#3757: New Views of Old Folk Songs

New Sounds | Feb 3, 2018

Tonight on New Sounds, folk music re-imagined. Hear old music, but rearranged and connected with other genres, to make surprisingly new folk music. Listen to Sam Lee and Friends arranging folk songs from the British travelers community, Kaia Kater's Appalachian folk music. Then Sam Amidon sings an Anglo-American folk song, and the Furrow Collective offer up a Scottish folk song, and more.

PROGRAM # 3757 – New Views of Old Folk Songs (First aired on 07/29/2015)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Sam Lee & Friends	The Fade in Time	Bonnie Bunch of Roses (excerpt) [:20]	Album is not yet commercially available, but find other music at samleesong.co.uk
Kaia Kater	Sorrow Bound	When Sorrows Encompass Me Round [2:54]	kaiakater.com
Sam Lee & Friends	The Fade in Time	Lord Gregory [6:31]	See above.
Kaia Kater	Sorrow Bound	Salt River [3:52]	See above.
Sam Amidon	Bright Sunny South	Bright Sunny South [4:24]	nonesuch.com
Sam Lee & Friends	The Fade in Time	Bonnie Bunch of Roses [4:09]	See above.
Big Galut(e)	Big Galut(e)	Wallachian-Appalachian-Scratchin’ [4:07]	biggalute.com
Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin	Beasts of the Southern Wild Soundtrack	The Bathtub (excerpt) [3:34]	beastsofthesouthernwild.com
Kaia Kater	Sorrow Bound	Moonshiner [3:04]	See above.
The Furrow Collective	At Our Next Meeting	Wild and Wicked Youth [3:11]	thefurrowcollective.co.uk
Sam Amidon	Bright Sunny South	As I Roved Out [3:43]	See above.
Punch Brothers	Phosphorescent Blues	Boll Weavil [2:33]	punchbrothers

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