Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime evening with incoming Country Music
Hall of Famer Mac Wiseman. At 89 years of age, Wiseman is celebrating
the release of a masterwork album, Songs From My Mother’s Hand. The
album finds Wiseman revisiting the songs his mother, Ruth, wrote down
in longhand in the 1930s, on composition book pages that became the
foundation of his remarkable life in music. At the Franklin Theatre,
Wiseman and an all-star band will gather onstage to play songs from
the composition books and classics from his singular, genre-blurring
musical catalogue. He’ll also tell stories from a life spent around
iconic figures including Bill Monroe, Mother Maybelle Carter, Col. Tom
Parker, Cowboy Jack Clement, A.P. Carter and many more. “Mac is one
of the heroes,” says Kris Kristofferson, in a statement echoed by
Merle Haggard, John Prine and thousands of others. In his lifetime,
Mac Wiseman has made more than 60 albums filled with folk, country,
bluegrass, pop (he recorded Fleetwood Mac’s “Never Going Back
Again” and Gene Austin’s “My Blue Heaven” with big band legend
Woody Herman) and rock ‘n’ roll music. He began recording in 1946,
on a Chicago session with Molly O’Day. He was a founding member of
Flatt & Scruggs’ band and a lead vocalist for Bill Monroe’s Blue
Grass Boys. He helped found the Country Music Association. He sang at
Carnegie Hall, at the Newport Folk Festival and all over the world.
But his Franklin Theatre show will be like none other, as he prepares
to enter the Country Music Hall of Fame and celebrates his brand new
Songs From My Mother’s Hand, a traditional folk album co-produced by
world-class guitarist Thomm Jutz and songwriter/ journalist/ professor
Peter Cooper and released September 23 on Wrinkled Records. “Songs
From My Mother’s Hand is a treasure,” says roots music titan Marty
Stuart. “Every song appears as a long-lost story that’s waited the
better part of a century to be told. The words Mac’s mother wrote
down come with a mother’s knowing and a mother’s love. She
apparently knew which songs would make one of America’s premier
balladeers shine in an even more reverential light.”
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