Tag: Tim Stafford

LISTEN: Thomm Jutz, “Where The Bluebirds Call”

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Artist: Thomm Jutz
Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee
Song: “Where The Bluebirds Call”
Album: To Live In Two Worlds, Volume 1
Release Date: March 27, 2020
Label: Mountain Home Music Company

In Their Words: “Englishman Cecil Sharp travelled all over Appalachia in search of ancient British verse and melody thought lost in England. He travelled extensively through the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee to find these songs. They are documented in his collection English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians, which, as my friend and co-writer Tim Stafford says, is ‘as close to the horse’s mouth as you can get.’ I feel Cecil’s fascination with these songs in my bones. It is the essence of what keeps my musical world turning, and it’s always calling me home.” — Thomm Jutz

Photo credit: Jefferson Ross

The String – The Bluegrass Episode 2019

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Host Craig Havighurst browsed World of Bluegrass in Raleigh in September and caught up with four artists who make for a pretty good cross section of the genre circa 2019: Tim Stafford of Blue Highway, an iconic band celebrating its 25th anniversary, Irene Kelley, a veteran songwriter who’s on top of the bluegrass charts, Appalachian Road Show, a new supergroup with a cultural mission, and The Dead South, a young band of Canadian folk rockers who represent the adventuresome edge of bluegrass music.

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Notes and full versions of these edited interviews can be found at WMOT.org.

LISTEN: Blue Highway, “Ain’t No Better, Ain’t No Worse”

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Artist: Blue Highway
Hometown: Bristol, Virginia
Song: “Ain’t No Better, Ain’t No Worse”
Album: Somewhere Far Away: Silver Anniversary
Release Date: August 2, 2019
Label: Rounder Records

In Their Words: “This song idea came from something Jason Moore of the group Sideline told me. Blue Highway was playing a show with them in Florida year before last. I asked how he was doing, and he said, ‘Ain’t no better, ain’t no worse.’ Wayne Taylor and I wrote it specifically for the album. We were thinking Jimmy Martin!” — Tim Stafford, Blue Highway

Photo credit: Dean Groover