Show Notes
This week we'll be listening to some fine old-time tunes from West Virginia greats, including Wilson Douglas, Gandydancer, and Dwight Diller. We'll also sample music from some of the finest songwriters from the Mountain State, including Billy Edd Wheeler, Kate Long, John Lilly, Tim O'Brien and lots more. Spend some time in the Mountain State … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways The Modock Rounders / “West Fork Girls” / Old Tunes & New Blood / Buffalo Skinner Gandydancer / “Boozefighters” / The Appalachians / Dualtone Franklin George w/ John Summers / “Fiddle Medley” / Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle & Bagpipes / County Phyllis Marks / “Scatter Seeds of Kindness” / Rare Archival Recordings from The West Virginia State Folk Festival / WV State FF Wilson Douglas / “Sandy River Belles” / Fiddle Tunes from West Virginia / Self-produced
Joe Herrmann / “Itzy's Polka” / Gather Round / Yodel-Ay-Hee Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller / “Fun's All Over” / Deep End Session II / Deep End Sessions Dwight Diller / “Shady Grove” / New Plowed Ground / Yew Pine Ben Townsend & Friends / “Roaring River” . Deep End Session III / Deep End Session The Modock Rounders / “Camp Chase” / Old Tunes & New Blood / Buffalo Skinner
Billy Edd Wheeler / “High Flying Bird” / Paper Birds / Kapp Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “Won't You Come and Sing for Me” / Pioneering Women of Bluegrass Smithsonian Folkways Kate Long / “McNamarra's Tear” / Bigolady / Roane Todd Burge / “Change (For Clean Water)” / Imitation Life / Bunj Jam Tim O'Brien / “Where the River Meets the Road” / Where the River Meets the Road / Howdy Skies John Lilly / “West Virginia Hills” / State Songs / Self-produced Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
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