Sunday Morning Over Easy Playlist 11/22/09

It's been a busy couple of weeks and I haven't been updating this as much as I would have liked. But, at least as a start, here's the playlist from today's Sunday Morning Over Easy.

Hour One (8:00-9:00am US EST)
David Gray – Silver Lining (from White Ladder)
Air – Cherry Blossom Girl (radio mix from the song's single)
G. Love & Special Sauce – Peace, Love, Happiness (from Superhero Brother)
Counting Crows – Sullivan Street (from August and Everything After)
Soulsavers – All the Way Down (from their new album Broken)
Jump Little Children – Words of Wisom (from Vertigo)
Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You Into the Dark (from Plans)
Ben Folds w/ Regina Spektor – You Don't Know Me (from Way to Normal)
R.E.M. – Find the River (from Automatic for the People)
Sufjan Stevens – Chicago (from Illinoise)
Iron & Wine – Belated Promise Ring (from the new album Around the Well)
Jack Johnson – Go On (from Sleep Through the Static)
Matisyahu – One Day (from Light)
Tori Amos – I Don't Like Mondays (from the covers album Strange Little Girls)
Jason Lytle – Brand New Sun (from the new album Yours Truly The Commuter)

Hour Two (9:00-10:00am)
Cowboy Junkies – One (U2 cover from Early 21st Century Blues)
Dave Matthews Band – Where Are You Going (from Busted Stuff)
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Say Hey (from All Rebel Rockers)
Damien Rice – Cannonball (radio remix from the song's single)
Bon Iver – Blood Bank (title track to their latest album)
Jamie Cullum – All At Sea (from Twentysomething)
Guster – Careful (from Keep it Together)
Blitzen Trapper – Furr (title track to their last album)
10,000 Maniacs – Let the Mystery Be (from the bonus disc to Campfire Songs)
Amos Lee – Keep it Loose, Keep it Tight (from his self-titled debut album)
Owl City – Fireflies (from Ocean Eyes)
Coldplay – The Scientist (from A Rush of Blood to the Head)
Brett Dennen – Ain't No Reason (from So Much More)
Jem – Just a Ride (from Finally Woken)
The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You (title track to their must-have album)

Hour Three (10:00-11:00am)
Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal (from their eponymous debut album)
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals – Steal My Kisses (from Burn to Shine)
Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don't Stand a Chance (from Vampire Weekend)
Oasis – Songbird (from Heathen Chemistry)
Imogen Heap – First Train Home (from Ellipse)
Angie Aparo – Champagne Supernova (Oasis cover from his One With the Sun)
Bob Marley – One Love/People Get Ready (from Legend)
Vetiver – Everyday (from Tight Knit)
The Cranberries – Ode to My Family (from No Need to Argue)
Rufus Wainwright – Across the Universe (Beatles cover from I Am Sam )
Bob Schneider – 40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet) (from Lovely Creatures)
The Verve – Lucky Man (from Urban Hymns)
Rilo Kiley – Silver Linking (from Under the Backlight)
The Jayhawks – Blue (from Tomorrow the Green Grass)
Gomez – Little Pieces (from A New Tide)

Hour Four (11:00am-Noon)
Jay Brannan – Soda Shop (from the Short Bus soundtrack)
The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes (from Give Up)
Donavon Frankenreiter – Life, Love & Laughter (from Pass It Around)
Mazzy Star – Fade Into You (from So Tonight That I Might See)
Ed Harcourt – Sour Milk, Motheaten Silk (from his new album Russian Roulette)
Groove Armada – Hands of Time (from Lovebox)
Meiko – Boys with Girlfriends (from her eponymous debut album)
Eddie Vedder – You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (also from the I Am Sam)
Ziggy Marley – Love is My Religion (acoustic) (a bonus track on the song's single)
Phoenix – Lisztomania (from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix)

and we wrapped it up with our new unofficial theme song...

Gritch – Sunday Morning Train (from the EP of the same name)

Happy Halloween

We're a day early, but to get you in the spirit of Halloween here's a classic live performance of Werewolves of London from the great American songwriter Warren Zevon. Check out his piano playing on the bridge and his shout-out to Joe Strummer of The Clash.

This guy is missed.

Happy Birthday to Peter Timmins

If you aren't a Cowboy Junkies fan, you're missing out. Today is the 44th birthday of the band's guitarist and sometimes-vocalist Peter Timmins. Here is with sister Margo and the rest of the band with the song that started it all for them: a cover of Lou Reed's Sweet Jane.

Happy Birthday Ben Harper

Best known for his work with the Innocent Criminals and now with Relentless7, this singer and activist turns 40 today. Here he is with "Ground on Down" from his 1995 solo album Fight For Your Mind.

The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You

It's our most requested new song right now. Enjoy the vid!

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Meanwhile, the best way to get is our alternate email address: rooradio@gmail.com.

Cheers!

Sunday Morning Over Easy: Why?

One of the cardinal rules of internet radio programming, so the experts say, is that stations should never, ever, ever run specialty shows. The argument goes like this: terrestrial stations have limited competition, and specialty programming on weekends can expand the station audience without alienating core listeners. Internet radio, by contrast, has such a diversity of offerings that each station should stick with its own format; listeners should always get the same thing when tune into a given station because they can always go somewhere else if they want something different.

I disagree. I would like to believe that the thousands of people who tune into Roo Radio each week do so because they trust our programming staff to have excellent tastes in music. Some of the music we like, though, might not be the sort of thing that we want to play everyday. It might be too experimental, too down-tempo, or maybe too chill to provide the soundtrack to 9 to 5 office work. And so we bring you this kind of music every Sunday from 8:00am to Noon (eastern) on a show we call Sunday Morning Over Easy. It's not exactly the sort of stuff you hear in a normal Roo Radio playlist, but it's good stuff that we think deserves to be heard. And because it's more mellow and laid-back, it's the perfect accompaniment to a Sunday morning, whether you're recovering in bed from the night before, sitting on the sofa with the Sunday Times, or doing some work in your home office.

For a better sense of the show, here's the playlist from today:

Hour One
Jamie Cullum – All at Sea
Coldplay – Shiver
Vetiver – Everday
Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
Soulsavers – All the Way Down
Joseph Arthur – Even Tho
Bell X1 – Rocky Took a Lover
Michael Franti – Hey World
U2 – If God Will Send His Angels
Jason Lytle – Brand New Sun
Massive Attack – Teardrop
Damien Rice – 9 Crimes
The Beautiful South – Rotterdam (or Anywhere)
Counting Crows – Sullivan Street
Ben Harper & Relentless7 – Fly One Time

Hour Two
10,000 Maniacs – Verdi Cries
Wilco – Kamera
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
Bob Marley – Coming in from the Cold
Ed Harcourt – Sour Milk, Motheaten Silk
Cowboy Junkies – A Common Disaster
Jump Little Children – Mexico
Blitzen Trapper – Furr
Rusted Root – Ecstasy
Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
Chuck Prophet – Summertime Thing
Regina Spektor – On the Radio
Keane – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Wallflowers – Three Marlenas
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson – Relator

Hour Three
Ben Taylor – Lady Magic
Travis – Why Does It Always Rain on Me?
Great Lake Swimmers – Pulling on a Line
The Cranberries – Ode to My Family
Brett Dennen – Ain't No Reason
Beth Orton – Central Reservation (remix)
My Morning Jacket – Wordless Chorus
Jem – Just a Ride
R.E.M. – Nightswimming
Iron & Wine – Belated Promise Ring
The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes
David Gray – Be Mine

Hour Four
Ryan Adams – Wonderwall
Primitive Radio Gods – Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth...
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
Air – Cherry Blossom Girl
Jack Johnson – Banana Pancakes
G. Love & Special Sauce – Peace, Love, Happiness
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories – Do You Sleep?
Matisyahu – One Day
Rufus Wainwright – Across the Universe
Tori Amos – A Sorta Fairytale
Gomez – See the World
Dave Matthews – Gravedigger (acoustic)
Imogen Heap – First Train Home