American Troudabour

Jake Spoon

Thursday 4AM-6AM

American Troubadour with Jake Spoon is an exploration of folk, country, and blues. Between songs you will hear selections from great American poets and some insight into folk musicians of our past and present and the stories they tell.

  • March 03, 2022

    • David Laing "House of Green" [Equilibrium: Songs of Nature and Humanity]
    • Yusuf / Cat Stevens "If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out" [Tea For The Tillerman (Super Deluxe)]
    • Dave Van Ronk "Georgie and the Irt" [Down in Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection]
    • John Fahey "Requiem For John Hurt" [Requia And Other Compositions]
    • Ian & Sylvia "Four Strong Winds" [Four Strong Winds]
    • Odetta "The Times They Are A-Changin'" [Odetta Sings Dylan]
    • Rob Coffinshaker "In the Pines" [Dark Rollin' Skies EP]
    • Pete Seeger "One Grain of Sand" [Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection]
    • Jack Rose "Cross The North Fork" [Kensington Blues]
    • Joan Baez "I Wish The Wars Were All Over" [Whistle Down The Wind]
    • Terry Callier "900 Miles" [The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier (Deluxe Edition)]
    • Rosalie Sorrels "The Wreck of the Old Number Nine" [Folk Songs of Idaho and Utah]
    • David Laing "Gold in the Morning Sun / Roving Mind (medley)" [Equilibrium: Songs of Nature and Humanity]
    • Василь Зінкевич "Червона Рута (1970) [feat. Анс. Смерічка]" [Шедеври Українскої Эстради: Червона Рута, Vol. 4]
    • DakhaBrakha "Шо з-под дуба" [Yahudky]
    • Joe Glazer "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" [I Will Win: Songs of the Wobblies]
    • Joe Glazer "50,000 Lumberjacks" [I Will Win: Songs of the Wobblies]
    • Joe Glazer "Workingman Unite" [I Will Win: Songs of the Wobblies]
    • Jeff Cahill "The Organizer - Live / 1984" [IWW Rebel Voices: Songs Of The Industrial Workers Of The World (Live / 1984)]
    • Tom Waits "Long Way Home" [Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Remastered)]
    • Karen Dalton "When a Man Loves a Woman" [In My Own Time]
    • Bedouine "One of These Days" [Bedouine (Deluxe)]
    • Exuma "You Don't Know What's Going On" [Exuma, The Obeah Man]
    • Jack Rose "Kensington Blues" [Kensington Blues]
    • Creedence Clearwater Revival "Who'll Stop The Rain" [Cosmo's Factory]
    • The Shangri-Las "The Train From Kansas City" [The Best Of The Shangri-Las]
    • F. J. McMahon "Five Year Kansas Blues" [Spirit of the Golden Juice]
    • Mimi And Richard Farina "Reno Nevada" [Celebrations For A Grey Day]
    • Kenny Baker "Jerusalem Ridge" [Plays Bill Monroe]
    • Pete Drake "The Spook" [The Fabulous Steel Guitar Sound of Pete Drake]
    • Fred Neil "That's The Bag I'm In" [Fred Neil]
    • Norma Tanega "Treat Me Right" [Walkin' My Cat Named Dog]
    • Bob Weir "Big Iron" [Kingfish]

  • January 06, 2022

    • Phil Ochs "When I'm Gone" [There But For Fortune]

