by Appalachia Jack | Mar 16, 2018 | Mountain Music Sounds
Wayfaring Stranger Remember the long history of When the Roses Bloom Again? Well this week’s song has it beat… by well over 100 years! Wayfaring Stranger is a classic Appalachian tune dating back to at least the late 1700s. Like many songs from this era, its...
by Appalachia Jack | Mar 2, 2018 | Mountain Music Sounds
Turn Your Radio On To kick this column off right, let’s talk about a song that stretches all the way back to the late 30s, when families across America were struggling through the Great Depression and turned to the radio to forget their worries. For the first time,...