WFDU-FM's TRADITIONS
Playlist for December 27, 2009

HOSTS: Ron Olesko & Bill Hahn

Our annual "year-end" show where we each choose 10 of our favorite releases
from the last 12 months. We also paid tribute to some of the friends we
send goodbye to in 2009, and we snuck in a few "New Year's songs.

(Tune in to TRADITIONS every Sunday from 3 to 6pm Eastern Time over WFDU-FM
89.1 in the NYC/Northern New Jersey area, or on the web at www.wfdu.fm where
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ARTIST Tune / Song
ALBUM LABEL – Website
Theme: HARVEY REID Dirty Dish Rag
Solo Guitar Sketchbook Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
NOWELL SING WE CLEAR Carol for the New Year
Hail Smiling Morn! Golden Hind Music – www.goldenhindmusic.com

RON & BILL'S FAVORIES OF 2009

Bill's pick:
KATE LONG & ROBIN KESSINGER In The Pines
What We Do self – www.robinandkate.com

Ron's pick:
various Singing Through the Hard Times
A Tribute to Utah Phillips: Singing Through the Hard Times Righteous Babe
Records – www.righteousbabe.com

Bill's pick:
JAY LINDEN It's A Crooked Train
Under the Radar self – www.jaylinden.com

Ron's pick:
THE WAILIN' JENNYS Bold Riley
Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House Red House Records –
www.thewailinjennys.com

Bill's pick:
JOHN MCCUTCHEON Robbery / Forgive Us
Untold self – www.folkmusic.com

Ron's pick:
EUPHONIA Boatman's Dance
The Old Jawbone self – www.sylviaherold.com

Bill's pick:
JANET BATES The Little Spinner
The Little Spinner self – www.janetbates.com

Ron's pick:
JORMA KAUKONEN Preachin' On the Old Campground
River of Time Red House Records – www.redhouserecords.com

Bill's pick:
BUSKIN & BATTEAU Choose Joy
Red Shoes and Golden Hearts self – www.buskinandbatteau.com

Ron's pick:
JAMES KEELAGHAN House of Cards
House of Cards Borealis Records – www.keelaghan.com

Bill's pick:
PETE SEEGER This Little Light of Mine
Live in '65 Appleseed Recordings – www.appleseedmusic.com

Ron's pick:
BEN BEDFORD Land of the Shadows
Land of the Shadows self – www.benbedford.com

Bill's pick:
HOLLY NEAR WITH EMMA'S REVOLUTION Sail Away Lady
We Came to Sing! self – www.hollynear.com

Ron's pick:
SHOUT SISTER SHOUT Shout Sister Shout
Hit That Jive M.C. Records – www.mc-records.com

Bill's pick:
ERIC BOGLE Bringing Buddy Home
The Dreamer Greentrax Records – www.greentrax.com

Ron's pick:
NANCI GRIFFITH Across America
The Loving Kind Rounder Records – www.rounder.com

Bill's pick:
JOEL MABUS How Can I Keep From Singing(the old hymn re-imagined)
No Worries now… Fossil Records – www.joelmabus.com

Ron's pick:
TRIPPING LILLY Guilty
The Day Everything Became Nothing self – www.trippinglily.com

Bill's pick:
ZOE MULFORD Welcome in Another Year
Bonfires Azalea City – www.zoemulford.com

Ron's pick:
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III The Deal
High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project 2nd Story Sound Records –
www.2ndstorysoundrecords.com

A tribute to our friends we lost in 2009:
(Sandy Paton)SANDY & CAROLINE PATON I've Got A Song!
I've Got a Song! Folk Legacy Records – www.folklegacy.com
MIKE SEEGER Shouting in Jerusalem
True Vine Smithsonian Folkways – www.folkways.si.edu
(Mary Travers)PETER, PAUL & MARY All My Trials
Around the Campfire Warner Brothers – www.peterpaulandmary.com
(Liam Clancy)THE CLANCY BROTHERS Those Were the Days
Older But No Wiser Vanguard – www.liamclancy.com

For Jean Ritchie, who has been hospitlized following a stroke. Many of her
friends and fans will be singing Jean's "Peace Round" on New Year's Eve, so
we ended our final show of 2009 with the song as well.
VARIOUS Peace Round
Twas On A Night Like This Folk-Legacy www.folklegacy.com

We wish you the best in 2010!
Ron Olesko & Bill Hahn
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