The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour Podcast show

The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour Podcast

Summary: Artists are chosen to appear on our stage because they are good. End of story. Fame, commercial success or lack there-of, who you know, who you opened for, whether you are on a label or are releasing your own CD, what famous artist used the same mixing board you recorded your latest CD on and who manages you mean NOTHING.

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 WS710: 2Cellos and Sarah Morgan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

2CELLOS are two young Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser. The duo has achieved sensational success by taking the cello to a new level and breaking the boundaries between different genres of music. Their unique cello version of Michael Jackson’s 'Smooth Criminal' took the world by storm. Within only a week, this YouTube video became a huge viral sensation leading to a record deal with Sony Masterworks and an invitation to join Elton John on his worldwide tour. Since then, the duo has appeared on major TV shows such as GLEE, have toured with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, George Michael and Leona Lewis and released their second album IN2ITION. SARAH MORGAN has also won multiple titles for her Appalachian dulcimer work including the 2012 National Mountain Dulcimer Championship. This native of East Tennessee is only 18 and has incorporated the rich musical heritage of the area into her music. Backing traditional Appalachian melodies and haunting old time tunes with fresh harmonies and a progressive drive, she lends a new feel to seemingly "old" tunes, while accompanying pure and heartfelt vocals with the unpretentious sound of the Appalachian dulcimer. She recently released her second album 'Run to the Window'.

 WS709: Otis Taylor with Mato Nanji and Mary Gauthier | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

OTIS TAYLOR is the visionary songwriter with his powerful and unique blend of roots music and narrative poetry he labels "trance blues." On his 13th album, 'My World Is Gone', Taylor was inspired by Indigenous frontman and guitar virtuoso MATO NANJI. With Mato, Taylor embarked on a soul-searching journey into the past and present, and into the psyche, of America’s indigenous people. The result is a lightning bolt of musical creativity and social commentary. Its songs crackle with poetic intelligence and a unique, adventurous sound that balances the modern world with echoes of ancient Africa, Appalachia and more. Mato will be performing with Otis on WoodSongs. MARY GAUTHIER (it’s French; pronounced Go-SHAY) is an Americana troubadour, singer and songwriter. Her songs have earned praise from Bob Dylan and Tom Waits, and been recorded by Jimmy Buffett, Blake Shelton, Boy George and many others. This Louisiana native-turned-Nashville resident's six albums have received countless accolades including Americana Music Association’s New/Emerging Artist of the Year title in 2005 for 'Mercy Now' and the No. 3 Record of the Year by the L.A. Times for 2011’s 'The Foundling'. After 10 years of perfecting her stagecraft, Gauthier felt ready to release her first live album 'Live at Blue Rock' (In the Black Records).

 WS708: The Howlin' Brothers and Ma Crow & The Lady Slippers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

THE HOWLIN' BROTHERS are a three-piece string band that brings heart and passion into every performance. Their upbeat shows are heavy with original and traditional music, featuring the sounds of slide banjo, harmonica and old-time fiddle. Their latest album 'HOWL' produced by Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs) and released on Benson’s label Readymade Records. Ma Crow and The Lady Slippers is an all-female band from Cincinnati, Ohio, and a 2013 Cincinnati Entertainment Award nominee featuring Bluegrass, Americana, and Old-time Mountain music. Ma Crow is a legendary acoustic artist in the Cincinnati area, a CAMMY (a Cincinnati Grammy) award winner, and a multi-nominee for the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. The band just released their first CD Wayward Daughter.

 WS707: Tom Chapin, Si Kahn & Ken Waldman | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

A Special Broadcast taping about using music to better our homes, communities and Mother Earth. TOM CHAPIN is a three-time Grammy award winning artist and an active board member of WhyHunger, the organization which the artist's older brother, the late singer-songwriter/activist Harry Chapin, founded (as World Hunger Year) in the 1970s. He co-wrote material with Si for the Bristol Bay project CD. SI KAHN is an award winning songwriter, author and playwrite. He is one of the leading Appalachian voices calling for the protection of hometowns and communities in the southern mountains. He was chosen as the lead resource person for Musicians United to Protect Bristol Bay in Alaska because of his widespread reputation and credibility in the folk, bluegrass and Americana music communities, his recognized skill as a songwriter in many genres, and his long career as a civil rights, labor and community organizer. KEN WALDMAN has toured throughout North America as Alaska's Fiddling Poet since 1995. He is the author of six poetry collections and has released seven CDs. This former college professor draws on his 25 years in Alaska to produce poems, stories, and fiddle tunes that combine into a performance uniquely his own.

 WS706: Mike Scott/Waterboys - Celebration of W.B. Yates | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

MIKE SCOTT is the Scottish bandleader of the legendary group The Waterboys. The band has just released its first new album in half a decade 'An Appointment With Mr. Yeats' which takes classic poems of the classic Irish poet W.B. Yeats and puts them in modern musical settings. The new album connects with the power and immediacy of Waterboy's classics like This Is the Sea (1985) and Fisherman’s Blues (1988), unfolding with colorful vividness that has characterized Scott’s single-minded body of work during the course of the last three decades. Scott has been on quite a creative roll in recent years, having authored an enthusiastically received memoir, Adventures of a Waterboy, while the new album is the result of two decades of dedication and a lifelong fascination with Yeats’ poetry.

 WS705: The Indigo Girls | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

THE INDIGO GIRLS are the Grammy-winning folk-rock duo from Georgia. Emily Saliers and Amy Ray began performing together in high school, transferred their honest, urgent performing style onto the stages of countless small clubs, then saw their public profile take off with the 1989 release of their self-titled breakthrough (an album that included the first hit, 'Closer To Fine,' and went on to win Best Contemporary Folk Recording at the 1990 Grammys). The duo’s constant touring, as well as staunch dedication to a number of social and environmental causes, has earned them a fervidly devoted following over the years. On their fourteenth studio album, ‘Beauty Queen Sister’, the duo deliver a beautifully crafted batch of songs that revel in spirited simplicity. The Indigo Girls will be performing on WoodSongs with their full touring band The Shadowboxers.

 WS704: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Lake Street Dive | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER is celebrating his 50th anniversary in bluegrass music this year. Doyle and the boys have multiple Grammy, Dove, ICM, IBMA and SPBGMA Award nominations, and are seven-time winners of IBMA’s Vocal Group of the Year Award. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are the reigning Inspirational Country Music Association Vocal Group of the Year, on the heels of Lawson’s induction into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame last year. We are proud to have this incredible bluegrass legend back on WoodSongs! LAKE STREET DIVE is a quirky northeastern quartet that has become known for their irreverent brand of pop which blends classic soul and R&B, jazz, and British invasion. Combine this with the unstoppable joy of their live shows and near viral collection of YouTube videos, and you get the sum of the Lake Street Dive equation: pure pop music fun. Knock-your-socks-off vocals and virtuosic instrumentals top it all off, and with the release of their third and self titled record on Signature Sounds, the band is garnering a growing fan base in and beyond their native East Coast. Check out their fun Jackson 5 cover recorded on a sidewalk.

 WS703: Exile | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

EXILE is one of America's legendary bands. In 1963, the year before the Beatles scored their first American hit, a group of kids calling themselves The Exiles climbed onto an outdoor stage in the small town of Richmond, Ky. The group, JP Pennington, Les Taylor, Sonny LeMaire, Marlon Hargis and Steve Goetzman are celebrating 50 years together with their first new album in 20 years, their induction into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and more.

 WS702: JD Crowe plus Brandy Miller and Marteka Lake | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

JD CROWE is in fact one of the greatest bluegrass stars of all time. He comes to WoodSongs to help us celebrate his legacy career, amazing banjo style and his recent honors from the University of Kentucky. Crowe began playing the banjo early and was offered a job with Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys in the mid-1950s. In the late 1960s, Crowe formed the Kentucky Mountain Boys, principally performing in the Lexington, Kentucky region. By the early 1970s, Crowe changed the band's name to The New South, widely considered one of the most influential bluegrass groups in history. Many influential musicians have been a part of the band over the years, including Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, and Doyle Lawson. Part of the evening will be devoted to JD talking about his banjo style and introducing young, new players to the audience. BRANDY MILLER is a 15 year girl from North Carolina who has won several banjo awards. JD Crowe is one of her banjo inspirations and we thought it would be fun to have her on the show to go pick-to-pick with her. Bring your own seat belts! MARTEKA LAKE is a 14 year girl from West Virginia. She will be playing on the show with her brother Will.

 WS701: Victor Wooten | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

VICTOR WOOTEN is regarded as one of the most influential musicians in the world, fueled by his tenure with the GRAMMY-winning super-group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Victor will be celebrating the release of two albums Sword and Stone and Words and Tone plus his new book The Music Lesson. Victor will be joined on stage by his children.

 WS700: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY last award winning album was a tribute to the great Cab Calloway, a music legend who performed decades ago in the Lyric Theatre. What better band to help us celebrate our 700th broadcast! are the longtime purveyors, custodians and distillers of a modern big band swing sound. In celebration of twenty years bringing an irrepressible groove to the adoring masses, the band has recorded Rattle Them Bones, their eighth studio album on Savory Jazz. The band's originals rocketed the group into its first phase of stardom when 'You & Me and the Bottle Makes Three (Tonight)' and 'Go Daddy-O' were featured in the 1996 indie film Swingers. The band has built a career through relentless touring and an impressive discography that includes the platinum selling, Americana Deluxe. From "Minnie the Moocher" to WoodSongs 700th show!

 WS699: Bobbie Rush and Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

BOBBY RUSH is the legendary, multi-award winning blues man. He shared the stage and toured with such legacy artists like Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and so many more. Bobby will be performing songs from his new album "Louisiana". MICHAEL CLEVELAND AND FLAMEKEEPER is the award-winning, hard-driving traditional bluegrass band. Michael is a nine-time winner of the IBMA's Fiddle Performer of the Year award.

 WS698: Richie Havens and Peter Yarrow | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

As we get ready to mark WoodSongs' 700th broadcast, Michael wanted to dip into the history of the show. What you are about to hear is a combination of two of our legacy shows. The first half hour is taken from show #500 with the legendary folk icon Richie Havens. The second half hour is taken from show #600 with Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul and Mary. To watch or hear the full shows, just scroll down the WoodSongs Archives.

 WS697: Wanda Jackson and Shemekia Copeland | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

WANDA JACKSON is widely known and respected as "The Queen of Rockabilly." Jackson is credited with being the first woman to ever record a rock and roll song-"Let's Have a Party" in 1958. In 2009, Jackson was inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" and, in 2010, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Americana Music Awards. Wanda returns to the WoodSongs Stage to celebrate the release of her 31st studio album 'Unfinished Business' produced by Justin Townes Earle on Sugar Hill Records. SHEMEKIA COPELAND has evolved from teenage upstart to one of the most prominent voices in the blues. She's currently the most feted woman in the blues world and actually had a coronation where she was crowned and declared "Queen of the Blues" at the Chicago Blues Festival in 2011. Shemekia earned her crown with a series of high-quality recordings and an unrelenting tour schedule including a memorable performance at the White House in front of an audience that included the President of the United States, sharing the bill with Buddy Guy, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, B.B. King and other greats. Her latest is "33 1/3" on Telarc International.

 WS696: Holly Williams and Charlie Peacock | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:00

HOLLY WILLIAMS' success as a singer-songwriter is that it's never been her mission to try and live up to the legacy cast by her famous and prolific father and grandfather - Hank Jr. and Sr., respectively - nor has she spent a lot of time trying to live it down. The respect that Holly has garnered as an artist over the course of many years spent building an international fan base, and the release of two acclaimed albums, has come on her own terms, based on her own sound. She continues building her legacy with "The Highway" released on her own label and co-produced by Charlie Peacock. CHARLIE PEACOCK's adventurous and success-laden resume makes him a difficult musician to categorize. The Grammy Award-winning, multi-format performer, songwriter and record producer has excelled in pop, gospel, country, Folk-Americana, and jazz. Alongside his own unique performing and recording career, Peacock has played a lead role in creating major hits in three separate decades-most notably Amy Grant, Switchfoot and The Civil Wars. In 2012 Peacock diverted from his recent jazz recordings to produce his own return to vocal performance, the Folk/Americana flavored "No Man's Land."

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