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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG -Even Numbers
Randy Kaplan – Loquat Rooftop
ID
Recess Monkey – S-L-E-E-P-Over (in-studio)
Psapp – Everybody Wants to Be a Cat
Dan Zanes – Moonlit Town (in-studio)
ID

Segment 2
Patty Griffin – I Love (Songs of Fox Hollow)
Elizabeth Mitchell – Ladybug Picnic
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Kevin Kammeraad – Petoskey Stone
Kevin Kammeraad/ScribbleMonster – The Fur Trade?
Pixies – Bam Thwok
The Jimmies – Kids Wanna Rock
ID
The Not-Its! – Hank Is a Rock Star

Segment 3
Gruff Rhys – Candylion (Candylion)
Lunch Money – A Cookie As Big As My Head
ID
Polyphonic Spree – Section 12
Solanna – Preparons-nous pour Faire la Fete (Kids World Party)
Milkshake – Happy Place
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Dan Zanes & Shine – Wake Up Baby!
Little Richard – Land of a Thousand Dances
Bunny Clogs – Shpilkas
ID
Ozomatli – Love and Hope
ID
Nields – Who Are You Not to Shine?

Segment 5
Justin Roberts – Kickboard Baby, yeah
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
ID
Rabbit! – Apple Tree
Billy Kelly – The Family Garden
ID

Segment 6
Prince – Starfish & Coffee
Parliament – Mothership Connection
Sara Hickman – Radiation Man
Buddy Miller – Sneaky Snake
ID
TMBG – Courage the Cowardly Dog

You may have picked up that in my day job, I’m a law professor.  One of my areas of interest is amusement ride safety, and, in that context, I did a ton of interviews (and a visit to Six Flags New England) for a segment on This American Life — a segment that ultimately didn’t air.  But I did get a thank-you, and I like that, so you can hear it too (with a Guns ‘n’ Roses music bed!):

Thanks to Bill Childs

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – James K. Polk
Renee & Jeremy – Rely
Elizabeth Mitchell – Bright Morning Stars
ID
Calexico – Victor Jara’s Hands
Lunch Money – At the River
ID

Segment 2
Interview re: PJ Library w/ Rachel Berezin
Randy Kaplan – Mazal Mazal
Ralph Covert – Fools Will Try
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Mighty Weaklings – The Monster Under My Bed
John Wesley Harding – Sing Your Own Song
ID

Segment 3
Jonathan Coulton – The Princess Who Saved Herself
ID
Ellen & Matt – Side by Side
Pink Floyd – Bike
Sippy Cups – My Loose Tooth
ID
Stan Ridgway – Wondered What It’d Be Like?

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Keller Williams – Hula Hoop To Da Loop
Me 3 – I Don’t Know!
ID
The Clash – Lost in the Supermarket
Miss Gail & the Jumpin’ Jam Band – Hey! Hey!
CandyBand – Get Up Already
ID

Segment 5
Booker T & Sharon Jones – Representing Memphis
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends – In the Basement (w/ Sharon Jones)
Etta James – Born on the Bayou
ID
Dog on Fleas – Green Grass of Summer
Cat & a Bird – Bee Jive
ID

Segment 6
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family – Go Waggaloo
Jimmies – Bonfire
ID
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Hey World (Remote Control Edition)
Telephone Company – Bomb Pop
Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
ID
TMBG – New York City
TMBG – Spare the Rock

I didn’t even notice until after recording this Saturday’s show, but it marks six years on the air — we first broadcast at 6 in the morning on August 12, 2005, on the then-brand-new Valley Free Radio.  (We moved over to the River a couple of years later, in February 2008, though the show still airs on VFR as well.)  That’s over 32,000 minutes of hand-picked music and rambling and Book Times with Ella and in-studios and general rawking.

Thanks to all of you for listening, supporting, singing, and dancing!  Here’s to six more.

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Particle Man
The Missing Piece – Cucumber Canoe
Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World
ID
Bunny Clogs – Midtown Greenway (More! More! More!)
Frances England – Animal Inside You (Family Tree)
ID

Segment 2
AudraRox – Moms & Dads
Ziggy Marley (w/ Elizabeth Mitchell) – Wings of an Eagle
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Elvis Costello – Radio, Radio
Rush – The Spirit of Radio
ID
Tiny Masters of Today – Hey, Mr. DJ

Segment 3
ScribbleMonster – I Wish I Lived in Michigan
ID
Jimmies – Every Day’s a Holiday (Practically Ridiculous)
Sippy Cups – Seven is the New 14
ID
Jonathan Coulton – Nemeses

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Dean Jones & Felice Bros – Frenzy
Ben Rudnick & Friends – I Need a Hand (Live)
ID
Dan Zanes w/ Andrew Bird – I Don’t Need Sunny Skies
Don Robertson – The Happy Whistler
ID
John & Mark – A Counting Error

Segment 5
School for the Dead – Ayla (A Beautiful Day in the Woods)
The Board of Education – The Lonely Tomato
ID
Peter Himmelman – My Green Kite
Givers – Up Up Up
ID

Segment 6
Harmonica Pocket – Spiders in My Breakfast
The Go! Team – Wrath of Marcie
ID
Chris Kenner – I LIke It Like That
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – Ranky Tanky
Meters – Chicken Strut
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Secret Handshake
ID
TMBG – Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Number Two
Sophie & Les Petits – Un, deux, trois
ID
Sweetback Sisters – Texas Bluebonnets
Ella Jenkins – Pick a Bale of Cotton
Jayhawks – This Little Light of Mine
ID
Lori Henriques – Outside My Door

Segment 2
Andrew Bird – Twistable Turnable Man Returns
Frank Black – Jumpin’ Beans
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Nirvana – Sliver
The Not-Its! – Great to Be a Kid
Fastbacks – Goodbye, Bird
Recess Monkey – Invisible Friend (feat. Molly Ledford)

Segment 3
Justin Roberts – Day Camp (Way Out)
The Boy Least Likely To – When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade
ID
Bazillions – Super Sonic Rocket Bike
Clementown – Bathtub Driver
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Ulysses S. Dee in-studio

Segment 5
Hipwaders – Go Go Girl
The Cars – Good Times Roll
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Have Fun
Medeski Martin & Wood – Let’s Go
ID

Segment 6
Posies – Dream All Day
Egg – Nothing Better (Hard-Boiled)
ID
Danny Adlerman – School Bus Driver
Paul Westerberg – Whisper Me Luck
ID
TMBG – Mr. Me
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Other Father Song
Readeez – You Have a Heart
Gustafer Yellowgold – Infinity
Chris & the Alphabets – Count It Higher (Sesame Street Old School)
ID
Dean Jones – Little By Little (Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti)
Be Good Tanyas – Littlest Bird
ID
Heidi Swedberg – Paw Paw Patch

Segment 2
Mick Cooke – Playtime for the Penguins (Down at the Zoo)
Dan Bern – Not Too Young for a Song
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Uncle Rock – Rock & Roll Babysitter
Elvis Costello – What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love & Understanding?
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke – Hey Pepito
ID
Lunch Money – Dizzy

Segment 3
Roy Handy & the Moonshot – I’m a Vampire
Vampire Weekend – White Sky
The Not-Its! – TV’s Watching Me
ID
Ramones – Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Mr. Richard – Pots ‘n’ Pans
ID (Cathy Fink guest DJ set second half)
Frank Turner – I Still Believe

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Cathy Fink Guest DJ set

Segment 5
Cathy Fink Guest DJ set and interview

Segment 6
ID
Mister G – Grilled Cheese
Paper Moon – Your Attitue Towards Cuttlefish
ID
Dar Williams – Echoes
Rudy Trubitt – Wear My Pajamas to School
ID
TMBG – Particle Man
TMBG – Spare the Rock