Folk Alley Radio Show

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, we celebrate Joni Mitchell's 80th birthday with a special tribute show. Hear previously unreleased tracks from her 'Archives' collections, plus covers performed by Fairport Convention, Judy Collins, Dave Van Ronk, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Rush, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Taylor Ashton, Margo Price, Prince, Barnstar!, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, it’s our Halloween special with spooky tunes by our favorite folk, roots, and Americana artists. Prepare to be creeped out with music from Riders in the Sky, Leon Redbone, Buddy & Julie Miller, Langhorne Slim, Maddy Prior, Lenore, Rayna Gellert, Gretchen Peters, Shirley Collins, Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore, Rosanne Cash, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and much more!

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See to celebrate October with music by Bill Staines and Robin & Linda Williams; some spooky tunes from The Secret Sisters and Brandi Carlile to get us in the Halloween spirit; we'll spend some time with songs by the great Lucinda Williams from Amos Lee, The Tallest Man On Earth, and Emmylou Harris; there's new music from Hannah Read, Iron & Wine, Kelly Hunt, Charlie Mars, John R. Miller, No-No Boy, and Alice Gerrard; plus, favorites from Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore, Keller & The Kells, Donna the Buffalo, Margo Cilker, and John Craigie, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley join Elena See to celebrate apple season with music by Trapezoid, Putnam Smith, and Pete Sutherland; new music from David Francey, Kelly Hunt, Lindsay Lou, Travis Book, The Bones of J.R. Jones, Tré Burt, Sufjan Stevens, and Hannah Read; advance singles from the forthcoming albums by Jeffrey Martin and Yasmin Williams; a newly released alternate version of a Joni Mitchell classic; plus, favorites from Greg Brown, Tom Waits, Anna Tivel, Spell Songs, The Mammals, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, we spend time remembering the late, great John Prine in honor of what would've been his 77th birthday. Hear performances of his work from Bonnie Raitt, Steve Goodman, Tyler Childers, Kurt Vile, Kelsey Waldon, Todd Snider, and, of course, the man himself. Plus, favorites from Bella White, Jason Carter, Caamp, Dropkick Murphys, Cactus Blossoms, The Mammals, Evie Ladin Band, and Seth Avett from his Greg Brown tribute album, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for songs for harvest time from Neil Young and Stephanie Davis; a roundup of the 2023 Americana Music Association Award winners; new music from Buddy & Julie Miller, Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz, Dori Freeman, Antje Duvekot, Balsam Range, Joan Osbourne, Rhiannon Giddens, and Brett Cobb; plus, favorites from Richard & Linda Thompson, The Secret Sister, Taj Mahal, Rose Cousins, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for songs to welcome in the beginning of autumn by Steve Forbert, Lunasa, and Laura Veirs; new music from Larkin Poe, Buffalo Nichols, Alisa Amador, Ray Bonneville, Viv & Riley, Cruz Contreras, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and The Steel Wheels; music from the new tribute compilation, 'More Than A Whisper: Celebrating the Music of Nanci Griffith' by Billy Strings & Molly Tuttle; plus, we’ll look back on a favorite session from 2014 with Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn; and there’s more favorites from Darrell Scott, Eliza Gilkyson, and Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for some of the best new fall releases! Hear the latest from Steep Canyon Rangers, the Tray Wellington Band, The Kennedys, Margo Cilker, Buffalo Nichols, Jim Lauderdale & the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Golden Aster, Lonely Ace Stringband, My Sister My Brother, Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz, Viv & Riley, plus one from the first-ever bluegrass album by the great Willie Nelson. There's more favorites from Billy Strings, Cahalen Morrison, Lowest Pair, and Dave Alvin; and a song for the end of the season from David Francey too.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for some great new September releases from Golden Aster, Steep Canyon Rangers, Allison Russell, Tyler Childers, Chris Pierce, Honeysuckle, and Billy Wylder; advance singles from forthcoming albums by Joni Mitchell, the Lonesome Ace Stringband, Viv and Riley, Margo Cilker, and Margo Price; we celebrate 20 years of Folk Alley by looking back to a few favorites of 2003 from Natalie Merchant, Bryan Sutton, and Gillian Welch; plus more faves from Yola, Caitlin Canty, and The Milk Carton Kids.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for a look at some of the history behind Labor Day and songs that came from the labor movement from Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Joan Baez, Utah Phillips, Hazel Dickens, Rosalie Sorrels, Billy Bragg & Wilco, and Laurie Lewis with Alice Gerrard; new music from Corey Ledet, Old Crow Medicine Show with Mavis Staples, and Buffalo Nichols; an advance single from Jeffrey Martin's forthcoming November release; two tracks from the upcoming Nanci Griffith tribute compilation from Emmylou Harris and John Prine & Kelsey Waldon; plus favorites from Guy Clark, Loudon Wainwright III, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for new music from Gregory Alan Isakov, Lost Patterns, Mapache, Bahamas, the Clements Brothers, Mipso, and East Nash Grass; advance singles from forthcoming fall releases by Lindsay Lou and Tré Burt; classics from Maria Muldaur and the the Smithsonian Folkways collection: 'Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971'; we dig into our Folk Alley Sessions archives with exclusive performances by Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert; plus, songs for the "super blue moon" from Neko Case, kd lang, and Laura Veirs, Ten Strings and a Goat Skin, and Nanci Griffith; favorites from Guy Clark, Darrell Scott, Mollie O'Brien, Gillian Welch, and more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See to remember the late Robbie Robertson; new sounds from Rhiannon Giddens with Jason Isbell, Raye Zaragoza, Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz, Carrie Newcomer, Birds of Play, Della Mae, Buffalo Nichols, Darrell Scott, Nina de Vitry, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, and Steep Canyon Rangers; plus, favorites from John Renbourn, Pentangle, Keb' Mo', William Prince, Hot Rize, Chastity Brown, Lucinda Williams, Jordan Tice, and much more.