Music and Agriculture in the Piedmont Region

How to Be a Poet (To Remind Myself) by Wendell Berry

Big Boy George Owens – Kentucky Blues

Sylvester Weaver – Smoketown Strut

Sylvester Weaver – Guitar Rag

George ‘Little Hat’ Jones – Kentucky Blues

Wendell Berry on Agriculture and Work

Mose Rager – I am a Pilgrim

Mose Rager – Mississippi Heavy Water Blues

Mose Rager – Chicken Pickin’ / John Henry

Eddie Pennington – Baby-O

Eddie and Alonzo Pennington – Nine Pound Hammer

Wendell Berry butts heads with USDA, June 2009 (excerpt)

Jean Ritchie – Careless Love

Jean Ritchie – L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore

Salty Holmes & his Brown County Boys – Mama Blues

New Kentucky String Ticklers – Bledsoe Blues

Wendell Berry – Creation Myth

Eric Bibb – On the Porch (lyrics by Wendell Berry)

Dan Malloy – Chattering Iron Blade (lyrics by Wendell Berry)

Wendell Berry excerpt from Wes Jackson Show