About the Show
Foolkiller Folk
The Foolkiller Folk collective explores the storytelling, cultural, and protest power of folk music from as far back as the Child Ballads through as current as released today.
"When one becomes enlightened one kills the fool within" -Jack Conroy
Today Mark & Val continue exorcising Mark’s aversion to country music in his Oklahoma youth with some of what we believe are the best country artists and recordings from 1955 through 1959.
You’ll be listening to: Jimmy Work, The Louvin Brothers, Faron Young, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Eddy Arnold, Porter Wagoner, The Webster Brothers & Carl Butler, Marty Robbins, Eddy Arnold, Ray Price, Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two, Johnny Horton, The Osborne Brothers and Red Allen, Wanda Jackson, Statesmen Quartet, Sonny James, The Everly Brothers, Patsy Cline, Webb Pierce, Don Gibson, Kitty Wells, Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway Twitty, Ray Price, Wayne Raney, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe, Johnny Horton, George Jones, The Browns, and Jim Reeves.
