Hello Cruel World

HOUR ONE:
Billy Bragg – The World Turned Upside Down – Back To Basics (Elektra, 1987)
Reclinerland – 1981 – Reclinerland (Zubsongs, 1998)
Laurel Brauns – Doldrums – House Of Snow (self, 2011)
Matt Keating – Daddy’s On The Roof – Between Customers (Red Parlor, 2010)

Strangled Darlings – Tears Of Akhmatova – The Devil In Outer Space (self, 2011)
Ryan Adams – Off Broadway – Easy Tiger (Lost Highway, 2007)
Cat Stevens – Daytime – Back To Earth (A&M, 1978)
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – Falling Slowly – Once Original Soundtrack (Columbia, 2007)
The Low Anthem – Matter Of Time – Smart Flesh (Bella Union, 2011)
Kathleen Edwards – Away – Back To Me (Zoe, 2005)

Clem Snide – 96 Tears – Fan Chosen Favorites (bandcamp, 2011)
Old Believers – Betcher Ass – Eight Golden Greats (Fine Romantic, 2008)
Ani DiFranco – Smiling Underneath – iTunes Original Session (iTunes, 2008)
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (live) – KGSR Volume 18 (KGSR, 2010)

HOUR TWO:
Loch Lomond – Blue Lead Fences – Little Me Will Start A Storm (Tender Loving Empire, 2011)
Myshkin – Thousand Gallon Hat – Sigh Semaphore EP (self, 2006)
Brian Rozendal – Flowers In Winter – Lean (self, 2009)
Norfolk & Western – Porch Destruction – A Gilded Age (HUSH, 2006)

Cotton – The Ghost – Cotton (bandcamp, 2011)
Cotton in-studio:
- Road Rash
- Strange Dream
- Dying On The Vine
- One Morning I Woke Up And There Were Maggots Eating My Heart

Casey Neill & The Norway Rats – Storyline – Brooklyn Bridge (In Music We Trust, 2007)
XTC – Boarded Up – Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2) (TVT, 2000)

A HELLO CRUEL WORLD CHRISTMAS

HOUR ONE:
Squirrel Nut Zippers – Sleigh Ride – Christmas Caravan (Mammoth, 1998)
Duover – Grandma’s House – Christmas Volume 1 (self, 2010)
Haley Bonar – River – Xmas EP (self, 2008)
Laura Gibson – It Came Upon A Midnight Clear – Another Grey Christmas Volume 2 (Local Cut, 2008)
Brenda Weiler – Christmas Sweater – Cold Weather (Virt, 2003)

Run On Sentence & Mike Midlo – Silver Bells – Another Grey Christmas Volume 2 (Local Cut, 2008)
Damien Jurado – Christmastime Is Here – Digital Download (self, 2010)
She & Him – Christmas Wish – A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge, 2011)
Leviethan – Christmas In Prison – Another Grey Christmas Three (Local Cut, 2009)
Loudon Wainwright III – Suddenly It’s Christmas – Career Moves (Virgin, 1993)
Feist – Please Be Patient – A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All (Comedy Central, 2008)
Typhoon – Cantique De Noel – Another Grey Christmas (Willamette Week, 2007)

Ron Sexsmith – Maybe This Christmas – Maybe This Christmas (Nettwerk, 2002)
Corrina Repp – Silver Bells 1978 – MASS (HUSH, 1998)
Dolorean – Hard Candy Christmas – Another Grey Christmas Volume 2 (Local Cut, 2008)

Kate Bush – Snowflake – 50 Words For Snow (Fish People/EMI, 2011)

HOUR TWO:
Carley Baer – Underneath The Mistletoe – Underneath The Mistletoe Digital Single (self, 2011)
Paul Hixon-Pittman – This Christmas – MASS (HUSH, 1998)
The Weepies – All That I Want – Happiness (self, 2004)
Scotland Barr – Merry Christmas Anyway – PDXmas Volume 1 (The Loud Lounge, 2007)

Honkytonk Prison in-studio:
- Country Christmas (Loretta Lynn)
- Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me (Elvis Presley)
- To Heck With ‘Ole Santa Claus (Loretta Lynn)
- Medley: Blue Christmas / White Christmas

Jill Sobule – Merry Christmas From The Family – Just Sleigh Me (Atlantic, 1995)
Super XX Man and Mike Johnson – God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman (Live At The Meier And Frank) – Another Grey Christmas Volume 2 (Local Cut, 2008)
Laura Veirs – Through December – The Trials And Travails Of Orphan Mae (Raven Marching Band, 2001)

