Playlist week of 23rd May 2015

2015-05-23

23rd May 2015 – BBCPlaylist

Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire Show playlist May 23, 2015

10th Anniversary show, listener requests.
New music from Kacey Musgraves and Hunter Hayes.

@CRoutesNews @BBCShropshire CONGRATS MARIE!!! 10 awesome years of great music! Keep it country :)

— Holly Norman (@hollydolly11) May 23, 2015

Nanci Griffith - Listen  To The Radio | Album: Storms (1989) CD (The song that opened up the show 23rd May 2005)

Mac Wiseman - My Little Home In Tennessee | Album: Fire in My Heart - The Songs of Mac Wiseman MP3 (May 23, 1925) BIRTHDAY

Tanya Tucker - Tennessee Woman | Album: Tennessee Woman (1990) CD (Marie’s fav artist of all time)

Dar Williams - Weight Of The World | Album: Emerald NEW CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com 

Hunter Hayes – 21 NEW Single (For Lee in Crewe)

Rosanne Cash & Bobby Bare - No Memories Hangin’ Around | Album: Hits 1979 – 1989 MP3 (1979) (May 24, 1955) BIRTHDAY

Ags Connolly - I Met James Hand | Album: How About Now CD - MP3 - UK iTunes

The Haley Sisters - When I Stopped Dreaming | Album: The Early Years (1990)

Dominic Kirwan & Mary Duff - Paradise Tonight NEW Single Touring show "Together In Concert" (DK Records 2015)

Bobbie Cryner - You Think He’d know Me Better | Album: Girl of Your Dreams (1996) CD 

Jim Reeves - The Blizzard | Album: The Essential Jim Reeves MP3 

Petticoat Junction - What A Change One Day Makes | Album: Lonely Old Depot MP3 (1993; Pinecastle Records)

Clint Eastwood – Rowdy | Album: Collection Supreme Clint Eastwood MP3

Joni Harms - Hometown Girl | Album: Hometown Girl CD (1990) 

Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm | Album: The Common Linnets MP3 – UK iTunes - Amazon.com

Kacey Musgraves - High Time NEW Single | Album: Pageant Material CD (out 23 June)

Daryle Singletary - Say Hello To Heaven | Album: There's Still a Little Country Left NEW CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com

Donna Ulisse - Papa’s Garden | Album: The Songwriter in Me:The Demo Recordings (March 2015) NEW MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com

Dan Seals - God Must Be a Cowboy | Album: Rebel Heart MP3

Joey & Rory - He’s a Cowboy | Album: His and Hers (2012) CD

Fayssoux Starling McLean & Tom T Hall - I Made A Friend Of A Flower Today | Album: I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow (2011) CD (Tom T Hall; May 25, 1936)

Steve Earle - Johnny Come Lately | Album: Copperhead Road (1989) CD

Vince Gill - Which Bridge To Cross, which Bridge To Burn | Album: When Love Finds You (1994) CD

Kathy Mattea (w/ Emmylou Harris) - What Could Have Been | Album: Time Passes By CD

Gary Stewart - Ten Years Of This | Album: The Essential CD (May 28, 1945; died Dec 16, 2003 (aged 59)) BIRTHDAY  

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer – Names | Album: Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer CD

Delta Reign – Thankful  | Album: Nothing But Sky NEW MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com

New on The Show

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer

“Names” -  ”Just our kind of country this” -  Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire

Genre: GRAMMY Winning folk/swing/old time & kids music

Home Town: KENSINGTON, Maryland

Record Label: Community Music, Song Shop, Rounder

Influences: Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, Bob Wills, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens, Patsy Montana....

Two-Time Grammy Award Winners, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are a formidable powerhouse of sound, with a repertoire of traditional and contemporary folk, old-time country and swing music.

Marie's super obscure
discovery (1989)
 

They have been nominated for a total of ELEVEN Grammy Awards, and won two GRAMMY Awards for BON APPETIT! MUSICAL FOOD FUN and “cELLAbration: A Tribute to Ella Jenkins”, in the Best Musical Album for Children category. In 2003, they were nominated for three Grammy awards, including their eclectic CD, “POSTCARDS” in the Best Traditional Folk Album category. Also nominated in Trad. Folk for "Live in the UK: Tom Paxton with Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer".

Their superb harmonies are backed by instrumental virtuosity on the acoustic & electric guitar, five-string banjo, mandolin, cello banjo, ukulele, percussion and many other instruments. Top it off with a witty stage presence and warm audience rapport and you’ve got a well loved music duo.

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer Discography

Their latest album DANCIN' IN THE KITCHEN was released on March 10, 2015 (Amazon.com - Review) Amazom.com: This first of its kind CD celebrates diverse families, including one parent and two parents households, grandparents raising their grandchildren, gay and lesbian parents, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children, extended family like cousins and uncles, adoptive families, mixed race families, identical twins, blended families and even pets. The album not only reflects the growing diversity of family structures in the U.S. and around the world, it highlights the idea that families are bound by love...

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