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Tobacco Growing In Western North Carolina Could Be Making A Comeback

The 2nd release from this multiple award-winning Canadian blues musician. He’s rocked out with Samantha Martin, Delta Sugar, & Colin James among others.

This Seattle soul/funk octet kicks off a New Tunes at 2 spotlight this week of three great all-instrumental releases!

Members of The Slocan Ramblers, Golden Shoals, and The Lonesome Ace Stringband have recorded “15 old-time fiddle tunes with an overwhelming feeling of freedom and joy.”

New Tunes at Two Tuesday 6/29: Cedric Burnside – I Be Trying

New Tunes at Two Thursday 6/30: Mountain Goats – Dark in Here

This soulful singer does justice to the Waylon Jennings catalog, with help from Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Jessi Colter, & Lukas Nelson.

There are stories where the characters and events are so extraordinary and gripping that one can miss their overall meaning. It can be easy to take stories like the one you are about to hear at face value, and leave their larger context unrealized. What caused neighbors and kinfolk to terrorize and murder one another in the Appalachian mountains during the Civil War, what larger forces that worked to bring out the cruelty and violence this chapter of history reveals, and what hatred and divisions that earned the place the moniker “Bloody Madison” are not only in history books; they are with us today. Read more...

Friday Feature of the Week: A Singing Army: Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School