Self Help Radio 010215: Cracked

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I cracked the new year.  Sorry.

Would you believe it came cracked already?  Do you remember how 2014 arrived?  The same people brought this year to us!  "Contents may settle during shipping" & all that.  I bet they dropped 2015 because they had too much to drink on New Year's Eve!

Anyway.  Here's a show about all kinds of cracks.  Plus there's an interview with David Fruchter, who has written a book called "The Autobiography Of Crack," & Marge Most reports on Lexington's crack epidemic, & I talk to the enigmatic creative type who calls herself "The Artist Later Known As Craquelure."  All that & lots of music, too!

The show is at the Self Help Radio website.  Pay attention to rudimentary login/password info.  That keeps malicious bots from shutting down my site.  The songs I played are listed below.

Happy new year!  Thanks for listening!

(part one)

"Cracked" Happy Birthday _Happy Birthday_
"Crackin' Up" Bo Diddley _Go Bo Diddley_
"Cracking Up" Nick Lowe _Labour Of Lust_

"Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)" Pete Seeger _American Favorite Ballads, Volume 1_
"Cracker Jack" Janis Martin _The Female Elvis: The Complete Recordings, 1956-1960_
"Mein Herz Hat Einen Knacks" Liani Covi _Mein Herz Hat Einen Knacks_
"Alle Frauen Dieser Welt" Gerhard Wendland _Pop In Germany, Vol. 2_
"Crackity Jones (Demo)" The Pixies _Doolittle 25_
"She's Crackin' Up" Cosmic Psychos _Go The Hack_

"Facts About Crack" Trendy _I'm Just The Other Woman_
"Who's Got The Crack?" The Moldy Peaches _The Moldy Peaches_
"All The Young Children On Crack" Television Personalities _My Dark Places_
"Genius Of Crack" Tsunami _World Tour & Other Destinations_

"Cracka" Mike Birbiglia _Two Drink Mike_
"Stuff Up The Cracks" The Mothers Of Invention _Cruising With Ruben & The Jets_

(part two)

"Cracks In The Sidewalk" The # 1 _The Collector_
"Stepping On The Cracks" Green Peppers _Domino Mornings_
"Cracked Wheat" The Go-Betweens _Send Me A Lullaby_

"Cracked Actor" David Bowie _Aladdin Sane_
"She Cracked" The Modern Lovers _The Modern Lovers_
"Crack" Big Black _The Hammer Party_
"Suzi Crack" Arts & Decay _Shadowjesus_

"Crackin' Up Over You" Roy Hamilton _Dark End Of The Street, 1963-1969: The Operatic Soul Of Roy Hamilton_
"Cracked Up Over You" Lee Rogers _Rare Soul 45s_
"Crack In The Sidewalk" House Of Freaks _Monkey On A Chain Gang_
"Cracked Open" The Manhattan Love Suicides _Burnt Out Landscapes_

"I Can't Crack" Furniture _The Lovemongers_
"Crack-Dream-Over" Data Bank A _The Birth Of Tragedy_