Back Alley Pork Roost

Sunday 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Genres: Bluegrass, Roots, Appalachian, Historical, Old-Timey, Americana, American Traditional, Traditional Country, Folk, Country, Cajun Zydeco
Hosts: JJ O'Brien, John Quinn, Tyler Rice, Tyler Smith

WREK’s country, bluegrass, folk, and American traditional show. Your hosts play the music that Nashville has forgotten or doesn’t want you to hear – The Good Stuff!! We play a diverse assortment of music ranging from mountain ballads of the Appalachians to the zydeco music of the Cajun people. Artists ranging from Fiddlin’ John Carson to Lester Flatts and Earl Scruggs to the Infamous Stringdusters. You’ll hear music recorded 80 years ago, and music recorded just a few months ago. Tune in Sunday nights from 9PM-10PM to hear for yourself!

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Back Alley Pork Roost – June 16, 2013

  • Drivin in the Rain – Adam Klein
  • Drinks Her Whiskey – High Strung String Band
  • Sitting on Top of the World – Nashville Bluegrass Band
  • Chase Old Satan – Poverty Line Old Time Band
  • Abbeville Breakdown – The Alley Boys of Abbeville
  • You Have No Reason – Frank Mailhes
  • Muleskinner Blues – Tony Rice
  • Johnny Goodwin – Bull Mountain Moonshiners
  • Ground Hog – Uncle John Patterson
  • Some Happy Day – Charley Patton
  • Foggy, Foggy Dew – The Charles River Valley Boys
  • Mount Zion’s Lofty Heights – Dry Branch Fire Squad
  • Lisa’s Joy – Ralph Stanley
  • Muleskinner Blues – Woody Guthrie
  • Daddy and Home – Jimmie Rodgers

Back Alley Pork Roost – June 9, 2013

  • Keep on the Sunny Side – Carter Family
  • Coleman’s March – Rising Appalachia
  • I’m Going to Georgia – Riley Puckett
  • Shady Grove – Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
  • The Bullfrog Shuffle – Bela Fleck
  • Gospel Plow – The Hackensaw Boys
  • Road to Spencer – Ricky Skaggs
  • Long Way from God – The Kenney Blackmon String Band
  • How Great Thou Art – Chris Thile
  • Are you from Dixie – Blue Sky Boys
  • After the Rain – The High Strung String Band
  • Billy in the Low Ground – Gordon Tanner, Smokey Joe Miller, and John Patterson
  • Swallow – Wailin Jennys
  • Ginseng Sullivan – Red, White, and Blue(grass)
  • Poor Boy’s Delight – Infamous Stringdusters

Back Alley Pork Roost – May 26, 2013

  • The Ballad of Ira Hayes – Johnny Cash
  • The Voyage of Apollo 8 – Blind Robert Ward
  • The Pueblo’s Crew – Blind Robert Ward
  • Which Side Are You On? – Natalie Merchant
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic – Johnny Cash
  • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow – Ralph Stanley
  • Georgia Home – Norman Blake
  • The History of the Violin – Roy Acuff
  • Why Don’t You Love Me – Hank Williams
  • Drowned in the Deep Blue Sea – Flatts and Scruggs
  • General Lee’s Surrender – Ross Brown and Howard Cunningham
  • Faded Coat of Blue – Buell Kazee
  • Blue Prelude – Hoyt Axton
  • Eve and Adam (Pickin’ Up Leaves) – McIntosh County Shouters
  • Hey Mr. Pilot Man – Hoyt Axton
  • Jambalaya on the Bayou – Hank Williams

Back Alley Pork Roost – May 19

  • Rainy Night in Georgia  – Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • Wreck of the 1256 – Curly Fox
  • My Grandfather’s Clock – Grandpa Jones
  • I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew – Tom T Hall
  • The Wizard of Oz – Sam Bush
  • Ciderville Saturday Night – Scott Miller
  • Prisoner’s Song – Bluegrass Cardinals
  • Blue Diamond Mines – Robin and Linda Williams
  • In the Sweet By and By – Dolly Parton and Altan
  • Big Freightliner – Little Country Giants
  • I Am Weary Let Me Rest – Linda Davis and the Whites
  • I Ride An Old Paint – Pete Seeger
  • The Blackest Crow – Rising Appalachia
  • Ruby Pearl – Hackensaw Boys
  • Rockin’ Chair Money – Nashville Bluegrass Band

Back Alley Pork Roost – May 12, 2013

  • Indian War Whoop – Fruit Jar
  • Down in Dixie – Arthur Smith and Benny Martin
  • Gum Tree Canoe – The Roys
  • Long Black Veil – Johnny Cash
  • He Rambled – Charlie Poole
  • Tennessee Waltz- Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • Shady Grove – Ricky Skaggs
  • Down in the Valley to Pray – Tod Phillips
  • Pretty Polly – John Hammond
  • Mother’s Last Word to Her Son – Washington Phillips
  • Blue Sky Boys
  • Hello Darlin’ -Conway Twitty
  • Bible By the Bed – Cadillac Sky
  • If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again – Blue Sky Boys
  • Pedal Tone Dance – Arnold Dreyblatt and the Orchestra of Excited Strings
  • Angeline the Baker – David Grier
  • Sally Gooden – Charley Patton