HeyJaredDown the Road on the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina
Music legends and traditions of the North Carolina mountains and foothills.
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Bob Carlin is a banjoist, producer, and author. Bob has done extensive research on the “birth of the banjo” in the American South. His book, The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy , covers the banjo's history. The Podcast Down the Road highlights bluegrass and old-time music stories, performers, and traditions across the mountain and foothills counties of Western North Carolina. These traditions and stories are the soul and spirit of the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North
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