This week on Folk Alley break out your bell bottoms and enter a time warp with host Elena See for music from 1970. Hear what was popular 50 years ago with songs from Simon & Garfunkel, Odetta, The Staple Singers, Steeleye Span, Pentangle, Joan Baez, Hot Tuna, Arlo Guthrie, and much more!
This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for new music from Ben Harper & Rhiannon Giddens, Lori McKenna, Courtney Marie Andrews, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Cinder Well; an advance single from Brent Cobb's upcoming October release, 'Keep 'Em On They Toes'; a classic from Mississippi John Hurt; favorites from John Fullbright and Patty Griffin, and much more in hour two!
This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for new music from Ray Wylie Hubbard, The Avett Brothers, Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, and Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves performing songs by Si Kahn, "Celebrating Women's Lives and Struggles"; we remember the late, great Bill Morrissey with some exclusive Folk Alley recordings from his 2011 tribute concert; favorites from Nina Gerber w/ Greg Brown, Courtney Hartman & Taylor Ashton, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band; and more.
This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See to celebrate 50 years of the Grateful Dead's seminal record, 'Workingman's Dead'; new music from John Craigie, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Kristen Grainger & True North, Hayley Sabella, Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, and Mike Barnett; Mongolian folk-punk from Hanggai; favorites from Rainbow Girls, Kacey Musgraves, and more.
This week on Folk Alley, in hour one, join Elena See to celebrate Woody and Arlo Guthrie's July birthdays; hear new music from Sunny War, Freddy & Francine, a set from the new compilation, 'On the Road, A Tribute to John Hartford'; and a sample from Neil Young's long lost album, 'Homegrown'; plus some classic blues from Mississippi Fred McDowell.
This week on Folk Alley, join Elena for a show featuring our Favorite Folk, Roots, and Americana Music of 2020 (so far.) Hear music from Ondara, John Moreland, Bonny Light Horseman, Jake Blount, The Mammals, Sunny War, Gretchen Peters, Eliza Gilkyson, and Katie Pruitt; our exclusive in-studio Sessions with Kyshona and Sierra Hull; and more,
This week on Folk Alley, we revisit "Folk Alley's 100 Most Essential Folk Songs," compiled from a survey of our listeners. Hear favorites from Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Donovan, and Joni Mitchell; then see how Folk Alley listeners voted as we count down the top ten most essential folk songs. In hour two, it's new music from Freddie & Francine, Sunny War, Steve Earle, and Lori McKenna, and much more!
This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for a special Father's Day tribute to "musical dads" and their talented offspring, with music from Woody Guthrie, Greg Brown, Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III, Willie Nelson, Wayne Scott, and much more!
This week on Folk Alley, consider different perspectives with music from Ondara, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Rhiannon Giddens, and Odetta; new music from Nell & Jim Band, Sarah Jarosz, Courtney Marie Andrews, Pokey LaFarge, and Ellis Delaney; a classic from Rev. Gary Davis; plus favorites from Lula Wiles, Kaia Kater, Jorma Kaukonen, and more.
This week on Folk Alley, songs for kindness, action, and unity with music from Frank Turner, Mavis Staples, and Kyshona; previously unreleased archival recordings by Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton from 1962; a set of exclusive Folk Alley recordings from the 30A Songwriters Festival from Amy Ray, Chastity Brown, and John Gorka; new music by Rachel Garlin, Jake Blount, Nell & Jim Band, Ondara, Libby Rodenbough, Steve Earle & the Dukes; and much more.
This week on Folk Alley, join host Elena See for an exclusive in-studio session and interview with the Indigo Girls, recorded at this year's 30A Songwriters Festival in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida; new music from Seamus Egan, Sarah Jarosz, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Sierra Hull, Jake Blount, and Rachel Garlin; we go back in the Folk Alley archive for a exclusive in-studio performance by The Ditty Bops; plus favorites from Parker Millsap, Billy Strings, Amos Lee, and more.
This week on Folk Alley, Elena See shares new music from Jackson Browne, John Craigie, Gretchen Peters, and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit; plus Matt Smith, the managing director at Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, joins Folk Alley host Cindy Howes for a special guest dj set and conversation about the venue's annual Campfire Festival moving "online." We also wish Bob Dylan and Rosanne Cash a "happy birthday" and much more.
