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| Just Folks Top 5 |
Every year, Just Folks looks back at the best new releases of the previous 12 months for the show that either closes out the year or begins the new one. For that show, I try to identify the favorite 5 albums from those I've had the pleasure of playing for you. Here are a few top fives from recent years:
2007 Richard Shindell South of Delia Susan Werner The Gospel Truth Kane Welch Kaplan Kane Welch Kaplan Eilen Jewell Letters from Sinners & Strangers Eddi Reader Peacetime
2006 Mark Erelli Hope & Other Casualties Diana Jones My Remembrance of You Jeffrey Foucault Ghost Repeater Kris Delmhorst Strange Conversation Catie Curtis Long Night Moon
2005 Kate Campbell Blues and Lamentations Greg Trooper Make It Through This World Tracy Grammer Flower of Avalon Eliza Gilkyson Paradise Hotel Julie Lee Stillhouse Road
2004 Eliza Gilkyson Land of Milk and Honey Jeffrey Foucault Stripping Cane Jerree Small Mobius Jonathan Byrd & Dromedary The Sea and the Sky Richard Shindell Vuelta
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 ...With John Kalb
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Welcome to the Just Folks webpage.
Just Folks is Public Radio Delmarva's weekly three hour contemporary folk music program. Every Saturday evening from 8 until 11:00 p.m., Just Folks--since December 21, 1991--presents the very best music, with new releases and old favorites from such artists as Bruce Cockburn, Cheryl Wheeler, Tim O'Brien, Eilen Jewell, Bob Dylan, Nanci Griffith, Jeffrey Foucault, Lynn Miles, John Gorka, Patty Larkin, Greg Brown, Lucy Kaplansky, Dar Williams, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Eliza Gilkyson, and many, many more. In fact, there are so many great performers, singers, singer-songwriters and musicians putting out great music these days to provide any sort of comprehensive or definitive list.
I do my best to put together three hours of music that I hope will move you, entice you, amuse you, and make you think every Saturday night. And don’t let the label "contemporary" mislead you. While the focus is often on new and recent releases, Just Folks frequently dips into classic recordings from way back in the last century.
Usually, the second hour of Just Folks opens with a selection of tunes from a featured artist and/or album. Sometimes there are thematic threads in sets; occasionally, an entire hour (e.g., Earth Day, Memorial Day, Gordon Lightfoot’s birthday) or even the entire program is devoted to a single theme or artist (e.g., Bob Dylan’s birthday, Mothers Day).
If you have questions or comments or if you hear someone on Just Folks you think would make a good featured artist on an upcoming program, you can send me an email.
Most weeks, Just Folks playlists are posted to the Delmarva Pubic Radio website by the Monday following the broadcast.
Just Folks John Kalb Saturday 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. 89.5 FM & 90.7 FM
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| Just Folks This Week |
September 13, 2008 Next Tuesday (the 16th) is Maura O'Connell's 50th birthday. Sounds like a good reason to dust off Maura O'Connell's 1990 CD A Real Life Story for some choice tunes from this fine Irish singer and song interpreter to open up the second hour of Just Folks.
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| Upcoming Features |
September 20, 2008 Darrell Scott is a terrific guitar, dobro, mandolin and banjo player as well as a talented album producer and songwriter. His songs have been covered by The Dixie Chicks ("Long Time Gone"), Suzy Bogguss ("No Way Out"), Garth Brooks ("When No One's Around"), and many other Nashville performers. His latest CD is called Modern Hymns, an album of songs written by other folks. I've already played his interpretations of Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Simon, and Mickey Newbury songs. We'll hear a few more from this stellar Darrell Scott album on tonight's Just Folks.
September 27, 2008 Canadian singer-songwriter Lynn Miles turns 50 on September 29. Her first release in the United States was the 1996 album Slightly Haunted, which quickly became a Just Folks favorite. We'll revisit Slightly Haunted on tonight's Just Folks. |
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