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<title>Gillian Welch</title>
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<category>Americana</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:24:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gillian Welch never grew up in Appalachia. She grew up in California. Although she spent a little bit of time in Nashville, her southern drawl is feigned. But the funny thing is that nobody seems to care about any of this because her music sounds so pastoral and authentic. When she and David Rawlings are playing live, time stands still, and then begins to reverse a little. Welch's songs are haunting and romantic musings that seem to use the tempo of a dying heartbeat for a metronome. Her study and deliverance (no pun intended) of old timey Americana and Bluegrass music are a large influence in her sound, but she maintains her own subtly soulful (and sometimes sultry) voice to birth new ideas and phrasings within her appreciation of America's musical history.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Doc Watson</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Blind almost since his birth in Deep Gap, N.C. in 1923, Doc Watson is an enormously influential acoustic flat-picking guitarist, banjo player and singer. He grew up in a musical family and showed an early affinity for stringed instruments, learning many Appalachian fiddle songs and adapting them for guitar. By the time of the folk music boom of the '60s, Watson had been making a living as a musician for ten years, playing Honky-Tonk, Rockabilly and pop in nearby roadhouses. He reverted back to acoustic guitar once he was "discovered," and his clean, propulsive picking style and seemingly endless supply of traditional songs have influenced generations of folk, Bluegrass and country musicians ever since.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Norman Blake</title>
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<category>Progressive Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:41:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A musical prodigy proficient on numerous stringed instruments, Blake played professionally by the age of sixteen. In the 1960s, he played with both June Carter Cash and husband Johnny, which led to a stint with Kris Kristofferson and ultimately a prominent role on Bob Dylan's <I>Nashville Skyline</I> album. Blake launched a solo career that made him a star on the Bluegrass and folk circuit, though he maintained a high profile as a session player. Although he is most often identified as a Bluegrass player, his style over the years has evolved into something much harder to label. His sound ties Old-Time String Band music, Bluegrass fiddle tunes, Country Blues, Early Jazz and even Tin Pan Alley pop together with a combination of technical virtuosity and lyrical melodic invention.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Earl Scruggs</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Lester Raymond Flatt and Earl Scruggs left the Foggy Mountain Boys and split up their notorious picking outfit due to artistic differences, Flatt took the traditional route and Scruggs struck out to expand his musical horizons. His journey within the Earl Scruggs Review was successful. Rather than sticking to a tried and true yet absolutely predictable formula, Scruggs injected his matchless style of Bluegrass picking with bits of rock and pop sensibilities, while maintaining a pastoral twang. The songs reflect a healthy nod to the roots of Bluegrass music and oldfangled, countrified folk traditionals.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>The Carter Family</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Carter Family were the earliest innovators of Bluegrass and country music, writing and arranging many popular, pastoral songs that are still standards today. Before their time, the genre was mostly known for its hayseed, hillbilly instrumental songs. The Carter Family took Celtic and Appalachian folk standards under public domain and rearranged them with a new type of guitar picking and harmonic vocal melodies, creating a new repertoire of lovelorn ballads, blues standards and Gospel hymns. The haunting, ashen vocal harmonies of Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter (or A.P. as he liked to be called), his wife Sara and sister Maybelle began in 1927 when the trio first formed with Sara on the acoustic guitar or autoharp, A.P. on vocals (and sometimes fiddle) and Maybelle on an acoustic Gibson L-5. Her innovative guitar playing alone set the standard for today's vein of country guitar picking. Among the recordings available here are previously out-of-print cuts from a 1941 performance that was broadcast from the Mexican border with a transmitter too powerful to be legally operated in the U.S.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>The Stanley Brothers</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ralph and Carter Stanley were born in the Appalachian Mountains, and thus were the very first to integrate the mountain folk music on which they were raised into the Bluegrass formula. They also blended some heavenly close vocal harmonies into their songs, simultaneously changing and raising the bar for this kind of music.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>The Lewis Family</title>
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<category>Country Gospel</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Dry Branch Fire Squad</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A staple of the Rounder Records roster since their inception in 1976, the Dry Branch Fire Squad is still a beloved act today, performing authentic mountain Bluegrass with a strong Appalachian flavor. Personnel changes have changed the face of the group, but the stellar playing and shotgun accuracy of their covers and originals catalog have remained a constant throughout the years.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Maybelle Carter</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:28:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Hazel Dickens</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:07:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hazel Dickens comes across like the direct descendent of Mother Maybelle Carter with her big tenor and the crushing lonesomeness pouring out of her voice. She sounds like she <i>is</i> Appalachia. The modern glut of female-fronted Bluegrass acts have this pioneering woman to thank. Dickens and collaborator Alice Gerrard recorded the first female-produced Bluegrass records back in the Folk Revival boom of the 1960s. The pair was instrumental in bringing what was once considered "hick" music to colleges and coffeehouses, thereby exposing an entire generation to this timeless and dynamic music. Dickens' solo recordings are equally invaluable, filled with her dry, plaintive singing and ace musical backing. She relies heavily on the old styles and pays reverent homage to her influences from the high lonesome tradition with support from banjos, mandolins and fiddles.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Charlie Poole</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:06:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Charlie Poole isn't quite as much of a folk icon as the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, yet his influence on old time, bluegrass, country & western and the folk revival is no less considerable. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers were one of the most famous string bands in the 1920s, recording nearly 70 sides for Columbia. Unlike the Skillet Lickers and other popular string bands of the day, the Ramblers didn't play the "rowdy hillbilly" card. Inspired in part by ragtime, they employed a finesse and complexity that would go on to influence Bill Monroe and just about every other bluegrass pioneer. John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers once tagged the group's sound "mountain chamber music." Poole in particular was a stunning musician, inventing a distinctive three-fingered approach to the banjo. He was also a stunning drinker. As with so many race and hillbilly artists, his popularity began to wane as the Great Depression sunk its teeth into the country. This eventually sent Poole on a marathon bender -- we're talking weeks -- in 1931. Not surprisingly, it killed the man. Although the Ramblers soldiered on, they failed to achieve much commercial success without Poole.]]></description>
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<title>Wilma Lee Cooper</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wilma Lee Cooper (nee Leary) started out in the family harmony group the Leary Family. After marrying guitarist Stoney Cooper, the two embarked on a successful career as a Bluegrass duo. Remembered for Traditional Country staples "Cheated Too" and "Loving You," the Coopers were a regular feature at the Grand Ole Opry.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>The Skillet Lickers</title>
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<category>String Bands</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:06:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Bap Kennedy</title>
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<category>Celtic Folk</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Ginny Hawker &amp; Kay Justice</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:24:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[These two singers are well known on the folk circuit for their authentic, a cappella treatments of traditional Appalachian songs.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Dirk Powell</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:19:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Powell's instrumental range makes him a hot commodity in traditional music circles from Louisiana to Appalachia. Banjo player, mandolinist, violinist and more, Powell keeps busy both as a session player and a member of Balfa Toujours as well as performing traditional Appalachian airs under his own name. On <I>Hand Me Down</I> (1999), Powell skillfully revitalizes old songs like "The Keys to the Kingdom" and sets them a-haunting once again.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Roscoe Holcomb</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:56:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Freakwater</title>
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<category>Alt Country</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:24:34 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Where many of Freakwater's past works seemed to transcend an adoration for old-timey Appalachian influenced Country Folk and Bluegrass, the band's sound has since added refreshing rootsy instrumental embellishments. Freakwater are a sort of an acoustic spin off from seminal Midwestern Roots Rockers, Eleventh Dream Day. Once singing behind the drum kit for Dream Day, Janet Bean now plays guitar and croons out her Americana musings in close harmony with her friend, Catherine Ann Irwin. Their songs are timeless rustic reflections of wide open countrysides mixed with mountain air and floating vocal harmonies. These songs find the band accompanied by pedal steel, organ, Dobro, and other traditional sounding instruments that seem to have been found on the basement floor of Big Pink, and shipped to Freakwater's studio for recording.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Jeff White</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:30:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[White's rolling guitar is energetic and filled with earthy Bluegrass zest -- it better be, because he surrounds himself with top-level players like dobro guitarist Jerry Douglas, mandolin player/vocalist Vince Gill and banjo player Pete Wernick. He's also got a warm, country voice which slips into nice harmonies with guest Alison Krauss.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Dock Boggs</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:06:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Red Clay Ramblers</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:07:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Red Clay Ramblers are one of the most bona fide folk revival bands of the stringed persuasion. They excel at playing old-timey Appalachian folk, as well as their own interpretation of porch music. Enthusiasts of this genre consider The Red Clay Ramblers to be one of the finest folk revival bands of the 20th century, and many music journalists compare their rustic authenticity and passion for musical history to that of The Band. They reached a wider audience outside the folk community with their musical score for Sam Shepard's play, <i>A Lie of the Mind</i>.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Sam Rizzetta</title>
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<category>New Age Acoustic</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:59:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Respected for his solo hammer dulcimer recordings, Rizzetta plays versions of songs such as "Greensleeves" as well as his own original compositions. He shows off a broad palette of techniques on his handmade instruments.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Dakota Dave Hull</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hull can play just about any stringed thing you put in his hands. Back in the '70s, he stuck mostly to rock projects, playing with Buddy Miles, Arthur Lee (of Love), and the Nuge. Since then, he's concentrated on instrumental Bluegrass and Appalachian music, polishing his chops on steel guitar.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Bascom Lamar Lunsford</title>
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<category>Field Recordings</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:24:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Many a clog dance has been performed to the music of Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Mostly recorded in the 1920s, his Appalachian folk songs often reveal dualities: they are both eerie and festive, lovelorn and romantic. His dexterous banjo picking combines with a crooning mountain voice that can make your hair stand on end. Lunsford was one of the first pastoral musicians to put stories of his life into his songs in a way that captivated listeners and earned him the title among many country and folk music enthusiasts as the king of folk music.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Ernest Stoneman</title>
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<category>Early Country</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Clarence "Tom" Ashley</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:55:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Walt Michael</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Walt Michael is the preeminent player of the hammered dulcimer, an instrument of rich tonal complexity, in contemporary folk music. Michael uses the dulcimer to produce evocative, folkloric songs with classical touches.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Doug &amp; Jack Wallin</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:31:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[North Carolina storytellers spin mirthful yarns about the ways of country people. From the land of hog farming and tobacco cropping, these traditional songs about family life are both informative and amusing. Many of the songs are introduced by a cappella verses.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>George Pegram</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[George Pegram (1911-1974) was one hell of a banjo player. This North Carolina native picked up the instrument at the age of nine without the slightest notion that he would later leave a permanent mark on the history of folk music. In his prime, Pegram played old-timey bluegrass with mouth harp aficionado Red Parham and then the Bushy Mountain Boys. He was the first string-band artist to be recorded by two undergraduates from Boston who (upon finishing the recordings) decided to start a record label that became the seminal Rounder Records. Pegram's interpretation of old gospel standards is purely rustic, expelling string-picking at lightning speed as he hoots and hollers over fiddle swipes, mandolin chimes and acoustic guitar strumming.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Ed Haley</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The fact that these songs even exist is amazing. Remastered from homemade recordings made sometime between the turn of the twentieth century and the 1940s, Haley played the fiddle with a pioneering fire, with a country-inflected, pre-Bluegrass style that influenced many artists by word of mouth, if not by commercial recordings.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>The Carver Boys</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:12:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Walt Koken</title>
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<category>Old-Time Revival</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A prodigal banjo player, Koken was a prominent figure among artists reviving traditional American music in the 1960s. He released a comeback album of original compositions and the classic minstrel tune "Cotton-Eyed Joe" in 1994.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Ralph Blizard</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A virtuoso fiddle player born in Tennessee in 1918, Blizard is widely regarded as the living link between Appalachian string band music and the evolution of Bluegrass. Along with Blizard's own masterful originals, he and his band tear through everything from traditional jigs and reels to Bluegrass standards from favorites such as the Delmore Brothers. Blizard's got nothing to prove and prefers to let the music do the talking.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Buddy Thomas</title>
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<category>Old-Time Revival</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[True-to-form Old-Time Revival music played on just fiddle and guitar. A clear, modern recording does nothing to diminish the jig-inspiring, traditional feel of these instrumentals.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Danny Knicely</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Snuffy Jenkins</title>
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<category>Country-Folk/Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Snuffy Jenkins was a pioneering banjo player who recorded and played most often in a duo with fiddler Pappy Sherill. He represents one of the key links between old-time String Band music, Appalachian, and the modern Bluegrass of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. (Jenkins was, in fact, somewhat of a mentor to the young Earl Scruggs.) He passed away in 1990 at the at the age of 82, consistently playing and recording until he died.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Stoneman Family</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:01:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The North Country Fiddlers</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:58:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Chance Shiver</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 08:57:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Samantha Bumgarner</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:41:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Miss Bumgarner is featured on a collection of North Carolina banjo pickers. Some of these recordings really show their age, and this track is one of the feeblest. Besides a high falsetto warble, little else is audible above the static.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Alice Gerrard</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:39:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Almeda Riddle</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Emry Arthur</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Aunt Molly Jackson</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:59:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Often referred to as the female Lead Belly, Aunt Molly Jackson was an instrumental figure in the movement for workers rights in the early part of the twentieth century. Raised in the hellish conditions of a 1900s Appalachian coal mining community, she became an outspoken advocate for miner's unions throughout the Depression Era. In the '30s, she recorded hundreds of songs for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress, keeping the traditions of Kentucky mountain music alive with both learned and self-penned folk songs that were primarily focused on the plight of the coal miners, protesting against the inhuman treatment suffered by them at the hands of pre-Union corporations. Jackson, along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, was one of the cataclysmic artists that sparked the Folk Revival boom of the '60s, and her work helped pave the way for the protest movements of that decade.
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