WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for October 12, 2014

I love live radio. I enjoy the days when there are no “themes,” guests or any discernible game plan on how the show is going to run.

While it is true that pre-recording a show allows me to remove my fumblings and errors, as a host I enjoy sitting in the hot seat and sending out the music live. There are more challenges, especially when you host a folk show with no set playlist or requirements to play the top 10 songs. It may sound cliché, but I try to let the music decide where it wants to go – and my big challenge is to get the music to flow from song to song and hopefully keep the listener tuned in.

I’m not sure if I succeeded on those counts today, but I sure had fun trying! I am still sorting through all the CDs and files I have been receiving the last few weeks. I hate having to pick and choose, but in all honesty, I receive a number of CDs that really do not fit the style of music I try to play, and then there are those that just do not appeal to my ears – either aesthetically or technically. Sure, everyone has a different opinion, but there are some universals that hold true when it comes to sharing music on the radio.  More on that another time…

I do want to publicly thank a listener who approached me at the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club and handed me two CDs and said “This is a gift.” He gave me recordings from Buffy Ford Stewart and Dave Crossland. Both CDs featured a number of songs written by the late John Stewart, who was also Buffy’s husband. Some great songs! Thank you for your kind offering, the

New and Noteworthy: The Stray Birds Best Medicine (Yep Roc), Louise Mosrie Lay it Down (self), The Early Mays The Early Mays (Bird on the Wing)

(Tune in to TRADITIONS every Sunday from 2pm to 5pm Eastern Time over WFDU-FM 89.1 in the NYC/Northern New Jersey area, or on the web at www.wfdu.fm or iHeartRadio.com. On-demand streams of shows, including this one, are archived for two weeks by clicking HERE. A Sing Out! Radio Partner.)

ARTIST “Tune / Song”
ALBUM Label Website
2PM
Theme: HARVEY REID “Dirty Dish Rag”
Solo Guitar Sketchbook Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
DONOVAN “Colours”
Donovan’s Greatest Hits Legacy – www.legacyrecordings.com

AARON NATHANS and MICHAEL G. RONDSTADT “I Stood Upon a Hill”
Crooked Fiddle self – www.michaelronstadt.com , www.aaronnathans.com
KATIE MCNALLY “Walking of the Faud”
Flourish self – www.katiemcnally.com
ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER “Willie’s Lady”
Child Ballads Wilderland – www.anaismitchell.com , www.jeffersonhamer.com
MOIRA SMILEY & VOCO “North Country”
Laughter Out of Tears self – www.moirasmiley.com

THE STRAY BIRDS “Best Medicine”
Best Medicine Yep Roc – www.yeproc.com

THE GREENBEANS “Just Care About Now”
The Greenbeans self – www.thegreenbeansmusic.com
LOUISE MOSRIE “Lay it Down”
Lay it Down self – www.louisemosrie.com

PHIL OCHS “Flower Lady”
Live Again Rockbeat – www.rockbeatrecords.com
CHERYL WHEELER “Grey and Green”
Pointing at the Sun DIAS Records – www.diasrecords.com, www.cherylwheeler.com
JOE CROOKSTON “Big Sky”
Georgia I’m Here self – www.joecrookston.com
ERIC ANDERSEN “Come to My Bedside”
Vanguard Visionairies: Eric Andersen Vanguard – www.vanguardrecords.com

THE EARLY MAYS “Little Darling Pal of Mine”
The Early Mays Bird on the Wing Records – www.theearlymays.com

3PM
ADAM MILLER “Dixie Darling”
The Orphan Train and Other Reminiscences self – www.folksinging.org

BILLY STRINGS & DON JULIN “Salt Creek / Old Joe Clark”
Fiddle Tune X self – www.billystrings.com
JIMMY DRIFTWOOD “The Battle of New Orleans”
The Bard of the Ozards Boothill – out of print
THE JONES FAMILY “What’ll I Do With the Baby-O?”
From Earth To Heaven Shambling Gate Records – Shambling Gate Records

RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOT “Tennesee Stud”
Country Style / Live Fantasy – www.fantasyjazz.com
PHIL HENRY “Sweet Time”
Aberdeen self – www.philhenryband.com

KAMERUNGA “Fanfare for a Common Mandolin”
Terra Australias Arc Music – www.arcmusic.co.uk
ANNIE WENZ “Amazing Grace”
Rain on Bare Skin self – www.anniewenz.com

DAVE ROWE “I Have Decided”
All of the Dreams self – www.daverowe.com
HEATHER STYKA “These Northern Skies”
While This Planet Spins Beneath Our Feet Kite Stripe Records – www.heatherstyka.com
ELLIS PAUL “Waiting on a Break”
Chasing Beauty Black Wolf Records – www.ellispaul.com

4PM
DAVE CROSSLAND “Daydream Believer”
Mother Country Folk Era – www.davecrossland.com

BUFFY FORD STEWART “If You Should Remember Me”
Same Old Heart Global Recording Artists – www.gragroup.com , www.buffyfordstewart.com
ANNA DAGMAR “So I Chased the Setting Sun”
Same Old Heart self – www.annadagmar.com
JOHN SMITH “Longing Road”
The Longing Road self – www.johnsmithmusic.com

JOHN FLYNN “Malala”
Poor Man’s Diamonds self – www.johnflynn.net
DAVEY O “Ask Yourself the Question”
No Passengers self – www.daveyo.com
PAUL SACHS “Survival is the New Success”
Survival is the New Success self – www.paulsachs.com

C. DANIEL BOLING “As Young as Your Kiss”
Sleeping Dogs Berkalin Records – www.berkalinrecords.com , www.danielboling.com
RANDALL KROMM “This Old House”
Time Won’t Let Us Stay self – www.randallkromm.com
PATTY LARKIN “Island of Time”
Live at Caffe Lena Tompkins Square – www.tompkinssquare.com , www.caffelena.org

ROD MACDONALD “We’re All One”
Later That Night Blue Flute Music – www.rodmacdonald.net
WE’RE ABOUT 9 “The Same Seed”
Future Pilot self – www.wereabout9.com

BARNABY BRIGHT “Yellow Moon”
Wake the Hero self – www.barnabybright.com
GUY DAVIS “We All Need More Kindness in this World”
Legacy Red House Records – www.redhouserecords.com , www.guydavis.com

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Ron Olesko
WFDU-FM
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Teaneck, NJ 07666

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