December 27, 2009

I highlighted some of the albums that were chosen as part of the 50 best by the No Depression reader survey...take a look! (Best 50 Albums of 2009)

Artist - Song/Album

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen - Nola/Being There

Cowboy Jack Clement - Dreaming My Dreams with You/Guess Things Happen that Way

Kate Wolf - Two-Way Waltz/Kate Wolf Anthology

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen - High Cotton/Being There

Jack Hardy - If I Were to Lay Me Down/Rye Grass

Ray Charles - It Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind/Friendship

Sean Watkins - The Ant and the Ant/Let it Fall

Bearfoot - Sold My Soul to an Angel/Follow Me

Monsters of Folk - The Right Place/Monsters of Folk

Caroline Herring - Cactus Tree/Golden Apples of the Sun

Greg Brown - Rex Roth's Daughter/Dream City

Bill Morrissey - Moving Day/Something I Saw or Thought I Saw

Beaucoup Blue - By Your Side/Free to Fall

Ray Bonneville - I Am the Big Easy/Goin' by Feel

Murali Coryell - I Could've Had You/Sugar Lips

Jeremy Wallace Trio - Falling in Love/She Used to Call Me Honey

Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams - Everyone Has a Broken Heart/The Great Unravel

Over the Rhine - I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time/The Trumpet Child

Ani DiFranco - The Poet Game/Going Driftless

Duffy - Delayed Devotion/Rockferry

Jesse Winchester - No Pride at All/Gentleman of Leisure

Pat Wictor - Eventide/Sunset Waltz

Danny Schmidt - Grampa Built Bridges/Instead the Forest Rose to Sing

Redbird - Buckets of Rain/Redbird

Dave Rawlings Machine - Bells of Harlem/A Friend of a Friend

Levon Helm - Tennessee Jed/Electric Dirt

Eilen Jewell - Nowhere in NO Time/Sea of Tears

Son Volt - When the Wheels Don't Move/American Central Dust

Crooked Still - Undone in Sorrow/Still Crooked

Annabelle Chvostek - The Sioux/Resilience

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnnie Irion - In Lieu of Flowers/Exploration

Christine Lavin - Human/Cold Pizza for Breakfast

Guy Clark - The Coat/Someday the Song Writes You

Steve Earle - Where I Lead Me/Townes

Avett Brothers - I and Love and You/I and Love and You

Buddy & Julie Miller - Gasoline and Matches/Written in Chalk

Hey Negrita - Burn the Whole Place Down/King Easy Radio Sampler Vol. #6

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Peace Rag/Stars in My Crown

Sunday, December 13, 2009

A nice mix today of folkie and Christmas tunes.....Sunday, the 20th, will be all holiday music!!

Check out the end-of-the-year best cds according to No Depression! Great list!

http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/the-no-depression-communitys

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Hart-Rouge - Night on a Hill/Nouvelle France

Foothills Trio - Lord of the Dance/Songs for a Winter Night

Annie & Rod Capps - My Blue Garden/My Blue Garden

Lui Collins - Mystery Play/Leaving Ft. Knox

Burns Sisters - Follow/Close to Home

Tanya Savory - Passed Him By/Town to Town

Kathy Mattea - Mary Did You Know/Good News

Kim & Reggie Harris - Roll Jordon Roll/Simplicity

Pieta Brown - Diamonds in the Sky/Shimmer

Dave Rawlings Machine - Monkey & the Engineer/A Friend of a Friend

Sarah Lee Guthrie - Oh How He Lied/Go Waggaloo

John Kirk & Trish Miller - North Country Waltz/Quicksteppin

Mark Stepakoff - A Hardcore Honky Tonk Christmas/Hudson Harding Holiday Sampler #4

Kate MacLeod - Return to Rawlins/Blooming

Heather Masse - Over the Mountain/Bird Song

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Still Still Still/12 Songs of Christmas

Wendy Webb - Nashville Can Wait/Moon on Havanna

Randy Newman - Laugh & Be Happy/Harps & Angels

Lowen & Navarro - I Don't Believe in Yesterday/Learning to Fall

David Mallett - Ten Men/Alright Now

James Taylor - River/At Christmas

Erica Wheeler - Song for a Winter Night/Wonderland

Rani Arbo - I Saw Three Ships a Sailing/Song for a Winter Night

Cary Cooper - Shoe Song/Yellow

Ryan Bingham - Sunrise/Mescalito

Patty Griffin - Stolen Car/1,000 Kisses

Buddy Miller - There's a Higher Power/Universal United House of Prayer

Steve Earle - Sparkle & Shine/Washington Square Serenade

Loreena McKennitt - Marco Polo/A Mediterranean Odyssey

Matt & Shannon Heaton - Fisherman's Lullaby/Music for Christmas

Lucy Kaplansky - Dreamland/Down at the Sea Hotel

Simon & Garfunkel - Kathy's Song/Live 1969

The Beatles - In My Life/Rubber Soul

Loudon Wainwright - Suddenly It's Christmas

Bette Midler - Mele Kalikimaka/Cool Yule

Laura Nyro - Let It Be Me/The Christmas Song

Joel Brown - Jolly Old St. Nicholas/Christmas Cedar & Spice

Cheryl Branz - Santa Baby/The Christmas Gift

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - Medley/Jingle All the Way

Manhattan Transfer - Jingle Bells

Christine Lavin - Dona Nobis Pacem/A Runaway Christmas Tree

Brooks Williams - I Wonder as I Wander/Wonderland

December 6, 2009

December 6, 2009

Artist - Song/cd

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Patty Loveless - Bluegrass White Snow/Bluegrass White Snow

Tim & Mollie O'Brien - Hush While the Little Ones Sleep/Remember Me

Here Comes Santa Claus/Greatest Christmas Songs Ever

Christopher Shaw & Bridget Ball - Hush Now/Mountain Snow Mistle Two

Del McCoury -I wonder Where You Are Tonight/Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza

Robin & Linda Williams - Together All Alone/The First Christmas Gift

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum - Earth Moves in a Mysterious Way/Winter's Grace

Wailin' Jennys - Glory Bound/Live at Mauch Chunk Opera House

Crooked Still - Captain Captain/Still Crooked

The Rankins - Blue-Eyed Suzie/Endless Seasons

Martin Simpson - Kieldir Schottische/True Stories

Cherish the Ladies - Fair and Tender Ladies/Woman of the House

Cherish the Ladies - The Holly & the Berry/On Christmas Night

The Bobs - A Cappella Choir in the Sky/Best of the Bobs

Kate MacLeod - The Inner Man/Blooming

Liz Longley - Overdue/Somewhere in the Middle

For this part of the show I invited my good friend, Robin Adams, in to do a little "dueling tunes" segment. Robin has a great alternative show on WSPN each Wednesday morning from 8-10 AM.

Blind Terry - The Subtle Art of How to Break a Heart

Over the Rhine - Don't Wait for Tom/The Trumpet Child

Magnetic Fields - If There's Such a Thing as Love

Vienna Teng - Grandmother Song/Inland Territory

Go Betweens - Love Goes On!

The Waifs - Fisherman's Daughter/Brief History Live

Bird and the Bee - Carol of the Bells

John Prine - Christmas in Prison

Divine Comedy - If

Emily Hurd - I See You Clearly/A Cache in the Warehouse Floor

Holly Golightly - Christmas Stars

Leslie Ritter & Scott Petito - The Bells of Christmas

Jerry Douglas - Beautiful Star of Bethlehem/Jerry Christmas

Mary Chapin Carpenter - On a Quiet Christmas Morn/12 Songs of Christmas

James Taylor - Who Comes This Night/At Christmas

Neal & Leandra - Rise Up Shepherd/Listen to the Angels

Diane Ziegler - Do You Hear What I Hear?/December in Vermont

Dan Fogelberg - Snowfall/The First Christmas Morning

Krista Detor - Christmas in London

Harlem Parlour Music Club - i wander as i wander/A Harlem Parlour Christmas

Christine Lavin - Allelujah Amen/The Runaway Christmas Tree

Tune in on Sunday, December 6 when my pal Robin Adams, who has a great WSPN show on Wednesday mornings, joins me for a alt/indie song duel. He'll bring in a few of his most offbeat indie songs and I'll counter him with a few artists he might never have heard.....We plan on doing it again on Wednesday morning (8AM to 10AM) 12/9 for his listeners......I'm eager to hear what he's gonna come up with! Knowing Robin - this is going to be fun!

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Christopher Shaw & Bridget Ball - At Our House on Christmas/Mountain Snow and Mistle Two

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum - The Snowy Road/Winter's Grace

Dolly Parton - Love is Like a Butterfly/Dolly Sample Box Set

Alison Krauss - Get Me Through December/A Hundred Miles or More

The McGarrigles - Green Green Rocky Road/The McGarrigle Hour

Salamander Crossing - Light in the Window

Dana & Susan Robinson - Delta Queen/Big Mystery

Return to the Dream - Can't Find My Way Home/Return to the Dream

Wailin' Jennys - Driving/Live from the Mauch Chunk Opera House

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Thanksgiving Song/12 Songs of Christmas

Anne Hills - The Moon's Song/Points of View

Tracy Grammer - This Dirty Little Town/Verdant Mile

Diane Zeigler - December in Vermont/December in Vermont

Jerry Douglas - New Year's Eve/Jerry Christmas

Heather Masse - Bird Song/Bird Song

Holly Near with Emma's Revolution - Sail Away Lady/We Came to Sing

Greg Brown - Lull it By/Dream City

Beth Wood - New Orleans Train/From the Heart

Ruthie & the Wranglers - Songs of Christmas/Hudson Harding Sampler Vol. 2

The Bobs - Come Here Often?/Get Your Monkey Off My Dog

The Nields - Ain't That Good News/Sister Holler

Bruce Cockburn - Mary Had a Baby/Christmas

Al Stewart with Dave Nachmanoff - Princess Olivia/Uncorked

Sometymes Why - Cold Feet Blues/Your Heart is a Glorious Machine

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - Gentle Arms of Eden/Drum Hat Buddha

The Subdudes - The Blacksmith Song/Flower Petals

Diana Jones - The Day I Die/Better Times Will Come

The Subdudes - Wedding Rites/Flower Petal

Diana Jones - My Remembrance of You/My Remembrance of You

Vienna Teng - Grandmother Song/Inland Territory

Over the Rhine - Don't Wait for Tom/The Trumpet Child

Vienna Teng - In Another Life/Inland Territory

Over the Rhine - If a Song Could be President/The Trumpet Child

Christine Lavin - Not Me Not Me Not Me/Cold Pizza for Breakfast

Mike Agranoff - The Dream/Ain't Never Been Plugged

Jody Marshall - Gower Wassail/Gloucestershire Wassail/Coral of the Bells

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - American Noel/Wonderland

Danny Schmidt - Better off Broke/Instead the Forest Rose to Sing

Chris Smither - It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry/Time Stands Still

Beaucoup Blue - Free to Fall/Free to Fall

Bela Fleck - Jingle Bells/Jingle All the Way

Daniel Moore - Winter Wonderland/Yosemite Wonderland

Music for Sunday, November 22!!

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Robin & Linda Williams - Going Going Gone/Buena Vista

Zoe Mulford - One Day the Sun's Gonna Shine/Bonfires

Pete Seeger - All Mixed Up/Live in '65

Woods Tea Company - Reuben James/The Passage

Lee Murdock - Ashokan Farewell/Wordless

Jakob's Hollow - Edge of a Chasm/The Legend of Bobby the Kid

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Brush Your Teeth Blues #57/Go Waggaloo

Emma's Revolution - Mountain Song/We Came to Sing

David Mallett - End of the Day/Alright Now

Hardy & Massengill - Losers/Partners in Crime

Adrienne Young - I Cannot Justify/Plow to the End of the Row

Jerry Douglas - Maui Christmas/Jerry Christmas

Mustard's Retreat - Part of me Remembers/5 Miles or 50,000 Years

Caroline Herring - Cactus Tree/Golden Apples of the Sun

David Rawlings Machine - Bells of Harlem/A Friend of a Friend

Peter Mulvey - Lila Blue/The Knuckleball Suite

Ben Lee - Into the Dark

Jay Linden - Baltimore/Under the Radar

The Subdudes - Flower Petals/Flower Petals

Brooks Williams - The Time I Spend with you/The Time I Spend with You

Ben Murray & Siobhan Quinn - Geronimo's Cadillac/Two Rivers

Neal & Leandra - Catch a Falling Star/A Dreamer's Holiday

Brooks Williams - Goodby Walker Percy/Little Lion

Over the Rhine - Desperate for Love/The Trumpet Child

Vienna Teng - Saint Stephen's Cross/Inland Territory

Anna Nalick - Catalyst/Wreck of the Day

Kasey Chambers - On a Bad Day/Barricades & Brickwalls

Beatles - Blackbird/White Album

Joni Mitchell - California/Blue

Bob Dylan - Meet Me in the Morning/Blood on the Tracks

Laura Nyro - And When I Die/Stone Soul Picnic

Jesse Winchester - Club Manhattan/Gentleman of Leisure

Jack Williams - Sucker for Love/Laughing in the Face of the Blues

Alistair Moock - Own Way to Heaven/Fortune Street

Larry Murante - I Still Think of You/Point of Entry

Cris Williamson - Murder of Crows/Fringe

John Gorka - Trouble in Mind/So Dark You See

James Taylor - It's Growing/Covers

Van Morrison - Days Like This

Linda Thompson - Do Your Best for Rock 'n Roll/Versatile Heart

Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning/Best of Capital Years

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Peace Rag/Stars in my Crown

Christmas music!

I'm always excited for new music at Christmas. Even though those old standards are sure to bring back childhood memories, I long to see what my favorite folkie or country artists will do each holiday. And it's not the traditional carols I long to hear, it's sometimes original songs that bring a new and different perspective to the Christmas season. I LOVE the quirky songs just as much as some of the more traditional types.

I vow never to play a Christmas tune until the Sunday AFTER Thanksgiving....but this year I may make an exception. Jerry Douglas has just come out with a wonderful Christmas cd entitled, Jerry Christmas! He shines!! Jerry will be appearing at The Egg with John Oates and Maura O'Connell on December 11th!! I can't wait to share it with my listeners and will begin doing that this Sunday - yes, the Sunday BEFORE Thanksgiving!! It's only for Jerry that I do this!!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Photo is Greg Klyma who stopped by for an in-studio interview to plug his upcoming Caffe Lena gig on 11/20/09!!

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Krista Detor - Pretty Horses Run/Cover Their Eyes

Susan Werner - Heaven So Small

Cosy Sheridan - George & His 88 Keys/Grand Design

Erica Wheeler - Lucky in Love/Good Summer Rain

Heather Masse - Time is a Hoax/Bird Song

Bop Ensemble - Husbands & Wives/Between Trains

Liz Longley - Ain't Too Good to be True/Somewhere in the Middle

Dido - Quiet Times

Regina Spektor - One More Time with Feeling/Far

Berggren, Kirk & Shaw - Denmark/North River North Woods

Anne Hills - I'm Nobody/Points of View

Dana & Susan Robinson - Sycamore Tea/Big Mystery

Susan Trump - Screen Porch Door/Live at Caffe Lena

Jack Hardy & David Massengill - Saint James Infirmary Blues/Partners in Crime

Barbara Garriel - Saturday Night Lady/Ample Patience

McCoury & Grisman - B Natural/Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza

Dolly Parton - Everything is Beautiful/Box Set Sampler

David Rawlings - I Hear Them All/A Friend of a Friend

Ryan Adams - Pearls on a Strong/Easy Tiger

Jory Nash - Soul Kid/New Blue Day

Chuck Suchy - Hold On/Unraveling Heart

Martin Simpson - Stagolee/True Stories

Murali Coryell - Music Sets You Free/Sugar Lips

Willie Murphy - Life is But a Dream/A Shot of Love in a Time of Need

Sam Cooke - You Send Me/Greatest Hits

Leslie Ritter & Scott Petito - A Million Stars/Circles in Sand

Janis Ian - Today You're Mine/The Essential Janis Ian

Sons of the Never Wrong - Leona/On a Good Day...I Am

Jon Shain - Driving Them Crazy/Times Right Now

Helen Avakian - Bird Flying/I Love the Moon

James Keelaghan - Circle of Stone/House of Cards

In-studio interview with Greg Klyma who will be performing at Caffe Lena on Friday, November 20th. Great interview and nice music both live and from 2 of his most recent cds, KlymaLive and Rust Belt Vagabond.

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Peace Rag/Stars in My Crown

I took last Sunday off and had a student take over the controls for me. He did a great job and offered up an eclectic blend of folk/indie music! Sometimes change is good.

I've been listening to a new cd which was given to me by a good friend as a birthday gift. It's been out for 10 years, so is not new....but is still wonderful nonetheless. If you like a great mandolin sound, check out the Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza!

ALSO, be sure and check out the show on Sunday the 15th when I'll have Greg Klyma joining me to plug his upcoming Caffe Lena appearance. Greg will be coming from the NERFA conference so I'm eager to talk with him about his experiences there. Each year I put the NERFA conference on my calendar with hopes that I'll be able to attend....and every year something else comes along $$$$....if only there was always enough money for all of the music we want to hear!!

Read today that James Taylor is going to tour with Carole King....check out their websites for a schedule!!

Great show on Sunday with a visit from Nancy Walker, Michael Jerling, Rick Rourke & Larry Clyman to sing and talk about their upcoming show at the Saratoga Arts Center on Saturday, November 7!! Don't miss "The Right Mix"!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Neal & Leandra - Someone Been Praying/Dancing With a Ghost

Greg Greenway - What Must Be Done/Weightless

Pat Wictor - Well Well Well/Sunset Waltz

Jon Shain - Song for Dara/Times Right Now

Joe Jencks - White Buffalo/Links in a Chain

Jory Nash - The Getaway/New Blue Day

Lynn Miles - Sacre Coeur/Night in a Strange Town

Greg Klyma - Add a Little Love/Rust Belt Vagabond

Tracy Grammer - Solitary Man/The Verdant Mile

Brooks Williams - Johnny's Farewell/The Time I Spend With You

Miss Tess - Saving All My Love/Darling Oh Darling

Chuck Suchy - Down in the Water/Unraveling Heart

The Whippersnappers - Way Down the Old Plank Road/Up Against It

Janet Bates - How Deep is the Water/The Little Spinner

Return to the Dream - Can't Find My Way Home/Return to the Dream

Eilen Jewell - One of Those Days/Sea of Tears

Berggren, Kirk & Shaw - Be Thou My Vision/North River North Woods

Guy Clark - Eamon/Somedays the Song Writes You

Lyle Lovett - She's No Lady/Pontiac

John Prine - Mornin' Train/Fair & Square

Guy Clark - Wrong Side of the Tracks/Somedays the Song Writes You

Peggy Lynn - Earned These Lines/Earned These Lines

Donna Hughes - Too Many/Gaining Wisdom

Euphonia - I'm Going Away/The Old Jawbone

Matt & Shannon Heaton - Bay of Biscay/Lover's Well

Kat Eggleston - Some Kind of Wondering/Speak

John Gorka - Fret One/So Dark You See

Chris Smither - Don't Call Me Stranger/Time Stands Still

Hans York - Never Been in Love/Young Amelia

Colin Hay - Me & My Imaginary Friend/Are You Lookin' At Me?

chuck e. costa - Better or Worse/Where the Songs Come From

In-studio interview with Michael Jerling, Rick Rourke, Larry Clyman & Nancy Walker to plug their upcoming show at the Saratoga Arts Center, November 7th!

Songs played from their cds:

Jim Gaudet - So Far So Good/So Far So Good

Michael Jerling - My Evil Twin/Live Here Tonight - Live at Caffe Lena

Rick Rourke - Fortune & Fame/Lost Wages

Jim Gaudet - Railroad Kill Bill/So Far So Good

Yarn - Lies I've Told/Empty Pockets

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Peace Rag/Stars in My Crown

October 25, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Bruce Hornsby - Darlin' Cory/Big Mon

Claire Lynch - Down in the Valley/New Day

Tim & Mollie O'Brien - Wichita/Away Out on the Mountain

Rhonda Vincent - Is the Grass Any Bluer/The Storm Still Rages

Robin & Linda Williams - Sugar for Sugar/Sugar for Sugar

Miss Tess - Darling Oh Darling/Darling Oh Darling

Dolly Parton - Last Thing on My Mind/Dolly

Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers - Mabeline/The Bear

Kane, Welch & Kaplin - No One Told Me/Kane Welch & Kaplin

Guy Clark - All She Wants is You/Someday the Song Writes You

Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers - Satisfied Man/The Bear

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Stuck in the Middle/Speed of Life

Nanci Griffith - Money Changes Everything/The Loving Kind

Lyle Lovett - Election Day/My Baby Don't Tolerate

Lyle Lovett - I Will Rise Up/It Ain't Big It's Large

Chris Smither - Madame Geneva's/Time Stands Still

Chris Smither - Miner's Bus/Time Stands Still

Jorma Kaukonen - There's a Bright Side Somewhere/River of Time

Jon Shain - Careless Love/Time's Right Now

Martin Simpson - An Englishman Abroad/True Stories

John McCusker - Al's Big Day/Yella Hoose

Kate Rusby - You Belong to Me/The Girl Who Couldn't Fly

Ariane Lydon - Breathless Dancer/Still She Moves

The Rankins - You Feel the Same Way Too/A Collection

Pierce Pettis - You're Gonna Need This Memory/Great Big World

Jory Nash - God Don't Know Me Anymore/New Blue Day

James Keelaghan - Next To You/House of Cards

Helen Avakian - Fog Ghost/I Love the Moon

Caroline Herring - Long Black Veil/Golden Apples of the Sun

Sons of the Never Wrong - All in a Song/On a Good Day....I Am

The Waifs - Gillian/A Brief History Live

Emily Hurd - My Good Enough/A Cache in the Warehouse Floor

Janis Ian - When Angels Cry/The Essential Janis Ian

Joni Mitchell - I Don't Know Where I Stand/Clouds

Jesse Winchester - Eulalie/Live from Mountain Stage

Eric Bibb - Buckets of Rain/Diamond Days

Diane Zeigler - You Were Welcome Here/These are the Roses

Buddy Mondlock - How it Goes/The Edge of the World

Ellis Paul & Vance Gilbert - May I Suggest/Side of the Road

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Peace Rag/Stars in My Crown

October 18, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Eddie From Ohio - Old Dominion/Three Rooms

Ryan Adams - Two/Easy Tiger

Lynn Miles - This is the Night/Love Sweet Love

Shawn Colvin - I Don't Know Why/Live '88

John McCutcheon & Tom Chapin - The Older I Get/Doing Our Job

Cliff Eberhardt - You Really Got a Hold on Me/Now You Are My Home

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Rich Woman/Raising Sand

Richard Shindell - Get Up Clara/Not For Now

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - When I Go/When I Go

Mammals - Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave/Departure

Adrienne Young - River and a Dirt Road/Room to Grow

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - It's Good to be Alive/Speed of Life

Rick Rourke & Lost Wages - Family Tree/Lost Wages

Rhonda Vincent & the Rage - Me Too/Ragin' Live

Steve Martin - Pretty Flowers/The Crow

Rick Rourke & Lost Wages - Estuary/Lost Wages

Guy Clark - Somedays You Write the Song/Somedays the Song Writes You

Flatlanders - Just About Time/Hills & Valleys

James McMurtry - Just Us Kids/Just Us Kids

Del McCoury & Steve Earle - The Graveyard Shift/The Mountain

Jamey Johnson - Dreaming My Dreams/That Lonesome Song

Jim Gaudet & the Railroad Boys - By the Mark/So Far So Good

Michael Jerling - My Evil Twin/Music Here Tonight

John Gorka - Whole Wide World/So Dark You See

Pierce Pettis - Hole in My Heart/Everything Matters

Keb Mo - Better Man/Playing for Change

Jay Linden - Tiple Medley/Satchel

John Thibodeau - Spirit of the Golden Tone/Passin' Through

James Keelaghan - Safe Home/House of Cards

Sons of the Never Wrong - Say Goodbye/On a Good Day...I Am

Dar Williams - As Cool as I Am/Mortal City

The Nields - Leave That Trouble Alone/Sister Holler

Carrie Newcomer - The Yes of Yes/The Bird or the Wing

Richard Thompson - The Boys of Mutton Street/Front Parlour Ballads

Loudon Wainwright III - Last Man on Earth/Last Man on Earth

Robert Earl Keen - Ride/What I Really Mean

Bob Warren - Love Walked In/Love Walked In

Kate Campbell - Falling Out of Heaven/Save the Day

Jakob's Hollow - A Few New Friends/The Legend of Bobby the Kid

Ollabelle - Fall Back & Last Lullaby/Riverside Battle Songs

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Peace Rag/Stars in My Crown

October 11, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Cheryl Wheeler - When Fall Comes to New England/Different Stripe

Zoe Mulford - One Day the Sun's Gonna Shine/Bomfires

Jakob's Hollow - The Road/The Legend of Bobby the Kid

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen - Nola/Being There

Robin & Linda Williams - 50,000 Names/Radio Songs

Smithfield Fair - Lasting Effects/Smithfield Fair

Bread & Bones - Time is Passing/I Know Stories

Hungrytown - One Morning in May/Hungrytown

Tanya Savory - Different Shores/Town to Town

Mollie O'Brien - Church of the Wandering Stream/Fishing Music II

Nancy Walker - Bury Me Beneath the Willow/Layers of Rust & Time

Vicky Emerson - Winter Wind/Long Ride

Alison Krauss - The Scarlet Tide/A Hundred Miles or More

Buddy Miller - Shelter Me/Universal United House of Prayer

Asylum Street Spankers - By and By/God's Favorite Band

Bop Ensemble - Peace LIke a River/Between Trains

Beaucoup Blue - Drive for Hours/Free to Fall

Joe Jencks - Crossing Over/Links in a Chain

Keb Mo - One Love/Playing for Change

Mavis Staples - On My Way/We'll Never Turn Back

Danny Schmidt - Serpentine Cycle of Money/Instead the Forest Rose to Sing

Martin Sexton - Gypsy Woman/Black Sheep

Jaime Michaels - First Snow/Crooked

Kat Eggleston - Everybody Knows/Speak

Dala - Northern Lights/Everyone is Someone

Sweetback Sisters - You're Gone/Chicken Ain't Chicken

Robyn Landis - Shrink the Sky/Many Moons

Cliff Eberhardt - Have a Little Heart/500 Miles

Patty Griffin - Burgandy Shoes/Children Running Through

Sara Hickman - It's Alright/Will Taylor & Strings Attached

Mae Robertson - I Will Not be Broken/In White Light

Beatles - Blackbird/The White Album

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer/Essential Simon & Garfunkel

Carly Simon - Mockingbird/Reflections

Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move/Tapestry

Jim Croce - One Less Set of Footsteps/Greatest Hits

Karla Bonoff - Tell Me Why/Best of Karla Bonoff

Maria Muldaur - Honey Babe Blues/Waitress in a Donut Shop

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Piece Rag/Stars in My Crown

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Brand New Heartache/Speed of LIfe

Dolly Parton - I Wonder Where You are Tonight/The Grass is Blue

Steve Earle & Del McCoury - The Graveyard Shift/The Mountain

Bela Fleck - Ode to Earl/The Bluegrass Sessions

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - It's Good to be Alive/Speed of Life

Cherry Holmes - Red Satin Dress/Cherry HOlmes

Cherry Holmes - Workin' Girl Blues/Cherry Holmes

Abigail Washburn - Journey Home/Sparrow Quartet

Rosalie Sorrels - Ragweed Ruth/Borderline Heart

Nancy Walker - Corinna Corinna/Layers of Rust and Time

Smithfield Fair - An Ancient Tune/The Longing

Rosalie Sorrels - He Comes LIek Rain/Strangers in Another Country

Jaime Michaels - A Momentary Thing/Crooked

Erica Wheeler - The First Sunset/Almost LIke Tonight (Live)

Robyn Landis - Hey Dog/Many Moons

George Ensle - Daybreak Snow/Build a Bridge

Lucy Kaplansky - Life Threads

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - Gentle Arms of Eden/Drum Hat Buddha

Bop Ensemble - Buckets of Rain/Between Trais

John Gorka - Trouble in Mind/So Dark You See

Catie Curtis -I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free/Hello Stranger

