The Weekend Planet

Darrell Scott is living proof that a ‘talented non-conformist’ can enjoy success, even in today’s Nashville. He has won more than one national award for ‘Songwriter of the Year’, but other great North American songsters wrote everything on his Modern Hymns. Darell is a superbly soulful singer and multi-instrumentalist. With top-shelf accomplices, he does wonderful, non-imitative, oft-surprising, but always-appropriate things to Joni, Bob, Kris, Leonard, Paul et al... including some writers whose surnames you’d not so easily guess!

Darrell Scott’s site:
www.darrellscott.com

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Details of each track are presented in the following order:
BROADCAST TIME
TRACK NUMBER AND TITLE
COMPOSER
PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT DETAILS
RECORDING COMPANY AND CD NUMBER
( distributor/ source details, in brackets like this, in lower-case)
ARTIST AND CD TITLE
Duration of track
Description of track, in lower-case.
Where relevant, further info links to information, gigs/events/related programs

’THE WEEKEND PLANET’ SUN 24.8. 08

2205
THEME:
(details below, as per the original CD.. This cut is also on these compilations Ketama - ’ Nuevos Medios Coleccion’ - Nuevos Medios NM 15 820
{ in Australia via MGM www.thegroovemerchants.com
worldwide, via: www.flamenco-world.com/noticias/nuevos.htm }
and ’ Jarabi - the best of Toumani Diabate’ (Hannibal 334352 )

CD CUT 1, ’JARABI’
TRAD, ARR TOUMANI DIABATE
HAMILCAR MUSIC LTD
HANNIBAL HNCD 1323
( in Australia, some releases through Stomp Enquiries to: ben@stomp.com.au
worldwide: www.rykodisc.com )
KETAMA, TOUMANI DIABATE, DANNY THOMPSON - ’SONGHAI’
THIRTY SECONDS (EXCERPT)
(retains a stately-Manding air, whilst also embracing flamenco elements. Toumani Diabate’s kora, Danny Thompson’s beautiful double bass and Ketama’ s flamenco guitars )

2207
CD CUT 2 , ’URGE FOR GOING’
JONI MITCHELL
CRAZY CROW MUSIC (ASCAP), ADMINISTERED BY SONY/ATV TUNES LLC (ASCAP)
APPLESEED 1111
( www.appleseedrec.com
in Australia through Shock www.shock.com.au )
DARRELL SCOTT - ’MODERN HYMNS’
4: 25
( utterly unlike any other version of the much-covered song, but serves its lyric, perfectly. Darrell’s up-up-ole-timey-cum-quasi-bluegrass version features his lead vocal and guitar, with Del McCoury’s harmony, and a v hot little string-band. Del's son Ronnie McCoury is the mandolinist,Stuart Duncan the fiddler, Dirk Powell plays banjo and Danny Thompson the double-bassist. Dirk and Danny are present throughout this CD. Tom Rush’s {very different} version made this song famous, before Mitchell had made her first album - which did not include this song.

LIKETO SEE THE LYRIC?
It is here: http://jonimitchell.com/musician/song.cfm?id=UrgeForGoing )

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2211
CD CUT 6, ’MY OLD MAN’
JONI MITCHELL
JONI MITCHELL PUBLISHING CORP (BMI)
DIW-934
( In Australia, through Birdland www.birdland.com.au
worldwide: www.diskunion.co.jp/label/index_e.html )
DAVE DOUGLAS - ’MOVING PORTRAIT’
7: 38
(open-yet-respectful instrumental jazz treatment of the song - leader’s really remarkable trumpet, w pianist Bill Carrothers, ac bassist James Genus and drummer Billy Hart. Joni Mitchell sang the original on her 1971 album, ’Blue’.

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here: http://jonimitchell.com/musician/song.cfm?id=MyOldMan )

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2219
CD CUT 11, ’I DON’T BELIEVE YOU (SHE ACTS LIKE WE NEVER HAVE MET )
BOB DYLAN
SPECIAL RIDER MUSIC (SESAC)
APPLESEED 1111
( www.appleseedrec.com
in Australia through Shock www.shock.com.au )
DARRELL SCOTT - ’MODERN HYMNS’
4: 02
( Superb, utterly non-imitative version. Darrell is definitely the singer, and acoustic guitarist. Danny Thompson is the very eloquent ac bassist. Casey Driesenis the fiddler. Dylan’s 1964 original is on his album ’Another Side of Bob Dylan.’

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/i-dont-believe-you-she-acts-we-never-have-met )

2226
CD CUT 5, ’I PITY THE POOR IMMIGRANT’
BOB DYLAN
SPECIAL RIDER MUSIC (SESAC)
ENJA ENJ-93962
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
MARTY EHRLICH QUARTET - ’SONG’
5: 51
(A rare beast: an instrumental jazz cover of a Bob Dylan song which really works in both ’jazz’ and ’Bob’ terms. Marty’s alto or soprano sax fervently ’preaches’ on this gospel-blue-with-slight-eastern-European-tint treatment of a plaintive early Dylan song. With pianist Uri Caine, ac bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Billy Drummond. The original was on Dylan’s 1967 album, ’John Wesley Harding.’

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/i-pity-poor-immigrant )

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2232
CD CUT 8, ’AMERICAN TUNE’
PAUL SIMON ( with a melody from a hymn a few centuries older than Paul: Hans Leo Hassler’s ’Oh Haupt Voll Blut Und Wunden’ - Oh Sacred Heart, Now Wounded )
PAUL SIMON MUSIC (BMI)
APPLESEED 1111
( www.appleseedrec.com
in Australia through Shock www.shock.com.au )
DARRELL SCOTT - ’MODERN HYMNS’
3: 46
( uncanny, haunting. A much more actually-American-sounding treatment of the song, with ole-timey-Appalachian-accented accompaniment on claw-hammer banjo, ac guitar, fiddle and mandolin. Darrel sings lead, Tim O’Brien’s is the second, higher voice {and mandolinist}. The lyric is superbly served. Paul Simon’s original version was on his 1973 album ’There Goes Rhymin’ Simon.’

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.paulsimon.com/node/30 )

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2236
CD CUT 1, ’AMERICA’
PAUL SIMON
PAUL SIMON MUSIC (BMI)
NEWMARKET NEW3104.2
( www.newmarketmusic.com )
JOE CHINDAMO TRIO - ’AMERICA! JOE CHINDAMO TRIO PLAYS THE PAUL SIMON SONGBOOK’
7: 35
(AUSTRAL PERF AND ARR: Joe’s piano, Matt Clohesy’s ac bass, David Beck’s drums. Very exploratory piano trio rendition, which still manages to almost ’sing’ the unspoken lyric. The original was on Simon and Garfunkel’s 1968 LP, ’Bookends’)

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.paulsimon.com/node/29

LIKE TO KNOW MORE OF THIS MUCH-COVERED SONG’S HISTORY?

Go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(Paul_Simon_song) )

2247
CD CUT 3, ’I SCARE MYSELF’ (RENEE GEYER)
DAN HICKS
PUB NOT SPEC
W. MINC PRODUCTIONS (THROUGH SHOCK)
VARIOUS ARTISTS - ’WHERE JOY KILLS SORROW’
4: 22
(AUSTRAL PERF: Renee Geyer is the singer, in 1997. Backed by Gerry Hale’s band Uncle Bill, plus Matt Walker on dobro. Beautifully delivered, with country/swing overtones. Dobro, mandolin and violin co-star with her remarkable vocal. This was the second of only two takes - no overdubs. To the best of my knowledge, Renee had never before attempted this song. Hicks himself first sang it on his 1969 LP ’Original Recordings’, but the famous version is on Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks’ 1972 album, ’Striking it Rich.’

