The Kitchen Party - Folk and Roots Music on WIUS AM 1570 (www.wius.org) Bloomington, IN

More traditonal music listening online

2005-05-06T00:17:00.000-05:00

Just a note, that I will not be doing the folk show this summer. Thanks for listening for the last two years. I recommend Folk Alley (WKSU), Bluegrass Country (WAMU), Radio nan Gaidheal (BBC Gaelic Radio), or Bloomington's very own WFHB for traditional musics from here and around the world. Tune in to WIUS in the fall for Jeff Cannon's FOLK FROM THE HEARTLAND every Sunday evening.

I might continue using this blog for more information on this type of music, but more as a linking and review service. LOL, that might be ambitious, but we'll see.

If any one is interested in my other interests of audio preservation and film & video preservation, check out these blogs too.

Thanks for listening "by and by"

Thom Pease
Host, "The Kitchen Party"
WIUS-AM 1570

Last show- April 24, 2005

2005-04-24T21:42:00.000-05:00

ARTIST: The Mammals
SONG: Way Down the Old Plank Road (Traditional)
ALBUM TITLE: Evolver
RECORD LABEL: Signature Sounds/Humble Abode

ARTIST: Ashley MacIssac
SONGS: Miss Lyall's Strathspey and The Old King George Stratsphey
ALBUM TITLE: Live at the Savoy
RECORD LABEL: Linus Entertainment

ARTIST: Karan Casey
SONG: Ballad of Accounting
ALBUM TITLE: Songlines
RECORD LABEL: Shanachie

ARTIST: La Bottine Souriante
SONG: Le Rossignol sauvage
ALBUM TITLE: Anthologie 1976-2001

ARTIST: k.d. lang
SONG: Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
ALBUM TITLE: Hymns for the 49th Parallel

ARTIST: Phil Ochs
SONG: Changes (Ochs)
ALBUM TITLE: Classic Folk Music
RECORD LABEL: Smithsonian Folkways

ARTIST: Djanjo Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli
SONG: Minor Swing
ALBUM TITLE: Chocolat (soundtrack)

ARTIST: Holmes Brothers
SONG: Up Above my Head
ALBUM TITLE: In the Spirit
RECORD LABEL: Rounder

ARTIST: Beyond the Pale
SONG: Vander Ich Mich Lustig
ALBUM TITLE: Routes
RECORD LABEL: Borealis

ARTIST: Golden Sounds Band
SONG: Safari ya Kisii
ALBUM TITLE: Swahili Rumba
RECORD LABEL: Naxos World

ARTIST: Hevia
SONG: Gaviotes
ALBUM TITLE: Tierra de Nadie (Spain)

ARTIST: Chanticleer
SONG: Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb
ALBUM TITLE: How Sweet the Sound
RECORD LABEL: Teldec

ARTIST: Solas
SONG: Nil Na La
ALBUM TITLE: Solas
RECORD LABEL: Shanachie

HOUR #2

ARTIST: Soggy Bottom Boys (with Dan Tyminski)
SONG: Man of Constant Sorrow
ALBUM TITLE: O Brother Where Art Thou (Soundtrack)
RECORD LABEL: Mercury

ARTIST: Alison Krauss & Union Station
SONG: Down to the River to Pray
ALBUM TITLE: Live
RECORD LABEL: Rounder

ARTIST: Bill Monroe
SONG: Uncle Pen
ALBUM TITLE: The Best of Bill Monroe

ARTIST: Anne Louise Genest
SONG: Down on my Wheels
ALBUM TITLE: Trouble

ARTIST: Mark Weigle
SONG: Why Not Fly
ALBUM TITLE: Wrestling the Angel

ARTIST: Jim Reid
SONG: Daft Donal
ALBUM TITLE: Yont the Day
RECORD LABEL: Greentrax

ARTIST: Dubliners
SONG: Whiskey in the Jar
ALBUM TITLE: Best of the Dubliners

ARTIST: Patrick Street
SONG: My Son in Amerikay
ALBUM TITLE: Live from Patrick Street (1997)
RECORD LABEL: Green Linnet

ARTIST: Tanglefoot
SONGS: Secord's Warning and Traghli Bay
ALBUM TITLE: Captured Alive
RECORD LABEL: Borealis

ARTIST: Andrew McKnight
SONG: Magnolia Tree (McKnight)
ALBUM TITLE: Traveler
RECORD LABEL: Falling Mountain

ARTIST: James Gordon
SONG: Weapons of Mass Instruction
ALBUM TITLE: Endomusica
RECORD LABEL: Borealis

ARTISTS: Kim and Reggie Harris, Magpie
SONG: Tomorrow is a Highway
ALBUM TITLE: Seeds, Vol. 3
RECORD LABEL: Appleseed Recordings

ARTISTS: Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss
SONG: I'll Fly Away
ALBUM TITLE: O Brother Where Art Thou (soundtrack)
RECORD LABEL: Mercury

Playlist for Sunday's show 4/10/05

2005-04-13T12:30:00.000-05:00

Here is the list of what I played on Sunday, April 10-- quick and dirty. I'll clean it up later.

Thom

The Kitchen Party with Thom Pease 7-9 pm

Hour One:
Grada / Cathain / Endeavor / Compass Records
G.D. MacNeel / First Camp Fire (story) / Last Forest
Revels / Once More a Lumbr’ing Go / Revels Sampler
Aidan McMahon & Anthony Quigley / Hornpipe & Reels / Independence Suite
Jim Malcolm / Billy Won’t Come Back to Edinburgh / Rohahillion

Hour Two:
Big Joe Turner / Boogie Woogie Country Girl / Lackawanna Blues
Peter Rowan & Tony Rice / Wild Mustang / You Were There for Me
Jennifer Johnson / Cum Ar Naire / My Secret Garden
Alison Krauss & Union Station / Unionhouse Branch / Lonely Runs Both Ways
Alison Krauss & Union Station / This Sad Song / Lonely Runs Both Ways
Great Big Sea / John Barbour / Something Beautiful

Etta Baker / One Dime Blues / Lackawanna Blues
Grada / She’s Like the Swallow / Endeavor
Enoch Kent / Coal-Owner and the Poor Pitman’s Wife / For the Women
Sharon Shannon / Blackbird / The Best of Sharon Shannon

Mark Weigle / Your Laptop Screen / Versatile
Peter Rowan and Tony Rice / Cowboys and Indians / You Were There for Me
Navan / He Mo Leannan / Independence Suite
Bohola / Wexford Fisherman / 4
Gaelic Storm / Nancy Whiskey / Special Reserve

Kitchen Party April 10

2005-04-10T19:17:00.000-05:00

Tonight on the Kitchen Party...

The first hour will feature a story by G.D. McNeel called "The First Camp Fire" from a radio special called "The Last Forest: Tales of the Allegheny Woods." According to the notes, this story tells of G.D.'s first fishing trip across the mountains [in his West Virginia home] to the Cranberry River Wilderness.

Then we'll have music. Enjoy all the sounds of the many traditions on "The Kitchen Party."

Promises unkept

2005-03-27T20:38:00.000-05:00

Hmmm...Sorry, didn't make it back until now. That's why you're still hearing the automation CD. I was at my parents, watching the basketball game. Oh well...go have a relaxing Sunday evening. I'll be back in two weeks. Cheers!

Kitchen Party- this weekend

2005-03-26T11:12:00.000-05:00

Welcome back everyone:

I should say I'm glad to be back. Because it's Easter Sunday and my parents are in town, I'm only doing a one-hour show Sunday night. I have some new stuff to play, but I think I'll try to include some Sephardic music for Passover, plus some hymns, gospel, and shape-note singing for Easter.

