Barking Dog: June 18, 2026
Pharis & Jason Romero - Left My Home
From Horsefly, BC
This is a track from their brand new album album These Are the Days That Turn in to Years, which came out on the 12th
Fiver - Only in the Longing
Solo project of Sackville, New Brunswick-based artist Simone Schmidt
This is their latest release, a single from their upcoming album Cleaning House, which is out on July 10th
They began writing it in 2015, and finished it in the fall of 2025
KC is Lazy - Silver Minnows
She’s a musician from Winnipeg who writes music inspired by the folk tradition
This recording is from April
Hedy West - Lament for Barney Graham
She was a folk singer from Georgia who was heavily influenced by her upbringing in a creative, politically active family, and she’s known particularly for writing the song “500 Miles”
This is off her 1967 album Old Times and Hard Times, which is largely made up of songs her father, the poet and labour organizer Don West, learned from coal miners in the 1930s while working as a relief worker
The song was written by the teenage Della Mae Graham for her father, the president of the United Mineworker’s Union local in Wilder, Tennessee, who was shot and killed by mine guards outside of the company store in April of 1933 during a strike
Sara Grey, Ed Trickett - Cobweb of Dreams
Grey is a musician from New England who grew up hearing Appalachian mountain music and later moved to Scotland, where she lived, performed, and collected music for over 40 years before returning to the States
Trickett was a psychology professor by day and a guitarist, pianist, and hammered dulcimer player the rest of the time
He’s known for performing both on his own and in a trio with Gordon Bok and Anne Mayo Muir, and his music career spanned over 50 years
This is from the 1970 album Sara Grey with Ed Trickett, released by Folk-Legacy Records
The song is by English musician and songwriter Leon Rosselson, who wrote it to open and close a historical documentary performance about the village of Towersey, England that took place each year
Khaled El Habre - Halat Al Ihtidar Al Tawila (The Long Death)
He’s a Lebanese musician who began performing in 1974 and has built a career as a deeply political artist over the last 50 years
This is from his 1996 album Khaled El Habre Sings Mahmoud Darwish
Darwish was an influential Palestinian poet and author often called the national poet of Palestine
El Habre used the words of Darwish’s poem “Mazameer,” which translates to “Psalms”
Etulu and Susan Aningmiuq, Jopi Arnaituk - Tunialuvini Sivuliqalaurata (Thoughts Of Early Man)
They were a married duo from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, who began performing together in the 1970s and continued until Susan’s death in 2001
Arnaituk is a musician, sculptor, and printmaker from Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik
This is from an album they made for the CBC Northern Service in 1976
Faith Petric - Man Walks Among Us
She was a folksinger and activist originally from Idaho who was the head of the San Francisco Folk Music Club for 50 years
Petric was involved in activism for her entire life, assisting Spanish Civil War refugees, participating in the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches of 1965, and sitting on anti-fascism committees
She died in 2013 at the age of 98
This comes from her 1997 album Faith’s Favorites, and it’s a song by American country singer Marty Robbins
Ruth Moody - North Calling
She was born in Australia but grew up in Winnipeg, and she’s a member of the Wailin’ Jennys
This is from her 2024 album Wanderer
Richie Havens - Fire and Rain
He was a musician from New York City who got his start as a kid singing doo-wop with his neighbourhood friends, and later moved to Greenwich Village to join the folk scene
He later signed with Bob Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman, and was the opening act at Woodstock in 1969
This is from the 1990 album Live At The Cellar Door and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
It’s a cover of the James Taylor song, which was first released in 1970
Waaberi - Cidlaan Dareemaya
Their name means “Sunrise”
They were a 300-person supergroup of singers, dancers, musicians, and actors from Somalia that was formed in the 1960s by members of the Radio Artists Association and continued to perform into the 1990s, when the Somali Civil War displaced its members
Maryam Mursal was the best-known member of the group, a singer and the first woman to play jazz music in Somalia, and she and her young family fled the country on foot across Africa when the Civil War began, before arriving in Djibouti, where the Danish embassy granted her asylum
This is from a 1997 live album called New Dawn, which members of the band who were living in London, England, at the time recorded at Real World studios
This is a traditional song from North Somalia led by Mursal
The title translates to “I Feel Alone”
Vic Chesnutt - Stevie Smith
He was a singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia who released 17 albums over the course of his career
This is from his debut album, Little, from 1990, which was recorded in one day and produced by Michael Stipe
The song is named after the English poet and novelist Stevie Smith, and it’s an adaptation of her poem “Not Waving but Drowning,” which was published in 1957
Phil Ochs - Bracero
Ochs was an American protest singer who grew up all over the United States, but moved to New York City in 1962 to establish himself as a folksinger in the Greenwich Village folk scene
This is off the 1966 album Phil Ochs in Concert
The Bracero Program was a labour initiative run jointly by the United States and Mexico between 1942 and 1964 that allowed Mexican labourers to work on US farms and railroads, often with low wages and very poor working conditions
Woody Guthrie - I’ve Got to Know
Guthrie was an influential folk musician who’s known for his songs about the Okie migrants who travelled west during the Great Depression in search of work
This is from an album of Guthrie’s home recordings that was released last year
The recordings were made between 1951 and 1952 at his home in Beach Haven, Brooklyn
He wrote this song later in his life, and it’s been widely recorded since
It uses the tune of the hymn “Farther Along”
