Back Porch Music Sunday

Back Porch Music
Sun 8-11p

Back Porch Music with Keith Weston - a collection of folk, traditional music, singer-songwriter and the best old and new acoustic music. 

Keith Weston
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Keith in the WUNC music library with one of the Best of BPM Cds.

Follow Keith on Twitter: @keithweston.

See the current BPM Sunday playlist and links to our playlist archive.

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Playlist

January 06, 2013

8:04 PM
The Cuckoo Bird
Artist : The Everly Brothers
Album : Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers On Warner Bros. 1960-1969
Label : Warner Bros
8:07 PM
Who R U Texting 2Nite?
Artist : The Carper Family
Album : The Americana Agency Sampler 2013
Label : Americana Agency
8:09 PM
Maybe I Can Paint Over That
Artist : Guy Clark
Album : SOmedays the Song Writes You
Label : Dualtone
8:13 PM
Gentle Arms of Eden
Artist : Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Album : Drum Hat Buddah
Label : Signature Sounds
8:17 PM
You Ain’t Talkin’ To Me
Artist : Highwoods String Band
Album : Feed Your Babies Onions
Label : Rounder
8:21 PM
50 Miles of Elbow Room
Artist : Iris Dement
Album : Infamous Angel
Label : Philo
8:24 PM
You’re Gonna Miss Me
Artist : Ollabelle
Album : Neon Blue Bird
Label : Thirty Tigers
8:28 PM
Fire & Rain
Artist : James Taylor
Album : Sweet Baby James
Label : Warner Bros
8:31 PM
Goodbye Beulahland
Artist : I Draw Slow
Album : Redhills
Label : Pinecastle
8:37 PM
Carolina
Artist : Jason Harrod
Album : s/t
Label : self
8:41 PM
This Land Is Your Land
Artist : Woody Guthrie
Album : This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol 1
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
8:44 PM
Wildwood Flower
Artist : Charlie Haden (w/ Rosanne Cash)
Album : Rambling Boy
Label : Decca
8:47 PM
Ring Them Bells
Artist : Bob Dylan
Album : West of Memphis: Voices For Justice
Label : Legacy / Sony
8:52 PM
Mechanicsville
Artist : Wanda Lu Green
Album : Mechanicsville
Label : Two Can Music
8:56 PM
God’s Own Open Road
Artist : Tish Hinojosa
Album : Best of Live
Label : Rounder
9:04 PM
Shake Sugaree
Artist : Elizabeth Cotten
Album : Shake Sugaree
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
9:09 PM
The Lord’ll Provide
Artist : Mike Cross
Album : The Bounty Hunter
Label : Sugar Hill
9:12 PM
Waltzing with Bears
Artist : Bok, Muir & Trickett
Album : The First Fifteen Years Vol 2
Label : Folk-Legacy
9:17 PM
Crossing Muddy Waters
Artist : The Devil and Bunny Show
Album : The I-10 Chronicles
Label : Virgin Backporch
9:21 PM
Pretty Saro
Artist : Atwater & Donnelly
Album : Where The Wild Birds Do Whistle
Label : Rabbit Island
9:25 PM
Listen, Listen
Artist : Sandy Denny
Album : Sandy
Label : Island Records
9:29 PM
Short Time Here, Long Time Gone
Artist : Dillard Chandler
Album : Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
9:31 PM
Dillard Chandler
Artist : Last Forever
Album : s/t
Label : Nonesuch
9:34 PM
I’ve Got a Home in Beulah Land
Artist : Brothers Wright and Williams
Album : How Can I Keep From Singing Vol 2
Label : Yazoo
9:37 PM
Ookpie Waltz
Artist : David Grier
Album : I've The House to Myself
Label : Dreadnought Recordings
9:41 PM
Carnival
Artist : Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line
Album : The Americana Agency Sampler 2013
Label : Americana Agency
9:44 PM
Wall of Death
Artist : Richard Thompson
Album : The Hannibal Sampler
Label : Hannibal
9:49 PM
Gaelic Song
Artist : Old Blind Dogs
Album : Four on the Floor
Label : Compass
9:53 PM
Where Are You Tonight I Wonder
Artist : Karan Casey
Album : The WInds Begin to Sing
Label : Shanachie
10:04 PM
Handsome Molly
Artist : Tim O’Brien
Album : Odd Man In
Label : Sugar Hill
10:07 PM
Handsome Molly
Artist : Grayson & Whitter
Album : The Recordings of
Label : County
10:10 PM
Dublin Blues
Artist : Guy Clark
Album : Dublin Blues
Label : Warner Bros
10:15 PM
The Last Thing on My Mind
Artist : Doc Waton
Album : Elementary
Label : Sugar Hill
10:18 PM
Windfall
Artist : Son Volt
Album : Trace
Label : Warner Bros
10:21 PM
As I Go
Artist : Steep Canyon Rangers
Album : Nobody Knows You
Label : Rounder
10:24 PM
In the Pines
Artist : Lead Belly
Album : Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
10:27 PM
Guitar Chimes
Artist : Blind Blake
Album : Guitar Wizards 1926-1935
Label : Yazoo
10:30 PM
Buckdancer’s Choice
Artist : Sam McGee
Album : Old-Time Mountain Guitar
Label : County
10:32 PM
Jack Fig
Artist : Leo Kottke
Album : 6 and 12 String Guitar
Label : Rhino
10:36 PM
Stay
Artist : Alison Krauss
Album : Forget About It
Label : Rounder
10:39 PM
Puff the Magic Dragon
Artist : Peter, Paul & Mary
Album : Moving
Label : Warner Bros
10:43 PM
Minuet
Artist : Loituma
Album : In the Moonlight
Label : Northside
10:48 PM
Maddy Groves
Artist : Fairport Convention
Album : Troubadours of British Folk Vol 2
Label : Rhino

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

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

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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

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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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Arts & Culture
1:25 pm
Mon March 25, 2013

6 Tunes: Some Personal Faves I'd Like To Share With You

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Keith Weston in the WUNC Back Porch library

Every weekend it's my pleasure on Back Porch Music to share with you scores of selections from WUNC's wide-ranging folk music library.  It's always a musical adventure that I often find surprising and inspiring myself - and I hope you do, too. From fiddle tunes to singer-songwriters, the term "folk" applies to such a large range of sounds and textures.

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

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: Tiny Desk Concert

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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

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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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Back Porch Music
4:45 pm
Sun February 24, 2013

Two Ticket Give-aways On Sunday's Back Porch

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In addition to a pile of good music on Sunday night's Back Porch Music, you'll have the opportunity for two ticket give-aways.  Those are:

Karal Bonoff at the Carrboro ArtsCenter:

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

Celebrating The Man Who Recorded The World

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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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