Across the Blue Ridge #131 - Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker, Guitar Wizards
4:00pm Jun 22, 2018

Wayne Henderson (l.) 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
Here’s an encore edition of a listener favorite – a performance by guitar wizards Wayne Henderson and Presley Barker at Muddy Creek Music Hall in July of 2017. 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. Plus … the first section of the show features our traditional combination of old-time, bluegrass, blues and gospel hits from the mountain south and beyond. It’s can’t miss listening for the season!
Playlist
- Brushy Run
Art Stamper
Goodbye Girls, I'm Going To Boston
County
- Goin' Up On A Mountain
The Buck Stops Here
The Buck Stops Here
The Buck Stops Here
- Bacon and Cabbage
Blind Joe Mangrum & Fred Shriver
Nashville: The Early String Bands V. 2
County
- Friend of Mine
The Gibson Brothers
In The Ground
Rounder
- Polly Put The Kettle On
New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters
The Galax Way
Heritage
- C.C. Rder
Turner & Lynn Foddrell
The Foothill Blues
Foddrell
- Break 1 - Steel Guitar Rag
Presley Barker
Just Ten
Presley Barker
- 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
Smithsonian Folkways
- Break 2 - Sally Anne
Wayne Henderson
A Century Of Heritage Guitar Music V. 1
Crooked Road
- 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
Rounder