On this week’s installment of the program we’ll feature some of my favorite music and musicians from the Mountain State. We’ll open with Hazel Dickens’ “West Virginia, My Home,” performed by Hazel and Alice Gerrard. Our theme music, “Roaring River, is from Ben Townsend, a wonderful banjo and fiddle player. We’ll follow that with lots of other musicians and tunes connected to West Virginia … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Ben Townsend and Friends / “Roaring River” / Deep End Sessions Vol. III / Deep End Sessions
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “West Virginia My Home” / Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard / Rounder
The Sky Island Stringband / “Cranberry Rock” / Adventures in Old Cranberry / Bemlar
Costa & Campbell / “Sweet Bunch of Daisies-Rise When the Rooster Crows” / with Amazing
              Jim Lloyd / Eastwood
Daniel Koulack & Karrnel Sawitsky / “Groundhog” / Songs from the South-Tunes from the North
               / Self-produced

John Lilly / “Whodunit” / Last Chance to Dance / Self-produced
Oscar Wright / “Elkhorn Ridge” / Fifty Years of County Records / County
Long Point String Band / “Piney Woods” / Piney Woods / Self-produced
Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller / “Fun’s All Over” / Deep End Sessions Vol. II / Deep End Sessions
Ben Townsend and Friends / “The Gooson Quadrille” / Deep End Sessions Vol. III /
              Deep End Sessions

Tim O’Brien / “Get Out There and Dance” / Chameleon / Howdy Skies-Proper
Billy Edd Wheeler / “Coal Tatoo” / Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back / Kapp
Kathy Mattea / “A Far Cry” / Calling Me Home / Sugar Hill
Todd Burge / “Time to Waste Time” / Imitation Life / Bunj Jam
Gandydancer / “Boozefighters” / The Appalachians / Dualtone
Dan Cunningham / “Deep River Blues” / Simple Gifts / Pickndawg
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways