Shows: Folk

Watch sagebrush tumble past your busy city slicker life as you tune in to our Folk shows. Our DJs dish up eclectic blues; traditional French; Irish traditional music; American traditional, old-time, and hillbilly music; and classic country.

Monday

Start Stop Show DJ  
5:00pm 6:30pm

A Feast of Irish Folk

Irish music, from the latest releases to traditional masters.
Mary
& Erik

Tuesday

9:00pm 10:00pm

Jam Time Radio Hour

The best in early rock ’n’ roll.
Ryan Lavery

Wednesday

4:00pm 5:00pm

Avi

An eclectic mix of folk, folk rock, and country rock.
Avi
5:00pm 6:00pm

Up and Down Rampart

Spreading the sound of all that is righteous and good from the streets of New Orleans.
Slim Pope
6:00pm 7:00pm

Adorable Illusions

Listen to Adorable Illusions for a wide variety of folk covers, ranging from Japanese ukelele versions of 50s swing, to ironic acoustic guitar cover of rap songs, to Andrews Sisters style close harmony covers of indie pop, to bluegrass versions of hair metal. Adorable Illusions also features earnest renditions of everyone's folk-y favorites, so tune in!
Nina Trumbo
    — Alternating with —  

Souled and New

Do you need more soul in your life? Here, we believe the answer is always yes, bringing you a balanced diet of soul, Stax,Motown, girl group, Wall of Sound, and everyfunk in between (Egyptian Shumba included). We'll also trace the genres to today's music, linking the old with the new, the classics with the rediscovered gems. So, tune in, find out that new dance craze, and get down.
Julia

Friday

10:00am 11:30am

From the Dark End of the Street

“The Dark End of the Street”, written by a white hipster from rural Alabama and a Memphis session musician and producer and sung by an ex-Gospel singer in 1967, is the greatest cheating song ever and the perfect soul ballad. Later covered by California hippies, country duets, and group harmonizers. Dan Penn, Chips Moman, James Carr, and other heroes of Southern music can be heard every week here: from Muscles Shoals, Memphis, Nashville, Austin, and Lafayette, Louisiana into your home on the South Side of Chicago.
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Ryan Jackson
11:30am 1:00pm

The Shape I’m In

Insurgent country.
Squirrel Dundee

Sunday

9:00pm 10:00pm

Boppin’ with Bob

Classic rockabilly.
Bob Miner