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David “Honeyboy” Edwards (1915 – 2011) Today we mourn the loss of David “Honeyboy” Edwards, one of the greatest blues musicians there ever was. Honeyboy was an incredible talent in his guitar playing, singing, songwriting and also with his rack harmonica playing (see his 1979 Folkways album, “Mississippi Delta Bluesman” as well as his very first recordings made by Alan Lomax [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Robert Crumb[Crumb interviewed by Eli Smith. Photo by Eden Brower, 2010] On today’s show I speak with Robert Crumb. R. Crumb is best known as a cartoonist and illustrator, but what a lot people don’t know about him is that he is a very talented old-time mandolin player and a very serious collector of 78rpm records! [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Robert Crumb
[Crumb interviewed by Eli Smith. Photo by Eden Brower, 2010]
On today’s show I speak with Robert Crumb. R. Crumb is best known as a cartoonist and illustrator, but what a lot people don’t know about him is that he is a very talented old-time mandolin player and a very serious collector of 78rpm records! I [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Carolina Chocolate Drops Live! at Jalopy
[photo by Ann Chen]
Back in September the acclaimed old-time band The Carolina Chocolate Drops made a surprise appearance at The Jalopy Theater in Redhook, Brooklyn. Luckily I had heard earlier that day what was going on and brought my recorder with me that night when I made the familiar trek down to Jalopy’s hallowed hall! [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Jody Stecher
[Jody Stecher (R) with Hank Bradley (L) at the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention 2006. Photo by E. Smith]
On today’s show I speak with one of my all time favorite musicians, Jody Stecher. Jody is a master of many instruments- banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, oud, sarod and sursingar and is a very fine singer. I [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Jake from The Cangelosi Cards
On today’s show I speak with the bandleader, guitarist and banjoist from The Cangelosi Cards, Jake Sanders. Here’s what I said about the Cards several years, ago and I stand by this statement now:
“The Cangelosi Cards are one of the best bands I’ve seen anywhere. They have a great live show, perfect for [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Visit with Joe Thompson
[Photos by E. Smith]
On a beautiful day in early June my band The Dust Busters paid a visit to the home of Joe and Polly Thompson. Joe Thompson is 91 and lives outside of Mebane, NC. He has been playing fiddle since he was 5 years old, way back in 1923 and is perhaps the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dough Rollers and Dust Busters
Malcolm Ford and Jack Byrne of The Dough Rollers were living out in LA over this past winter and in late January/early February Craig and I from The Dust Busters went and stayed with them out there. We had a great time, living down near Venice Beach, beating the New York cold and playing a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Hundred Songs
On today’s show I speak with Peter Stampfel and Jeannie Scofield. In 2004 Peter Stampfel, founder of The Holy Modal Rounders and early member of the Fugs, began a project to research and record one song from every year of the 20th century. Early on in the project he met singer Jeannie Scofield and they [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Library of Congress Field Recordings LPHere is a early, influential and fantastic album issued by the Library of Congress in 1942.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tompkins Square Records’ new release- “I’m Going Down to North Carolina”
On today’s show I speak with Josh Rosenthal, the founder of the New York based Tompkins Square Records. This is a great record company that has been putting out really interesting CDs, Lps and 45s over the last few years. There latest is “I’m Going Back to North Carolina: The Complete Recordings of the Red [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Walk Around Clifftop 2009I went down to the Clifftop Appalachian String Band Festival just a couple of weeks ago with my band The Dust Busters. We had a great time, met and played with a million different people and played a set on Saturday afternoon with our friends John Cohen and Tracy Schwarz of the New Lost City [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mike Seeger (1933-2009)
[Mike Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival 1966]
With sadness we mark the passing of one of the real true greats of American music in the last half century. Mike Seeger was a master of the banjo, guitar, fiddle, autoharp, mouth harp, jew’s harp, quills, mandolin and essentially any instrument he laid his hands on as well [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Æ
On today’s show I speak with Aurelia Shrenker and Eva Primack, amazing singers and ex-UCLA enthnomusicology students who have relocated to New York and together form the singing duet “Æ.” They do a wonderful and unprecedented mix of songs from the Balkans and Eastern Europe, mixed and mashed with ballads from the American [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Banjo Workshop with John Cohen
Banjo Tunings and Styles Workshop with John Cohen
Here’s the first bit of audio I’m posting from the Brooklyn Folk Festival - John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers leads a banjo workshop focusing on different tunings and styles used by a number of banjo players he has learned from either directly or studied through [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jalopy Theater on Brooklyn TV
The Jalopy Theater & School of Music (the gravitational center of Down Home Radio) was recently featured on the Brooklyn Independent Television channel. The show features interviews with owners Geoff and Lynette Wiley, with Roots n Ruckus host Feral Foster and with Eli Smith (me) as well as some excellent footage of the place. This [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Art Bailey- The Klezmer Music of Joseph Moskowitz
Today’s show is an interview with Art Bailey of the New York based Klezmer band Orkestra Popilar. The show features recordings by Orkestra Popilar as well as early Klezmer source recordings by the great Romanian cymbalom (hammer dulcimer) player Joseph Moskowitz which have been a large part of the inspiration for Orkestra Popilar’s music.
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The Akonting: African Roots of the Banjo - A Direct Connection Between African & African-American Music
On today’s show Eli attempts to demonstrate and explicate the real links between African & African-American music.
The show features a direct comparison of African akonting music to African-American banjo music followed by an interview with Daniel Jatta, music researcher of the Jola tribe from Senegambia. In the interview Daniel plays Jola songs on the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jug Free America - A notable 21st century jug band
Jug Free America was a jug band I played in, which existed from 2001-2005. We played a mix of old jug band tunes, early blues/pre-blues, old-time, country, ragtimey stuff and acoustic reggae. I don’t usually go around promoting my own stuff on the show, but just objectively, this band is worth checking out.
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Roots n Ruckus at the Jalopy Theater: Live Recording From the Feb. 20th ShowJalopy Theater - Redhook Brooklyn, 2/20/08:
Peter Stampfel, Pat Conte, Sam Shepard and Citizen Kafka perform live at Roots n Ruckus at the Jalopy Theater. (photo by Eli Smith)
This is a recording of the Roots n Ruckus show, briefly mentioned in today’s New York Times piece, “The Sound Is Rural, the Setting Urban,” which takes [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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