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| Just Folks Top 5 |
Every year, Just Folks looks back at the best new releases of the previous 12 months for the show that either closes out the year or begins the new one. For that show, I try to identify the favorite 5 albums from those I've had the pleasure of playing for you. Here are a few top fives from recent years:
2008 Krista Detor Cover Their Eyes Jonatha Brooke The Works Robby Hecht Late Last Night Darrell Scott Modern Hymns Meg Hutchinson Come Up Full
2007 Richard Shindell South of Delia Susan Werner The Gospel Truth Kane Welch Kaplan Kane Welch Kaplan Eilen Jewell Letters from Sinners & Strangers Eddi Reader Peacetime
2006 Mark Erelli Hope & Other Casualties Diana Jones My Remembrance of You Jeffrey Foucault Ghost Repeater Kris Delmhorst Strange Conversation Catie Curtis Long Night Moon
2005 Kate Campbell Blues and Lamentations Greg Trooper Make It Through This World Tracy Grammer Flower of Avalon Eliza Gilkyson Paradise Hotel Julie Lee Stillhouse Road
2004 Eliza Gilkyson Land of Milk and Honey Jeffrey Foucault Stripping Cane Jerree Small Mobius Jonathan Byrd & Dromedary The Sea and the Sky Richard Shindell Vuelta
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 ...With John Kalb
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Welcome to the Just Folks webpage.
Just Folks is Public Radio Delmarva's weekly three hour contemporary folk music program. Every Saturday evening from 8 until 11:00 p.m., Just Folks--since December 21, 1991--presents the very best music, with new releases and old favorites from such artists as Bruce Cockburn, Cheryl Wheeler, Tim O'Brien, Eilen Jewell, Bob Dylan, Nanci Griffith, Jeffrey Foucault, Lynn Miles, John Gorka, Patty Larkin, Greg Brown, Lucy Kaplansky, Dar Williams, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Eliza Gilkyson, and many, many more. In fact, there are so many great performers, singers, singer-songwriters and musicians putting out great music these days to provide any sort of comprehensive or definitive list.
I do my best to put together three hours of music that I hope will move you, entice you, amuse you, and make you think every Saturday night. And don’t let the label "contemporary" mislead you. While the focus is often on new and recent releases, Just Folks frequently dips into classic recordings from way back in the last century.
Usually, the second hour of Just Folks opens with a selection of tunes from a featured artist and/or album. Sometimes there are thematic threads in sets; occasionally, an entire hour (e.g., Earth Day, Memorial Day, Gordon Lightfoot’s birthday) or even the entire program is devoted to a single theme or artist (e.g., Bob Dylan’s birthday, Mothers Day).
If you have questions or comments or if you hear someone on Just Folks you think would make a good featured artist on an upcoming program, you can send me an email.
Most weeks, Just Folks playlists are posted to the Delmarva Pubic Radio website by the Monday following the broadcast.
Just Folks John Kalb Saturday 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. 89.5 FM & 90.7 FM
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| Just Folks This Week |
July 4, 2009 Tonight's Just Folks is a rebroadcast edition which features Crooked Still and their Still Crooked
CD, plus lots of other groups and duos, such as The Duhks, The Bills,
The Mammals, The Wailin' Jennys, Blue Line Highway, Ollabelle,
Arlington Priest, The Greencards, The Mountain Firework Company, Gray
Sky Girls, and more.
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| Upcoming Features |
July 11, 2009 Special Feature: Levon Helm, formally vocalist and drummer with The Band, has just released Electric Dirt, his follow-up to his Grammy Award winning Dirt Farmer CD (which won for Best Traditional Folk Album last February). Like Dirt Farmer, Electric Dirt is produced by Larry Campbell and recorded at Levon Helm Studios (aka "The Barn").
July 18, 2009 Tonight's featured artist is one of the latest Boston area singer-songwriters to gain "new acoustic folk" buzz: Antje Duvekot. Her second album is called The Near Demise of the High Wire Dancer, is produced by Richard Shindell, and features special guests John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky & Mark Erelli. I wonder how badly I'll mangle the pronunciation of Antje Dukevot on this week's Just Folks. |
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