Folk Alley Radio Show

We're going to explore three different methods of transportation that appear often in folk songs: cars, trains, and horses. Could have done full hours of each of these, but we get it all in one: Rolling Stones, Billy Strings, Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens.

We'll do a set for the celestial skies inspired by the new Humbird. New music from Miko Marks that might blow your roof off. Also new Mary Gauthier, Jayhawks alongside classics from Joni Mitchell, Rufus Wainwright, Taj Mahal.

We are handing the first hour over to Dolly Parton on the Folk Alley Radio Show this week. We're highlighting some of our favorite covers, collaborations, and duets featuring America's sweetheart as we come together to grieve and remember. Hour two observes Labor Day through the union, worker, equality, and protest songs that have empowered generations.

We have lots of new music on the Folk Alley Radio Show this week! We'll hear a previously unreleased John Prine song, new Buddy Miller, latest from William Prince featuring Nathaniel Rateliff, Hiss Golden Messenger, and new Phoebe Bridgers. 

On this week's Folk Alley Radio Show, we hear new songs from Sierra Ferrell, Rhiannon Giddens, Creekbed Carter Hogan, Laura Cortese, a birthday set for Eliza Gilkyson, and a new collaboration between Steve Earle and Los Lobos.

Cindy Howes got carried away and put together a set around the number one. We have the new Kaïa Kater featuring Rose Cousins, an Irish tune from Solas, the new Margo Cilker, and a little birthday tribute to David Crosby.

This week, Folk Alley is paying tribute to, and processing the enormous and tragic loss of, Irish songwriter Glen Ha

It's our annual 50-year throwback show. We'll do Joan, Joni, Janis, and Taj, also some jamgrass music from that year, and we'll see what all the Canadians were up to in 1976.

It's our annual 60-year throwback show—this time throwing it back to 1966. Lots of musicians surprisingly released two albums that year: Bob Dylan, Lovin' Spoonful, Pete Seeger, Simon and Garfunkel.

This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes as we share new music from Jobi Riccio, Brent Cobb, Bella White, and Chris Pierce. We honor the late Dave Carter and celebrate birthdays of Emily Saliers and Rufus Wainwright. 

This week on Folk Alley we're celebrating the Father of American Folk Music and the many projects his daughter Nora Guthrie has spearheaded over the decades to share unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics with a wider audience. Hear from Billy Bragg & Wilco, Wenzel, The Klezmatics, Jonatha Brooks, Jackson Browne, and The Dropkick Murphys; plus, a belated happy birthday to Arlo Guthrie.

This week on the Folk Alley Radio Show, we're honoring the outlaws and outcasts for America's 250th. We'll hear from important voices that often go unheard. We'll take a trip across the land via bus, car, and train. Songs from Lizzie No, Aoife O'Donovan, Simon & Garfunkel, and more.