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 24, 2013

8:04 PM
Kansas City Railroad Blues
Artist : The Slate Mountain Ramblers
Album : A Pile of Fiddle Tunes
Label : self
8:07 PM
Old Joe Clark Rode a Flop-Eared Kicking Mule Down by the Cripple Creek
Artist : Seth Austen
Album : Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Finger Style Guitar
Label : Kicking Mule
8:10 PM
Drive-In Movie Picture Show
Artist : Jim Henry
Album : The Wayback
Label : Signature Sounds
8:15 PM
Marilyn Monroe/Neon and Watlzes
Artist : Nanci Griffith
Album : Poet in my Window
Label : Philo
8:17 PM
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Artist : Dar Williams
Album : My Better Self
Label : Razor & Tie
8:22 PM
Cabin On a Mountain
Artist : Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals
Album : s/t
Label : Revonah
8:25 PM
Shady Grove
Artist : The Crooked Jades
Album : The Unfortunate Rake Vol 2
Label : Copper Creek
8:27 PM
How Long
Artist : Karla Bonoff
Album : Live
Label : self
8:31 PM
Gone in Pawn (Shake Sugaree)
Artist : Po Girl
Album : s/t
Label : Hightone Records
8:35 PM
Fisherman’s Blues
Artist : The Waterboys
Album : Fisherman's Blues
Label : Chrysalis Records
8:39 PM
The Drowned Lovers
Artist : Nic Jones
Album : Penguin Eggs
Label : Topic
8:46 PM
Drowned Lovers
Artist : Kate Rusby
Album : Hourglass
Label : Compass
8:51 PM
Wish I Had Stayed in the Wagon Yard
Artist : Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians
Album : A Collection of Mountain Songs
Label : County
8:54 PM
Paddy Won’t You Drink Some Good Old Cider
Artist : Bruce Molsky and Big Hoedown
Album : Big Hoedown
Label : Rounder
8:57 PM
Smashville
Artist : Sierra Hull
Album : Secrets
Label : Rounder
9:04 PM
Ouside In
Artist : Chris Smither
Album : Train Home
Label : Hightone Records
9:08 PM
The Weather Inside
Artist : Beth Wood
Album : The Weather Inside
Label : self
9:12 PM
The City of New Orleans
Artist : Steve Goodman
Album : Folk Song America IV
Label : Sony Smithsonian
9:16 PM
Hard Road
Artist : Lucinda Williams
Album : Happy Woman Blues
Composer : Smithsonian Folkways
Label :
9:18 PM
Trouble Over Me
Artist : Tift Merritt
Album : Bramble Rose
Label : Lost Hightway
9:23 PM
The Carolinian
Artist : Chatham County Line
Album : Sight & Sound
Label : Yep Roc
9:28 PM
Foggy Mountain Top
Artist : Bill Monroe & Doc Watson
Album : Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Vol 2
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
9:31 PM
Elzic’s Farewell
Artist : Hillbillies From Mars
Album : S/t
Label : self
9:37 PM
Louisiana 1927
Artist : Martin Simpson
Album : Prodigal Son
Label : Compass
9:42 PM
Railroad Bill
Artist : Etta Baker
Album : Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians
Label : Tradition Everest
9:45 PM
This Morning I Am Born Again
Artist : Lucy Kaplansky
Album : Reunion
Label : Red House
9:48 PM
On the Road Again
Artist : Canned Heat
Album : Folk Song America IV
Label : Sony Smithsonian
9:53 PM
New Orleans Stop Time
Artist : Memphis Minnie
Album : Mojo Workin': Queen of the Blues
Label : Columbia Legacy
9:56 PM
Seven Years
Artist : Karen Tween & Timo Alakotila
Album : May Morning
Label : Northside
10:04 PM
Nothing
Artist : Rayna Gellert
Album : Old Light: Songs from my Childhood & Other Gone Worlds
Label : self
10:08 PM
Horseshoe Lounge
Artist : Slaid Cleaves
Album : Broke Down
Label : Philo
10:11 PM
Your Cheatin’ Heart
Artist : Hank Williams
Album : 40 Greatest Hits
Label : Polydor
10:14 PM
8th of January
Artist : Wolfe Brothers
Album : Old Time Tuning
Label : Yodel Ay Hee
10:18 PM
In the Pines
Artist : The Rhythm Rats
Album : Old-Time Music on the Air Vol 2
Label : Rounder
10:21 PM
Oh, Lonesome Me
Artist : Neil Young
Album : After the Goldrush
Label : Reprise
10:25 PM
Lowlands
Artist : Gillian Welch
Album : Soul Journey
Label : Acony
10:28 PM
Wayfaring Pilgrim
Artist : Ola Belle Reed
Album : Mountain Journey: Stars of Old Time Music
Label : Rounder
10:33 PM
Bright Morning Star
Artist : The Oyster Band
Album : Rise Above
Label : Omnium
10:36 PM
Song For Ireland
Artist : El McMeen
Album : Irish Guitar Encores
Label : Shanachie
10:39 PM
Sail Away Ladies
Artist : Odetta
Album : At the Gate of Horn
Label : Tradition Everest
10:42 PM
Cotton Eyed Joe
Artist : Terry Callier
Album : The New Folk Sound
Label : Prestige
10:47 PM
Blue Bossa
Artist : Tony Williamson
Album : Across the Grain
Label : Mandolin Central
10:55 PM
BT
Artist : Joshua Bell / Sam Bush / Bela Fleck & friends
Album : Heartland: An Appalachian Journey
Label : Sony Classical

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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'

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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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