We continue our Women's History Month celebration with some great leading and supporting women in old time and bluegrass band settings. Bluegrass star Alison Krauss kicks things off, leading a band and twin fiddling with Stuart Duncan in a classic rendition of Sawing on the Strings. Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris join Alison in a song from the O Brother, Where Art Thou movie sound track, and then we take a step back in time with an early recording of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. Our featured band is the Slate Mountain Ramblers, a high-power family band from Mount Airy, NC. Barbara Bowman tells us about the band's new album, and we hear a couple of cuts featuring Barbara, her daughter Marsha Todd, Marsha's husband Marty, and fiddler Richard Bowman, the family patriarch. We pay respects to the late Trevor Stuart, who grew up playing with his twin brother Travis, and hear a selection of family duos and trios including the Blue Sky Boys, the Delmore Brothers and the Carter Family to round out the show.
Episode 12 Playlist
- Sawing on the Strings – Alison Krauss
Album – A Hundred Miles Or More
Rounder Records 2007
- Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby – Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris
Album – O Brother, Where Art Thou
Mercury 2000
- Acony Bell – Gillian Welch
Album – Revival
Acony Records 1996
- Orphan Girl – Emmylou Harris
Album – Heartaches & Highways
Rhino 2005
- Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar – Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard
Album – Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
Smithsonian Folkways 1965
- Anchored in Love – The Carter Family
Album – Anchored in Love
Rounder 1994
- BREAK 1
One Dime Blues – Etta Baker
Album – One Dime Blues
Rounder 1991
- Julia Belle – Janet Beazley
Album – 5 South
Backcountry 2005
- John Brown's Dream – Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Bobby Patterson, Audine Lineberry
Album – June Apple
Heritage Records 1993
- Sally Goodin – Slate Mountain Ramblers
Album – Family Tradition
Slate Mountain Ramblers 2016
- Going Home – Slate Mountain Ramblers
Album – Family Tradition
Slate Mountain Ramblers 2016
- Sin City – The Pine Ridge Boys & Patsy
Album – Stringband Music From Mount Airy
Heritage Records 1981
- Whoa Mule – The Pine Ridge Boys & Patsy
Album -- Stringband Music From Mount Airy
Heritage Records 1981
- BREAK 2
Blue Eagle – Meghan Lynch Chowning & Adam Hurt
Album – Inside Out
Fiddlestar 2016
- Paddy on the Turnpike – Travis & Trevor Stuart
Album – Travis & Trevor Stuart
Old Time Tiki Parlor 2016
- Life's Railway to Heaven – Blue Sky Boys
Album – Blue Sky Boys On Radio Vol. 4
Copper Creek 1997
- Breaking Up Christmas – Benton & Larry Flippen
Album – Benton Flippen Old Time, New Times
Rounder 1994
- Rainin' on the Mountain – Delmore Brothers
Album – Brown's Ferry Blues
County Records 2010
- My Home Among The Hills – Carter Family
Album – Clinch Mountain Treasures
County Records 1994
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