The Yolo County Breakdown

A music show on the heels of Thanksgiving must include a song about turkeys, and so it does. David Grier puts his masterful spin on the classic Turkey In The Straw. A brand new track from Dan Tyminski is in here somewhere too. And did Rocky actually say he wanted to play a dance track? Yes indeed, but you better listen until the end of the show if you want to hear it! Rocky promises it will send you away dancing.

Jerry Douglas kicks off the show and Cody Kilby finishes it. In between Rocky spins bluegrass from Don Reno, John Hartford, Keith Whitley and more. More fine pickin' than you can shake a stick at!

This week, Rocky is joined by a true legend of the music - Tony Trischka. Tony's influence to bluegrass and beyond is hard to overstate. Since his debut recording with Country Cooking in 1971, he has pushed banjo way beyond the boundaries of the Scruggs style. He speaks with Rocky about his many influences, collaborations, and memories. His most recent album, Earl Jam, features him plus an all-star cast of pickers playing songs he gleaned from a hidden trove of recordings that John Hartford and Earl Scruggs made in private jam sessions and which Earl did not want released publicly. So Tony transcribed Earl's playing note-for-note and recorded it himself. How lucky we are to hear this and all of the other music Tony has recorded over the years!

This show kicks off with Tony Rice and closes down with Jimmy Martin, and there is a whole lot of great music in between. The brand new single from Jerry Douglas, a piano and banjo jazz exploration from Bela Fleck & Chick Corea, a classic trio recording from Linda, Dolly and Emmylou plus more!