Back Porch Music Saturday

Back Porch Music
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Freddy Jenkins hosts the Saturday edition of Back Porch Music.  Folk, blues, bluegrass, and more.

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Playlist

December 15, 2012

8:04 PM
Christmas Time Back Home
Artist : The Country Gentlemen
Album : Christmas In The Mountains
Label : Rebel
8:08 PM
Christmas In The Mountains
Artist : David Parmley & Continental Divide
Album : A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin'
Label : Pinecastle
8:11 PM
Christmas Time’s A Comin’
Artist : Doc Watson, Del McCoury and Mac Wiseman
Album : Christmas On The Mountain
Label : Universal South
8:14 PM
Pharaoh
Artist : Crooked Still
Album : Still Crooked
Label : Signature Sounds
8:20 PM
A Pound A Week Rise
Artist : Liz Carroll & John Doyle
Album : Double Play
Label : Compass
8:24 PM
Crossing The Cumberlands
Artist : Peter Ostroushko
Album : The Mando Chronicles
Label : Red House
8:31 PM
Suddenly It’s Christmas
Artist : Loudon Wainwright III
Album : Career Moves
Label : Virgin
8:33 PM
Let It Snow/The Last Christmas Medley You’ll Ever Need
Artist : Riders In The Sky
Album : Christmas The Cowboy Way
Label : Rounder
8:35 PM
The Cowboy Trail
Artist : Rafe & Clelia Stefanini
Album : Lady On The Green
Label : Old Willow Tree
8:39 PM
Hallelujah
Artist : The Reeltime Travelers
Album : Livin' Reeltime, Thinkin' Old-Time
Label : Yodel-Ay-Hee
8:45 PM
Jerry Douglas
Artist : God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Album : Jerry Christmas
Label : KOCH
8:51 PM
Katy Cruel
Artist : Linda Thompson
Album : Versatile Heart
Label : Rounder
8:53 PM
Blue Railroad Train
Artist : Jorma Kaukonen
Album : Blue Country Heart
Label : Columbia
8:57 PM
Christmas Carols By The Old Corral
Artist : Tex Ritter
Album : Hillbilly Holiday
Label : Rhino
9:04 PM
Making Plans
Artist : Tim O’Brien
Album : Sugar Plums
Label : Sugar Hill
9:08 PM
Getting Ready For Christmas Day
Artist : Paul Simon
Album : So Beautiful Or So What
Label : Hear Music
9:12 PM
Walk With Me
Artist : The Kickin Grass Band
Album : Walk With Me
Label : Superfan Records
9:15 PM
Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem
Artist : Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Album : Christmas Time Back Home
Label : Rebel
9:21 PM
Extra Gold
Artist : Mayhem String Band
Album : Rapscallions and Ne'erdowells
Label : ww.mayhemstringband.com
9:27 PM
Reason To Believe
Artist : Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem
Album : Some Bright Morning
Label : Signature Sounds
9:33 PM
The Little Drummer Boy
Artist : Cherish The Ladies
Album : On Christmas Night
Label : Rounder
9:37 PM
Must Be Santa
Artist : Brave Combo
Album : It's Christmas, Man!
Label : Rounder
9:40 PM
Lookin’ In The Mirror
Artist : Town Mountain
Album : Leave The Bottle
Label : Pinecastle
9:43 PM
Darlene
Artist : The Gravy Boys
Album : Crackerjack Whistle
Label : www.gravyboys.com
9:50 PM
Lights Of Chanukah
Artist : Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band
