October 2026 on Paradigms
4th – Opium Moon 11th – Olya Prohorova 18th – Michael Marra
25th – Carla Gover
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Carla Gover – “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”
Carla Gover is an 8th generation Kentuckian, so this music is particularly meaningful for her. At Si’s suggestion Carla assembled the musicians and produced the record. Si Kahn is a prolific and accomplished performer, activist, and union organizer, and a prolific songwriter. This collaboration was in the cards for some time and now has come to fruition.
The friends are: Arlo Barnette guitars, Maizie Barnette vocals, Rosie Gardner vocals and banjo, Charity Gilbert vocals and guitar, Carla Gover vocals, banjo and guitar, Maple Harvey vocals, J. Tom Hnatow dobro, guitar and pedal steel, Jeri Katherine Howell vocals and guitar, Sue Massek vocals and banjo, Karly Dawn Milner vocals, Sarah Kate Morgan vocals and Appalachian dulcimer, Owen Reynolds bass, Ella Webster vocals, fiddle and guitar, Jesse Wells fiddle, guitar and banjo, Maddie Rae Wells vocals.
• Carla Gover on YouTube
Music by: Carla Gover and Friends
Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:24 — 134.2MB)
Listener Comments:
- Carl J Shoemaker on Central Oregon Social Justice Center, Bend Oregon: Activism, Housing, Employment, Labor, Race Relations, LGBTQ, Environmentalism: “Get out the vote. Every Vote counts. Vote or Lose” September 29, 2026
- on L. D. Vellani & Mebanesville with Si Kahn – “ICE Fishing in America”: “Howdy Baruch & beloved community … I think I inadvertently said I 1st met Si personally in the 1990s ……” August 31, 2026
- on Antoinette Harrell – Genealogist, Historian, and Activist: “Hello, I just recently learned of you while watching YouTube. It both broke my heart and made me feel good…” June 24, 2026
- on Ron Wilkins & Rebecca Patterson – “The Vigil and The Sleeping Giant”: “That four-movement Covid Suite already sounds like it captures something many of us still struggle to articulate. Ron’s personal story…” May 28, 2026
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