Folk Alley Radio Show – Transportation Three Ways
We’re going to explore three different methods of transportation that appear often in folk songs: cars, trains, and horses. Could have done full hours of each of these, but we get it all in one: Rolling Stones, Billy Strings, Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens.
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Artist – Song – Album – Label
~Hour One~
Rolling Stones – “Wild Horses” – ‘Sticky Fingers’ – Rolling Stones
Rachel Baiman – “Equine Elvis (feat. Pony Bradshaw)” – ‘[single]’ – Signature Sounds
Andrew Bird – “Three White Horses” – ‘Hands of Glory’ – Mom + Pop Music
Kelly Hunt – “All the King’s Horses” – ‘Requiem for a Sleepless Night’ – Compass Records
Kris Drever – “If Wishes Were Horses” – ‘If Wishes Were Horses’ – Reveal Records
Billy Strings – “I Like Trains Songs” – ‘So Much for Goodbyes’ – Reprise Records
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes – “Last Train (feat. Sarah Jarosz)” – ‘Fiddler’s Pastime’ – Sugar Petunia Records
Grateful Dead – “Casey Jones” – ‘Workingman’s Dead’ – Warner Bro
Eric Bibb – “Train From Aberdeen” – ‘Booker’s Guitar’ – Telarc Blues
Rhiannon Giddens – “Freight Train” – ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’ – Nonesuch Records
Tom Waits – “Ol’ 55” – ‘Closing Time’ – Elektra
Rosanne Cash – “Black Cadillac” – ‘Black Cadillac’ – Captiol Records
Greg Brown – “Blue Car” – ‘Covenant’ – Red House
Lucinda Williams – “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” – ‘Car Wheels on a Gravel Road’ – Mercury
~ Hour Two ~
Ani Difranco – “Angry Anymore” – ‘Up Up Up Up Up Up’ – BMI
Allison Russell – “Really Real (feat. Norah Jones)” – ‘In The Hour of Chaos’ – Fantasy
Neil Young – “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” – ‘After the Gold Rush’ – Reprise
Humbird – “Hey Big Dipper” – ‘Morning When it Comes’ – Nettwerk
Leonard Cohen – “Famous Blue Raincoat” – ‘The Best Of’ – Columbia
Jim James – “Lost Child” – ‘Wowed Out’ – ATO
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – “Matapedia” – ‘Matapedia’ – Hannibal
Mary Gauthier – “Alcohol and Adderall” – ‘Reckoning’ – In The Black
Bruce Molsky – “Growling Old Man and Grumbling Old Woman” – ‘If It Ain’t Here When I Get Back’ – Tree Frog Music
Valerie June – “Runnin’ and Searchin'” – ‘[single]’ – June Tunes/Concord
Ken Pomeroy – “Late for the Sky” – ‘Tonight’s News EP’ – Rounder Records
Jackson Browne – “The Birds of St. Marks” – ‘Standing In The Breach’ – Inside Recordings
Dawes – “All Your Favorite Bands” – ‘All Your Favorite Bands’ – HUB Records
Amanda Cook – “Down in the Quarter” – ‘[single]’ – Mountain Fever Records
John Hartford – “Holding” – ‘Aereo-Plain’ – Rounder
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The show is available for free to stations via PRX.org or directly from Folk Alley via Dropbox for non-PRX members.
