Drum Hat Buddha
2. "Airproofing" Leo Kottke from Live
3. "Hold Me" Lazlo Blane from All the Time in the World
4. "The Thief" Lucy Kaplansky from Flesh and Bone
5. "World with no Art" Brian Joseph from Somewhere it's True
6. "Dishwater Blonde" Willy Porter from High Wire Live
7. "Only You" Josh Radin from We Were Here
8. "Me and That Train" Patty Larkin from Strangers World
9. "Mrs. Robinson" Simon and Garfunkel from The Best of
10. "Will I Be Married" The Jayhawks from Blue Earth

Related Bonus YouTube: Leo Kottke doing "Little Martha."

Friday Random Ten

The GOTV Edition

1. "Scarecrow" Pink Floyd from Early Singles
2. "Bird on the Wire" Girlyman from Little Star
3. "Canoe Song" Peter Mayer from Elements
4. "Dead End Streets" the Loomers from Shine
5. "Sylvia Hotel" Cheryl Wheeler from Different Stripe
6. "Train from Kansas City" Neko Case from The Tigers Have Spoken
7. "Cannot Love You Enough" Willie Wisely Trio from Parlez-Vous Francais?
8. "Moonshiner" Redbird from Redbird
9. "Such Things are Finely Done" Michael Peter Smith from Such Things are Finely Done
10. "Conquer Me" Blues Traveler from Save His Soul

Holiday Appropriate Bonus YouTube: Peter Mayer's "John's Garden":