Sunday Street Concerts at LIM in The Gillespie Room
We are pleased to announce that our concerts will take place in the beautiful Gillespie Room at the Long Island Museum, Route 25A in Stony Brook Village. We’ll be able to accommodate one hundred people and will have soft drinks available at the shows.
PLEASE NOTE: The Long Island Museum does NOT handle ticket sales. The only place to purchase tickets is on sundaystreet.org via the PayPal link. Any further questions can be directed to Charlie Backfish: charles.backfish@stonybrook.edu.
NOTE: Your purchase via PayPal will not provide a physical or e-ticket. YOUR E-MAIL RECEIPT IS YOUR TICKET.
Lou Reed & Paul Simon, two songwriters from Long
Island
featuring Gene Casey, Caroline Doctorow, Andrew, Andie Juliette & Cole
Fortier, Bryan Gallo, Ray Lambiase, Russ Seeger, and Hank Stone
Sunday, March 9th, 5 P.M.
Sharing some Long Island roots (as per their high school yearbook photos), Lou Reed graduated from Freeport High School in 1959 where he played guitar and sang in doo-wop groups while Paul Simon graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1958 and, with classmate Art Garfunkel initially recorded as ‘Tom and Jerry.’
Their musical careers saw Simon working with Garfunkel before pursuing a solo career and Reed doing likewise following his departure from the Velvet Underground. Their separate paths would cross in 1980 with Reed playing a record executive in ‘One Trick Pony’ a film Simon wrote and starred in.
In the tradition of past Sunday Street shows honoring artists including Warren Zevon, Mose Allison, Randy Newman, John Prine, and Jimmy Webb, we bring together some of the areas top musicians to share songs from the extensive catalogue of these two singer/songwriters who worked in rather different musical directions
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Lucy Kaplansky
Sunday, April 13th, 5 P.M.
According to The Boston Globe, “Lucy Kaplansky is becoming the troubadour laureate of modern folk.” Everyday Street brought us a collection of Lucy’s songs often referencing her long-time home, Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Last Days of Summer followed in 2022 with ‘The Lucy Story,’ a retrospective of rare and unreleased tracks, making its appearance this year.
Lucy’s career had its roots in Greenwich Village at venues like The Cornelia Street Café and The Bottom Line and she was well-represented on Jack Hardy’s “Fast Folk” recordings. After working as a psychologist she returned to music full time, releasing her debut album, The Tide (produced by Shawn Colvin) in 1994. Other acclaimed albums followed and her song, “Land of The Living”, was often played on folk radio as it took a nuanced look at the reaction to the events of 9/11.
Along with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell, Lucy recorded and toured as Cry Cry Cry. She also released a duo album with Shindell as The Pine Hill Project. Another collaboration saw Lucy joining with Eliza Gilkyson and John Gorka in Red Horse.
Lucy accompanies herself on guitar and on piano.
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Bob Dylan’s 84th Birthday Celebration
featuring The Kennedys, Rod MacDonald, Russ Seeger, Steve Kaplan, Tom Ryan, and Mark Mancini
Special guest: Ray Lambiase
Sunday, May 18th, 7 P.M.
Dylan in 1965, sixty years ago, is our focus with these two classic albums from the same year in a full band show.
In an outpouring of creativity, in one year, Bob Dylan released two landmark albums containing some of his best known songs, including the generational anthem ‘Like A Rolling Stone,’ ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ ‘It’s All Over Now Baby Blue,’ and ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues. ’ In July of the same year, Dylan appeared at The Newport Folk Festival to play a brief, controversial set of songs accompanied by electric instrumentation. The recent film, ‘A Complete Unknown’ depicts these early years in Dylan’s incredible career.
As is our custom at these annual celebrations of Dylan songs, our performers will share songs from both albums but also roam the rather extensive Dylan catalogue for both well-known songs as well as obscure ones.
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The Sunday Street Series is a collaboration of WUSB’s Sunday Street Series, The Long Island Museum, and The Greater Port Jefferson Arts Council.
Please send any email inquiries to charles.backfish@stonybrook.edu.
Ian Tyson remembered on Sunday Street on WUSB-FM
Sunday Street is heard Sundays from 9 AM to 12 noon on WUSB, 90.1 fm and wusb.fm from Stony Brook, New York. The program is now in its 44th year. You can reach the program’s host, Charlie Backfish, at charles.backfish@stonybrook.edu
January 8th’s edition of Sunday Street was devoted to the music of Ian Tyson who passed away, at age 89, on December 29th.
As the first paragraph in his obituary in the New York Times noted, ‘before Canadian musicians like Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, or Leonard Cohen, there was Ian Tyson.’
We shared some recently-recorded reflections from Tom Russell who co-wrote many songs with Ian Tyson along with stories and observations from Tyson himself, Sylvia Tyson, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.
