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There are a lot of famous people who have moved to Maine, but here are 10 famous singers born in our great state.

There are a lot of famous people who have moved to Maine, but here are 10 famous singers born in our great state.

In the 1960s, Greenwich Village was at the epicenter of the burgeoning folk music boom that was happening around the world, and a young Rory Block had a ringside seat to this evolution. With the release of her new album, Positively 4h Street: A Tribute to Bob Dylan, she gifts the sounds of that era to listeners everywhere. Stony Plain also plans to release the title track as a single on Bob Dylan's birthday, May 24th.

This week, our Spring broadcast season continues with a new episode of Mountain Stage featuring guest host David Mayfield. Joining us is Virginia Bluegrass band Nothin’ Fancy, 10-time International Bluegrass Music Association Bass Player of the Year Missy Raines & Allegheny, acoustic blues guitarist Rory Block, singer-songwriter and guitarist Ed Snodderly, and multi-instrumentalist folk artist Meredith Moon.

In today’s show you’ll hear songs about famous plane wrecks, train wrecks, and the most famous shipwreck of all time. I finally visited the Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle recently, which piqued my interest in songs about airplanes, flying, and Amelia Earhart, so that’s the focus of the first half hour of the program. The first know train song was written in 1898, and