Across the Blue Ridge #42 - Emmylou Harris on tour to help refugees

Country music star Emmylou Harris isn't focused solely on her art, as many musicians are. She's demonstrated a deep social conscience throughout her career, and in her life offstage. This fall she's touring to raise awareness of the plight of refugees as people flee conflict and hunger in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere. She also wants to raise money to educate a record number of refugees through the Jesuit Refugee Service. We find out more about this tour, which transmits echoes of her 1990s tour to help rid southeast Asia of landmines following the Vietnam war. Also on this week's show, our reliable selection of great old time, bluegrass, country and gospel music. This time around we hear from some banjo songsters; from Jerry Douglas; Bruce Molsky and Allison de Groot; and the ethereal-sounding Kentucky banjo player Morgan Sexton, among others. 

Episode 42 Playlist

1. Big Eyed Rabbit
   New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters
   Bogtrotter Blues
    
2. Old Sledge
   Ernie Carpenter
   Old Time Tunes from the Elk River Country Disc 1
    
3. Elk River Blues
   Ernie Carpenter
   Old Time Tunes from the Elk River Country Disc 1
    
4. Greenback Dollar
   Tom Ashley
   Greenback Dollar
    
5. Trouble In Mind
   Roscoe Holcomb
   The High Lonesome Sound
    
6. Old Blue
   Dink Roberts
   Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina & Virginia
    
7. Whoa Mule
   John Will Vipperman
   WPAQ The Voice of the Blue Ridge Mountains
    
8. Break 1 - Old Bunch of Keys
   Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham
   Stay All Night
    
9. Orphan Girl
   Emmylou Harris
   Heartaches & Highways 
    
10. Lost Unto This World
    Emmylou Harris
    Stumble Into Grace
     
11. Cup of Kindness
    Emmylou Harris
    Stumble Into Grace
     
12. There Is A Fountain
    Will Keys
    A Banjo Original
     
13. Break 2 - K.C. Stomp
    Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners
    Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners
     
14. Things In Life
    Jerry Douglas
    Restless On The Farm
     
15. Big Sandy
    Walt Koken
    Banjonique
     
16. Barlow Knife
    Molsky's Mountain Drifters
    Molsky's Mountain Drifters
     
17. Cold Icy Floor
    Fields & Wade Ward
    Recorded in Galax, VA
     
18. Old East Virginia
    Morgan Sexton
    Shady Grove