With music from Vance Gilbert, Roger McGuinn, Harmony Sisters and more. This week's featured album is Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer's "Seven is the Number."
NHPR Folk Show Playlist
7.30.06; Sundays 7 to 10 p.m.
Kate McNally, host;folkshow@nhpr.org
www.nhpr.org
Artist/Song/Album/Label
Iris Dement/Big City/Tulare Dust, A Songwriter’s Tribute to Merle Haggard/Hightone
Bluegrass Gospel Project/Past the Point of Rescue/Wander On/Vital Records
Michelle Shocked/Prodigal Daughter/Arkansas Traveler/Polygram Records
Tony Rice/Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald/Sings Gordon Lightfoot/Rounder
Crooked Still/Come On In My Kitchen/Shaken By A Low Sound/Signature
Nickel Creek/Ode to a Butterfly/Nickel Creek/Sugar Hill
Harmony Sisters/Things Are Coming My Way/Second Helping/Flying Fish
Tony Rice/Early Morning Rain/Sings Gordon Lightfoot/Rounder
Tim Eriksen/I Wish the Wars Were All Over/Tim Eriksen/Appleseed Records
Tim Eriksen/Lass of Glenshee/Tim Eriksen/Appleseed
David Francey/Paper Boy/Recorded at NHPR
Bill Morrissey/Holden’s Blues/Recorded at NHPR
Pete Sutherland/Where Shall I Fly/Clayfoot’s Tale/Epact Music
Leo Kretzner/Way Down the Road/Bold Orion/Heartwood Music
Ollabelle/High On a Mountain/Riverside Battle Songs/Verve
Zoe Speaks/Shady Grove/Birds Fly South/Redbird
Vance Gilbert/Case of You/Angels Castles Covers/Disismye
Jerry Douglas/Grant’s Corner/Under the Wire/MCA
David Mallet/Ballad of St. Anne’s Reel/Midnight on the Water/North Road Records
Solas/Rain and Snow/Reunion: A Decade of Solas/Compass
The Waifs/Gillian/Brief History/Compass
Roger McGuinn/Dink’s Song/Treasures From the Folk Den/Appleseed
Roger McGuinn/Eight Miles High/Live at the World Café:The Next Decade/World Café
Peter Mulvey/The Trouble With Poets/Trouble With Poets/Black Walnut Records
Preston Reed/Southern Exposure/Preston Reed/Flying Fish
Featured Album: Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer/Seven is the Number/Tracy Grammer Music
Lord Franklin Group/Genesis/Lord Franklin’s Travails/Lord Franklin
I think we oughta support all songwriters and musicians, benefit of the doubt given freely, and npr's as good a way as any to make this happen. Great show, keep up the good work.
Looking over the day's playlist on this good show what we heard was overall tight and top shelf.
We started listening to the hype and the Dylan references and so hey they must be really good. The build up went on, and we got our anticipation building, the crescendo. However, we found:
Featured Album: Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer/Seven is the Number/Tracy Grammer Music
to be trite and treacly and derivative, disappointing and frankly embarassing. My 'Gas Station Girl'?! tulsa town, texas underground? I guess if you'd slid in just one of these into the set we could shrug and say oh well let's wait for the next. A whole album? Did someone fall asleep at the dial? Sorry, just couldn't stomach a single song. The waste is that we kept on your station ,waiting for the gems that we thought were on the way. Our fault for keeping on listing. Spare us, don't do more than a very seldom one of these guys again, not again please. Ouch. Don't take it personal. Just take it off the air.
Just saw Tracy at Falcon Ridge FF a few weeks back and I have to admit I'm not her biggest fan.
RE: Featured Album
Why not make it a featured artist? I guess a set of 10 best picks might be the way to showcase an artist. That would account for about 30-45 minutes and if it covered a range of music from early to current, it might be more interesting. I have to say that some album *themes* make them less enjoyable for me to listen to.
Glad the folk show is here!
When might Bruce Cockburn be featured?
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