Lee's Real Music Radio Pod

A musical meditation on war... the ones between us and the ones within us. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peaceful-dream-nomorewar/id1510271243?i=1000557567504&itsct=podcast_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1 Lee's Real Music Pod ▷ April ✧ 2022 ❛PEACEFUL DREAM❜ (#NoMoreWar) The Playlist▷ Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream/Eric Bibb x Jack Kornfield from ‘Peace Is Possible’ Dharma Talk (2022)* x Peace Piece/Bill Evans ▹ Peaceful Dream/Mavis Staples ▹ *One Love (People Get Ready)[Remixed]/Bob Marley & The Wailers ▹ Peace/Asa ▹ For What It's Worth/Wanda Sá with Sérgio Mendes & Brasil 66 x Sun Tzu quote #1 ▹ Sword + Gun/Jose James ft. Hindi Zahra ▹ Down By The Riverside (excerpt)/Louis Armstrong▹ Adagio For Strings, Op. 11/Samuel Barber x US President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (January 17, 1961) ▹ Where Have All The Flowers Gone/Vera Lynn ▹ *Let The Flower Grow/Gary Burton & Rebecca Paris x The Iraq War speech "Our Real Enemies" by Mike Prysner in 2009▹ Universal Soldier (Live)/Donovan▹ *Masters of War/Connie Gordon x (news of “war crimes” in Ukraine April 2022) ▹ I Come And Stand At Every Door (Live '64)/Pete Seeger {Based on the poem Kız Çocuğu (The Girl Child) by Nâzım Hikmet} x The “Doomsday Clock” ▹ Come Away Melinda/Bobbie Gentry ▹ What Have They Done To The Rain/The Searchers▹ *Morning Dew/Bonnie Dobson ▹ Russians (guitar & cello version) w. intro/Sting▹ “War Is A Racket”/Major General Smedley Butler ▹ War/J2 ft. Maddi Lasker ▹ Oh Sacred World (Spoken)/Pete Seeger▹ Zombie/Peyton Parrish ▹ *Eve of Destruction (fr. the film ‘Run, Hide, Fight’ (2020)/The Mondo Boys ft. Julie Mintz, vocals x Martin Luther King on America’s Military Industrial Complex ▹ Truth In Tears (pt. 3)/Terry Callier ▹ Mighty Peace/Yusuf x ‘Peace talk’ x Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter)/Manuel Barreco & Steve Morse▹ Peace Train/10,000 Maniacs ▹ Everybody Wants To Rule The World/Lettuce x Eckhart Tolle on ‘self~defense’▹Volodymyr Zelensky (@Grammys 2022)▹ Peace In The Valley (Live)/Carole King x Sun Tzu quote #2 ▹ Imagine (Live Version)/John Lennon▹ Don’t Dream It’s Over (Live)/Neil Finn and Paul Kelly▹ Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream/Johnny Cash x Speech from The Great Dictator (excerpt)/Charles Chaplin✧ *My special thanks to Jack Kornfield. Hear his full dharma talk ‘Peace Is Possible’  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFRoLOH_4rg ☮✨Peace y’all! Thank you so much for your support & encouragement! My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leeonair My PayPal link: https://paypal.me/leeonair?locale.x=en_GB Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/leeonair/  Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/get2lee Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/th/podcast/lees-real-m... (Special note: All the music in my podcasts is for promotional review & educational purposes; Please support the artists!)

♘ Dylan@80 Pt. II ❖ The Playlist▷ It’s All Over Now Baby Blue/Joni Mitchell ▹ Interview clip #1 (with Mary Travers) ▹Just Like A Woman (Live in ’92)/Richie Havens ▹ I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight/Norah Jones ▹ Excerpt from The Nobel Prize Address #1 ▹Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues/The Handsome Family ▹Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)/Rita Coolidge ▹ Interview clip #2 ▹Things Have Changed/Curtis Stigers ▹ Interview clip #3 ▹Boots of Spanish Leather/Nanci Griffith ▹It Ain’t Me Babe/Peter, Paul & Mary ▹ Farewell Angelina/Joan Baez ▹ Interview clip #4 ▹If Not For You/George Harrison ▷Love Minus Zero / No Limit/Chrissie Hynde ▹Interview clip with Robyn Hitchcock ▹Visions Of Johanna (Live)/Robyn Hitchcock ▹ Excerpt from The Nobel Prize Address #2 ▹Girl From The North Country/Ane Brun ▹ Excerpt from The Nobel Prize Address #3 ▹Mama, You've Been on My Mind/A Fraction of Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie/Jack Johnson ▹ Excerpt from The Nobel Prize Address #4 ▹Shelter From The Storm/Cassandra Wilson ▹Mr. Tambourine man (Live)/Roger McGuinn ▹ Excerpt from The Nobel Prize Address #5 ▹Queen Jane Approximately/Emma Swift ▹Interview clip #5 ▹Maggie’s Farm)/The Castanets ▹Rainy Day Women #12 & 35/Joan Osborne ▹It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) [S.I.R. Studio Rehearsals]/Bob Dylan (Incidental music by Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette, John Medeski, John Scofield & Joshua Redman) ♖Special credit & respect to Ed Bradley (60 Minutes) R.I.P. & Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary) R.I.P. for the clips from my favorite interviews with Bob! .

He’s definitely one of the most covered musical artists of all time and it’s always interesting to hear other people do his songs but I’ve also peppered this show with some interesting comments by Dylan himself talking about his music from my favorite interviews with Bob (by Ed Bradley & Mary Travers) interspersed with the most interesting cover versions of Bob’s songs (Nina Simone, Bryan Ferry, Chrissie Hynde et al.) I’ve been listening to recently. (A big bonus mix of more great covers is on the way for my patrons!) *Image credit: detail from Dylan mural by Eduardo Kobra ♘ The Playlist ▷ Tomorrow Is A Long Time (Live ’63)/Bob Dylan ▹ Interview clip #1 ▹ Just Like A Woman/Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico ▹ Lay Lady Lay/Magnet featuring Gemma Hayes ▹ You're A Big Girl Now/Dave's True Story ▹ Interview clip #2 ▹ Positively Fourth Street/Bryan Ferry ▹ Like A Rolling Stone/Julienne Taylor ▹ Blowin' in the Wind (Live in concert)/Peter, Paul & Mary ▹ Interview clip #3 ▹ Masters Of War/Eric Bibb ▹ The Times They Are A~Changin'/Bettye LaVette ▹ The Ballad of Hollis Brown/David Lynch ▹ This Wheel's On Fire/Siouxsie & The Banshees ▹ It's All Over Now Baby Blue/Them (with Van Morrison) ▹ Interview clip #4 ▹ If Not For You/Barb Jungr ▷ Gotta Serve Somebody/Ben Sidran ▹ In The Summertime/Chrissie Hynde ▹ One More Cup Of Coffee/Roger McGuinn & Calexico ▹ Clip #5 (excerpt from 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature) ▹ Mr. Tambourine Man/Melanie ▹ When I Paint My Masterpiece/The Band ▹ Interview clip #6 (with Mary Travers) ▹ Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues/Nina Simone ▹ Interview clip #7 (with Mary Travers) ▹ My Back Pages/America ▹ I Contain Multitudes/Bob Dylan ▹ Forever Young (fade)/Elston Gunn (Incidental music by Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette John Medeski, John Scofield & Stanley Turpentine) ♖ Special credit & respect to Ed Bradley (60 Minutes) R.I.P. & Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary) R.I.P. for clips from my favorite interviews with Bob! . {Bob Dylan Mural by Eduardo Kobra}

Life’s contradictions are what make life so interesting. Sex & God. Politics and Power. War and Peace. Madness and Music. You can find all these elements in the complicated soul of MARVIN GAYE. I’m still celebrating the 50th anniversary of his brilliant landmark album WHAT’S GOING ON this year and also honoring the very complicated persona of the man himself with some intimate details revealed in rare conversations with him plus a retrospective look at the depth and breadth of his musical output. I tried to avoid the obvious cover versions (e.g. we’ll hear The Flying Pickets' a cappella version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine rather than CCR doing it!) We’ll also hear Smokey Robinson & Carlos Santana’s highly charged personal comments on the fascinating and puzzling behavior that made MARVIN so unique in this special session of RMR ♞ The Playlist {3/30/2021}”The Soul Of A Man (A Marvin Gaye Tribute)” ▶︎ Intro x Ain’t That Peculiar (single version)/Marvin Gaye ▹ Let’s Get It On (Motown Remix)/Marvin Gaye ▹ I Want You (album version)/Marvin Gaye ▹ Can I Get A Witness (VDO Mix Version)/Sam Brown ▹ How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)/James Taylor ▹ I Heard It Through The Grapevine/The Flying Pickets ▹ For Your Precious Love/Erykah Badu & D’Angelo ▹ Mercy Mercy Me/Sarah Jane Morris & Bill Frisell ▹ Mercy Mercy Me/The Isleys & Carlos Santana ▹ Inner City Blues (Vinyl Mix)/Placebo ▹ What’s Happening Brother/Marvin Gaye ▹ Nightshift/The Commodores ▹ What’s Going On/Cyndi Lauper ▹ Like Marvin/Speech ▹ Sexual Healing/Kate Bush ▹ God Is Love (single version)/Marvin Gaye ▹ Wholy Holy (Live/1972)/Aretha Franklin ▹ Sixties Medley (Live In Concert)/Marvin Gaye ♜ {Image: This is the cover art for In Our Lifetime by Marvin Gaye. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the record label or the graphic artist(s).}

Life’s contradictions are what make life so interesting. Sex & God. Politics and Power. War and Peace. Madness and Music. You can find all these elements in the complicated soul of MARVIN GAYE. I’m still celebrating the 50th anniversary of his brilliant landmark album WHAT’S GOING ON this year and also honoring the very complicated persona of the man himself with some intimate details revealed in rare conversations with him plus a retrospective look at the depth and breadth of his musical output. I tried to avoid the obvious cover versions (e.g. we’ll hear The Flying Pickets' a cappella version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine rather than CCR doing it!) We’ll also hear Smokey Robinson & Carlos Santana’s highly charged personal comments on the fascinating and puzzling behavior that made MARVIN so unique in this special session of RMR ♞ The Playlist {3/30/2021}”The Soul Of A Man (A Marvin Gaye Tribute)” ▶︎ Intro x Ain’t That Peculiar (single version)/Marvin Gaye ▹ Let’s Get It On (Motown Remix)/Marvin Gaye ▹ I Want You (album version)/Marvin Gaye ▹ Can I Get A Witness (VDO Mix Version)/Sam Brown ▹ How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)/James Taylor ▹ I Heard It Through The Grapevine/The Flying Pickets ▹ For Your Precious Love/Erykah Badu & D’Angelo ▹ Mercy Mercy Me/Sarah Jane Morris & Bill Frisell ▹ Mercy Mercy Me/The Isleys & Carlos Santana ▹ Inner City Blues (Vinyl Mix)/Placebo ▹ What’s Happening Brother/Marvin Gaye ▹ Nightshift/The Commodores ▹ What’s Going On/Cyndi Lauper ▹ Like Marvin/Speech ▹ Sexual Healing/Kate Bush ▹ God Is Love (single version)/Marvin Gaye ▹ Wholy Holy (Live/1972)/Aretha Franklin ▹ Sixties Medley (Live In Concert)/Marvin Gaye ♜ {Image: This is the cover art for In Our Lifetime by Marvin Gaye. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the record label or the graphic artist(s).}

What do Elon Musk, Alan Watts, Tristan Harris, Joe Rogan and Russell Brand all have in common? Well, they all have something to say about how to ‘Fight For Your Mind’ on this week’s session of Real Music Radio! I’ve got a very special musical selection including H.E.R., John Prine, Phoebe Bridgers, Ben Harper, MF Doom, Black Pumas, Brittany Howard, Toots & The Maytals and more plus my personal take on The Grammy Awards 2021. ♘ The Playlist {3/17/2021} ▷ Fight For Your Mind/Ben Harper ▹ Fighting With Fire (Remix)/Sam Phillips ▹ Ten Feet Tall/Charlie Hickey ▹ Punisher (Copycat Killer Version)/Phoebe Bridgers ▹ Where Do The Children Play (2020 Version)/Yusuf (a.k.a. Cat Stevens) ▹ “Reality or Simulation?”/Joe Rogan & Elon Musk ▹ Computer Of Love/Aaron Lee Tasjan ▹ Pay It No Mind/Sarah Jarosz ▹ Sound All The Bells/Chris Pierce ▹ I Can’t Breathe (Until The Ribbon Breaks Mix)/H.E.R. ▹ Colors/Black Pumas ▹ Mirrorball/Taylor Swift ▹ Money Is The One True God/Blake Mills ▹ “The Social Dilemma”/Tristan Harris & Russell Brand ▷ Stand By Me x Mind Made Up/Dominique Fils-Aimé ▹ “Reality or Simulation”#2/Alan Watts & Elon Musk ▹ Reelin’ In The Years/ Andrew Green feat. Miram Waks ▹ I Remember Everything (Special Mix & Intro by Fiona Whelan Prine)/John Prine ▹ Between Us And The Light/Mozdr, Danielson & Fresco ▹ “So Live Your Life” (A Native American Poem)/IChief Tecumseh ▹ Stay High/Brittany Howard ▹ Head To Heart (demo)/? ❖ Incidental music "You Beautiful Bastards "by The Sea And The Cake; Marcus Aurelius read by Chris Lines {& Image: Art by Alex Gross}.

♘ The Playlist ▷ In⍭Between Days/John Eddie ▹ Hard⑉Drive/Cassandra Jenkins ▹ Whatever You Want (At~Home Session)/Crowded House ▹ Ha Fang Kheng Kan (Acoustic Version)/Khruangbin ▹ Texas Sun/Khruangbin with Leon Bridges ▹ The Nest That Sailed The Sky and The Road Less Taken (Robert Frost)/William S. Burroughs with Peter Gabriel ▹ We Are The People (w. ‘Free’ excerpt)/Iggy Pop ▹ Dime Store Mystery/Lou Reed ▹ Outside In The Light (excerpt)/Khotin ▹ From ‘On The Road’/Jack Kerouac ▹ Me And My Shadow (feat. Natasha Atlas)/David Ash ▹ Dying Breed/The Killers ▷ Spotlight on Donald Fagen ▹ Dirty Work/Lauren Wood ▹ Song For My Father (excerpt)/Horace Silver ▹ Rikkl Don’t Lose That Number/Steely Dan ▹ Any World (That I’m Welcome To)/Debby Deane ▹ Don’t Take Me Alive/Steely Dan ▹ Only A Fool Would Say That/Ivy ▹ Interview (excerpt)/Donald Fagen ▹ I.G.Y./Donald Fagen ▹ Tomorrow’s Girls/Carl Orr ▹ Do It Again/Smash Mouth ❖

A Music~Only Mix exploring the Mysteries of Love with Songs & Music by Nick Drake, Marvin Gaye, Jim Morrison, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Adrianne Lenker, Michael Franks, Yann Tierson, Ane Brun, Erik Satie, Michael Stipe, Lana Del Rey, Thom Yorke and a few favorites of my patrons & subscribers. Have a Lovely day ♡ The Playlist ▷ Bryter Layter/Nick Drake ▹ Living On The Inside/Michael Franks ▹ Lost Stars (from the film ‘Begin Again’/Keira Knightley ▹ Northern Soul (Nemozob Remix/Mashup)/Nick Drake & Marvin Gaye ▹ Sweetness Of The New/Gray ▹ We Float/PJ Harvey ▹ Sailing Out To Sea/Matthew Halsall ▹ Albinoni: Adagio (A Feast Of Friends)/The Doors ▹ Morning Song/The Kinks ▹ Trust/Ane Brun ▹ If I Needed You/Townes Van Zandt ▹ Cruel/Monica Martin (Fox) ▹ I Hope I Don’t Fall In Love With You (Early Version)/Tom Waits ▹ Wolf/Big Thief ▹ Gnossienne: No. 1 (Erik Satie)/Alexandre Tharaud ▹ Mad World/Gary Jules ▹ Comptine D'un Autre Été & L'après Midi/Yann Tierson ▹ Try/Bugge Wesseltoft Feat. Sidsel Endresen ▹ Everybody Hurts/R.E.M.▹ Get Free/Lana Del Rey ▹ Creep (Acoustic Version)/Radiohead ▹ No Surprises/Amanda Palmer ▹ Blue Valentines/Tom Waits ✦ {Image: Bluebird by Pablo Picasso} ❖

I don't know if I'm just getting used to the situation or if it's the music that's making me feel more stoic but whatever it is, I'd like to share it with you. The Playlist ▷ Maybe It’s Time (by Jason Isbell)/Bradley Cooper ▹ Change/Lana Del Rey ▹ Brave New World/Ana Christensen ▹ Hopi Prophecy/Chief Golden Light Eagle ▹ Thoughts & Prayers/Drive~By Truckers ▹ We Can Work It Out/Heather Nova ▹ Changes/Charles Bradley ▹ One More Change/Mavis Staples ▹ Hold On/Tom Waits ▹ Moonshine Freeze/This Is The Kit ▹ The Days Of Pearly Spencer (Senior Citizens Mix)/David McWilliams ▹ Alone (by Edgar Allen Poe)/Tom O’Bedlam ▹ Alone Again Or/Love ▹ The Day the Politicians Died/The Magnetic Fields ▹ What the World Needs Now (Tom Clay Mix)/Jackie DeShannon ▹ Wake Up Everybody/Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ▹ Tradewinds/Roberta Flack ▹ Chains & Things/B.B. King ▹ Better Days/Carol Lundy ▹ Stay Gold/ Black Pumas ✦ {News commentary courtesy of PBS, NBC, The Hill (Krystal Ball and Saagar), Noam Chomsky & Chris Hedges} ✧ {'Bernie in The Red Room': unknown} ❖

On the eve of Joe Biden’s inauguration. I can’t wait any longer to see what happens next. Things are changing too quickly. So here’s my next podcast, my first of the year. Hopefully this musical soundscape featuring Otis Redding, Nina Simone, Sufjan Stevens, John Prine, Laura Marling, Bill Withers, Sault, Bruce Springsteen, Phoebe Bridgers, John Hurt, Roger McGuinn, Eric Bibb, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Wynton Marsalis, Willie & Lukas Nelson and others will help put you (or keep you) in a positively determined but calm state of mind. The Playlist ▷ The Times They Are A’ Changin’/Eric Bibb ▹ An Ending A Beginning/Dustin O’Halloran ▹ If I Started Over/Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real ▹ Black Like Me/Mickey Guyton ▹ Better Days/Bill Withers ▹ I Can’t Breathe/H.E.R. ▹ Hello In There/John Prine ▹ Song For Our Daughter/Laura Marlin ▹ Teach Your Children/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ▹ New World Coming/Nina Simone ▹ Georgia On My Mind (Live)/Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson ▹ Wildfires/Sault ▹ A Change Is Gonna Come/Otis Redding ▹ If (by Rudyard Kipling)/John Hurt ▹ Dreams/InVersions ▹ Landslide/Sufjan Stevens ▹ Loom (feat: Bonobo)/Ólafur Arnalds ▹ The Road Not Taken (by Robert Frost)/Tom Hiddleston ▹ May The Road Rise (Live)/Roger McGuinn ▹ I Know The End/Phoebe Bridgers ▹ If I Had A Hammer/Bruce Springsteen ✦ [news~bytes: PBS & NBC News (w. Lester Holt)] {photo: unknown} ✧

Here’s my mix of the Jimi Hendrix covers I liked that were NOT in the tribute show. Normally this would be a bonus music~only mix for my patrons but I’m making it available to everyone this week. Merry Xmas from me & Jimi(He would have been 78 last month)✨. I’d like to dedicate it to all the dear departed friends that we miss The Playlist ▷ Little Wing/Toots Thielemans ▹ May This Be Love (Waterfall)/Michael Kiwanuka ▹ Purple Haze/Melanie ▹ The Wind Cries Mary/Jamie Cullum ▹ Up From The Skies/Rickie Lee Jones ▹ Remember/Ben Harper ▹ Burning Of The Midnight Lamp/Nguyên Lê & Terri Lyne Carrington ▹ Are You Experienced/The Lost ▹ You Got Me Floatin’/PM Dawn ▹ Castles Made Of Sand/Chaka Kahn ▹ All Along The Watchtower/Dave Mason ▹ Hey Joe/Seal ▹ Voodoo Child (Slight Return)/Stevie Ray Vaughan ▹ Belly Button Window/Ana Popovic ▹ Red House/Buddy Guy ▹ Angel (Live)/Cassandra Wilson ▹ Little Wing/Stevie Ray Vaughan ✦ {Photo: Jimi Hendrix 1967 promotional shot for Jimi’s album ‘Bold As Love’)✨

Took a while to finish but definitely worth the wait, chock full of interview bits with Jimi, his friends, family and associates, rare alternate versions and interesting covers, this is my tribute to JIMI HENDRIX✨ Headphones recommended!! The Playlist ▷ Have You Ever Been To (Electric Ladyland)/Nai Palm ▹ New Rising Sun (excerpt) x interview ▹ Bold As Love/Jimi Hendrix ▹ Interview 1 (about Jimi’s teenage years)/James“Al”Hendrix ▹ Hear My Train Comin' (acoustic)/Jimi Hendrix ▹ Interview 2/James“Al”Hendrix ▹ May This Be Love/Jimi Hendrix ▹ Purple Haze/Friend 'n Fellow ▹ Interview x If 6 Was 9/Axiom Funk ▹ The Wind Cries Mary/Sting & John McLaughlin ▹ Interview/Kathy Etchingham ▹ Crosstown Traffic/Jimi Hendrix ▹ BBC Interview/Jimi Hendrix ▹ Are You Experienced/Jimi Hendrix ▹ Hey Joe (You Shot Your Woman Down)/Tim Rose ▹ All Along The Watchtower (Alt Mix)/Jimi Hendrix ▹ Voodoo Child (Slight Return)/Angelique Kidjo ▹ Angel (Home Recording) x Sweet Angel (Demo)/Jimi Hendrix ▹ Interview/Eddie Kramer ▹ Castles Made Of Sand/Jimi Hendrix ▹ Interview excerpt from Los Angeles Beverly Rodeo Hotel - June 1969 [Interview by Nancy Carter] ▹ One Rainy Wish/Brian May ▹ Little Wing/Valerie Joyce ▹ Interview ▹ Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)/Jimi Hendrix ▹ Interview (about the future) ✦ {Photo: "When the Power of Love overcomes the love of power the World Will Know Peace"} ✨

It's Neil Young's birthday this month!✨He's 75 now and I realized I had not ever done a tribute show for this brilliant, influential & truly unique musical artist. Not yet. Until now. It was not nearly as daunting as I thought it might be considering the depth and breadth of his musical output, mainly because I've got Neil's comments and observations (thanks to a great interview with RSA) connecting his songs at key junctures which are so focused and genuine they leave no room for doubt as to the man's sincerity regarding some very 'real' key human issues. I've also included some remarkable rare live versions and several surprisingly good cover versions of classics like Old Man, Rockin' In The Free World, After The Gold Rush, Ohio, Helpless, Down By The River, Don't Let It Bring You Down, The Loner, Heart Of Gold and many more. Thank you Neil for all the music and the inspiration! The Playlist ▷ Show Me/Neil Young with Promise Of The Real ▹ After The Gold Rush (Live)/Neil Young with Promise Of The Real ▹ I Am A Child (Live)/Neil Young ▹ Old Man/The Wailing Jennys ▹ A Man Needs A Maid/Neil Young ▹ Love Is A Rose/Linda Ronstadt ▹ Lotta Love/Neil Young ▹ Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World (Live at Farm Aid 2014) /Neil Young with Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson ▹ Ohio (Medley)/Dala ▹ The Loner/Nils Lofgren ▹ Helpless/k. d. lang ▹ Down By The River/Buddy Miles ▹ Don’t Let It Bring You Down/Annie Lennox ▹ Borrowed Tune/54 - 40 ▹ The Needle And The Damage Done (Live)/Neil Young ▹ Heart Of Gold/Jane Weaver ▹ Cinnamon GirlNeil Young & Crazy Horse ▹ Long May You Run/Stills~Young Band ▹ This Note’s For You (Live edit)/Neil Young ✧ (Big thanks to RSA for interview segments. Cheers! See the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrPnfjHif_A&t=1s} ✦ {Photo: DHLOVELIFE } ❖

On this Special Halloween session of Real Music Radio we explore ‘Dark Places’ and let the music, songs (& some poetry) guide us through our fears, phobias, paranoia & dread!

The Playlist ▷ If You’re A Viper/Harlem Hamfats with Rosetta Howard ▹ The InnerView with Johan Malmberg ▹ Sensemilla/Yellowman ▹ Coming Into Los Angeles (Live at Woodstock)/Arlo Guthrie ▹ Legalize It/Peter Tosh ▹ Pass The Kouchie/The Mighty Diamonds ▹ Bush Doctor/Peter Tosh ▹ Don’t Bogart That Joint My Friend/Fraternity Of Man ▹ One Toke Over The Line/Brewer & Shipley ▹ Ain’t Shit Changed/Wiz Khalifa ▹ James Joint/Rihanna ▹ Mary Jane Pt. 1/Rick James ▹ Smoke Buddah/Redman ▹ Panama Red/New Riders of the Purple Sage  ▹ Acapulco Gold Filters/Cheech & Chong ▹ Save The Roach For Me/Buck Washington ▹ Addicted/Amy Winehouse ▹ The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades (Acoustic Version)/Timbuk 3 ▹ I'll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again (Live bootleg recording) /Toby Keith & Scott Emerik ▹ (I Ain’t) Superman/Willie Nelson feat. Snoop Dogg ▹ Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die/Willie Nelson w. Snoop Dogg, Jamey Johnson and Kris Kristofferson ❖

From Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Robyn Hitchcock and Fiona Apple, here’s my personal mix of September songs (and a few poems): The Music & The Poems ▷ September Song/The New Standards ▹ ‘September’ by Theodora Onken/read by G. Lee B. ▹ ‘September Changes’ (excerpt) by Jesecca Milsaps/read by G. Lee B. ▹ September In The Rain/Annie Lennox ▹ Maybe September (alternate take 5)/Tony Bennett & Bill Evans ▹ Autumn in New York/Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstong ▹ ’In September’ by Amy Levy/read by GLB ▹ The September Of My Years/Frank Sinatra ▹ Autumn Leaves/Eartha Kitt ▹ Try To Remember (Live)/Harry Belafonte ▹ Who Knows Where The Time Goes (acoustic version)/Sandy Denny ▹ Scarborough Fair/Canticle/Simon & Garfunkel ▹ ‘September 1961’ by Denise Levertov/read by GLB ▹ Pale September/Fiona Apple ▹ September Baby/Joseph Arthur ▹ Come September/Natalie Imbruglia ▹ ‘Desiderata’ (excerpt) by Max Ehrmann/read by GLB ▹ September Blue/Chris Rea ▹ ‘The Eighth Of September’ by Pablo Neruda/read by GLB ▹ Autumn Sunglasses/Robyn Hitchcock w. Gillian Welch ▹ September Gurls/Big Star ▹ Diamond Day/Vashti Bunyon ▹ Turn! Turn! Turn! {To Everything There is A Season} (Live in Concert)/Pete Seeger ❖ {*Art image by Naoto Hattori}

The MUSIC & The POETS ▷ The Opener (Rumi Poetry)/Coleman Barks (w. Hans Zimmer) ▹ I Am Here (Rumi)/read by Coleman Barks ▹ Winding Through The Milky Way (w. 'September Moon')/Joy Harjo ▹ An American Prayer/Jim Morrison & The Doors ▹ Higher Learning/Contemplation [Unreleased Studio Track, 2001]/Notes to the Future [Live: St. Mark's Church, New York, N.Y., 2002] (w. excerpt from 'Howl' by Allen Ginsberg)/Patti Smith ▹ Fireflies/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ▹ The Summer Day/Mary Oliver ▹ The Rubaiyat/Hamilton Camp ▹ The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (excerpt) by Richard Le Gallienne (read by Tom O'Bedlam) ▹ The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)/Tom Waits ▹ The Wheel Of The Quivering Meat Conception/Jack Kerouac ▹ Little Fly/Esperanza Spalding ▹ I Need Your Love/Arthur Prysock ▹ Walking & Falling/Laurie Anderson ▹ The More Loving One by W.H. Auden (edit) ▹ Grooving/Wanda Robinson ▹ We The People (by Lou Reed)/Iggy Pop ▹ Equinox /Joy Harjo ▹ Excerpt from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman/Tom O' Bedlam ▹ I Contain Multitudes/Bob Dylan ▹ Rave On John Donne/Michael D Higgins with Bill Whelan ▹ Ancient Highways/Van Morrison ▹ Fear by Khalil Gibran/G. Lee B. ❖ {Art Image: ‘Head in the Stars’ by Unknown}.

