Playlist Gretchen Peters: Wichita (Dancing withe beast) Thad Foster: Kaw-Liga (Red headed stepchild) Jason and Pharis Romero: Old world style / You are the best thing (Sweet old religion) Neko Case: Halls of Sarah (Hell-on) Upsetters: Return of Django (This is Trojan) Odetta: Sail away ladies (Folk song tradition) Etta Baker: Railroad Bill (Railroad Bill)…

Playlist Special Executing american music heritage Residents: Jambalaya (Stars and Hank forever – The american composers series vol. 2) Johnny Dowd: John the Revelator (Twinkle, twinkle) Snakefarm: Staggerlee (My halo at half light) Captain Beefheart: Yellow brick road (Sfe as milk) Kramer & Bill Frisell: America (Brill Building Vol. 2) Holy Modal Rounders: Across the…

Playlist Ultan Conlon: Sorrow ease (Last days of the night owl) Sea and Cake: Paper window (Any day) Ken Boothe: Rasta never fails (Everything I own) I see hawks in LA: Poour me  (Live and never learn) Robin Bennett, Danny Wilson, Tony Poole: Hate won’t win (Bennett Wilson Poole) Delaney Davidson: Ten ton forty foot…

Playlist Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita: Listen to the grass grow (SOAR) Love: Wooly Bully (Forever changes) Cathy Dobson: Tequila Romeo  (Tales from a suburban housewife) Uncle Tupelo: I got drunk (No depressiom demos) Tom Rush: Corina, Corina (The voice) Johnny Clash Project: London’s burning (st) Bonny Billy: A dream of the sea (More revery)…

Playlist Anne Keating: Ghost of the untraveled road (Ghost of the untraveled road) David Munyon: Big snakes in the river (Planetary nights) Kirran Kane & Rayna Gellert: I don’t know why (The ledges) Rayna Gellert: Perry (Working too hard) Connie Converse: Roving woman (How sad how lonely) Sarah Jarosz: Fortune’s child (Vanity of vanities, a…

Playlist Gerry Spehar: Freedom to grab (Anger management) Gerry Spehar: A soldier’s spiritual (Anger management) Dom Flemons: John Henry y Los Vaqueros (Black cowboys) Dom Flemons: Old Chisholm Trail (Black cowboys) Dom Flemons: The march of the Red River Valley (Black cowboys) Murph Gribble, Albert York, John Lusk: Rolling River (Altamont – Black stringband music)…

Playlist Courtney Marie Andrews: How quickly your hearts mend (Honest life) Margo Price: Learning to lose (All American made) Caroline Spence: All the beds I’ve made (Spades and Roses) Dori Freeman: Ern and Zorry’s sneakin bitin dog  (Letters never read) Lydia Loveless: Lover’s spat (Boy crazy and singles) Nora Jane Struthers: Robot (Champion) Nora Jane…

Es geht weiter mit Roots, für mich selbst auch unerwartet, aber so ist das Leben. Playlist Lindi Ortega: Waitin round to die (Till the goin gets gone) Neil Young: Children of destiny (The visitor) Bily Bragg: King Tide and the sunny day glood (Bridges not walls) Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner: All I need is…

Due to some health problem I stopped producing this radio show. It lasted 17 years, which is quite a while. Thanks to Ems-Vechte-Welle who gave me the chance to play the music I love. But most of all thanks to Gerd Stassen, my partner in crime. He took the micrphone every second week and he…

This show was never finished and therefore never aired Playlist: Courtney Marie Andrews: How quickly your hearts mend (Honest life) Margo Price: Learning to lose (All American made) Caroline Spence: All the beds I’ve made (Spades and Roses) Dori Freeman: Ern and Zorry’s sneakin bitin dog  (Letters never read) Lydia Loveless: Lover’s spat (Boy crazy…

