Back Porch Music Saturday

Back Porch Music
Sat 8p-Mid

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

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Playlist

December 22, 2012

8:04 PM
Christmas Time Back Home
Artist : The Country Gentlemen
Album : Christmas Time Back Home
Label : Rebel
8:07 PM
I’ll Be Walkin’ The Floor This Christmas
Artist : Ernest Tubb
Album : Hillbilly Holiday
Label : Rhino
8:10 PM
Favorite Christmas Memories
Artist : The Grass Cats
Album : Christmas In Carolina
Label : Blue Circle Records
8:13 PM
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Artist : Maddy Prior with The Carnival Band
Album : Comfort & Joy: A Christmas Celtic Sojourn
Label : Rounder
8:13 PM
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Artist : Maddy Prior with The Carnival Band
Album : Comfort & Joy: A Christmas Celtic Sojourn
Label : Rounder
8:20 PM
All That I Want
Artist : The Weepies
Album : Happiness
Label : www.theweepies.com
8:23 PM
The Christmas Letter
Artist : Tommy Edwards
Album : The Christmas Album
Label : Salisbury Street Recordings
8:29 PM
The Holly and The Ivy
Artist : Kim Robertson
Album : Christmas Lullaby
Label : Gourd Music
8:32 PM
The Rebel Jesus
Artist : The Chieftains w/Jackson Browne
Album : The Bells Of Dublin
Label : RCA
8:36 PM
Angels We Have Heard On High
Artist : Tony Trischka
Album : Glory Shone Around
Label : Rounder
8:40 PM
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
Artist : Rhonda Vincent
Album : Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection
Label : Rounder
8:43 PM
Mister Santa
Artist : Herdman, Hills & Mangsen
Album : Voices Of Winter
Label : Gadfly Records
8:45 PM
Little Drummer Boy
Artist : Jerry Read Smith/Lisa Marie Smith
Album : One Wintry Night
Label : Silent Planet Records
8:51 PM
Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem
Artist : Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Album : Christmas In The Mountains
Label : Rebel
8:55 PM
Christmas Is Near
Artist : Open Road
Album : O Christmas Tree: A Bluegrass Collection For The Holidays
Label : Rounder
8:57 PM
Christmas Time Is Here
Artist : Jerry Douglas
Album : Jerry Christmas
Label : KOCH
9:05 PM
While Roving On A Winter’s Night
Artist : New Grange
Album : A Christmas Heritage
Label : Compass
9:10 PM
Let It Snow/The Last Christmas Medley You’ll Ever Need To Hear
Artist : Riders In The Sky
Album : Christmas The Cowboy Way
Label : Rounder
9:13 PM
Old Toy Trains
Artist : Robin & Linda Williams
Album : The First Christmas Gift
Label : Red House
9:15 PM
A Christmas Childhood/A Call To Hope
Artist : Tommy Sands
Album : To Shorten The Winter: An Irish Christmas with Tommy Sands
Label : Green Linnet
9:22 PM
We Three Kings
Artist : Michael Doucet
Album : A Putumayo World Christmas
Label : Putumayo
9:25 PM
Fairytale Of New York
Artist : The Pogues & Kirsty McColl
Album : Fairytale Of New York
Label : Warner
9:31 PM
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Fantasy
Artist : John Fahey
Album : The New Possibilty: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album
Label :
9:34 PM
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Artist : Russell Moore
Album : Christmas Grass 3
Label : KOCH
9:38 PM
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Artist : David Grisman
Album : David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas
Label : Rounder
9:47 PM
Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over
Artist : Fiddlin’ John Carson
Album : Back Roads To Cold Mountain
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
9:50 PM
One Rose/Hot Buttered Rum
Artist : The Red Clay Ramblers
Album : Rambler
Label : Sugar Hill
9:56 PM
The Christians And The Pagans
Artist : Dar Williams
Album : Mortal City
Label : Razor & Tie
10:04 PM
I Saw Three Ships
Artist : Bruce Cockburn
Album : Christmas
Label : Columbia
10:08 PM
Carol Of The Bells
Artist : Patty Loveless/Nashville Mandolin Ensemble
Album : Bluegrass & White Snow
Label : Epic
10:11 PM
What Child Is This
Artist : John Cowan
Album : Comfort & Joy
Label : KOCH
10:14 PM
December Dance
Artist : Bill Leslie
Album : A Midnight Clear
Label : www.billleslie.com
10:19 PM
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Artist : Joseph Spence
Album : Mas: A Caribbean Christmas Party
Label : Rykodisc
10:22 PM
"A Visit From St. Nicholas"
Artist : Bob Dylan
Album :
Label :
10:25 PM
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Artist : Keola Beamer
Album : Kihoalu Christmas
Label : Dancing Cat Records
10:30 PM
Christmas Wish
Artist : NRBQ
Album : Christmas Wish
Label : Rounder
10:33 PM
Making Plans
Artist : Tim O’Brien
Album : Sugar Plums
Label : Sugar Hill
10:37 PM
Christmas Morning
Artist : Loudon Wainwright III
Album : Social Studies
Label : Hannibal
10:40 PM
Holiday Shuffle
Artist : Norman Blake, Nancy Blake, Vassar Clements
Album : An Americana Christmas
Label : Winter Harvest
10:44 PM
You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
Artist : Slaid Cleaves
Album : Holiday Sampler
Label : Philo
10:50 PM
Christmas Time On Chestnut Street
Artist : David Robert
Album : Christmas Time On Chestnut Street
Label : Moonlight Records
10:55 PM
River
Artist : Indigo Girls
Album : 1200 Curfews
Label : Epic
11:04 PM
Merry Christmas Baby
Artist : Cootie Stark
Album : Christmas With Cootie
Label : Music Maker
11:09 PM
Christmas Day Blues
Artist : Cephas & Wiggins
Album : Genuine Houserockin' Christmas
Label : Alligator
11:12 PM
Christmas Mornin’ Blues
Artist : Victoria Spivey
Album : Santa Claus Blues
Label : JASS
11:15 PM
Christmas Ball Blues
Artist : Leon Redbone
Album : Christmas Island
Label : Private
11:21 PM
Christmas Blues
Artist : Washboard Pete
Album : Mr. Santa's Boogie
Label : Savoy Jazz
11:23 PM
Christmas Eve Blues
Artist : Bukka White
Album : Mississippi Delta Blues Jam in Memphis, Vol. II
Label : Arhoolie
11:30 PM
Santa, Baby
Artist : Dan Crary
Album : Holiday Guitar
Label : Sugar Hill
11:35 PM
Christmas Time Blues
Artist : Bo Weevil
Album : Blues, Blues Christmas: 1925-1955
Label : Document
11:39 PM
Jingle Bell Jamboree
Artist : Keb’ Mo’
Album : A Little Mo'
Label : Okeh/Epic
11:42 PM
Chicken Crowing For Midnight (Christmas Song)
Artist : Lead Belly
Album : Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
11:45 PM
Christmas Time Blues
Artist : Black Ace
Album : Black Ace
Label : Arhoolie
11:50 PM
The Night Before Christmas
Artist : Louis Armstrong
Album : The Stash Christmas Album
Label : Stash Records
11:55 PM
Merry Christmas
Artist : Lightnin’ Hopkins
Album : Blue Yule
Label : Rhino
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.
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

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.

The crowds at the annual Back Porch Music concerts On The Lawn at American Tobacco Campus in Durham have grown so much that "the lawn" can no longer contain the anticipated numbers. This spring and summer  the concerts will be in a much bigger space and have a more festival like feel.

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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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Arts & Culture
5:15 am
Fri December 21, 2012

Back Porch Music - Picks for 2012 and Looking Back

I Draw Slow - Redhills

WUNC's Back Porch Music hosts, Keith Weston and Freddy Jenkins, join Eric Hodge to chat about this past year's memorable acoustic and roots music releases and to remember some of the important musicians who left us this year.


Picks mentioned in the conversation:

Artist - Album Title
I Draw Slow - Redhills
Midtown Dickens - Home
Darrell Scott & Tim O'Brien - Live: We're Usually A Lot Better Than This
The Grass Cats - The Mountains My Baby and Me
Matt Flinner Trio - Winter Harvest
 

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