The Nields - Abbington Sea Fair/Sister Holler

Annie Gallup - Grandma's Best China/Selected Songs 1994-2004

Joe Jencks - Get Together/Links in a Chain

Wendy Wall - Fool's Gold/The Road to Paradise

Christine Lavin - Human/Cold Pizza for Breakfast

Carrie Newcomer - Moon Over Tucson

Carla Ulbrich - It's Never Polite to Ask a Girl How Old She Is/Life From Outer Space

Buskkin & Batteau - Wild Infaturation/Red Shoes & Golden Hearts

Loudon Wainwright - Surviving Twin/Last Man on Earth

The Waifs - Lighthouse/Up All Night

Brooks Williams - You Don't Know Me/The Time I Spend with You

Eric Bibb - Shine on/Diamond Days

Jorma Kaukonen - Izzie's Lullaby/River of Time

Cliff Eberhardt - When the Leaves Begin to Fall/500 MIles

Cary Cooper - Dirty Little Secret/Dirty Little Secret

Dala - Stand in Awe/Everyone's Someone

Dale Robin - Delta Mama Blues/Sweet & Salty

Chuck Brodsky - The Man Who Blew Kisses/Two Sets

Jonatha Brooke - Keep the River on Your Right/Careful What You Wish For

Nanci Griffith - This Heart/Flyer

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Piece Rag/Stars in My Crown

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Peter, Paul & Mary - Weave Me the Sunshine, This Land is Your Land, Michael Rode the Boat Ashore & Kisses Sweeter than Wine/Around the Campfire

Arlo Guthrie - The Unbelievable Motorcycle Tale/Tales of '69

Woody Guthrie - Goin' Down the Road/My Dusty Road

Sarah Lee Gurthrie & Johnny Irion - In Lieu of Flowers/Exploration

Peter, Paul & Mary - Don't Think Twice/10 Years Together

Lowen & Navarro with Phil Parlapiano - I Still Believe/Learning to Fall

Bob Malone - Morning Desires/Born Too Late

Randy Newman - Feels Like Home/Harps & Angels

Vance Gilbert - Just the Way That it Was/Fugitives

Michael Jerling - North Country Jukebox/Music Here Tonight

Joe Jencks - Links in a Chain - Links in a Chain

Beaucoup Blue - Free to Fall/Free to Fall

Peter, Paul & Mary - Home is Where the Heart Is/Songs of Conscience & Concern

Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street/Best of Bob Dylan

Rosalie Sorrels - Straight on the Rails/Stranger in Another Country

The Pines - Shine on Moon/Tremolo

Peter Mulvey - Some People/Letters From a Flying Machine

Cliff Eberhardt - When Leaves Begin to Fall/500 Miles

Annie Dinerman - If It Ain't True (Then Just Ain't Love)/Broken Cookies

Dala - Alive/Everyone is Someone

Lucy Kaplansky - Ring of Fire/Over the Hills

Annabelle Chvostek - I Left My Brain/Resilience

Ben Bedford - Ten Paces/Land of the Shadows

David Ferrard - The Jute Mill Song/Across the Troubled Wave

I left the last 1/2 hour for total Peter, Paul & Mary music - all taken from their cd, 10 Years Together!

Puff the Magic Dragon

Blowin' in the Wind

I Dig Rock and Roll Music

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Early Morning Rain

If I Had a Hamer

Too Much of Nothin'

Lemon Tree

500 Miles

Day is Done

September 13, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Robin & Linda Williams - Tied Down Home Free/Buena Vista

Annie & Rod Capps - Someone Who Knows/My Blue Garden

Jeffrey Foucault - Mayfly/Fishing Music II

Tim & Mollie O'Brien - Gone Fishin'/Fishing Music II

Peter Mulvey - Dynamite Bill/Letters from a Flying Machine

Chris Smither - Miner's Blues/Time Stands Still

Danny Schmidt - Better Off Broke/Instead the Forest Rose to Sing

Michael Jerling - Why They Run the Race/Music Here Tonight...Live at Caffe Lena

Sam Baker - Snow/Cotton

Dougie MacLean - Ready for the Storm/From the Ends of the Earth

Lissa Schneckenburger - Jam on Gerry's Rock-Willie/Song

Kat Eggleston - Some Kind of Wondering & Your Window/Speak

The Wailin' Jennys - Bring Me a Li'l Water Silvy & Wone More Dollar & Racing with the Sun/Live at Mauch Chunk Opera House

Jim Gaudet & the Railroad Boys - Mind Over Matter & By the Mark/So Far So Good

Terrific live interview with Linda Schrade & David Kiputh, two members of the group Red Hen who will be appearing at Caffe Lena on Saturday, 9/19!

Red Hen - Tell Me True & Both Sides of the Road & Jailbreak/Crossing

TR Ritchie - An Ireland Left Behind & Tangled in a Spell/Wild Horses

Aaron Neville - Louisiana 19287

Buckwheat Zydeco - Beast of Burden

Better Days - Baby Please Don't Go

Kenny Neal - Steady Rollin' Man

Sam Chatman - Mean ol' Frisco

Paul Geremia - Come Back Baby

Keb Mo - Tell Everybody I Know

Taj Mahal - Lovin' in my Baby's Eyes

Hans Theesink - Ain't Got No Home

Geoff Muldaur - Find Blind Lemon

Tom Rush - Mobile Texas Line

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Piece Rag/Stars in My Crown

September 6, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Carly Simon - Mockingbird/Reflections

Laura Nyro - Blowin' Away/Best of Laura Nyro

Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song

Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move/Tapestry

Cat Stevens - The Wind/Almost Famous Soundtrack

Joni Mitchell - Woodstock/Hits

Doobie Brothers - South City Midnight Lady/Best Of

Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams - Julia/The Great Unravel

Duffy - Warwick Ave./Rockferry

Shelby Lynne - The Look of Love/Just a Little Lovin'

