Playing Hillbilly Days in Pikeville is big for mountain music players
One of Larry and Cheryl Webster's big impacts on the world of music was being the programmers for Pikeville, Ky.'s Hillbilly Days…
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Author: Frank & Falls
Chicagoan Francesca Folinazzo (Frank) founded Roots Music Rambler as a music and travel blog in a pre-pandemic world. COVID killed events and travel plus her desire to play her banjo. Falls texted her in 2023 and said, 'Let's bring it back as a podcast!' He was raised on John Prine, babysat on Waylon Jennings and taught to drink and cuss the proper, mountain way. He hails from Pikeville, Ky., the birthplace of Dwight Yoakum, whose annual festival is Hillbilly Days.
Amy Bizzarri talks about her new book “The Best Hits on the Blues Highway”
Author Amy Bizzarri's new book is called "The Best Hits on the Blues Highway: Nashville to New Orleans on Route 61." It…
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Mountain and Bluegrass Music with Linchpins Larry and Cheryl Webster
Larry and Cheryl Webster may not be big recording artists or the kind of musicians that sell-out arenas around the world, but…
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Larry Webster on why Eastern Kentucky became a hotbed of bluegrass and mountain music
On Friday's new episode of Roots Music Rambler, mountain music mavens Larry and Cheryl Webster talk about why Eastern Kentucky became such…
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Cheryl Webster’s musical family includes songwriter Darrell Scott
Friday is the next episode drop for Roots Music Rambler. On this week's episode Jason Falls visits with the roots of his…
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