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West Virginia Public Broadcasting · 351 episodes with transcripts

The Mountain Stage Podcast is the complete recording of the entire live show. It features songs that were cut from the radio broadcast, and it is the only place you can hear the full finale song. New episodes become available about 10 days after the premiere broadcast date.

Spoken has transcripts of 351 NPR's Mountain Stage episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 7, 2026.

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  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
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      sleep 0.34
    done

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1,084 - The Jayhawks, Tift Merritt, Tanasi, Candi Jenkins

October 7, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:11)

From NPR Music and produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, with support provided by Bailey Glasser. Welcome to another Mountain Stage with our host, Kathy Matea.

Kathy Matea (1:00)

Hello, and welcome once again to Mountain Stage, live performance radio from the Mountain State of West Virginia. I'm Kathy Matea, and we are here at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. We're so glad to have you here, and all of you out there in Radioland. You'll be glad you tuned in, because…

Also, in our next hour, a Kentucky artist pulling from lots of styles to make her own blend of country that's fresh and classic. Candi Jenkins is here.

SPEAKER_3 (8:29)

We're talking about the Great Flood of 1916 in Asheville. And we didn't know when we wrote it that we'd have the same thing happen even worse in 2024 And this is a little picture of what, and I know you know how these things go also, but thanks to all of you for your thoughts about Asheville. Everybody that we've…

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