Eleanor McEvoy - Only a Woman's Heart/Only a Woman's Heart

Son Volt - No Turning Back/American Central Dust

Steve Earle - City of Immigrants/Washington Square Serenade

Felice Brothers - Penn Station/Yonder is the Clock

Lucinda Williams - Honey Bee/Little Honey

Tim & Mollie O'Brien - Gone Fishin'/Fishing Music II

Stefan Grossman - Green Rocky Road/Played a Little Fiddle

Berggren, Kirk & Shaw - French Canadian Medley/North River North Woods

Michelle Shocked - Prodigal Daughter/Arkansas Traveler

Susan Trump - The Stone Cutter/Live at Caffe Lena

Natalie Merchant - Owensboro/The House Carpenter's Daughter

Ollabelle - Fall Back/Riverside Battle Songs

Red Hen - TellMe True/Crossing

Adrienne Young - Room to Grow/Room to Grow

The Speckers - Louisville Burglar

Gillian Welch - Tear My Stillhouse Down/Revival

Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter - Take Me Home/Take Me Home

Shawn Colvin - I don't Know Why/Live '88

John Gorka - Unblindfold the Referee/Writing in the Margins

Lucy Kaplansky - Swimming Song/Over the Hills

Michael Jerling - Cold River/Crooked Path

Nerissa & Katrina Nields - We'll Plant an Oak/Sister Holler

Peter Mulvey - On a Wing and a Prayer/Letters from a Flying Machine

Eric Bibb - Tall Cotton/Diamond Days

Christine Lavin - Good Thing She Can't Read My Mind/Cold Pizza for Breakfast

Selections from the new cd, Fishing Music II

I Caught a Keeper

Lost River

Church of the Wandering Stream

Fishin' in the Wind

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Jayhawks - Save it for a Rainy Day/Anthology

The Laws - Let's Pretend/Another Road

Bryndle - Under the Rainbow/Bryndle

Eddie From Ohio - Don't Think Twice/Three Rooms

Hart Rouge - Love at the Five & Dime/Beaupre's Home

Alison Krauss - The Scarlet Time/A Hundred Miles or More

Vance Gilbert - That Front Porch Song/Unfamiliar Moon

Sam Baker - Say the Right Words/Cotton

Bob Dylan - Nettie Moore/Modern Times

Tom Chapin - Build a Bridge/Let the Bad Times Roll

Jim Gaudet & the Railroad Boys - By the Mark/So Far So Good

Alecia Nugent - The Last Greyhound/Hillbilly Goddess

Byrd & Street - Let Me Be Your Friend/Love Broke the Fall

Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko - President Richard Milhous Nixon's Hornpipe/Meeting on Southern Soil

Buddy & Julie Miller - One Part Two Part/Written in Chalk

Gretchen Peters - Prairie in the Sky/King Easy Radio Sampler Vol. #5

Live studio interview and performance by The Honeycutters! (See video below)

Live songs: Waiting in the Morning/Automatic/We Are Older Now

Songs from the cd, Irene, Irene & In the Money

Amanda Platt & Peter James (The Honeycutters) appeared on WSPN to plug their gig at Caffe Lena Sunday evening, 8/30.

Mike & Ruthy - Winder Slide/Waltz of the Chickadee

Carolann Solebello - Long Time Gone/Glass of Desire

John Gorka - Road of Good Intentions/Writing in the Margins

Jon Fromer - No One's Got Your Back/Gonna Take Us All

Jeffrey Foucault - Mexican Home/Shoot the Moon

Hope Machine - Deportees/Big Green

Peggy Seeger - On This Very Day/An Odd Collection

The Speckers - Morning Blues/Jack O'Diamonds

Berggren, Kirk & Shaw - Denmark/North River North Woods

Greenfields of America - Across the Western Ocean/Greenfields of America

Nanci Griffith - Sing/The Loving Kind

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Why Walk When You Can Fly

Erica Wheeler - Brand New Starts/Good Summer Rain

Erica Wheeler - Deep Water/Good Summer Rain

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Piece Rag/Stars in my Crown

The Honeycutters 8/30/09

Check out The Honeycutters' live performance on WSPN 8/30/09!!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Cox Family & Alison Krauss - Everybody Wants to Go To Heaven/Blue Trail of Sorrow

Nina Gerber - Back Roads/Treasures Left Behind

Emmylou Harris - Little Bird/Stumble Into Grace

The Honeycutters - Automatic/Irene

Adrienne Young - Natural Bridge/Room to Grow

Alecia Nugent - Don't Tell Me/Hillbilly Goddess

Annie & Rod Capps - Someone Who Knows/My Blue Garden

Bill & Bonnie Hearne - 18" of Rain/I-10 Chronicles

Levon Helm - Tennessee Jed/Electric Dirt

Kane, Welch & Kaplan - Postcard from Mexico/Fat John Dean

John Hiatt - Cherry Red/Same Old Man

Lyle Lovett - Wallisville Road/My Baby Don't Tolerate

Jorma Kaukonen - Red River Blues/Blue Country Heart

The Pines - Behind the Times/Tremolo

Steve Earle - Delta Momma Blues/Townes

Wailin' Jennys - Bold Riley/Live at Mauch Chunk Opera House

The Rankins - Blue-Eyed Suzie/Endless Seasons

Cara Dillon - The Hill of Thieves/The Hill of Thieves

Dougie MacLean - Talking With My Father - Who Am I?

The Rankins - Bells/Uprooted

Frances Black - Precious LInes/How High the Moon

Mary Black - I Live Not Where I Love/Speaking of the Angel

Matt & Shannon Heaton - Brad's Honeybees/Lover's Well

Krista Detor - Robert Johnson Has Left Mississippi/Cover Their Eyes

TR Ritchie - All My Troubles Seem Small/Wild Horses

Johnsmith - On That Mainline/Gravity of Grace

Krista Detor - Go Ahead and Wait/Cover Their Eyes

Aztec Two-Step - At the Zoo/Time it Was

Danny Schmidt - Grandpa Built Bridges/Instead the Forest Rose to Sing

Kate Campbell - Looking for Jesus/Save the Day

Sacred Shakers - Taggin' Along with Jesus/Signature Sounds 15 Years

JJ Cale - Strange Days/Roll On

Chris Smither - Leave the Light On/Leave the Light On

Keb Mo - Let Your Light Shine/Keep It Simple

Shelby Lynne - How Can I Be Sure/Just a Little Lovin'

Nora Jones - The Nearness of You/Come Away With Me

Susan Werner - Much at All/I Can't Be New

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Piece Rag/Stars in My Crown

I've just been listening to the BEST cd! Krista Detor's "Cover Their Eyes"! Check it out!!

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Peter Mayer - Blue Boat Home/Earthtown Square

Greg Greenway - Standing on the Side of Love/Standing on the Side of Love

Bob Malone - Gaslight Fantasie/Born Too Late

James Taylor - My Traveling Star/One Man Band

Eva Cassidy - Fever/Imagine

Priscilla Herdman - Firefly Lights/Into the Stars

Jonathan Edwards - Night Fog/Man in the Moon

Jesse Winchester - Little Glass of Wine/Live from Mountain Stage

Mike & Ruthy - Hang Me/Waltz of the Chickadee

Jerry Jeff Walker - Morning Song to Sally/Gypsy Songman

Wailin' Jennys - Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy/Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House

Abbie Gardner - Breathe Again/Honey on My Grave

Hope Machine - Hope Machine/Big Green

Aztec Two Step - 59th St. Bridge Song/Time It Was

Tom Chapin - Love Lasts Long/Let the Bad Times Roll

John Flynn - without You With Me/America's Waiting

The Pines - Shine on Moon/Tremolo

TR Ritchie - Stumble Into Grace/Wild Horses

Joel Mabus - How Can I Keep From Singing/No Worries Now

Peter Mulvey - Dynamite Bill/Letters from a Flying Machine

Steve Conn - I've Got Your Dog/

Son Volt - Cocaine & Ashes/American Central Dust

Eliza Gilkyson - Wildewood Spring/Beautiful World

Nanci Griffith - From Clare to Here/Other Voices Other Rooms

Iris Dement - When My Mornin' Comes Around/The Way I Should

Fred Smith - Takoma Park/Texas

Duffy - Delayed Devotion/Rockferry

Christine Collister - Trying to Get to You/Live

Bob Dylan - Life is Hard/Together Through Life

Wendy Wall - A Wing and a Prayer/The Road to Paradise

Lynne Hanson - Dance in the Evermore/11 Months

David Wilcox - Outside Door/Open Hand

Johnsmith - Right into Love/Gravity of Grace

Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People/The Woodstock Experience

Santana - Evil Ways/The Woodstock Experience

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love/The Woodstock Experience

Sly & the Family Stone - Stand/the Woodstock Experience

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Piece Rag/Stars in My Crown

Sunday, August 9!!

Artist - Song - CD Title

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Eddie from Ohio - Great Day/Quick

Catie Curtis - Deliver Me/Hello, Stranger

Mike & Ruthy - Baby/Waltz of the Chickadee

Annie & Rod Capps - My Blue Garden/My Blue Garden

Roy Hurd - Home/Random Thoughts on Life & Love

Buck Mountain Band - Oklahoma Waltz/Chicken in the Snowbank

Still on the Hill - Ode to Mr. Boze/Still on the Hill

The Pines - Spike Driver Blues/Tremolo

Berggren, Kirk, Shaw - River Driving/North River North Woods

Christopher Shaw - Ballad of Blue Mountain Lake/Born & Raised

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - The Emperor is Naked Today-O/Songs of Pete Seeger Vol II

Bill Staines - Savannah/Old Dogs

Honeycutters - In the Money/Irene

Eilen Jewell - Rain Roll In/Sea of Tears

Ben Bullington - Toe the Line/King Easy Radio Sampler Vol #5

Terry Allen - What of Alicia/Juarez

Nanci Griffith - Pour Me a Drink/The Loving Kind

Johnsmith - Jay Bird/Gravity of Grace

Chris Smither - Surprise Surprise/Signature Sounds 15 Years!

Greg Brown - Blue Car/Dream City Essential Recordings Vol #2 1997-2006

Sometymes Why - Cold Feet Blues/Your Heart is a Glorious Machine

Carolann Solebello - Ties that Bind/Glass of Desire

Cheryl Wheeler - Praise the Lord & Life is Grand/Pointing at the Sun

Wailin' Jennys - Driving/Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House

Suzi Ragsdale - Wishbone/King Easy Radio Sampler #5

Byrd & Street - Alright/Love Broke the Fall

Hope Machine - Folk Singer/Big Green

Dale Robin - If He's Gone/Sweet & Salty

Dennis Angel Band - the Wall Street Recession Time Blues

Aztec Two Step - Everybody Knows/Days of Horses

Jim Photoglo - Kudzu/Is it Me?

Paul Rishell & Annie Raines - Can't Use it No More/A Night in Woodstock

Kelly Carmichael - Guitar Rag/Queen Farina

Sweetback Sisters - My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died/Chicken Ain't Chicken

Kim Beggs - Birds & No Bees/Wanderer's Paean

Jeffrey Foucault - One Red Rose/Shoot the Moon

Richard Shindell - Get Up Clara/Not for Now

Cosy Sheridan - Happiness is Waiting/Eros

Cary Cooper - Wondering/Dirty Little Secret

Jorma Kaukonen - Will there be Stars in My Crown?/Stars in My Crown

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Piece Rag/Stars in My Crown

WSPN/Simpatico - a weekly folk/acoustic radio show that has been airing for the last 16 years originating from Skidmore College's premier student-run radio station 91.1. Listen every Sunday morning where you'll be provided with a whole lot of folk music, a little bit of bluegrass and the hint of the blues. Weekly playlists and links to artists webpages will be forthcoming.