Homegrown Music Podcast
Weekly on Tuesdays
A weekly trip into the 50+ year Homegrown Music archive
Homegrown Music with George Graham presents a wide range of rock, folk, bluegrass, jazz, blues, reggae, World Music, fusion, etc., in short, all the types of music that Mixed Bag presents, with new studio sessions from the region's finest and most creative musicians. The emphasis is on all-original material, or highly original interpretations of old, obscure, or seldom-heard music. Each show features a different performance, with occasional encore broadcasts from the series' nearly 50-year archive.
Select performances can be found here.
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A New York-based alternative blues-rock quartet originally from Wilkes-Barre, PA. Fife and Drom is co-led by the wife-husband duo of Abby Ahmad and Mark Marshall. The April 2014 session features all original music spotlighting their eclectic take on blues-rock. -
A short-lived but outstanding jazz-rock fusion quintet with vocals from the Woodstock, NY area.
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A Scranton area singer-songwriter/electronic musician, Ms. Fernandes creates ethearal sounding music with New Age influence, in this 2019 solo studio session. -
A wacky acoustic rock trio known for their songs about superhero frogs, world-changing haircuts, and a lost continent of vegetables -
Named after a venue in Scranton, this all-star group includes musicians with backround in jazz, blues, bluegrass and classical music, to perform music inspired by the innovative jazz guitarist Djanho Reinhardt. -
A prolific singer-songwriter from the Scranton area, the late Dave Wight succumbed to cancer in 2003 in his early 50s.
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Singer-songwriter and guitarist Ned Farr is known as a filmmaker, producing and directing everything from feature films to informercials. -
A long-running group from the Lehigh Valley headed by guitarist-singer-songwriter Joey Mutis III, who combine intelligent folk and rock with a bit of jam band influence. This podcast is an anthology of songs from three sessions in 1993 and 1994. -
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This Baltimore area trio calls their music Indian Jazz Fusion, featuring classically-trained Indian sitar and taba players, a jazz keyboardist and a guest guitarist, Melodic Intersect creates original improvisation music with a disctily Indian texture but often with a jazz groove.
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One of the more distinctive groups to come out of the Homegrown Music series, Bedful of Metaphysicians combined a high level of musicianship with art rock and fusion influence, with often humorous and topical lyrics. -
Jay Leonhart is one of the leading and ubiquitous bassists in jazz, having performed and recorded with Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra James Taylor, Sting, Mel Torme, Peter, Paul & Mary, Gerry Mulligan, Phil Woods, Urbie Green and many others. -
First formed in 1987 when the members were still in high school, the Mommyheads are known for thier distinctive blend of art rock and melodic pop, aliong with clever lyrics. -
Known for her work as one third of the blues trio Saffire the Uppity Blueswomen, Ann Rabson (1945-2013) was a great blues pianist, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. -
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A memorable 2004 performance by the late jazz pianist Eric Doney with a large all-star group doing jazzy arrangements of pop and soul tunes featuring vocalist Vicki Doney. -
This is another session with singer-songwriter guitarist Marcus Eaton with a trio, again featuring his creative use of acoustic guitar with effects and loops, along with his sophisticated original compositions. -
A talented singer-songwriter and very impressive guitarist, Marcus Eaton is a native of Idaho, but often visited Northeastern PA and put in two studio sessions and a live concert. -
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A world-class jazz quintet from 2001 consisting of father and son saxophonists.
