The farmer, the farm, and songs of farming are at the core of this week’s theme show. Whether the songs’ focus is that of the hard-working folk of the farm, the raw materials, or the nostalgic reminders of life on the farm, we’ll push forward the playlist plough and take you to the barn for an early morning celebration with performers including bluegrass from James King, gritty Americana from Levon Helm and Bill Neely, core country from Bobby Bare and Porter Wagoner, or maybe some field recordings from the 20s featuring the likes of the Carolina Tar Heels…all of this music going Back On The Farm.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard | Farmer's Blues | Country Music |  |
| 2 | Freeman Stowers | Sunrise On The Farm | Sinners and Saints: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1931 | |
| 3 | Bill Frisell | Farmer | Disfarmer | |
| 4 | Levon Helm | Poor Old Dirt Farmer | Dirt Farmer | |
| 5 | Bill Neely | Black Land Farmer | 16 Down Home Country Classics | |
| 6 | James King | Thirty Years of Farming | Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs | |
| 7 | Junior Sisk with Becky Isaacs Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary | The Wheat Crop | Mac Wiseman – I Sang The Song | |
| 8 | Lemuel Jones | Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers) | Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941) | |
| 9 | Peter Rowan | Let the Harvest Go To Seed | Bluegrass Boy | |
| 10 | Carolina Tar Heels | Got The Farm Land Blues | Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads | |
| 11 | Cisco Houston | Farmer's Lament | The Folkways Years: 1944-1961 | |
| 12 | J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers (With Morris Herbert) | 17 Living On The Farm | The Legendry J.E. Mainer, Volume 4 | |
| 13 | Walter Brennan | Old Rivers | Old Rivers | |
| 14 | The Bently Boys | Down On Penny's Farm | Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads | |
| 15 | Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur | Down on Penny's Farm | Penny's Farm | |
| 16 | The Four Wanderers | Farmer's Life For Me | Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942) | |
| 17 | Ben & Ellen Harper | Farmer's Daughter | Childhood Home | |
| 18 | Bobby Bare | The Farmer Feeds Us All | Hard Time Hungrys | |
| 19 | Porter Wagoner | The Farmer and the Lord | 20 All-Time Greatest Hits | |
| 20 | Paula Brown | Farm Hollers | Hollerin' | |
| 21 | Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers | McDonald's Farm (1928) | Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 | |
| 22 | Bubby Bishop | I Want To Go Back To The Farm | The Great Vintage Country | |
| 23 | Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) | On A Little Two Acre Farm | Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58 | |
| 24 | Goose Island Ramblers | I Worked For a Farmer | Polkabilly | |
| 25 | Buster Carter & Preston Young | A Lazy Farmer Boy | Before The Blues Vol. 3 | |
| 26 | Rosetta Howard | Plow Hand Blues [Album Version] | Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 | |
| 27 | Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys | I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven | King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail | |
| 28 | Fiddlin' John Carson | Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All [Remastered 2003] | Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series | |
| 29 | Ray Wylie Hubbard | After the Harvest | Crusades of the Restless Nights | |
| 30 | Dry Branch Fire Squad | Devil, Take The Farmer | 481 Bluegrass Class of 1990 | |
| 31 | Glen Campbell | Arkansas Farmboy | Adios | |
| 32 | Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies | When It's Harvest Time, Sweet Angeline | Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin' | |
| 33 | Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With Mother Maybelle Carter | The Homestead On The Farm [Album Version] | Songs Of The Famous Carter Family | |