Back Porch Bluegrass Show

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Back Porch Bluegrass Show episodes

March 21, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 21-03-2023
The Johnson Mountain Boys, legendary group from the 1980’s, are featured on the show at last, from some recently obtained LP’s. There’s also some great music from Union Station with Alison Krauss, Larry Cordle, the Grascals, the Osborne Brothers, the David Grier Band, and the Foghorn String Band.
59 min
March 14, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 14-03-2023
The Bluegrass Album Band, Dailey & Vincent, Longview and a new album from Starlett & Big John Talley feature in this show. There’s also some music from Rodney Dillard, Laurie Lewis, Jordan Tice. And, for the first time ever, I’m playing my banjo ‘live in the studio, with an original tune. I hope you enjoy it.
59 min
March 07, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 07-03-2023
This week I have some of my earliest favourites including Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall, and Pete Pike, along with some fine picking and singing from Russell Moore & Third Tyme Out, Here Today, and Larry Sparks. There’s some great instrumental work from Joe Greene & Co, and Scott Vestal & Co.
58 min
February 28, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 28-02-2023
This week we have some ‘old-time’ music from the New Lost City Ramblers, some instrumentals from the Stanley Brothers, Chad Manning and Bill Keith, and some great songs from Alison Krauss, Sally Jones, Walden Dahl, Boone Creek, NZ’s Pipi Pickers and American Drive. A lot to enjoy, right here on FreeFM.
59 min
February 21, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 21-02-2023
A wide range of bluegrass is featured in this week’s show, from the Earls of Leicester, Irene Kelley, Ricky Skaggs and Joe Mullins. We’ve also got the Foggy Hogtown Boys, Blue Highway, Dan Tyminski, and a special feature of Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys doing some authentic old-style bluegrass.
59 min
February 14, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 14-02-2023
Cyclone Gabrielle is currently attacking the North Island of New Zealand, with lots of areas affected by the intense winds and rain. Being confined to the cabin means lots of time for listening to bluegrass, and there’s a great line-up here on Back Porch Bluegrass. High Fidelity, Thomas Porter, Alison Krauss & Union Station, the Lonely Heartstring Band, the Kentucky Bluebelles, as well as touring band Sassafras, whose concerts are regrettably being affected by the storms.
59 min
February 07, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 07-02-2023
My good friend Barry (Baz) Paterson is in the studio with me. He’s a great singer and guitarist, and has loved bluegrass music for as long as I have. I’m playing some of his selections, together with some of our regular performers, including Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, the Sonoran Dogs, Special Consensus, Ramona Church, the Country Gentlemen, and Lester Flatt & Mac Wiseman. We’ve also got a track from Baz’s first band, Dunedin-based Bluegrass Expedition.
59 min
January 31, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 31-01-2023
We kick-off with an old-timer from the HCBB, then straightaway we’re into Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie, Hot Rize, Flatt & Scruggs, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, and Bluegrass Parkway from Australia. A couple of gems from Merle Haggard’s recordings of Jimmie Rodgers’ songs, rounded out with the Country Gentlemen, Flatt Lonesome and Curly Seckler. And what could be better than a fiddle-and-banjo tune from Bill Evans & Fletcher Bright to take us out?
59 min
January 24, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 24-01-2023
This week we’re hearing some ‘classic’ bluegrass from the Bluegrass Album Band, White House and the Hamilton County Bluegrass Band; some hot ‘newer’ bluegrass from Billy Strings, Jim Lauderdale and the Boxcars, and all about a visit to New Zealand by the North Carolina band Sassafrass – their tour dates, and some of their music.
58 min
January 17, 2023 Back Porch Bluegrass - 17-01-2023
Some of my old vinyl LP’s get a bit of an airing this week, with the likes of Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass, the Marshall Family, Collins & Blackwell & the Dixie Bluegrass Boys, and ‘Bashful’ Brother Oswald. From the CD shelves comes Chris Henry & the Hardcore Grass, Kathy Kallick, the Waller Brothers, Australian band ‘Old South’, and the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys. There’s some fine banjo playing from Beth Stevens & Edge, and a 16-year-old Carl Jackson – just a broad spectrum of bluegrass music.
59 min

About Back Porch Bluegrass Show

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Host Paul Trenwith is a founder member of the Hamilton County Bluegrass Band, playing banjo and occasionally singing harmony parts. From the mid-70's to the mid-90's, Paul and his fiddle-playing wife Colleen played as mostly gospel music, bluegrass-style, with a group of friends, and often featuring songs that Paul had written. He has become something of a musical 'jack-of-all-trades', playing banjo, dobro, pedal steel and rhythm guitar. He also plays double bass in the Hamilton-based Irish band.