Pastures of Plenty

March is Women’s History Month, so the March 6 Pastures of Plenty show on KBOO features songs of women’s struggles and stories as sung by some great women artists. You’ll hear women’s voices from Morocco, Ecuador, Ireland, Scotland, England, Vietnam, Canada, and the U.S. ... Read more

Turn Your Radio On to the Good News Celebrated There On Pastures of Plenty this week (February 28, 2024) we feature the Good News of faith and joy found in Folk, Bluegrass and Gospel music. It's an historical fact that the roots of much of these idioms stems from the Church... Read more

Pastures of Plenty begins with James Taylor singing "Something in the Way She Moves" and ends with Merle Travis picking "You’re Nobody Til Somebody Loves You."  In between there’s Valentine’s music from Joan Baez, Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, Wille Nelson, Lucinda Williams, G... Read more

My wife and I had an incredible 4 week vacation in Ecuador in December. We got to visit the Andes Mountains. famous Market in Otavalo, the Equator, and two visits to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rain Forest, one for 4 days. Alas, we didn’t get to catch any live music. So I did a l... Read more

Great New Acoustic Music   On Pastures of Plenty this week (January 24, 2024) we feature some great new music from Toronto. With a lineup that includes standup bass, fiddle and hypnotic banjo (and no guitar!!), the Lonesome Ace Stringband combines an old time stringband sen... Read more

Today’s Pastures of Plenty begins with Amy Speace - "Why I Wake Up Early" and ends with Portland’s Tom May singing "Hope for One and All." And there’s lots more folk music in this show, from the likes of John Hartford, Olive Klug, Tom Peterson and Charlotte Morris and many ... Read more