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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: November 21st, 2015

Nell Robinson/Jim Nunally

This week on the Shasta Serenade we play new music from The Black Lillies, Buzz Cason, Norah Jones, Joe Ely, Portland-based Rabbit Wilde,  Nell Robinson/Jim Nunally and many more. After 17 years in the making, producer Alison Krauss has The Cox Family moving back into musical fold with their new album Gone Like The Cotton. We discuss the reasons for the wait and play some music.

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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).