Wide Ear Folk/Life is a Mixtape presents:
Bill Lupoletti of Global A Go-Go here, sitting in for Eric Walters this week. And what a week it was! I learned more about blackface last week than I’d ever known — did you realize that the UVa yearbook’s name is slang for blackface? (Although the yearbook contends otherwise.)
With all the fuss about blackface, somehow the accompanying Ku Klux Klan robes received little notice. We’ll remedy that on today’s edition of Wide Ear Folk. And we’ll work blackface into the show as well. Mercifully, there are no rape songs on this week’s show (although goodness knows there’s plenty to choose from).
New music this week from Lobo Marino (pictured above), Le Vent Du Nord and Merle Hazard, chestnuts from Ry Cooder, the McGarrigle Sisters and the Balfa Brothers, and much more on today’s Wide Ear Folk.
Anna & Elizabeth, “Mother In The Graveyard”
from The Invisible Comes to Us
Smithsonian Folkways - 2018
Lobo Marino, “Forest In The Kiln / I Have A Mother Gone To Glory”
from At Appalachian South Folklife Center
self-released - 2019
Richard Thompson, “Alexander Graham Bell”
from RT: The Life And Music Of Richard Thompson
Free Reed - 2005
Michelle Shocked, “Jump Jim Crow / Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (feat Taj Mahal)”
from Arkansas Traveler
Mercury - 1992
Henry Thomas, “Fishing Blues”
from Anthology Of American Folk Music, Edited By Harry Smith
Smithsonian Folkways - 1928
Kate & Anna McGarrigle, “Complainte Pour Ste-Catherine”
Warner Bros. - 1975
Peter Case, “A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today”
from Tulare Dust: A Songwriters' Tribute To Merle Haggard
Hightone - 1994
Merle Hazard, “(Gimme Some Of That) Ol' Atonal Muisc”
from (Gimme Some Of That) Ol' Atonal Music - single
self-released - 2019
Bill Lupoletti Wide Ear Folk/Life is a Mixtape February 12th, 2019
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