This week we’ll be listening to some fine old-time tunes from West Virginia greats, including Wilson Douglas, Gandydancer, and Dwight Diller. We’ll also sample music from some of the finest songwriters from the Mountain State, including Billy Edd Wheeler, Kate Long, John Lilly, Tim O’Brien and lots more. Spend some time in the Mountain State … 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
The Modock Rounders / “West Fork Girls” / Old Tunes & New Blood / Buffalo Skinner
Gandydancer / “Boozefighters” / The Appalachians / Dualtone
Franklin George w/ John Summers / “Fiddle Medley” / Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle &
              Bagpipes / County
Phyllis Marks / “Scatter Seeds of Kindness” / Rare Archival Recordings from The West Virginia State Folk
              Festival / WV State Folk Festival
Wilson Douglas / “Sandy River Belles” / Fiddle Tunes from West Virginia / Self-produced

Joe Herrmann / “Itzy’s Polka” / Gather Round / Yodel-Ay-Hee
Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller / “Fun’s All Over” / Deep End Session II / Deep End Sessions
Dwight Diller / “Shady Grove” / New Plowed Ground / Yew Pine
Ben Townsend & Friends / “Roaring River” / Deep End Session III / Deep End Session
The Modock Rounders / “Camp Chase” / Old Tunes & New Blood / Buffalo Skinner

Billy Edd Wheeler / “High Flying Bird” / Paper Birds / Kapp
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “Won’t You Come and Sing for Me” / Pioneering Women of
              Bluegrass Smithsonian Folkways
Kate Long / “McNamarra’s Tear” / Bigolady / Roane
Todd Burge / “Change (For Clean Water)” / Imitation Life / Bunj Jam
Tim O’Brien / “Where the River Meets the Road” / Where the River Meets the Road / Howdy Skies
John Lilly / “West Virginia Hills” / State Songs / Self-produced
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways