This week on Inside Appalachia, we talk with East Tennessee’s Amythyst Kiah. Her new album contemplates the cosmos. Also, hair salons are important gathering places where Black women can find community. And, West Virginia poet Torli Bush uses story to tackle tough subjects.
You know that ol’ Wendy’s slogan, “Eat Great, Even Late?” Well the same holds true for “Mountain Stage After Midnight,” a delicious public radio program that feeds music lovers into the wee hours of morning. Broadcast from 1am-5am Saturday and Sunday mornings here on West Virginia Public Radio, “Mountain Stage After Midnight” takes the best episodes from the show’s 31 year history and shares their memories and songs with our late-night listeners. Each week we’ll hand-pick two of our favorite episodes that’ll alternate order each night.
Tune in this Saturday January 17 and Sunday January 18 for rock, pop, folk and everything in-between on “Mountain Stage After Midnight.”
First up is an October 2008 show featuring psychedelic folk-popper Sonya Kitchell, Welsh crooner Judith Owen, Connecticut rock band The Alternate Routes, captivating singer-songwriter Joe Pug, folk singer Matthew Ryan and Nashville-based alt-pop songwriter Katie Herzig.
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Dr. Dog on Mountain Stage in 2009.
You’ll also a a February 2009 show that includes oddball rockers Dr. Dog, American jam band Derek Trucks Band, Australian pop singer Lenka, blues duo Scrapomatic and Huntington, West Virginia-based songwriter Jeff Ellis.
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This week on Inside Appalachia, we talk with East Tennessee’s Amythyst Kiah. Her new album contemplates the cosmos. Also, hair salons are important gathering places where Black women can find community. And, West Virginia poet Torli Bush uses story to tackle tough subjects.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah released "Still + Bright" last year, which featured guests like S.G. Goodman and Billy Strings. Inside Appalachia host Mason Adams spoke with Kiah from her home in Johnson City, Tennessee at that time. We listen to an encore of that conversation.
America continues to wrestle with racial division, but music has often been a space where those barriers are challenged. In this episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay revisits a 1960s moment when a band refused to perform unless a mixed-race couple was allowed to dance — and paid the price for taking that stand. It’s a story about courage, consequences and the uneasy intersection of music and race in America.
The struggle against racial discrimination has hundreds of years of history in the United States. On the next episode of Us & Them, Trey Kay looks at the intersection of music and race in the 1960s. It’s about a band that took a stand against racism – and musicians who suffered the consequences.