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

February 17, 2013

8:04 PM
Jealousy
Artist : Heidi Talbot
Album : Distant Future
Label : Compass Records
8:09 PM
Valentine’s Day Is Over
Artist : June Tabor and the Oyster Band
Album : Freedom and Rain
Label : Ryko
8:13 PM
Flash Company
Artist : June Tabor & Martin Simpson
Album : A Cut Above
Label : Green Linnet
8:16 PM
Carolina
Artist : Kate MacKenzie
Album : Age of Innocence
Label : Red House Records
8:19 PM
Cry of the Whipporwill
Artist : Rhonda Vincent
Album : The Storm Still Rages
Label : Rounder
8:23 PM
Scarlet Town
Artist : Gillian Welch
Album : The Harrow & The Harvest
Label : Acony Records
8:26 PM
East Virginia Blues
Artist : The Stanley Brothers
Album : An Evening Long Ago
Label : Columbia DMZ Legacy
8:30 PM
Blue Skies and Teardrops
Artist : Mike Cross
Album : Born in the Country
Label : Mima-Mubo
8:33 PM
Wake Robin/Bravest Cowboy
Artist : Dirk Powell
Album : If I Go Ten Thousand Miles
Composer : Rounder
Label :
8:36 PM
A Horse in the Country
Artist : Cowboy Junkies
Album : Black Eyed Man
Label : RCA
8:40 PM
Cowboy
Artist : The Carbines (Tift Merritt)
Album : single
Label : self
8:45 PM
Shenandoah
Artist : Laura Love
Album : Fourteen Days
Label : Zoe
8:49 PM
Marlene on the Wall
Artist : Suzanne Vega
Album : s/t
Label : A&M
8:53 PM
The Tannahill Weavers
Artist : Good Drying Set
Album : Leaving St. Kilda
Label : Green Linnet
9:04 PM
Friend of the Devil
Artist : Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Album : Grateful Dawg
Label : Acoustic Dics
9:11 PM
Banjo Signal
Artist : Lonnie Hoppers & Dan Crary and Their American Band
Album : s/t
Label : Pinecastle
9:13 PM
Home to Carolina
Artist : The Grass Cats
Album : Home to Carolina
Label : New Time Records
9:16 PM
The Man From Tennessee
Artist : Craver, Hicks, Watson & Newberry
Album : You've Been a Friend to Me
Label : Barker Records
9:19 PM
Upstairs, Downstairs
Artist : Archie Fisher
Album : The Man With a Rhyme
Label : Folk-Legacy
9:21 PM
By Way of Sorrow
Artist : Cry Cry Cry
Album : s/t
Label : Razor & Tie
9:24 PM
Til Something Better Comes Along
Artist : Vassar Clements / John Hartford / Dave Holland
Album : s/t
Label : Rounder
9:31 PM
Gypsy Davy
Artist : Jody Stecher
Album : Oh The Wind and Rain
Label : Appleseed
9:36 PM
Gypsy David
Artist : Cliff Carlisle
Album : Complete
Label : Document
9:39 PM
I Will
Artist : Tony Furtado w/Alison Krauss
Album : Within Reach
Label : Rounder
9:43 PM
Crossing the Bar
Artist : Robin & Linda Williams
Album : These Old Dark Hills
Label : Red House Records
9:46 PM
The Lighthouse’s Tale
Artist : Nickel Creek
Album : s/t
Label : Sugar Hill
9:51 PM
Jamaica Farewell
Artist : Harry Belafonte
Album : Folk Song America
Label : Sony Smithaonian
9:54 PM
Sarah
Artist : Davey Graham
Album : The Complete Guitarist
Label : Kicking Mule
10:04 PM
Wondering Where the Lions Are
Artist : Bruce Cockburn
Album : Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws
Label : Columbia
10:07 PM
I Have a Mountain All To Myself
Artist : Amanda French
Album : s/t
Label : self
10:12 PM
Paul Cezanne
Artist : Five Chinese Brothers
Album : Fast Folk Motional Vices
Label : Fast Folk
10:15 PM
Vincent Van Gogh
Artist : Jonathan Richman
Album : Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love
Label : Rounder
10:18 PM
Buckets of Blue
Artist : Polecat Creek
Album : Ordinary Seasons
Label : Yodel Ay Hee
10:22 PM
Hit the Ground Running
Artist : Maura O’Connell
Album : Stories
Label : Hannibal
10:25 PM
Love Vigilantes
Artist : Laura Cantrell
Album : Trains and Boats and Planes
Label : self
10:30 PM
Washington March / Waiting for Nancy
Artist : Bertram Levy
Album : That Old Gut Feeling
Label : self
10:33 PM
The Last Snowfall
Artist : Vienna Teng
Album : Inland Territory
Label : Zoe Records
10:37 PM
Minuet
Artist : Loituma
Album : In the Moonlight
Label : Northside
10:43 PM
The Unquiet Grave
Artist : Solas
Album : Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers
Label : Shanachie
10:48 PM
Both Sides, Now
Artist : Joni Mitchell
Album : Clouds
Label : Reprise
10:53 PM
My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
Artist : Carol Ponder
Album : Little Journeys
Label : Truesongs
10:55 PM
Take Five
Artist : No Strings Attached
Album : Take 5
Label : Turquoise Records

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

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

Credit MelShoots
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

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

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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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