Tune in at 8 pm tomorrow night!

Kitchen Party- February 27 playlist

2005-02-28T12:26:00.000-05:00

UPDATE: Sorry this got up so late.

It was a short show last week due to the IU Womens' Basketball game. Here's the 8 o'clock hour, plus the short segment that preceded it.

Next show will be after sprign break on the 27th. Thanks for listening though despite all the bumps and glitches of being on air every other week. Hope you enjoyed last week's show!

Thom

7:48-8:00 PM

ARTIST: Bohola
TITLE: Ashe March / The Wexford Fisherman / The Lark in the Mountain / Blurty's (Sean Cleland, Joe Foley, Jimmy Keane, Traditional)
ALBUM: 4 (2004)
RECORD LABEL/#: Shanachie 78058

8:00 PM

ARTIST: Alison Krauss/Union Station (featuring Ron Block)
TITLE: I Don't Have to Live This Way
ALBUM: Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
RECORD LABEL/#: Rounder 610525

ARTIST: The Malvinas
TITLE: Sweet and Sunny South
ALBUM: Love, Hope, and Transportation

ARTIST: Reckless Kelly
TITLE: Seven Nights in Eire (Bennett, Braun, and Braun)
ALBUM: Wicked Twisted Road (2005)
RECORD LABEL/#: Sugar Hill 3992

ARTIST: Eastmountainsouth
TITLE: Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster)
ALBUM: Eastmountainsouth (2003)
RECORD LABEL/#: Dreamworks 450418

ARTIST: Suzy Bogguss
TITLE: Ah May the Red Rose Live Alway (S. Foster)
ALBUM: Beautiful Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster
RECORD LABEL/#: American Roots Publishing/Emergen 591594
GRAMMY WINNER! for Best Traditional Folk Album

ARTIST: Pat Wictor
TITLE: Don't Dig My Grave too Deep
ALBUM: Waitin for the Water (2005)
RECORD LABEL/#: Risky Disc Music

ARTIST: Ruthie Foster
TITLE: Hole in My Pocket (Terry Hendrix)
ALBUM: Runaway Soul (2002)
RECORD LABEL/#: Blue Corn Music 202

ARTIST: J.P. Jones
TITLE: Temporary Partners
ALBUM: Thugs and Lovers (2005)
RECORD LABEL/#: Vision Company

ARTIST: Kickin Grass
TITLE: Backroads
ALBUM: Backroads (2003)

ARTIST: Stephanie Winters, cello
TITLE: Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Thomas M. Dorsey) (arranged for cello and multi-tracked cello orchestra)
ALBUM: Through the Storm (2004)

ARTIST: Chanticleer (featuring Joseph Jennings, solo and piano)
TITLE: Jefferson / Soar Away (A.M. Caigle) / I'm a Pilgrim
ALBUM: Our American Journey (2002)
RECORD LABEL/#: Teldec 48566

ARTIST: Bohola
TITLE: Bluehill / Lonesome Robin / Carracastle Lasses (Coltman, Keane, Trad.)
ALBUM: 4 (2004)
RECORD LABEL/#: Shanachie 78058

KP- short show tonight

2005-02-27T18:39:00.000-05:00

If you tune in to AM 1570 WIUS tonight at 7 pm, you might hear the sounds of the IU Women's Basketball Team. The game should be over by 8:00. That's when I'll be on for one hour of folk music. If you're not into sports, check me out at around 8. Lots of music to celebrate African-American History Month this week. Stay tuned!

PS: The low bandwidth connection is still down. High bandwidth connection here.

News about Stan Rogers

2005-02-19T13:28:00.000-05:00

I'm passing along this news about the late Canadian folksinger Stan Roger's quintessentially-Canadian song "Northwest Passage":

Hi all...Stan Rogers' classic song NORTHWEST PASSAGE was just yesterday voted the #1 song of the first round of the 1980's in CBC Radio's 50 Tracks: the 50 most important Canadian pop songs (hosted by Jian Ghomeshi).

You can hear Jian's pitch for the song here:

You can watch a short clip of Stan singing it here.

And of course you can peruse the whole site.

What is 50 Tracks? From the CBC website:

50 Tracks is back and we are on a quest to come up with a great list of the 50 most important Canadian pop songs.

Host Jian Ghomeshi will once again bring together panels of celebrities, pop culture specialists and people in the know to nominate their choices for definitive Canadian pop songs.The choices are bound to be controversial and hotly debated by the panelists and, more importantly, by our audience. What should be on the list? What shouldn't be? The audience will add their 10 top picks and, ultimately decide which song will be #1!

50 Tracks is all about creating the list. It is about the choices and the debate that go into making that list. It's about getting involved and fighting for your favourites in a spirit of fun and friendly competition. It's about discovering, and celebrating Canadian pop music and the people who make it.

O Canada................................

Kitchen Party- Feb. 13 playlist

2005-02-13T21:26:00.000-05:00

Here's the whole thing. Hope you tune in on Feb. 27--my next show.

HOUR #1

ARTIST: Kate Rusby
SONG: I Wish
ALBUM: 10 (2003)
LABEL: Compass Records 4350

ARTIST: BR5-49
SONG: No Train to Memphis
ALBUM: Prairie Home Companion: 30th Broadcast Season Celebration CD (2004)
LABEL: PH611295

ARTIST: Peter Rowan and Tony Rice
SONG: Shirt Off My Back (Rowan and Rice)
ALBUM: You Were There for Me (2004)
LABEL: Rounder 610441

ARTIST: Debra Cowan
SONG: Dreadful Ghost
ALBUM: The Long Grey Line (2001)
LABEL: Falling Mountain Music FM-1036

ARTIST: Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas
SONG: Sailor's Wife and the Lads of Duns (Traditional)
ALBUM: Fire and Grace (2004)
LABEL: Culburnie Records CUL 121

ARTIST: Nashville Bluegrass Band
SONG: Sitting on Top of the World (Carter, Jacobs)
ALBUM: Twenty Year Blues (2004)
LABEL: Sugar Hill 3959

ARTIST: Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer
SONG: Crawdad Song (Traditional)
ALBUM: Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (1989)
LABEL: Sugar Hill 3775

ARTIST: Ko Kan Ko Sata Doumbia
SONG: Ko Kan Ko Sata Doumbia on River
ALBUM: Mali Lolo! Stars of Mali (2003)
LABEL: Smithsonian Folkways 40508

ARTIST: Alison Krauss and Union Station
SONG: Restless (Castleman)
ALBUM: Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
LABEL: Rounder 610525

ARTIST: Sweet Honey in the Rock
SONG: Run on For a Long Time (arr. Barnwell, Reagon)
ALBUM: Still on the Journey (20th Anniversary Album) (1993)
LABEL: Earthbeat 42536

ARTIST: Ashley MacIssac with MayBelle Chisholm McQueen, piano.
SONG: B-flat Clogs and Reels
ALBUM: Live at the Savoy (2004)
LABEL: Linus Entertainment 2 70054

ARTIST: Kim and Reggie Harris
SONG: What's That I Hear (Phil Ochs)
ALBUM: Let My People Go!: A Jewish & African American Celebration of Freedom (2005)
LABEL: Appleseed Recordings 1084

ARTIST: Dulcie Taylor
SONG: Ice Melts (Recupido, Taylor)
ALBUM: Mirrors and Windows (2004)
LABEL: Black Iris 2004

