On this week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage, host Kathy Mattea welcomes American Patchwork Quartet, Kyshona, The Brother Brothers, and Stephanie Lambring to the historic Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, WV.
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Poet, performer, visual artist and rock-and-roll icon Patti Smith joins us on this week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage.
Here she performs “People Have The Power,” the driving anthem co-written with her husband Fred “Sonic” Smith, a native of Lincoln County, W.Va. who was posthumously inducted into the WV Music Hall of Fame the evening prior to this performance in 2018.
Patti Smith & Family- "People Have The Power" Live On Mountain Stage
Recorded in 2018
Smith performs the song with a band that includes her longtime collaborator and guitarist Lenny Kaye, her son Jackson Smith on guitar, daughter Jesse Paris-Smith on piano, along with Mountain Stage Band members Ammed Solomon on drums and Steve Hill on bass.
You can hear Patti Smith & Family’s entire performance, plus sets from Van William, Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore feat. Lucy & Brigid Moore, Robbie Fulks, and a special Tribute to Little Jimmy Dickens featuring Tim O’Brien, Charlie McCoy, and more, on this week’s encore episode of Mountain Stage.
Credit Brian Blauser/ Mountain Stage
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From Left to Right: Tim O’Brien, Jupie Little (of The Carpenter Ants), Robbie Fulks, Mollie O’Brien, Brigid and Lucy Moore, Lenny Kaye and Jesse Paris-Smith.
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On this week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage, host Kathy Mattea welcomes American Patchwork Quartet, Kyshona, The Brother Brothers, and Stephanie Lambring to the historic Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, WV.
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This week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded in the intimate, historic Franklin Theatre in Franklin, Tennessee. Host Kathy Mattea welcomes Todd Snider, Amy Helm, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, and Randall Bramblett.