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Close to Home Past Shows


For those who missed a broadcast or wish to listen to a show again MP3s of the last four Close to Home shows to air on WNCW are listed below:

CTH 03-30-25

Artist

Song Title

Bruce Greene

Betty Baker (Theme)

Lee Sexton

Cumberland Gap

Doc Watson

Old Man Below

Bascom Lamar Lunsford

On A Bright and Summer's Morning

Frank Hutchinson

Logan County Blues

Tommy Jarrell, Oscar Jenkins, Fred Cockerham

Old Joe Clark

Break

 

Lily May Ledford

Pretty Polly

Bob Carlin & John Hartford

Jenny On the Railroad

Charlie Poole

Goodbye Liza Jane

Martin, Bogan, & Armstrong

Lady Be Good

Break

 

Son House

My Black Mama Pt 1

Etta Baker

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down

Furry Lewis

Mistreatin' Mama

Leroy Carr

How Long-How Long Blues

Break

 

Richard & Mimi Farina

House Un-American Blues Activity Dream

Tracy Chapman

Crossroads

Cheick Hamala Diabate & Bob Carlin

Baba Cissoko

Break

 

Richard & Mimi Farina

Chrysanthemum

 

CTH 03-23-25

Artist

Song Title

Bruce Greene

Betty Baker (Theme)

New Lost City Ramblers

No Depression In Heaven

Woody Guthrie

Do-Re-Mi

Craig Johnson

Old Ball

Craig Johnson

Factory Side of Town

Jim Ringer

Going Away

Break

 

Reverend Gary Davis

There's A Destruction in This Land

Buffy Sainte Marie

Song of the French Partisan

Emry Arthur

Ethan Lang

George Reneau

Jesse James

Break

 

Almeda Riddle

Jesse James

Neil Morris

Jesse James

Woody Guthrie

Jesse James

Red Wilson

Jesse James

Break

 

Tracy Chapman

Sub City

Gil Goldstein

Detour Ahead

Phil Ochs

That's What I Want To Hear

Break

 

Tro Portino

Madam Ivonne

 

CTH o3-16-25

Bruce Greene

Betty Baker (Theme)

Frank Proffitt

Gyps of David

Jean Ritchie

Gypsy Laddie

Lawrence Older

Gypsy Davy

Almeda Riddle

Black Jack Davy

Obray Ramsey

Black Jack Davy

Ebony Hillbillies

Ida Red/Gypsy Davy

Break

 

Woody Guthrie

Gypsy Davy

Bob Dylan

Black Jack Davy

Steeleye Span

Black Jack Davy

Break

 

Dakha Brakha

Im tanzen liiebe (In dancing there's love)

Yang Zhangping

The Happy Cheng

Petrana Koutcheva

Zanala e Moma

Djivan Gasparyan

A Cool Wind Is Blowing

Pentangle

Let No Man Steal Your Thyme

Break

 

Craig Johnson

Muskrat

Clyde Davenport

Peckerwood

Clyde Davenport

Polecat's Den

Dolly Greer

Baa Nanny Blacksheep

Charlie Woods

Hogpatch Hill

Emmett Lundy

Ducks on the Millpond

Break

 

Paul Smith

Devil Eat the Groundhog


CTH 03-09-25

Ukraninska Selska Orchestra

Dowbush Kozak

Roger Howell

Asheville

Lee Sexton

Flop Eared Mule

Emmett Lundy

Flop Eared Mule

Lee Sexton

Whoa Mule

Scotty Wiseman

Whoa Back Buck

Break

 

 Jean Ritchie

Little Musgrave

Dillard Chandler

Mathie Groves

Break

 

Fairport Convention

Matty Groves

Bob Dylan

Scarlet Town

Break

 

Garrett and Nora Arwood

Barbara Allen

Dave Thompson

House Carpenter

Break

 

Marcus Martin

Lady Hamilton

CTH 03-02-25

Bruce Greene

Betty Baker (Theme)

Gaither Carlton

You Climb the Mountain

Aunt Jenny Wilson

The Soldier and the Lady

Cas Wallin

The Little Soldier

Jimmy Triplett

Yew Piney Mountain

Sarah Ogan Gunning

May I Go With You Johnny

Obray Ramsey

The War is Raging

Break

 

Vergie Wallin

The Worrisome Woman

Frank Proffitt

Pretty Crowing Chicken

Bruce Greene

Banks of the Arkansas

Evelyn Ramsey

Truelover's Warning

Break

 

Bob Dylan

Ballad of Hollis Brown

Ukrainska Selska Orchestra

Newelink (Prisoner)

Bob Dylan

Hurricane

Break

 

Leslie Riddle

Titanic

Leadbelly

Titanic

Break

 

Etta Baker

Railroad Bill

Close to Home airs live and streams Sundays from 6:00-7:00 PM (EST)
on WNCW 88.7, Spindale, NC

 

Public Radio

From 1985 to July 2024 Don Pedi had been an on air host at NPR affiliate WCQS /BPR (Classic), Asheville, North Carolina.
Over the years Don hosted the following shows:

Co-host of the folk show Second Wind, aired Saturdays 10:00 AM -1:00 PM

Saturday Morning Folk and Acoustic, aired 10:00 AM -1:00 PM

Pot Luck aired Sundays, 9:00PM - 12:00 AM

Close to Home, aired Saturdays, 8:00 PM- 10:00 PM

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Don Pedi 1986

Due to a format change at Blue Ridge Public Radio Don now hosts
Close to Home on Sundays from 6:00 - 7:00 PM
on NPR affiliate WNCW, Spindale, NC