Friendly Folk

Last week was Seize the Airwaves, so there was no friendly folk! We missed y’all so much! To make up for it though, we’ve got some special folky specials!

WUOG interviewed Akron/Family the day before their show at the 40 Watt.

Also, Jason played a special set highlighting MV&EE who is Matt “MV” Valentine and his partner Erika “EE” Elder. The recording starts, already in progress, with The Tower Recordings and progresses through time to the most recent MV&EE work, Barn Nova. The sound is emblematic of the new weird america movement which is a heavy drone/reverb/lo-fi recording style.

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Finally, our 17th episode of Friendly Folk focuses artists playing at the Harvest of Hope festival, March 12-14 in St. Augustine, Florida during Nathan’s set. Jason’s set features freak folk bands with either female vocalists or members.

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This episode of Friendly Folk features Tom Waits, Eels and Paul Baribeau. Paul Baribeau will be playing at the Harvest of Hope festival as well as other artists that are frequently features on this show. Jason plays some artists new to the show including GHQ, Ghost and the Tower Recordings.

Skip ahead 7minutes to hear the beginning of the set, we were off air for a minute. Also, I believe the end of the show cuts off as well. Sorry y’all!

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Keep it Friendly!

Guest DJ Charlie plays a fantastic set, I’ve copied the playlist inside of this post. Also, check out our show poster! Be listening for our written and recorded promos being played on air! Keep it friendly, folks.

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Nathan and Jason will be out of town this weekend, but that means you’ll be hearing a very special friendly folk from one of the folks we call our friend.

See you Saturday. Also remember, the Akron / Family concert is the 18th at the 40 Watt.

Check out these fucking hipsters play at South by Southwest

The girl with the maraca lays down the beat.

There was a little bit of confusion this week – Nathan and I actually started Deejaying earlier than normal. We forgot to change playlists from the previous deejay, so here’s a link to this week’s playlist. It starts with Sue Jorge.

If you have something special you’d like to hear on next week’s show, send us an email at friendlyfolk at wuog dot org.

We’re looking forward to bringing you more unique contemporary folk music next week, so stay tuned.

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Nate and Jason play the best in contemporary folk music. This week Jeffery Lewis talks about LSD, Animal Collective has a purple bottle, and Akron / Family is looking for space in this realm.

If you have any request, give us a comment right’ere.

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Everything from Adem to Tom Waits to Devendra Banhart to Barn Owl in this episode of Friendly Folk. Thanks for listening!

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We’re happy to be back for another semester of contemporary folk! In this show, we play songs from Jeffery Lewis, Akron / Family, Karl Blau and more!

Akron / Family is playing the 40 Watt on Feb 18, 2010!

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This is an extra special show for several reasons.

1. It’s the 10th installment of friendly folk!

2. It is the last show of this semster

3. It is NOT the last show, we were renewed for next semester!

4. This episode introduces our brand new friendly folk co-host, Jason Davis! Well not really but I think he said something at one point. Anyway he will bring a lot of great new elements to the show and maybe he can help spruce up the online aspect of the show seeing as I’m not much of a blogger.

5. I worked really hard on it and tried to give credit to all the great recurring artists of this semester.

in case you’ve never taken the time to really look into those some of those greats I’ve provided a few links below:

http://www.myspace.com/andrewjacksonjihad

http://www.myspace.com/paulbaribeau

http://www.myspace.com/jefflewisband

http://www.ifyoumakeit.com/video/defiance-ohio/hair-pool/

those are just a few, but there are so many more. Just listen for now though:

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This was a fun episode: freak folk block, followed by some folky folk punk block, followed by anti-folk block, then a few new releases, then some punky folk punk, some classic acoustic composers, then a nice mix to tie it all together. Leave a comment, give me some feedback.

This will be the last show until after Thanksgiving break, so get (re?)acquainted with some of the older episodes below. For now though here’s today’s episode:

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