Folk Alley Radio Show #260108
This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes for music to welcome in January, featuring songs from Bill Staines, Al Petteway, and Erica Wheeler, along with an exciting lineup of new January releases from Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon, The McDades, Langhorne Slim, Courtney Marie Andrews, and Lucinda Williams—plus a special Happy Birthday salute to folk icon Joan Baez, celebrating her 85th birthday.
Stick around for hour two, for even more new Janaury releases from The Foreign Landers, The Lowest Pair, Steve Poltz, Emily Scott Robinson, Ye Vagabonds, and Eric Bibb, along with favorites from Kris Drever, The Decemberists, and Kathy Mattea, classics from Kate Wolf and Muddy Waters, and more!
Artist-Song-Album-Label
Hour One
Bill Staines – January Snow – The First Million Miles Vol. 2 – Rounder
John Whelan – January’s Journey Medley – Flirting with the Edge – Narada
Erica Wheeler – January Wind – Three Wishes – Signature
Joan Baez – Fare Thee Well – Joan Baez – Vanguard
Joan Baez – Jackaroe – Rare, Live, & Classic – Vanguard
Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon – The Future – Together Again – Paxton & McCutcheon
Molly Tuttle – Everything Burns – So Long Little Miss Sunshine – Nonesuch
The McDades – Peggy-O – Thread the Light – Free Radio Records
Pentangle – Willy O’ Winsbury – Solomon’s Seal – Reprise
Langhorne Slim – Dream Come True – The Dreamin’ Kind – Dualtone
Courtney Marie Andrews – Little Picture of a Butterfly – Valentine – Loose Future
Lucinda Williams – So Much Trouble in the World (feat. Mavis Staples) – World’s Gone Wrong – Highway 20 Records
Mavis Staple – Chicago – Sad and Beautiful World – ANTI
Hour Two
The Foreign Landers – I Am a Youth Inclined to Ramble – Made to Wonder – The Foreign Landers
Kris Drever – Shipwrecked – If Wishes Were Horses – Reveal Records
The Lowest Pair – Give It All Away – Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be – Delicata
The Decemberists – Oh No! – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again – Yabb Records
Steve Poltz – If It Bleeds It Leads – Joyride – Red House Records
Kathy Mattea – Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) – [single] – Kathy Mattea
Emily Scott Robinson – Dirtbag Saloon – Appalachia – Oh Boy Records
Kate Wolf – Telluride – Gold In California Vol 1 – Kaleidosco
Hot Rize (compilation) – Nellie Kane (Live) – Telluride Bluegrass Festival 30 Years – Rounder
Ye Vagabonds – Flood – All Tied Together – River Lea (Rough Trade)
John Doyle – The Hungry Rock/The Sleuce Gate/Evening Comes (reels) – Evening Comes Early – Shanachie
Solas – Nil Na La – Solas – Shanachie
Eric Bibb – Muddy Waters – One Mississippi – Repute Records
Muddy Waters – You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had – Folk Singer – MCA/Chess
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Folk Alley’s weekly, syndicated radio show is produced by Linda Fahey and host Cindy Howes. 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.