HOUR #2

ARTIST: BR5-49
SONG: Ain't Got Time
ALBUM: Prairie Home Companion: 30th Broadcast Season Celebration CD
LABEL: PH611295

ARTIST: Mac Wiseman
SONG: Wreck of the Old 97 (Mac Wiseman)
ALBUM: Definitive Bluegrass Collection (2001)
LABEL: CMH (=Country Music Hall of Fame) 1797

ARTIST: Cheryl Wheeler
SONG: Is it Peace or is it Prozac? (Wheeler)
ALBUM: Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar (1995)
LABEL: Philo 1192

ARTIST: Tom Paxton
SONG: I Don't Wanna Bunny-Wunny (Paxton)
ALBUM: Live for the Record (1995)
LABEL: Sugar Hill 1053

ARTIST: Trout Fishing in America
SONG: Junk Food Jump (Grimwood, Idlet)
ALBUM: Infinity (2001)
LABEL: Trout 15

ARTIST: Michael Johnathon
SONG: Shady Grove
ALBUM: Folkboy Orchestra Live
LABEL: Poet Man Records PMR 70014

ARTIST: Iris Dement
SONG: Our Town (Dement)
ALBUM: Infamous Angel
LABEL: Philo 1138 (1992) and Warner Brothers 45238 (1993)

ARTIST: Robin and Linda Williams
SONG: Devil is a Mighty Wind (The Williams'es and Clark)
ALBUM: Live (1993)
LABEL: Sugar Hill 1043

ARTIST: Salamander Crossing
SONG: Paul and Peter Walked (Chris Stuart)
ALBUM: Bottleneck (1998)
LABEL: Signature Sounds 1244

ARTIST: Dick Gaughan
SONG: Both Sides the Tweed (Dick Gaughan, but covered by many different artists)
ALBUM: Prentice Piece (2002)
LABEL: Greentrax CDTRAX 236D

ARTIST: Andrew McKnight
SONG: Hard Times in the Heartland (McKnight)
ALBUM: Beyond Borders (2004)
LABEL: Falling Mountain Music 1043

ARTIST: Genticorum
SONG: Le 25 de Maj
ALBUM: La Galarneau
LABEL: Gent 1202

ARTIST: Beyond the Pale
SONG: Enosereh (VanDeVen) [ed: Spell the title backwards]
ALBUM: Consensus (Live) (2004)
LABEL: Borealis Records 1165

ARTIST: Del McCoury Band
SONG: Fire and the Flame (Gifford)
ALBUM: It's Just the Night (2003)
LABEL: McCoury Music 1

KP tonight

2005-02-13T18:08:00.000-05:00

Just a reminder that I'll be spinning the music of the Volk tonight between 7 and 9 pm on AM 1570, WIUS "Pure Student Radio." You can listen online if you have a broadband connection, but unfortunately our low-bandwidth connection is down, temporarily. Good stuff tonight--some recent discs from the Scottish label Greentrax, Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas in "Fire and Grace," a Jim Malcolm album (of Old Blind Dogs fame), a Dick Gaughan retrospecitve, and a new disc from Appleseed Recordings by Kim and Reggie Harris and Rabbi Jonathan Kliegler called "Let My People Go: A Jewish and Afican American Celebration of Freedom," and more. Stay tuned!

Kitchen Party- Feb. 6, 2005 playlist

2005-02-06T22:14:00.000-05:00

HOUR #1

ARTIST: Chris Thile
SONG: On Ice (Thile)
ALBUM: Deceiver (2004)
LABEL: Sugar Hill 3976

ARTIST: Alison Krauss & Union Station(singer: Dan Tyminski)
SONG: Pastures of Plenty (Woody Guthrie)
ALBUM: Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
LABEL: Rounder 11661 0525-2

ARTIST: Very Girls
SONG: Hollow World (Ad Van Meurs)
ALBUM: Elsewhere Bound (2002)
LABEL: Recovery 2681

ARTIST: Tim Grimm
SONG: Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie)
ALBUM: Names (2004)
LABEL: Wind River WR4032CD

ARTIST: Ashley MacIssac with May Belle Chisholm McQueen, piano.
SONG: Lame Malcolm (set)
ALBUM: Live at the Savoy (2004)
LABEL: Linus Entertainment 2 70054

ARTIST: Kate McDonnell
SONG: Hey Joe (Lindley and McDonnell)
ALBUM: Where the Mangoes Are (2005-NEW!)
LABEL: Appleseed Recordings 1085

ARTIST: Beausolelil
SONG: Peux pas me refuser (You Can't Refuse Me)
ALBUM: Gitane Cajun (2004)
LABEL: Vanguard Records 79759-2
COMING TO BLOOMINGTON on February 10th (7 pm @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater, as part of the IU Arts Week, co-sponsored by Lotus Fest.

ARTIST: John McCusker
SONG: Cakemaker's Wife (McCusker)
ALBUM: Goodnight Ginger (2003)
LABEL: Pure Records PRCD 11 (in the US: Compass Records 4352)

ARTIST: Andrew McKnight
SONG: Good Things Matter (McKnight)
ALBUM: Beyond Borders (2004)
LABEL: Falling Mountain Music FM-1043

ARTIST: Catherine-Ann MacPhee
SONG: Failte Dhruim Fionn
ALBUM: Looking Back = Suil Air Ais (2004)
LABEL: Greentrax Records CDTRAX 258

HOUR #2

ARTIST: Gaelic Storm
SONG: The Leaving of Liverpool (Traditional)
ALBUM: Gaelic Storm (1998)
LABEL: OmTown/Higher Octave OMCD 46112

ARTIST: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
SONG: Monore Dancin' (Ricky Skaggs)
ALBUM: Brand New Strings (2004)
LABEL: Skaggs Family Records 6989010062

ARTIST: Beth Lodge Rigal (Bloomington artist)
SONG: One Safe Place
ALBUM: Children on a Ride

ARTIST: Mary Anne Hitt and Than Hitt
SONG: The Most Beautiful Place in the World (Mary Anne Hitt, 1998)
ALBUM: Moving Mountains: Voices of Appalachia Rise Up Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (2004)
LABEL: Falling Mountain MusicFM-1040

ARTIST: Todd Snider
SONG: Lonely Girl (Snider)
ALBUM: Happy to Be Here (2000)
LABEL: Oh Boy 20

ARTIST: Annie Gallup
SONG: Down the Other Side
ALBUM: Selected Songs 1994-2004

ARTIST: Acoustic Syndicate
SONG: Blue Bird Train (Steve McMurry)
ALBUM: Long Way Round (2004)
LABEL: Sugar Hill Records 3993

ARTIST: Alison Krauss & Union Station
SONG: Gravity (R. L. Castleman)
ALBUM: Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
LABEL: Rounder 11661 0525-2

ARTIST: Hevia
SONG: El Ramu (Toli Morilla, Traditional)
ALBUM: Tierra de Nadie 1998, 2000)
LABEL: Hispa Vox/Higher Octave 7243 5 25482 2 4

ARTIST: Big Bill Broonzy
SONG: This Train (Bound for Glory)
ALBUM: Classic Folk Music (2004)
LABEL: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40110

ARTIST: Ostblocket
SONG: Kungen av Trelleborgsgatan (F. Runesson)
ALBUM: Yes, We Are a Swedish Balkan Band, You Don't Have to Look Twice (2004)
LABEL: Ostblocket OBL 002

ARTIST: Bog Wanderers
SONG: Slides: Waiting for Bridget-The Magic Kingdom-The Great 38 (Danny Flynn)
ALBUM: Here's to You (2004)
LABEL: Falling Mountain Music FM 1042

ARTIST: Gaelic Storm
SONG: Drink the Night Away
ALBUM: Herding Cats (1999)
LABEL: OmTown OMCD 48091

New semester, new season

2005-02-01T19:53:00.000-05:00

The fun starts this Sunday with a joint Kitchen Party/Folk from the Heartland show with myself and Jeff Cannon on WIUS-AM 1570. Check us out from 7-9 pm Sunday nights. I'm on the week after also. Jeff's the week after. Bottom line: Folk and traditional music on college radio every Sunday night! Listen here high bandwidth or low bandwidth.

Kitchen Party- new year, same time Sundays 7-9

2005-01-22T01:53:00.000-05:00

Look for more in the coming weeks about the new season of "The Kitchen Party" on AM-1570 WIUS. Got a load of new discs I can't wait to play.

Thom

Kitchen Party- Hour 2, Set One

2004-12-05T20:03:00.000-05:00

The first set of the second hour of the program:

1) ARTIST: Blind Boys of Alabama with Tom Waits
SONG: Go Tell it On the Mountain
ALBUM: Go Tell it on the Mountain (2003)
RECORD LABEL: Real World 70876 18876 2 4

2) ARTIST: NEC Children's Chorus, Hankus Netsky / ibid / Theodore Bikel & Morton
Shames
SONG: Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl/I Have a Little Dreydl / Mi Yimalel
ALBUM: A Taste of Chanukah (1999)
RECORD LABEL: Rounder 11661-3165-2 (www.rounder.com)

3) ARTIST: Bill Jones
SONG: Two Year Winter
ALBUM: Two Year Winter (2003)
RECORD LABEL: Compass Records 7 4366 2

4) ARTIST: Finest Kind (www.finestkind.ca)
SONG: The Cradle Carol
ALBUM: Feasts and Spirits (new 2004)
RECORD LABEL: Fallen Angle Music FAM 07

5) ARTIST: Andrew McKnight
SONG: When the Maples Turn
ALBUM: Beyond Borders (new, Nov. 2004)
RECORD LABEL: Falling Mountain FM 1043 (www.fallingmountain.com)

KP- 12/5/04 Set 3, Hour 1

2004-12-05T19:49:00.001-05:00

The third set of the first hour included:

1) ARTIST: Trout Fishing in America (www.troutmusic.com)
SONG: Eleven Cats of Christmas
ALBUM: Merry Fishes to All! (new, 2004)
RECORD LABEL: Trout Records TRT-17

2) ARTIST: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
SONG: Last Night (I Went Out with Santa Claus)
ALBUM: Everything You Want for Christmas (new, Dec. 2004)
RECORD LABEL: Vanguard Records 79768-2 (vanguardrecords.com)

3) ARTIST: Sharon Shannon with Sinéad O'Connor
SONG: The Seven Rejoices of Mary
ALBUM: Libertango (new 2004)
RECORD LABEL: Compass Records 7 4392 2 (www.compassrecords.com)

4) ARTIST: George Winston
SONG: Skating
ALBUM: Linus and Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi (1996)
RECORD LABEL: Windham Hill 01934 11184-2r

Kitchen Party- Dec. 5 (Xmas show!)

2004-12-05T19:26:00.000-05:00

Hello Kitchen Party fans!

I'm back from Thanksgiving break--got some great new holiday discs to play this week. Thanks Mona for filling in! This is also my last show of the semester, but I'll be back in January with more great traditional music from around the globe.

The first set I played tonight was:

1) ARTIST: Kim Robertson, harp
SONG: Away in a Manger / Flow Gently Sweet Afton
ALBUM: Christmas Lullaby (2004)
RECORD LABEL: Gourd Music GM 134 (www.gourdmusic.com)

2) ARTIST: Andrew McKnight
SONG: How High the Mountain
ALBUM: Beyond Borders (new, Nov. 2004)
RECORD LABEL: Falling Mountain FM 1043 (www.fallingmountain.com)

3) ARTIST: Ashley MacIssac and Dave MacIssac
SONG: The Christmas Carousing
ALBUM: Fiddle Music 101
RECORD LABEL: MacIssac & MacIssac (2000) (hard to find!)

4) ARTIST: Blind Boys of Alabama
SONG: The Last Month of the Year
ALBUM: Go Tell it on the Mountain (2003)
RECORD LABEL: Real World 70876 18876 2 4

The second set I played was:

1) ARTIST: Finest Kind (www.finestkind.ca)
SONGS: Gower Wassail and Homeless Wassail
ALBUM: Feasts and Spirits: A Christmas Entertainment (new 2004)
RECORD LABEL: Fallen Angle Music FAM 07

2) ARTIST: Washington Symphonic Brass (wsbrass.com / cathedralchoralsociety.org)
SONG: I Wonder As I Wander (arr. Phil Snedecor)
ALBUM: Welcome All Wonders!
RECORD LABEL: Gothic Records G 49227 (www.gothicrecords.com)

3) ARTIST: Ricky Skaggs
SONG: Christmas Time's a Comin'
ALBUM: Celtic Christmas IV (A Windham Hill Sampler)
RECORD LABEL: Windham Hill 01934-11367-2

4) ARTIST: Kim Robertson, harp
SONG: Lo How A Rose E'er Bloomin'
ALBUM: Christmas Lullaby (2004)
RECORD LABEL: Gourd Music GM 134 (www.gourdmusic.com)

Hour 2-- Set 3

2004-11-21T20:34:00.000-05:00

ARTIST: Country Gentlemen
ALBUM: Sugar Hill Collection
SONG: Coal, Black Gold

ARTIST: Jay Mankita
ALBUM: Dogs are Watching Us
SONG: Illegal Aliens

Hour 2 -- Set 2

2004-11-21T20:23:00.000-05:00

ARTIST: Doc Watson
ALBUM: My Dear Old Southern Home
SONG: Dream of the Coal of the Miner's Child

ARTIST: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion
ALBUM: Entirely Live
SONG: Thirty Inch Coal

Hour 2--Set 1

2004-11-21T20:05:00.000-05:00

ARTIST: Anonymous 4
ALBUM: American Angels
SONG: Resignation

ARTIST: Junior Brown
ALBUM: Down Home Chrome
SONG: Little Rivi-Airhead

ARTIST: Wailin' Jennys
ALBUM: 40 Days
SONG: [Untitled]

ARTIST: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion
ALBUM: Entirely Live
SONG: DC Niner

ARTIST: Chris Thile
ALBUM: Deceiver
SONG: Jessamyn's Reel

ARTIST: Beausoleil
ALBUM: Gitane Cajun
SONG: Chere Bebe

Hour 1--Set 4

2004-11-21T19:50:00.000-05:00

ARTIST: Ostblocket
ALBUM: Ostblocket Presents
SONG: Two Happy Elephants

ARTIST: Chris Stout
ALBUM: Scandanonymous
SONG: First o' the Darkenin'

ARTIST: Ostblcket
ALBUM: Yes We Are a Swedish Balkan Band--You Don't Have to Look Twice
SONG: Rauk Cocek

Hour 1--Set 3

2004-11-21T19:41:00.000-05:00

ARTIST: Gloria Jean
ALBUM: All She Wrote
SONG: Early Morning Fire

ARTIST: Nashville Bluegrass Band
ALBUM: Twenty Year Blues
SONG: Tell Me Your Love is Still True

ARTIST: Michale Jonathan
ALBUM: The Folkboy Orchestra Live
SONG: Michael B Rag

Hour 1--Set 2

2004-11-21T19:33:00.000-05:00

ARTIST: Roddy MacDonald
ALBUM: Good Drying
SONG: Good Drying

ARTIST: Roddy MacDonald
ALBUM: Good Drying
SONG: The King Danced at Dawn

Hour 1--Set 1

2004-11-21T19:23:00.000-05:00

This is Mona, filling in for Thom--If any of this is mixed up, I apologize!

