The Pandemic has caused many families to be apart. Betty and I last visited our son and his wife in West Virginia for Christmas 2019. Little did we know at the time, it would be 18 months until we could return. Well, we've all had our innoculations and we headed back to the Mountain State for the Memorial Day weekend to celebrate my birthday. We had a wonderful time, so this week we'll sample some of my favorite artists and music from West Virginia. We'll hear Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Tim O'Brien, Kathy Mattea and many more. Let's take a trip to The Mountain State … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #21-22: Return to the Mountain State

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkways

Ben Townsend and Friends / “Roaring River” / Deep End Sessions Vol III / Deep End Sessions

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “West Virginia My Home” / Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard / Rounder

The Sky Island Stringband / “Cranberry Rock” / Adventures in Old Cranberry / Bemlar

Costa & Campbell / “Sweet Bunch of Daisies-Rise When the Rooster Crows” / with Amazing Jim Lloyd / Eastwood

Daniel Koulack & Karrnnel Sawitsky / “Groundhog” / Songs from the South-Tunes from the North Self Produced

John Lilly / “Whodunit” / Last Chance to Dance / Self Produced

Oscar Wright / “Elkhorn Ridge” / Fifty Years of County Records / County

Long Point String Band / “Piney Woods” / Piney Woods / Self Produced

Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller / “Fun's All Over” / Deep End Session Vol II / Deep End Sessions

Ben Townsend and Friends / “The Gooson Quadrile” / Deep End Session Vol III / Deep End Sessions

Tim O'Brien / “Get Out There and Dance” / Chameleon / Howdy Skies-Proper

Billy Edd Wheeler / “Coal Tatoo” / Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back / Kapp

Kathy Mattea / “A Far Cry” / Calling Me Home / Sugar Hill

Todd Burge / “Time to Waste Time” / Imitation Life / Bunj Jam

Gandydancer / “Boozefighters” / The Appalachians / Dualtone

Dan Cunningham / “Deep River Blues” / Simple Gifts / Pickndawg

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkways