photo by Robin Carson
“26 songs in 30 days”
That’s the story of Woody Guthrie and the Columbia River Songs, Greg Vandy’s three-hour special program focusing on the legendary folk singer and his time in the Pacific Northwest, originally broadcast on September 26 in the Roadhouse, is available on the Streaming Archive until Oct 10th. (Listen Now!)
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Tune in July 4th, 6-9pm, for my annual Independence Day Special Program, Soul Freedom.
This year it’s on the 4th of July holiday, so turn it on and I’ll provide the perfect summer soundtrack for your BBQ/party. It’s gonna be HOT! 80 degrees too! Three solid hours of vintage music from the mid-60s to the mid-70s [...]
Bonnie Prince Billy: one with the freaks
photo by Pieter Morlion
Hey Freak!
Have you wondered about like-minded and sometimes bearded young men and women (CocoRosie) who sing acoustic songs of surreal nature and pastoral settings? Have you ever seen your favorite artists dance in their underwear? Have you read in your favorite music mags the misguided term [...]
Tonight in The Roadhouse, you’ll hear Mississippi Fred McDowell, the bottleneck Delta player who grew up using a steak-bone to get his sound. Later, he switched to various bottle tops always searching for just the right one.
Born in 1904, McDowell never got the opportunity to recorded like many of his peers during the pre-Depression “Golden-Age†[...]
Did you know that when you download our Music That Matters Podcasts, you keep the songs forever, and that you can take an hour of commercial-free programming with you when jogging in your retro track suit? I know! It’s great, especially when I hand-select 15 tracks of pure magic and intrigue. It’ll make you happy, [...]
Listen to the annual The Roadhouse tribute to the Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement - MLK and The Songs of Freedom. On this week’s show you’ll hear lots of gospel and field recordings from the early 60s - mass meetings and church gatherings throughout the south which captures the spirit of this [...]
Ben’s Chili Bowl, photo courtesy of dbking
This week in The Roadhouse,
Part Two of last week’s Holiday program, Thanksgiving Folk: The Origins Of The Traditional American Song.
All the songs on this show are from the most influencial release of all-time. The Anthology Of American Folk Music. It’s an 84 song collection of recordings from the Golden [...]
Greg Vandy has all the fixin’s for a special Roadhouse this Wednesday night from 6-9pm. “THANKGIVING FOLK – The Roots and Origins of the Traditional American Song.”
Greg will play songs from the “Golden-Age” of American recordings from the 20s & 30s, to the Folk Revival of the 1960’s and beyond.
Leadbelly to Beth Orton, and classic [...]
Johnny Cahse in White Plains, NY - February 1959
Image by Marvin Korner/CORBIS, courtesy of Bella of Bacardi
Join me in The Roadhouse for a 3-hour special broadcast, “From Labor Songs to Vietnam - Topical Songwriters and American Protest Singers”.
You’ll hear classic union songs and topical material from the 1930s to the ’60s featuring Phil Ochs, Bob [...]
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This week in the Roadhouse tune in tonight at 6pm for a special 3-hour program; Before Classic Rock: The British Blues of the 1960s. Hear your favorite classic rock bands in their early incarnations as hip Blues and R&B bands. Lots of rare and obscure stuff from The Stones, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Eric [...]
