In his first album of original material in eight years, The Million Things That Never Happened, Billy Bragg offers "Reflections on the Mirth of Creativity."
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On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, "Sunday Supper" won't be serving cold turkey, but Hot Tuna, by way of a Jorma Kaukonen instrumental.
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This week's "Sunday Supper" will set the table for Thanksgiving with songs from David Roth, Jesse Palidofsky, Sarah McQuaid, and Herdman, Hills & Mangsen, plus classic comedy by Stan Freberg.
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An unexpected bonus of attending Brandi Carlile's tribute to Joni Mitchell's Blue at Carnegie Hall was encountering Jon Batiste in the lobby before the concert. Sensing that he was approachable, I told him how much his music meant to me and WFUV.
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This Sunday is Joni Mitchell's 78th birthday and "Sunday Supper" is not about to ignore that! I'll be playing an unreleased track from the new 5-CD boxed set Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 2 (The Reprise Years 1968-1971).
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October's going out with a bang on this week's "Sunday Supper." In addition to a couple of October songs by Kathy Mattea and Megon McDonough, I'll celebrate k.d. lang's 60th birthday on Tuesday…
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This week's "Sunday Supper" has a two-fer by one of music's MVP's, Jason Isbell: he plays on the new John Prine tribute album, Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows, Vol. 2: and he put together the benefit album, Georgia Blue…
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This week’s “Sunday Supper” opens with “You and Me on the Rock” from Brandi Carlile’s brand-new album, In These Silent Days. Think of it instead as “You and Me on the Radio,” as WFUV is counting down the last few hours of our not-so-silent five-day member drive.
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"How terribly strange to be 70," Paul Simon wrote on "Old Friends." This week as he hits the Big 8-0 the "Sunday Supper" recalls "The Afterlife" and other sardonic songs he's written.
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"Sunday Supper" welcomes a pair of new septuagenarians this week: Gordon Sumner and Kevin Moore, better known by their noms de musique, Sting and Keb' Mo'. The charisma and energy they exude makes 70 a meaningless milestone.
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Environmental activist Dar Williams addresses the urgency of climate change on "Today and Every Day" on I'll Meet You Here, her first album in six years. Always a fan of the songwriter extraordinaire, I'll share the song on this week's "Sunday Supper."
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Ana Egge is a songwriter's songwriter, admired by the likes of Lucinda Williams and Ron Sexsmith. Her new album, Between Us, while sonically edgier than some of her previous ones, concludes with the tender, heartfelt tribute to her nephew, "We Lay Roses."
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Twenty years ago this weekend the Twin Towers fell, and our world changed forever. This week's "Sunday Supper" will commemorate that infamous day and, as important, the heroes and the healing that followed.
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More than 10 years ago, Loudon Wainwright observed, "I'm older than my old man now." That's even more true as he turns 75 this week, and the "Sunday Supper" celebrates the birthday of a singular artist.
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Diana Jones's extraordinary Song to a Refugee was the #1 album for July on the Folk DJ chart. She's long been one of favorite artists, and I was thrilled when we could arrange a studio session (my first in 17 months!) at Hobo Sound in Weehawken with her producer, the multi-talented David Mansfield. That session will highlight this week's "Sunday Supper."
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Music fans were heartbroken when they heard that a singer-songwriter with a pure voice and great empathy, Nanci Griffith, had passed away in Nashville. This week's "Sunday Supper" will offer some excerpts of a conversation I had with her in 1998 at Atlantic Recording Studios in NYC.
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The dog days of August are brightened by a couple of significant birthdays.
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I've been out of town this week, so I decided to air an encore of a favorite show from 2020 with nothing but covers - all of them from the past year.
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A true American treasure, Tony Bennett, turns 95, believe it not, on Tuesday. Although his mind may be going, thanks to Alzheimer's Disease, like Glen Campbell, his voice remains strong. Ever indefatigable, he plans concerts with Lady Gaga on Tuesday and Thursday at Radio City Music Hall.
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Anytime Jackson Browne releases a new album, my ears perk up, and Downhill from Everywhere doesn't disappoint. Now a grandfather(!), he can look at the world and his own life with renewed wisdom and empathy.
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