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No matter what you’re up to this summer, you’ll enjoy this program.  It’s a cavalcade of sound, from comfortable classics to adventures in byways and corners of southern American tradition.

This week we enjoy a selection of powerful traditional old time, pre-bluegrass and bluegrass music.  As we take a little tour of the evolution of bluegrass from old-time mountain music, gospel and

This week we hear haunting Old Regular Baptist gospel singing – from the preacher himself, without the congregation.  Frank Newsome’s new album, Gone Away With A Friend, was recorded in hi

Unvarnished old-time mountain fiddle and banjo tunes figure in this week’s episode, from Surry County, North Carolina and the surrounding area, long a locus of banjo-fiddle duets and focused, energ

Summer listening sessions continue with a wonderful selection of classic bluegrass and crossover bluegrass honky-tonk.  Hear Reno & Smiley, the Maddox Brothers & Rose and more.  Plus this w

Our summer listening sessions continue this week with a fine selection of new recordings.  Hear a Canadian band that bridges the gaps between old-time and bluegrass; a youthful old-time band with r

This week we explore the highways and byways of traditional country music.   Hear classic old time and bluegrass songs, a couple of live recordings from a festival many years ago, and a brand new t

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.

This week we hear from singer, banjo player and luthier Rick Ward; old-time musician and songwriter Trevor McKenzie with Terri McMurray and Paul Brown; The Sheets Family Band, and Strictly Strings,

A listening session this week features brilliant southern mountain and piedmont musicians of the past who don’t get a lot of exposure on radio these days.  Listen to fiddler John Ashby and his Free

This week, a tremendous selection of old-time mountain, bluegrass and Americana music from bands old and new.  Plus … a visit with Richard Emmett of the

As the festival and fiddlers’ convention season gathers steam with events all over the mountain south, we find out about the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame (where ATBR’s Paul Brown will emc