Appalachia

It kind of reminds me.

I don't remember who the fellow was that back in the early 1900s was going around trying to record folk music across Appalachia and stuff like that.

And I feel like this is a way to, even though they're new recordings, it's like they're kind of, they're trying to document, you know, something from the past.

And I imagine a lot of these songs maybe weren't, you know, there weren't great recordings of them available from the, you know, the 1940s and before.

We talk about some titans of the industry that he is quite enamored with or inspired by.

We even touch on a very strange chance encounter he once had with Appalachian folk icon Gene Ritchie, so definitely stay tuned for that.

It was a really cool conversation because folk music is something that I've been a fan of for a long time and that a lot of us are familiar with, whether in a passing way or an intimate way.

And yet there's always, no matter how much you know, there's always more room to dig through.

And I realized like, As someone who I do consider myself to generally be a fan of folk music, traditional and contemporary folk music.

You know, when I was a younger teenager, I discovered Gene Ritchie.

And so I kind of that was like my gateway into like Appalachian folk music, though I'm sure I didn't go as far as I could have at all.

But, you know, between her and like Bascom and Mara Lunsford and people like that, And yet I look over your track listings and I feel like I don't recognize any songs because there are so many.

Sure.

So I grew up in part of Appalachia in western Pennsylvania.

It's like a place we call Pennsylvania, which gives you a sense of it.

And I'm a first generation college graduate.

I like to think that it's a little bit of reality in it.

Like, District 12, Appalachian area, the mountain people.

Like, we're supposed to be the ones fighting the boot, you know, quote-unquote.

Like, I think...

don't want to get too distracted, but I did hear somebody say that the Southern accent is actually closer to the original English than the American accent.

The

Appalachian accent.

I don't believe any of that.

It may just be something that we say.

episode 82 fred zane hey y'all i'm heather and this is poison appalachia the dark side of appalachia as always thank you for listening hope you enjoyed last week's episode on fairies in appalachia that was a fun one to do i've always been a big fan of fairies and that kind of mythology so that was an interesting one like i said in last episode i could probably do a whole series just on fairy lore so maybe someday Today I'm going to talk about Fred Zane, and if you're not from the West Virginia area, you may not be familiar with him, but this was a huge case when I was younger.

I remember watching it on the news.

So if you're not familiar with the name Fred Zane, you probably should be, especially if you're interested in true crime or the history of forensic science.

And we were some of the first boots on the ground.

And Western Maryland, this is an area that is, this is Appalachia.

This is like, you know, this is an area that voted for the president by 77%.

And we put in for federal disaster relief and were turned down by the Trump administration.

She is on a road trip right now with her partner, her boyfriend.

And there was a long-standing joke that they were going to run into bears because they're like driving through Appalachia.

Right, right, right.

We got this text message, voice note from her over the weekend.