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In The Tradition (Wed)

Aug 28, 2019 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Folk

With Diane Sutter

Two hours of traditional and contemporary folk, old time, blues, Americana and roots music.

In The Tradition  (Wed)
7:00 PM
Foy Vance - Wind Blows Chloe
Foy Vance Wind Blows Chloe Foy Vance
Wind Blows Chloe Gingerbread Man Records 2019 Americana GBAHS1900918

Recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Studio in Memphis, TN.

7:04 PM
The Wayfarers - Cold Frosty Morning
The Wayfarers Cold Frosty Morning Traditional
Fire on the Hillside The Wayfarers 2012 Appalachian USHM81228704

Great band from rural Southeast Ohio.

7:10 PM
Rolling Stones - No Expectations
Rolling Stones No Expectations Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Acoustic Motherf##kers (1968-1993) Kobra 1994 Folk

Collection of unreleased acoustic versions of some iconic Stones songs, comprised of excellent soundboard recordings. This track was recorded in Olympic Sound Studios in London in the late ‘60’s.

7:12 PM
Rubye Blevins (The Montana Cowgirl) - Montana Plains
Rubye Blevins (The Montana Cowgirl) Montana Plains
Banjo Pickin’ Girl - Women In Early Country Music, Vol. 1 Rounder 1990 Country

Rubye became the well-known Patsy Montana. Recorded in Chicago, 1933. The accompanying string band is The Prairie Ramblers. It’s a reworking of a song originally called "Texas Plains". FYI: PBS will broadcast 'Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music' over Labor Day weekend.

7:13 PM
Daniel Norgren - Dandelion Time
Daniel Norgren Dandelion Time Daniel Norgren
Wooh Dang Superpuma Records 2019 Americana SEXHB1800203

Recorded live and entirely on a 16-track analog rig, without guitar tuners, the album captures the close chemistry between Norgren and his band. It’s the first international release for this Swedish artist. He and the band are playing at the Brighton Music Hall in Boston on 9/28.

7:19 PM
DeAnna J Cartea - Cover Me
DeAnna J Cartea Cover Me DeAnna J Cartea
Second Chance (Songs I Wrote for You) Creative and Dreams Music Network 2015 Folk USDHM1530425

Cartea grew up in Regina, Saskachewan.

7:22 PM
Gerry Beckley - Life Lessons
Gerry Beckley Life Lessons Gerry Beckley, Bill Mumy
Life Lessons Blue Elan Records LLC 2019 Americana QM5QG1918401

Co-founder of the band America, who are touring in celebration of their 50-year anniversary!

7:26 PM
Dale Ann Bradley - The Hard Way Every Time
Dale Ann Bradley The Hard Way Every Time Jim Croce
The Hard Way Pinecastle Records 2019 Bluegrass USWHN1801643

Bradley recorded and performed with the New Coon Creek Girls, joined the Gap Creek Quartet, then was a member of the all-female band Sister Sadie. She finally broke out as a solo artist in the late ‘90’s, and has released 11 albums. This is from her latest.

7:30 PM
Tyler Childers - Creeker
Tyler Childers Creeker Tyler Childers
Country Squire Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records 2019 Americana USRC11901119
Childers’ hard-livin’ Kentucky roots are showing in every song on his new album.
7:35 PM
Lillie Mae - Crisp & Cold
Lillie Mae Crisp & Cold Lillie Mae Rische
Other Girls Third Man Records 2019 Americana US3JJ1900154

Album produced by Dave Cobb.

7:39 PM
Sons of New York - Sisters Start Your Own Damn Church
Sons of New York Sisters Start Your Own Damn Church Roger Campo
American Dream Campo Music 2019 Americana QM9AA1875285

Sons of New York is singer/songwriter Roger Campo’s band project and third album.

7:44 PM
Tanya Tucker - Rich
Tanya Tucker Rich Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth, Phil Hanseroth
While I'm Livin' Fantasy 2019 Country USC4R1906937

Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, the album is Tucker’s first new material since 2002’s Tanya. The 60-year-old country singer shot to fame with “Delta Dawn” in 1972 at 13 and appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone at 15.

7:47 PM
Leo Kottke - Why Can't You Fix My Car
Leo Kottke Why Can't You Fix My Car Leo Kottke
My Father's Face BMG Music 1989 Folk USPM18901100

Album produced by T Bone Burnett.

7:50 PM
Laura Mae Socks - Truer Sound
Laura Mae Socks Truer Sound Laura Mae Socks
Where You Go Roundup Records 2019 Americana QZFZ41933919

Socks grew up in a trailer without running water amid the economic desolation of Appalachia. Her father was a hay farmer and her mother was the “queen of the town weirdos.” She says of this song, ‘I wanted to capture that nostalgic emotion… being somewhere physically, and somewhere completely different emotionally.”

