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Episode 10 (Women’s History Month)
From WFDD | 56:58
Women have played a major role in the development and history of Appalachian string music and singing. But they haven’t always gotten the credit or public notice they deserve.
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Women have played a major role in the development and history of Appalachian string music and singing. But they haven’t always gotten the credit or public notice they deserve. As we start Women’s History Month, Across the Blue Ridge host Paul Brown presents some great music featuring women in the lead. Among the artists we hear are the Coon Creek Girls; Beverly Smith; Lynn Morris; and Linda Lay, a Bristol, Virginia native known for her outstanding singing with the bands Appalachian Trail and Springfield Exit. We’ll hear part of an Across the Blue Ridge recording of Springfield Exit in concert. And Linda Lay tells us about her family history in music, why she enjoys Springfield Exit, and how she learned to sing.
Episode 11 (Rose Maddox, country music pioneer)
From WFDD | 56:57
Once again we highlight women in country, traditional and bluegrass music as Women’s History Month continues. This week we’ll hear a great selection of women pickers and singers including Emily Spencer, rising star Dori Freeman – and Rose Maddox.
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Once again we highlight women in country, traditional and bluegrass music as Women’s History Month continues. This week we’ll hear a great selection of women pickers and singers including Emily Spencer, rising star Dori Freeman – and Rose Maddox, who migrated west from Alabama as a kid in the 1930s with her family in search of a better life. Starting out as “fruit tramps”, picking fruit, vegetables and cotton in California, the Maddoxes pushed their way onto radio and into the music business. The Maddox Brothers and Rose never became superstars. But they were very popular, especially in the West, and they played a big role in helping drive the evolution of so-called “hillbilly” music to R&B, rock and roll, and bluegrass. We’ll hear the story, plus lots and lots of energetic, unforgettable music including classic radio performances from the 1940s.