© 2021
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Our Redding transmitter is offline due to an internet outage at our Shasta Bally site. This outage also impacts our Burney and Dunsmuir translators. We are working with our provider to find a solution. We appreciate your patience during this outage.
Shasta Serenade
00000176-4e34-d3bc-a977-4f7c3a150000On Shasta Serenade, host Barry Hazle mixes up an eclectic brew of Americana, blues, rockabilly, folk, bluegrass and timeless standards from his perch in Oak Run. Shasta Serenade airs Saturdays at 12 p.m.

The Shasta Serenade

North State Public Radio | By Barry Hazle
Published October 8, 2016 at 12:00 PM PDT
Penny's Farm

This week on the Shasta Serenade we start out with an old friend, Chuck McCabe, and his award-winning song, “Bad Gravity Day” from 2002. Then we’ll hear a new release by Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldar entitled “Penny’s Farm.” Kweskin and Muldar are original members of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band  which influenced greats like the Greatful Dead, The Lovin’ Spoonful,  to name just two. This week we play “Sweet to Mama” from their new album. Also new to the show is Jonah Tolchin, a folk blues artist recording for YepRock Records. We continue exploring artists new to The Serenade like Shawn Mullins, Laney Jones, The Brothers Landreth, and The Ballroom Thieves. And, we play some old favorites from folks including   Alison Krauss, John Sebastian, Dustbowl Revival, Mandolin Orange and John Prine.

10.08.2016_shasta_serenade_hour_2.mp3
Shasta Serenade Hour 2
Tags
Arts Shasta Serenade
Barry Hazle
Barry was a foundling in an old adobe in Southern California, adopted by nomadic Polish Gypsies, and lived with them until the age of 50. He has had no formal schooling, but learned to play the fiddle by the age of five. Throughout his early years, one could find him fiddling away in the foothills of Northern California tending his Lithuanian goats, making cheese and goat meat Kielbasa. He was renowned for his sheepherder’s bread making. He accidentally baked a rock into a particularly delicious loaf of bread, on which the chief of the gypsy clan broke a bicuspid. The clan seized his shepherd's cane and the Chief broke it in half tossing the parts to the ground. Barry was thus humiliated, and banished for life from the only family he had ever known. (Later, Barry sold the recipe for the Kielbasa to the NHL for a small fortune – they use it in the manufacturing of hockey pucks).
See stories by Barry Hazle