Song Of The Soul

Cody Diekhoff is Chicago Farmer, a consummate story-teller combined with heartfelt tunes & evocative voice. Coming of age when punk/grunge rock was the alternative thing, he got hooked on an alternative to the alternative by Hank Williams, leading to a kind of alt-country/folk/Americana style all his own. Cody is from a farming family in small-town Illinois, did good time in Chicago, and has settled in between with his wife, the artist creator of Twice Upon A String who makes Upcycled Instrument String Jewelry. All songs in this program are written & performed by Chicago Farmer: Everybody in this Town - from Backinforth, IL Backseat - from Backinforth, IL The Twenty Dollar Bill - from Backinforth, IL Umbrella - from Midwest Side Stories Two Sides of the Story - from Midwest Side Stories Farms & Factories - from Midwest Side Stories

Gem Andrews is born & raised in Northeast England, around Liverpool, so it was a bit of a surprise to find that the beautiful music she makes owes much to Americana and Alt-country influences. All the more since she's spent the last few years in Berlin, Germany. Honesty, vulnerability, and twang come powerfully through Gen's music. Unless otherwise noted, all songs in this program are written & performed by Gem Andrews: Ladybird - from Scatter, written by Nicky Rushton Calling - from Vancouver Letter - from North Sing Your Song - from North Lungs - from North Bare - from North Two by Two - from North

The Minnesota Music Coalition is a statewide network of artists, industry professionals and music supporters who care about creating and sustaining a vibrant popular music community. Ellen Stanley, aka Mother Banjo, is their executive director and shares samples of the wonderful work & music across genres from the coalition. Featured Music: Lift Us - by Chastity Brown from from Back-Road Highways Bound By a Thread - by Gaelynn Lea from All Changing Tides Harder to Hear - by Romantica from Shadowlands Runnin' - by PaviElle from Fear Not Time to Move Along - by The Lowland Lakers from The Mississippi Is Between Us Now Let's Begin - by Reina del Cid from Rerun City

Diane Patterson takes us on an odyssey of spirit-based music, close to the Earth. From moon lodge to addiction healing to holy rains to long roads, Diane sings evocatively of the power to change and be changed. All songs in this program are written & performed by Diane Patterson: High Sierra Morning - from World Awake There's A Medicine - from Teach, Inspire, Be Real Come On Rain - from Open Road Choose The Long Road - from Build A Bridge Original Air Date: 03/04/2018

Charlie Parr is a singer/songwriter dynamo, touring constantly & widely, sharing his down-home music of the American country blues genres. For a person who battles constantly with depression, his music is powerfully enlivening, played on either his 12-string or resonator guitars, or sometimes on his banjo. A life-long Minnesotan, Duluth is his occasional refuge from the road. All songs in this program are written & performed by Charlie Parr: Mastodon - from When the Devil Goes Blind Last Day - from When the Devil Goes Blind Badger - from Barnswallow Remember Me If I Forget - from Stumpjumper Hobo - from Dog Dog - from Dog Original Air Date: 02/17/2018

Sarah Morris is so much and so good, a sweet, kind voice of power in a woman with a spine of steel and a gift for words that make addressing Mansplaining a joy for all. With 4 CDs and her Toilet Tunes series, she's prolific, profound, and pro-fun. All songs in this program are written & performed by Sarah Morris: Hearts in Need of a Little Repair - from Hearts in Need of Repair Brighter - from Ordinary Things Course Correction - from Hearts in Need of Repair On a Stone - from Hearts in Need of Repair Confetti - from Hearts in Need of Repair Original Air Date: 02/10/2018

A revisit to 6 powerful performers from the end of 2017, sampling some of the musical styles we heard, including kirtan, pop, folk, rap/hip-hop, and country, and you'll encounter stories and songs from folk like Heidi Kalyani in Nova Scotia, Laura Joy in Chicago, Jen Hazen in Eau Claire instead of prison, Alex Mead in Buffalo, NY, David Wharnsby in Kitchener, Ontario, and Elizabeth Erin Kemler, with a cowgirl heart in New York. Click on their names to listen to the full interviews. Featured Music: Shakti Devi - by Heidi Kalyani Takes A While - by Laura Joy Prison Runs In My Family - by Jen Hazen All Winners - by Alex Mead/My Rap Name Is Alex Out Seeing the Fields - by David Wharnsby A Cowgirls Tale - by Elizabeth Erin Kemler

Mother Banjo (Ellen Stanley) is wonderful. In addition to her musical career, she is executive director of the Minnesota Music Coalition, and does a weekly show on station KFAI called Womenfolk. She writes all kinds of great music, with a special gift for creating new & impeccable gospel songs. She's shared the stage with many folks, among them Robert Bly and Tracy Grammar, and is coming near the end of fund-raising for her 5th album with a Kickstarter Campaign. Unless otherwise indicated, all songs in this program are written & performed by Mother Banjo: We Are Witness - from The Devil Hasn't Won Water - Watch the video Eyes on the Sky - home recording, projected title track for Proposed CD supported by Ellen's Kickstarter Campaign The Devil Hasn't Won - from The Devil Hasn't Won From This Valley - written by The Civil Wars, Recorded live at Cedar Cultural Center on 11/19/2017 Lots of Ways to Go Wrong - from The Devil Hasn't Won Will Your House Be Blessed - record live at KFAI Radio on 1/10/2018 Ori

A Song of the Soul collage from mid-2017 full of folkies, young & old, with tributes to Pete Seeger by Charlie King, a Quaker ballad by Paul Tinkerhess, a sing-along song with Peter & Annie, Anishinabe-rooted music with Bill Miller, and an heartful journey across America in song with Robinson & Rohe. Featured Music: Spoon of Sand - by Charlie King It's Pete - by Peggy Seeger Quaker Waltz - by Paul Tinkerhess Plant Me a Garden - written by Sally Rogers, performed live by Annie Patterson & Peter Blood Praises - by Bill Miller Hunger - written & performed by Liam Robinson & Jean Rohe

A rich sampling of the wonderful songs & guests of the first half of 2017, including Radmilla Cody, Irfan Ali Taj, Ashley Mazanec, Nici Peper, Billy Jonas, and Jean Rohe. An incredibly rich potluck of musical dishes! Featured Music: Beautiful Mother Earth - by Radmilla Cody Dunya Ju Baso - by Irfan Ali Taj & Zoe Viccajii Talk About the Weather - by Ashley Mazanec Two Old Coots - by Nici Peper God Is In - by Billy Jonas National Anthem - by Jean Rohe

Manifestive: The Holiday Album is a fund-raising gift to The Community Table from a generous flock of musicians in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin. Masterminded and led by Anastasia Vishnevsky and Danno, the songs include work by 12 other musicians. All songs are from the Manifestive: The Holiday Album, and include performances by several musicians, one of whom is noted with each song: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - includes Anastasia Vishnevsky Feliz Navidad - includes Brian Bethke Santa Baby - includes Sue Orfield Good King Wenceslas - includes Kai Ulrica God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - includes Peter Phippen

Idris Phillips has been making superb music with wonderful artists for close to 40 years, and finally he's released his first CD, Star By Moon, this one emphasizing his folk roots, but promising his jazz, blues, and other styles in future recordings. His guitar & keyboards are magic, and his lyrics triple-deep, in the listener's ear, in Idris' personal experience, & in the mystical truths they name. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Idris Phillips: Content - from Star By Moon Star by Moon - from Star By Moon I Still See You There - from Star By Moon FS Blues - from Star By Moon For You - from Star By Moon BONUS: If You Leave - released as single available on-line - lyrics by Qutaiba Al-Mahawili

Let Elizabeth Erin Kemler ride into your heart with her passionate songs related to The Weight of Mortal Skin. Elizabeth champions an array of organizations like Kids for Peace, Songs for a Cause, Hope Sings, and many others, while single parenting her son. The skin may be mortal, but not so the music. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Elizabeth Erin Kemler: Rise Up Singing - on The Weight of Mortal Skin Fated To Be Mine - on The Weight of Mortal Skin Bring it On - bootleg live performance recording A Cowgirls Tale - on The Weight of Mortal Skin Blood Red Love - on The Weight of Mortal Skin Original Air Date: 12/09/2017

Anastasia Vishnevsky shares her Buddhist soul locally as Manifest Eau Claire and as part of RavenWolf (with Kai Ulrica). Stasia does alchemy, mixing pain, errors, injury, blessings, & vision into golden music. Her CDs Trigger and She are planned for release in 2018, but you can see & hear her music on Bandcamp. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Anastasia Vishnevsky: Can I Get An Amen - from Trigger Shadow Self - from Trigger Soul Inside - from She Iowa - from She Black Dog - from She Out of Time - from She

For great folk music north-of-the-border, Dawud Wharnsby is the one. Homeboy of Kitchener, Ontario, with roots also in Syria and Pakistan, Dawud weaves nature, vulnerability, faith, truth, and universality into song, integrally linked to the Islamic path he walks. Occasionally he performs as part of the Abraham Jam, a Jewish-Christian-Muslim collaboration trio. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Dawud Wharnsby : Out Seeing the Fields Dear God Kalima The Truth That Lies Inside All of Us Original Air Date: 11/25/2017

Jim Page has been a fixture of Seattle's folk music scene since the early 1970's, including his successful campaign to legalize street performing through the city in 1974, and as one of the founder of the Pike Market Performers Guild, and their Busker Festival. In addition to strong folk roots, Jim has spent years in Ireland, and he's produced 23 records, the latest being A Hand Full of Songs. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Jim Page : Jim's Song Questions & Answers Collateral Damage Put It Down

Alex Mead is My Rap Name Is Alex, and he makes world-healing rap/hip-hop music in Buffalo, NY. A year-round bicyclist in a snowy land, a member of Bloodthirsty Vegans, and a reformed computer programmer, Alex combines tech savy with peace-justice-environmental passions to create absorbing music & videos. Subscribe to his YouTube channel here.. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Alex Mead : All Winners - view on YouTube Disseminate Information (live on the Greg Sterlace Show) - view on YouTube The Revolution May or May Not be Live Streamed - view on YouTube Toaster - view on YouTube

Jen Hazen has deep honesty and an awesome laugh, and both come through in the way she lights up the stage as part of the many constellations of music she occupies: Jenny & the Lost Boys, Jenny & the Jets, Girl Band, Milk & Whiskey, and Weapons of Brass Destruction, among others. In Jen's blog, you can learn more about Jen and her Music Heals recovery work with music at Arbor Place (and get the CD too). All the songs in this program are on the Music Heals CD, written & performed by Jen Hazen & friends, unless otherwise noted: Prison Runs In My Family Barbed Wire Kiss Shotgun Lullaby Muses & Angels - by Davey J

Weekdays, Jim Phillips is a mild-mannered Chemistry prof at UW-EC, but after hours to transforms into a singer/songwriter, well-favored bass guitarist who has found a reborn calling to music after dramatic changes in his life. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Jim Phillips, unless otherwise noted: Big Sky Wonder Train Bound for Nowhere Sail Away Slow Movin' Train World Gone Wrong - from Music Heals/Jen Hazen

Laura Joy won the Songwriter Contest at the Great River Folk Fest 2017, and it's no mystery why. The young Phoenix-to-Chicago transplant has talent for beyond her actual miles. And what's more, "Laura Joy has been known to quell dark, angry bars full of ornery old Irishmen". All the songs in this program are written & performed by Laura Joy: Radio - unreleased Phoenix - from Between Our Words Rose Remains - unreleased Takes A While - from Between Our Words Between Our Words - from Between Our Words Midwest Midwinter - unreleased Original Air Date: 10/07/2017