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Chris Morris
This week, Mountain Stage brings you an episode recorded in Pittsburg, Kansas, the home of KRPS — Four States Public Radio, and Pittsburg State University. Emanating from the Bicknell Family Center for the Performing Arts with support from the Bicknell Family Presents, we welcomed Oklahoma’s John Fullbright, who brought songs from The Liar, his first album of new music in eight years.
Folk singer, songwriter and performer Willi Carlile, a native of Kansas, brings songs from his heralded album Peculiar, Missouri. We couldn’t go all the way to Kansas without bringing some West Virginia talent with us, so we invited traditional duo Jesse Milnes and Emily Miller, and it turns out Emily’s family has deep roots in Kansas! We’ll also hear an enchanting acoustic set from Martha Scanlan and Jon Neufeld, plus songs and stories from the ever-entertaining Matt The Electrician.
Click here to see the playlist and join us on these NPR stations starting Friday, Nov. 18.
Our Song of the Week comes from Fullbright, whose new record The Liar, features a more enriched band sound. However this performance of “Poster Child,” is an intimate version, with Fullbright alone at the piano.
Hear the entire set from John Fullbright plus live performances by Willi Carlisle, Matt The Electrician, Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller, and Martha Scanlan and Jon Neufeld. Join us this week on these public radio stations, and be sure to check out our Upcoming Live Shows, with new events just added for our 40th season.
Our Song of the Week comes from The MC Taylor Goldsmith Show, which combines the breezy California folk-rock of two Mountain Stage alumni.
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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