Re-broadcast Saturday May 20, 2017 on www.bluesandrootsradio.com

Mother’s Day is celebrated in song with music from Cathie Ryan, David Roth, Bing Futch and others.  We featured a brand new song from Tom Chapin about Julia Ward Howe which will appear on a new CD that will be released in early summer.

The show also featured a tribute to singer-songwriter Sandy Ross, who passed away on May 6. Sandy was based out of Los Angeles, but she was a guest on Traditions a number of times over the years. Sandy was born in Phoenix, Arizona but moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s where she was a staff songwriter for Warner/Chappell Music. Her songs were recorded by popular artists of the period, including Kim Carnes and Anne Murray. She was a fixture on the LA music scene and booked performers at various Hollywood venues, including the Los Angeles Performing Arts and Folklife Festival and the acclaimed Bla-Bla Cafe.

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ARTIST “Tune / Song”
ALBUM Label – Website

3PM
DAVID ROTH “Mother’s Day Card”
If You Can’t Fly Wind River Records – www.folkera.com/windriver , www.davidrothmusic.com

TOM CHAPIN “My Mother’s Quiet Eyes”
The Turning Tide Sundance Music – www.tomchapin.com
BING FUTCH “Mother (Visions Disappear)”
Dive! self – www.bingfutch.com
CATHIE RYAN “Rock Me to Sleep Mother”
Through Wind and Rain Mo Leanbh – www.cathieryan.com

JOEL MABUS “God Don’t Like It – I Don’t Either”
Different Hymnals Fossil Records – www.joelmabus.com
JORMA KAUKONEN “Preachin’ on the Old Campground”
River of Time Red House Records – www.redhouserecords.com
CISCO HOUSTON “Pie in the Sky”
The Folkways Years 1944-1961 Smithsonian Folkways – www.folkways.si.edu

THE MALVINAS “God Bless the Grass”
God Bless the Grass Soona Songs – www.soonasongs.com ,
ALL SHE WROTE “When the Ice Cap Melts”
Passing it On self – wrote.com
TIM GRIMM “Whose Garden Was This?”
Thank You Tom Paxton self – www.timgrimm.com
JAMES GORDON “This Canoe Runs on Water”
Sunny Jim Borealis Records – www.borealisrecords.com , www.jamesgordon.ca
HAPPY TRAUM “Sailing Down My Golden River”
Just for the Love of It Lark’s Nest Music – www.happytraum.com
PETE SEEGER “To My Old Brown Earth”
Pete Paul Winter – www.paulwinter.com

4PM
MELANIE “My Rainbow Race”
Stoneground Words Two Story Records – www.melaniesafka.com

GUY DAVIS & FABRIZIO POGGI “Step it Up and Go”
Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train M.C. Records –
COREY HARRIS “Diddy Wah Diddy”
Greens from the Garden Alligator Records – www.alligator.com , www.coreyharrisband.com
RORY BLOCK “Candy Man”
Avalon: A Troibute to Mississippi John Hurt self – www.roryblock.com
JIM KWESKIN & GEOFF MULDAUR “Downtown Blues”
Penny’s Farm Kingswood Records – www.kingswoodrecords.com

JOHN SEBASTIAN & HAPPY TRAUM “Morning Blues”
Woodstock Mountains: More Music From Mud Acres Rounder – www.rounder.com
JOEL MABUS “We’ll Understand it Better”
Different Hymnals Fossil Records – www.joelmabus.com
NORMAN BLAKE “Look Away, So Far Away”
The Weary World Wears Away Plectrafone Records – www.plectrafone.com

THE WHISPERING TREE “So Many Things”
Go Call the Captain self – www.thewhisperingtree.com
CHRISTINE LAVIN “Remembering My Password”
If You’re Drunk You Cannot Buy A Puppy self – www.christinelavin.com
JOE KRETSCHMER “It’s Always Something”
Open Mike self – www.facebook.com/joe.kretschmer

TERI SCHEINZEIT “Choosing Happy”
Choosing Happy self – www.terisongs.com
JOE JENCKS “Given Myself to Love”
Poets, Philosophers, Workers & self – www.joejencks.com
MEGHAN CARY “Sing Louder”
Sing Louder – The Festival EP self – www.meghancary.com

PHIL HENRY “There Be Monsters Here”
Phat Live self – www.philhenryband.com

CHARM CITY JUNCTION “Cousin Sally Brown”
Charm City Junction self – www.charmcityjunction.com

5PM
TOM CHAPIN “Julia Ward Howe”
Threads Sundance Music – www.tomchapin.com

A tribute to singer-songwriter Sandy Ross, who passed away on May 6.
SANDY ROSS “I Remembered a Song”
Color Outside of the Lines self – www.sandyross.com
SANDY ROSS “Color Outside of the Lines”
Color Outside of the Lines self – www.sandyross.com
SANDY ROSS “Child of the Sixties”
Grandma’s Got A Boombox self – www.sandyross.com
SANDY ROSS “Mountain of Memories”
Grandma’s Got A Boombox self – www.sandyross.com

JAYME STONE “Wait on the Rising Sun”
Jayme Stone’s Folklife self – www.jaymestone.com
DUBL HANDI “The Train That Carried My Girl From Town”
Morning in a New Machine self – www.dublhandimusic.com
JIMMY BOWSKILL & CARLOS DEL JUNCO “Spike Driver Blues”
Blues Etc. self – www.carlosdeljunco.com
BARBARA DANE “Dink’s Song”
Newport Folk Festival 1959 Not Now Music – www.notnowmusic.co.uk

JERRON “BLIND BOY” PAXTON “Pretty Saro”
Recorded Music For Your Entertainment self – www.blindboypaxton.com
SPUYTEN DUYVIL “Daniel”
The Social Music Hour Vol.1 self – www.spuytenduyvilmusic.com

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT “Jane’s Gone (for my mom, 1922-2013)”
New Whirled Order Red House Records – www.redhouserecords.com

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