Mountain Blog

As you can see on our Live Show Schedule we are going to be busy over the next several weeks, recording episodes #712-718 with stellar line-ups all around. Here are some of the guests we've recently added.

Our February 7 show is coming together nicely. We've just added indie-pop sweethearts The Watson Twins to our lineup alongside Dashboard Confessional Acoustic, Clare & the Reasons , and Brooke Waggoner. Show time is 7pm and tickets, as always, are available at Taylor Books  in downtown Charleston, by calling 800.594.TIXX or purchase online HERE.

The Watson Twins have toured with Billy Bragg and their meditative cover of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" is on the hugely successful soundtrack to the HBO series True Blood. They'll be with us just two days before the release of "Talking to You, Talking To Me," their highly anticipated follow up to "Fire Songs."

It can be preordered on CD and on Vinyl at a discounted price! They have a digital single available on Amazon with details on their MySpace blog.

The lineup for February 14 is looking like a songwriter's dream come true. We've got some of the finest crafstsmen, from varying traditions and geographical regions, with stories galore among them. Ray Wylie Hubbard, high-school buddy and former band mate of Larry Groce, will be sharing material from his CD "A. Enlightenment B. Endarkment (Hint: There is No C.)", which just came out January 12 (Click HERE to purchase on Amazon). The cover features a beheaded version of RWH and you can read about the record's guests (including Kevin Russell of The Gourds and Ray Bonneville) on his MySpace Blog .

We've just added another award winning songwriter to the February 14 show in Darrell Scott . He's got a web series on songwriting on his website called "New Moon/New Music," which is worth checking out. His latest CD is called "Modern Hymns."

Songwriting bard Robert Earl Keen, former Bad Liver Danny Barnes, and the "surrogate-sister harmony" of the Sweetback Sisters round out the lineup on February 14. Get your tickets HERE for the 7pm show at the Culture Center Theater.

We've added Sunday March 21 to our schedule for another trip to Morgantown, WV at the WVU Creative Arts Center. Our guests will be Country music star Patty Loveless, who just put out another amazing record, a sequel of sorts, called "Mountain Soul II."

Also in the books are Bluegrass kingpins The Grascals, who were voted IBMA Entertainers of the Year in 2007 & 2006 and just added banjo player Kristin Scott Benson to their line-up. We'll let you know right here when tickets are available.