Laura presents country faves

[johnfoyle]

This will be available for re-listening on the 'net until April 10th -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/oneworld/

Monday 3 April


Country Section presented by Laura Cantrell

The Carter Family - 'Keep On The Sunny Side' (LP- Anchored in Love) (Rounder)

Jimmie Rodgers - 'Never Known Mo' Blues' (LP- My Old Pal) (Living Era)

Molly O' Day - 'Poor Ellen Smith' (LP- Can't You Hear Me Callin' Blue Grass: 80 Years of American Music) (Columbia)

Bill Monroe - 'Mule Skinner Blues' (LP- The Music of Bill Monroe 1936-1994) (NCA Nashville)

Bob Wills & The Texan Playboys - 'Mean Mama Blues' (LP- Stay A Little Longer) (Rounder)

Hank Williams - 'Cold Cold Heart' (LP- The Hank Williams) (Hallmark)

George Jones - 'White Lightning' (LP- Cup of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years) (Mercury Nashville)

Johnny Cash - 'Folsom Prison Blues' (Pickwick International)

Gillian Welch - 'No One Knows My Name' (LP- Soul Journey) (Acony)

Loretta Lynn - 'Have Mercy' (LP- Van Lear Rose) (Interscope)

[johnfoyle]

I'm listening to this now and - tsk, tsk!- 'Hank Williams - 'Cold Cold Heart'' is introed. and signed of as that song by Laura but what is actually played is 'You Win Again'. Presumably the Beeb merely inserted tracks into a sequence recorded by Laura. Or perhaps it's a little nod to similar mishaps in Thrift Shop programmes....

The tracklisting also omits Laura's final selection . She plays her own recording ( and more power to her for doing so!) of Wynn Stewart's Wishful Thinking from 'Humming.

Otherwise Laura tells the usual country music stories. A nice intro. to the genre.