Sunday, January 24, 2010

Nice show this morning. Started off with a few cover tunes!

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Vance Gilbert - Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing/Angels Castles Covers

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

Jory Nash - Fly Me to the Moon/Folk Jazz Blues & Soul

Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves/Live at Blues Alley

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

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone/Raising Sand

Alison Krauss - I Will/A Collection

Tim O'Brien - Early Morning Rain/Fiddler's Green

Mae Robertson - American Tune/Smile

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Hang Out Your Heart & Jacques et Gilles from Matapedia AND What'll I Do and Green Green Rocky Road both from The McGarrigle Hour

Tim Grimm - The Longest Night/Farm Songs

Krista Detor - Ice Mountains and Hairy Elephants/Wilderness Plots

Sweet Bitters - Firefly/Sweet Bitters

Jessie Kilguss - 31/Nocturnal Drifter

Danielle Miraglia - Say One Thing & Snow Globe/Nothing Romantic

Kelleigh McKenzie - eleanor Rigby and Underground/Chances

Matt Flinner - Stomp Hat & Cobalt/Music du Jour

Meg Hutchinson - Full of LIght/The LIving Side

Paul Benoit - There's no Fallin'/Blue Bird

Suzanne Vega - Ludlow Street/Beauty & Crime

Murali Coryell - I Couldn't Had You/Sugar Lips

David Bromberg - To Know Her is to Love Her/My Own House

Jorma Kaukonen - Izze's Lullaby/River of Time

Roseanne Cash - Sea of Heartbreak/The List

Hayesl Carll - It's a Shame/Trouble in Mind

Ryan Bingham - Sunrise/Mescalito

Avett Brothers - The Perfect Space/I and Love and You

Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch, Fats Kaplan - Postcard from Mexico/Lost John Dean

Amazing Rhythm Aces - Dancin' with the Ones You Love/Chock Full of Country Goodness

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

Sarah Nicole - He Don't Care About Me/I-10 Chronicles

Willie Nelson - Everybody's Talkin'/I-10 Chronicles

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Peace Rag/Stars in my Crown

Say it isn't so!

I just heard one of my favorite tunes from Steve Earle's Washington Square Serenade used in a Nivea commercial! "My Baby Sparkles and Shines" - I'm not sure it was soap he had in mind!

Kate McGarrigle

I am always saddened by the death of a musical legend to me....Kate McGarrigle was one of those artists. Kate died on Monday. Along with her sister, Anna, they sang such beautiful music for many years. If you are a folkie at all, I'm sure you have favorites of their's as well. I especially loved the cd, The McGarrigle Hour, that they did with other family members (Rufus being one) and friends. They exemplified a real folkie tradition....clear, humble songwriting - beautiful melodies, and wonderful harmonies.

Sunday, January 17, 2009

Nice show this morning with an appearance by emma's revolution who sang at Caffe Lena that evening.

Artist - Song/CD

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Dr. King/Exploration

Pete Seeger - Where Have All the Flowers Gone/Live '65

Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie - Those Three Are On My Mind/Spoken in Love

Peter, Paul & Mary - This Land is Your Land/All Around the Campfire

Adrienne Young - Plow to the End of the Row/Plow to the End of the Row

Ollabelle - Last Lullaby/Riverside Battle Songs

Ruthie Foster - Death Came a Knockin'/Runaway Soul

Bill Staines - Great Dream fro Heaven/Old Dogs

Kate Campbell - When I Let Jesus Take My Hand/For the Living of These Days

Caroline Herring - Tales of the Islander/Golden Apples of the Sun

Wailin' Jennys - Barefoot Floors/Down at the Sea Hotel

Kelleigh McKenzie - Call it a Day/Chances

Steve Earle - City of Immigrants/Washington Square Serenade

Nanci Griffith - The Loving Kind/The Loving Kind

Levon Helm - Wide River to Cross/Dirt Farmer

David Bromberg - Shake Sugaree/Try Me One More Time

Jorma Kaukonen - Another Man Done a Full Go Round/River of Time

David Bromberg - Try Me One More Time/Try Me One MoreTime

Jorma Kaukonen - Preacher Picked the Guitar/Stars in My Crown

Steve James - Latex Road/Short Blue Stories

Brooks Williams - How Long/The Time I Spend with You

JJ Cale - Strange Days/Roll On

Eric Bibb - Shine On/Diamond Days

Murali Coryell - Music Sets You Free/Sugar Lips

Geoff Muldaur - Kitchen Door Blues

Danny Flowers - Rededicating My Love to You/Forbidden Fruits & Vegetables

Patty Griffin - Heavenly Day/Children Running Through

Janis Ian - When Angels Cry/The Essential Janis Ian

Josh Ritter - Girl in the War/The Animal Years

Arlon Bennett - Bandana Man/Until You Come Home

emma's revolution - Swimming to the Other Side/Roots, Rock & Revolution

Nice interview with Pat Humphries & Sand O (emma's revolution)!! Some live music - a few off, not only, Roots, Rock & Revolution, but their newest release with Holly Near, We Came to Sing.

Sunday, January 10, 2009

I had e-mail during my show confirming the appearance of emma's revolution on next Sunday's show (January 17, 2009) before their Caffe Lena gig that evening!!

AND.....as I was linking the artists websites, I saw that Pieta Brown "will be the support act for all of Mark Knopfler's US dates for the Get Lucky tour"!! Pieta has a new cd out as well - Shimmer! She is Greg Brown's daughter - a fine folkie heritage.

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Sarah Elizabeth Campbell - Mexico/A Little Tenderness

James Taylor - Mexico/Greatest Hits

Tom Russell - When Sinatra Played Juarez/Borderland

Gretchen Peters - Blue Mountains of Mexico/One to the Heart, One to the Head

The Wiyos - Some of These Days/Hat Trick

Euphonia - I'm Going Away/The Old Jawbone

Sparky & Rhonda Rucker - Two Hearts in Trouble/One Earth

Abigail Washburn & Sparrow Quartet - Captain/Best of Woodsongs Volume #3

Holly Near - I Am Willing/Until You Come Home

Kathy Mattea - Green Rolling HIlls of West Virginia/Best of Woodsongs Volume #3

Roseanne Cash - Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow/The List

Diana Jones - A Hold On Me/My Remembrance of You

Nancy Walker - Corinna Corinna/Layers of Rust & Time

Folk Soul Revival - Part Two/Good Enough

Red Molly - Beaumont Rest Stop/Love & Other Tragedies

Louise Mosrie - Sweet Relief/Home

Kelleigh McKenzie - O Mother/Chances

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnnie Irion - Dr. King/Exploration

Sarah Lee Guthrie - Take Me To Show & Tell/Wagaloo

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

Beaucoup Blue - No Friend of Money/Free to Fall

Tom Kimmel - The Crying Ground/Short Stories

Geoff Bartley - Welcome to the Spiral Dance/One Kind Word

Greg Greenway - I Love Everybody/Weightless

Holly Near & emma's revolution - Sail Away Lady/We Came to Sing

emma's revolution - Keep on Moving Forward/Roots, Rock & Revolution

John McCuthcheon - Simply Man/This Fire

Scott & Michelle Dalziel - Gravel Roads/Thinking Out Loud

The Nields - We'll Plant an Oak/Sister Holler

The Weepies - Simple Life/Happiness

Jonatha Brooke - Eye in the Sky/Back in the Circus

Lynne Hanson - Dance in the Evermore/Eleven Months

Ben Bedford - Ten Paces/Land of the Shadows

Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Beachcoming/All the Roadrunning

Tom Russell - Santa Anna Wind/Blood & Candle Smoke

Nanci Griffith - Sing/The Loving Kind

Kim Beggs - Carry My Guitar/Wanderer's Paean

The Mammals - Kiss the Break of Day/Departure

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

Caffe Lena History Project!

Since 2002 my friend, Jocelyn Arem, has tirelessly committed herself to documenting the history of the Caffè and commemorating the life and legacy of Lena Spencer. She asks that you read the note below and contact her if you have any materials about the Caffe......

The Caffè Lena History Project has:

• Preserved stories, photos and other memorabilia from the Caffe's history
• Secured a partnership with the Library of Congress to digitize the Caffe Lena archival collection.

In honor of Caffé Lena’s 50^th Anniversary in 2010, we are seeking the following material for our archival collection:

Audio recordings of live Caffé performances and any personally recorded shows from the 1980s WSPN “Lena’s Open Door” radio program, as well as—

. . .photographs, posters, programs, songbooks, recipes, letters, etc. If you wish to donate items, please email Jocelyn Arem, Caffè Lena History Project Director at jocelyn@caffelenahistory.org. If we can use your materials, we will be happy to send you a tax donation form.

To share a story about Lena or the Caffé and to learn more about the project, please visit the website: www.caffelenahistory.org

January 3, 2009

This show highlighted a few of the cds found on the No Depression top 20 cd list of the decade!

