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Across The Blue Ridge - A Cavalcade of Blue Ridge music

by Paul Brown

The late fiddler and fiddle maker Albert Hash of Whitetop, VA is shown here wearing a collection of his legendary handmade instruments. He’s just one of the outstanding musicians featured on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge. Albert Hash Memorial Festival

This week we hear a cavalcade of heartwarming songs and tunes from Appalachian and piedmont musicians of the past.  Host Paul Brown also previews music featured in upcoming Across the Blue Ridge live events.  Included are songs from Red Clay Ramblers veterans Mike Craver, Jim Watson and Bill Hicks with Joe Newberry; and Big Ron Hunter, an invigorating Winston-Salem, NC blues player and songster. 

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The late fiddler and fiddle maker Albert Hash of Whitetop, VA is shown here wearing a collection of his legendary handmade instruments.  He's just one of the outstanding musicians featured on this week's Across the Blue Ridge.  Photo – Albert Hash Memorial Festival

Fiddler and luthier Albert Hash tells the story behind one of his favorite old time tunes, Nancy Blevins, and plays the tune along with another toe-tapper, Cricket on the Hearth.  We hear white country blues from Fields Ward, fiddle music from Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers, and much more.


Episode 15 Playlist

  1. On the Move – Jason Carter
    On the Move
    Rounder Records 1997
     
  2. Cluck Old Hen – Kyle Creed
    Liberty
    Heritage Records 2009
     
  3. Georgie – Matokie Slaughter
    Clawhammer Banjo Vol. 3
    County Records 2004
     
  4. Jennie Jenkins – E.C. & Orna Ball
    Sounds of the South Vol. 1
    Atlantic 1993
     
  5. Blues in the Morning – E.C. Ball
    Classic Appalachian Blues
    Smithsonian Folkways 1999
     
  6. Carolina Breakdown – Etta Baker
    One Dime Blues
    Rounder Records 1991
     
  7. Big Tilda – Mountain Ramblers
    Sounds of the South Vol. 1
    Atlantic 1993
     
  8. BREAK 1  Old Joe Clark – Kyle Creed
    Liberty
    Heritage Records 2009
     
  9. Interview – Albert Hash
    Albert Hash
    Field Recorders Collective  2009
     
  10. Nancy Blevins – Albert Hash
    Albert Hash
    Field Recorders Collective 2009
     
  11. Cricket on the Hearth – Albert Hash
    Albert Hash
    Field Recorders Collective 2009
     
  12. Paddy On The Turnpike – Parley Parsons
    Parley Parsons – Old Galax Fiddling
    Field Recorders Collective 2013
     
  13. Going Home – Roni Stoneman
    Patuxent Banjo Project
    Patuxent Records 2014
     
  14. Cold Icy Floor – Fields & Wade Ward
    Country Music Recorded in Galax, Virginia
    Biograph Records
     
  15. Hobo John – Fields Ward
    Country Music Recorded in Galax, Virginia
    Biograph Records
     
  16. Arkansas Traveler – Norman Edmonds
    Norman Edmonds & The Old Timers Vol. 2
    Field Recorders Collective 2004
     
  17. BREAK 2  New Five Cents – Paul Warren
    America's Greatest Breakdown Fiddle Player
    CMH Records 1957
     
  18. In the Shadow of the Pines – Craver, Hicks, Watson & Newberry
    You've Been A Friend To Me
    Craver, Hicks, Watson & Newberry 2012
     
  19. You Are My Sunshine – Big Ron Hunter
    Music Maker Relief Foundation live recording
     
  20. I'm Goin' For Myself – Big Ron Hunter
    Music Maker Relief Foundation live recording
     
  21. You Don't Know My Mind – Pink Anderson
    Classic Appalachian Blues
    Smithsonian Folkways 1999
     
  22. Ain't Gonna Rain No More – John Snipes & Tommy Thompson
    Black Banjo Songsters of NC & VA
    Smithsonian Folkways 1998
     
  23. Cacklin' Hen – Paul Brown
    Way Down In North Carolina
    Rounder Records

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