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Treasures of the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress

Treasures of the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress – a lecture by Joe Hickerson at the Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn, NY 1/16/10 Greetings from California.  I’m out on the West Coast playing some shows with my band The Dust Busters and our friends the The Dough Rollers.  But I’m still on the job, [...]

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Henrietta Yurchenco, 2006.  Photo: Sashenka Lopez. On today’s show we remember my dear friend, Down Home Radio co-founder Henrietta Yurchenco, who passed away on Dec. 10th, 2007 at the age of 91.  Henrietta was a pioneering ethnomusicologist who starting in 1944, hauled hundreds of pounds of recording equipment on mules through the rugged Sierra mountains and [...]

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Hello everybody. The show’s been going on now for more than 3 years.  Its been a great project; a quick look through the archives will show you the depth and scope of what has been aired on Down Home Radio – dozens of in depth radio interviews with well known elders of the folk scene as [...]

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On today’s show I speak with musician, photographer, filmmaker and folk-musicologist John Cohen. At the time of this interview, conducted in the summer of 2008, John had just come out with a new CD of old recordings called “Berkeley in the 1960’s” on the Field Recorders Collective label. This is a great record label, definitely [...]

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Here is a early, influential and fantastic album issued by the Library of Congress in 1942.

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Thanks to everybody who made the festival such a big success.  See ya next year! (Look out for audio, pictures and video from the festival coming up real soon here on DHR) Friday, May 15th thru Sunday, May 17th at the Jalopy Theater. Down Home Radio is proud to announce the 1st annual Brooklyn Folk Festival.  This festival [...]

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Here’s some preview tracks from the new Tompkins Square Records release, “Fire In My Bones,” a really amazing gospel compilation. 1. Don’t Let Him Ride - Mississippi Nightingales 2. Storm Thru Mississippi - Henry Green 3. How Long - Sister Ola Mae Terrell

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Here’s an LP from Ernest V. Stoneman, “The Unsung Father of Country Music.” Stoneman made records starting in 1924 through the end of his life in 1968.  These recordings were made near the end of Stoneman’s life and were lost until a decade after his death.  This excellent record, released by Stoneman’s daughter, came out [...]

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Banjo Tunings and Styles Workshop with John Cohen Here’s the first bit of audio I’m posting from the Brooklyn Folk Festival - John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers leads a banjo workshop focusing on different tunings and styles used by a number of banjo players he has learned from either directly or studied through [...]

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On today’s show I speak with Aurelia Shrenker and Eva Primack, amazing singers and ex-UCLA enthnomusicology students who have relocated to New York and together form the singing duet “Æ.” They do a wonderful and unprecedented mix of songs from the Balkans and Eastern Europe, mixed and mashed with ballads from the American [...]

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[Mike Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival 1966] With sadness we mark the passing of one of the real true greats of American music in the last half century.  Mike Seeger was a master of the banjo, guitar, fiddle, autoharp, mouth harp, jew’s harp, quills, mandolin and essentially any instrument he laid his hands on as well [...]

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I went down to the Clifftop Appalachian String Band Festival just a couple of weeks ago with my band The Dust Busters. We had a great time, met and played with a million different people and played a set on Saturday afternoon with our friends John Cohen and Tracy Schwarz of the New Lost City [...]

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On today’s show I speak with Josh Rosenthal, the founder of the New York based Tompkins Square Records.  This is  a great record company that has been putting out really interesting CDs, Lps and 45s over the last few years.  There latest is “I’m Going Back to North Carolina: The Complete Recordings of the Red [...]

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While on tour in early August, my old-time string band The Dust Busters made our first radio appearance.  Here we are on Mike Kelsey’s program on WFHB 98.1FM, community radio in Bloomington, IN.  We play live, talk with Mike and promote the show we played in Bloomington that night.  It was a great tour!  Met [...]

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In this posting we pay tribute to Archie Green, the great scholar of laborlore (the study of the expressive culture of working people) who passed away in March at the age of 91.  Included here are his now out of print LPs “Work’s Many Voices” volumes 1 & 2 - a selection of labor related [...]

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Last December, Down Home Radio co-founder Henrietta Yurchenco passed away at the age of 91. I met her when she was 89 and we had a great time doing this show together and generally hanging out in the last 2 years of her life.   She was a tremendously accomplished person who over a [...]

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Continuing with Down Home Radio’s “Awesome Out of Print Records” series - On today’s show I play one record straight through.� Its an old County Records LP� I picked up called Echoes of the Ozarks Vol. 2, released in 1970.� I really like this record, there is some great string band music on here.� It [...]

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The New Lost City Ramblers (John Cohen, Mike Seeger & Tom Paley) formed as a band in 1958, and this year marks their 50th anniversary.� In fact, this interview, recorded on September 13th, 2008, was 50 years to the day after their first concert, held on September 13th, 1958 at a chapter hall of Carnegie [...]

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The Jalopy Theater & School of Music (the gravitational center of Down Home Radio) was recently featured on the Brooklyn Independent Television channel.� The show features interviews with owners Geoff and Lynette Wiley, with Roots n Ruckus host Feral Foster and with Eli Smith (me) as well as some excellent footage of the place.� This [...]

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On today’s show I interview blues/jazz/country/everything musician Baby Gramps. Gramps was in NYC on tour from the West coast. I ran into him at the Jalopy Theater and we arranged to meet for an interview the next day at Zebulon, another Brooklyn club where he was playing a show. This interview takes place [...]

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