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Currents with Brian D: Playlists and Archives

Music inspired by life and current events

February 22, 2025: "So here I am, in my arms a bouquet of tragic lavender, the whole history of Southern France against my chest, the fields stretching out, the armies killing each other, horses falling, Frenchmen dying by the thousands, though none for love."--Gerd Stern | See the playlist (Playlist still being updated)
February 15, 2025: "Mortals have dreams..." | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
February 8, 2025: "I get down on my knees and do what must be done / And kiss Achilles' hand, the killer of my son."--from "Ceasefire" by Michael Longley (1939-2025) | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
February 1, 2025: "And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain..." | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

January 25, 2025: "Love asks us to get beyond our personal hopes and fears, to embrace another's reality."--Ann Druyan | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
January 18, 2025: "I am blind, drowning in this ocean..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 11, 2025: "Those kind of thoughts can be so cruel..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 4, 2025: "The last year oughta've plagued my mind..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 28, 2024: "It's good enough for Nancy..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 21, 2024: "But I've spoken to the angels who'll protect you..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 14, 2024: "You’ll take a thought and laugh aloud..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 7, 2024: "Long as you're alive / Go on and find you some sun" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 30, 2024: "Destruction then becomes the prominent end of hatred. All means may be adopted for this end."--Aleander F. Shand | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 23, 2024: “Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.”--William Blake | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 16, 2024: "History is what's happening." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 9, 2024: "Now you gotta answer your own question..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 2, 2024: "Look around / Believe in what you see..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 26, 2024: "Bet you I won't be blue always / 'Cause the sun's gonna shine..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 19, 2024: "Always reaching, never teaching..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 12, 2024: "I woke up this morning with the blues all around my head..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 5, 2024: "I bought a ticket to the world / But now I've come back again..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 28, 2024: All Over The Mapp with PGB filled in. Listen here.
September 21, 2024: "Chains are broken in the morning..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 14, 2024: "The body breaks, it disobeys, betrays its woes and weakness..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 7, 2024: "I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 31, 2024: "You may live in this garden if you keep the waters clean..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 24, 2024: "Rolling home to you..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 17, 2024: Rhinestone Dinosaur filled in. Listen here.
August 10, 2024: "The sweat, the victory and sorrow, the smell of fear..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 3, 2024: "The busier you are, the less you see..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 27, 2024: "I don’t think the culture could sustain anything like the Voice today because there is this great impatience for reading anything you disagree with."--Richard Goldstein in The Freaks Came Out To Write | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 20, 2024: "Unless I dream you there..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 13, 2024: “It should be our ambition to say nothing but the truth — but the whole truth.”--Christophe Deloire | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 6, 2024: "I got medicine to cure all y'alls ills..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 29, 2024: "All the news is bad, is there any other kind?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 22, 2024: "You know that this'll be the Saturday you're reaching your peak..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 15, 2024: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."--W.B. Yeats | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 8, 2024: “And everything I had to know / I heard it on my radio…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 1, 2024: "I'd build a road in gold just to have some..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 25, 2024: "I wanna live, and I wanna dance awhile..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 18, 2024: "Hide your memories, hide them all, hide em all..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 11, 2024: Matty Notimes filled in. Listen here.
May 4, 2024: "When there's bombs in the Middle East, you want to hurt yourself..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 27, 2024: "But keep my place and the empty chair..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 20, 2024: "We live together in a photograph of time..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 13, 2024: "Who cares, who cares what the future brings?..." with an Interview with artist Audrey Flack | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 6, 2024: "Someday the sun will shine so close, it hurts..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 30, 2024: “Is this the winter of our fall…?” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 23, 2024: "Well I'm the luckiest guy / Not the loneliest guy..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 16, 2024: "If you want a revolution, baby, / There is nothing like your own..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 9, 2024: "I want you to get together..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 2, 2024: "C'mon baby, let's get out of the cold..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 24, 2024: "A window on a world / With a lovely view..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 17, 2024: "Their mind is confused with confusion / With their problems since they've no solution..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 10, 2024: Rhinestone Dinosaur filled in. Listen here.
February 3, 2024: "Somebody holds the key..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player! | Pop-up player!

January 27, 2024: "Half a million boots went slogging through hell..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 20, 2024: Darren filled in. Listen here.
January 13, 2024: "The photograph reflects..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 6, 2024: "I'm gonna take the song from every bird..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 30, 2023: Music from the Editor's Desk | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 23, 2023: "Jesus lying in his mother’s arms / Is a photon released from a dying star..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 16, 2023: "My street lamp is so glacially alone in the night... / It says: We are all far from home. / There's no hope anymore."--Rolf Jacobsen | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 9, 2023: “We can all be refugees / Nobody is safe, / All it takes is a mad leader / Or no rain to bring forth food, / We can all be refugees / We can all be told to go, / We can be hated by someone / For being someone.”--We Refugees by Benjamin Zephaniah | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 2, 2023: “That were picked up and tortured and framed by the law / And the filth got promotion, but they're still doing time / For being Irish in the wrong place and at the wrong time…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 25, 2023: "Other nights would be / Long and dark ages for me..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 18, 2023: "I am seen and I have been heard..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 11, 2023: "All the things we love, we love, we love, we lose..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 4, 2023: "When it comes to our future..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 28, 2023: "But for now, I'm coming down..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 21, 2023: "But now it's come to distances and both of us must try..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 14, 2023: "Until the flags are put down and the exceptionalists / Are buried under the ground..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 7, 2023: "Just like children sleepin'/We could dream this night away..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 29, 2023: PGB filled in. Listen here.
September 23, 2023: "Throw my thoughts like tomahawks / Into this world which I disown..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 16, 2023: "Listen to the silence, let it ring on..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 9, 2023: "In the light you will find the road..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 3, 2023: “Economic for the rest of our days…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 27, 2023: "I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 20, 2023: "Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as to its victims: the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.”—Simone Weil | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 13, 2023: "Madness seeks out a lover..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 6, 2023: "Rattled by the rush (makes you wanna say your prayers)..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 30, 2023: I Am Up with Jen filled in. Find the show here.
July 23, 2023: "Racial persecution does not exist because some nations have no territories but because nations exist at all."--Morris Myerson | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 16, 2023: "At least music is playing in my head..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 9, 2023: "Get teenage kicks right through the night..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 2, 2023: "When I hear the word 'culture,' I get out my checkbook." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 25, 2023: “Closer than you know, love each other so…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 18, 2023: "Income tax deduction, what a hell of a function..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 11, 2023: "Put a peephole in my brain..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 4, 2023: "Never forget in the story of Jesus, the hero was killed by the state..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 28, 2023: "I'm all tuned in, I see all the programs..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 21, 2023: "Blood on the rise it's following me..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 14, 2023: "I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 7, 2023: "I was hearing... Hearing something else..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 30, 2023: “In a world that's constantly changing…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 23, 2023: Material Eyez with Naomi Shambles filled in. Find the show here.
April 16, 2023: "'Cause in the darkness there'll be hidden worlds that shine" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 9, 2023: I am Up with Jen filled in. Find the show here.
April 2, 2023: "What's the matter with you, boy?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 26, 2023: "A system failure left behind..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 19, 2023: "Don't worry, baby, your credit is good..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 12, 2023: See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 12, 2023: "Oh, it's called love / And it belongs to us..." | See the playlist
March 5, 2023: "It's too loud..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 26, 2023: "And I pretend to pray..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 19, 2023: "Cuz our poor boy/Believes in chance..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 12, 2023: "You can get it fast in Armageddon..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 5, 2023: "My brother, my sister / When you're dragged toward the Hell-mouth / You will beg at the end / But there ain't gonna be one, friend..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 29, 2023: "I don't want to think at all..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 22, 2023: "We are not so gullible.." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 15, 2023: "Ride the train/I'm far from home..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 8, 2023: "Dreaming is free..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 1, 2023: A Year in Songs... and Pictures | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 25, 2022: I Am Up With Jen filled in. Find the show here.
December 18, 2022: "I get up in the evening/And I ain't got nothing to say..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 11, 2022: "How the world keeps on spinnin'/It goes spinnin' out of control..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 4, 2022: "I don't wanna be a pinhead no more..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 27, 2022: "I feel beneath the white/There is a redskin suffering/From centuries of taming..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 20, 2022: "Well it just goes to show/Things are not what they seem..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 13, 2022: "My life is a sham / I pretend that I'm free..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 6, 2022: Sara Terry joins us to discuss her documentary "A Decent Home" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 30, 2022: "The death of the party/Came as no surprise..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 23, 2022: Singles Going UNsteady | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 16, 2022: Blondes, and other stories. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 9, 2022: "To be done with all this measuring of proof..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 2, 2022: "Make you sing and make you tell the whole wide world..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 25, 2022: I Am Up with Jen filled in. Find the show here.
September 18, 2022: "Is this the highway/Of all mankind?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2022: "From disreputable sources..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 4, 2022: "Some strange music draws me in..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 28, 2022: "There ain't no asylum here..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 21, 2022: "Free yourself/that leash is long..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 14, 2022: "I thought innovation and progress were synonyms. I can’t be so sure anymore.”--Karl Bartos | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 7, 2022: "Fells dust into ash..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 31, 2022: “What we want and what we need…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 24, 2022: "I hear a voice cry out you want something good..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 17, 2022: "The minor fall, the major lift..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 10, 2022: "Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 3, 2022: "And here's to the life that's not saved..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 26, 2022: "They like me better when I'm sedated..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 19, 2022: "Leave Kanye out of this..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 12, 2022: "White supremacy is ubiquitous in the US. It operates in the most mundane aspects of daily life; in the economic order that decides who has what and how they get it; in the historical amnesia that makes some stories disappear..."--Hazel V. Carby, LRB | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 5, 2022: "I don't know why you say goodbye..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 29, 2022: "Anywhere..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 22, 2022: "Another leap in the dark..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 15, 2022: "Got to scrape the s**t right off your shoes" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 8, 2022: "I like you!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 1, 2022: "I could fake it... but I'd still want more" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 24, 2022: "Travel where you are, tourism is sin, these are the ruins we left behind, you can't take pictures of them..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 17, 2022: "I am tired, I am weary, I could sleep for a thousand years..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 10, 2022: "Hard to be human again..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 3, 2022: Fox filled in. Find the show here.

March 27, 2022: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Show is rerun from 7/11/2022. Clicking on playlist will take you to that playlist. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 20, 2022: We need you. They need us. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 13, 2022: It's a Marathon... and a sprint!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 6, 2022: "War is hell." ALL war. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 27, 2022: War... and more. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 20, 2022: "Touch me I'm sick!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 13, 2022: Fox filled in. Hear the show here.
February 6, 2022: "My heart besieged by anger, my mind a gap of danger. I walked among their old haunts, the home ground where they bled; and in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter, ill its oak would sprout in Derry..."—Seamus Heaney | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 30, 2022: “Peace grows to itself and in itself. It has no other way.”—Penny Rimbaud | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 23, 2022: "I regretted that we were being called upon to fight against something regarded as wrong without at the same time having the conviction that we were defending a way of life that was right."--Eric Ravilious | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 16, 2022: “Be content with the world. Fight for it to remain.”—The Velvet Queen | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 9, 2022: Bowie is still CURRENT. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 2, 2022: "Struggling, struggling/As I am for peace..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 26, 2021: "And where will she go, and what shall she do..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 19, 2021: "I'm making plans for the day all of this is through..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 12, 2021: “Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 5, 2021: "Debating: 'Would you rather be burnt or drowned?'" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 28, 2021: Fox filled in. Playlist and archives are here.
November 21, 2021: "I'd join, but I hear the atmosphere is toxic." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 14, 2021: "Trauma is not a competition." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 7, 2021: Extra Time | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 31, 2021: Halloween and Hell-Raiser -- What could go wrong? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 24, 2021: "So even though this is a small world, it’s Sue-meg, it carries so much to us, it carries so much more meaning to us."--Rosie Clayburn, the Yurok tribal heritage preservation officer | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 17, 2021: "Once you're a Chieftain, you're always a Chieftain." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 10, 2021: “We... need... nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.”--MLK | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 3, 2021: "Wherever you are, we are glad you are there." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 26, 2021: "While I was in prison the executions were always done at dawn, so when I saw the sun coming through the prison bars I knew I was going to live through another day." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 19, 2021: “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 12, 2021: "See the great white scar/Over Battery Park..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 5, 2021: "The infrastructure rots..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 29, 2021: Your knight in shining armor... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 22, 2021: "How many times does an angel fall?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 15, 2021: Are we all lost at sea? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 8, 2021: "Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 1, 2021: "We're not broken property..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 25, 2021: "A New Mother Nature" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 18, 2021: "Here comes sickness... again." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 11, 2021: "Ocean occupied someday." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 4, 2021: "And we don't have to buy it..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 27, 2021: "Alas, NOT Total Football" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 20, 2021: "The truth is out there." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 13, 2021: A Refuge | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

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