Folk Alley Radio Show

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, we’re celebrating the change of seasons with songs from Steve Forbert, Lúnasa, Laura Veirs, Cheryl Wheeler, and Greg Brown. We’ll also feature brand-new music from John Gorka, Fruit Bats, Kathleen Edwards, Margo Price, Joan Shelley, The Mammals, Larkin Poe, Anna Tivel, and Becky Buller. Plus, hear an excerpt from a Basic Folk interview with Peter Rowan, along with classics from Old & In the Way, Bonnie Raitt, and Simon & Garfunkel, and favorites from Mavis Staples, Yasmin Williams, and more.

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week, we spotlight the winners and honorees of this year's Americana Music Association Honors and Award show that recently took place at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Hear from 2X Artist of Year, Sierra Ferrell, Album of the Year winner, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats, Duo/Group of the Year, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, and more. In hour two, hear new music from Lori McKenna with Medium Build, Jake Blount, Dean Johnson, Molly Tuttle, Caroline Spence, and Hayes Carll, along with favorites from Mark Erelli, Rhiannon Giddens, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Jorma Kaukonen, and much more.

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes for a show brimming with the newest fall releases! You’ll hear fresh tracks from Alison Brown & Steve Martin with Jackson Browne, Brandi Carlile, Hayes Carll, Danny Burns, Robbie Fulks, Cha Wa, Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder, Wild Horses, Max Gomez, Wes Corbett, and Bill Scorzari. Plus, enjoy a special set from John McCutcheon’s new compilation Long Journey Home: A Century After the 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers’ Convention, featuring Molly Tuttle, Tray Wellington & Victor Furtado, and Tim O’Brien—alongside favorites from Kaia Kater, Bryan Sutton, I Draw Slow, and Rose Cousins, and much more.

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, Cindy Howes kicks off September with music from James Taylor and Rosanne and Johnny Cash, along with brand-new tracks from The Steel Wheels, Anna Tivel, The Onlies, Hayes Carll, Tom Paxton, Courtney Hartman, Jesse Welles, Dean Johnson, Josh Ritter, Ethan Setiawan, and Molly Tuttle. We’ll hear classics from Kate Wolf and Townes Van Zandt, and take a moment to remember the late “Iron Man of South Austin,” Chris Gage.

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes as we mark the unofficial end of summer with a look at the history of Labor Day and the music born from the labor movement. You’ll hear songs from Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Joan Baez, Utah Phillips, Hazel Dickens, Rosalie Sorrels, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Laurie Lewis with Alice Gerrard, Tracy Chapman, Della Mae, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. Plus, we’ll share new fall releases from Jesse Welles, Margo Price, Alexa Rose, Ethan Setiawan, Fruit Bats, Rory Block, and Mister Romantic (aka John C. Reilly), and more!

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, Cindy Howes shares fresh new sounds from Brennen Leigh, Steep Canyon Rangers, The Mammals, The Wildmans, Robbie Fulks, Molly Tuttle, Madison Cunningham, Charley Crockett, and Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder — plus a special Basic Folk interview excerpt with the great Paul Brady. You’ll also hear familiar favorites from Amy Helm, Nickel Creek, and the one and only John Prine. And as August winds down, we’ll mark the moment with songs from Mark Erelli and Talia Rose.

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes for a show packed with new summer releases! Hear the latest from Silas Lowe, Anna Tivel, Frazey Ford, Eli West, and Jeffrey Martin, along with favorites from Slaid Cleaves, Be Good Tanyas, John Craigie, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms and Cahalen Morrison. Plus, we remember the legendary Tex-Mex accordion master, Flaco Jimenez and more.

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, we’re spinning the clock back to 1975 — a year packed with unforgettable folk, bluegrass, and country sounds from Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Paul Simon, Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Bonnie Raitt, Steeleye Span, Richard & Linda Thompson, and plenty more from that incredible year.

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, Cindy Howes takes you back to 1965 for our annual 60-Year Throwback episode. It was the year Dylan went electric and the Greenwich Village folk scene was buzzing with change. You’ll hear classics from Joan Baez, Odetta, Johnny Cash, Phil Ochs, Bert Jansch, Donovan, Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band, Koerner, Ray & Glover, The Holy Modal Rounders, Bob Dylan (of course), and plenty more. It's a snapshot of folk music on the edge of revolution—don’t miss it.

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes for new releases from Patty Griffin, Tyler Childers, Caitlin Canty, Ethan Setiawan, and Tami Neilson, along with an alternate acoustic take on a recent Molly Tuttle single, newly unearthed archival recordings of Nick Drake from 1968-1969, a birthday nod to Mick Jagger—and much more!

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, it's '2025, Where We Are so Far!' Join Cindy Howes as we celebrate our favorite music from the first half of the year. Tune in for fresh tracks from Alison Krauss & Union Station, Billy Strings & Bryan Sutton, Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland, I'm With Her, Eliza Gilkyson, Jesse Welles, Alex Cuba, Mon Rovia, Bruce Springsteen—and so much more!

{Audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley we're celebrating the Father of American Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, and the many projects his daughter Nora Guthrie 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.