Saturday mornings 10-11 WCOK 1060 AM Sparta NC
TJ Worthington has hosted the show of traditional music of the Central Blue Ridge since August 03. Mountain music for mountain people. It's a show about the music as a living, changing expression of the mountain spirit, not folklore. The music of Alleghany County is the show's first interest. Next is the music of surrounding counties: Grayson, Surry, Wilkes, Ashe. Then the Central Blue Ridge: SE Kentucky, SW Virginia, NW North Carolina, NE Tennessee. And beyond into West Virginia, Southern Ohio, North Georgia, everyplace where mountain music is played. Including the musicians who came to the mountains from other places to learn from the Masters.
It's all about good music, music from the days when it was simply called music, when memory was the only recording device. Everything from field recordings to homemade tapes, self-produced recordings, and commercial recordings are tapped into for each week's show.
The Backwoods Beat Music Hour is music from home for the people at home.