Folk Alley Radio Show #240620
This week on Folk Alley, we celebrate the official start of summer with songs for the season from Doc Watson, Slavek Hanzlik, Donovan, Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon, Darden Smith, Annabelle Chvostek, Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, Lonesome River Band, Joan Shelley, Mark Erelli, and John Hartford.
In hour two, it’s new music from Jim Lauderdale, Linda Thompson featuring daughter, Kami Thompson, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Hermanos Gutierrez, The Decemberists, Bonny Light Horseman; an advance single from Joachim Cooder’s forthcoming October release; plus, an excerpt from the latest Basic Folk interview with Greg Brown, favorites from Billy Strings, Elephant Revival, Donna the Buffalo, and more.
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Artist-Song-Album-Label
Hour One
Doc Watson – Summertime – Elementary – Sugar Hill
Slavek Hanzlik – Summer Solstice – Summer Solstice – Sierra
Donovan – Summer Day Reflections (LP) – Like It Is – Hickory
Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon – Superlover (feat. Birds of Chicago) – Solstice – New West Records
Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon – Like A Songbird That Has Fallen (feat. Amy Helm) – Solstice – New West Records
Darden Smith – Firefly – Everything – Compass Records
Michael J. Miles (w/ Bradley Williams) – Firefly Sonata – New Century Suite – Michael J. Miles
Annabelle Chvostek – Firefly – String of Pearls – Annabelle Chvostek
Tom Paxton (feat. John Prine) – Skeeters’ll Gitcha – Redemption Road – Pax Records
Canadafrica: Mike Stevens and Okaidja Afroso – Keeping the Mosquitoes Away – Where’s the One? – Borealis Records
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors – Shine Like Lightning – Medicine – Magnolia Music
Lonesome River Band – Thunder & Lightning – Bridging the Tradition – Mountain Home Music
Joan Shelley – Like The Thunder – The Spur – No Quarter
John Hartford – Long Hot Summer Days – Mark Twang – FlyingFish
Mark Erelli – Summer Night – The Memorial Hall Recordings – Signature
Hour Two
Jim Lauderdale – You’ve Got A Shine – My Favorite Place – Sky Crunch Records
Donna the Buffalo – Top Shelf – Dance In the Street – Donna the Buffalo
Billy Strings – Running – Home – Rounder
Linda Thompson – Solitary Traveller (feat. Kami Thompson) – Proxy Music – StorySound
The Rails – William Taylor – Fair Warning – Island Records
Greg Brown – Basic Folk Interview excerpt Cindy Howes & Greg Brown – Basic Folk interview excerpt – Basic Folk
Greg Brown – If You Don’t Get It at Home – Further In – Red House
Greg Brown – Two Little Feet – Further In – Red House
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Trying To Be Free – TexiCali – Yep Roc Records
Colvin & Earle – Happy and Free – Colvin & Earle – Fantasy
Joachim Cooder – Dreamer’s Motel – Dreamer’s Motel – Joachim Cooder
Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico – Sonido Cosmico – Hermanos Gutiérrez/Easy Eye Sound
Elephant Revival – Rogue River – These Changing Skies – Itz Evolving Records / Thirty Tigers
The Decemberists – All I Want Is You – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again – Yabb Records
Bonny Light Horseman – I Know You Know – Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free – Jagjaguwar
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