http://www.radio4all.net/series/Tapestry%20of%20the%20TimesRadio Project Series: Tapestry of the TimesMon, 06 Jul 2009 06:57:22 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/34318Songs of farewell this hour on Tapestry of the Times… goodbyes to sweethearts, families, childhood homes, and old jobs we’d maybe rather forget. Music from Chile, Kyrgyzstan, and American legends Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Doc Watson, and cowboy poet Buck Ramsey. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysMon, 06 Jul 2009 06:57:22 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/34060In this episode of Tapestry of the Times, ballads about legendary hurricanes and storms at sea, blues tunes about rainy days, and songs of hope that sunny days are right around the corner. Music from the likes of Maybelle Carter, Lonnie Johnson, Mary Pinckney, Dave Van Ronk - and green-earth poetry from Langston Hughes, Sarah Webster Fabio and Virginia Bennett. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysMon, 22 Jun 2009 06:49:49 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/34059From Kenyan harvests to Creole cuisine, and Crescent City waffles to cold pizza for breakfast...music in praise of food in all its wonderful varieties. We hear a Native American song for a buffalo feast and Josh White’s iconic down-at-the-heels anthem “One Meat Ball,” plus more. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysMon, 22 Jun 2009 06:48:27 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/34058For better or for worse, we live in a world stocked with guns, and whatever your opinion on the issue, there’s a song to match. Calypso master Mighty Sparrow sings of Trinidadian gun smugglers and Kentucky songster George Davis sings about staring down the barrel at a shotgun wedding plus more...Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysMon, 22 Jun 2009 06:45:31 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/34057Where is ‘home’ for you? In this episode, we explore our yearnings for home, with songs of longing from Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Doc Watson, and far-flung wanderers in Chile, Canada, Kenya, and The Bahamas. Radio for the homesick listener on Tapestry of the Times. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysMon, 22 Jun 2009 06:42:50 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/33584In this musical pub-crawl, we explore the joys and perils of the drinking life; songs about beer, wine, whiskey and moonshine; sad drunks, mad drunks, mean drunks, and just plain stupid drunks; booze-soaked classics from Memphis Slim, Roscoe Holcomb, Lead Belly, Dock Boggs and more. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 27 May 2009 11:36:16 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/33583In this episode of Tapestry of the Times, Bluesman Reverend Gary Davis sings of a golden city with pearly gates, Paul Robeson compares earthy freedom to divine deliverance, and Doc Watson asks the fundamentally profound question, ‘Was I born to die?’ Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 27 May 2009 11:31:40 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/33582In this episode of Tapestry of the Times, North Carolina’s Elizabeth Cotton shows off how to play a guitar upside down and backwards, New Orleans chanteuse Lizzy Miles asks ‘Who’s sorry now?’ and Lucinda Williams mourns a one-night stand. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the soundsSmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 27 May 2009 11:29:10 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/33581In this episode of Tapestry of the Times, Big Bill Broonzy, Brownie McGhee, and Sonny Terry sing the praises of larger-than-life mythic characters like John Henry and Joe Turner. And we enjoy some distant sounds from Paraguay, Indonesia, and Gambia. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 27 May 2009 11:07:49 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32859This special episode of Tapestry of the Times presents a series of one-of-a-kind original recordings made recently on a chilly Saturday afternoon on-site in Elkton, Maryland with the family and friends of the late great American legend, Ola Belle Reed. Her son Dave Reed, her nephews Zane and Hugh Campbell, and her friends Burton Debusk and Linda Weaver all gathered to pay tribute to Ola Belle. SmithsonianFolkwaysMon, 20 Apr 2009 07:30:36 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32783In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: Cowboy songs from the revivalist group The Tex-I-An Boys, the sounds of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, cowpuncher brag talk, work-songs from a Texas prison camp, and contemporary conjunto music from Los Texmaniacs...plus Peggy Seeger, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and melodies from the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. . Real music, real, people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 15 Apr 2009 12:02:55 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32640In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: We hear the soul-soaked boogie woogie piano of Champion Jack Dupree, we check out some 80-year-old original recordings of Blind Willie Johnson, we sample traditional music from the mountains of Chile, and we explore music forged deep in the coal mines of Appalachia. Real music, real, people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:21:32 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32639In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: Sea-faring songs from North Carolina’s Outer Banks; an Irish pirate ballad; cowboy songs from Woody Guthrie, Harry Jackson, and Cisco Houston and a spiritual from Moving Star Hall on Johns Island, South Carolina. Real music, real, people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:19:47 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32638In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: The late great Piedmont blues singer and guitar master John Cephas, New Orleans’ ebullient chanteuse Lizzie Miles, slave shouts from Georgia’s McIntosh County Shouters, rock music from Indonesia and Vodou music from Port au Prince. Real music, real, people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:18:33 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32637In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: We celebrate the Big Easy with the late great New Orleans street singer Snooks Eaglin, we hear New Orleans jazz from The Crescent City Serenaders, and we listen back to some vintage Cajun social music. Real music, real, people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:17:14 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32636In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: The mimetic sounds of mountain herders in the Siberian hinterland of Tuva, tropical music from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Trinidad, and The Dominican Republic, and a slide guitar opus from the West Coast’s “Joe Louis Walker and The Boss Talkers.” Real music, real, people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:16:02 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32635In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: The sounds of banjo innovator and connoisseur Tony Trischka, blues from Mississippi’s Big Joe Williams, a horse ballad from the Arizona Sonora Borderlands, marimba music from Guatemala, and barrel-house piano blues from Speckled Red. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:14:30 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32634In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: Mandolin picking at its finest from “The Father of Bluegrass,” Bill Monroe; mountain music from the hills of Puerto Rico to the hills of Kentucky; and Javanese Gamelan collides with the New York avant-garde. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:13:04 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32633In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: Bedouin singing from the deserts of Saudi; Bottle-neck slide-guitar from Memphis blues man Furry Lewis; 1940’s vintage jazz from Mary Lou Williams and a song made from a single drop of water. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:11:20 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32632In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: We celebrate melodies from Barack Obama’s ancestral homeland of Kenya, we remember President Abraham Lincoln in words and song, we hear the voice that inspired a nation in 1963. Real music, real, people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:09:23 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32630In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: The lightning-fast fingers of banjo picker Eddie Adcock and The Country Gentlemen, Saint Louis blues from the legendary JD Short, a chant learned in a trance by an Eskimo medicine man and a melody from the mountains of North Sumatra. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:07:25 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32629In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: We tip our cups to the barrelhouse blues of Little Brother Montgomery, Roscoe Holcomb unleashes his ‘untamed sense of control,’ Malian rappers launch a lyrical assault on music piracy, we remember Odetta, the “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” . Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:06:06 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32628In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: Piedmont blues from John Cephas and Phil Wiggins and Civil Rights singers Bernice Johnson Reagon and Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick. Plus, a Baltimore sea chantey and a song learned in a dream in the rainforest of Malaysia. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds . SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:04:45 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32627In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: Sweet love ballads and bitter blues from Lonnie Johnson, hard-scrabble songs for lean times from Pete Seeger and Joe Glazer, toe-tapping classics from Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, melancholy fado music from Portugal’s Maria Marques, and songs of strength and hope from the Abayudaya people of Uganda.SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:03:26 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32626In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: We hear banjo ballads from Virginia coal miner Dock Boggs, blues from the blind preacher Reverend Gary Davis, the tropical sounds of Hawaiian folk legend Ledward Kaapana and songs of love and loss from Chile to Canada . Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:02:03 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32625In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: Comanche flute music, a Native American cowboy ballad, Carolina medicine show hokum & blues, the voice of Langston Hughes, mountain music from Eastern Kentucky, slave shouts from the Georgia coast, protest music from Pete Seeger, a feminist anthem from Peggy Seeger and a recording of the sacred rhythms of Cuban Santeria.SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 12:00:23 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32624In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: Aaron talks with Richard Carlin, author of “Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways. He joins the program to share some great recordings of legendary performers like folk hero Woody Guthrie, jazz trail-blazer Mary Lou Williams. All the music heard in this episode of Tapestry of the Times has been compiled together by Richard onto a sampler CD that’s available as a companion to his book. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 11:58:47 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32623In this episode of Tapestry of the Times: We check out some historical duet performances from old-time music virtuosos Doc Watson & Bill Monroe, Piedmont Blues legends John Cephas & Phil Wiggins, and women bluegrass pioneers Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 11:57:28 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32622This week on Tapestry of the Times, Gourd banjo music from Mike Seeger, a rare recording of a young Bob Dylan, vocal harmonies from the Bahamas, the gentle touch of Brazilian guitar master Luiz Bonfa. Plus: a cowboy ballad from Lead Belly, and “Mean Talking Blues” from Woody Guthrie. Real music, real people and the stories behind the sounds.SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 11:56:04 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/32621This week on Tapestry of the Times, Outlaw country music from north of the border, family fiddle tunes from Cape Breton, classic piano blues from juke joints and barrelhouse bars, cowboy ballads and poems, and melodies in memory of labor songwriter Joe Hill. Real music, real people and the stories behind the sounds. SmithsonianFolkwaysWed, 08 Apr 2009 11:53:55 +0000