Thursday, January 20, 2022

Back to the Country - Country Music Doctors

This week I had a lot of fun putting together a 3-hour country music (broadly defined) radio program entirely by musicians with PhDs. It consists of friends, mentors, colleagues, and heroes and some really, really good music! The Back to the Country show originally aired yesterday (1/19/22) on WORT 89.9FM but will be available for the next two weeks on the Audio Archives page (archive.wortfm.org). 

And just in case you heard something you liked and want to dig a little further into an artist or a song, below is a digital bibliography for the show!


Show: Back to the Country - Country Music Doctors

Air Date: 1/19/22

Host: Nate Gibson

Radio Station: WORT 89.9 FM and wortfm.org

Audio Archive: https://archive.wortfm.org/ [episode available through 2/2/22]

Spinitron playlist: https://spinitron.com/WORT/pl/15118893/Back-to-the-Country-Country-Music-Doctors


Music and Artist LINKS


Cliff Murphy - "Another Good Man Gone Bad"

Bio: https://www.arts.gov/about/leadership-staff/clifford-murphy

Music: 

Say Zuzu -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Zuzu

Hog Mawl - https://bit.ly/3rzWMG7

Bay State Lullaby - https://bit.ly/3tHGWw6


Jeff Todd Titon - "Old-Time Fire On the Mountain" 

Bio: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jtiton

Web: https://sustainablemusic.blogspot.com

Music: Fiddle Tunes for Slack Key Guitar - https://bit.ly/3AeK9V4


David Evans - "Railroad Blues"

Bio: https://www.memphis.edu/music/fac-staff/evans.php

Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAC2iDtd4sTXziv20ZjbY_w


Timon Kaple & Dead Columns - "Sugar" [feat Mississppi Bill Peden]

Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timonkaple/

Music: https://soundcloud.com/deadcolumns

Daniel Ellsworth & the Great Lakes - https://bit.ly/3FNvUaJ


Mike Lee & The Double Double Digits - "The Saguaro Speaks"

Web: https://www.tallandsmallphotography.com/

Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1wpmLhyH77HHa8PoxLlgQ

Omnimodern - https://www.youtube.com/user/omnimodern


Carrie Hertz & Thomas Grant Richardson - "You Are Not Alone" 

Web: https://www.carriehertz.com/about

Web: TGR on LOC https://bit.ly/3tHW38Q 

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRGtDJD1vHI

Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/tgrantrichardson


Rich Walter - "Stardust Medley"

Bio: https://mim.org/leadership/richard-d-walter-phd/

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z38i8xSQOqU


Ruth and the Stones - "Upset Apples"

Bio: https://bit.ly/3FJKSPl 

Web: http://www.kellybosworth.com/ruth-the-stones

Music: https://bit.ly/3IjfmJp

Note: Big congrats to Jennie Williams who was just formally introduced as the new State Folklorist of West Virginia!]


Jon Kay - "October Dulcimer" 

Bio: https://traditionalarts.indiana.edu/About/Staff%20Page%20Content/Jon%20Kay.html

Web: https://www.youtube.com/user/folktraditions/videos

Music: https://bit.ly/3GLLyEX


Sarah Dees [cello and vocals w/ Mary Okie] - "Sister Witch"

Bio: https://www.philrs.iastate.edu/directory/sarah-dees/ 

Music: https://maryokie.bandcamp.com/album/verily


Kysona Armstrong [w/ Christina Harrison] - "Riverside"

Web: www.kyshona.com 

Music: https://kyshona.bandcamp.com

And this!: https://www.facebook.com/kyshona/videos/1706068926106634/


Jess Waggoner - "Diners and Queer Bars" 

Bio: https://gws.wisc.edu/staff/waggoner-jess/

Music: https://queermadisonmixtape.bandcamp.com/track/diners-and-queer-bars


Jim James and the Damn Shames - "Fast Freightrain"

Bio: https://www.irp.wisc.edu/staff/spartz-james-t/

Music: https://www.facebook.com/damnshames

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuIcgnJKhZQMvGPg4XbEMg


Charles Hughes - "Miss Mollys’ Reel"

Bio: https://www.rhodes.edu/bio/charles-hughes


Kori Graves and Blixie - "Ancisters" 

Bio: https://www.albany.edu/history/faculty/kori-graves

Music: https://myspace.com/blixiemusic/music/songs


Earl Speilman and the Bluegrass Hoppers - "Bluegrass Breakdown"

Web: https://www.spielmanlegal.com/ 

Music: https://bit.ly/3tFKfnm


Rod Moag - "Fool Over You"

Bio: https://sites.utexas.edu/malayalam/biography-rodney-moag/

Web: http://www.rodmoag.com/

Music: http://www.rodmoag.com/discography.html


Jim Leary [songwriter] & Emil - "River Road Friday"

Bio: https://gns.wisc.edu/person/james-p-leary/

Music [Emil]: https://bit.ly/3qHKa0v


Phil Nusbaum - "The Dark Before the Storm"

Web: http://philnusbaum.com/

Music: https://www.facebook.com/Phil-Nusbaum-Music-291040003443/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs297_amDmh9tO03kEFYgFQ


LeRoy Larson - "Hoe-Down Medley"

Bio: https://folklife.wisc.edu/leroy-larson/

Music: https://www.library.wisc.edu/music/2021/01/11/remembering-leroy-larson/


Bill + Bobbie Malone - "Gathering Shells from the Seashore"

Bio [Bill]: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/bill-c-malone-biography/

Bio [Bobbie]: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS3652

Web: https://www.facebook.com/Bill-C-Malone-239745532725337/

Music: http://www.rodmoag.com/discography.html


Lee Bidgood - "Bluegrass Tennessee"

Bio: https://www.etsu.edu/cas/das/bluegrass/facstaff/leebidgood.php

Web: https://leebidgood.net/home

Music and Film: http://www.banjoromantika.com/about-the-film.html


Holly Riley in The Adventures of Annabelle Lyn - "If Luck Be Your Lady (Live)"

Bio: http://dhc.umt.edu/about/staff/default.php?ID=7130

Web: https://www.hollyrileymusic.com/
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV-1CsL8mLw

And also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS9K_BJGFsM


Greg Reish - "She Belongs To Me"

Bio: https://www.mtsu.edu/faculty/gregory-reish

Web: https://www.springfedrecords.com/whoweare

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_5-26bjPE 

And https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ8tX7GJ5IJU7tKpcNRPFNw


Nadine Hubbs - "Queer Jolene"

Bio: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/nhubbs/

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MQLx_AVjuU


Travis Stimeling & Chris Haddox - "The Line" 

Bio: https://www.music.wvu.edu/faculty/travis-stimeling

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7_wUzCkgEo

Note: Many congrats to Travis on his recent 2021 Belmont Book Award [Country Music Book of the Year] for Nashville Cats: Record Production in Music City [Oxford University Press]!


The Jeremiahs [feat Chris Wilson] - "Don’t Know That For Sure"


Mark Dillon - "Lost Highway"

Bio: http://www.avidblogs.com/mark-dillon-pro-tools/

Web: https://markdillonmusic.com/

Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe2Yz-LurcQcXG3Z7ObvT9Q


Jim Clark - "Dark Hollow"

Bio: www.barton.edu/tag/dr-james-a-clark-professor-emeritus-of-english-at-barton-college

Music and Poetry: https://bit.ly/3AimJhI


Neil Rosenberg - "Foggy Flats Blues"

Bio: https://www.mun.ca/folklore/people/dr-neil-rosenberg/

Web: https://www.bluegrasshall.org/inductees/neil-vandraegen-rosenberg/

Music: Homegas w/ Peter Aceves Narváez and Richard Blaustein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-midSuSpHm0

And Crooked Stovepipe w/ Ted Rowe: https://bit.ly/3fHilPA


Tom Adler - "Cat’s Eye / Prairie Dog Town" 

Bio: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p078101

Web: https://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_001347.shtml

Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBfCbdhSTYLbinl0jlgAp_A


East Texas String Ensemble [Stan Alexander, Ab Abernathy, Tom Nall, and Charles Gardner] - "Remember Me"

Web: https://www.discogs.com/artist/4918905-The-East-Texas-String-Ensemble

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3IGiNmG8wM


Pete “Dr Banjo” Wernick - "Beatin’ My Time"

Web: https://drbanjo.com/

Music: https://www.youtube.com/user/PeteWernick


Aaron A. Fox - "Live Forever"

Bio: https://music.columbia.edu/bios/aaron-a-fox

Music: https://www.youtube.com/user/EcoMusicology


Lucy Kaplanski - "Return of the Grievous Angels" 

Web: https://lucykaplansky.com/

Music: https://lucykaplansky.com/videos


Kristina Jacobsen - "Gone Gone Gone"

Bio: https://music.unm.edu/faculty/kristina-m-jacobsen/

Web: http://kristina-jacobsen.com/

Music: https://soundcloud.com/kristinajacobsenmusic


Craig Morrison and his Bluegrass Buddies - "Your Old Standby"

Web: https://www.craigmorrison.com/


Tom & Ngaire Waeltz - "Little Miss Lilliana"

Web: https://www.sharecare.com/doctor/thomas-waeltz-xymtf42


The Happy Trailsters [feat Jocelyn Neal] - "Happy Trails" (edited by Carl Eddy)

Bio [Jocelyn Neal]: https://music.unc.edu/people/musicfaculty/jocelyn-neal/

Web [ICMC]: https://www.internationalcountrymusic.org/

Music [Carl Eddy]: https://www.reverbnation.com/musician/carleddy4

BONUS WEB CONTENT:

Craig Maki and the Country Music Doctors [Nate Gibson, Greg Reish, and Lee Bidgood] - Slow Down [Studio B Recording]

Web [Craig Maki]: http://www.jumpingfrom6to6.com/itv_bones_maki.htm

Web [Nate Gibson]: nathandgibson.com

Music: https://bit.ly/3qHG9Jx


Anti-Education References in Introduction:

Aaron Tippin - “Workin’ Man’s PhD” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t7ECnE43QE

Josh Martin - “Country Boy PhD” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdY_kcG90hc

Alabama Big Earl - “PhD in Skanky” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZgCUOGv-A

Roland Whitt - “PhD in Country” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV_2wCI3r2I

Kenny Chesney - “Rich and Miserable” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdJyZUKJyM

Harlan Howard - “Mister Professor” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGXYh_ZEq8w