Elise hosts Doug & Darcy Orr on the Daily Antidote of Song

Sat. Jan. 6 ~ 12:00 – 12:30

Elise hosts Doug & Darcy Orr on the Daily Antidote of Song Online

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You can still hear it in the hollers of Western North Carolina, that “high lonesome sound,” the mountain music with a long memory that’s been carried over the ocean and across the centuries. “It’s the music that America comes home to,” says Doug Orr. “And it’s what gave birth to folk, country, bluegrass and rock ‘n’ roll.”

“To understand Appalachian music and how it arrived in our mountains, you need to read ‘Wayfaring Strangers,’ That high lonesome sound has influenced the American songbook from Woody Guthrie to Pete Seeger, from Bob Dylan to Elvis Presley, Doc Watson to Dolly Parton, and continuing with the Carolina Chocolate Drops,” Neal said.

Orr is the former president of Warren Wilson College and founder of the Swannanoa Gathering, an annual summer music festival. Orr co-wrote his landmark study with Fiona Ritchie, host of the “Thistle & Shamrock” public radio show. Darcy Orr provided illustrations for the book, which won the 2015 Thomas Wolfe Literary Award.