Lark In The Morning

Listen in this Friday morning on the Lark in the Morning while we explore the colorful characters of folk music: frozen loggers, cowboy killers turned macabre cooks, dueling suffragettes, midway barkers, and more! Some are true stories, most are not, but they're all entertaining.

Lark In The Morning on 01/18/13

Categories:

Folk

Program:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

Fri, 01/18/2013 - 5:30am - 7:00am

Short Description:

Folk Music

Lark In The Morning on 01/04/13

Categories:

Folk

Program:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

Fri, 01/04/2013 - 5:30am - 7:00am

Short Description:

Folk Music

Playlists

Lark In The Morning playlist for 05/03/2013

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

05/03/2013

Artist	Title	Album	Label
Jerry Read-Smith & Tom Fellenbaum	Heartdance	Heartdance	Song of the Wood
Victoria Folk Music Community	Cowichan River	Ramblin' Woman	Victoria Folk Music Community
Terri & Gwen	Sacred Waters	Road Trip	(self)
Bill Jones	From My Window	Two Year Winter	Compass
Cindy Kallet	Window Tree	This Way Home	Stone's Throw Music
Folk City	Little Bird	Americana	(self)
David Laibman	Silver Swan Rag	Classical Ragtime Guitar	Rounder
Linda Allen	Weaving & Quilting	Washington Notebook	Victory Music
Kate Power	Nova Scotia	Dancing in the Kitchen	Katidoo Publishing
Christine Lavin	The Moment Slipped Away	Beau Woes	Philo
Chris Kokesh	Time Goes By	Stories	Misty River
Tom Paxton & Anne Hills	Follow That Road	American Skies	Appleseed
Solomon's Seal	The Old Road	The Old Road	Front Hall
David Francey	Annie's House	Skating Rink	Laker Music
Lui Collins	Mystery Play	Leaving Fort Knox	Molly Gamblin Music
Andrea Davis	Horses	Andrea Davis 2013 EP	(self)
Andrea Davis	Germany 1941	Andrea Davis 2013 EP	(self)
Andrea Davis	Pruning	Andrea Davis 2013 EP	(self)

I usually build programs around a theme, or a feeling, or particular song or two. In this case, Andrea Davis gave me a copy of her home-made CD containing four songs last week, and I enjoyed them so much I set out to build the show backwards from them. Some notes on the songs played: her grandfather fought in WWII in Hitler's 'Operation Barbarossa,' the failed attempt to conquer the Soviet Union in 1941. The fact that he died on Christmas Day 1941 meant that he had survived nearly the entire grisly operation, which began in May 1941, and was ultimately abandoned in late December 1941. Her song about pruning came out of discussions that she has had with several people, myself included, about the looming problems of resource scarcity, financial misdeeds, and environmental collapse.

You can listen to the archived version of this morning's program until May 17th.

Lark In The Morning playlist for 04/19/2013

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

04/19/2013

Artist	Title	Album	Label
Winifred Smith	The Lass from the Low Country	Folk Songs of the South	RCA
Ralph Lee Smith & Mary Louise Hollowell	Buffalo Gals	Dulcimer Fair	Skyline
Ralph Lee Smith & Mary Louise Hollowell	Old Man at the Mill	Dulcimer Fair	Skyline
Michael Strange	Keeper of the Eddystone Light	Sings Folk Songs	Craftsmen
Dan Sorkin	Tools of the Trade	Folk Singing One	Mercury
The Smothers Brothers	My Old Man	Think Ethnic	Mercury
Theo Bikel	Buffalo Boy	Town Hall Concert	Elektra
New Wine Singers	Poor Howard	At the Chicago Opera House	VJ
Tickle Harbor	Doggie, Doggie	The Hare's Ears	Quay
Andy M. Stewart	The Parish of Dunkeld	By the Hush	Green Linnet
The Tannahill Weavers	The Yellow-Haired Laddie	Land of Light	Green Linnet
Alan Stivell	Wrath in Quimper	Journee' a la Maison	Rounder
Gerald Trimble	Bugle Britches	Crosscurrents	Green Linnet
Rita Weill	Bramble Briar	Sings Ballads and Folksongs	Takoma
Pine Island	Half Creek	Live Inside	Fretless
Laketown Buskers	Grizzly Bear	Rolling Along	Vetco
Charlie Maguire	The Ballad of Augie Mattsen	Long Way to Another Friend	Train on the Island
Bill Staines	Last Words of Osceola	Old Wood and Winter Wine	Mineral River
Guy Van Duser	Syncopated Clock	Got the World on a String	Rounder
Steve Goodman	Video Tape	Say It In Private	Asylum
John Prine	Everybody	Diamonds in the Rough	Atlantic
Tom Paxton	Don't Slay That Potato	Ten Million Lawyers	Flying Fish