Album : A Fiddler's Holiday
Label : Rounder
9:52 PM
Little Stream Of Whiskey
Artist : Old Man Luedecke
Album : Tender Is The Night
Label : True North
9:55 PM
Greensleeves
Artist : New Grange
Album : A Christmas Heritage
Label : Compass
10:04 PM
The Christmas Letter
Artist : Tommy Edwards
Album : The Christmas Album
Label : Salisbury Street Recordings
10:09 PM
Apples In Winter/Frost Is All Over/A Merry Christmas
Artist : Eileen Ivers
Album : An Nollaig - An Irish Christmas
Label : Compass
10:14 PM
Blue Christmas
Artist : Open Road
Album : O Christmas Tree - A Bluegrass Collection For The Holidays
Label : Rounder
10:16 PM
The Mountains My Baby And Me
Artist : The Grass Cats
Album : The Mountains My Baby And Me
Label : New Time
10:22 PM
Christmas In The Trenches
Artist : John McCutcheon
Album : Winter Solstice
Label : Rounder
10:27 PM
The Cherry Tree Carol
Artist : Joel Mabus
Album : How Like The Holly
Label : Fossil Records
10:32 PM
Carol Of The Kings
Artist : Alison Brown Quartet
Album : A Winter's Eve: Acoustic Music For The Winter Season
Label : Compass
10:39 PM
The Once and Future Carpenter
Artist : The Avett Brothers
Album : The Carpenter
Label : Island
10:44 PM
Swans
Artist : I Draw Slow
Album : Redhills
Label : Pinecastle
10:50 PM
Angels We Have Heard On High/In The Bleak Midwinter
Artist : El McMeen
Album : The Soul Of Christmas Guitar
Label : Piney Ridge Music
10:55 PM
River
Artist : Joni Michell
Album : Blue
Label : Reprise
11:04 PM
Jingle Bell Jamboree
Artist : Keb’ Mo’
Album : A Little Mo'
Label : Okeh/Epic
11:07 PM
Lonesome Christmas Blues
Artist : Blind Blake
Album : Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 4 (1929-1932)
Label : Document
11:11 PM
Lightning Flash, Thunder Roll
Artist : Catfish Keith
Album : A True Friend Is Hard To Find - A Gospel Retrospective
Label : Fish Tail Records
11:17 PM
Homesick And Lonesome Blues
Artist : Tom Feldmann
Album : Lone Wolf Blues
Label : Magnolia Recording Company
11:22 PM
Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
Artist : Lucinda Williams
Album : Ramblin'
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
11:26 PM
Old Jim Canan’s
Artist : Robert Wilkins
Album : The Original Rolling Stone
Label : Yazoo
11:30 PM
Christmas Time Blues
Artist : Black Ace
Album : Black Ace
Label : Arhoolie
11:33 PM
Match Box Blues
Artist : J.T. Adams & Shirley Griffith
Album : The Bluesville Years, Vol. 9: Down the Country Way
Label : Prestige
11:37 PM
Dry Land Blues
Artist : Furry Lewis
Album : Complete Vintage Recordings of Furry Lewis: 1927-1929
Label : Document
11:41 PM
I Am The Light Of This World
Artist : Rory Block
Album : I Belong To The Band - A Tribute To Rev. Gary Davis
Label : Stony Plain
11:48 PM
Key To The Highway
Artist : Jesse Fuller
Album : Jesse Fuller's Favorites
Label : Prestige/OBC
11:51 PM
Christmas Blues A’ Comin’
Artist : Dan Crary
Album : Holiday Guitar
Label : Sugar Hill
11:55 PM
Merry Christmas
Artist : Lightnin’ Hopkins
Album : Blue Yule
Label : Rhino

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Arts & Culture
11:36 am
Tue June 18, 2013

Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley

Credit Jan Kronsell, 2002 / Wikipedia, Wikicommons
Tom Dooley sign as seen along the Blue Ridge Parkway

On June 18, 1866, the body of 21-year-old Laura Foster was found in a shallow grave in Wilkes County, NC. Thomas C. Dula (Tom Dooley), a veteran of the Civil War, was tried, convicted and hanged on May 1, 1868, in Statesville, NC, for the murder.  Dula had fled to Tennessee before the discovery of the body.

Controversy surrounded the trial and conviction. The trial was covered widely in national papers including The New York Times. Dula is reported to have said on the gallows, “Gentlemen, do you see this hand? I didn’t harm a hair on the girl’s head”.  

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Arts & Culture
6:00 am
Thu April 25, 2013

Doc Watson Remembered Fondly As MerleFest Continues Without Him

Credit David Holt
David Holt took this photo of Doc Watson's final MerleFest performance in 2012. Watson died a month later.

If you’re searching for the who’s who among bluegrass, Americana, folk, and traditional country musicians, MerleFest is a good place to start. The annual four-day festival kicks off today in Wilkesboro, just as it has every April for the past 25 years. Headlining artists include The Avett Brothers, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Jerry Douglas, Steep Canyon Rangers, Matraca Berg, and others. But this year for the first time, the festival will lack a performance from its founder, Doc Watson, who died May 29, 2012.

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Back Porch Music
1:41 pm
Fri April 19, 2013

Four Concerts Scheduled In Expanded, Larger Back Porch Music Series In Durham

Credit American Tobacco / American Tobacco

 Note: The June 7th concert is canceled due to rain. 

The Celtic powerhouse band Solas will kick off the 2013 Back Porch Music concert series in Durham.  Bluegrass, local blues, and much more will be a part of the four Back Porch concerts scheduled between May and October.

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Music Reviews
11:07 am
Wed April 10, 2013

Johnny Cash's Columbia Catalog Out Now — As A 64-Disc Box Set

Credit Sony Music
A new 63-disc box offers a complete retrospective of the Man in Black's storied career.

Originally published on Thu April 11, 2013 5:00 pm

In 1955, John R. Cash was a sometime auto mechanic, sometime appliance salesman who liked to play the guitar and sing, mostly gospel songs. The "R" in his name didn't stand for anything — and, in fact, he'd been named J.R. at birth and had to come up with "John" when he joined the Air Force. He'd spend the rest of his life reinventing himself.

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Music Interviews
10:21 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Emmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell: Harmonizing To That 'Old Yellow Moon'

Credit David McClister / Nonesuch Records
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell have been friends and collaborators since the 1970s. Their new album together is called Old Yellow Moon.

Emmylou Harris' first solo album, "Pieces of the Sky," was released in 1975 after the death of her singing partner, Gram Parsons. The opening track on the album is a song called "Bluebird Wine," by a then-unknown songwriter named Rodney Crowell. She recorded two more of his songs on her next album, got him to join her band in the mid-'70s and now, after an almost 40-year friendship, the two musicians have recorded an album together called Old Yellow Moon. The two talk with Terry Gross about their long, enduring careers, their friendship, their influences and singing harmony.

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Tiny Desk Concerts
2:03 pm
Mon March 11, 2013

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: Tiny Desk Concert

Credit Gabriella Demczuk / NPR
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill perform a Tiny Desk Concert on Feb. 25, 2013.

You're about to watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic. For too many of us, Irish music is something that merely gets trotted out around this time of year, associated with St. Patrick's Day and the coming of spring — and made a cliche by commercialism and whatever other shallow notions make cliches what they are.

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Arts & Culture
3:30 pm
Fri March 1, 2013

Appalachian Music With Old Fashioned Stage Effects

Credit annaandelizabeth.com
Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle

While many popular musicians today seek out the newest digital technology to enhance their performances, there’s a young musical duo from rural Virginia who are moving in the opposite direction. Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle call themselves simply “Anna and Elizabeth.”  Both accomplished traditional Appalachian musicians on a variety of instruments, together they have resurrected a storytelling tradition called the “crankie,” whose technology outdates their combined age (which is 50).

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The State of Things
12:11 pm
Wed February 20, 2013

Celebrating The Man Who Recorded The World

Credit culturalequity.org
Alan Lomax with James (Son) Thomas, Delta Blues Festival, Greenville, Mississippi, 1979. Photo by Bill Ferris.

  • Bill Ferris and Nathan Salsburg join Isaac-Davy Aronson to discuss the legacy of Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax dedicated seven decades of his life to recording and distributing the sound of as much of the globe as he could reach. Beginning as a 17-year-old from Austin, Texas, Alan traveled with his father, John Lomax, to plantations, farms and prisons in the deep South.

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Arts & Culture
3:48 pm
Sat January 26, 2013

Timeless Tunes and Toe Tappers: Best of Back Porch Music Vol 15 CD

With 57 minutes and 52 seconds of goodness from Back Porch Music, here's a sampling of our Best of BPM CD offered during the WUNC fund drives. 

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