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SONGS

Single Series #19: About a year ago Katell was in from Cardiff and joined us to record this song with Dave Schramm, David Mansfield, JD Foster, Andy Burton, and Konrad Meissner. The band and the song and the tiny Maid’s Room studio and the sultry New York night coalesced as such elements sometimes do and a wonderful record was made. It’s in Welsh. Katell told us that it’s about going back to the beginning. And sitting on your hands. And climbing stairs.
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spacer Platfform 0 (Katell Keineg); recorded live with the Radio Free All Stars: David Mansfield, mandolin; JD Foster, bass; Andy Burton, Hammond organ and vocals; Dave Schramm, electric guitar; Konrad Meissner, drums; for show number 15, Un Deg Pump. Copyright Control, Katell Keineg

Single Series #18: A new song from Amy Allison — so simple, elegant, and true. A clever phrase honed down to something more elemental. Classic. And that inimitable, grown-up vocal style — perfectly suited to this new suite Amy’s been bringing to the Club. Recorded live at The Living Room with Radio Free All Stars David Mansfield, Jeremy Chatzky, Dave Schramm, Mark Spencer, and Paul Moschella.
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spacer No Stars in New York City (Amy Allison); recorded live with the Radio Free All Stars: David Mansfield, violin; Jeremy Chatzky, bass; Mark Spencer, piano; Dave Schramm, electric guitar; Paul Moschella, drums; for show number 18 With a Bullet. Shop Girl Songs (BMI) admin Bug Music

Single Series #17: Bob Neuwirth, Four Famous French Photographs. The mercurial Mr. Bob Neuwirth showed up at the studio one night last year. With Ronee Blakley and David Mansfield on board as well, somehow we managed to avoid Revue nostalgia and moved on to the matter of new songs. He entertained us in the kitchen, singing a song about the lighter side of suicide, but once the tape was rolling he smiled and sang this one, in his wise and mischievous voice. Georges Brassai meets Poncho and Lefty? Engineered and mixed by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording, with David Mansfield, Dave Schramm, Andy Burton, and JC Hopkins playing along. Rolling thunder indeed.
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spacer Four Famous French Photographs (Bob Neuwirth); performed live with the Radio Free All Stars. Recorded by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording, May 16, 2010 for show Number Six.

Single Series #16: Jennie Lowe Stearns, Mighty Diamonds. A song about seeing a band in the afternoon, and life’s fullness. Mournful, joyful, dark and bright all at once. A gorgeous live recording from a club show with Radio Free All Stars Dave Schramm, David Mansfield, JD Foster, Paul Moschella, Andy Burton and Doug Wieselman, with Victoria Williams and Kate Jacobs on backing vocals. Thank you, Jennie.
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spacer Mighty Diamonds (Jennie Lowe Stearns); performed live with the Radio Free All Stars. Recorded by Jimi Zhivago at The Living Room, May 24, 2011 for show #16, Sweet Sixteen Tons; Porchbone Music (BMI)

Dave Schramm, Man of Few Words. A shimmering, romantic song. A movie song. A sad, romantic movie from the ’60s song. A walking in the rain sort of song.
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spacer Man of Few Words (Dave Schramm); recorded live with the Radio Free All Stars: Dave Schramm, vocals and tres; Doug Wieselman, bass clarinet; Al Greller, bass; Andy Burton, piano; David Mansfield, mandolin; Paul Moschella, drums; Recorded by Gary Arnold at Gary’s Chop Shop, February 24, 2011 for show #14, Seven and Seven Is; Hot Stove Music (BMI)

Don Piper’s, We Are You. Turn it up. With show #19 poised to post next week, we fast forward to a preview of show #20!

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spacer We Are You (Don Piper); recorded live with the Radio Free All Stars: Don Piper, vocals and guitar; Jeremy Chatzky, bass; Rob Burger, space organ; Dave Schramm, electric guitar; David Mansfield, mandolin; Paul Moschella, drums; Situational Sounds (ASCAP)

Happy New Year! We have two New Year’s songs for you from our archive. Birds at the Feeder by Kate Jacobs is a story of a family, a house, a marriage, a cold sunny new year’s day — with an exceptionally lovely arrangement by Dave Schramm and the Radio Free All Stars. New Year’s Here by Jay Sherman-Godfrey is a chiming, existential meditation on the nature of marking time.

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spacer Birds at the Feeder (Kate Jacobs, arrangement by Dave Schramm); recorded live with the Radio Free All Stars: Dave Schramm, guitar; David Mansfield, violin; Doug Wieselman, clarinet; Konrad Meissner, drums; Jeremy Chatzky, bass; Rob Burger, piano; Small Pond Music (BMI)

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spacer New Year’s Here (Jay Sherman-Godfrey) performed and recorded by Jay with Cheri Leone, backing vocals, and Diego Voglino, drums; Kalamakeepsie Music (BMI) administered by Bug Music

Victoria Williams’ achingly sad and lovely cover of Townes van Zandt’s Buckskin Stallion Blues was recorded live at The Living Room in New York with the Radio Free All Stars. Vic learned this song from Amy Annelle. Arrived from her ranch in Joshua Tree, CA — where her own beloved buckskin stallion had just died — Vic’s take on the song is acutely personal, affectionate, and respectful of the greatness that is a good horse.

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Victoria Williams

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Here’s a brand new Peter Holsapple song for you Radio Free Song Clubbers. Peter sent this track for a live show. It was fascinating to listen to it coming in through the p.a. in a full club. We all gazed at the speakers and listened and laughed, and listened more carefully, and more carefully, as this American family opera unfolded.

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Peter Holsapple

spacer All Hail (Peter Holsapple) recorded by Peter and Webb Holsapple (complete recording notes below); Peter H. and Tray and Kathleen Batson, vocals; Webb Holsapple, violin; Hospital Music (BMI) admin Bug Music

Peter writes: All Hail has been clanging around inside my head like the proverbial bb shot-in-a-pie-pan for about three months. I’d hoped to have it ready for January’s RFSC but it became obvious that something more elaborate was formulating. So here it is, May 2011, and I got it finished just under the wire for the live show that I can’t attend.

This song is something of a folk-rockin’ political broadside cum operetta with four characters. The first singer (that would be me) is the deluded neo-con politico, drowning in his own Kool-aid. Next comes his distressed and depressed wife, then his teenage daughter (roles sung by Kathleen Batson). Finally, the moneyed politico bigwig weighs in (role played by Tray Batson — Tray and Kathleen are my bandmates in the exceptional kids’ rock band Baron von Rumblebuss). I played my new Squier Jaguar bass, my Fender ‘Esquire’, my NORD electro and my Guild D40 acoustic, as well as the drums. My son, Webb Holsapple, played the violin parts and engineered my drum tracks; suffice to say, I’m thrilled he enjoyed his studio experience and hope it’s the first of many collaborations with him. And big thanks to Tray and Kathleen for being such good neighbors and talented individuals.
Click HERE for the libretto!

Here is a confluence of three beautiful things. Jody Harris with a brand new song, a fortunate iteration of the Radio Free All Stars, including Dave Hofstra on bass and Doug Wieselman on clarinet, and the unseen presence of…? It’s Mister Nobody. James Bond in Portugal? Someone is being hunted. Song noir. Have you heard Jody Harris?

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Jody Harris

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Jody (guitar and vocal), David Mansfield (mandolin), Ted Reichman (piano), Doug Wieselman (clarinet), Dave Hofstra (bass), Dave Schramm (gut-string guitar).

Copyright Control, Jody Harris

Single Series #7. Santa Cruz, sent to us by Todd Snider, is a worn and warm gravelly warble of a tribute to a West Coast disc jockey.

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Todd Snider

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It was St. Patrick’s Day in New York, a beautiful spring evening. Sam Amidon and Beth Orton joined us in the studio for our Fourth Time Around. Sam sang You Better Mind, an old gospel song arranged for his wonderfully light, dry, utterly American voice. Warm and severe at the same time. Beth sang along with him, soothing and scolding us and traveling back in time.

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Sam Amidon
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(trad., arranged by Sam Amidon) Performed live by Sam with Beth Orton, Dave Schramm and David Mansfield

Single Series #5: Dave Schramm’s Been There, Done That (New for You) hums along on a timeless melody. The Radio Free All Stars swing gently to this clear-eyed, unsentimental, tender waltz featuring Doug Wieselman on clarinet. Listen to the words — they don’t say what you might think.

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Dave (vocals and gut-string guitar), Doug Wieselman (clarinet), David Mansfield (mandolin), Dave Hofstra (bass), Ted Reichman (wurlitzer piano), Paul Moschella (drums).
Hot Stove Music (BMI)


Shannon Airport in the West of Ireland is a stopover for troops on their way to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Flying Out of Shannon is Kate Jacobs’ song about the throngs of American soldiers she sees on her frequent travels through that airport. It’s a sort of breezy piano ballad, a kind of a show tune, a few stray thoughts on camouflage fashion, a war song, a mother’s song. She emailed a lonely vocal to Ted Reichman in Boston, and he overdubbed the beautiful piano interpretation and emailed it back. Doug Wieselman played bass clarinet live on the show. 


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Kate Jacobs
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Kate (vocal), Ted Reichman (piano), Doug Wieselman (Bass clarinet). 

piano arrangement by Ted Reichman; Small Pond Music (BMI)

Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs was laid to rest in Greenwood Cemetery the day we went in to cut Episode Eight. He lived around the corner from the studio and had been one of the first guests we thought of having on the show. He died before we got hold of him. In search of a way to honor Tuli, we gathered the lyric to “When the Mode of the Music Changes”, and without learning the song, or even really listening to it, each one of the Radio Free All Stars initiated in turn (clockwise), a completely different musical mode for each verse, led by Nicholas Hill’s dramatic interpretation. Musical telepathy at work, and the great spirit of Tuli Kupferberg.

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The Radio Free All-Stars

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Nicholas Hill, Mary Lee Kortes, Laura Cantrell and Kate Jacobs (vocals), David Mansfield (mandolin), JD Foster (bass), Ted Reichman (piano), Paul Moschella (drums), Dave Schramm (electric guitar).

Freedy sent this song for our ninth show, If 9 Was 6. He recorded a vocal and acoustic guitar and asked Dave Schramm to do a live electric guitar overdub on the show. So simple. It’s called Baby Baby Come Home and it sounds just like that. Plaintive as hell. With a typically beautiful melody.


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Freedy Johnston
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Freedy (guitar and vocal), Dave Schramm (electric guitar). 

Trouble Tree Music, BMI

Last fall Susan Cowsill was on tour with her band. They stopped in for a lon
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