Boarding School

The No Show | Mar 30, 2010
Playlist:
THEME: "How Long Blues" – Jimmy Yancey, piano
"How Long Blues" – Jimmy Reed
"Trouble In Mind" – Jimmy Reed
"Trouble in Mind" – Nina Simone
"Trouble In Mind" – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
"Oh Lonesome Me" – Neil Young
"What Kind of Soul Hath Man" – Ann Graham & Leadbelly
"What Ya Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire" [same]
"Rock Me" – Ann Graham & Leadbelly
"The Blood Done Sign Your Name" – Leadbelly
"Dallas Port" – Leadbelly
"Leaving Blues" – Leadbelly
"Good Night, Irene" – Leadbelly

You can cut the pathos with a knife as Steve Post recounts his two-year long childhood banishment by one of his wicked stepmothers to a boarding school of Dickensian quality "in the wilds of New Jersey when New Jersey still had wilds." Music selections do not include "Teach Me Tonight," because we have done that to death already.

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