HELLO from coastal New Jersey. Great to be back on the air, on Folk Music Notebook, playing the music I love, and in some cases helped develop and connect to larger audiences. It has been a privilege to choose the music and hear your enthusiasm for what we find. I have spent my life listening, sharing, attending and enjoying and presenting music of all kinds to listeners of all kinds. Join me as we explore the most fascinating new artists as well as our contemporaries and those who set the acoustic path over the past 100 years here in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe, along with a continued interest in the rich musical home of Philadelphia.  Helen Leicht's Acoustic Sunday will broadcast each Sunday morning at 10am Eastern here on folkmusicnotebook.com and also on your phone with the folkmusicnotebook app for Google and Apple.

THE BLUE TRANSISTOR by John Flynn

5/5/24 Helen LeichhWeekly Playlist  

Hello,

Here's my playlist for 5/5/24.  It's the 5 Year Anniversary of

www.folkmusicnotebook.com and the channel began on May 3, 2019

the 100th Anniversary of Pete Seeger's birthday.

 

I always open with the theme song.  

Danny Black's “Sweet Annie” from his Themes album 

 

Today's show starts with Pete Seeger!

Pete Seeger “Turn, Turn, Turn” 

Willie Nelson “The Border” this is the title track from his 75th solo album (yes 75th solo album but if we include all of his works then it's his 152nd album) coming out May 31, 2024.  Out a month after Willie's 91st birthday.

Tracey Chapman “Why?”

Amos Lee “Hold On Tight” from his album Transmissions coming out 8/9/24

Bruce Springsteen “We Shall Overcome” 

John Gorka “The Water is Wide” 

Tim Grimm “Broken Truth” a new song

Bob Dylan “Masters of War”

Pete Seeger “Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child” 

Joni Mitchell “Urge for Going”

Jackson Browne/Bonnie Raitt “Kisses Sweeter than Wine”

Keb Mo/Rosanne Cash “Put a Woman in Charge”

Pete Seeger “The Bells of Rhymney”

Mutlu “Shakey Ground”

 


 

April 28, 2024 Weekly Playlist for Acoustic Sunday on Folk Music Notebook 


April 28, 2024 Acoustic Sunday 
 
 
OPEN/Danny Black's "Sweet Annie" 
 
 
Molly Tuttle "When my Race is Run" 
 
Lyle Lovett "You Can't Resist it"  
 
Shawn Mullins “Lullaby”
 
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant "Please Read the Letter"  from the T Bone Burnett produced Grammy Award winning RAISING SAND Album
 
 
 
Featured Album T Bone Burnett's New Album
THE OTHER SIDE 
 
 
"I'm Gonna Get over this (Someday)"  with Rosanne Cash
 
"He Came Down" 
 
"Little Darling"  with Lucius
 
 
 
Some of the artists that T Bone Burnett has worked with :
 
O Brother, Where art Thou?  (Soggy Bottom Boys "A man of Constant Sorrow" 
 
Los Lobos "A Matter of Time" (3:53) Will the Wolf Survive CD 
 
Counting Crows "Omaha"  
 
Sam Phillips “Baby, I can't Please you”
 
 
Amos Lee “No More Darkness, No More Light" 
 
Cry, Cry, Cry “Fall on Me”
 
The Blessing “Highway 5”
 
Nathaniel Rateliff "Heartless"  New song. New album SOUTH OF HERE out June 28th
 
Christian Parker "Chimes of Freedom"   New song /New album TRIBUTE TO THE BYRDS
 
Moody Blues “Tuesday Afternoon” In Memory of Mike Pinder keyboardist and founding member of the Moody Blues. He died Wednesday April 26, 2024
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

April 21, 2024 Weekly Playlist for Acoustic Sunday on Folk Music Notebook 

Open/Danny Black's “Sweet Annie”
 
FOR EARTH DAY
 
IAN & SYLVIA "Early Morning Rain" 
 
Quicksilver Messenger Service "What About me" 
 
Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi"  
 
The Beatles "Mother Nature's Son" 
 
Kacey Musgraves "Cardinal" 
 
Louis Armstrong "What a Wonderful World" 
 
Chris Stapleton "Higher" 
 
War & Treaty "From a Distance" 
 
Chris Kasper “Shuffle on Through”
 
Donovan "Catch the Wind" 
                 
 
FEATURED ALBUM
MARK KNOPFLER  ONE DEEP RIVER
 
"One Deep River" 
 
"Two Pair of Hands" 
 
"Ahead of the Game" 
 
 
 Marvin Gaye "Mercy Mercy Me" 
 
 Maggie Rogers "Don't Forget Me" 
 
The Tennessee Freedom Singers “Tennessee Rise”
 
Cat Stevens “Where do the Children Play”
 
Adia Victoria “Went for a Ride”
 
Vance Gilbert "Simple Things"  
 
 
 
 

April 14, 2024 Weekly Playlist for Acoustic Sunday on Folk Music Notebook 

open Danny Black's "Sweet Annie" 
 
 
 
Kim Richey "A Way Around" 
 
Stan Ridgeway "Lonely Town" 
 
10,000 Maniacs "Don't Talk"  
 
Shivaree "Goodnight Moon" 
 
Nick Drake "Pink Moon" 
 

 
Featured album -- 
 
MY BLACK COUNTRY The songs of Alice Randall
 
Valerie June "Big Dream" 
 
Rhiannon Giddens " The Ballad of Sally Anne" 
 
Adia Victoria "Went for a Ride" 
 

Beyonce "Blackbird" 
 

Sufian Stevens "Chicago"  acoustic 

Blood, Sweat & Tears "God Bless the Child" 
 

Willie Nelson "The Border" 
 
Linda Ronstadt “Willin' ”
 
John Flynn "Two Wolves" 

April 7, 2024 Weekly Playlist for Acoustic Sunday on Folk Music Notebook 

April 7, 2024
 
Open/Danny Black's "Sweet Annie" 
 
 
 
Chris Smither "Time to Move One" 
 
Robbie Robertson "Fallen Angel" 
 
The Band “Acadian Driftwood” 
 
Darlingside “Right Friend”
 
Frank Sinatra "In the Wee Small Hours" 
 
Melody Gardot "Over the Rainbow"  
 
Amos Lee “Jesus”
 
 
Featured Album Kacey Musgraves DEEPER WELL 
 
Kacey Musgraves "Cardinal" 
 
Kacey Musgraves "Deeper Well" 
 
Gordon Lightfoot “Sundown”  
 
Heidi Berry “The Moon & The Sun”
 
Bill Withers “Ain't No Sunshine” 
 
The Beach Boys “The Warmth of the Sun” 
 
Van Morrison “Moondance” 
 
Cat Stevens “Moonshadow” 
 
David Gray “Silver Lining”
 
 

March 31, 2024 Weekly Playlist Acoustic Sunday on Folk Music Notebook 10 am ET 


Helen Leicht's Acoustic Sunday 3/31/24 10 am ET
 
 
Show starts with Danny Black's "Sweet Annie"
 
 
Eliza Hardy Jones "This is the Year" 
 
Patty Griffin "Every Little Bit" 
 
October Project "Changing Light of Love" 
 
Roseanne Cash "The Wheel" 
 
Jesus Christ Superstar "Overture" 
 
Jesus Christ Superstar "Heaven" 
 
Jesus Christ Superstar "Superstar" 
 
Chris Kasper "Shuffle on Through" 
 
Paul Simon "Rhythm of the Saints " 
 
Tom Rush "Sailing (Sarah's Song) 
 
Peter, Paul and Mary "House of the Rising Sun" 
 
Lyle Lovett “If I had a Boat”
 
The Beatles "Here, There and Everywhere" 
 
Talia Schlanger "So Small" 

Richard Thompson “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”

March 24, 2024 Weekly Playlist for Acoustic Sunday on Folk Music Notebook 

March 24, 2024 Weekly Playlist for Acoustic Sunday on Folk Music Notebook

 

Opening theme Danny Black's "Sweet Annie"
 

 
John Lennon / Imagine 
 
Phil Roy / Hope in a Hopeless World 
 
Phil Ochs / I ain't Marching Anymore 
 
John Flynn / Dover 
 
Buffalo Springfield / For what it's Worth  
        
The Tennessee Freedom Singers  / Tennessee Rise 
 
Marvin Gaye / What's Going On               
 
Bruce Springsteen / My Hometown 
 
Bruce Springsteen / The Ghost of Tom Joad             
 
The Staple Singers / Masters of War 
 
Judy Collins / Gotta Serve Somebody 
 
Bob Dylan / Blowing In the Wind 
 
Bob Dylan / Times They are a Changing 
 
Woody Guthrie "This Land is your Land"      
 
Sam Cooke / A Change is Gonna Come  

March 17, 2024 Weekly Playlist for Acoustic Sunday on Folk Music Notebook 


Open with Danny Black's "Sweet Annie" 

 
 
Nanci Griffith/The Chieftains "Red in the Rose" 

 
Van Morrison "Hymns to the Silence" 

 
Clannad "I will find you" 

 
U2 "One" 

 
Maura O'Connell "I don't Know Why" 

 
Hozier "Take Me to Church" 

 
Enya "Shepherd Moons" 

 
John McDermott "Danny Boy" 

 
Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares to You" 

 
Blackthorn "500 Miles" 

 
Luka Bloom “I Need Love”

 
John Byrne "The Well Below the Valley" 

 
Van Morrison "Astral Weeks" 

 
 Afro Celt Sound System "Whirly Reel" 

March 10, 2024 Weekly Playlist for Acoustic Sunday Folk Music Notebook 

March 10, 2024 Weekly Playlist for Acoustic Sunday Folk Music Notebook

 
Opening Danny Black's "Sweet Annie" 
 
 
 Mark & Maggie O'Connor "One Sunray at a Time" 
 
 Grateful Dead "Throwing Stones" 
 
 Susan Werner "Halfway to Houston" 
 
 Billy Strings/Willie Nelson "California Sober" 
 
 The Decemberists "Burial Ground" 
 
 Joni Mitchell "The Jungle Line" 
 
Tracy Chapman “Mountain O'Things”
 
The Kennedys "Headwinds" 
 
October Project "Changing light of Love" 
 
 Alison Krauss/R Plant "Quattro" 
 
Chris Kasper “Shuffle on Through”
 
The Staple Singers "Respect Yourself" 
 
 Kelly Hunt "Be Still" 
 
Cat Stevens "Hard Hearted Woman" 
 
Charlie Hall "First and First" 

March 3, 2024 Acoustic Sunday Playlist Folk Music Notebook 

Sunday March 3, 2024
 
Open/ Danny Black's "Sweet Annie" 
 
 
 
Bob Dylan " Forever Young" 
 
Molly Tuttle "When My Race is Run" 
 
Josh Ritter "Joy to you Baby" 
 
Paul McCartney “Wanderlust”
 
FEATURED ALBUM SARAH JAROZ  POLAROID LOVERS
 
Sarah Jarosz " Days Can Turn Around" 
 
Sarah Jarosz "Columbus & 89th" 
 
Hall & Oates "I'm just a Kid" 
 
The Band "Ophelia" 
 
The Secret Sisters with Ray Lamontagne "All the Ways" 
 
Roy Orbison "Blue Bayou" 
 
Maggia Rogers "Don't Forget me" 
 
Sonia Da Da "You don't treat me no good" 
 
 Eliza Hardy Jones “This is the Year” from new album PICKPOCKET  out April 19
 
Dan Fogleberg "Man in the Mirror"