On American Pastimes this week you can hear a Jim Kweskin set; music from the 1960's Boston-Cambridge music scene; Chico's own String Nation (Mike Station, Taran March, Bob Kirkland, Craig Walters, Christine Crabill, and Jack Lemley captured live at the 1995 Home Grown Music Festival); from 1928 the Texas duo Red-Headed Fiddlers, NYC's Ebony Hillbillies, Dom Flemons & friends, David Bromberg, and of course lots of string band and bluegrass pickin' to fill in the gaps.
PLAYLIST:
Arthur Smith & Don Reno - Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue
Jim Kweskin - San Francisco Bay Blues, Sofie's Back, Papa's on the Housetop, Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
Bill Grant & Delia Bell - Girl at the Crossroads Bar
Steel Drivers - California Chainsaw
Rodney Dillard Band - Salty Dog Blues
Byron Berline - Hidden Track from Flat Broke Fiddler
Bill Keith & Jim Rooney - Kentucky Moonshiner, Log Cabin iin the Lane
Charles River Valley Boys - The Auctioneer, Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me, When You See the Flying Saucers
String Nation - Recorded live at the 1995 Home Grown Music Festival, Chico Women's Center
Tennessee Mafia Jug Band - I Came Home (hidden track on Poor Leroy's Almanac)
Rumpke Mountain Stringband - Molly, Molly
Restless Leg Stringband - Time Marches On
Mama Said Stringband - Drinks are Bad
David Grisman & Bryan Bowners - Farther Along
The Red Headed Fiddlers - Texas Quickstep, Cheat 'Em, Far on the Mountain, Never Waltz Alone, Paddy on the Hand Car
Ebony Hillbillies - Green Green Rocky Road, Camptown Races, Jericho
Dom Flemons - I Guess I'm Doing Fine, Songster Revival
Allison Williams & Dom Flemons - Charming Betsy
Corn Potato Stringband - Rubber Ducky
Bad Dog - Fall On My Knees, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
David Bromberg - New Lee Highway Blues (live)
Flatt & Scruggs -
