The husband and wife duo from South Carolina, Shovels and Rope, play high-energy country-rock on their new album, O' Be Joyful.
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eTown hosts Nick and Helen Forster welcome back the legendary Judy Collins, along with eTown newcomer Ari Hest, for a very special episode featuring lots of great music and insightful conversation. Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes for more than 50 years.
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Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn are a banjo duo. Bela Fleck - regarded as the world’s premier proponent of the instrument - with adventurous traditionalist, singer/banjoist Abigail Washburn. SteelDrivers is a supergroup of seasoned, alt-country Nashville veterans blend a love of bluegrass with a fresh, soulful spirit. The Stray Birds, drawing on the rich tradition of American folk music, features strong harmonies and songwriting. Hailing from Lancaster, PA, the trio is comprised of singer/songwriters Maya de Vitry and Oliver Craven, and bassist Charles Muench. Singer/songwriter Glen Phillips is best known for his work with the group Toad the Wet Sprocket - a group he co-founded when he was 14. Following the group’s breakup in 1998, Phillips released his first solo effort in 2001. Houndmouth, from Indiana and newly signed to the Rough Trade label, is a quartet that plays electrified folk-rock with a heavy nod to The Band. According to Rolling Stone’s David Fricke who caught Houndmouth at SXSW: “The music is earthy melancholy with a rude garage-rock streak – the kind of garage where you find tractors and hoes.”
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Joanie Madden is the award winning whistle and flute player who has been the leader of Cherish the Ladies since its inception. Joanie is in constant demand as a studio musician and has performed on over a hundred albums running the gamut from Pete Seeger to Sinead O'Connor. Joanie has played on three Grammy award-winning albums and her involvement on the Hearts of Space labels’ “Celtic Twilight CD led to a platinum album with over 1,000,000 sales.
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Tom Chapin is a three-time Grammy award winning artist and an active board member of WhyHunger, the organization which the artist's older brother, the late singer-songwriter/activist Harry Chapin, founded (as World Hunger Year) in the 1970s. Si Kahn is an award winning songwriter, author and playwrite. He was chosen as the lead resource person for Musicians United to Protect Bristol Bay in Alaska because of his widespread reputation and credibility in the folk, bluegrass and Americana music communities, his recognized skill as a songwriter in many genres, and his long career as a civil rights, labor and community organizer. Ken Waldman has toured throughout North America as Alaska's Fiddling Poet since 1995. He is the author of six poetry collections and has released seven CDs. This former college professor draws on his 25 years in Alaska to produce poems, stories, and fiddle tunes that combine into a performance uniquely his own.
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Get your key to the highway... this American Routes looks at "the road" as destination, inspiration and home away from home in blues, country, jazz and more. Folkie and fellow traveler Ramblin' Jack Elliot recalls the allure of the road in music and life. Plus, historian and author Douglas Brinkley joins us to speak on travel as muse for beat author Jack Kerouac and others.
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The American landscape has been a major theme for New Hampshire-based singer/songwriter Bill Staines. Bill Staines is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New England, who writes and performs in a traditional vein. His songs have captured the beauty of rivers, mountains, and the open space of the American West. Staines' ability to write songs that seem like traditional folk songs has made him a favorite source of new material.
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With special guests John Rosenthal, Cofounder of Stop Handgun Violence. Stop Handgun Violence is a Boston, Massachusetts-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to reduce and prevent injuries and deaths caused by firearms in the United States. The group advocates personal responsibility, public awareness, stronger legislation, increased gun manufacturer responsibility, and strict law enforcement.
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Trad Folk kicks off with a segment from a live 1944 Radio Show, Charlie Monroe and his Kentucky Partners on the Noon-Day Jamboree, with a very early Lester Flatt! A great hour of solid old-time and bluegrass. Around 10, you can hear a great song we just ripped off an old 45... John Prine's "Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian". And the candidate for the Worst Country Song of All Time was by request this week... hint: Can you drive an 18-wheeler backwards??
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