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Traveling Music 9-25-16

Traveling Music

Shonti Elder

9-25-16

 

Format:

Song Title

Artist / Composer

CD Title

Label

Duration

 

If I Needed You

Townes Van Zandt / Townes Van Zandt

The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

Tomato

3:48

 

Train That Carried My Girl From Town

Doc and Merle Watson / Traditional

Home Sweet Home

Sugar Hill

3:12

 

Dakota Themes (instrumentals)

Peter Ostroushko / Peter Ostroushko

Heart of the Heartland

Red House Records

5:48

 

Electrician Blues

Cathy Winter / Andy Razof

Next Sweet Time

Flying Fish

3:44

 

Stay With The One Who Loves You

Uncle Walts Band /  David Ball

The Girl on the Sunny Shore

Sugar Hill

2:33

 

Poncho and Lefty

Townes Van Zandt / Townes Van Zandt

The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

Tomato

3:40

 

Heart of the Heartland (instrumental)

Peter Ostroushko / Peter Ostroushko

Heart of the Heartland

Red House Records

3:26

 

Be Thou My Vision

Van Morrison / Traditional

Hymns to the Silence : disc 2

PolyGram

3:51

 

I Wonder How the Old Folks Are At Home

Doc and Merle Watson / A. P. Carter

Home Sweet Home

Sugar Hill

3:51

 

To Live is to Fly

Townes Van Zandt / Townes Van Zandt

Rear View Mirror

Sugar Hill

4:06

 

How Many Lights?

Cathy Winter / Cathy Winter

Next Sweet Time

Flying Fish

3:20

 

White Freightliner Blues

Townes Van Zandt / Townes Van Zandt

Rear View Mirror

Sugar Hill

4:15

 

Corrina, Corrina

Doc & Merle Watson / Traditional

Then and Now / Two Days in November

Sugar Hill

2:46

 

When She Don't Need Me

Townes Van Zandt / Townes Van Zandt

Flyin' Shoes

Tomato

3:09

 

For the Sake of the Song

Townes Van Zandt / Townes Van Zandt

Live at the Old Quarter Houston, Texas

Tomato

3:26

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.