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 30 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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November 03, 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
The Golden Vanity
Artist : Crooked Still
Album : Some Strange Country
ReleaseYear : 2010
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10:13 AM
Hangman’s Reel
Artist : Bryan Sutton
Album : Bluegrass Guitar
Composer : Traditional
ReleaseYear : 2003
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10:16 AM
Walking In My Sleep
Artist : Jim And Jennie And The Pinetops
Album : Rivers Roll On By
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10:20 AM
My Cabin In Caroline
Artist : Flatt & Scruggs
Album : The Complete Mercury Sessions
ReleaseYear : 1987
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10:22 AM
Tillery Cove
Artist : Wayne Benson
Album : An Instrumental Anthology
ReleaseYear : 2003
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10:26 AM
Give That Wildman a Knife/ Bellows Falls/ Waitin’ On a Hanna
Artist : Stray Birds
Album : The Stray Birds
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10:31 AM
Riding On Your High Horse
Artist : The Wilders
Album : The Wilders
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10:33 AM
Circles Around Me
Artist : Sam Bush
Album : Circles Around Me
Composer : Sam Bush & Jeff Black
ReleaseYear : 2009
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10:37 AM
My Father’s Father
Artist : The Civil Wars
Album : Barton Hollow
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10:40 AM
Gilberton Road
Artist : Todd Phillips
Album : Todd Phillips, David Grier & Matt Flinner
ReleaseYear : 1999
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10:45 AM
Red Mountain Wine
Artist : Danny Knicely
Album : Murders, Drownings and Lost Loves: The Roots of Country
ReleaseYear : 2009
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10:47 AM
Head Hung Down
Artist : Dailey & Vincent
Album : Brothers From Different Mothers
ReleaseYear : 2009
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10:50 AM
Walt Whitman
Artist : Trampled By Turtles
Album : Stars and Satellites
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10:53 AM
Sleepin’ Like a Baby
Artist : Spring Creek
Album : Lonesome Way To Go
ReleaseYear : 2008
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10:57 AM
Single Beds Are Made for One
Artist : Elephant Revival
Album : Elephant Revival
ReleaseYear : 2008
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11:06 AM
Fiddler’s Green - Tim O’Brien, Goble, Pete
Artist : Tim O’Brien
Album : Fiddler's Green
ReleaseYear : 2005
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11:09 AM
With a Memory Like Mine
Artist : Tim O’Brien, Darrell Scott
Album : Real Time
ReleaseYear : 2000
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11:13 AM
Country Blues
Artist : Two Oceans Trio
Album : Two Oceans Trio
ReleaseYear : 2009
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11:17 AM
Memories of You
Artist : Peter Rowan & The Nashville Bluegrass Band
Album : New Moon Rising
ReleaseYear : 1993
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11:21 AM
Moonlight Midnight
Artist : Peter Rowan & Tony Rice
Album : Quartet
ReleaseYear : 2006
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11:28 AM
Red Apple Rag
Artist : Scott Nygaard
Album : No Hurry
ReleaseYear : 1992
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11:33 AM
Better Late Than Never
Artist : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
Album : Best Of Bluegrass Vol. 1
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11:35 AM
Bloodshot Eyes
Artist : Red Stick Ramblers
Album : My Suitcase Is Always Packed
Composer : Eric Frey
ReleaseYear : 2009
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11:38 AM
Arlington
Artist : Wailin Jennys
Album : 40 Days
ReleaseYear : 2004
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11:42 AM
Street People
Artist : Bobby Charles
Album : Country Funk 1969-1975
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11:46 AM
Jim Thompson’s Horse
Artist : Noam Pikelny
Album : Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail
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11:50 AM
The Plank
Artist : The Devil Makes Three
Album : The Devil Makes Three
ReleaseYear : 2007
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11:52 AM
Day on the Sand
Artist : Railroad Earth
Album : Railroad Earth
ReleaseYear : 2010
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11:57 AM
Holdin’ On
Artist : Runaway Planet
Album : Tarnation
ReleaseYear : 2008
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12:00 PM
Paint It Shut
Artist : Todd Phillips
Album : Todd Phillips, David Grier & Matt Flinner
ReleaseYear : 1999
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12:06 PM
If It Hadn’t Been for Love
Artist : The SteelDrivers
Album : The SteelDrivers
ReleaseYear : 2008
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12:09 PM
Who Showed Who
Artist : Dan Tyminski
Album : Wheels
ReleaseYear : 2010
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12:13 PM
This Girl
Artist : Punch Brothers
Album : Who's Feeling Young Now?
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12:16 PM
Amaranth
Artist : The Honey Dewdrops
Album : These Old Roots
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12:20 PM
Folley Of The King
Artist : Kyle Reeder and Mark Evitts
Album : The Tale of the Jester
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12:24 PM
Place in Line
Artist : Chris Smither
Album : Hundred Dollar Valentine
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12:27 PM
The Mystery of You
Artist : The Sweetback Sisters
Album : Looking For A Fight
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12:30 PM
Walkin’ Cane
Artist : The Knitters
Album : Poor Little Critter On the Road
ReleaseYear : 2005
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12:36 PM
Lovin’ Arms
Artist : The Wood Brothers
Album : Loaded
ReleaseYear : 2008
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12:39 PM
Sinai to Canaan, Pt. 2
Artist : Chris Thile
Album : Not All Who Wander Are Lost
ReleaseYear : 2001
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12:43 PM
Ring Around the Moon
Artist : Elephant Revival
Album : Elephant Revival
ReleaseYear : 2008
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12:47 PM
My Name is Emmett Till
Artist : Emmylou Harris
Album : Hard Bargain
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12:52 PM
Forget-Me-Nots
Artist : Hot Club of Cowtown
Album : Ghost Train
ReleaseYear : 2002
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12:55 PM
Pretty Red Lips
Artist : Nashville Bluegrass Band
Album : Twenty Year Blues
ReleaseYear : 2004
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12:57 PM
My Favorite Things
Artist : Tony Rice Unit
Album : Backwaters
ReleaseYear : 1990
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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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