(Tom Russell did the painting of Ian Tyson posted with this playlist)
This program was pre-recorded on Saturday, January 7, 2023
Theme: Dave Van Ronk, Sunday Street (SUNDAY STREET, Philo)
Opening set
Neil Young, Four Strong Winds (COMES A TIME, Reprise)
Gordon Lightfoot, Red Velvet (A PAINTER PASSING THROUGH, Reprise)
Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown, Summer Wages (FRIEND OF MINE, Philo)
Lucy Kaplansky, Someday Soon (OVER THE HILLS, Red House)
Fourtold, Four Rode By (FOURTOLD, Appleseed Recordings)
Set # 2
Ian & Sylvia, Wild Geese (SO MUCH FOR DREAMING, Vanguard)
Ian & Sylvia, Play One More (LIVE AT NEWPORT, Vanguard)
Ian & Sylvia, Farewell to the North (NASHVILLE, Vanguard)
Tom Russell on Ian & Sylvia and on recording an album of their songs
Tom Russell, These Friends of Mine (PLAY ONE MORE: THE SONGS OF IAN & SYLVIA, True North)
Set # 3
Sylvia Tyson on Ian & Sylvia and Great Speckled Bird (from a 2018 interview with David Ward via YouTube)
Great Speckled Bird, Rio Grande (GREAT SPECKLED BIRD, Ampex)
Set # 4
Jerry Jeff Walker speaks with Ian Tyson (television program 1991 via YouTube)
Jez Lowe & James Keelaghan, Four Strong Winds (live at The University Café 10/20/2013)
Great Specked Bird, Calgary (GREAT SPECKLED BIRD, Ampex)
Ian Tyson on Great Speckled Bird and his television program 2010 (via YouTube)
Set # 5
Tom Russell on great Ian Tyson songs post Ian and Sylvia
Ian Tyson, The Gift (Charlie Russell) (at the Cowboy Poets Conference 2014 via YouTube)
*Corb Lund, Montana Waltz (SONGS MY FRIENDS WROTE, New West)
Corb Lund, MC Horses (THE GIFT: A TRIBUTE TO IAN TYSON, Stony Plain)
Michael Martin Murphey, Cowboy Pride (COWBOY SONGS, WB)
Ian Tyson, Fifty Years Ago (LIVE AT LONGVIEW, Vanguard)
Set # 6
Tom Russell, Old Cheyenne (PLAY ONE MORE: THE SONGS OF IAN & SYLVIA, True North)
Corb Lund w/Ian Tyson, The Rodeo’s Over (HAIR IN MY EYES LIKE A HIGHLAND STEER, Stony Plain)
Ian Tyson w/Nanci Griffith, Canadian Whiskey (OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS, Elektra)
Cindy Church w/Ian Tyson, What Does She See? (CINDY CHURCH, Stony Plain)
Set # 7
Marianne Faithfull, Four Strong Winds (COME MY WAY, Decca)
Ramblin Jack Elliott, on Ian Tyson/ Will James (THE GIFT: A TRIBUTE TO IAN TYSON, Stony Plain)
The McDades, Smuggler’s Cove (THE GIFT: A TRIBUTE TO IAN TYSON, Stony Plain)
Gretchen Peters w/ Tom Russell, The Blue Mountains of Mexico (ONE TO THE HEART, ONE TO THE HEAD, Frontera)
Set # 8
Tom Russell on first meeting Ian Tyson
Tom Russell, Navaho Rug (COWBOY REAL, Philo)
Tom Russell on co-writing songs with Ian Tyson
Tom Russell, Claude Dallas (SONG OF THE WEST: THE COWBOY COLLECTION, Hightone)
Tom Russell, When the Wolves No Longer Sing (PLAY ONE MORE; THE SONGS OF IAN AND SYLVIA, True North)
Tom Russell, The Rose of the San Joaquin (THE ROSE OF THE SAN JOAQUIN, Hightone)
Set # 9
Tom Russell on his last co-write with Ian Tyson
Ian Tyson, Ross Knox (YELLOWHEAD TO YELLOWSTONE AND OTHER LOVE STORIES, Stony Plain)
Ian Tyson, Colorado Horses (CARNERO VAQUERO, Stony Plain)
Dylan
Ian & Sylvia, Tomorrow is a Long Time (FOUR STRONG WINDS, Vanguard)
Ian Tyson on Dylan and weed, 2013 (via YouTube)
Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead, The French Girl (1987 rehearsal via YouTube)
Bob Dylan & the Band, Song for Canada (BOOTLEG SERIES V.11 :THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE: Columbia)
Bob Dylan & the Band, Four Strong Winds (BOOTLEG SERIES V.11 :THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE: Columbia)
(*indicates new release or recent re-issue)