Our station had its fiber optic line rebuilt and connected by Verizon by 8 pm Saturday night. We enjoyed broadcasting last week from Elk Point Road.

Dave Van Ronk died last Sunday, at aged 65. I knew Dave in the early 80's when he became active in a club I ran in Greenwich Village: Speak Easy.  When I left NYC to move up to Liberty, Rod MacDonald took over booking Speak Easy. I asked Rod for a quote.  He responded: "Instead of a DVR quote, how about a story:

When I was booking the Speakeasy, ASCAP threatened to shut us down because Joseph wouldn't pay them $660 in licensing fees. We (the co-operative) didn't have the $$, and most of us felt we shouldn't have to pay it because we were all playing our own, mostly unpublished (remember this is 1983, before anyone got record deals) songs. As I often did when faced with a tough question, I went to see dave. We sat up all night, drinking wine, listening to music.

Finally, about 5 in the morning he asked if there was something on my mind. So i told him the dilemma we had, and that we were of a mind to fight it rather than pay it. He said "You're right, you're right of course. The problem is, you'll become a running benefit for your lawyers, and everything you're trying to do will fall to the wayside while you're keeping that going." OK, I asked, what then? "Have one benefit and pay them off. Then tell them to leave you alone." OK, I asked, will you play a benefit for the co-operative? He roared. "You set me up, you son of a bitch," he laughed. "You're smarter than I thought." He lit a cigarette and stared at me. "Ok," he shrugged, "I'll play it if you will." Which was very generous on his part, since his being there would mean a full house. We did have a benefit, paid ASCAP off, and to my knowledge never paid them again.

About a year + 1/2 ago Dave and Andrea came to Florida to play a club for the weekend, my wife Nicole and I took them out for lunch on Saturday, sat on the veranda of a beach restaurant on a sunny day. Dave liked wearing tropical shirts and straw hats anyway, and looked totally in his element sitting there. After lunch we went shopping for souvenirs in a shell shop on the strip, then he went back to his hotel for a nap. He said to me, "It's nice here, but I could never live in a place with so much fresh air." That night, my wife reports (I was working elsewhere), he sang beautifully, holding the room mesmerized all during his songs, while between songs he would sit on his chair, hacking and coughing for a full two minutes. But I like that memory of him a lot, walking around on a sunny day, offshore breeze in the air, soaking up the tropics, laughing and being tourists.

1. Dave Van Ronk - Jersey State Stomp
Fast Folk Musical Magazine Feb 1982
"Whippany, Parsippany"

2 Dave Carter Tracey Grammer - Highway 80
Drum Hat Buddha - Signature Sounds
"its a mighty fine road"

3. Tamarack - Highway 17
13 - Folk Era
"this maps a game of join the dots...Nipigon to Marathon"

4  Devonsquare - By Bye Route 66
Bye Bye Route 66 - Atlantic
"the sign said go west"

5. Richard Shindell (Lowell George) - Willin'
Courier - Signature Sounds
"been from Tuscon to Tucumcari"

6 Fred Eaglesmith - Living out on the Road
Ralphs Last Show -(Live in Santa Cruz)- Signature Sounds
"Its another mile gone, but its another mile to go"

7. Kasey Chambers - Don't Talk Back
The Captain - Warner Bros.
"me and this road we got an understanding"

8 David Francey - Highway
Far End of Summer - self
"under the overpass rear mirror view"

9. Kristina Olsen - Headlights on the Highway
The Turth of a Woman - Take A Break Productions
"I've been driving all my life"

10. The Kennedys - Highway 10
Positively Live! - Jiffy Jam
instrumental

11 John Forster - Entering Marion
Entering Marion - Philo
"How grand to be entering Marion after tramping all over the state"

12 Ellis Paul - 3,000 Miles
Sweet Mistakes - self
"I've been a long long way"

13 Lynn Miles -  Sunset Blvd
Night In  A Strange Town
"the marlboro man is watching you on Sunset Blvd"

14 Terence Martin - Division Street
Division Street - self
instrumental

15  Rodney Crowell  - Telephone Road
The Houston Kid - Sugar Hill Records
"living is a trip on telephone Road"

16  Buddy Mondlock - Magnolia Street
Poetic Justice - Major Bob
"go collect your sweet petite and take her dancing down Magnolia Street"

17.  Zoe Lewis - Snail Road
Fishbone, Wishbone and Funnybone - self
"Take a walk on snail road, it will always be there for you, like I will"

18.  James Keelaghan - Hope Princeton Road
My Skies - Green Linnet
"Those words made some sense on the Hope Princeton Road"

19.   Mindy Jostyn - Rock City Road
Blue Stories - Prime CD
"somewhere south on highway 9"

20. Catie Curtis - Walk Along the Highway
My Shirt Looks Good on You - Ryko
"you don't want to walk along the highway in the cold december breeze"

21.  Rodney Brown - Journey's End
Into the Woods - self
"rolling past Kama Bay...thunder bay"

22. Debbie Diedrich - Ninety Miles Out
Ninety Miles Out -
"we are out here on this long highway"

23. Kitty Donohoe - No One on this Road
THis Road Tonight - Roheen Records
"he's leaving the midwest far behind"

24. BIll Staines - On the Road Again
October's Hill - Red House
"in another hotel, another old town"

25. Robert Paquete - The Rigodon
Prend Celui Qui Passe - self
"Petawawa, Mattawa, North Bay, Sturgeon, Verner, Warren Hagar Marsday..."

26. John Smith - Down A Gravel Road
To The Four Directions - self
"last night I went walking down a gravel road"

28. David Francey - Sumach Street
Torn Screen Door - self
"the last time I saw you you were walking on Sumach Street"

29. Mindy Jostyn - Cedar Lane
Cedar Lane - Palmetto
"they'd never see me back on Cedar Lane"

30. Darryl Purpose - Bryant Street
A Crooked Line - Tangible
the neighbourhood of Darryl's lost little sister

31. Rod MacDonald - Out in the Country
And Then He Woke Up - Gadfly
"there were new streets all around"

32. Dave Van Ronk - Another TIme and Place
Fast Folk Musical Magazine September 82
"each place I've been with you has been my home...
now I wonder on alone..."
"Id trade a year in heaven, for a day with you my dear"
"well meet agian where hills are green in another time and place"

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