Earl’s Kitchen

June 30, 2010: On this Backroads and Banjos, Art and guitarist Pat Shields join 93-yr old fiddler Earl Murphy in his kitchen to play a couple of traditional songs as well as Pats original tune, …

The Greenbriar Boys – Part 2

June 16th, 2010: While a lot of episodes of Backroads and Banjos feature archival recordings of legendary old-timey recording artists, none have featured recordings quite like this. In 1959, a much younger Art Rosenbaum was …

The Greenbriar Boys – Part 1

June 9th, 2010: While a lot of episodes of Backroads and Banjos feature archival recordings of legendary old-timey recording artists, none have featured recordings quite like this. In 1959, a much younger Art Rosenbaum was …

Childrens Music Vol 2

June 2, 2010: In honor of schools letting out, Art decided he wanted to do a segment devoted to Childrens Songs from the American Southern tradition. While some of these songs were not specifically childrensThus, …

Georgia Crackers

May 26th, 2010: This episode of Backroads and Banjos finds the Georgia Crackers joining Art in the studio to play old-time music native to Georgia and discuss what makes this states traditionsShe has been elevated …

Sister Fleeta Mitchells 97th Birthday

May 19, 2010: This episode finds Art in his element, in the field, recording this episode outside the studios of AM 1690. Art pays a visit to Sister Fleeta Mitchell on the occasion of her …

Art Talks to John Cohen

May 12, 2010: This episode of Backroads and Banjos finds Art at the Black Banjo Conference in Boone, NC catching up with his old friend John Cohen who was one of the members of the …

Mother Day Songs

May 5th, 2010: Art Rosenbaum explores the theme of Mothers and Mothers Day in traditional folk music. Instead of being joyful and sentimental, many of the songs in traditional folk music were instead dark, slow, …

The Legacy of Charlie Poole

April 28, 2010: This Backroads and Banjos looks at one of the most creative musicians in traditional folk history. Charlie Poole was born in 1892 in North Carolina and learned to play banjo at anIt …

Yiddish Songs

April 21, 2010: This episode of Backroads and Banjos veers a little away from the usual subject matter to present Yiddish songs from a new 3-disc box set called Cantors, Klezmorim, and Crooners 1905-1953. This …

Black Stringbands

April 14, 2010: For this recording, Art joins us via telephone after his trip to the Black Banjo Gathering, where the Carolina Chocolate Drops met some years ago. With the emergence of the Carolina Chocolate …