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Down Home Radio is a hardcore, unreconstructed, paleo-acoustic folk music program Eli Smith Eli Smith eli_smith@hotmail.com No no http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/images/dhrspostcard.jpg http://www.downhomeradioshow.com 144 144 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/07/paxton-and-fairfield-in-the-ny-times/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/07/paxton-and-fairfield-in-the-ny-times/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:14:54 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/07/paxton-and-fairfield-in-the-ny-times/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/07/paxton-and-fairfield-in-the-ny-times/feed/ 1 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/07/the-cards-visit-shanghai/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/07/the-cards-visit-shanghai/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:31:08 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/07/the-cards-visit-shanghai/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/07/the-cards-visit-shanghai/feed/ 1 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/06/american-industrial-folksongs-lp/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/06/american-industrial-folksongs-lp/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:17:28 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/?p=1105 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/06/american-industrial-folksongs-lp/feed/ 0 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/06/photos-from-the-festival/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/06/photos-from-the-festival/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:38:45 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/06/photos-from-the-festival/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/06/photos-from-the-festival/feed/ 0 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/the-brooklyn-folk-festival-is-here/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/the-brooklyn-folk-festival-is-here/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 05:59:36 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/the-brooklyn-folk-festival-is-here/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/the-brooklyn-folk-festival-is-here/feed/ 3 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/the-dust-busters-on-woodsongs/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/the-dust-busters-on-woodsongs/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 05:17:54 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/the-dust-busters-on-woodsongs/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/the-dust-busters-on-woodsongs/feed/ 2 00:01:01 While out on tour back in March my old-time string band The Dust Busters appeared on the Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour.nbsp; Woodsongs is a radio/TV ... While out on tour back in March my old-time string band The Dust Busters appeared on the Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour.nbsp; Woodsongs is a radio/TV show filmed weekly at the Kentucky Theater in Lexington (KY).nbsp; Thanks to Michael Johnathon and all the folks at Woodsongs for having us, it was a fun show!nbsp; Here is our appearance on that program: And be sure to check us out, Friday May 21st, 10:15pm at the Brooklyn Folk Festival. Live,Recordings Eli Smith no No http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/interview-with-clifton-hicks/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/interview-with-clifton-hicks/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 03:49:48 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/?p=1069 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/interview-with-clifton-hicks/feed/ 1 00:01:01 On today's show I speak with Clifton Hicks, a great young banjo player originally from Florida and Georgia who now resides in Boone, NC.nbsp; I've ... On today's show I speak with Clifton Hicks, a great young banjo player originally from Florida and Georgia who now resides in Boone, NC.nbsp; I've known and known about Clif for a while now, ever since he sent in his home recordings to Down Home Radio.nbsp; I was blown away by his singing and playing and was very happy to finally meet him when I was in Boone at the Black Banjo Gathering in March.nbsp; Hicks is a protege of George Gibson and was kind enough to set up an interview for me with George which we heard on the last installment of Down Home Radio.nbsp; In this interview Clifton speaks about his family background and introduction to the music, gives some thoughtful notes on his style and technique as a musician and plays a bunch of tunes live on the show.nbsp; He also speaks about his experiences as a soldier in Iraq which led him to oppose the war and get involved with IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War).nbsp; Clifton Hicks is one of my favorite musicians and it was great to finally get him on the program.nbsp; He will be appearing at the Jalopy Theater on Saturday May 22nd as part of the Brooklyn Folk Festival.nbsp; Check it out! Below are some videos: Darling Cora Hicks testifies at the Winter Soldier hearings about his experiences in Iraq. Cuckoo Shows Eli Smith no No http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/interview-with-george-gibson/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/interview-with-george-gibson/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 03:02:39 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/?p=1057 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/05/interview-with-george-gibson/feed/ 0 00:01:01 (George Gibson [L] with Clifton Hicks [R]. Photo by E. Smith.) On today's show I speak with Eastern Kentucky banjo player George Gibson.nbsp; I was lucky ... (George Gibson [L] with Clifton Hicks [R]. Photo by E. Smith.) On today's show I speak with Eastern Kentucky banjo player George Gibson.nbsp; I was lucky enough to catch up with George when we were both participating in The Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC in March.nbsp; George hails from Knott County, Kentucky where he learned to play old-time banjo from his neighbors as well as from his father back in the early 1950's.nbsp; One of the local banjo players that George met growing up was "Banjo" Bill Cornett, one of my favorite musicians, so it was a thrill to get to hear a personal account of Banjo Bill.nbsp; George Gibson is a wonderful banjo player and singer and is also a noted banjo collector and historian of the music from his region.nbsp; He has served as a bridge between the old generation of musicians such as Banjo Bill, who's music and culture was dying out when George Gibson was growing up and a new crop of young Southern old-time musicians who are coming up today.nbsp; George has gathered around him and served as mentor and teacher in an informal sense to a number of very talented young musicians from around the South including Clifton Hicks (Boone, NC), Brett Rattiff (Knott Co, KY), John Haywood (Knott Co. KY), Matt Kinman (Bethel, NC) and Jesse Wells (Knott Co. KY).nbsp; Check out the 2008 Interview I did with Brett Ratliff here in the Down Home Radio archives. Andnbsp; be sure to check out George's album, "Last Possum Up the Tree" on the Appalshop label.nbsp; Below are some of George Gibson's excellent notes to that album: "The Possum CD contains some of the banjo songs and stories I learned as a boy in the Kentucky mountains ca. 1950. I was born in 1938 at Bath, in Knott County, Kentucky. Bath was a rural post office, now discontinued, on Little Carr Creek, which was known by local people as Burgeyrsquo;s Creek. I learned to play and sing the old songs, in the old tunings, from my family and neighbors. I left Knott County in the 1960's, taking with me a Kay banjo and a Vega Whyte Laydie guitar banjo. I have been mostly a couch banjo player since leaving. I believe that continuing to play banjo was my way of holding on to a past that I glimpsed only briefly. That past is part of a world and time in Knott County that has vanished forever. As far as I know, I am the last person left playing the old Burgeyrsquo;s Creek banjo music. I am the last possum up the tree." "A few academics and revival musicians from outside the mountains wrote the banjo out of existence in pre-Civil War Appalachia. This is one example of cultural strip mining that I thought should be reversed. Therefore, when I was afforded the opportunity to write the liner notes for the Possum CD, I included evidence of a banjo tradition in Kentucky prior to the Civil War." "Most of the banjo songs were played on a ca. 1907 Bacon ff Professional 5-string banjo. Tracks 7 and 20 were recorded playing a ca. 1924 Gibson GB-4 trap-door guitar banjo, which has a 14" head." For more of George Gibson's writings from the notes to this album, as well as lyrics, click here. Shows Eli Smith no No http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/04/the-tillers-perform-some-new-songs/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/04/the-tillers-perform-some-new-songs/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:27:16 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/04/the-tillers-perform-some-new-songs/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/04/the-tillers-perform-some-new-songs/feed/ 2 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/04/folkstreams-net/ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/04/folkstreams-net/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:23:34 +0000 admin http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/?p=1040 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2010/04/folkstreams-net/feed/ 0