Now Available – Episode #6 of A Bluegrass and Old Time Music Radio Show

A new episode (6th) of my one-hour “Bluegrass and Old Time Music Radio Show” in now available. The show is brodacast four times every Saturday: 8-9 am, 10-11 am, Noon to 1 pm and 2-3 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Remember, if you’re busy and can’t listen to the show, it is also available for download as an mp3 file and as a podcast.

Episode #6 features bands that opened the fall season at the James Rive Music Hall in Eagle Rock, Virginia on September 10, 2005. Oriskany Strings opened the show and were followed by the Original Orchard Grass Old Time Band. House band, Love Buzzards played for 30 minutes and the Little Mountain Boys dropped by and played for about 30 minutes. The entire show will be be aired this Saturday and next Saturday at the following Eastern Daylight times:

7:00 – 8:00 pm – Oriskany Strings
8:00 – 8:30 pm – Love Buzzards
8:30 – 9:30 pm – Orchard Grass – Set 1
9:30 – 10:00 pm – Little Mountain Boys
10:00 – 11:00 pm – Orchard Grass – Set 2

I’m getting about a 250 downloads each day now of this show as a Podcast and that’s a lot of exposure for the bands being played on my internet radio station. Combine that with my listening audience and I sure these independent bands are being heard out there. I have also received several emails from fans of the show and I really appreciate these emails

Here are photos of the Oriskany Strings ans Orchard Grass at the James River Music Hall on 10 September 2005.

New Artist – Waking Up Tillie and TrueGrass

Waking Up Tillie consists of three award-winning singers and muscians: Randy Johnson (fiddle, vocals), Pete Peterson (banjo, guitar, vocals), and Kellie Allen (guitar, vocals). Here’s a dynamic old-time, harmony singin’ trio that I’m sure you are going to enjoy. Their music includes 19th century Victorian tearjerkers, gospel songs from the Book of Revelation, traditional and ragtime fiddle tunes and includes the song “Forgiveness” by the 2004 winner of Merlefest songwriting competition. Get ready to sing and shout as you dance your way through this great album.

Waking Up Tille hails from Riegelsville, PA and their new album was released on July 11th of this year.

TrueGrass is a new bluegrass band based in Rural Retreat, Virginia and playing “tradional bluegrass music the way it should be played,” acording to the band’s new website. While the band may be new, the members of this band are certainly not new to bluegrass music. Emory Parks (guitar and vocals) has been playing bluegrass music all his life and was inspired by his father. Emory says he stuck with tradional bluegrass music even when bluegrass went through unpopular times. He has recorded his own album, “Let’g Go Back Again” which will be playing soon on my radio station. Freel Taylor (bass and vocals) also started playing music as a kid after he started listening to the “Grad Ole Opry.” He’s played with a number of old time and bluegrass bands. Jack Wells (mandolin and vocals) is another veteran bluegrass musician who has played with a numerous northern Virgina and Maryland based bands. Travis Houck (dobro) brings a fresh new approach to the dobro in bluegrass, and Wayne Thomas (banjo and vocals) plays banjo with skill that he may have inheritied from his bluegrass musician father. I’m sure you are going to enjoy the music of this new band.