Cultures and Groups

Smithsonian 'New Harmonies' exhibit celebrates American roots music

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:11:24 -0700
MARS HILL — When traditional musician Joe Penland sings the old songs that he learned as a boy from ballad singers on Sodom Laurel in Madison County, he knows he is calling up ghosts of love and longing not only from early Appalachia, but from the ancient Celtic highlands where many of those tunes originated.
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