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Here’s the playlist for this show. It lists performer – song – album (if known)

Belle Baker – Baby Your Mother

Phil Reagon – My Mom – Mother Songs

The Beatles – Your Mother Should Know – Beatles Anthology 2

Hannah Marcus – Purple Mother – Desert Farmers

Sufjan Stevens – Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother – Illinoise

Sibylle Baier – Softly – Colour Green

The Hand – Softly – Berries From the Rubble

Vashti Bunyan – Lately – Lookaftering

Vashti Bunyan – Here Before – Spinning On Air session in 2006

Vashti Bunyan – Wayward – Lookaftering

Red Foley – I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad – Sing Along With Red Foley

Fred Neil – Sweet Mama – Bleeker and MacDougal

Jeanne Lee – Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – The Legendary Duets

James Brown – Mama’s Dead – Black Caesar

John Lennon – My Mummy’s Dead

John Lennon – Mother – Live In New York City

Jo Stafford – Scarlet Ribbons – Collector’s Series

The Osmonds – I Wouldn’t Trade the Silver In My Mother’s Hair for All the Gold In the World

From my mother:
Descriptions of very drunk husband--"ossified", or "pissy-eyed" drunk, or my favorite that I now use on my kid: "What does that have to do with the price of rice?"

Do you make playlists available? And if not, why not?

MOTHER by Lennon. Wonderful! Play the Streisand version--even more powerful if possible.