The Kingston Coffee House 3/10/26 Replay and Playlist
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, New Orleans legend Bobby Charles
In the late 1950s, the Southwest Louisiana native penned notable hits for Fats Domino and Bill Haley & the Comets. By the 1970s, his songs had been covered by Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Delbert McClinton and Rita Coolidge. He performed at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom on November 25, 1976, at The Band’s legendary “Last Waltz” extravaganza.
MARCH 10 REPLAY (AVAILABLE FOR 2 WEEKS FROM AIRDATE)
Walkin’, Warnings and Widows
– Jay Farrar & Shannon McNally “That’s Why I’m Walkin’ Don’t Ya Take It Too Bad, 2025
– Geoff Muldaur “Tennessee Blues” (B Charles) Having a Wonderful Time, 1975
– Roy Bookbinder “Candy Man” (traditional)
– Neko Case “A Widow’s Toast” Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 2006
– Aldous Harding “One Stop” Train on the Island, May 2026
– Jonny Greenwood “Battle After Battle” from the film Battle After Battle 2025
– Jack O’Connell, Brian Dunphy “Rocky Road to Dublin” (trad) from the film Sinners 2025
– Cameron Winter “Warning” HELP2, 2006
They’re Bound to Lose
– Billy Bragg & Wilco “All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose” Mermaid Ave Vol. II
– Country Joe McDonald “Sweet Marie” Vanguard
– Joe Pug “Intro” Live at the Old School of Folk Music, 2005
– Joe Pug Hymn #35 Live…
– Joe Pug “I Don’t Work at a Bank” Live…
– Joe Pug “First Time I Saw You” Live…
Written by Bobby Charles
– Fats Domino “Walkin’ to New Orleans” 1960
– Bobby Charles “I Must Be In a Good Place Now” 1972 (Bearsville Records)
– Delbert McClinton “Jealous Kind” 1980
– Rick Danko “Small Town Talk” Rick Danko 1977
– Shannon McNally “But I Do” Small Town Talk 2013
– Bobby Charles “Save Me Jesus” 1972 (Bearsville Records)
– Rita Coolidge “Love Me Again” Love Me Again 1978
– Tompall Glasser “Tennessee Blues” Tompall Glaser and his Outlaw Band, 1977
– The Band “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” from The Last Waltz
– Roy Bookbinder “I’m Going Home Someday” (trad)
– Roy Bookbinder “In the Jailhouse Now” (J Rodgers)
– Max von Sydow dialogue from the film Hannah & Her Sisters 1986
– Joanna Newsome “Ca’ the Yowes” (Burns / Pagan)
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, 2006
– Neko Case “The Needle Has Landed”
– Neko Case “Margret vs Pauline”
– Neko Case “That Teenage Feeling”
– Neko Case “John Saw That Number”
– Neko Case “Maybe Sparrow”
– Jay Farrar & Shannon McNally “Annabelle Lee’ Don’t Ya Take It Too Bad, 2025
– Country Joe McDonald “Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag” Vietnam Experience 1986
-Princess June “Green Easter Grown” Beyond the Fence, 2025
-Princess June “Beyond the Fence” Beyond the Fence, 2025
-Princess June “With the Seasons” Beyond the Fence, 2025
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow / After a While, Crocodile
– Bobby Charles “See You Later Alligator”
PASSINGS:
– Roy Bookbinder (October 5, 1943 – March 3, 2026)
– Country Joe McDonald (January 1, 1942 – March 7, 2026)
SHOW NOTES
• Listen to a short NPR Fresh Air piece The Untold Story Of Singer Bobby Charles here
• A feature-length documentary film about Bobby Charles’ life entitled In a Good Place Now: The Life & Music of Bobby Charles directed by David DuBos was released 2024
• “Down South in New Orleans,” performed by Bobby Charles and Dr. John in The Last Waltz, was sadly cut from the original Martin Scorcese film, but included on the soundtrack album
• Inspired by the Ukrainian myths her grandmother told her as a kid, Neko Case’s 2006 Fox Confessor is the singer-songwriter’s attempt to “figure out how fairytales are born,” as she said in a statement announcing the project. “In a way, this whole record is about losing faith,” Case told Spin in 2006. “In your country. In your culture. In yourself. I need something that makes me feel more camaraderie with my fellow humans.”
• Backdrop banjo music heard throughout tonight’s show is from Nora Brown’s Long Time Gone, 2022
CONCERT DATES:
- Princess June will appear at Myrtle on Sunday March 15. Show begins 6 pm
- CORRECTION: The Mekons will appear at The Town and the City Festival in Lowell, Massachuetts taking place April 30- May 1. The Lowell Folk Festival takes place on July 24-26
NEXT KINGSTON COFFEE HOUSE SHOW:
– March 17 will be our St. Patrick’s Day Special. 100% tradiitional Irish music (no green beer!)
CONTACT
Email host Mike Stevenson at [email protected] with comments, questions, or suggestions
Max von Sydow’s character, Frederick:
“If Jesus came back and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”