Last June 21st Pokey La Farge and the South City Three came to the studio and played for our listeners. After this Pokey and the lads went on to play at the Newport Folk Festival and to Denmark to perform at the Tonner Festival. And just this week their album Riverboat Soul has been nomminated for two Independent Music Awards! For Best Americana Album and Best Americana Song, 'Claude Jones' written by Pokey La Farge & Adam Hoskins. They are scheduled to appear at this year's Pickathon, but you can hear them now.
Singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, a.k.a. author Wesley Stace, stopped by to discuss his new novel, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, about an early-20th-century opera composer whose career is cut short by a scandalous murder-suicide. Wes performed the folk ballad "Little Musgrave," which figures prominently in the novel's plot. He also shared two new tunes from his forthcoming, made-in-Portland album.
Following the approx. 50 minute interview is a brief snippet of British folk legend Nic Jones' "The Flandyke Shore"; Wes paid tribute to Jones on the great 1999 album, Trad Arr Jones, on which he first performed "Little Musgrave".
The Builders And The Butchers perform Live on Drinking From Puddles for 03/09/11 !!
The Builders And The Butchers perform Live on Drinking From Puddles for 03/09/11 !!
“The Builders And The Butchers’ musical output is something of a Pentecostal throw-down—the musical underpinnings are reminiscent of bluegrass, but the performances are raw and unschooled, with Sollee in particular throwing off a maniacally ecclesiastical sort of energy…dark, sparkling, Leadbelly-like terrain covered by death-fixated epics…”
– PasteMagazine.com
Tonight's edition of UN|HERD will feature an epic live performance from experimental supergroup The Mood Dies, which include members of Moodring/Rollerball/Lickity/Mr Frederick/Marmits/Party Killer. Tonight's program will also feature the mysterious yet assuming amazing sounds of Bruce Wayne Hodges.
Comedian Tim Lee, will be calling in to tell us about his upcoming appearance in town. Cartoonist David Chelsea will be dropping by the studio to talk about his new book. Holy Children and Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devils will play live in the studio!
