BY ERIC ZORN ON MAY 20, 2022
Every week in The Picayune Sentinel I offer up song or tune that is somehow relevant to me at the time — maybe it’s just been on my mind. Here is a list of those tunes with links to the YouTube version and to the associated little item I wrote giving context, history or, in some cases, excuses for the selection.
2021
Sept. 9, 2021 — “Cullom’s Reel” (Ben Zorn)
Sept. 16 , 2021 — “Swannanoa Waltz” (Rayna Gellert)
Sept. 23, 2021 — “Why Don’t You Introduce Me As Your Darlin’?” (Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno)
Sept. 30, 2021 –“Tusk” (Fleetwood Mac)
Oct. 7 , 2021 — “Sweet Nell” (fiddled by Clarke Williams, Maddy Mullaney & Ben Zorn)
Oct. 14, 2021 — “Waiting for Nancy/Valley Forge” (Kaia Kater)
Oct. 21 , 2021 — “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Bluegrass version by The Petersens)
Oct. 28, 2021 — “The Cat Came Back” (Anna Roberts Gevalt)
Nov. 4, 2021 — “When I’m Gone” (a 1930s version of Anna Kendrick’s pop hit of the same name.) (The Carter Family)
Nov. 11, 2021 — “Are You Washed in the Blood?” (The Louvin Brothers)
Nov. 18 , 2021 — “Far Side Banks of Jordan” (Johnny Cash & June Carter)
Nov. 24, 2021 — “Come, Ye Thankful People, Come” (Scottish Festival Singers)
Dec. 2 , 2021 — “Loving Her Was Easier Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again” (Kris Kristofferson)
Dec. 9, 2021 — “Gonna Sing” (Mary Schmich’s song as performed by the Oak Park District 97 Virtual Chorus)
Dec. 16, 2021 — “Chariots” (John Roberts and Tony Barrand)
Dec. 23 , 2021 — “On This Christmas Day” (Fred Campeau and the Songs of Good Cheer Band)
Dec. 30, 2021 — “How Beautiful Upon the Mountain” (Tom Paxton)
2022
Jan. 6 2022 — “When I’m Sixty Four” (The Beatles)
Jan. 13, 2022 — “Music for a Found Harmonium” (banjo version by Josh Turknett)
Jan. 20, 2022 — “The Bramble and the Rose” (Jim Ringer & Mary McCaslin)
Jan. 27, 2022 — “Smoke Behind the Clouds” (Joseph Decosimo)
Feb. 3, 2022 — “Congleton Bear” (John Roberts and Tony Barrand)
Feb. 10, 2022 — “Hate Song (Stamp Out Hate)” (The Mad Show Ensemble)
Feb. 17, 2022 — “Argeers” (as danced by the Chestnut company in Paris)
Feb. 24, 2022 — “Knoxville Girl” (Louvin Brothers)
March 3, 2022 — “Spiegel im Spiegel” (Arvo Pärt)
March 10, 2022 — 30 fiddle styles in one performance (Michael Burnyeat)
March 17, 2022 — “Broccoli Shy” (Lou and Peter Berryman)
March 24, 2022 — “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground” (97th Regimental String Band)
March 31, 2022 — “Cindy” (Ben Zorn and James Fraser)
April 7, 2022 — “Chaise Longue” (Wet Leg)
April 14, 2022 — “I Never Go to Work” (Michael Grosvenor Myer)
April 21, 2022 — “Michael Row the Boat Ashore” (The Highwaymen)
April 28, 2022 — “Stacy’s Mom” (Fountains of Wayne)
May 5, 2022 — “Early” (Greg Brown)
May 12, 2022 — “Famous in France” (Michael Peter Smith)
May 19, 2022 — “That’s My Weakness Now” (Cliff “Uncle Ike” Edwards)
May 26, 2022 — “I and My Maker” (Dan MacDonald and Emily Nott)
June 2, 2022 — “Hindsight” (Max Allard)
June 9, 2022 — “Summer Breeze” (Seals and Crofts)
June 16, 2022 — “Another Train” (Pete Morton) (a better but slower recording is here)
June 23, 2022 — “Dwelling in Beulah Land” (Helen Bonchek Schneyer)
June 30, 2022 — “He’ll Pilot Me“(The Pine Ridge Boys)
July 7, 2022 — “Heaven” (Talking Heads)
July 14, 2022 — “From a Distance” (Nanci Griffith)
July 21, 2022 — “The Bells of London Town” (Dan MacDonald and Sara Leginsky)
July 28, 2022 — “Pal-Yat-Chee” (Spike Jones and His City Slickers with Homer & Jethro)
August 4, 2022 — “They Don’t Let You in the Opera if You’re a Country Star” (Kelli O’Hara)