  • December 09, 2021

    American Troubadour 4

    • Joan Baez "Away In A Manger - French Version" [Noel]
    • Joan Baez "Down In Yon Forrest" [Noel]
    • Shawn Phillips "Man Hole Covered Wagon" [Contribution]
    • Raye Zaragoza "They Say" [Woman in Color]
    • Peggy Seeger "All in the Mind" [First Farewell]
    • Tyler Childers "Long Violent History" [Long Violent History]
    • Jim & Jesse "The River Of Jordan" [Y'all Come: The Essential Jim & Jesse]
    • Billy Strings "Know It All" [Renewal]
    • Sturgill Simpson "All the Pretty Colors" [Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)]
    • Leftover Salmon "Black Hole Sun" [Brand New Good Old Days]
    • Emmylou Harris "Bury Me Beneath the Willow" [Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited]
    • The Hillbilly Thomists "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" [The Hillbilly Thomists]
    • The Byrds "Satisfied Mind" [Turn! Turn! Turn!]
    • David Laing "Golden Stream- The Ballad of Glen Canyon" [Equilibrium: Songs of Nature and Humanity]
    • Weyes Blood "Wild Time" [Titanic Rising]
    • Bruce Cockburn "Going To The Country" [Bruce Cockburn]
    • Mimi And Richard Farina "Pack Up Your Sorrows" [Celebrations For A Grey Day]
    • The Left Banke "Walk Away Renee" [Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina]
    • The Ronettes "Paradise" [Be My Baby: The Very Best of The Ronettes]
    • Bob Marley & The Wailers "Redemption Song" [Uprising]
    • Philippe McKenzie "Mistashipu" [Native North America (Vol. 1) : Aboriginal Folk, Rock, And Country 1966-1985]
    • Marisa Anderson "Hurricane Light" [Lost Futures]
    • Loretta Lynn "In the Pines" [Full Circle]
    • Raye Zaragoza "He Calls Me River" [Woman in Color]
    • The Seldom Scene "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" [Long Time... Seldom Scene]
    • Melanie "Peace Will Come (According To Plan)" [Leftover Wine]
    • Buck Owens "My Heart Skips a Beat" [Together Again / My Heart Skips a Beat]
    • Robert Charlebois "Les ailes d'un ange" [Québec Love]
    • Estil Ball "The Early Bird Always Gets The Worm" [E.C. Ball With Orna Ball]
    • Beatrice Deer "Immutaa" [My All To You]
    • Peter, Paul and Mary "Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway)" [Moving]
    • Paul Robeson "John Brown's Body" [Paul Robeson]

  • November 11, 2021

    American Troubadour 3

    • Carpenters "We've Only Just Begun" [Close To You]
    • Barbara Dane "Nine Hundred Miles" [Anthology of American Folk Songs]
    • Dave Van Ronk "Samson And Delilah" [Folksinger]
    • Tennis "Marathon" [Cape Dory]
    • Judy Collins "Both Sides Now" [Wildflowers]
    • Joni Mitchell "For Free" [Ladies of the Canyon]
    • Simon & Garfunkel "Bleecker Street" [Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.]
    • John Renbourn "Bermuda Triangle Exit" [Snap A Little Owl]
    • Big Thief "The Toy" [Two Hands]
    • Haley Heynderickx "The Bug Collector" [I Need to Start a Garden]
    • Father John Misty "Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution" [Pure Comedy]
    • Seu Jorge "Life On Mars?" [The Life Aquatic Exclusive Studio Sessions Featuring Seu Jorge]
    • The Raconteurs "Old Enough" [Consolers of the Lonely]
    • The Cactus Blossoms "Mississippi" [You're Dreaming]
    • Ted Hawkins "Sorry You're Sick" [Watch Your Step]
    • Buffy Sainte-Marie "The Circle Game" [Fire Fleet And Candlelight]
    • Laura Veirs "Sun Song" [Warp and Weft]
    • Carolyn Hester "Summertime" [Carolyn Hester]
    • Glenn Jones "Spokane River Falls" [Fleeting]
    • Matthew Fowler "I’m Still Trying" [The Grief We Gave Our Mother]
    • June Carter Cash "Ring of Fire" [Ring Of Fire]
    • Willie Watson "Midnight Special" [Folk Singer Vol. 1]
    • Blackbird Raum "String Follow" [False Weavers]
    • Ewan MacColl "The Shoals of Herring" [Black and White]
    • Seals and Crofts "The Euphrates" [Summer Breeze]
    • Eddie Hazel "What About It?" [Game, Dames And Guitar Thangs]
    • The Lemon Twigs "Moon" [Songs for the General Public]
    • Violent Femmes "Gone Daddy Gone" [Violent Femmes]
    • Doc Watson "House Of The Rising Sun" [Third Generation Blues]
    • Clyde and the Milltailers "Root" [.Root.]
    • Mama's Broke "Count the Wicked" [Count the Wicked]
    • St. Cinder "El Paso Song" [Vagabond Dreams]

