Common Sense Songs, hosted by Graham and Barbara Dean, airs every Wednesday from 8- 10 p.m. on WBCR-lp 97.7fm Great Barrington MA, streaming at  < The show is repeated Friday from 3.00 to 5.00 p.m. The show can also be heard for 2 weeks on Spinitron.

      This show features music and songs played on the mountain dulcimer music, starting with Jean Ritchie who helped to popularise the instrument when she came to New York in the 1950s.

"Randy Rowe", Jean Ritchie, Marching Across the Green Grass, Asch Records.

"Old Bald Eagle", Jean Ritchie, Marching Across The Green Grass, Asch Records.

"The Darby Ram", Jean Ritchie, At Home, Pacific Cascade Records.

"Fair Nottamun Town", Jean Ritchie, None But One, Greenhays.

"None But One", Jean Ritchie, None But One, Greenhays.

"Now Is The Cool of the Day", Molly Andrews, Dear Jean, Compass.

"Pretty Betty Martin", Kathy Reid Naiman, Dear Jean, Compass.

"Farewell to the Mountains", Magpie, Dear Jean, Compass.

"One I Love", Sally Rogers, The Unclaimed Pint, Thrushwood Records.

"The World Is Old Tonight/ Morning Dew", The Atwater Donnelly Trio, The World Is Old Tonight, Rabbit Island Music.

"Oh No Not I", Ian Robb with Grit Laskin, The Barley Grain For Me, Folk Legacy.

"The Spinning of the Wheel", Jez Lowe and Jake Walton, Two A Roue, Tantobie.

"The Lark In The Morning", Steeleye Span, Electric Eden, BMG.

"Cannily Cannily", Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, Summer Solstice, Schanachie.

"Copshawholme Fair", Steeleye Span, Hark! The Village Wait, Schanachie.

"Farewell Nancy", John Molineux, The John Renbourn Group Live in America, Flying Fish.

"D Composition in C", Howie and Ann Mitchell, The New Golden Ring Five Days Singing Vol.1, Folk Legacy.

"Rondeau From First Symphonic Suite", Roger Nicholson and Lorraine Lee, The Exultation of Dulcimers, Greenhays.

"Carolan's Concerto", Roger Nicholson and Lorraine Lee, The Exultation of Dulcimers, Greenhays.

"Breton Dances", The John Renbourn Group, Live in America, Flying Fish.

"Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing/ Mountain Field", Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt, Closing The Distance, Flying Fish.

"Replenish/ For The Birds", Claudia Schmidt, Reimagining, Pragmavision.

"House Carpenter", Lorraine and Bennett Hammond, The Opal Ring, Snowy Egret Music.

"Rider On An Orphan Train", David Massengill and Jack Hardy, Partners n Crime, Great Divide Records.

"All I Want", Joni Mitchell, Blue, Rhino/Reprise.


Please send CDs to P.O.Box 332, Great Barrington, MA 01230. We are unlikely to use downloads

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