Morning Reflection at 6:25 AM: Brendan features a positive song to help get the day off on the good foot.

New Music feature at 7:25 AM: Brendan will play two new songs not yet heard on WUMB.

This Day in Music History at 7:50 AM: Blind Lemon Jefferson was born in 1893. We’ll play a 3-song set highlighting his legacy.

Local Spotlight at 8 AM: Paul Rishell and Annie Raines.

Star-Crossed is the name of the new album and companion film from Kacey Musgraves. It’s presented as a tragedy in three acts that chronicles Kacey’s divorce from musician Ruston Kelly. On the next World Cafe, Kacey Musgraves offers some practical advice for navigating personal tragedy, and she tells the story of taking a guided psychedelic mushroom trip.

Cha Chi’s Summertime of Beatle Albums Sides concludes with Side 1 of Beatles VI. 

Albert O features Birthday tributes to Bruce Springsteen, Bryan MacLean of Love and much more.

Folk Tales hangs with those sassy Boston bluegrassers, The Charles River Valley Boys, who revolutionized bluegrass despite boasting on their first album that they could all play in the same key––but only sometimes. We also remember the old bluesman Morrissey and Dylan studied so hard, Mississippi John Hurt, and the wrenching reason he told the white man who rediscovered him in 1963 that he hadn’t done anything wrong. Months later, a startled 71 year-old Hurt was headlining the Newport Folk Festival.

On the last Saturday of the month, the spotlight turns toward Carsie Blanton whose new album, Love & Rage, boasts great songs possessing themes that often fuse the apocalyptic and the lighthearted. For the show, she chose to chronicle the “journey of her music education,” creating a set that moves chronologically through her musical influences, beginning with Paul Simon and Bonnie Raitt, and later touching on artists like Nina Simone and Tom Waits.

It’s an all new episode of Mountain Stage with Host Kathy Mattea. Live music from Amy Helm, singer-songwriter Chris Pierce, Christian Lopez, The Suitcase Junket and more.

We continue with eTown’s special 30th anniversary series, sharing highlights from each of our 30 seasons of programs. This week, we start out celebrating our 1999 season by offering a full rerun of a remarkable road show taping: eTown goes to the town of Kingston in upstate New York, where Natalie Merchant joins us for music and conversation. Also with us, the late but great Rick Danko of The Band fame. And folk icon and activist Pete Seeger is our very special  interview guest for this program.

This week Host Jon Gersh will feature the saddest songs of all time from any genre!

Personal stories of addiction and recovery touch us the most and have the greatest potential to heal and educate.  Pete D. joins us to share her story in the eleventh installment of our series “Recovery Stories.”

This morning Host Perry Persoff will feature music from artists who also teach at various WUMB Acoustic Music Camps. We’ve got a little bit of everything from Lorraine & Bennett Hammond, Sloan Wainwright, Hubby Jenkins and much more.

He’ll also throw in some new releases and a variety of music to get your Sunday morning off to a great start.

Join us on a Caribbean sonic voyage with singer-guitarist and social leader Aurelio, who grew up in the traditional Afro-Indigenous Garifuna culture of coastal Honduras and now lives part time in the Bronx, NY. He’s a global ambassador for Garifuna culture and a member of the Honduran congress. Then live in-studio, the young Louisiana fiddler, accordionist, singer, Cedric Watson and his band Bijou Creole play La-La and zydeco soul. Plus: Kid Ory‘s New Orleans jazz; reggae songman, Jimmy Cliff; Cuban descarga from Cachao; and the Trinidad calypso hero Mighty Sparrow.

Host Gail Gilmore celebrates the Birthday of Irish singer, Dolores Keane, legendary Irish songstress  who defined a style of soulful traditional singing.

Morning Reflection at 6:25 AM: Brendan features a positive song to help get the day off on the good foot.

Buddy Emmons born in 1931, Neil Young’s Prairie Wind LP was released on this day in 2005, and Robbie Shakespeare was born in 1953.

Then and Now at 8 AM: Brendan will play a two-song set spanning the career of Martin Sexton.

Mickey Guyton has broken a number of barriers in mainstream country. Now she’s released her full-length debut, Remember Her Name. On the next World Cafe, she explains how Spotify helped get her song “Black Like Me” out in 2020, and she reflects on being the first Black person to host the ACM Awards in over 35 years, when she shared the stage with Keith Urban earlier this year.  

Morning Reflection at 6:25 AM: Brendan features a positive song to help get the day off on the good foot.

This Day in Music History at 7:30 AM: Koko Taylor was born in 1928, Ben E. King was born in 1938, and Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life LP was released in 1976.

Second Take at 8 AM: Brendan will play two versions of the song “Spoonful”.

Throughout National Hispanic Heritage Month, World Cafe’s Latin Roots Correspondent Byron Gonzalez has been stopping by to highlight some of the music on The World Cafe’s Best New LatinX Spotify playlist. Coming up, Byron brings songs and stories from Costa Rica and Honduras. 

No Gods No Masters is the latest album from Garbage. While the songs sound very much “of this moment,” the themes have been on lead singer Shirley Manson’s mind for a long time. On the next World Cafe, she talks about some of the struggles Garbage has faced over the years, what she has found particularly eye opening since she hit her mid-forties, and, of course, the new music.

Morning Reflection at 6:25 AM: Brendan features a positive song to help get the day off on the good foot. 

This Day in Music History at 7:30 AM: Gene Autrey was born in 1907, Jerry Lee Lewis was born in 1935, and Dallas Green was born in 1980.

Regional Roundup at 8 AM: Mid-1950s Sun Studio in Memphis.

Morning Reflection at 6:25 AM: Brendan features a positive song to help get the day off on the good foot. 

This Day in Music History at 7:30 AM: Bruce Springsteen released the Nebraska LP in 1982, Tom Waits released the Rain Dogs LP in 1985, and Bob Dylan released the Time Out of Mind LP in 1997. 

Live Legends at 8 AM: Bob Dylan from the Time Out of Mind era.