Threads and Tangents Music Hour

May Day is coming up later this week. The day when most of the planet celebrates Workers.We'll hear: Billy Bragg, Dick Gaughan, Rhiannon Giddens, Willi Carlisle, Utah Phillips, Andy Irvine, Rasputina, Robert Pinsky, Cinder Well, The Klezmatics, Brivele, Lucinda Williams, and Panopticon.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week is Beer Week in the The City of Subdued Excitement so I've got an hour of beer songs for you.We'll hear: Chico Marx, Della Mae, Todd Snider, Charlie Adams, Del McCoury Band, The Brothers Comatose, Treat Her Right, John Roberts & Tony Barrand, Louis Armstrong, Daoirí Farrell, Watkins Family Hour, Alfi, The Travelin' McCourys, Traffic, and Dubliners.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week I’ve put together an hour of music that features stringed instruments that are Fretless. 
We'll hear: The Fretless, Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues, Alphonso Johnson, Jaco Pastorius, Jerry Douglas / VM Bhatt / Edgar Meyer, Noor Zehra Kazim, Hop Wilson, Freddie Roulette, Christian McBride / Edgar Meyer, Naseer Shamma / Oyoun, Stephen Wade, and Kaouding Cissoko.
Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week’s show is all about Dreams   
We'll hear: Les Paul & Mary Ford, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Zoe & Cloyd, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Electric Prunes, The Pretty Things, Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, Randy Newman, The Radiators, Tony Furtado, Wilco, Alan Parsons Project, Spellcasters, and Bill Frisell.
Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week I’m celebrating the start of baseball season with a whole new batch of baseball songs.   We'll hear: Mandy Patinkin, Peter Cooper, Ben Gibbard, Dan Bern, The Tinklers, Nina Simone, Brownie McGhee, McKinley Mitchell with Willie Dixon's Chicago Blues All-Stars, Ultramagnetic MC’s, Bob Bossin, The Baseball Project, S.F. Seals (Barbara Manning), Adam Stengel, and The Grundybergs.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week's thread is debut albums released in 1976.  
We'll hear: Blondie, Ramones, Bootsy Collins, Brand X, Pat Metheny, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Silly Sisters, Los Lobos, The Modern Lovers, The Nighthawks, Al Di Meola, and The Wild Tchoupitoulas.
Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org 

This week we’ll hear from some of the musicians that have received the MacArthur “Genius” Grant.
We'll hear: Rhiannon Giddens, Mary Halvorson, Ikue Mori, Corey Harris, Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, and John Zorn.
NOTE: Don't be mislead by the image of 2017 MacArthur Fellow Rhiannon Giddens on the graphic, most of this music is "out there," where Sun Ra and Ornette are spending eternity. 
Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week I’m tying up some Loose Threads, going back to a few episodes and playing music that I wished I’d been able to play the first time around. 1959, The Year That Changed Jazz: Charles Mingus and Jimmy Smith. John Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin, The Campbell Brothers, and Muriel Grossmann.Gypsy Jazz: Hot Club of Baltimore, The Hot Club of San Francisco, John Jorgenson Quintet, and Dorado & Amati Schmitt.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This music is about fascism and how it’s bound to lose.  We have a long tradition of music that carries the message of justice and freedom, and this week we’ll hear from a batch of musicians sustaining this movement.    We'll hear: Resistance Revival Chorus feat. Rhiannon Giddens, Carsie Blanton, Tyler Childers, Tim Sparks & the Sanctuary Singers, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, Jesse Welles, Jax The Bard, Mary Gauthier, John Doyle & Mick McAuley, Danbert Nobacon, Propagandhi, The Mammals, and Robert Sarazin Blake.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

Fat Tuesday is this week and we'll celebrate with music associated with Mardi Gras. We'll hear: Marcia Ball & Irma Thomas & Tracy Nelson, Clifton Chenier, Earl King & Professor Longhair, Leyla McCalla, Big Al Carson, Neville Brothers, Galactic, The Wild Troublemakers & The Wild Tchoupitoulas, Balfa Brothers, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Dr John.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org