Lou & Peter Berryman - Homelessness
They’re a duo from Madison, Wisconsin who share a last name because they were married for a short time, then divorced and remained friends and musical partners
This is off their 2005 album Some Days
Sosialistisk Kor i Oslo (Socialist Choir of Oslo) - El Pueblo Unido
They formed in 1975 and currently have around 70 active members who perform at cultural and political events in Oslo
This comes from their 1978 album Mot Strømmen (Towards the Stream)
It’s a song by Chilean musician and songwriter Sergio Ortega, the title of which translates to “The People United”
The lyrics were translated into Norwegian by Fria Proteatern
Leon Rosselson - Le Deserteur
Rosselson is a musician and children’s book writer from England who first became widely known in the 1960s
This is from his first album, Songs for Sceptical Circles, from 1966
It’s an anti-war song by French musician and poet Boris Vian, who wrote it in the 1950s during the First Indochina War
Adrian Mitchell - Ode on the Assassination of President Johnson
He was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who was known as the unofficial poet laureate of England’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Movement
This is from the 1968 album he recorded with Leon Rosselson called A Laugh, a Song and a Hand Grenade
Dave Van Ronk - Siúil a Rún
This is a release from Swingin’ Pig, who’s been helping the folklorist and folksinger Ellen Stekert digitize and release her archival recordings over the last few years
Stekert and Van Ronk were good friends from their days in the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York City, and he visited her in 1966 while she was teaching folklore in Detroit, Michigan
She made recordings of several of Van Ronk’s songs, including this one, which he learned from his grandmother
It’s a traditional Irish song that evolved into the song “Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier” when it travelled across the ocean to the United States
Buna Hicks - The Day is Past and Gone
From a 1965 album of songs from Beech Mountain, NC, where the descendents of the southern Appalachians’ first settlers lived
Buna Hicks was about 74 when this recording was made--she wasn’t completely sure, as the family bible in which her date of birth was recorded was lost--and she said “I can make a noise on just about anything - guitar, banjo, or fiddle - but I don't play none of 'em well.”
This is an early American hymn composed by John Leland, a Baptist minister from Massachusetts, in 1835 (who once accompanied a team of oxen to deliver a 1,450 pound block of cheese to President Jefferson in Washington, DC)
Charley Patton - Prayer of Death
Patton a Mississippi blues musician known as the Father of the Delta Blues
This recording was made in Richmond, Indiana in June of 1929 and released under the name Elder JJ Hadley
Emperor X - Low Orbit Ion Cannon
Singer-songwriter from Kentucky who’s been playing professionally since the late 90s
This is a live recording of the song, which he released on his 2017 album Oversleepers International
The Sidekicks - Linger
This is from the 2016 album Pickin’ on the 90s, part of the Pickin’ On album series that turns music from popular artists from various genres into bluegrass tunes
It’s a cover of the Cranberries’ 1993 song
Lonesome Ace Stringband - Big Wing
Contemporary stringband based in Toronto
This is from their 2025 album of the same name
Reverend Gary Davis - Tryin’ to Get to Heaven in Due Time
He was from South Carolina but moved to Durham, North Carolina in the 20s and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1933, after which he began to play gospel music instead of the secular music he was previously known for
He moved to New York in the 40s, and he was later a prominent figure in the 1960s folk revival
This is from his 1962 album Say No to the Devil
Jordan Tice - Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
He’s a musician based in Nashville, Tennessee, who made his first recordings in the early 2000s
This is from his 2025 EP Badlettsville
It’s a song by Bob Dylan from his 1997 album Time Out of Mind, and it references other folk songs including “Lonesome Valley” and “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad”
Ron Sexsmith - John Wesley Harding
He’s a musician from St. Catharines, Ontario, who’s been recording since 1985
This is a cover of Bob Dylan’s song from his 1967 album of the same name, which is named after the 19th century Texan outlaw John Wesley Hardin
Ernst Langhout, Johan Keus - Skulplak foar de stoarm
Langhout was a Dutch-Frisian musician who started as a folk musician, then started a punk band called The Nighttime Visitor, which later became a New Wave band called The Visitor
After several albums, the group disbanded and Langhout continued as a solo folk artist
Keus is a musician, music therapist, and educator from the Netherlands
This is from their 2004 album Dylan in Frisian
It’s a version of Dylan’s song from his 1975 album Blood on the Tracks
Bill Garrett, Curley Boy Stubbs - Railroad Line
Garrett is a producer and musician from Québec who’s performed across the continent
Stubbs is also known as Paul Mills, and he’s a musician, producer, engineer, and graphic designer who produced all but one of Stan Rogers’ albums
Garrett and Mills were both cofounders of Borealis Records along with Grit Laskin and Ken Whiteley
From a 1989 issue of Fast Folk Musical Magazine that highlights Canadian folk musicians
Fast Folk Musical Magazine was a cooperative that was dedicated to reinvigorating the New York folk scene, and released over 100 albums between 1982 and 1997
The song is by American singer-songwriter Paul Craft
Malvina Reynolds - There’s a Bottom Below
She was a folksinger from California known particularly for writing the song “Little Boxes,” though she wrote and recorded a large catalogue of music during her career
This one was recorded live at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 1976
She first performed it for a CBC variety show after writing it while on the way to the taping
Dennis McGee - La Valse Pénitentiaire
He was a fiddle player from Louisiana who was one of the earliest Cajun musicians to be recorded
This one was recorded in New Orleans in 1929, and he’s joined on fiddle by Ernest Frugé
Colin Adjun - Black Mountain Rag
