Deer Tracks

We take a special look at a couple traditional ballads and some literary ballads.

Works for this episode:
"John Henry" traditional ballad performed by Pete Seeger from his Smithsonian Folkways album American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1

"Barbary Allen" traditional ballad performed by Jean Ritchie from her Smithsonian Folkways album Jean Ritchie: Ballads from Her Appalachian Family Tradition

"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats
"La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad" by John Keats

To submit your work to be heard on a future episode or seen on our blog site, email James at [email protected]

In this episode James discusses his approach to songwriting specifically for his album One Man Garage Band.

Songs featured from the album are:
"Old John Henry"
"Wake Up From Your Dreams (Open Your Eyes)"
"Back in the Light"

To purchase a copy of James' album as well as learn more about his other projects go to: jrkibbymusic.bandcamp.com

Also, check out my friend Trevor's business Imprint Coffee Roasting by going to: imprintcoffeeroasting.com

To hear your creative work on a future episode or see it on our blog site, email James at [email protected]

Poems for this episode:

"The Snow-Storm" by RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"A Noiseless Patient Spider" by WALT WHITMAN
"Difference" by STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT
"The Pearl" by GEORGE HERBERT


To submit your work to be heard on a future episode send it to: [email protected]

For this episode we hear a couple short stories:

"Hope" by Elizabeth Mitchell
"Farewell Earthlings" by Thomas H. Iak

To submit your creative work for a chance to see it on our blog site or hear it on a future episode, email it to: [email protected] 

Poems for this episode:

"Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore" by William Shakespeare
"The House on the Hill" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Song: Memory, hither come" by William Blake
"I Love all Beauteous Things" by Robert Bridges


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Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most prolific figures in American literature. We enjoy some of his poems on this episode:

-The Conqueror Worm
-The Haunted Palace
-"Alone"
-The Raven

To submit your work to be heard on a future episode just email it to [email protected]

James interviews painter and songwriter Olivia Haas about her work. Go to deertrackspodcast.blog to see a sample of some of her paintings as well as a video of her painting in the recording studio while working on her debut EP "Peace in the Waiting."

For more about Olivia's paintings follow her on Facebook and Instagram @livjoyartwork.

Listen to Olivia's EP "Peace in the Waiting" on platforms like Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon Music, and Spotify.

James sits down with Buffalo singer-songwriter Evan Anstey to discuss his two releases, Recent Time - EP (2016) & We Will Be At Peace (2018).

Here is a link to Evan's music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1XkQuLGiy35nHEvD6pyozI

Here is a link to Evan's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/EvanAnsteyMusic

To watch James and Evan discuss their project titled The Weekend Preacher go here:

And don't forget to check out our blog site deertrackspodcast.blog

Welcome to another season of the Deer Tracks podcast! We've got some great things in store as we voyage through new waters.

Poems for this episode:
"Over the Sea our Galleys Went" by Robert Browning
"The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold
"The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Eternal Father, Strong to Save" by William Whiting

Check out our new blog site: www.deertrackspodcast.blog

Submit a work of your own to be heard on an upcoming episode by emailing it to [email protected]

For the final episode of this season I've thrown in some Shakespeare and an American classic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
 
 Thank you to everyone who has tuned in and listened to these episodes. I look forward to another season!
 
 Poems for this episode:
 
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? by William Shakespeare
When the Morning Comes (Civil War Ballad) by James Kibby
The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music heard during The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride courtesy of the Mountaineer Fifes and Drums from West Virginia University's College of Creative Arts. Click here to check out their music.