Music only works when you listen to it.

DIG UP THE ROOTS is a weekly listen in on the nether regions of roots music. This program showcases a wide variety of musical genres and styles from the earlier years of recorded music with tangents and threads spinning out in every direction.

Please join host Greg Carr as he presents a variety of music that demonstrates how the past doesn't go away and how the ancient consumes the future.

Cyn Collins subs the show and can be heard in various places on KFAI. She knows more than most mere mortals about contemporary traditional music and wrote the book that appears on the lower left of that nav bar over there.

Dig Up The Roots went on the air in April of 2004. I have a list of the playlists from 2004 & most of 2005.

An on going feature of this program is the On-Air playing of 78 RPM records. I do this with The Ancient Mix-Master, a DJ system from 1952, that allows me to share with the listening audience a new world of old material. This usually takes place around 78 O'clock.

The theme music to this show is The Rakoto Frah Two-Step by Tarika Rakoto Frah & David Lindley. It is track 7 on the CD 'A World Out Of Time' on Shanachie. The tune is an improvised jam session between Lindley, 2 drummers and Tarika Rakoto Frah, an 80 + year old flute player and national treasure of Madagascar.

Dig Up The Roots broadcasts Tuesday mornings from 9 to 11 am on KFAI Fresh Air Community Radio.