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WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN: COUNTRY STRINGS AND JAZZ VIBES

We’ll re-visit the moment when the “California long-hairs” took over a Nashville studio to pay tribute to aging country heroes. First, we take a look back at the 1972 LP Will The Circle Be Unbroken with John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and his memories of those historic sessions. Then, a conversation with another musician familiar with Nashville, jazz vibraphone master Gary Burton. Plus a visit with Jake Shimabukuro, for whom any genre is a fine match for the ukelele.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Wabash Cannonball Bashful Brother Oswald, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Junior Husky and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Bu Unbroken, Capitol
  • Grand Ol' Opry Song Jimmy Martin and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • Tennessee Stud Doc Watson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • 9 Pound Hammer Merle Travis and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • Green, Green Grass of Home Joan Baez
    David's Album, Vanguard
  • Keep on the Sunnyside Mother Maybelle Carter and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Down Yonder Doc Watson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unboken, Capitol
  • You Ain't Going Nowhere The Byrds
    Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Columbia
  • Teach Your Children The Country Gentlemen
    35 Years of the Best in Bluegrass, Rebel
  • Honky-Tonk Blues The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • To Be Alone With You Bob Dylan
    Nashville Skyline, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Cannonball Rag Merle Travis and Junior Husky
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • SEGMENT: John McEuen

    Listen
  • Grayson County Blues No Speed Limit
    Bluegrass Lullaby, Virginia Humanities Foundation
  • Georgie Buck Carolina Chocolate Drops
    Heritage, Music Maker Foundation
  • I Saw the Light Roy Acuff and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway, Columbia
  • End Bed: The End of the World The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol

HOUR two

  • Open: Move Gary Burton
    For Hamp, Red, Bags and Cal, Concord
  • Flying Home Lionel Hampton with Benny Goodman
    The Essential Benny Goodman, Columbia/ Bluebird
  • Velociraptor Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Tophands
    Go Uptown: How the West Was Swung Vol. V, WR Records
  • Muskrat Candlelight Willis Alan Ramsey
    Willis Alan Ramsey, Koch
  • Our Day Will Come Ruby and the Romantics
    Our Day Will Come: The Very Best of Ruby and the Romantics, RPM
  • Windshield Wipers Ken Nordine
    Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure's Wink, Asphodel
  • Blues in B Flat Modern Jazz Quartet
    Aristocrates du swing, Warner/ Rhino
  • Instrumental: Green Mountains - Arise, Her Eyes (Live at Montreaux) Gary Burton
    Alone at Last, Rhino/ Atlantic
  • SEGMENT: Gary Burton

    Listen
  • Happy Time Tim Buckley
    Morning Glory: The Time Buckley Anthology, Elektra
  • Ill Bill Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet
    In a World of Mallets, Basin Street
  • Instrumental: Wear a Lei Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Tophands
    No Peddlers Allowed: How the West Was Swung Vol. VII, Warner/ Reprise
  • SEGMENT: Jake Shimabukuro

    Listen
  • Over the Rainbow/ It's a Wonderful World Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
    Meet Joe Black soundtrack, Universal
  • End Bed: Sailin' On to Hawaii Bashful Brother Oswald, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs & Junior Huskey
    Will the Cirlce Be Unbroken, Capitol

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