Back To the Dungeons (2nd Strike) - Show # 75 - April 22, 2016

Dear Inmates,

As you may or may not remember, recently the House was shaken to its 5th Dimensional foundations by the escape attempt of Popoff.


Last week we debated the terms of his freedom and today we are putting all our house creatures back in the ball and chain, because we are merciful and the system works. Dura lex, sed lex!

So abandon all hope you who enter here, and put on your dancing shackles!

For today we sing and talk once more about prisons, lack of freedom, mind-forged manacles, ball and chains, and we take you on a tour of the clink, the slammer, the big house, the can, the pen, the cooler, the skookum house, the pokey and the hoosegow!

Popoff and your Ghost prepare today's tunes: Sing, popoff, sing!

Now this is our kind of prison:

Tracklist:

1- Hello Stranger - Carter Family 
 2- Lonesome Ol' Jail - D.A. Hunt 
3- Take Me Back To My Boots and Saddle- Screamin' Jay Hawkins 
4- Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers 
5- Doin' My Time- Johhny Cash 
6- Whoa Back, Buck – Leadbelly 
7- Libre - Los Chichos 
8- Slave Driver – Bob Marley and the Wailers
9- Black Bety - James Iron Head Baker 
10- Pray Them Bars Away- Lee Hazelwood
11- Conversations In Jail - Stelios Perpiniades
12- Esclavo moderno- Manuel Alvarez y sus Dangers 
13- - Puppet On A String - Gino Washington 
14- I Wanna Be Your Dog- The Stooges 
15- TV Eye - The Stooges 
16- Hey- Pixies
17- If I Had My Way – Blind Willie Johnson 
18- Free Man (for Darcus Howe)- Linton Kwesi Johnson 
19- Return of the Super Ape- Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetters 
 20- El secuestro - Celia Estremor y su Grupo de Baile Cantao 

 

Songs of Freedom - Show # 74 - April 15, 2016

 

The escaped Popoff comes back into the House today and demands new conditions and freedom from the Gorgeous Tyranny of your Ghost Host (voted Most Beloved Dictator in 2015!). For this reason we talk about freedom and escaping, the limits of freedom and all that free jazz. And of course we play sweet songs of freedom.

We ask the important questions:

- Is freedom free? If so, how so? How free?

- If freedom is free, where do we get two of those?

- If it's not, how much is it? Can you purchase it in installments?

- Do we really have any freedom of choice, or is it all a Fateful plan and Popoff is just fulfilling the master plan of your Ghost?

- Do hamsters think they are free to run that wheel? Do they really like cheese? And in that case, which one best? Are they really free to choose between a Gouda and an Red Leicester?

We'll discuss the freedom of the goblins, the limited incarceration of bats and gremlins and the abolition of waterboarding for our toads and octopuses.

Today we also celebrate the anniversary of the proclamation of the SPANISH REPUBLIC (April 14 1931), and that brief but beautiful moment when Spain was FREE for the first and, alas, last time.

TRACKLIST:

1- Freedom Train - The Upsetters 
2- I Shall Be Free- Toots and the Maytals 
3- I'm Free - Jackie Opel 
4- Set Them Free- Lee Perry & the Sensations 
5- Freedom Time - The Wailers 
6- Exodus- Bob Marley and the Wailers
7- Freedom Sounds - Don Drummond 
8- Lobos al escape- Los orientales de Paramonga
9- I'm A Free Little Bird - Roscoe Holcomb 
10- Cry of the Wild Goose- Tennessee Ernie Ford 
11- Going Away - Staple Singers 
12- Feeling Good- Nina Simone 
13- I'll Fly Away - James & Martha Carson 
14- I'll Fly Away - The Five Blind Boys of Alabama
15- I'm Set Free- The Velvet Underground
16- Free - Ornette Coleman 
17- Freedome Day- Max Roach
18- Little Child Runnin' Wild- Curtis Mayfield
19- Spanish Civil War Songs - Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra

This is how you lure a Popoff into coming back to the show

 

 

Loneliness - Show # 73 - April Fool's Day 2016

Dear Loners,

 
It is a SAD and LONELY day at the Haunted House... 

For Popoff, given too much freedom, has run away and can't be found in any part of the house.

Goblins have raided the basement, the Thing Room, the Fifth Dimensional Bathtub, the Indian Cemetery in our yard and even the guest dungeons.

No tombstone has been left unturned!

No dimension has been spared!

And yet Popoff is nowhere to be found (while usually, he would be found just a little to the left of nowhere)...

So your Ghost Host discusses with himself LONELINESS through MUSIC,

 With HANK WILLIAMS, HOWLING WOLF, MEMPHIS MINNIE, CHARLIE RICH, IKETTES, OS NOVOS BAIANOS, THE MAYTONES, JOHNNY THUNDERS, CHANTHARA OUTANSAKDA, BOBBY FULLER FOUR AND MORE!

What is the sound of one Ghost clapping?

And if a Ghost falls alone into a radio show and nobody listens, does it make a sound?

Abandon all company, ye who listen, and put on your mirror dancing shoes!

 

This show is dedicated to all of our lonesome friends in the audience that are in bed with broken elbows, a hurt foot or the flu. Alone in their bedrooms, they can listen and share our common solitude!

Your Ghost, trying to make friends:

"Better Alone Than With the Wrong Ghost!"

Your Ghost Host, preparing today's show:

 

Will Popoff come back, unannounced, in the middle of the show?

Will he be summoned back from the world of spirits?

Or is this ouija just a cheap rip-off?

Find out by clicking on the player above, at the top of this post!

The TRACKLIST:

1- Alone and Forsaken – Hank Williams

2 - Stay Here Till My Baby Comes Back – Howlin' Wolf
3- Homesick and Lonesome Blues – Blind Boy Fuller
4- Ramblin' By Myself – John Lee Hooker  

5- Lonesome Blues – Henry Williams and Eddie Anthony

6- Where Is My Man? – Memphis Minnie

7- Lonely for You Baby – Sam Dees

8- Lonely Man – Johnny Soul
9 - Lonely Weekends – Charlie Rich
10- Another Sad and Lonely Night – Bobby Fuller Four
11- Never More Lonely For You – Ikettes
12-Preta Pretinha – Novos Baianos 

13- I am Feeling Lonely – The Maytones
14- Soledad – Combo Los Galleros

15- Lonely Planet Boy – Johnny Thunders 

16- Love You Lonely – Chanthara Outansakda

17- Lonely Sun – He5

Yours,
The Lonely Ghost

Spring Showers and Crucifixions - Show # 72 - March 25 2016

Dear fellow spirits,

 

(see tracklist below)

 

We can't help it, our head is all over spring!

Ah, beware the flowers of love past!!
Ah, beware the rites of Spring!!

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more!

Ghosts were deceivers ever,

So listen to our music show

And be all blithe and clever!

By the road to the contagious sounds, we celebrate the arrival of the Spring with a set of songs devoted to one of our four favorite seasons.

We enter the world naked, uncertain of everything save that we enter!

And that it's THIS time of the year again... SPRING!

Which, at the House, means the time for LOVE,
the time for CLEANING THE THING ROOM,
the time Popoff gets allergic to Ashplant, Chrysanthemum and Asphodel pollen,
the time to grow new creatures in the four-dimensional bathtub,

the time for RAIN, acid or not,

the time when cobwebs bloom,

when spirits get high and the ravens return,

the time when Christs bloom in their crosses

when ouija boards say "oui" to love

and people shoot their albatrosses!

A terrible beauty is born! (Well, thank you, says The Thing).

(Popoff, right, and your Ghost indicating him where to plant the petunias)

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Allegory of Spring hanging at the head of Popoff's cot:

 

 

The Haunted House Crew, deciding on today's songs:

Our TRACKLIST is not available in order, you'll have to actually listen to the show, but this is what we played:

 

Swingtime in Spring Time – Django Reinhardt

Springtime – Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

La Primavera – Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo

Must Jesus Bear this Cross Alone? – Soul Stirrers

Chove Chuva – Jorge Ben

Agua que va caé – Patato y Totico

Paani Re Paani – Lata Mangeshkar

Les Cornichons – Nino Ferrer

Didn’t It Rain? – Sister Rosetta Tharpe

En la Cruz Moría – Los Amaya

Rain Down Rain  – Big Maybelle

I Hear the Rain  – Violent Femmes

Fleurette Africaine –  Duke/Mingus/Roach

Primavera  – Amália Rodrigues

El milagro verde  – Los Mirlos

Zé Canjica – Jorge Ben

Spring Again  – Biz Markie

Why Birds Follow Spring – Alton Ellis

Just Walkin' in the Rain – The Prisonaires

 

Yours,
The Resurrection Host