Music From The Front Porch

Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Fans have been tuning in to "Music from the Front Porch" for over ten years. The tradition of folk, bluegrass, acoustic and western swing continues with hosts John McMillen, Mike Gowen and Mark Welch. Hear the best of old and new musicians from Bill Monroe and Woody Guthrie to Alison Krauss and Chris Thile.

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August 11, 2012

10:04 AM
Old Cold Coffee on the Dashboard
Artist : Nickel Creek
Album : Here to There
ReleaseYear : 1996
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10:09 AM
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Artist : Red Molly
Album : Light in the Sky
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10:12 AM
Things Will Be Better Next Year
Artist : Will Maring
Album : An Ocean From Home
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10:15 AM
John Henry
Artist : The Kentucky Colonels
Album : Appalachian Swing!
ReleaseYear : 1964
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10:18 AM
20/20 Vision
Artist : Gillis Brothers
Album : Ice Cold Stone
ReleaseYear : 2005
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10:21 AM
Red Apple Rag
Artist : Scott Nygaard
Album : No Hurry
ReleaseYear : 1992
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10:25 AM
Thunder Road
Artist : John Stickley
Album : Lions
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10:29 AM
Caurea
Artist : Druha Trava
Album : Good Morning Friend
ReleaseYear : 2006
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10:32 AM
Loving Her Was Easier Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again
Artist : Country Gentlemen
Album : Sugar Hill Collection
ReleaseYear : 1995
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10:35 AM
Mandy Jane
Artist : Open Road
Album : In The Life
ReleaseYear : 2004
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10:39 AM
The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight
Artist : Special Consensus
Album : Trail of Aching Hearts
ReleaseYear : 2007
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10:41 AM
Overland
Artist : Noam Pikelny
Album : In the Maze
ReleaseYear : 2004
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10:45 AM
Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky
Artist : The Bluegrass Album Band
Album : Down the Road - Bluegrass Songs of Flatt & Scruggs
ReleaseYear : 2002
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10:48 AM
Detour
Artist : Bill Keith
Album : Something Bluegrass...
ReleaseYear : 1976
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10:51 AM
Hello City Limits
Artist : Red Allen
Album : Keep on Going: The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings
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10:54 AM
I’ll Be True to the One That I Love
Artist : The Stanley Brothers
Album : Long Journey Home
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10:55 AM
My Old Friend the Blues
Artist : Beth & April Stevens
Album : Sisters
Composer : Kane, O'Hara
ReleaseYear : 1996
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10:58 AM
Common Ground
Artist : Tony Rice Unit
Album : Backwaters
ReleaseYear : 1990
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11:06 AM
Levi
Artist : Old Crow Medicine Show
Album : Carry Me Back
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11:08 AM
All Night Blues
Artist : King Wilkie
Album : Broke
ReleaseYear : 2004
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11:11 AM
Old Mother Flannigan-Granny Will Your Dog Bite
Artist : Joel Mabus
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11:14 AM
Lowlands
Artist : Gourds
Album : Ghosts of Hallelujah
ReleaseYear : 2000
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11:16 AM
Finland
Artist : Rani Arbo
Album : Gambling Eden
ReleaseYear : 2003
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11:19 AM
Monarch
Artist : April Verch
Album : Take Me Back
Composer : Buckley, Verch
ReleaseYear : 2006
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11:23 AM
Just Like That
Artist : Kieran Kane
Album : You Can't Save Everybody
ReleaseYear : 2004
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11:27 AM
Up Where We Are
Artist : Drew Emmitt
Album : Across the Bridge
ReleaseYear : 2005
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11:30 AM
House Without Love
Artist : Hank Williams Sr.
Album : Original Singles Collection...Plus
ReleaseYear : 1991
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11:33 AM
Seeing Stars
Artist : Meg Hutchinson
Album : Come Up Full
ReleaseYear : 2008
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11:36 AM
Once In a While
Artist : Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
Album : Rattlin' Bones
ReleaseYear : 2008
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11:38 AM
Morningstar Medley
Artist : Rodney Miller and Airdance
Album : Flying on Home
ReleaseYear : 2006
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11:42 AM
John And Mary
Artist : IIIrd Tyme Out
Album : John & Mary
ReleaseYear : 1999
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11:45 AM
Ninety Degrees
Artist : Bob Carlin
Album : Banging & Sawing
ReleaseYear : 1996
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11:47 AM
Sleepy Eyes
Artist : Laurie Lewis; Tom Rozum
Album : The Oak and the Laurel
ReleaseYear : 1995
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11:51 AM
Comin’ Home Soon
Artist : Romi Mayes
Album : Romi Mayes and The Temporarily Employed: The Living Room Ses
ReleaseYear : 2005
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11:53 AM
Vicksburg
Artist : Grasstowne
Album : Kickin' Up Dust
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11:57 AM
Hencher Road
Artist : Bob Minner
Album : There & Back & Back Again
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12:06 PM
Human Cannonball
Artist : Cadillac Sky
Album : Letters In The Deep
ReleaseYear : 2010
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12:10 PM
Collard Greens
Artist : The Wilders
Album : Someone's Got To Pay
ReleaseYear : 2008
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12:12 PM
Floating
Artist : Greg Trooper
Album : Floating
ReleaseYear : 2003
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12:17 PM
Sweet Little One
Artist : Kelly Willis
Album : Translated from Love (Bonus Track Version)
ReleaseYear : 2007
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12:21 PM
To Whom It May Concern
Artist : The Civil Wars
Album : Barton Hollow
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12:25 PM
Big Bend
Artist : Chris Pandolfi
Album : Looking Glass
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12:29 PM
Bang Bang Bang
Artist : Eilen Jewell
Album : Queen Of The Minor Key
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12:31 PM
Papa Was A Steel-Headed Man
Artist : Robbie Fulks
Album : Country Love Songs
ReleaseYear : 1996
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12:34 PM
You Can’t Stop the Changes
Artist : Infamous Stringdusters
Album : Things That Fly
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12:38 PM
Goat Rodeo
Artist : Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
Album : The Goat Rodeo Sessions
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12:42 PM
Hello In There
Artist : John Prine
Album : John Prine
Composer : John Prine
ReleaseYear : 1971
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12:47 PM
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Artist : Mollie O’Brien
Album : Big Red Sun
ReleaseYear : 1998
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12:49 PM
Native Funk
Artist : Burning Sky
Album : Native American Odyssey
ReleaseYear : 1998
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12:54 PM
Slung-Lo
Artist : Erin McKeown
Album : Lafayette
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12:56 PM
Meadville
Artist : Scott Nygaard
Album : No Hurry
ReleaseYear : 1992
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Culture
9:01 am
Fri March 1, 2013

Western Kentucky Historian & Musician Featured on Sounds Good

Credit nathanblakelynn.com

WKMS hosts a special early-bird fundraising event with live string band music in Studio A for Sounds Good with Tracy Ross. One of the rotating hosts of Music from the Front Porch, Mike Gowen, joins in to introduce old-time string music of the Purchase Region with Nathan Blake Lynn and Josh Coffey, known through Bawn in the Mash and other groups. 

As part of today's special presentation, Nathan plays music from his historical music project titled The Places I Used To Know. The album features 10 original songs focused on Lynn’s experiences in the Jackson Purchase. All songs were written, performed, and engineered by Lynn at his farm in Heath, Kentucky. For more information visit nathanblakelynn.com.

See a video describing the album and a special fundraiser premium after the jump.

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Music
5:25 pm
Thu November 1, 2012

Bluegrass Benefit for Tony Williams

Josh Williams on Music from the Front Porch

  • Interview/Performance with Josh Williams

There’s a Bluegrass Benefit Friday night, November 1.  A life-threatening infection put Jackson Purchase Friends of Bluegrass’s Tony Williams in Vanderbilt hospital for a month and a half.  Tony’s home and better now.   His award-winning guitarist and vocalist son Josh Williams dropped in on Music from the Front Porch with Mark Welch last Saturday to talk about the benefit.

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Arts
3:34 pm
Thu August 9, 2012

Mexico to Maine: The David Wax Museum's sound collected in travel

"It in part comes from the Mexican influence, but most of the band didn't grow up in the northeast. I grew up in Virgina, David and Jordan are from Missouri. So you might also be hearing some of our southern roots."

The band David Wax Museum formed in Boston in 2007. They've since become hits at the Newport Folk Festival, won Song of the Year with “Born with a Broken Heart” and “Americana Artist of the Year” for the 2010 Boston Music Awards, and have starred in a mini documentary about their trip to China.

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ROMP 2012
10:50 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Fiddler Scott Moore on crossing borders and crossing genres

Scott Moore has been to Ireland, Ecuador, Poland, Australia, Canada, China, as well as around the U.S. playing his violin. He lives in Louisville now and plays fiddle for The 23 String Band- who will be playing at ROMP in Owensboro next week. Rose Krzton-Presson spoke with Scott about crossing borders, crossing genres, and where he’s looking to go next with his instrument.

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Culture
1:38 pm
Fri February 17, 2012

The Infamous Stringdusters play at Marathon Music Works

Jeremy Garrett (fiddle) and Chris Pandolfi (banjo) soundcheck before their show at Marathon Music Works.

The Infamous Stringdusters are touring Yonder Mountain String Band for the next two weeks. The 'Dusters just released their first recording from their independent label High Country Recordings called We'll Do It Live and will release their next album Silver Sky on March 12th.

Rose Krzton-Presson spoke with bandmembers before their show at Marathon Music Works in Nashville on February 10th about the newest albums, their festival circuit this year (including their very own Festy Experience), and being on the road with YMSB.

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