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The holiday season is upon us and we wanted to let you know about an easy way to support Mountain Stage by doing something you may already be doing – online shopping at AMAZON.com.

You can support your favorite Live Performance Radio Show by starting your Amazon shopping HERE. Do your browsing and checking-out as usual, and Amazon will automatically put aside a portion of the purchase to Mountain Stage. No Extra Charge!

There is also a link at WVPubcast.org. Just click the Shop WVPB link.

Amazon will be alerted that you have reached the company’s page through Mountain Stage’s website and when you make your purchase, 10% percent of the purchase from each item will be contributed to West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Again, no extra charge!

Thanks for your support in all that we do.

This week’s episode of Mountain Stage is an encore featuring former Soul Coughing front-man Mike Doughty, Diane Birch, California rockers Dawes, Canadian acoustic duo Dala and Langhorne Slim. Click HERE to view the playlist.

Doughty performs songs from his album Sad Man Happy Man acoustic with a cellist, putting a spotlight on his intricate rhyming and vocal style. He sat down to talk with Larry Groce, “Backstage at Mountain Stage,” for a video interview you can watch right here. We also have YouTube interviews with Dawes and Langhorne Slim.

Check out our Song of the Week, where we are featuring breakout band Dawes with a performance of “When My Time Comes” from their widely-heralded release North Hills. (Click to purchase on Amazon).We're not the only ones who think this song rocks- its being used it to promote pick-up trucks. 

Piano-pop songstress Diane Birch performs as well, including her bouncy number “Valentino,” which features one of the coolest videos we’ve seen in recent memory, which we’ll post here. (Click to purchase an mp3 of the song on Amazon)

From all of us at Mountain Stage, we wish you a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday. We’ll have more exciting news about 2011 coming up very soon, so stay tuned to the Mountain Stage blog. 

This week’s radio broadcast is a premiere episode featuring California pop-rock from Jenny & Johnny, piano wild-man Jason D. Williams and his band, power-pop pioneer Dwight Twilley, rockers The Alternate Routes and England-born New York-based songwriter James Maddock.

Click here to find a station in your area and get a preview in our Song of the Week. We’re featuring Jenny Lewis singing the powerful ballad “End of the Affair.”

If you haven’t been to our page at NPR Music then you’ve got segments from Alejandro Escovedo, Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore and the Felice Brothers waiting to be heard. Stay tuned for segments from Lost in the Trees and Adam Haworth Stephens. There are  new interviews on our YouTube Channel, “Backstage at Mountain Stage,” with Alejandro, James Felice, Mollie O’Brien and, posted here, Lost in the Trees composer Ari Picker.

Remember you can subscribe to our podcast, which includes songs not heard on the radio, at iTunes and Feedburner. The latest podcast features The Hold Steady, Crooked Still, Brooke Waggoner, Joe Pug and Matt White.

Remember, in this time of holiday giving, if you start your Amazon Shopping with us you can help support Mountain Stage at no extra charge (Learn More).

All four guests for this Sunday’s SOLD OUT Mountain Stage recording at the Culture Center are featured in the local newspapers. Here are some links to each one.

The Gazz has an interview with the Weepies (above) and a chat with Trampled By Turtles, meanwhile Charleston’s Daily Mail has features on the Infamous Stringdusters and Punch Brothers.

There are no tickets available for this or the December 5 show. The last chance to catch Mountain Stage live THIS DECADE is Sunday, November 21 when we welcome Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub, Delta Spirit, Danielle ate the Sandwich, Anais Mitchell and Horse Feathers. This promises to be a brilliantly varied showcase of some of today's most advantageous music.

Tickets are available online, by phone at 800.594.TIXX or locally here at Taylor Books in Charleston. Be sure to “like” us on Facebook and check out the latest at NPR Music, where we are featuring The Hold Steady, Crooked Still and Brooke Waggoner, with sets from Joe Pug and Matt White still to come.

This week’s radio broadcast is another premiere episode featuring The Felice Brothers, Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys, North Carolina’s own Lost in the Trees, former Two Gallants singer Adam Haworth Stephens and West Virginia native and Colorado resident Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore.

Browse our stations to find out where you can hear Mountain Stage in your area, tell some friends on facebook and get a preview in our weekly Song of the Week.

Larry Groce chose to highlight the title track from Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore’s first proper studio CD, “Saints & Sinners.” Click to purchase via Amazon and a portion of your purchase will benefit Mountain Stage (Learn More).

We’ll also have some interviews up for your viewing pleasure on our YouTube Channel “Backstage at Mountain Stage.”

Here is our chat with Jim Felice of the Felice Brothers. Stay tuned for more from Lost in the Trees and Mollie & Rich.

Check out our Broadcast Schedule for our upcoming radio shows, including Jenny & Johnny, Dwight Twilley, The Alternate Routes, Jason D. Williams and James Maddock. Be sure to tell some friends about Mountain Stage and thanks for listening.

This week on Mountain Stage we have a premiere broadcast featuring an acoustic performance from The Hold Steady, piano songstress Brooke Waggoner, nu-age string band Crooked Still, Americana songwriter Joe Pug and pop tune-smith Matt White.

See the playlist and get a preview in our Song of the Week: The Hold Steady performing “Barely Breathing” from their latest smash “Heaven Is Whenever.” Use that link to purchase via Amazon and you can support Mountain Stage at no extra charge. (Learn More).

Find a radio station in your area here and be sure to tell some friends that you’re planning to tune in.

Here’s our backstage interview with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn from our YouTube Channel, “Backstage at Mountain Stage.” Larry Groce also sat down with Aoife O’Donnovan of Crooked Still and Joe Pug. Stay tuned to NPR Music next week to hear the entire segments.

By now you know that NPR Music and our podcast are great ways to hear what you missed or listen to your favorite parts again and again. Right now at NPR Music we have full-sets from Sister Hazel, Brett Dennen, Eric Bibb, Madison Violet and The Vagabond Opera. This episode will be available in our ARCHIVES on Monday. Subscribe to the Mountain Stage Podcast on iTunes or Feedburner.

Check out our Broadcast Schedule for upcoming episodes and thank you, as always, for tuning in to Mountain Stage. 

Advance ticket sales for our live recording Sunday, November 14, featuring The Weepies, The Punch Brothers, Trampled By Turtles and the Infamous Stringdusters, are SOLD OUT.

A limited number of tickets may be made available at the Culture Center, starting at 5pm on November 14. If so, they will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis.

There are still tickets available of this Sunday's show in Morgantown and for November 21 here in Charleston. Visit the Live Show Schedule for ordering information. As always, we thank you for coming out to support us at our live recordings.