Tennessee on a Saturday Night
featuring The Time Jumpers, Suzy Bogguss, and Stuart Duncan
Duluth Bound
The 50th Anniversary Celebration continues with a show from Duluth, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior. Come visit the greatest of the
Great Lakes and discover what this fine city has to offer along with its scenic setting. Special guests joining us at Bayfront Festival Park: Heather Masse, Rich Dworsky, Howard Levy, Chris Siebold, Larry Kohut, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman. The show will be on July 19 at 7:00 p.m.
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Listen to the May 11, 2013 show
This week, we revisit a 2013 show from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. With special guests: Music City all-stars The Time Jumpers, fiddle virtuoso Stuart Duncan, and singer Suzy Bogguss. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors (Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman), The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Highlights include talk of Tootsie’s and the lower Broadway area of Nashville, Garrison’s duet with Suzy Bogguss on “We Must Have Been Out of Our Mind,” The Time Jumpers take on “Faint of Heart” with Dawn Sears, “Last Date” by Rich Dworsky and the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, a sketch featuring many Nashville songs, The Lives of the Cowboys, and a word or two from Mom. Listen to the show.
What happens when a bunch of stellar studio musicians decide to spend some spare time together drinking beer and jamming? The Time Jumpers, that's what. Since the Nashville-based group's informal beginnings in 1998, they have released three recordings: 2007’s Jumpin' Time, 2012’s The Time Jumpers (Rounder), and 2016’s Kid Sister (Concord Music Group). This Western swing ensemble has also amassed Grammy nominations, awards from the Association of Western Artists and the Western Music Association, and a big following.
During her childhood in Aledo, Illinois, Suzy Bogguss loved music. She joined the church choir, played the piano and drums, and bought her first 12-string with the money she earned from babysitting. Since moving to Nashville in the mid-1980s, she has won acclaim in both country and contemporary music circles. Recently, Suzy has two passion projects: Praying for Sunshine is a deeply personal album of 10 original songs all written or co-written by Suzy herself. The journal No Depression says: “The album reminds us again just how radiant and transportive Bogguss’s vocals are.” And Suzy’s Soup Night is a cookbook full of recipes for soups, stews, chilli’s, and chowder that she serves and shares at jam sessions at her home. It is a savory treat with mouthwatering pictures that will inspire you to cook up a batch. And if that is not enough, she has a special bundle on her website. Get the bundle.
Multi-instrumentalist Stuart Duncan took up fiddle at age seven. Since then, he has chalked up a career that includes a couple of Grammys, a slew of Academy of Country Music Awards, and being named the International Bluegrass Music Association's Fiddle Player of the Year nine times. He was a founding member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band and is perennially one of Nashville's most sought-after session musicians, performing on thousands of recordings.
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