A little early recorded folk music from Chicago, a little Scottish, a little bit of everything.

Lark In The Morning playlist for 04/05/2013

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

04/05/2013

Artist	Title	Album	Label
Blind Alfred Reed	We've Just Got to Have Them	How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?	Rounder
Ola Belle Reed	Wayfaring Pilgrim	Ola Belle Reed	Rounder
Peggy Seeger	Old Bangham	Popular Ballads	Folk Lyric
Barbara Dane	Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot	When I Was a Young Girl	Horizon
Ebenezer	Lynchburg Town	Tell It to Me	Biograph
The Delaware Water Gap	Jenny Johnson	String Band Music	Adelphi
Norman & Nancy Black	Everybody Works But Father	Blind Dog	Rounder
Pete Seeger	The Rand Hymn	Gazette Volume 2	Folkways
Small Wonder String Band	Boomer's Story	Foolish Questions	Rooster
Fly By Night String Band	Three Thin Dimes	The Fly By Night String Band	Fretless
Skip Gorman	Belle of Lexington	Trail to Mexico	Folk-Legacy
Hurricane Ridge Runners	Long Gone Lonesome Blues	The Hurricane Ridge Runners
Rick Keating	As Far As I Can Make It Fly	Trouble, Trouble	(self)
Bob Coltman	Jack's Red Cheetah	Before They Close the Minstrel Show	Minstrel
Cranberry Lake Jug Band	All Nite Diner	If This Ain't Genius	Kicking Mule
Rich Kirby & Tom Bledsoe	Echoes From the Burning Bush	Twins	Swallow
Plank Road String Band	Tempie	Vocal & Instrumental Blend	June Appal
John McCutcheon	Wild Rose of the Mountain	Fine Times at Our House	Greenhays

Thank you, listeners, for your support. I truly appreciate it that you keep KBOO alive and growing. - Kurt

PS Feel free to contact me through the station if you're ever having trouble locating a cut that you've heard me play on the program.

Lark In The Morning playlist for 03/29/2013

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

03/29/2013

Artist	Title	Album	Label
Buell Kazee	A Poor Boy a Long Ways from Home	Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard	Tompkins Square
Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers	Fourth of July at a County Fair	Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard	Tompkins Square
Dixon Brothers	Easter Day	Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard	Tompkins Square
Martyn Wyndham-Read	Trubshaw & Green	English Sporting Ballads	Topic
Johnny Collins	We'll Sing Hallelujah	Pedlar of Songs	Johnny Collins
Bill Jones	The Hexham Lad & The Blackleg Miner	Panchpuran	Compass
Olivia Chaney	Back Garden Beautiful	Olivia Chaney	Olivia Chaney
Kat Eggleston	Shit	Outside Eden	Waterbug
Cosmotheka	The Houses In Between	Wines & Spirits	Leader
Cosmotheka	Only Come Down for the Day	Wines & Spirits	Leader
Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman	Rio	Bonnet & Shawl	Dragon
Jerry Bryant	The Companero	The Ballad of Harbo & Samuelson	Jerry Bryant
Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat	The Log Driver's Waltz	Come to Me in Canada	Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat
Jeff Warner & Greg Stone	Glendy Burke	Old Time Songs for Kids	Jeff Warner & Jeff Davis
Red Clay Ramblers	Half a Life Without a Dog	Yonder	Red Clay Ramblers
Folk City	Metal Detector	Americana	Folk City
Folk City	Little Birdy	Americana	Folk City
Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat	Teaming Up the Cariboo Road	The Young Man from Canada	Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin	Polly Ann	Blue Lightning	Rounder
Wailing Strangers	Larry the Physicist	Flying to Blue	Whimpering Intimates
Sue Postans	Everything's Gonna Be OK	Ramblin' Woman - the Songs of Becky Bernson	Victoria Folk

A lot of fun music, and new music that has recently come into my possession. Curious thing about today's program: over half the cuts are from CD's that were put out by the artists directly - no big name label involved. Don't forget to tip your server, you've been a wonderful audience!

Lark In The Morning playlist for 03/15/2013

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

03/15/2013

Artist	Title	Album	Label
Martin Crosby	Gilhooley's Gramaphone	Irish & Humorous Popular Songs	Fiesta
The Dubliners	Rocky Road to Dublin	The Dubliners with Luke Kelly	Transatlantic
Tommy Makem	Mrs. McGrath	Songs of Tommy Makem	Tradition
Tommy Makem	Bold O'Donahue	Songs of Tommy Makem	Tradition
David Hammond & Donal Lunny	My Aunt Jane	The Singer's House	Greenhays
Christy Moore	The Good Ship Kangaroo	Christy Moore & Friends	RTE
Tom Dahill	Joan in the Garret	The Ragged Hank of Yarn	Flying Fish
Christy Moore	Patrick Was a Gentleman	Christy Moore & Friends	RTE
Packie Byrne & Bonnie Shaljean	The Lark in the Clear Air	The Half Door	Dingle's
Tommy Dempsey & John Swift	Cunla Dear	Green Grows the Laurel	Trailer
Donal McGuire	Meeting Is a Pleasure	The Star of Sunday's Well	Rossendale
Donal McGuire	Old Man Dillon	The Star of Sunday's Well	Rossendale
Dolores Kean & John Faulkner	The Low Lands of Holland	Broken Hearted I'll Wander	Green Linnet
Tim Lyons	The Peeler & the Goat	Easter Snow	Green Linnet
Planxty	The Jolly Beggar	Planxty	Shanachie
General Humbert	Old Joe's, Old Tipperary, Jig of Slurs	General Humbert II	Shanachie
Patrick Street	Jenny Picking Cockles	No. 2 Patrick Street	Green Linnet
The Black Family	Colcannon	The Black Family	Dara
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady	Bonny Woodhull	Andy Irvine & Paul Brady	Mulligan

A lot of great, fun Irish music this morning! Thanks to the numerous callers who gave me feedback and corrections on the air room phone this morning.

Lark In The Morning playlist for 03/01/2013

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

03/01/2013

Artist	Title	Album	Label
Frank Purslow & John Pearce	The Shoemaker's Kiss	Unexpurgated Songs of Erotica	Laff Records
Robert Forrester	Copshawholme Fair	Pass the Jug Round	Reynard Records
Mrs. Haynes	The Ball of Yarn	Sussex Harvest	Topic
Johnny Doughty	The Mermaid	Round Rye Bay for More	Topic
Bob & Ron Copper	Spencer the Rover	A Song for Every Season	Leader
The Oldham Tinkers	A Fine Old English Gentleman	Oldham's Burning Sands	Topic
Alfred Deller	The Foggy Dew	Western Wind	Vanguard
The City Waites	Jamaica (The Jovial Broom Man)	How the World Wags	Hyperion
The City Waites	Seldom Cleanly	Penny Merriments	Naxos
The Buskers	Glorious Beer	'Ave a Go Wiv the Buskers	RCA
John Foreman	London's Ordinary	The Tale of Ale	Free Reed
Robin & Barry Dransfield	Good Ale for My Money	The Tale of Ale	Free Reed
Barry Skinner	Turpin Hero	The World of Folk	Argo
Linda Adams	Flash Company	Flash Company	Fellside
Nic Jones	The Wanton Seed	The Noah's Ark Trap	Topic
Shirley Collins	Sweet William	Sweet England	See For Miles
Frankie Armstrong	Tarry Trousers	Lovely on the Water	Topic
Gary & Vera Aspey	Miss Tickle Toby's	Seeing Double	Topic
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick	Domeama	Byker Hill	Topic
Johnny Collins	The Mare & The Foal	Free & Easy	Traditional Sound Recordings
Peter Bellamy	The Little Black Horse	The Fox Jumped Over the Parson's Gate	Topic
Maddy Prior & June Tabor	The Game of Cards	Silly Sisters	Chrysalis

