Across the Blue Ridge #106 - Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker, Guitar Wizards
4:00pm Dec 28, 2017

Wayne Henderson (left) and Presley Barker (center) with ATBR host Paul Brown at Muddy Creek Music Hall. This week’s show presents excerpts from their July, 2017 performance. Daniel Greeson joins Wayne and Presley on fiddle for a tune as well.
Shana Whitehead
We kick off the new year with a great selection of old time and bluegrass songs and tunes. Then we have excerpts from a Muddy Creek Music Hall show from July of 2017 featuring Blue Ridge region guitar wizards Wayne Henderson and Presley Barker. Wayne is a National Heritage Fellowship recipient, a world-renowned luthier and finger-picking guitar player. Presley, who was 13 when this was recorded, discovered flat pick guitar at age 7 through hearing the great Doc Watson on the radio, and was hooked. Listen to this charming, good-humored duo and you’ll end up the hour with a smile on your face, guaranteed.
Playlist
- Brushy Run
Art Stamper
Goodbye Girls, I'm Going To Boston
- Goin' Up On A Mountain
The Buck Stops Here
The Buck Stops Here
- Bacon and Cabbage
Blind Joe Mangrum & Fred Shriver
Nashville: The Early String Bands V. 2
- Friend of Mine
The Gibson Brothers
In The Ground
- Polly Put The Kettle On
New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters
The Galax Way
- C.C. Rder
Turner & Lynn Foddrell
The Foothill Blues
- Break 1 - Steel Guitar Rag
Presley Barker
Just Ten
- Nashville Pickin'
Presley Barker & Wayne Henderson
Field recording
- Carter Family Medley
Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker
Field recording
- Nothin' To It
Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker
Field recording
- Way Down Town
Doc Watson
Original Folkways Recordings 1960-62
- Break 2 - Sally Anne
Wayne Henderson
A Century Of Heritage Guitar Music V. 1
- Texas Panhandle Rag
Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker
Field recording
- Snowflake Reel
Wayne Henderson, Presley Barker, Daniel Greeson
Field recording
- Elephant Story
Wayne Henderson
Field recording
- Bluegrass in the Backwoods
Presley Barker
Field recording
- Raggin' the Wires
E.C. Ball
E.C. Ball with Orna Ball