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Listen: Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward on Mountain Stage

Travel complications led to a last-minute collaboration between guitarist Charlie Hunter and vocalist Lucy Woodward. The chemistry was so evident that the pair decided to do an album together, released in 2019, called “Music! Music! Music!“

Hunter and Woodward set out to record songs from a broad but “very specific time frame,” Woodward says “1894 to 1987.” Our Song of the Week, “Be My Husband,” is an Andy Stroud composition most usually associated with Nina Simone. Percussionist Keita Ogaura rounds out the trio heard here.

You can hear this fiery set, along with performances by Molly Tuttle (who just announced a brand-new record of covers due in August 2020), John Paul White, Jeff Black and Charley Crockett (who also has new music out very soon), all on this week’s encore episode of Mountain Stage, recorded at the Peoples Bank Theatre in Marietta, OH in July 2019.

Molly Tuttle and her band performing on Mountain Stage at the Peoples Bank Theatre in Marietta, OH.

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Listen: John Pizzarelli Trio with the Mountain Stage Song of the Week

Renowned jazz singer and guitarist John Pizzarelli brings his trio to Mountain Stage in this week’s encore episode.

Our Song of the Week is a playful number called “Save the Bones for Henry Jones,” with Mike Karn on bass, Konrad Paszkuozki on piano, and John Pizzarelli on guitar and vocals.

The song appears on Pizzarelli’s latest, “For Centennial Reasons: 100 Year Salute to Nat King Cole.” Hear the Trio’s entire performance, plus sets from Catherine Russell, Kate Vargas, The Bob Thompson Unit and Devotchka (below), on this week’s episode of Mountain Stage.

Devotchka appear on this week’s broadcast of Mountain Stage.

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Listen: The Milk Carton Kids on Mountain Stage

Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale are the singers, songwriters and guitarists that comprise the modern folk duo The Milk Carton Kids. Hear their 2019 performance on “Mountain Stage” starting this Friday.”Mourning In America,” a song they co-wrote with Bhi Bhiman, appears on the band’s Joe Henry-produced album All The Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn’t Do, released in 2018.

You can hear The Milk Carton Kids’ entire set, plus performances by Steve Poltz, Vera Sola, Griffin House and Twisted Pine, on this week’s new episode of Mountain Stage.

Listen this week on one of these Mountain Stage affiliates, and mark your calendar for our special online event “There’s a Stream” this Sunday, June 28 at 7p.m. ET.

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Griffin House, Twisted Pine, The Milk Carton Kids and Vera Sola join Larry Groce and the Mountain Stage Band for one last number.

Watch A Special Virtual Presentation from Mountain Stage

UPDATE: “There’s A Stream” is archived right now on Facebook, and it will be available on YouTube and LiveSessions.NPR.org until Sunday, July 5.

Original Post: Since we’ve been unable to record fresh episodes recently, we reached out to the guests we’ve had to postpone appearances by and asked for performance video submissions. The results will premiere this Sunday June 28 at 7p.m. EST as we present “There’s a Stream,” a collection of virtual performances curated by Mountain Stage. Join host Larry Groce at MountainStage.org or LiveSessions.NPR.org to watch along as we enjoy remote performances from Steve Earle, Darrell Scott, Amy Speace, Karan Casey, Lilly Hiatt, Nobody’s Girl, Malcolm Holcombe, The Haden Triplets and Frances Luke Accord.

We’ll have a featured set from Earle, whose latest album, released on New West Records, is called The Ghosts of West Virginia. It features songs he wrote for the play “Coal Country,” which premiered in New York City in February but was shuddered shortly after due to the pandemic. The songs are built around the tragic explosion of the Upper Big Branch Mine that killed twenty-nine coal miners in 2010.

This and many more intimate performances await you this Sunday.

You can watch the premiere at MountainStage.org and at LiveSessions.NPR.org starting at 7pm ET.

If you’re able, we hope you’ll help support these independent artists, and any artist whose work you appreciate, by purchasing music, making direct contributions, or streaming their work online. We’ll have helpful links to all the guests below, and in the video descriptions on Sunday. Be sure to RSVP on Facebook and share the event so others can enjoy.

“There’s a Stream” is presented as part of FestivALL Charleston’s VirtuALL schedule of events.

Support the Artists:

Steve Earle- The Ghosts of West Virginia

Lilly Hiatt- Walking Proof

Nobody’s Girl – Nobody’s Girl (Due Feb. 2021)

Haden Triplets – The Family Songbook

Frances Luke Accord – Silver & Gold

Amy Speace- Me And The Ghost Of Charlemagne

Darrell Scott –Darrell Scott Sings the Blues of Hank Williams

Karan Casey – Hieroglyphs That Tell The Tale

Malcolm Holcombe –

Come Hell or High Water

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Listen: Preview our FestivALL Special with The Wood Brothers

This week’s broadcast reflects on some of our favorite performers who appeared on Mountain Stage in recent years during FestivALL Charleston, the city-wide arts celebration that helps our hometown become a work of art throughout the year, including their summer and fall festivals.

For this retrospective our host, Larry Groce (a co-founder of FestivALL), chose some of the best performances in recent years, including Todd Snider, Lucius, Alsarah & the Nubatones, and a couple West Virginia artists, William Matheny and John R. Miller, to name a few. The show culminates with an outstanding set from The Wood Brothers, whose track “Can’t Look Away” is our Song of the Week.

Hear this special “FestivALL Favorites” episode starting Friday, June 19 on these public radio stations. Here in West Virginia you can tune to WVPB at 8p.m. on Saturday, June 20 (West Virginia Day!) and Friday June 26. See the entire playlist here and be sure to watch for our special virtual presentation, “There’s a Stream,” coming on Sunday, June 28 at 7p.m. at MountainStage.org and LiveSessions.NPR.org.

You can browse all of this year’s “VirtuALL” events on the FestivALL website.

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Listen: Adia Victoria on Mountain Stage

Our Song of the Week is a modern-day blues original by the incomparable Adia Victoria.

Building on a deep, intense bass and drum groove, complemented by horns and keys, Adia Victoria cuts through the fuzz with a gripping vocal performance of “Different Kind of Love,” our Song of the Week.

Between the world and me Tell me, what will it be? Who do you love? Tell me, who do you love? -Adia Victoria's "Different Kind of Love"

“Different Kind of Love” appears on Victoria’s 2019 release Silences, which was produced by Aaron Dessner of The National.

Tune in to this week’s encore episode of Mountain Stage on your favorite NPR station to hear the entire set from Adia Victoria, plus live performances by New Orleans’ hybrid-funk band Tank and the Bangas, Canadian rockers The Trews, and singer-songwriters Justin Townes Earle and Courtney Marie Andrews.

The entire cast join together for one last song to cap off this week’s episode of Mountain Stage.

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Our Summer season of encore broadcasts means this podcast is already in your feeds, you just need to scroll back to find it. Look for episode #945.