ARTIST: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder
ALBUM: Brand New Strings
SONG: Brand New Strings
RECORD LABEL: Skaggs Mountain Records

ARTIST: Melanie Cannon
ALBUM: Melanie Cannon
SONG: Westbound Trains
RECORD LABEL:Skaggs Mountain Records

ARTIST: Sensitive New Age Cowpersons
ALBUM: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
SONG: Doc Met the Devil

ARTIST: Trout Fishing in America
ALBUM: Merry Fishes to All
SONG: Bob and Bob

ARTIST: Wolf Creek Session
ALBUM: Between Two Shores
SONG: Miss Mary MacDonald/Rolling in the Barrel

Kitchen Party - Nov. 21 show

2004-11-20T23:53:00.000-05:00

Hello faithful KP listeners!

I'm writing you from Washington, DC, where I'm taking a short pre-Thanksgiving holiday. But fear not! For Kitchen Party will be on tomorrow night with my trusty substitute, Mona. Mona was on with me this summer for our classical music program, "The Thom and Mona Show." She'll be playing some recent discs I've gotten, including lots of new bluegrass and a cool bagpipe disc by Roddy MacDonald on Greentrax Records. The Archives segment which feature songs by Applachian musicians and interviews with coal miners and residents of villages in West Virginia. Thanks to Falling Mountain Music for sending me their recent disc called "Moving Mountains" highlighting the practice of mountaintop removal by the coal companies. Clean coal may be in the future, but clean rivers are nicer.

I'll be back after the break with more Kitchen Party--particularly Christmas music by the Blind Boys of Alabama and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Last Set- Hour #2

2004-11-07T20:58:00.000-05:00

1) ARTIST: Excerpts from "Songs from Cape Breton Island" (Folkways P450, c1955)
Courtesy of Archives of Traditional Music (59-049-C), Indiana University
Played: "Mo Run, Mo Nighean Dhonn Bhoidheach, Lan I De Dh'Ainneadh, Flowers of
the Forest, and I'll Get a Soldier for a Shilling"

2) ARTIST: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason / Paul Roebling & David McCullough, narrator
SONG: Ashokan Farwell/Sullivan Ballou Letter
TITLE: Civil War Soundtrack
RECORD LABEL: Elektra Nonesuch 9 79256 2 (1990)

3) ARTIST: Soggy Bottom Boys
SONG: Man of Constant Sorrow
TITLE: O Brother Where Art Thou (2000 soundtrack)
RECORD LABEL: Mercury Records 088 170-069-2

Thanks for listening! See you in two weeks!

Hour 2- set two: Bluegrass and Old-Time

2004-11-07T20:25:00.000-05:00

1) ARTIST: Chris Cairns
SONG: Long Black Veil
TITLE: Runaway Train
RECORD LABEL: Fireheart Productions CC8253

2) ARTIST: Alison Krauss and Choir
SONG: Down to the River to Pray
TITLE: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000 soundtrack)
RECORD LABEL: Mercury 088 170-069-2

3) ARTIST: Amy White and Al Petteway
SONG: Accokeek Shore
TITLE: Acoustic Journey
RECORD LABEL: Maggie's Music MM230 (www.maggiesmusic.com)

4) ARTIST: Sensitive New Age Cowboys
SONG: Doc Met the Devil
TITLE: ...Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
RECORD LABEL: SNAC COW 004 (www.cowpersons.com)

5) ARTIST: Kate Long
SONG: I Can't Help it If My Home is In Your Way
RECORD LABEL: Falling Mountain Music FM 1040 (www.fallingmountain.com)
TITLE: Moving Mountains: Voices of Appalachia
Information at jenosha@auroralights.org

6) ARTIST: Doc Watson
SONG: White House Blues
TITLE: Trouble in Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection
RECORD LABEL: Sugar Hill Records SUG-CD-3966 (sugarhillrecords.com)

Hour 2, Set One- International dance music

2004-11-07T20:09:00.000-05:00

1) ARTIST: Beausoleil avec Marcel Doucet
SONG: Peux pas me refuser (You Can't Refuse Me)
TITLE: Gitane Cajun
RECORD LABEL: Vanguard Records 79759-2 (www.vanguardrecords.com)

2) ARTIST: Sukke
SONG: Freylekh(2) (Traditional: Suite of 2 different dance tunes)
TITLE: Introducting Sukke
RECORD LABEL: World Music Network

3) ARTIST: Ostblocket
SONG: Kungen Ay Trelleborgsgatan
TITLE: Yes, We are a Swedish Balkan Band, You Don't Have to Look Twice!
RECORD LABEL: Ostblocket OBL002

4) ARTIST: Beyond the Pale (with Christy McLeod)
SONG: Where to Now, St. Peter?
TITLE: Queen of Skye
WEBSITE: beyond-the-pale.com

Third Set- Lamenting Tuesday

2004-11-07T19:44:00.000-05:00

1) ARTIST: George Scherer
SONG: Two Bush Blues
TITLE: Election Year Waltz
WEBSITE: www.georgescherer.com

2) ARTIST: Deidre McCalla
SONG: If God Only Knew
TITLE: Playing for Keeps
RECORD LABEL: Maiden Rock Records MRK 3050
WEBSITE: www.DeidreMcCalla.com

3) ARTIST: Pete Seeger (w/Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco and Steve Earle)
SONG: Bring 'em Home
TITLE: Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3
RECORD LABEL: Appleseed Recordings APR CD 1072 (www.appleseedrec.com)

4) ARTIST: Sweet Honey in the Rock
SONG: No Taxation without Representation
TITLE: The Women Gather (30th Anniversary)
RECORD LABEL: Earthbeat Records R2 73829 (www.earthbeatrecords.com)
WEBSITE: www.sweethoney.com

Second Set- Bluegrass

2004-11-07T19:23:00.000-05:00

1) ARTIST: Melanie Cannon
SONG: Westbound Trains (Buddy Cannon)
TITLE: Melanie Cannon
ALBUM: Skaggs Family Records 6989020112

2) ARTIST: Sensitive New Age Cowpersons
SONG: Daddy Wore a Mulltet (J. Fisher)
TITLE: ...Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
ALBUM: SNAC COW 004
WEBSITE: www.cowpersons.com

3) ARTIST: Jen Osha with Wolf Creek Session
SONG: The Fiddler's Ballad
TITLE: Moving Mountains: Voices of Appalachia
ALBUM: Falling Mountain FM 1040 (www.fallingmountain.com)
CONTACT: jenosha@auroralights.org (for more information)

4) ARTIST: Sensitive New Age Cowpersons
SONG: The Sound of Music (bluegrass medley)
TITLE: ...Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
ALBUM: SNAC COW 004
WEBSITE: www.cowpersons.com

First set of the night- Celtic!

