We start with a tribute (of sorts) to Lee Andrews and the Hearts (pictured), then preview Louis Barabbas’ new album Gentle Songs of Ceaseless Horror, before moving on to our theme, taken from Robert Frost’s insistence on the need for literature to be “drama”, with support from Wendell Berry, Randy Newman, William McGonagall and Taj Mahal. It all leads into our (brief) look at Walt Whitman this week, supported by the Beatles, and the whole show closes with Michael Brecker. A broad enough range of items for you? Come along; you’re invited to attend.
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Why not give a gift of Evening under Lamplight – to you and those dear to you? All it takes is a click to listen to the show, which this month looks at different aspects of gifts: in Homer, in Irish fairy woods, on Broadway, from Spain, and, yes, at Christmas time too, though there’s something perverse about our Christmas gift songs. You are invited to attend to what’s on offer.
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Attend to Little Red Riding Hood – the story of all of us leaving the straight path to follow beauty into the woods and get swallowed into our community before being reborn as our whole self. Regular appearances by Dylan, the Kinks, and RLS, plus some silly songs and some freaky songs, and the song that Ed Sullivan told the Rolling Stones “Either that song goes or you go!” 
Red Hot (Billy Lee Riley, “Red Hot”)
Wooly Bully/Li’l Red Riding Hood (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, “Little Red Riding Hood”)
Percy (Kinks, “Just Friends”)
Tiptoe Through the Tulips: Resurrection (Tiny Tim, “Tiptoe through the Tulips”)
I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die (Country Joe and the Fish, “Pat’s Song”)
Between The Buttons (UK Version) (Rolling Stones, “Let’s Spend the Night Together”)
Down in the Groove (Bob Dylan, “Death Is Not the End”)
A Child’s Garden of Verses (Penny Books) (RLS, “Escape at Bedtime”)
