Been thinking about woodpeckers a lot. Here, I usually only see Northern Flickers - I don't mind them, but to me, they aren't that classic woodpecker look - the media has convinced me that the true woodpecker is that glossy, black and white with a real sheen of red feathers atop their noble head; who is the most woodiest of woodpeckers, if not somebird who looks like that guy from The Fox and The Hound flick?

But y'know what? Northern Flickers are as woodpecker as they come. Just ask the trees. Judge a bird by what they do, not how they look. And they're pecking wood, look at the holes left and grubs found. For the Northern Flicker, I am grateful. Enjoy some blues, gospel, folk, country, and jazz that even a Northern Flicker would love.

Playlist:

• Ispini Na hEireann - The Town of Ballybay
• Emily Triggs - Rough In The Ring
• Mariel Buckley - Casting Stones
• Noah Zacharin - Lester Brown
• Alain Bédard Auguste Quartet - A Goose Story
• David Zucchi - Hello/Goodbye
• Nicola Miller - Poplar
• Brûlez les meubles - Vagues/Spider Song
• The Louvin Brothers - I'll Live With God (To Die No More)
• Jay Coda Walker & Pete Johnson - Ya Did, Done, Do Me
• The Georgia Brooks Singers - You Can't Make It
• FRANDER - Svarta Sparvens Sorg
• The Rankin Family - Fiddle Medley: Lime Hill/Keep The Country Bonnie Lassie/Jack Daniel's Reel/ Little Donald In The Pig Pen
• The Albion Band - Tommytoes
• Mountain City Four - All The Good Times
• Eric Bibb, featuring Taj Mahal - Goin' Down Slow
• Cowboy Junkies - You Will Be Loved Again
• Billy Joe Green - Sabaskong Blues
• Howlin' Wolf - Oh Red
• Big Maybelle - Candy
• Bill Frisell - Trosper
• 100 Mile House - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
• Mary Margaret O'Hara - Florida
• Edith Piaf - L'Etranger
• The Fall - Hard Life In Country