Here’s the playlist for the 4 hours of the combined The Bonnie Simmons Show and The Hear and Now on KPFA Radio, Thursday, Dec. 5. As you might deduce, the theme was “Darkness”:
SET 1
Van Morrison: Dark Night of the Soul
The Youngbloods: Darkness Darkness
War: Slippin’ into Darkness
SET 2
Yola: Ride Out in the Country
James Carr: Dark End of the Street
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham: Dark End of the Street
Jackson Browne: Sleep’s Dark and Silent Gate
Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer: Not Dark Yet
Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker
Richard & Linda Thompson: Shoot Out the Lights
SET 3
Sturgill Simpson: Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
Tyler Childers: All Your’n
Merle Haggard: If We Make It Through December
Iris DeMent: Let the Mystery Be
Joni Mitchell: River
Loudon Wainwright III: Older than My Old Man Now
SET 4
Elvis Costello: Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town
Robert Cray: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Greg Brown: In the Dark with You
Simon & Garfunkel: Sound of Silence
Curtis Mayfield: Right on for the Darkness
Foy Vance: Strong Hand
George Harrison: Beware of Darkness
SET 5
Tom Petty: Dark of the Sun
Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness
Tom Waits: A Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
Elvis Costello: Country Darkness
The Rolling Stones: You Can’t Always Get Always Get What You Want
SET 6
Mekons: Dark Dark Dark
Purple Mountains: Darkness and Cold
Gram Parsons: In My Hour of Darkness
The Rolling Stones: You Got the Silver
Joe Henry: The Dark Is Light Enough
PJ Harvey: Dear Darkness
SET 7
Leonard Cohen: Darkness
Ed Harcourt: Beneath the Heart of Darkness
Over the Rhine: Blood Oranges in the Snow