
Homespun
Saturdays from 6pm - 7pm
'Homespun' is a program that focuses on the "traditional" side of music, although that can stretch from very old 78 rpm reissues to the contemporary music of today. Host Tom Ball says there are only two kinds of music: good music and bad music, and he strives to focus on the good each week!
Latest Episodes
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…The Sounds of Easter grace the next edition of Homespun with The Poplin Family, Hot Rize, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, Johnny Cash, The Dixie Hummingbirds, and so much more!
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…It’s a swingin’ time on this week’s Homespun with Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies, plus the Swamp Cats! We’ll also celebrate the 30th Anniversary release of Guy Clark’s “Dublin Blues” and we’ll spin a couple tracks from the new Kane & Gellert recording “Volume 4”!
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…This week on Homespun is a cause for celebration and sorrow as we celebrate the life and music of one of the greatest musicians of traditional American Roots music, Tracy Schwarz, and the 50th Anniversary of JD Crowe and the New South’s Rounder Double 0 44. We’ll hear the influence that both these artists had on music in their time right up to today.
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…Spring is trying to arrive these days , and on Homespun this week we have music to clean out flower beds from the Lynn Morris Band, (NEW) Seldom Scene, and guitar picker Bryan Sutton! We’ll also celebrate the 50th anniversary of Joni’s Mitchell’s “Hissing of Summer Lawns”, AND the 60th Anniversary of Bob Dylan’s “Bringing it All Back Home”!
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…On the next edition of Homespun, we dive into the stacks of the early 70’s, with music from Don Stover, The White Bros. “Live in Sweden,” and the first Red Clay Ramblers release! We’ll also leap ahead and hear new releases from The Seldom Scene, and all acoustic Jason Isbell!
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……50 years ago this year, one of the best selling Bluegrass albums of all time, “Old and in the Way,” was released, and on this week’s edition of Homespun we’ll re-visit this classic album along with solo projects from Old and in the Way’s David Grisman and Peter Rowan…and we’ll celebrate Doc Watson’s birthday with a couple of his classic sides!
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…Well, The Paczki’s are all baked up, and the Gumbo is on simmer, so on the next Homespun we’ll sample some of the sounds of Louisiana with Marc and Ann Savoy and Breaux Freres! We’ll also hear new music from Chatham Rabbits, Gary Louris, plus Drew and Ellie Holcomb.
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…It feels like winter is trying to break a bit, so with this edition of Homespun we’ll melt the ice with music from Mandolin master Dave Apollon, guitar swinger Oscar Aleman, along with blues picker Lonnie Johnson! We’ll also hear some new music from the Lucky Nows, and former Jayhawks frontman Gary Louris!
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This week’s Homespun features new music from Nefesh Mountain, Mindy Smith, and the Trio of Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart! We’ll also give a nod to John Hartford, and hear an unreleased track from JD Crowe and The New South CA. 1975!
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Homespun this week ventures into new music from Woody Platt, Rebecca Frazier, and Appalachian Smoke! We get Old Timey with Dirk Powell and The Onlies, and we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Guy Clark’s debut album “Old No. 1.”