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
http://lyrics.dainutekstai.lt/840878/dan-hicks-i-scare-myself.htm )

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2251
CD CUT 10, ’PHYSICAL’
STEVE KIPNER AND TERRY SHADDICK
EMI SONGS/ UNIVERSAL/ MCA
OOG342 (Lil’ Fi’s CDs are available direct from her site:
www.lilfi.com )
LIL’ FI - ’TIME AND LOVE’
5: 35
(AUSTRAL PERF AND ARR: as far from the ’Olivia’ disco-pap version as could be imagined... and then some! As an ultra-sultry, slow blues with Fi’s big-mama vocal and Andy Baylor’s really ripe lead guitar. Olivia Newton-John’s hit version was the title-piece of her 1981 album. Reportedly, the song was banned from the radio in Utah and in South Africa.

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/olivia_newton-john/physical.html

LIKE TO KNOW MORE OF THE SONG’S HISTORY AND ITS CO-AUTHOR?

Go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kipner )

2258
CD CUT 6, ’ADULT ELEPHANT WALK’
KEN SCHRODER (COMPOSED AND ARRANGED)
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
SELF-ISSUED. NO CATALOG NO
( available direct from the orchestra at www.mgo1.com )
MOOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’ ORCHESTRA - ’ZOO MUSIC: JAZZ FOR THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
0: 40 (excerpt)
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Depicts a day in the life of working elephants. ’Elephant-trumpeting’ big band with horns blazing and drums stomping. { in the full piece, this follows a sweetly serene, then playful section, with two baritone sax soloists: Cheryl Clark and Ken Schroder }

KEN SCHRODER TOUR ALERT ( many places in Victoria )

General Store is the quartet, whose members are:
Annemarie Sharry - vocalist
Ken Schroder - reeds
Pierre Jaquinot - guitar
Ian Wilmot - bass

Friday, Aug 22nd SALE
Performance: 8:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: BHP Esso Billington Wellington Entertainment Centre
Venue Address: Cnr. Foster & Raymond Sts. Sale

Saturday, Aug 23rd ORBOST
Performance: 8:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: Orbost Exhibition Centre
Venue Address: 6 Nicholson Street, Orbost

Sunday, Aug 24th SWIFTS CREEK
Performance: 7:30pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: Swifts Creek Hall
Venue Address: Great Alpine Highway, Swifts Creek

Friday, Aug 29th WANGARATTA
Performance: 8:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Sound Check: 5:00pm
Venue: The Vine Hotel, Nth Wangaratta
Venue Address: Detour Road, Nth Wangaratta

Saturday, Aug 30th RUFFY
Performance: 8:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: Ruffy Public Hall
Venue Address: Main Street, Ruffy (next door to CFA building)

Sunday, Aug 31st WODONGA
Performance: 5:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: Arts Space Wodonga
Venue Address: Cnr Lawrence & Hovell Streets

Friday, Sept 5th YARRAM
Performance: 8:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: Ship Inn, Yarram
Venue Address: South Gippsland Highway

Saturday, Sept 6th MIRBOO NORTH
Performance: 8:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: ArtsPit, Grandridge Brewery
Venue Address: Ridgeway, Mirboo North

Sunday, Sept 7th TYERS
Performance: 8:00pm (2 x 45mins) Local support act starts 7:30pm.

Friday, Sept 12th BENALLA
Performance: 8:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: Benalla Performing Arts & Convention Centre
Venue Address: 57 Samaria Road, Benalla

Saturday, Sept 13th MARYSVILLE
Performance: 8:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: Keppels Hotel Ballroom
Venue Address: Cnr. Murchison & Lyell Streets, Marysville

Sunday, Sept 14th MANSFIELD
Performance: 5:00pm (2 x 45mins)
Venue: Mansfield Performing Arts Centre
Venue Address: View St. Mansfield 2276 )

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2305
CD CUT 11, ’THE HUMMINGBIRD’
DARRELL SCOTT
FAMOUS MUSIC/ CHUCK WAGON GOURMET MUSIC (ASCAP)
SUGAR HILL SHCD-3894
( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.sugarhillrecords.com )
DARRELL SCOTT - ’FAMILY TREE’
3: 47
(spare , wryly poignant, 1999-vintage song about his own childhood, his father, their relationship and dad’s guitar. Darrell’s deep male voice and ac guitar w Tim O’ Brien’s higher voice and mandolin. An essentially-true tale. As children Darrell and his brother destroyed dad’s guitar by trying to use it as a boat. The guitar was not really a Hummingbird - it was a cheaper guitar that dad had painted to make it look like the kind of guitar he could not afford. In 2002 -circa four decades on from the events sung of here - the adult Darrell bought his father a real, 1963-vintage Hummingbird

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.lyricsmode.com/?i=print_lyrics&id=612335 )

2311
CD CUT 5, ’THE DEVIL’
HOYT AXTON
IRVING MUSIC, INC. (BMI)
APPLESEED 1111
( www.appleseedrec.com
in Australia through Shock www.shock.com.au )
DARRELL SCOTT - ’MODERN HYMNS’
3: 32
(Up, spooky, Appalachian-esque, banjo-driven: Darrell’s lead vocal plus fiddle, ac bass, guitar, banjo and female chorus-response voices. The Mavis Staples-like big black female voice belongs to Odessa Settles. Axton’s own version was originally on his 1971 LP ’Country Anthem.’ Hoyt Axton died in 1999, aged 61. Hoyt’s mother was co-author of ’Heartbreak Hotel’.

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.lyricsbox.com/hoyt-axton-lyrics-the-devil-b9xv9sw.html

LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT ITS AUTHOR, HOYT AXTON?

Go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt_Axton )

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2315
CD CUT 5, ’HEARTBREAK HOTEL’
MAE AXTON AND THOMAS DURDEN AND ELVIS PRESLEY
TREE/ EMI HARMONIES
TOPIC TSCD503
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.topicrec ords.co.uk )
MARTIN CARTHY - ’SIGNS OF LIFE’
2: 38
( stark - and surprisingly effective. Martin , solo, in 1998 - his voice and v deft ac guitar. He does not disown his Englishness. The Presley’s version was the top-seller of 1956 and Elvis’s first number 1 single. Arguably, the first ’totally adult’ pop/rock hit song: as unremittingly dark as a deep delta blues and a million miles from puppy dogs in windows, purple people-eaters and surfer dudes and babes. Hoyt Axton’s mother co-wrote it.

LIKE TO KNOW THE SONG’S HISTORY?

Go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreak_Hotel

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.lyricsfreak.com/e/elvis+presley/heartbreak+hotel_20048333.html )

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2318
CD (DISC FOUR) CUT 15, ’BLACK MUDDY RIVER’
MUSIC BY JERRY GARCIA/LYRIC BY ROBERT HUNTER
ICE NINE PUBLISHING CO INC ASCAP
TOPIC TSFCD4002
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.topicrec ords.co.uk )
THE WATERSONS - ’MIGHTY RIVER OF SONG’
4: 02
(Possibly the best-ever as well as the seemingly-least-likely cover of a Grateful Dead song. A hitherto-unissued, ’live’ 1998 version of the song which opened Norma Waterson’s eponymous album of 1996. Haunting, with her Yorkshire voice leading, husband Martin Carthy playing the ac guitar, their daughter Eliza Carthy the primary backing voice and fiddle, with Saul Rose on squeezebox.. The Grateful Dead’s own version is on their 1987 album, ’In the Dark.’

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SONG AND SEE ITS LYRIC?

It has many layers of meaning and allusion. Go to: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/bmr.html )

2225
CD CUT 2, ’BLACK IS THE COLOUR’
TRAD, ARR MIKE NOCK
FOURTH WAY MUSIC (ASCAP)
DIW-628
( In Australia, through Birdland: www.birdland.com.au
worldwide: www.diskunion.co.jp/label/index_e.html )
MIKE NOCK (WITH BRETT HIRST, TOBY HALL) - ’CHANGING SEASONS’
6: 22
(AUSTRAL PERF AND ARR: instrumental jazz variations on an Irish trad song - Mike’s piano, Brett’s ac bass, Toby’s drums - has more drama and less wist that most ’traditional’ treatments.

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC AND SOME CONTRADICTORY ACCOUNTS OF THE SONG’S ORIGINS?

You will find the lyric on numerous ’Irish’ sites.

To read it { and be told it is early 20th century Appalachian} go to:
www.triskelle.eu/lyrics/blackisthecolour.php?index=080.010.020.020

To read it and be told it comes from Scotland, go to:
www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_blackcolour.htm

For the ’based on a traditional Scottish tune that made its way (probably via Irish immigration) to the Americas’ version, go to:
www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/11/06/nina-simone-%E2%80%9Cblack-is-the-colour-of-my-true-love%E2%80%99s-hair%E2%80%9D-jaffa-remix/ )

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2231
CD CUT 4. ’JESUS WAS A CAPRICORN’
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
RESACA MUSIC (BMI)
APPLESEED 1111
( www.appleseedrec.com
in Australia through Shock www.shock.com.au )
DARRELL SCOTT - ’MODERN HYMNS’
3: 48
(Danny Thompson’s ac bass introduces a splendid new version of a still-provocative 1973-vintage song - originally on Kristofferson’s LP of the same name. The Mavis Staples-like big black female voice belongs to Odessa Settles. David Grier on flat-picked ac guitar.

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC AND DISCOVER A LITTLE MORE?

Go to:
www.lpdiscography.com/k/Kris/kris_jesus.htm )

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2335
CD (DISC A) CUT 4, ’CASEY’S LAST RIDE’
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, ARR HUW WARREN
EMI SONGS LTD
TOPIC TSFCD4003
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.topicrec ords.co.uk )
JUNE TABOR - ’ALWAYS’
5: 40
( Likely the greatest re-make, ever - Ms Joplin’s included - of a Kris Kristofferson song. Quiet, but very intense. Poignant/intimate with a most unusual arrangement. June’s voice with a brass quintet and piano, in concert in 1998. Arranged by pianist Huw Warren, this is only available on this boxed set.. Kristofferson’s eponymous 1970 debut LP contained the original version of this and of ’Me and Bobbie McGee.’

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC AND DISCOVER A LITTLE MORE?
Go to:
www.lpdiscography.com/k/Kris/kris_kristofferson.htm#7 )

2342
CD CUT 9, ’NOBODY EATS AT LINEBAUGH’S ANYMORE’
JOHN HARTFORD
PUB NOT SPEC
APPLESEED 1111
( www.appleseedrec.com
in Australia through Shock www.shock.com.au )
DARRELL SCOTT - ’MODERN HYMNS’
4: 50
( Named for a diner which used to cater for country music fans. A new version of a 1972-vintage lament for the death of ’old’ Nashville. Linebaugh’s was near the Grand Ole Opry, when the Opry was at the Ryman Theatre. Ironically, the theatre has since re-opened, the re-furbished Ryman thrives and this Nashville locale is no longer forlorn. The original was on Hartford’s 1972 LP ’Morning Bugle’. The harmony singer and mandolinist on Darrell’s new version is John’s son Jamie. John Hartford died in 2001.

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.johnhartford.com/forum/toast.asp?sub=show&action=posts&fid=6&tid=1073

LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT JOHN HARTFORD { 1937-2001} ?

This remarkable man’s site ( flagged by his words: ’A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won’t get you through times of no banjo.’) is here:
www.johnhartford.com )

2349
CD CUT 6, ’THE 51ST (HIGHLAND) DIVISION’S FAREWELL TO SICILY’
WORDS BY HAMISH HENDERSON. TUNE IS ’FAREWELL TO THE CREEKS’ BY PIPE MAJOR JAMES ROBERTSON, GORDON HIGHLANDERS
MCPS & PRS
GREENTRAX CDTRAX 109
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide via: www.greentrax.com )
DICK GAUGHAN - ’SAIL ON’
10.00 ( not quite complete - minus end of its concluding instrumental part )
(Scots male voice w ac guitar, discreet synth, harp. Set to a pipe-slow-march. A truly phenomenal performance - stark, spare. The definitive version of an uncanny song about Scots soldiers late in World War II. Hamish Henderson’s song is autobiographical.

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
www.dickgaughan.co.uk/songs/texts/sicily.html

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HAMISH HENDERSON?

His true life story (1919 - 2002 )was much more amazing than most fictions:
www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4371716-103684,00.htm )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer