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Listen: Chuck Prophet Has the Mountain Stage Song of the Week

This week we’re looking back to a 2010 episode we recorded at the Clay Center as voted on by our listeners.

Mountain Stage this week looks back to a 2010 episode that we recorded at The Clay Center in Charleston, W.Va. with Ani DiFranco, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Andy McKee, Erin McKeown and Chuck Prophet.

San Francisco band leader and journeyman rocker Chuck Prophet performed songs from his album ¡Let Freedom Ring!, recorded, coincidentally, during the early onset of the H1N1 virus, in Mexico City, Mexico in 2009. Prophet and his band wore their masks to the studio, all the while enduring the regular power-outages common in the area resulting in multiple lost takes.

Our Song of the Week, “Hot Talk.” is a breezy and cryptic jaunt that captures the immediacy and the chaos of the album.

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Trombone Shorty, Erin McKeown and Ani DiFranco join for the finale song in February, 2010.

Hear the entire set from Chuck Prophet plus more from Ani DiFranco, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Andy McKee, and Erin McKeown on this week’s episode of Mountain Stage. Find a station where you can join us this weekend to enjoy the reassuring sound of audience applause that we are all missing right now. Be sure to check in with us on Facebook and sign up for our email newsletter if you’d like some comforting sounds in your inbox once in a while.

Mountain Stage After Midnight- October 4 & 5

What do you get when you mix two iconic singer-songwriters with a whole lot of good music? A little something called “Mountain Stage After Midnight.” Broadcast from 1am-5am Saturday and Sunday mornings here on West Virginia Public Radio, “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. Each week we’ll hand-pick two of our favorite episodes and they’ll alternate order each night.

Tune your dials to West Virginia Public Radio this Saturday October 4 and Sunday October 5 for two great performances on “Mountain Stage After Midnight.”

First you’ll hear a 2008 performance recorded at the Templeton-Blackburn Auditorium on the campus of Ohio University. Hear from Colorado folk rock group Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist George Stanford, legendary jam band moe., and the iconic AniDiFranco. See the playlist.

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Jose Gonzalez made his Mountain Stage debut with this March 2008 performance

Next is another 2008 performance recorded in good ol’ Morgantown, West Virginia, featuring the musical stylings of German folk band 17 Hippies, art-folk rocker Mia Doi Todd, singer-comedian Nellie McKay, indie country group everybodyfields, singer-songwriter Julia Douglass, and Swedish indie folk maestro Jose Gonzalez. See the playlist.

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Mountain Stage records 800th show

Mountain Stage, founded in 1983, is celebrating their 30th Anniversary this year. The show recently recorded it’s land-mark 800th episode. A capacity crowd at the Clay Center was in attendance to see performances by folk-singer Ani DiFranco, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member Dave Mason, California rockers Dawes and the high-energy, horn-driven Brooklyn group Red Baraat. WV Public Radio listeners can hear the entire show Sunday November 10 at 2pm. 

Mountain Stage recordings continue throughout the months of October and December. Here’s a complete list of upcoming recordings.

 

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