Featured Post

Recent Posts

Once Upon a Time: Remembering and Sharing Family Stories

November 20, 2020

By Rene Rodgers

“Do you remember when…?” “Let me tell you about your grandmother’s apple butter…” “Uncle Roger, I want to hear the story about the time you thought you’d swallowed a water dog!” November is Family Stories Month, and even though we […]

View Post

Radio Bristol Book Club: Woman Walk the Line

November 3, 2020

By Rene Rodgers

Welcome to Radio Bristol Book Club! Each month, readers from BCM and the Bristol Public Library come together 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 listen […]

View Post

Pick 5: The 1928 Bristol Sessions

October 27, 2020

By Nathan Sykes

If you are reading this blog post, you are probably familiar with why Bristol is considered by many to be the Birthplace of Country Music. During late July and early August of 1927, Ralph Peer of the Victor Talking Machine […]

View Post
Jamie Lee Curtis wearing a mask in the movie Halloween

Cardio, Double Tap, and Other Stuff Scary Movies Taught Us About Avoiding COVID-19

August 7, 2020

By Charlene Baker

I think we can all agree 2020 has been one giant dumpster fire. As we enter the Halloween season, you might be thinking reality has become a little like living a scary movie. This got me to thinking: if this were a scary movie, how could we flip the script? Hasn’t the horror genre taught us everything we need to know about surviving until the credits? And because every good Halloween flick needs a killer soundtrack, I’ve included a Spooktacular Bristol Rhythm playlist on Spotify to aid in your assault on COVID-19, with nearly five hours of music by your favorite festival artists! Enough to get you though a double feature!

View Post

Instrument Interview: The Bones

October 7, 2020

By Rene Rodgers

“Instrument Interview” posts are a chance to sit down with the instruments of traditional, country, bluegrass, and roots music – from different types of instruments to specific ones related to artists, luthiers, and songwriters – and learn more about them. […]

View Post

Radio Bristol Book Club: Hiding Ezra

October 2, 2020

By Tonia Kestner

Welcome to Radio Bristol Book Club! Each month, readers from BCM and the Bristol Public Library come together 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 listen […]

View Post

Hard Times, Silver Linings and Farm and Fun Time

September 19, 2020

By Kris Truelsen

Only six months ago, on March 12, 2020, I thanked our sold-out crowd at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum for joining us for another live broadcast of Farm and Fun Time. Though the show went off without a hitch, […]

View Post

Radio Bristol Book Club: Meeting Jimmie Rodgers

September 3, 2020

By Rene Rodgers

Welcome to Radio Bristol Book Club! Each month, readers from BCM and the Bristol Public Library come together 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 listen […]

View Post

Pick 5: The Old Lonesome Quarantine Blues

August 31, 2020

By Nathan Sykes

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 […]

View Post
1 2 3 … 23

Site Search