This week, we’re revisiting a show featuring storytellers out loud in front of audiences. Folks like five-time champion of the West Virginia Liars’ Contest, Bil Lepp. Also, musicians Anna & Elizabeth, whose storytelling used something known as a crankie. And, we’ll head to the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
Mountain Stage is all you need when it comes to music discovery. Actually the hipster in us wants to shout, “We had Jason Isbell and The Milk Carton Kids on the show before they were cool!” but why shout when you can just listen to these archived sets on “Mountain Stage After Midnight?” Broadcast from 1am-5am Saturday and Sunday mornings here on West Virginia Public Broadcasting, “Mountain Stage After Midnight” takes the best episodes from the show’s 31 year history and shares their memories and songs with our late-night listeners.
Tune in Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 for country-infused folk and rock-a-cana on this week’s “Mountain Stage After Midnight.”
First up is a October 2011 show featuring folk rock group Dawes, Georgia power-popper Matthew Sweet, experimental country-folk group Blitzen Trapper, Americana legend James McMurtry and North Alabama rock outfit Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit.
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The Milk Carton Kids made their Mountain Stage debut in 2011. They’ll make their second appearance this April in Charleston, WV.
Next up is another October 2011 show featuring sets from avant-jazz group The Travis Chandler Three-O, indie folk duo Milk Carton Kids (who are coming back to the Mountain Stage this spring), Appalachian crooner Sarah Siskind, American blues and roots group The Nighthawks and indie folk singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche.
On this West Virginia Week, the unhoused population in the state declines, child well-being remains the same, and just how many abandoned gas wells are there?
This week, we’re revisiting a show featuring storytellers out loud in front of audiences. Folks like five-time champion of the West Virginia Liars’ Contest, Bil Lepp. Also, musicians Anna & Elizabeth, whose storytelling used something known as a crankie. And, we’ll head to the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
This week’s Inside Appalachia features storytellers from around the region, including author, television host and five-time West Virginia Liars Contest winner Bil Lepp. Here he is back in 2019, telling a story during a Mountain Stage performance at the West Virginia Culture Center.
Daniel Johnston recorded songs in his parents' basement in rural West Virginia that would eventually inspire artists such as Kurt Cobain, Beck, Wilco, and Sonic Youth. In this award-winning episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay explores the life, art, and enduring legacy of the late singer-songwriter and visual artist whose creative genius and struggles with bipolar disorder made him one of America's most influential outsider artists.