KUNM – Ear To The Ground is broadcast on Saturdays 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Hosted by Matthew Finch. Is a local music showcase, featuring live performances by local talent. The UNM Honky Tonk Ensemble was featured in December. Listen here.
Class co-facilitators: Dr. Kristina Jacobsen and Alex McMahon
UNM Honky Tonk Fall 2021 class: Sue Cahn von Seelen, Jackie Jones, Eva Stricker, Grace Weaver
Recorded by KUNM
Interviewed, Engineered, and Recorded by KUNM Music Director Matthew Finch for the 12/11/21 episode of “Ear to the Ground.”“Your Cheating Heart” by Patsy ClineVocals & Guitar – Alex McMahonGuitar – Jackie JonesGuitar – Sasha ArteagaFiddle – Eva StrickerFiddle – Sue Cahn von SeelenBackup vocal & Piano – Grace Weaver“Hello Darlin'” by Conway TwittyVocals – Eva StrickerGuitar – Alex McMahonGuitar – Sasha ArteagaFiddle – Sue Cahn von SeelenBack up vocal & Piano – Grace Weaver“Two Glasses Joe” by Ernest TubbGuitar and Vocals – Alex McMahonGuitar and Vocals – Sasha AtreagaGuitar and Vocals – Jackie JonesFiddle and Vocals – Eva StrickerFIddle and Vocals – Sue Cahn von SeelenPiano and Vocals – Grace Weaver“She’s all I got” by Johnny PaycheckVocals – Sue Cahn von SeelenGuitar and Backup vocals – Alex McMahonGuitar and Backup vocals – Sasha ArteagaGuitar and Backup vocals – Jackie JonesFiddle and Backup vocals – Eva StrickerPiano and Backup vocals – Grace Weaver
“Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar)” by Jean ShepherdGuitar and Vocals – Sasha ArteagaGuitar – Alex McMahonGuitar – Jackie JonesFiddle – Eva StrickerFiddle – Sue Cahn von SeelenPiano – Grace Weaver“Dead of Night” by Orville PeckVocals and Guitar – Jackie JonesGuitar and Backup vocals – Alex McMahonGuitar and Backup vocals – Sasha ArteagaFiddle and Backup vocals – Eva StrickerFiddle and Backup vocals – Sue Cahn von SeelenPiano and Backup vocals – Grace Weaver
“The Way it Goes” By Gillian WelchVocals and Guitar – Alex McMahonVocals and Guitar – Jackie JonesGuitar – Sasha ArteagaFiddle – Eva StrickerFiddle – Sue Cahn von SeelenPiano – Grace Weaver
You Can’t Tell It Like I Can: Black Women, Music, and the Struggle for Social Justice in America
This lecture/performance explores how black women have used music as a method of shaping the public rhetoric and sentiment surrounding the black civil rights struggle in America. Through a historical framework that moves through the height of the abolitionist movement, the Popular front during the 1930s and 1940s, the frontlines of the direct action campaigns of the 1960s, and the proliferation of the Black Power movement in the 1970s.
An Americanish Songbook: Linda Ronstadt’s “other” Country
This talk will consider performances and recordings by singer Linda Ronstadt to propose what I refer to as her Americanish musical songbook. The suffix “ish” here intends to accentuate the “somewhat” or “to some extent” of “American” that Ronstadt—Tucson born and raised—lived and sonically imagined through her extraordinary musical career.
Arab Musicking on the U.S.–Mexico Border
This talk explores the relationship between trauma and identity by examining Arab music performance on the U.S.–Mexico border. Drawing on the musicking of Syrian and Mexican migrant communities, I interrogate theories of cultural and psychological trauma and borderland epistemologies to explore how border tensions influence the often-fraught views of identity.