Backroads and Banjos delves into the music of Georgia harmonica player Neal Pattman. Pattman had only one arm after losing one arm at the age of 9 in a wagon wheel. His playing is marked by whooping, great intensity, and intermittent sung lines. Art met

This broadcast of Backroads and Banjos takes the theme of the Coal Creek Rebellion, an event that took place in East Tennessee in the late 1800s, when coal mine owners started hiring convict labor over free laborers. In response to this action, the free m

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, Backroads and Banjos is featuring recordings that Art captured while vacationing in Ireland during the summer of 2009. While this show is a step outside of the typical trip around the American Southeast, it shows how much I

This segment of Back Roads and Banjos looks at Curtis Skip James, one of the greatest Mississippi singers and guitar players, who picked up music at an early age and knew a great deal about living the hard life, adding a personal side to the blues music h

Art pays tribute to his good friend Mike Seeger who passed away on August 7th of 2009. Seeger was both a musician and a song collector, much like Art, and their relationship spans back to Greenwich Village during the folk revival of the late 50s and early

Art Rosenbaum redirects our thoughts back to the island of Haiti in this Backroads and Banjos segment devoted to the recordings that Lomax captured while on honeymoon there in 1936. These recordings have been selected from the 10 disc box set Alan Lomax I

In this 2 part series, Art explores the works of Hobart Smith. Smith was an Appalachian musician who played numerous instruments (fiddle, banjo, guitar, piano) and learned much of his technique from both black and white musicians in his surrounding area.

In celebration of Valentine's Day, Art begins the show by serenading the listener with an old-time tune on his banjo. While he notes that most American folk songs about love end in sorrow, Art makes an effort to focus on songs discussing courtship and mo

In this 2 part series, Art explores the works of Hobart Smith. Smith was an Appalachian musician who played numerous instruments (fiddle, banjo, guitar, piano) and learned much of his technique from both black and white musicians in his surrounding area.

Smokey Joe Miller played with 4 generations of the Tanner family in their Georgia old-time band called The Skillet Lickers. The band started back in the 1930's and had a strong influence on traditional old-time music in Georgia. Smokey Joe Miller passed