Annual Halloween special with live interview and performance with Tim Ericson. Tim performs "northern roots music" - largely from New England, also southern, accapella, shape note, latin jazz with Omar Sosa. He's is a musicologist who teaches at Wesleyan.
CDs are Every Sound Below (Appalseed) Northern Roots Live in Namest (Indies Scope) Cold Mountain - Movie Soundtrack (DMZ Columbia). With Omar Sosa - Across the Divide. Formerly with Cordelia's Dad.
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year | ||
| Vernon Oxford | Bringing Mary Home | Keepin It Country | Rounder | 1982 | 1:03 | 3:06 |
| Christy Moore | The Reel in the Flickering Light | Ordinary Man | Green Linnet | 1985 | 1:06 | 4:32 |
| Hank Williams | Alone and Forsaken | Alone with his Guitar | Mercury | 2000 | 1:08 | 1:56 |
| John Hiatt | Crossing Muddy Waters | Crossing Muddy Waters | Vanguard | 2000 | 1:10 | 4:05 |
| Johnny Fuller | Haunted House | Rock N Roll Dance Party of the 50s | Specialty | 1956 | 1:16 | 4:00 |
| T Bone Burnett | Zombieland | The True False Identity | DMZ | 2006 | 1:20 | 4:00 |
| Tom Waits | Clap Hands | Rain Dogs | Island | 1985 | 1:24 | 3:47 |
| 5 Jones Boys | Mr. Ghost Goes to Town | Rhythm Quartets in the 30s The Human Orchestra | Clanka Lanka | 1985 | 1:28 | 3:00 |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | No Headstone on my Grave | A Half Century of Hits | Time Life | 2006 | 1:31 | 4:00 |
| Screamin Jay Hawkins | Little Demon | Voodoo Jive | Rhino | 1990 | 1:36 | 3:00 |
| Dixie Chicks | Goodby Earl | Fly | Monument | 1999 | 1:40 | 4:00 |
| Pogues | Wild Cats of Kilkenny | Rum Sodomy and the Lash | MCA | 1985 | 1:44 | 2:44 |
| Bruce Molsky | Wolves a Howling | Lost Boy | Rounder | 1996 | 1:48 | 3:31 |
| Shawn Camp | Soldiers Joy 1864 | Live at the Station Inn | Oh Boy | 2003 | 1:52 | 3:00 |
| Buell Kazee | The Butcher Boy | Anthology of American Folk Music | Smithsonian | 1997 | 1:55 | 4:00 |
| Tim Ericksen | Live Interview | O Death | Live | 2009 | 2:05 | 4:00 |
| Tim Eriksen | Live Interview | Omie Wise | Live | 2009 | 2:15 | 5:00 |
| Tim Eriksen | Live Interviw | Every Sound Below | Live | 2009 | 2:20 | 4:00 |
| Tim Eriksen | Live Interview | Friendship | Live | 2009 | 2:30 | 4:00 |
| Tim OBrien | Mick Ryans Lament | Two Journeys | Howdy Skies | 2001 | 2:35 | 4:00 |
| Sylvia Herold | The Widows Promise | A Bowl of Crystal Tears | Self | 1997 | 2:39 | 4:55 |
| Beausoleil | Zydeco gris gris | Bayou Boogie | Rounder | 1986 | 2:45 | 3:37 |
| Shel Silverstein | Bury Me In My Shades | Inside Folk Songs | Atlantic | 1962 | 2:47 | 3:19 |
| Webb Pierce and Red Sovine | Little Rosa | Shit Happens! | Bear | 2007 | 2:50 | 3:17 |
| Ray Bierl | Big Joe and Phantom 309 | Any Place I Hang My Hat | Greasy String Productions | 2007 | 2:54 | 7:09 |
