Across the Blue Ridge #105- Breaking Up Christmas

Here's a reprise of Paul Brown's Breaking Up Christmas: A Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday, produced for NPR member stations and first aired in late 1996.  Across the Blue Ridge host Paul Brown directed a two-year fundraising, fieldwork and production process that resulted in the one-hour special program featuring a heartwarming musical holiday tradition in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the popular fiddle tune and song that bears its name. The program examined the tradition's history and the changes it was experiencing as social and economic environments changed.  On this week's Across the Blue Ridge we hear the same wonderful music and interview field recordings dating back as far as the 1920s and focused on the 1970s through 1990s, we hear new perspectives, and we get a sense of how the tradition's impact is still felt today.

Playlist

1. Breaking Up Christmas
   Tommy Jarrell
   Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
    
2. Old Bunch of Keys
   Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham
   Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
    
3. John Brown's Dream
   The Southern Broadcasters
   Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
    
4. Richmond
   Kirk Sutphin & Band
   Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
    
5. Tempy
   Andy Cahan & Band
   Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
    
6. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
   The Toast String Stretchers
   Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
    
7. Ragtime Annie
   Slate Mountain Ramblers
   Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
    
8. Break 1 - Breaking Up Christmas
   Norman Edmonds & The Old Timers
   Volume 2
    
9. Breaking Up Christmas
   The Camp Creek Boys
   Old Time String Band
    
10. Breaking Up Christmas
    Paul Brown
    studio recording
     
11. Breaking Up Christmas
    Benton & Larry Flippen
    Old Time, New Times
     
12. Blue Christmas
    Elvis Presley
    Elvis' Christmas Album
     
13. Let Me Fall
    The Camp Creek Boys
    Old Time String Band
     
14. Breaking Up Christmas
    Benny Jarrell
    Lady of the Lake
     
15. Breaking Up Christmas
    Fred Cockerham & Kyle Creed
    Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
     
16. Cluck Old Hen
    Tommy Jarrell & friends
    Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
     
17. Little Maggie
    Fred Cockerham & friends
    Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
     
18. Break 2 - Breaking Up Christmas
    Esker Hutchins
    Esker Hutchins
     
19. Cherokee Shuffle
    Wayne Henderson, Jim Lloyd, Gerald Anderson
    Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
     
20. Jack Of Diamonds
    Jerry Correll & friends
    Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
     
21. Squirrel Heads & Gravy
    Brian & Debbie Grim & friends
    Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
     
22. Sugar Hill
    Nicholas & Chester McMillian
    Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
     
23. Breaking Up Christmas
    Tommy Jarrell
    Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
     
24. Stay All Night
    Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham
    Stay All Night And Don't Go Home