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It's Marty Falle week on Front Porch Pickin & Talkin with his new album "My Farm My Bluegrass"


Join us as we celebrate My Farm My Bluegrass by Marty Falle all week long at 12 Noon Eastern
Front Porch Pickin' & Talkin' is a new segment on Southern Branch Bluegrass & Gospel Music Radio. This segment will alternate with The Artist Spotlight segment that comes your way each week at 12 Noon Eastern weekdays excluding Wednesdays.

On the next Bluegrass Borderline with Michelle Lee - two interviews one with Daniel Grindstaff and one with Alex Maclead of Rock Hearts

Harmony - N - Truth with Jay Anderson. Saturdays @ 7 AM , Tuesdays @ 8 PM and Sundays @ 2 AM (All Times Eastern)
We're so fortunate to have Michelle Lee as one of our remarkable program hosts. You can access her web page and her own new music stream at -
https://michelleleeonair.com/ or
simply click on the Go button.
Join us for Bluegrass Borderline with Michelle Lee Wednesdays at 2 PM and now on Fridays @ 9 AM. Also, the weekly Top Ten with Michelle Lee daily @ 7 AM - All times Eastern.
Stowtown Records Artist Showcase
Special Guest With Us This Sunday - The Promised Land Quartet - Golden Road



Mission Statement
The SBBRadio Network promotes the arts of East Tennessee and the Appalachian Region and the world with the very best in programs and music. The station emerged as a non-profit online radio station and has continued to do so with no outside financial support to provide a conduit for entertainment to listeners world wide.

About Jerry
“I've wanted to do radio ever since I was a kid listening to the DJs on CKLW out of Windsor, Canada and Detriot, Mi in the 60s. Now that I am, the greatest thing about it is bringing the people's music (bluegrass) to folks that love it and some that never heard it!
How did I come about this music? Hmmm, lets see... when I was young my father would take me with him to see some friends of his that basically lived off the land. I think they came from the hills of Arkansas. Our family came by way of Pennsylvania and West Virginia and I was raised on a small farm near Delta, Ohio. These folks listened to some different music than I had heard on CKLW. It was Country and Western! Hank Williams; Johnny Cash, Jimmy Rogers and Uncle Dave Macon on the record player. But then sometimes they would tune into this station late at night on the radio and you could hear Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs play Bluegrass! Later I figured out this was WSM out of Nashville, TN. They are still on the air today at 6:50 AM. They still come in best late at night here too.
Locally there were the square dances at the Ottokee Township Hall. Live music, where Uncle Joe was callin' the square dances and cousin Shelby Eicher was on the fiddle (he went on to play fiddle with Jimmy C Newman and Roy Clark). The fiddles would be playin’ the old time hoe-down tunes. The dancers would be do-si-doin’ and cloggin’ to the fiddle and banjo tunes! I think John Forrest played the guitar. Uncle Joe played the saw. Bill Kurfiss did some callin' too. The first time I ever saw and heard a banjo played live was there by Carlton Hamn. I can still hear him playing "The Beverly Hillbillies"!
So for me to be able to bring this great music to our listeners by radio locally and around the world now is a wonderful thing! Maybe someone will hear it and be inspired like I was or even more than I was. I hope they go on to be a great musician some day!”
~Jerry Eicher

