Pastures of Plenty (2024)

31/01/2024

Music from Ecuador to Portland and Points Between on KBOO Community Radio

My wife and I had an incredible 4 week vacation in Ecuador in December. We got to visit the Andes Mountains. famous Market in Otavalo, the Equator, and two visits to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rain Forest, one for 4 days. Alas, we didn’t get to catch any live music. So I did a lot of research on indigenous music of northern Ecuador when I returned to Portland, and discovered a vast wealth of traditional and contemporary music, a fraction of which I’m sharing with you in in the second half hour of this program.

The last half hour of the show features music from much closer to (my) home- right here in Portland.

The program airs live from 5:30 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 90.7 FM in Portland and streams live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/.../119886-pastures-plenty-february-7....

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, links to more information about featured artists, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

28/11/2023

Gordy and Jonathan (Shanghaied on the Willamette) will join me on Thursday morning, November 30, for our annual Gales of November radio show on KBOO, Portland. Listen to the fresh broadcast & stream, or play it later: https://kboo.fm/.../119053-rise-when-rooster-crows-gales...

Artists in this episode include: Shifty Sailors; Lee Murdock; Brownsmead Flats; Fairport Convention; Scrod Pudding; Bruce Molsky; Tom Lewis & QFTRY; David Francey & Mike Ford; Shanghaied On The Willamette; The Mainlanders; Gordon Lightfoot; The Wellingtons; Kathy Mattea & Dougie MacLean; Craig Edwards; Bob Zentz; and Stan Rogers.

01/10/2023

On my next KBOO program October 4 I've got some new and used tunes to start your day with a smile, including a salute to Autumn and October in song, a preview of the Annual Gales of November show coming in November, and a fond farewell to Portland’s beloved Mona Warner, who we lost in May.

Featured performers include Molly Tuttle, Scottish singer Karine Polwart, Kerri Powers, John McCutcheon, Todd Snider, John Prine, Eva Cassidy, Robin & Linda Williams, Richie Havens, David Francey, The Kennedys, and Portlanders Mo Mack and the late Mona Warner.

The program airs live from 5:30 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 90.7 FM in Portland and streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, links to more information about featured artists, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

02/07/2023

Portland had a vibrant music scene in the 1970s and 1980s, especially the blues, personified by blues greats Paul deLay, Lloyd Jones, Curtis Salgado, and Norman Sylvester. Musical trends have come and gone, and sadly we lost Paul deLay in 2007, but the Blues are still alive and kickin’ here in Portland. New voices like LaRhonda Steele, Ty Curtis, and Ben Rice, along with guitar virtuoso Mary Flower, who moved to Portland in 2004, join Lloyd, Curtis, and Norman keeping the Blues tradition alive here.

The Waterfront Blues Festival has provided an essential showcase for Portland blues musicians since its inception as the Rose City Blues Festival in 1987, and KBOO has supported the community by live broadcasting every festival.

This program is a tribute to the greatest blues musicians from Portland’s classic blues era to the present, featuring some vintage Waterfront Blues Festival performances, backyard jams, rare collaborations, live concerts from the Alberta Rose Theater before a packed house and empty seats, a rare 1974 TV performance by Brown Sugar Blues Band featuring Paul deLay, Lloyd Jones, and Jim Mesi, some Paul deLay Band classics, and more.

The program airs live from 5:30 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 90.7 FM in Portland and streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, links to more information about featured artists, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

27/06/2023

On May 1 we lost Gordon Lightfoot, one of the greatest songwriters of our time. His biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."

Today’s program is a musical tribute, featuring interpretations of his greatest songs by some terrific artists, and a few rarities.

You’ll have to wait for the Annual Gales of November show to hear his shipwreck songs.

The program closes with a set by the man himself.

Featured artists include Johnny Cash, Tony Rice, Alison Krauss, Eva Cassidy, Nana Mouskouri, Harry Belafonte, Nanci Griffith, Billy Strings, Sandy Denny’s folk-rock group Fotheringay, Canadian singer-songwriters James Keelaghan and Harry Manx, local troubadour Tom May, and more.

You can listen to the program and find a playlist of songs here:
https://kboo.fm/media/116309-musical-tribute-gordon-lightfoot

02/05/2023

We lost a great figure in American music, culture, and politics when Harry Belafonte died April 25 at age 96. He was a supporter of the Civil rights movement in the 1960s who helped organize and fund the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where Martin Luther King, Jr gave his famous I Have a Dream speech. He had Martin and Bobby Kennedy as guest when he was guest host for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show in 1968. He was a pioneering black figure in popular music in the 1950s and fought for justice his entire life. The show begins with a musical tribute to Harry Belafonte that includes Bob Dylan’s first recorded work.

Next up are 3 sets of songs from the Transatlantic Sessions, gatherings of Celtic and American folk country bluegrass and roots musicians and singers recorded in manors throughout Scotland from 1995 to 2013. The music is amazing!

The show closes with some music to get you in the mood for Cinco de Mayo.

Featured artists include Harry Belafonte, Iris Dement, Karan Casey & James Taylor, Kathy Mattea & Dougie MacLean, Sarah Jorosz & Alison Krauss, Mary Chapin Carpenter & Aoife O’Donovan, Mary Black & Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, Kerri Powers, Guy Clark, Ry Cooder, and Floc Jimenez.

The program airs live from 5:30 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 90.7 FM in Portland and streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, links to more information about featured artists, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

03/04/2023

The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970, a teach-in put together by U.S. Senator Ga***rd Nelson from my home state of Wisconsin and Denis Hayes, a young Wisconsin- born environmental advocate who grew up in Camas, WA and now lives in Vancouver, WA. This celebration of our home planet proved wildly successful, spreading to 140 nations by 1990. Environmental concerns in 1970 included air pollution from coal-fired power plants and gasoline powered vehicles, pollution of rivers, lakes, and oceans, harm to our fellow earthlings the plant, trees, birds, and other animals, the dangers of nuclear power, and the threat of nuclear war. Starting in the 1980s and 1990s, environmental concerns increasingly focused on the negative impacts on Earth’s climate due to human activities, mainly burning fossil fuels and deforestation.

Folk musicians responded to growing environmental concerns after the initial earth Day with a growing canon of great songs, which today’s program showcases. Please join me, Jack Bohl, for some of the best environmental folk songs in celebration of Earth month this April.

Featured artists include 1970s greats Jackson Browne- featuring great fiddle by the late David Lindley, Crosby & Nash, Joni Mitchell, ,John Prine, and Cat Stevens, 1960s folk-satirist Tom Lehrer- still relevant and humorous today, plus Johnny Cash, Loudon Wainwright III, his daughter Sloan Wainwright, Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, Irish singer Karan Casey, Scotsman Dougie MacLean, Portlander Casey Neill, Seattle’s Heidi Muller, and a great performance of Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer’s “Gentle Arms of Eden” from the 2001 Sisters Folk Festival.

The program airs from 5:30 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 90.7 FM in Portland and streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, links to more information about featured artists, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

Here is a calendar of Earth Day 2023 Events in the Portland area:
https://earthdayor.org/events/

28/02/2023

March is Women’s History Month, so the March 1 Pastures of Plenty show on KBOO features songs of women’s struggles and stories as sung by some great women artists.

We’ll hear from Native American women, pioneers in women’s blues, influential women folk artists from the 1970s and 1980s up to present, and some of my favorite women singers.

Featured artists include Native Americans Walela, influential gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, jazz blues and folk singer Barbara Dane, Malvina Reynolds, Cathy Fink, Peggy Seeger, Maria Muldaur, Cris Williamson, Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Portland’s own Mary Flower, Ellen McIlwaine, Kerri Powers, upcoming newcomer Sunny War, and my favorites Eva Cassidy, Sandy Denny, and Kate Wolf.

The program airs live on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose. And there are links to videos and other information about some of the featured artists.

31/01/2023

The 34th Annual Winterfolk benefit concert is Saturday February 1. Winterfolk was founded by and has been produced by Portland’s beloved Folk Music Troubadour and author Tom May. It’s a highlight of the musical year in Portland.

Featured performers have included Utah Phillips, Rosalie Sorrels, Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary), Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, and the firmament of Portland’s folk music luminaries including Kate Power & Steve Einhorn, Misty River, David Rea, Doug Smith, Sky in the Road, and Kevin Burke.

This episode of Pastures of Plenty features performances from past Winterfolk concerts sourced from CDs featuring live recordings from Winterfolk X, XV, 22, and 27, sadly all of which are long out of print, as well as some other rare recordings.

Enjoy this showcase of the wealth of great music that we are so fortunate to have here in Portland.

The program airs live on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

You can also support KBOO while you’re there by clicking on the Donate button and giving like your Community Radio Station’s life depends on it- because it does.

03/01/2023

2022- It wasn’t the best of years, but thankfully it wasn’t the worst of years. But there was a lot of great music in 2022.
This first Pastures of Plenty of 2023 features a review of the year 2022 in song, ending with a musical salute to the courage of the people of Ukraine.

Featured artists include James Keelaghan, Diedre McCalla, Billy Strings, Kerri Powers, Bela Fleck & the Blind Boys of Alabama, Pharis & Jason Romero, Ani DiFranco, Molly Tuttle, Eliza Gilkyson, Bonnie Raitt, Rory Block, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, Dropkick Murphys, John McCutcheon, and Ukrainian refugee Elizaveta Izmalkova.

The program airs live on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.
If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.
You can also support KBOO while you’re there by clicking and the Donate button and giving like your Community Radio Station’s life depends on it- because it does.

05/12/2022

Outlaws are not uniquely American, but the myth of the outlaw is deeply embedded in the folklore of American history from the Western Frontier Days of the late19th Century into the Dust Bowl and Great Depression and right up DB Cooper in 1971. Folk music has always served as a sort of social media, chronicling class struggles and political unrest, and there is a rich vein of folk songs about outlaws.

Join me on KBOO to hear listen to songs about famous outlaws like Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, and DB Cooper.

It was really tough being an outlaw woman, as we’ll hear near the end of the show with songs about Outlaw women of the American West Belle Starr, the Rose of Cimarron Rose Dunn, and Cattle Annie & Little Britches.

Featured Folk music social media influencers/artists include Richard Thompson, Roger Miller, Joe Ely & Joel Guzman, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, The Pogues, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger & Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Glenn Campbell & Merle Haggard, James Taylor, Ashleigh Flynn, and Loreena McKennitt.

The program airs live on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.
If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

You can also support KBOO while you’re there by clicking and the Donate button and giving like your Community Radio Station’s life depends on it- because it does. December is the KBOO End of the Year Membership Drive and we need to raise $70,000 to carry on. Thanks!

01/11/2022

On November 24, 1971, a man who is now infamously known as DB Cooper jumped out of a commercial airliner he hijacked into myth and legend over SW Washington with a parachute and $200,000 in cash. He was never seen again, his true identity is still not known, and the hijacking remains one of the great unsolved crimes in FBI history. This is great material for folk songs, and you’ll hear some gems in this program.

You may have heard songs by Paul Siebel performed by Bonnie Raitt, Leo Kottke, Linda Ronstadt, and others, but you not have heard of him. He died well-known among singer-songwriters but never achieved the wider recognition he deserved before he died in April. I pay tribute to his genius in this program with covers of his most well-known songs and a couple of gems from his two studio albums.

We also lost Mary McCaslin in October, so we’ll hear some of her most memorable songs and covers.

