“I been around that trashy behavior all my life. Getting tired of puttin’ up with it.” – Sam the Lion
By Mike Stevenson | WRIU
On tonight’s Kingston Coffee House, I’ll be playing a set from one of my favorite songwriters from the ’60s, the blue-eyed soul man Dan Penn.
Later in the show, I’ll play some cuts from three women who never achieved great success in the music biz, but produced some truly remarkable records: Judy Henske, Linda Perhacs, and Judee Sill.
I start the show off with a set I call “Cowboys, Candles, and Cowards.”
REPLAY
COWBOYS, CANDLES AND COWARDS
– Ry Cooder “Dark End of the Street” (D Penn)
– Harry Nilsson “Cowboy” (R Newman)
– Dialogue from The Last Picture Show (actor Ben Johnson as “Sam the Lion”)
– Jennifer Warnes “Ballad of the Runaway Horse” (L Cohen) from Rob Wasserman Duets, 1988
– Bob Dylan “Goodbye Jimmy Reed” from Rough and Rowdy Ways, 2020
– Carla Morrison “Eres Tu” Déjenme Llorar, 2012
– Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris “Light a Candle”, 2026
– Bonnie Prince Billy “Guns Are for Cowards”, The Purple Bird 2025
– Martin, Bogan & Armstrong “You’ll Never Find Another Kanacka Like Me,” 1974
– “Meet the Boys” from the film Little Caesar, 1931
CAT CLYDE AND CLYDE & BONNIE
– Cat Clyde “Man’s World” 2026
– Cat Clyde “Another Time” 2026
– Cat Clyde “Wild One”
– Georgie Fame “Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde”, 1968
– The Band “Theme from The Third Man” Moondog Matinee, 1973
Soulful songwriter Dan Penn
DO RIGHT MAN
– Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham “Sweet Inspiration”
– Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham “I’m Your Puppet”
– Booker T & the MGs “The Letter”
– Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham “Ol’ Folks”
OH, CAROLE
– The Cowsills “Thinking of You” Cocaine Drain, 2025
– The Continental Drifters “I Can’t Make It Alone” (Goffin/King)
– Carole King “Hi-De Ho” (Goffin/King)
– 5th Dimension “Working On a Groovy Thing” (Sedaka)
– Ken Lyon “He Was a Friend of Mine” (trad) In Concert, 1974
– Matt Berninger & Roseanne Cash “Who Loves the Sun” (L Reed, 1970) rec.2026
– Emer Kenny “Golden Brown” (the Stranglers) 1997
– John Hammond “Milkcow Calf’s Blues”
– Tom Rush “Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm” (trad) New Year, 1982
THREE WOMEN
– Judy Henske “High Flying Bird”(Billy Edd Wheeler), 1964
– Judy Henske & Jerry Lester “Three Ravens” (Henske/Yester) Farewell Aldebaran, 1969
– Whiskeyhill Singers “Soy Libre” (trad)
– Linda Perhacs “Parallelograms” (Perhacs) Parallelograms,1970
– Linda Perhacs “Sandy Toes” (Perhacs) Parallelograms,1970
– Judee Sill “Lady O” (J Sill) 1971
– Judee Sill “The Kiss” (J Sill) Heart Food, 1973
GOODNIGHT and A LARUM
– Dillard & Clark “Train Leaves Here in the Mornin’” (Gene Clark)
– Johnny Flynn “Brown Trout Blues” A Larum, 2008
– Shannon Pearl “Kulning”, 2025
– Johnny Flynn “Wayne Rooney” A Larum, 2008