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NEWS

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Dan on Spotify
2/13/2023
Song streams for Take Me Home Country Roads and West Virginia My Home on Amazon Music
2/1/2023
Total song streams from LIVE AT BLACK BEAR
​have exceeded 100,000 on Amazon Music
Cover composite of front and back covers of Live At Black Bear album by Dan Cunningham
12/24/2022
MABEL and OUT OF MY MIND
have both reached 100,000 streams on Spotify
11/29/2022
I currently have tunes on 381 user created Spotify playlists - top ones below
Top Spotify playlists Dan Cunningham Nov 29 2022
9/11/2022
Some Recent Radio Sampling:
Jon Colcord played my live version of “Rocky Raccoon” on his “Out Of The Woods” radio program
(heard on over 45 stations), Jim Canales  spun “Animated Mind” on WWSP in Wisconsin,
“Simple Gifts” was on the “Tirebiter Blues” show (KPOV Oregon),
​and Ed McDonald of WKYW has aired “Back to Morgantown” several dozen times to date.
Spotify listeners for August 2022 Dan Cunningham pickndawg

​6/17/2022
Live At Black Bear CD jewel case Dan Cunningham pickndawg
LIVE AT BLACK BEAR CD
now in jewel case packaging

5/31/2022
Streaming total for West Virginia medley on Amazon
5/22/2022
Spotify streams for Mabel by Dan Cunningham
​​2/10/2022
Neil Owen Kipling, station manager at Nova Radio North East
102.5 FM in Newcastle upon Tyne (Northeast England) writes, 
“Hi Dan, I'll be playing Dan Cunningham - Out Of My Mind
on Nova radio again this week.”

https://www.facebook.com/novaradionortheast


8/15/2021
 New Video
The West Virginia Hills


7/1/2021
 New Single - The West Virginia Hills
with guitar intro - released on
Spotify and Apple Music


4/15/2021
 New CD - SIMPLE GIFTS released on
Spotify and Apple Music


1/19/2021
 Another pickndawg guitar video reaches 10,000 views
BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM


8/28/2020
The John Conquest Special Collection at Texas Tech University
includes a copy of Dan's Appalachian Song CD.
Conquest was a respected music critic and historian in Austin
who published Music City Texas and 3rd Coast Music

​
8/1/2020
LIVE AT BLACK BEAR now available in Russia thru Yandex

​7/15/2020

Judy Cook of WOBC continues to play
 “I Ain’t No Pretty Boy No More” (from the Appalachian Song album)
on the Glad4Trad radio show



6/22/2020
Rich Warren of WFMT in Chicago played "Rise To Thee" 
from the Country Roads album on his Midnight Special show.
​The show is also picked up by other stations
such as KZYX in California and 
KHNS in Alaska
​
6/10/2020
Jim Canales of radio stations WWSP played “Mothman Blues”
​from my Country Roads album on his show, “Acoustic Revival



6/1/2020
New album 
appearing on streaming services
Dan Cunningham LIVE AT BLACK BEAR

5/1/2020
New Video

FAIREST LORD JESUS

​4/14/2020
New Video
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded - concise version

4/11/2020
Thanks to Rich Warren of WFMT's “The Midnight Special” in Chicago. He played “Rise To Thee” from my Country Roads CD on his April 11th show.
4/7/2020
New Video
​Animated Mind

3/26/2020
New Videos

Fairest Lord Jesus
Simple Gifts
Back To Morgantown live



3/29/2020
Mike Alzo of WSLU and North Country Radio
continues to play music from the COUNTRY ROADS CD
He played RISE TO THEE on The Folk Show


3/18/2020

Thanks to Jim Canales of WWSP in Wisconsin
for playing MONONGAH MINE DISASTER (from my Country Roads CD)
on his ACOUSTIC REVIVAL radio show on March 18th


2/20/2020

Thanks to Galen Abel (WXPR in Wisconsin) for playing two tunes
(Think Of Home - The Blowed Up Grave Of Harry Spitz)
from the Country Roads CD on the Bluegrass Saturday radio show.


2/14/2020
"We have played your music before, and we will play it again!"
Adam Menear - Homegrown radio show on WCLG
Homegrown on Facebook
Adam played  "Monongah Mine Disaster" 2/23/20 


2/9/2020
Mike Alzo of WSLU and North Country Radio (Canton NY)  
played YOUR TEXAS from the Country Roads CD
The Folk Show


1/25/2020
Taylor Cafferty (WRKF Baton Rouge LA) played WONDROUS LOVE
from my Country Roads CD on his radio show (Hootenanny Power)
Taylor has played my music in the past


1/10/2020
New  video - SIGNS AND WONDERS
12/23/19
New  video - AWAY IN A MANGER

​12/19/19

David Sears (Folk Show on WBGU) played
MONONGAH MINE 
DISASTER on his radio show

12/6/19
New video - MOTHMAN BLUES

​11/24/19
Susan Forbes Hansen of WHUS in Storrs CT played I THINK OF HOME
as the first tune on her show (Sunday Night Folk Festival).
I THINK OF HOME is on the COUNTRY ROADS CD.

11/2/19

Sonny Ochs (sister of legendary folksinger Phil Ochs) played MONONGAH MINE DISASTER
to lead off her radio program, Folk Music & Other Stuff on WIOX in Roxbury NY.
MONONGAH MINE DISASTER appears on my COUNTY ROADS CD.


Country Roads CD cover Dan Cunningham pickndawg
10/10/19
New CD - 
COUNTRY ROADS 
(Yes, Take Me Home Country Roads
 is on the CD


​8/4/19

Buried in 1912, the grave of Harry Spitz exploded in 1975.
Although unearthed, his coffin and body were undisturbed.
Officials investigated, but had no explanation.
I couldn’t let this strange bit of history pass without an appropriate song
THE BLOWED UP GRAVE OF HARRY SPITZ



7/6/19
Trying out guitar arrangements for "O The West Virginia Hills".
​Here is one version



4/26/19
WOBC in Oberlin. Ohio will be playing my version of
"West Virginia, My Home" on May 29 at 3pm.
The theme of the show is "Home".
You can listen here
or anytime the next week on judycook.net



3/3/19
YouTube url updated

www.youtube.com/c/DanCunninghamMusic
​

2/21/19
Census scans have been added to the Edward Cunningham page

2/18/19
An informal video of "Kaylabee", a bluesy tune from the 
BACK TO MORGANTOWN
can now be viewed on YouTube
Kaylabee Video

1/6/19

Some jazzy tunes (1981) from the theatre production of "SNAPSHOTS"
I played bass on these tunes
Cairo
Snapshots
What In The World


1/3/19
​Colin MacDonald played my tune MABEL
on his FOLKAL POINT radio show in Scotland Jan 3 2019 (show 363).
Folkal Point, now in its 45th year, is produced in the
Wellington Street studios of HBS in Glasgow.


​
12/7/18
I recently ran across some websites review snippets
for my 2003 CD, I THINK OF HOME
including some overseas reviews.
Collectors Choice is one of those sites
I Think Of Home on Collectors Choice
​
10/31/18
Dennis & Judy Cook of WOBC
played my tune “John Henry Ghost” on their Glad4Trad radio show.
The Halloween show was called “Hauntings”
  and is available for the next few days in their archive.
The song starts at about 44:30
Glad4Trad Show Archive


9/4/18
Les Ray from Cambridge Radio in the UK
is playing music from my Appalachian Song CD
on his Strummers and Dreamers program


8/23/18
My tune "Devil Anse" (Hatfield) will be played the Folkal Point
radio show by Colin MacDonald Aug 23 in Scotland.
My instrumental version of Amazing Grace
is scheduled for the August 30th episode


8/1/18
New page with photos/history of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster
and links to the song on iTunes, Spotify and Deezer.
Monongah Mine Disaster Page


7/6/18
Over in Scotland, Trevor Oxborrow played
"I Ain't No Pretty Boy No More" and "Angel Band"
from my Appalachian Song CD
on his July 7th Folk At Five radio program


7/1/18
Mike Davies played "West Virginia, My Home" (from my Appalachian Song CD)
on his Alternative Roots program on July 1st. It starts at about 33.19


​6/24/18
...away across the pond in Jolly Old England: Mike Davies played
"I Ain't No Pretty Boy No More" on his Alternative Roots program


5/15/18
I don't have the haircut (or the hair) to be a Beatle,
but I did adapt this Lennon/McCartney song for my solo act
WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR
 
5/1/18
​Dan is interviewed in Travis Stimeling's new book

Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia
Songwriting In Contemporary West Virginia book

​4/14/18
Mike Shulte of KRIM in Payson AZ had this to say about Appalachian Song:
" I like the songs, several of which I would like to use for my show Acoustic Traveler.
I will start with first cut, I Ain't No Pretty Boy No More..."

3/25/18
"I just listened to Pretty Boy and it's fab! I Love the video too!"
Brid Ni Mhaoileoin - host of  Rogha Bhride 101.3 FM in Galway Ireland
3/6/18
Message from Folkcast (across the pond in the UK)...
"Hi Dan, Our latest podcast - FolkCast 146 -
​is out now and your tribute to John Henry is featured!
Thanks again for the fabulous music. Keep it coming!"
1/18/18
Appalachian Song CD has been getting airplay on WIOX in the Catskills
(by Sonny Ochs - sister of late folk artist Phil Ochs),
​WUNH in New Hampshire, and the Acoustic Outpost radio show.

KAOS in Olympia, Washington is playing the CD regularly.
​
11-1-17
My CHRISTMAS GUITAR CD is reviewed on the Minor 7th Website


Flowers Of Edinburgh in 30 seconds


​The idea for “Mabel” came from Jenny in the movie Forrest Gump.
I remembered some of the friends of my youth with bad situations at home.
The CD version of the song w/slide guitar by Josh Arthurs below 

​Solo version with video of “Mabel” in the stairwell (below)

10/1/17
New Video - You can leave the mountains, but they keep calling you back

---Thanks to Asbury Music in New Jersey
they keep putting my tunes on their playlists
including John Henry's Ghost and Out Of My Mind
AsburyMusic.com


---Thanks to Woody Snyder for spinning my version of WEST VIRGINIA, MY HOME
on WVUD in Newark, Delaware (September 19th)


---Thanks to Jack Pignatello of Road Trip Radio (WFDU - New Jersey)
for playing JOHN HENRY'S GHOST & Hardly Strictly Radio (WMPG - Portland ME)
for spinning ANGEL BAND a few months back


---Thanks to Scott St Peter at WMSE in Milwaukee for playing
JOHN HENRY Oct 6th on his show (Space-Age Old School)


These tunes are on the “Appalachian Song” CD

also - WRRW has been playing my tunes
(thanks to Ed Lang)


9-8-17
Clark Noone of KSPC FM 88.7 in Claremont California had this to say about "Appalachian Song" - 
"Please forgive my delay in acknowledging receipt of your Appalachian Song CD!
I was delighted to receive it. In fact, I played it several times on a recent drive up to the Sierra Nevada region.
It was perfect! You are a mighty fine picker and singer,
and the album is full of memorable songs and consummate musicianship."
​


8/11/17
Al Kniola played "Angel Band" on his radio show,
The Back Porch (WVPE in Elkhart Indiana)


8/8/17
"West Virginia, My Home" turned up on "Down Yonder",
Kevin Dohse's radio show on WDRT in Wisconsin

​
​7/8/17

"John Henry's Ghost" from Dan's Appalachian Song CD can be heard on Out Of The Woods Radio
this week on stations from Vermont to Alaska, and international listeners on the net.




​OLDER NEWS
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11/10/16
IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR - from new Christmas CD
FIND CD HERE



10/25/16
New video - COVENTRY CAROL - from new Christmas CD
FIND CD HERE


​​8/7/16
​This guitar video recently reached 5,000 views on YouTube


​6/25/16

​An simple guitar video of mine I posted a while back has passed 7,000 views on YouTube


5/23/16

Added a Youtube video for the old fiddle tune, FORKED DEER

1986 recording with Jenny Allinder, Roy Clark Jr, and Robin Kessinger

​“Ah, love your music!!!”
Nadine Francis
KSPC Claremont CA 88.7 FM
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