Episodes

This program is dedicated to the memory of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who died on May 1, 2023 at age 84. He is credited with being a major force in the development of the folk-rock and folk-pop sounds of the...

Music from Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bonny Light Horseman, Paul Simon, Collin Walcott, Bulgarian State TV Female Choir, Anouar Brahem, Ali Farka Toure, Khruangbin, The Zombies, Tin Hat Trio, and Didier Malherbe

Music with some connection to the Golden State from Al DiMeola w/John McLaughlin & Paco de Lucia, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, Tony Bennett, Pearl Jam, Buck Owens, The Nat King Cole Trio, The Beach Bo...

Music from The Staple Singers, Rosanne Cash, Tim Hardin, Rod Stewart, Barbara Keith, The Stone Coyotes, Rev. Gary Davis, Charley Crockett, Courtney Marie Andrews, and Lou Rawls w/the Les McCann Trio

Music from The Horse Flies, The Marshall Tucker Band, Bruce Springsteen, The Howard Roberts Quartet, Eliane Elias, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Gabor Szabo, Mother Mother, Elton John, The Grateful Dead, and James Galway

Music from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Modern Mandolin Quartet, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Shawn Colvin, Simon & Garfunkel, Renaissance, David Crosby w/Sarah Jarosz, Herbie Hancock, Paul McCandless, Brad Mehldau, and Leon Russell

Music from Julie London, Nick Drake, Judy Collins, Chuck Wayne, Sheila Jordan, Freddie Hubbard, The Art of Noise, Cal Tjader & Carmen McRae, The Secret Sisters, Cilla Black, Rory Gallagher, and Joe Pass

Real chill sounds from Alex Christensen, Fleet Foxes, Lang Lang, Air, The Highwomen, Gordon Lightfoot, Benny Andersson, Juice Newton, Xavier Rudd, Agnes Obel, The Youngbloods, Air w/Beth Hirsch, and Joep Beving

Music from Smashing Pumpkins, Neils-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Rickie Lee Jones, Herb Alpert (solo and with the Tijuana Brass), Ghedalia Tzartes, Little River Band, Leonard Cohen, Kidd Afrika, Stephane Grappelli, and Billy Joel

Music from The Martin Fabricius Trio, Mary Ann Hurst, Bruce Cockburn, Natalie MacMaster, David Darling, Eric Clapton w/John Mayer, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Joe Bonamassa, Wes Montgomery, and James Taylor

Music from Eilen Jewell, Bill Evans & Jim Hall, Keith Jarrett, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Watchhouse, Paul Speer & David Lanz, Indigo Girls, Richard Buckner, Julian Lage, and Cream

Music from Van Morrison, The Chieftains, Heidi Talbot w/Dirk Powell, Dervish, Darol Anger w/Martin Hayes, Mary Black, Imelda May, and Lunasa

Music from The Carpenters, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joanne Pearce Martin (playing movie music by John Williams), Vieux Farka Toure, Karrin Allyson, Jean-Luc Ponty, King Crimson, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, and Isao Tomita

Music from Son Volt, Marc Johnson w/Bill Frisell & Pat Metheny, Ray Charles, Bela Fleck, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Victoria Bailey, Hank Williams, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Buddy Miller w/Lee Ann Womack, Charlie Rich, ...

Music from Jethro Tull, Andrew York, Martin Simpson, Fleetwood Mac, Steeleye Span, June Tabor, Richard Thompson, Oysterband, Bert Jansch, and Hopkinson Smith

Music from Eva Cassidy, Charlie Parker, The Waybacks, Frank Sinatra, Russell Malone, The Everly Brothers, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, The Wailin' Jennys, Les Paul & Mary Ford, and Neil Young

Music from The Oscar Peterson Trio, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra w/Wynton Marsalis, Laura Nyro, Paul McCartney & Wings, Mel Torme w/Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass, Count Basie & His Orchestra, Members of the London Symph...

Music from Jerry Douglas, The Byrds, Nickel Creek, Danny Keane, Otis Redding, Carly Simon, Chuck Mangione w/the Rochester Philharmonic, Jan Hammer, Bre Kennedy, The Beatles, Iron and Wine & Ben Bridwell, Alison Krauss, and Gr...

Songs written and sung by John Prine, with three covers of Prine's songs by Tammy Wynette, the Drive-By Truckers, and Bettye LaVette, and a couple of non-Prine items by Gordon Lightfoot and by the Animals

Thirteen performances by Harry Nilsson that demonstrate his strengths as both singer and songwriter. The program also includes two covers of Nilsson songs, by Al Kooper and by Glen Campbell.

Music from Leon Redbone, Ringo Starr, Scott Kirby, Willie Nelson, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Etta Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Taj Mahal, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Music from Kate Rusby, Rachel Portman, Miriam Cutler, Courtney Marie Andrews, Bobbie Gentry, Brandi Carlile, June Tabor, Dorothy Ashby, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, and Laura Marling

Music from artists who passed away in 2022, including Julee Cruise, Jim Seals (of Seals & Crofts), Ramsey Lewis, Christine McVie (with Fleetwood Mac and solo), Jerry Lee Lewis, Joey DeFrancesco, Lamont Dozier (as singer & as ...

Music to celebrate the season from the Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Enya, Celtic Nots, Empire Brass, Young Women's Chorus of San Francisco, Simon & Garfunkel, Nashville Mandolin Ensemble, The Tea Party, Beegie Adair, Patty Gu...