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Saturday January 2nd, 2021 with Mike Regenstreif
Extended Feature – Songs from Mike Regenstreif's Top 10 folk-rooted and folk-branched albums of 2020.
This week's show is hosted by Mike Regenstreif and includes lots of great folk-rooted and folk-branched music. The extended feature is Songs from Mike Regenstreif's Top 10 folk-rooted and folk-branched albums of 2020. Visit the Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog at https://frfb.blogspot.com.
| Happy New Year Robin Greenstein - Tears and Laughter - Windy |
| I’m Going to Sit Down On the Banks of the River Reverend Gary Davis - Children of Zion - Kicking Mule |
| Tryin’ to Get Home Andy Cohen - Tryin’ to Get Home - Earwig 
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| Little Birdie: A Reimagined Traditional Song Marc Nerenberg - Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues - Marc Nerenberg 
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| Sweet By and By Orit Shimoni - Strange and Beautiful Things - Orit Shimoni
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| The Game Katy Moffatt - Chrysalis - Sunset Blvd. Records
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| Walking On the Moon Tom Russell - Old Songs Yet to Sing - Frontera |
| Everywhere I Go Shari Ulrich - Everywhere I Go - Borealis
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| Maggie Rod MacDonald - Boulevard - Blue Flute Music
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| (I Just Want to Be) Horizontal Samoa Wilson with The Jim Kweskin Band - I Just Want to Be Horizontal - Kingswood |
| How Long Blues Original Sloth Band - Whoopee After Midnight - Sloth
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| Gotta Go Jackie Washington - The World of Jackie Washington - Borealis
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| Hold ON Madison Cunningham - Wednesday - Verve Forecast
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| I Don’t Wanna Grow Up VickiKristinaBarcelona - Pawn Shop Radio - StorySound |
| Come On Up to the House Missy Burgess with The Blue Train - Live - Missy Burgess
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| Extended feature – Songs from Mike Regenstreif's Top 10 folk-rooted and folk-branched albums of 2020. The next 10 songs are drawn from the chosen albums. Visit the Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog – https://frfb.blogspot.com/2020/12/top-10-for-2020.html – to see the annotated list. |
| Number 10: I Can Still Hear You by Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche |
| I Think I Am a Soul Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche - I Can Still Hear You - StorySound
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| Number 9: Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger |
| Turn, Turn, Turn (with Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight & Aoife O'Donovan) Kronos Quartet & Friends - Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger - Smithsonian Folkways
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| Number 8: We'll Look for Stars by Lynn Miles |
| Because We Love Lynn Miles - We'll Look for Stars - Must Have Music
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| Number 7: Coming Home by Steel Rail |
| If By Midnight Steel Rail - Coming Home - Crossties
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| Number 6: 2020 by Eliza Gilkyson |
| Peace in Our Hearts Eliza Gilkyson - 2020 - Red House |
| Number 5: Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes by Leyla McCalla |
| Manman Mwen Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes - Smithsonian Folkways |
| Number 4: Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine by John McCutcheon |
| Vespers John McCutcheon - Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine - Appalsongs |
| Number 3: Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan |
| Murder Most Fowl Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways - Columbia |
| Number 2: As Long As I’m Dreaming by Laura Smith |
| As Long As I’m Dreaming Laura Smith - As Long As I'm Dreaming - Borealis
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| Number 1: Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) by Joni Mitchell |
| Both Sides Now (with intro conversation with Gene Shay) Joni Mitchell - Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) - Rhino
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| Stack O'Lee Blues Ma Rainey - The Rough Guide to the Roots of the Blues - World Music Network |
| Barrelhouse Blues Penny Lang - Live at the Yellow Door - She-Wolf
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| Yonder Comes the Blues Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women - Old, New, Borrowed & Blue - Alligator |
| Hear Me Talking to You Odetta - Blues Everywhere I Go - M.C. |
| Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Maxayn Lewis - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: Music from the Netflix Film - Milan
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| Joyful Banner Blazing Maria Dunn - Joyful Banner Blazing - Distant Whisper
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| Gracias a la Vida Mercedes Sosa - Disco de Oro - Philips |
| Angels in My Heart Bruce Murdoch - Matters of the Heart - Bruce Murdoch
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| Forever Young Ian Hanchet - Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) - Ian Hanchet
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| Beautiful Fools Maria Dunn - Joyful Banner Blazing - Distant Whisper
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| Peter and the Wolf Dave Van Ronk with Billy Novick, Jay Ungar, Luke Faust, Mark Greenberg & Gordon Stone - Peter and the Wolf - Alacazam |
| Sing On! Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick - 30th Anniversary Concert - Poor Jack |
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The highlight of my Saturday! I look forward every month to your show, and the possibility of discovering artists and songs whom I might have missed. And thanks again for including the marvellous Ms. Penny Lang. Lynn Miles' "We'll Look For Stars" has been a true highlight of the past year.
10:46 AM, January 1st, 2021