Hold Them Close
This week, we honor family and the ties that bind us. Listen in with your loved ones this week as you can.
Show archive
Playlist
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The Carter Family, “Can the Circle Be Unbroken”
from Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family
Columbia/Legacy - 1935
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Alfred "Snuff" Johnson, “Motherless Child”
from Black Cowboy Blues and Church Songs
Documentary Arts - 1994
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John Hartford, “Gentle On My Mind”
from John Hartford: Me Oh My, How the Time Does Fly - A John Hartford Anthology
1982
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Rev. J.C. Bernett, “I'll Just Stand and Wring My Hands and Cry”
from I'll Just Stand and Wring My Hands and Cry
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George Washington Phillips, “Mother's Last Word To Her Son”
from The Half Ain't Never Been Told - Early American Rural Religious Music Vol. 2
2006
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Red Nelson, “Crying Mother Blues”
from Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues In the Segregation Era
2006
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Bruce Green and Clifton Green, “Hallelujah, My Mother Gone Over”
from Hallelujah, My Mother Gone Over
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Son House, “Yonder Comes My Mother”
from Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions
Columbia / Legacy - 1992
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The Allen Brothers, “Shake Hands with Mother Again”
from Classic Southern Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways
2005
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Jess Hillard & His West Virginia Hillbillies, “I Want Two Wings To Veils My Face”
from Times Ain't Like They Used To Be: Early American Rural Music, Vol. 4
2006
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Elder J.E. Burch, “My Heart Keeps Singing”
from American Epic: The Collection
Columbia/Legacy - 2017
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Price family Sacred Singers, “Ship of Glory”
from The Gospel Tradition: The Roots and the Branches, Vol. 1
1991
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Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens, “Memories of Mother and Dad”
from Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1996
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Middle Georgia Singing Convention No.1, “I Am Going Home”
from The Half Ain't Never Been Told - Early American Rural Religious Music Vol. 2
2006