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Near Country
06.08.24BF Shelton - Pretty Polly
Carter Family - The Storms Are On The Ocean
Tenneva Ramblers - Miss Liza, Poor Gal
Ernest Stoneman - Dying Girl's Fairwell
Henry Gilliland and Eck Robertson - Turkey in the Straw
Captain M.J. Bonner - Yearling's In The Canebrake & The Gal On The Log
El Ciego Melquiades - Todos Ellos
Ennis Morrison and Muller - The Humors of Bandon
Jimmie Rodgers - Sleep Baby, Sleep
El Watson - Narrow Gauge Blues
J.P. Nestor - Train On The Island
Hessie Cruise Scott - Three Little Babes
Joanna Newsom - Three Little Babes
Fields Ward - The Lexington Murder
Carter Family - Never Let the Devil Get the Upper Hand of You
DeFord Bailey - Up Country Blues
Leadbelly - Green Corn
Asa Martin & Jim Gaskin - Hot Corn
Sam Chatmon - Day Long Blues
Carter Family - Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow
Near Country
Near Country exists along the margins to the centre of country music, with all that defies and defines it. Mixes weave through rockabilly, blues, americana, experimental folk, bluegrass, gospel, classic country, pop country, radical country, country rap, and more. The show follows threads of country music from its experimental, melded origins through to its variegated branches today. Sometimes that means approaching country, getting near to, gesturing towards the thing itself without getting there. The nearer, the more porous its borders become. A joke about the country’s borders writes itself. Industry, politics, culture posit a tight, rigid structure. And while to an extent that image maps to a reality in the genre, both an inclusive contemporary and historical perspective challenges the monolithic identity of country music.
