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New Adds, Festival Radio, since April 11, 2008

Artist - Album

• Lau - Live
• Billy Bragg - Mr. Love and Justice
• Emily Smith - Too Long Away
• James McMurtry - Just Us Kids
• Karine Polwart - This Earthly Spell
• Toni Price - Talk Memphis
• Greg Greenway - Standing On the Side of Love
• Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus - Plans Gang Aft Agley
• Rachael Davis - Antebellum Queens
• Sligo Rags - The Whiskey Never Lies
• Steppin’ In It - Simple Tunes For Simple Times
• Steve Warner and the Rolling Coyotes - Landlocked
• Joe Crookston - Able Baker Charlie and Dog
• Todd Giudice - Little Known Secret
• Tommy Emmanuel - Center Stage

Top 41 songs, as rated by listeners of Festival Radio.  Why 41?  There’s a tie at #40.

Artist - “Track” - Album
1.    Joe Crookston - “Hands Metal and Wood” - Able Baker Charlie and Dog
2.    The Hooters - “Time Stand Still” - Time Stand Still
4.    Terri Hendrix - “Jim Thorpe’s Blues” - The Spiritual Kind
5.    Emmylou Harris - “Goodbye” - Wrecking Ball
6.    California Guitar Trio - “Bohemian Rhapsody” - Fly on the Wall-Lost Tracks from Studio A
7.    Andrew McKnight - “Safe Home” - Something Worth Standing For
8.    Leo Kottke - “Too Fast” - One Guitar, No Vocals
9.    Greg Brown - “Downtown” - If I Had Known: Essential Recordings, 1980-1996
10.    Patty Larkin - “Good Thing” - Angels Running
11.    Juluka - “Ibhola Lethu” - The Best Of Juluka
12.    John McCutcheon - “Mrs. Clara Sullivan’s Letter” - Seeds: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Volume 3
13.    Bob Franke - “Love Bravely, Elizabeth” - The Other Evening in Chicago
14.    Patrick Woods - “Morning Wind” - Woodchopper’s Ball
15.    Kim and Reggie Harris - “Down By The Riverside” - Get on Board: Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Freedom Songs Volume 2
16.    Karen Matheson - “O Mhairi’s tu mo Mhairi” - downriver
17.    Jack Williams - “Laughing in the Face of the Blues” - Laughing in the Face of the Blues
18.    Todd Snider - “Betty Was Black (and Willie was White)” - Happy To Be Here
19.    Robinella and the CC String Band - “I Can’t Believe You’re In Love With Me” - Blanket For My Soul
20.    Mark Heard - “Waiting For A Reason” - Dry Bones Dance
21.    John Gorka - “Unblindfold the Referee” - Writing in the Margins
22.    Andrew McKnight - “Wind Whispers Your Name” - Something Worth Standing For
23.    Tom Paxton - “How Beautiful Upon The Mountain” - Comedians & Angels
24.    Paul Simon - “Born At The Right Time” - Concert in the Park
25.    Kate Campbell - “Wrought Iron Fences” - The Portable Kate Campbell
26.    David Bromberg - “East virginia” - Try Me One More Time
27.    Cowboy Junkies - “Bea’s Song (River Song Trilogy: Part 2)” - Lay It Down
28.    The Clumsy Lovers - “Save For You” - Smart Kid
29.    John Prine - “Space Monkey” - Live On Tour
30.    Jeff Talmadge - “Photograph” - Gravity Grace and the Moon
31.    The Bobs - “The Tight Pants Tango” - Get Your Monkey Off My Dog
32.    Patrick Fitzsimmons - “Beautiful Jane” - Live: The Birthday Shows
33.    The Otters - “Come On In My Kitchen” - Nature of the Beat
34.    Johnny Clegg & Savuka - “The Crossing (Osiyeza)” - Heat, Dust & Dreams
35.    James Keelaghan - “Sweetgrass Moon” - A Recent Future
36.    Charlotte Kendrick - “Best of Me” - North of New York
37.    Bruce Cockburn - “All the Diamonds in the World” - Circles In The Stream
38.    Alastair Moock - “Cloudsplitter” - Fortune Street
39.    Carla Ulbrich - “Corny Schlocky Sappy Songs” - Professional Smart Aleck
40.    Ruthie Foster - “Hole In My Pocket” - Runaway Soul
40.    The Byrds - “Hickory Wind” - There Is A Season

Sometimes, the best resolution is no resolution.

After consulting with my ISP, fixing this one issue appears to break other things.  So, for now, and for the foreseeable future, the FolkBlog will be at http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com/blog and the feed will be at http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com/blog/feed.  The previous URLs will resolve to the Online Folk Festival home page, which will be edited to direct people to the new location.

