Episode 1 Transatlantic Sessions

-Wow! Who chose this place?

-What do you think, guys?

Well, that's a fine old pile.

-Pretty good, eh?

-It's gonna work for me.

We're here for Transatlantic Sessions,

Volume Three.

Volume Three. And Jerry and I are MDs - musical directors.

-That's what they call us, musical directors.

-Which is a very important job.

That's what I keep tellin' ya.

Yeah, yeah. And I keep forgetting!

HE LAUGHS

-'We've got Joan Osborne coming this time.

-Yeah.

'And I'm... I really pulled hard to bring her because'

she cuts such a wide swath in American music these days.

# She's down on the corner

# Just a little crime

# When I make my money

# Got to get my dime

# She down with her baby

# Wind is full of trash

# She's bold as a streetlight

# Dark and sweet as hash

# Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon

# Oh, St Teresa

# Higher than the moon

# Reach down for the sweet stuff

# Way she looks at me

# I know any man sees you like I see

# Follow down the side street

# Move in single file

# She said, "That's where I'll hold you

# "sleepin' like a child"

# Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon

# Oh, St Teresa

# Higher than the moon

# Oooh oooh

# Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

# Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

# You crawled up in the sky

# You crawled up in the clouds

# Is there something you forgot to tell me?

# Tell me?

# Tell me?

# Tell me, tell me, tell me?

# Show me, my Teresa, feel it rise in me

# Every stone a story

# Like a ro-o-o-sary. #

'I was really amazed at the way, you know, one by one everybody sort of fell into that group mind state,

'and these are people who only met each other recently.'

You usually wait for you know months and months, playing together with the same musicians

to get that kind of group mind cohesion.

And these guys, you know, are right there after three or four times of running the song.

# It was on one bright March morning

# I bid New Orleans adieu

# And I took the road to Jackson Town

# My fortune to renew

# I cursed all foreign money No credit could I gain

# Which filled my heart with longing For the lakes of Pontchartrain

# Well I stepped on board of a railroad car

# Beneath the morning sun

# I rode the rods till evening

# And I laid me down again

# All strangers there, no friends to me

# Till a dark girl towards me came

# And I fell in love with a Creole girl

# By the lakes of Pontchartrain

# I said, "Me pretty Creole girl My money here's no good

# "And if it weren't for the alligators

# "I'd sleep out in the wood"

# "You're welcome here, kind stranger Our house is very plain

# "But we never turned a stranger out On the banks of Pontchartrain"

# She took me into her mammy's house And she treated me right well

# The hair upon her shoulders In jet black ringlets fell

# To try to paint her beauty I'm sure it would be in vain

# So handsome was my Creole girl By the lakes of Pontchartrain

# I asked her if she'd marry me She said that this could never be

# For she had got a lover And he was far at sea

# She said that she would wait for him

# And true she would remain

# Till he'd return to his Creole girl By the Lakes of Pontchartrain

# So fare thee well, me bonny own girl

# I never may see you more

# But I'll ne'er forget your kindness In the cottage by the shore

# And at each social gathering A flowing glass I'll drain

# And I'll drink a health to my Creole girl

# By the lakes of Pontchartrain. #

Russ Barenberg's here again, for the third time.

He's a guitar player who can cover every base

and is a very tasteful musician,

knows when to play notes and when not to play.

GUITAR PLAYS

MUSIC ENDS

# Bhi a da, u a iodailean I bhi a da adail iodail u-an

# Bhi a da, u a iodailean I bhi a da adail iodail u-an

# Ciamar a ruidhleas mo nighean 'S dithis as a'rathad oirre?

# Ciamar a ruidhleas mo nighean 'S ceathrair air an urlar

# Ciamar a ruidhleas mo nighean 'S dithis as a'rathad oirre?

# Ciamar a ruidhleas mo nighean 'S ceathrair air an urlar

# 'S ioma rud a chunna mi 'S ioma rud a rinn mi

# 'S ioma rud a chunna mise A-muigh air feadh na h-oidhche

# 'S ioma rud a chunna mi 'S ioma rud a rinn mi

# 'S ioma rud a chunna mise A-muigh air feadh na h-oidhche

# Chunna mi na cudaigean Na cudaigean, na cudaigean

# Chunna mi na cudaigean A'cluich air allt na muilleadh

# Chunna mi na cudaigean Na cudaigean, na cudaigean

# Chunna mi na cudaigean A'cluich air allt na muilleadh

# 'S ioma rud a chunna mi 'S ioma rud a rinn mi

# 'S ioma rud a chunna mise A-muigh air feadh na h-oidhche

# 'S ioma rud a chunna mi 'S ioma rud a rinn mi

# 'S ioma rud a chunna mise A-muigh air feadh na h-oidhche

# Chunna mi na piseagan Na piseagan, na piseagan

# Chunna mi na piseagan Air spiris bean an t-saighdeir

# Chunna mi na piseagan Na piseagan, na piseagan

# Chunna mi na piseagan Air spiris bean an t-saighdeir... #

SHE SINGS MEDLEY OF SONGS

When it's your turn, you know, you bring in your song...

..and kind of work it out like right now. And...

And then, you know, play it a number of times on camera

and basically go to the next one. So it's really organic.

It really builds itself from the song up.

# Well, it's fare thee well my true love

# The song is in the air

# I hear the West a-calling

# We'll see what's for me there

# With the sun I'm leaving

# I'll be Montana bound

# Ain't no use in grieving

# I'll show you what I've found

# Show you want I've found

# Yes, some folks have it easy

# At least that's how it seems

# They reach up and pick an apple

# Reach up and find a dream

# Some travel in the darkness

# And rest up in the shade

# Some wrestle with their demons

# And face them unafraid

# We argue for our better selves

# We only ask for more

# We take the mirror from the shelf

# And find the open door

# Find the open door. #

# I love you with a fever

# I love you with a past

# My heart is the keeper

# As long as it will last

# As long as it will last

# I'll tell you what I know

# We walk this road together

# Then we walk this road alone. #

MUSIC ENDS

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