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Episode 20
ListenIn this episode of Tapestry of the Times, The sounds of banjo innovator and connoisseur Tony Trischka, blues from Mississippi’s Big Joe Williams, a horse ballad from the Arizona Sonora Borderlands, marimba music from Guatemala, and barrel-house piano blues from Speckled Red. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds...
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Tony Trischka
Album:
Territory
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19, Gourd Banza
Tony Trischka
Album:
Territory
Track: #
2, Leatherwing Bat
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Guy Davis
Album:
Dreams about Life
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2, First Day of Spring
Mississippi’s Big Joe Williams
Album:
Mississippi’s Big Joe Williams and his Nine-String Guitar
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2, Bluebird Blues
Robert Lee Benton, Jr. & Oscar Gonzalez
Album:
Heroes and Horses: Corridos from the Arizona Sonora Borderlands
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2, El Moro de Cumpas
Cisco Houston
Album:
Cisco Houston: The Folkways Years 1944-1961
Track: #
28, Zebra Dun
Georgia Wettlin-Larsen
Album:
Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women
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7, Lakota Flute Song
Joanne Shenandoah
Album:
Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women
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4, Fish Dance Song’
Ola Belle Reed
Album:
My Epitaph
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1 (excerpt), Discussion of Mountain Life
Ola Belle Reed
Album:
My Epitaph
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2 (excerpt), I’ve Endured
Marimba Chapinlandia
Album:
Chapinlandia, Marimba Music of Guatemala
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6, Los Trece
Speckled Red
Album:
The Barrel-House Blues of Speckled Red
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1, Ain’t Noboby’s Biz-ness if I Do
Mississippi John Hurt
Album:
Friends of Old Time Music
Disc #3, Track #1, My Creole Belle
Dave Van Ronk
Album:
And the Tin Pan Bended, and the Story Ended...
Track: #
6, Dave Speaks
Dave Van Ronk
Album:
And the Tin Pan Bended, and the Story Ended...
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7, Did You Hear John Hurt?
Tony Trischka
Album:
Territory
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21, Lake Flora
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Aaron Henkin is the creator and host of 'Tapestry of the Times.' He's also a co-creator and producer of WYPR's weekly cultural program, The Signal. Aaron's reports and features have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Day to Day, and PRI's Studio 360 and The World. He's a regular guest-host on the American Public Media program The Story. He's also the curator and host of a weekly podcast called The NPR Station Showcase with PRX