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Dangermuffin, is Three guys from Folly Beach, South Carolina. In thier own words: ….and you’ll hear tales of rogue lawmen, forlorn lovers, and rolling waves. Based in Folly Beach, SC, the eclectic trio casts a fresh perspective on American roots music.
Now listen and we think you’ll agree, it doesn’t get anymore down home than this.
David Rovics is a controversial songwriter with a clean and direct approach to society. In the style of the traditional Folk Protest Songwriter David presents our world in a refreshing and clear light.
From his bio:
David Rovics grew up in a family of classical musicians in Wilton, Connecticut, and became a fan of populist regimes early on. By the early 90′s he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways and by the mid-90′s he was traveling the world as a professional flat-picking rabble-rouser. These days David lives with his family in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies.
After a long stint of thunderstorms and unsettling weather, CFR will be going back on the air as well as our sister station CFR Old Time Radio. We want to thank the artists who sent us cd’s over the summer, and let our listeners know we have a great deal of new music for you to hear on our playlist. CFR is going in to our 5th year of being on the air and although we have to take our servers off line for long stints at a time during the summer, we stay on the air 24-7 starting in the fall and going through the winter. We want to thank our OTR listeners for making CFROTR a big sucess, our listenership is a very large fanbase and we’re happy to see so many people interested in Old Time Radio. CFROTR can still boost the largest OTR playlist on the internet and if there’s something we haven’t got on our playlist that you know of let us know. Well, hope everyone’s ready for the fall and if your on the other side of the world hope you’re ready for what ever season is on your doorstep. Keep on listening, by doing so you help to keep free radio on the internet alive.
Well needless to say the first lightning of the year took out our modem. we’ll be down for a a couple of days until we can get a new one. In the mean time we haven’t wasted time adding new music to the playlist. We’ll be posting the list of new bands we have added to CFRD’s list of excellent musicians in the near future. We guarantee the new additions wil not disappoint. Please stay tuned for further updates on our status!
Well first we want to say hello to our listeners, we’ve been busy this winter and haven’t had much time to keep up, so here we go. FIrst up on the agenda is the consolidation of our two music stations CFR Rock will be merged with CFRD as of this weekend. WE found that running two seperate servers for music was a bit much and it will be easier for us and add more variety to our playlist. You willstill be able to search out and request the type of music you want to hear at our website. We hope to create, in the near future hourly shows that will be based on genre and type of artists. We will begin to implement this as soon as the transition is complete. We hope youwill find this change for the best, we feel it is.
Soon it will be Spring and that means Thunderstorms, here at CFR we love winter because we can run our station 24 seven. In the Spring that’s a different story. IN the spring we have maany thunderstorms and that means lightning. So we a prone to periodical shutdowns to protect our servers. If you tune in and find us off the air most likely that will be why, but we alwasy come back. More on this as the spring gets closer and we have a better idea on what thw weather will be doing.
New music has slowed down a bit but we do have several new artists to tell you about so here they are.
Billie Rainbird – (from her site) “Newcomer Billie Rainbird was born and raised in a small town in northwest Canada. This natural beauty hails from a diverse cultural heritage- part Native American Indian, Scottish, Irish, English, German and Hungarian Gypsy. Her musical heritage is equally eclectic – she grew up listening to Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Mahalia Jackson and The Beatles. You can hear those influences in her composition and production. Her music has its origins in her relationship to the piano. Self taught Billie Rainbird is an intuitive and prolific songwriter.” We are proud to add her to our playlist.
Billie Rainbird on the web
Buy Her CD
Deadbeat Poets – The Deadbeat Poets were formed in Youngstown, Ohio in the summer of 2006. The band consists of veteran Ohio musicians with eclectic credentials: Frank Secich (Blue Ash, Club Wow, Stiv Bators Band), Terry Hartman (Backdoor Men, Napoleon In Rags, Terry & The Tornadoes), Pete Drivere (Infidels, Pretty Demons) and John Koury (Infidels, Slackjaw). Their debut album (which was recorded over the first few months of 2007 at Youngstown’s Ampreon Recorder) is now available on Pop Detective Records in America & in Japan on Vivid Sound Records.
Buy their CD
Forenza-Dowlin – Performing originals and different cover songs from the 50′s to the present. They are “music for all occasions and all ages”. .. …. ..2 guitars, vocals, percussion and mandolin. Performing as a duo for the last 9 years in the Delaware Valley. David Fiorenza – guitars, mandolin, percussion and vocals. Wayne Dowlin – guitars and vocals. various drummers used from time to time. …. .
Fiorenza-Dowling on Myspace
Greg Newman – (in his own words) “Distasteful subjects presented through uncommon metaphors disguised by harmonically rich melodies layered over robust instrumentation supported by carefully crafted structures. Fleeing housing projects, bill collectors, and bad decisions in the Midwest with his parents and siblings, Greg Newman ultimately ended up in San Diego as a teenager. His struggling family needed a roommate to help cover the rent, so his household included a local musician who found Greg a used guitar at a local swap meet. Having no interest in music at the time, Greg removed the three bottom strings of the guitar and realized that it made a great prop for shoplifting from a local liquor store.” Honestly this man is an excellent musician and songwriter!
Buy Greg’s CD
The Nields – (from thier bio) Nerissa and Katryna Nields have been the darlings of the coffeehouse/festival scene since 1991, with tunes ranging from off-the-hook idiosyncratic to kicking to heartbreaking. “Our parents were total folkies,” says Nerissa. “Their first date was a Pete Seeger concert and their second was a Harry Bellefonte concert. We used to go to a family camp in the Adirondacks every summer where people sat around a fire. That’s where I learned how to finger pick. The music teacher at our school, Jack Langstaff, was more of the English tradition of folk music than the American, and his legacy was really strong. We grew up on simple folk songs.” We love them and we know you will too!
Download The Nields CD “Gotta Get Over Greta” free!
Well that’s all for now we hope you have a great spring and keep on listening!
Well it’s that time again where we have to keep our eyes out for impending thunderstorms. This time each year we have periodic shut downs due to lightning strike and spring/early summer thunderstorms. We try to warn our listeners a head of time but sometimes we just have to pull the plug. For those of you who have noticed a recent sudden shut down, that’s the reason!! We appreciate your patience and understanding and want you to know CFRD will always come back on the air after the storms.
The winter broought us many new artists for our playlist. we’ll post them and links to their sites in our next bulletin. Stop by and give us your suggestions or just to say hi here at our blog
(for off site feeds)
Or stop by the station site to request music at
After a run for several days we can safely say all problems are fixed and CFRD is back on the air. We’ve seen several lsiteners come and go and the server is updating both itself and the weblink to our station site. Thanks for your patience, this gave us the opportunity to upgrade our broadcast software to it’s most recent version so all was not a loss. We appreciate your ears!
We would like to announce that Colorado Free Radio Old Time Radio is busting out and doing well, it was noted last night we had the highest number of listeners at the same time we’ve ever had. Thanks to all the fans of Old Time Radio, you have made all our work worthwhile. We still have more shows to add to the playlist. The new shows will be posted soon, we appreciate your patronage.
After getting back on the air and the repairs were made, we recently noticed that the que on the software wasn’t updating. Needless to say the softwre has to be reinstalled and more tests run before CFRD can go back on the air. All of this should take place this evening. Another update will be posted when things are back up and running. We apologize to our listeneres.
Our other stations are still on the air!
Latest update on the CFRD server crash. A motherboard was found in our spare parts and installed in the server, it was fired up last night and looks good. All we need to do now is reconnect all the drives and periperals and run some tests. If all goes well the station should be up and running by tonight. We’ll keep our listeners updated as the progress continues.
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