For Moe
Episode #18-50 | airing 12-12-18
December 2nd would have been Moe Asch’s 113th birthday. He was the founder of Folkways Records. His pioneering label released a wide variety of music from all over the world, and, after his death, the label was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution. On this week’s show, we’ll hear some classic recordings from the massive Folkways catalog including Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Peggy Seeger, The New Lost City Ramblers and others … including recent recordings from Kaia Kater, Anna & Elizabeth and Los Texmaniacs. Following in the footsteps of a giant … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian Folkways
Pete Steele / “Coal Creek March” / Classic Banjo / Smithsonian Folkways
Lead Belly / “Bourgeois Blues” / Bourgeois Blues / Smithsonian Folkways
Elizabeth Cotten / “Freight Train” / Classic Folk Music / Smithsonian Folkways
Almanac Singers / “Talking Union” / Classic Labor Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Cisco Houston / “Tying a Knot in the Devil’s Tail” / Classic American Ballads /
Smithsonian Folkways
Woody Guthrie / “Pastures of Plenty” / This Land is Your Land / Smithsonian Folkways
Doc Watson / “The Train that Carried My Girl from Town” / Classic Bluegrass /
Smithsonian Folkways
The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / “Sinner, You Better Get Ready” / Bluegrass At The Roots
1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
Sara Carter Bayes & Maybelle Carter / “I’m Leaving You” / Close to Home / Smithsonian
Folkways
John W. Summers / “Fine Times at Our House” / Classic Old-Time Fiddle / Smithsonian
Folkways
New Lost City Ramblers / “Rabbit in the Pea Patch” / There Ain’t No Way Out / Smithsonian
Folkways
Hobart Smith / “Banging Breakdown” / Classic Banjo / Smithsonian Folkways
New World Singers / “Blowin’ In the Wind” / Classic Protest Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Peggy Seeger / “Gonna be an Engineer” / The Folkways Years 1955-1992 / Smithsonian
Folkways
Phil Ochs / “Changes” / Classic Folk Music / Smithsonian Folkways
Los Texmaniacs / “Mexico Americano” / Cruzando Borders / Smithsonian Folkways
Anna & Elizabeth / “Woman is Walking” / The Invisible Comes to Us / Smithsonian Folkways
Kaia Kater / “Canyonland” / Grenades / Smithsonian Folkways
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian Folkways