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We have one more week of looking back to our archives ahead of our brand new spring broadcast season. Listen starting this week on our NPR Music stations for an archive episode recorded in December of 2001 featuring iconic Americana singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams. Performing songs from her then-recent album Essence.
Our Song of the Week, “Get Right With God,” originally appears on Essence, and is performed here by Williams along with an all-star cast of players: Bo Ramsey and Doug Pettibone on guitar, Taras Prodaniuk on bass and Phil Parlapiano on keyboards, and drummer Don Heffington (who passed away on March 21, 2021).
We’ll also hear performances by guitarist and songwriter Patty Larkin, a somewhat rare appearance by Americana’s beloved duo Buddy & Julie Miller, plus a bluegrass set from award winning musicians Jim Hurst & Missy Raines, and revered songwriting pair Dave Carter & Tracy Grammar. Sadly the folk world would mourn the loss of Carter just a few months after this recording, when he passed away from a heart attack in July, 2002.
Hear this special archive edition on these NPR Music stations starting Friday, February 25.
We’re getting ready for new episodes starting soon, with performances from Joshua Radin, Stephen Kellogg, Nefesh Mountain, Josh Ritter, Matthew E. White, The Steel Wheels, Miko Marks and many more. Browse the broadcast schedule under our “On the Radio” tab at MountainStage.org
On this West Virginia Week, another round of school consolidations in the state, the Republican caucus lays out plans for the upcoming legislative session and a Nashville poet and songwriter channels a connection to LIttle Jimmie Dickens. ...
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThis week, a poet and musician draws inspiration from a distant family connection to the Grand Ole Opry’s Little Jimmy Dickens. Also, for 15 years, a Virginia library has been hosting a weekly Dungeons & Dragons game for teens. And, a taxidermist in Yadkin County, North Carolina found her calling before she could drive a car.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA lot of people who came of age listening to the Grand Ole Opry know Little Jimmy Dickens. With his clever songs and his rhinestone-studded outfits, the West Virginia native influenced a generation of performers. Now he’s remembered in a new book of poetry.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFor some Americans, this year’s political earthquakes hit close to home. Trey Kay reflects on federal budget cuts, the elimination of programs and agencies and the resulting layoffs of hundreds of thousands of workers. 2025 was also a year highlighting escalated immigration enforcement, and the deployment of National Guard troops in U.S. cities. One of those missions resulted in the tragic loss of a West Virginia National Guard soldier. On this end-of-year episode of Us & Them, we examine how today’s culture-war battles are reshaping the nation’s foundation.
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