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

December 16, 2012

9:21 PM
Hymn: Page 9/11
Artist : Peter Ostroushko
Album : Coming Down From Red Lodge
Label : Red House Records
9:25 PM
Sweet Afton
Artist : Nickel Creek
Album : s/t
Label : Sugar Hill
9:31 PM
You and Me
Artist : Sara Watkins
Album : Sun Midnight Sun
Label : Nonesuch
9:34 PM
Stickman
Artist : Pierce Pettis
Album : Chase the Buffalo
Label : High Street
9:40 PM
The Great Remember (For Nancy)
Artist : Steve Matin & Steep Canyon Rangers
Album : Rare Bird Alert
Label : Rounder
9:44 PM
Sally Ann
Artist : NewGrange
Album : s/t
Label : Compass Records
9:47 PM
All My Pretty Horses
Artist : The Neilds
Album : Gotta Get Over Greta
Label : Razor & Tie
9:51 PM
It Really Is a Wonderful Life
Artist : Indigo Girls
Album : Holly Happy Days
Label : Vanguard
9:55 PM
Bourree
Artist : David Surette
Album : Trip to Kemper
Label : Madrina Music
9:58 PM
Swannanoa Tunnel
Artist : Joe Newberry
Album : Two Hands
Label : 5-String
10:04 PM
Lay My Burden Down
Artist : Alison Krauss & Union Station
Album : Paper Airplane
Label : Rounder
10:08 PM
Ring Them Bells
Artist : Sarah Jarosz
Album : Follow Me Down
Label : Sugar Hill
10:12 PM
Where Do The Children Play?
Artist : Cat Stevens
Album : Acoustic Waves: Island Vol 3
Label : Island
10:16 PM
Polly Vaughn
Artist : Al Petteway & Amy White
Album : Racing Hearts
Label : Fairewood Studios
10:22 PM
My Little Silver Bells
Artist : Bill Grant and Delia Bell
Album : O Christmas Tree: A Bluegrass Collection for the Holidays
Label : Rounder
10:25 PM
Winter Wonderland
Artist : David Grisman
Album : Acoustic Holidays
Label : EasyDisc
10:29 PM
Drowned Lovers
Artist : Kate Rusby
Album : Hourglass
Label : Compass Records
10:34 PM
Wagoner’s Lad
Artist : Sheila Kay Adams
Album : All The Other Fine Things
Label : Granny Dell
10:37 PM
Train on the Island / Golden Chain Tree
Artist : Big Hoedown
Album : s/t
Label : Rounder
10:42 PM
Take Me Back
Artist : Dehlia Low
Album : Telico
Label : self
10:46 PM
American Tune
Artist : Jerry Douglas
Album : Traveler
Label : eOneMusic
10:50 PM
In The Bleak Mid-Winter
Artist : Dean Shostak
Album : Glass Angels
Label : Coastline Music
10:53 PM
Ring In The New Year
Artist : William Pint & Felicia Dale
Album : When I See Winter Return
Label : Waterbug

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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

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

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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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