Also featured are new songs by James Keelagahan, Bonnie Raitt, Deidre McCalla, Happy Traum, Loudon Wainwright III and Tom Chapin.

The program airs live on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

26/09/2022

AUTUMN SONGS ON PASTURES OF PLENTY
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5

Autumn is that magic time of year when mornings are misty and foggy, giving way to the brightest blue skies, and colors over the land. Today’s show features songs that evoke the spectrum of feelings that autumns evokes.

This episode of Pastures of Plenty features meditations on autumn from Eva Cassidy, John McCutcheon, Bill Staines, Cheryl Wheeler, Erica Wheeler, Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen, Tim O’Brien, Adrienne Young, Loudon Wainwright III, Robin and Linda Williams, Pacific NW residents Wes Wedell and Tom May, and more.

The program airs live on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

02/09/2022

The glamour of luxury trains of the past, trains that took loved ones away or brought them home, and the siren call of the lonesome train whistle have been the subject of hundreds of classic American folk, country and blues songs since the heyday of railroads from the 1930s through the 1960s.

In this episode of Pastures of Plenty we’ll hear some of the greatest songs recorded about trains, from the 1920s through the 21st Century, by familiar voices of the past and present.

Featured artists include legends Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Hank Williams, Guy Clark, and Utah Phillips, as well as Portland blues legends Curtis Salgado, Lloyd Jones, and Mary Flower.

The program airs live on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

01/08/2022

Poet Edwin Curran wrote: “Flowers are the music of the ground, from earth's lips spoken without sound.” In her novel The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote: “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

On my Pastures of Plenty program this month Flowers: Earth's Music, you’ll hear what these artists have to say about flowers and gardens and love in song: Kate Wolf, Mediaeval Babes, Nanci Griffith and the Chieftains, Eva Cassidy, Blue Rose, Pentangle, Terri Hendrix, Crosby Stills and Nash, Greg Brown, Misty River, and more.

The program airs live on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

01/07/2022

There’s an old saying: ‘A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work”. Fly fishing guide David Humphries said: “Life and fishing are very similar, you never know what’s at the end of the line.” Henry David Thoreau wrote: “Everyone should believe in something. I believe I’ll go fishing.”

In this episode of Pastures of Plenty you’ll hear what these artists have to say about fishing in song: Taj Mahal, David Rea, Greg Brown, Bill Morrisey, Robert Earl Keen, Woody Guthrie, Harry Manx, Doc Watson, Shanghaied on the Willamette, and more.

The program airs live on Wednesday, July 6, 2022 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

29/05/2022

On Wednesday June 1 from 530 am to 7 am PDT Pastures of Plenty presents a re-broadcast of the 2021 special Musical Tribute to our Noble Wooded Friends, Trees.

Kahilil Gibran wrote” Trees are poems that the Earth writes upon the Sky”. The delightful shade that the beautiful trees in our yard provide, as well as the refuge they provide for the birds that frequent them inspired me to create a musical tribute to our noble, generous and miraculous wooded friends.

Featured artists include Kate Wolf, Doc Watson, Johnny Cash, James Keelaghan, Bill Staines, Eva Cassidy, Dougie MacLean, and Loreena McKennitt.

You can listen live at https://kboo.fm/listen-now, and you can find a playlist of the songs and stream the entire show later at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

03/05/2022

My Pastures of Plenty show May 4 features old songs, new songs, blues and folk-rock. You’ll hear some cool covers of songs from Bob Dylan’s 1967 classic LP “John Wesley Harding”, some songs to get you in the mood for Cinco de Mayo, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal’s earliest collaborations in 1965, when Ry Cooder was 17, and their latest collaboration from their brand-new album “Get on Board”, cool music from the Midwest, and finishing up with my favorite songs about tornadoes.

Featured artists include Michael Hedges, Sandy Denny, The Texicana Mamas, Tex-Mex accordion great Flaco Jimenez, The Texas Tornadoes, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, Carrie Newcomer, Milwaukeeans Peter Mulvey and W***y Porter, Guy Clark, a student from my Meteorology 101 class (a great singer and songwriter), and Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer.

The program airs live on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland, and will be streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

03/04/2022

One of the classic American myths is the lure of the highway, of adventure on the open road, wherever it may lead. We’ll take a musical journey down lonesome roads and blue highways for the first hour of the show, then we’ll hear a musical tribute to Earth Day, a celebration of our only home, which has been observed on April 22 since 1970.

Featured artists include Gordon Lightfoot, James Taylor, Willie Nelson, Kate Wolf, Anais Mitchell, Big Joe Williams, Big Bill Broonzy, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Tom Lehrer, Joanne Shenandoah, and Portland artists Lloyd Jones, Tom May, and Kate Power and Steve Einhorn.

The program airs live on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 from 5:30 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KBOO FM at 90.7 FM in Portland and streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.
Here are links to Earth Day 2022 Activities in Portland:

https://www.travelportland.com/events/where-to-celebrate-earth-day/
https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2022/
https://www.eventbrite.com/d/or--portland/earth-day-events/

26/02/2022

March is Women’s History Month, so my March 2 Pastures of Plenty show on KBOO features songs of women’s struggles and stories as sung by some great women artists.

We’ll hear from Native American women, pioneers in womens’s blues, folk music from Palestine, and stories of women from American history and folklore.

Featured artists include Native Americans Joanne Shenandoah, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Walela, and Ulali; Palestinians Amal Murkus and Sanaa Moussa; Empress of the Blues Bessie Smith and blues pioneers Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Clara Smith, plus a delightful duet between Sippie Wallace and Bonnie Raitt; plus, Peggy Seeger, Our Native Daughters, Kate Campbell. and from the Pacific NW Linda Allen from Bellingham, WA and Mary Flower and Ashleigh Flynn and the Riveters from Portland.

The program airs from 5:30 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 90.7 FM in Portland and streaming live everywhere at https://kboo.fm/listen-now.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at any time after the show airs live at https://kboo.fm/program/pastures-plenty.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, links to more information about featured artists, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

Here are links to more stories about some of the great artists featured on this show:

Wonderful video of Frida Kahlo's art set to "Song for Frida Kahlo": https://youtu.be/ThcOSq6vDCs

Folk Songs of Palestinian Women: https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/dont-leave-songs-palestinian-women

Amal Murkus: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-she-is-one-of-the-best-singers-in-israel-she-is-also-a-firm-bds-supporter-1.9402771

Kiran Ahluwalia: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5047582

Barbara Dane story in New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/arts/music/barbara-dane-paredon-records.html

Upcoming documentary film about Barbara Dane: https://www.barbaradane.net/documentary-film

Bellingham Singer-songwriter Linda Allen's documentary "Here's to Women": https://youtu.be/M1RVCKOj2VI

29/01/2022

Groundhog Day is the biggest celebration of the year for us meteorologists and weather nerds. It has also proved a fertile topic for songs, which start the show. And even better, February 5 is National Weather Person’s Day! The first hour of the show features songs about Groundhog Day, Groundhogs, winter, and weather.

Presidents Day is February 21, so up next up you’ll hear songs about 20th and 21st Century presidents. February is Black History month, so we’ll finish with some soulful songs that inspired the Civil Rights Movement.

Featured artists include John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, Paul Simon, Jimmie Rodgers, Buffy Saint Marie, John Hiatt, Leo Kottke, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens, Ry Cooder, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, and the Blind Boys of Alabama.

The program airs from 5:30 - 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Wednesday, February 2, 2022.

If you oversleep or sleep in, you can listen at https://kboo.fm/media/107492-february.

After the show airs you'll find the playlist of songs from the show there, and you’ll be able to listen to the show whenever you choose.

Pastures of Plenty