After a hard week, election fallout clouded the first half of tonight’s Friday Night Rock show, but it led into the biting political commentary of Leonard Cohen, who dominated the rest of the show. The dark and poetic Cohen, who produced decades of fine music, died Monday at 82.
We ran through some of his finest songs and closed with some other bands covering more of his songs, capping a three hour show that will be the last for a couple of weeks.
Here’s what I played on the radio tonight:
Friday Night Rock, 11-11-2016, 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Radio CPR 101.7 FM, Washington, D.C.
- “What’s Going On” (The Foundation), Marvin Gaye
- “Winter in America,” Gil Scott Heron
- “This is Not America,” David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group
- “I’m Afraid of Americans,” David Bowie
- “Talking’ John Birch Society Blues,” Bob Dylan
- “1913 Massacre,” Woody Guthrie
- “Old Man Trump,” U.S. Elevator featuring Mac McCaughan and Tim Bluhm
- “Scum of the Earth,” The Kinks
- ’Second Hand Car Spiv,” The Kinks
- “He’s Evil,” The Kinks
- “It’s the End of the World (As We Know It),” R.E.M.
- “Mr. Tangerine Man,” Wesley Stace
- “I Had a Dream,” Loudon Wainwright III
- “Trump’s Pilot,” Tim Heidecker
- “America,” Simon & Garfunkel
- “Surrender Under Protest,” Drive By Truckers
- “Everybody Knows,” Leonard Cohen
- “Democracy,” Leonard Cohen
- “Suzanne,” Leonard Cohen
- “Sisters of Mercy,” Leonard Cohen
- “So Long, Marianne,” Leonard Cohen
- “Bird on the Wire,” Leonard Cohen
- “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye,” Leonard Cohen
- “Famous Blue Raincoat,” Leonard Cohen
- “Chelsea Hotel No. 2,” Leonard Cohen
- “I’m Your Man,” Leonard Cohen
- “Tower of Song, Leonard Cohen
- “Anthem,” Leonard Cohen
- “The Future,” Leonard Cohen
- “Dance Me to the End of Love,” Leonard Cohen (live)
- “Hallelujah,” Leonard Cohen (live)
- “First We Take Manhattan,” R.E.M.
- “I Can’t Forget,” Pixies
- “A Singer Must Die,” Fatima Mansions
Friday Night Rock returns Black Friday Nov. 25 on Radio CPR 101.7 FM, Washington D.C., online at www.tinyurl.com/radiocpr