We put a lot of pressure on summer, really.  An unfair amount of pressure.  I wouldn't be surprised if studies showed that summer was the most stressed of the four seasons.  We go through the short days and long pants of winter, looking toward the comforts of summer, expecting it to  cure our ills and massage our joints and bandage our wounds from a year of the chaos of our world.  Oh, and we expect the season to grow our tomatoes as well!  But that seems a tad unfair - to put all of that pressure on one season.  So maybe we should give summer, the season, a bit of slack this year?  In this spirit, this week on Routes & Branches & Beyond we have another episode of Summer on the Range for 2025.

You'll hear roaring backyard barmaids, spartan dances chock full of notes, cool Abyssinian dub for the hipster in you, Norwegian re-thinking of Irish tunes, languid americana floor pallets, rockabilly honky-tonk shimmies, sardonic cowgirl lullabies, and putting on your red dress for a dance.  From musicians such as The Bookends, The Travellers, Jascha Lieberman Trio, Tailsway, Inti-illimani, Blue Asia, Boiled in Lead, Rosemary Phelan, Gillian Welch, The Ditty Bops, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Ivan Rosenberg, Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird, and Duo Mosaic.  Put some more ice in that tea and join me.

Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 374 2025 07 10

Ivan Emke