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Cerys Matthews’ Appalachian Journey

Cerys Matthews celebrates Old Time music, then and now.

Cerys Matthews celebrates Old Time music, then and now, honing in on the story of migrants leaving the old world for fortune in the new - taking the old songs and sowing the seeds that would become Country music.
Featured artists include: Lucinda Williams, the Carter Family, Dolly Parton, Doc Watson, Anais Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Josh White, Diana Jones, Gordie Mackeeman and his rhythm boys, East Pointers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

1 hour

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Sun 13 Mar 2016 13:00

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Music Played

  • Doc Watson

    Shady Grove

    • The Definitive Doc Watson.
    • Sugar Hill Records.
    • 2.
  • Gwen Foster & Clarence Tom Ashley

    Rising Sun Blues (House Of The Rising Sun)

    • Rising Sun Blues.
    • Vocalion.
    • 1.
  • Hurray for the Riff Raff

    Black Jack Davey

    • My Dearest Darkest Neighbour.
    • Mod Mobilian Records.
    • 4.
  • Woody Guthrie

    Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet

    • Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
    • 5.
  • Bob Dylan

    Pretty Saro (Self Portrait)

    • Another Self Portrait (The Bootleg Series) 1969-71.
    • Sony Legacy.
    • 3.
  • Dolly Parton, Altan & Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh

    Barbara Allen (live)

    • Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage From Scotland And Ulster To Appalachia.
    • The University of North Carolina Press.
    • 1.
  • Bill Monroe

    Scotland

    • Bluegrass Instrumentals.
    • Decca.
  • Alan Burke

    The Devil And The Farmer's Wife

    • Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage From Scotland And Ulster To Appalachia.
    • The University of North Carolina Press.
    • 2.
  • Roscoe Holcomb

    In The Pines

    • The High Lonesome Sound.
    • Smithsonian Folkway Recordings.
    • 12.
  • Nina Simone

    Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (Live In New York 1964)

    • See-Line Woman: The Best of Nina Simone.
    • Spectrum.
    • 10.
  • Emile Benoit

    Festival Reel /Jeff's Tune /Meech Lake Breakdown/McCormick's Breakdown

    • Vive La Rose.
    • Celtic America.
    • 8.
  • Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys

    Ridin the Fiddle

    • Laugh Dance & Sing.
    • Gordie MacKeeman And His Rhythm Boys.
    • 1.
  • Dori Freeman

    Go On Lovin

    • Dori Freeman.
    • Free Dirt Records.
    • 3.
  • The Carter Family

    Single Girl Married Girl

    • The Bristol Sessions.
    • RCA.
    • 7.
  • Fairport Convention

    Matty Groves

    • Liege & Leaf.
    • Island Records.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sun 13 Mar 2016 13:00

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