The Decemberists – Please Daddy, Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas – Connect Sets EP (Sony, 2006)
Leadbelly – On A Christmas Day – Important Recordings 1934-1949 (JSP, 2006)
Morgan And Julie – Santa Ate My Second Cousin – MASS (HUSH, 1998)
Audie Darling – The Greatest Gift Of All – Another Grey Christmas Three (Local Cut, 2009)

Laurel Brauns – We Three Kings – Christmas Songs EP (self, 2010)
Rachel Taylor Brown – Peacock Lane – 7 Small Winter Songs (self, 2007)

HCW Programming firsts: KZME re-broadcast this program 2 other times: Christmas morning at 4am, Christmas afternoon at 4pm. As they say in the UK (or as we imagine they might say), I was “right chuffed”!

HOUR ONE:
Robyn Hitchcock – Dismal City – Tromso, Kaptein (Hype City, 2011)
Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1963)
Jarad Miles – Holiness – One Million Years EP (Speck, 2011)

Edie Brickell – Rush Around – Volcano (Universal, 2003)
Lori McKenna – The Luxury Of Knowing – Lorraine (Signature Sounds, 2011)
Seu Jorge – Life On Mars – The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions (Hollywood, 2005)
Mirah – La Familia – You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This (K, 2000)

Jose Gonzalez – In Our Nature – In Our Nature (Mute, 2007)
Mimicking Birds – Plastic Seeds – Early Recordings (self, 2002)
Steve Earle – Pancho & Lefty – Townes (New West, 2009)
Kurt Vile – I Know I Got Religion – Square Shells EP (Matador, 2010)

Shana Cleveland & The Sandcastles – Change In The Ocean – Oh Man, Cover The Ground (K, 2011)

HOUR TWO:

DJ set curated by Zia McCabe

Golden Delicious – Monday Morning – Old School (Cavity Search, 1997)
Blue Giant – Run Rabbit Run – Blue Giant (Vanguard, 2010)

Brush Prairie – I’m Wild – Carry Yourself Back To Me EP (Brush Prairie, 2011)
Federale – Starvation Creek Trail – Devil In A Boot (Revolver, 2009)

W.C. Beck & The Valiant Swains – Hungover – Kansawyer (W.C. Beck & The Valiant Swains, 2011)
Brush Prairie – Walkin’ After Midnight – Carry Yourself Back To Me EP (Brush Prairie, 2011)
Federale – Lady Waltz – Devil In A Boot (Revolver, 2009)
Ruby Feathers – High Blue Skies – Ruby Feathers EP (self, 2010)

Brush Prairie – Carry Yourself Back To Me – Carry Yourself Back To Me EP (Brush Prairie, 2011)
Federale – The Hanging – Devil In A Boot (Revolver, 2009)
Ruby Feathers – Margaret My Dear – Ruby Feathers EP (self, 2010)

Brush Prairie – Gotta Go My Way – Carry Yourself Back To Me EP (Brush Prairie, 2011)

HOUR ONE:
Madeleine Peyroux – The Kind You Can’t Afford – Standing On The Rooftop (Decca, 2011)
Duncan Sheik – Life’s What You Make It – Covers 80′s (Red General, 2011)
Regina Spektor – No Surprises – No Surprises (iTunes, 2010)

Haley Bonar – Candy Machine Gun – Golder (self, 2011)
Zola Jesus – Lightsick – Stridulum II (Souterrain Transmissions, 2010)
EMA – The Grey Ship – Past Lives Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions, 2011)
Lisa Hannigan – Last Leaf – The Cake Sale (Yep Roc, 2007)

Peter Mulvey – 29 Cent Head – Kitchen Radio (Signature Sounds, 2004)
Jake Kelly – Death Oh Death – Greenwood Compilation (Materials To Outlet, 2011)
Iron And Wine – Monkeys Uptown – Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros, 2011)
Volcano Choir – Husks And Shells – Unmap (Jagjaguar, 2009)

Libby Kirkpatrick – Trying – Heroine (Heart, 2011)

HOUR TWO:
Rebecca Gates – Lure And Cast – Ruby Series (Badman, 2001)

Rebecca Gates in-studio (recorded August 2010):
-The Seldom Scene
-And And And
-Azure
-Javi And 23

Elliott Smith – St. Ide’s Heaven – Elliott Smith (Kill Rock Stars, 1995)
John Vecchiarelli – My Own Design – Tiny Rooms (Speck, 2001)
The Tallest Man On Earth – Kids On The Run – The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans, 2010)
Jill Sobule with John Doe – Down By The River – Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young (American Laundromat, 2008)
Marisa Anderson – Electricity – The Golden Hour (Mississippi Records, 2011)