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Just Folks Quick Picks

Some recent CDs already getting some generous airplay on Just Folks:
Joan Baez
   Day After Tomorrow
Chuck Brodsky
   Two Sets
Archie Fisher
   Windward Away
Tim Grimm
   Holding Up the World
Darrell Scott
   Modern Hymns
Sloan Wainwright
   Rediscovery

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


...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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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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