Mavis Staples joined the lineup in 2011 in Glasgow, Scotland
This special episode was recorded in Glasgow, Scotland as a part of the Celtic Connections Festival and first aired in 2011. The lineup includes Mavis Staples, Dougie MacLean, Joy Kills Sorrow, Mollie O Brien & Rich Moore, and special guest appearances by Tim O Brien.
Joy Kills Sorrow on Mountain Stage
This episode was taped in Glasgow, Scotland as a part of the Celtic Connections Festival and first aired in 2011. Listen
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Quick, without looking it up, what record label discovered and introduced to the world roots/Americana stars Josh Ritter, Lori McKenna, Crooked Still and Lake Street Dive? With a track record like this and then some, Signature Sounds of Northampton, MA ought to be on the tip of every music fan’s tongue. But I suspect that many in the tribe need to be formally introduced, and a new 25th anniversary anthology makes the perfect calling card.
Over two CDs, amply annotated with history and artist capsules, the new
Golden Age set presents a wide-ranging listening experience spanning classic northeastern singer-songwriters, innovative string bands and idiosyncratic indie-popsters. These 37 artists are unified not by genre but by their crafty riffs on genre, their heady mingling of genre and their pure expressions of genre, depending on the artist involved. The oldest track is an acoustic guitar instrumental from Jim Henry and Brooks Williams back in 1997, and the most recent come