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Bruce Bergethon

Acousticity

Time: Sunday 8 PM to Midnight
Host: Bruce Bergethon

Acousticity brings you bluegrass, singer/songwriter, Celtic and other roots musics. It's the whole spectrum of acoustic music from Doc Watson to the Duhks, from the Stanley Brothers to the Avett Brothers. It's "flexible folk" and it's only on GLT.

Acousticity Features

January 2009

 

  • January 4, 2009 NEW RELEASE: Hear some hits and some unusual selections from one of America's defining artists. It's "The Unreleased Recordings," 1951 radio broadcasts from Hank Williams.

 

  • January 11, 2009 NEW RELEASE: A definitive live set at the Ryman Auditorium from one of bluegrass music's pioneers - banjo master Earl Scruggs with Family and Friends. Scruggs just celebrated his 84th birthday.

 

  • January 18, 2009 NEW RELEASES: More banjo virtuosity from Kristin Scott Benson's latest, "Second Season," as well as a reissue of Tony Trischka's legendary bluegrass session from 1985, "Hill Country."

 

  • January 25, 2008 NEW RELEASE: A 30th anniversary celebration from Mick Moloney's hugely influential band The Green Fields of America, with John Doyle, Robbie O'Connell, Athena Tergis, and Billy McComiskey.

 

 

 

Top 15 current releases - January 2009

Artist(s)

Title

Label

Red Molly Love and Other Tragedies independent
Darrell Scott Modern Hymns Appleseed
Annabelle Chvostek Resilience Borealis
Various Artists Absolutely Irish Compass
Charlie Haden and Family Rambling Boy Decca
Ralph Stanley II This One is Two Lonesome Day
Old Crow Medicine Show Tennessee Pusher Nettwerk
Kristin Scott Benson Second Season Pinecastle
Kenny & Amanda Smith Live and Learn Rebel
Robin & Linda Williams Buena Vista Red House
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper Leavin' Town Rounder
Melonie Cannon And the Wheels Turn Rural Rhythm
Rachel Harrington City of Refuge Skinny Dennis
Still on the Hill Ozark Still on the Hill
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson Rattlin' Bones Sugar Hill

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