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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

Alison Krauss

This week I play a few of my favorites: The Austin Lounge Lizards, Adrienne Young with Little Sadie, Audie Blaylock (Bluegrass), Alison Krauss from 1997, and The Acousticats from 1992. We have newer tunesmiths too: The Dustbowl Revival, John Craigie, who has a new album coming out late this month, The T-Sisters (at the Big Room January 29), John McCutcheon (Oaksong Music Society, January 14) and much more.

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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).