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This week our look back to 2001 continues with blues singer and songwriter Delbert McClinton performing his bluesy masterpiece “Livin’ It Down.”
McClinton, age 81, announced his retirement from the road last April, after 63 years in the music business. His website recently announced a new album would be due in the Spring of this year, tentatively titled Outdated Emotion. Recorded at Kevin McKendree’s award-winning Rock House Studio, the album features several of his own songs, as well as some of Delbert’s lifetime favorites.
For our Song of the Week we chose “Livin’ It Down,” which appears on McClinton’s 2001 release Nothing Personal.
We will also hear some vintage performances from Blues Music Hall of Fame member Buddy Guy, late-great singer and songwriter Jimmy LaFave, who made nine appearances on Mountain Stage since 1995, plus blues pianist and singer Marcia Ball (with eight appearances herself), and a duo performance from Terri Hendrix featuring Texas legend Lloyd Maines. Find the playlist here, and join us on one of these NPR Music stations starting this Friday, January 28 for this classic archive edition of Mountain Stage.
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This week, too often, people with mental health challenges or substance use disorder wind up in jail. But crisis response teams offer another way. Also, changes to the Endangered Species Act could benefit big business. They could also kill animals like the eastern hellbender. And, in troubled times, a West Virginia writer says to find peace in nature.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAcross the country, old railroads have been converted into multi-use trails for folks to get out and enjoy nature. An ambitious vision to connect communities in West Virginia to Pittsburgh via rail trail is taking a big step towards completion.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage, guest host David Mayfield welcomes Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel, John Pizzarelli, Peter Case, Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore, and Jedd Hughes.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAcross the country, old railroads have been converted into multi-use trails for folks to get out and enjoy nature. Chris Schulz has more on an ambitious vision to connect communities in West Virginia to Pittsburgh via rail trail.
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