Here's a reprise of Paul Brown's Breaking Up Christmas: A Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday, produced for NPR member stations and first aired in late 1996. Across the Blue Ridge host Paul Brown directed a two-year fundraising, fieldwork and production process that resulted in the one-hour special program featuring a heartwarming musical holiday tradition in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the popular fiddle tune and song that bears its name. The program examined the tradition's history and the changes it was experiencing as social and economic environments changed. On this week's Across the Blue Ridge we hear the same wonderful music and interview field recordings dating back as far as the 1920s and focused on the 1970s through 1990s, we hear new perspectives, and we get a sense of how the tradition's impact is still felt today.
Playlist
- Breaking Up Christmas
Tommy Jarrell
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Old Bunch of Keys
Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- John Brown's Dream
The Southern Broadcasters
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Richmond
Kirk Sutphin & Band
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Tempy
Andy Cahan & Band
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
The Toast String Stretchers
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Ragtime Annie
Slate Mountain Ramblers
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Break 1 - Breaking Up Christmas
Norman Edmonds & The Old Timers
Volume 2
- Breaking Up Christmas
The Camp Creek Boys
Old Time String Band
- Breaking Up Christmas
Paul Brown
studio recording
- Breaking Up Christmas
Benton & Larry Flippen
Old Time, New Times
- Blue Christmas
Elvis Presley
Elvis' Christmas Album
- Let Me Fall
The Camp Creek Boys
Old Time String Band
- Breaking Up Christmas
Benny Jarrell
Lady of the Lake
- Breaking Up Christmas
Fred Cockerham & Kyle Creed
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Cluck Old Hen
Tommy Jarrell & friends
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Little Maggie
Fred Cockerham & friends
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Break 2 - Breaking Up Christmas
Esker Hutchins
Esker Hutchins
- Cherokee Shuffle
Wayne Henderson, Jim Lloyd, Gerald Anderson
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Jack Of Diamonds
Jerry Correll & friends
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Squirrel Heads & Gravy
Brian & Debbie Grim & friends
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Sugar Hill
Nicholas & Chester McMillian
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Breaking Up Christmas
Tommy Jarrell
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
- Stay All Night
Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham
Stay All Night And Don't Go Home
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