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Good news for Blue Highway fans! The band's landmark 2012 appearance on Mountain Stage, West Virginia Public broadcasting's flagship program, is set to rerun this weekend on the dozens of NPR affiliates that carry the program all over the US. Running now for more than 30 years with original host Larry Groce, Mountain Stage has become [...]
While the 1927 Bristol Sessions, in which the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, and other early country music acts recorded some of their first songs, is well-known as the “Big Bang of Country Music,” it certainly wasn’t the only early country music recording session to leave a lasting impact on traditional music. It wasn’t even the [...]
NewFound Road's February performance on Mountain Stage is set to air on their many NPR affiliates the weekend of May 11. This episode was recorded live back in late February, and also features performances from Martin Sexton, Belinda Smith, Whitehorse, and the Ryan Montbleau Band. Tim Shelton, NewFound Road's guitarist and primary vocalist "Performing on [...]
Here's some video shot backstage before Mountain Heart's recent performance on NPR's Mountain Stage, along with some extended clips from their live set on the broadcast. The show, which featured songs from the band's That Just Happened CD, was aired over this past weekend, and can be heard now in its entirety on the NPR [...]
Mountain Stage, the long-running live concert program from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, has added a new feature on their NPR.org web site. They now shoot backstage interviews with show guests, and post them on the individual show pages at NPR. Recent featured artists include Nashville bluesgrassers The Steeldrivers, and banjo/vocal style-chameleon Abigail Washburn. Steeldrivers Mike [...]
NPR.org has posted the audio from the recent Mountain Stage performance by Dierks Bentley, along with The Travelin' McCourys. They visited the show during the promotional tour they did in support of Up On The Ridge, Bentley's latest CD on Capitol. As we have mentioned repeatedly this past few months, the album focuses on his [...]
The Grascals were among the guests on Mountain Stage earlier this month, and the audio can be streamed online from the NPR web site. The 34 minute segment includes a number of songs from their latest CD, The Famous Lefty Flynn's. In addition to the tight vocal harmonies that typify a Grascals show, they end [...]
The recent appearnce by The Alison Brown Quartet on Mountain Stage has just been posted on the show's NPR web page. They perform five songs from their latest Compass Records release, The Company You Keep. Brown has never limited herself to a single type of music. As banjo player with Alison Krauss & Union Station [...]
Audio from the most recent edition of Mountain Stage, featuring music from Jerry Douglas and Jayme Stone can be found at NPR.org. Douglas performs a set of music from his latest CD, Glide, along with his band: Luke Bulla on fiddle, Todd Parks on bass, Chad Melton on drums, and Guthrie Trapp on guitar. His [...]
The Mountain Stage web page at the NPR Music site has links to a number of recently re-aired programs that should be of interest to readers of Bluegrass Today. These are encore presentations of earlier shows, but the music is still plenty fresh and powerful all around. The Crooked Still and Rhonda Vincent bits are [...]