New adds since March 25, Festival Radio:

Artist - Album

• Andrew Calhoun & Campground - Bound to Go
• Capercaillie - Roses and Tears
• Karan Casey - Ships in the Forest
• Kris Delmhorst - Shotgun Singer
• Paul Kelly - Stolen Apples
• Tom May - Blue Roads, Red Wine
• Hugh Morrison - Under a Texas Skye
• Dana and Susan Robinson - ‘Round My Door
• Sarah Sample - Never Close Enough
• The Smokey Joe Show - Little Buildings

Notes: The Andrew Calhoun and Campground album is remarkable - a 30+ song collection of African-American spirituals with significant liner notes.  It truly presents the best of what folk music can be. 

I’m also glad that Paul Kelly’s Stolen Apples is finally available in the US (I downloaded it from emusic.com), as Kelly remains one of my favorite songwriters.  If you’ve not been in on the Paul Kelly A to Z downloads , then you’re missing out on a prime opportunity to get great music free from a great artist.

It’s always a great treat when Capercaillie releases a new album, as there will be no question that it will be technically superior and innovative.

The Kris Delmhorst CD strikes me as being seriously overproduced.  I’d like to think there are some very fine songs on this album, but it’s hard to tell because they are drowning in the fuzzy, gimmicky production.

Currently having DNS issues with folk-blog.com and folkblog.onlinefolkfestival.com.  Hope to have it resolved soon.

I’ve moved the site from the Blogger.com platform to WordPress.  I think it looks better and has more functionality. 

The pictures that you see at the top of each page are some that I took at Franklin Park Conservatory, in Columbus, Ohio, during last year’s exhibition of their Dale Chihuly glass sculptures.

New adds to Festival Radio since 3/5/08:

Artist - Album

Erik Balkey - Deadpan Alley
The Barefoot Boys - Sweetwater Passage
Janet Bates - For All His Wealth
The Bobs - Get Your Monkey Off My Dog
The Brombies - Live at the Spitting Llamas Bluegrass Bar
Stephanie Corby - More to Show You
Allison Downey with John Austin - Across the Sea
Flogging Molly - Float
Bruce Holmes - The Old King’s Reel
Catherine MacLellan - Church Bell Blues
Kathy Mattea - Coal
Andrew McKnight - Something to Stand For
Brian Ashley Jones - Courier
Keith and Joan Pitzer - Gathering Stones
David Wilcox - Airstream

Project Re-Rip is finished. The back catalog is all there. Festival Radio is back in its full scope, with 29+ hours of higher fidelity 96K mp3PRO sound.

St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone, and so has Celtapalooza 2008. Thanks to all who listened - my listenership high for the day was 31 simultaneous listeners, which is much higher than I usually get.

After clearing out all the Celtic music, I’ve restarted the station in spiffy 96K mp3Pro, a step-up from 64K mp3Pro. The station will sound even better for those of you with high bandwidth. If you haven’t listened for awhile, stop by and tune in - I’m sure you’ll notice a difference in sound quailty.

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, for the next week or so, Festival Radio will be celebrating Celtapalooza 2008, with an expanded mix of the Celtic artists you usually hear on the station.

Some of the artists you’ll hear -

• Afro Celt Sound System
• Altan
• Danu
• Eddi Reader
• Anuna
• Black 47
• Flogging Molly
• John Whelan
• Cathie Ryan
• Cherish the Ladies
• Great Big Sea
• Saw Doctors
• Van Morrison
• Susan McKeown
• Patrick Street
• Planxty

And much, much more.

The following list details additions since2/11/08:

Artist - Album
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Bellowhead - Burlesque
Patrick Bloom - Moses
Antoine Dufour - Existence
Stuart Ferguson - Shackles and Ties
Caroline Herring - Lantana
Robert Hill - My Corner
Malcolm Holcombe - Gamblin’ House
The Hooters - Time Stand Still
Michael Johnathan - Walden
Andy McKee - The Gates of Gnomeria
Off to California - Hard Times in the Promised Land
Noel Paul Stookey - Facets
The Waybacks - Loaded
Various Artists - Paste Samplers 37 through 39

Operation Re-Rip Update - Just finished re-ripping The Schramms last night. The end is nearly in sight.

Festival Radio Update - Live 365 has changed the broadcasting packages. I now have a lot more disk storage space and will either be adding additional songs and staying at the same bit rate or broadcasting at a higher quality (96K instead of 64K). Any thoughts on which I should do? Let me know.