Where Did The Animals Go

Living with drought is a reality in California. Soaring fiddle work by Patrick M'Gonigle.

Waiting for the Rain

Waiting For The Rain

Co-written with Jay Pinto, this song explores what it means to come clean about some long-held secret.

Tell The Truth

Meeting later in life means we want to make it last as long as possible.

California Morning

Slow Down Time

A perfect anniversary song reaffirming one's love for your partner.

I Still Do

Elk River Blues.” Written to the tune of the same name by West Virginia fiddler, Ernie Carpenter, the song tells the true story of Ernie’s home being flooded by a dam, something he never really got over.

Elk River Blues

Exploring the experience of seeing the ghost of a departed lover.

Corner of My Eye

Corner Of My Eye

Written on the banks of the emerald-green American River one fall as day was breaking.

A song about the year my mother spent in a Big Sur cabin.

Alta Vista

Produced by Rachel Anne Goodman, this thirteen-part series originally ran on public radio in 1990. It contains profiles of influential and little-known artists whose music paved the way for future generations of musicians. Contains rare and archival audio and music. Martha Carson is best known for her gospel hit "Satisfied" which turned gold in the 1950's. She was born in the small mining town of Neon, Kentucky and ended up on the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville, TN. This show includes early rare recordings of the Carson Sisters' trio, Minnie, Mattie and Marthie-The Sunsine Sisters, as well as classic recordings of James and Martha Carson, WSB Barndance Sweethearts and interviews with folklorists and musicians who knew her. 

Martha Carson  From Neon To Nashville

Produced by Rachel Anne Goodman, this thirteen-part series originally ran on public radio in 1990. It contains profiles of influential and little-known artists whose music paved the way for future generations of musicians. Contains rare and archival audio and music. Ola Belle Reed received the National Heritage Award from the NEA in 1986 for her outstanding contribution to the world of traditional folk music. She was famous for her songwriting (High on a Mountain, I've Endured, Tear Down the Fences) but her outspoken defense of the dignity of the poor. This show includes commentary by Alice Gerrard, Cathy Fink, Hazel Dickens and Mike Seeger, and several rare archival recordings from her early career. 

Ola Belle Reed  I've Endured

Produced by Rachel Anne Goodman, this thirteen-part series originally ran on public radio in 1990. It contains profiles of influential and little-known artists whose music paved the way for future generations of musicians. Contains rare and archival audio and music. This is the story of the first family of country music, featuring pioneers Sara and Maybelle Carter, and the next generation of women, June, Helen, Anita, and Janette Carter. Memories and music from the mountains of Virginia. 

Carter Family: My Native Home

Produced by Rachel Anne Goodman, this thirteen-part series originally ran on public radio in 1990. It contains profiles of influential and little-known artists whose music paved the way for future generations of musicians. Contains rare and archival audio and music. Phyllis Marks tells two humorous classic tales, "The Spitting Contest" and "Taking Elevators", recorded at her living room in West Virginia. Phyllis learned her stories, ballads, and rhymes from her mother and, though blind, travels around the country sharing them at festivals and storytelling events. 

Phyllis Marks - West Virginia Storyteller

Produced by Rachel Anne Goodman, this thirteen-part series originally ran on public radio in 1990. It contains profiles of influential and little-known artists whose music paved the way for future generations of musicians. Contains rare and archival audio and music. Hazel Dickens was a West Virginia born singer and songwriter who had a huge impact on country and bluegrass music as one of the early women pioneers in the genre. She sang about working people's rights and about her life growing up poor in the coalfields. Hazel's journey took her from West Virginia to a factory job in Baltimore, Maryland, and from there to a thriving music career. This program includes interviews with Mike Seeger, Alice Gerrard and historian Helen Lewis. 

Hazel Dickens:  They'll Never Keep Us Down

Part of the Southern Songbirds Radio series produced by Rachel Anne Goodman. 

Jean Ritchie: Kentucky Born and Bred

To follow the changing roles of women in country music is to follow the changes in rural life in the South. Southern Songbirds reveals the fascinating and long-ignored influence of women artists on commercial and home made country music. This series, originally aired on public radio in 1989, contains 13 portraits of influential women. It was created by Rachel Anne Goodman with support from the National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program. 

Patsy Montana

Wilma Lee Cooper

A look at how new immigrants to California are finding their way, efforts to unionize, and how organic farming is trying to rewrite the labor rules.

Pastures of Plenty: Program 4 Segment A: Future of Farm Labor

Born and raised in the Bay Area surrounded by the burgeoning folk, bluegrass, and rock scenes of the 60’s and 70’s, Rachel Anne Goodman began writing songs as a youngster surrounded by music played for the fun of it. She spent time living in Appalachia where she produced documentaries about traditional country and old-time music and was inspired by artists like Patsy Montana, Hazel Dickens, and Ola Belle Reed. She plays locally with her band, The Coast Ridge Ramblers (Americana/folk) and an Irish ensemble. Rachel is a founder of the community radio station KSQD (K-Squid) in Santa Cruz, California, where she has lived for the past three decades.

Rachel Anne Goodman

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