August 12, 2023 -- Classic Rebroadcast

[dwarnold]

I won't be joining in the fun tomorrow, but hope there is a lively discussion!

This weeks Nashville classic originally aired on March 26, 2011.
This week, we return to a venue that seems to be intertwined with our own very long history. In fact, without the venue, A Prairie Home Companion would not exist. Garrison traveled to Nashville in early 1974 to write a feature about the Grand Ole Opry’s final show at the historic Ryman Auditorium and returned home with an idea for a Midwestern version of the radio show. This classic show from 2011 features a bevy of stars who regularly graced the Prairie Home stage.

Highlights include Emmylou Harris singing a tribute to her friend Kate McGarrigle, called “Darlin’ Kate.” The Civil Wars perform “Poison and Wine.” Sam Bush and Stuart Duncan play “Diamond Joe.” And Sara Watkins joins Garrison on “Tomorrow is Forever.” Along the way, you will enjoy a few tunes from our fine house band, scripts for Guy Noir and The Lives of the Cowboys. Plus, in Lake Wobegon, town constables Gary and Leroy respond to a dispute at the Magendanz home.

www.prairiehome.org/shows/47184.html?

Don't be confused as the link is to a rebroadcast of the original show.

[dwarnold]

Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris’s albums are mainstays in any music fan’s collection: Wrecking Ball, Luxury Liner, Roses in the Snow, The Ballad of Sally Rose, Trio, Red Dirt Girl. The list goes on and on. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in North Carolina and Virginia, Harris began playing the guitar at 16 and eventually left college to pursue a career in music. In the early 1970s, she moved to Los Angeles and joined forces with Gram Parsons, with whom she made two albums. After Parsons’ death in 1973, Harris made her major label debut, Pieces of the Sky. Now, after more than 50 years of performing and countless awards, including 14 Grammy Awards plus induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Emmylou maintains a widespread and loyal following, whether she’s singing folk, country, pop or traditional tunes.


Sam Bush
Sam Bush made his recording debut, Poor Richard's Almanac, when he was 17, after holding title as the National Junior Fiddle Champion for three consecutive years. When he was 19, he founded New Grass Revival (NGR), a band that combined a variety of music styles like rock, pop, reggae, jazz, country, and bluegrass for 18 years. NGR released 10 albums and disbanded on New Year’s Eve in 1989 by opening for the Grateful Dead. After NGR, Bush led Emmylou Harris’ Grammy-winning Nash Ramblers for five years. Bush, who plays mandolin, fiddle, and guitar, has recorded on albums by Lyle Lovett, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Leftover Salmon, and many others, and he has released over a dozen solo records, winning three Grammy Awards and being inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame. Bush’s latest release is Radio John: The Songs of John Hartford.


Stuart Duncan
Multi-instrumentalist Stuart Duncan took up fiddle at age seven. Since then, he has chalked up a career that includes two Grammys, a slew of Academy of Country Music Awards, and being named the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Fiddle Player of the Year nine times. He was a founding member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band and is perennially one of Nashville’s most sought-after session musicians, performing on thousands of recordings.


Sara Watkins
Singer, songwriter, fiddle player Sara Watkins was only eight when she, her brother Sean, and Chris Thile started the genre-bending, Grammy-winning trio Nickel Creek. Two decades later — with Nickel Creek on indefinite hiatus — she struck out on her own with recordings including 2021’s Under the Pepper Tree. Her latest album is a return to her roots: Nickel Creek recently released Celebrants, the band’s first new album in nine years.

[doctork]

Thank you for the link dw. I was caught up in other stuff, but now free to listen to the show,

Next week I might be here, but also might be visiting the kids in Seattle - yep that's kids in the plural because the one who lives back east will be here for a business meeting next week and might come a couple days early, meet up with the sister who lives in Seattle area, and possibly the brother from ATL will fly in too.

Meanwhile have a great week.