We have a conversation with Marshall University's Turning Point USA chapter president. We also learn about a recently released horror film shot near Huntington, and the population decline in central Appalachia that may be getting worse.
Listen: Sonny Landreth & Cindy Cashdollar Have the Mountain Stage Song Of The Week
Slide guitarist Sonny Landreth and dobro master Cindy Cashdollar perform a duo set as part of the 1,000th Episode of Mountain Stage, airing this week on our NPR Music stations. Chris Morris
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This week marks the broadcast of our landmark 1,000th episode of Mountain Stage, and our musical guests are worthy of such a momentous occasion. Slide-guitar master Sonny Landreth and legend of the dobro and lap steel Cindy Cashdollar perform a fiery duo set that should be heard to be believed.
We also welcome back Oklahoma’s Parker Millsap and his band, the venerable Lucy Kaplansky, plus emerging songwriter Caleb Caudle and some witty indie-pop from The Paranoid Style.
Join us on these stations starting Friday, Nov. 11 to hear the entire show.
Our Song of the Week comes from Landreth and Cashdollar, who slide their way through “Prodigal Son,” the title track to Landreth’s 2004 album of the same name.
Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar-Prodigal Son live on Mountain Stage
Recorded on Episode 1,000 of Mountain Stage, 10/9/2022
Hear the entire set from Landreth & Cashdollar, plus Parker Millsap and his band, thoughtful and poignant songwriter Lucy Kaplansky, plus emerging songsmith Caleb Caudle and some witty indie-pop from The Paranoid Style. They’re all in live performance on this week’s episode of Mountain Stage, heard on these stations starting Friday.
We have a conversation with Marshall University's Turning Point USA chapter president. We also learn about a recently released horror film shot near Huntington, and the population decline in central Appalachia that may be getting worse.
This week, the region is known for exporting coal, but it’s losing people, too. Also, folk singer Ginny Hawker grew up singing the hymns of the Primitive Baptist Church, but she didn’t think of performing until she got a little boost from Appalachian icon Hazel Dickens. And, the chef of an award-winning Asheville restaurant was shaped by memories of growing up in West Virginia.
Halloween may be over, but mountain state spookiness continues on with a new film called “Self-Help.” Shot in locations near Huntington, the horror movie follows a college student who infiltrates a dangerous self-actualization community after her mother becomes entangled with its leader.