Cable
You can get BlueHighways TV full time on cable and on the internet at TVU Networks (channel 640) be sure you are watching for your favorite shows.

Thursday, February 21st on Heart to Heart Classics catch one of Stan's favorite episodes featuring Marty Stuart for some great guitar pickin' and a tribute to Albert E. Brumley.

On Tuesday, February 19th catch Ronnie's special tribute to Don Reno and Red Smiley on Reno's Old Time Music Festival featuring some classic footage from the Reno & Smiley shows recorded in the 60's.

Later in the month we will be debuting some new Samplers, featuring classic and new music videos and artisan features; new episodes of Roadside Stories with host Bob Wilson. During our daytime schedule new episodes of Down The Road with Doc Sanders and new cooking tips from the Kelly Twins on Twice Baked. Check out our website for updates.

Video On Demand
This month on BHTV On Demand, Mac Wiseman hosts a new episode of American Journeys titled Bluegrass Memories. Producer Ronnie Reno took Mac down to historic Greens Grocery in Leipers Fork, TN and had Mac do introductions to some classic footage of the Mac Wiseman Festival which was recorded in Renfro Valley back in the 1970's. Mac not only does the introductions but tells stories and reminisces about some of the great Bluegrass artists that he has known through the years. Every Bluegrass fan will have to catch this one.

Also new in February, two new episodes of Country Classics which features classic country music videos from the 80's and 90's; and two new episodes of Twice Baked with the Kelly Twins from St. Louis, MO. Ending this month will Heart to Heart Classics episodes featuring Becky Hobbs, and Wayne Carson; and a classic Reno's Old Time Music Festival episode featuring Jim and Jesse McReynolds.

When the Storms of Life are Raging, Stand By Me
by Stan Hitchcock
Sitting out on the porch of our old farm house, looking down at the creek as it runs, bank full, again after the long summer drought in Tennessee, I enjoy my first cup of coffee and marvel at the spring like weather. It's supposed to get up to 72 degrees here in Sumner County today, unbelievable for early February. There's a cold front moving in tonight that they say will bring severe storms, with high winds, hail and possible tornadoes. Looks like I will be up late tonight watching the Radar on TV. read more> >

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Winter Time Blues
by Ronnie Reno
About this time of the year I start wanting to get my mandolin and Guitar out, change the strings, clean up the instrument from last summer's picking and loosen up for next year's festivals. Thank goodness we had several jam sessions during the holidays but I still need to pick more to charge the batteries.

One of the great pick-a-rounds over the holidays was at Del McCoury's house at a New Years Eve party thrown by Del and his wife Jean. Del, Jesse McReynolds, Ronnie Bowman and Del's sons Ronnie, Robby and yours truly took out our trusty instruments and tuned up for a good three to four hours of picking, singing and good fellowship. read more> >

Check out my new website at www.ronniereno.com There you can read more about The Reno Tradition, see our tour dates, we even have some great pictures for you to view. Let me know what you think! Send Ronnie an Email

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FROM THE OLD COUNTRY CHURCH
by Bob Bilyeu

Sacred music has been around for centuries, but gospel music is largely the product of the 20th century. A combination of Sacred Harp music, Negro spirituals, and the songs of groups like the Carter family were combined into a new genre of music that caught on in the south and then spread all over America. Soon publishing houses such as Stamps-Baxter, Vaughan, and Winsett were putting gospel music in the old country churches. It was the kind of music country people could sing. To help sell books, the publishing companies held singing schools to introduce churches to singing by note in addition to singing by rote.

It was out of this tradition that I learned to love gospel music. In the late 50's I started singing with a double-mixed gospel quartet called The Waymakers. We traveled locally and regionally, meeting up with a skinny country gospel singer named Stan Hitchcock. In addition to singing in churches and on concert stages, we sang and recorded to promote an area home for homeless boys, The Good Samaritan Boys Ranch. read more> >

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Recipe
Starting this month we will be featuring recipes provided by Bridgette and Margaret Kelly, otherwise known as The Kelly Twins, who host the series Twice Baked here on BlueHighways. This months recipe is for a curry based Thai sauce to be mixed with a meat and vegetables of your choice. Give it a try and let us know what you think. Thai Curry
Serving Size : 4
By: The Kelly Twins
3 tablespoons Masaman Curry
2 tablespoons ginger -- peeled and fine julienned
4 cloves garlic -- minced
1/4 teaspoon coriander -- crushed
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 1/2 cups Thai coconut milk
1 cup water
2 tablespoons lime juice -- fresh squeezed
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cilantro -- optional
4 tablespoons Thai basil -- chiffonade (fine cut)
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Coming Soon

If you enjoy reading Stan Hitchcock's newsletter articles you'll love reading his new book. "At the Corner of Music Row and Memory Lane" will have you laughing one minute and crying the next. Send Stan an Email> >






"This book is just a bunch of my memories, some good, some bad, but they all mean a lot to me. Because I have spent most of my life trying to share my innermost feeling with folks like you, from stage. a radio or a television set, I figured, shoot, why stop now? Go on and spill your guts, hillbilly. So I did."

"Let me take you back to another time, another age, back to the people that really set the foundation for the music we all love, and let me share some of the inside stories, the insights and out-sights that happened to one man, in hot pursuit of a dream."