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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Willie Nelson, Watchhouse, and More on the Best of Pickin

Tune in for this week's Best of Pickin with music from the 2022 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band " Dirt Does Dylan" release. The band released it's first album, in 1967 and in 2024 announced it was ending its touring schedule but would still work and record together. Also, music from the Chapel Hill, North Carolina based duo Watchhouse, and their new album entitled " Rituals." And, we'll hear from fiddler Jason Carter, Jim Lauderdale, and new music from Becky Buller. We'll also hear a set of traditional Bluegrass from Peter Rowan (who once was a Bluegrass Boy with Bill Monroe), The Country Gentlemen (from their 1963 line up of Tom Gray, John Duffy, Eddie Adcock, and Charlie Waller), and Dave Davis and The Warrior River Boys. Why head out on a Friday night with both traditional and progressive Americana music heard right here- on 89.5? Tune in- 10 to midnight on WHRV.

Barry Graham used to arrive at WHRO with a briefcase full of papers and lesson plans. For 32 years he taught US and Virginia Government in the Virginia Beach Public Schools. While teaching was always his first love, radio was a close second. While attending Old Dominion, Barry was program director at WODU, the college radio station. After graduating, he came to WHRO as an overnight announcer. Originally intending to stay on only while completing graduate school, he was soon hooked on Public Radio and today is the senior announcer on WHRV. In 2001, Barry earned his Ph.D in Urban Studies by writing a history of WHRO and analyzing its impact upon local education, policy and cultural arts organizations.