Dec. 4: Hicks With Sticks
Jose Segue presents some of the twang sounds that have caught his ear of late.
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Dec. 11: Banjo-Fiddle Duets
host: Leah Wollenberg
THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Riro’s House/Leaving Eden (Nonesuch/12)
NOAM PIKELNY feat. STUART DUNCAN: Pineywoods/Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail (Compass/11)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAN DRIFTERS: Spring of ‘65/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/19)
GEORGE JACKSON feat. FRANK EVANS: Chicago Tune/Hair and Hide (self/21)
FIDDLIN' EARL WHITE feat. MARK OLITSKY: I Truly Understand/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
ALLISON DEGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Buffalo Gals/Allison DeGroot and Tatiana Hargreaves (Free Dirt/19)
JOE THOMPSON & ODELL THOMPSON feat. TOMMY THOMPSON: Little Brown Jug/Black Banjo Songsters (Smithsonian-Folkways/74)
EARL SCRUGGS & PAUL WARREN: North Carolina Breakdown/Flatt & Scruggs Grand Ole Opry show (Shanachie)
LAURIE LEWIS feat. CRAIG SMITH: Rooster Crow/… and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple/20)
TUI (JAKE BLOUNT & LIBBY WEITNAUER): Eight Of January (Pretty Little Mister (self/19)
TAYLOR’S KENTUCKY BOYS: Forked Deer/Kentucky Mountain Music, Part 1 (Yazoo/23)
TOMMY JARRELL & FRED COCKERHAM: When Sorrow Encompasses Me Round/Tommy & Fred (County/c.71)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Ducks On the Millpond/Twin Sisters (forthcoming on Ruby’s Slipper Records)
BYRON BERLINE & JOHN HICKMAN: Double Trouble/Double Trouble (Sugar Hill/89)
EVIE LADIN feat. RHYS JONES: Paddy On the Handcar/Riding the Rooster (Evil Diane/18)
NATHAN FRAZIER & FRANK PATTERSON My Journey Home/Black Fiddlers (Document/42)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: Julie/Freedom Highway (Nonsuch/17)
TOM ADAMS & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: The Fiddle and the Banjo/Live at the Ragged Edge (Rounder/04)
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Dec. 18: Across the Tracks: A Holiday Membership Campaign special
NOTE: All music released in 2021, although not all recordings are new.
theme -
TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Jack O’ Diamonds>St. Anne's Reel/One Note Circus (self)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Once Again/Almost Proud (forthcoming on McCoury Music)
DARYL MOSLEY: Transistor Radio/Small Town Dreamer (Pinecastle)
LAURIE LEWIS: Blue Days, Sleepless Nights/Freight 98 (Spruce & Maple/98)
THE BARLEY JACKS: Coming Down the Mountain/Coming Down the Mountain (self)
EMMYLOU HARRIS & THE NASH RAMBLERS: One of These Days/Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert (Nonesuch/90)
ALEX LEACH BAND: Up To You/single (Mountain Home)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Highlander’s Farewell>Farewell To Long Hollow/Lively Times (self)
THE PUNCH BROTHERS: Church Street Blues/Hell On Church Street (Nonesuch)
JUNIOR SISK: I Wanna Be Where You Are/single (Mountain Fever)
JAMES REAMS: Almost Hear the Blues/Like A Flowing River (Mountain Redbird/11)
LARRY STEPHENSON BAND: The Blues Don't Care Who's Got’em/Retrospective (Whysper Dream/14)
TAMMY ROGERS & THOMM JUTZ: I Surely Will Be Singing/I Surely Will Be Singing (Mountain Fever)
NICK HORNBUCKLE & ANNIE STANINEC: Twin Sisters/Twin Sisters (forthcoming on Ruby’s Slipper Records)
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Dec. 25: On This Christmas Day
Brand-new holiday music, presented by PT with good wishes and seasonal cheer.
NOTE: all tracks released in 2021.
NEWBERRY & VERCH: On This Christmas Day/On This Christmas Day (self)
THEO & BRENNA: Work On Christmas/single (Mountain Fever)
TAMMY ROGERS & THOMM JUTZ: Dancing In the Snow/single (Mountain Fever)
NEWBERRY & VERCH: Round The Christmas Tree/On This Christmas Day (self)
BECKY BULLER with THE FAIRFIELD FOUR: Mary Rocked Her Baby/The Christmas 45 – Volume 2 (Dark Shadow)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Rise Up Shepherd and Follow/single (Mountain Home)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: In the Bleak Midwinter/single (Mountain Home)
BECKY BULLER BAND: The Box/The Christmas 45 – Volume 2 (Dark Shadow)
PAM GADD: Appalachian Sleigh Ride/single (Home Sweet Highway)
SELF RISING FLOUR: Santa Gave Me A Banjo/single (self)
JACKSON HOLLOW: A Song For Christmas/single (Mountain Fever)
CUP O’ JOE: Holly Jolly Christmas/Christmas Kin (self)
NEFESH MOUNTAIN: Happy Joyous Hanukkah/Live From Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (self)
WILLIAMSON BRANCH: Very Merry Christmas/single (Pinecastle)
TAMMY ROGERS & THOMM JUTZ: Lonesome Christmas/single (Mountain Fever)
TONY WRAY/TIM CROUCH/ETHAN BURLHARDT: Christmas Time Is Here/single (Pinecastle)
Jose Segue presents some of the twang sounds that have caught his ear of late.
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Dec. 11: Banjo-Fiddle Duets
host: Leah Wollenberg
THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Riro’s House/Leaving Eden (Nonesuch/12)
NOAM PIKELNY feat. STUART DUNCAN: Pineywoods/Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail (Compass/11)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAN DRIFTERS: Spring of ‘65/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/19)
GEORGE JACKSON feat. FRANK EVANS: Chicago Tune/Hair and Hide (self/21)
FIDDLIN' EARL WHITE feat. MARK OLITSKY: I Truly Understand/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
ALLISON DEGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Buffalo Gals/Allison DeGroot and Tatiana Hargreaves (Free Dirt/19)
JOE THOMPSON & ODELL THOMPSON feat. TOMMY THOMPSON: Little Brown Jug/Black Banjo Songsters (Smithsonian-Folkways/74)
EARL SCRUGGS & PAUL WARREN: North Carolina Breakdown/Flatt & Scruggs Grand Ole Opry show (Shanachie)
LAURIE LEWIS feat. CRAIG SMITH: Rooster Crow/… and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple/20)
TUI (JAKE BLOUNT & LIBBY WEITNAUER): Eight Of January (Pretty Little Mister (self/19)
TAYLOR’S KENTUCKY BOYS: Forked Deer/Kentucky Mountain Music, Part 1 (Yazoo/23)
TOMMY JARRELL & FRED COCKERHAM: When Sorrow Encompasses Me Round/Tommy & Fred (County/c.71)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Ducks On the Millpond/Twin Sisters (forthcoming on Ruby’s Slipper Records)
BYRON BERLINE & JOHN HICKMAN: Double Trouble/Double Trouble (Sugar Hill/89)
EVIE LADIN feat. RHYS JONES: Paddy On the Handcar/Riding the Rooster (Evil Diane/18)
NATHAN FRAZIER & FRANK PATTERSON My Journey Home/Black Fiddlers (Document/42)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: Julie/Freedom Highway (Nonsuch/17)
TOM ADAMS & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: The Fiddle and the Banjo/Live at the Ragged Edge (Rounder/04)
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Dec. 18: Across the Tracks: A Holiday Membership Campaign special
NOTE: All music released in 2021, although not all recordings are new.
theme -
TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Jack O’ Diamonds>St. Anne's Reel/One Note Circus (self)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Once Again/Almost Proud (forthcoming on McCoury Music)
DARYL MOSLEY: Transistor Radio/Small Town Dreamer (Pinecastle)
LAURIE LEWIS: Blue Days, Sleepless Nights/Freight 98 (Spruce & Maple/98)
THE BARLEY JACKS: Coming Down the Mountain/Coming Down the Mountain (self)
EMMYLOU HARRIS & THE NASH RAMBLERS: One of These Days/Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert (Nonesuch/90)
ALEX LEACH BAND: Up To You/single (Mountain Home)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Highlander’s Farewell>Farewell To Long Hollow/Lively Times (self)
THE PUNCH BROTHERS: Church Street Blues/Hell On Church Street (Nonesuch)
JUNIOR SISK: I Wanna Be Where You Are/single (Mountain Fever)
JAMES REAMS: Almost Hear the Blues/Like A Flowing River (Mountain Redbird/11)
LARRY STEPHENSON BAND: The Blues Don't Care Who's Got’em/Retrospective (Whysper Dream/14)
TAMMY ROGERS & THOMM JUTZ: I Surely Will Be Singing/I Surely Will Be Singing (Mountain Fever)
NICK HORNBUCKLE & ANNIE STANINEC: Twin Sisters/Twin Sisters (forthcoming on Ruby’s Slipper Records)
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Dec. 25: On This Christmas Day
Brand-new holiday music, presented by PT with good wishes and seasonal cheer.
NOTE: all tracks released in 2021.
NEWBERRY & VERCH: On This Christmas Day/On This Christmas Day (self)
THEO & BRENNA: Work On Christmas/single (Mountain Fever)
TAMMY ROGERS & THOMM JUTZ: Dancing In the Snow/single (Mountain Fever)
NEWBERRY & VERCH: Round The Christmas Tree/On This Christmas Day (self)
BECKY BULLER with THE FAIRFIELD FOUR: Mary Rocked Her Baby/The Christmas 45 – Volume 2 (Dark Shadow)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Rise Up Shepherd and Follow/single (Mountain Home)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: In the Bleak Midwinter/single (Mountain Home)
BECKY BULLER BAND: The Box/The Christmas 45 – Volume 2 (Dark Shadow)
PAM GADD: Appalachian Sleigh Ride/single (Home Sweet Highway)
SELF RISING FLOUR: Santa Gave Me A Banjo/single (self)
JACKSON HOLLOW: A Song For Christmas/single (Mountain Fever)
CUP O’ JOE: Holly Jolly Christmas/Christmas Kin (self)
NEFESH MOUNTAIN: Happy Joyous Hanukkah/Live From Levon Helm Studios: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert (self)
WILLIAMSON BRANCH: Very Merry Christmas/single (Pinecastle)
TAMMY ROGERS & THOMM JUTZ: Lonesome Christmas/single (Mountain Fever)
TONY WRAY/TIM CROUCH/ETHAN BURLHARDT: Christmas Time Is Here/single (Pinecastle)