There's more than candy and flowers to Valentine's Day. Tuesday is also Eric Andersen's 80th birthday, so I'll salute him on this week's "Sunday Supper" with a set of covers and an encore of a 2018 session we did in Studio A.
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With "Sunday Supper" now extended to two hours as Bob Sherman has stepped down from "Woody's Children," I have the luxury this week of spotlighting a number of nominees for this week's Grammy Awards.
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This week's "Sunday Supper" honors two major musical figures as they exit the stage.
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This week's "Sunday Supper" has birthday bookends, opening with songs by James Taylor and Nina Simone in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day and closing with a shout out to Janis Joplin, who would've been 80 on Thursday.
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This week's "Sunday Supper" remembers Ian Tyson, best known for the duo Ian & Sylvia, who died on December 29 at his Alberta ranch.
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January is named for the two-faced Roman god Janus.
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On Christmas Day "Sunday Supper" presents the annual "Festival of Holiday Songs." Whether your day is merry, holy, old-fashioned, or none of the above, I've got songs for you.
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This Sunday is just three days before the Winter Solstice, as we look forward to the days getting longer. It's the season when cultures over the centuries have celebrated the coming of the light.
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As the days grow ever shorter, this weeks "Sunday Supper" looks into the dark for musical companionship.
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This week's "Sunday Supper" offers posthumous toasts to three favorite artists whose birthdays would've been this week: pioneer of Appalachian music Jean Ritchie (100), fellow Long Islander and activist Harry Chapin (80), and son of South Gregg Allman (75).
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"Sunday Supper" remembers two outstanding guitarists this week: Jimi Hendrix, who would have turned 80 on Sunday, and Danny Kalb, founder of the seminal NYC band, the Blues Project, who died on November 19.
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In this season of Thanksgiving, I'm grateful I can share the music I love on "Sunday Supper." On this week's show I'll play some Thanksgiving favorites, from John McCutcheon, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Loudon Wainwright, David Roth, Morley, Natalie Merchant, and Fairport Convention, plus new additions from Roger Street Friedman and Jess Klein.
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After a couple of classic autumn songs by Van Morrison and Leslie Odom, Jr., this week's "Sunday Supper" is something of a fall cleanup of new releases.
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As we fall back into Eastern Standard Time,this week's "Sunday Supper" opens with a couple of songs for the change of time by Josh Ritter and Jefferson Berry.
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While many folks will be celebrating Halloween and All Saints Day this week, this week's "Sunday Supper" will celebrate a couple of significant birthdays: American treasure Tom Paxton's 85th on Monday and long tall Texan Lyle Lovett's 65th on Tuesday.
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This week's "Sunday Supper" is a repeat from April, 2021. I'll have a medley of songs about believing, including Tim Hardin, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Jones, Susan Werner, and Stevie Wonder.
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Sunday Supper is excited to present the radio premiere of "Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen" ln this week's show, with an unreleased recording from the early '70s of Bob Dylan covering a classic Eric Andersen tune.
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Back in 1979 the Koch administration established the short-lived John Hour to shame men who were patrons of prostitutes. This week's "Sunday Supper" is a totally different kind of John Hour, toasting several musical Johns.
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This week's "Sunday Supper" opens with odes to October by U2 and Wendy Colonna, then segues into a medley of Woody Guthrie songs by Tom Chapin, The Klezmatics, and Scott Wolfson & Other Heroes to honor the 55th anniversary of Woody's passing.
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Marcus Mumford has just released his first full-length solo album, (self-titled), a very personal project. My favorite track is "How," a tune he wrote and recorded with Brandi Carlile, which I'll share on this week's "Sunday Supper."
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