This program features great new music as well as some old favorites, starting with songs for the morning followed by songs about morning trains, the legend of steel driving man John Henry, some hot guitar flatpicking, and songs from new releases by artists new to me.
Featured artists include old favorites David Bromberg, Kate Wolf, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Eric Bibb, Norman Blake, a duet with Beppe Gambetta &Tim O’Brien, Laurie Lewis, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Keb Mo.
New artists include banjo great Benny Bleu, Oregon duo Paper Wings, Coloradan naturalist Natalie Spears, and Massachusetts teacher turned singer songwriter Erin Ash Sullivan.
COOL VIDEOS:
Cat Stevens (now Yusuf) performing Morning Has Broken Live: https://youtu.be/VGo10RSxxyA?si=lCn81da4tQ7OmaNO
Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager perform "Mornin' Train": https://youtu.be/BU3YWu9WpCk?si=AQSAwHxx2JbR0PRv
Benny Bleu performs "Death of John Henry" at Tsunami Books in Eugene: https://youtu.be/LfBYTJFtLis?si=D4-dWtXvObQX5765
Johnny Cash "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer": https://youtu.be/-TzQiJQiXMA?si=G3DPAd16zy1I93i-
Brief documentary "How John Henry Became a Legend": https://youtu.be/-Y55gSYyam8?si=yTjU99eSSU4BVblj
Tommy Emmanuel & Molly Tuttle smokin’ on “White Freightliner Blues”: https://youtu.be/pM8rDroaz-E?si=meMGPg7vx2a-ITri
Paper Wings “Listen to the World Spin”: https://youtu.be/Za_oH_yS0Q8?si=HN97ztNIbqDeKsj6
Natalie Spears with Lizzy Plotkin performing "Hymn of the Wild Things" live at Stone Cottage studios in Boulder, CO: https://youtu.be/XGYYTcHrcng?si=soMrltCYR9TnCsSH
Mary Chapin Carpenter "Our Man Walter Cronkite" video: https://youtu.be/PDVpbdFqtXU?si=3qfAXRvVVRtVsF5r
Keb Mo "Put a Woman in Charge": https://youtu.be/FciQeRGYFlw?si=fcmEXjS8E2sFJtNZ