American Pastimes
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American Pastimes Tom, Grant and Darla or Erik bring you folk, Bluegrass, acoustic blues and more. Doc Watson to David Grisman, Ralph Stanley to Steve Earle, and Emmylou Harris to Maybelle Carter.
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Ellenton, South Carolina was incorporated in 1880. A quintessential southern rural community, it was established along a railroad line. Local lore says that it was named Ellen’s Town by the railroad superintendent who was smitten by the beauty of a young local girl.
Wars have been fought for stupid reasons, and World War I epitomizes war at its most stupid. The conflict was preceded by four decades of diplomatic disagreements and minor clashes between individual European nations over colonialism and territorial disputes.
According to his biographer Joe Klein, “one of the last things that Woody Guthrie did before he died was to listen to a recording of his son Arlo singing a long, convoluted talking blues about how he’d been arrested for littering in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and how he’d parlayed that ‘criminal record’ into a means of dodging the draft and avoiding the war in
Hank Williams had developed a habit of constantly jotting down lyric ideas on napkins, receipts, hotel stationery, and any other scrap of paper that came in handy. While his personal life may have been in a drug and alcohol induced shambles he managed write down these song fragments and meticulously store them in a set of notebooks he carried around in an old leather satchel.
We were homeward bound one night on the deep
Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
I dreamed a dream and I thought it true
Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew
Rita Hosking/when miners sang/burn
dry branch fire squad/miners refrain/live @ newbury firehouse
david grisman bluegrass xpress/old in the way/dgbx
poor mans whiskey/whiskey in heaven/darkside fo the moonshine
little willies/tennesse stud/little willies
old crow medicine show/tennesse pusher/self titled
tony furtado/staggerlee/american gypsy
This week American Pastimes features a one hour radio special commemorating the 10th anniversary of the release of O Brother, Where Art Thou? The program features interviews with the actors and musicians who contributed to the film and soundtrack.
Gordy Ohliger, musical historian, banjo & guitar artiste extraordinaire, all-round good guy, and an irregular guest on American Pastimes stops by to play and talk up "Honky-Tonkin' On The River", a multi-band extravaganza at Scotty's Boat Landing on Saturday August 20th.
In late 1938, Woody was back in Los Angeles with a new program on radio station KFVD. Within a short time his road partner, the actor Will Geer, convinced him to move to New York. In New York his fame escalated as he recorded albums and hosted a new radio show for CBS.
After his traveling partner Roy Crissman returned to southern California to move his family north, Woody Guthrie continued his trek throughout the central valley of California, staying and singing with farm workers in labor camps, living under bridges, hanging out in skid rows, writing in his notebooks, and sending his reports off to “The Light”, a Los Angeles-based progressive
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