2004-11-07T18:57:00.000-05:00

SET ONE: 7:00-7:19 pm

1) ARTIST: Beyond the Pale
SONG: Farrel O'Gara's / The Ballharbor / Siobhan O'Donnell's (Irish reels)
TITLE: Queen of Skye
WEBSITE: www.beyond-the-pale.com

2) ARTIST: Catherine-Ann MacPhee
SONG: Puirt-a-neul: - Ci'n Fhideheall / Maighleas Mor na Guailne / Eadar-a-
gharradh
TITLE: Suil Air Ais (Looking Back)
RECORD LABEL: Greentrax CDTRAX258 (www.greentrax.com)

3) ARTIST: Ashley MacIssac featuring Dallas Smith of Default
SONG: Mull of Kintyre (Brian Frederick Hines and Paul McCartney)
TITLE: Ashley MacIssac
RECORD LABEL: Decca B0000224-02 (www.universalrecords.com)
WEBSITE: www.ashley-macissac.com

4) ARTIST: Téada
SONG: Highland/Fling/Slip Jig/Reel: Highland Chluain Ard / Clarke's / The
Foxhunter's Jig / The Old Maid (Traditional)
TITLE: Give Us a Penny And Let Us Be Gone
RECORD LABEL: Green Linnet GLCD 1228 (www.greenlinnet.com)
WEBSITE: www.teada.com

Kitchen Party- on at 7 tonight!

2004-11-07T18:53:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone-- We're on tonight after a little time away. Tonight I'll feature some new discs from Scotland, including Gaelic singer Catherine-Ann MacPee, the Irish band Téada (pronounced Tay-Da), new Bluegrass discs from Melanie Cannon, Chris Cairns, and from Australia, the "Sensitive New Age Cowpersons." Tonight's Archives segment features music from Cape Breton Island, some Gaelic songs and piping.

Stay tuned!

Thom

Why you're not hearing me right now

2004-10-24T19:09:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone.

I've been very sick this week, and thus, KP is not on right now. You can listen to WIUS or search for folk music online at this great radio site called Public Radio Fan.

See you in two weeks, when we'll know the results of this year's election. Make sure you VOTE!!!!

Thom

KP Playlist- 10/10/2004

2004-10-13T01:02:00.000-05:00

KITCHEN PARTY PLAYLIST
Thom Pease, Host and Producer
October 10, 2004 7:00-9:00 PM
WIUS-AM 1570 (Bloomington, Indiana)
Need Shoutcast or Real Player for streaming

HOUR ONE: Got things started a little early tonight at 6:57.

Gaelic Storm
Nancy Whiskey & Courtin' in the Kitchen (theme)
Special Reserve
Higher Octave/Omtown 91481 (2003)

In honor of autumn....

Molly Mason and Jay Ungar
Bound for Harvest Home
Harvest Home
Angel Records 56720 (1999)

Junior Brown
Little Rivi-Airhead
Down Home Chrome
Telarc 83612 (2004-new!)

Michelle Shocked
Hold Me Back (Frankie & Johnny)
Arkanasas Traveler
Mercury 512101 (1991)

International Bluegrass Music Association 2004 Award winners:

Del McCoury (IBMA Entertainer of the Year)
Zero to Love & Man Can't Live on Bread Alone
It's Just the Night (IBMA Album of the Year)
McCoury Music 1 (2003)

Skaggs is performing November 6 at the Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Indiana. Phone for more information: 812-988-2235.

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder (IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year)
Road to Spencer
The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, and Ricky Skaggs
Rounder 610526 (2003)

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (Vocal Group of the Year)
Mis'ry River
Cool, Blue and Lonesome: Bluegrass for the Brokenhearted
Sugar Hill Records 3944 (2002)

King Chiaullee -- from the Isle of Man!
Asleep at the Wagon Wheel & Hie Mee Stiagh
Reel : Ode
KC002 (2003)

Silk road music in Bloomington: Ipak Yolu Ansambli, the Silk Road Ensemble in a concert of "Silk Road: A Musical and Cultural Journey." More information on their website. E-mail: silkroad@aacef.org, telephone: (812) 322-4702.

Yo Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble
Silk Road Journeys: Where Strangers Meet
Chi passa per'sta strada (Filippo Azzaiolo)
Sony Classical 89782 (2002)
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rlanqj6qojka

Sharon Shannon's latest album "Libertango":

Sharon Shannon & Friends
Libertango (title track)
Libertango
Compass Records 4392 (2004-new!)
http://www.compassrecords.com/artists_shannon.html

Beausoleil is performing next February in Indianapolis at Butler University. Check back after the New Year for more details. Here's their latest album, "Gitane Cajun."

Beausoleil
Peux pas me refuser
Gitane Cajun
Vanguard Records 79759 (2004-new!)

HOUR TWO

From k.d.'s latest, a "Canadian songbook":

k.d. lang
Hymns of the 49th Parallel
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Nonesuch Records 79847 (July 2004-new)

Fiddler John Taylor performed this weekend at the St. Louis Highland Games.

John Taylor
Barren Rocks of Kerry
The Road Ahead
(Record label and/or link info forthcoming)

Beyond the Pale (US-Tyler, Texas)
Drunken Piper
Strange Turns
(2002, new!)

New to the library...an old classic from Cape Breton.

Mary Jane Lamond
Dan Do Shean Ford (Song to an Old Ford)
Bho Thir Nan Craobh (From the Land of Trees)
B&R Heritage Enterprises (1992, re-released, Iona Records, 1996)

Sharon Shannon
The Whitestrand Sling
Libertango
Compass Records 4392 (2004, new!)

The Wailin Jennys
One Voice
40 Days
Red House Records 177 (2004, new!)

Andrew McKnight is coming through this way in November to promote his new album, "Beyond Borders." Planning to be in Terre Haute and Evansville.

Andrew McKnight
If I Were a Cat
Traveler
Falling Mountain Records 1013 (1995, re-released on Orchard Records, 1995)

Heather Lev
A Cat Walks
On the Train to Babylon
(2004, new!)

Also saw Ed Miller and Brian McNeill at the St. Louis Highland Games.

Ed Miller
Men O' Worth
Scotland the Real Music from Contemporary Caledonia
Smithsonian Folkways 40511 (2003)

From the Archives: Featured field recordings of sea songs and shanties collected and preserved in the Archives of Folk Culture in the Library of Congress. A Rounder re-release. Archives of Traditional Music material will continue next week.

Richard Maitland
A-Roving & Drunken Sailor
Library of Congress Collection: American Sea Songs & Shanties (from Archives of Folk Culture)
Rounder Records 1519 (2004, new re-release of 1952 original)

Noble B. Brown
Blow the Man Down
Library of Congress Collection: American Sea Songs & Shanties (from Archives of Folk Culture)
Rounder Records 1519 (2004, new re-release of 1952 original)

Happily returning to autumn...

Al Petteway & Amy White
Red-Haired Boy
Acoustic Journey
Maggie's Music 230 (2004, new!)
http://www.maggiesmusic.com/mm230.html

NEXT WEEK: More Bluegrass, Celtic, and maybe even Balkan brass band music.

Off to Old St. Louie

2004-10-06T23:52:00.000-05:00

Hello KP fans!

Well, I'm off to St. Louis for a conference, but I'll be back by showtime on Sunday.

Maybe I'll pick some local music while I'm there.

Here's one of my favorite groups from St. Louis, a barbershop quartet called the Gas House Gang, who have such a sweet a cappella sound. I'm definitely bringing their CDs along for the trip! They have a hilarious version of Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nacht Musik."

Tune in next week for KP

2004-10-03T22:57:00.000-05:00

Hello faithful listeners,

If you were tuning in expecting to hear me, fear not! I will return next week with even more traditional and acoustic discoveries from places near and far. If you can't wait, Green Linnet Records has a neat feature where you can listen to their albums for free.

I did some new discs in the mail I can't way to tell you more about.

1) Junior Brown's newest album "Down Home Chrome."
2) Beyond the Pale (Celtic band, Texas)-- their album "Queen of Skye"
3) Sharon Shannon's newest album "Libertango", which features various vocalists including Sinead O'Connor on a Christmas track.

I'm pondering the Archives segment for next week...it'll either be music from Nepal or music from the Silk Road countries. Choices, choices!

Playlist for Sunday, September 26, 2004

2004-09-27T15:46:00.000-05:00

JOINT KITCHEN PARTY/FOLK FROM THE HEARTLAND SHOW
with Thom Pease and Jeff Cannon
Sunday, September 26, 2004 7-9 PM EST

SCROLL DOWN TO VIEW PLAYLIST--Sorry, I'll work on the coding for next week!

"From the Archives" featured two tracks from Lamont West's 1956 collection of music of Plateau and Plains Indians. Again, special thanks to the Archives of Traditional Music for making this segment possible every show this year.

I'll see you in the ether on October 10--with new CDs by Sharon Shannon, Téada, Beyond the Pale--a Celtic band from the U.K., and Beausoleil!

ARTIST	SONG	ALBUM TITLE	RECORD LABEL	YEAR
Wailin' Jennys	Saucy Sailor	40 Days	Red House	NEW 2004
Wailin' Jennys	Saucy Sailor	The Parting Glass	Red House	NEW 2004
Jeffrey Focault	Tropic of Cancer	Stripping Cane	Signature	NEW 2004
Salamander Crossing	Paul and Peter Walked	Bottleneck Dreams	Signature	1998
The Mammals	John Henry	Rock That Babe	Signature	2004
Chris Whitley	Ballpeen Hammer	Rock That Babe	Messenger	1998
James Gordon	Saugeen Gypsies	Endomusica	Borealis	2004
Sean Doyle	Flower of the County Down	The Light and the Half-Light	Compass	NEW 2004
Railroad Earth	Long Way to Go	The Good Life	Sugar Hill	NEW 2004
Kathy Kallick and Laurie Lewis	Used to Be	Sugar Hill Collection	Sugar Hill	1995
Patty Griffin	Mary	A Kiss in Time (Live)	Ato	2003
Lee Murdock	Casting Your Cares to the Deep	Between Two Worlds	Depot	NEW 2004
k.d. lang	The Valley	Hymns of the 49th Parallel	Nonesuch	NEW 2004
Oisin Mac Diarmada	Mary Brennan's Favorite	Ar An Bhfidil (On the Fiddle)	Green Linnet	NEW 2004
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammar	Ordinary Town	Drum Hat Buddha	Signature	2001
Le Vent du Nord	Au Bord de la Fontaine	Maudite Moisson!	Borealis	2003
Beyond the Pale	Chasenjah	Routes	Borealis	2001
Eric Andersen	I Ain't Marching Anymore	The Street Was Always There	Appleseed	NEW 2004
Peter Mulvey	The Trouble with Poets	The Trouble with Poets	Signature	2000
Kevin Connolly	Take Me to the Sea	This is Boston, Not Austin	Eastern Front	1997
Patrick Street	Stewball and the Monaghan Grey Mare	Live from Patrick Street	Green Linnet	1999
Susan Werner	Barbed Wire Boys	New Non-Fiction	Susan Werner	2001
Cree Indians	Sun Dance Song	Lamont West Collection	Archives of Traditional Music	1956
Cree Indians	Praising Song	Lamont West Collection	Archives of Traditional Music	1956
Fairport Convention	I'm Already There	Over the Next Hill	Compass	NEW 2004
Richard Julian	Good Life	Good Life	Black Bird	2002

First show playlist for fall 2004 forthcoming

2004-09-27T14:35:00.000-05:00

What an exciting show that was for me last night. Jeff Cannon and I co-hosted, and I heard a lot of music that he played that was quite interesting. I'm working on formatting the playlist right now, so it should be up by tonight. Check back soon, and remember KP airs next in two weeks on Sunday, October 10 at 7:00 EST.

From the Archives- new regular feature

2004-09-25T22:28:00.000-05:00

"From the Archives" will be a continuing feature on this season's "Kitchen Party." Every show I'll feature a recording or series of recordings from the Archives of Traditional Music, the "largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States," housed here on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington.

This week's show will celebrate the grand opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. And while the DC folks are having fun at the First Americans Festival with a wide diversity of music and artists from Alaska to South America, I'll be playing some field recordings of Native American tribes, collected by LaMont West, Jr. in 1956.

You are really in for a treat with this Archives feature. Their collection boasts: "2,000 field collections; unique and irreplaceable recordings collected by anthropologists, linguists, ethnomusicologists, and folklorists throughout the world; as well as extensive holdings of Native American, African, and Latin American music and spoken word, and several large collections of early jazz and blues 78s."

I'll meet you in the ether tomorrow night at 7 pm EST on wius.org or AM 1570 for you Bloomington residents.

It starts this Sunday Sept. 26 from 7-9 pm

2004-09-23T13:22:00.000-05:00

This Sunday on AM-1570 WIUS is this semester's first show. This week is a special co-presentation of "The Kitchen Party" and "Folk from the Heartland" co-hosted by myself and Jeff Cannon. Jeff's show is on at the same time every other week that I'm not on with "The Kitchen Party."

This year I'll be airing a special feature on every KP, called "From the Archives." I'll be playing examples of world music: commercial recordings and field recordings housed in the Archives of Traditional Music here on IU's campus. More on that later...

Rachael Davis- A New Songcatcher?

2004-09-18T01:58:00.000-05:00

I had the pleasure of ending tonight's Lotus Festival by listening to an enormously talented young singer from Boston named Rachael Davis.

Her voice could have come out of the movie Songcatcher. It was that southern mountain sound which is pretty straight, high and lyrical. And yet, she crooned, she scatted, and sang like a jazz diva at times. (Are you listening, American Idol?) For example, she sang a soulful version of "All of Me," a cappella, after relating to the audience a story of how her first CD her dad gave her was a recording of the Ella Fitzgerald Songbook. (I think that was one of my first too). Discographic searching will have to wait for another day.

Her rendition of "Pretty Saro" was quicker than I'm used to, but it brought the desperateness and pathetique of the characters, along with the sorrow and trouble-in-mind more generally associated with interpretations of the song done by such artists as Iris DeMent. I was impressed with her version of the "Cuckoo Bird" as well as "Shady Grove." "Shady Grove" is one of those Appalachian songs that everyone sings, but it goes by so quick that you can't even make sense of the lyrics. That changed for me once I heard Michael Johnathon's version.

Back to Davis, who was accompanied by a fine guitarist named Brett Hartenbach...Here is a young musician who's not only a good singer, but one that has the potential to really make it. She knows what her voice can do, has great dynamic contrasts, can belt and wail, yet hold back when she needs to. She can really breathe life into a song through dramatization and phrasing. Less is usually more, and silences can be very important in telling a story. I think Rachael knows this. Also, she has great musical intuition, a high wiry soprano voice that won't quit, and it doesn't hurt that she knows how to use a microphone.

It turned out that I was seated next to her mother and father, who had both sung to her as a child. She named some of her musical influences which included the Carter Family, Bob Dylan, Joel Mabus, and John McCutcheon. This is a young folkie who's going places...Look out Nickel Creek!

That's all for me for tonight. I also saw Väsen and Susan McKeown, but I'll write about them later. I was looking forward to seeing the Irish band Kila, but they got on stage late, so I'll see their act tomorrow night! Buenos noches!

Le Vent du Nord (The Wind from the North) at Lotus Friday night

2004-09-18T01:49:00.000-05:00

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The winner of a Juno Award in the category of "Roots and Traditional Album of the Year/Group" for the cd "Maudite moisson!". Congrats guys!

I played some of their music on the "Kitchen Party" this summer--their most recent album is called "Maudite Moission!" out on the Borealis record label.

They're from Québec, and play traditional Québécois music. Their sound check was entertaining, and I was impressed by the resonance of the guys' voices. The band is made up of four musicians: Nicolas Boulerice (hurdy-gurdy, accordion, bodhran, piano, voice, foot tapping), Olivier Demers (fiddle, guitar, voice, foot tapping), Benoit Bourque (dance, accordion, bones & spoons, mandolin, voice), and their newest member, Simon Beaudry (guitar, voice).

Olivier was foot tapping/clogging on a miked piece of wooden floor board nice and loud. And Nicolas's hurdy-gurdy playing was great, esp. when he was dancing around with it The hurdy-gurdy has a distinctive sound--and LOUD once it gets cranked up! Here's what a hurdy-gurdy is.

There was a lot of step dancing going on in front of the stage. I love this type of high-energy folk dance music. It's really nice to see a diverse crowd of college students and older folks out on a lovely late summer evening enjoying music together.

Lotus Festival 2004- Friday night

2004-09-18T01:25:00.000-05:00

This weekend's Lotus Festival got off to a great start. Even though I got there a wee bit late, I saw a total of four acts tonight: Le Vent du Nord, Väsen, Susan McKeown, and Rachel Davis.

The streets of Bloomington were bustling with activity--people carrying flags, buying merchandise, and having a great time. There was a circle of drum players outside the Buskirk-Chumley. I could hear the sounds of a group of Virgin Islands musicians called Jamesie & the All Stars wafting through the air. My first mission of the night was to listen to a band called "Le Vent du Nord."

Lotus Festival this weekend

2004-09-17T13:38:00.000-05:00

For all you Bloomington residents, don't miss the opportunity to come out and see the Lotus Festival this weekend.

I got to one of the events at the Archives of Traditional Music today-- the African Showboyz. (I work at the Archives part-time also). The room was packed, and everyone was really enjoying themselves. A good omen for the festival.

Great acts I definitely want to check out tonight and tomorrow include: Mari Boine (Sami contemporary [Sami=Scandinavian equivalents of Inuits]), Susan McKeown (Irish folk-rock), Väsen (Swedish contemporary folk), Kila (hot Celtic band), Le Vent du Nord (Traditional Québécois), Kepa Junkera (Basque trikitixa), Andre Thierry (zydeco), Jan Yragagy (Traditional Kyrgyz), Maura O'Connell (Country/folk song), and Fruit (Australian folk-pop).

There are a bunch of free events too, including a family concert with Le Vent du Nord at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater at noon on Saturday, Indian storytelling by storyteller Patty Callison and Shobana Ram, a dancer in the South Indian Classical tradition of Bharatha Natyam for school-age children and older at the Monroe County Public Library Auditorium (303 E. Kirkwood) from 11-11:45 am and 1-1:45 pm. Admission free, reservations required at 349-3100.

A free World Spirit concert on Sunday from 2:30-5:30 pm at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater (114 E. Kirkwood) featuring the Srinivas Krishnan Ensemble w/ dancer Sunaina Rao, Rachael Davis, Abdelli, and Mongolian singer D. Jargalsaikhan.

A free film on Sunday: "Los Zafiros: Music from the Edge of Time" (An award-winning documentary on a 1960s Cuban band) on Sunday night 7:30 pm at the Buskirk-Chumley.

Hope you can all make it to some of the events. Lotus is definitely one of the perks of living in Bloomington.

If you want to sample the artists, check out:

* WFHB-FM 91.3 and 98.1 which is playing a lot of live music, and featuring Lotus Festival artists this week.

* On WFIU-FM 103.7, "Just You and Me"'s Joe Bourne is sampling a few of the festival artists today between 3:30-5:00 this afternoon.

I'll try to post my thoughts on the acts tonight or tomorrow. Radio is good, but live music is usually better.

First show: Sunday, September 26

2004-09-08T11:56:00.000-05:00

According to our fearless PD, Lauren, that's when the first show will air on WIUS AM-1570. Stay tuned!

Ways to Explain a Kitchen Party

2004-09-06T02:19:00.000-05:00

Here's an article that's probably the best thing I've seen on the Web that describes a "kitchen party."

Stan Rogers- great Canadian folksinger

2004-09-06T01:05:00.000-05:00

I've been listening to songs by Stan Rogers for years thanks to folk hosts Jim Blum (WKSU, Kent, Ohio) and Mary Cliff (WETA-FM, Arlington, Virginia). He definitely has that lived-in voice you hear from some of the great folk singers. The title track "Northwest Passage" from "Northwest Passage" (Fogarty's Cove Music FMS-004-D, 1981) is a great place-name song. I've always loved to read maps, and hearing some of the strait and island names in the Arctic region of Canada...well, they take me back to my childhood when I would picture myself in some of those far-flung places. I don't think I'd really care to visit for a long period of time, but still it's a good song. It also lists some historical figures of Canada, namely Gordon Thompson and Alexander MacKenzie. I'm glad I added this disc to my collection, and look forward to playing it soon.

I found a Stan Rogers tribute page here. That should keep me busy for awhile.

Next week is the callout meeting for the fall season at WIUS. So, it shouldn't be long now before "The Kitchen Party" returns to the air. Jeff, another folk host at WIUS, and I are splitting the shift this year. But we're doing the first show together to debut the new format. With library school and my other jobs, this should be a welcome respite.

Rock that Babe / Andrew McKnight

2004-09-03T23:17:00.000-05:00

Listening to "The Mammals." Late night, head-banging, banjo-strummin', mandolin-pickin', hound-doggin' folk-protest music ala the Mammals' latest release, "Rock that Babe." Love their version of John Henry--YEE HAH! And no one I've ever seen can make a ukelele sing like Ruth Ungar.

Also looking forward to Andrew McKnight's fourth and newest album "Beyond Borders" coming this fall, along with seeing him on his Midwestern tour. Hopefully he'll hit Bloomington. If you've never heard Andrew's music before, check out any of his three albums (Traveler, Where This River Runs, and Turning Pages). He writes evocative lyrics especially of geographic regions like the South and the West. He lives in Loudon County, Virginia and some of his best songs reflect that region's land and history. In the five years I lived in that part of the country (DC area), I came to admire and respect the region more through knowing his work. I'll post where he's coming once I learn his itinerary.

Music to come this fall on Kitchen Party

2004-09-02T23:03:00.000-05:00

I was just at the record store looking at some CDs for the show on WIUS-AM 1570. Too much good music out here. Here's what you can expect to hear once I'm back on the air: 'Wailin' Jennys (Red House Records 177, NEW! August 2004) , the late Stan Rogers's "Northwest Passage" (Fogarty's Cove Music FMS-004-D, 1981), k.d. lang's "Hymns of the 49th Parallel." (Nonesuch 79847, new July 2004) and the soundtrack to "Return of the King" (2003). That last one's for my own collection: a moving soundtrack to a phenomenal movie. More to come about other music to be played on the show.

Welcome to the Kitchen Party!

2004-09-02T17:01:00.000-05:00

Hi! I'm Thom, the host of "The Kitchen Party" heard on WIUS-AM 1570 from Bloomington, IN. I'm a graduate student in library science, and I do this folk/world music program on the weekends. Hope you can tune in--I'll announce the schedule for the fall once it's up. Check out the station's page at wius.org, where you can listen with RealPlayer or ShoutCast.