This week on Folk Alley, we continue our Black History Month celebration, highlighting iconic Black folk and blues musicians—alongside the artists they’ve influenced. Hear music from Muddy Waters, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and more.
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If you only pay attention, interact, or share one thing from Saving Country Music, make it be this playlist. It’s all about boiling it all down to the songs, artists, and albums that are saving country music right here, right now.
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Here’s this week’s playlist, complete with Spotify links so you can find the song you heard on the show you want on your personal playlist! You can send us a request for next week’s show by filling out our contact form, or sending an email to requests@appalachianechoes.com.
Updating one of his songs for the current political climate. Billy Strings was in Nashville last night for the first of two sold-out shows at Bridgestone Arena, and during the show he changed the lyrics to his song “Wargasm” to call out ICE. The anti-war anthem, released in 2021 as a duet with rapper RMR, questions the wisdom behind sending our own men and women to fight other countries for seemingly no good reason: “I see it comin’ everywhere I […]
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Willie Colón, a legendary Grammy-winning salsa artist, has passed away at 75. No details regarding the cause of death have been shared.
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