7:54 PM
Robbie Robertson - Let Love Reign [ft. Glen Hansard]
Robbie Robertson Let Love Reign [ft. Glen Hansard] Robbie Robertson
Sinematic UME Direct 2019 Americana USUG11901789

This track, from Robertson’s first solo release since 2011’s How To Become Clairvoyant, is a plea for peace. Robertson’s done a lot of work over the years scoring and producing film soundtracks. His new, album, Sinematic, to be released September 20, unites his musical and cinematic worlds. Sinematic comes out about the same time as a documentary film about Robertson, 'Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band', which will include commentary from Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, David Geffen and other Band associates, along with rare footage and photographs.

7:59 PM
Eliza Gilkyson - Baby's Waking
Eliza Gilkyson Baby's Waking Eliza Gilkyson
Hard Times In Babylon Red House Records 2000 Americana USRHR0014607

Gilkyson has been called “steady, solid, and tasteful… offering [her music] up to the world without trying to be the next big trend.”

8:02 PM
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Simple Man
Robert Randolph & The Family Band Simple Man Roebuck "Pops" Staples
Simple Man Provogue Records 2019 Gospel NLB931901603

Considered the top performer in Sacred Steel today. Album produced by Dave Cobb.

8:07 PM
Dwight Diller - Sally's a-Siftin' Sand
Dwight Diller Sally's a-Siftin' Sand Traditional
Jericho Road Dwight Diller 2004 Appalachian USCGJ1533788

I know this tune also goes by another name. Can anyone help me with this?

8:07 PM
Gretchen Peters - Say Grace
Gretchen Peters Say Grace Gretchen Peters
Dancing With the Beast Scarlet Letter Records 2018 Americana USJ481800009

Backing Vocal - Kim Richey; Dobro - Jerry Douglas; Electric Guitar - Will Kimbrough.

8:14 PM
David Crosby - Other Half Rule
David Crosby Other Half Rule David Crosby, Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis, Michael League
Here If You Listen BMG 2018 Folk QMRSZ1801357

‘casts a rueful eye over the trigger-happy world of “blind men”, “Rocket man” and “little hands” and calls for women to run the planet.’

8:19 PM
Malvina Reynolds - The Faucets Are Dripping
Malvina Reynolds The Faucets Are Dripping Malvina Reynolds
Best of Broadside 1962-1988, Disc 4 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2000 Folk USESK1318242

Originally released on ‘Malvina Reynolds accompanied by Erik Darling - Another Country Heard From’ in 1960.

8:23 PM
Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster - Take Heart, Take Care
Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster Take Heart, Take Care Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster
Take Heart, Take Care Big Legal Mess Records 2019 Folk US2HK1956505

‘eschewing his previous themes of darkness in favor of rosier vistas’ on this album. On writing these new songs, Kinkel-Schuster says he was ‘starting from scratch, learning to express something good in a way that didn’t feel cheap or silly or disingenuous to me.’

8:29 PM
Lucinda Williams - Lafayette
Lucinda Williams Lafayette Lucinda Williams
Happy Woman Blues Folkways Records 1980 Americana USSF19000301
From Lucinda’s second album, way back in 1980.
8:33 PM
Duck Baker - I Found a New Baby
Duck Baker I Found a New Baby Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams
The King of Bongo Bong Kicking Mule Records 1977 Folk USL361100053

Fingerstyle guitar performer and teacher.

8:37 PM
Lightnin' Hopkins - The Woman I Am Loving, She's Taken My Appetite
Lightnin' Hopkins The Woman I Am Loving, She's Taken My Appetite Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins
The Newport Folk Festival Rolled Gold Classics 2011 Blues USA371433436

Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

8:40 PM
Donna the Buffalo - Spinning World
Donna the Buffalo Spinning World Tara Nevins
Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday Concord Sugar Hill 2013 Rock USSH51301671
8:45 PM
Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Cordelia
Geoff & Maria Muldaur Cordelia Geoff Muldaur
Sweet Potatoes Reprise Records 1972 Folk USWB10800766

Amos Garrett on guitar; both Amos and Geoff also play trombone!

8:50 PM
Dori Freeman - Another Time
Dori Freeman Another Time Dori Freeman
Every Single Star Blue Hens Music 2019 Folk USME31900670

Dori is from Galax, Virginia. The album was produced by Teddy Thompson.

8:53 PM
The Devil Makes Three - Forty Days
The Devil Makes Three Forty Days Pete Bernhard
I'm A Stranger Here New West Records 2013 Americana US27Q1362823

Imagines what a flood of biblical proportions would do to modern cities. With the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's horns and a clarinet solo from Jim Hoke. Album produced by Buddy Miller.

8:56 PM
Cindy Cashdollar - Slide Show
Cindy Cashdollar Slide Show Cindy Cashdollar, Steve James
Slide Show Silver Shot Records 2004 Folk USAKP0700081

Cindy’s playing a 1929 National Tricone Style 1; Steve’s on a 1998 National Resophonic Style EN. I saw Cindy, along with Rory Block, Friday evening at a free concert on the Commons in Princeton. Wow!!