PREAMBLE FROM THE TRIP: BURNS & BENNY
– “Auld Lang Syne”
– Words of Wisdom from Jack Benny
HOUR ONE: DESIRE AND A FOND KISS
Violinist Scarlet Rivera and Bob Dylan “Desire” sessions
– Bob Dylan “Mozambique” Desire, 1976
– Jacques Brel “Jaures” (Brel) 1975 **translation below
– Karine Polwart “I Burn But I Am Not Consumed” Laws in Motion, 2017
– Nick Cave “People “Ain’t No Good” The Boatman’s Call, 1997
– Eddi Reader “Ae Fond Kiss” Sings the Songs of Robert Burns, 2004
– Lucinda Williams “He Never Got Enough Love” Sweet Old World, 1992
– George Cromarty “Little Children” Lonesome Heroes, 2009
– Bob Dylan “Hurricane” Desire, 1976
HOUR TWO: DUETS
– Bob Dylan “One More Cup of Coffee” Rolling Thunder Review Bootleg Volume 5
– Bob Dylan “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” Rolling Thunder Review Bootleg Volume 5
“Blue Blue Blue is the sort of record that can spoil you for other kinds of albums, not because it’s perfect, but because it isn’t” – No Depression
– Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino “Girl From North Country” Blue, Blue, Blue 2021
– Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino “I Been Worryin’” Blue, Blue, Blue 2021
– Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino “Hello Stranger (AP Carter) Blue, Blue, Blue 2021
– Bonnie Prince Billy & Dawn McCarthy “What Am I Living For?” What the Brothers Sang 2012
– Bonnie Prince Billy & Dawn McCarthy “Little Boxes”, What the Brothers Sang 2012
– Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou “Mother’s Love”
– The Grateful Dead “Cassidy” (Weir) For the Faithful 1982
– Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou “The Homeless Wanderer”
– The Grateful Dead “On The Road Again” For the Faithful 1982
– The Grateful Dead “To Lay Me Down” For the Faithful 1982
HOUR THREE: BURNS SUPPER
– Yann Tiersen with Aidan Moffet “Meteorites” Infinity (2014)
– Eddie Reader “Willy Stewart / Molly Rankin” (Burns)
– Eddie Reader “Charlie Is My Darling” (Burns)
– Poem “To a Mousie” (Burns)
– Ian Campbell Group “A Man’s a Man For All that” (Burns)
– Karine Polwart “Thou Hast left Me Ever Jamie” Burns”
– Cerys Matthews “Ca the Knowes” (Burns / Pagan)
REST IN PEACE, BOB WEIR (October 16, 1947 – January 10, 2026)
– The Grateful Dead “Weather Report Suite”
– The Grateful Dead “Ripple” For the Faithful 1982
– Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou “Prsentiment”
– Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou “Abayou”
Jacques Brel’s song “Jaurès” (first hour) is a powerful tribute to the French socialist leader Jean Jaurès, assassinated in 1914, with translations focusing on the haunting question, “Why did they kill Jaurès?” and themes of memory, innocence, and the fight against war and fascism.
TRANSLATION JACQUES BREL “JUARES”
French socialist leader Jean Jaurès
They were worn up at fifteen years old
They were finishing while beginning
The twelve months were named december
What kind of life did our grand parents have?
Between the absinth and the high masses
They were old before being,
Fifteen hours a day, the body on a leash,
Leaves to the face an ash like complexion.
Yes our Sir, yes our kind Master
Why did they kill Jaurès?
Why did they kill Jaurès?
One can not say they were slaves
But to say that they have lived
When you start defeated like that
It’s hard to come out of the enclave
And though hope was florishing
In the dreams which were going up to the eyes
Of the few who were refusing
to crawl until the old age
Yes our kind Master, yes our Sir
Why did they kill Jaurès?
Why did they kill Jaurès?
If by misfortune they survived
It was to go to war
It was to end up at war
Under the orders of some swordsman
Who was demanding half-heartedly
That they go open in the field of horror
Their twenties which didn’t have the chance to be born
And they died in full fear
All miserable, yes our kind Master
Covered with field horsetails, yes our Sir.
Ask yourself pretty youth,
The time of the shadow of a memory,
The time of the blow of a sigh,
Why did they kill Jaurès?
Why did they kill Jaurès?