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VOD
There are 20 hours of BlueHighways TV programming available on your local Video On Demand service including episodes from Heart to Heart Classics, Reno's Old Time Music Festival, American Jukebox Theater,
Storyteller's Theater, Woodsongs, Due West and so much more.
 Some of the new releases this month on BlueHighways TV On Demand include, on American Journeys, an outdoor concert with Michael Martin
Murphey at the base of Chimney Rock near Scottsbluff, NE. Chimney Rock is one of the major markers wagon trains used along the historic Oregon Trail. Interspersed throughout the concert are interviews with adventurers who are
involved in their own wagon train following the original Oregon Trail.
Also meet Navajo silversmith Ernie Lister on Due West, enjoy the music of Randall Bramblett on Michael Johnathon's Woodsongs and you'll see a sampling of the best of BlueHighways TV programming on the Network
Samplers.
Cable
 We have started adding some new shows to our programming schedule. The first addition was last month with a hunting and fishing series produced by Kirk
Dooms called
Show Me Outdoor Advertures.
 We are adding another fishing series produced by the legendary Glen Lau called
Quest for Adventure which will be premiering September 27 at 10:00am eastern as part of our new lifestyle block on Saturday mornings.
 Premiering this month is a series titled the Sunday Sampler. Each 1-hour episode features classic Gospel music videos from the 80's and 90's
along with original performances. The first episode of the Sunday Sampler will premier on Sunday, September 21st at 6:00pm eastern.
There will be other new series coming this fall to the BlueHighways TV line-up including a series on Appalachian music and lifestyles called Appalachian Highways.
 A newly produced series call A Living Rose where ordinary people get the chance to say thank you to those friends, relatives and even strangers who
have helped them overcome challenges in their lives.
If BlueHighways TV isn't available yet on your local cable system, catch us full time on the internet at TVU Networks.com channel 640.
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Old Country Church
 IRA TUCKER
by Bob Bilyeu
When I heard about the death of Ira Tucker on June 24th, it brought sadness but also wonderful memories. Down in Dry Holler where I was raised, we didn't get electricity until I was 10. At some point my folks had got enough money
together to buy us a battery-powered Silvertone radio from Sears and Roebucks. I was introduced to another world by that radio. Weekdays at 5:00 there was "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy." At 5:15 it was "Terry and the Pirates," and
then at 5:30 my favorite, "The Lone Ranger." Then there were the scary shows. I still remember the opening of "The Fat Man"
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I Could Have Been a Child Prodigy
by Stan Hitchcock
This was the late 40's and early 50's, I was just reaching puberty and radio was king. I don't know if there was any connection or not, but those love songs were starting to have new meaning, particularly local radio which always had great
live shows in the early morning, at noon and then in late afternoon. I was very fortunate to grow up near Springfield, Missouri which had one of America's great radio stations KWTO, 560 on the dial, and an ever-changing stable of
nationally known entertainers to expose a gawky, bucktooth country kid like me to the world of show biz.
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America's Old-Time Country Music Hall of Fame
The 33rd Annual National Old-Time Country & Bluegrass Festival and Contest in Le Mars, Iowa held during Labor Day weekend, is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the upper Midwest, and this time there is an added bonus.
During this week of music and fun,
America's Old Time Country Music Hall Of Fame will be inducting music greats like the Blackwood Brothers Quartet, the Delmore Brothers and of course two of your favorites, Stan Hitchcock and Ronnie Reno.
Congratulations to Stan and Ronnie and all the inductees. Stan and Denise are attending the ceremony and we will post some pictures and a story of the event on the BlueHighways TV website when they return.
For a complete list of inductees and for more information about the festival
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J. Gravity Strings
by Denise Hitchcock
J. Gravity Strings is a classic guitar sales and restoration shop tucked in the Soulard district of St. Louis, close to the silvery shadow of the Mississippi's Gateway Arch. The storefront building dates from the 1920s and looks to have
slowly lost its commercial companions to warehouses on South Broadway. The reputation of J. Gravity Strings has the power of pilgrimage among musicians and we were preceded, just days before our visit, by Sir Paul McCartney.
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The Lonesome Sound of Jerusalem Ridge
by Ronnie Reno
Let me start my story by introducing you to my good friend Campbell (Doc) Mercer, he is the Bandleader and Executive Director of the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Foundation, host of the Cumberland Highlanders TV Show, a mandolin picker, tenor
singer, veterinarian and chief cook and bottle washer and host of the festival at
Jerusalem Ridge. I know you are thinking when does this man sleep? Well, when you carry such a passion for the music and vision for a festival you don't sleep until the festival is over.
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Video
Stan Hitchcock performs Ozark Mountain Jubliee live from Renofro Valley KY.
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