Poison, Part One

It’s any substance that’s capable of causing bodily harm. While most often introduced into one’s system by swallowing, inhaling, injecting or absorbing, the deadliest kind comes through words. We’ll be looking at poison love, poison lies, poison water, poison wells… and worse.

PROGRAM PLAYLIST

• Head For the Hills: “Potions and Poisons” from Potions and Poisons(self-released)
• Bill Monroe: “Poison Love” from 1950-1958(Bear Family)
• The Stanley Brothers: “Poison Lies” from 1953-1958 & 1959(Bear Family)
• Hayseed Dixie: “Poison” from Weapons of Grass Destruction(Cooking Vinyl)
• Gene Wooten: “Poison Love” from Great Dobro Sessions(Sugar Hill)
• The Dry Branch Fire Squad: “Shenandoah Breakdown” from Live at the Newburyport Firehouse(Rounder)
• Kevin McClung: “Poison Well” from Minor Indiscretions(self-released)
• Jakob’s Ferry Stragglers: “Poison River” from Poison River(self-released)
• Milan Miller: “Poison Cove” from Poison Cove(self-released)
• The Country Gentlemen: “Come Sit By the River” from Sit Down Young Stranger(Sugar Hill)
• John Reischman & the Jaybirds: “Poisoning the Well” from John Reischman & the Jaybirds(Copper Creek)
• The Earl Brothers: “Rattlensake Poison” from Troubles to Blame(self-released)
• The Benders: “Snakebite” from Mountain Radio(self-released)
• The Dry Branch Fire Squad: “Testosterone Poisoning/Midnight On the Stormy Deep” from Live At Last(Rounder)
• The Dry Branch Fire Squad: “Shenandoah Breakdown” from Live at the Newburyport Firehouse(Rounder)