CITIZENS VINYL
Music has returned to Asheville’s iconic 1939 Citizen Times building, where Bill Monroe first unleashed his bluegrass sound over the airwaves of WWNC am radio station. Now home to Citizen Vinyl, the historic art deco floors………….
Music, Sound, Inspiration from WPVM FM 103.7 Programs Hosts
NINA SIMONE – I Put A Spell On You
Rolling Stone wrote that “her honey-coated, slightly adenoidal cry was one of the most affecting voices of the civil rights movement,”
Nina Simone’s journey to stardom began in the small town of Tryon, North Carolina, where she was born Eunice Waymon in 1933.
Blue Ridge Music Trials
Welcome to the Blue Ridge Music Trails The Blue Ridge Music Trails celebrate Western North Carolina’s gift to the world. Here, banjos sing of history and hardship, fiddles whisper of heritage, and voices carry light through the mountains. Music Woven into Mountain Life Come rest your feet a spell and lend an ear – that…
THE CADILLAC KIDZ (DETROIT ROCK AND ROLL)
The Cadillac Kidz feature an eclectic collection of original songs and is a band that represented the east and west sides of Detroit back in the late 1970’s.
Jimmie Rodgers
Mississippi rail worker turned country crooner is considered by many to be the prime “influencer” of the country genre.
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Minstral of the Appalachians – Bascom Lamar Lunsford Bascom Lunsford was born in 1882 into a musical family on the campus of Mars Hill College, where his father taught. Surrounded by the rural mountain life of western North Carolina, Bascom grew up steeped in traditional music. His great-uncle sawed up a storm on the fiddle…