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“You’d stand on a corner, and a guy would come up and say hey, there’s a guy on the East Side who could blow you guys off this corner, he can sing so good.  We’d say go get him!  Bring him down here!  We stopped fighting each other and started singing.”

-Orioles singer Diz Russell

***THE SIGNAL AIRS FRIDAYS AT 7 PM AND SATURDAYS AT 1 PM***

This week (June 10th & 11th, 2011) on The Signal…

A special collection of documentary recordings with some of Maryland’s finest traditional musicians, from the archives of Signal producer Aaron Henkin and Maryland Traditions folklorist Cliff Murphy...  

We drop in at a barbershop in Riverdale, where Warner Williams, Phil Wiggins, and other Piedmont Blues musicians turn out on the weekends to play their favorite songs.