Folk Alley Radio Show #240509
This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for new music from Adeem the Artist, Pokey LaFarge, Josienne Clarke, Oliver Wood, and Abigail Lapell; classics from Etta Baker and Blind Boy Fuller; favorites from Lake Street Dive, David Wax Museum, and Bonny Light Horseman; plus, some “songs for Mom,” from Brandi Carlile, Lori McKenna, and Iris DeMent.
In hour two, more new music from Chris Smither, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Kacey Musgraves, Tray Wellington, Ordinary Elephant, Ruth Moody, and a previously unreleased song from Johnny Cash; plus, favorites from Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch, David Grisman Quintet, and John Prine; an excerpt from the latest Basic Folk podcast interview with Billy Bragg; and more.
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Artist-Song-Album-Label
Hour One
Brandi Carlile – The Mother – By the Way, I Forgive You – Elektra
Lori McKenna – A Mother Never Rests – The Tree – CN Records/Thirty Tigers
Iris Dement – Mama’s Opry – Infamous Angel – Warner Bros
Adeem the Artist – Socialite Blues – Anniversary – Four Quarters Records/Thirty Tigers
Etta Baker – Knoxville Rag – One Dime Blues – Rounder
Blind Boy Fuller – Rag Mama Rag – East Coast Piedmont Style – Columbia/Legacy
Pokey LaFarge – Sister Andre – Rhumba Country – New West Records
Lake Street Dive – Bobby Tanqueray – Folk Alley Sessions: 2012 Green River Festival – Folk Alley exclusive recording
David Wax Museum – The Persimmon Tree – Carpenter Bird – David Wax Museum
Josienne Clarke – Fear of Falling – Parenthesis, I – Corduroy Punk Records
Kris Drever – Shipwrecked – If Wishes Were Horses – Reveal Records
Oliver Wood – Light and Sweet – Fat Cat Silhouette – Honey Jar/Indirecto Records
Luther Dickinson – Horseshoe (Reprise) – Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger’s Songbook) Volumes I & II – New West Records
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi (compilation) – Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning – God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson – Alligator Records
Abigail Lapell – Rattlesnake – Anniversary – Outside Music
Bonny Light Horseman – Green Rocky Road – [single] – 37d03d
Hour Two
Chris Smither – All About the Bones – All About the Bones – Signature Sound
Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch – Mr. Bones – Lost John Dean – Compass
AJ Lee & Blue Summit – Hillside – City of Glass – Signature Sounds
David Grisman – Richochet – The David Grisman Quintet – Kaleidosco
Grateful Dead – Cassidy – Reckoning – Arista
Billy Bragg – Basic Folk Interview excerpt Cindy Howes & Billy Bragg – Basic Folk interview clip – Basic Folk
Billy Bragg – A New England – Back to Basics – Elektra
Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well – Deeper Well – UMG Recordings/Interscope / MCA Nashville
John Prine – It’s a Big Old Goofy World (Live) – Great Days: The John Prine Anthology – Rhino
Johnny Cash – Well Alright – Songwriter – Mercury Nashville/UMe
Sierra Ferrell – American Dreaming – Trail of Flowers – Rounder Records
Tray Wellington – Blue Collared Dog and His Green Eyed Friend – [single] – Mountain Home
Ordinary Elephant – The Prophet – Ordinary Elephant – Berkalin Records
Ruth Moody – Already Free – Wanderer – True North Records
Wailin’ Jenny – Bring Me Li’l Water, Silvy – The Wailin’ Jennys [EP] – Wailin’ Jennys
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Folk Alley’s weekly, syndicated radio show is produced by Linda Fahey and host Elena See. The show is available for free to stations via PRX.org or directly from Folk Alley via Dropbox for non-PRX members. The Folk Alley Radio Show is presently carried on over 70 stations nationally.
