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The Stuart Brothers, Travis and Trevor, are among the featured artists on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge. They’re pictured here at the 2015 National Folk Festival in Greensboro, NC.

Paul Brown

This week we have another great summer listening session featuring roots music artists from across the mountain south and beyond. From West Virginia, Ben Townsend and friends bring us a couple of haunting songs from Ben’s Deep End Sessions album. We also hear from The Stuart Brothers, Travis and Trevor. Their new recording of fiddle and banjo tunes is out following Trevor’s untimely death at the age of 47. But David Bragger captured them at their best, playing perhaps as only twin brothers can, with an ease and complexity that might elude others. Janet Beazley, Rhiannon Giddens, Bruce Greene and E.C. and Orna Ball are among this week’s singers, presenting a compelling succession of blues, old time mountain, and bluegrass-style songs.

Playlist

1. Wild Geese At Flight

The Bucking Mules

Smoke Behind the Clouds 2. Pretty Crowing Chicken

Ben Townsend

Ben Townsend and Friends 3. Lift Him Up, That's All

Ben Townsend

Ben Townsend and Friends 4. Fast Air

Zoe & Cloyd

Eyes Brand New 5. Frontier Waltz

Zoe & Cloyd

Eyes Brand New 6. Rolling River

Gribble, Lusk & York

Southern Journey Vol. 1 7. Break 1 - Road To Columus

Brandon Lee Adams

Hardest Kind Of Memories 8. Polly Put The Kettle On

Trevor & Travis Stuart

The Stuart Brothers 9. Henry King's Reel

Trevor & Travis Stuart

The Stuart Brothers 10. New Five Cents

Trevor & Travis Stuart

The Stuart Brothers 11. Earl's Breakdown

Flatt & Scruggs

Flatt & Scruggs 1948-59 V. 2 12. The Cabin In The Valley

E.C. & Orna Ball

E.C. Ball With Orna Ball 13. Rambling Gambler

Carl Jones

Sweet Memories Never Leave 14. Break 2 - Lazy Kate

Harry Bolick & Friends

Mississippi Fiddle Tunes & Songs From The 1930s 15. Every Time You Say Goodbye

Alison Krauss

Now That I've Found You 16. Run Away, Sally Ann

Janet Beazley

5 South 17. The Angels Laid Him Away

Rhiannon Giddens

Freedom Highway 18. A Story Most Lonely I'll Tell

Bruce Greene

River In Time 19. Walk Right In Belmont

Peter Honig & David Howard

We's Too Little

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West Virginia fiddler Wilson Douglas played in a decidedly old time style, with unexpected crooks and turns in his phrasing and timing.

Brandon Ray Kirk

Thanksgiving is a time when many people think of hearth and home. This week’s Across the Blue Ridge brings us home and to thoughts of home. You’ll hear a selection of songs and tunes that evoke a sense of family, place, tradition, love, and sometimes loss or homesickness. We hear from some outstanding tradition bearers of the past and present, including E.C. and Orna Ball of Grassy Creek, NC with their comforting sound; and West Virginia fiddler Wilson Douglas, who brought unique phrasing, melody and timing to each of his old time tunes. He even played a Scottish tune known better in New England than in the mountain south. We’ll hear that, plus a New England version. Classic harmony singing abounds this week, with performances by the Delmore Brothers, The Carter Family, James Leva & Carol Elizabeth Jones, and more.

Episode 48 Playlist

1. Old Horse & Buggy

Art Stamper

Goodbye Girls I'm Going To Boston 2. Old Swinging Bridge

Lonesome River Band

Bridging The Tradition 3. Boat's Up The River

Lonesome River Band

Bridging The Tradition 4. Rovin' Gambler

Erynn Marshall

Tune Tramp 5. The Cabin In The Valley

E.C. Ball With Orna Ball

E.C. Ball With Orna Ball 6. Farewell Blues

Kenny Baker & Bobby Hicks

Darkness On The Delta 7. Chow Time (Break 1)

E.C. Ball

E.C. Ball With Orna Ball 8. Forked Deer

Wilson Douglas

Fiddle Tunes from Central West Virginia 9. Petronella

Wilson Douglas

Fiddle Tunes from Central West Virginia 10. Petronella

Rodney & Randy Miller

New England Chestnutds 11. Down The Road

Flatt & Scruggs

1947-59 Volume 1 12. Ida Red

Abe Horton

Abe Horton 13. Ida Red

Anna Roberts Gevalt & Elizabeth LaPrelle

Anna & Elizabeth 14. Mixed Blues

Dock Boggs

Folkways Years 1963-68 Disc 1 15. Boys My Money's All Gone (Break 2)

Battleaxe Band

Because We Are 16. Till The Roses Bloom Again

Delmore Brothers

Brown's Ferry Blues 17. The Homestead On The Farm

The Carter Family

My Clinch Mountain Home 18. We'll Be At Home

Double Decker String Band

The Rest Is Yet To Come 19. I Need To Find

James Leva & C.E. Jones

Memory Theater 20. Bringing In The Georgia Mail

Charlie Monroe

His Recordings 1938-1956

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