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Across the Blue Ridge #92 - Mountain Classics, Love Songs, and A New Independent Film

by Paul Brown

Angus MacLachlan (left) of Winston-Salem, NC, wrote and directed the new independent film Abundant Acreage Available, set in rural North Carolina. Jeffrey Dean Foster, also of Winston-Salem, created the music. They discuss the story, the creative process, the use of sound, and music traditions on this Across the Blue Ridge episode. Paul Brown

This week we hear a selection of classic and new love songs, our artists ranging from Wilmer Watts, an early banjo songster and recording artist, to IBMA Bluegrass Hall of Fame inductee Alice Gerrard.  There's mountain music of southwestern Virginia from Roscoe Russell, Glen Neaves and Turner Foddrell.  And, as the new independent film Abundant Acreage Available makes its North Carolina and New York debuts, we hear a music-filled conversation with the film's writer/director, Angus MacLachlan, and the creator of its music, Jeffrey Dean Foster.  The film tells a story of doubt, regret, reckoning, and hope, set on an East Bend, North Carolina farm.  MacLachlan and Foster discuss with ATBR host Paul Brown the development of the musical and ambient sound components of the film, and how they relate to the telling of a complex and subtle story.

Playlist

  1. Lost Girl
    Foghorn String Band
    Weiser Sunrise
     
  2. Daisy Mae
    Lester Flatt with Charlie Monroe
    Charlie Monroe On The Noon-Day Jamboree
     
  3. Baby Blue Eyes
    Flatt & Scruggs
    1947-59 Vol. 1
     
  4. Since I Met You Baby
    Turner Foddrell
    The Foothill Blues
     
  5. My Once True Love
    Alice Gerrard
    Bittersweet
     
  6. No Longer Lonely
    Richie Stearns & Rosie Newton
    Nowhere In Time
     
  7. Break 1 - Ward's Bugle Calls
    Trevor McKenzie
    Generational Things
     
  8. Handsome Molly
    Roscoe Russell & Glen Neaves
    Traditional Music From Grayson & Carroll Counties
     
  9. Been On The Job Too Long
    Wilmer Watts
    Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 1
     
  10. Tennessee Border
    Hank Williams
    I Saw The Light
     
  11. Half As Much
    Patsy Cline
    The Ultimate Collection Disc 2
     
  12. Weary Blues
    Double Decker Striong Band
    The Rest Is Yet To Come
     
  13. Living With Memories
    Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes
    Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes
     
  14. Mule Team
    Garry Harrison
    Red Prairie Dawn
     
  15. Break 2 - McHattie's Waltz
    Kenny Baker & Bobby Hicks
    Darkness On The Delta
     
  16. Tin Roof
    Jeffrey Dean Foster
    Abundant Acreage Available
     
  17. Mando Echo
    Jeffrey Dean Foster
    Abundant Acreage Available
     
  18. Beautiful Dreamer
    Jeffrey Dean Foster
    Abundant Acreage Available
     
  19. I'll Meet You By The River
    Gospel Four Quartet
    WPAQ: Voice Of The Blue Ridge Mountains
     
  20. Oh My Lord
    Jeffrey Dean Foster
    Abundant Acreage Available
     
  21. Tin Roof Part 2
    Jeffrey Dean Foster
    Abundant Acreage Available
     
  22. Beautiful Dreamer Piano track
    Jeffrey Dean Foster
    Abundant Acreage Available
     
  23. Beautiful Dreamer
    Jeffrey Dean Foster
    Abundant Acreage Available

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