This weeks show was a hodgepodge of classic recordings and new songs.  Thanks to Sophie and David Buskin for allowing me to share a demo of a new song that Sophie wrote.  Also, a tribute to farmers in the third hour.

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ARTIST “Tune / Song”
ALBUM Label – Website
2PM
Theme: HARVEY REID “Dirty Dish Rag”
Solo Guitar Sketchbook Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
FRANK SOLIVAN “Pretty Woman”
Family, Friend & Heroes Compass Records – www.compassrecords.com , www.dirtykitchenband.com

ANNA & ELIZABETH “Ooh My My!”
Sun to Sun Free Dirt Records – www.freedirtrecords.com , www.annaandelizabeth.com
LAMBERT & WALZ “Careless Love”
Lambert & Walz self – www.lambertandwalz.com
THE CARTER FAMILY “Keep on the Sunnyside”
The Carter Family 1927-1934 JSP Records –

JOAN BAEZ & DAVID BROMBERG “Freight Train”
Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration Razor and Tie – www.razorandtie.com
RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM “Walk Aroiund the Wheel”
Violets are Blue self – www.raniarbo.com
BROTHER SUN “Mary Don’t You Weep and Moan”
Weights & Wings self – www.brothersunmusic.com

ERIC FRANDSEN “Potter’s Field”
Fast Folk Jack Hardy Tribute Smithsonian Folkways – www.folkways.si.edu
DANNY SCHMIDT “Ghosts”
Parables and Primes self – www.dannyschmidt.com
VINCENT CROSS “Dark Hollow (Alone)”
Old Songs for Moderm Folks self – www.vincentcross.com
JEAN RITCHIE “Wonderous Love”
American Tales and Folksongs Tradition Records/Essential Media Group – www.essentialmediagroupllc.com

BUSKIN – DAVID & SOPHIE BUSKIN “Mountain”
demo self – www.davidandsophiebuskin.com

3PM
SHAWNA CASPI “Not So Silent”
Apartments for Lovers self – www.shawnacaspi.com

SUSAN KANE “A Man of Much Merit”
Mostly Fine self – www.susankane.com
THE KENNEDYS “Breathe”
Better Dreams self – www.kennedysmusic.com
JOHN GORKA “I Saw A Stranger With Your Hair”
Before Beginning: The Unreleased I Know – Nashville 1985 Red House – www.redhouserecords.com , www.johngorka.com

PETE’S POSSE “The Lazy Farmer – On the Morgan Deck”
Down to the Core self – www.petesposse.com
LEE MURDOCK “Water is Wide – Banks of Loch Lomond”
Wordless self – www.leemurdock.com
MATTHEW BYRNE “Bonnie Light Horseman”
Ballads self – www.matthewbyrne.net

THE CANAL STREET STRING BAND “Short and Sweet”
Wah Hoo self – www.canalstreetstringband.com
JACOB MILLER & THE BRIDGE CITY CROONERS “Sugar Sweet”
Pacific Ragtime self – www.jacobmiller.net
MOSES SCARLETT “Sweet Lorraine”
Precious Seconds Borealis Records – www.borealisrecords.com

SUSAN WERNER “Time Between Trains”
Live at Club Passim self – www.susanwerner.com

4PM
SCOTT WOLFSON AND OTHER HEROES “Life and a Day”
Welcoming the Flood self – www.scottwoflson.com

IRISH MYTHEN “Their Waltz”
Irish Mythen self – www.irishmythen.com
JOSH JOFFEN “Waltz With My Baby”
Postcard from Antigua self – wwwl.joshjoffen.com
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ “Waltzing For Dreamers”
Love and Circumstance Ninth Street Opus – www.carrierodriguez.com

JAY UNGAR AND MOLLY MASON “Homegrown Tomatoes”
Relax Your Mind self – www.jayandmolly.com
EVY MAYER “The Barnyard Dance”
Humor Me self – ukelady123@gmail.com

JAMES GORDON “I’m Just an Old Farmhouse”
Sunny Jim Borealis Records – www.borealisrecords.com , www.jamesgordon.ca
THE MCCALMANS “Farm Auction”
When Sky Meets Sea
JOEL MABUS “The Farmer is the Man”
American Anonymous Fossil – www.joelmabus.com
CISCO HOUSTON “Farmer’s Lament”
The Folkways Years 1944-1961 Smithsonian Folkways – www.folkways.si.edu

TANGLEFOOT “When Dad & Uncle Archie Lost the Farm”
Dance Like Flames Borealis Records – www.borealisrecords.com
DAVE ROWE “Salt Water Farm”
Three’s A Charm Self – www.daverowemusic.com
STAN ROGERS “The Field Behind the Plow”
Northwest Passage Borealis Records – www.borealisrecords.com
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Ron Olesko
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