PLAYLIST TRADITIONS FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Once again myriad thanks to all of you who have supported the program during our annual fund-raising efforts. Thanks also to the first time pledgers---and I thank Tom who I met while joining my dear friend Jerry Treacy. Gratitude, of course, to all our regular listeners who have so generously supported our humble efforts over all these years---as an aside I offer my thanks for the great lead-in Rich Sibello offers us from his program and who I have the pleasure, every other week, of sitting in on for a few minutes for some banter and he with me. Rich seems to own every recording known to mankind and even some that were first scratched onto cave walls and then hummed---you know we should have a picture of Rich as we do of the artists we feature on Traditions:










And since we are on WFDU personalities why not a picture of Jerry Treacy who I had the pleasure of joining on his program this past Saturday and where --if you were listening--you heard my touching tale of Jerry's caring and sensitive side aside from his knowledge of Americana Music.

Last but certainly not least compliments to my co-host Ron Olesko who started TRADITIONS way back in the cave writing days of 1980 and has allowed it to evolve into these days of new media.

Thanks to you, our listeners, we shall be able to keep up what you have come to expect from WFDU and from us---an eclectic mix that can include Blues, Bluegrass, Folk---and let us not forget the ever popular (to me) "story songs" and as always---"...the thrills of the hills, the best in the west, and the tops in pops".

Now a few pics to put a face with the voice for this week:

JOHN FLYNN photo by Hedy Bergsman

ARTIST/
PIECE/
ALBUM/
LABEL /
Website/

Theme: HARVEY REID
Dirty Dish Rag
Solo Guitar Sketchbook
Woodpecker Records -
http://www.woodpecker.com/

JOHN FLYNN
Two Wolves
Two Wolves
MettaFour
http://www.johnflynn.com/

BILL STAINES
Stewball
Journey Home
Red House
http://www.billstaines.com/

PAT WICTOR
Gathering Flowers for The Masters Bouquet
Temporary
Risky Disc
http://www.patwictor.com/

PAUL ROBESON
On My Journey
On My Journey
SmithsonianFolkways
http://www.folkkways.si.edu/

KIM& REGGIE HARRIS
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
Git On Board

http://www.kimandreggieharris.com/

MAGPIE
If It Ain't Love
In This World
Sliced Bread -
http://www.magpiemusic.com/

ARLO GUTHRIE
Tom Joad

THE YOCKAMO ALL STARS
Blow Blow Tenor
New Orleans Brass
Putamayo
http://www.putamayo.com/

VANESSA PETERS
The Grammar of A Sinking Ship
Sweetheart, Keep Your Chin Up
self
http://www.littlesandwichmusic.com/

MICHAEL SMITH
Palomino Pal
Live\ At Tales From The Tavern Too
tales from the tavern
www.artistsofnote.com/michael

HAYES CARLL
She Left Me For Jesus
Trouble In Mind
:Lost Highway
http://www.hayescarl.com/

RED ROCK RONDO
The Boy Who Never Saw A Train
Zion Canyon Song Cycle
Steamboat Mountains Records -
http://www.redrockrondo.com/

STAN ROGERS
Forty Five Years
Fogarty's Cove
http://www.stanrogers.net/

NATHAN ROGERS
Hold The Line
True Stories
Halfway Cove Music -
http://www.nathanrogers.com/

ANTJE DUVEKOT
Reasonland
The Near Demise of the Highwire Danger
Self -
http://www.antjeduvekot.com/

DAVY GRAHAM
Angi
Fire in the Soul
Topic Records -
http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/

KATE CAMPBELL
Bus 109
The Portable Kate Campbell
Compadre -
http://www.katecampbell.com/

JAMCRACKERS
The Good In Living
Jamcrackers
Esperance
http://www.berggrenfolk.com/

JOHN BOUTTE
I'll Fly Away
New Orleans Brass
Putamayo
http://www.putamayo.com/

THE JUGGERNAUT STRING BAND
Jug Band Music
Jugstapsition
self

RALPH MCTELL
Streets of London
Troubadors of British Folk

TOM RUSH
Drift Away
What I Know
Appleseed Recordings -
http://www.tomrush.com/

DANNY SCHMIDT
This Too Shall Pass
The Americana Agency Sampler
Americana Agency -
http://www.dannyschmidt.com/

ED MCCURDY
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream