This week we conclude our two part feature presenting some of my favorite CDs from the past year. On this week’s program we’ll hear some Traditional Music, some music from England and Scandinavia and finish with a wonderful CD from Senegal. It’s been a very good year for music.

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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
        Smithsonian-Folkways

Rayna Gellert & the Brothers K / “Big Footed Man in the Sandy Lot”
         / Rayna Gellert & the Brothers K / Self Produced
The Onlies / “Jubilee” / Long Before Light / Soft Day Records
Anna & Elizabeth / “Little Black Train” / Anna & Elizabeth /
        Free Dirt Records
Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones / “Camp Chase” / Sweet Memories…
        Never Leave / Dittyville
Tellico / “Ever What They Say” / Relics and Roses / Self Produced

Bruce Greene & Don Pedi / “Come Humble Sinner-Moses and the
        Israelites” / The Very Day I’m Gone / June Appal
Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen / “Great Circle of Time-Sal’s Got a
        Meatskin” / Welcome Day / Sleepy Creek
Anonymous 4 with Bruce Molsky / “The Southern Soldier Boy-Rebel
        Raid” / 1865 / Harmonia Mundi
Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller / “Sally Anne Johnson” / Deep End
        Sessions Vol. 2 / Deep End Sessions
Rayna Gellert & the Brothers K / “Big Footed Man in the Sandy
        Lot” / Rayna Gellert & the Brothers K / Self Produced

John Roberts and Debra Cowan / “Drive Dull Care Away” / Ballads
        Long & Short / Golden Hind
Simpson-Cutting-Kerr / “Gather the Owls-Train on the Island” /
        Murmurs / Topic
Eliza Carthy & Tim Eriksen / Castle By the Sea” / Bottle / Navigator
Lena Johnsson & Brittany Haas / “Breakneck Hill” / I & B / Playing
        With Music

Seckou Keita / “Mikhi Nathan Mu-Toma” / 22 Strings / Arc Music

Pete Seeger / “If I Had a Hammer (excerpt)” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
        Smithsonian Folkways