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Memories of Eclectic Barns & Swinging Wingtips: John Lynch
Song of the Soul - December 08, 2023 05:23 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJohn Lynch has decades of experience in the music world, performing full-time right out of school, traveling all around the USA with the group The Memories.
Winnipeg's Roots & Growing Fruits: The Janzen Boys
Song of the Soul - December 01, 2023 08:11 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJohn Janzen is on his way to “living the dream”, largely because he successfully planted the seeds of the dream of life as a musical artist in his young sons' hearts, and they've taken over making the dream a reality. The result is some really go-getter music makers known as The Janzen Boys.
From Angwish to Super Happy Fun Time With Bryan Bielanski
Song of the Soul - November 24, 2023 01:12 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBryan Bielanski hails from Charlotte, North Carolina, though he's spending little enough time there as he takes his music almost everywhere in the US & in quite a few other countries as well.
One of the Eclectic Barn Boys: Randy Sinz
Song of the Soul - November 17, 2023 04:35 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsRandy Sinz recently released his first personal album, This One's For You Dad, after a lifetime of performing, given that his dad pulled him onstage to perform in Randy's early teens. While he's mainly known as a bass player, and his native music genre is country, in fact he's played many instru...
Big Top Jig from Way Up North: Tom Draughon
Song of the Soul - November 10, 2023 04:46 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTom Draughon has written & performed music for more than half a century, on his own, on all kinds of stringed and keyboard instruments, and as part of a wide variety of groups, including Wild Oats, Second Wind,
Feeling the World's Heart with Dead Horses & Dan Wolff
Song of the Soul - November 03, 2023 05:36 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDan Wolff, along with Sarah Vos, have been the stable nucleus of Dead Horses since the band's inception. I interviewed Sarah back in 2016, fell in love with their music, so I'm so excited to have Dan here to share more of the riches they've created in the ensuing 7 years. Every song they share i...
Primordial Forest in Skyline Studio: Peter Phippen & Ivar Lunde, Jr.
Song of the Soul - October 27, 2023 02:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday for Song of the Soul, Peter Phippen & Ivar Lunde, Jr., are sharing music & stories they've created together.
Love, Fire, & Two Redwoods
Song of the Soul - October 20, 2023 02:14 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAnnette Wasilik's love affair with the guitar & song began in her mid-teens, but has only come into the fullest sunshine & blossom over the past 10 years, releasing two full albums. She is all about healing, including the balm to the heart & soul that come through her voice, lyrics, & guitar, bu...
Deeper Yata - Yata's 2nd Song of the Soul
Song of the Soul - October 13, 2023 03:04 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsYata has been a decades-long feature of the music scene in the Chippewa Valley region of Wisconsin, and an inveterate collaborator with so very many musicians of the area, enhancing his own songwriting, guitar, and wonderful singing skills with all kinds of instruments and harmonies.
Bluegrass from Clear Water: Caleb Horne
Song of the Soul - October 06, 2023 01:25 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCaleb Horne grew up steeped in music, playing the piano, alto saxophone, guitar, mandolin, and more. Along the way he got severely bitten by the bluegrass bug.
Healing Our Youth & Resolving Racism In One Voice & Body
Song of the Soul - September 29, 2023 04:43 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEmma G brings together culture & family from all over the world, including Persia, Fiji, New Zealand, Iowa, and more. Her music is likewise expansive, including seeds of operatic voice training with a rock music emphasis.
Bottleneck & Finger-picking Story-telling from Kill Devil Hills
Song of the Soul - September 21, 2023 21:36 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsRuth Wyand, of Kill Devil Hills, NC, is a wonderful songwriter and performer, with magic in her tunes and lyrics, though it was really her guitar work that first riveted our attention, complete with soul-captivating finger-picking and bottleneck slide flourishes. Though of a genre all her own, s...
Beauty, Activism, & Timeless Wisdom: Paulette Meier
Song of the Soul - September 15, 2023 02:50 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe welcome back Paulette Meier, last with us in 2009. She's put out 3 albums since then, one around her activism and work for the world, and the other related to the timeless Quaker wisdom she has delivered in chant or plainsong. Paulette combines her beautiful voice with deep spirit and care fo...
Bob Dylan, Robert Frost, & Buddha's Minivan: Doug Alan Wilcox
Song of the Soul - September 07, 2023 20:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsStarting in high school, Doug Alan Wilcox has been in a variety of bands, including names like Black Jack, Logix, So What Band, and Friends, transitioning from pop/rock/dance (and much more) music to a solo performing singer/songwriter career around 2000. Doug's influences are far and wide, incl...
Singer & Playwright of the Wild Midwest: Katie Dahl
Song of the Soul - September 01, 2023 06:17 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsKatie Dahl's music is spirit-laden, rooted in a religious past which no longer fits, but which Katie still copes with through new lenses. Katie has been described as “a songwriter and playwright whose work is as expansive as Lake Michigan and as deeply rooted as its rocky coastal bluffs”, and th...
Moved by Funky Captain Danger
Song of the Soul - August 24, 2023 20:32 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAaron Steinberg is Captain Danger, flanked by Keith “E-Day” Eaddy & Roger “Joose” Benford. Aaron has done so much with music, starting very young with bands like The Studmuffins, Wabbit, Uncle Dad, and was he and is part of The Televisionairies whose role in life is to make music out of televisi...
From Soul Songs School and To The Light: Anne Heaton
Song of the Soul - August 18, 2023 02:17 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAnne Heaton has lived widely, pursuing a wide range of interests, in Chicago (IL), Washington DC, New York, Ann Arbor (MI), and now in Milwaukee (WI). She has all the classical piano cred you could want, but has also performed as part of a Harlem gospel choir, while her songwriting has been insp...
Berkeley CA Meets Woodstock NY: Friction Farm
Song of the Soul - August 11, 2023 02:57 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBack in 2020 and 2021 I discovered Christine Stay and Aidan Quinn who are known collectively as Friction Farm.
Riveting & Sisterly – Deborah Silverstein
Song of the Soul - August 04, 2023 04:53 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDeborah Silverstein is a gem and a beacon. She started out musically in the heady early days of women's music, in the 1970s, as part of the Red Basement Singers, and the New Harmony Sisterhood Band.
End of Our Blues – Something Green from Kate Klim
Song of the Soul - July 28, 2023 02:32 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsKate Klim enchanted me from the first with her songwriting and vocals and a talent which also thrust her into prominence when she was a 2010 Kerrville New Folk Winner. Over 4 years she dazzled the world with 3 albums, but then, with the advent of 2 children and then COVID, her muse was quiescent...
Sweden's Best Americana Heart-strings
Song of the Soul - July 21, 2023 04:57 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSofia Talvik self-describes as “Americana/Folk with Swedish Roots”, and it's so much better and wonderful than that can conjure. With the voice of an angel, she can play the strings of our hearts. Sofia has toured extensively in the US, though she lives mostly in Germany these days, where she ma...
Tom Smith: World's Fastest Filker
Song of the Soul - July 13, 2023 23:24 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTom Smith, known as the World's Fastest Filker, has been making and sharing music at science fiction and fantasy conventions since 1985. He's written in many musical genres, including folk, rock, jazz, gospel, and showtunes; and can write incredibly funny political commentary just as easily as h...
Latingrass & Artivism – Joe Troop Delivers
Song of the Soul - July 06, 2023 05:24 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJoe Troop introduced a new form of music called Latingrass, a combination of music from Joe's homeland, in the lower Appalachian mountains, with the tones and tunes of the Andes in South America. He also refers to himself by another new word, artivist, a combination of his musical art and his ac...
Sparkling Diamond from NC – Abigail Dowd
Song of the Soul - June 30, 2023 03:54 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAbigail Dowd's songs are rich deeply connected to both folk/Americana music, and to spirit-tinged lyrics, making her the perfect Song of the Soul guest. You'll also immediately hear Abigail Dowd's North Carolina accent, and you'll hear the voice of an angel poet in the same moment.
Digging In The Ruins of Our Age With Michael R.J. Roth
Song of the Soul - June 22, 2023 05:06 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMichael R. J. Roth writes his songs on the deep end of the meaning pool, and his tone has the same depth, so that some have called him a cool dark troubadour. His voice ranges, sometimes recalling the tones of a Gordon Lightfoot or a Johnny Cash, and sometimes a bit of John Prine. But what's esp...
Roving Roots in Indiana, Oklahoma, & Scotland: Tim Grimm
Song of the Soul - June 16, 2023 03:38 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTim Grimm delivers moving music grown out of the soil of the Midwest, music that's flavored folk, country, and Americana, and by the end of this program you'll have songs lodged in your heart that you'll carry with you for the rest of your life.
With Roses, Snakes, Tigers, & The Divine Mother: Ana Egge
Song of the Soul - June 09, 2023 02:06 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAna Egge combines a beautiful voice with seriously deep lyrics to make transformative music. With 12 albums under her belt, and with a menagerie of creatures, like roses, snakes, tigers, & the Divine Mother, brought to life in her songs, there is both breadth & depth of vision channeled to us. W...
More Beauty, More Wonder: Meg Hutchinson
Song of the Soul - June 02, 2023 01:50 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSince Meg Hutchinson last joined us in 2012, she obtained her Masters of Divinity as the only Buddhist in her class, and has added work including as Osal Doula Services, still continuing to produce the amazingly deep & moving music she is known for.
Bill Staines Sings One Last Time: Critter In The Choir
Song of the Soul - May 26, 2023 00:29 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe incredible and influential folksinger, Bill Staines died this past week, bringing tears of fond memories to my eyes when I got the news. I've been singing his songs in our local song circles for 40 years now, so I decided to again share my 2015 Song of the Soul interview with you, today, in ...
Looking Forward to the Backroads: Johnsmith
Song of the Soul - May 19, 2023 01:43 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOur guest is Johnsmith, a talented, engaging, profound, & easy-going guy.
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