Barking Dog: February 5, 2026
Eric Bibb - We Got to Find a Way
Bibb is an American musician who grew up around well-known musicians like Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson, and Bob Dylan, because his father was part of the 1960s New York folk scene
This is off his new album One Mississippi
Oumou Sangaré - Kun Fe Ko
She’s a Grammy award winning Wassoulou musician from Mali who often advocates for women’s rights through her music
She also owns a hotel called Hotel Wassoulou in Bamako, Mali, that serves as her regular performance space and a hub for musicians
She originally released the song in 1996, but it went viral on Nigerian social media a few months ago
Connie Converse - House
Began writing songs and performing for friends in NYC in the early 1950s but gave up after a decade of failed attempts at a music career and moved to Michigan to work at a university
In 1974 she wrote many letters to friends and family suggesting that she intended to start a new life somewhere else
Shortly after that she packed her things into her car and drove off, and was never seen again
Her music was widely rediscovered in 2004 when her friend Gene Deitch, who had recorded a number of her songs, played some of them on a radio show on the public radio station WNYC
In 2009 an album of 17 home recordings was released, called How Sad, How Lovely
This track was recently released as part of a reissue of the album by Third Man Records
Beck - Your Cheatin’ Heart
Contemporary American musician who got his start as a teenager performing folk music on city buses in Los Angeles
This is from his new album Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime
It’s a cover of Hank Williams’ 1952 song
Ellen Stekert - Mary Ann
Stekert is a folklorist, musician, and scholar from New York (now based in Minnesota) who began her career in Greenwich Village in the 1950s
In the last couple of years, she’s been working with the producer Ross Wylde on cleaned up archival recordings, and with writer Christopher Bahn on a website where they share music, writing, and photography from her archives
Bob Dylan - Mary Ann
This is from his 1973 album Dylan
This is a sea ballad, likely from England, from at least the mid 19th century, though it was first collected in Quebec in 1920 from a man who learned it from an Irish sailor while working for the Hudson’s Bay Company around 1850
David Campbell - Fire
He’s a Guyanese-Canadian musician based in Vancouver who began playing professionally in the 1960s
This is from his 2005 album My Kind of Song
Conor Ryan Hennessy - Political Famine
He’s a contemporary musician based in Salem, Massachusetts
This is from his album The Year of the Masked Men Vol. II, which came out in December
Morley Loon - Caminconoch
He was a Cree musician and actor from Mistissini, Quebec
This is from his debut album, Northland, My Land, from 1981
The title translates to “Spirits”
Buddy Moss - In the Evening
He was a piedmont blues musician from Georgia who performed for over 40 years, beginning in 1930
This was recorded by field researcher and festival curator George Mitchell at Mitchell’s mother’s home in Atlanta, Georgia in 1963
Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don’t Go
A Delta blues musician from Mississippi, best known for the unique sound of his 9 string guitar
He began his recording career in 1934 and remained a prominent artist into the 50s and 60s, when many of his contemporaries were rediscovered during the folk revival
He became popular among folk blues fans and even toured Europe and Japan
“Baby Please Don’t Go” is a traditional blues song made popular through this version from 1935
Michael Chapman - That’ll Be the Day
He was an English musician who blended a variety of genres and recorded nearly 60 albums over the course of his career
This was recorded live at Folk Cottage in Cornwall, England in 1967
It’s a song by Buddy Holly, first recorded in 1956
Stan Ransom the Connecticut Peddler - The Old Fashioned Songs
He’s a musician, folklorist, writer, and librarian from Connecticut who began playing in the 1940s
This is off his 2005 album North Country Memories
Penny Lang - Prairie Sky
She was a folk musician from Montreal who was part of the folk revival of the 1960s
She first began playing professionally in 1963, and later toured North America, playing folk festivals and coffeehouses throughout Canada and the US
This is from her 2006 album Stone+Sand+Sea+Sky
Haley Heynderickx, Max García Conover - This Morning I Am Born Again
Heynderickx is a musician from Portland, Oregon who began performing in 2015
Conover is a musician originally from New York, now based in Portland, Maine
This is from their new collaborative album, What of Our Nature, a collection of songs inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie
Paul Westerberg - Nowhere Man
He’s a musician from Minneapolis, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for The Replacements
This is from the soundtrack for the 2001 film I Am Sam
It’s a song by the Beatles, from their 1965 album Rubber Soul
Susmit Bose - Time for a Change
He’s an Indian musician who’s been playing since the 1970s, and appeared in the 2019 documentary If Not for You, which is about Calcutta’s long-lasting affinity with Bob Dylan
This is from his 2006 album Be the Change
Carsie Blanton - The Little Flame
She’s a musician from Virginia, now based in New Jersey, who’s been performing for over 20 years
This is off her album The Red Album Vol. 2, which came out on January 16th
Irish duo Ye Vagabonds provide backing vocals on the song
Uncle Sinner - Crawling King Snake
He’s from Winnipeg
This is off his recent album Everybody Wants to Know How I Die, which came out in December
It’s a Delta blues song that likely originated in the 1920s and seems to be related to other songs like “Black Snake Moan” by Blind Lemon Jefferson
It was first recorded by Big Joe Williams in 1941, though Uncle Sinner adapted his version from John Lee Hooker’s
Ellen McIlwaine - Crawlin’ Kingsnake
She was a musician who got her start while living in Atlanta, Georgia in the mid-1960s, and later moved to New York City, where she opened for artists including Muddy Waters and Big Joe Williams
This is from her 2006 album Mystic Bridge
Pete Seeger - Viva La Quince Brigada (Long Live our Fifteenth Brigade)
Seeger was a folk singer and activist from New York who advocated for Civil Rights, environmental causes, and peace through his music for over 70 years
This is a live recording from 1960
It’s a Spanish Civil War song about the International Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army, adapted from an old Spanish folk song, and was often sung while marching
Jack Warshaw - The Last Tree
He’s an American musician who moved to England in the 1960s to work as an architect, and stayed there because of the folk scene and his resistance to the Vietnam War
This is the title track from his 2020 album
The quote is often attributed vaguely as a Cree saying, though it seems to have first appeared in print in an interview given by Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin in 1972
Judy Collins - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Caroll
American artist who has recorded music in a number of different genres
Is also known for bringing attention to lesser-known artists, including Leonard Cohen, Ian Tyson, and Joni Mitchell, who weren’t very well-known when she recorded songs by them
This is a live recording, from her 1964 album The Judy Collins Concert
It’s a song by Bob Dylan, who wrote it in 1963 after reading about the trial surrounding Hattie Carroll’s murder
Chumbawamba - The Day the Nazi Died
A British band active between 1982 and 2012 and best known for their 1997 hit “Tubthumping”, though they’ve recorded in a number of genres including folk and punk, and their music often contains political messages
This is from their 1995 album Showbusiness! (Live)
Dylan Jewers - Barrack Street
He’s the founder of Big Turnip Records, a great folk and country label based in Nova Scotia, and this is from the 2019 album BIG TURNIPS VOL. 2: Traditionals & Standards From Scotland, England, Ireland, Iran, Ghana, America & Atlantic Canada
It’s a traditional ballad found in Ireland, England, and the east coast of Canada, though this version was written in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 19th century and first collected by folklorist Helen Creighton in 1932
Joan Baez - Pauvre Ruteboeuf
Baez is one of the best known musicians to come out of the 1960s folk revival
She performed for over 60 years and released over 30 albums before retiring in 2019
This is from her 1965 album Farewell, Angelina
It’s a song by French singer and songwriter Léo Ferré, who released it in 1955
It’s a compilation of excerpts from poems by the 13th century poet Rutebeuf
The Be Good Tanyas - I Wish My Baby Was Born
They’re a group from Vancouver that’s been performing since 1999
This is off their 2003 album Chinatown
It seems to be a traditional song that originated in England but has a long history in the Appalachian region of the US
Hazel Dickens - Gathering Storm
She was a musician from West Virginia who was born into a mining family and later moved to Baltimore, Maryland with her family, where she met members of the Seeger family and became active in the folk scene there, forming a collaborative relationship with musician Alice Gerrard
This comes from the soundtrack to the 1987 film Matewan, which is about coal miners attempting to unionize in 1920s West Virginia
This song is by the film’s composer, Mason Daring
Utah Phillips, Mark Ross - Moffit Tunnel - Walking Through Your Town in the Snow
Phillips was an anarchist folksinger, storyteller, and labour organiser from Ohio
Ross is a folksinger and historian from Oregon who’s been playing since the 1960s
This is from their 1997 album Loafer’s Glory
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Hard Times
They’re sisters who learned piano from village nuns when living in the Laurentian mountains as children
They started writing and performing their own songs in Montreal in 1960s
This is from the first series of the Transatlantic Sessions, a series of collaborative live performances by folk and roots artists from both sides of the North Atlantic that began in 1995
It’s a parlour song written by American composer Stephen Foster in 1854
Ye Vagabonds - Danny
They’re an Irish folk duo made up of brothers Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn
This is a track from their new album All Tied Together, released on January 30th
Sam Amidon plays banjo on it
Vivat Virtute - Turkey Foot
Vivat Virtute is the name Winnipeg artists John K Samson and Christine Fellows use to release music and other projects
This is from their 2023 album Hold Music
Daniel Hecht - Shell Game
He’s an author, environmentalist, and musician who’s been playing music since the 1960s
This is from his 1980 album Willow
