The Hear and Now, for December 20, 2012 - 10:00pm
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Playlist for this Program:
| Artist | Song | Album | Label |
| Show Start | Talk | ||
| Merle Haggard | If We Make It Through December | The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology | Razor & Tie |
| Jesse & Scout DeNatale | Deck the Halls | mp3 single | Jesse DeNatale |
| Rosie Flores | The End of the World | A Honky Tonk Reprise | Rounder |
| Richard & Linda Thompson | The End of the Rainbow | I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight | Island |
| Lambchop | Autumn's Vicar | Lambchop Is a Woman | Merge |
| Simon & Garfunkel | Silent Night/7 O'Clock News | Collected Works | Columbia |
| Talk | |||
| Wes "Scoop" Nisker | Newscast: Apocalypso! | The Big Bang, the Buddha and the Baby Boom | Wes Nisker |
| Firesign Theatre | Going, Going, Gone a la Blonde | Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death | Rhino |
| Elvis Costello | Waiting for the End of the World | My Aim Is True | Rhino |
| R.E.M. | It's the End of the World As We Know It | Document | I.R.S. |
| Fairport Convention | Fotheringay | Four Decades of Folk Rock | Time Life |
| Barry McGuire | Eve of Destruction | Four Decades of Folk Rock | Time Life |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | Bad Moon Rising | Creedence Clearwater Revival (Box) | Fantasy |
| Tom Waits | The Earth Died Screaming | Bone Machine | Island |
| Talk | |||
| Mekons | Winter | OOOH! Out of Our Heads | Quarterstick |
| Talk | |||
| Graham Parker and the Rumour | Stop Crying About the Rain | Three Chords Good | Primary Wave |
| Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings | Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects | Mojo's Festive Fifteen | MOJO |
| Darlene Love | White Christmas | A Christmas Gift for You | ABKCO |
| Stan Freberg | Green Christmas | Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time | Rhino |
| John Zorn | Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! | John Zorn's A Dreamer's Christmas | Tzadik |
| Talk | |||
| Mose Allison | Ever Since the World Ended | The Mose Chronicles--Live in London, Volume 1 | Blue Note |
| Loudon Wainwright III | Last Man on Earth | Last Man on Earth | Red House |
| Bruce Cockburn | Last Night of the World | Breakfast in New Orleans | Ryko |
| Traveling Wilburys | End of the Line | The Traveling Wilburys Collection | Rhino |
| Tracy Nelson | When It All Comes Down | In the Here and Now | Rounder |
| Talk | |||
| U2 | Until the End of the World | Achtung Baby | Island |
| George Harrison | All Things Must Pass | Songs by George Harrison | Capitol |
| The Beatles | The End | Abbey Road | Capitol |
| Frank Sinatra | Good-Bye | Sings for Only the Lonely | Capitol |
| Talk |











Comments
I am trying to hear it but it seems only the intro cut will play. Please fix.
Those were good choices Derk. Do that again the next time the world ends. See you later Derk...Derk... are you there? Where did everybody go?