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News and Notes

New Guests Just Added

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By Mountain Stage
 · April 3, 2009
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Steve Earle
Just added to the line-up for our June 7 road-show in Princeton, WV is songwriting legend (and guest star on Law & Order-SVU and The WireSteve Earle. This will be Mr. Earle's fourth appearance on Mountain Stage since 1996. He is following up 2007's acclaimed "Washington Square Serenade" with "Townes," a tribute to his favorite songwriter, the late great Townes Van Zandt. The record will be out May 12 but you can get a four song EP version on iTunes, or preview two tracks at SteveEarle.com.
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Also joining in us at the Chuck Mathena Center in Princeton will be acoustic group King Wilkie. Their latest release is a collaborative effort titled "King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers." Guest stars include Peter Rowan, Robyn Hitchcock and Sam Parton from The Be Good Tanyas.

Their last appearance on Mountain Stage, a show at the beautiful Smokies on the Gorge in Fayetteville, WV was a great treat. You can even hear crickets during the softer sections. The Mp3 is in our ARCHIVES.
Tickets for June 7 go on sale May 4 and will be available through the Chuck Mathena Center or by calling 877.425.5128.
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Duke Robbilard

We've added the multi-faceted guitarist extraordinaire Duke Robbilard to our June 19 FestivALL Charleston kick-off event along with Shemekia Copeland and Buddy Guy.

Tickets are on-sale NOW at The Clay Center or by calling 304- 561-3570.

Stay tuned to the Live-Show Schedule and the Mountain Stage Blog for updates. We've got more great stuff cookin' up.


Get your tix for this Sunday

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By Mountain Stage
 · April 2, 2009

There are some tickets available for this Sunday's live recording in Charleston. Doors open at 6:30pm and showtime is 7pm. The box office opens at 5pm at the Cultural Center if you want to purchase tickets on show day.

Advance tickets are available ONLINE and by calling 800.594.TIXX.

Check out our stellar PDF Newsletter HERE: done beautifully by Shawn Patterson here at WV Public Radio. (Adobe Reader required).

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The Deep Vibration

There is a nice article in the Charleston Daily Mail on Nashville Roots-Rockers The Deep Vibration- Click HERE to read it.

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Susan Werner

The more I look at this line-up, the more I realize what a diverse melting pot Larry has cooked up for us. Susan Werner is doing chamber-folk interpretations of pop tunes (Bob Marley, Simon & Garfunkel, Marvin Gaye among them) on her latest CD called "Classics". Ms. Werner is bringing a cellist with her to Mountain Stage after doing two shows at Joe's Pub in NYC.

Backyard Tire Fire have opened for gritty-prog rockers Clutch and former Drive By Trucker Jason Isblell, but their sound has a jangly, ringing guitar sound that echoes the likes of Tom Petty and North Mississippi Allstars. Dig this Chicago session of "Shoulda' Shut It" from their CD "The Places We Lived," available on vinyl, CD and Mp3. This could be the best song Weezer never wrote.

Singer-songwriter Tom Rush has emerged again into the public eye with this video for "The Remember Song," a "modern-day yuppie blues" as he calls it.

The video has over 3.5 million views, so there must be a lot of folks having the same difficulties with their memory as he is.

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The Gourds

Then there's Austin, TX good-ol boys The Gourds who were Americana long before it was a genre with a chart. Their latest, Haymaker! has been climbing that chart.

This one promises to be a great show, so tell some friends, spread the word on MySpace and get your tickets today.


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