Category Archives: Radio Talk

April Update from the Southwest

On April 1st, we finally embarked on our long-delayed Southwest Rail journey, for the whole month. You may have noticed that HAH for April has recycled hours from roughly a year ago—but they were picked at random, with different run … Continue reading

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Repeating Last Week’s ‘Home-Brewed’ Show

Last week (6Jan24) the planned ‘Home-Brewed’ HAH ran OK for listeners to the Internet Stream, but not for listeners to the local (Boston area) radio broadcast. Instead they heard four hours (surprisingly) of old ‘Generic Hours’ I recorded some 10-12 years … Continue reading

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In 1993, the Christmas Extravaganza Was Fun!

More so than I remembered! And you can relive some of that fun this Saturday (the 16th) and next (the 23rd) as we broadcast the Extravaganza in two parts. As you may remember, Hillbilly at Harvard from the late ’80s on was … Continue reading

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Reprising Two Archival Shows on Nov 25th and Dec 2nd

We’re driving to Virginia with our Escape trailer, to have Thanksgiving with daughter Sarah and family. It will be our first visit to their new house—which they’ve been building, all by themselves, for the past five years—with them in it, … Continue reading

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Flotsam and Jetsam

Too preoccupied to post here, it seems, but a few tidbits over the last couple of months (click on photos to enlarge): Speaking of which, there are many recordings of that song, but this is a favorite of mine, from … Continue reading

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April Update

—And a May notice: HAH will not air Saturday, 13May23, making room for an Orgy®. It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, but I’ve been getting occasional queries from listeners, like “When are you going back live?” I don’t … Continue reading

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Running Late—But This Is Not 38—

Nor Old 97, either (read on). It’s been a bit of rough week, what with a touch of the CCP Virus on top of dental surgery (preparation for a couple of implants, which has left me with a sore mouth … Continue reading

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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

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Oops! Preempted Tomorrow (Dec 3rd), Back Next Saturday

Just Tuesday this week I learned that HAH was going to be preempted for the next three Saturdays, for WHRB’s semi-annual Orgy® Period. However, Orgy® Director Ezra was kindly able to rearrange the schedule so we’ll just lose this one … Continue reading

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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

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