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This week’s special archive edition of Mountain Stage looks back to our 30th season for a show recorded in 2013 with legendary bluegrass mainstays The Del McCoury Band. Jam-grass mega star Keller Williams does a set backed by The Travelin’ McCourys, who released a collaborative album called Pick.
The show opens with a duo performance from Mandolin Orange, who now perform as Watchouse, as they made their first appearance on Mountain Stage. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion were also there, with songs from their 2013 release Wassaic Way, and they even bring out their daughters Sophia and Olivia to join them on a couple songs. We’ll also hear the slyly humorous Susan Werner perform a set of tunes from her album Hayseed, accompanied by The Mountain Stage Band and West Virginia based dobro player Chris Stockwell.
Our Song of the Week comes from Bluegrass legend Del McCoury and his band, and appears on Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe, released in 2012. The album is a tribute to the Father of Bluegrass Music Bill Monroe, whose band Del McCoury played in as a young musician. It was Monroe who asked McCoury to switch from playing banjo to guitar. “I used to have to sing this song every night with him,” McCoury said of our Song of the Week, “In Despair.”
Hear the entire set from the Del McCoury Band, plus sets from Keller Williams with the Travelin McCourys, Susan Werner, Mandolin Orange and Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion.
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This week, when an award-winning Asheville chef decided to launch a restaurant, she returned to a rich community tradition. Also, the popularity of weaving waxes and wanes. At the moment, it’s having a renaissance. And, during Lent, Yugoslavian fish stew is a local favorite in Charleston, West Virginia.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWVPB had a conversation with Us & Them host Trey Kay earlier this week on the significance today of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. This week, WVPB is hosting a special screening event at Marshall University with excerpts from Ken Burns’ The American Revolution, and Kay will lead a panel discussion. We once again hear from Kay, this time speaking with one of the panelists — Marshall University political science professor George Davis — about why revisiting the nation’s founding story still matters.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHost Kathy Mattea welcomes Shemekia Copeland, Tab Benoit, Charlie Musselwhite, Harlem Gospel Travelers, and Abby Posner.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWVPB will be screening excerpts of Ken Burns’ recent PBS documentary series "The American Revolution" this week at Marshall. Us & Them host Trey Kay will moderate the event, and he spoke recently with WVPB News Director Eric Douglas about why revisiting the nation’s founding story matters today. Also, a bill to temporarily delay moving a child to homeschooling during an active case of abuse or neglect hit a snag in the Senate on Monday.
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