SORM Playlist #14-41: Vocal Varieties
(airing the week starting 10-08-14)
In a program with a title that sounds like one of those classic sampler LPs of the ’50s and ’60s we explore some fine vocalists taking chances with selections that are just a bit out of the ordinary. Child Ballads with contemporary harmonies, Buddhist Chants sung to an old-time fiddle tune, jazz tunes sung by a great guitarist and a Broadway tune for good measure. And there’s more … stretch your ears!
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways
Duck Baker / “Don’t Be Ashamed of Your Age” / The Roots and
Branches of American Music / Les Cousins
Ken Bloom / “Almost Like Being in Love” / Journey / New Timey
Last Forever / “Oklahoma” / Trainfare Home / Nonesuch
The Bacon Brothers / “My Adirondack Home” / Songs to Keep / Tauny
Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer / “Geordie” / Child Ballads /
Thirty Tigers
Cordelia’s Dad / “The Traveler” / Help Me to Sing / Awake Productions
Jon Seskevich & AC Bushnell / “Buddha’s Square Dance” / Bluegrass
Kirtan / Erian
Duck Baker / “Say It Simple” / The Roots and Branches of American
Music / Les Cousins
Sarah Alden / “When Sorrows Encompass Me Round” / Fists of
Violets / Self-Produced
Leah & Chloe / “Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss” / Rising
Appalachia / Self-Produced
Joe Craven / “Banks of the Ohio” / Mo’ Joe / Blender Logic
Creative Arts
Anonymous 4 / “Merrick” / Gloryland / Harmonia Mundi
Robin & Linda Williams / “Marvin & Mavis Smiley-Down Home Diva” /
Radio Songs / Red House
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways