Airing Live on WFDU-FM on Sunday January 13, 2019 and rebroadcast at www.bluesandrootsradio.com on Saturday January 19, 2019 at 6:30pm ET and Tuesday January 22, 2019 at 10pm ET

My guest this week was Toronto based singer-songwriter Shawna Caspi (www.shawnacaspi.com) visited the WFDU-FM studio to share some of her award winning songs and chat about life on the road for a touring artist. Shawna performed her song “Not So Silent” which was selected for the Silver Award in the “Folk Acoustic” category of the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, presented by the Songwriters’ Association of Washington. (Click on the link below to hear Shawna’s in-studio appearance on this week’s show)

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HOUR 1
ARTIST “Tune / Song”
ALBUM Label – Website
Theme: HARVEY REID “Dirty Dish Rag”
Solo Guitar Sketchbook Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
FINK, MARXER & GLEAVES “Welcome Table”
Shout and Shine Community Music – www.cathymarcy.com

REX FOWLER & TOM DEAN (THE NUTOPIANS) “I Should Have Known Better”
Lennon Reimagined: The John Lennon Song Project self – www.thenutopians.com
CHRISTINE LAVIN “All My Loving”
Folk Zinger Appleseed Recordings – www.appleseedrec.com , www.christinelavin.com
LINDSAY MAY “Blackbird”
Shimmer self – www.lindsaymay.com
KELLEIGH MCKENZIE “Eleanor Rigby”
Chances self – www.kellieghmckenzie.com
MOLASSESCREEK “Because”
An Island Out of Time self – www.molassescreek.com
JIM GAUDET & THE RAILROAD BOYS “I’ve Just Seen A Face”
self – www.jimgaudet.com
THE CHARLES RIVER VALLEY BOYS “Yellow Submarine”
Beatle Country Collector’s Choice Music – www.collectorschoicemusic.com

MARA LEVINE “Be the Change”
Facets of Folk self – www.maralevine.com
MEGHAN CARY “River Rock”
Sing Louder Angel Bear Records – www.meghancary.com
ANAIS MITCHELL “Wedding Song”
Live at Caffe Lena Tompkins Square – www.tompkinssquare.com , www.caffelena.org

MIKE P. RYAN “Left Behind”
At Home in the Darkness self – www.mikepryanmusic.com
PIERCE PETTIS “Very Same Moon”
Father’s Son Compass Records – www.compassrecords.com , www.piercepettis.com
KARYN OLIVER “Cordelia”
A List of Names Buxom County Records – www.karynoliver.com
TODD BURGE “Back to the Races (Burlap)”
Your Reflection Will Kill You self – www.toddburge.com

HOUR 2
Guest: Shawna Caspi, who performed “Numbers Game “, “Love in a Moving Van”, “Not So Silent”, and “Celebrate” live in the studio, plus we shared songs from her most recent CD: 

SHAWNA CASPI “Tennessee Waltz”
Forest Fire self – www.shawnacaspi.com
SHAWNA CASPI “Take This Mountain”
Forest Fire self – www.shawnacaspi.com
SHAWNA CASPI “Devil’s Rolling Pin”
Forest Fire self – www.shawnacaspi.com

THE STONEMAN FAMILY “Tecumseh Valley”
Family Tradition: The Stoneman Family CMH Legacy – www.cmhrecords.com
THE CROOKED JADES “Ryland and Spencer”
Empathy Moves the Water self – www.crookedjades.com
THE CAROLINA JUG BAND “Busted”
Old 97 Records – www.old97s.com Old 97 Records – www.old97s.com

HOUR 3
ROB CARLSON “Americana”
MP3 self – www.robcarlsonmusic.com

PENNY NICHOLS “Sam The Old Accordion Man”
Life self – www.pennynichols.com

BROTHER SUN “Mary Don’t You Weep and Moan”
Weights & Wings self – www.brothersunmusic.com
BILLY BRAGG “Way Over Yonder In the Minor Key”
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions Nonesuch Records – www.nonesuch.com , www.woodyguthrie.org
JOHN MCCUTCHEON “Letter to Eve”
To Everyone In All The World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger Appalseed Productions – www.folkmusic.com

SUNNY WAR “Til I’m Dead”
With the Sun self – www.sunnywar.com
FIVE LETTER WORD “Rumor of the Money”
Siren self – www.fiveletterword.com
TERRY KLEIN “Andalusia”
Tex self – www.terrykleinmusic.com
JOHN GORKA “Down In The Milltown”
Live at Caffe Lena Tompkins Square – www.tompkinssquare.com , www.caffelena.org

MICHEAL JEROME BROWN “Special Rider Blues”
Sliding Delta Borealis – www.borealisrecords.com , www.michaeljeromebrowne.com
RUTH WYAND “Blind Willie McTell”
Tribe of One self – www.ruthwyand.com

JERRY JEFF WALKER “Mr. Bojangles”
Live at Caffe Lena Tompkins Square – www.tompkinssquare.com , www.caffelena.org
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