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Traveling Music 12-1-13

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

12-1-13

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

Red-Winged Blackbird

Kathy Mattea /Billy Edd Wheeler

Coal

Captain Potatoe Records

2:56

 

I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow / Reuben’s Train

The Websters and Scott Nygaard / Traditional

Ten Thousand Miles

Lots of Rabbits Records www.babyswan.com

4:55

 

Green Rolling Hills / Wildwood Flower

Kathy Mattea / Bruce “Utah Phillips, Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerard

Coal

Captain Potatoe Records

3:47

 

Don’t You Wish It Was True

John Fogarty /John Fogarty

Revival

Concord Music Group

4:10

 

The Return Journey (instrumental)

Bill Cooley / Bill Cooley

The Return Journey

Nancy Lee Music, www.billcooleymusic.com

4:56

 

Calling on Love

Paul Kamm, Eleanore MacDonald / Paul Kamm

Live

Freewheel Records, www.kammmac.com

5:05

 

The Battle Hymn of Love

Kathy Mattea (with Tim O’Brien) / Don Schlitz and Paul Overstreet

A Collection of Hits

Mercury

2:52

 

Train on the Island

The Websters and Scott Nygaard / Traditional

Ten Thousand Miles

Lots of Rabbits Records www.babyswan.com

2:31

 

Sail Away

Malcolm Dalglish and the Ooolites / Traditional with one verse by Dalglish

Pleasure

Ooolitic Music (independent)

5:20

 

Lawrence Jones

Kathy Mattea / Si Kahn

Coal

Captain Potatoe Records

3:08

 

Calling My Children Home

The Websters and Scott Nygaard / Doyle Lawson, Charles Waller, Robert Yates

Ten Thousand Miles

Lots of Rabbits Records www.babyswan.com

4:00

 

Morning Poem (instrumental)

Bill Cooley / Bill Cooley

The Return Journey

Nancy Lee Music, www.billcooleymusic.com

4:05

 

A Few Good Things Remain

Kathy Mattea / Jon Vezner and Patrick Alger

A Collection of Hits

Mercury

3:49

 

Shonti was born in India to teacher parents, who named her a common Indian name which means peace. She has degrees from Oberlin, Boston University and UAA. She began at KSKA as a volunteer in 1978 and has had an acoustic music show ever since, during her tenure as board member (and president), and 13 years on staff as first volunteer coordinator and then operations director along with that for five years. Her current volunteer program is Traveling Music. Shonti is also a professional fiddler, and has several CD’s of original music with her friend Will Putman. She lives in the Valley with her husband Bill Frey, and has two musical children, Kluonie and Devin.