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00000176-4e34-d3bc-a977-4f7c3a150000On Shasta Serenade, host Barry Hazle mixes up an eclectic brew of Americana, blues, rockabilly, folk, bluegrass and timeless standards from his perch in Oak Run. Shasta Serenade airs Saturdays at 12 p.m.

Shasta Serenade: March 19th, 2016

Townes Van Zandt

This week on The Shasta Serenade, I have some birthdays to celebrate - John Sebastian and Townes Van Zandt. I also play some oldies from Leon Redbone, Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan and others. I continue to play selections from Loretta Lynn’s and Willie Nelson’s new albums and talk about Boz Skaggs channeling the New Orleans sound with the title cut from his newest release, “Fool to Care.”  I play Randy Travis’ first #1 hit and discuss his continuing recovery from a major stroke in 2013. Join me for two hours including all this and many more of my eclectic Americana music choices.

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Barry was a foundling in an old adobe in Southern California, adopted by nomadic Polish Gypsies, and lived with them until the age of 50. He has had no formal schooling, but learned to play the fiddle by the age of five. Throughout his early years, one could find him fiddling away in the foothills of Northern California tending his Lithuanian goats, making cheese and goat meat Kielbasa. He was renowned for his sheepherder’s bread making. He accidentally baked a rock into a particularly delicious loaf of bread, on which the chief of the gypsy clan broke a bicuspid. The clan seized his shepherd's cane and the Chief broke it in half tossing the parts to the ground. Barry was thus humiliated, and banished for life from the only family he had ever known. (Later, Barry sold the recipe for the Kielbasa to the NHL for a small fortune – they use it in the manufacturing of hockey pucks).