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Saturday, June 30th

desert island disc

Sly and the Family Stone, Fresh, 1973

Track list:

1. In Time 00:00
2. If You Want Me To Stay 05:47
3. Let Me Have It All 08:48
4. Frisky 11:44
5. Thankful N’ Thoughtful 14:56
6. Skin I’m In 19:38
7. I Don’t Know (Satisfaction) 22:33
8. Keep On Dancin’ 26:25
9. Que Sera, Sera 28:49
10. If It Were Left Up To Me 34:13
11. Babies Makin’ Babies 36:13

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Now as a spirit
I shall roam
the summer fields.

—Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849 (Japanese Death Poems, Yoel Hoffmann, ed.)

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2018

Wednesday, June 27th

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Robert Ward, “Your Love Is Real” (R. Ward)

Live (with Ry Cooder [guitar], Nick Lowe [bass], et al.), Mill Valley, Calif., 1991

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Recording, 1964

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2018

Thursday, June 21st

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Jimmy Ruffin, “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted,” 1966

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Our share of night to bear –
Our share of morning –
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning –

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way!
Here a mist – and there a mist –
Afterwards – Day!

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 116 (Franklin)

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2018

Saturday, June 16th

desert island disc

Ann Peebles, I Can’t Stand the Rain (Willie Mitchell, prod.), 1974

Track list:

“I Can’t Stand The Rain” (Don Bryant, Bernard “Bernie” Miller, Ann Peebles) – 2:31
“Do I Need You” (Bryant, Peebles) – 2:33
“Until You Came into My Life” (Bryant, Miller, Peebles) – 3:13
“(You Keep Me) Hanging On” (Ira Allen, Buddy Mize) – 2:44
“Run Run Run” (Bryant, Darryl Carter, Peebles) – 2:38
“If We Can’t Trust Each Other” (Earl Randle) – 2:55
“A Love Vibration” (Bryant, Miller, Peebles) – 2:50
“You Got to Feed the Fire” (Bryant, Miller, Peebles) – 2:22
“I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down” (Earl Randle) – 2:45
“One Way Street” (Bryant, Peebles) – 2:50