Video Premiere: "Swimmy Swim" - Little Miss Ann

One little conversation at an Elizabeth Mitchell concert, and before you know it Jeff Giles and Bill Childs are working on a Woody Guthrie tribute album.  It's called Keep Hoping Machine Running (the title is from list of New Year's resolutions from Woody in 1942), and it's being released July 31 on Childs' Spare the Rock Records.  Appropriately enough, given the 100th anniversary of Guthrie's birth, all net proceeds from sales will benefit the Woody Guthrie Foundation.

You can read more from Jeff about the album as well as see the complete tracklist, but I think listening to Chicago's Little Miss Ann perform her contribution ("Swimmy Swim") while a little video scrapbook explains how her track came to be might be even more worthwhile.  As with many of Guthrie's songs, "Swimmy Swim" is pretty simple in its construction, but Little Miss Ann and her band do right by the track.

 Little Miss Ann - "Swimmy Swim" [YouTube]

Radio Playlist: New Music January 2012

Time again to update the Zooglobble radio station, covering assorted tracks collected in the last couple months or so of 2012. (You can see my October 2011 playlist here.)

This playlist airs in the mid-afternoons (West Coast time), but if you can't listen in the afternoon, the tracks are scattered throughout the day, too. The listing below is in alphabetical order; the on-air play order is totally random (due to Internet music restrictions).

Bill Bailey - The Biscuit Brothers (Get Up & Go)
It's Not Fair - The Buzzniks (Bug Out)
Goldfinches - The Chickadees (The Froggy Hop)
Help - Cloud Cult (Minnesota Beatle Project Vol. 3)
Walk Away - Debbie And Friends (All About Bullies...Big And Small)
Sacagawea - The Deedle Deedle Dees (Strange Dees, Indeed)
Max The Wonder Dog - DidiPop (Everyday Adventure)
Samantha the Butterfly - Fox & Branch (Things Are Coming My Way!)
I've Been Playing In A Soul Band - Groove Kid Nation (Music In Motion)
Sugar Buzz - Jeanie B! And The Jelly Beans (Sugar Buzz)
Living Inside Of A Jar - Jim Gill (Jim Gill Presents Music Play For Folks Of All Stripes)
The Mixing Bowl - Kira Willey (Kings & Queens of the Forest)
Soldier’s Joy - Laura Veirs (Tumble Bee)
Sometimes - Little Miss Ann (Walk with Me)
Welcome To The Library - Melvil Dewey (Deweylicious! Library Hip Hop)
Bambas - Mujeres (Els Transports)
Masha And The Rain - Sasha Bondarev (Sand Castle)
Wrong Side Of The Bed - Soundzania (Soundzania Elementary School)
Stink Bug - We Kids Rock Band (We Kids Rock!)