Sunday, December 27, 2009

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
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





Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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!


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








Friday, December 11, 2009

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
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