I love when artists take their music to new places. The next two programs feature musicians who stretch the tradition. We’ll hear music from Sam Amidon, Aonymous 4 with Darol Anger and Mike Marshall, Alison Brown and many more. Come … Continue reading →
This week we’ll hear some of the talented women who followed the paths blazed for them by the earlier generation of Old-Time players and singers featured in Part 1. In addition to individual performers we’ll hear bands that featured women … Continue reading →
COSY SHERIDAN Pretty Bird Waterbug 0116 www.waterbug.com With clear poetic lyrics and mostly-acoustic arrangements based around Cosy’s impeccable guitar work, it doesn’t get better than this. Her guitar and vocal were recorded live, a … Continue reading →
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone Highway 20 www.lucindawilliams.com After Lucinda’s decades of songs of dead-end men, some fans feared that a good marriage would smooth her bone-lean writing’s jagged … Continue reading →
VAL MINDEL and EMILY MILLER Close To Home Yodel Ay Hee 0085 www.valandemmy.com Val Mindel and Emily Miller aren’t siblings like a lot of their close-harmony idols, but as mother and daughter they stay … Continue reading →
JENI AND BILLY’S BIG PICNIC BAND Picnic In The Sky Waystation 003 www.jeniandbilly.com In the early days of the recording industry much of what we today call folk, country, and old-time music was called … Continue reading →
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Single Mothers Vagrant 4220 www.vagrant.com Justin Townes new album Single Mothers is kind of perplexing. At a few seconds under 30 minutes it is very short with ten compact songs. It … Continue reading →
LEO TOLSTOY’s War and Peace dramatized by Timberlake Wertenbaker BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk On a misty grey New Year’s Day, BBC radio 4, a speech station in England broadcast a 10-hour audio play version … Continue reading →
LYNNE HANSON River of Sand Continental www.lynnehanson.com Whoever dumped Lynne Hanson unleashed a melancholy that made for a solid collection of songs from this celebrated Canadian songwriter. Produced by Lynn Miles, another talented … Continue reading →
WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for January 11, 2015 The events taking place in Paris and around the globe following the tragic shooting in the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine have led to important and long overdo discussions on free speech and … Continue reading →
