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WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN: COUNTRY STRINGS AND JAZZ VIBES

We’ll re-visit the moment when the “California long-hairs” took over a Nashville studio to pay tribute to aging country heroes. A look back at the 1972 LP Will The Circle Be Unbroken with John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and his memories of those historic sessions. Then, a conversation with another musician familiar with Nashville, jazz vibraphone master Gary Burton. Plus a visit with Jake Shimabukuro, for whom any genre is a fine match for the ukulele.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: "Wabash Cannonball" Bashful Brother Oswald, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Junior Husky and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • "Grand Ol' Opry Song" Jimmy Martin and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken , Capitol
  • "Tennessee Stud" Doc Watson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • "9 Pound Hammer" Merle Travis and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • "Green, Green Grass of Home" Joan Baez
    David's Album, Vanguard
  • "Keep on the Sunny Side" Mother Maybelle Carter and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • Instrumental: "Down Yonder" Doc Watson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • "You Ain't Going Nowhere" The Byrds
    Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Columbia
  • "Teach Your Children" The Country Gentlemen
    35 Years of the Best in Bluegrass, Rebel
  • "Honky-Tonk Blues" The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • "To Be Alone With You" Bob Dylan
    Nashville Skyline, Columbia
  • Instrumental: "Cannonball Rag" Merle Travis and Junior Husky
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • SEGMENT: John McEuen

    Listen
  • "Grayson County Blues" No Speed Limit
    Bluegrass Lullaby, Virginia Humanities Foundation
  • "Georgie Buck" Carolina Chocolate Drops
    Heritage, Music Maker Fdn.
  • "I Saw the Light" Roy Acuff and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" The Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway, Capitol
  • End Bed: "The End of the World" The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: "Move" Gary Burton
    For Hamp, Red, Bags, and Cal, Concord
  • "Flying Home" Lionel Hampton with Benny Goodman
    The Essential Benny Goodman, Columbia/Bluebird
  • "Velociraptor" Tom Morell and the Time-Warp Tophands
    Go Uptown: How the West was Swung Vol. V, WR Records
  • "Muskrat Candlelight" Willis Alan Ramsey
    Willis Alan Ramsey, Koch
  • "Our Day Will Come" Ruby and the Romantics
    Our Day will Come: The Very Best of Ruby and the Romantics, RPM
  • "Windshield Wipers" Ken Nordine
    Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure's Wink, Asphodel
  • "Blues in B Flat" Modern Jazz Quartet
    Aristocrates du swing, Warner/Rhino
  • Instrumental: "Green Mountains- Arise, Her Eyes (Live at Montreaux)" Gary Burton
    Alone at Last, Rhino Atlantic
  • SEGMENT: Gary Burton

    Listen
  • "Happy Time" Tim Buckley
    Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology, Elektra
  • "Ill Bill" Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet
    In a World of Mallets, Basin Street
  • Instrumental: "Wear a Lei" Tom Morell and the Time-Warp Tophands
    No Peddlers Allowed: How the West Was Swung Vol. VII, Warner/Reprise
  • SEGMENT: Jake Shimabukuro

    Listen
  • "Cowboy Hula (Na Cowboy)" Nani Lam Yap & Friends
    Songs of the Hawaiian Cowboy, Warner Western
  • "Over the Rainbow/It's a Wonderful World" Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
    Meet Joe Black sountrack, Universal
  • End Bed: "Sailin' on to Hawaii" Bashful Brother Oswald, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Jr. Huskey
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol

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