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Across the Blue Ridge #123 - A Fiddlers’ Convention, New Recordings, and More

By Paul Brown
Published April 27, 2018 at 4:00 PM EDT
Paul Brown
Flatfoot dancers get out onto the floor at Surry Community College in North Carolina as the Slate Mountain Ramblers perform in the band contest at the Surry Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention, co-sponsored by Across the Blue Ridge. The annual convention season has opened in the mountain south, continuing a long tradition of social get-togethers around roots music.

An action-packed and music-packed program this week includes fiddle music from Aubrey Haynie, a classic from the Carter Family – and a visit to the Surry Old Time Fiddlers' Convention in Dobson, North Carolina, where ATBR host Paul Brown finds musicians to record and people who sing the praises of the southern fiddlers' convention tradition as this year's season gets underway.  Finally, a few recordings from the Old Time Tiki Parlour label.  We hear brothers Travis and Trevor Stuart; Dan Gellert; label producer David Bragger with Susan Platz; and our own Paul Brown, whose album on the label is just out.

Playlist

  1. April's Reel
    Aubrey Haynie
    The Bluegrass Fiddle Album
    Rounder
     
  2. Beautiful Isle O'er The Sea
    The Carter Family
    Clinch Mountain Treasures
    County
     
  3. Heart Of The House
    Becky Buller 
    Crepe Paper Heart
    Dark Shadow
     
  4. El Camino Pt. 2
    Hawktail
    Unless
    Padiddle
     
  5. Chicken Dog
    Jordan Tice
    Horse County
    Patuxent
     
  6. Break 1 - Rochester Schottische
    Paul Brown & Company
    Red Dog
    Ryland
     
  7. Mississippi Sawyer
    Jared Boyd & Shane Boyd
    ATBR field recording
     
  8. Jaybird Died With The Whooping Cough
    Nancy & Bill Sluys
    ATBR field recording
     
  9. Interview: Buck Buckner
    ATBR field recording
     
  10. Sally Ann
    Earnest East & The Pine Ridge Boys
    Old-Time Mountain Music
    County
     
  11. My Roses Of Old Kentucky
    Doc Watson
    Memories
    Sugar Hill
     
  12. Walking Boss
    Doc Watson
    Memories
    Sugar Hill
     
  13. Blackberry Blossom
    Ralph Blizard & The New Southern Ramblers
    Southern Ramble
    Rounder
     
  14. Break 2 - Georgia Belles
    The Bucking Mules
    Smoke Behind The Clouds
    Free Dirt
     
  15. Grey Eagle
    The Stuart Brothers
    The Stuart Brothers
    Old-Time Tiki Parlour
     
  16. Little Maggie
    Paul Brown
    Paul Brown
    Old-Time Tiki Parlour
     
  17. The Bobtailed Mule
    David Bragger & Susan Platz
    King's Lament
    Old-Time Tiki Parlour
     
  18. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
    Dan Gellert
    Dan Gellert
    Old-Time Tiki Parlour
     
  19. Brown Eyed Rabbit
    Paul Brown
    Paul Brown
    Old-Time Tiki Parlour
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Music & Culture ATBRAubrey HaynieSurry Old Time Fiddlers’ ConventionTravis and Trevor StuartDan GellertDavid BraggerSusan Platz
Paul Brown
Former 88.5 WFDD News Director Paul Brown founded Across the Blue Ridge at WFDD in the late 1980s. It was an instant hit, and was broadcast on WFDD for more than a decade until Paul left to become an executive editor, producer, reporter, and world newscaster at NPR in Washington, DC. Now Paul is back in his beloved Blue Ridge region, his journalism and storytelling skills honed better than ever. He's ready to present more music, share discussion with more interesting characters, and be your friend and guide in discovery. Paul is actively involved in today's acoustic music scene, crisscrossing the region and the country as a teacher, performer, and interviewer.
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