Today’s show featured a look at Anne Hills’ latest recording Tracks, a beautiful collection of songs inspired by trains. We also gave a birthday shout-out to one of Anne’s musical collaborators, Michael Smith. Another New Jersey lad makes good!

I also present a set of “Darling Corey” recordings, showcasing the variations on this old chestnut.

In addition to my hosting duties on WFDU, I am also the president of the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, so we did a little sneak preview of an upcoming concert with Bill Staines and special guest Zoe Mulford. In another bit of self-promotion of sorts, I also did a set of jug band inspired tunes in honor of WFDU-FM’s newest program Sounds So Sweet a show dedicated to jug band music and hosted by my good friend and spiritual leader of the Dirdy Birdies Jug Band, Jack Pignatello.

New and noteworthy – The Goodbye Girls (self-titled), Mark Erelli (Milltowns)

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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
CHRIS SMITHER “No More Cane on the Brazos”
Still on the Levee  Signature Sounds – www.signaturesounds.com, www.smither.com

THE GOODBYE GIRLS “Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie”
Going to Boston  self – www.thegoodbyegirlsmusic.bandcamp.com/releases)
RICHARD BENNETT “Fire on the Mountain”
In the Wind Somewhere Lonesome Day – www.lonesomeday.com
MAC WISEMAN “Corina Corina”
Mac Wiseman Sings Old Time Country Favorites Rural Rhythm Records – www.ruralrhythm.com

ANNE HILLS “Maria Took the Train to Town”
Tracks   Hand and Heart Music – www.annehills.com
ANNE HILLS “Like A Train”
Tracks   Hand and Heart Music – www.annehills.com
ANNE HILLS “City of New Orleans”
Tracks   Hand and Heart Music – www.annehills.com

MARK ERELLI “Night Train”
Milltowns self – www.markerelli.com
MYA BYRNE “Uphill Train”
Sampler 2008 – 2013 self – www.myabryne.com
ERIC BIBB “Freedom Train”
Jericho Road Stony Plain Records – www.stonyplainrecords.com, www.ericbibb.com
BIG BILL BROONZY “This Train”
1956 Radio Broadcast Master Classics

THE GASLIGHT TINKERS “I Ain’t Got No Home /High Drive”
The Gaslight Tinkers self – www.thegaslighttinkers.com
JERRY DOUGLAS, ROB ICKES, MIKE AULDRIDGE “Dobro Heaven”
Three Bells Rounder – www.rounder.com

3PM
PETE SEEGER AND THE RIVERTOWN KIDS “River”
Tomorrow’s Children   Appleseed – www.appleseedmusic.com

BILL STAINES “Roseville Fair”
The Whistle of the Jay   Folk Legacy – www.folk-legacy.com, www.acousticmusic.com/staines
BILL STAINES “A Place in the Choir”
The Happy Wanderer   Red House Records – www.redhouse.com, www.acousticmusic.com/staines

DEBRA COWAN “Darlin’ Corey”
Banks of Green Meadow self – www.debracowan.com
ELIZABETH LAPRELLE “Darlin’ Corey”
Rain and Snow  Old 97 Records – www.elizabethlaprelle.com
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER “Dig a Hole in the Meadow”
The Earls of Leicester  Rounder – www.rounder.com
THE WEAVERS “Darlin’ Corey”
The Weavers at Carnegie Hall Vanguard – www.vanguardrecords.com

DAVID ROVICS “Everything Can Change”
Everything Can Change   self – www.davidrovics.com
ARLON BENNETT “Be The Change”
Summer’s Voice    Red Sea Records – www.arlonbennett.com
SONIA “Is There Anybody Here”
What’s That I Hear? The Songs of Phil Ochs    Sliced Bread Records – www.slicedbread.com

MARC BLACK “I’ll Be Gone”
Sometime A Spark   self – www.marcblack.com
ANNIE DINERMAN  “One Planet At A Time”
self – www.anniedinerman.com
TOM CHAPIN “Song About the Earth”
This Pretty Planet   self – www.tomchapin.com

DAVE VAN RONK “Sportin’ Life Blues”
Live in Monterey   Omnivore Records – www.omnivorerecordings.com
JOSH WHITE JR. “One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)”
Cortelia Clark   self – www.joshwhitejr.com

4PM
ZOE MULFORD “All of the Songs Were Road Songs”
Bonfires   Azalea City Recordings – www.zoemulford.com

ZOE MULFORD   “Sister Sail”
Coyote Wings   Azalea City Recordings – www.zoemulford.com
RUNA “The Banks Were Made of Marble”
Current Affairs   self – www.runamusic.com
ANDREW CALHOUN “Gartan Mother’s Lullaby”
Grapevine   Waterbug – www.waterbug.com, www.andrewcalhoun.com

MICHAEL SMITH “The Dutchman”
Anthology 1   self – www.michaelpetersmith.com
MICHAEL SMITH “Panther in Michigan”
Anthology 1   self – www.michaelpetersmith.com

THE DUHKS “Lazy John”
Beyond the Blue   Compass Records – www.compassrecords.com
FIDDLE FEVER “You Low Down Dirty Dog”
Best of Fiddle Fever   Flying Fish – www.jayandmolly.com
DELLA MAE “Pine Tree”
This World Oft Can Be   self – www.dellamae.com

DIRDY BIRDIES JUG BAND “Jug Band Music”
Tracks self – www.birdies.org
CANNON’S JUG STOMPERS “Walk Right In”
The Best of Cannon’s Jug Stompers Yazoo – www.shanachie.com
DAN SMITH “Long Handled Spoon”
Live at Fox Hollow Time and Strike – out of print
THE JUGGERNAUT JUG BAND “Pinball Wizard”
Don’t Try This At Home   self – www.juggernautjugband.com

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Ron Olesko
WFDU-FM
1000 River Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
www.wfdu.fm

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