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In The Tradition (Wed)
Jul 3, 2019 7:00 PM â 9:00 PM
Folk
With Diane Sutter
Two hours of traditional and contemporary folk and roots music.
7:01 PM |
| Keb' Mo' Donât Throw It Away Keb' Mo' Oklahoma Concord Records 2019 Blues Taj Mahal playing bass and adding his vocal hoodoo. Written in support of the global movement to stop plastic pollution, and advocating against single-use plastic. |
7:04 PM |
| The Furrow Collective Write Me Down Fathoms Hudson Records 2018 CD Folk Alasdair Roberts, Emily Portman, Lucy Farrell and Rachel Newton are British folk group the Furrow Collective, dedicated to interpreting the traditional folk canon. All members also have parallel careers as solo artists. |
7:07 PM |
| The Golden Gate Quartet Shadrack Robert MacGimsey That Golden Chariot Harmony 1957 Gospel
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7:11 PM |
| David Surette Bourree Traditional Return to Kemper Madrina Music 2012 Appalachian Surette is one of New Englandâs premiere instrumentalists. A bourrĂ©e is âa very lively Old traditional French dance.â |
7:14 PM |
| Dry Branch Fire Squad Red Rocking Chair Traditional Live! at Last Rounder 1996 Appalachian Suzanne Thomas on vocal and clawhammer banjo. Recorded live at the Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, 1995. |
7:18 PM |
| Alice Stuart Everyday Dirt David McCarn All the Good Times Arhoolie Records 1964 Blues Alice Stuartâs first album, produced by Chris Scrachwitz. |
7:20 PM |
| Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Uncle Pen Bill Monroe Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Rhythm of Country and Folk Music Today Records 2015 Bluegrass Monroe wrote this song about his fiddle-playing uncle, James Pendleton Vandiver, who was born in KY shortly after the Civil War. Monroe says he was "the fellow that I learned how to play from." |
7:23 PM |
| Eilen Jewell Crawl Eilen Jewell Gypsy Signature Sounds Recordings 2019 Americana Says Jewell of this track, âIâve been working on this song for several yearsâ, Jewell explains. "Itâs inspired by a feeling like I want to turn everything upside down, and I want everything to be completely different than it is.â Eilenâs been called âThe Queen of the Minor Key.â |
7:28 PM |
| Rodney Crowell Flatland Hillbillies (feat. Randy Rogers & Lee Ann Womack) Rodney Crowell TEXAS RC1 Records 2019 Americana On Texas, âCrowell turns his emotional focus to the colorful Lone Star culture and the romance of regional music that formed his musical sensibility during his teen years in Houston, particularly the year 1965 (âMy ears were brand new, and I was just transported by soundâ), when the 15-year-old left home to join a band.â Crowell says of Texas, âpeople consume music with real awareness there.â |
7:31 PM |
| Jolly Two Guitar Stomp Bessie Jackson & Walter Roland -1927-1935 Yazoo 1969 Blues Sonny Scott and, Walter Roland recorded this in NYC in 1933. |
7:34 PM |
| Claire Lynch Gone Again (with BĂ©la Fleck & David Grier) Cris Cuddy North By South Compass Records 2016 Folk BĂ©la Fleck on banjo. |
7:39 PM |
| BeauSoleil LaDanse De La Vie (The Dance Of Life) Michael Doucet La Danse De La Vie (US Release) Rhino 2005 Cajun
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7:43 PM |
| Della Mae Bowling Green Terry Slater, Jacqueline Ertel I Built This Heart Della Mae 2011 Bluegrass
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7:46 PM |
| Erik Stucky Living Life Erik Stucky Good Vibrations Binasaur 2019 Americana
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7:50 PM |
| Iris DeMent The Night I Learned How Not to Pray Iris Dement Sing the Delta Flariella Records 2012 Country
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7:54 PM |
| Doc Watson Going Down This Road Feeling Bad Traditional The Essential Doc Watson Vanguard Records 1990 Bluegrass Gaither Carlton â fiddle; Arnold Watson â banjo. Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1964. |
7:57 PM |
| Chris & Adam Carroll Hi-Fi Love Adam Carroll, Scott Nolan Good Farmer Independent 2019 Americana Chris Carroll on vocals and mandolin, Adam Carroll on guitar and harmony vocals, with Dennis Ludiker on fiddle. Slaid Cleaves calls Carroll "the quintessential small-town songwriter," adding, "Travel outside the cities of this country and you'll recognize the barbecue-joint waitresses, the rice farmers, the karaoke singers, the black-flag pirates and the hi-fi lovers of this land--you'll meet them all in Adam's true-to-life songs." |
8:01 PM |
| Ilya Toshinskiy At the End of the Day Ilya Toshinskiy Red Grass Hadley Music Group 2016 Bluegrass Thatâs Jerry Douglas on dobro. |
8:05 PM |
| Mary Bragg Faint of Heart Mary Bragg, Robyn Collins Violets as Camouflage Mary Bragg / Tone Tree Music 2019 Americana Self-produced and self-engineered this powerful and honest album at her home studio. NPR called it a âsublime distilling of Southern gritâ. |
