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Al Timberlane Show   Mountain View AR A

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Irish Eyes -An  Americana Interview with  - Annie Osborn - Folk Music Rewind  Host Al Timberlane  Airs 3-4-2024 KWMV Radio.com. Listen in on www.kwmvradio.com on Saturdays from 2 pm to 3 pm and again on Mondays from 5 pm to 6 pm.

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It is the end of the season, and we celebrate the number one inspirational folk event's end of the season and the most inspiring folk event in history. We thank God for the birth of Jesus Christ. Tune in to the Jimmy Driftwood Christmas Card - Folk Music Rewind Christmas Day Special on December 25, 2023, in Mountain View, Arkansas, known as the "Folk Music Capital of the World."

Join me Al Timberlane, on KWMV 88.5. I'll host a fun interview with a great band, Freddy and Phyllis. Please tune in at www.kwmvradio.com. At 5 p.m., Old music and fun. Like the Pointer Sisters and Mammas and Pappas and Elvis too. With some fantastic Memphis-style stand-up bass doing the percussion. Excellent Guitar work and uplifting harmonies as Smokey Leadbetter and Don Robinson back up the band and do a few solos. You need to tune in from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. for this Fantastic show.

I thank the Jacob Austin Band for a fantastic interview on Mountain View Iive a few Saturdays ago and "Folk Music Rewind" last Monday on KWMV 88.8. The Jacob Austin Band, who recently performed at the Gospel Opry and the Jimmy Driftwood Barn, sang some tremendous classic folk and gospel tunes and some originals from their newest CD. I talked to the band about their early music roots and most recent projects. Tune in each week to KWMV 88.5 FM Mountain View. Thanks again to the Jacob Austin Band

Your invites you to listen in on a different but fun Folk Music Rewind this Monday, September 25, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. John Weston Grass-Fed Beef Interview, www.kwmvradio.com, and Al Timberlane traveled to the farm in Sidney, Arkansas, near Mountain View, to learn more about John Weston Grass-Fed Beef.

Duane Porterfield Historic Folk Instruments Interview With Al Timberlane  Aired 9 - 11 - 2023  www.kwmvradio.com and www,timberlanemusic.com

Folk Music Recording Artist CJ Goodwin was our guest on the Folk Music Rewind Show this Monday, 8-28-2023, at 5 p.

 KWMV 88.5 wants to thank CJ Goodwin for a fantastic show this Monday. She played some of her folk music, some Texas Cowboy music, and a few gospel tunes. Not only did she play serious music, but CJ's comedy routine also included a great belly laugh. So join me, Al Timberlane, this following Monday at 5 p.m. You can tune in at www.kwmvradio.com, or if you are in and around Music Highway 66 and Mountain View, Stone County, ​Turn your dial to KWMV 88.5 FM for another amazing music showcase.

This song reminds us to return to "Back to Happiness," a time when music was based on family and playing music on the farm's front porch, with neighbors and travelers passing through. The late 1930s and early 1940s was a period in time when radio was a significant contributor to our Folk Music Heritage. On December 8, 1941, Grandpa Jones was heading into the famous Virginia Radio stage to do a show on WWVA when the news was announced on the radio: Japan's attack on Pearl Harber. This singular news event shocked the world and altered the direction of folk music. It took over 20 years for some musicians of the fantastic radio era to find their way back to the road, “Back To Happiness.” Many left their instruments to fight in World War II. While here in Mountain View, Arkansas. The time they stood still. Back to Happiness is based on an article in "The Devil's Box" by Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddle Association Volume 14 Nov 1 to March 1, 1980. and on a poem by Grandpa Jones in 1937. in this 1980 publication, according to the article, out of a small college in Tennessee, everyone was feeling the hard times. It was a period when radio was the one thing that could cheer and point to better times ahead and offer the listener's ear happiness. Upbeat, happy tunes, back to joy, "Back to Happiness."

KWMV 88.5 FM Mountain View, "Folk Music Capital of the World," want to thank Stuart & Tammy Anderson for being our guest this Monday, 8/21/2023, the Folk Music Rewind show, Folk Classic Banjo tunes played by this fantastic "Ozark Mountain Banjo Duo." And we invite all our guests here on Timberlanemusic.com to listen to these shows any time, day or night. Thanks for listening.

Thanks Harold Mahar for an entertaining and memorable interview aired on Folk Music Rewind this afternoon, 8-14-2023

The "OK Trading Post" has provided fun horseback riding in Mountain View on Hwy 14 between the Ozark Folk Center and our fantastic Blanchard Springs Caves tour for thirty years. Here at KWMV Radio 88.5  Mountain View, the Folk Capital of the World, we are home to such great musicians as Jimmy Driftwood, who, besides being a fantastic songwriter with a hit like Tennessee Stud and Battle of New Orleans He, also loved horses and horseback riding so during our interview will be playing Jimmy's two top hits and two great Folk Western Classic to boot. So join me, Al Timberlane, on a summer trip to the OK Correl Trading post to learn more about The OK Trading post right here  on  KWMV 88.5 www.kwmvradio.com

We at KWMV 88.5 & "Folk Music Rewind" want to thank Lealon Worrel & Jerry Foshee for a fantastic interview and for sharing their story and music with our listening audience that aired at 5 pm Monday 6-10-2023 and 2 pm Saturday 6-12-2023 Lealon Worrel and Jerry Foshee play a few songs for our listening audience from those, many years ago, songs they and their fellow band members played on tour across the United States in the mid-1960s and then again in the early 1970s in the middle of the Folk Music wave and the Jesus Movement that swept across the United States

Thanks, Jim & Judy  Pitts and Herman Cochran,  for an entertaining and memorable interview aired on Folk Music Rewind this afternoon, 7-24-2023

KWMV 88.5 FM Mountain View wants to thank Dave VanDyke for a great interview with Al Timberlane on Folk Music Rewind. Thanks goes out to my long-time friend and fellow musician, Dave VanDyke.

During the pandemic lockdown, he nominated his hometown Buchanan, Michigan, to Reader’s Digest as the Nicest Place in America. To His surprise, Buchanan won that nomination and was voted the Nicest Place in America. Aired on KWMV 88.5 on “Folk Music Rewind” at 5 pm on 7-23-2023.

Dave is a fourth-generation educator and a fantastic songwriter and Folk Music and Folk Rockabilly enthusiast. We will discuss his Nicest Place in America Tour and folk music, many great stories of the Folk Music Wave of the 60s, and the Readers Digest "Nicest Place in America Tour.”

 Theater:     One-hour variety series Listed

The Legendary Session Fiddler  - Tommy Jackson

Skillet Lickers, was one of the most influential string bands that recorded during the formative years of the country music industry.

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Recorded on April 8, 1929. This one was very well loved. Hope you enjoy it. Gid Tanner was one of the most widely recognized names among country music enthusiasts of the 1920s and 1930s. The group that he headed, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, was one of the most influential string bands that recorded during the formative years of the country music industry. The innovative approach, craftsmanship, and professionalism of this widely imitated ensemble was due in large part to the talents of such competent band members as Clayton McMichen on fiddle and Riley Puckett on guitar. James Gideon "Gid" Tanner was born at Thomas Bridge, near Monroe, in 1885 and spent most of his adult life in Gwinnett County, where he made a living as a farmer. He learned to play the fiddle as a teenager and became known in local circles for his prowess with the instrument. As a young man he was a regular participant at the Georgia Old-Time Fiddlers' Conventions, held annually in Atlanta between 1913 and 1935. He won the state fiddling championship in 1928. Tanner was known among musicians and convention audiences as a crowd pleaser. He was not only a fiddler but also a comedian noted for his stereotypical imitations and a singer with legendary range. Tanner allegedly knew the words and music to more than 2,000 songs. The favorite among his audiences was "I'm Satisfied," which he sang in alternating falsetto and bass registers. When Tanner sang the song at the fiddlers' conventions, newspapers reported that he "brought down the house" and was forced to repeat the song several times "before the audience would let him go." On April 17, 1926, the Skillet Lickers recorded eight songs for the Columbia record label in an Atlanta studio. During the next eight years various combinations of Atlanta-area musicians joined Tanner to record more than 100 songs under the Skillet Lickers name. Besides McMichen and Puckett, the Skillet Lickers at one time or another included Ted Hawkins (mandolin, fiddle), Bert Layne (fiddle), Fate Norris (banjo, harmonica), Hoke Rice (guitar), Lowe Stokes (fiddle), Arthur Tanner (banjo, guitar), and Mike Whitten (guitar). With such songs as "Bully of the Town," "Pass Around the Bottle and We'll All Take a Drink," and "Soldier's Joy," these records were well received by fans of old-time string band music, and they sold well. The band's biggest-selling record was "Down Yonder," recorded at its last session in 1934, with Tanner's son, Gordon, playing the lead fiddle. In addition to traditional folk music, fiddle tunes, and novelty songs, the Skillet Lickers recorded a series of skits in which humorous dialogue, interspersed with snatches of familiar songs and tunes, was the main feature. Called "rural drama records," these skits, as their titles indicate, recounted stories about such topics as "A Corn Licker Still in Georgia," "The Medicine Show," and "Kickapoo Joy Juice." Although Tanner's recording career ended in 1934, he remained active as an entertainer until shortly before his death. During his last years he performed on stage and radio and entered fiddlers' contests. He won his last first-place trophy at the age of seventy-one.https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/gid-tanner-and-his-skillet-lickers