This week we offer another satisfying listening session, with music that spans the mountain soundscape. Hear classic bluegrass from Bill Monroe, and the latest from North Carolina's Balsam Range. In old-time mountain music, we hear from the late Wilson Douglas of West Virginia, with an antique style that sounds quite different from much of today's music. Balancing that out, a cut from the new album by the Skeleton Keys, featuring the rich twin fiddling and band sounds of Howard Rains and Tricia Spencer. There's much more – gospel music from Mac and Jenny Traynham, a Carter Family song refashioned by Tracy Schwarz & Ginny Hawker – and a ‘70s rock melody on keyboard and guitar, in mountain style, as traditions merge, diverge, and evolve.
Playlist
- Maine Line
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
Fired Up
- Born Ramblin' Man
Balsam Range
Papertown
- Lonesome For You Darlin'
Tracy Schwarz & Ginny Hawker
Draw Closer
- Gosh I Miss You All The Time
Jim & Jesse
The Old Dominion Masters
- Dance With Me
Matthew Weaver & Clay Lunsford
Just Us
- Liza Jane
Dom Flemons
American Songster
- Break 1 - Forked Deer
Gerald Anderson
A Century Of Heritage Guitar Music
- Salt River
Wilson Douglas
Old Time Music From Clay & Calhoun Counties
- Lonesome Road Blues
Pine Ridge Boys & Patsy
Stringband Music From Mount Airy
- Away Out On The Mountain
Jimmie Rodgers
Essential Jimmie Rodgers
- Blue Yodel No. 7
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
Mule Skinner Blues
- Freight Train Blues
Cousin Emmy & Her Kinfolks
1939-47
- Never Let Your Deal Go Down
Etta Baker
One-Dime Blues
- Break 2 - Forked Deer
Snuffy Jenkins
American Banjo 3-Finger & Scruggs Style
- Polly Anne
Crooked Road Ramblers
Always Been A Rambler
- Gypsy's Warning
Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners
Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners
- Get Up In The Cool
The Skeleton Keys
The Skeleton Keys
- Going Up To Live In Green Pastures
Mac & Jenny Traynham
Never Grow Old
- The Old Town Band
Luke Richardson & Jody Kruskal
Waiting For The Boatsman