The first of this year's Across the Blue Ridge summer listening sessions brings us a wonderful selection of old and new songs and tunes demonstrating the many cultural crossroads in American traditional and popular music.  Wherever you are, you can enjoy old time mountain music from Kentucky's Cousin Emmy; bluegrass from Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe; mountain classics from Mainer's Mountaineers; and blues from Pink Anderson.  There's much more, including cuts from a new album by Chicago-based band Big Sadie, and a song from roots music veteran Bob Bovee. 

Playlist

  1. Billy In The Lowground
    Crooked Road Ramblers
    It Ain't City Music
     
  2. Greenleaf Breakdown
    Kenny Baker
    Baker's Dozen
     
  3. Maple On The Hill
    Carl Jones & Erynn Marshall
    Sweet Memories Never Leave
     
  4. Be Kind To A Man When He's Down
    Wade & Julia Mainer
    In The Land Of Melody
     
  5. Goin' Back West In The Fall
    J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
    Goin' Back West In The Fall
     
  6. Satisfied
    J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
    Goin' Back West In The Fall
     
  7. Seven And A Half
    J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
    Goin' Back West In The Fall
     
  8. Break 1 - Shortening Bread
    Snuffy Jenkins
    American Banjo 3-Finger & Scruggs Style
     
  9. Anni's Orchard
    Big Sadie
    Keep Me Waiting
     
  10. Corn Liquor
    Big Sadie
    Keep Me Waiting
     
  11. Jack of Diamonds
    Ben Jarrell
    In The Pines
     
  12. Barroom Girls
    Gillian Welch
    Revival
     
  13. Don't Ask Me Why
    Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
    Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys V.3
     
  14. I Saw A Man At The Close Of The Day
    Bob Bovee
    Rails, Trails & Tall Tales
     
  15. Break 2 - Big Sweet Taters In The Sandy Land
    Sam Gleaves
    A Little While In The Wilderness
     
  16. You Don't Know My Mind
    Pink Anderson
    Classic Appalachian Blues
     
  17. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
    Roscoe Holcomb
    Classic Appalachian Blues
     
  18. Freight Train Blues
    Cousin Emmy
    Cousin Emmy & Her Kinfolks
     
  19. This Train
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    The Gospel Of The Blues
     
  20. T For Texas
    Jimmie Rodgers
    The Complete Recordings (Remastered)
     
  21. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
    Bill Monroe
    In The Pines

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