Playlist Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy: Shanty of the Whale (Anchor) Bongo Herman, Les and Bunny: Know for i (Derrick Harriott – Riding the roots chariot) Rev. Wilkins: Trouble (VA – The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic Vol. III (2014) Rolling Stones: Prodigal son ( Beggars banquet) Turnpike Troubadours: 7 oaks (st) Trampled by Turtles: […]

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 […]