Across the Blue Ridge #116 - Train Songs, The Jones House Community Center, and Love Songs

The Jones House Community Center in Boone, NC is the latest stop on our Blue Ridge Music Trails series. We hear from director Mark Freed about the early days of the house; its evolution from a family home to a center for art and music; and Freed's hopes for its future role as a place for preserving and continuing the region's music traditions. Across the Blue Ridge will host and record a concert there on May 19, 2018 featuring local traditional musician Rick Ward, whose family goes back generations in Watauga County. Also featured will be a band born of the Junior Appalachian Musicians program, or JAM: Strictly Strings. And Trevor McKenzie, a highly talented fiddler, guitarist, banjoist and singer will be on the bill as well. We'll hear from each of these artists on this week's show. Train songs feature in the first segment of the program, and a heartwarming selection of love songs wrap up the show, a soothing balm in unpredictable times. 

Playlist

1. Cannonball Blues
   Jeff Little Trio
   Made In The Blue Ridge
    
2. Rubin
   Tommy Jarrell
   June Apple
    
3. John Henry
   Leslie Riddle
   Close To Home
    
4. The Wreck of the Virginian
   Blind Alfred Karns
   The Bristol Sessions
    
5. New River Train
   The Buckstankle Boys
   Round Peak Home
    
6. Break 1 - Billy In The Lowground
   Spencer & Rains
   The Skeleton Keys
    
7. Tough Luck Man
   Doc Watson
   Portrait
    
8. Batchin' On The Farm
   Rick Ward
   Keeping The Tradition
    
9. Come On Out Tonight
   Strictly Strings
   High On A Mountain
    
10. To The Ground
    Trevor McKenzie
    Generational Things
     
11. Briarpicker Brown
    Mark Freed, Cecil Gurganus, Craig DuBose
    Get Along Home
     
12. Break 2 - Sleeping Lulu
    Mark Freed, Cecil Gurganus, Craig DuBose
    Get Along Home
     
13. Katy Kline
    Kyle Creed & Emily Spencer
    Liberty
     
14. Sit At Home
    Carol Elizabeth Jones & Laurel Bliss
    Ridin' Along
     
15. She Talks To Me
    John Lilly
    Thinking About The Weather
     
16. Hold Whatcha Got
    Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys
    You Don't Know My Mind
     
17. Storms On The Ocean
    The New Ballard Branch Bogtrotters
    Bogtrotter Blues
     
18. How Mountain Girls Can Love
    Ralph Stanley & Hal Ketchum
    Clinch Mountain Country