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Category Archives: Archival Productions
Time for the Christmas Extravaganza—from 1989!
REMEMBER PART 2, SATURDAY THE 24TH AT 9AM! ANOTHER ARCHIVAL HILLBILLY AT HARVARD By 1989 the Christmas Extravaganza was an established tradition for Hillbilly at Harvard, featuring “four hours of the very best, and the very worst, of country Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in Archival Productions, Bluegrass, Friends and Neighbors, HA'pennings, Hillbilly History, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk
Tagged Bill Boyd, Buck Owens, Bucky Bear, Da Yoopers, Ed (The Detective) Muller, Evan Riley, Flo Murdock, George Hauenstein, Gordy Brown, Hillbilly at Harvard Christmas Extravaganza, John Lincoln Wright, Larry Flint, Mark Burns, Reno and Smiley
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It’s 1985, and The Critton Hollow String Band Are in Town!
If there is a better name for an old-timey music town than Paw Paw, West Virginia, I don’t know what it is. And that’s where The Critton Hollow String Band are from. Their core founders are Joe and Sam Herrmann, … Continue reading
The Beep, and How to Make It
Long-time listeners to Hillbilly at Harvard (HAH) will know how we have preserved older styles of music broadcasting, especially ‘top 40’ radio, with breaks after every song, and also our custom to begin and end the program on time, to … Continue reading
Posted in Archival Productions, Hillbilly History
Tagged 'Make the Beep', Beth Potier, Brian Sinclair (Ol' Sinc), Claverly Hall, David Elliott, Dudley Gulch, Foggy Mountain Jamboree, Hillbilly at Harvard, Lester Flatt Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, Mike Eisenstadt, Naval Observatory, Pennypacker Hall, Peter Wolf, Rambler, Terry Allen, WBCN, Western Union Clock, WHRB
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Update from the Road
We’re in Monte Santo State Park, near Huntsville, Alabama. Much to report, but no time now. We’re heading out tomorrow for the DeSoto Falls Campground, in northern Georgia. Hoping to take in a stop in Dalton, Georgia where there is … Continue reading
Home-Brewed, Archived, Pre-empted
I’m continuing tomorrow with the current spate of home-brewed Hillbilly Home Recordings, two-hour shows that I’m recording here at home. Listeners tell me they don’t sound too awful, and I am getting better at manipulating this little mixer. Next week, … Continue reading
Remember Part II with Tish
ANOTHER ARCHIVAL HILLBILLY AT HARVARD Second half of the show from May 15th, 1999, featuring Tish Hinojosa at 9 AM this morning. Tom Pittman of the Austin Lounge Lizards makes a brief appearance, too. Turns out old friend and photographer … Continue reading
Jim Rooney and Tish Hinojosa Visit “Hillbilly Central” on May 15th, 1999
ANOTHER ARCHIVAL HILLBILLY AT HARVARD “Hillbilly Central.” That’s what Sinc called it, in Studio B with Tish Hinojosa, as Jim Rooney was waving goodbye, Tom Pittman of the Austin Lounge Lizards had dropped by to say hello (the Lizards were … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Archival Productions, Bluegrass, Country History, Hillbilly History, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk
Tagged Austin Lounge Lizards, Big Country Bluegrass, Brad Paisley, Chip Dolan, Cousin Kate Walker, Gordy Brown, Jim Rooney, John Lincoln Wright, John Prine, Marvin Dykhuis, Tish Hinojosa, Tom Pittman
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It’s October 24, 1992, and We’ve Got Kate MacKenzie and D. L. Menard!
ANOTHER ARCHIVAL HILLBILLY AT HARVARD It’s October 24th, 1992. The Boston Bluegrass Union is bringing in Kate MacKenzie and her band Stoney Lonesome from the Twin Cities, to play at the First Church Congregational, on the corner of Garden and … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Archival Productions, Bluegrass, Cajun Music, Country History, Hillbilly History, Program Notes, Radio Talk, Rounder Records
Tagged Bill Monroe, Boston Bluegrass Union, D. L. Menard, Dave Dillon, Kate MacKenzie, Margaret Gerteis, Richard Brown, Stoney Lonesome, The Reunion Band
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June 1993: Iris DeMent Was in Town, and Live on HAH
ANOTHER ARCHIVAL HILLBILLY AT HARVARD It’s Saturday, June 5th, 1993. Hillbilly at Harvard had been preempted for a couple of weeks (probably by Orgies®) and was limited, we were told, to three hours that day. But Iris DeMent was in … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Archival Productions, Bluegrass, Country History, Hillbilly History, Program Notes, Radio Talk, Record Business, Rounder Records
Tagged Cuzin Isaac Page, Grace Furnari, Harry Lipson, Infamous Angel, Iris Dement, Jim Rooney, John Hartford, John Lincoln Wright, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Scott Alarik
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