Tom Ball

This week's Homespun is a re-spin of Tom Ball's favorites. We’ll keep things swingin’ on Homespun this week with The Time Jumpers, Skeets McDonald, and Willie covering the great Bob Wills! We’ll also spin some new Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and catch some tracks from the Motion Picture Soundtrack of “Inside Llewyn Davis!

Home-schooled teenagers as young as 13 are ‘volunteering’ for little money at a British branch of the church. One girl’s role involved giving massages

It started with an unblinking stare and a £35 course. Soon I was told a teenage girl could make a drunk person sober

The university, which has strong ties to Kuwait, dismissed the claims against Sheikh Dr Meshaal Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, whose uncle is the Emir

…The dog days of summer remind us of taking care of things we’ve been putting off and exploring new things before the summer is done! Homespun this week does that with classics from Larry Sparks, Blue Highway, Shoefly, plus new sounds from Ashby Frank, Natalie & Brittney Haas, and Rodney Crowell.

…This week on Homespun we bid a melancholy happy trail to singer, songwriter, guitarist Pat Enright who passed away recently. We’ll celebrate his music with the Nashville Bluegrass Band, The Dreadful Snakes, and Tasty Licks. We’ll also look back at Shawn Colvin and Levon Helm’s debut albums.

In Never Say War, Asne Seierstad chronicles the brutal life of Andrey Medvedev, soldier, asylum seeker and symbol of broken Russia

…Homespun this week celebrates the life of singer, songwriter, actress, entertainer Dolly Parton. We’ll spin tracks from Dolly as well as others who recorded her songs: The Lynn Morris Band, Linda Ronstadt, Mindy Smith, The Trio, and much more.

Dr Mark Deakin, 53, was fired from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in June after an 18-month investigation into his relationship with the convicted murderer

Half Moon at Sunset