The theme this week on Stranger Songs is Music for 88 Keys – all of the songs and instrumentals feature the piano as a primary instrument.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| The Entertainer Philip Dyson - Scott Joplin, The King of Ragtime: Complete Piano Works - Decca |
| Sisters of Mercy Perla Batalla - A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend - Mechuda Music
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| Time On My Hands Chaim Tannenbaum - The McGarrigle Hour - Hannibal
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| Talk to Me of Mendocino Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Nonesuch
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| Kitty Come Home Pink Martini with Rufus Wainwright & The Von Trapps - Get Happy - Audiogram
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| Lonesome Day Last Forever - Acres of Diamonds - StorySound |
| The Baltimore Todalo Hoyle Osborne - Panazon: Pan American Café Music - Ripple |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Oh Papa Odetta & Dr. John - Blues Everywhere I Go - M.C. |
| Kansas City (Revisited) Jay McShann with Johnnie Johnson - Goin' to Kansas City - Stony Plain |
| Always Alberta Hunter - Amtrak Blues - Columbia |
| Tom Traubert’s Blues Tom Waits - Small Change - Asylum |
| Home is a Songs (with Anaïs Mitchell) Mary Chapin Carpenter - Personal History - Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers 
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| Moments of Happiness Rosalie Sorrels - Moments of Happiness - Philo |
| Songs are My Tears Suzie Brown - Songs Worth Saving - Suzie Brown
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| The Easy Way Jesse Winchester - Third Down, 110 to Go - Stony Plain
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| Farewell, Farewell Lee Hunter & The Gatherers - Beneath My Feet - Birds Tale
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| Nama Says Penny Lang with Kenny Pearson - Yes - She-Wolf
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| Bad John Julian Fauth - The Weak and the Wicked, the Hard and the Strong - Electro-Fi
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| Chicago House Rent Party Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - Folkways |
| S & J Blues Count Basie & Oscar Peterson - Satch and Josh - Pablo
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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Well, you were right about not being able to play all songs about dreams last week, but piano ? Oof, that's even more difficult, I find. At least you didnt include Billy Joël. Thanks!
3:25 PM, June 17th, 2025