Great Big Hoping Machine

Americana, roots, folk, etc. Hosted by Kim Ware, Sunday mornings at 11AM ET, only on RadioPlastique.com

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Playlist (15): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), March 12 2023

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Jason Lang "Happiness Is" Handled With Care

Parker Millsap "Running on Time" Wilderness Within You

Benjamin Dakota Rogers "Little Old Paint Horse" Paint Horse

Benny Bleu "Fairy Shrimp" March of the Mollusk

Derek Vanderhorst "Baby" Wildflower

Reece Sullivan "Lazy Babe" Gethsemane

Bud Rokesky "Floodlights" Outsider

Reggie Garrett "A Woman's Work (is Never Done)" York's Lament & Other Stories

Bette & Wallet "Aliens Are Nice" Électrique

Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward "Donuts" Happy Hearts

Laurie Styvers Imagine "The Lights Have Gone Out" Laurie Styvers: Gemini Girl: The Complete Hush Recordings

Mya Byrne "Lend You a Hand" Single

Gabrielle Shonk "Quand le calme reviendra" Across the Room

Trampled by Turtles "A Lifetime to Find" Alpenglow

Woody Guthrie "Do-Re-Mi" Pastures of Plenty

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Playlist (16): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Feb 26 2023

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Charlie Marks "Sunrise Serenade" Three Years' Time

Adeem the Artist "Books & Records" White Trash Revelry

John Fullbright "Social Skills" The Liar

Emily White "Funny Little Sound" Songs You Didn't Know I Wrote About You

Claire Coupland "1000 Miles From a Dream" New Light

Craig Bickhardt "If Holes Were Coins" Outpourings

Jason Lang "Firewater" Handled With Care

My Politic "Buzzards on a Powerline" Missouri Folklore: Songs & Stories From Home

Queen Esther "John the Revelator" Gild the Black Lily

Andy Shauf "Norm" Norm

Renee Maskin "When You Get Tired" Dreams A River

Scott McMicken and the Ever-Expanding "What About Now" Shebang

Caroline Spence "Mary Oliver (Acoustic)" Single

Bendigo Fletcher "Juniper Moore" Wingding

Cass McCombs "A Blue, Blue Band" Heartmind

Watkins Family Hour "Blowin' Down This Road" Home in This World: Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads

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Playlist (16): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Feb 19 2023

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

John Fullbright "The Liar" The Liar

The Tallest Man on Earth "Every Little Heart" Henry St.

Rose City Band "Chasing Rainbows" Garden Party

Fran "Palm Tree" Leaving

Kevin Morby "Bittersweet, TN" This Is a Photograph

Freakwater "Fullerene" Single

Hansan "Om vi inte" Blod eller black

Cynthia Marchant "Love Is Magic" Flesh and Bone

Don Gibson "It's a Long, Long Way to Georgia" The Essential Don Gibson

Eli Lev "Shy Desert Morning" True North

Noah Reid "Everyday" Adjustments

Frank Turner "Recovery" Tape Deck Heart

John Showman and Chris Coole "First Girl I Loved" Much Further Out Than Inevitable

Kathleen Edwards "Take It With You When You Go" Total Freedom

The Go Janes "Soul Spring" The Go Janes

Julien Baker "Guthrie" B-Sides

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Playlist (14): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Feb 12 2023

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Nickel Creek "Strangers" Celebrants

Corrie Lynn Green "Ain't Over Yet" Single

Lynne Hanson "Light in Me" Single

Seth Avett "Just a Bum" Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown

Laurie MacAllister "Poison & Wine" Single

The Real Sarahs "Valentine's Day" Single

Diane Coll "Cowboy Church" Happy Fish and Other Delights

Charley Crockett "Cowboy Candy" The Man From Waco

Adeem the Artist "For Judas" White Trash Revelry

Mary Middlefield "Band Aid" Thank You Alexander

CornMaiz Stringband "In the Garden" Fresh-Picked Kentucky Music

John Fullbright "Bearden, 1645" The Liar

Trampled by Turtles "Central Hillside Blues" Alpenglow

Jay Farrar & Will Johnson & Anders Parker & Yim Yames "Hoping Machine" New Multitudes

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Playlist (17): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Feb 5 2023

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Seth Avett "Good Morning Coffee" Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown

Flatland Cavalry "Mountain Song" Songs to Keep You Warm

Peach & Quiet "Beautiful Thing" Beautiful Thing

Diane Coll "Far Away" Happy Fish and Other Delights

Jaimee Harris "The Fair and Dark Haired Lad" Boomerang Town

Pony Bradshaw "Holler Rose" North Georgia Rounder

Sunny Sweeney "A Song Can't Fix Everything" Married Alone

Slaid Cleaves "Through the Dark" Together Through the Dark

Ben Harper "Maybe I Can't" Bloodline Maintenance

Melissa Carper "Ramblin' Soul" Ramblin' Soul

Hannah Kaminer "From Where You Stand" Single

Lucero "Macon if We Make It" Should've Known by Now

Adeem the Artist "My America" White Trash Revelry

Watchhouse "Wondrous Love" Watchhouse (Duo)

JPW "Clarifying Word" Something Happening / Always Happening

Trampled by Turtles "It's So Hard to Hold On" Alpenglow

Swamp Dogg "Dust Bowl Refugee" Home in This World: Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads

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Playlist (15): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Jan 29 2023

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Jaimee Harris  "Missing Someone" Boomerang Town

Caroline Spence "Walk the Walk" True North

William Rhyne "Old Views" Reminder

Tim Swaddling "Little Timmy" Manifests

Lang Owen "She's My Memory" She's My Memory

Kathleen Edwards "Simple Math" Total Freedom

Jean Rohe "Animal" Single

Ben Bedford "Weasel, Pike, Fox, and Kite" Valley of Stars

Angel Olsen "Greenville" Single

Susan Perron "You Don't Live There Anymore" Sister Songbird

Dom Flemons  "Slow Dance With You" Traveling Wildfire

John Showman and Chris Coole "Olde Time Riverman" Much Further Out Than Inevitable

Dan Mangan "No Tragedy Please" Being Somewhere

Renee Maskin "When You Get Tired" Dreams A River

Billy Bragg & Wilco "Feed of Man" Mermaid Avenue Vol. II

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Playlist (15): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Jan 22 2023

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Young Mister "Owls" Revisions

Wes Collins "Medusa" Jabberwockies

J. Steinfort "How I Paid for My First Guitar" You Are Going to Be Fine

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters "The Guitar Case" Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Angel Olsen "Ghost On" Big Time

Cooper Kenward "Birdwatcher" Cooper Kenward

Colleen Brown "As the Crow Flies" Winging It

Madi Diaz, S.G. Goodman, Joy Oladokun "Be Careful" Single

Jaimee Harris "Fake" Red Rescue

Lucinda Williams "Concrete and Barbed Wire" Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Maggie Bjorklund "Flow" Imaginational Anthem Vol. XI - Chrome Universal

Stacy Antonel "Kicking and Screaming" Always the Outsider

William Rhyne "Believe Me" Reminder

Sam Bush "In Tall Buildings" Radio John: Songs of John Hartford

Billy Bragg & Wilco "Airline to Heaven" Mermaid Avenue Vol. II

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Playlist (15): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Jan 15 2023

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Glen Hansard  "Take Heart" Single

Marketa Irglova "Girl From a Movie" Lila

Aspen Jacobsen "Dear Brother" Arsonist Daughter

Iron & Wine "That's How You Know" Lori

Plains "Abeline" I Walked With You A Ways

The Ballroom Thieves "I Lose" Clouds

Tom Barrett "Strait Thru" You Are And You've Always Been

Tonks "Lavender X's" Finger on the Pulse

The Tallest Man on Earth "Blood Bank" Too Late for Edelweiss

The Belle Curves "Left Unsaid" Watershed

Sleepyhead "Fort Misery" New Alchemy

Renee Maskin "When You Get Tired" Dreams A River

Rat Tally "Prettier" In My Car

Bendigo Fletcher "Pterodactyl" Wingding

Julien Baker "Guthrie" B-Sides

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Playlist (15): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Jan 1 2023 (BEST OF 2022 EPISODE)

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

JPW "Guesswork at Sundown" Something Happening / Always Happening

Friendship "Hank" Love the Stranger

Kevin Morby "Bittersweet, TN" This Is a Photograph

Ruby Gill "Calling Out" I'm Gonna Die With This Frown on My Face

Pharis & Jason Romero "SS Radiant" Tell 'Em You Were Gold

Lucy Kaplansky "Mary's Window" Last Days of Summer

Plains "Problem With It" I Walked With You A Ways

Mary Gauthier "Amsterdam" Dark Enough to See the Stars

Florist "Two Ways" Florist

Wilco "The Plains" Cruel Country

Noah Reid "Everyday" Adjustments

Anna Bates "Holy Smokes" Here's to the End

Angel Olsen "Big Time" Big Time

Caroline Spence "Mary Oliver" True North

Watchhouse "Upside Down" Watchhouse (Duo)

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Playlist (16): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Dec 18 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Florist  "Red Bird Pt. 2"  Florist

Anna Bates "Holy Smokes" Here's to the End

Book Club "Christmas Eve Can Kill You" Rock by the Sea Charity Christmas Series

Pony League "Frozen Riverbed" A Picture of Your Family

Caroline Spence "The Gift" True North

Emily Kurn "Light the Lamp" single

Mary Gauthier "Dark Enough to See the Stars" Dark Enough to See the Stars

Ever More Nest "Happy New Year" single

Watchhouse "New Star" Watchhouse (Duo)

Colleen Brown "I Remember" Winging It

Reid Jamieson "Snowbird" Songs for a Winter's Night

Powerdove "Winterizing" Be Mine

Low "Holy Ghost" The Invisible Way

Eli Lev "There's a Light" True North

Christian Lee Hutson  "Silent Night" Single

Jay Farrar & Will Johnson & Anders Parker & Yim Yames  "Hoping Machine" New Multitudes

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Playlist (16): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Dec 11 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Bendigo Fletcher "Strange Encounters" Wingding

John Showman & Chris Coole "The Julia Belle Swain" Much Further Out Than Inevitable

Wilco "Hints" Cruel Country

Jason Collett "Hot Mess" Head Full of Wonder

Jackson County Line "The Runaway" White Flowers

Jaimee Harris "Catch It Now" Red Rescue

Jose Gonzalez "Save Your Day" Veneer

Watchhouse "Lonely Love Affair" Watchhouse (Duo)

Iron & Wine "Halfway Home" Lori

Stillhouse Junkies "Never Going Back Again" Small Towns

Friendship "Chomp Chomp" Love Is the Stranger

Wes Collins "Last Saturday" Jabberwockies

Florist "Two Ways" Florist

Aspen Jacobsen "Monday Mourning" Arsonist Daughter

Chris Coole "Waiting for the Rain" The Old Man and the C Chord

Parker Milsap "Vigilante Man" Home in This World: Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads

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Playlist (16): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Dec 4 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Jason Collett "Sweet Water Sea" Head Full of Wonder

Young Mister "Find You Again" Revisions

Plains "Line of Sight" I Walked With You a Ways

Last Year's Man "Time Is a Sparrow" Time Is a Sparrow

Aspen Jacobsen "Enough" Arsonist Daughter

Jason Lang "Happiness Is" single

Miranda Hardy "Tiki Bar" Reverie

Dan Mangan "Just Know It" Being Somewhere

JPW "Addressed by the Multi-formed Image" Something Happening / Always Happening

Tom Barrett "You Are And You've Always Been" You Are And You've Always Been

Lisa Richards "Majesty" Waiting to Fly

Claire Coupland "Love Song" New Light

Ruby Gill "Dirty Work" I'm Gonna Die With This Frown on My Face

Ziggy Alberts "Cinnamon Daze" Dancing in the Dark

Watchhouse "Nightbird" Watchhouse (Duo)

John Paul White "Pretty Boy Floyd" Home in This World: Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads

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Playlist (15): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Nov 27 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Jason Collett "Everyday Sunflower" Head Full of Wonder

John Showman and Chris Coole "Don't Leave Your Records in the Sun" Much Further Out Than Inevitable

Plains "I Walked With You a Ways" I Walked With You a Ways

Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble "Wheel" II

Ruby Gill "In Time With the Engine Turning Over" I Forgot to Be Profound Today

Abigail Dowd "Diamond" Beautiful Day

Hilary Hawke "Jack of Diamonds" Lilygild

Dan Mangan "In Your Corner (for Scott Hutchinson)" Being Somewhere

Anna Bates "Something Greater" Here's to the End

Noah Reid "Statue's in the Stone" Adjustments

Jphono1 "Taco Ma Park" Low Key Companion

Madi Diaz, S.G. Goodman, and Joy Oladokun "Be Careful" single

Corky Siegel "Cool Fragrant Breeze" Songs for Truth and Harmony

Lars Nagel "Old Photographs" Tomorrow Never Knows

Brady Rymer "Mail Myself to You" Keep Hoping Machine Running: Songs of Woody Guthrie

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Playlist (16): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Nov 20 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Last Year's Man "Better Left Unsaid" Time Is a Sparrow

Lisa Richards "Houdini" Waiting to Fly

Courtney Marie Andrews "Loose Future" Loose Future

Young Mister "Owls" Revisions

Abigail Dowd "Apple Trees" Beautiful Day

Grey DeLisle "Georgia on My Mind" Borrowed

Carey Anne Farrell "Perjury" Someone Else's Wings

Pixie and the Partygrass Boys "The Long Hard Way" Listen to the Red Rock

Caroline Spence "Blue Sky Rain" True North

Claudia Schmidt "Broken Glass" Reimagining

Ziggy Alberts "The Sun & The Sea" Dancing in the Dark

Kerri Powers "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" Words on the Wind

Timothy Scott "Screen Door" single

Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters "The Things We Call Home" S/T

Low "Holy Ghost" The Invisible Way

Jay Farrar & Will Johnson & Anders Parker & Yim Yames "Hoping Machine" New Multitudes

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Playlist (17): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Nov 13 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Plains "Hurricane" I Walked With You a Ways

Dan Mangan "Easy" Being Somewhere

Jphono1 "Illusion of Separation" Low Key Companion

Ruby Gill "Cinnamon" I'm Gonna Die With This Frown on My Face

Joe Holt "Kingston NY" Tired of Trying

Belle-Skinner "A Case of You" Belle-Skinner Sings Joni Mitchell Live

JPW "Clarifying Word" Something Happening / Always Happening

Darryl Purpose "A Place Where Everyone Sings" Two Good Hands

Mike Thomas Band "All Over Again" Three Reasons

Pharis & Jason Romero "Black Guard Mary" Tell 'Em You Were Gold

Ben Harper "Below Sea Level" Bloodline Maintenance

Angel Olsen "All the Flowers" Big Time

Watchhouse "Beautiful Flowers" Watchhouse (Duo)

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard "Walkin' in My Sleep" Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition

Charlie Marks "Bluebird Wine" single

Kirby Heard "(That's What Makes) A Bluegrass Song" Ripples in the Wake

The Wainwright Sisters "Hobo's Lullaby" Songs in the Dark

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Playlist (15): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Nov 6 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Noah Zacharin "Can't Wake Up" Strange Rider

Colleen Brown "What's Old Is New" Winging It

Andrew V. Craig "Light It Up" In the Morning

Anna Bates "Holy Smokes" Here's to the End

Brunswick "All You Can" The Same Ground

Lisa Richards "Flowers and Weeds (Dead and Gone)" Waiting to Fly

Tone of Voice Orchestra "You Saw Yourself Out" S/T

Pharis & Jason Romero "Rolling Mills" Tell 'Em You Were Gold

Rick Spreitzer "No Idea" From the Bottom

Neil Young "Human Highway" Hitchhiker

Rhiannon Giddens "Black as Crow" They're Calling Me Home (with Francesco Turrisi)

Abigail Dowd "St. Vrain" Beautiful Day

Lucy Kaplansky "These Days" Last Days of Summer

Angel Olsen "All the Flowers" Big Time

Mark Lanegan "Dust Pneumonia Blues" Home in This World: Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads

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Playlist (16): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Oct 30 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble "Arc" II

Wussy "Halloween" Attica

Diane Coll "The Bell Tolls" Happy Fish and Other Delights

Mary Gauthier "Amsterdam" Dark Enough to See the Stars

The Foxgloves "Hometown" Mama Was a Bandit

Tone of Voice Orchestra "That Kind of Day" S/T

Ruby Gill "I Forgot to Be Profound Today" I'm Gonna Die With This Frown on My Face

Kevin Morby "Bittersweet, TN" This Is a Photograph

Sofia Talvik "Too Many Churches" single

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard "I Just Got Wise" Pioneering Women of Bluegrass

Kathleen Edwards "Feelings Fade" Total Freedom

Plains "Easy" I Walked With You a Ways

Noah Reid "Everyday" Adjustments

Caroline Spence "Mary Oliver" True North

Watchhouse "Coming Down From Green Mountain" Watchhouse (Duo)

The Secret Sisters "Dust Cain't Kill Me " Home in This World: Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads