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LISTEN: Will Hoge Has The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week

On this week’s premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage, host Kathy Mattea welcomes Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with The Guilty Ones, Will Hoge, Alex Cuba, MALINDA, and Sarah Siskind to the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia.

Our Song of the Week comes from singer-songwriter Will Hoge, making his seventh appearance on Mountain Stage. On this episode, Hoge performs “John Prine’s Cadillac,” paying homage to the late singer-songwriter’s legacy and influence that ripples throughout the music world. This was Hoge’s first release from his twelfth studio album, Wings On My Shoes (2022).

Tune in to an affiliate station near you starting Friday, November 8 for the entire set from Will Hoge, plus live performances from roots and folk music heroes Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with the Guilty Ones, Cuban-Canadian multi-instrumentalist Alex Cuba, singer-songwriter MALINDA, and folk singer and songwriter Sarah Siskind.

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Watch Live: River Whyless, Will Hoge, Hello June and More This Sunday

Thanks to our colleauges at VuHaus and the video production department at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, we are offering a live video webcast of THIS SUNDAY’S Mountain Stage from the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, W.Va.

Just point your browser back to this post, MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com this Sunday at 7p.m. EDT to watch us make radio as our host Larry Groce welcomes River Whyless, Will Hoge, Martha Scanlan, Royal Wood and 2018 NPR Slingshot artist Hello June (left). As always we’ll be treated to a song each from our vocalist Julie Adams and the Mountain Stage Band, and our piano player Bob Thompson.

As previously announced, The Lone Bellow asked to reschedule their appearance on Mountain Stage so they could attend to a family matter. We wish the band the best and we’re already working to reschedule.

Mountain Stage After Midnight: Regina Spektor, Yo La Tengo, Indigo Girls

“Aw man, [band] AND [artist] were on your show in [year]? That sounds amazing. Why wasn’t I there!”

If this sounds familiar to you, that’s because it’s a symptom of Mountain Stage fever, a music fanatic habit that comes about whenever we pull out the Mountain Stage archives and show off our 30+ year history of live performance radio.

This weekend, get ready to ooohhh and ahhhhh over a pair of 2009 shows featuring Regina Spektor, Yo La Tengo, Indigo Girls and more 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 32 year history and shares their memories and songs with our late-night listeners.

Join us this Saturday September 5 and Sunday September 6 for Mountain Stage After Midnight for a great set of shows.

First, an episode from September 2009 featuring Indigo Girls, Chris Smither, Jill Hennessy, Alison Brown Band and Gary Jules.

Regina Spektor made her second appearance on Mountain Stage back in 2009.

Then an October 2009 episode recorded at the WVU Creative Arts Center in Morgantown with WVU Arts & Entertainment featuring Regina Spektor, Yo La Tengo, Sonny Landreth (who’s returning to the Mountain Stage this fall!), Will Hoge and Great Lake Swimmers.

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Mountain Stage After Midnight- July 5 & 6

The July 4 weekend brings about a new way of hearing Mountain Stage as we present “Mountain Stage After Midnight,” from 1am-5am Saturday and Sunday mornings here on WV Public Radio. It’s all part of the improved radio schedule that we know you’ll appreciate, and we’re excited to be sharing the greatest episodes from our 31 year history with our late-night listeners. Each week we’ll hand-pick two of our favorite episodes and they’ll alternate order each night.

Here’s what is in store for you Saturday July 5 and Sunday July 6 on Mountain Stage After Midnight.

First, an episode from September 2009 featuring Indigo Girls, Chris Smither, Jill Hennessy, Alison Brown Band and Gary Jules. We taped this show at The Clay Center and it features an extra special rendition of “Closer to Fine,” with Jill Hennessy and Alison Brown both joining Emily & Amy of The Indigo Girls. See the playlist.

"Mary Chapin Carpenter taught me this tuning and I wrote like 16 songs with it. Never paid her a dime." – Emily Saliers, introducing "Galileo"

Next you’ll hear an episode recorded at the WVU Creative Arts Center in Morgantown with WVU Arts & Entertainment featuring the wonderful Regina Spektor, progressive indie-darlings Yo La Tengo, slide-guitar genius Sonny Landreth, double-threat singer-songwriter Will Hoge and Canada’s Great Lake Swimmers. Listen for Hoge performing “Even If It Breaks Your Heart,” which would go on to be his first #1 when it was cut three years later by the Eli Young Band. See the playlist.

"Rock and Roll, the reason that we're all here, is such an innocent thing. You hear a record or a song and it changes you forever. This is a song about falling back in love with rock-n-roll." -Will Hoge, introducing "Even If It Breaks Your Heart."