Ozark Highlands Radio
233 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews, recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners on a musical journey with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region.
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OHR Stories: Brooks Blevins’ “Ozark Jubilee” and “Ozark Opry”
September 28, 2019 00:00 - 29 minutes - 53.3 MBBrooks Blevins gives a native’s view of the people, music, and colorful events that shape the Ozark region. In this episode of stories, the author and historian presents the story of the Ozark Jubilee, one of America’s first nationally broadcast Oldtime barn dance country music television shows based in Springfield, Missouri. As a bonus, Brooks also recounts the history of the Ozark Opry, one of the first Oldtime barn dance music stage shows also in Springfield.
OHR Stories: Brooks Blevins’ “Ghost of the Ozarks.”
September 21, 2019 00:00 - 13 minutes - 23.9 MBBrooks Blevins gives a native’s view of the people, music, and colorful events that shape the Ozark region. In this episode of stories, the author and historian presents the tale of "Ghost of the Ozarks” about the infamous Connie Franklin murder trial of the 1930’s. The trial became a mysterious and worldwide spectacle involving a man who testified at the trial for his own murder.
OHR Presents: Josh Ritter
September 15, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, a special episode. Ozark Highlands Radio partners with Oxford American Magazine to bring Woodstock, New York based contemporary folk and Americana superstar Josh Ritter, recorded live at South on Main in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. Also, an interview with Oxford American Literary Project executive director Ryan Harris. Mark Jones offers an archival recording of Ozark original Karen Bell performing the classic tune “Grandfather’s Clock.” “The Oxford American is a nonprofit o...
OHR Presents: Charm City Junction (Full Interview)
July 01, 2019 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBThis week, Baltimore based Old Time string and Irish button accordion band Charm City Junction recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with these masterful Maryland musicians. “From dance inducing Old Time rhythms and foot stomping Irish melodies to hard-driving Bluegrass, Baltimore-based acoustic roots quartet Charm City Junction creates a fresh soundscape that keeps listeners on the edge of their seats wondering where they'll go next. Featuring fiddle, clawham...
OHR Presents: The Bluegrastronauts
June 23, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, blast off with the Matchsellers’ “Bluegrastronauts,” the world’s first outer-space bluegrass odyssey, recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Mixing elements of tall tales, theater, science fiction and bluegrass, the Bluegrastonauts show isn’t quite like anything you’ve ever heard. The Matchsellers are Warsaw, Indiana native Andrew Morris and Julie Bates of Kansas City, Missouri. Their exciting, gritty, and often hilarious stage show has been developed over six years...
OHR Presents: Newberry & Verch
June 08, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, international Oldtime string band and Ottawa Valley step dance duo Newberry & Verch recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with this dynamic musical duo. “Joe Newberry grew up in a family full of singers and dancers. He took up the guitar and banjo as a teenager and learned fiddle tunes from great Missouri fiddlers. April Verch grew up listening to her Dad’s country band play for dances in the Ottawa Valley. She started ...
OHR Presents: Charm City Junction
June 02, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, Baltimore based Old Time string and Irish button accordion band Charm City Junction recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with these masterful Maryland musicians. “From dance inducing Old Time rhythms and foot stomping Irish melodies to hard-driving Bluegrass, Baltimore-based acoustic roots quartet Charm City Junction creates a fresh soundscape that keeps listeners on the edge of their seats wondering where they'll go next. Featuring fiddle, clawham...
OHR Presents: Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco
May 19, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, San Francisco based early 20th Century American music preservationist duo Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with these time traveling minstrels. “Delightfully engaging and unassumingly comic, Meredith Axelrod envisions the limitless potential of early twentieth century music, whether it be Ragtime, Music Hall, Pop Standard, Boogie Woogie, Tin Pan Alley, String band, Jazz, Country, Blues or even Jug Band music, a...
OHR Presents: The Jake Leg Stompers
May 12, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, Bucksnort, Tennessee based old school Memphis style jug band the Jake Leg Stompers recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with this band of musical outlaws. A Jake Leg Stompers show is a truly unique experience. Like a Vaudeville party with all the bells and whistles. Literally, their show includes bells and whistles. With lively renditions of classic blues and jug band tunes from early 20th century American music and a theatrical sensibility, the ...
OHR Presents: Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco (Full Interview)
May 08, 2019 21:11 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThis week, San Francisco based early 20th Century American music preservationist duo Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with these time traveling minstrels. “Delightfully engaging and unassumingly comic, Meredith Axelrod envisions the limitless potential of early twentieth century music, whether it be Ragtime, Music Hall, Pop Standard, Boogie Woogie, Tin Pan Alley, String band, Jazz, Country, Blues or even Jug Band music, a...
OHR Presents: The Whispering Willows
May 05, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, award winning Ozark singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist duo The Whispering Willows recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with this progressive husband and wife folk duo. Also, a performance by singer and multi-instrumentalist Keith Symanowitz, backed by Ozark originals Lukas Pool, Sam Cobb, Danny Dozier, Gresham McMillon, and John Severs. The Whispering Willows is an Americana duo featuring warm and rich vocals, masterful songwriting, and th...
OHR Presents: Jimbo Mathus & Kinfolks
April 27, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, Grammy award winning Mississippi singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and Squirrel Nut Zippers co-founder Jimbo Mathus with his “Kinfolks” recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with this musical Mississippi maverick. Jimbo Mathus is a singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work with the swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers. Born in Oxford, Mississippi to Jimmy Mathus and Jeanella (Malvezzi) Mathus, his early life was ...
OHR Presents: Amythyst Kiah
April 20, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, a very special episode. Ozark Highlands Radio partners with Oxford American Magazine to bring Johnson City, Tennessee based up & coming contemporary folk and Americana superstar Amythyst Kiah, recorded live at South on Main in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. Also, an interview with Oxford American Literary Project executive director Ryan Harris. In this performance, Amythyst is joined by Taylor Green on keyboard and Andrew Gibbens on drums. “The Oxford American is a nonprofit o...
OHR Presents: Taj Mahal
March 23, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, world renowned three-time Grammy winning singer, songwriter, film composer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, founding member of the band “Rising Sons,” and Blues legend Taj Mahal recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr, better known as “Taj Mahal,” is an American blues musician, a singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments. Taj incorporates elements...
OHR Presents: Dane Joneshill
March 17, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s historic 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Arkansas Ozark singer-songwriter Dane Joneshill recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center Stat...
OHR Presents: The Western Flyers
March 10, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s historic 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Texas based 2017 Ameripolitan 'Western Swing Group of the Year’ The Western Flyers recorded...
OHR Presents: Hannah Shira Naiman
March 03, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s historic 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Toronto singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and CFMA “Traditional Singer of the Year” ...
OHR Presents: JT Trawick
February 23, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s historic 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Portland, Oregon based singer-songwriter, square dance enthusiast, and Ozark original JT Tr...
OHR Presents: Mandolin Orange
February 16, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s historic 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, a very special episode. Ozark Highlands Radio partners with Oxford American Magazine to br...
OHR Presents: Lula Wiles
February 10, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s historic 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Smithsonian Folkways artists and award winning Boston, Massachusetts progressive folk trio ...
OHR Presents: John McEuen & The String Wizards
February 02, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, world renowned Grammy award winning musician, producer, writer, filmmaker, and founding me...
OHR Presents: Bonnie Montgomery
January 27, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, 2018 ACMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Ameripolitan Outlaw Female of the Year, songwriter ...
OHR Presents: The Seldom Scene
January 19, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, legendary Grammy nominated Bethesda, Maryland progressive bluegrass super-group The Seldom...
OHR Presents: The Secret Sisters
January 13, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Grammy nominated Muscle Shoals Americana & contemporary bluegrass singer-songwriter mega-d...
OHR Presents: Banjo Time!
January 06, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, it’s “Banjo Time!” Join host Dave Smith and banjo royalty Mark Jones as they explore musi...
OHR Presents: Songs out of Style
October 28, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, songs out of style performed by various artists recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center Sta...
OHR Presents: Musical Families
October 06, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, music by family, for family, and about family, performed by various artists recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Family life and ties are a big part of Ozark folk culture and music. Come on home with us to the Ozarks as we enjoy a little “family time,” celebrating the joy of familial bonding through song. Featured on this episode are a variety of artists including A.J. Croce, The Purple Hulls, Thom Bresh, Lukas & Eden Pool, The Gordons, The Honey Dewdrops, The Creek Ro...
OHR Presents: Songs Not So Serious
September 22, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, songs not so serious, both modern and traditional, performed by various artists recorded l...
OHR Presents: Brad Apple & Friends
September 02, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, multi instrumentalist, composer, and Ozark original Brad Apple, recorded live with some of...
OHR Presents: Pam Setser
August 05, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Stone county native, Ozark original, and our very own traditional folk legend Pam Setser, ...
OHR Presents: Willi Carlisle & Carolyn Carter
July 28, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, award winning actor, playwright, singer-songwriter, and traditional Ozark folk musician Willi Carlisle, recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with this dynamic talent. In addition, a featured performance by Arkansas True Folk singer-songwriter Carolyn Carter. Willi Carlisle is, according to The Washington Post, "powerful...both down-home and brainy." With years of collecting folklore, playing or calling square dances, and working in the avant-garde, Wi...
OHR Presents: Brian Martin
July 15, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, award winning True Folk & Americana singer-songwriter Brian Martin, recorded live at the O...
OHR Presents: The Dave Adkins Band
June 10, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, award winning contemporary bluegrass singer-songwriter Dave Adkins and his band, recorded ...
OHR Presents: Meredith Axelrod
June 03, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, mysterious time traveling minstrel Meredith Axelrod recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center...
OHR Presents: The Hogslop String Band
May 20, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, high energy neo-traditional oldtime music phenomenon “The Hogslop String Band” recorded li...
OHR Presents: The Gordons
May 13, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, inimitable Illinois husband & wife acoustic duo The Gordons recorded live at the Ozark Fol...
OHR Presents: The Purple Hulls
May 06, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, talented twin Texan bluegrass and gospel duo The Purple Hulls recorded live at the Ozark F...
OHR Presents: The Down Hill Strugglers
April 28, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, Brooklyn, New York based old-time string band The Down Hill Strugglers recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with this fantastic folk trio. Mark Jones offers an archival recording of Ozark original Dave Leatherman performing the traditional tune “Shoutin’ On the Hills.” Writer, professor, and historian Dr. Brooks Blevins recounts the American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist Henry Schoolcraft’s experience in the early Ozark region. The Down Hill ...
OHR Presents: The April Verch Band
April 22, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Canadian Ottawa Valley fiddler, singer, and stepdancer April Verch recorded live at the Oz...
OHR Presents: Frank Fairfield & Zac Sokolow
April 17, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, California based multi-instrumentalists, singers, and purveyors of traditional Southwester...
OHR Presents: Marty Stuart & The Fabulous Superlatives
April 07, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, five time Grammy Award winning traditional country, bluegrass, & Americana music legend Marty Stuart and his band, The Fabulous Superlatives, recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with Marty. Mark Jones offers an archival recording of himself & Marty Stuart performing the song “The Train That Carried My Girl From Town.” Marty Stuart is an American country music singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic...
OHR Presents: The Buffalo Gals
March 31, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, award winning Neo-Bluegrass & Americana acoustic singer-songwriter duo The Buffalo Gals re...
OHR Presents: Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
March 24, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, celebrated Scottish & Oldtime acoustic music explorers Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas reco...
OHR Presents: Hubby Jenkins
March 17, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Country Blues & Oldtime music phenomenon and Carolina Chocolate Drops member Hubby Jenkins...
OHR Presents: The Savoy Family Cajun Band
March 10, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBThis week, distinguished traditional Louisiana Cajun music connoisseurs The Savoy Family Cajun Band recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with renowned fiddler Joel Savoy. Mark Jones offers an archival recording of Ozark originals Ervin & Lily Freeze performing the song “Let Those Brown Eyes Smile at Me.” Author, folklorist, and songwriter Charley Sandage presents a portrait of Blanchard Springs National Park, featuring an interview with long time U.S. Forest Serv...
OHR Presents: Celebrating Ozark Heroes
March 05, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBOzark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, a celebration of Ozark traditional music pioneers and their influences. This special epis...
OHR Presents: Molsky's Mountain Drifters
February 24, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, preeminent old time fiddler Bruce Molsky and his Molsky’s Mountain Drifters recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Mark Jones offers an archival recording of Ozark original Moon Mullins performing the tune “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.” Author, folklorist, and songwriter Charley Sandage presents a portrait of the M&NA railroad of the Ozarks, featuring an original song & interview from Tom Simmons, the very first director of the Ozark Folk Center. Bruce Molsky is a self-des...
OHR Presents: Antsy McClain & Muriel Anderson
February 18, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, celebrated singer/songwriter & hometown humorist Antsy McClain with world renowned harp-guitarist Muriel Anderson recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with Antsy & Muriel. Mark Jones offers an archival recording of Ozark originals Robert & Mary Gillihan performing the traditional song “Banks of the Ohio.” Author, folklorist, and songwriter Charley Sandage presents a portrait of the White River Line railroad of the Ozarks, featuring an interview wit...
OHR Presents: The Paul Brock Band
February 11, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, world renowned Irish button accordion & melodeon player Paul Brock & his band recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with this master of Irish traditional music. Mark Jones offers an archival recording of Ozark original Ulys Pilcher performing the traditional tune “Sally Goodin.” Author, folklorist, and songwriter Charley Sandage presents a portrait of the Little Red River of the Ozarks, featuring interviews with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Str...
OHR Presents: The Barefoot Movement
February 03, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBThis week, high energy Neo-Grass acoustic music phenomenon The Barefoot Movement recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with The Barefoot Movement vocalist & co-founder Noah Wall. Mark Jones offers an archival recording of Ozark original Brooke Breeding performing the traditional tune “Tying the Leaves.” Author, folklorist, and songwriter Charley Sandage presents a portrait of the White river of the Ozarks, featuring interviews with Arkansas Game and Fish Commi...