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

Ive Got Your Ice Cold Nu Grape was performed by the Nu Grape Twins in Atlanta, Georgia for use as a soda commercial. Alfred Lewiss Friday Moan Blues was recorded in 1930 in the city of Chicago, and contains an intermingling of hollering and harmonica. Joh

Cacklin’ Hen is performed here by Earl Murphy, who picked up fiddle playing as a boy from his father, and now plays western swing and bluegrass in addition to traditional fiddle tunes. Southern Texas is performed by East Kentucky’s George Gibson, a b

Rosenbaum dedicates this Back Roads and Banjos session to the great old-time banjo favorites, performed by some of folk's best pickers. The style of this B.F. Shelton Kentucky picking tune came from the rough and tumble railroad era of banjo music. Uncle

In this installment of Back Roads and Banjos, Art Rosenbaum is joined by Alice Gerrard of the group Alice and Hazel, playing some of her favorite pieces she created through the years and talking about her experiences in finding a place in bluegrass cultur