This week we explore big bands in folk music, including the Full English, Spuyten Duyvil and more. It’s the More the Merrier on this episode of Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

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

Childsplay / “Skipping Cat-Old Bell Cow” / Twelve-Gated City /
        Self Produced
Social Band / “New Ecstasy” / Those Stars / Self Produced
Polka Works / “The Lost Jig-You May If You Please” / Borrowed
        Shoes / G&T
The Red Clay Ramblers / “I Crept Into The Crypt” / Live / Self
        Produced

Taj Mahal / “You’re Going To Need Somebody On Your Bond” / The
        Real Thing / Columbia
The Bumper Jacksons / “Tippy Toe Sam” / Sweet Mama, Sweet Daddy,
        Come In / Self Produced
Asylum Street Spankers / “She Texted Me Goodbye” / The Last
        Laugh / Spanks-A-Lot
Childsplay / “Waltz of the Little Girls” / Twelve-Gated City /
        Self Produced

Bellowhead / “New York Girls” / Hedonism / Navigator
The Full English / “Creeping Jane” / The Full English / Topic
The Demon Barbers / “Swimming Song” / Disco at the Tavern /
        Self Produced

Spuyten Duyvil / “Lord Franklin” / The Social Music Hour
        Vol. 1 / Self Produced
The Dustbowl Revival / “Ballad of the Bellhop” / With A
        Lampshade On / Signature Sounds

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