Folk Tradition

Sundays at 6:00pm on 90.5

The range of music Bob Blackman plays on The Folk Tradition includes traditional folk songs, Celtic tunes, bluegrass, acoustic blues, gospel, Cajun and zydeco, and much more.

"Every week I choose some of the very best music I can find and share it with my listeners," he says. "I'm grateful that so many of them have made the Sunday evening programs on WKAR/FM 90.5 a 'folk tradition' in their own home."

Coming Up
July 27, 2008
Bob previews the Great Lakes Folk Festival, plus songs about laziness from Doc Watson and Sara Grey, and music from fiddler Hanneke Cassel, Corey Harris, Mary Flower, and more!

Recently
July 20
Bob features Woody Guthrie songs, previews the Great Lakes Folk Festival with music from April Verch and Cephas & Wiggins, and plays songs from Rachael Davis, the Steep Canyon Rangers, and more!

Selections Played:
“Please, Please Papa,” Rachael Davis, ANTEBELLUM QUEENS (Fox on a Hill)
“Barefoot Waltz,” Gloria Attoun, SEEDS (Out Attoun)
“Ain’t No Way of Knowin’,” Steep Canyon Rangers, LOVIN’ PRETTY WOMEN (Rebel)
“Great Big Taters in Sandy Land,” the New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters, PUT ON YOUR DANCING SHOES (Heritage)
“Step It Up and Go,” Cephas & Wiggins, RICHMOND BLUES (Smithsonian Folkways)
“Off Time Zydeco,” Jeffrey Broussard & the Creole Cowboys, KEEPING THE TRADITION ALIVE! (Maison de Soul)
“I Ain’t Got No Home,” Woody Guthrie, DUST BOWL BALLADS (Rounder)
“Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee),” Bruce Springsteen, ‘TIL WE OUTNUMBER ‘EM… (Righteous Babe) [various artists]
“Esta Tierra Es Tuya (This Land Is Your Land),” Sones de Mexico, ESTA TIERRA ES TUYA (self-released)
“Loggers in the Short Grass,” April Verch, TAKE ME BACK (Rounder)
“Espirit Du Bon Vin,” Vishten, 11:11 (self-released)
“Le Collectionneur,” Reveillons!, QUIQUEQUOIDONTOU? (Roues et Archets)
“Song to Woody,” Bob Dylan, BOB DYLAN (Columbia)
“This Land Is Your Land,” Arlo Guthrie, LIVE IN SYDNEY (Rising Son)

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