WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for August 10, 2014 HOST: Ron Olesko A hazy, lazy, crazy day of summer inspired the playlist for today’s show. (Tune in to TRADITIONS every Sunday from 2pm to 5pm Eastern Time over WFDU-FM 89.1 in the … Continue reading →
Jason Tyler Burton Interview with the artist below. This post follows two others on the song “Caleb Meyer,” by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Read the first here and the second here. The artist interview below will refer back to … Continue reading →
A mix of Honky Tonk classics new and old. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1432.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . | To listen using Stitcher, click . Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / … Continue reading →
MARAH Presents: Mountain Minstrelsy of Pennsylvania Valley Farm Songs www.marah-usa.com Philadelphia roots-rockers Marah have gone “up the country,” relocating to the small town of Milheim, PA, and embracing their new community wholeheartedly. Hence the … Continue reading →
Pantaleimon The Butterfly Ate The Pearl Grass Girl www.pantaleimon.com Modern psych-folk can be a dangerous thing these days. It’s easy to go from mind-bending to disastrously corny in a heartbeat, but Andria Degens does a good job of walking the … Continue reading →
The Quiet American Songs From A Rocking Chair Aaron Keim www.quietamericanmusic.com Among the many duos plying Americana waters these days, The Quiet American may rank as the old-timiest of all. Aaron and Nicole Keim have left Boulder for the Pacific … Continue reading →
Rod MacDonald Later That Night Blue Flute Music 107 www.rodmacdonald.net Every few years the mainstream media drives a lame stallion out of the stable to see if he’ll gallop. All of a sudden there will … Continue reading →
Jaywalkers This is the second post on the Gillian Welch and David Rawlings song “Caleb Meyer.” Read the first post here. In the last post, we heard how Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings’s “Caleb Meyer” successfully embraces trappings of Southern … Continue reading →
This week we complete our two part feature Hopelessly Midwestern focusing on the musical diversity in America’s Heartland. Not all great music happens in the Northeast or West Coast. The Midwest has a sound all its own. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1431.mp3 To … Continue reading →
WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for July 27, 2014 HOST: Ron Olesko With the month of July coming to a close, it means one thing to folkies – time for the annual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival! Falcon Ridge has become a magnet … Continue reading →
