Across the Blue Ridge #101 - Richie and Rosie, Musicians of Multiple Traditions

This week we feature Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton, a musical duo bringing to bear northern, southern, classical, old time, rock and other traditions on their tightly woven duet songs and tunes. Their new album, Nowhere in Time, showcases their careful listening to southern mountain old timers including George Pegram and the Carter Family, and their expansive creativity in song and on banjo, fiddle and guitar. The die was cast for Richie when as an eleven year old, he stumbled upon Pegram, a celebrated North Carolina banjo player and singer, at a fiddlers' convention in Union Grove, NC in 1971. Rosie grew up in a family that embraced folk, traditional, and classical music, and she feels she's benefitted from the training her mother, the respected cellist Abby Newton, encouraged. We hear Richie and Rosie's stories, their latest music, and the music of those who influenced them. Also on the show this week, some great fiddle tunes of years past, and new songs from The Sweetback Sisters, Billy Strings and more.

Playlist

1. Warren's Reel
   Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman
   Purely Instrumental
    
2. Stoney Fork
   Paul Warren
   America's Greatest Breakdown Fiddler
    
3. All Of Tomorrow
   Billy Strings
   Turmoil & Tinfoil
    
4. That's All It Took
   The Sweetback Sisters
   King Of Killing Time
    
5. If I Could Make You My Own
   Dori Freeman
   Letters Never Read
    
6. Come All You Lonesome Ramblers
   Hannah Shirah Naiman
   Know The Mountain
    
7. Break 1 - Spanish Fandango
   Scott Perry
   A Century of Heritage Guitar Music Vol. 2
    
8. Nitches Over The Hill
   Richie & Rosie
   Nowhere In Time
    
9. Nitches Over The Hill
   Wade Ward
   High Atmosphere
    
10. Cat In The Ivy
    Strictly Strings
    High On A Mountain
     
11. Dance All Night
    Highwoods Stringband
    Feed Your Babies Onions
     
12. Dance All Night With A Bottle In Your Hand
    The Skillet Lickers
    Volume 1 (1926-27)
     
13. Cluck Old Hen
    The Horse Flies
    Until The Ocean
     
14. Cold Mountain
    Richie & Rosie
    Nowhere In Time
     
15. Wildwood Flower
    George Pegram
    George Pegram
     
16. Bury Me 'Neath The Willow
    George Pegram
    George Pegram
     
17. Blackberry Blossom
    Ralph Blizard & The New Southern Ramblers
    Southern Ramble
     
18. Farewell To Trion
    Richie & Rosie
    Nowhere In Time
     
19. Break 2 - Pateroller'll Catch You
    Gribble, Lusk & York
    Altamont
     
20. It's Me Again Lord
    Richie & Rosie
    Nowhere In Time
     
21. Before The Storm
    Liz Carroll & John Doyle
    Double Play
     
22. Pateroller Tune
    Molsky's Mountain Drifters
    Molsky's Mountain Drifters
     
23. 69 Pleasant Street
    The Mammals
    Evolver
     
24. Glory in The Meeting House
    Richie & Rosie
    Nowhere In Time
     
25. Honey Bee
    Richie & Rosie
    Nowhere In Time
     
26. Anchored In Love
    The Carter Family
    Anchored In Love