  • October 28, 2021

    American Troubadour 2

    • Bob Dylan "Song to Woody" [Bob Dylan]
    • Richard Dawson "Ogre" [Peasant]
    • Hala Strana "Pogonishtë" [Fielding]
    • Joan Baez "Song In The Blood" [Baptism]
    • Tom Waits "The Earth Died Screaming" [Bone Machine]
    • Paul Cauthen "Everybody Walkin' This Land" [Everybody Walkin' This Land]
    • Scott Walker "The Seventh Seal" [Scott 4]
    • Dock Boggs "Oh Death" [Dock Boggs: Legendary Singer and Banjo Player]
    • C.W. Stoneking "The Zombie" [Gon' Boogaloo]
    • Townes Van Zandt "Lungs - Live" [Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas]
    • Joe Hickerson "Joe Hill's Last Will" [Drive Dull Care Away Volume I]
    • John Fahey "Sunflower River Blues - Re-Recorded Version" [Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes]
    • Tia Blake "Turtle Dove" [Folksongs & Ballads]
    • Jean Ritchie "Jubilee" [Singing The Traditional Songs Of Her Kentucky Mountain Family]
    • The Kossoy Sisters "In the Pines" [Bowling Green and Other Folk Songs from the Southern Mountains]
    • Neil Young "Tell Me Why" [After the Gold Rush (2009 Remaster)]
    • Ramblin' Jack Elliott "Dink's Song" [New York City Folk]
    • Cisco Houston "Passing Through" [The Folkways Years, 1944-1961]
    • Hazel Dickens "The Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia" [Hazel & Alice]
    • Dolly Parton "Wildflowers - 2015 Remaster" [Trio (Remastered)]
    • Daniel Johnston "And Then She Kissed Me" [Merry Christmas]
    • Peggy Seeger "Song of Choice" [Folkways Years, 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics]
    • The Song Swappers "Miner's Lifeguard" [Talking Union and Other Union Songs]
    • David Rovics "Battle Of Blair Mountain" [Songs For Mahmud]
    • Joe Glazer "The Rebel Girl" [I Will Win: Songs of the Wobblies]
    • Utah Phillips "Casey Jones '” The Union Scab" [We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years]
    • Entertainment Workers IU 630 with Utah Phillips "There is Power in a Union" [Don't Mourn-Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill]
    • Billy Bragg "Joe Hill" [The Internationale]
    • Joan Baez "Joe Hill - Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair / 1969" [Live At Woodstock]
    • Mark Levy "Joe Hill's Ashes" [Don't Mourn-Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill]
    • Utah Phillips "Joe Hill's Last Will" [Don't Mourn-Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill]
    • Unspecified "The Preacher and the Slave" [Don't Mourn-Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill]

  • October 14, 2021

    American Troubadour 1

    • Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone" [Highway 61 Revisited]
    • Phil Ochs "Changes" [There But For Fortune]
    • Tom Paxton "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" [Ain't That News]
    • Joan Baez "Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South" [One Day At A Time]
    • Odetta "I Never Will Marry" [Odetta Sings Folk Songs]
    • Scrapper Blackwell "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" [Mr. Scrapper's Blues]
    • Richard Dawson "Scientist" [Peasant]
    • John Fahey "Night Train Of Valhalla" [Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6]
    • Bert Jansch "The Waggoner's Lad" [Jack Orion]
    • Jimmie Spheeris "I Am the Mercury" [Isle of View]
    • Dave Van Ronk "He Was A Friend Of Mine" [Folksinger]
    • Vashti Bunyan "I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind" [Just Another Diamond Day]
    • David Laing "Magic Mountain" [Equilibrium: Songs of Nature and Humanity]
    • Pete Seeger "Solidarity Forever" [If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle]
    • Woody Guthrie "Oregon Trail" [Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs]
    • Rev. Gary Davis "Cocaine Blues" [Pure Religion and Bad Company]
    • Nancy Sinatra "Arkansas Coal (Suite)" [Start Walkin' 1965-1976]
    • The Beach Boys "Big Sur" ["Feel Flows" The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Super Deluxe)]
    • Stone Poneys "Different Drum" [Evergreen, Vol.2]
    • Elizabeth Cotten and Brenda Evans "Jesus Lifted Me" [Shake Sugaree]
    • Elizabeth Cotten "Freight train" [Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes]
    • Elizabeth Cotten "Boddie's Song" [Elizabeth Cotten, Volume 3: When I'm Gone]
    • Hank Williams "Wealth Won't Save Your Soul" [I Saw The Light (Expanded Edition)]
    • Washington Phillips "Mother's Last Word To Her Son" [The Key To The Kingdom]
    • Joan Baez "Mama Tried" [One Day At A Time]
    • John Hammond "Get Behind The Mule" [Wicked Grin]
    • Son House "I want to live so God can use me" [Son House in Seattle 1968]
    • Billy Strings "Watch It Fall" [Home]
    • Shawn Phillips "Song For Sagittarians" [Second Contribution]
    • Marcus King "One Day She’s Here" [El Dorado]
    • Pete Seeger "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) - Live" [The Essential Pete Seeger]
    • Peter, Paul and Mary "Early Mornin' Rain" [See What Tomorrow Brings]
    • Mimi And Richard Farina "A Swallow Song" [Reflections In A Crystal Wind]