not yer daddy's country music

from classic country to cowpunk, celebrating the diverse sounds at the crossroads of appalachia

[omtai]

Hate how lighting a candle does wonders to my mood. Like wowwww. Grug like fire? Grug not sad anymore because Fire in Cave? Wow. Real predictable of Grug.

[weary4u]

[curseofmeatthawsmoth]

Happy Black History Month! The thing that makes American folk music American is the interaction between Euro-American and African-American musical styles (and, it must be said, the appropriation of the latter by the former). Old-time music is often thought of as music exclusively by and for white people, but that has never been true and isn't true today. Here are some groups and artists to check out this month:

- Joe and Odell Thompson; fiddle and banjo from North Carolina, mentors to the new Carolina Chocolate Drops

- Homer Walker - clawhammer banjo player, born in WV

- Elizabeth Cotten - do I need to say more?

- Etta Baker - filigreed, intricate women's blues guitar. She also played banjo.

- The Carolina Chocolate Drops - no longer together, sadly, but one of the best stringbands of the new millenium. Check out their albums and the solo music of Chocolate Drops alums Dom Flemons, Hubby Jenkins, and Rhiannon Giddens. I especially like Dom's solo stuff and his exploration of older and neglected traditions like rhythm bones and cowboy hollers

- Jeron "Blind Boy" Paxton - incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist and one of the most charismatic performers active today

Pictured: Odell and Joe Thompson.

[highdensityrabbitsituation]

Can I plug the We Black Folk Festival at Club Passim this month? Sunday the 4th and 11th; livestream tickets can be reserved for free! They have a great list of contemporary Black folk artists, a lot of whom are multi-genre and work across traditions.

[fridaynightradio]

it's friday night in appalachia. it's just been one of those lead belly kinda weeks

"Where did you sleep last night?" by Lead Belly

[fridaynightradio]

it's friday night in appalachia, hope you're beating the winter blues

"Wildflowers" by the Blue Ridge Girls

[fridaynightradio]

well shit maybe one day I'll figure out how the schedule button works. happy friday morning :)

[fridaynightradio]

it's friday night in appalachia, hope you're beating the winter blues

"Wildflowers" by the Blue Ridge Girls

[fridaynightradio]

why does it add hashtag youtube I hate that

[fridaynightradio]

it's friday night in appalachia, take it easy out there

[fridaynightradio]

it's friday night in appalachia. can't want to escape california and head home

[slimetony]

If you’ve got 200 followers or 200,000 fillowers nobody is clicking shit if you post a link to a song☝️ and i think thats beautiful. And should keep you humble

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[dogwoodbite]

[id: a textpost by @/wdhmbt that says “There is a house in New Orleans, not the one you’ve heard about. No not that one either I’m talking about a third unrelated house” /end id]

[savouryduck]

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[fridaynightradio]

it's friday night in appalachia, time for me to head into town for some overpriced beer

[lean444]

Townes Van Zandt-Waiting Around To Die, Heartworn Highways (1976, James Szalapski)

[porkbuttsandtaters]

My man crying cause he know

[fridaynightradio]

it's friday night in appalachia, stay dry out there

[fridaynightradio]

it's friday night in appalachia and I just drove across the state and back so this one feels appropriate

[fridaynightradio]

it's Friday night in Appalachia and I'm still not quite ready for Halloween to be over, so here's one that gives me chills

[fridaynightradio]

Happy Halloween, remember to appreciate your local witch