We had so much fun with our first installment a few months back that we thought it was worth a second installment…well, that and the depth and breadth of the American Songbag certainly lends itself to doing so. It doesn’t hurt either that it fits our deeper roots sensibilities so well. This installment finds us meandering about those classic songs whose topics include mellow blues ballads, hobo songs, Mexican border songs (how appropriate), tarnished love tales, and the ‘road to heaven’. Helping us through our sets we’ll be featuring an interesting collection of performers: Dave Van Ronk, Dock Boggs, Rosanne Cash, and Peter Case. A host of others will join in the fun on Community Radio for Sonoma County.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dave Van Ronk | Willie The Weeper | Down In Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection |  |
| 2 | The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Willie the Weeper | Dirt, Silver & Gold Disc 1 | |
| 3 | Dan Zanes | Roll The Chariot | Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag | |
| 4 | Josh White | Barbara Allen | Best Of Josh White | |
| 5 | Delmore Brothers | Frozen Girl | Brown's Ferry Blues | |
| 6 | Dock Boggs | Pretty Polly | Country Blues | |
| 7 | The Carter Family | My Sweetheart Is a Poor Working Girl/Waves of the Sea (Instrumental) | On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1 | |
| 8 | Tony Rice | House Carpenter | Church Street Blues | |
| 9 | Hylo Brown | Pretty Fair Maiden | Legends & Tall Tales | |
| 10 | Ola Belle Reed, John Miller, Burl Kilby | The Orphan Girl | Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line | |
| 11 | David Rawlings | Midnight Train | Poor David's Almanack | |
| 12 | Arlo Guthrie | Gypsy Davy | Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004) | |
| 13 | Peter Case | Roving Gambler | Sings Like Hell | |
| 14 | Rosanne Cash | Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow | The List | |
| 15 | Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & William Warfield | Old American Songs (Set One): Zion's Walls | Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition) | |
| 16 | Louis Armstrong | Ezekiel Saw De Wheel | Louis And The Good Book | |
| 17 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Things That I used to do (and I Don't Do No More) | The Gospel Truth | |
| 18 | The Robinson Children | I Ain't Gwine Study About War No More | Swinging Gospel Sounds (1935-1942) | |
| 19 | The Bronzemen | Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again | The Bronzemen – Radio Transcriptions (1939) | |
| 20 | Septeto Habanero | Cielito Lindo | Cuba. Por La Musica | |
| 21 | Los Panchos | La Cucaracha – La Adelita | Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots | |
| 22 | Dan Zanes | Lo Que Digo | Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag | |
| 23 | Kathy Reid-Naiman | Pretty Betty Martin | Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie | |
| 24 | Laurie Lewis | Weevily Wheat | Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals | |
| 25 | Dan Zanes | Cuckoo Waltz | Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag | |
| 26 | Tom Paxton | Times A-Getting Hard, Boys | Seeds – The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 (Disc 2 Of 2 – Friends Of Pete) | |
| 27 | Bobby Bare | Times Are Gettin' Hard | Memories – RCA Singles 1962 – 1969 | |
| 28 | Ronnie Gilbert | Lincoln And Liberty | Songs Of The Civil War | |
| 29 | Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur | The Boll Weevil | Penny's Farm | |
| 30 | Dave Van Ronk | Gamblers Blues | Dust Bowl Blues Essential American Folk | |