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Blue Ridge Public Radio

Since 1985 Don Pedi has been an on air host at NPR affiliate
BPR (Classic), Asheville, North Carolina.

He is the on air host of the "Close to Home" radio show which airs on Saturday nights from 8-10 pm.

Close to Home features an hour of vintage and contemporary "field" and commercial Traditional Appalachian music recordings and then an hour of an ecclectic mix of mostly acoustic folk, popular and world music.

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BPR, Asheville, NC


Don Pedi 1986


Close To Home Playlists

 

Artist Song Title

May 04, 2024
Featuring Folks Local to Buncombe, Haywood, Jackson, Madison, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties.

8-8:40pm

Bruce Greene & Intro

Betty Baker (Theme)

Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Rye Straw

Eva Davis & Samantha Bumgarner

Big Eyed Rabbit

Dellie Norton & Inez Chandler

Little Betty Ann

Cas Wallin

The Little Soldier

Manco Sneed

Snowbird in the Ash Bank

George Landers

Cumberland Gap

Dillard Chandler

I Wish My Baby Was Born

Evelyn Ramsey

Black Is The Color

Berzilla Wallin

If I Had The Wings of An Angel

Marcus Martin

Cripple Creek

Back Announce & Station ID

 

Leonard Emanual

Hoot Owl Fight - Mocking a Fox- A Cornered Coon

Fiddlin' Bill Hensley

Hoppin' John

Helton Brothers

Sandy River

Lee Wallin

Juba

Red Wilson

Lost John

Lisha Shelton

Don't You Remember

Mary Jane Queen

Sourwood Mountain

Country Cousins

Breaking Up Christmas

Gordon Freeman

Texas Quickstep

Obray Ramsey

Shortnin' Bread

Byard Ray

Liza Jane

Luke Smathers Band

Methodist Pie

Walt Davis & J. C. McCool

Bully of the Town


8:40-9:20pm

Back Announce Station ID

 

Quay Smathers Christian Harmony Group

Pisgah

Dutch Cove String Band

Debuque

Jerry Adams

Cumberland Gap

Bobby McMillon

Locks and Bolts

Sheila Kay Adams

My Dearest Dear

Jim Taylor

Stoney Point

The Hornpipers

Three Star Hornpipe

Carroll Best & Danny Johnson

Martha Campbell

Roger Howell & the Danny Johnson Band

McMitchen's Reel

Back Announce Station ID

 

Kore Loy McWhirter & Bruce Greene

Come Near My Love

Bruce Greene & Don Pedi

Twine Mid the Ringlets

Garrett & Nora Arwood

The Butcher's Boy

Doug Wallin

Brother Green

Jack Wallin

Darling Cora

Bill Morris

Same Old Man

Ralph Lewis & Sons

Whoopie Liza Jane

Peter Gott Family

Down the Road

The Queen Family

Shady Grove

Back Announce Station ID

 


9:20-10:00pm

Marvin Faulkner

High Heel Shoes

Hominy Valley String Band

Over the Waterfall

Travis & Trevor Stuart

Old Joe Clark

Donna Ray Norton

Awake Awake

Edsel Martin

Red River Valley

Betty Smith

Bonnie Bessie Logan

Leana Jean Ray & Buddy Davis

Cabin On the Hill

David Holt

Texas Bound

Back Announce & Station ID

 

The Trantham Family

I'll Fly Away

Laura Boosinger & Josh Goforth

Peace Precious Peace

Joe & Karen Holbert

The Bird Song

George and Brooke Buckner

Ain't Gonna Rain No More

Carol Mallett (Rifkin)

Sail Away Ladies

Denise O'Sullivan

Lil' Margaret

Wayne Erbsen & Phil Jameson

Hogeye

Martin Fox & Jeff Winegar

The Old Hen She Cackled

Richard Hurley

Fiddle Away Carly Mae

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