Lark In The Morning playlist for 02/15/2013

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

02/15/2013

Artist	Title	Album	Label
John Renbourn	Lament for Owen Roe	John Renbourn & Stefan Grossman: Live, in Concert	Shanachie
Stefan Grossman	Twelve Sticks	John Renbourn & Stefan Grossman: Live, in Concert	Shanachie
Rev. Gary Davis	Bad Company Brought Me Here	Say No to the Devil	Fantasy
Alan Lomax	Little John Henry	The Collector's Choice	Tradition
Ukelele Ike	Charley, My Boy	I'm a Bear in a Lady's Boudoir	Yazoo
Nashville Jug Band	Racetrack Blues	Nashville Jug Band	Rounder
Larry Unger	Pickin' the Berries	Rags, Blues, & Hot Tunes	Black Socks Press
Seth Austen	Arkansas Traveler	Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar	Kicking Mule
Seth Austen	Whiskey Before Breakfast	Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar	Kicking Mule
John Dilleshaw	Spanish Fandango	Early Country Music	Historical Records
Joe Evans	Somethin' Doin'	Early Country Music	Historical Records
Dock Boggs	Country Blues	Dock Boggs	Disc Records
The Hammons Family	Turkey in the Straw	A Study of a West Virginia Family's Traditions	Library of Congress
John Burke	They Just Made One	Fancy Pickin' & Plain Singing	Kicking Mule
Riders In The Sky	Old Cowpoke	Cowboy Jubilee	Rounder
Michael Cooney	Old Reuben	Still Cooney After All These Years	Front Hall
New Golden Ring	Poor Howard	Five Days Singing, Vol. 1	Folk Legacy
Milt Okun & Ellen Stekert	Paper of Pins	American Love Songs	Riverside
Seth Austen	Red Wing / West Fork Gals	Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar	Kicking Mule
Joe Hickerson	Last Winter Was a Hard One	Drive Dull Care Away, Vol. 2	Folk Legacy
Joan Sprung	The Pilgrim's Song	Picture's to My Mind	Folk Legacy
Tony & Irene Saletan	The False Knight Upon the Road	The Continuing Tradition	Folk Legacy
Jody Stecher	Little Johnny Sailed from London	Oh The Wind and Rain
Peggy Seeger	Darling Annie	Penelope Isn't Waiting Any More	Rounder

Lark In The Morning playlist for 02/01/2013

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

02/01/2013

Artist	Title	Album	Label
John McCutcheon	I Am the Bravest Cowboy	Fine Times at Our House
Glenn Ohrlin	The Wild Buckaroo	The Wild Buckaroo	Rounder
Skip Gorman	Scum the Saddle Bum	Trail to Mexico	Folk Legacy
Jon Bartlett	The Young Man from Canada	The Young Man from Canada
Bob Fox	The Celebrated Working Man	How Are You Off for Coals
Tony Barrand	I'm Shy, Mary Ellen	An Evening at the English Musical Hall	Front Hall
County Vaudeville	Peter Henry	For the Sake of Company
Jimmie Driftwood	Big John Davy	Tall Tales
Dave Para & Cathy Barton	Mike Fink	Ballad of the Boonslick	Folk Legacy
Bob Carlin	Where Did You Get That Hat	Where Did You Get That Hat	Rounder
George Ward	Tonawanda Too	Low Bridge	Front Hall
Hobe Kytr and Dave Berge	Roustabout	Dog Salmon & Rutabagas
Andy Cohen & Joe LaRose	One-Eyed Sam	Tuxedo Blues
Double Decker String Band	Ragged But Right	Sentimental Songs	Philo
Cranberry Lake String Band	Einstein the Genius	If This Ain't Genius
Bob Coltman	What Kind of Shoes	Lonesome Robin	Minstrel
Utah Phillips	Moose Turd Pie	Good Though	Philo
Glenn Ohrlin	Boomer Johnson	Land of Yahoe	Rounder
Linda Allen	Emma & May	A Washington Notebook
Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen	Now He's Sorry That He Spoke	Never Grow Up

This was a fun show! Thank you to everyone who called in.

Lark In The Morning playlist for 01/04/2013

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

01/04/2013

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Link
Deighton Family	Mama Was Right	Mama Was Right	Philo
Barbara Dane	Ramblin' Round	When I Was a Young Girl	Horizon
Jody Stecher	John Detroy	Oh The Wind and Rain	Appleseed
MacRae Sisters	Lonesome Day	Old Sledge		www.macraesisters.com
Addie Graham	Lonesome Scenes of Winter	Been A Long Time Traveling	June Appal
Fred & Jenny Armstrong-Park	Wild Hog in the Woods	Wild Hog in the Woods	June Appal
Georgia Rose & Suzannah	Rain & Snow	Across the Blue Mountains	self
Rich Kirby & Tom Bledsoe	Ice & Snow	Hits from Home	June Appal
Bob Carlin	Chilly Winds	Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo	Rounder
Jean Ritchie	Wintergrace	The Most Dulcimer	Greenhays
Mistral	Grey Birds of Winter	Promontory	self
Peter Bellamy	Both Sides Then	A-Roving on a Winter's Night
Archie Fisher	Long & Lonely Winter	Off the Map	Snow Goose
Tim Radford	Month of January	Home from Home	Fallen Angle
Cindy Kallet	Winter Window	This Way Home	Stone's Throw
Judy Collins	Winter Sky	Recollections	Elektra
Lynn Miles	This Heart that Lives in Winter	Slightly Haunted	Philo
Jigsaw	Winter Waltz	Cut Up the Floor	self
Bill Jones	Two Year Winter	Two Year Winter	Compass
Debbie McClatchy	Apple in Winter	Debbie McClatchy & the Red Clay Ramblers	Green Linnet
Kate Power	Wild Wind	Dancing in the Kitchen	Artichoke Music

Today's program has a winter theme... a little melancholy, but that's the way it is.

Lark In The Morning playlist for 12/07/2012

Categories:

Folk

Program name:

Lark In The Morning

Air date:

12/07/2012

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Link
Josh Bogin	Hey Lollie	Good Time Music	Folkways
Oscar Brand	I'll Tell You Where They Were	Songs of the U.S. Army	Riverside
Ewan MacColl	Join the British Army	Bless 'Em All	Riverside
Friends of Fiddler's Green	Kiss Me Good Night, Sargeant-Major	This Side of Ocean	Fogarty's Cove
Ewan MacColl	Browned Off	Bless 'Em All	Riverside
Oscar Brand	I Don't Want No More of Army Life	Songs of the U.S. Army	Riverside
Irene & Ellen Kossoy	Engine 143	Bowling Green	Tradition
Jean & Lee Schilling	Uncle Joe / Red Wing	Porches of the Poor	Traditional Records
Critton Hollow String Band	High on a Mountain	By and By	Flying Fish
Stairwell Sisters	Goin' Round This World	4th Annual Portland Old-Time Music Festival
Hart & Blech	Build Me a Boat	4th Annual Portland Old-Time Music Festival
Leo Kretzner	Way Down the Road	Bold Orion	Heartwood
Pete Seeger	Kisses Sweeter Than Wine	Precious Friend	Warner Brothers
Claudia Schmidt	Tired	New Goodbyes, Old Helloes	Flying Fish
Michael Smith	Move Over, Mr. Gaughan	Love Stories	Flying Fish
Steve Goodman	Vegematic	Affordable Art	Red Pajamas
Cheap Suit Serenaders	Shopping Mall	Number Three	Blue Goose
Nanci Griffith	Are You Tired of Me, My Darling	Other Voices, Other Rooms	Elektra
Eric Schoenberg	Fig Leaf Rag	Acoustic Guitar	Rounder
Rick Lee	Quabbin Valley Moon	Natick	Waterbug
Maureen Campbell & Harmony Road	Fishing with John	Across the Divide	Harmony Road
Ray Troll	Leaving the Galaxy	Where the Fins Meet the Frets	(self)	www.trollart.com

A few songs from the WWII era, on this 61st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Comments

4th of July

Submitted by MegGreen on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 7:10am.

Thanks for the Gina Forsyth tune. Hadn't heard it before; it's great!

Dog songs

Submitted by pattylmh on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 7:01am.

The Renee Hill Band has a nice dog song called "Sam"

Love it!

Submitted by abbieberman on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 6:26am.

Hi Kurt,

Wanted to know if I could get a list of the songs you played this morning - I'm really enjoying the country life theme!

thanks,

abbie (abflex2002@yahoo.com)

Thanks!

Submitted by mateoprecio on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 10:06am.

Hey Kurt, thanks for playing my song, "Stranded", on your January 7th show. I hope your listeners enjoyed it. Our next Portland show is at the Buffalo Gap on February 17th. Thanks again.

Matthew Price

Fri 9-17-10 show

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 7:21am.

Hi Kurt,

Heard some very nice classical sounding guitar this morning around 6am. I think you said it was Joe Vega or Mabus? Unsure. It was a live performance from 1980? at a place called the 10 pound fiddle?

Hope that is enough information to find out who that was and what song they played.

Thanks.

Eric

jurgensenherman@comcast.net

Hi, maybe you'd like our music...

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 3:40pm.

Kurt,

I really like you show. I wish there were a whole station devoted to this kind of music. 2 things you might be interested in:

First, my band, Mistral (www.onsevenwinds.com) just finished a CD of Breton and French folk music, adding a couple English folk ballads. I'd like to send you a demo if you're interested.

I'm part of the Bridgetown Morris Men. We perform traditional English Morris dancing. After practice, we go out and do a weekly pub sing, currently located at the Green Dragon on 9th and Belmont, Wednesday at about 9:15pm. The Brit Folk show was right up our alley!

-Ian Clemons

onsevenwinds@gmail.com

What was the last song played

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 8:28am.

What was the last song played Friday morning, February 5, 2010? It was a song with a line repeating (I think), "I'll go to sea no more", sung by a very familiar voice. It was such a beautiful arrangement, but when I do a search on those words, I get a song quite different from what I heard this a.m. Thanks so much. Carol

playlist question

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 12/20/2009 - 3:40pm.

Hello,

Who performed the song "Let's have Christmas in January" which you played around 6:58 AM on Friday 12/18? They Might be Giants? Anyway, my sentiments exactly. Thanks for the music.

Bones

Playlist question

Submitted by Jelly Helm (not verified) on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 7:13am.

Would love to know the name of the song played at approx 6:45 this morning. Woman was wrapping about bomb shelters and marijuana in tupperware(!). Thanks.

Loved today's program

Submitted by Sarah Brown (not verified) on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 7:06am.

Fundamental cracks in the foundations of our world and society are rarely brought up in conversation, let alone in the media -- and to hear problems of class divisions and despair talked about in such an unscripted and heartfelt way made today's Lark in the Morning broadcast a particular treat.

Keep up the good work!