Bluegrass On NPR!

While Bluegrass and NPR are not strangers to each other, it is pleasantly surprising to find this feature on the NPR Website. The hosts of "Seldom Heard Music," a show on Missouri public radio station KSMU in the Ozarks, selected more than 100 mountain songs for this edition of The Mix.

Mike Smith

Longtime bluegrass DJ and member of the International Bluegrass Music Association, Mike Smith has compiled several hours of Ozarks-based bluegrass music for the national NPR website. Check it out!

Harry Moore

Smith is the host of "Seldom Heard Music" on KSMU - Ozarks Public Radio, a program that has been on the air since 1982.  Program Host Harry Moore joined Smith as co-host in 2004 

The Mix on NPR is part of a series of  podcasts and the audio may not be available after a certain time as older podcasts get replaced with newer ones.

Some of the artists represented on Smith's MIX

 

• The Carter Family
• Cedar Hill
• The Chapmans
• Cherryholmes
• Claire Lynch
• The Country Gentlemen
• Curly Seckler & Willis Spears
• Del McCoury
• The Dillards
• Dirk Powell
• The Dixie Bee-Liners
• Don Reno, Red Smiley & Bill Harrell
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
• The Gillis Brothers
• The Hillbenders
• IIIrd Tyme Out
• Jean Ritchie
• Jim & Jesse
• John Hartford
• Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice
• Larry Sparks
• Laurie Lewis
• Midnight Flight
• Norman Blake
• Old & In the Way
• Osborne Brothers
• Perfect Strangers
• Peter Rowan and The Nashville Bluegrass Band
• Poco Loco
• Ralph Stanley
• Red Allen
• Rhonda Vincent
• Ricky Skaggs
• Rodney Dillard
• Roscoe Holcomb
• The Seldom Scene
• The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band
• Tim O'Brien
• Tony Rice