The Dubliners - Raglan Road

Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings

Happy birthday to BB. Here he performs with Ian McLagan, who's been gone two weeks now.

Jonathan Winters - A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" was first published on this date in 1843. I heard Jonathan Winters reading the story on NPR a few years ago and really enjoyed it. So for your delectation, here it is.

Grateful Dead - Ship of Fools

Schubert - Symphony no. 8 in B minor D 759 ("Unfinished")

Herbert von Karajan conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1955.

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues with a Feeling

Congratulations on their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Gene Clark - The French Girl

This uptempo arrangement loses some of the sense of mysterious loss that this song by Ian Tyson can convey, but it's still pretty good.