WUMB Folk

Boston's WUMB Folk does something rare in modern radio - it plays folk music without pandering to the 'folk-pop' crossover crowd. The playlist leans heavily on traditional and contemporary acoustic songwriting: Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger sit alongside Anais Mitchell and John Moreland. Daytime programming favors singer-songwriter fare, but late-night slots dig deeper into bluegrass and Appalachian ballads. The announcers sound like they actually live in a folk scene, not a corporate studio. That's refreshing. If you're tired of Spotify's algorithm pushing indie-folk playlists that all sound…