Carolina Bound — a classic from 2004

featuring Doc Watson and Sam Bush

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The 50th Anniversary Prairie Home Companion shows celebrate the last live radio variety show with an opening video of PHC’s origins in Minnesota and Garrison Keillor’s stand-up on the beauty of being 80. Comedy sketches include “Guy Noir, Private Eye,” “The Lives of the Cowboys,” “Duane’s Mom,” and “Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian” with the Royal Academy of Radio Acting. There will also be a commercial for Powdermilk Biscuits on this subject: Cheerfulness Is a Choice. Also a word or two from the American Duct Tape Council, Coffee, Guy’s Shoes, and the Catchup Advisory Board.

Along for the ride, witty singer-songwriter Nellie McKay, charming singer-actor Christine DiGiallonardo, dazzling vocalist Heather Masse, actor Tim Russell (the man of a thousand voices), sound-effects wizard Fred Newman, and music director Richard Dworsky at the piano. Count on songs, jokes, the one-of-a-kind audience sing-along intermission, and of course, the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

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Listen to this featured show from February 14, 2004.

This week, we rebroadcast one of our favorite shows, from February 14, 2004, from Spartanburg, South Carolina. It’s a good one — with mandolin virtuoso and bluegrass rebel Sam Bush and the flatpicking guitar legend Doc Watson. Guy Noir works out the mystery of some stolen grits, too.

Highlights include “Summertime” and “Milk Cow Blues” from Doc. Watson, “Boogie-Woogie Baby” from Pat Donohue and the Shoe Band, plus a trio of train songs with Doc Watson and Sam Bush. Also, some English Majors, Rhubarb, talk about Rock, and an interview with Barbie after her breakup with Ken.Click here to listen now or join us on Facebook this Saturday where the link to listen and comment goes live at 5 p.m. CT.

Sam Bush

Sam Bush made his recording debut, Poor Richard’s Almanac, when he was 17, after holding title as the National Junior Fiddle Champion for three consecutive years. When he was 19, he founded New Grass Revival (NGR), a band that combined a variety of music styles like rock, pop, reggae, jazz, country, and bluegrass for 18 years. NGR released ten albums and disbanded on New Year’s Eve in 1989 by opening for the Grateful Dead. After NGR, Bush led Emmylou Harris’ Grammy-winning Nash Ramblers for five years. Bush, who plays mandolin, fiddle, and guitar, has recorded on albums by Lyle Lovett, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Leftover Salmon, and many others, and he has released over a dozen solo records, winning three Grammy Awards and being inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame. Bush’s latest release is Radio John: The Songs of John Hartford.

Doc Watson

Born Arthel L. Watson in Deep Gap, North Carolina, Doc Watson first played the banjo, but he picked up the guitar at age 13, and his first recording was 1960’s Old-Time Music at Clarence Ashley’s. The following year he appeared at a concert in New York City sponsored by Friends of Old-Time Music, leading to his first solo concert a year after that. Over his storied career, he played at the Newport Folk Festival and Carnegie Hall, as well as touring worldwide. In 1997, he received the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton. He earned eight Grammy Awards and recorded on hundreds of albums. He passed away in 2012, but his influence lives on with recent tribute recording titled I Am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100, featuring Dolly Parton, Steve Earle, Rosanne Cash, Jerry Douglas, and others.

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