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Songs of the Great Depression
(Poster for the National Recovery Administration known as the Blue Eagle, an early New Deal program)
Well, what with the bank failures and giant government bailout of Wall Street, I thought it was time to do an episode featuring the songs of the Great Depression. A lot of great music was composed in response to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Some New Folks Part 1
Clifton Hicks on a mountain with some friends (photographer unknown)
Today’s show features recordings by some exciting young performers I have encountered. These are people that I met in my travels and field recorded or who heard about the show and sent in their recordings. Great stuff! These artists are operating for the present at an [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Brett Ratliff & Sylvia Ryerson
On today’s show I speak with Eastern Kentucky banjo player, fiddler and singer Brett Ratliff and with Cambridge fiddler Sylvia Ryerson. Brett and Sylvia were en route through New York and stopped in to play a set at the Roots ‘n’ Ruckus show at the Jalopy Theater in Redhook, Brooklyn. I recorded their set and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Banjo Songs of the Southern Mountains LP
On today’s show I continue Down Home Radio’s “Awesome Out of Print Records” series with and old Riverside LP, “Banjo Songs of the Southern Mountains.” These recordings were made at the 1955 Mountain Dance & Folk Festival held in Asheville, NC - directed by Bascom Lamar Lunsford. The record features Obray Ramsey, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Alaska’s Fiddling Poet - Ken Waldman
On this week’s show I talk with Ken Waldman - Alaska’s Fiddling Poet. I interviewed him last Friday while sitting on stage at the Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn, just prior to his show there that night. Ken is an ex-college English professor who taught via telephone to Inuit villagers on the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Martin Carthy Radio Programs
Back in 1994 British folk musician and scholar Martin Carthy hosted a series of 6 radio broadcasts on the BBC 2 station. I recently got my hands on cassette tapes of these broadcasts, and they’re awesome! He did a really good job- plays some amazing music. I digitized the tapes, and here [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Hubby Jenkins
On today’s show I speak with Hubby Jenkins, a great young blues musician and songwriter from New York. Hubby (short for Hubert) is 22 and has been playing old blues and folk music for about 5 years. He’s doing great stuff with the old material and writing [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Baby Gramps
On today’s show I interview blues/jazz/country/everything musician Baby Gramps. Gramps was in NYC on tour from the West coast. I ran into him at the Jalopy Theater and we arranged to meet for an interview the next day at Zebulon, another Brooklyn club where he was playing a show. This interview takes place [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with the East River String Band
This week Eli interviews Eden Brower and John Heneghan- The East River String Band about their new CD/LP “Some Cold Rainy Day,” with artwork by R. Crumb. They play some cuts from the new record, and also delve into John’s extensive collection of rare 78 RPM records, playing a bunch of un-reissued records you [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Willy Gantrim
This week I’ll speak with New York based blues/country musician and songwriter Willy Gantrim. We both play as part of the Roots ‘n’ Ruckus music collective, every Wednesday at the Jalopy Theater in Redhook, Brooklyn. Willy’s been writing great songs, and has just returned to New York from New Orleans, where he spent [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Best of the Down Home “Awesome Out of Print Records” series vol. 1
Hello everybody- well for the past couple months pretty much all I’ve been doing here is digitizing and posting up old out of print LPs from my collection, for what has been known as Down Home Radio’s “Awesome Out of Print Records” series. I’m gonna be doing that in fits and starts from here on [...]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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