WFDU-FM’sTRADITIONS
Playlist for September 10, 2006

HOST:Ron Olesko (www.ronolesko.blogspot.com )

We shared some lovely new recordings from John Flynn, Greg Greenway, Chuck Pyle, Cosy Sheridan and Catie Curtis.

The “CD of the Week” for me was a re-issue of “American Folk Tales and Songs” featuring Jean Ritchie, Paul Clayton, and folklorist Richard Chase. A superb blend of folk songs and stories that has been nicely packaged by EmpireMusicwerks as part of their re-issue of the Tradition Record label founded by Dianne Hamilton and Liam Clancy. This particular recording was originally released when I was just a gleam in my fathers eye.

I hope that many of you will check out www.traditionfolk.com for some of the other albums that they have released. My scratchy vinyl can finally take a well deserved rest.

After a great deal of reflecting, I decided to devote the final hour of my program to a look back at 9/11.

I am sure it has been the same way around the country, but living here in the NYC metro area, literally in the shadow of the site, the coverage has been nearly non-stop for the last several weeks. Rich Warren made a very good point that the current administration has been using the
anniversary as a political tool. That was the reason that convinced me that it was important to offer this program.

Folk music, at least to me, has always been a way to connect with the past. It is also a way to connect with people and their culture. The reaction from our musicial community certainly reflects some strong feelings that I felt needed to be heard above the polticial rhetoric.

I tried to avoid the politics – there are other times for that. Aside from a stunning version of Sydney Carter’s “Crow on the Cradle” by Nick Hennessey (not a 9/11 song obviously, but the sentiment rings so true today), the songs I chose I tried to recall just what I felt in those days following 9/11.

We could smell the fires from the WTC at our studios in Teaneck and at my home in a neighboring town. The stillness of the skies, the images of grief, the funerals, visiting the site – all these images were flooding through my head. Remembering the connection that we had with people all around the globe and the shared grief. We may have lost a lot of that over the past five years, but when you listen to the song you will find comfort that future generations will
have a clue to what we were going through. Films and documentaries might filter the story through the eyes of the filmmaker, but these songs share the voice of the people.

ARTIST Tune / Song
ALBUM LABEL

Theme: HARVEY REID Dirty Dish Rag
Solo Guitar Sketchbook http://www.woodpecker.com/
DAVID MASSENGILL Hard Times
W. 4th & 6th Ave. – Greenwich Village Folk Festival http://www.gadfly.com/

JOHN FLYNN Pleasures of the Harbor
Two Wolves MettaFour Records
GREG GREENWAY No More Songs
Weightless http://www.greggreenway.com/

CROOKED STILL Can’t You Hear Me Callin’
Shaken By A Low Sound http://www.signaturesounds.com/
THE PEASALL SISTERS Freight Train Blues
Home to You www.peacehall.org
MARLEY’S GHOST Cowboy Lullaby
Spooked http://www.marleysghost.com/
CHUCK PYLE A Mystery to MeTrue
Unity www.chuckpyle.com

VANCE GILBERT A Case of You
Angels Castles Covers http://www.vancegilbert.com/
CAROL MCCOMB Touch and Go
Little Bit of Heaven http://www.carolmccomb.com/
LENNIE GALLANT Eleven Roses
When We Get There http://www.lenniegallant.com/

SMITHFIELD FAIR Walking Through This World
Walking Through This World http://www.smithfieldfair.com/
EDEN MACADAM-SOMMER & LARRY UNGER Suistna (Sleeping Lady)
Notorious http://www.larryunger.net/

JEAN RITCHIE & PAUL CLAYTON The Gambling Suitor
American Folk Tales and Songs http://www.traditionfolk.com/
RICHARD CHASE That’s Once
American Folk Tales and Songs www.traditionfolk.com
PAUL CLAYTON Locks and Bolts
American Folk Tales and Songs www.traditionfolk.com
JEAN RITCHIE Wondrous Love
American Folk Tales and Songs www.traditionfolk.com
RICHARD CHASE The Hickory Toothpick
American Folk Tales and Songs www.traditionfolk.com
JEAN RITCHIE & PAUL CLAYTON The Riddle Song
American Folk Tales and Songs www.traditionfolk.com

TOM CALLINAN Paddy West
Saturday Night at Sea www.crackerbarrel-ents.com/tom01.htm
GREG CLARKE Roll the Old Chariot
Caffe Lena Acoustic Stages Vol. 1 http://www.caffelena.org/
ELIZABETH NICHOLSON Kitty O’ Shea
Sink or Swim http://www.elizabethnicholson.com/

JAY LINDEN Wildwood Flower
Satchel http://www.jaylinden.com/
TIM O’BRIEN Moses
Cornbread Nation http://www.sugarhillrecords.com/
PAT WICTOR I Will Walk With You
Heaven Is So High. and I’m So Far Down http://www.patwictor.com/

COSY SHERIDAN My Mother’s House
Live at Cedar House http://www.waterbug.com/
CATIE CURTIS Passing Through
Long Night Moon http://www.compassrecords.com/

Remembering 9/11:

NICK HENNESSEY Crow on the Cradle
A Rare Hunger http://www.harbourtownrecords.com/

GEORGE WINSTON Farewell
Rememberence http://www.dancingcat.com/

JACK HARDY On A Clear Day
Vigil http://www.vigilcd.com/
SUZANNE VEGA It Hit Home
Vigil http://www.vigilcd.com/

ERIC BOGLE One Morning In Bar Harbor
The Colour of Dreams http://www.greentrax.com/

ROD MACDONALD My Neighbors in Delray
Recognition http://www.rodmacdonald.net/

TOM PAXTON The Bravest
Looking for the Moon http://www.appleseedrec.com/

EMMA’S REVOLUTION If I Give Your Name
One http://www.emmasrevolution.com/

AOIFE CLANCY There is Hope
Silvery Moon http://www.appleseedrec.com/
TOM CHAPIN,JOHN MCCUTCHEON, MICHAEL MARK Follow the Light
single– – released in 2001 http://www.folkmusic.com/ & http://www.tomchapin.com/
KITTY DONOHUE There Are No Words
single – released in 2001 http://www.kittydonohoe.com/
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Ron Olesko
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