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This week’s broadcast of Mountain Stage features guitarist and songwriter Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes. You’ll also hear from Canadian alt-country-rock institution The Cowboy Junkies, who make their 9^th appearance on the show, along with Vermont singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell, and Australian rock icon Paul Kelly.

Click here to see when and where you can listen. Click here to stream our Mountain Stage Song of the Week, The Cowboy Junkies performing “Damaged From the Start.” And if there’s a tune you’re hoping to hear, check out this week’s playlist.

The sprightly Anais Mitchell kicks off the show. She is backed by her own band for songs from “Young Man in America,” which finds Mitchell taking on the voices of multiple characters, both men and women; and features cameos by guitarist Adam Levy and Punch Brothers’ Chris Thile.

You’ll also hear from Australian songwriting institution Paul Kelly. A storyteller on a par with the likes of Ray Davies, he has amassed a catalog whose quality and variety are unmatched - all the while remaining a beloved cult figure in the U.S. Dubbed “Australia’s Rock Icon” by Rolling Stone Magazine, in 2004, he began staging “A-Z concerts” which found him performing 100 of his songs over four nights - in alphabetical order.

The Cowboy Junkies make their 9^th visit to Mountain Stage. More than 25 years after their formation, The Cowboy Junkies are more active than ever. Over an 18 month span beginning in 2010, the band released four new studio albums. Renmin Park, Demons, Sing in My Meadow and The Wilderness comprise what the band calls “The Nomad Series,” a loosely-connected cycle of recordings inspired by everything from a life-changing trip to China, to their collective love for singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt. The resulting work has been called some of the best of their career.

Finally, you'll hear from guitarist and singer-songwriter Rich Robinson. As the guitarist for popular rockers the Black Crowes, Rich Robinson had achieved the American Dream before he was 25. Then, a divorce and the band’s unexpected hiatus ushered him into a painful, introspective period. The result was his first solo release, “Through a Crooked Sun,” a lyrically personal album which evidences a musical and spiritual awakening that addresses family, fame and fear. 

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