Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull.
Another fun mix of the old and the new in bluegrass music this week. Here's how we picked it:
(Intro - Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - Watermelon Hanging On The Vine / Roanoke - Off The Record, Vol. 1: Live Recordings, 1956-1969 - Smithsonian Folkways
EBBY JEWELL & THE BLUEGRASS KINSMEN - Hard Times Keep Calling Out Your Name - Renewal - TBK
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RED ALLEN - Troubles Around My Door - The Folkways Years 1964-1983 - Smithsonian Folkways
JIMMY MARTIN - Poor Ellen Smith - Don't Cry To Me - Thrill Jockey
MAC WISEMAN - Girl Of My Dreams - Classic Bluegrass - Rebel
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TUMBLING BONES - Bound To Ride - Loving A Fool - Self
BRYAN SUTTON - Ole Blake - Into My Own - Sugar Hill
RONNIE MCCOURY - Evangelina - Heartbreak Town - Rounder
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THE DAUGHTERS OF BLUEGRASS (Michell Nixon) - Never Can Forgive Until I Forget - Pickin' Like A Girl - Blue Circle
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RALPH STANLEY & RALPH STANLEY II - I've Still Got 99 - Side By Side - Rebel
RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER - Little Maggie - Bluegrass Rules! - Skaggs Family