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Folk Alley Radio Show #220505

This week, join Elena See for songs to celebrate the month of May, plus Moms and motherhood with music from Brandi Carlile, The Highwomen, Lori McKenna, and Iris DeMent; new music from Leyla McCalla, Bonnie Raitt, Brennen Leigh, Caroline Spence, Oumou Sangaré, Vieux Farka Touré, Steve Forbert, and The Honey Dewdrops; favorites from Tré Burt and John Prine; and we’ll share some news from the Steep Canyon Rangers too. All this and much more – this week on Folk Alley.


Artist-Song-Album-Label

Hour One

Jean Ritchie & Sons – May Day Day – Mountain Born – Greenhays

Dervish (feat. Rhiannon Giddens) – The May Morning Dew – The Great Irish Songbook Rounder Records

Jeffrey Foucault – Mayfly – Stripping Cane – Signature Sounds

Steep Canyon Rangers – Sunny Days – Arm In Arm – Yep Roc

Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers – King Tut – Rare Bird Alert – Rounder

Lori McKenna – When You’re My Age (ft. Hillary Lindsey and Liz Rose) – The Balladeer – CN Records/Thirty Tigers

Brandi Carlile – The Mother – By the Way, I Forgive You – Elektra

The Highwomen – My Name Can’t Be Mama – The Highwomen – Low Country Sound/Elektra

Iris Dement – Mama’s Opry – Infamous Angel – Warner Bros

Bill Evans – Mother Nature’s Son – In Good Company – Native & Fine Records

Grateful Dead – Mama Tried – Skull & Roses – Warner Bros

Leyla McCalla – Vini Wè – Breaking the Thermometer – Anti-

Tré Burt – Real You – Caught It From the Rye – Oh Boy Records

Bonnie Raitt – Just Like That – Just Like That – Redwing Records

John Prine – Angel From Montgomery – John Prine – Atlantic

Hour Two

Brennen Leigh – Obsessed with the West (feat Asleep at the Wheel) – Obsessed with the West – Signature Sounds

Steve Dawson – While the West Was Won, the Earth Didn’t Know It – Rattlesnake Cage – Black Hen Music

The Chieftains (feat. Rosanne Cash) – The Lily of the West – Further Down The Old Plank Road – Victor

Caroline Spence – The Gift – True North – Rounder Records

Sera Cahoone – Time To Give – From Where I Started – Lady Muleskinner Records

Oumou Sangaré – Kanou – Timbuktu – World Circuit

Vieux Farka Touré – Flany Konare – Les Racines – World Circuit

Spell Songs – Swifts (feat. Rachel Newton) – Spell Songs II: Let The Light In – Quercus Records

Karine Polwart – Follow the Heron – Threshold – W2 Music/Borealis Records

JigJam – Bluebird – Phoenix – JigJam Records

Steve Forbert – Fried Oysters – Moving Through America – Blue Rose

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – You Led Me To the Wrong – Raise the Roof – Rounder Records

The Honey Dewdrops – Garden – Light Behind Light – The Honey Dewdrops

Pete Seeger – Garden Song – Circles and Seasons – Warner Bros

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