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.
Country music star Lee Ann Womack released her album “The Lonely, The Lonesome, & The Gone” last year to critical acclaim. Our Song of the Week is her performance of “All The Trouble,” which was nominated for “Song of the Year” at the 2018 Americana Music Association Honors & Awards in Nashville.
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The Travelin’ McCourys, live on Mountain Stage.
You’ll hear the entire performance by Lee Ann Womack, plus sets from Bluegrass royalty The Travelin’ McCourys, songwriting great Caitlyn Smith, Portland alt-folkie Haley Heynderickx, and singer-songwriter-guitarist-journeyman Anthony DaCosta, on this week’s encore episode.
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.