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Recorded at KLRU-TV, Austin, TX For "Austin City Limits". Delbert McClinton proudly defies classifications. His music blends his Texas roots with roadhouse rock, juke-joint blues, Memphis soul and country. Ask Delbert what kind of music he plays and he'll say, "Fun music." Sounds about right to me!

The album is a collection of 17 collaborations with other artists.

A folk anthem for our time.

As the album’s title suggests, all the tracks on ‘1966’ were recorded that year. Dalton was the first person to put this song on tape. She makes it a ‘declaration of vulnerability.’

“Hawk Squat was born at Turner’s Lounge at 39th and Indiana, on Chicago’s South Side. Fifty cents would gain you entry and a beer. Not having that dollar charge at the door made Turner’s rowdier than other clubs.” Hutto and The Hawks were ‘the most exciting, roughest blues band in Chicago’ in the mid-60’s.’ Bob Koester, Delmark Records. Drums - Frank Kirkland; Guitar - J.B. Hutto and Lee Jackson; Bass - Junior Pettis; Piano and Organ - Sunnyland Slim.

This song combines Rodriguez's Austin rustic roots with the urban influences she has acquired through living in Brooklyn.

Backing vocal and percussion by Joan Osborne, who also produced the album. It was recorded right here at Long View Farm Studios, North Brookfield.

Relying on moxie and committing to steadfastness are essential for Bragg. Even if it turns out badly. ‘Bragg self-produced, engineered, and recorded the tracks at her home studio in Nashville, often after midnight, when most everyone else in her residential neighborhood had turned in.’

‘Keb’ lays out the story of a dude left in the wake of a femme fatale in a red dress.’

“Long Haul” delineates the many demands of the musician’s life, including the self-sabotage often required in sustaining passion (“I keep breaking everything I’m fixing, so I can be fixing to do it tomorrow night”). “That song’s equal parts pep talk and confession, where I’m so determined to keep going with this way of life but I’m also recognizing how insane that is,” Spence says.

‘Asleep at the Wheel alumnus Cindy Cashdollar shows she's the equal of any male in her field, and on Slide Show, she pays tribute to some of the people and styles that have influenced her during her outstanding career.’ John Sebastian on baritone and electric guitar; resonator guitar and vocal – Johnny Nicholas.

Story is told from the perspective of someone who is dead.

Also known as ‘St. James Infirmary Blues’ and ‘Gambler's Blues’, this song emerged, like many others, from folk traditions. It’s been recorded hundreds of times. This is one of my favorites.

Guatemalan singer-songwriter, producer, film composer and guitarist. Her "Spanglish soul" sound encompasses jazz, blues, pop, rock, and R&B.

The Bop Shop 12.27.23 -Peter Blegvad https://www.radio-graphics.com/bop-shop/2023/12/27/the-bop-shop-122723-peter-blegvad- Thank you, Larry Haley!

Dúlamán is seaweed. "Dúlamán Gaelach" - literally “Irish seaweed”, is used for dyeing clothes; and "Dúlamán maorach" - literally “stately seaweed”, used as food. The song probably dates from the times of famine, when edible seaweed was a means of survival.

The band is from Mobile, Ala. This single, from an album they released last April, has just started to chart. I want to thank Lee Morin’s daughter, Zoe, for playing it last week while co-hosting her dad’s show here on WCUW!

Welch’s debut album was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Producer T-Bone Burnett spiced this track up by ‘mixing an upright bass above the vocals and getting a fat, dirty sound out of three instruments.’

Paul’s last album recorded in the UK before moving to the States. (He’s back in Ireland again.) Brady was born in Strabane, Northern Ireland. He started out doing traditional Irish music, but also was composing. He eventually went solo, and branched out to rock and contemporary folk. He sees song-writing as a sort of holy covenant between him and the listener. Bob Dylan once said that Paul Brady was “one of the five artists worth getting out of bed for…[They’re] ”not just witchdoctoring up the planet, they don't set up barriers.” Brady says he’s always been ‘more interested in music than in getting noticed.’

The album was a tribute to Cole Porter to benefit AIDS research and relief.

These two have been called “The first couple of Americana”. This song ‘explores a troubled soul’s heartrending knowledge that they are hard to love.’ Little Feat’s Bill Payne on piano.

‘The Bothy Band single-handedly reinvented traditional Celtic music for the post-Industrial Age.’ Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on lead vocal. One of the many plaintive songs of Irish emigration. “Like an exile I will wander for the Maid of Coolmore.”

Re-recording of this song, originally released on O’Keefe’s eponymous album from 1970. This time, he’s back by: Bass – Randy Meisner; Drums – Don Henley; Guitar – Glenn Frey; Steel Guitar – David Lindley.

This song was written and recorded in 1938 by Lil Hardin Armstrong, who, back in the 1920s, was Louis Armstrong's wife. Maria Muldaur first teamed up with Jim Kweskin in 1963, as a member of his Jug Band. They’ve teamed up again for this track, the first single from Kweskin’s new album of duets with female singers with whom he has worked in the past.

Glynis died this week at 100. This was the first recording of this song.

‘Bobby King & Terry Evans became widely known through their recordings and tours with Ry Cooder. This 1988 release is their first album on their own, produced by Cooder and featuring backup by the guitarist, drummer Jim Keltner and others. Great vocals in the classic southern soul tradition.’ Thanks to Lee Moran for this!

‘Born in Detroit, Magness was inspired by the blues and country she heard listening to her father’s record collection, and by the vibrant music of the city’s classic Motown sound. By her teenage years, though, her life was in chaos. She lost both parents to suicide by the age of 16 and lived on the streets, bouncing from one foster home to another. At 17, she became a teenage mother who had to give up her baby daughter for adoption. One night in Minneapolis, an underage Magness sneaked into a club to see blues great Otis Rush, and it was there that she found her salvation and discovered that the blues were her calling.’ She followed that Muse, and we’re all better for it!