Re-broadcast Saturday April 22 on www.bluesandrootsradio.com

This week’s show marked a personal anniversary for me, and also this radio series.  On Easter Sunday, April 10, 1977, WFDU-FM aired the first one-on-one interview that I conducted for the station. It was also the first broadcast dedicated solely to folk music on WFDU.

The interview was with Marjorie Guthrie, Woody Guthrie‘s second wife and the founder of the Woody Guthrie Archives. She also created an organization that was dedicated to helping Huntingtons Disease families by advocating for research, improving patient care, and setting the seeds that led to the discovery of the Huntington’s marker and eventually a cure could be found. She was a remarkable woman and the experience of interviewing her and getting to know her really changed the direction of my life.

In addition, I shared the usual mix of classic folk songs and new music in the folk tradition, includiing songs from John McCutcheon, Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi, Dubl Handi, Elaine Romanelli, Dave Van Ronk and much more.

(Tune in to WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS every Sunday from 3pm to 6pm Eastern Timeover WFDU-FM 89.1 in the NYC/Northern New Jersey area,or on the web at www.wfdu.fm or iHeartRadio.com. The show can also be heard Saturday evenings at 6:30pm ET at www.bluesandroots.radio.com. On-demand streams of shows, including this one, are archived for two weeks by clicking HERE.
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ARTIST “Tune / Song”
ALBUM Label – Website
3PM
Theme: HARVEY REID “Dirty Dish Rag”
Solo Guitar Sketchbook Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
JOHN ROBERTS & TONY BARRAND “The Week Before Easter”
Twiddlum Twaddlum Golden Hind Music – www.goldenhindmusic.com

SI KAHN “Peace Will Rise”
Courage Strictly Country Records – www.strictlycountryrecords.com
STEVE DEASY “Let Me Make Peace”
People Once Were Welcome Here self – www.stevedeasy.com
EMMA’S REVOLUTION “Peace, Saalam, Shalom”
One self – www.emmasrevolution.com

BING FUTCH “Come On With Me”
Return of Live at Old Songs! self – www.bingfutch.com
RORY BLOCK “Samson & Delilah”
I Belong To The Band: A Tribute to Rev. Gary Davis self – www.roryblock.com

FENDRICK AND PECK “Vincent Black Lightening”
Lucky Penny self – www.fendrickandpeck.com
DON CONOSCENTI “Ariana”
Antastasia Howling Dog Records – www.howlingdogrecords.com
THE BELLE HOLLOWS “Tightrope Wires”
Miller’s Creek Elm Hill Records – www.thebellwehollows.com

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III “The Deal”
High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project 2nd Story Sound – www.2ndstorysound.com , www.lw3.com
NORMAN BLAKE “High Rollers”
The Weary World Wears Away self – www.timgrimm.com
TIM GRIMM “Rovin’ Gambler”
The Turning Point self – www.timgrimm.com

4PM
JOHN MCCUTCHEON “This is Not a Song”
Trolling for Dreams Appalseed Productions – www.folkmusic.com

GUY DAVIS & FABRIZIO POGGI “Shortnin’ Bread”
Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train M.C. Records –
DUBL HANDI “Shortnin’ Bread”
Up Like the Clouds self – www.dublhandimusic.com
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS “Cornbread and Buttebeans”
Genuine Negro Jig Nonesuch Records – www.nonesuch.com , www.carolinachocolatedrops.com

CATHIE RYAN “Fare Thee Well”
Through Wind and Rain Mo Leanbh – www.cathieryan.com
DAVID MASSENGILL “Green, Green Rocky Road”
Dave on Dave: A Tribute to Dave Van Ronk by David Massengill self – www.davidmassengill.com
OSCAR ISSAC “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me”
Inside Llewyn Davis: Original Soundtrack Recording Warner Music Group – www.wmg.com
DAVE VAN RONK “Spike Driver Blues”
Live in Monterrey Omnivore Recordings – www.omnivorerecordings.com

CAROLYN HESTER “Pack Up Your Sorrows”
From These Hills self – www.carolynhester.com
VANCE GILBERT “A Case of You”
Angels Castles Covers self – www.vancegilbert.com
PAT WICTOR “There But For Fortune”
This is Absolutely Real: Visions and Versions of Phil Ochs Riskydisc Records – www.patwictor.com

ELAINE ROMANELLI “We’re In This Togheter”
MP3 single self – www.elaineromanelli.com
BOB FRANKE “A Still Small Voice”
The Other Evening in Chicago Telephone Pole Records – www.bobfranke.com

5PM
rebroadcast of a 1977 interview with Marjorie Guthrie.  Click below to hear the original interview, as broadcast on April 10, 1977.

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Ron Olesko
WFDU-FM
1000 River Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666

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