Folk, traditional, and regional styles from all over the world; generally music that would be loosely classified into "folk", "world" or "country" in the typical record store. Ethnographic, field recordings, local labels, state-sponsored labels, music that has distinct local flavor etc., sometimes themed or in the style of a survey, sampler, or anthology.
A mix show of black Appalachian regional styles and traditional music, featuring pre blues forms, songsters, banjo, old time, work songs, union songs, quartet & group singing, and Piedmont blues from Joe & Odell Thompson, Jimmie Strothers, Cora Phillips, Etta Baker, Elizabeth Cotten, Isaac Curry, United Four Quartet, the Badgett Sisters, John Lusk, and others. Originating from North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
The traditional sounds of Scotland with an appreciation of the work of recordist, and one of the key figures of the Scottish folk revival, Hamish Henderson, from piping, mouth music, diddling, Bothy ballads, and Muckle Sangs or Child ballads.
The premiere episode features music from West Virginia, mining/coal songs, union songs sung in African American quartet style, bluegrass, old time, banjo and fiddling, including several members of the Hammons family
