This week's Across the Blue Ridge presents a fine collection of musicians and styles perfect for wintertime listening. Host Paul Brown takes us through a 1950s radio segment with The Sauceman Brothers, a band active around Bristol, VA and through much of the south in the 1950s and 1960s. We hear contemporary performers including Anna Roberts Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle; Betse Ellis and Clarke Wyatt; and The Ephemeral String Band. And the third segment features old time icons including Burl Hammons and Fred Cockerham, plus a joyful rendition of Mississippi Sawyer on fiddle and piano by Bill and Clarice Shelor of southwestern Virginia, recorded in 1975. There's something for everyone on Across the Blue Ridge.
Episode 55 Playlist
- Louisville Breakdown
Kenny Baker & Bobby Hicks
Darkness On The Delta
- Darling Corey
The Sauceman Brothers
On WCYB BristolI
- Love You Until I Am Dizzy
The Sauceman Brothers
On WCYB Bristol
- Working On A Building
The Sauceman Brothers
On WCYB Bristol
- Boats Up The River
John Jackson
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
- Near The Cross I Watch & Pray
Etta Baker
One Dime Blues
- Cabin Creek
Mac Benford
Half Past Four
- Break 1 - Hangman's Reel
Presley Barker
Just Ten
- Lost Girl
The Ephemeral Stringband
Land of Rest
- Midnight
The Ephemeral Stringband
Land of Rest
- Diamond Joe
Betse Ellis & Clarke Wyatt
River Still Rise
- Listen They're Playing My Song
Courtney Granger
Beneath Still Waters
- Very Day I'm Gone
Anna Roberts Gevalt & Elizabeth LaPrelle
Anna & Elizabeth
- Midnight
Paul Brown
studio recording
- Break 2 - Backstep Indi
Jason Romero
A Wander I'll Stay
- Sandy Boys
Burl Hammons
The Hammons Family Volume 1
- Singing Birds
Burl Hammons
The Hammons Family Volume 1
- Mississippi Sawyer
Shelor Family
The Shelor-Blackard Family
- The Boston Burglar
Harry & Jeanie West
Good Old Mountain Dew
- Little Satchel
Fred Cockerham
High Atmosphere
- Cotton Eyed Joe
Camp Creek Boys
Old Time String Band