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- Running Late—But This Is Not 38—
- Time for the Christmas Extravaganza—from 1989!
- Oops! Preempted Tomorrow (Dec 3rd), Back Next Saturday
- It’s 1985, and The Critton Hollow String Band Are in Town!
- What Is a “Deep Dive”? Tony Trischka Meets Earl Scruggs at Belleville, Saturday 22Oct22.
- Molly Tuttle Back to Bluegrass—at Belleville Roots Oct 7th
- CANCEL ALERT! STREAM FIXED!
- Alert! Stream Down This Morning (17Sep)
- A 50-Year Sour Mash Boys Anniversary—Sunday, 18Sep22, 4–8 PM at Sally O’Brien’s in Somerville
- The Beep, and How to Make It
- ALERT! BROADCAST DOWN 9:35AM; STILL STREAMING THOUGH. LISTEN ON COMPUTER OR OTHER DEVICE.
- More Home-Brewed HAH Shows
- On the Air, Home-Brewed
- We’re Back!
- In Powhatan, Pre-empted for Two Weeks
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Category Archives: Follow-ups
On the Air, Home-Brewed
As I type this. Kevin got it on the air in good time this morning, and it actually sounds better than it did here on my iMac—I expect the FM compression actually helps balance the levels. Listening to Michael Cleveland … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Follow-ups, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk
Tagged Arthur Smith, Home-Brewed, Memorial Day, Michael Cleveland, Radney Foster
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Hillbilly Home Recordings Continue. . .
“No news is no news,” Sinc used to say, taking off on the old “No news is good news” line. I really have none, but it was a frustratin’ day, when after I successfully completed HHR hour no. 8 this … Continue reading
More Hillbilly Home Recordings. . .
I have to apologize for the long periods of ‘dead air’, as we say in radio jargon, during last week’s show. I can’t explain it, except to say there was some problem getting the files I upload to the computer … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Follow-ups, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk
Tagged Alan Jackson, Hillbilly at Harvard, zZooms.com
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Hillbilly Home Recordings (HHR) is on the Air
At long last, I have attempted to record Hillbilly at Harvard at home. Once or twice in the past, when I attempted it, I quickly gave up in frustration. When I was in the studio at WHRB, I knew the … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Follow-ups, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk
Tagged Allen-Heath, Generic Hours, HHR, Micky-Mouse, Sure, Technics, WHRB
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UPDATE: ‘Maple Sugar Sweetheart’
Back when I posted about Ward Allen‘s wonderful fiddle tune ‘Maple Sugar’ and the lyrics Hank LaRiviere (‘Hank Rivers’) penned for it, there was no video available of Hank’s original 1960 record, ‘Maple Sugar Sweetheart’. I linked to a version … Continue reading
Posted in Country History, Follow-ups, Songwriting
Tagged Doc Williams, Hank LaRiviere, Hank Rivers, Ward Allen
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Reelin’ Back to 1989, with Lincoln and Larry Live in Studio A!
ANOTHER ARCHIVAL HILLBILLY AT HARVARD The metal reel on Revox tape recorder looks perturbed, but I prefer to think it’s singing. The slow-moving (3 3/4 ips) reels are regaling me with music from 1989 (two hours of The Down Home … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Follow-ups, Hillbilly History, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk, Record Business, Songwriting
Tagged Ghost of the Railroad, Hands of a Dreamer, Hillbilly at Harvard, John Lincoln Wright and the Sourmash Boys, Larry Flint, Takin' Old Route One, That Old Mill, The Down Home Show, You Can't Get There from Here
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The Day-After-Christmas Extravaganza!
This Saturday is the day after Christmas, but we can’t let a year go by without keeping the tradition of our Christmas Extravaganzas alive. So we’ve got one for you: a rebroadcast of the Extravaganza from December 22, 2012! Plenty … Continue reading
Harvard Gazette Highlights WHRB
The Harvard Gazette is “the official news website for Harvard University,” and seems to be updated more-or-less daily. The May 4th issue featured a story by Jon Chase on WHRB staying on the air (‘WHRB keeps classical connections’), despite the … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Bluegrass, Follow-ups, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk
Tagged Allison Pao, Chatham Rabbits, Ella Fitzgerald, Emily Spector, Hamish Nicholson, Hank Pattie & the Current, Harvard Gazette, Hillbilly at Harvard, Jon Chase, Mandolin Orange, Margaux Winter, Rhiannon giddens, WHRB
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