Hudson River Sampler WAMC

09/17/2026

09/17/2026

This show started on September 18 , 1982. That means I will celebrate 44 years on the WAMC Northeast Public Radio airwaves on September 19, and will begin my 45th year on WAMC. Added to my four years at WCUW 91.3 from 1975-79, that means I will be in my 49th year of folk radio. It's my pleasure to do this show, and to receive the support you've all so generously offered, both emotionally and financially over the years. You're the best listeners. Ever.

08/19/2026

Here's the playlist from the August 15, 2026 show. In case you missed it, you can hear the show at www.MixCloud.com. The show will return to the full network as of August 29, 2026. Thanks for listening!

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly
Set #1:
Janis Ian / Swannanoa / The Light at the End of the Line
Anais Mitchell / Shenandoah / The Brightness
John Kirk and Trish Miller / Shenandoah / Quicksteppin'

Set #2:
Rachel Bissex / There's a River / I Used to Be Nice
Scott Cook / There Is a River / Troubadourly Yours
Doug McArthur (with Garnet Rogers) / There Is a River / Doug McArthur (with Garnet Rogers)
Cal Scott / One More River / Carved Wooden Box
Patty & Craig / You're the River / Look to the Moon
Mae Robertson / Moon River / All That Matters / Lullabies and Lovesongs
Jon Vezner / All Roads to the River / We Remember
Wyatt Easterling / Where This River Goes / Where This River Goes

Set #2:
Henhouse Prowlers / Passenger Train Boogie / Lead and Iron
Bill Isles / Hoboes in the Roundhouse / Early Risers

Set #3:
Eliza Gilkyson / Vayan al Norte / Roses At the End of Time
Rosanne Cash / Western Wall / Rules of Travel
Mary Chapin Carpenter / Jericho / Ashes and Roses
Jake Shimabukuro / Fields of Gold / Grand Ukulele
Martin Sexton / Over My Head / Black Sheep

Set #4:
Happy Traum / The Water is Wide (featuring Byron Isaacs, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams) / Just for the Love of It
Cliff Eberhardt / Why is the Road So Long / Borders
Mollie O'Brien / Lark in the Morning / Tell It True
Lance Cowan / The Road / The Air That You Breathe
Vance Gilbert / Dragonfly Sings / Old White Men
Richard Peter Morris / Of the Vine / Ironstone
Brant Miller / Our Love Still Stands / In the Meantime

Set #5:
Molasses Creek / Everybody's Talkin' / Strangest Dream
Chris Pierce / It Ain't Ever Wrong to Be Free / Song for the Heavy Hearted

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme)/ Working on Wings to Fly

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08/04/2026

Here's the playlist for the August 1, 2026 show, aired on WAMC's HD2 stream. If you missed it, you can listen on www.MixCloud.com.

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly
Set #1:
Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová / Falling Slowly / Soundtrack from the Movie "Once"
Andy M. Stewart and Manus Lunny / Dublin Lady / Dublin Lady
Glen Hansard / Coyote / Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration (Live)
The House Band / The Rocky Road to Dublin / Another Setting

Set #2:
Cliff Eberhardt / After the Rain Falls / The High Above and the Down Below
The Nields / Dave Hays the Weather Guy / XVII
Robin and Linda Williams / Storms Never Last / These Old Dark Hills
Vance Gilbert / Your Brighter Day / Unfamiliar Moon

Set #3:
Kate MacLeod's Mind the Gap / I Will Sing My Heart Out / Home-Brewed
Jamie Anderson / When We're Singing / The Curves Are Still There
Eliza Gilkyson / Wind River and You / Songs from the River Wind
Ian Tyson / Somewhere in the Rubies (Live) / Live at Longview

Set #4:
Hans Theesink and Terry Evans / Build Myself a Home / Delta Time
Brant Miller / As I Build This House / In the Meantime
Michael Johnson / One Mile Apart / Moonlit Deja Vu
Diana Jones / Song to a Refugee / Song to a Refugee
Michael Johnson / Emilio / Moonlit Deja Vu
Tom Russell / Who's Gonna Build Your Wall / Wounded Heart of America
Anais Mitchell / Why We Build the Wall /xoa

Set #5:
John Doyle / Her Long Hair Flowing Down / The Path of Stones
Betty and the Baby Boomers / Na Beanna Beola / This Love Will Carry
The House Band / The Slip Jigs and Reels / Another Setting

Set #6:
Michael Smith / Lady Susquehanna / Time
Eliza Gilkyson / Before the Great River was Tamed / Songs from the River Wind
Thea Hopkins / Here in Our World / Blossoms and Ghosts

Cindy Kallet/ Big dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly.

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07/28/2026

Hi--Here's the playlist for the July 18, 2026 show, broadcast on the HD2 stream. If you missed it, you can hear it online at www.MixCloud.com.

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) /Working on Wings to Fly


Set #1:

Jane Voss / My Clinch Mountain Home / An Album of Songs

Kathy Mattea / The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore / Coal

Danaher and Cloud / The Pink and White Dress / Late Bloomers

Diana Jones / Song for A Worker / Museum of Appalachian Recordings

Alice Gerrard / Payday at the Mill / Bittersweet
Jane Voss / Going Home / An Album of Songs


Set #2:

Cliff Eberhardt / 500 Miles / 500 Miles

Vance Gilbert / Black Rochelle / The Mother of Trouble

Mark Erelli / Seasons Pass / Hope and Other Casualties

Robin and Linda Williams / Seventeen Years Old / Back 40

Jamcrackers / Simple Faith / Jamcrackers

Set #3

Leslie Evers / Along the Rocky Way / Bound For Land

The Nields / I Put My Treasure in the Rock / XVII

Set #4:

Andy Revkin / Save Dreams for Sleeping / Wake Me Up, Martha

Red Horse / Sanctuary / Red Horse
Rebecca Folsom / Sanctuary / Sanctuary

Mike Ward / Why Not / The Time That Remains

Iris DeMent / Workin' on a World / Workin' on a World

Betty and the Baby Boomers / This Love Will Carry / This Love Will Carrt


Set #5:

Blue Wilder / Songs on the Radio / Love in the Rearview

Rory Block / The Golden Vanity / Best Blues and Originals

William Pint and Felicia Dale / C'est L'Aviron / Hearts of Gold

John Doyle / The Path of Stones / The Path of Stones


Set #5:
Kiera Naughton / The Most Beautiful Thing in the World (Praxilla) / Banned in Sparta (Robin Batteau)

Maya DeVitry / Nobody Else / All My Faith

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Girl from the North Country / Dirt Does Dylan

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

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07/21/2026

Here's the playlist from the Hudson River Sampler show that aired on the WAMC HD2 stream on Saturday, July 18, 2026. If you missed it, you can listen at any time on www.MixCloud.com

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly


Set #1:

Karan Casey / Strange Fruit / The Wings Begin to Sing

Vance Gilbert / Rainy Night in Georgia / Angels Castles Covers

Deborah Liv Johnson / Georgia on My Mind / The Cowboys of Baja Have Stolen My Heart

Heather Pierson / I Loves You, Porgy / Motherless Child

The Hot Flashes / Lady Be Good / The Hot Flashes (Live)

Prudence Johnson / Summertime / Little Dreamer...Lullabies for Young and Old


Set #2:

The Gibson Brothers / One Raindrop / Red Letter Day

Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert / Can't Live Without You / When the Sun Goes Down

Bernice Lewis / Wonder of My World / She Undoes

Jamcrackers / We Need Another / Get Crackin'

Phil Kennelty / All That Money Can't Buy / A Line in the Sand


Set #3:

Maya DeVitry / No Time to Rush / All My Faith

Blue Wilder / Gone, Gone, Gone / Love in the Rearview

Doc and Merle Watson / Windy and Warm / Songs Doc Didn't Sing

Michael Veitch / Best of Many Days / Best of Many Days

Neale Eckstein / Always Been Older Than Me / Imperfect Movies (EP)

Set #4:

Rory Block / Never Called Your Name / Ain't I a Woman

Guy Davis and Fabrizzio Poggi / Baby Please Don't Go / Sonny and Brownie's Last Train

Tom Rush / Alabama Bound / Blues, Songs and Ballads

Set #5:

C. Daniel Boling / Leadbelly, Woody and Me / These Houses

Katie Dahl, Eric Davis and Rich Higdon / Woody's Fire / Solid Ground: The Songs of Fred Alley

John Flynn / Like Woody Done / Poor Man's Diamonds

Rob McHale / Woody's Shoes / Prophets on the Boulevard

Tom Chapin / Woody Guthrie's Dream / Hold Our Ground
Kim and Reggie Harris / Roll On Woody / Resurrection Day

Cosy Sheridan / Woody Guthrie, Watch Over Me / Sometimes I Feel Too Much
Doug Mishkin / Woody's Children / Tip of the Spear


Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

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07/14/2026

Here's the playlist from the July 11, 2026 show, which was heard on WAMC's HD2 stream (after a little glitch at the beginning). If you missed it, it's available on www.MixCloud.com.

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

Set #1:
Maya DeVitry / Traveler / All My Faith
Greg Brown / Canned Goods / One Night
Bill Staines / Old Dogs / Old Dogs
John Gorka / Old Futures / Old Futures Gone
Cindy Mangsen / October Roses / Songs of Experience

Bill Staines / The Heavens and the Years / Old Dogs

Set #2:
Grace Morrison / On My Way to Massachusetts / Saltwater Country
Rees Shad / Isn't It The Journey / Six Strings and a Story
Miles and Mafale / Ocean / Be Brave
Kate McDonnell / No Ordinary Time / Trapeze

Bernice Lewis / Asheville / She Undoes



Set #3:
Veranda / Le jour suivant / Veranda
Neale Eckstein / Made It Through the Bad Times Before / Build Our Dreams

Carolyn Shapiro / Keep On Moving / Where I'm Supposed to Be



Set #4:
Jeffrey Foucault / Stripping Cane / Stripping Cane
Bruce Mosley / The Blackest Crow / Lost Boy
Jeffrey Foucault / Geese Fly By / Deadstock: Uncollected Recordings, 2005-2020

Darol Ander, Emi Phelps and Friends / Killin' the Blues / Of Our People

Set #5:
Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert / Bells and Clover / When the Sun Goes Down
The Mammals / Sunshiner / Sunshiner

Michael Veitch / Never Been to China / Best of Many Days

Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert / Keep My Heart in Mind / Volume 4


Set #6:
Laura Smith / Inspiration / Everything is Moving

Rebecca Folsom / Only Kindness / Sanctuary
Dear Calamity Jane / You Are / Dear Calamity Jane
Kray Van Kirk / Homecoming (Olivia/s Song) / Empire
Catie Curtis / Passing Through / Hello Stranger

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

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07/06/2026

Hi Everyone--Here's my playlist for last night's show (July 4, 2026). In case you missed it, you can listen to the show (after Monday) at www.MixCloud.com

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly


Set #1 (getting people in the mood for the Fourth of Jul

Paul Edward Sanchez / Fourth of July / Home by Morning

Nanci Griffith (with Michael Johnson) / Roses on the Fourth of July) / Clock without


Set #2 (I decided to play songs about the original 13 colonies, starting with New Hampshire, after an introductory song by Lou and Peter Berryman):

Lou and Peter Berryman / Your State's Name Here / What, Again?

Bill Morrisey / Small Town On the River (Re-Recorded) / Bill Morrissey (Re-Recorded)

Bill Staines / Stone Face / The First. Million Miles, Volume II
Margaret MacArthur / New Hampshire Bite / Ballads Thrice Told

Bill Morrissey / Live Free or Die / Bill Morrisey (Re-Recorded)


Set #3:

Andy and Judy / Massachusetts / Let Us Sing

Arlo Guthire / Massachusetts / Amigo

Larry Kaplan / Connecticut Twister / Worth All the Telling

Joanne Lurgio / Finding My Way (feat. Vance Gilbert) / Rise from the Storm (note: Didn't have a song about Rhode Island, so I played a song by an artist from Rhode Island)

John Gorka / I'm from New Jersey / Jack's Crows

The Short Sisters / Home in Old New Jersey / Downsized (


Set #4:
Anne Hills / Pennsylvania / Points of View

David Mallett / Pennsylvania Sunrise / Pennsylvania Sunrise


Set #5:

Erica Wheeler / Maryland County Road / The Harvest

John Flynn / Dover / Two Wolves

Norman Blake / Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm / Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm
Brooks Williams / Georgia / Work My Claim


Set #6:
Tom Paxton / Virginia Morning / Redemption Road

Dan Berggren / South Carolina Moon / One With the Water

South Carolina Moan / Rob Adkins and Phil Drum / Low 'n' Lonesome

Mike Seeger and Paul Brown / Way Down in North Carolina / Way Down in North Carolina


Set #7:

Leslie Ritter and Scott Petito / Catskill Green / In the Silence

Happy Traum / New York Town / There's a Bright Side Somewhere

Janis Ian / Summer in New York / The Light at the End of the Line

Set #8 (a few more "patriotic" songs to end the show):

Michael Troy / I Am an American (Live) / I Am an American

Eric Erickson / The Heart of an American / The Heart of An American
Schooner Fare / We the People / We the People

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06/30/2026

Hi Everyone--Here's my playlist for the June 27, 2026 show. Don't forget: If you missed it and still want to listen, you can go to www.MixCloud.com!

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fl

Set #1 (requests from last week, left over from Father's Day):

Blue Carraker / A Good Man / A Good Man

Garnet Rogers / My Old Man / Summer's End

John McCutcheon / My Old Man / Nothing to Lose

Steve Goodman . My Old Man (Studio Cut) / Steve Goodman Anthology

David Mallett / Fifty Years: Introduction To "My Old Man" followed by My Old Man / Parallel Lives (Live At DelRossi's, Dublin, New Hampshire / April 25-26, 1997)

John Gorka / Semper Fi / Jack's Crows

Eddie Dillon / The Water and the Wind / Single

Linda McRae /Flowers of Appalachia / Shadow Trails

Set #2 (people appearing in our area):

The Rough and Tumble / Carry You / Only This Far

Kate Taylor / Beams of the Queen / Why Wait!

Charlie Parr / 817 Oakland Avenue / Last of the Better Days Ahead

Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys / My Only Sunshine / When It Rains

Michael Merenda / Quiver / Quiver

Set #3:

Laura Smith / Horses And Plough / Everything Is Moving

Dave Gunning / Horse for Sale / Up Against the Sky

Scott Cook / Let Your Horses Run / Moonlit Rambles

The Heart Collectors / Eagles and Horses / Twilight Takes - EP

Heidi Muller and Bob Webb / Wild Horses / Up Hurricane Creek

Craig Bickhardt / Young Hearts, Wild Horses or the Wind / The More I Wonder

Set #4:

Aaron Nathans and Michael G. Ronstadt / Thankful Anyway / Esperanza

Annie and Rodd Capps / Thread / Never Done

Tom Rigney and Flambeau / Bonjour Tristesse / All Fired Up

Pharis and Jason Romero / Georgie / These Are The Days That Turn In To Years

C.B. Smith / The Wild Winds Roar / The Wild Winds Roar - Single

Set #5:

Bill Morrissey / Will You Be My Rose / Something I Saw or Thought I Saw

Craig Bickhardt / One Rose / Easy Fires

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) /Working on Wings to Fly

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06/30/2026

Hi Everyone--Just a reminder that the Hudson River Sampler will be pre-recorded during July and August and ONLY available on WAMC's HD2 stream, then on www.MixCloud.com starting the Monday after the show.

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