Kingston Coffee House Playlist #33: D-Day Dodgers, Raffi & Dennis Hopper
On tonight’s KINGSTON COFFEE HOUSE, I’ll play selections from Laura Marling’s brand new release “Laura Sings Raffi,” a full album of song covers by Raffi Cavoukian, the Egyptian-born Armenian-Canadian singer who revolutionized children’s music in the 1970s with acoustic, sing-along folk songs like “Baby Beluga.”
We will also play music from John Buck Wilkin, who wrote the original songs for Dennis Hopper’s 1970s directorial follow-up to Easy Rider. the much-mythologized The Last Movie. Wilkin’s mom wrote Lefty Frizzell’s classic “The Long Black Veil.”
Audio is available for 2 weeks after air date. Clip begins with the final minutes of Matt Mania’s always-awesome show The Trip
The Coffee House is OPEN: All the Masks Are Off
– Ian Campbell Folk Group “The D-Day Dodgers” Contemporary Campbells, 1965
– Jesse Welles “Masks Off” title track, 2026
– Jesse Welles “Red” Domestic Error, 2025
– Mekons “War Economy” Horror, 2025
– Dan Reeder “Maybe” This New Century, 2010
– Sharon Van Etten “Nothing Will Change” Are We There? 2014
– Lucy Rose “For You” Live at Urchin Studios, 2016
from Laura Marling “Laura Sings Raffi”, 2026
– “Everything Grows”
– “Peanut Butter Sandwich”
– “Baby Beluga”
– “Mr. Sun”
– “Ron in the Rain”
– “Biscuits in the Oven”
Wonderful Transition
– Neko Case “Things That Scare Me” Blacklisted, 2002
– My Morning Jacket “Wonderful” Z, 2005
Dennis Hopper’s “The Last Movie” 1971 soundtrack featuring John Buck Wilken 
– John Buck Wilken “La Di Da”
– Opening scene
– John Buck Wilken “Only Once, Pt. 1”
– Kris Kristofferson, Michelle Phillips “Me and Bobby McGee”
– John Buck Wilken “The Party Walk”
– John Buck Wilken “Only Once, Pt. 2”
– Dennis Hopper “Billy Don’t Shoot”
– John Buck Wilken “Daydream”
– Navarro “Un Baracho, Baracho”
John Buck Wilken – “The Nashville Sun” In Search Of Food Clothing Shelter And Sex (1970)
– John Buck Wilken – “About Time” In Search Of Food Clothing Shelter And Sex (1970)
– “Long Black Veil” (Marijohn Wilken/D Dill)
Chittlin’ Cookin’ Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight?
– Sierra Ferrell “Jeremiah” Long Time Coming, 2021
– Sierra Ferrell “Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time in Cheatham County”
– Charlie Marie “Kancamagus Highway” Signs, 2026
– Charlie Marie “Montana” Signs, 2026
The Hobbledehoy Set: Cruel Mothers
– Jo Ann Kelly “Louisiana Blues” (Kelly)1969 (Epic Records BN26491)
– Jo Ann Kelly “Fingerprints Blues” (Kelly)1969
– Jo Ann Kelly “Driftin’ and Driftin'” (Charles Brown) 1969
– Birds On a Wire “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” (S Denney)Le Chnat des Forets, 2026
– Anne Briggs “The Cruel Mother” (traditional) Topic, 1971
– Anne Briggs “Go Yer Way” Topic (Briggs/ Jansch)Topic, 1971
– Anne Briggs “Young Tambling” (aka Tam Lin) trad, Topic, 1971
– Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight “Some Old Salty” Once in a Blue Moon, 2006
– Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight “Stumbling On” Once in a Blue Moon, 2006
– Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight “At First She Starts” Once in a Blue Moon, 2006
– Goodnights and Goodbyes
– Laura Marling “Goodbye England” I Speak Because I Can
– Lefty Frizzell “Long Black Veil”
NOTES and LINKS
– “Heartbreak and toil and suffering gone, The lads beneath, them slumber on” | Lyrics to the song “D-Day Dodgers”
– The Last Movie was over budget, experimentally edited, and written off by the studios, but it further established Dennis Hopper as a cult icon and maverick. Seen today, the film’s self-reflexive critique on the destructive nature of American movies is nakedly revealing | Read more about this
– Marijohn Wilkin was a trailblazer in Nashville. Known as the “Den mother of Music Row”, she broke through as a successful female songwriter and publisher during a heavily male-dominated era. She is credited with discovering Kris Kristofferson and wrote the classic “The Long Black Veil.”
