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Mountain farms along the Skyline Drive, VA, ca. 1940. Photo by Jack Delano from the Library of Congress.

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Lining Hymns

Hosted by Nathan Salsburg

Originally aired on Monday, June 19th, 2006

The practice of "lining out" hymns was the dominant form of congregational singing before musical instruments, organized choirs, and increased literacy made lining obsolete. It has endured in only a handful of marginal but proud places: among the Primitive Baptists of Appalachia; in black Baptist and a handful of Presbyterian churches in the deep South; and the Gaelic Presbyterians of the Western Isles of Scotland. (35 minutes)

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Country Grubbin'

Hosted by Nathan Salsburg

Originally aired Monday, June 5th, 2006

Tasty tracks from Uncle Dave Macon, Peg Leg Sam, Neil Morris, Doodle Thrower & Golden River Grass, Jim Jackson, Tampa Red, Bo Carter, Jack Kelly's Jug Band, Cliff Carlisle, Nugrape Twins, A.A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly.

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Songs for Memorial Day

Hosted by Nathan Salsburg

Originally aired Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Songs of war, soldiers, spirit and despair with tracks from Lightnin Slim, Bukka White, Neville Marcano (Growling Tiger) with Lord Iere and Indian Prince, Brendan Behan, Los Jovenes Zapatistas del Sur, John Bray, Eric Bentley, others

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Migratory Instruments

Hosted by Nathan Salsburg

Originally aired Monday, February 27th, 2006

All archetypal, iconic events have their own soundtracks, oral histories, and musical artifacts. Nathan Salsburg selects a few rarely heard tracks from his historic archives. Have you heard Othar Turner and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band?

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New Orleans Tribute

Hosted by Nathan Salsburg

Originally aired Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

It's impossible to begin to pay ample tribute to New Orleans music - much less that of Louisiana - in a half hour, so instead, Salsburg humbly offers up some city-specific samples that he holds dear, knowing the surface is far from scratched.

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Dog Songs

Originally aired Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Songs, in (hesitant, grotesque) honor of Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog with Nathan Salsburg's selections from Jim Jackson, Jimmy Johnson's String Band, Pegram and Parham, Mississippi John Hurt, Ewan MacColl, The Sweet Brothers, others.

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You Can Go Home

Hosted by Nathan Salsburg

Originally aired Monday, July 11th, 2005

Nathan Salsburg assembled this playlist on the age old theme of home and hearth with tracks by Hudson Bay Women, Joe Fred Williams & Booker T. Williams, Amsata Gaoudaliz and Yankori, Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers, Hobart Smith, Sonny Terry, others