Music Archive
Missed your favorite musician’s on-air appearance? You’ll find full interviews and songs right here to access anytime, from anywhere.
Missed your favorite musician’s on-air appearance? You’ll find full interviews and songs right here to access anytime, from anywhere.
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Milton Mapes
Milton Mapes of Austin formed in 1999, naming themselves after guitarist Greg Vanderpool’s grandfather. A rock band by definition, their sound often straddles the bound…...
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Strings Attached with Bob Schneider
Will Taylor and Strings Attached pair some of Austin’s most popular singer-songwriters with acoustic chamber instruments, such as cello, violin, viola, trumpet and dru…...
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Rhett Miller
Texan Rhett Miller is best known as frontman for the much loved Dallas alt-county band Old 97’s. Their first release arrived on the scene over a decade ago, but Rhett recorde…...
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Luke Doucet
Luke Doucet surprised US audiences with his thoughtful, melodic and enjoyable album Broken. But he’s no secret in his home country, where this Canadian folk/pop singer ha…...
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Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter, a talented Rhode Island singer/songwriter, has drawn the inevitable comparisons to everyone from Townes Van Zandt to John Prine. He writes spare, charming and smar…...
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Ollabelle
A side project of six NY singer-songwriters who performed a regular Sunday-night gospel show, Ollabelle sent their first album to only one person: T-Bone Burnett. He immediatel…...
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Susan Cowsill
Susan Cowsill had hits with her family band the Cowsills in the 60s, and released her first solo album, Just Believe It, full of rootsy music grounded by her amazing voice. She̵…...
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Billy Bragg
Although some may call Billy Bragg a folkie, he was the leading figure in the anti-folk movement of the 80’s. Inspired by both punk rock and the music of Woody Guthrie and Bob D…...
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Rosanne Cash
Rosanne was born to father Johnny Cash and first wife Vivian Liberto, who raised her in Southern California. Reluctant to follow in the footsteps of her father as a musician, Cash w…...
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Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg appeared on Folkways in March of 2006.
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World Party
Karl Wallinger of Wales was a member of 80’s Celtic-rock group the Waterboys before forming World Party. Wallinger’s one-man band released Private Revolution in 1…...
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Gecko Turner
Ten years ago, in the unlikely town of Extremadura, in southern Spain near the border of Portugal, singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist Fernando Echave, a.k.a. Gecko Tur…...
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Beth Orton
Beth Orton merges traditional acoustic folk with electronica and trip-hop to produce the music in her head. In 1995, she teamed with the Chemical Brothers for a recording, but fin…...
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The Magic Numbers
The Magic Numbers went from one of a thousand bands trying to make a name for themselves on the London indie club circuit to going platinum one year later. Trinidad-born singer-son…...
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