The conventional wisdom is that history doesn't repeat, it rhymes. With that in mind, we'll revisit two programs from an earlier time of uncertainty, when traveling was difficult amid world and family situations. We can become armchair travelers, and enjoy a grand variety of World music from all corners of the globe. In the first installment, we'll hear from the Finnish band Frigg, The Russian group The Terem Quartet, The Battlefield Band from Scotland, Itzhak Perlman and the Andy Statman Klezmer Orchestra and many more. Find a comfy chair and travel the world with some great music … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysFrigg / “Juhlamarssi” / X X / Self-producedViguele / “Rosario por Malaguenas” / Tempermento-Traditional Music from Spain / ARCThe Terem Quartet / “The Legend of the Old Mountain Man” / Terem / RealworldLakou Mizik / “Wa Di Yo” / Wa Di Yo / CumbanchaGeoffrey Oryema / “Land of Anaka” / Realworld 25 / Realworld Debashish Bhattacharya / “Amrit Anand” / Calcutta Chronicles / RiverboatAlasdair Fraser / “Dawn Dance” / Dawn Dance / CulburnieFrigg / “Early Bird” / X X / Self-producedAldeia dos Anjos / “Mal-me-quer” / Discover Music from Brazil / ARCIyatra Quartet / “Chandra” / Break the Dawn / PRS FoundationKamakahi-Kuo-Pahinui Hawaiian Slack Key Band / “Monterey Sunrise” / Hui Aloha / Dancing CatBattlefield Band / “Seven Braw Gowns” / The Producer's Choice / TempleItzhak Perlman w/ The Andy Statman Klezmer Orchestra / “Shalom Aleykhem” / In the Fiddler's House / AngelPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

How do we know what has gone before in music and folklore? Musical explorers with reel-to-reel recorders and notebooks went out and found music, recording musicians and singers and storytellers to make sure the music kept going. For the record this week, we'll listen to field recordings from years past, including the Doc Watson Family, Sara and Maybelle Carter (as recorded by Mike Seeger) and Pink Anderson, among many others. Music collected in the field … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysThe Doc Watson Family / “Tucker's Barn” / Tradition / RounderJames “Son Ford” Thomas / “44 Blues” / Voices of Mississippi / Dust to DigitalWill Shade, Charlie Burse and Gus Cannon / “Take Your Fingers Off It” / Classic Harmonica Blues / Smithsonian FolkwaysPink Anderson / “Talking Blues” / Classic African American Songsters / Smithsonian FolkwaysPeg Leg Sam / “Froggy Went A-Courting” / Classic African American Songsters / Smithsonian FolkwaysE.C. Ball / “The Farmer's Curst Wife” / Sounds of the South / AtlanticMaybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes / “I'm Leaving You this Lonesome Song” / Classic Old-Time Music / Smithsonian FolkwaysDoug Wallin / “Naomi Wise” / Classic American Ballads / Smithsonian FolkwaysBurl Hammons / “The Big Scioty” / The Hammons Family / RounderThe Doc Watson Family / “Give the Fiddler a Dram” / Tradition / RounderThe Southland Hummingbirds / “You Don't Know Like I Know” / Voices of Mississippi / Dust to DigitalIndian Bottom Association Old Regular Baptists / “Guide Me O Though Great Jehovah” / Songs of the Old Regular Baptists / Smithsonian FolkwaysBozie Sturdivant / “Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down” / A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings / RounderJames “Son Ford” Thomas / “I Know It's Wrong to be Playin' the Blues” / Voices of Mississippi / Dust to DigitalLead Belly / “Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea” / Cowboy Songs on Folkways / Smithsonian FolkwaysElizabeth Cotten / “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” / Close To Home / Smithsonian FolkwaysW.H. Stepp / “Bonaparte's Retreat” / A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings / RounderPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

This time around we share more fine finger-style music, with great players including Doc Watson, John Fahey, and Leo Kottke. We'll also present some songs that use fine guitar playing to frame classic lyrics. Listen for lots more examples of fingers moving with grace and rhythm … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysJohn Fahey / “Night Train to Valhalla” / The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose / CraftSimon & Garfunkel / “For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” / Live From New York City, 1967 / ColumbiaTom Rush / “Rockport Sunday” / The Circle Game / ElektraJoni Mitchell / “That Song About the Midway” / Clouds / RepriseDoc Watson / “Windy and Warm” / Southbound / VanguardBert Jansch & John Renbourn / “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” / Stepping Stones / VanguardNic Jones / “Planxty Davis” / Penguin Eggs / TopicJoan Shelley / “Brighter Than the Blues” / Over and Even / No QuarterPeter Walker / “April in Cambridge” / The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose / CraftGlenn Jones / “My Charlotte Blue Notebook” / The Wanting / Thrill JockeyLeo Kottke / “Louise” / Greenhouse / One WayHot Tuna / “Water Song” / The Very Best of Hot Tuna / RCA LegacyDavey Graham / “Prelude from the Suite in D Minor” / The Complete Guitarist / Stephan Grossman's Guitar WorkshopSteve Dawson / “Hale Road Revelation” / Lucky Hand / Black HenJohn Hartford / “Presbyterian Guitar” / Aereo-Plain / RounderPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Fingerstyle guitar is one of the most personal of styles and we'll hear some great players the next two weeks. A couple of recordings served as inspiration for these episodes of The Sing Out! Radio Magazine. Awhile back, Tompkins Square released a collection of demos and outtakes from the great guitarist Duck Baker on a recording called Les Blues Du Richmond, with a wide variety of tunes in many styles. Craft Records has a collection called The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, featuring guitar and banjo from some great American primitive guitarists and banjo players including John Fahey, Robbie Basho and Peter Lang. We'll focus this recording next week. Fingerstyle guitar … this week and next on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysDuck Baker / “Maple Leaf Rag” / Les Blues Du Richmond / Tompkins SquareBruce Molsky / “The Brass Band Ruchenitsa” / Soon Be Time / CompassLauren Sheehan / “Weepin' Willow Blues” / Some Old Lonesome Day / Wilson RiverRyley Walker / “Primrose Green” / Primrose Green / Dead Oceans Blind Blake / “Wabash Rag” / Guitar Wizards 1926-1935 / YazooBruce Cockburn / “3 Al Purdys'” / Bone On Bone / True NorthChris Smither / “Maybelline” / Call Me Lucky / Signature SoundsDuck Baker / “Homage to Leadbelly” / Les Blues Du Richmond / Tompkins SquareMitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith / “Evolution of Blind Joe Turtle” / Friends of Fahey Tribute / Slacktone RecordsJoan Baez / “The Lily of the West” / Vol.2 / VanguardJohn Renbourn / “Three Pieces by O'Carolan” / The Hermit / TransatlanticGuy Van Duser / “Alligator Crawl” / Stride Guitar / RounderRory Block / “Need a Little Sugar in my Bowl” / A Woman's Soul / Stony PlainRy Cooder / “Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer” / Boomer's Story / RepriseWayne Henderson / “Cannonball Blues” / Rugby Guitar / Flying FishPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

When we think of swing music, visions of Big Bands from the 1930s and 1940s usually come to mind. Although most of the Big Bands are gone, the musical style is still very much in vogue. This week we'll listen to swing music (and its relative, boogie woogie) in many settings, old and new.We'll include Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, The Boswell Sisters, Ry Cooder, The Boulder Acoustic Society, and of course, the David Grisman Sextet. We'll swing into Spring … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysJoe Venuti / “Raggin' The Scale” / Violin Jazz 1927-1934 / YazooThe David Grisman Sextet / “Horn Pipe Dream” / The David Grisman Sextet / Acoustic DiscHotcha! / “Fois Dras (Dance of the Fatted Ducks)” / Dust Bowl Roots / Self-producedCafe Accordion Orchestra / “Crazy Rhythm” / On Holiday / Self-producedBob Wills and his Texas Playboys / “Beaumont Rag” / Take Me Back to Beaumont / RounderThe Delmore Brothers / “Freight Train Boogie” / Freight Train Boogie / AceThe Boswell Sisters / “Shuffle Off to Buffalo” / That's How Rhythm was Born / ColumbiaMeade “Lux” Lewis / “Honky Tonk Train Blues” / The Anthology of Boogie Woogie Piano / PrimoJoe Venuti / “Wild Cat” / Violin Jazz 1927-1934 / YazooBoulder Acoustic Society / “Does It Really Matter” / Now / Self-producedRy Cooder / “Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now” / Jazz / Warner BrothersSultans of String / “Kitchen Party” / Luna / Self-producedHank Snow / “The Golden Rocket” / The Very Best of Hank Snow / BMGAsleep at the Wheel / “House of Blue Lights” / Swing Time / SonyMerle Haggard / “Right or Wrong” / The Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (Or, My Salute to Bob Wills / CapitolThe Western Flyers / “I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” / Wild Blue Yonder / Versa-TonePete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways