TRADITIONS playlist #18-38
Airing Live on WFDU-FM on Sunday September 23, 2018 and rebroadcast at www.bluesandrootsradio.com on Saturday September 29, 2018 at 6:30pm ET and Tuesday October 2, 2018 at 10pm ET
My guest this week was Tom Chapin who performed a number of story songs live in the studio as a sneak preview of his upcoming concert at the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club in Fair Lawn on October 6.
In addition, I played some songs in tribute to my mother, Catherine Olesko, who passed away on September 17 at the age of 96.
HOUR 1
ARTIST “Tune / Song”
ALBUM Label – Website
Theme: HARVEY REID “Dirty Dish Rag”
Solo Guitar Sketchbook Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
UNCLE BONSAI “Problems”
The Family Feast Yellow Tail Records – www.yellowtailrecords.com , www.unclebonsai.com
ROSALIE SORRELS “I’ve Got A Home Out in Utah”
If I Could Be the Rain Folk – www.folklegacy.com
KATE CAMBELL “When You Come Back Home”
Damnu Sure Blue Large River Music – www.largerivermusic.com , www.katecampbell.com
NOEL PAUL STOOKEY “Wedding Song”
September Songs
CHERYL WHEELER “75 Septembers”
The Women of Kerrville SilverWolf – www.cherylwheeler.com
STAN ROGERS “45 Years”
Fogarty’s Cove Borealis – www.borealisrecords.com
ERIC BOGLE “The Gift of Years”
Music and Song From Scotland Greentrax Recordings – www.greentrax.com
BING FUTCH “People Are Strange”
Dulcimeria: Volume 2 self – www.bingfutch.com
JAMES LEE STANLEY “Strange Days”
All Wood And Doors Beachwood Recordings – www.jamesleestanley.com
ABIGAIL WASHBURN AND THE SPARROW QUARTET “Strange Things”
Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet
RON ISRAEL “Living in A Strange World”
Tribal War self – www.ronisraelmusic.com
STEVE FORBERT “Strange Names (New Jersey’s Got Em)”
Strange Names & New Sensations
SUSAN SHANN “Earth Mama”
Reckless Abandon Mystics Mantra Music – www.susanshann.com
PETER SPENCER “Solid Gone”
Fare You Well self – www.peterspencer.com
JON BROOKS “All Life’s Meaning”
None One Travels Alone Borealis – www.borealisrecords.com , www.jonbrooks.ca
HOUR 2
GUEST: TOM CHAPIN, who performed “Guitar Child”, “Distant Drummer”, “Boys in the Choir”, “My Mother’s Quiet Eyes”, “Julia Ward Howe”, “That’s What Grandpa’s Do” and “City of New Orleans” live in the studio, plus we shared songs from Tom’s CDs:
TOM CHAPIN “Rain”
unreleased recording from “Make A Wish” Sundance Music – www.tomchapin.com
TOM CHAPIN “Autumn Rain”
70 Sundance Music – www.tomchapin.com
Avalon Blues (1963) Rounder – www.rounder.com
HOUR 3
MARTIN SWINGER “My Mother’s World”
Living Things self – www.martinswinger.com
RACHEL BISSEX “Dancing With My Mother”
In White Light One Take Music – www.cdbaby.com/rachelbissex4
SARA HICKMAN “My Mother’s Hands”
Motherload Sleeveless – www.sarahickman.com
CATHIE RYAN “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother”
Through Wind and Rain Mo Leanbh Records – www.moleanbhrecords.com , www.cathieryan.com
DAN BERGGREN “May You Live”
Tongues in Trees Sleeping Giant Records – www.berggrenfolk.com
JOAN & JONI – Allison Shapira & Kipyn Martin “The Circle Game”
Joan and Joni self – www.joanandjoni.com
LARA HERSCOVITCH “A Circle Drawn”
Four Wise Monkeys self – www.laraherscovitch.com
TRET FURE “In This Circle”
Roses in November self – www.tretfure.com
PETE SUTHERLAND “Will The Circle Be Unbroken”
A Clayfoots Tale self – www.petesposse.com
TOM CHAPIN “Circle”
Sundance Music – www.tomchapin.com
RICHARD THOMPSON “Beeswing”
The Acoustic Folk Box Topic Records – www.topicrecords.co.uk
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Ron Olesko
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