Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour: Hosmer Mountain Boys and Eric Vincent Huey

HOSMER MOUNTAIN BOYSare a bluegrass band from the eastern hills of Connecticut with major influences from Bill Monroe, Don Reno, Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt and Karl Shiflett, which include a 2-finger thumb picking style like Merle Travis. They play 1950s-style traditional bluegrass music

ERIC VINCENT HUEYis the son of four generations of coal miners. He grew up along the banks of the Monongahela River in West Virginia. On his debut solo album, Appalachian Gothic, is a musical love letter to the Appalachia of his youth while wrestling with the hard contemporary realities of a region that’s been left behind in so many ways yet remains richly interwoven into the cultural fabric of America.“