It’s April, so, on this week’s show, we welcome the Spring with a shower of songs from Anne Hills, Claudia Schmidt, Tom Rush, Friction Farm, Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem and many more. It’s bustin’ out all over … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #21-14: So Early in the Spring

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

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

Bruce Molsky / “Apple Blossom” / Warring Cats / Tree Frog

John Renbourn / “So Early in the Spring” / So Early in the Spring / Sanctuary

Anne Hills / “Glad for the Spring” / Beauty Attends / Collective Works

Elixir / “Sprout” / Rampant / Self-Produced

Claudia Schmidt / “You Musi Believe in Spring” / Big Earful / Red House

Tom Rush / “Mother Earth” / Merrimac County / Columbia

Lizzy Plotkin & Natalie Spears / “Sweet Song in the Tall Grass” / Just Over the Ridge / Self-Produced

Bruce Molsky / “Muddy Creek” / Warring Cats / Tree Frog

Tim Grimm / “25 Trees” / Gone / Vault

The Hushpuppies / “Honeysuckle” / Homestead on the Farm / Old 97 Wrecords

Friction Farm / “Robin” / Evidence of Hope / Self-Produced

Jeffrey Foucault / “Cold Spring Bark River” / Deadstock / Blue Blade

Tim O'Brien / “Little Annie” / Where the River Meets the Road / Howdy Skies

Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem / “Joy Comes Back” / Big Old Life / Signature Sounds

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