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Woodsongs 478: Shawn Mullins and The Biscuit Burners from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.482053
SHAWN MULLINS is a songwriter based in Atlanta, GA that is best known for his 1998 single Lullaby which hit number one and was nominated for a Grammy. THE BISCUIT BURNERS offer a fresh approach to ...
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Woodsongs 481: Kathy Mattea from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.479011
KATHY MATTEA - SPECIAL EVENT is the beloved, Grammy-winning singer of such classics as 18 Wheels and A Dozen Roses, Where�ve You Been, and many other hits. Her new album COAL is a concept album tha...
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Woodsongs 479: Masters of the Acoustic Guitar featuring Russ Barenberg, Muriel Anderson, and Juanito Pascual� from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.471241
RUSS BARENBERG is one of the most dynamic pickers in acoustic music. MURIEL ANDERSON is one of the foremost fingerstyle guitarists in the world. JONATHAN"JUANITO"PASCUAL has been called"one of the ...
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Woodsongs 487: Over The Rhine from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.467652
OVER THE RHINE- SPECIAL EVENT returns to the WoodSongs stage where they will be the sole guest on the show. Based out of Cincinnati, Ohio, Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist have been making mus...
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Woodsongs 488: Geoff Achison and The Band of Heathens from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.465295
GEOFF ACHISON has a reputation as a guitarist�s guitarist. Fans of Tommy Emmanuel will love his playing, and he was recently voted by Guitar Player Magazine as one of the"Top Ten Hottest New Guitar...
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Woodsongs 494: Dar Williams from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.457067
DAR WILLIAMS as a young songwriter in the north east, she began to make the rounds on the coffeehouse circuit. An early fan of her music was Joan Baez, who took Williams out on the road and record...
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Woodsongs 495:The Ebony Hillbillies� and The Cat Mary� from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.454944
THE EBONY HILLBILLIES are one of the last black string bands in AMERICA. They are based in NYC, consisting of fiddle, banjo, washboard and bass fiddle, and have successfully created a huge followin...
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Woodsongs 499: Celebration of the Music and Artists of Kentucky featuring Charlie Sizemore Band, Rob McNurlin, Judge Ray Corns, Heidi Howe and Maggie Estes from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.448434
THE CHARLIE SIZEMORE BAND are based out of Eastern Kentucky. Charlie is the son and grandson of banjo players, and he became fascinated by the sounds of bluegrass and mountain music as a child. ROB...
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Woodsongs 510: The Refugees from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.411022
THE REFUGEES are a band of critically-acclaimed singer-songwriters performing their award-winning songs in glorious three-part harmony with high energy, humor, and stellar musicianship. Each succes...
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Woodsongs 511: Tim Grimm�and Victoria Vox� from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.408650
TIM GRIMM grew up in the woods and small town settings of southern Indiana, son of schoolteachers and grandson of farmers. He co-starred for 2 seasons on the NBC drama Reasonable Doubts and appeare...
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Woodsongs 522: Samuel James and Shout Sister Shout from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.395854
SAMUEL JAMES is a young master of fingerstyle, slide, banjo, harmonica, and piano and is not yet out of his twenties. With musical influences ranging from Skip James and Sonny Terry to Gus Cannon a...
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Woodsongs 523: Almira Fawn and The Dixie Bee-Liners from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.393868
ALMIRA FAWN is just eleven years old. She was brought on stage by Michael during the encore of show #515 and serenaded her hero, JJ Grey, with one his songs that she rewrote and received a standing...
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Woodsongs 524: Susan Werner and Vance Gilbert from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.391492
SUSAN WERNER has cultivated a reputation as a daring and innovative songwriter. Her new release Classics, delivers entirely new string arrangements of mainstream popular songs by top songwriters fr...
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Woodsongs 532: Sara Watkins and The Lovell Sisters from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.380406
SARA WATKINS is best known as the founding member of the Grammy Award-winning, critically acclaimed, and platinum-selling band Nickel Creek. This singer, songwriter and fiddle player has just relea...
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Woodsongs 557: Corey Harris�and Ashley Cleveland from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.361782
COREY HARRIS has dug for the deepest and truest essence of the blues, reggae, gospel and other roots music by examining and celebrating their origins in various cultural centers Africa, the Caribbe...
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Woodsongs 566: Madison Violet and Time for Three from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.354111
MADISON VIOLET are a Toronto based duo, consisting of Lisa MacIsaac (vocals, guitar, fiddle, mandolin) and Brenley MacEachern (vocals, guitar, banjo, harmonica). Together, they've been touring the ...
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Woodsongs 567: Andy McKee and Kruger Brothers from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.351778
ANDY MCKEE is considered one of the world�s finest acoustic guitar masters. His YouTube video are excess of 78 million plays and at one point he held the #1, #2 and #3 positions for Top-Rated Video...
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Woodsongs 574: California Guitar Trio and Patty Larkin from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.342573
The CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO (CGT) is Bert Lams from Belgium, Hideyo Moriya from Japan, and Paul Richards from Utah. Together, their technical wizardry is breathtaking, as is the wide range of instru...
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Woodsongs 576: Laura McGhee and Gregory Alan Isakov from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.337455
LAURA McGHEE is a brilliant Scottish singer/songwriter/fiddler/guitarist. She first hit the American roots scene while performing with Pete Seeger in New York. Since that time, she has performed wi...
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Woodsongs 584: Darrell Scott�and Evie Ladin� from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.303332
DARRELL SCOTT is a songwriter, acclaimed performer and recording artist. As a songwriter, he's contributed a string of hits that reads like a list of the best modern country music has to offer. The...
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Woodsongs 585: Leroy Troy and Josh Charles�� from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.300787
LEROY TROY is known as"the Tennessee Slicker"and plays Uncle Dave Macon banjo style, otherwise known as clawhammer or frailing. He debuted on the Grand Ole Opry in 1988, dazzled a nationwide audien...
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Woodsongs 586: Peter Karp&Sue Foley�and The Rockridge Brothers� from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.298331
PETER KARP&SUE FOLEY are two the of the finest roots artists working today and have teamed up for an incredible new project called"He Said - She Said."Peter is a gifted troubadour, a master songsmi...
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Woodsongs 588: Celebration of the Ukulele featuring Brittni Paiva�and Victoria Vox�� from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.293385
BRITTNI PAIVA is already the preeminent female ukulele player from Hawaii. At 21 years of age, she's an award-winning multi-instrumentalist whose sound and concept are influenced by jazz, rock, fla...
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Woodsongs 603: �Guy Mendilow Band�and Still on the Hill from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.274902
GUY MENDILOW BAND delivers a delightful, international blend of Israeli, Middle-Eastern, Sephardi and Blues and performs in Hebrew, Arabic, Ladino, Portuguese and English. The five members of the G...
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Woodsongs 607: The SteelDrivers�and Molly Andrews� from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.269266
THE STEELDRIVERS brand of bluegrass is intense, dark, poetic, and inescapably human. It's a refreshing reminder of the timeless power of stringband music. This group of seasoned veterans from Nashv...
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Woodsongs 609: Celebrating the Women of Bluegrass featuring Roni Stoneman, Dale Ann Bradley&Bella Betts from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.265166
RONI STONEMAN is a true legend of bluegrass. The youngest daughter of the pioneering country music family The Stonemans, she became"The First Lady of Banjo,"a fixture on the Nashville scene, and, a...
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Woodsongs 621: Acoustic Eidolon&Hymn for Her from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.214740
ACOUSTIC EIDOLON is Joe Scott on double neck guitjo and Hannah Alkire on cello. They are from Colorado and have graced stages throughout the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, and are a WoodSongs fan f...
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Woodsongs 622: Janiva Magness&The Honey Dewdrops from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.212325
JANIVA MAGNESS returns to WoodSongs on the heels of FOUR major Blues Awards for 2011 including: BB King Entertainer Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Contemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year, and...
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Woodsongs 625: The Blind Boys of Alabama from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.207581
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA return to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new album"Take The High Road."The Blind Boys of Alabama are recognized worldwide as living legends of gospel music. Celebrated b...
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Woodsongs 627: Guitar Shorty&Tracy Nelson from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.202954
GUITAR SHORTY is a giant in the blues world. Credited with influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Guitar Shorty has been electrifying audiences for five decades with his supercharged live sho...
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Woodsongs 634: Hot Tuna and Mountain Heart from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.192831
HOT TUNA is founding members of the legacy rock band Jefferson Airplane, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. They have just released their first studio record in 20 years"Steady As She Goes"on Red Hous...
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Woodsongs 635: Nu-Blu and Darin and Brooke Aldridge from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.190437
NU BLU is a great bluegrass band fronted by husband and wife team Daniel and Carolyn Routh and are creating quite a stir in the bluegrass community. In 2011, Nu-Blu was again nominated by the Carol...
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Woodsongs 636: The Hillbenders and Al Petteway&Amy White from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.188044
THE HILLBENDERS are undeniably the hottest young band on the acoustic scene. Claiming the championship title at the 2009 Telluride Bluegrass Band Competition helped put The HillBenders on the map, ...
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Woodsongs 640: John Gorka&Eliza Gilkyson and Blitz the Ambassador from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.182657
JOHN GORKA AND ELIZA GILKYSON are considered two of the best contemporary Singer/songwriters touring today. These longtime friends recently teamed up with Lucy Kaplansky to form the super folk grou...
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Woodsongs 645: Masters of the Guitar featuring Muriel Anderson, Jack Pearson&Vicki Genfan from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.173683
MURIEL ANDERSON is widely respected as one of the world's foremost fingerstyle guitarists and harp-guitarists. Muriel is the first woman to have won the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship. ...
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Woodsongs 648: Noam Pikelny&Victor Furtado from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.169531
NOAM PIKELNY returns to the WoodSongs Stage to celebrate his long awaited second album"Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail"on Compass Records. Pikelny is undeniably the next big thing to happen to the ...
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Woodsongs 649: Billy Burnette and Lydia Loveless from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.166551
BILLY BURNETTE is a songwriter for superstars, acclaimed sideman, member of Fleetwood Mac and enjoying a resurgence of success for his own solo career. Born in Memphis, Billy was recently inducted ...
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Woodsongs 657: Gary Biscuit Davis and The Hackensaw Boys from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.153840
GARY"BISCUIT"DAVIS is the only three-time National Banjo Champion in America and has won dozens of state and regional titles as well. Gary got his nickname,"Biscuit"when he was performing with the ...
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Woodsongs 662: Celebration of Arkansas Roots Music - Part 2 from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.143660
BLUE RAIN BLUEGRASS BAND is a dynamic young bluegrass band from Mountain View, Arkansas. They recently won the Youth in Bluegrass Band Competition at Silver Dollar City in Branson where they perfor...
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Woodsongs 663: Anais Mitchell&Little G. Weevil from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.141293
ANAIS MITCHELL writes songs from her 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont. This daughter of"hippie back-to-the-landers"whose father was a novelist and English professor, remembers her family's h...
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Woodsongs 667: Lurrie Bell and Lisa Biales from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.109605
LURRIE BELL is a legend of the Chicago blues scene. Born in 1958, the son of famed blues harmonica player Carey Bell, Lurrie picked up his father's guitar at age of five and taught himself to play....
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Woodsongs 668: Celebration of the Ukulele featuring: Victoria Vox, Cathy Fink&Marcy Marxer, and The Love Leighs from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.107109
VICTORIA VOX and her ukulele return to the WoodSongs Stage with a brand new CD. Known as a pioneer for singer/songwriters in the growing ukulele genre, Victoria Vox has been writing and performing ...
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Woodsongs 671: Marty Raybon&Charlie McCoy from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.101063
MARTY RAYBON has been called one of the greatest singers in music. Marty's signature country soulful vocals with Shenandoah were developed many years ago when he performed Bluegrass and Gospel musi...
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Woodsongs 672: The Honeycutters and Granville Automatic from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.098508
THE HONEYCUTTERS are, at the heart, the musical collaboration of singer/songwriter Amanda Anne Platt and Lead Guitarist/ Producer Peter James. While their sound has drawn comparisons to such artist...
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Woodsongs 677: Janiva Magness from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.091410
JANIVA MAGNESS is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today. Her voice possesses an earthy, raw honesty and beauty born from her life experience. A charismatic performer known for ...
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Woodsongs 678: Balsam Range and Sonny Moorman from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.089033
BALSAM RANGE is a group of five outstanding acoustic musicians and singers from Haywood County, North Carolina. All the guys in the band grew up in the rich musical heritage of the Appalachian Sout...
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Woodsongs 683: Martha Redbone Roots Project and Ben Miller Band from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.079259
MARTHA REDBONE is a leading voice in contemporary Native American music. Her award winning work is recognized by the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian. Redbone's musica...
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Woodsongs 688: Della Mae and Pearl and the Beard from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.070995
DELLA MAE is five women that are are turning heads, winning hearts, and quickly becoming a household name in acoustic, folk, roots, and bluegrass music. The band are all seasoned performers who hav...
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Woodsongs 689: Caroline Herring and SHEL from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.068167
CAROLINE HERRING has established herself as a lyrical and inventive songwriter and a singer whose vocals never fail to move the listener with her high trills and rich vibrato. The Mississippi nativ...
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Woodsongs 712: Janiva Magness and Minton Sparks from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.015918
JANIVA MAGNESS is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today. Her voice possesses an earthy, raw honesty and beauty born from her life experience. She received the coveted 2009 Blue...
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Woodsongs 713: Kim Churchill and Ben Sollee from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.013745
KIM CHURCHILL plays a guitar with busy fingers and the rhythm of a master, and sings lyrics that are difficult to believe they came from someone 21 years old. His style is ex-plosive, with intricat...
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Woodsongs 714: Blue Sky Riders: Kenny Loggins, Georgia Middleman&Gary Burr from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.011451
BLUE SKY RIDERS features the one-and-only Kenny Loggins, one of the biggest hit makes in modern music, plus Nashville songwriters Georgia Middleman (who has penned songs for Keith Urban, Faith Hill...
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Woodsongs 716: Joe Lewis Walker and Aoife O'Donovan from 2022-04-21T23:06:18.009432
JOE LEWIS WALKER is an award-winning guitar slinger, deeply soulful vocalist and gifted songwriter that has been releasing groundbreaking music since 1986. From his start at 16 as the house guitari...
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Woodsongs 724: Over the Rhine and Courtney Jaye from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.997699
OVER THE RHINE is the southern Ohio-based husband-and-wife team of multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Linford Detweiler and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Karin Bergquist. The acclaimed folk/Americana ...
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Woodsongs 725: Crystal Bowersox and Maria Doyle Kennedy from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.995234
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX catapulted from the coffeehouses and subway tunnels of Chi-cago to millions of homes across America when she placed second in Season 9 of American Idol by her emotive folk-rock-cou...
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Woodsongs 734: Guy Davis, Si Kahn&The Looping Brothers and Sue Massek from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.978311
GUY DAVIS has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as possible through the material of the great blues masters, African American stories,...
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Woodsongs 735: The Ooks of Hazzard and The Bankesters from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.975622
THE OOKS OF HAZZARD are a nine-person ukulele collective from Santa Monica, CA who transform songs from the likes of Radiohead, Sublime, Bad Company and Lynyrd Skynyrd into singalong uke ditties.. ...
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Woodsongs 736: Tim O'Brien&Darrell Scott and Ron Block with Sierra Hull from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.972285
TIM O'BRIEN&DARRELL SCOTT are roots-music titans. The highly regarded writer/singer/multi-instrumentalists have conducted their parallel careers as solo artists and sidemen, cutting similarly wide ...
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Woodsongs 737: Leroy Troy and the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, Clancey Ferguson, The Ozark Alliance, Mountain Sprout, David Kimbrough III, and Allison Williams from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.968279
Michael Johnathon and the WoodSongs Crew head to Eureka Springs, Arkansas for the first show of a double broadcast taping at as part of the 66th Annual Ozark Folk Festival. LEROY TROY AND THE TENN...
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Woodsongs 738: Michael Martin Murphey and The Clark Family Trio plus Fiddlin'Banjo Billy Mathews, Allison Williams and Clancey Ferguson from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.963424
Michael Johnathon and the WoodSongs Crew head to Eureka Springs, Arkansas for the second show of a double broadcast taping at as part of the 66th Annual Ozark Folk Festival. MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY...
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Woodsongs 740: The Lindsey Family and The Mallet Brothers Band from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.960512
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA return to the WoodSongs stage with a brand album'I'll Find a Way'produced by Bon Iver�s Justin Vernon. Nearly seventy-five years after they hit their first notes together,...
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Woodsongs 757: Acoustic Eidolon and Willie Watson from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.914119
ACOUSTIC EIDOLON, featuring Joe Scott on double neck guitjo (a 14 string banjo/guitar combination that he can play both necks simultaneously) and Hannah Alkire on cello, are from Colorado and have ...
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Woodsongs 758: Matt Andersen and The Howlin� Brothers from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.911523
MATT ANDERSEN hails from the blue collar community of Perth�Andover, New Brunswick, and has been steadily building his sizable following in Canada. With over 2 million views on YouTube, a 2013 Euro...
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Woodsongs 759: The Infamous Stringdusters and Elephant Revival from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.909210
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS sound like no one else, combining virtuosic chops on five traditional bluegrass instruments, with an ethos of pushing the genre forward. When the band first emerged eight...
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Woodsongs 760: The Kruger Brothers from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.906318
THE KRUGER BROTHERS are three soulful world-class virtuosos originally from Europe and now living in North Carolina. They were first introduced to American audiences in 1997, quickly gaining the at...
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Woodsongs 761: Special Consensus plus Bluegrass Kids featuring Cane Mill Road and Jonathan Wilson-Rader from 2022-04-21T23:06:17.903578
SPECIAL CONSENSUS is the Grammy nominated acoustic bluegrass band that was founded in 1975 by banjoist Greg Cahill as a showcase for his urban traditionalist take on bluegrass which encompasses ele...
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Woodsongs 625: The Blind Boys of Alabama from 2022-03-07T07:20:08.828256
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA return to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new album"Take The High Road."The Blind Boys of Alabama are recognized worldwide as living legends of gospel music. Celebrated b...
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Woodsongs 663: Anais Mitchell&Little G. Weevil from 2022-03-07T07:20:08.588185
ANAIS MITCHELL writes songs from her 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont. This daughter of"hippie back-to-the-landers"whose father was a novelist and English professor, remembers her family's h...
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Woodsongs 725: Crystal Bowersox and Maria Doyle Kennedy from 2022-03-07T07:20:08.291488
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX catapulted from the coffeehouses and subway tunnels of Chi-cago to millions of homes across America when she placed second in Season 9 of American Idol by her emotive folk-rock-cou...
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Woodsongs 608: Angel Band & The Laws from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.870834
ANGEL BAND is a group of three powerful women artists: Nancy Josephson, Kathleen Weber, and Aly Paige. No audience has been left unmoved by Angel Band?s all out, “take no prisoners? stage demeanor ...
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Woodsongs 610: Greensky Bluegrass and Eden Brent from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.868881
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS is earning recognition nationwide as a growing force in bluegrass and acoustic roots music. This Michigan band won the 2006 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Competition. As newc...
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Woodsongs 611: Over the Rhine and David Wax Museum from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.867917
OVER THE RHINE return to WoodSongs to mark their 20 year recording history with a brand new CD called "The Long Surrender." The southern Ohio-based husband-and-wife team of multi-instrumentalist Li...
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Woodsongs 612: Gary Morris & The Roys from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.866649
GARY MORRIS is most noted for the smash hit 'Wind Beneath My Wings.? Gary has traveled a colorful path from Fort Worth, TX to the White House, Nashville to Opera Houses and beyond. Morris has long ...
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Woodsongs 664: Mark O'Connor from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.736732
MARK O?CONNOR returns with a brand new album and fiddle method book to play and give the WoodSongs audience a global violin lesson. Mark is the prominent American classical and multi genre violinis...
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Woodsongs 726: Tribute to Dr. Ralph Stanley featuring Don Rigsby, Nathan Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.573939
Tribute to Dr. Ralph Stanley featuring Don Rigsby, Nathan Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys
ABOUT DR. RALPH STANLEY Dr. Stanley is the legendary icon, that for over 6 decades, has beco...
Woodsongs 777: A Country Tribute to Buddy Holly featuring David Frizell and Helen Cornelius from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.465311
The indelible legacy of Buddy Holly continues to touch fans and has inspired decades of artists across multiple genres. Although he only played rock and roll for a few years, the breadth of materia...
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Woodsongs 778: Crowe, Lawson & Williams from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.464476
CROWE, LAWSON & WILLIAMS are three Bluegrass Hall of Fame legends. Banjo master J.D. Crowe, multi-award winning trailblazer Doyle Lawson, and Bluegrass Gospel legend Paul Williams have joined force...
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Woodsongs 779: Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley and EmiSunshine from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.463599
ROB ICKES AND TREY HENSLEY have a a new duo project together that features a stellar mix of bluegrass and traditional country. Rob is recognized as one of the most innovative Dobro players on the s...
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Woodsongs 817: Bobby Long and Andy T-Nick Nixon Band from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.368589
BOBBY LONG is a British singer-songwriter-guitarist. Long, who emerged from London's burgeoning folk music renaissance, relocated to New York in 2009, cultivating a strong fan base for his music. T...
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Woodsongs 818: Charlie Musselwhite and Gill Landry from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.367708
CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE is one of the most revered blues musicians in the world. The harmonica master, also a respected singer and songwriter in his own right, has won countless awards during his legen...
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Woodsongs 819: The Mavericks and Whitney Rose from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.366290
THE MAVERICKS merge traditional country with traditional rock & roll. The band became one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful groups of the early ?90s. Led by songwriter Ra...
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Woodsongs 820: Tommy Emmanuel from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.365412
TOMMY EMMANUEL is arguably one of the most exciting, brilliant and powerful guitar masters on earth. Walking in the legacy of Merle Travis, Chet Atkins and many others Tommy has dazzled audiences w...
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Woodsongs 821: Girls Guns & Glory and T Sisters from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.364569
GIRLS GUNS & GLORY have been making a name for themselves through relentless touring (about 200 gigs a year worldwide), the release of four critically acclaimed records, a slew of local awards, inc...
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Woodsongs 822: Jewel from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.363657
Jewel is a multi-platinum singer-songwriter, poet and actress. Jewel has sold more than 25 million albums over her musical career. Her debut album Pieces of You had the hit "Who Will Save Your Soul...
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Woodsongs 823: McPeake and The Gothard Sisters from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.362474
McPEAKE builds on the 150 year tradition of this legacy musical family from Belfast, Ireland that influenced Van Morrison, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and others. Figuring prominently in th...
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Woodsongs 824: Annie Moses Band and The Lowest Pair from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.361279
ANNIE MOSES BAND is the Nashville-based classical crossover ensemble that has steadily built an in-ternational audience and accepted invitations to perform at Carnegie Hall, the Grand Ole Opry, and...
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Woodsongs 825: Andrea Zonn and Jackie Greene from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.360395
ANDREA ZONN is one of the most respected fiddle players and harmony
vocalists in contemporary music today. Her years on the road as a fiddler
and harmony singer for James Taylor, Vince Gill...
Woodsongs 826: Gangstagrass and Harpeth Rising from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.359470
GANGSTAGRASS is a dirty fightin', gator wrestlin', foot stompin' bluegrass-hip-hop project of Brooklyn based producer Rench, who has spent the last decade making gritty, soulful country hip-hop mus...
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Woodsongs 827: Celebration of WoodSongs Kids from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.358339
WOODSONGS KIDS have become one of the most popular parts of every of WoodSongs broadcast since Michael Johnathon introduced it last year. Every week a talented young performer appears on stage alon...
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Woodsongs 828: Leigh Nash and Tall Heights from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.357457
LEIGH NASH is perhaps best known as the pixie-like singer with the heavenly voice from Sixpence None the Richer. She rolled pop, folk and gospel influences into hit songs like "Kiss Me" and "There...
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Woodsongs 829: Elle King and David Wax Museum from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.356618
ELLE KING is a phenomenal performer, songwriter, with an incredible voice and massive personality. Her single ?Ex?s & Oh?s? is a hit. It was certified gold by the RIAA, nominated for a Grammy and h...
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Woodsongs 830: Bobby Rush and Jericho Woods from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.355729
BOBBY RUSH is a funky fire-breathing blues legend. The man known as ?The King of the Chitlin Circuit? has been a blues innovator since the 1960s, when he stood shoulder to shoulder on the stages of...
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Woodsongs 831: Kinky Friedman and Kacey Jones from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.354620
KINKY FRIEDMAN is America?s most famous Jewish cowboy. He'?s a songwriter, musician, author, comedian, philosopher, thinker and politician. His band is called Texas Jewboys and his big hit is They ...
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Woodsongs 832: Celebrating the Legacy of the Carter Family from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.352792
THE CARTER FAMILY are considered the most influential group in country music history. Comprised of a gaunt, shy gospel quartet member named Alvin P. Carter and two reserved country girls -- his wif...
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Woodsongs 833: The Wood Brothers and The Claudettes from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.348975
THE WOOD BROTHERS began as something of a side project between Chris Wood (Medeski Martin & Wood) and brother Oliver (Tinsley Ellis and King Johnson) in 2006.Adapting the blues, folk and other root...
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Woodsongs 834: Iris DeMent and Leyla McCalla from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.348144
IRIS DEMENT is considered "one of the great voices in contemporary popular music" (NPR), Beginning with her 1992 debut, ?Infamous Angel,? which was hailed as ?an essential album of the 1990?s? by ...
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Woodsongs 835: Sweet Honey in the Rock from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.347289
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK are Grammy winning folk and civil rights legends, an all-woman, African-American a capella ensemble and Grammy Award-winning troupe who express their history as African-Amer...
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Woodsongs 836: Mountain Heart and Underhill Rose from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.346214
MOUNTAIN HEART is newly reformed and reinvigorated, and in the studio this past few months, putting together their first recorded project from the new lineup. Josh Shilling and Aaron Ramsey remain ...
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WoodSongs 877: Holly Norman and Ghost Town Blues Band from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.253797
HOLLY NORMAN has a voice that is pure country, smooth, and takes you back to the days of traditional country crooners like Tammy Wynnette and Patsy Cline. Growing up in in Powell, Tennessee, Holly...
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WoodSongs 878: Linkin' Bridge and Run Boy Run from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.252772
LINKIN? BRIDGE is a singing group from the west end of Louisville, Kentucky. They are best known for their warm harmonies and emotional performances.Whether on stage, on a corner, these guys delive...
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WoodSongs 879: Corky Siegel and Twin Kennedy from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.251504
CORKY SIEGEL is known internationally as one of the worlds great blues harmonica players, blues pianist, singer, songwriter, author and celebrated composer of blues-classical forms. He is a recent ...
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WoodSongs 880: Ruthie Foster and Sally & George from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.250171
RUTHIE FOSTER a vocal powerhouse from Austin, Texas with a chapel-bred bravado trained on the works of powerful women such as Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin, her sound grew into an inspired blen...
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WoodSongs 903: Nicole Atkins and Albert Cummings from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.218571
NICOLE ATKINS is the heir to the legacy of Roy Orbison, Lee Hazelwood, Sinatra, Aretha, Carole King, Candi Staton. NPR stated ?A voice that could melt the heart of a devil?? Named Rolling Stone?s "...
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WoodSongs 904: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Old Salt Union from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.178904
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER are legendary in the Bluegrass genre. With nearly 40 albums to their credit, they have multiple Grammy, Dove, ICM, IBMA and SPBGMA Award nominations, and are 7-time winne...
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WoodSongs 905: Blind Boys of Alabama from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.178029
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA first rose to fame in the segregated south with their thrilling vocal harmonies and roof-raising live show. Their 70-year recording career would see them rack up five GRAM...
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WoodSongs 906: US Navy Bluegrass Band Country Current and Parker Hastings from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.177187
THE UNITED STATES NAVY BAND COUNTRY CURRENT is the Navy?s premier country-bluegrass ensemble. The group is nationally renowned for its versatility and “eye-popping? musicianship, performing cutting...
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WoodSongs 907: McLain Family Band from 2022-02-21T15:31:45.176398
MCLAIN FAMILY BAND is launching the celebration of their 50th year performing with this special event WoodSongs broadcast. Beginning in Knott county, KY and moving as youngsters with their mom and ...
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WoodSongs 902: Skipper?s Alley and Tristan McIntosh from 2021-02-27T11:47:56.961020
SKIPPER?S ALLEY are a 7-piece ensemble whose dynamic take on traditional Irish music has garnered wide critical praise and featured on such diverse stages as The Late Late Show, La Festival Interce...
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WoodSongs 1006: Ted Yoder and The Henhouse Prowlers from 2020-04-16T15:10:09
TED YODER is a master of the hammered dulcimer and FaceBook viral sensation. His hammered dulcimer cover of Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” became one of the most-watched Faceb...
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WoodSongs 1005: Bill and the Belles and Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike from 2020-04-16T15:09:16
BILL AND THE BELLES have captured the freewheeling, lighthearted approach to music that has endeared them to listeners of every generation. With a spirited sound that falls somewhere between old-ti...
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WoodSongs 1004: Carolina Blue and Jessie Clement from 2020-04-16T15:08:23
CAROLINA BLUE is a Brevard, NC based band whose roots run deep in the tradition of Bill Monroe. Band members are Bobby Powell on guitar and vocals, Timmy Jones on mandolin and vocals, Reese Combs o...
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WoodSongs 1003: Hawktail and Appalachian Road Show from 2020-04-16T15:07:24
HAWKTAIL is the instrumental acoustic quartet of fiddler Brittany Haas, bassist Paul Kowert, guitarist Jordan Tice, and mandolinist Dominick Leslie. Though at first glance it looks like an acoustic...
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WoodSongs 1002: Michael Lee and The Resonant Rogues from 2020-04-16T15:06:26
MICHAEL LEE is a Fort Worth based Blues artist. He was featured as a contestant for the 2018 Season of The Voice and has been the featured artist w/ The BB King’s Blues Band this past year includin...
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WoodSongs 1001: Fast Track and Kyle Dillingham from 2020-04-16T15:05:31
KYLE DILLINGHAM, of Oklahoma City, started playing the violin when he was nine. While still in high school, Dillingham was featured twice on Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry and had performed with legend...
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WoodSongs 999: Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers and Gumbo, Grits & Gravy from 2020-04-16T15:03:15
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS are at the top of their game. Celebrating their 10th year as a professional touring band, JMRR won the coveted “Entertainer of the Year” Award at the 30th Annual In...
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WoodSongs 998: Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley and Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams from 2020-04-16T15:02:03
ROB ICKES AND TREY HENSLEY are a powerhouse acoustic duo that has electrified the acoustic music scene. Rob is a 15-time IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Dobro Player of the Year an...
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WoodSongs 997: Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward and Gina Chavez from 2020-04-16T15:01:08
CHARLIE HUNTER AND LUCY WOODWARD are known for excelling in different genres, yet the two veteran musicians have been running in similar circles before pairing up for touring in 2018. With a caree...
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WoodSongs 996: Michael Martin Murphey and Mihoko Goto from 2020-04-16T15:00
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY is one of the most revered and accomplished singer songwriters of his generation. Considered as “America’s Cowboy” because of his work to preserve the music and lifestyle of ...
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WoodSongs 995: Darin & Brooke Aldridge and Stephanie Urbina Jones from 2020-04-16T14:58:57
DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE combine rich harmonies with impeccable musicianship to create the unmistakable sound that has made them one of the hottest young acts in acoustic music. Darin spent 6 years ...
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WoodSongs 994: Folk Legacy Trio and Chance McCoy from 2020-04-16T14:57:46
THE FOLK LEGACY TRIO are George Grove and Rick Dougherty formerly with the Kingston Trio and Jerry Siggins, former lead singer of The Diamonds. These three men have been involved with the music of ...
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WoodSongs 993: The Kingston Trio and Allie Colleen from 2020-04-16T14:49:34
THE KINGSTON TRIO began with Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane and Dave Guard in 1955… Home base: San Francisco. The three founded what turned out to be the most influential music band to emerge from the 19...
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WoodSongs 992: Ukulele Celebration from 2020-04-16T14:48:26
From it's humble origins in Hawaii to becoming a worldwide phenomenon, the ukulele is having a global revival thanks to artists like Jake Shimabukuro, Emi Sunshine and more. It was a favorite instr...
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WoodSongs 991: Jug Band Celebration from 2020-04-16T14:46:36
Jug bands got their name from using instruments that were either homemade or household items such as a jug. Beginnings in the South in the 19th century, with origins in Louisville, KY, they were ma...
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WoodSongs 990: Janiva Magness from 2020-04-16T14:45:37
JANIVA MAGNESS has traveled millions of miles, sung on thousands of club and festival stages, and made a string of recordings that have earned accolades and awards. She is only the second woman, fo...
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WoodSongs 989: The BB King Blues Band from 2020-04-16T14:44:17
THE BB KING BLUES BAND are the men who walked alongside the iconic bluesman for over 35 years. The band writes the next chapter, on an album that salutes King’s classic songs and showcases their ow...
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WoodSongs 988: Davina & the Vagabonds and Boylan & Mathias from 2020-04-16T14:40:35
DAVINA AND THE VAGABONDS shows are filled with New Orleans charm, Memphis soul swagger and dark theatrical moments. Davina has been compared to Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Billie Holid...
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WoodSongs 986: John Paul White and Sideline from 2020-04-16T14:39:02
JOHN PAUL WHITE grew up in tiny Loretto, Tennessee, and now lives in Florence, Alabama, not far from Muscle Shoals. He has cultivated a music career in Nashville for two decades, first as a songwri...
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WoodSongs 985: The Lee Boys and Grady Champion from 2020-04-16T14:37:43
THE LEE BOYS are one of America’s finest “sacred steel” ensembles and have been bringing their joyful noise around world for over 10 years. This family group consists of three brothers, Alvin Lee (...
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WoodSongs 984: Yasmin Williams and Emily Wolfe from 2020-04-16T14:36:46
YASMIN WILLIAMS is an acoustic finger style guitarist with a nod to the great MICHAEL HEDGES. Growing up in northern Virginia, her music has been commonly described as refreshing, relaxing, and uni...
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WoodSongs 983: George Winston and Andrew Bird from 2020-04-16T14:35:38
GEORGE WINSTON is undeniably a household name. He's inspired fans and musicians alike with his singular solo acoustic piano songs for more than 40 years while selling 15 million albums. A tireless ...
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WoodSongs 982: Danny Burns and Reed Turchi from 2020-04-16T14:34:31
DANNY BURNS is a red-headed, storytelling, hard-touring Irishman whose own voice is just as evocative as his songwriting. He grew up in the Irish county of Donegal surrounded by singers and instrum...
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WoodSongs 981: Queen Bee & The Honeylovers and Jamie Drake from 2020-04-16T14:33:14
QUEEN BEE & THE HONEYLOVERS is an unabashedly joyful swing band that performs legends who first defined the genre. The Honeylovers hail from Asheville, North Carolina; a Historic township where tr...
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WoodSongs 980: Jimmie Vaughan from 2020-04-16T14:31:05
JIMMIE VAUGHAN has dedicated his life to making sure the blues not only stays alive, but remains full of life and an inspiration to all who listen. For the past 50-something years, music has been t...
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WoodSongs 978: Celebrating the Music of Kentucky from 2020-04-16T14:29:55
NEWTOWN features the first-rate vocal and instrumental work of five of the finest musicians in acoustic music who share a bond that combines individual virtuosity with a background of formal traini...
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WoodSongs 977: Laurie Lewis and Nefesh Mountain from 2020-04-16T14:28:42
LAURIE LEWIS is internationally renowned as a singer, songwriter, fiddler, bandleader, producer and educator. This Grammy Award-winning musician was a founding member of the Good Ol’ Persons and th...
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WoodSongs 976: Gary Morris and Jason Coleman & Meagan Taylor from 2020-04-16T14:27:12
GARY MORRIS is known world-wide for his vocal mastery. His recording career garnered five #1 and 16 Top 10 singles, including “Why Lady Why,” “The Love She Found in Me,” “Baby Bye Bye.” Morris’ ori...
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WoodSongs 975: Watermelon Slim and Lovers Leap from 2020-04-16T14:25:29
WATERMELON SLIM has built a remarkable reputation with his raw, impassioned intensity. He is one of the most authentic bluesman in the world today. Born in Boston, raised in Ashville, NC, a Vietnam...
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WoodSongs 974: The Chuck Wagon Gang and The Small Glories from 2020-04-16T14:23:52
THE CHUCK WAGON GANG has entered its 75th year of singing the old songs, and singing them the way 'Dad Carter' taught his kids. A simple style, yet distinctive sound, is credited with helping prese...
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WoodSongs 973: Shane Hennessy and Al, Alice & Ruth from 2020-04-16T14:21:36
SHANE HENNESSY is a virtuoso guitarist, composer, and songwriter from Ireland. Known for his unique virtuosic approach to the acoustic guitar, his musical style has won praise from musical giants N...
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WoodSongs 971: Baby Gramps and Lula Wiles from 2020-04-16T14:09:42
BABY GRAMPS is an energetic humorously entertaining performer with an endless repertoire. He plays a National Steel guitar, and sings his own unique arrangements of rags, jazz, & blues from the 20'...
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WoodSongs 970: Scott Mulvahill and New Reveille from 2020-04-16T14:08:32
SCOTT MULVAHILL is a world-renowned upright bassist, multi-instrumentalist,frontman and singer-songwriter. For the past decade, Mulvahill has left his unique mark on the intersecting worlds of Amer...
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WoodSongs 969: Sugaray Rayford and Liz Brasher from 2020-04-16T14:07:23
SUGARAY RAYFORD is a Texas-born soul blues singer nominated for two blues music awards in 2019 including B.B. King Entertainer of the Year. Possessing a magnetic personality, and an old school voca...
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WoodSongs 968: Cherish the Ladies and Tim O'Brien Band from 2020-04-16T14:06:05
CHERISH THE LADIES are the long-running, Grammy-nominated, Irish-American super group that formed in New York City in 1985 to celebrate the rise of women in what had been a male-dominated Irish mus...
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WoodSongs 967: Catherine Britt and Lockwood Barr from 2020-04-16T14:04:56
CATHERINE BRITT is an award winning Australian singer/songwriter. Raised in regional Australia (Gunnedah, NSW), Catherine made the move to the home of country music at just 17 years old after recor...
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WoodSongs 966: Button from 2020-04-16T14:03:46
BUTTON is a new trio made up of John Cowan (Doobie Brothers/New Grass Revival), Ed Toth (Doobie Brothers/Vertical Horizon) and Keith Howland (Chicago). Plus, Lou Pardini (Chicago) joins this hillbi...
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WoodSongs 965: Amythyst Kiah and Joe Robinson from 2020-04-16T14:01:56
AMYTHYST KIAH is a professed Southern Gothic, alt-country blues singer/songwriter based in Johnson City, Tennessee. Her commanding stage presence is only matched by her raw and powerful vocals—a de...
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WoodSongs 964: Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles from 2020-04-16T14:00:20
Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles are two of the world’s greatest guitarists. Both are masters of their instrument, honored by the iconic Chet Atkins with the rare designation of CGP (Certified Guitar ...
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WoodSongs 963: Roan Yellowthorn and Chelsea Williams from 2020-04-16T13:58:36
ROAN YELLOWTHORN front woman Jackie McLean, accompanied by producer and multi-instrumentalist Shawn Strack, delivers ethereal indie-rock songs with a singer/songwriter heart. Musically, they are a ...
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WoodSongs 962: Songs of Rural America from 2019-04-25T15:56:36
Folksinger Michael Johnathon and The Ohio Valley Symphony celebrate the music and stories of America's front porch, from Appalachia to Woody Guthrie, Buddy Holly to George Gershwin, Irving Berlin t...
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WoodSongs 959: The Steel Wheels and Connla from 2019-04-25T15:54:02
THE STEEL WHEELS hail from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia are familiar with the traditions of folk music and how a string band is supposed to sound. In fact, they’ve been drawing on those ste...
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WoodSongs 972: Si Kahn & Friends from 2019-04-25T15:49:09
MURIEL ANDERSON is one of the world’s foremost fingerstyle guitarists and harp-guitarists. She is the first woman to have won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship and has performed/recorded...
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WoodSongs 957: Missy Raines and Willie Nile from 2019-04-25T15:47:37
MISSY RAINES has proven herself without doubt as one of the iconic bluegrass instrumentalist of all time. In 1998, Raines became the first woman to win IBMA's Bass Player of the Year award and she ...
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WoodSongs 956: Cedric Burnside and The Farmer & Adele from 2019-04-25T15:45:53
CEDRIC BURNSIDE still lives on several acres not far from the Holly Springs, Mississippi, home where he was raised by “Big Daddy,” his grandfather, the late singer/songwriter/guitarist R.L. Burnsid...
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WoodSongs 955: Songs From The Road Band and Joe Crookston from 2019-04-25T15:44:17
SONGS FROM THE ROAD BAND is a North Carolina powerhouse group featuring Mark Schimick, Charles Humphrey, Ryan Cavanaugh, Sam Wharton, and James Schlender. Collectively, they have received top accol...
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WoodSongs 954: Chris Stills and Abbie Gardner from 2019-04-25T15:42:04
CHRIS STILLS is the son of American rock musician Stephen Stills and French singer-songwriter Veronique Sanson and was raised between Paris and Los Angeles. His multicultural influences are infused...
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WoodSongs 953: Gaelynn Lea and Aubrey Logan from 2019-04-25T15:40:05
GAELYNN LEA has been bewitching scores of fans with her haunting original songs and experimental takes on traditional fiddle music. Lea performs from her electric wheelchair and holds her instrumen...
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WoodSongs 952: Smithsonian Folkways Celebration from 2019-04-19T15:27:33
On this Special Event Broadcast of WoodSongs, we’re honoring one of the most important legacy’s in all of recorded music… Smithsonian Folkways in celebration of their 70th anniversary.
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WoodSongs 951: Vanessa Collier and Tlen Huicani from 2019-04-19T15:25:57
VANESSA COLLIER is a master musician and multi-instrumentalist whose head-turning, fiery, and passionate performances recently got the attention of Buddy Guy. With soulful vocals, searing saxophone...
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WoodSongs 950: Amy Helm and Seth Walker from 2019-04-17T16:22:50
AMY HELM’s ’This Too Shall Light’,on Yep Roc Records, is marked by streaks of Americana, country, blues, and gospel, and the kinds of four-part harmonies that can burst open a melody and close the ...
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WoodSongs 949: Arvel Bird, Cicada Rhythm and Zhou Family Band from 2019-04-17T16:21:01
ARVEL BIRD is a classically trained as a violinist compositions whose performances encompass an extraordinary love of diversity—from traditional Celtic tunes and bluegrass standards to his contempo...
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WoodSongs 948: Hiroya Tsukamoto and Youssra El Hawary from 2019-04-17T16:19:11
HIROYA TSUKAMOTO is a one-of-a-kind composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter from Kyoto, Japan. He began playing the five-string banjo when he was thirteen, and took up the guitar shortly after. I...
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WoodSongs 947: Ukulele Night! from 2019-04-17T16:15:20
From it's humble origins in Hawaii to becoming a worldwide phenomenon, the ukulele is having a global revival. On this Special broadcast WoodSongs, we'll be exploring the many styles, sounds and s...
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WoodSongs 946: Chris Smither and Sam Morrow from 2019-04-17T16:13:03
CHRIS SMITHER is truly an American original. For over 50 years, Smiother draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets, and philosophers. He’s forged lifelong friendships with many...
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WoodSongs 945: Mandy Barnett and Gina Sicilia from 2018-10-25T13:45:43
MADNY BARNETT, one of Nashville’s enduring musical treasures, debuts song from her new album Strange Conversation. Rolling Stone Country broke the news about the project, citing that the Muscle Sh...
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WoodSongs 944: Jonathan McEuen and Troll Smashers from 2018-10-25T13:43:58
JONATHAN McEUEN has spent two decades of working with an astounding array of artists like Dwight Yoakam, Dolly Parton, Wynonna Judd, and others. He recently realized that if he was ever going to ma...
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WoodSongs 943: Juggernaut Jug Band and Erin Enderlin from 2018-10-25T13:42:09
JUGGERNAUT JUG BAND based out of Louisville, Kentucky have proudly kept early twentieth century jug music alive and well since 1965. The band blends an eclectic, fun mix of jazz, blues ragtime, swi...
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WoodSongs 942: The Farm Hands and Grant Maloy Smith from 2018-10-25T13:40:50
THE FARM HANDS are one of the most exciting and in demand bands in Bluegrass Music. Since their inception in 2010, the band has won an unprecedented 24 major awards including BAND OF THE YEAR at th...
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WoodSongs 941: No BS! Brass and Michelle Malone from 2018-10-25T13:38:27
NO BS! BRASS has quickly earned a reputation as a premiere band to see for heart-pounding energy and uncontrollable dancing. Based in Richmond, Virginia, they take their music into uncharted territ...
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WoodSongs 940: Ruen Brothers and Kittel & Co. from 2018-10-25T13:35:52
RUEN BROTHERS were inspired by their music aficionado father who raised the duo on a steady diet of The Rolling Stones and The Everly Brothers, the two would rehearse in the family kitchen while sc...
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WoodSongs 939: Rhonda Vincent & The Rage from 2018-10-25T13:32:39
RHONDA VINCENT was famously crowned as "The New Queen of Bluegrass" by the Wall Street Journal, and is considered the most decorated artist in that field. She is an 8-time IBMA Female Vocalist of t...
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WoodSongs 938: Young Thumbs with special guest Tommy Emmanuel from 2018-10-25T13:28:29
Young Thumbs is an organization started at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention in Nashville by John Knowles and Tommy Emmanuel. Both of these legendary guitar masters, awarded Certified...
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WoodSongs 937: Gretchen Peters and Marty Brown from 2018-10-25T13:26
GRETCHEN PETERS, after moving to Nashville in the late 80’s, quickly established herself as both a talented performer and in-demand songwriter, writing songs for Martina McBride, Etta James, Trisha...
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WoodSongs 936: Lindsay Lou and Dawn Landes from 2018-10-25T13:24:18
LINDSAY LOU has been making beautiful, soul-shaking music for the last decade with her band The Flatbellys. This Michigan songbird has been featured in a number of the best acoustic music festivals...
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WoodSongs 935: The Loose String Band and Kirby Jane from 2018-10-25T13:22:29
THE LOOSE STRINGS BAND is an all women band, five members ranging in age from fifteen to twenty three years of age from Galax, Virginia. The band has been together for nine years, playing at bluegr...
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WoodSongs 934: Sarah Patrick and Dillon Carmichael from 2018-10-25T13:19:21
SARAH PATRICK is a Kentucky girl with a passion for traditional music. The singer/songwriter embodies the spirit of real country music: hope and heartbreak, working hard, playing hard, focusing on ...
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WoodSongs 933: Glen Phillips & Mipso from 2018-10-25T13:17:01
GLEN PHILLIPS has been making music for over two decades, starting as the 14-year-old frontman of Toad the Wet Sprocket. Since then, hes
accumulated an esteemed body of work comprising eight al...
WoodSongs 932: Ashley Campbell and Lillie Mae from 2018-07-24T15:24:49
ASHLEY CAMPBELL is a triple threat songwriter, singer and banjo virtuoso. Following in the footsteps of a famous parent is never an easy path, and Ashley, the daughter of music legend Glen Campbell...
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WoodSongs 931: Rosie & The Riveters and Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road from 2018-07-24T15:22:23
ROSIE & THE RIVETERS vintage-inspired folk anthems paint a portrait of a woman’s voice in a man’s world. The Canadian trio’s unmistakable red lipstick and pin curls may be deceiving, but don't be f...
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WoodSongs 930: Chris Barron and Kim Richey from 2018-07-24T15:20:18
CHRIS BARRON is the acclaimed Spin Doctors frontman. A four-album hot streak in the ’90s established them as a heavyweight of the era with 1991’s five-times-platinum Pocket Full of Kryptonite’ ruli...
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WoodSongs 929: Janiva Magness and The Reverend Shawn Amos from 2018-07-24T15:18
JANIVA MAGNESS has one of the preeminent voices in contemporary American roots music. After Magness added a 2016 Grammy nomination to her 26 Blues Music Award nominations — with seven wins, includi...
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WoodSongs 928: John Gorka and War & Treaty from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
JOHN GORKA is a world-renowned singer-songwriter who got his start at a neighborhood coffeehouse in eastern Pennsylvania. After 14 critically acclaimed albums, countless national and international ...
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WoodSongs 927: Flashback and Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
FLASHBACK is a bluegrass "super group" featuring former member's of The 1995 Grammy Nominated "Flashback" version of J.D Crowe And The New South. The group features Don Rigsby, Phil Leadbetter, ...
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WoodSongs 926: Violet Bell and Skerryvore from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
VIOLET BELL weaves gypsy, blues, and soul influences with folk-rock roots. Based out of Durham, NC, the duo of Lizzy Ross and Omar Ruiz-Lopez have played over 200 show since forming in March 2016. ...
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WoodSongs 925: Calan and Beyond the Pale from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
CALAN bring together the remarkable talents of 5 young musicians giving a fresh and vibrant sound to traditional Welsh music. With a contemporary and lively approach they breathe new life into the ...
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WoodSongs 924: Abby the Spoon Lady & Chris Rodrigues and McPeake from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
ABBY THE SPOON LADY AND CHRIS RODRIGUES are buskers from Asheville North Carolina and are internationally known street performers after one of their videos went viral. Abby is one of very few profe...
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WoodSongs 923: Mean Mary and Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
MEAN MARY isn?t mean at all ?she is known internationally for her lightning-fast fingers, haunting vocals, and intricate story songs. She is an award-winning musician/writer and fan favorite (over...
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WoodSongs 922: The Dustbowl Revival and The Mammals from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL is what you could call an American roots orchestra with eight full-time members ? and they play it all, mashing the sounds of traditional American music into a genre-hopping, t...
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WoodSongs 921: Lee Roy Parnell and Samantha Fish from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
LEE ROY PARNELL is known as a triple-threat artist for his guitar prowess (particularly slide guitar), smooth soul-drenched voice, and top-shelf songwriting skills. After earning a regular spot at ...
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WoodSongs 920: Szlachetka and Joslyn & The Sweet Compression from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
SZLACHETKA (pronounced SLA-HET-KA) draws your gaze back to a simpler time when music was less about stylized production and more about its experiential nature. His songwriting finds inspiration in ...
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WoodSongs 919: Tyminski and Drew Holcomb from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
DAN TYMINSKI is one of the premier vocalists in modern acoustic music. He?s been a member of Alison Krauss + Union Station for 25 years. He contributed guitar and/or harmony to many projects includ...
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WoodSongs 918: Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
BELA FLECK AND ABIGAIL WASHBURN, ?the king and queen of the banjo? (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. B?la Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the ins...
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WoodSongs 916: Roots Music Summit Spectacular from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
This Special Event broadcast of WoodSongs is a massive roots music spectacular featuring all amazing WOODSONGS KIDS from around the nation plus special guests from the Folk Alliance, Blues Foundati...
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WoodSongs 915: Tommy Emmanuel from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
TOMMY EMMANUEL is a virtuoso guitarist from Australia who has completely stormed the world of guitar playing ? mesmerizing audiences in sold out theaters all over the world. The WoodSongs audience ...
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WoodSongs 914: Poco featuring Rusty Young and Dori Freeman from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
RUSTY YOUNG is the singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist and frontman of the seminal West Coast country-rock band Poco. For five decades, Young became not only the musical core of the band, but a...
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WoodSongs 913: Molly Tuttle and Mike Barnett from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
MOLLY TUTTLE is a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and award winning songwriter with a distinctive voice. She is the first woman in the 27-year history of the International Bluegrass Music Associatio...
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WoodSongs 912: The Legendary Shack Shakers and Donald Ryan &?Barron Ryan from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
THE LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS hell-for-leather roadshow has earned quite a name for itself with its unique brand of Southern Gothic and swampy "hillbilly blues" that is all-at-once irreverent, lyrica...
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WoodSongs 911: Celebration of the Legendary Sun Records from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
Sun Records was founded in 1952 by Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee and is the birthplace of rock and roll that launched the careers of Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Elvis, Jerry Lee, and Charlie Ri...
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WoodSongs 910: Billy Strings and Whiskey Shivers from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
BILLY STRINGS delivers EXTREME American string band music with energy levels usually associated with a box of dynamite. His profile as a guitarist and singer in the acoustic/bluegrass scene continu...
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WoodSongs 909: Rhythm Future Quartet and Phoebe Hunt from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
THE RHYTHM FUTURE QUARTET has a straightforward agenda: to keep the spirit of Gypsy jazz alive and expanding in today?s musical universe. The virtuosic foursome, named for a Django Reinhardt tune, ...
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WoodSongs 908: Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Acoustic Eidolon from 2018-06-11T16:37:25
CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD was formed by the iconic frontman of rock and roll powerhouse band The Black Crowes in 2011 and is now in the midst of one of their most prolific periods to date. Oversp...
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WoodSongs 894: John N?meth and Tomi Lunsford from 2017-09-22T18:37:25
JOHN N?METH has established himself among the very top ranks of blues musicians and modern soul singers. Drawing from his strong influences in blues and R&B, as well as contemporary sounds in hip h...
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WoodSongs 901: Daily & Vincent and Chasity Brown from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
DAILY & VINCENT has been hailed throughout the music industry as one of the most exciting, reputable and elite Bluegrass bands in America. Dubbed by CMT as the “Rockstars of Bluegrass,? the duo has...
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WoodSongs 900: Roger McGuinn plus John Lomax III from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
ROGER McGUINN gained fame for his work with the Limelighters, the Chad Mitchell Trio and ultimately as the founding member of The Bryds. Because of massive global hits like Turn, Turn Turn and Mr. ...
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WoodSongs 899: Sam Bush Band from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
SAM BUSH is a Kentucky music hero, a bluegrass music legend and one of the premier masters of the mandolin. Founding member of New Grass Revival and the revered ?King of Telluride,? Sam has pioneer...
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WoodSongs 898: Mike Dawes and Anthony Snape from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
MIKE DAWES is hailed as one of the world?s finest and most creative modern fingerstyle guitar performers. His acclaimed solo music has gained over 15 million hits on popular video sharing sites and...
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WoodSongs 896: The Looping Brothers with Si Kahn and Still on the Hill from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
SI KAHN & THE LOOPING BROTHERS teamed up for an extraordinary album that features the best-known and most-loved songs from this legendary songwriter, author, playwright and activist in a bluegrass ...
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WoodSongs 895: EmiSunshine and Blue Highway from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
EMISUNSHINE became a global sensation when a video of her singing in a music store went viral; the world fell in love with the little nine-year-old gal from Knoxville, TN. The natural-born singer, ...
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WoodSongs 893: Six-String Soldiers and Pentagon Winds from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
SIX-STRING SOLDIERS are part of the United States Army Field Band. They are a four-member acoustic group performing Americana, folk, bluegrass, and Irish music in an informal setting. The group bri...
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WoodSongs 892: The Railsplitters and David Childers from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
THE RAILSPLITTERS is a high-energy bluegrass and americana band from Boulder, Colorado. Fresh off the success of their first album, and taking first place in Rockygrass? Best New Band Competition, ...
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WoodSongs 891: Peter Rowan and J2B2 from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
PETER ROWAN is a true music legend. From his days with Bill Monroe as a Bluegrass Boy to his work with Tony Rice, from Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead to his Grammy-winning albums with David Gri...
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WoodSongs 890: Lisa Biales and Amy Black from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
LISA BIALES (Be-Alice) sings with a crystal pure voice and writes music about the simple things in life. She weaves a down home blues vernacular with finger style guitar to create songs that feel l...
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WoodSongs 889: Shun Ng and Peter Mulvey from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
SHUN NG is an award-winning fingerstyle guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter, known for his unique style which infuses elements of Soul, Funk, Blues and Jazz. Shun dazzles audiences from all over...
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WoodSongs 888: Victor Wainwright & The Train and Birds of Chicago from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & THE TRAIN features the high-octane boogie piano and big soul sounds of vocalist and blues man Victor Wainwright, backed by one of the tightest smokin? bands on the scene. Victor...
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WoodSongs 887: Brandy Clark and Charlie Worsham from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
BRANDY CLARK is part of a new vanguard in country music ? one that tips a hat to tradition, while not eschewing its evolution. For Clark, the dream she harbored in her small hometown of Morton, Was...
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WoodSongs 886: Southern Avenue and Mudbone from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
SOUTHERN AVENUE takes its name from a Memphis street that runs from the eastern-most part of the city limits all the way to Soulsville (the original home of Stax Records). It?s a fitting moniker fo...
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WoodSongs 885: Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge and Aoife O'Donovan from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
JULIAN LAGE & CHRIS ELDRIDGE first full-length album ?Avalon? is a vivid
snapshot of this duo?s repertoire, circa 2014; a portrait of a burgeoning
friendship between two virtuosic players; ...
WoodSongs 884: Guy Davis and Fabrizio Poggi and The Affrilachian Poets from 2017-09-22T16:37:25
GUY DAVIS and FABRIZIO POGGI pay homage to the legendary blues duo Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee on their latest release ?Sonny & Brownie?s Last Train? on MC Records. The deep, acoustic blues sess...
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WoodSongs 883: George Winston and The Outside Track from 2017-05-19T16:37:25
GEORGE WINSTON is a celebrated American pianist whose career spans more than 40 years with sales of over 15 million albums, including seven Platinum selling recordings. RCA Records is releasing Win...
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WoodSongs 882: John Michael Montgomery and John Oates from 2017-05-19T15:37:25
JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY shot to stardom with his 1992 double-platinum hit album Life?s A Dance. The romantic balladeer has won over the hearts of millions with his chart-topping songs ?I Swear,? ?B...
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WoodSongs 881: John Oates from 2017-05-19T14:37:25
JOHN OATES is one half of the best-selling duo of all time, Hall & Oates, as well as an accomplished solo artist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Oates ...
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WoodSongs 876: Flatt Lonesome and Mark Kroos from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
FLATT LONESOME meteoric bluegrass rise in bluegrass can be attributed to their stellar picking and heartfelt songs centered around beautiful sibling harmony. They was the big winner at this year IB...
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WoodSongs 875: Sylvia and JP Harris from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
SYLVIA has enjoyed more than two decades of a successful and multifaceted career as a singer and songwriter. Her career includes multiple No. 1 hits such as the crossover smash ?Nobody? and ?Drifte...
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WoodSongs 874: Livingston Taylor and Rebecca Loebe from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
LIVINGSTON TAYLOR picked up his first guitar at the age of 13, beginning a 40-year career that has encompassed performance, songwriting and teaching. From top-40 hits ?I Will Be in Love with You? a...
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WoodSongs 873: Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper and Muriel Anderson from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER is one of bluegrass music?s great treasures. A 10-time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year, 4-time Instrumental Group of the Year winner and 2016 nominee, Cleveland captu...
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WoodSongs 872: Ben Sollee and Luke Bulla from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
BEN SOLLEE featuring Jordan Ellis finds this innovative Kentucky cellist and genre-bending songwriter teaming up with his longtime collaborator, drummer Jordon Ellis. The two dive deep into heavy c...
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WoodSongs 871: Celebration of Mountain Dulcimer featuring Sarah Morgan and Bing Futch from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
The traditional mountain dulcimer, performed by two incredible artists and played like you have never heard it before!
BING FUTCH plays the dulcimer like Jimi Hendrix. Using Appalachian mo...
WoodSongs 870: Joshua Messick and Holly Bowling from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
JOSHUA MESSICK is a North Carolina-based National Hammered Dulcimer Champion. Creativity flows with dynamic passion as he weaves progressive, cinematic stylings & modern techniques into traditional...
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WoodSongs 869: Exile and Martin Family Circus from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
EXILE formed in 1963 looking to play small clubs in Richmond, Kentucky, but managed to top both the pop and country charts during their over 50 year-long career. Their most successful hit, ?Kiss Yo...
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WoodSongs 868: Eric Johnson and The Gonzalo Bergara Quartet from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
ERIC JOHNSON has long been hailed as one of the world?s preeminent electric guitarists with a Grammy Award and five nominations, platinum album, Top 10 hits like ?Cliffs Of Dover,? and praise from ...
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WoodSongs 867: The Harp Twins and Dawg Yawp from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
THE HARP TWINS have achieved extraordinary success by taking Electric Harps and acoustic Concert Grand Harps to unprecedented levels and smashing boundaries between different genres of music. The d...
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WoodSongs 866: Kelsey Waldon and K Phillips from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
KELSEY WALDON hails from Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky. Her 2014 debut ?The Goldmine? announced the Kentucky singer-songwriter as a disciple of Tammy and Loretta, with yearning vocals and hints of bar...
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WoodSongs 865: Ted Yoder and Frank Vignola & Vinny Raviolio from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
TED YODER has revolutionized the hammered dulcimer through his pop symphonic approach on the instrument as a solo performer. He?s the National Hammered Dulcimer Champion whose highly engaged fanbas...
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WoodSongs 864: Bobby Rush and Dallahan from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
BOBBY RUSH is known as ?The King of the Chitlin Circuit? and considered one of the greatest bluesman currently performing. Rush estimates that he has cut over 345 songs since he first began making ...
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WoodSongs 863: Kaia Kater and Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
KAIA KATER is the new soul of traditional music. Born of African-Caribbean descent in Qu?bec, Kaia Kater grew up between two worlds: one her family?s deep ties to Canadian folk music in her Toronto...
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WoodSongs 862: Tommy Emmanuel plus John Knowles, Pat Bergerson & Annie Sellick from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
TOMMY EMMANUEL is arguably one of the most exciting, brilliant and powerful guitar masters on earth. Walking in the legacy of Merle Travis, Chet Atkins and many others Tommy has dazzled audiences w...
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WoodSongs 861: Celebration of Michael Hedges featuring Andy McKee and Christie Lenee from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
MICHAEL HEDGES was a trailblazing acoustic guitarist. He pioneered percussive finger style guitar, the influence of which can now be heard in the compositions and playing of many guitarists.
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WoodSongs 860: Celebration of Merle Travis featuring Thom Bresh, Eddie Pennington and more. from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
MERLE TRAVIS is a Kentucky guitar hero and an American music icon. Born in Rosewood, Ky his lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are ?Six...
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WoodSongs 859: Janiva Magness and Matt Andersen from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
JANIVA MAGNESS is one of the most beloved figures in the Americana, blues and roots music world. She is the winner of seven Blues Music Awards (with 25 nominations) including awards for B.B. King E...
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WoodSongs 858: Blue Sisters and Jimmy "Duck" Holmes from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
THE BLUE SISTERS are Ina Forsman (Finland), Layla Zoe (Canada), and Tasha Taylor (USA). Three of blues scene?s next-big-things that are showcasing in Ruf Records 2016 Blues Caravan in it?s 12th tri...
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WoodSongs 857: Royal Southern Brotherhood and We Banjo 3 from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD are an acclaimed U.S. soul-blues collective. Band leader, Cyril Neville, known for his amazing vocals and percussion skills as a member of the Grammy Award winning Nevill...
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WoodSongs 856: The Earls of Leicester from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
The Earls of Leicester is a bluegrass group assembled by master musician
and multi-Grammy winner Jerry Douglas to present the music of Lester
Flatt, Earl Scruggs and their band the Foggy Mo...
WoodSongs 855: John McEuen and Bill & The Belles from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
JOHN McEUEN brings with him 45+ years of worldwide performing with his banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin. Often referred to as ?the String Wizard?, John founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt ...
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WoodSongs 854: Celebration of Barbershop Harmony from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
Barbershop Singing is a passionate, joyful celebration of the human voice ? It originated in the late 1800s and early 1900s of America, a hybrid of both black and white expressive cultural forms at...
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WoodSongs 853: Davina and The Vagabonds & Al Scorch from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
DAVINA AND THE VAGABONDS have created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows, level A musicianship, sharp-dressed professionalism, and Sowers? commanding stage presenc...
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WoodSongs 852: Samantha Fish and Terry "Harmonica" Bean from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
SAMANTHA FISH is one of the most brilliant, exciting performers of the
blues in the world. ... yes, on this planet. Samantha won a Blues Music
Award for Best New Artist Debut. Her latest is...
WoodSongs 851: SHEL and Gabriel Kelley from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
SHEL is Sarah, Hannah, Eva and Liza, four classically trained musicians who happen to be sisters. Emerging from the artist colony of Fort Collins on the Eastern slope of Colorado, SHEL is sophistic...
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WoodSongs 850: Dale Ann Bradley Band and Maiden Radio from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
DALE ANN BRADLEY commands a list of awards as long as Highway 40. A former Coon Creek Girl and mainstay at Kentucky's Renfro Valley Barn Dance, Dale Ann is a 5-Time winner of the International Blue...
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WoodSongs 849: The O'Connor Band with Mark O'Connor from 2017-03-30T13:35:15
THE O'CONNOR BAND with MARK O'CONNOR isn?t your typical family band. The Band features one of the most iconic fiddlers in American history, Mark O?Connor. His collaborations with James Taylor, Vinc...
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WoodSongs 848: James Hunter Six and Liz Vice from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
JAMES HUNTER burst onto the scene 10 years ago topping the Billboard Blues chart, earning a Grammy-nomination, and attracting universal acclaim from critics and his fans?including Van Morrison, Sha...
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WoodSongs 847: Jack Semple and Darlingside from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
JACK SEMPLE is one of those rare guitar players who leaves a crowd speechless. WoodSongs fans of Tommy Emmanuel take note. This guitar virtuoso from Regina, Saskatchewan writes and performs "Modern...
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WoodSongs 846: Nefesh Mountain and Evie Ladin & Keith Terry from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
NEFESH MOUNTAIN is the place where the Jewish spirit and soul meet with Bluegrass and Old-Time musical traditions. Husband and Wife team Eric Lindberg & Doni Zasloff are pioneering this blend of J...
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WoodSongs 845: Judy Collins and Ari Hest from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
JUDY COLLINS burst onto the folk and pop world with her debut album A Maid of Constant Sorrow in 1961, but it was her cover of Joni Mitchell?s ?Both Sides, Now?, the lead single from her 1967 album...
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WoodSongs 844: Celebration of Django Reinhardt featuring Hot Club of San Francisco, Andy Young and Grant Flick from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
DJANGO REINHARDT is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all
time. This Belgian-born French guitarist co-founded the pioneering
ensemble Quintette du Hot Club de France with vi...
WoodSongs 843: Tim O'Brien and Ron Block from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
TIM O'BRIEN is one of titans of roots-music. It has been four years since Tim?s last solo recording. Between collaborations with Darrell Scott, the recent Grammy winning recording with Jerry Dougl...
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WoodSongs 842: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Coaltown Dixie from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER are some of the most impressive vocalists and instrumentalists in the business. Legendary in the Bluegrass genre and called a ?mandolin virtuoso? with ?perfectly silken h...
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WoodSongs 841: California Guitar Trio and Sugar Blue from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
THE CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO has enthralled listeners with a singular sound that fearlessly explores the intersections between rock, jazz, classical, and world music. It even throws in the occasional...
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WoodSongs 840: Alison Brown, Frank Solivan and Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
COMPASS RECORDS was co-founded in 1994 by musicians Alison Brown and Garry West in 1994. Called ?one of the greatest independent labels of the last decade? by Billboard Magazine, Compass Records ha...
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WoodSongs 839: Paul Burch and Rayland Baxter from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
PAUL BURCH, a pioneer in fusing an unmistakably modern voice to American roots music, celebrates his 10th release, 'Meridian Rising', on Plowboy Records. The album is a first-of-its-kind concept al...
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Woodsongs 838: Michael Martin Murphey and The Kentucky Headhunters from WoodSongs from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY has left an indelible mark on the American Music. In the early 1970s, Rolling Stone Magazine called Michael Martin Murphey ?one of the best songwriters in America.? Since tha...
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Woodsongs 837: Celebration of Muddy Waters with John Primer, Bob Margolin and Paul Oscher from 2016-08-11T13:35:15
MUDDY WATERS is an American Icon. The whole story of the blues can be heard, felt, and learned in his life. Country blues were Muddy?s roots and remained at his core, but through the force of his a...
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Woodsongs 816: Jonathan Edwards and Lindi Ortega from 2016-01-15T13:35:15
JONATHAN EDWARDS is one of America?s finest songwriters. Four decades into a stellar career of uncompromising musical integrity, Jonathan has released 16 albums and has a highly respected repertoir...
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Woodsongs 815: Spinney Brothers & Roy Book Binder from 2016-01-15T13:35:15
THE SPINNEY BROTHERS are based in Canada and heralded all over North America as champions of traditional bluegrass music, touring in support of their new CD, Tried & True. Allan & Rick Spinney, wh...
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Woodsongs 814: We Banjo 3, Scythian and Next Generation Leahy from 2016-01-15T13:35:15
WE BANJO 3 is an Award-winning quartet from Galway, Ireland that deliver a ground breaking mixture of Irish Music and Old- Time American and Bluegrass influences with remarkable virtuosity and pass...
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Woodsongs 813: The Rua and Choro das 3 from 2016-01-15T13:35:15
THE RUA are two sisters and a brother with an Irish heritage that live in Windsor, England. They are Classically trained, write all of their own songs and music, play a variety of instruments, are ...
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Woodsongs 812: Shook Twins and Redhead Express from 2016-01-15T13:35:15
SHOOK TWINS are an Indie folk-pop band now hailing from coniferous forested Portland, Oregon. Identical twins, Katelyn and Laurie Shook, Kyle Volkman and Niko Daoussis form the core quartet. Beauti...
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Woodsongs 797: T. Graham Brown and The Reverend Peyton?s Damn Band from 2015-12-29T14:35:15
T. GRAHAM BROWN is a journeyman and songwriter whose blue-eyed soul sound defies musical boundaries. He has recorded over thirteen studio albums and charted more than twenty singles on the Billboar...
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Woodsongs 811: New Riders of the Purple Sage and Charlie Parr from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE have been called the Greatest Cosmic, Psychedelic Country Rock and Roll Band Of The Universe. They began as a spin-off from the Grateful Dead when Jerry Garcia, Phil L...
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Woodsongs 810: Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road plus Eddy Raven and Martin Family Circus from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD have a distinct sound and charismatic stage show, which sets them apart from many traditional bluegrass bands. Affectionately known as the "Lady of Tradition" in blu...
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Woodsongs 809: Darin & Brooke Aldridge and Feufollet from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE are a husband and wife duo that have carved out one of the fastest rising careers on the acoustic music scene today. The duo draws on the traditions of their native North Ca...
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Woodsongs 808: The Secret Sisters and Striking Matches from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
THE SECRET SISTERS vocals and their love and respect for music and harmony
first caught the attention of the legendary T Bone Burnett who produced
the duo's self-titled debut and second ful...
Woodsongs 807: Willy Porter and AJ Ghent Band from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
WILLY PORTER musical and personal odyssey spans over two decades, 10 albums, and multiple continents. Equally accomplished as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Porter?s songs weave a universal p...
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Woodsongs 806: Band of Ruhks and The Haunted Windchimes from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
BAND OF RUHKS is the reunion of Ronnie Bowman and his Lonesome River Bandmates, Don Rigsby and Kenny Smith. Now, fourteen years later, the musical friends have reunited to record a powerful new blu...
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Woodsongs 805: Tom Paxton and Sam Gleaves from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
TOM PAXTON is a legendary singer/songwriter. Paxton headed to Greenwich Village in the early ?60s, just in time to join Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Joan Baez and other troubadours who took over coffe...
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Woodsongs 804: Celtic Aire and The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
CELTIC AIRE is the premier Celtic and folk ensemble of the United States Air Force. Formed in 2007, the group is comprised of five Airmen musicians from The United States Air Force Band?s Singing...
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Woodsongs 803: Ben Sollee and Portland Cello Project from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
BEN SOLLEE is Kentucky-born cellist, singer-songwriter, and composer known for his innovative playing style, genre-bending songwriting, electrifying performances, political activism, and wide appea...
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Woodsongs 802: Martin Sexton and Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
MARTIN SEXTON is well-known for his incendiary live shows and incredible success as an independent recording artist. In a career spanning over two decades, Martin has a reputation as a musician?s m...
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Woodsongs 800: Asleep at the Wheel and The Quebe Sisters from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL is the legendary Austin based 9-time Grammy winning Band led by the dynamic Ray Benson. For over 40 years Asleep at the Wheel have been carrying the traditions of Bob Wills acro...
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Woodsongs 799: John Berry and 10 String Symphony from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
JOHN BERRY has one of the finest voices in country music. 20 years ago he had his first of many #1 Billboard Chart toppers with the incredible song "Your Love Amazes Me". He has recorded more than ...
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Woodsongs 798: The Fairfield Four and The McCrary Sisters from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
THE FAIRFIELD FOUR are one of the most prominent and respected names in gospel music. Featured in O Brother Where Art Thou?, their blend of rich harmonies, joined with the simultaneously grand and ...
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Woodsongs 796: Exile and the Local Honeys from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
EXILE was founded in Richmond, Kentucky. They started by playing local clubs which led to touring with Dick Clark?s Caravan of Stars. They scored a global hit with I Want To Kiss You All Over and t...
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Woodsongs 795: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau from 2015-12-29T13:35:15
Celebrate Earth Day with Henry David Thoreau: Walden is our annual Special Event Broadcast of WoodSongs that airs during Earth Day week.
The two act, four character play is a conversation ...
Woodsongs 790: Jorma Kaokonen and Lowell ?Banana? Levinger from 2015-11-13T14:35:15
JORMA KAUKONEN is one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music, blues, and Americana with a history that in?uenced popular rock-and-roll. A member of the Rock & Roll Hall o...
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Woodsongs 794: Larkin Poe and Humming House from 2015-11-13T13:35:15
LARKIN POE?s music is a unique brand of ?swampadelic soul? with tight
vocal harmonies, dizzying instrumental riffs and insightful lyrics. Born
and raised in Georgia, sisters Rebecca and Meg...
Woodsongs 793: Minton Sparks and Dale Watson from 2015-11-13T13:35:15
MINTON SPARKS fuses music, poetry, and her intoxicating gift for storytelling to paint word pictures of the rural South that put you square in the middle of the people and the places she knows like...
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Woodsongs 792: Celebration of the Hammered Dulcimer from 2015-11-13T13:35:15
JOSHUA MESSICK is from Asheville, North Carolina and the 2003 National Hammered Dulcimer Champion. Joshua breathes new life into an ancient instrument, weaving progressive, cinematic stylings and m...
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Woodsongs 791: John Nemeth and Kristin Andreassen from 2015-11-13T13:35:15
JOHN NEMETH was born in Idaho to Hungarian immigrants, and honed his harmonica chops while working as a truck driver, jamming along to Junior Wells in his cab. It all culminated in a move to Memphi...
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Woodsongs 789: Best of WoodSongs Kids 2014 from 2015-11-13T13:35:15
WoodSongs has a long and consistent history involving children, schools and families on our worldwide broadcast. This past year, he made WoodSongs Kids a featured segment every broadcast. Highlight...
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Woodsongs 788: Music Maker Blues Revue featuring Ironing Board Sam, Boo Hanks and Big Ron Hunter from 2015-11-13T13:35:15
The Music Maker Relief Foundation was founded in 1994 to preserve the musical traditions of the South by directly supporting the musicians who make it, ensuring their voices will not be silenced by...
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Woodsongs 787: Blair Crimmins & The Hookers and Daniel Champagne from 2015-11-13T13:35:15
BLAIR CRIMMINS began his current music career in Atlanta, Georgia, with a determination to bring Ragtime and 1920?s style Dixieland Jazz to new audiences. What he created was a sound that is at onc...
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Woodsongs 786: Roni & Donna Stoneman and Doug Seegers from 2015-11-13T13:35:15
RONI STONEMAN is one of the great banjo masters of our time. The youngest daughter of the pioneering country music family The Stonemans, she became "The First Lady of Banjo," a fixture on the Nash...
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Woodsongs 785: The US Navy Bluegrass Band Country Current and Pat Flynn from 2015-11-13T13:35:15
COUNTRY CURRENT, the premier country-bluegrass group of the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., showcases a five-member acoustic ensemble performing traditional, contemporary and original...
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Woodsongs 784: Ramblin? Jack Elliott and Nell Robinson & The Rose of No-Man?s Land from 2015-10-30T14:35:15
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT is one of the last true links to the great folk traditions of this country. Bob Dylan called him "King of the Folksingers." He ran away from his Brooklyn home at fourteen to j...
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Woodsongs 783: The New Orleans Suspects and Sultans of Strings from 2015-10-30T13:35:15
THE NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS comprise of some of the most season and highly respected players in NOLA. Start with members of three of the top bands to come out of New Orleans, The Neville Brothers, The...
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Woodsongs 782: Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn from 2015-10-30T13:35:15
BELA FLECK AND ABIGAIL WASHBURN present their eponymous debut album as a duo, after many years of prominence as banjo players and composers in their own eclectic avenues. B?la, an icon and innovato...
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Woodsongs 781: Celebration of the Music of Appalachia from 2015-10-30T13:35:15
On this broadcast we will be celebrating the Music of Appalachia, one of the most fertile musical regions in the world. After generations of isolation from most of America, some of the most influen...
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Woodsongs 780: Ian McLagan and Janiva Magness from 2015-10-30T13:35:15
This was one of the final performance from Ian McLagan (band mate of the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and the Faces). We hope this broadcast serves as a wonderful tribute to this incredible musician...
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Woodsongs 776: Mud Morganfield & Kim Wilson and Angaleena Presley from 2015-08-25T13:35:15
MUD MORGANFIELD & KIM WILSON join forces to salute the 100th Anniversary of Mud's legendary father, Muddy Waters. Mud is a multi Blues Music and Living Blues nominee and bears an uncanny resemblanc...
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Woodsongs 775: FullSet and Las Cafeteras from 2015-08-25T13:35:15
LAS CAFETERAS combines the vibrant energy of Son Jarocho music with an edgy LA-alternative sound & political message. Their pounding Afro-Mexican rhythms, stomping zapateado dancing, & uplifting ly...
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Woodsongs 762: Carlene Carter and Jason D. Williams from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
CARLENE CARTER was born into country-music royalty as the daughter of 1950s country superstar Carl Smith and June Carter Cash. Her grandmother is “Mother? Maybelle Carter of the original Carter Fam...
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Woodsongs 762: Carlene Carter and Jason D. Williams from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
CARLENE CARTER was born into country-music royalty as the daughter of 1950s country superstar Carl Smith and June Carter Cash. Her grandmother is “Mother� Maybelle Carter of the original Carter Fam...
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Woodsongs 774: Joshua James and Neulore from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
JOSHUA JAMES is a innovative folk singer based in American Fork, Utah. After releasing his first two albums and spending five years touring across the United States and overseas, Joshua headed back...
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Woodsongs 773: Ellis Paul and Socks in the Frying Pan from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
ELLIS PAUL is a master songwriter and storyteller with captivating vocals. He emerged out of the Boston music scene during a time when contemporary folk was beginning to come into the mainstream. N...
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Woodsongs 772: Celebration of the Music of Jean Ritchie from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
JEAN RITCHIE is the songwriter many refer to as "The Mother of Folk" and the Princess of Appalachia. She was born in Viper, Kentucky, the youngest of 14 children. Ritchie grew up immersed in the tr...
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Woodsongs 771: Lisa Biales and The Barefoot Movement from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
LISA BIALES who is known for her clear-as-a-bell singing voice, has been dubbed, fittingly, ?Belle of the Blues.? This Ohio native over the past several years has been busy recording and singing th...
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Woodsongs 770: Crowder and The Collection from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
CROWDER is the critically acclaimed artist and songwriter?whose unique blend of folk/pop/electronica style combined with his outstanding musicianship, profound lyrics, and intricate songcraft creat...
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Woodsongs 769: Gaelic Storm and Billy Strings & Don Julin from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
GAELIC STORM blends indie-folk and world grooves with Celtic tradition. The group?s ability to deftly incorporate a rock sensibility into their sound affords them rare crossover appeal. In recent y...
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Woodsongs 768: Chris Smither and Grace Askew from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
CHRIS SMITHER is a profound songwriter that draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets, and philosophers. His song "Love Me Like A Man" became a signature song for Bonnie Raitt ...
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Woodsongs 767: Dom Flemons and Bryan Sutton from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
DOM FLEMONS is the "American Songster," pulling from traditions of old-time folk music to create new sounds. Having performed music professionally since 2005, he has played live for over one millio...
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Woodsongs 766: Lee Ann Womack from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
LEE ANN WOMACK is the Grammy-winning vocalist whose 'Call Me Crazy, I Hope You Dance' and the 2005 Country Music Association Album of the Year 'There?s More Where That Came From' are among modern c...
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Woodsongs 765: The Holmes Brothers and Chatham County Line from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
THE HOLMES BROTHERS are true treasures of American roots music. For 35 years, The Holmes Brothers? joyous and moving blend of blues, gospel, soul, R&B, rock ?n? roll and country has been captivatin...
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Woodsongs 764: Judy Collins and Ari Hest from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
JUDY COLLINS has inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism ...
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Woodsongs 763: NRBQ and Sundy Best from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
NRBQ is legendary roots rock band formed by pianist Terry Adams in his Louisville, KY home. The band released its self-titled debut album for Columbia Records in 1969. Forty-five years later, after...
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Woodsongs 762: Carlene Carter and Jason D. Williams from 2015-02-13T13:35:15
CARLENE CARTER was born into country-music royalty as the daughter of 1950s country superstar Carl Smith and June Carter Cash. Her grandmother is ?Mother? Maybelle Carter of the original Carter Fam...
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Woodsongs 756: Larry Sparks and American Drive from 2014-07-11T13:35:15
LARRY SPARKS is a dedicated leader for bluegrass music and has been called The King of Bluegrass Soul. Larry began his career in the mid-1960s as a guitarist with the Stanley Brothers and later bec...
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Woodsongs 755: Amy Ray and John Fullbright from 2014-07-11T13:35:15
AMY RAY is the Decatur, Georgia songwriter best known as half of the Grammy-winning Indigo Girls folk-rock duo. Amy has always been a a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll but her upcomi...
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Woodsongs 753: Donna the Buffalo and Eliza Rickman from 2014-07-11T13:35:15
DONNA THE BUFFALO's feel-good, groove-oriented, danceable and often socially conscious music all began over twenty years ago with roots in old time fiddle music that evolved into a soulful electric...
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Woodsongs 753: Donna the Buffalo and Eliza Rickman from 2014-07-11T13:35:15
DONNA THE BUFFALO's feel-good, groove-oriented, danceable and often socially conscious music all began over twenty years ago with roots in old time fiddle music that evolved into a soulful electric...
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Woodsongs 752: Pink Martini and The von Trapps from 2014-07-11T13:35:15
PINK MARTINI AND THE VON TRAPPS have released a new collaborative album titled'Dream A Little Dream'. Pink Martini is the multicultural pop ensemble from Portland, Oregon that has released seven st...
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Woodsongs 751: Music Comedy Night: Freddy LaBour and Kacey Jones from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
SAY NO MORE IT'S FREDDY LA BOUR is the alter-ego of “Too Slim� (bass player, face player, and all-around nutcase for Grammy-winning western music and comedy stars Riders In The Sky). Freddy is a wa...
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Woodsongs 750: AJ Croce and The Grahams from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
AJ CROCE is the son of legendary singer-songwriter Jim Croce, began his career at age 18 opening for B.B. King and has since spanned genres from jazz to Americana to blues to pop. Croce has written...
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Woodsongs 749: Willie Sugarcapps and Baskery from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
WILLIE SUGARCAPPS collective musical experiences mingle together to create a new kind of organic and artisanal music. Born out of a music gathering in lower Alabama, Grayson Capps, Corky Hughes, Wi...
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Woodsongs 748: Tommy Castro&Tee Dee Young from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
TOMMY CASTRO is considered one of the greatest live performers on the blues and roots touring circuit, renowned for high energy sets that feature his groove-laden guitar playing and soulfully-seari...
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Woodsongs 747: Rhonda Vincent&The Rage plus Willow Osborne from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
RHONDA VINCENT&THE RAGE is the most awarded band in bluegrass music with over 80 Awards including an unprecedented 7-consecutive wins for IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year plus 5-Grammy nominations....
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Woodsongs 745: David Broza and Mike Stevens&Okaidja Afroso with Raymond McLain from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
DAVID BROZA is an Israeli superstar that has been considered one of the most dynamic and vibrant performers in the singer/songwriter world. His charismatic and energetic performances have brought t...
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Woodsongs 744: The Steep Canyon Rangers and Shannon Whitworth from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS are an acoustic Bluegrass quintet from Asheville, NC. Before embarking on a world tour backing comedian/banjoist Steve Martin, the Rangers were nominated for 2 Internationa...
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Woodsongs 743: Rebecca Frazier and Lucy Wainwright Roche from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
REBECCA FRAZIER achieved notoriety in the bluegrass world as the first woman ever to appear on the cover of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. But it is her vocal prowess and song writing chops that make...
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Woodsongs 742: Mandy Barnett and The Dustbowl Revival from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
MANDY BARNETT is a World-Class Vocalist who sings the stylings of pop and jazz standards, torch, and classic country music. A native of Crossville, Tennessee, she started singing at five years-old....
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Woodsongs 741: Jimbo Mathus and Cynthia Sayer from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
JIMBO MATHUS is likely known as the ringleader of the hyper-ragtime outfit Squirrel Nut Zippers. In his native Mississippi and throughout the South, however, Mathus is the prolific songwriter of bo...
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Woodsongs 740: The Blind Boys of Alabama and Ed Kowalczyk from 2014-06-12T13:35:15
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA return to the WoodSongs stage with a brand album'I'll Find a Way'produced by Bon Iver�s Justin Vernon. Nearly seventy-five years after they hit their first notes together,...
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Woodsongs 733: Sarah Jarosz and Old Man Luedecke from 2014-03-21T13:35:15
SARAH JAROSZ - 22- year-old, Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who hails from just outside Austin, TX. A recent graduate from the prestigious New England Conservatory, s...
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Woodsongs 732: The Jake Leg Stompers and Bassekou Kouyate from 2014-03-21T13:35:15
THE JAKE LEG STOMPERS evoke the rebellious spirit and colorful pageantry of American popular music before the Second World War, from the Memphis blues to the Virginia Reel; when jazz began, vaudevi...
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Woodsongs 731: Tommy Emmanuel from 2014-03-21T13:35:15
TOMMY EMMANUEL is one of Australia's most respected musicians. This two-time Grammy nominee and legendary guitarist has dazzled audiences worldwide for five decades. Tommy's unique"finger style"is ...
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Woodsongs 730: The Makem&Spain Brothers and Runa from 2014-03-21T13:35:15
THE MAKEM&SPAIN BROTHERS are song collectors in the spirit of their forefathers preserving old folk songs and introducing a new generation to this rich musical history. The Makem's continue the lin...
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Woodsongs 729: Annie Moses Band and Joe Mullins&The Radio Ramblers from 2014-03-21T13:35:15
THE ANNIE MOSES BAND has wowed audiences performing their unique roots music that blossoms into a baroque-pop sound flavored with a shot of classical fervor and dy-namic string instrumentation. Nam...
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Woodsongs 728: The Barn Birds and Melissa Ferrick from 2014-03-21T13:35:15
THE BARN BIRDS are a collaboration between veteran North Carolina Americana songsmith/guitarist Jonathan Byrd and Northwest singer/fiddler/guitarist Chris Kokesh, known for her work with Misty Rive...
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Woodsongs 721: Amy Grant from 2013-12-18T13:35:15
AMY GRANT has sold more than 30 million albums, including one Five Time Platinum album, 1 Triple Platinum and 1 Double Platinum album, as well as additional Six Platinum and 4 Gold albums. She has ...
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Woodsongs 718: Nikki Hill and Rick Estrin&The Nightcats from 2013-12-18T13:35:15
NIKKI HILL hails from Durham, North Carolina. She draws on vintage female rhythm and blues influences such as LaVern Baker, Etta James and Ruth Brown, as well as some of her favorite male singers O...
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Woodsongs 718: Nikki Hill and Rick Estrin&The Nightcats from 2013-12-18T13:35:15
NIKKI HILL hails from Durham, North Carolina. She draws on vintage female rhythm and blues influences such as LaVern Baker, Etta James and Ruth Brown, as well as some of her favorite male singers O...
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Woodsongs 717: The Cleverlys and The Moore Brothers Band from 2013-12-18T13:35:15
THE CLEVERLYS are one of the most outrageous bands that we've ever come across. This"family"band comes from the remote part of the Ozark Mountains, near Cane Spur, Arkansas. Their twisted sense of ...
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Woodsongs 711: JJ Grey&Mofro plus Slade Warnken from 2013-10-10T13:35:15
JJ GREY&MOFRO bring a grimy blend of front porch soul and down-home storytelling to the WoodSongs stage. Over the course of six albums and a decade of touring, he and his band Mofro have sewn a con...
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Woodsongs 710: 2Cellos and Sarah Morgan from 2013-10-10T13:35:15
2CELLOS are two young Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser. The duo has achieved sensational success by taking the cello to a new level and breaking the boundaries between different genr...
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Woodsongs 709: Otis Taylor with Mato Nanji and Mary Gauthier from 2013-10-10T13:35:15
OTIS TAYLOR is the visionary songwriter with his powerful and unique blend of roots music and narrative poetry he labels"trance blues."On his 13th album,'My World Is Gone', Taylor was inspired by I...
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Woodsongs 708: The Howlin'Brothers and Ma Crow&The Lady Slippers from 2013-09-25T13:35:15
THE HOWLIN'BROTHERS are a three-piece string band that brings heart and passion into every performance. Their upbeat shows are heavy with original and traditional music, featuring the sounds of sli...
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Woodsongs 706: Mike Scott/Waterboys - Celebration of W.B. Yates from 2013-08-22T13:35:15
MIKE SCOTT is the Scottish bandleader of the legendary group The Waterboys. The band has just released its first new album in half a decade'An Appointment With Mr. Yeats'which takes classic poems o...
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Woodsongs 706: Mike Scott/Waterboys - Celebration of W.B. Yates from 2013-08-22T13:35:15
MIKE SCOTT is the Scottish bandleader of the legendary group The Waterboys. The band has just released its first new album in half a decade'An Appointment With Mr. Yeats'which takes classic poems o...
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Woodsongs 705: The Indigo Girls from 2013-08-22T13:35:15
THE INDIGO GIRLS are the Grammy-winning folk-rock duo from Georgia. Emily Saliers and Amy Ray began performing together in high school, transferred their honest, urgent performing style onto the st...
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Woodsongs 704: Doyle Lawson&Quicksilver and Lake Street Dive from 2013-08-22T13:35:15
DOYLE LAWSON&QUICKSILVER is celebrating his 50th anniversary in bluegrass music this year. Doyle and the boys have multiple Grammy, Dove, ICM, IBMA and SPBGMA Award nominations, and are seven-time ...
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Woodsongs 703: Exile from 2013-05-30T13:35:15
EXILE is one of America's legendary bands. In 1963, the year before the Beatles scored their first American hit, a group of kids calling themselves The Exiles climbed onto an outdoor stage in the s...
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Woodsongs 702: JD Crowe plus Brandy Miller and Marteka Lake from 2013-05-30T13:35:15
JD CROWE is in fact one of the greatest bluegrass stars of all time. He comes to WoodSongs to help us celebrate his legacy career, amazing banjo style and his recent honors from the University of K...
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Woodsongs 701: Victor Wooten from 2013-05-30T13:35:15
VICTOR WOOTEN is regarded as one of the most influential musicians in the world, fueled by his tenure with the GRAMMY-winning super-group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Victor will be celebrating t...
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Woodsongs 700: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy from 2013-05-24T13:35:15
BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY last award winning album was a tribute to the great Cab Calloway, a music legend who performed decades ago in the Lyric Theatre. What better band to help us celebrate our 700th...
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Woodsongs 699: Bobby Rush and Michael Cleveland&Flamekeeper from 2013-05-24T13:35:15
BOBBY RUSH is the legendary, multi-award winning blues man. He shared the stage and toured with such legacy artists like Howlin'Wolf, Muddy Waters and so many more. Bobby will be performing songs f...
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Woodsongs 697: Wanda Jackson and Shemekia Copeland from 2013-05-24T13:35:15
WANDA JACKSON is widely known and respected as"The Queen of Rockabilly."Jackson is credited with being the first woman to ever record a rock and roll song-"Let's Have a Party"in 1958. In 2009, Jack...
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Woodsongs 696: Holly Williams and Charlie Peacock from 2013-05-24T13:35:15
CARAVAN OF THIEVES are a gypsy swinging serenading firebreathing circus freaks band based out of Bridgeport, CT. If Django Reinhardt, the cast of Stomp and the Beatles all had a party at Tim Burton...
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Woodsongs 695: Caravan of Thieves and Molasses Creek from 2013-05-24T13:35:15
CARAVAN OF THIEVES are a gypsy swinging serenading firebreathing circus freaks band based out of Bridgeport, CT. If Django Reinhardt, the cast of Stomp and the Beatles all had a party at Tim Burton...
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Woodsongs 694: Matthew Ryan and Miss Tess&The Talkbacks from 2013-05-10T13:35:15
MATTHEW RYAN has been celebrated for his poetic lyricism. His work challenges listeners in so many ways, always cutting to the bone with a rare honesty that isn't prone to offer easy answers. His l...
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Woodsongs 693: Claire Lynch and Appalatin from 2013-05-10T13:35:15
CLAIRE LYNCH is a bluegrass pioneer. She has earned two International Bluegrass Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year awards and earned two GRAMMY award nominations. Claire will release her...
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Woodsongs 692: Amber Rubarth and The Ragbirds from 2013-03-29T13:35:15
AMBER RUBARTH has become a fixture in New York's indie scene, named #1 Best of NYC Songwriter by Deli Magazine last year and grand prize winner of NPR's Mountain Stage New Song Contest. At 21 years...
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Woodsongs 691: Bill Evans and Kayla Bender from 2013-03-29T13:35:15
BILL EVANS is well-known within the bluegrass music community not only as a musician, but also as a teacher, writer and scholar. Bill will be bringing his solo show The Banjo in America to the Wood...
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Woodsongs 690: Ben Taylor and von Grey from 2013-03-29T13:35:15
BEN TAYLOR's music is marked by memorable melodies, immaculate acoustic guitar playing and insightful, honest lyrics have been captivating fans since the moment he embarked on this journey ten year...
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Woodsongs 687: Sarah McQuaid and Pert Near Sandstone from 2013-02-20T13:35:15
SARAH MCQUAID is a gifted and captivating performer whose warm, haunting alto is delicately cradled by her"sparkling guitar"(Sing Out!). She is both song crafter and song collector, equally at home...
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Woodsongs 686: The Pines and The Trishas from 2013-02-20T13:35:15
THE PINES rose out of the prairies of the Midwest and are one of the most distinct and powerful indie-rock/Americana groups to hit the national scene in years. Founded by Iowa natives David Huckfel...
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Woodsongs 685: Michael Martin Murphey and The Mastersons from 2013-02-20T13:35:15
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY's song"Wildfire"was one of the biggest pop hits of the 70's. He returns to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new bluegrass CD called'Tall Grass&Cool Water.'It's his third albu...
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Woodsongs 684: The Wailers and Junior Toots from 2013-02-20T13:35:15
THE WAILERS, together with Bob Marley, have sold in excess of 250 million albums worldwide. In England alone, they've notched up over twenty chart hits, including seven Top 10 entries. Outside of t...
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Woodsongs 681: Adam Cohen and Lac La Belle from 2013-01-24T13:35:15
ADAM COHEN is the son of the legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen. All his life Adam had sought an artistic space beyond the reach of his father's looming shadow. But in January 2007, at the age of 3...
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Woodsongs 681: Adam Cohen and Lac La Belle from 2013-01-24T13:35:15
ADAM COHEN is the son of the legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen. All his life Adam had sought an artistic space beyond the reach of his father's looming shadow. But in January 2007, at the age of 3...
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Woodsongs 680: Adrian Legg and The Dunwells from 2012-12-13T13:35:15
ADRIAN LEGG is one of the wizards of the acoustic guitar. Since the 1990 release of his first U.S. recording Guitars and Other Cathedrals, this English guitar music has more than lived up to the ex...
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Woodsongs 679: Kat Edmonson and Spirit Family Reunion from 2012-12-13T13:35:15
KAT EDMONSON is a buoyant singer-songwriter from Texas whose tiny stature belies a powerful voice. She makes smart, familiar pop; though steeped in vintage tradition, her style leans left of center...
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Woodsongs 676: Loren&Mark and Etta Britt from 2012-11-27T13:35:15
LOREN&MARK are Central New York acoustic guitar standout Loren Barrigar and New Zealand star Mark Mazengarb. The two were instantly aware of the musical magic that was created the first time they p...
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Woodsongs 675: Joan Osborne from 2012-11-16T13:35:15
JOAN OSBORNE is a six time Grammy nominee who had a massive worldwide hit several years ago called"One of Us."Joan is a Kentucky artist who overwhelmed radio with the clarity and power of her beaut...
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Woodsongs 674: Bobby Osborne and Rocky Top X-Press from 2012-11-16T13:35:15
Bobby is celebrating 60 years performing bluegrass music around the world. As part of the legendary Osborne Brothers, he introduced one of the most popular songs in America's music canon: Rocky Top...
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Woodsongs 670: Alejandro Escovedo and Joseph Arthur from 2012-10-12T13:35:15
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO returns to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new album'Big Station'on Fantasy/Concord. Long one of America's most admired poet-rockers, his 35 years as a musician and two decades ...
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Woodsongs 669: Dulcie Taylor and The Trews from 2012-10-12T13:35:15
DULCIE TAYLOR is an award-winning singer/songwriter from the Washington, DC area. Her clear, supple voice, down-to-earth lyrics, her songwriting and use of the mountain dulcimer first caught our at...
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Woodsongs 660: The McEuens and The Snyder Family Band from 2012-08-10T13:35:15
The McEuens come to WoodSongs to celebrate the release of their first album together"The McEuen Sessions.."John McEuen is a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band solo road journeys have inv...
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Woodsongs 660: The McEuens and The Snyder Family Band from 2012-08-10T13:35:15
The McEuens come to WoodSongs to celebrate the release of their first album together"The McEuen Sessions.."John McEuen is a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band solo road journeys have inv...
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Woodsongs 659: Celebration of Kentucky Bluegrass featuring: Don Rigsby, Sugar Tree, The 23 String Band, Bawn in the Mash&Blakely Burger from 2012-07-27T13:35:15
DON RIGSBY is one of the most accomplished bluegrass musicians working in Kentucky. From remote Isonville, KY, to an international following in Bluegrassmusic, Don has remained true to his mountain...
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Woodsongs 658: Dervish and The Devil Makes Three from 2012-07-18T13:35:15
DERVISH was formed in Northwestern Ireland in 1989 and has grown into a vital force on the international Irish music scene. Its artistry, musicianship and maturity won outstanding praise from the m...
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Woodsongs 656: Blackie&The Rodeo Kings and Folk Uke from 2012-06-15T13:35:15
BLACKIE AND THE RODEO KINGS originally formed in 1996. Now into their second decade and with one JUNO award and several JUNO nominations under their belts, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings has organical...
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Woodsongs 655: Holy Ghost Tent Revival and The Dirt Daubers from 2012-06-15T13:35:15
HOLY GHOST TENT REVIVAL cannot be pigeonholed into any popular genre. Melding brass with banjo, guitar, bass and drums, this five-piece ensemble boasts an eclectic mesh of instruments and styles --...
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Woodsongs 654: The Cleverlys and Stetson&Cia from 2012-05-22T13:35:15
THE CLEVERLYS are one of the most outrageous bands that we've ever come across. This"family"band comes from the remote part of the Ozark Mountains, near Cane Spur, Arkansas. Their twisted sense of ...
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Woodsongs 653: Janie Fricke with The Roys and Matt Flinner Trio from 2012-05-16T13:35:15
JANIE FRICKE with THE ROYS: Country star Janie has gone from Indiana farm girl to internationally acclaimed recording artist. Fricke dominated the country charts with smash hits such as He's a Hear...
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Woodsongs 652: Judy Collins from 2012-05-16T13:35:15
JUDY COLLINS has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes. She has a brand new CD called"Bohemian"and a brand new book"Sweet Judy Blue...
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Woodsongs 651: Imelda May and April Verch from 2012-04-13T13:35:15
IMELDA MAY, born in Dublin, Ireland and raised in the Liberties, may be an unknown name to some, but to many she is already a superstar. She is unmistakable both in her music (a fusion of surf guit...
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Woodsongs 650: Ruthie Foster&Marquise Knox from 2012-03-16T13:35:15
RUTHIE FOSTER can burn down any stage with her combustible blend of soul, blues, rock, folk and making her one of the most dynamic voices that has ever graced the WoodSongs stage. Foster was catapu...
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Woodsongs 646: The McCrary Sisters&Danny Flowers from 2012-02-24T13:35:15
THE McCRARY SISTERS are the daughters of the late Rev. Samuel McCrary, who was one of the original members of the legendary gospel quartet, The Fairfield Four. Ann, Deborah, Regina, and Alfreda wer...
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Woodsongs 615: Celebration of Appalachia&Mountain Music featuring Emmylou Harris, Darrell Scott, John&Patricia Adams, Nikky Finney with Sue Massek,&Madison Glover - Part 2 from 2012-02-10T13:35:15
People have been singing about the mountains for generations. In recent years, the voices singing them have taken on a special urgency with the advent of mountain top removal. The landscape of Appa...
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Woodsongs 614: Celebration of Appalachia&Mountain Music featuring Emmylou Harris, Darrell Scott, John&Patricia Adams, Nikky Finney with Sue Massek,&Madison Glover - Part 1 from 2012-02-10T13:35:15
People have been singing about the mountains for generations. In recent years, the voices singing them have taken on a special urgency with the advent of mountain top removal. The landscape of Appa...
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Woodsongs 644: Eric Brace&Peter Cooper and The Richter Uzur Duo from 2012-01-20T13:35:15
ERIC BRACE&PETER COOPER have a created a body of work that reflects their literate sensibilities as songwriters, a love of harmony and wry humor, and their deep respect for the masters they're luck...
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Woodsongs 643: Jake Schepps and Harpeth Rising from 2012-01-11T13:35:15
JAKE SCHEPPS has made a name for himself as a banjo renaissance man, an artist with not only an adroit touch on his instrument but an intrepid, imaginative vision for contemporary stringband music....
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Woodsongs 642: Michael Martin Murphey and Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band from 2011-12-23T13:35:15
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY's song"Wildfire"was one of the biggest pop hits of the 70's. He returns to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new bluegrass CD called'Tall Grass&Cool Water.'It's his third albu...
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Woodsongs 641: Keith Medley and Donna Ulisse from 2011-12-19T13:35:15
KEITH MEDLEY is a Kentucky native and plays one of the most unusual instruments that we've ever come across. It's a one-of-a-kind 27-string guitar that Steve designed himself. In the late 70's his ...
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Woodsongs 638: Ollabelle&Goitse from 2011-11-23T13:35:15
OLLABELLE is a multi-talented, democratic collective whose participants share vocal and songwriting duties. This New York quintet draws from a deep well of gospel, blues, bluegrass, and country inf...
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Woodsongs 637: Woody Pines and Colin O'Brien from 2011-11-16T13:35:15
WOODY PINES transports you to the Mississippi Delta when AM radio was king with his energetic brand of Roots Music, Ragtime, Country Blues, and Viper Jazz. The band; comprised of Woody on guitar, b...
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Woodsongs 633: Vintage Wildflowers and Hoots&Hellmouth from 2011-09-30T13:35:15
VINTAGE WILDFLOWERS is a Tulsa Oklahoma-based trio of women that has developed an enthusiastic legion of fans with their vibrant blend of Celtic harp, Irish flute, fiddle and harmony vocals. Mix in...
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Woodsongs 632: Blame Sally&The Twilite Broadcasters from 2011-08-31T13:35:15
BLAME SALLY is one of the most powerful word-of-mouth success stories in recent years.. Each of the four women put her individual career aside to start Blame Sally in the San Fransisco Bay-area whe...
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Woodsongs 631: Rockin'Acoustic Circus and KJ Denhert from 2011-08-31T13:35:15
ROCKIN'ACOUSTIC CIRCUS are building quite a buzz in the world of bluegrass and have quickly become one of Oklahoma's hottest up-and-coming bands. They are turning heads with an over-flowing talent ...
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Woodsongs 630: Celebration of Unusual Instruments featuring Peter Hedlund, Maeve Gilchrist, Andy Cohen&Dick Boak from 2011-08-25T13:35:15
PETER"PUMA"HEDLUND is considered Sweden's leading traditional player of the modern chromatic nyckelharpa, having won the title World Champion twice, in 1992 and 2000. The nyckelharpa is a tradition...
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Woodsongs 629: Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver&Kids of Bluegrass with Daniel Patrick, Samantha Patrick&Kyle Ramey from 2011-08-16T13:35:15
DOYLE LAWSON&QUICKSILVER are one of Bluegrass'most honored and revered masters. He got his start in bluegrass music in 1963 when he played banjo for Jimmy Martin. In 1966, he started working with J...
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Woodsongs 628: Carolyn Wonderland&The David Mayfield Parade from 2011-08-12T13:35:15
CAROLYN WONDERLAND is a musical force equipped with the soulful vocals of Janis Joplin and the guitar slinging skills of Stevie Ray Vaughn. She is a multi-award winning artist from Texas recently n...
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Woodsongs 624: Tommy Emmanuel from 2011-06-22T13:35:15
TOMMY EMMANUEL is one of the true master guitar players in the world and returns to the WoodSongs stage with The Australian All-Star Band featuring his brother, Phil Emmanuel. Tommy left Australia ...
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Woodsongs 623: Milkdrive&Bettysoo and Doug Cox from 2011-06-16T13:35:15
MILKDRIVE is an Alt-folk-progressive acoustic string band that is generating quite a buzz in the Austin music scene. The band features several award winning musicians. Dennis Ludiker, who has toure...
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Woodsongs 619: Amanda Shires & Ben Hall from 2011-05-18T13:35:15
AMANDA SHIRES is a singing fiddle-playing Texan who just released her second solo CD called "Carrying Lightning." She deftly employs her fiddle/violin, ukulele and even whistling ... the resulting ...
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Woodsongs 618: Sierra Hull and Highway 111&Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three from 2011-04-28T13:35:15
SIERRA HULL first performed on WoodSongs when she only 10 years old and played with her idol Sam Bush. A lot has changed for Sierra since and she has become an artist in her own right. At 15, she r...
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Woodsongs 618: Sierra Hull and Highway 111&Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three from 2011-04-28T13:35:15
SIERRA HULL first performed on WoodSongs when she only 10 years old and played with her idol Sam Bush. A lot has changed for Sierra since and she has become an artist in her own right. At 15, she r...
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Woodsongs 617: Suzy Bogguss&Ted Yoder from 2011-04-28T13:35:15
SUZY BOGGUSS is a brilliant songwriter with a suitcase full of country music hits. Some of her accomplishments include ten albums for Capitol Records, one of which has been certified platinum and t...
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Woodsongs 616: Bearfoot&The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band from 2011-04-22T13:35:15
BEARFOOT is abluegrass quintet that originally formed in Alaska. The band has already made a mark with four strong releases, including their 2009 Compass Records debut, “Doors And Windows� which in...
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Woodsongs 606: Jesse McReynolds� and Lucky Peterson from 2010-12-13T12:35:15
JESSE McREYNOLDS is a bluegrass master and mandolin stylist known for his musical wizardry, songwriting, singing and arranging. A member of the award-winning brother duo, Jim&Jesse until Jim's deat...
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Woodsongs 605: Punch Brothers and The Chaplin Sisters from 2010-11-16T12:35:15
PUNCH BROTHERS return the WoodSongs stage with a brand CD on Nonesuch Records called"Antifogmatic."Led by mandolinist Chris Thile (founding member of Nickel Creek), the band's second CD showcases t...
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Woodsongs 604: �Celebration of John Jacob Niles featuring Dr. Ron Pen, The Niles String Quartet, Reel World String Band, Carla Gover, Dennis Bender&Monica Dewey�l from 2010-11-15T12:35:15
JOHN JACOB NILES is considered one of our nation's most influential musicians. This Kentucky native is called the"Dean of American Balladeers"and Niles's dedication to the folk music tradition live...
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Woodsongs 602: �Mollie O'Brien&Rich Moore� and Gary Bennett� from 2010-10-25T12:35:15
MOLLIE O�BRIEN&RICH MOORE have made music for over 30 years. After their youngest daughter went to college, they started to do some dates together which lead to the release of their debut studio al...
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Woodsongs 601: Rhonda Vincent&The Rage� and �Next Best Thing� from 2010-10-18T12:35:15
Rhonda Vincent and the Rage return to WoodSongs as we celebrate her brand new CD,"Taken,"released on her own Upper Management record label. With over seventy awards to their name, Rhonda Vincent an...
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Woodsongs 600: Peter Yarrow� from 2010-10-15T12:35:15
Peter Yarrow comes to WoodSongs to help us celebrate our 600th broadcast! He is the founding member of folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, and co-wrote one of the group's most famous songs,"Puff,...
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Woodsongs 599: Rhonda Vincent&The Rage�and Next Best Thing from 2010-10-15T12:30:11
Rhonda Vincent and the Rage return to WoodSongs as we celebrate her brand new CD,"Taken,"released on her own Upper Management record label. With over seventy awards to their name, Rhonda Vincent an...
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Woodsongs 598: Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real and Jubal's Kin from 2010-10-10T22:54:28
LUKAS NELSON and PROMISE OF THE REAL is a four-man rock and roots powerhouse that has rapidly made a name for themselves since early last year. Guitarist, singer and songwriter Lukas Nelson was bor...
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Woodsongs 597: Peter Rowan and Raymond McLain� from 2010-10-10T22:45:28
PETER ROWAN Bluegrass Band, Peter is a legendary bluegrass songwriter with a career spanning over five decades. He's a Grammy-award winner and five-time Grammy nominee. From his early years playing...
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Woodsongs 595: Songs of Water and Megan McCormick from 2010-10-10T22:25:28
SONGS OF WATER is an adventurous and exciting band from North Carolina. Their bluegrass textures driven by the uncommon use of the Appalachian hammered dulcimer, followed by the brooding foundation...
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Woodsongs 593: Wanda Jackson and Billy Bragg from 2010-10-10T22:15:28
WANDA JACKSON is the First Lady of Rockabilly and America's first female Rock and Roll singer. When Jackson first toured in 1955 and 1956, she was placed on a bill with none other than Elvis Presle...
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Woodsongs 592: Raul Malo and Brigid Kaelin�� from 2010-10-10T22:05:28
RAUL MALO is best known as the founder and front man of Grammy-winning, multi-platinum band the Mavericks. Born in Miami of Cuban parents, he made his mark in the country music world and then drift...
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Woodsongs 591: Jesse Malin and The Vespers�� from 2010-10-10T21:55:28
JESSE MALIN is hardcore/punk veteran from NYC turned folk singer-songwriter. He has cultivated a devout fan base from his days of fronting seminal hardcore trio Heart Attack and infamous glam punks...
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Woodsongs 590: Beth McKee and Cedric Watson �� from 2010-10-10T21:45:28
BETH McKEE is a Southern singer/songwriter/pianist/accordion player. A former member of the popular New Orleans country-cajun group Evangeline (MCA Records) McKee toured extensively behind two crit...
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Woodsongs 589: Munnelly adn Butch Ross �� from 2010-10-10T21:35:28
MUNNELLY is one of the hottest bands on the traditional Celtic music scene. Led by button accordion virtuoso David Munnelly, who came to attention in his early twenties touring and recording with T...
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Woodsongs 583: John Lee Hooker Jr. and Tierra Negra&Muriel Anderson from 2010-06-22T22:54:28
JOHN LEE HOOKER JR. is the son of the great John Lee Hooker. He was exposed to the life of the blues by touring alongside his dad throughout his teens. Unfortunately, while living the"life of a blu...
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Woodsongs 582: Kacey Jones�and HuDost� from 2010-06-19T22:54:28
KACEY JONES is a sassy, sexy trio of performing songwriters will make you laugh, scream, cry, and ... did we say laugh? ... her songs include"Every Man I Love is Either Married, Gay, or Dead"and he...
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Woodsongs 581: Cherryholmes and Kenny White from 2010-06-18T22:54:28
CHERRYHOLMES return to bluegrass as the reigning “First family of Bluegrass.� They have stormed to the top of the music world since winning the 2005 IBMA Award for Entertainer of the Year. As littl...
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Woodsongs 580: The Farewell Drifters&JP Pennington from 2010-06-17T22:54:28
THE FAREWELL DRIFTERS are one of the most powerful, striking new bands in Bluegrass, a young quintet that plays with the intensity of Mountain Heart and the fire of the New Grass Revival and, in th...
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Woodsongs 579: Morgan O'kane and Becky Schlegel from 2010-05-24T22:54:28
MORGAN O�KANE is a raw, roots, aggresive banjo and old-time musician with something powerful to say. An intensely talented musician from Charlottesville, Virginia, his distinct sound is an evolutio...
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Woodsongs 578: Janiva Magness and Crooked Still from 2010-05-17T22:54:28
JANIVA MAGNESS returns to the WoodSongs stage as the reigning 2009 Blues Music Entertainer of the Year, only the second woman ever to win this award. Although Magness is now a bona fide blues star,...
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Woodsongs 587: Tift Merritt&Dangermuffin from 2010-05-17T13:35:15
TIFT MERRITT has already produced an impressive body of work and earned a passionate, dedicated audience. A North Carolina native, Tift began her music career in the clubs in Chapel Hill. Though sh...
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Woodsongs 587: Tift Merritt&Dangermuffin from 2010-05-17T13:35:15
TIFT MERRITT has already produced an impressive body of work and earned a passionate, dedicated audience. A North Carolina native, Tift began her music career in the clubs in Chapel Hill. Though sh...
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Woodsongs 577: Jim Byrnes&Steve Dawson and Carolyn Martin from 2010-05-16T22:54:28
JIM BYRNES&STEVE DAWSON are Canadian Juno award winning musicians performing material from the Mississippi Sheiks tribute CD called “Things About Comin� My Way�. Jim is an American-born actor and m...
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Woodsongs 575: George Winston from 2010-04-21T22:54:28
GEORGE WINSTON burst onto the music scene in the early 1980�s with his iconic impressionist style and a collection of seasonal-themed recordings. Since 1980, he has released nine other solo albums:...
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Woodsongs 573: Jakob Dylan&3 Legs featuring Neko Case&Kelly Hogan� and Jayme Stone&Yaccouba Sissoko� from 2010-03-27T12:57:46
JAKOB DYLAN returns to the WoodSongs Stage with his NEW solo album “Women and Country� on Columbia Records. Soulful yet striking and ripe with sublime beauty, it is the follow up to the artist�s 20...
