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Eric Church was a rising star in country music when he treated a 2008 Mountain Stage audience in Bristol, Tennessee, to a stripped-down acoustic performance of what is normally a loud, electric stage show. Today he holds the title of CMA’s 2020 Entertainer of the Year and sells out stadium shows.
“Sinners Like Me” is the Mountain Stage Song Of The Week, and was one of the hits from Church’s debut 2006 album of the same title.
We invite you to tune in this week as we relive this archived episode from 2008. In addition to Eric Church, we will hear from country-music torch-bearer Carlene Carter, who hails from the prolific Carter Family, bluegrass royalty, Del McCoury Band, the soulful vocals of Mike Farris backed by The McCrary Sisters, plus songwriter and playwright Ed Snodderly. Look over the playlist and find your station.
If you’d like to support the show while reaping behind-the-scenes benefits and curated playlists, Mountain Stage Membership is for you! Be sure to stay up to date with the Mountain Stage newsletter. Find out how you can hear this entire episode on your local public radio station by visiting the affiliate listings found here.
This week's encore broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. Host Kathy Mattea welcomes The MC Taylor Goldsmith Show, Kat Edmonson, Ken Pomeroy, Jonny Fritz, and Scott Mulvahill...
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsPearls are prized gemstones that have been crafted into jewelry for millennia. They can be found in the wild, but they’re also cultivated on farms. We hear a report from North America’s lone freshwater pearl farm located along Kentucky Lake in Tennessee.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThis week, we’re revisiting our episode “What Is Appalachia?” from December 2021. Appalachia connects mountainous parts of the South, the Midwest, the Rust Belt and even the Northeast. That leaves so much room for geographic and cultural variation, as well as many different views on what Appalachia really is.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsListen this week for an encore broadcast of Mountain Stage featuring Larkin Poe, Victoria Canal, Raye Zaragoza, Ron Pope, and Christian Lopez. This episode was recorded with our host Kathy Mattea on the campus of West Virginia University, thanks to our friends at WVU College of Creative Arts and Media.
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