Jake Armerding & Songs of Autumn

Posted at 6:00 AM on September 19, 2009 by Dale Connelly

Tonight on Radio Heartland on Minnesota Public Radio News, hour one will feature new music from a recent transplant to the upper midwest.

Jake Armerding started his music career as the fiddler in his father's Boston area bluegrass band, Northern Lights. By the time he turned 18, he was a music business veteran. And now, he's a Minnesotan, thanks to Her, the woman he married and followed back to the Twin Cities. She is also the namesake for his new recording, which will be officially released at a concert on Tuesday night at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis.
Jake will be my guest in hour 1 of tonight's show.
Here he is singing a song from the new disc - $2 Kite.

In hour 2, a nod to the end of summer and the beginning of fall with the autumnal equinox this coming Tuesday. There's something about the turning of the leaves and the approach of winter that makes sensitive, introspective singer-songwriters even more sensitive and introspective than ever.

I've combed the library for tunes that are dressed in the colors of autumn but aren't horribly depressing. How did I do? You'll have to tune in to find out.

We'll hear from Karrin Allyson, Frank Sinatra, Dillon Bustin, Neil Young and The Duhks, just to name a few. Most of them are still alive, so that's an indication that their songs may have been melancholy but were not completely fatal.

That's tonight from 9 to 11. Radio Heartland on Minnesota Public Radio News.