While a lot of episodes of Backroads and Banjos feature archival recordings of legendary old-timey recording artists, none have featured recordings quite like this. In 1959, a much younger Art Rosenbaum was the host of the radio show Keys to the Highway

In honor of schools letting out, Art decided he wanted to do a segment devoted to Childrens Songs from the American Southern tradition. While some of these songs were not specifically childrens songs, these songs are funny songs or songs about animals tha

This episode of Backroads and Banjos finds the Georgia Crackers joining Art in the studio to play old-time music native to Georgia and discuss what makes this states traditions unique from other parts of the American South. The Georgia Crackers faithfull

This episode finds Art in his element, in the field, recording this episode outside the studios of AM 1690. Art pays a visit to Sister Fleeta Mitchell on the occasion of her 97th birthday. Mitchell is joined by Rev. Willie Mae Eberhardt to sing 3 gospel s

This episode of Backroads and Banjos finds Art at the Black Banjo Conference in Boone, NC catching up with his old friend John Cohen who was one of the members of the New Lost City Ramblers. John and Art discuss Johns field recording work on a compilation

Art Rosenbaum explores the theme of Mothers and Mother's Day in traditional folk music. Instead of being joyful and sentimental, many of the songs in traditional folk music were instead dark, slow, sad and wistful songs. Included in this recording are s

This Backroads and Banjos looks at one of the most creative musicians in traditional folk history. Charlie Poole was born in 1892 in North Carolina and learned to play banjo at an early age. Although shrouded in obscurity for many years, his name was br

This episode of Backroads and Banjos veers a little away from the usual subject matter to present Yiddish songs from a new 3-disc box set called Cantors, Klezmorim, and Crooners 1905-1953. This collection was gathered from around 9,000 78rpm records and m

For this recording, Art joins us via telephone after his trip to the Black Banjo Gathering, where the Carolina Chocolate Drops met some years ago. With the emergence of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and their revival of the Black stringband sound, this seg

This episode of Backroads and Banjos focuses on some of the greatest tunes to come out of the Appalachian Mountains in the form of unaccompanied East Kentucky Fiddle tunes. Because a lot of time the fiddle was the only instrument at dances, it had to car