December 2nd would have been Moe Asch’s 113th birthday. He was the founder of Folkways Records. His pioneering label released a wide variety of music from all over the world, and, after his death, the label was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution. On this week’s show, we’ll hear some classic recordings from the massive Folkways catalog including Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Peggy Seeger, The New Lost City Ramblers and others … including recent recordings from Kaia Kater, Anna & Elizabeth and Los Texmaniacs. Following in the footsteps of a giant … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #18-50: For Moe

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Pete Steele / “Coal Creek March” / Classic Banjo / Smithsonian Folkways

Lead Belly / “Bourgeois Blues” / Bourgeois Blues / Smithsonian Folkways

Elizabeth Cotten / “Freight Train” / Classic Folk Music / Smithsonian Folkways

Almanac Singers / “Talking Union” / Classic Labor Songs / Smithsonian Folkways

Cisco Houston / “Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail” / Classic American Ballads / Smithsonian Folkways

Woody Guthrie / “Pastures of Plenty” / This Land is Your Land / Smithsonian Folkways

Doc Watson / “The Train that Carried My Girl from Town” / Classic Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways

The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / “Sinner, You Better Get Ready” / Bluegrass At The Roots 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways

Sara Carter Bayes & Maybelle Carter / “I'm Leaving You” / Close to Home / Smithsonian Folkways

John W. Summers / “Fine Times at Our House” / Classic Old-Time Fiddle / Smithsonian Folkways

New Lost City Ramblers / “Rabbit in the Pea Patch” / There Ain't No Way Out / Smithsonian Folkways

Hobart Smith / “Banging Breakdown” / Classic Banjo / Smithsonian Folkways

New World Singers / “Blowin' In the Wind” / Classic Protest Songs / Smithsonian Folkways

Peggy Seeger / “Gonna be an Engineer” / The Folkways Years 1955-1992 / Smithsonian Folkways

Phil Ochs / “Changes” / Classic Folk Music / Smithsonian Folkways

Los Texmaniacs / “Mexico Americano” / Cruzando Borders / Smithsonian Folkways

Anna & Elizabeth / “Woman is Walking” / The Invisible Comes to Us / Smithsonian Folkways

Kaia Kater / “Canyonland” / Grenades / Smithsonian Folkways

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways