#2995: "Folk Songs"
Why the quotation marks? For this New Sounds we’ll hear tunes that might sound like folk songs, but are actually new songs in the folk tradition. Some actually are traditional tunes, as in those from the Carter Family repertoire – in the case of a Bill Frisell offering, and some are extensions of the tradition, which draw from rural Appalachian and early Americana.
Listen to distinctive and fresh takes on old tunes from indie folk/rockers Among the Oak and Ash and new music from the Wiyos and the Chicago post-rock band Califone. Plus tunes involving the mbira, the African thumb piano, and some folktronica from the English band Tunng.
PROGRAM #2995, “Folk Songs” (First aired on Tues. 10-27-09)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Bill Frisell |
The best of Bill Frisell vol. 1: Folk Songs |
Sugar Baby [3:54] |
Nonesuch 516092 |
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Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit |
A Larum |
The Wrote and the Writ [4:07] |
Vertigo Records |
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Among the Oak & Ash |
Among the Oak & Ash |
High, Low & Wide [5:25] |
Verve Forecast B0012931 www.amongtheoakandash.com |
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Robin Williamson |
The Iron Stone |
Verses at Ellesmere [4:28] |
ECM 1969 |
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Tunng |
This is Tunng: mother's daughter and other songs |
Song of the Sea [3:55] |
Static Caravan [VAN88] |
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The Wiyos |
Broken Land Bell |
Redbird [2:13] |
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Califone |
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers |
Salt [2:53] |
DOC 028 deadoceans.com |
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Bill Frisell |
Folk Songs |
Shenandoah [6:15] |
See above. |
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Among the Oak & Ash |
Among the Oak & Ash |
Joseph Hillstrom 1879-1915 [3:43] |
See above. |
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Bill Frisell |
Folk Songs |
Wildwood Flower [6:30] |
See above. |
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Tunng |
This is Tunng: mother's daughter and other songs |
Kinky Vans [5:12] |
See above. |
