Bin on a enfarced shart hi-8us fer a while now, too bizzy down at the peanut factry to play r lissen, but ahm back just in tym fer the holidays. This heres a speshul edishun of the Medley with all manor of warshipful music and festiv songs. Casey Bill Weldon, Almeda Riddle, John Jacob Niles, Jean Ritchie, Elzadie Robinson, the Rev JM Gates, Lil McLintock and many udder dropt by to carrel fer the Nowell. Get it raht cheer!

Turnd up at tha stayshun this mornin aftir a l8 nite and whaddayaknow we got more trubles up thar. N so tharfor I agin retreeted home n fard up the ole tin can for a parlerroom recordin. Turnd out alrite I tink. Bascam Lamar Lunsford, Elizabeth Washington, Fred Jordan, Chief Ngambe & his Entourage, Almeda Riddle, Fed Duprez, Irewolede Denge, Raoul Roy, Gavino del Lunas, A.C. & Blind Mamie Forehand, the Silver Leaf Quartet, Hymie Jacobson’s Orchestra and lotsa more lahk em come by and stayd awhile. Hear rot chere. (Imij vee-ya Mirroir)

Pee-Ess: Lahk me on the Faysbuk.

Minny motty dansible tunes this week! Fill it in yr spyne! Blind Boy Fuller, the Hokum Boys, Aristide Bruant, Frosty Lamb And Buzz Fountain, the Dixieland Jug Blowers, Martha Hall, “Tautu” Archer, the Mississippi Sheiks, Sara Martin, Eck Robertson, Horton Baker, Pink Anderson, Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles, and lotsa unidinnifyed hoedownrs from round the world… Get it rot chere! (Image via ClipART ETC [Thanks, Dolly!])

Apologeez for the d-lay. I got troubles and a worried mind this past week. Show came out all right, I reckon. That’s the thang about musik most times. Lydia Mendoza, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Trembita Orchestra, Sylvester Weaver, Oru Cantado, Frank Proffitt, Grigoras Dinicu, the Carter Family, and evin mor. Watchoo waitin’ fer? (Image via Vintij Nashunul Geografic Scanz)

The vuhsissytoods of college radio are menny, and but so tharfor mah lovinly polished All Haller’s Eve special dint make the airwaves this marnin. Honest, days loch this make me want to cut bait on dis buttcrack-o’-dawn showtime. Whellsir instead, I set up the old tin can back home and put together an extry long’n fer you. Purty proud o’ wut came out the utter end. Richul music, death chance, ghost starries, and murder ballads galore! Download if’n yore willin. (Image from The Illustrated Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Harry Clarke via Golden Age Comic Book Stories)

Purty fine show this morning spite me bein generally under the whether. Starting to feel mah whiskers in the studio. Zora Neale Hurston (above), Henry Burr, Dora Carr, Reşat Uysal, Blind Roozevelt Graves, Bert Williams, Casey Bill Weldon, Ellen Cohn, The Stanley Brothers, Harry Choates, and many more swung by to halp. Hear now.

Seein’ how this only my second pudcast mebbe yule fergive my clumsy voiceover and wobbily lang’age. I tried mah derndest to fix her up purty in the afterwards. These here music makurs might halp some: De Ford Bailey, Princess Magogo, Blind Uncle Gaspard, Marika Papagika, Sid Hemphill, Efisio Melis, Arizona Dranes, Antioco Marras, Curley Weaver, and many more unlike ‘em! Clik raht chere to git it. (image of Soviet fabric via Anglish Rusha)