In response to the incredible amount of interest I had after hosting Vermont Public Radio's All The Traditions, I am sharing my playlists for all 5 programs. I hope you enjoy and look up the artists listed, and support them directly! I am so touched by how many of you reached out to me and shared your feedback on the material and the commentary I provided.
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- Tired As I Can Be, Lucille Bogan, Shave ‘Em Dry: The Best Of Lucille Bogan
- Sitting On Top Of The World, Howlin’ Wolf, The Definitive Collection
- Bringing In The Georgia Mail, Charlie Monroe and his Kentucky Pardners, Bringing In The Georgia Mail/ Down In The Willow Garden
- Train On The Island, The Fox Hunt, America’s Working So We Don’t Have To
- Polly Ann’s Hammer, Our Native Daughters, Songs of Our Native Daughters
- Blue Diamond Mines, The Heartbeats Rhythm Quartet, Spinning World
- Toi, Tu Joues a L’amour, Kelli Jones and Joel Savoy, Toi Tu Joues a L’amour
- Tee Black, Cedric Watson, Cedric Watson
- Roma au lac bell, De Temps Antan, Les habits de papier
- The Spanish Cloak, Finbar and Eddie Furey, The Best Of Finbar & Eddie Furey
- Hares On The Mountain, Shirley Collins and Davy Graham, Folk Roots, New Routes
- The Piney Wood Hills, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie
- The Lost Child, The Stripling Brothers, Desperate Man Blues
- Big-Eyed Rabbit, Rockridge Brothers, Rockridge Hollerin’
- Way Down The Old Plank Road (Live), The Highwoods Stringband, Feed Your Babies Onions: Fat City Favorites (Live)
- Girl From The North Country, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, The Essential Johnny Cash
- Dinaka, Mahotella Queens, Meet The Mahotella Queens
- Holotelani, Nelcy Sedibe, The Indestructible Beat of Soweto – Volume One
- Day-O, The Overtakers, More Reality
- Garden Song, Saints and Liars, These Times
- Furnace Room Lullaby, Neko Case, Furnace Room Lullaby
- Red Eyes, John R. Miller, The Trouble You Follow
- Buzzard Lope, Bessie Jones and The Georgia Sea Island Singers, Join The Band
- Single Girl, Married Girl, The Carter Family, Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 3A: Songs
- Blowin’ Down The Road (I Ain’t Going To Be Treated This Way), Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads
- Great Grandpah’s Banjo, Pura Fe, Full Moon Rising
- The Month of May, Cahalen Morrison, Wealth of Sorrow
- Little Sparrow (Live), Dolly Parton, Live and Well
- The World is in a Tangle, Jontavious Willis, Spectacular Class
- Sylvie, Leon and Eric Bibb, A Family Affair
- Long Way Home, Tom Waits, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
- Sail Away Lady, Uncle Bunt Stephens, Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 2A: Social Music
- Baby How Can It Be, Bo Carter, Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 2
- I Walk The Line, The Carter Family, The Carter Family Sings The Country Album
- Sweetheart From Venezuela, Harry Belafonte, Jump Up Calypso
- We Boy, Mahotella Queens, Meet The Mahotella Queens
- Corina, Jesse Lege and the Cajun Country Revival, The Right Combination
- I Love No One But You, The Stanley Brothers, The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers
- Let Me Fall, Camp Creek Boys, The Camp Creek Boys
- Cigarette Trees, The Local Honeys, Little Girls Actin’ Like Men
- Making Believe, Emmylou Harris, Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris
- Blue Kentucky Girl, Loretta Lynn, Blue Kentucky Girl
- Cold Cold Heart, Hank Williams, Cold Cold Heart
- The North Dakota Cowboy, Brennan Leigh, Praire Love Letter
- Walking On A Wire, Luminous Crush, Live From Lonely Highway Studio
- You Were A Friend (For Rattletrap), Darrin Hacquard, Signs and Wonders
- Lizzie Lindsay, Finbar and Eddie Furey, The Best of Finbar and Eddie Furey
- A Maid I Am In Love, Mrs Stan Marshall, Maritime Folk Songs: from the Collection of Helen Creighton
- Calypso Minor, Luiz Bonfa, Solo in Rio 1959
- Homenagem aos orixas, Dona Onete, Feitico Caboclo
- Lorraine, Jorge Ben Jor, Bem-Vinda Amizade
- Pa Janvier, Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole, Creole Moon: Live From The Blue Moon Saloon
- Tes Parents Ne Veulent Plus Me Voir, Canray Fontenot, Louisiana Hot Sauce, Creole Style
- Tippy Toeing, Jesse Lege and the Cajun Country Revival, The Right Combination
- Aint No Ash Will Burn, Della Mae, This World Oft Can Be
- Wedding Bells/ Let’s Turn Back The Years, John Prine feat. Lucinda Williams, In Spite of Ourselves
- The House I Live In, Josh White, The Legendary Josh White
- The Riddle Song, Jean Ritchie and Paul Clayton, Authentic Songs of the American Revolution and The Civil War Era
- I Will Always Love You, Dolly Parton, Jolene
- I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You, Tom Waits, Anthology of Tom Waits
- Bridge Over Troubled Water, Aretha Franklin, Soul Queen
- If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song) (Live), Sam Cooke, Sam Cooke At The Copa
- Theme For Scotland, Alasdair Fraser, Dawn Dance
- Reel du pendu, Jean Carignan, Old Time Fiddle Tunes Played by Jean Carignan
- Jolie et maquillee, De Temps Antan, Ce monde ici-bas
- Farewell to Nova Scotia, Touchstone, The New Land
- Shout Sister Shout (Live), Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Sensational Sister Rosetta Tharpe from Carnegie Hall to Antibes
- Country Boy, Muddy Waters, The Folk Singer
- Itchy’s Blues, Hawk Alert, Itchy’s Blues
- Dark as a Dungeon, Merle Travis, Folk Songs of the Hills
- Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sixteen Tons
- Dying to Make a Living, The Local Honeys, Dying to Make a Living
- Shake Sugaree, Elizabeth Cotten, Shake Sugaree
- Death Came A-Knockin’, Ruthie Foster, Runaway Soul
- Mahk Jchi (feat. Ulali), Robbie Robertson And The Red Road Ensemble, Music For The Native Americans
- The Fox, Burl Ives, Timeless Country: Burl Ives
- What Will We Do When We Have No Money?, Lankum, Between the Earth and Sky
- Aliwowo, Olatunji, Drums of Passion
- Andarele, Rio Mira, Marimba del Pacifico
- Lagrimas Negras, Trio Matamoros, The Legendary Trio Matamoros 1928-1937
- Weaving Medley: Busy Weaving / Julianne Johnson / Open Little Hand / Back Step Cindy, Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn, Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn
- They Gotta Quit Kickin’, Buffy Sainte-Marie I’m Gonna Be A Country Girl Again
- Dance All Night (Live), The Highwoods Stringband, Feed Your Babies Onions: Fat City Favorites (Live)
- Jeremiah, Sierra Ferrell, Jeremiah/ Why’d Ya Do It
- Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues), Jimmie Rogers, Essential Jimmie Rogers
- The Battle of New Orleans, Johnny Horton, Louisiana and the New Orleans Sound
- Air: The Rocks of Bawn, Willie Clancy, Willie Clancy The Gold Ring
- The Foxhunt, The Young Tradition, So Cheerfully Round
- There Is Power In A Union (John Peel Session, 20th August 1985), Billy Bragg, Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983-2019
- True Life Blues, Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys, Live Recordings 1956-1969: Off the Record Volume 1
- I’m Bound To Ride, Arthur Smith, Nellie’s Blue Eyes/ I’m Bound To Ride
- My Tennessee Mountain Home, Maria Muldaur, Maria Muldaur
- The Midnight Special, Lead Belly, Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
- Run Mountain, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Leaving Eden
- Wayfaring Stranger (with Francesco Turrisi), Rhiannon Giddens, There Is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi)
- Sail Away Lady, Peggy Seeger, Isla Cameron and Guy Carawan, Peggy Seeger Presents Origins of Skiffle
- Storms are on the Ocean, Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson, Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson at Folk City
- Alabama Bound, Leadbelly, Best of Leadbelly
- Young Jamie Foyers, Cahalen Morrison, Wealth of Sorrow
- O’grady Road, The Lonesome Ace Stringband, When the Sun Comes Up
- Crossing Muddy Waters, I’m With Her, Crossing Muddy Waters/ Be My Husband
- Quasheba, Quasheba, Our Native Daughters, Songs of Our Native Daughters
- Down So Low, Mother Earth, Living With The Animals
- Dink’s Song, Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters, Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters
- Hùg Air A' Bhonaid Mhòir, Julie Fowlis, Cuilidh
- Freylekhs, Burning Bush, Klezmer and Hassidic Music
- Bulbes, Ben Zimet, Yiddish Folk Songs Vol. 1
- Naila, Lila Downs, La Sanduga
- Maria Elena, Los Indios Tabajaras, Maria Elena
- The Sky Is Crying, Elmore James, The Sky Is Crying: The Ultimate Collection
- Bonaparte’s Retreat, W.H. Stepp, A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings
- Understand, Saints and Liars, These Times
- Waterbound, Dirk Powell, Transatlantic Sessions, Series 5: Volume Two
- Wildflowers, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, Trio
- Jack O’diamonds, The Blue Sky Boys, Presenting The Blue Sky Boys
- Doin’ My Time, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys, 20th Century Masters: The Best Of Flatt & Scruggs - The Millennium Collection
- Free and Equal Blues, Josh White, Free and Equal Blues
- Gone to The Country, Racines, Racines
- Kelli Jones and Joel Savoy, The Attakapas Trail/Reed de Nez Picqués, Toi, Tu Joues à L'amour
- The Lark in The Morning, The Dubliners, The Definitive Pub Songs Collection
- Bile Them Cabbage Down, Lewis Hairston, Virginia Traditions: Non-Blues Secular Black Music
- Georgia Buck, Elizabeth Cotten, Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Folkways
- Freight Train, Peter, Paul and Mary, In The Wind
- A Case of You, Joni Mitchell, Blue
- Give The Fiddler A Dram, The Holy Modal Rounders, The Holy Modal Rounders
- Indian Summer, Carling and Will, Soon Comes Night
- Samba Geladio, Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate, Ali and Toumani
- Sally Ann, Frank Blevins and the Tarheel Rattlers, Sally Ann
- Pig at Home in the Pen, The Mcgee Brothers and “Fiddlin’” Arthur Smith, Milk ‘Em in the Evening Blues
- Shortnin’ Bread, Lewis “Big Sweet” Hairston, Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia
- Lord Randal, Abner Jay, Folk Song Stylist
- All Over This World, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol. 2 1942-1944
- Morning Blues, The Correctone Stringband, Black-Eyed Suzie
- Cumberland Gap, Peggy Seeger, Isla Cameron and Guy Carawan, Peggy Seeger Presents Origins of Skiffle
- A Picture From Life’s Other Side, The Blue Sky Boys, A Treasury Of Rare Song Gems From The Past
- Puff, the Magic Dragon, Peter, Paul and Mary, Deep Water
- Now That The Buffalo’s Gone, Buffy Sainte-Marie, It’s My Way
- Forever Young, Joan Baez, The Complete A&M Recordings
- Dead Flowers, Townes Van Zandt, Roadsongs
- An Leimras/ Harris Dance, Brighde Chaimbeul, The Reeling
- Carnlough Bay, Finbar and Eddie Furey, The Best Of Finbar and Eddie Furey
- The Unicorn, The Irish Rovers, The Best Of The Irish Rovers
- I Shall Be Released, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Almost Home
- Kwazulu (In The Land of The Zulus), Miriam Makeba, An Evening With Belafonte/ Makeba
- Pata Pata, Miriam Makeba, Pata Pata
- Bakonoba, Fatoumata Diawara, Kanou EP
- Cross Road Blues, Robert Johnson, Desperate Man Blues
- Four Cent Cotton, Lowe Stokes, Lowe Stokes Vol. 1 (1927-1930)
- Fortune, Oldboys, Moon Music
- Aragon Mill, Hazel Dickens, Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People
- Fear, Carol Bone, Songs from Yon and Yore
- The White Cockade, The Watersons, Early Days
- Dressed In Yellow, Moira Smiley, Dawn Pemberton, Karla Mundy, Jake Asaro, Gregory Fletcher, In Our Voices
- Barbara Allen, Jean Ritchie, British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains, Volume 1
- Louise, Darrin Hacquard, Signs And Wonders
- Fortune, Otis Burris, Legends Of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years Of County Records
- This Train Is Bound For Glory (Live), Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy, At The Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, Evanston, Chicago 1956 (Live)
- Irene (Goodnight Irene), Lead Belly, Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1