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- More Hillbilly Home Recordings. . .
- 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!
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Tag Archives: Ol’ Sinc
Another Archival Show This Saturday (May 1st)
GET UP EARLY IF YOU WANT TO HEAR RHONDA! I’ve put together a little collage of Hillbilly at Harvard history, which (if all goes as I planned) should air this coming Saturday, May 1, 2021. That’s right, May Day—International Layabouts … Continue reading
Back to Y2K—Peter Wolf Brings His Favorite Country Records—an Archival HAH
Twenty-one years ago, March 25th, 2000, John Lincoln Wright convinced his long-time friend, rock singer Peter Wolf, to bring down some of his favorite country records to Hillbilly at Harvard. Pete was a regular listener, and as we discovered, as … Continue reading
Programming Note: Ol’ Sinc on This Week and Next
Ol’ Sinc recorded a couple of Generic Hours with me back around 2000. After he died I didn’t use them, but some 15 years later, when I was going to miss two Saturdays in a row, I ran them (announced … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Hillbilly Journal, Radio Talk
Tagged Danni Leigh, David Elliott, Hillbilly at Harvard, Ol' Sinc
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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
HAH Featured in Harvard Magazine Article on WHRB
Harvard Magazine, which is circulated to an astonishing 240,000 alumni, faculty, and staff of Harvard University (Wikipedia), in its Alumni section for September-October 2015 (Vol. 118, No. 1) featured an article by Craig A. Lambert on WHRB (pp. 63-7). The … Continue reading
Posted in Hillbilly Journal, Radio Talk
Tagged 'Pappy Ben' Minnich, Alan Katz, Bill Wood, Brian Sinclair, Craig A. Lambert, Dwight Benton Minnich, George Jones, Harvard Magazine, Harvard University, Hillbilly at Harvard, International Bluegrass Music Association, Joan Baez, Ol' Sinc, The Stanley Brothers, Tom Rush, WHRB, WHRV
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The Complainer-in-Chief Strikes Again
Gordy Brown is an old friend of Hillbilly at Harvard, and has done enormous service to country music in the region as historian and keeper of memorabilia with his New England Country Music Historical Society (now defunct). But I’ve had … Continue reading
Who Listens to HAH? Or, Hogging the Table
A friend reports that a well-known professor of economics at Harvard not only listens to HAH, the show turned up in his midterm exam. The question begins, 1. After listening to WHRB Hillbilly at Harvard, you want to catch the … Continue reading
Posted in Random Stuff, Who Listens?
Tagged Club Passim, Concert Window, game theory, Harvard College, Keith and Rooney, Ol' Sinc
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