This week, when an award-winning Asheville chef decided to launch a restaurant, she returned to a rich community tradition. Also, the popularity of weaving waxes and wanes. At the moment, it’s having a renaissance. And, during Lent, Yugoslavian fish stew is a local favorite in Charleston, West Virginia.
Adia Victoria can be heard on Mountain Stage this weekend with songs from her excellent album "Silences." Brian Blauser/ Mountain Stage
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Our Song of the Week is a modern-day blues original by the incomparable Adia Victoria.
Building on a deep, intense bass and drum groove, complemented by horns and keys, Adia Victoria cuts through the fuzz with a gripping vocal performance of “Different Kind of Love,” our Song of the Week.
Between the world and me Tell me, what will it be? Who do you love? Tell me, who do you love? -Adia Victoria's "Different Kind of Love"
“Different Kind of Love” appears on Victoria’s 2019 release Silences, which was produced by Aaron Dessner of The National.
Tune in to this week’s encore episode of Mountain Stage on your favorite NPR station to hear the entire set from Adia Victoria, plus live performances by New Orleans’ hybrid-funk band Tank and the Bangas, Canadian rockers The Trews, and singer-songwriters Justin Townes Earle and Courtney Marie Andrews.
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The entire cast join together for one last song to cap off this week’s episode of Mountain Stage.
On this West Virginia Week, the state budget is headed to Gov. Patrick Morrisey, a statewide public camping ban bill moves forward, and Inside Appalachia visits Good Hot Fish.
On this week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage, host Kathy Mattea welcomes Dan Tyminski, Darrell Scott, I Draw Slow, Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert, and Jacob Jolliff Band. This episode was recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, WV.
Our winter encore broadcast season continues this Friday, Feb. 20 with an episode featuring Medium Build, Susan Werner, The Arcadian Wild, Maya de Vitry, and Them Coulee Boys, all captured in Charleston, WV at the Culture Center Theater.