In honor of Labor Day, this week's "Sunday Supper" toasts working class heroes, like David Bromberg, Jason Isbell, Billy Bragg, Miranda Hardy, and, yes, Johnny Paycheck.
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The prolific and prodigiously talented Elvis Costello hits the Big 7-0 this week, a cause for celebration on "Sunday Supper."
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In between the Olympics and the Democratic convention, "Sunday Supper" opens this week with odes to joy by Lucinda Williams, Josh Ritter, Stevie Wonder, Buskin & Batteau, and others.
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This week's "Sunday Supper" welcomes the veteran guitarist, singer and songwriter Chris Smither for a session in Studio A. Though he's pushing 80, his playing and singing have never sounded better!
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Technically this weekend is the midway point between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox, so summer turns to high on this week's "Sunday Supper" with midsummer songs.
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Never succumbing to this summer's heat wave, this week's "Sunday Supper" supplies a cool playlist, including Andrew Bird's unconventional take on jazz standards, Sunday Morning Put-On, along with new music by Willie Nelson, Adeem the Artist, Maya De Vitry, Erin Ash Sullivan, and more.
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This Sunday is the 14th of July, the birth of French Independence, a.k.a. Bastille Day. As an unabashed Francophile, I'll offer some songs with a French accent by the likes of The Beatles, Fairport Convention, Jesse Winchester, and Kate & Anna McGarrigle.
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At the age of 83, folk troubadour Tom Rush is at the top of his game. "Sunday Supper" has proof with the session he and sideman/producer extraordinaire Matt Nakoa did in Studio A, which you can hear this week.
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In honor of Independence Day, this week's "Sunday Supper" offers songs about the American Dream, by Paul Simon, Sierra Ferrell, John Mellencamp, and others, including a cover of "American Girl" by Dierks Bentley from the new release, Petty Country: A Celebration of Tom Petty.
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On the first Sunday of a long, hot summer, "Sunday Supper" offers a musical ice pack. I'll have a 50th birthday salute to singer-songwriter-sideman-producer Mark Erelli. I'll tap into the new CDs by erstwhile (but friendly) spouses Richard and Linda Thompson.
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You can call them Ray. This week's "Sunday Supper" toasts a couple of birthday boys named Ray (though 30 years apart) - Ray Davies and Ray LaMontagne. I'll also celebrate Father's Day, of course, with songs about fathers by both men and women and introduce three new releases by the daughters of musical dads (Miranda Hardy, Grace Pettis, and the Chapin Sisters).
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With many June weddings on the calendar, "Sunday Supper" hoists a glass to some married musical couples with new releases: Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Catherine Miles & Jay Mafale, Mad Agnes, The Black Feathers, and The Honey Badgers.
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Banjo eminence Tony Trischka, famed as Bela Fleck's teacher and Steve Martin's Grammy-winning producer, comes to "Sunday Supper" this week for a studio session, joined by some of Brooklyn's finest roots musicians.
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Amid traffic jams and barbecues, "Sunday Supper" has a musical respite for Memorial Day. Most intriguing is an unreleased song by Christine Lavin, in which she used A.I. to create her brother's voice reading a letter by their father to their mother during World War II.
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With his 83rd birthday on Friday, "Sunday Supper" presents our annual survey of recent Bob Dylan covers, including such diverse artists as Antje Duvekot, Erik Balkey, Jimmy Buffett, Duke Robillard, Ray Lambiase, and Cat Power (who's reimagined Dylan's entire 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert).
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Who needs flowers or candy when you can give your mother the gift of music? "Sunday Supper" can offer enticing selections from musical mothers Brandi Carlile, Dar Williams, Jen Chapin, and Josie Bello, including new releases by Ani DiFranco, Ana Egge, and Anais Mitchell (in her Bonny Light Horseman guise).
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With Cinco de Mayo on the calendar, it's "Buenas tardes," with a Mexican theme framing this week's "Sunday Supper."
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It's always been a challenge to "Sunday Supper" that the birthdays of Pete Seeger and Judy Collins collide on the calendar. On this week's show we'll solve that by toasting them both — Judy's 85th on Wednesday and Pete's 105th on Friday — in a joint medley.
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This week's "Sunday Supper" celebrates the 54th annual Earth Day with iconic songs by the likes of Tom Paxton, Steve Forbert, Pete Seeger, Bruce Cockburn, Talking Heads, and Joni Mitchell, plus lesser known but equally compelling artists.
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The daffodils, forsythia, and magnolias are in bloom, so it must be spring - and time for WFUV's spring member drive! I'll have some music to celebrate the season and more on this week's "Sunday Supper."
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