Katy Hill performed by Mei Han’s Red Chamber with John Reischman and the Jaybirds.

There also are some new tracks from Ian & Sylvia’s Northern Journey CD, plus some odds and ends.

It’s time to bring the music back to the living room.

That’s what capitalism does. They find out what you need, separate you from it, and then make you buy it.

There’s a good interview with Bernice Johnson Reagon at the Everything Jersey website today.

People make fun of the sixties…but we almost won. And we can do it again. The songs can make it happen.

Rosalie Sorrels
Best of the West Award remarks
Folk Alliance Region – West Conference
http://www.far-west.org/

If you’re feeling that you’d like to make a contribution to the Komen Foundation in support of their search for a cure for breast cancer, please visit my Walking 26.2 Miles for a Cause web page, or go directly to my fundraising page.

Thanks!

Streams = times station was launched, TLH = Total Listening Hours.

Thanks to all and, how’s it going, Japan?

Last Saturday I was listening to the Village on XM while on a long walk (I have a Pioneer Inno portable player and I’m training to walk the Portland Marathon in October) and for over two hours the programming went like this: a song by its singer-songwriter author or a song identified with a particular artist followed by another’s intepretation of the same song. So, Bob Dylan’s Tambourine Man followed by Judy Collins’s Tambourine Man, and so on. I made a note of some songs to play for you, including Both Sides the Tweed by the wonderful Dick Gaughan and The Song Will Remain by Steeleye Span, which I have added to the playlist. I ordered a couple CDs from Scotland by a group called the Sangsters and, when they arrive, I will play Some Kind of Love for you.

I plan to start suggesting other broadcasts for your folk music listening pleasure as Internet radio broadcasts are in jeopardy right now (see http://www.savenetradio.org/ for more) and it’s hard to tell how long my stream will be around. It’s ironic in a way–we individual Live365 broadcasters gladly pay for the honor of sharing the music we love with our listeners and I believe that that playing something that you like and would be unlikely to hear without Live365 can only benefit the artists and the genre. We use Live365 because the service manages the royalties to the artists–we don’t ignore our ethics and make tracks available via peer-to-peer sharing. Still, it doesn’t seem to be enough for the record industry. CD sales are plummeting and amateur microscopic broadcasters such as myself might actually help to reverse that trend, but no.

When my life is over and I ne’er see you again
The singer may die but the song will remain