Saturday, November 26, 2005

Boston Folk Radio (on my laptop)

This may be old news to Beantown music lovers, but I just discovered a wonderful radio program, Highway 61 Revisited (Saturdays 7am - 11am), on WUMB Folk Radio, UMass-Boston.

For example: Richie Havens' version of She's Leaving Home from Sgt. Pepper; Bonnie Raitt doing a live version of John Prine's Angel From Montgomery; Greatful Dead's Box of Rain; Byrds' The Bells of Rhymney ; The Band 4% Pantomime (with Van Morrison sitting in) .

They will be doing a retrospective next Saturday morning on Rubber Soul.

The station recently polled its listeners about "what artists top their iPod playlist? Imagine you could fit only 10 artists (folk or any genre) on your iPod . . . who would they be?" - complete top 120 listing
    Top 5 were:
  1. Bob Dylan
  2. Cheryl Wheeler
  3. Patty Griffin
  4. Dar Williams
  5. Richard Shindell


(Okay, I plead ignorant about the music of all except Dylan, although I've heard of Dar Williams and Patty Griffin.)

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