Folk Alley Radio Show #240307
This week on Folk Alley, in honor of Women’s History Month and with St. Patrick’s Day on the horizon, join Elena See to celebrate some of our favorite Irish women musicians. Hear songs from Mary Black, Dolores Keane, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh of Altan, Maighread & Triona Ni Dhomhnaill, Cathy Jordan, Karan Casey, Niamh Parsons, The Henry Girls, Sinead O’Connor, and more.
In hour two, we remember the late, great Townes Van Zandt on the occasion of what would’ve been his 80th birthday (March 7); new music from Chris Smither, Bonny Liight Horseman, Anna Tivel, and Rhiannon Giddens, from the ‘My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall’ compilation; plus an excerpt from the most recent Basic Folk interview with Hannah Connolly, favorites from Amos Lee, Adia Victoria, Andrew Bird, and more.
Artist-Song-Album-Label
Hour One
Mary Black – Song for Ireland – Collected – Dara
Dolores Keane & John Faulkner – Galway Bay – Sail Og Rua – Gael Linn
Altan – Liostail me le Sairsint – Donegal – Compass Records
Altan – Port Arainn Mhor/Port Kitty Rua Mooney – Donegal – Compass Records
Cathy Jordan & Seamie O’Dowd (compilation) – I Am of Ireland – I Am of Ireland – Merrow
Sharon Shannon (feat. John Prine & Mary Staunton) – Love, Love, Love – The Diamond Mountain Sessions – Compass Records
Maighread & Triona Ni Dhomhnaill – Spanish Lady – Idir an Da Sholas – Green Linnet
Niamh Parsons – Alexander – Blackbirds & Thrushes – Green Linnet
Karan Casey – Return to the Wild – Nine Apples of Gold – Vertical Records
Solas – Bonnie Mae – The Hour Before Dawn – Shanachie
Muireann Bradley – Frankie – I Kept These Old Blues – Tompkins Square
The Henry Girls – Not Your Fight – A Time To Grow – PL-Music
Lisa Hannigan – Undertow – At Swim – ATO
Sinead O’Connor – Something Beautiful – Theology – Koch
Hour Two
Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt – Capitol
Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer – Lungs – Not Dark Yet – Silver Cross Records/Thirty Tigers
Guy Clark (live) – If I Needed You – Songs and Stories – Dualtone
Chris Smither – Down in Thibodaux – All of the Bones – Signature Sound
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet – Two-Step de Port Arthur – From Bamako to Carencro – Compass Records
Hannah Connolly – Basic Folk Interview excerpt Cindy Howes and Hannah Connolly – Basic Folk interview clip
Hannah Connolly – Bags are Packed – Shadowboxing – Hannah Connolly
Amos Lee – Windows Are Rolled Down – Mission Bell – Blue Note
Rhiannon Giddens – The Ballad of Sally Anne – My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall – Oh Boy Records
Adia Victoria – Magnolia Blues – A Southern Gothic – Canvasback
Bonny Light Horseman – When I Was Younger – [single] – Jagjaguwar
Steve Dawson – Flophouse Oratory – Rattlesnake Cage – Black Hen Music
Elephant Revival – What Is Time? – Break In The Clouds – Ruff Shod
Anna Tivel – Disposable Camera – Living Thing – Fluff & Gravy
Andrew Bird – Danse Caribe – Break It Yourself – Mom + Pop
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