Artist - Song/CD

Cosy Sheridan - Grand Design/Grand Design

Sean Watkins - January Second, Ferdinand the Bull, Cloudbreak, The Birth & The Ant and the Ant/Let it Fall

Buddy Miller - I Worry Too Much/Universal United House of Prayer

Eliza Gilkyson - Man of God/Paradise Hotel

Kate Campbell - Looking for Jesus/Save the Day

Buddy & Julie Miller - Memphis Jane/Written in Chalk

Bob Dylan - Mississippi/Love & Theft

Patty Griffin - Chief/1000 Kisses

Norman Blake - You Are My Sunshine/O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack

Mary Gauthier - Drop in a Bucket/Mercy Now

Hayes Carll - I Don't Wanna Grow Up/Trouble in Mind

Tom Russell - East of Woodstock, West of Viet Nam/Blood & Candle Smoke

Gillian Welch - I Want to Sing That Rock n Roll & Elvis Presley Blues/Time (The Revelator)

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnnie Irion - Georgia Pine/Exploration

Crooked Still - Wading Deep Waters/Still Crooked

Bearfoot - Follow Me/Follow Me

emma's revolution - Keep on Moving/Roots, Rock & Revolution

Christine Lavin - I Was in Love with a Difficult Man/I Was in Love with a Difficult Man

Sue Fink - Slip Away/Thoughts at an Intersection

Chet Atkins - To B or Not To B/The Day the Fingerpickers Took Over the World

Eric Brace & Peter Cooper - Yesterdays and Used to Be's/You Don't Have to Like Them Both

Laurie McAllister & Amy Speace - When the War is Won/Until You Come Home

Kate MacLeod - The Inner Man/Blooming

Kat Eggleston - Home/Speak

Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - This is Us/All the Roadrunning

Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams - Desire/Unravel

Jory Nash - The Getaway/New Blue Day

Beaucoup Blue - Bluer than the Midnight Sky/Free to Fall

Amos Lee - Night Train/Supply & Demand

Eva Cassidy - Take Me to the River/Live at Blues Alley

Sloan Wainwright - Stand/Sloan Wainwright

Mollie O'Brien - You Won't See Me/Things I Gave Away

Mae Robertson - All for the Love/Meet the Sun Halfway

Nanci Griffith - This Heart/Flyer

Jorma Kaukonen - Fur Peace Rag/Stars in my Crown

Les Sampou!

Les Sampou has just released a new recording! She's one of my all-time favorites....Check out her web page, sign up on her blog, but most importantly, go buy her cd and check out her show schedule!

The Troubadour Series

Mae Robertson, a wonderfully talented singer/songwriter, created a blog highlighting different singer/songwriters each month. Take a look at January - Sloan Wainwright - a powerful voice, a truly gifted artist from a very famous folkie background. You can sign up to receive the monthly blog yourself!!

http://troubadourseries.com/

Best of the Decade!

A friend sent me the following note from the No Depression folks with the list of the best cds of the decade! See how many of these cds you have - I have quite a few myself...not sure I'd vote for every one of these or not - but, for the most part, I think they're right on!

Have a happy new year to whoever is out there and reads this blog!! I'm looking forward to a great musical 2010!

Coming up with this community's Top 20 Albums of the Decade was a little more complicated than compiling the communal votes for the Best of 2009. Most of you agreed on artists whose albums had helped define the decade, but there was much less agreement about specific albums which stood out across the whole decade. So, we decided to knock it off at a Top 20 list, since all the albums included herein appeared on more than two people's lists (meaning there was at least some level of consensus from the community).

Those included here were voted by the ND community and weighted based on the most votes and the highest placement on voters' personal Top 10 lists (Folks' #1 pick received 10 points, #2 got 9 points, etc). Gillian Welch's Time (the Revelator) topped the most lists and can thus be considered the ND community's favorite album of the past ten years. The full list follows.

1. Gillian Welch- Time (the Revelator)
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
4. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
5. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
6. Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
7. Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under The Influence
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Soundtrack)
9. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
10. Broken Family Band - Welcome Home Loser
11. Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses
12. Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
13. Buddy and Julie Miller - Written in Chalk
14. Buddy Miller - Universal United House of Prayer
15. Laura Veirs - Triumphs and Travails Of Orphan Mae
16. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Growl
17. Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
18. Thad Cockrell & Caitlin Cary - Begonias
19. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
20. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky