Across the Blue Ridge #78- Home & Hearth

This week, as gardens come in, people start out on summer trips to home places and family, we hear a selection of songs reflecting the southern attachment to home and hearth, and the tensions between ranging far afield and staying put.  We listen to songs of memory, and consider how “the good old days” were just that in some ways, but not necessarily in others.  Plus we hear songs of hope, some new music in old modes – and a great selection of guitar-based and fiddle-based dance music.  Altogether, good listening and great stories in the Across the Blue Ridge tradition.

Playlist

1. Head Over Heels In Love With You
   Flatt & Scruggs
   1948-59 V. 2
    
2. Train Forty-Five
   Fred Cockerham
   Sunny Home In Dixie
    
3. Just A Song Of Old Kentucky
   Monroe Brothers
   Just A Song Of Old Kentucky: The Monroe Brothers Vol. 2
    
4. When Bacon Was Scarce
   Red Clay Ramblers 
   Twisted Laurel
    
5. My Home Among The Hills
   Carter Family
   Clinch Mountain Treasures
    
6. Stockyard Hill
   Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes
   Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes
    
7. Indian Whoop
   James Bryan
   Two Pictures
    
8. Break 1 - Georgia Row
   Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes
   Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes
    
9. China Grove, My Hometown
   Curly Seckler
   Down In Caroline
    
10. High On A Mountain
    Strictly Strings
    High On A Mountain
     
11. Ola Belle Reed interview
    Ola Belle Reed
    Ola Belle Reed & Family
     
12. I've Endured
    Ola Belle Reed
    Ola Belle Reed & Family
     
13. Cotton Mill Girls
    Alice Gerrard and Kay Justice
    Tear Down The Fences
     
14. Ramshackle Shack
    Happy Valley Pals
    Happy Valley Pals
     
15. The Cyclone Of Rye Cove
    Carol Elizabeth Jones & Laurel Bliss
    Ridin' Along
     
16. Break 2 - Twin Sisters
    Sidna Myers
    Clawhammer Banjo Vol. 2
     
17. Bye Bye Blues
    Wayne Henderson & Clay Lunsford
    Thumb To Thumb
     
18. Guitar Rag
    David Holt & Josh Goforth
    Good Medicine
     
19. Salty Dog
    Mississippi John Hurt
    Revisited
     
20. Old Salty Dog Blues
    Flatt & Scruggs
    1948-59 Vol. 1
     
21. Salt River
    Benton Flippen & The Smokey Valley Boys
    Old Time, New Times
     
22. Bonnie Brown
    Lonesome River Band
    Turn On A Dime