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Doc Watson |
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from Morning
Edition, Tuesday, July 2, 2002 |
| Host Bob Edwards talks with guitarist Doc
Watson, who demonstrates some of the picking
techniques that have made him an American musical legend.
He also tells how he was discovered in North Carolina by
Ralph Rinsler, who was in charge of folk music at the
Smithsonian Institution. Rinsler encouraged him to
perform in New York as part of the folk music revival. (8:59)
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Pioneering Bluegrass musician Ralph
Stanley |
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from Fresh Air,
Monday, July 15, 2002 |
| Bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley.
He came to fame late in life when his music was featured
on the triple-platinum soundtrack of the movie O
Brother, Where Art Thou? Stanley sings and plays
banjo. He won two Grammys this year for his performance
of "O Death" on the O Brother record. At
age 75, Stanley has just released a self-titled CD and
continues to tour. He's recorded over 170 albums in
total, and has been performing continuously since 1946. |
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Country Music's First Family |
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from Morning Edition, Tuesday,
July 16, 2002 |
| It's been three-quarters of a century
since the Carter Family made its first recordings in
Bristol, Tenn. The music of A.P. Carter, his wife Sara
and her cousin Maybelle influenced countless country,
folk and bluegrass artists. On Morning Edition,
host Bob Edwards interviews the co-author of a new book
about the Carter Family's musical legacy. (8:45) |
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Expanded coverage |
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P.O.V.
Radio presents Howard Armstrong! Listen to Howard playing some of his
favorite songs |
| Acclaimed musician Howard "Louie
Bluie" Armstrong is renowned for a lifetime of jazz,
blues, folk and country music. Sweet Old Song, a new film by
Leah Mahan, is the story of Armstrong and sculptor
Barbara Ward's courtship and marriage — a unique
partnership that has inspired an outpouring of art and
music(airs Tuesday, July 30, 2002 ,10 p.m. ET ) |
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The Bristol Sessions |
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from Weekend Edition - Saturday,
Saturday, August 3, 2002 |
| Starting in the 1920s, talent scouts from
big record companies traveled the South, rented hotel
rooms, and auditioned new artists. Perhaps the most
dramatic of these sessions occurred in Bristol,
Tennessee, in 1927. In a two-week period, The Carter
Family, Jimmie Rodgers, and Ernest 'Pop' Stoneman were
discovered. Historians have called the Bristol sessions
"the Big Bang of country music". This years
marks their 75th anniversary. David C. Barnett reports. (10:00)
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Hillbillies |
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from All Things Considered,
Thursday, August 29, 2002 |
| We play an excerpt from an early 1970s
sketch from the National Lampoon Radio Hour featuring
Harold Ramis, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bob Perry,
Brian Murray-Doyle and Joe Flaherty. It's a pseudo-documentary
about a tribe of hillbillies and how they all migrated to
the New World. This parody is being aired because CBS-TV
is planning a reality show based on the premise of the
1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. In the
upcoming show, a poor, rural family will be tranplanted
to a Beverly Hills mansion. (3:45) |
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Heritage Festival |
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from Weekend Edition - Saturday,
Saturday, September 14, 2002 |
| The Augusta Heritage Center at Davis
and Elkins College has been recording the state's
folk singers for years. One of them is Phyllis Marks, who
sings songs she learned as a girl. Some of them date back
to 12th century England. Marks is one of just a handful
of West Virginia ballad singers who still carry these
songs in their heads, so the center also pairs singers
like Marks with younger singers to pass on the tradition.
Dan Heyman of West Virginia Public Radio reports. (8:00) |
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Playing |
Studio
360 This Week Old Timey Music.
Hear from Bill Martin, Foghorn
and Flat Mountain Girls.
Portland Oregon is the unlikely center of old-timey,
jug-band music. The city just wrapped up its the fourth
annual Old-Time Music Gathering and the people who came
out to out to hear and play early gospel, country, and
folk weren’t the nineteen-sixties holdovers you'd
expect. Some have blue hair by choice. Produced by Jon
Kalish. |
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Remembering Fiddler Ralph Blizard
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NPR's Noah Adams talks with NPR's Paul Brown, newscaster
and world-class fiddler, about Ralph Blizard, an influential bluegrass fiddler who died
earlier this month. |
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