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Saturday March 31st, 2018 with Stephen Neale
They Didn't Get Here by Themselves

A short tribute to Martin Luther King and an extended feature that traces through Bob Dylan's MusicCares speech from 2015 (with a shorter examination of his Nobel Prize for Literature speech from 2017, to accept his 2016 award).
The Road Goes On Forever
Robert Earl Keen, Jr. - West Textures - Sugar Hill (1989)
Killer Tumbleweeds
Ridley Bent and the Killer Tumbleweeds - Ridley Bent and the Killer Tumbleweeds - Independent (2018) Canadian New
Funny How Time Slips Away
Billy Walker - Billy Walker's Greatest Hits - Columbia (1963; single from 1961)
One I Love is Gone
High Bar Gang - Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind - True North Records (2016) Canadian
Dance Around
The Barrel Boys - Cold Spring - Independent (2017) Canadian
When I Get to the Bottom
Robbie Fulks - Gone Away Backward - Bloodshot Records (2013)
Cost So Much
The LYNNeS - Heartbreak Songs for the Radio - The LYNNeS Canadian
The Boat
Jillian Kerr - Downtown - Independent (2017) Canadian
Can't Cut Loose
Erin Rae - Putting On Airs - Single Lock Records (June 2018) New
Stars Streak Across the Sky
Megan Jerome Together Ensemble - Ooh Aah - Independent (2017) Canadian New
Bullet Holes in the Sky
Mary Gauthier - Rifles and Rosary Beads - Thirty Tigers (2018)
My Name is Emmett Till
Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain - Nonesuch (2011)
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything - ATCO Records (1971)
Excerpt from the I've Been to the Mountaintop Speech - April 3, 1968
Martin Luther King - Excerpt
I Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round
The Freedom Singers - Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1997; 2 CD set)
Excerpt from the I've Been to the Mountain top Speech - April 3, 1968
Martin Luther King - Excerpt
Free at Last
Ethel Davenport - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records (Originally: Nashboro 1968)
When Will We Be Paid?
The Staple Singers - We'll Get Over - Stax Records (1970)
Extended feature
Blowing in the Wind
Peter, Paul and Mary - In the Wind - Warner Bros. (1963)
Masters of War
The Staple Singers - This Little Light - Riverside Records
The Ballad of Hollis Brown
Nina Simone - Let it all Out - Verve (1966)
Five Feet High and Rising (How High's the Water, Mama?)
Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Bob Dylan - Brining It All Back Home
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina - Vanguard (1965)
Key to the Highway
Big Bill Broonzy - Trouble in Mind - Smithsonian/Folkways (2000)
Highway 61 Revisted
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted - Columbia (1965)
The Times Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan - The Times Are A-Changin' - Columbia (1964)
Pretty Boy Floyd
Woody Guthrie - This Machine Kills Facists - Hallmark Recordings
The Old Chislholm Trail
Tex Ritter - x
I Love
Ton T. Hall - Greatest Hits
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Kris Kristofferson - x
The Ballad of a Thin Man
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted
Ballad in Plain D
Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan - Columbia
Red Hot
Billy Ray Riley - 7" Single - Sun Records
Interactive CKCU
Wig
A powerful tribute to Dr. King. Thank you for that.

8:21 AM, March 31st, 2018
Stephen Neale (host)
Thank you, Wig.

8:37 AM, March 31st, 2018
Teresa
Recently moved to Ottawa and just discovered your station - perfection. Erudite, engaging and excellent playlist. Thank you -

9:18 AM, March 31st, 2018
Peter Bunnett
Steve ,just found interactive ckcu at bottom of playlist instead of on the right side of page.Inztead I just used your email address.

9:30 AM, March 31st, 2018
Stephen Neale (host)
Thank you, Teresa. And: Welcome to Ottawa!!

9:44 AM, March 31st, 2018
Stephen Neale (host)
Thanks, Peter. I will check my email when I get home.

9:50 AM, March 31st, 2018
Peter Bunnett
Steve,context is everything.The way you,'ve set up this morning's Dylan Material that I,'ve heard hundreds of times shines new light like bullet holes in the sky. Thanks

9:56 AM, March 31st, 2018
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Great show, Stephen. Thanks.

7:21 AM, April 3rd, 2018