Special Consensus: Chicago Barn Dance

Special Consensus: Chicago Barn Dance

October 6, 2020

Bluegrass & Big Shoulders Listening Post 273. A week after it began broadcasting from Chicago on April 12, 1924, radio station WLS debuted National Barn Dance, one of the pre-eminent country music programs of its day; over the decades it hosted leading stars—Gene...
Claire Lynch: North By South

Claire Lynch: North By South

January 17, 2017

Bluegrass on Ice Listening Post 82. Among Claire Lynch’s many talents is an uncanny ability to embody a man’s song—her angelic voice not imitating the opposite sex but simply erasing the importance of gender. She memorably personified a Civil War soldier in Kennesaw...