PLAYLIST TRADITIONS JANUARY 8, 2012

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The year end review and some recordings that seemed the most memorable to me---and, hopefully, you for this past year.   No particular order.   A mention and some music from some of the folks we lost this year.

Some faces to put with today's voices----







ARTIST  /  PIECE
      ALBUM  /   LABEL -
             Website


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



CLAUDIA NYGARD                  His Left Side
             Let The Storm Roll In      Bet The Ranch              http://www.claudianygard.com/

CHRISTOPHER BROWN            Guinevere of Camelot
                 Characterist                      TIMBUKTUNES

RUTH HILL                 Old Man's Hat
           The River Beneath Me                Ind                         http://www.ruthhillmusic.com/

JACKIE MORRIS                  Easy Pickin' Fruit
         Tell Me A Story                Button Box Music              http://www.jackiemorris.com/

BROTHER SUN          What Must Be Done
          Brother Sun                                 Ind                      http://www.brothersunmusic.com/

JOHN McCUTCHEON                Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
   This Land:Woody Guthries America      Appalsongs            http://www.folkmusic.com/

GRANT PEEPLES         Last Great Buffalo Hunt
            Okra & Ecclisiastes             Gatorbone Records         http://www.grantpeeples.com/
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JUST A FEW OF THE PEOPLE WE LOST THIS YEAR:
HAZEL DICKENS            Only A Hobo
   It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song             Rounder

CHARLIE LOUVIN                 Wreck of the 97
               Sings Murder Ballads&Disaster Songs      Tompkins Square

JACK HARDY          Everything's Bigger in Texas
                      Bandolier                            Great Divide records
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SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK        Rivers of Babylon
                  Selections 1976-1988               Flying Fish Records

TERRENCE MARTIN              Down From Sacramento
       The Last Black & White TV             Good Dog               http://www.martinsongs.com/

JOEL MABUS                In The Pines
         American Anonymous                   Fossil records            http://www.joelmabus.com/

CRAIG BICKHARDT     If He Came Back Again
      Brother To The Wind                 Stone Barn Records      http://www.craigbickhardt.com/

ELVIS PRESLEY     Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
               Legacy Edition                          RCA Victor

MUSTARD'S RETREAT           Let The Mystery Be
    Living In The Dream      Yellow Room Records        http://www.mustardsretreat.com/

ANDREW CALHOUN                      John Henry
                 Grapevine                                  Waterbug            http://www.waterbug.com/

JOHN PRINE   Hey Good Lookin' / Jamabalaya
      THE SINGING MAILMAN DELIVERS    Oh Boy         http://www.ohboy.com/

PAUL GEREMIA           See See Rider
              Love My Stuff                      Red House                   http://www.paulgeremia.org/

TOBY WALKER       Crazy 'bout an Automobile
         Shake Shake Mama                          Ind                 http://www.littletobywalker.com/

JOHN PRINE        Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
  THE SINGING MAILMAN DELIVERS        Oh Boy          http://www.ohboy.com/

CAROLANN SOLEBELLO        Downtown
           Threshold                          Elizabeth records       http://www.carolannsolebello.com/

AKASA                     Big Yellow Taxi
           Festival Folk Song--Joni Mitchell     Ind         http://www.troubadourfoundation.com/

JOHN PRINE           Angel from Montgomery
             THE SINGING MAILMAN DELIVERS   OhBoy              http://www.ohboy.com/

JOHN FLYNN                     The End Of the Beginning
        The End of The Beginning                       Ind                         http://www.johnflynn.net/

SI KAHN                    Playing The Old Songs
           Courage                            Strictly Country Records            http://www.sikahn.com/

DENISE JORDAN FINLEY              How Can I Keep From Singing
          Solstice                                                Ind               http://www.finleyandpagadon.com/
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VOICES TO KEEP REMEMBERING:
CISCO HOUSTON                        Pie in The Sky
                  Songs of the Open Road                   Folkways

MIMI & RICHARD FARINA      Pack Up Your Sorrows
                  Best of The Vanguard Years        Vanguard

HANK SNOW          City of New Orleans
                  Snow On the Tracks                Bear Family Records
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JOAN BAEZ                Hello In There
                      Diamonds & Rust               A & M
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THE TOPS IN POPS, THE BEST IN THE WEST, THE THRILLS OF THE HILLS:
ELTON BRITT                Cannnonball Yodel
                      Yodel Songs                     RCA Victor

HANK WILLIAMS               Roly Poly
                            45 Single                         MGM

BILL MONROE          Footprints In The Snow
                             78 single                     Columbia

JONI JAMES                   I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
                               78 single                    Columbia
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ERNIE HAWKINS           There Is A Table In Heaven
               Whinin' Boy                           Corona records         http://www.erniehawkins.com/

HARRY CHAPIN                    Flowers Are Red
                       Living Room Suite               Elektra

DAN FOGELBERG        Same Auld Lang Syne
                     The Innocent Age                   Full Moon

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