Bayou Blend - Tab Benoit, Professor Longhair, Rosie Ledet and more

Love brave_margot's "Bayou Blend" - a twelve
track mix of cajun, zydeco and nawlin's blues

Hymn #101 by Joe Pug

Hymn #101 by Joe Pug
[from 'The Nation of Heat' EP]

Alabama 3, James Taylor, Neil Young & many more all playing gigs in the UK this month

Listen to the 22 song mix here
[see artist links @ On Tour Across the Pond]

Canadian Comfort Podcast hosted by Gail Comfort

Our good friend, radio DJ Gail Comfort, has recently left London to go back to her home town of Winnipeg in Canada. We'll really miss her. Fortunately she'll continue doing her weekly alt-country show 'The Comfort Zone' on CMR Nashville and she's just released the first two episodes of her new Canadian Comfort podcast featuring all Canadian artists - great stuff! Take a listen -

Website/download        iTunes Listen Now Episode 1 Episode 2

Bluegrassy - Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Avett Brothers and more

Don't miss this wonderful mix by saraht on 8tracks which includes tracks by Bela Fleck, Tim Eriksen, Riley Baugus & Tim O'Brien, Tony Furtado and Dirk Powell, Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg & Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush & David Grisman, The Avett Brothers, Emmylou, Alison & Gillian and more.

The Rosinators, Doc Watson, The Stanley Brothers & more

Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams Sr, Bob Dylan, The Rosinators and more

[Click the play button to listen from the start or double
click on the artist/song title to hear individual tracks]

Playlist:

Ralph Stanley - Pretty Polly
Bill Monroe - Get Up John
David Grisman with the Nashville Bluegrass Band - A Life of Sorrow
Harry Choates - Fais Do Do Stomp
Hank Williams Sr - Honky Tonk Blues
The Rosinators - In My Time of Dyin'
Bob Dylan - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
The Golden Gate Quartet - Daniel Saw The Stone
John Renbourn - Country Blues
Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys - Come, Jilie
Blind Willie Johnson - Lord, I Just Can't Keep from Crying

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On Tour in the UK - April 2009
[A mix of artists touring the UK this month]

Playlist (plays in random order)

Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky
Jim White - A Town Called Amen
Bob Dylan - Moonshiner
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks/I Believe I've Transcended
Foy Vance - Homebird
Alabama 3 - U Don't Dans 2 Tekno Anymore
Amadou & Mariam - Mon Amour, Ma Cherie
Heidi Talbot - Time