Summary: This week, world renowned finger style and harp guitar phenom Muriel Anderson recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with this prodigious picker. Muriel Anderson is a former National Thumbpicking guitar champion, a fine 6 string picker, and practitioner of the many stringed harp guitar. Creating a sound like no other, the harp guitar incorporates a multitude of strings that cover a wide sonic range. The result can be both ethereal and otherworldly, or just downright mind blowing. Muriel’s repertoire includes traditional folk music, world music, and original compositions. Prolific folk musicians Aubrey Atwater & Elwood Donnelly profile influential folk music icons Jean Ritchie and the Ritchie Family, as well as explore the traditional Appalachian music and dance that the Ritchie Family helped to perpetuate into the modern American folk lexicon. This episode offers a profile of Ozark original balladeer Almeda Riddle, and features an archival recording of Almeda singing the traditional ballad “Will the Weaver.” Mark Jones' “From the Vault” segment offers an archival recording of Grand Old Opry and “Hee Haw” star Grandpa Jones performing his song “Mountain Dew,” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives.
