Folk Alley Radio Show #250807

This week on Folk Alley, we’re spinning the clock back to 1975 — a year packed with unforgettable folk, bluegrass, and country sounds from Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Paul Simon, Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Bonnie Raitt, Steeleye Span, Richard & Linda Thompson, and plenty more from that incredible year.

Artist-Song-Album-Label

Hour One

Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue – Greatest Hits Vol 3 – Columbia

Bob Dylan & The Band – You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – The Basement Tapes – Sony

The Band – Ophelia – Northern Lights–Southern Cross – Capitol

Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust – Diamonds and Rust – A & M

Taj Mahal – Further On Down the Road – Music Keeps Me Together – Columbia

Janis Ian – At Seventeen – Between the Lines – Columbia

Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years – Still Crazy After All These Years – Columbia

Emmylou Harris – Boulder To Birmingham – Pieces of the Sky – Reprise

Dolly Parton – Kentucky Gambler – The Bargain Store

Linda Ronstadt – Love Is A Rose – Heart Like A Wheel – Asylum

John Prine – He Was In Heaven Before He Died – Great Days: The John Prine Anthology – Rhino

Steve Goodman – This Hotel Room – No Big Surprise-The Steve Goodman Anthology – Red Pajamas

Bonnie Raitt – Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes – Homeplate – Warner Bro

David Crosby & Graham Nash (compilation) – Carry Me – 38 Songs of Hope – Parkinsong

Stephen Stills – 4 & 20 – Stephen Stills Live – Atlantic

Hour Two

Old and in the Way – Pig in a Pen – Old and In the Way – Ryko

Tony Rice – Billy In the Lowground – California Autumn – Rebel

The Seldom Scene – Muddy Waters – Live at the Cellar Door – Rebel

Norman Blake – The Railroad Days – The Fields of November / Old and New – Rounder

New Grass Revival – Skippin’ In the Mississippi Dew – Fly Through the Country – Flying Fish

Steeleye Span – Galtee Farmer – Commoners Crown – BGO

Richard and Linda Thompson – Dimming of the Day/Dargai – Pour Down Like Silver – Island

Fairport Convention – Stranger to Himself – Rising for the Moon – Island

Bothy Band – Do You Love an Apple – The Bothy Band – GreenLinne

The Chieftains – Tabhair dom do Lámh (Give Me Your Hand) – The Chieftains 5 – Claddagh Records/Universal

John Martyn – Spencer The Rover – Sunday’s Child (1975) – Island

Joan Armatrading – No Love For Free – Back to the Night – A & M

Jerry Jeff Walker – Jaded Lover – Ridin’ High – Geffen

Guy Clark – Rita Ballou – Old No. 1 – BMG

Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain – Red Headed Stranger – Sony

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