The Jones House Community Center in Boone, NC is the latest stop on our Blue Ridge Music Trails series. We hear from director Mark Freed about the early days of the house; its evolution from a family home to a center for art and music; and Freed's hopes for its future role as a place for preserving and continuing the region's music traditions. Across the Blue Ridge will host and record a concert there on May 19, 2018 featuring local traditional musician Rick Ward, whose family goes back generations in Watauga County. Also featured will be a band born of the Junior Appalachian Musicians program, or JAM: Strictly Strings. And Trevor McKenzie, a highly talented fiddler, guitarist, banjoist and singer will be on the bill as well. We'll hear from each of these artists on this week's show. Train songs feature in the first segment of the program, and a heartwarming selection of love songs wrap up the show, a soothing balm in unpredictable times.
Playlist
- Cannonball Blues
Jeff Little Trio
Made In The Blue Ridge
- Rubin
Tommy Jarrell
June Apple
- John Henry
Leslie Riddle
Close To Home
- The Wreck of the Virginian
Blind Alfred Karns
The Bristol Sessions
- New River Train
The Buckstankle Boys
Round Peak Home
- Break 1 - Billy In The Lowground
Spencer & Rains
The Skeleton Keys
- Tough Luck Man
Doc Watson
Portrait
- Batchin' On The Farm
Rick Ward
Keeping The Tradition
- Come On Out Tonight
Strictly Strings
High On A Mountain
- To The Ground
Trevor McKenzie
Generational Things
- Briarpicker Brown
Mark Freed, Cecil Gurganus, Craig DuBose
Get Along Home
- Break 2 - Sleeping Lulu
Mark Freed, Cecil Gurganus, Craig DuBose
Get Along Home
- Katy Kline
Kyle Creed & Emily Spencer
Liberty
- Sit At Home
Carol Elizabeth Jones & Laurel Bliss
Ridin' Along
- She Talks To Me
John Lilly
Thinking About The Weather
- Hold Whatcha Got
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys
You Don't Know My Mind
- Storms On The Ocean
The New Ballard Branch Bogtrotters
Bogtrotter Blues
- How Mountain Girls Can Love
Ralph Stanley & Hal Ketchum
Clinch Mountain Country
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