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Folk duo Trout Fishing in America has a channel on Youtube where they post videos regularly. It can be found at http://www.youtube.com/MusicbyTroutFishing

Labels: Folk Video of the Week

New Adds to the Online Folk Festival, May 22, 2007:

Artist - Album

• Siobhan Quinn and Michael Bowers - Dreamers, Lovers & Outlaws
• Norman and Nancy Blake - Back Home in Sulphur Springs
• Loudon Wainwright III - Strange Weirdos
• Various Artistis - Fresh Cut Bluegrass 2007 (Rounder Records Sampler)
• Jud Caswell - Blackberry Time
• Ron Johnson and Mary Matthews - Sunshine State of Mind

The Fresh Cut Bluegrass CD was free at Borders Books and Music. Includes great artists like Alison Krauss, Tony Trischka and Uncle Earl. Can't beat the price.

Labels: New Adds, Online Folk Festival

Reasons to come back to the Online Folk Festival now if you've stepped away for awhile:

• The annoying splash page is gone for the moment from the Live365 website, so you can get right in.
• I've rolled over the entire playlist in the last two weeks.
• I've added a bunch of great new disks in the last two weeks and have some more in the queue (See New Adds)

Labels: Online Folk Festival

More new adds to the Online Folk Festival:

Artist - Album

The Greencards - Viridian
Lea - Great Big World
Robbie Schaefer - In the Flesh
Tom Paxton - Live at McCages, February 23, 1991
Work of the Weavers - We're Still Here
Great Big Sea - Courage and Patience and Grit
Paul Reece - I'm Happy Because I Sing

Labels: New Adds, Online Folk Festival

I'm constantly amazed by the ability of Online Folk Festival listeners to catch on to all the great indies and lesser-known artists by selecting them into the Top 40 (well, this month the Top 42)

Artist - "Song" - Album

1. Robin Flower and Libby McLaren - "Andrei's First Waltz in America" - Steelhead in the Riffles
2. Radio Tarifa - "Conductus" - Temporal
3. Tom Prasada-Rao - "Ashes of Love" - The Way of the World
4. Iris Dement - "That's The Way Love Goes" - NPR Studio Cuts vol 1
5. Runrig - "Loch Lomond [Live]" - Beat the Drum
6. Bill Jones - "A Brisk Young Sailor" - Turn To Me
7. Ashley Maher - "Seven" - Flying Over Bridges
8. Annie Gallup - "Red Hair" - Swerve
9. Carol Noonan - "Emma" - Somebody's Darling: Songs of War, Loss and Remembrance
10. No Fixed Abode - "Sunne Days" - Clearwater
11. Greg Trooper With The Flatirons - "Ireland" - Everywhere
12. Gillian Welch - "Look At Miss Ohio" - Soul Journey
13. Billy Bragg & Wilco - "California Stars" - Mermaid Avenue
14. Pat Wictor - "I Will Walk With You" - Heaven Is So High
15. Lucy Kaplansky - "Amelia" - Over the Hills
16. Jack Williams - "Lay Down By the Water" - Laughing in the Face of the Blues
17. Simon & Garfunkel - "El Condor Pasa" - Old Friends Live On Stage
18. Mary Fahl - "The Dawning of the Day" - The Other Side of Time
19. Ernie Hawkins - "Make Believe Stunt" - Rags & Bones
20. Carrie Newcomer - "Bowling Baby" - Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer
21. Jeff Black - "Dark as a Dungeon" - The Appalachians: Companion to the Public Television Series
22. Emmylou Harris - "Bang the Drum Slowly" - Red Dirt Girl
23. Tim Harrison - "Prayer Watching" - Sara And The Sea
24. David Mallett - "Dulcimer" - Midnight on the Water (Live)
25. Chris Stuart - "Angels of Mineral Springs" - Angels of Mineral Springs
26. Bruce Cockburn - "All The Diamonds In The World" - Circles In The Stream
27. Donal Clancy - "Garrett Barry's/The Rumours of Trim" - Close to Home
28. Hem - "The Fire Thief" - Eveningland
29. Wes Weddell - "Hills That I Call Home" - Songs To Get You From Here To There
30. David Bromberg - "Trying to get home" - Try me one more time
31. Christine Lavin - "Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind" - Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind
32. Richard Thompson - "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" - Austin City Limits: Live From Austin, TX: Richard Thompson
33. Emily Smith - "Fly We to Some Desert Isle" - The Complete Songs of Robert Tannahill
34. Dry Branch Fire Squad - "Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures" - Live at the Newburyport Firehouse
35. Chanticleer - "My Soul Is A Witness" - How Sweet The Sound
36. Boiled in Lead - "Robin's Complaint" - Antler Dance
37. Andy M. Stewart / Manus Lunny - "If I Never Spend a Morning Without You" - At It Again
38. Steve Brooks - "What Would Molly Do? (Molly Ivins Tribute)" - www.stevebrooks.com
39. Chuck Brodsky - "Bonehead Merkle" - The Baseball Ballads
40. Cathie Ryan - "As the Evening Declines" - The Farthest Wave
40. Aoife Clancy - "Banks of Sweet Primroses" - Silvery Moon
40. Andrew Calhoun - "A Hoosier in Paris" - Shadow of a Wing

Labels: Online Folk Festival, Top 40

New adds to the Online Folk Festival since April 6:

Artist - Album

Buddy Mondlock - The Edge of the World
Chris Dunnett - It's Alive One
Dan Pokorni - Guitarscapes
Devon Sproule - Keep Your Silver Shined
Hoots & Hellmouth - Hoots & Hellmouth
Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back
No Fixed Abode - Clearwater
Oysterband - Meet You There
Pamela Ward and Paul Cherrington - Sail On By
Radio Free Earth - Crossover
Randal Williams - One Night in Louisiana
Scott and Michelle Dalziel - Thinking Out Loud
Various Artists - The Woodchopper's Ball
Vince Bell - Recado

Of particular note in this batch of CDs, I want to point out The Woodchopper's Ball, a 2-cd compilation recording of some really fine acoustic guitarists who have played at an annual benefit in Kent, Ohio, for the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless. Among the guitarists are Neil Jacobs, Brian Henke, Patrick Woods, Alex Bevan and 20+ others.

Labels: New Adds, Online Folk Festival