letter j, frankie and johnny, mississippi john hurt, jamaica, bosavi, glory glory, Kenneth Patchen, jean ritchie, lonnie johnson, james p johnson, dock boggs, lead belly, leadbelly, woody guthrie, jessie james, careless love, john hardy, sounds to grow on, smithsonian, folkway, folk, ways, asch, CKUA, Michael Asch
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Shortly before he died in 1986, my father was interviewed I think by the Today Show on NBC. At that time, he justified his policy of never withdrawing a record title from the complete two thousand plus collection by saying: “would you take the letter J out of the dictionary merely because it is used less frequently than the letter S?” Well, I thought I would base this show on that idea. Here we have a show in celebration of the letter J. We will cover songs, music from countries, artists, instruments and sounds which all begin with the letter J.