The MUSIC & The POETS ▷ In A Sentimental Mood (Poem by Gianluca Manzi)/Chet Baker (w. Nicola Stilo, guitar) ▹ American Haikus (selection)/Jack Kerouac ▹ Poetry Man/Phoebe Snow ▹ Bluebird/Charles Bukowski ▹ Do Not Go Gentle by Dylan Thomas (edit)/Donovan ▹ Listen To The Hummingbird/Leonard Cohen ▹ Flower Of The Mountain by James Joyce/Kate Bush ▹ Golden Hair (Joyce)/Syd Barrett ▹ “Rose Garden” (excerpt) from Burnt Norton by T.S. Eliot ▹ Deep In The Corners Of My Mind/Melody Gardot ▹ Environment/Dave ▹ Poet/Sly & The Family Stone ▹ On The Pulse Of The Morning/Maya Angelou ▹ Deep River/Robert Shaw Choir ▹ Wave (Resting In God)/Thich Nhat Hanh ▹ Bells (Ring Loudly) (feat. Malcolm-Jamal Warner & Debo Ray)/Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science ▹ Oh Sacred World (Spoken)/Pete Seeger ▹ Guantanamera (Live)/Pete Seeger ▹ Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood (feat. Chief Golden Light Eagle) /Robbie Robertson ▹ If by Rudyard Kipling/Tom O' Bedlam ▹ If/Joni Mitchell ▹ Rave On John Donne, Rave On Pt. 2 (Live)/Van Morrison (*Incidental music by Pat Metheny) ✧ {Art image: The Collective Unconscious, by John Charles Ruskowski}

In the midst of all the chronic infighting (political and otherwise) dominating the news a few rather remarkable interviews I saw rose above all the divisive negative vibes. Jim Carrey discussing his growing spiritual awakening and his surreally autobiographical new book, Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens) talking about the rerecording of his classic Tea For The Tillerman album and the late (& greatly missed) Leonard Cohen recalling his time as a Zen monk, all implanted in me the notion to make a podcast about how some very fortunate individuals happen to 'wise up', that is, how they discovered something much greater than their success and fame. Of course part of what they learned was that you don’t have to be rich and famously successful to find that “There’s a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” This session of music and words from some of my personal favorite artists and wised up individuals (Alan Watts, John Prine, Ayya Khema, Indigo Girls, Ram Dass, Lisa Germano, Eckhart Tolle, Bill Callahan, Cohen, Yusuf, Chaplin and yes, Jim Carrey too) will hopefully help listeners find that intriguingly sweet spot of pleasurable balance between a potential weightiness of subject matter and the lightness of being able to let it all go ✧ The MUSIC ▷ Mountains Of Things/Tracy Chapman ▹ Some Humans Ain’t Human/John Prine ▹ Look Long/Indigo Girls ▹ On The Way To Find Out (edit)/Cat Stevens ▹ Where Do The Children Play (new Version)/Yusuf ▹ This Is What You Did/This Is The Kit ▹ Bardo Rush/Bruce Cockburn ▹ Bird On A Wire/Marc Ribot & My Brightest Diamond ▹ Anthem (Live in London)/Leonard Cohen ▹ Wise Enough/Lamb ▹ Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad/Moby ▹ Come Into Knowledge/Ramp ▹ Someday/Ke ▹ Wise Up/Aimee Mann ▹ Night/Bill Callahan ▹ The Darkest Night Of All/Lisa Germano ▹ One Day At A Time/Eric Bibb ✧ Speakers featured in this session (in order of appearance): Jim Carrey Yusuf Leonard Cohen Alan Watts Ayya Khema Ram Dass Charles Chaplin Eckhart Tolle {Art by Mikheil Kasradze} I do not own any of the songs, music or pictures, all rights goes to the respected owners. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of "fair use".

Are you ready for THE ART OF PROTEST Pt. 2? Punctuated by the voices of prominent African~Americans like Martin Luther King Jr, Toni Morrison, Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Morgan Freeman, with music from SAM COOKE to H.E.R. and NINA SIMONE & BILLIE HOLIDAY to COMMON and RHIANNON GIDDENS, here’s the second part of a personal tribute to the art of resistance and political dissent in popular music on Real Music Radio.