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COUNTRY MUSIC
To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio
Patty Loveless is a coal miner's daughter. And a country
singer, just like her distant cousin Loretta Lynn. When Patty Loveless'
father contracted black lung disease the family had to move to Louisville,
Kentucky – so Patty's dad could receive medical attention.
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, how music helped
Patty Loveless deal with culture shock. Also, bluegrass banjo pioneer
Earl Scruggs.
SEGMENT 1:
Patty Loveless talks with Anne Strainchamps
about some of the music from her new album "On Your Way Home."
Loveless is one of the leaders of country's new traditionalist
movement combining old-time honky-tonk and contemporary country-rock.
And we hear lots of music.
SEGMENT 2:
Michael Streissguth is the editor of a book
called "Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Reader." Streissguth
met the Man in Black and talks with Jim Fleming about the man
and his music and what prompted him to compile his book. And of
course we hear music.
SEGMENT 3:
Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about
his long history in blue grass and country music. Scruggs played
with Bill Monroe and later with Lester Flatt and the Foggy Mountain
Boys. They're best known for "The Ballad of Jed Clampett,"
the theme from "The Beverly Hillbillies" TV show. Also,
Anthony Harkins is the author of "Hillbilly: A Cultural
History of an American Icon." Harkins tells Steve Paulson
that The real Beverly Hill Billies were a country band back in
the 1930s. His book explores the stereotype of the hillbilly and
what it has meant to American culture.
Cassette copies are available
at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 03-12-21-B.
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Books:
- Michael Streissguth,
editor, Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Reader (Da Capo
Press)
- Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural
History of an American Icon (Oxford)
Links:
Music:
- -- "The Grandpa That I
Know"/Patty Loveless from the CD, "On Your Way Home"
(Epic)
- -- "Soul Of Constant Sorrow"/Patty Loveless
from the CD, "Mountain Soul" (Sony)
- -- "Pretty Polly"/Ralph Stanley with
Patty Loveless from the CD, "Clinch Mountain Country/Ralph
Stanley & Friends" (Rebel Records)
http://www.rebelrecords.com
- -- "Sounds Of Loneliness"/Patty Loveless
from the CD, "Mountain Soul" (Sony)
- -- "Last In A Long Lonesome Line"/Patty
Loveless from the CD, "On Your Way Home" (Epic)
- -- "Ring Of Fire"/Earl Scruggs with Billy
Bob Thornton from the CD, "Earl Scruggs And Friends"
((MCA Nashville)
- -- "I Walk The Line"/Johnny Cash from
the CD, "The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Volume 1"
(Columbia)
- -- "Folsom Prison Blues"/Johnny Cash
from the CD, "Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison" (Columbia/Legacy)
- -- "Hurt"/Johnny Cash from the CD, "American
IV: The Man Comes Around" (American Recordings/Lost Highway)
- -- "The Man Comes Around"/Johnny Cash
from the CD, "American IV: The Man Comes Around" (American
Recordings/Lost Highway)
- -- "Saturday Night Shuffle"/Dave Edmunds
from the CD, "Hand Picked Musical Fantasies" (Handpicked)
- -- "Lonesome Ruben"/Earl Scruggs from
the LP, "Dueling Banjos" (Columbia)
- -- "Earl's Breakdown"/Earl Scruggs with
Family and Friends from the CD, "The Three Pickers: Earl
Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs (Rounder)
- -- "Ballad of Jed Clampett (Theme from The
Beverly Hillbillies)"/Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and
the Foggy Mountain Boys from the CD, "Earl Scruggs/Classic
Bluegrass Live 1959-1966" (Vanguard Records)
- -- "Dueling Banjos"/Earl Scruggs from
the LP, "Dueling Banjos" (Columbia)
Distribution dates:
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