Over my 26 year radio career my programs have been described as humorless. They may have a point but… this week we’ll rectify all that. We’ll hear lighthearted tunes from Trout Fishing in America, Loudon Wainwright III, Uncle Dave Macon and of course Arlo Guthrie. Spend an hour tickling your funny bone on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

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

The Beau Hunks / “Good Old Days” / The Beau Hunks Play The “Little
        Rascals” Music / Koch-Screen
Trout Fishing in America / “The Day the Bass Players Took Over the
        World” / Truth is Stranger Than Fishin’ / Trout Music
Christine Lavin / “Remembering My Password(s)” / If You’re Drunk You
        Cannot Buy a Puppy Self-Produced
Tim O’Brien / “Runnin’ Out of Memory” / Cornbread Nation / Sugar
        Hill-Howdy Skies
John McCutcheon / “The Red Corvette” / Water from Another Time /
        Rounder

The New Lost City Ramblers (Mike Seeger) / “The Old Fish Song” /
        The Early Years 1958-1962 Smithsonian Folkways
Uncle Dave Macon / “She’s Got the Money Too” / Travelin’ Down
        the Road / County
Dave Van Ronk / “Georgie on the IRT” / The Folkways Years 1959-61 /
        Smithsonian-Folkways
Suzy Thompson & Del Rey / “Under The Chicken Tree” / Hen Party /
        Hobemian
The Beau Hunks / “Bells” / The Beau Hunks Play The “Little Rascals”
        Music / Koch-Screen

Arlo Guthrie / “The Motorcycle Song” / Arlo / Rising Son
Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks / “Shorty Falls in Love” / Where’s the
        Money? / MCA
Loudon Wainwright III / “I’m Alright” /Career Moves / Charisma

Steve James / “Folk Radio” / Short Blue Stories / Hobemian
Michael Cooney / “Hamlet (Oor Hamlet)” / Together Again / Cove Haven

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