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Woodsongs 572: Exile and Carla Gover from 2010-03-26T12:57:46
EXILE is Kentucky�s own supergroup made up of J.P. Pennington, Sonny LeMaire, Les Taylor, Steve Goetzman and Marlon Hargis. The band's hits include"Give Me One More Chance,"as well as the 1978 pop ...
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Woodsongs 571: The South Memphis String Band and Quebe Sisters Band from 2010-03-25T12:57:46
THE SOUTH MEMPHIS STRING BAND is a trio composed of Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), Alvin Youngblood Hart (Grammy-winning bluesman) and Jimbo Mathus (Squirrel Nut Zippers). Although ...
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Woodsongs 570: The Dust Busters and Moreland&Arbuckle from 2010-03-24T12:57:46
THE DUST BUSTERS are an old-time string band based out of Brooklyn, New York. They strive to integrate a wide range of old-time songs, ballads, fiddle tunes and jug band blues into every performanc...
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Woodsongs 565: Robin&Linda Williams�and Si Kahn from 2010-02-22T15:07:41
ROBIN&LINDA WILLIAMS return to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new CD on Red House Records called Buena Vista. The couple met in 1971 and the two debuted on A Prairie Home Companion back in 1975. ...
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Woodsongs 564: Brandi Carlile�and Matt Morris from 2010-02-12T13:49:35
BRANDI CARLILE rrich voice and literate storytelling belie her youth. After debuting with a self-titled album in 2005, the Washington State-bred Carlile saw her fanbase mushroom with her sophomore ...
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Woodsongs 561: Oscar Brand�and Josh White Jr.� from 2010-01-12T15:00:12
OSCAR BRAND is one of the last remaining fathers of North American Folk Music. Oscar, a native of Winnipeg, who recently released his 100th record album, will be celebrating his 90th Birthday. He h...
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Woodsongs 550: Battlefield Band�and Pauly Zarb� from 2009-11-28T17:38:52
BATTLEFIELD BAND from Scotland has been performing on the international scene for more than three decades, and is one of the premier Celtic bands in the world. Founded in 1969 and named after the �...
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Woodsongs 548: Mark O'Connor&The Appalachia Waltz Trio and special surprise guest Tommy Emmanuel from 2009-11-28T16:38:52
MARK O�CONNOR is a multi-Grammy-winning violinist and composer who is widely recognized as one of the most gifted contemporary composers in America, and one of the brightest talents of his generati...
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Woodsongs 546: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy� and Zack Brock� from 2009-09-25T16:38:52
BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY bring their bib-band fusion of classic American sounds from jazz, swing, to Dixieland to the WoodSongs Stage for one incredible night of music. Since their arrival on the music...
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Woodsongs 545: Diana Jones�and Carbon Leaf� from 2009-09-24T16:38:52
DIANA JONES returns to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new CD titled Better Times Will Come on Proper American Records. It�s been three years since her breakthrough CD My Remembrance of You made D...
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Woodsongs 544: Chuck McCabe and Mitch Barrett� from 2009-09-23T16:38:52
CHUCK McCABE is a master storyteller in the tradition of the great folk troubadours. A vein of humor and a theme of respect run through McCabe�s distinctly award winning songwriting. His delivery d...
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Woodsongs 542: Ray Bonneville and Those Darlins from 2009-08-25T16:38:52
RAY BONNEVILLE is a distinctive artist, a man who cooks up a deep blues groove, blending a unique percussive electric guitar style, a weathered voice, and soulful rack harmonica into image provokin...
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Woodsongs 541: Jake Shimabukuro from 2009-08-10T14:38:52
JAKE SHIMABUKURO returns to the WoodSongs stage for a one hour Special Event Broadcast. Jake is recognized as one of the world's most exciting and innovative ukulele players and composers. Born in ...
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Woodsongs 540: The Greencards and Reid Genauer from 2009-07-15T22:51:44
THE GREENCARDS return to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new album called"Fascination"on Sugar Hill Records. The critically acclaimed band�s love and respect for country, Americana, blues and blue...
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Woodsongs 539: Cyril Neville and Rob Ickes from 2009-07-14T22:51:44
CYRIL NEVILLE is the youngest of the beloved group, the Neville Brothers. Born in New Orleans to a musical family, Cyril began singing professionally at 19 and released his first single in 1970. In...
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Woodsongs 537: Trevor Hall�and Among The Oak&Ash� from 2009-07-13T14:38:52
TREVOR HALL is originally from South Carolina and is most known for his song"Other Ways"which was featured in the Shrek III motion picture soundtrack. He has been writing and performing since his e...
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Woodsongs 536: Kasey Jones and The Bats from 2009-07-12T14:38:52
KACEY JONES brings her"body of work"back to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new CD titled Donald Trump�s Hair. It�s the hilarious follow-up to her previous comedy album,"Nipples to the Wind"and co...
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Woodsongs 533: Rhonda Vincent&The Rage and Guy Davis from 2009-06-16T14:38:52
RHONDA VINCENT&THE RAGE is a true superstar in the world of bluegrass. They return to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new release on Rounder Records called Destination Life. The new album features...
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Woodsongs 531: Steve Wariner tribute to Chet Atkins from 2009-05-21T14:38:52
STEVE WARINER is a superstar of country music. His latest project is a tribute to his mentor and friend Chet Atkins. Steve first met Chet in 1977, who then quickly signed Steve to RCA Records. Stev...
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Woodsongs 530 : Maura O'Connell and Si Kahn from 2009-05-18T14:38:52
MAURA O�CONNELL is a wonderful, interpretive singer. This Grammy nominated singer spent nearly two years working on a project she�s been wanting to do for a very long time. Born and raised in Count...
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Woodsongs 526: GiveWay and Danny Schmidt� from 2009-05-14T14:46:19
GIVEWAY is a band based in Scotland, four very talented sisters performing traditional Celtic and cross-over music. They have been performing from a very early age and feature vocals, fiddle, guita...
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Woodsongs 528: Beausoleil from 2009-05-14T14:38:52
BEAUSOLEIL bring their Grammy winning Cajun music to WoodSongs for a Special Event Broadcast. Since forming in 1975, BeauSoleil claimed their undisputed role as the most esteemed Cajun group in mus...
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Woodsongs 527: The Flatlanders� from 2009-04-24T14:17:13
THE FLATLANDERS are Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock. That their first go-round as The Flatlanders in 1972 was completely rejected by the country music establishment is surprising in ...
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Woodsongs 525: Michael Martin Murphey� and Tom Rush from 2009-04-10T14:17:13
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY song"Wildfire"was one of the biggest pop hits of the 70's. He returns to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new bluegrass CD called Buckaroo BlueGrass. TOM RUSH impact on the A...
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Woodsongs 521: Dan Crary�and Shemekia Copeland� from 2009-03-20T15:03:58
DAN CRARY is a musical legend, a pioneer and a master of the guitar. With more than 50 years as a performer, he�s a flatpicking stylist with an international reputation for innovation, taste and br...
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Woodsongs 520: Kelleigh McKenzie�and Slide� from 2009-03-19T15:03:58
KELLEIGH McKENZIE just received three Independent Music Award nominations, with her song"Gin"winning Best Americana Song, and she was named a winner in last fall�s Mountain Stage NewSong Contest. S...
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Woodsongs 516: Punch Brothers from 2009-03-19T14:11:33
PUNCH BROTHERS featuring Chris Thile return to the WoodSongs Stage for a one hour Special Event Broadcast. The focus of this broadcast will be the band�s four-movement suite that is the heart of Pu...
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Woodsongs 519: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau� from 2009-02-25T15:46:02
The two act, four character play is a conversation between Thoreau and Emerson set during the final two days Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. Over 7,100 colleges and schools h...
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Woodsongs 518: Hal Ketchum�and Dailey&Vincent from 2009-02-23T15:46:02
HAL KETCHUM�s latest CD Father Time is the ninth album in a distinguished musical career that includes such indelible Top 10 hits as"Small Town Saturday Night,""Past The Point of Rescue,""Hearts Ar...
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Woodsongs 517: Lori Lieberman and Mark Olson&Gary Louris from 2009-02-22T15:46:02
LORI LIEBERMAN is one of music�s best kept secrets. Lori has remained in the spotlight since the early seventies, quietly gleaning the respect of an industry and a devoted fanbase with such hits as...
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Woodsongs 515: JJ Grey and The Duhks from 2009-02-21T19:39:21
JJ GREY was born and raised just outside of Jacksonville, Florida. Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern musical storytellers. Like the best of the great Southern writers, he fills his songs...
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Woodsongs 514: Tannahill Weavers and �Lambchop from 2009-02-21T19:25:10
THE TANNAHILL WEAVERS are one of Scotland's premier traditional bands. Named for the town's historic weaving industry and local poet laureate Robert Tannahill, the group has made an international n...
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Woodsongs 513: The Faux Frenchment and Kati Penn Band� from 2009-01-26T15:32:17
THE FAUX FRENCHMAN are acoustic guitarists Brian Lovely and George Cunningham, Don Aren on double bass, and violinist Paul Patterson. The quartet have been playing 1930�s Hot Club-inspired string b...
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Woodsongs 509: Janis Ian from 2008-11-21T14:58:21
Janis will not only be performing but will also be reading passages from her long awaited autobiography Society's Child. She stunned a generation in the 1960's with her dramatic song"Society's Chil...
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Woodsongs 508: Mary Flower and The Giving Tree Band from 2008-11-17T13:05:35
MARY FLOWER is a premier Fingerstyle Acoustic Blues Guitar player in Portland, Oregon. Working in both the intricately syncopated Piedmont fingerpicking style and her own deeply bluesy lap-slide gu...
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Woodsongs 507: The Grascals from 2008-10-28T12:55:52
THE GRASCALS return to the WoodSongs stage with a brand new release Keep on Walkin�, on Rounder Records. They are already among the most beloved and acclaimed bands on today�s bluegrass scene. They...
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Woodsongs 506: Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile from 2008-10-23T12:55:52
EDGAR MEYER&CHRIS THILE are two of the most respected and accomplished acoustic musicians on the planet. By the time he was 20 he was attracting a worldwide following as a member of the Grammy Awar...
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Woodsongs 505: The Wood Brothers and Railroad Earth from 2008-10-21T17:49:52
THE WOOD BROTHERS are made up of Oliver and Chris Wood.The Wood Brothers have begun a collaboration that combines their influences of blues, folk, and rock music. RAILROAD EARTH is a bluegrass band...
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Woodsongs 504: Jen Chapin and Natasha Borzilova� from 2008-10-17T16:11:36
JEN CHAPIN is a Brooklyn, NY native is a singer, songwriter, activist and daughter of the late folksinger Harry Chapin. NATASHA BORZILOVA was born in Russia and moved to Nashville as the lead singe...
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Woodsongs 503: Sonya Kitchell&The Slip�and Doug MacLeod� from 2008-10-13T13:53:40
SONYA KITCHELL songs are a true showcase for Kitchell's worldly voice, which, with its intimate tone and feathery falsetto, has earned her attention not only from critics, but also from one of the ...
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Woodsongs 502: Celebration of the music and legend of Robert Johnson with Rory Block and Scott Ainslie from 2008-10-12T13:44:18
ROBERT JOHNSON is among the most famous of Delta blues musicians. RORY BLOCK is the winner of five Blues Music Awards. She studied the blues as a teenager with the legendary Son House who told Rory...
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Woodsongs 501: Old Blind Dogs and Blue Mountain from 2008-09-29T13:04:21
OLD BLIND DOGS are on the cutting edge of Scotland�s roots revival. Dynamic percussion with the small pipes and whistle and a fine blend of guitar, cittern, fiddle with rich vocals. BLUE MOUNTAIN h...
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Woodsongs 500: Richie Havens from 2008-09-17T02:26:06
Richie Havens is an icon of the folk world who first rose to fame in the music scene that also fostered Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. In 1969 Havens opened the Woodstock Festival. His performance receiv...
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Woodsongs 497: Beoga and Nick Ogawa from 2008-08-25T15:57:33
BEOGA is the Irish word for �lively�. The group is a five-piece traditional band based in County Antrim, Ireland. NICK OGAWA is a cellist and songwriter from Brooklyn, New York. His new album, Int...
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Woodsongs 498: Chuck Leavell and Tori Sparks from 2008-08-25T12:52:15
CHUCK LEAVELL is one of the most respected piano player and keyboardist in music, as well as one of the most dedicated and revered conservationists in the world. TORI SPARKS called"a knockout"by th...
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Woodsongs 496: The Homemade Jamz Blues Band and The Barra MacNeils from 2008-08-24T19:03:45
HOMEMADE JAMZ BLUES BAND are three young siblings from Tueplo, MS whose firey original blues tunes are played on homemade guitars made out of car mufflers. THE BARRA MacNEILS are a family group tha...
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Woodsongs 493:The Gabe Dixon Band�and Caroline Herring from 2008-07-28T14:16:20
THE GABE DIXON BAND was formed with Dixon - then a classical piano major at the University of Miami - and his two college roommates, bassist Winston Harrison and drummer Jano Rix.Gabe played keyboa...
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Woodsongs 492: Bill Sims Jr.&Mark LaVoie and The Belleville Outfit from 2008-07-15T19:08:50
BILL SIMS JR. and MARK LaVOIE have been playing their brand of front porch acoustic blues for almost 15 years. THE BELLEVILLE OUTFIT is startling six-piece ensemble from Austin, TX that�s mix of gy...
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Woodsongs 491: The Del McCoury Band and Chris Knight from 2008-07-15T12:08:50
THE DEL McCOURY BAND is the premier bluegrass band in America and returns to the WoodSongs stage for a one hour special event devoted to their new album Moneyland which is a hard-hitting look at ec...
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Woodsongs 490: Jakob Dylan&The Gold Mountain Rebels�and Minton Sparks� from 2008-07-15T12:08:50
Jakob Dylan is the lead singer of The Wallflowers who had a monster hit with the song"One Headlight."He is also the songwriter son of the legendary Bob Dylan. MINTON SPARKS Minton paints word pictu...
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Woodsongs 489: Takeharu Kunimoto&The Last Frontier and Hot Club of Cowtown� from 2008-07-10T13:08:50
TAKEHARU KUNIMOTO&THE LAST FRONTIER is the world�s first bluegrass band incorporating the Japanese traditional music instrument"shamisen"in their compositions. Hot Club of Cowtown bring their high ...
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Woodsongs 486: Andres Osborne and The Hillbilly Gypsies from 2008-06-23T13:03:19
ANDERS OSBORNE is a Grammy winning songwriter, singer and guitarist who�s song"Watch the Wind Blow By"was a number one hit for Tim McGraw. THE HILLBILLY GYPSIES are a West Virginia string band who ...
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Woodsongs 485: Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet from 2008-05-27T12:45:43
ABIGAIL WASHBURN and the SPARROW QUARTET explore a mixture of old-time, folk, and bluegrass numbers, as well as intriguing original songs. Abigail�s solo work balances her affinity for Chinese cult...
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Woodsongs 484: Janiva Magness and Griffin House from 2008-05-21T13:20:06
JANIVA MAGNESS is a LA based blues and soul vocalist is a three-decade darling of the blues genre. GRIFFIN HOUSE is a 27 year old who reveals a wealth of soulfulness and sincerity well beyond his...
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Woodsongs 483: Tim Krekel Orchestra and Anna Laube from 2008-05-17T01:15:51
TIM KREKEL has a warm, personal vocal style and has perfected his own distinctive guitar playing. ANNA LAUBE brand of folk music merges country, blues, and Americana with her sultry voice.
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Woodsongs 482: James McMurtry and Justin Townes Earle from 2008-05-13T13:34:53
JAMES McMURTRY is a Texas native and a hard core Trobadour. His songs chronicle the human condition with a slight political edge. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE is the son of legendary songwriter Steve Earle....
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Woodsongs 477: Tim O'Brien from 2008-03-30T12:35:20
TIM O�BRIEN returns to the WoodSongs stage for a full one hour SPECIAL EVENT broadcast. Tim, of course, is a master musician who was born in West Virginia. He made his way out to Colorado and forme...
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Woodsongs 476: The SteelDrivers and Carrie Newcomer from 2008-03-29T02:05:44
THE STEELDRIVERS play what might be called bluegrass soul. Imagine a great bluegrass band playing with, say, Joe Cocker singing. You read right. The band is comprised of a group of veteran Nashvill...
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Woodsongs 472: The Blind Boys Of Alabama from 2008-02-21T21:09:36
The BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA return to the WoodSongs stage for to perform material from their latest CD Down in New Orleans. The Blind Boys of Alabama have spread the spirit and energy of pure soul mu...
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