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Episode 24
ListenIn this episode of Tapestry of the Times, Sea-faring songs from North Carolina’s Outer Banks; an Irish pirate ballad; conjunto music from the Rio Grande; cowboy songs from Woody Guthrie, Harry Jackson, and Cisco Houston; a spiritual from Moving Star Hall on Johns Island, South Carolina. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds.
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Lawton Howard
Album:
Between the Sound and the Sea
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5, Mandolin Medley
Dick Tillett
Album:
Between the Sound and the Sea
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9, The Sailor Boy
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Doug Wallin
Album:
Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection
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10, Pretty Saro
Dan Milner, with Gabriel Donohue
Album:
Irish Pirate Ballads and Other Songs of the Sea
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3, Saucy Ward
El Conjunto Bernal
Album:
Borderlands: From Conjunto to Chicken Scratch
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6, Mi Unico Camino
Woody Guthrie
Album:
Buffalo Skinners: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 4
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20, Fastest of Ponies
Harry Jackson
Album:
The Unfortunate Rake
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10, Streets of Laredo
Cisco Houston
Album:
Cisco Houston: The Folkways Years, 1944-1961
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22, 900 Miles
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Esau Jenkins
Album:
Been in the Storm So Long
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8, Esau Jenkins Talking
The Moving Star Hall Singers
Album:
Been in the Storm So Long
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9, Lay Down Body
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Ed Young and Emma Ramsay
Album:
Friends of Old Time Music
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7, Chevrolet
The New Lost City Ramblers
Album:
The New Lost City Ramblers, The Early Years, 1958-1962
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4, When First Unto This Country
The New Lost City Ramblers
Album:
The New Lost City Ramblers, The Early Years, 1958-1962
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11, The Old Fish Song
Ellen Cohn
Album:
Classic Maritime Music
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13, Ten-Penny Bit
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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