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. The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week.
(Intro - Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - Watermelon Hanging On The Vine / Roanoke - Off The Record, Vol. 1: Live Recordings, 1956-1969 - Smithsonian Folkways)
DONNA HUGHES - Facebook - From The Heart - Running Dog
(break)
MAC WISEMAN - Blue Ridge Mountain Blues - Songs From My Mother's Hand - Wrinkled
(April Verch & Mac Wiseman promo)
APRIL VERCH (with Mac Wiseman) - The Only One - Bright Like Gold - Slab Town
JIM & JESSE - Uncle Will Played The Fiddle - Bluegrass And More (Disc 1) - Bear Family
(break)
THE CHURCH SISTERS - Never Were My Baby - There's You - Self
(Caleb Smith ID for Music for the Mountain)
BALSAM RANGE - Too High A Price - Five - Mountain Home
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN - I Am Weary - The Young Fisherwoman - Rebel
(breaK)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS - Now, The Summer's Gone - Another Day From Life - Rebel
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS - You Live In A World All Your Own - Bluegrass 1959-1969 (disc 1)
JIMMY MARTIN - 20-20 Vision - Songs Of A Freeborn Man - CMH
(break)
LARRY SPARKS - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke - Lonesome And Then Some: A Classic 50th Celebration - Rebel
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS - The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake - Memories Of The Past - Rebel
(break)
MICHELLE NIXON & DRIVE - Making Memories Without You - A Place I Belong - Mountain Fever
RUSS CARSON - You Can Take Your Time - Last Chance - Patuxent
BOBBY HICKS - Comanche Hit & Run - Fiddle Patch - Rounder
SIERRA HULL - Secrets - Secrets - Rounder (break)
(Outro - Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - Y'all Come - Off The Record, Vol. 1: Live Recordings, 1956-1969 - Smithsonian Folkways)