Rockabilly Rascal Chuck Mead & Heralding the Folk with Alice Gerrard

Chuck Mead, co-founder of the legendary Nashville country rock band, BR549 tells tales of being born into a Kansas family of musicians with their own radio show and infiltrating his way into a whole new Nashville underground music, bar and dance scene. Then, conversation with Alice Gerrard, musician, advocate for old time music and known for her collaboration with West Virginia native Hazel Dickens as a rare female bluegrass duo in the 1960s. Plus music from Bob Dylan, Wanda Jackson, The Balfa Brothers and Johnny Shines.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Even If It's Wrong BR459
BR459, Sony

Hillbilly Rock Marty Stuart
Hillbilly Rock, MCA

Rock Your Baby Wanda Jackson
Rockin’ With Wanda, Capitol

Hip Shakin' Baby Roy Brown
Roy Brown: The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol

Baby Let's Play House John Prine
Pink Cadillac, Elektra

Don't Say It Margo Price
All American Made, Third Man Records

Honky Tonkin' Hank Williams
Honky Tonkin’: Hank Williams, UMG

Tootsie's Orchid Lounge Hank Cochran
Sally Was a Good Girl, Bear Family

Instrumental: Honky Tonk The Ventures
Walk Don’t Run, Capitol

Segment: Chuck Mead

One Long Saturday Night Chuck Mead and the Grassy Knoll Boys
Live at the 2022 Montana Folk Festival in Butte, MT

7 Nights to Rock Chuck Mead and the Grassy Knoll Boys
Live at the 2022 Montana Folk Festival in Butte, MT

Instrumental: Sleep Walk The Ventures
Walk Don’t Run, Capitol

This Cat's in the Doghouse Rosie Flores
Girl of the Century, Bloodshot Records

Waymore's Blues Waylon Jennings
Dreaming My Dreams, Sony

Rockabilly Funeral Bill Kirchen
The Proper Years, Last Music

Sunday Morning Coming Down Kris Kristofferson
The Essential Kris Kristofferson, Sony

End Bed: Bandera Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Sony

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: Banjo Picking Girl Hazel and Alice
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Rounder

Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow Lily May Ledford & the Coon Creek Girls
Legends of Old Time Music–50 Years of County Records, County

Dynaflow Blues Johnny Shines
Chicago–The Blues Today, Vanguard

Lay My Burden Down James “Sparky” Rucker
James “Sparky” Rucker, L&R Records

In the Pines Strange Creek Singers
The Strange Creek Singers, Smithsonian Folkways

Les Veuves de la Coulée Balfa Brothers
J’Ai Vu Le Loup, Le Renard Et La Belette, Rounder

Instrumental: Little Sadie Bill Keith and Jim Rooney
Folk Music at Newport Part 1, Vanguard

Segment: Alice Gerrard

Apple Brandy Joseph Decosimo and Alice Gerrard
While You Were Slumbering, Sleepy Cat Records

The River St. Johns Jake Xerxes Fussell
Out of Sight, Paradise of Bachelors

Instrumental: Cannonball Rag Bill Frisell
Guitar in the Space Age, Okeh

The Man in Me Bob Dylan
New Morning, Columbia

Space and Time S.G. Goodman
Old Time Feeling, Verve Forecast

I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes
Classic Old Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways, Smithsonian Folkways

Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh) Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl Ballads, Buddha Records

Closing Bed: Wellington Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
Hurricane Clarice, Free Dirt Records

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