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Just getting your attention. But isn't everything political these days?
Please join me for ninety minutes of mostly folk music on Wednesday's
PASTURES OF PLENTY.
Program highlights include a brief exploration of UFOs and their aliens. From
Karen Carpenter's wistful e...
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The roots of playing a guitar with a slide to mimic the human voice can be
traced back to Africa. Mississippi delta blues singers used knives and glass
bottlenecks to make their guitars sing and laugh and cry starting in the
early 20th Century. I’ve loved slide guitar si...
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Please join me for today's Pastures of Plenty folk music program, which
covers a variety of topics from a variety of musicians. The music starts with
Odetta's Livin' With the Blues and ends with Mary Flower's Portland Town. In
between you can listen to Jose Feliciano, Ro...
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It's September so here's songs about fall and Labor Day, and musical tributes
to Nanci Griffth and the Everly Brothers. We lost Nanci Griffith and Don
Everly, the last remaining Everly Brother, in August. There's also a tribute
to Labor activist Anne Feeney, who succumbe...
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This week the Wednesday morning folk program Pastures of Plenty features a
number of musicians who have recorded with Rounder Records over the years.
The Nashville-based company released a four-CD set in 2010 - The Rounder
Records Story.
The artists from that release ...
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Kahilil Gibran wrote” Trees are poems that the Earth writes upon the
Sky”. The delightful shade that the beautiful trees in our yard have been
providing throughout this long, hot summer and the refuge they provide for
the birds that frequent them inspired me to create a ...
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