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  
4:00pm 5:00pm

Slight Return

Now your sons and daughters can experience the music you loved so many years ago, while you re-experience all those horribly wonderful acid trips.
A.N. Weiss
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

Music for Middle-Brow Snobs

The best in early rock ’n’ roll.
Noah

Wednesday

4:00pm 5:00pm

keep It simple

oldtime and bluegrass, early commercial, stringbands, country blues, field recordings, old radio, recent reissues and the latest in new traditional music.
Tucker
5:00pm 6:00pm

Folklore Society Show

The best in traditional music.
Edward Wallace
& Ezra
6:00pm 7:00pm

The Dusties Trail

The kind of country you won’t hear anywhere else.
Randy
    — Alternating with —  

Where the Remedies Are Fine

Lori

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