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New and classic Americana and alternative country music, featuring an interview with Mavis Staples previewing the special programme on Easter Monday.

An interview with Mavis Staples previewing the special programme on Easter Monday. Mavis knew Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Prince and Martin Luther King. More recently she's recorded You're Not Alone with Jeff Tweedy from Wilco, which has just won a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album. Her career as a gospel & soul singer and civil rights activist spans more than sixty years.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 24 Apr 2011 22:05

Music Played

  • Emmylou Harris

    The Road

  • Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys

    I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling

  • Fleet Foxes

    Montezuma

  • Waylon Jennings

    Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?

  • Steve Earle

    I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

  • Bob Dylan

    Ring Them Bells

  • Tom Jones

    What Good Am I?

  • Mavis Staples

    Don't Knock

  • Mavis Staples

    You Are Not Alone

  • Okkervil River

    Rider

  • Tom Waits

    Lord I've Been Changed

  • Gregg Allman

    Little By Little

  • Elvis Presley - So High

  • k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang

    Habit Of Mind

  • Josh T. Pearson

    Woman When I've Raised Hell

  • Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss - I'll Fly Away

  • Hurray for the Riff Raff

    Slow Walk

  • Bob Dylan

    Most Of The Time

  • Reverend Gary Davis

    Let Us Get Together

  • Sean Rowe

    Time To Think

  • The Jayhawks

    Blue

  • Mary Gauthier

    Mercy Now

  • Timber Timbre

    Creep On Creepin' On

  • The Welcome Wagon

    Up On A Mountain

Broadcasts

  • Fri 22 Apr 2011 20:05
  • Sun 24 Apr 2011 22:05

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