Today on Routes & Branches & Beyond it is the second show of a series called “Summer on the Range.” Now, you could easily be misled by this title. You may, for example, think that it refers to summer recipes for stovetop cooking. Which may seem odd because this is the time of year when many folks (especially men, who generally eschew any cooking done inside)spend every spare moment standing at a barbeque, in an off-colour, greasy apron that has a greasy and off-colour saying on it. Summer is not a time for cooking on the range. It gets too hot in the kitchen. But instead, I have a set of muic that will keep you cool, but with just the right amount of spice to keep you from nodding off.
I have granola guitar, Irish trad trail-blazers, Newfoundland cello-driven folk, Scottish zen-pop, teeny-bopper organ, Appalachian guitar frailing, Dutch male choirs, dulcimer country, sober trad songs (sit up straight and be quiet during these…), Texican outlaw country, Canadian psychadelic folk, and British polka deliverance. From musicians like Bruce Cockburn, Sweeney’s Men, Tickle Harbour, Karine Polwart, The Monkees, Molly Tuttle, Shantykoor, The Cactus Brothers, Matthew Byrne, Los Lonely Boys, Lee Harvey Osmond, and Edward II. Turn off the barbeque and join us.