Playlist  Special: Robert Plant Buddy & Julie Miller: What you gonna do Leroy (Written in chalk) Robert Plant: Morning Dew (Dreamland) Townes van Zandt: Nothin (Rain o  a conga drum) Robert Plant: Monkey (Band of joy) Patty Griffin: 250000 miles (Servant of love) Sonny Boy Williamson: Bring it on home (Chess masters) Traffic: No face,…

Playlist: PP Arnold: Spinning wheel (The turning tide) Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn: Take me to Harlan (Echo in the valley) Chris Hillman : Wildflowers (Bidin my time) Janis Ian: At seventeen (The essential) Jim Byrnes: Everybody knows (Long hot summer days) Lee Hazlewood & Ann Margaret: Victims of the night (The cowboy and the…

Playlist: Mighty Mo Todgers & Ba Sissoko: Mali to Mississippi (Griot Blues) Matt Patershuk:  (Sames as I ever have been) Joana Serrat: Shadows of time ( Drpping springs) Israel Nash Gripka: Chelsea hotel (Working class heroes and other favorites) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: In the world but not of the world (The kid) Margo Price: Pay…

Playlist: Pierce Edens: Body (Stripped down gussied up) Richard Thompson: Keep your distance (Acoustic classics II) Buddy and Julie Miller: Keep your distance (Love snuck up) Levi Cuss: Shoreditch High (Just below radio) Zara McFarlane: Fussin and fightin (Arise) William the Conquerer: Cold Ontario (Proud disueber of the peace) Kris Delmhorst: Foolish blood (The wild)…

Playlist: Special: Toronto Coffee Houses Ronnie Hawkins: Susie Q (Rockin) Buffy St. Marie: Universal Soldier (It’s my way) Bonnie Dobson: Morning Dew (Take me for a walk..) Blood, Sweat and Tears: Morning Glory (Child is a father to the man) Gordon Lightfoot: Eary morning rain (Lightfoot) Mugwumps: Everybody’s been talking (st) Lovin Spoonful: Younger girl…

Playlist: Dave Rawlings: Come on over my house (Poor David’s Almanack) Martin Simpson & Dom Flemons: Short time come again no more (A selection of ever popular favourites) Ian Felice: Road to America (In the kingdom of dreams) Bob Bradshaw: Working on  my protest song (American echoes) Amelia White: Said it like a king (Rhythm…

Playlist: Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer: Is it too much? (Not dark yet) Allison Moorer: Thunderstorm/Hurrican (Down to believing) Shelby Lynn: Heaven’s only days down the road (Revelation road) AM: Easy in the summertime (Crows) Yawpers: Mon dieu (Boy in a well) Will Hoge: Through missing you (Anchors) Big Sadie: Need your love (Keep me…

Playlist: Glen Campbell Special Glen Campbell: The old white mule of mine ( Big Bluegrass Special) Glen Campbell: Gentle on my mind (Best of) Frank Sinatra: Strangers in the night (Best of the best) Elvis Presley: Viva Las Vegas Monkees: Mary, Mary (More of the monkees) Beach Boys: Fun, fun, fun (Shut down) Nick Cave:…

Playlist: Viper Central: Luxury liner (The Spirit of god and madness Susan Cattaneo: Lonely be my lover /Work hard love harder – accoustic version (The hammer and the heart) Lynn Castle: Rose coloured corner (Rose coloured corner) Joan Shelley: Where I’ll find you (st) Lynn Castle: The forest (Rose coloured corner) Chris Murphy: Halcombe Creek…

SPECIAL: BONNIE PRINCE BILLY Playlist: Bonnie Prince Billy: No time to cry (Best troubador) BPB & Tortoise: That’s Pep (The brave and the bold) BPB & Mariee Sioux: Bird child (Bonnie & Mairie) Chivalrous Amoekons: Big Zombie (Fanatic voyage) BPB & Dawn McCarthy BPB: Milk train (What the brothers sang) BPB: Senor (Lay and love)…