Detour
Every Sunday at 5 pm host Paul Hartman dives deep into Americana, Folk, and World music. Detour is home to some of the most interesting music on and off the the beaten track you’ll find on the radio
Besides roots music from North America, you’re liable to hear the nyckelharpa from Scandinavia, Zulu guitar from Africa, log drums from the South Pacific islands, and other folk and roots-based music as we detour around the globe, no passport required! Acoustic, electric, traditional, contemporary all fit under the Detour umbrella.
Host Paul Hartman brings years of expertise through his more than 20 years as publisher and editor of Dirty Linen, the magazine of Folk and World Music.
Detour’s Top 10 Songs of 2011
Fountains Flowing – June Tabor & Oysterband “Ragged Kingdom” Manuia – Te Vaka “Havili” Great Big Love – Myrick/Peacock “Myrick/Peacock” The Way It Goes – Gillian Welch “The Harrow & the Harvest” Galaxie 500 – Kate Campbell “Two Nights in Texas” Vayan al Norte – Eliza Gilkyson “Roses at the End of Time” Mesabi…
More » Alice’s Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited) on Detour
It’s a Detour tradition for the Sunday after Thanksgiving — “Alice’s Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited),” Arlo Guthrie‘s epic story of a Thanksgiving feast gone awry. This is the 1996 version with added commentary about Chip Carter (president Jimmy Carter’s son), Richard Nixon, and a certain infamous 18½ minute gap… plus all your favorite moments of the original,…
More » Detour gets hammered! (dulcimer, that is)
Baltimore’s Ken Kolodner has been called a major part of the rebirth of the hammered dulcimer in the US and is recognized as “one of today’s most accomplished, musical hammered dulcimer artists… A hammered dulcimer player of great taste and sophistication” (Elderly). He is equally adept at playing fiddle in old-time, Appalachian, and Celtic styles….
More » June Tabor and Oysterband release 2nd collaboration, 21 years later
In 1990 two giants of the British folk music scene, singer June Tabor and folk-rockers Oysterband, joined forces to record an album of traditional material and songs by contemporary composers. Freedom and Rain contained interpretations of songs by the Pogues’ Shane McGowan, Richard Thompson, Billy Bragg, and Lou Reed among electrified versions of traditional British…
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