8:10 PM |
| Tampa Red Black Hearted Blues Hudson Whittaker Down In Black Bottom: Lowdown Barrelhouse Piano Yazoo 1999 Blues Billed on the record as "The Guitar Wizard", Tampa Red cut "Black Hearted Blues" in late March 1930 in Chicago, Bill O'Bryant's piano supporting Tampa Red's guitar and vocal. |
8:13 PM |
| Emmylou Harris Like An Old Fashioned Waltz Sandy Denny White Shoes Warner Bros./Nashville 1983 Folk Bill Payne on piano and synthesizer, Jim Horn on recorders, and Brian Ahern on basses. |
8:18 PM |
| The Steel Wheels Red Rocking Chair Traditional Working on a Building Big Ring Records 2018 Appalachian An American roots music, Americana group of folk musicians, based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. |
8:22 PM |
| Eden Brent Panther Burn Jimmy Phillips Jigsaw Heart Yellow Dog Records 2014 Blues Recorded in Nashville with producer Colin Linden, "Jigsaw Heart" is Americana soul shot through with Mississippi roots. |
8:27 PM |
| Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb If These Walls Could Speak Jimmy Webb In Session... Fantasy Records 2012 Country The album and its accompanying DVD were filmed, taped, and recorded live in December 1988 in the Hamilton, Ontario studios of CHCH-TV as part of the Canadian concert series In Session. Campbell on guitar and singing, and Webb accompanying him on piano. |
8:30 PM |
| Dar Williams This Was Pompeii Dar Williams Mortal City Razor & Tie 1996 Folk
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8:34 PM |
| Derroll Adams Mr. Rabbit (Live) Traditional Live in Haarlem 1977 Strictly Country Records 2015 Folk 5-string banjo player, singer-songwriter, poet, storyteller and painter. Adams went to Europe with Ramblinâ Jack Elliott in 1957, and never came back. He became a folk hero in Britain and Europe in the 1960s, appearing in the Bob Dylan film âDonât Look Backâ. He had a big influence on Donovan, as you can probably hear. Mr. Rabbit is Br'er Rabbit, the hero of many African American folktales. |
8:37 PM |
| Elizabeth Cotten Vastopol Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1989 Folk Album released 2 years after her death in 1987. The guitar tuning is open D, low to high its D-A-D-F#-A-D, often called the Vastopol tuning. That's a geographical reference to the Crimean War that was fought in the mid-19th century. The war was raging right around the time that the Victorian parlor style of guitar music was first becoming popular in America. the tuning called Vastopol comes from Sevastopol ... as in the Crimean port city of Sebastopol. The Crimean War was the first war to be reported by photograph and telegraph. One of the guys following the conflict, says Zaitchik, was an Ohio music teacher named Henry Worrall. He taught guitar at a womanâs college. And in 1884 toward the end of the conflict he wrote a song that he called "Sebastopol: Descriptive Fantasie". |
8:40 PM |
| Bessie Jones & Group Reg'lar, Reg'lar, Rolling Under Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea: Field Recordings from Alan Lomax's "Southern Journey Mississippi Records 2010 Folk Said Alan Lomax in 1960, âPeople were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile⊠I resolved to prove them wrong." So, in 1959 and 1960, at the height of the Folk Revival, Lomax undertook the first-ever stereo field recording trip through the American South to document its still thriving vernacular musical culture. Bessie Jones teamed up with a group of other singers in 1963 to form The Georgia Sea Island Singers. |
8:42 PM |
| Ceoltóirà Chualann An Long Faoi Lån Seoil Pléaråca an Riadaigh Gael Linn 2008 Celtic à Riada was an Irish composer and arranger of Irish traditional music. Through his incorporation of modern and traditional techniques he became the single most influential figure in the revival of Irish traditional music during the 1960s. Le Celtóirà Chualana was an Irish traditional group formed in 1960 by à Riada, and included many founding members of The Chieftains. |
8:47 PM |
| Wilco Christ For President Music: Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy; Word: Woody Guthrie Mermaid Avenue Elektra 1998 Folk In creating music for a number of Woody Guthrieâs orphaned lyrics, Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett stayed faithful to Guthrie's rowdy spirit. |
8:50 PM |
| Carter Sampson Wilder Side Carter Sampson Wilder Side Carter Sampson 2016 Americana
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8:56 PM |
| Kacy & Clayton The Light of Day The Siren's Song New West Records 2017 Folk Second cousins Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum live in rural Saskatchewan. Album produced by Jeff Tweedy. |
8:59 PM |
| The Foghorn Stringband Be Kind To A Man While He's Down Outshine The Sun Foghorn Music 2012 Bluegrass Originally recorded in 1927 by Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters. |