August 11, 2022 — “The Carnival is Over” (The Seekers)
August 18, 2022 — “The Lovers Waltz” (Jay Ungar & Molly Mason)
August 25, 2022 — “Under the Summer Moonlight” (Garnet Rogers)
Sept. 1, 2022 — Reader favorites
Sept. 8, 2022 — “Cumberland Gap” (Eric Zorn’s interpretation)
Sept. 15, 2022 — “Lorena” (performed by John Hartford)
Sept. 22, 2022 — “Hamlet in Three Minutes” (Michael Cooney)
Sept. 29, 2022 — “Mighty Big River” (Jim Post)
Oct. 6, 2022 — “Wait Till the Clouds Roll By” (Larry Perkins and Andrea Zonn)
Oct. 13, 2022 — “You Get What You Give” (The New Radicals) (nominated by Charlie Meyerson, proprietor of Chicago Public Square)
Oct. 20, 2022 — “Be” (Common) (nominated by TV/radio/podcast star Brandon Pope)
Oct. 27, 2022 — “Are You Happy Now?” (Richard Shindell)
Nov. 3, 2022 — “Let the Mystery Be” (Iris DeMent) (nominated by former Tribune columnist Mary Schmich)
Nov. 10, 2022 — “Orange Cocoa Cake” (Cathy Fink’s interpretation of a Lou and Peter Berryman song)
Nov. 17, 2022 — “Unforgettable” (Nat King Cole) (nominated by WCPT-AM 820 Joan Esposito)
Nov. 22, 2022 — “Uncle Dave’s Grace” (Lou & Peter Berryman)
Dec. 1, 2022 — “Mayfly“ (Dolly Varden) (Nominated by former Tribune columnist Barbara Brotman)
Dec. 8, 2022 — “Long Way Around the Sea” (Low)
Dec. 15, 2022 — “Will You Know Him When You See Him?” (Beverly Smith and John Grimm)
Dec. 22, 2022 — “Christ Child Lullaby” (Also known as “Who Am I to Bear You Here?” ) (John Doyle, Karine Polwart, and Christy O’Leary)
Dec. 31, 2022 — “The Turning Year” (Jennifer Cutting’s Ocean Trio with Windborne) (nominated by Rich Warren, former host of “The Midnight Special” folk music program on WFMT-FM 98.7)
Jan. 5, 2023 — “Sea of Tears” by Eilen Jewell (nominated by Steve Chapman, former Tribune opinion columnist)
Jan. 12, 2023 — “That’s the Way That the World Goes ‘Round,” a John Prine song performed inside a taxi by Della Mae.
Jan 19, 2023 — “Soldier’s Joy” by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Earl Scruggs supplemented by “Soldier’s Joy” fiddled by Ben Zorn.
Jan 26, 2023 — “We Shall Meet Someday” (Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin)
Feb. 2, 2023 — “That Lonesome Train That Took My Baby Away” performed by Jonas Friddle
Feb. 9, 2023 — “Rose of My Heart” (Johnny Cash)
Feb 16, 2023 — “Stewball” (version popularized by Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly)
Feb. 23, 2023 — “Multiply the Heartaches” (George Jones and Melba Montgomery)
March 2, 2023 — “No Hard Feelings” (Avett Brothers) nominated by John Williams of WGN-AM 720
March 9, 2023 — “It Was a Very Good Year” (Frank Sinatra) (nominated by Laura Washington)
March 16, 2023 — “The Humline Song.” or “60’s Mudley,“ (Mike Agranoff)
March 23, 2023 — “Levitating” (Dua Lipa) (nominated by Johanna Zorn)
March 30, 2023 — “What a Game!” (from the Broadway musical “Ragtime”) (nominated by author and former New York Times writer Bruce Weber)
April 6, 2023 — “Radiant Hue” (Shadow Show) (nominated by Nancy Nall Derringer)
April 13, 2023 — “Tennessee Politics” by John Hartford
April 20, 2023 — “Georgia Hard” by Robbie Fulks (nominated by Mark Guarino)
April 27, 2023 — “Jump in the Line,” by Harry Belafonte
May 4, 2023 — “Cotton Jenny” by Gordon Lightfoot
May 11, 2023 — “Waltzing on Top of the World,” by Jim Reeves
May 18, 2023 — “The Mary Ellen Carter” by Stan Rogers (nominated by Peter Sagal)
May 25, 2023 — “Mighty Mighty” by Earth, Wind and Fire (nominated by Jim Wynton)
This archive needs to be rebuilt as a year plus was lost in a conversion, but I’m working on it!