Pastures of Plenty

The late Bill Staines opens the program and Butch Baldassari closes.  In between there’s a variety of folk singers and players from Alison Krauss, Chris Smither and Sarah Jarosz to Burl Ives, Alice Howe and Irishman Ally Harron.  There’s a set of Bob Dylan tunes to test ... Read more

March is Women’s History Month, so this show features songs of women’s struggles and stories as sung by some great women artists. We’ll hear from Native American women, pioneers in womens’s blues, folk music from Palestine, and stories of women from American history and ... Read more

Today’s Pastures of Plenty starts with "A Toast to the Times" from Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt and ends with "A Better Day A-Coming" from Robin and Linda Williams.  In between is a variety of folkish music to help you through early Wednesday morning from 5:30 till the ne... Read more

Groundhog Day is the biggest celebration of the year for us meteorologists and weather nerds. It has also proved a fertile topic for songs, which start the show. And even better, February 5 is National Weather Person’s Day! The first hour of the show features songs about... Read more

They are 19th century songs that were mentioned in "Little House on the Prairie", a book written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in the 1930s.  Most of the recordings are from an album titled "Pa’s Fiddle: The Music of America" recorded at a PBS concert in 2012.  P... Read more

  Arguably 2021 was better than 2020, but that's not saying much. Still so many problems in this old world. But there is always music to brighten our spirits and lighten our hearts. Here is a collection of new music from 2021 that I found uplifting, engaging, amusing, a... Read more