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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

Claire Lynch

This week on the Shasta Serenade we are all over the Americana map, as usual. We’ll be playing music from John Prine’s new release, For Better, Or Worse, specifically John and Alison Krauss’ version of the 1930’s tune, Falling in Love Again first sung by Marlene Dietrich in “Blue Angel”. And we’ll have music from Claire Lynch’s new album, North by South. Mandolin Orange’s new collection, Blindfaller, is one of their more poignant releases in a long time – listen to the words of the song Wildfire. We revisit some great older tunes too, like Emmylou Harris with Glen Campbell tearing your heart out with Cheatin’ Is from 1979, and Richard Shindell’s moving You Stay Here. Plenty of music for everyone.

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Shasta Serenade Hour 2

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).