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A Rose by Any Other Name…Celebrating Musicians through Flora and Fauna!

Today is the anniversary of Johnny Cash’s birth date. He was born on February 26, 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, the son of sharecroppers who were struggling through the Great Depression. Despite – and indeed, perhaps because of – this early […]

By: Rene Rodgers

Head Curator at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum

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February’s Farm and Fun Time Comes Full Circle with Flash and Flatpicking!

February 20, 2020

By Nathan Sykes

From high energy bluegrass showmanship to down home guitar pickin’, February’s Farm and Fun Time was a huge hit! Thanks to our sponsor Eastman Credit Union, Radio Bristol was able to bring Farm and Fun Time not only to those […]

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Pick 5: Coal-Mining Songs

February 7, 2020

By Rich Kirby

For our “Pick 5” blog series, we ask members of the Radio Bristol team to pick five songs within a given theme – from heartsongs to murder ballads and everything in between! Once they pick their “5,” they get the […]

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Radio Bristol Book Club: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

January 31, 2020

By Laura Kelly & Kristin Pearson

Welcome to Radio Bristol Book Club! Readers from BCM and the Bristol Public Library are coming together each month to celebrate and explore one book inspired by our region’s rich Appalachian cultural and musical heritage. We invite you to read along and then […]

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Long Dark Night…Dancing with the Boogeyman

January 27, 2020

By Moose Roberts

Things are weird in the holler…teen sweat and anxiety mixed with gasoline fumes and a fear of being found out. Always a fear… The Cramps with their short five-song gem Gravest Hits was the soundtrack to this time for me. […]

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Bristol Rhythm: Celebrating 20 Years in 2020

January 17, 2020

By Kim Davis

Nearly 20 years ago, City of Bristol Tennessee Councilman David Shumaker had an idea to host a music festival in Historic Downtown Bristol. Bristol had recently been named the official “birthplace of country music” by the U.S. Congress in 1998, and […]

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Roaring into the 20s with Farm and Fun Time!

By Nathan Sykes

From honky tonks to desert isles, we definitely roared into the 20s (the 2020s, that is) at January 9’s Farm and Fun Time! Thanks to our sponsor Eastman Credit Union, Radio Bristol was able to bring Farm and Fun Time […]

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Putting the Band Back Together!: Using Cutting-Edge Technology to Recover Sounds From the Past

January 6, 2020

By Bryce Roe

At the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) in Andover, Massachusetts, we recently completed an especially rewarding project for the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. The museum honored us with the task of recovering nine previously unheard, live recorded songs performed […]

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Radio Bristol Book Club: Gone Home – Race and Roots Through Appalachia

January 2, 2020

By Rene Rodgers

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