This episode originally aired 5/6/26, celebrating week we celebrate Mother’s Day with lots of songs of love and struggle from Carsie Blanton, Loretta Lynn, Lori McKenna, Suzanne Vega, Kashimana, Goodnight Moonshine and more.

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HOUR #2 PLAYLIST:
*New Releases

[Womenfolk Find]
[Womenfolk Find]
*Dawn Landes / Happy Baby / Catch a Little Sun / Self / 2:12 (2026)
Elizabeth Mitchell / Who’s My Pretty Baby / You Are My Little Bird / Smithsonian Folkways / 1:53 (2006)
Tracy Grammer / Mother, I Climbed / Flower of Avalon / Signature Sounds / 5:26 (2014)
The Nields / Magnificat / Circle of Days / Self / 4:23 (2023)
Lori McKenna / Three Kids No Husband / Numbered Days / Hoodie Songs / 3:19 (2014)

[Instrumental Bed]
theyself / iv / roost / Self / 1:00 (2020)

*Nina Jo Smith / They Killed Good in Minnesota / They Killed Good in Minnesota - Single / Self / 2:59 (2026)
*Vanessa Jones / Tell the People You Love / Tell the People You Love - Single / Self / 3:07 (2026)
Susan Werner / My Mother’s Garden / Live at Tin Angel / Self / 4:21 (1993)
Suzanne Vega / Tired of Sleeping / Days of Open Hand / A&M / 4:23 (1990)
Kashimana / Strong Black Mother / Phantom Cries / Self / 5:08 (2023)


[Instrumental Bed]
Sprig of That / This Time Last Week / Bloom / Self / 1:00 (2023)

*Carsie Blanton / The Little Flame / The Red Album Vol 2 / Self / 3:00 (2026)
Dar Williams / Weight of the World / Emerald / Self / 3:18 (2015)
Grace Pettis / I Ain’t Your Mama (Radio Edit) / Working Woman / MPress Records / 3:12 (2021)
Roe Family Singers / Loretta Lynn Blues / Sisters & Brothers / Bonfire / 3:12 (2024)
Loretta Lynn / One’s on the Way (feat. Margo Price) / Still Woman Enough / Legacy Recordings / 2:41 (2021)
Iris DeMent / Mom & Dad’s Waltz / My Life / Warner Bros / 2:39 (1994)