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- Hillbilly Home Recordings (HHR) is on the Air
- UPDATE: ‘Maple Sugar Sweetheart’
- Pappy Ben Minnich Is in the Studio, on December 14th, 1985
- Remember Part II with Tish
- Jim Rooney and Tish Hinojosa Visit “Hillbilly Central” on May 15th, 1999
- It’s October 24, 1992, and We’ve Got Kate MacKenzie and D. L. Menard!
- June 1993: Iris DeMent Was in Town, and Live on HAH
- Y2K Fun with the Hot Club of Cowtown!
- January 20, 2001: James King, Dudley Connell, Don Rigsby Together in Studio B
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- Bill Monroe Named Our New Trailer!
- ‘Maple Sugar’, Sweetheart!
- The 2019 Joe Val Festival—Photos!
- January 20, 2001: James King, Dudley Connell, Don Rigsby Together in Studio B
- George, and Eddie and Pearl
- From Raleigh to Virginia—Part 3 of Our Trip South
- Tex Logan (1927–2015) — Part I
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Category Archives: Songwriting
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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Willie, John T, and Me
In which Willie sits around in his underwear, his friend John T sells sheets to the KLan, and I get suspended. Back on September 26th, a listener to one of our prerecorded shows (I’ll call him ‘Mr S’), wrote to … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Country History, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk, Songwriting
Tagged Harvard University, Helotes TX, Hillary Clinton, Hillbilly at Harvard, John Spong, John T. Floores, Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Robert Byrd, Shotgun Willie, The Texas Monthly, WHRB, Willie Nelson
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HAH History: Sinc and Dave Interview Patty Loveless in 1994
Cousin Dave Schmalz hosted Hillbilly at Harvard with Ol’ Sinc from c. 1966 (see The Committee Saves the Show) into 1975, when Dave moved to Holland, and I came back from hither and yon. Sadly, as I mentioned on the … Continue reading
Stuart and Stinson Celebrate Nashville’s ‘Duchess’, NC&StL No. 576
Since 1953, Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis locomotive no. 576 has adorned Nashville’s Centennial Park. It was the last of the 20 class J3 4-8-4 (‘Dixie’) steam engines built by the American Locomotive Company (Alco) for the NC&StL (abbreviated ‘NC’) … Continue reading
Pickin’ on Ninnies
Saturday a listener named Liz posted a comment on the Paper and Pen page. I was going to respond there, but then decided that the question was important enough to merit a post. Liz wrote: “When the pickaninnies pick the … Continue reading
Extra! Fiddlin’ John Carson Played Tex’s ‘Christmas Time’ in 1927!
Well, sort of. After I played Tex Logan fiddling his composition, ‘Christmas Time’s a-Comin’’ with The Lane Brothers, followed by Bill Monroe’s classic first recording of the song, listener Paul Murphy emailed me with this news (reprinted with his permission): … Continue reading
The Whiskey Gentry’s Dead Ringer—Is Lauren Staley!
Hits and Misses 8 “It was a face I’d seen a thousand times at every Derby I’d been to. I saw it, in my head, as the mask of the whiskey gentry – a pretentious mix of booze, failed dreams, … Continue reading