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 … Continue reading →
Villainy on the Lowland Sea The ship was in a fix. Overtaken by an enemy galley, the captain looked for options to set her free. The cabin boy, at 15 the youngest member of the crew, offers to swim over to … Continue reading →
For our third post on “Young Emily” this week, we’ll travel to Northern Ireland and the banks of Lough Neagh, and there find it called “Young Edmund in the Lowlands Low.” For the history of the ballad and an introduction … Continue reading →
