This week on the program we travel to “The Golden State” and listen to some great artists from California. Our feature recording is The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes. (Alan recorded a great deal of traditional based and blues artists in the 1960s California folk music scene.) We’ll hear from Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquility String Band, Dad Crockett and Frank Hicks, Laurie Lewis and Molly Tuttle, The Bluegrass Cardinals, The Highwoods String Band, Tom Carter & Tom Sauber, Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin and many more. So travel with us to the Golden State … this week (and next) on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Tom Carter & Tom Sauber / “Old Time Fire on the Mountain” / Trade Your Headache for a Smile
              / Tiki Parlour
Joni Mitchell / “California” / Blue / Reprise
Kilby Snow / “All My Friends Gonna Be Strangers” / The Village Out West / Smithsonian Folkways
Molly Tuttle and Laurie Lewis / “You Are My Flower” / and Laurie Lewis / Spruce and Maple
Chris Hillman / “New Old John Robertson” / Bidin’ My Time / Rounder

The Byrds / “Goin’ Back” / The Notorious Byrd Brothers / Columbia
Sarah Elizabeth Campbell / “Geraldine & Ruthie Mae” / A Little Tenderness / Kaleidoscope
The Bluegrass Cardinals / “Girl at the Crossroads Bar” / The Bluegrass Cardinals / Copper Creek
Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquilty String Band / “Milwaukee Blues” / The Village Out West
              / Smithsonian
Folkways
Tom Carter & Tom Sauber / “Salt River” / Trade Your Headache for a Smile / Tiki Parlour

The Highwoods String Band / “Dance All Night” / Live / Mudthumper
The Hillbillies from Mars / “North Carolina Breakdown” / The Hillbillies from Mars /
              Self Released
Dad Crockett & Frank Hicks / “Hoop-e-Kack” / The Village Out West / Smithsonian Folkways
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin / “The Orphan Child” / A Song That Will Linger / Rounder

Claudia Russell and Bruce Kaplan / “Lover’s Tree” / Lover’s Tree / Radio Rhythm
Allsorts Orchestra / “Geese Honking” / Skillet Licorice / Tiki Parlour
Clarence White / “Never Ending Love” / Silver Meteor / Sierra
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways