BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Waltzes - April 3, 2021
host: Allegra Thompson, who reminds us that the continental way of writing this date is 3/4.
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Your Selfish Heart/Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys (King/59)
BILL MONROE AND HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Come Back To Me In My Dreams/Knee Deep In Bluegrass (Decca/58)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: When I Loved You/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
JIMMY MARTIN & RALPH STANLEY: I Only Exist/First Time Together (Gusto/80)
JAKE BLOUNT: Where Did You Sleep Last Night?/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
GOLDEN SHOALS: New Friend/Golden Shoals (self/20)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Rascal Fair/Brad Leftwich & The Hogwire Stringband (Dark Train/11)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: Anchored In Love/Old Pal (Telegraph/94)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: A Voice From On High/Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt/15)
BEN HUNTER & JOE SEAMONS: What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?/The North Wind & The Sun (self/16)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Midnight On The Water>K.C. Railroad Blues/Dream Shadows (Herringbone Disc/08)
TOM, BRAD, & ALICE: Little Girl & Dreadful Snake/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Myth/Dig (self/13)
CAMERON DEWHITT with RACHEL ROSENBERG & HELEN YURCHENCO: Down In The Willow Garden/Get Up In The Cool Vol. 1 (self/17)
JOHN HARTFORD: In Tall Buildings/Live From the Old Town School, Vol 2 (Old Town School of Folk Music/95)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: The Wood Thrush’s Song/Live (Spruce & Maple/07)
JODY STECHER: Black Waters/Going Up On A Mountain (Bay/77)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Lulu & Jack/Time (Live Oak/12)
ALICE GERRARD: When I Stop Dreaming/Calling Me Home: Songs of Love and Loss (Copper Creek/04)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Over The Garden Wall/Outshine The Sun (self/12)
BEPPE GAMBETTA & CHARLES SAWTELL: The Storms Are On The Ocean/Dialogs (Alcazar/95)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith! - April 10, 2021
theme -
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Fiddler’s Dream (35)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Red Apple Rag (35)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: There’s More Pretty Girls Than One (36)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Dickson (nee Dixon) County Blues (36)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: The Girl I Love Don’t Pay Me No Mind (36)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Beautiful Brown Eyes (37)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Pig At Home In the Pen (37)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: I'm Bound To Ride (37)
ARTHUR SMITH & HIS DIXIELINERS: I've Had A Big Time Today (38)
ARTHUR SMITH & HIS DIXIELINERS: K.C. Stomp (40)
ARTHUR SMITH & HIS DIXIELINERS: The Crazy Blues (40)
These first 11 recordings were all released on the Bluebird label. Some are available on one of two CD reissues:
FIDDLIN' ARTHUR SMITH & HIS DIXIELINERS: Recordings from 1935 to 1940 (County)
FIDDLIN' ARTHUR SMITH: Give Me Old Time Music (B.A.C.M.) [British Archive of Country Music]
ARTHUR SMITH with the JIMMY WAKELY BAND: Walking In My Sleep (1946 MacGregor radio transcription)
McGEE BROTHERS (Sam & Kirk) and FIDDLIN’ ARTHUR SMITH: Dance All Night With a Bottle In Your Hand/Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues - Old Timers of the Grand Old Opry (Smithsonian-Folkways/57>64)
FIDDLIN’ ARTHUR SMITH & THE DIXIELINERS: North Carolina Breakdown/Rare Old Time Fiddle Tunes (Starday/62)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Fiddler's Dream/Fiddler’s Dream (Compass/16)
RICKY SKAGGS & TONY RICE: There's More Pretty Girls Than One/Skaggs and Rice (Sugar Hill/80)
KATHY KALLICK BAND featuring ANNIE STANINEC: North Carolina Breakdown/Time (Live Oak/12)
MARY JO & CHARLIE LEET: Beautiful Brown Eyes/Duet (Go-Go/03)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Sugar Tree Stomp/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
TOM MINDTE & MASON VIA: The Girl I Love Don't Pay Me No Mind/Tom Mindte & Mason Via (Patuxent/18)
ERNST BRENNEN: I've Had A Big Time Today/Had A Big Time Today (Patuxent/18)
DEANIE RICHARDSON: Walkin' In My Sleep/single (Engelhardt/21)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING: Smith’s Breakdown/Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith Tuesdays (fiddlestar.com)
BYRON BERLINE: Red Apple Rag/Jammin' With Byron (Double Stop/12)
CURLY RAY CLINE: Dixon County Blues/Chicken Reel (Rebel/71)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Song & the Bow - April 17, 2021
host: Leah Wollenberg
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Toy Heart/Anthology (MCA/61)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Think Of What You’ve Done/Live In Seattle (Stanley Family/69)
HOT RIZE: Working On a Building/So Long a Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
MILE TWELVE: Settle Down Blues/Onwards (Delores the Taurus/17)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Who’s That Knocking/Pioneering Women Of Blugrass (Smithsonian Folkways/65)
CROOKED STILL: Can’t You Hear Me Calling/Live (self/09)
LAURIE LEWIS: Singing Bird/True Stories (Rounder/93)
SISTER SADIE: Losing You Blues/Sister Sadie II (Pinecastle/18)
THOMPSONIA: River Bottom Blues/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/17)
TOM ROZUM: Don’t Fix Up the Doghouse/Jubilee (Dog Boy/98)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Born to Be with You/+1 (Compass/21)
DEL McCOURY BAND: That Ol' Train/Still Sings Bluegrass (McCoury Music/18)
JAKE BLOUNT: Where Did You Sleep Last Night/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
BRUCE MOLSKY: Piney Mountain/If it Ain’t Here When I Get Back (Tree Frog Music/13)
JOHN HARTFORD: Skippin’ In the Mississippi Dew/Mark Twang (Flying Fish/76)
ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/13)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: West End Blues/Leaving Eden (Nonesuch/12)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Travelling Man Blues/Twenty Year Blues (Sugar Hill/04)
JEFF WHITE: Climbing Up a Mountain/Right Beside You (self/16)
BECKY BULLER: Tell the Truth (Shame the Devil)/Distance and Time (Dark Shadow/20)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: So Dang Lonesome/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
DAVID GRISMAN: On and On/David Grisman’s Rounder Album (Rounder/76)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Down the Road/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Old, Old House/Live In Osaka, Japan (74)
KENNY BAKER: Monroe’s Hornpipe/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - April 24, 2021
host: PT
NOTE: all the music in this show is from 2021 releases.
DEANIE RICHARDSON: The Old Hen Cackled/Circle Up (Engelhardt)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: You Can't Judge a Good Book By Its Cover/Till I Dance Again With You (self)
BOSTON RAVINE: Riding That Midnight Train/Ragged Road (self)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: I'd Rather Live By The Side of the Road/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At The Welcome Table/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
THE GRASCALS: Travelling the Highway Home/single (Mountain Home)
ALEX LEACH BAND: The Turntable/I'm The Happiest When I'm Moving (Mountain Home)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: I'm Going Back To The Mountains/All Suited Up (Rebel)
THE ROCKY CREEK RAMBLERS: Black Mountain Blues/Hearty Old-Time Music (Vigortone)
LINDA LAY: Blue Blue Ridge Mountain Girl/single (Mountain Fever)
AMANDA COOK: My Used To Be Blue Ridge Mountain Home/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever)
MADDIE DENTON: Hope You Hang Around/single (self)
JIM HURST: It’s A Beautiful Day/single (self)
SARA WATKINS (with Nickel Creek): Blue Shadows On the Trail/Under the Pepper Tree (New West)
ALAN BIBEY & DOYLE LAWSON: Happy Go Lucky/single (Billy Blue)
DEWEY & LESLIE BROWN & THE CAROLINA GENTLEMEN: Jealousy (Liberty Showcase/Bell Buckle)
JESSE BROCK: Kiss on a Cold Cold Stone/Streamliner (Sound Biscuit)
GREG BLAKE: People, Places and Songs/single (Turnberry)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Whither You Roam/single (Mountain Home)
NEFESH MOUNTAIN: Wanderlust/Songs For The Sparrows (Eden Sky)
ABBY HOLLANDER BAND: This Life/Letters (self)
ANYA HINKLE: Meditation: Beyond the Shores of Darkness/single (Organic)
JOHN MAILANDER’s FORECAST: Song For John/Look Closer (Nine Athens)
host: Allegra Thompson, who reminds us that the continental way of writing this date is 3/4.
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Your Selfish Heart/Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys (King/59)
BILL MONROE AND HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Come Back To Me In My Dreams/Knee Deep In Bluegrass (Decca/58)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: When I Loved You/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
JIMMY MARTIN & RALPH STANLEY: I Only Exist/First Time Together (Gusto/80)
JAKE BLOUNT: Where Did You Sleep Last Night?/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
GOLDEN SHOALS: New Friend/Golden Shoals (self/20)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Rascal Fair/Brad Leftwich & The Hogwire Stringband (Dark Train/11)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: Anchored In Love/Old Pal (Telegraph/94)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: A Voice From On High/Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt/15)
BEN HUNTER & JOE SEAMONS: What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?/The North Wind & The Sun (self/16)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Midnight On The Water>K.C. Railroad Blues/Dream Shadows (Herringbone Disc/08)
TOM, BRAD, & ALICE: Little Girl & Dreadful Snake/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Myth/Dig (self/13)
CAMERON DEWHITT with RACHEL ROSENBERG & HELEN YURCHENCO: Down In The Willow Garden/Get Up In The Cool Vol. 1 (self/17)
JOHN HARTFORD: In Tall Buildings/Live From the Old Town School, Vol 2 (Old Town School of Folk Music/95)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: The Wood Thrush’s Song/Live (Spruce & Maple/07)
JODY STECHER: Black Waters/Going Up On A Mountain (Bay/77)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Lulu & Jack/Time (Live Oak/12)
ALICE GERRARD: When I Stop Dreaming/Calling Me Home: Songs of Love and Loss (Copper Creek/04)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Over The Garden Wall/Outshine The Sun (self/12)
BEPPE GAMBETTA & CHARLES SAWTELL: The Storms Are On The Ocean/Dialogs (Alcazar/95)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith! - April 10, 2021
theme -
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Fiddler’s Dream (35)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Red Apple Rag (35)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: There’s More Pretty Girls Than One (36)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Dickson (nee Dixon) County Blues (36)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: The Girl I Love Don’t Pay Me No Mind (36)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Beautiful Brown Eyes (37)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: Pig At Home In the Pen (37)
ARTHUR SMITH TRIO: I'm Bound To Ride (37)
ARTHUR SMITH & HIS DIXIELINERS: I've Had A Big Time Today (38)
ARTHUR SMITH & HIS DIXIELINERS: K.C. Stomp (40)
ARTHUR SMITH & HIS DIXIELINERS: The Crazy Blues (40)
These first 11 recordings were all released on the Bluebird label. Some are available on one of two CD reissues:
FIDDLIN' ARTHUR SMITH & HIS DIXIELINERS: Recordings from 1935 to 1940 (County)
FIDDLIN' ARTHUR SMITH: Give Me Old Time Music (B.A.C.M.) [British Archive of Country Music]
ARTHUR SMITH with the JIMMY WAKELY BAND: Walking In My Sleep (1946 MacGregor radio transcription)
McGEE BROTHERS (Sam & Kirk) and FIDDLIN’ ARTHUR SMITH: Dance All Night With a Bottle In Your Hand/Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues - Old Timers of the Grand Old Opry (Smithsonian-Folkways/57>64)
FIDDLIN’ ARTHUR SMITH & THE DIXIELINERS: North Carolina Breakdown/Rare Old Time Fiddle Tunes (Starday/62)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Fiddler's Dream/Fiddler’s Dream (Compass/16)
RICKY SKAGGS & TONY RICE: There's More Pretty Girls Than One/Skaggs and Rice (Sugar Hill/80)
KATHY KALLICK BAND featuring ANNIE STANINEC: North Carolina Breakdown/Time (Live Oak/12)
MARY JO & CHARLIE LEET: Beautiful Brown Eyes/Duet (Go-Go/03)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Sugar Tree Stomp/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
TOM MINDTE & MASON VIA: The Girl I Love Don't Pay Me No Mind/Tom Mindte & Mason Via (Patuxent/18)
ERNST BRENNEN: I've Had A Big Time Today/Had A Big Time Today (Patuxent/18)
DEANIE RICHARDSON: Walkin' In My Sleep/single (Engelhardt/21)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING: Smith’s Breakdown/Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith Tuesdays (fiddlestar.com)
BYRON BERLINE: Red Apple Rag/Jammin' With Byron (Double Stop/12)
CURLY RAY CLINE: Dixon County Blues/Chicken Reel (Rebel/71)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Song & the Bow - April 17, 2021
host: Leah Wollenberg
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Toy Heart/Anthology (MCA/61)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Think Of What You’ve Done/Live In Seattle (Stanley Family/69)
HOT RIZE: Working On a Building/So Long a Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
MILE TWELVE: Settle Down Blues/Onwards (Delores the Taurus/17)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Who’s That Knocking/Pioneering Women Of Blugrass (Smithsonian Folkways/65)
CROOKED STILL: Can’t You Hear Me Calling/Live (self/09)
LAURIE LEWIS: Singing Bird/True Stories (Rounder/93)
SISTER SADIE: Losing You Blues/Sister Sadie II (Pinecastle/18)
THOMPSONIA: River Bottom Blues/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/17)
TOM ROZUM: Don’t Fix Up the Doghouse/Jubilee (Dog Boy/98)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Born to Be with You/+1 (Compass/21)
DEL McCOURY BAND: That Ol' Train/Still Sings Bluegrass (McCoury Music/18)
JAKE BLOUNT: Where Did You Sleep Last Night/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
BRUCE MOLSKY: Piney Mountain/If it Ain’t Here When I Get Back (Tree Frog Music/13)
JOHN HARTFORD: Skippin’ In the Mississippi Dew/Mark Twang (Flying Fish/76)
ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/13)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: West End Blues/Leaving Eden (Nonesuch/12)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Travelling Man Blues/Twenty Year Blues (Sugar Hill/04)
JEFF WHITE: Climbing Up a Mountain/Right Beside You (self/16)
BECKY BULLER: Tell the Truth (Shame the Devil)/Distance and Time (Dark Shadow/20)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: So Dang Lonesome/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
DAVID GRISMAN: On and On/David Grisman’s Rounder Album (Rounder/76)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Down the Road/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Old, Old House/Live In Osaka, Japan (74)
KENNY BAKER: Monroe’s Hornpipe/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - April 24, 2021
host: PT
NOTE: all the music in this show is from 2021 releases.
DEANIE RICHARDSON: The Old Hen Cackled/Circle Up (Engelhardt)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: You Can't Judge a Good Book By Its Cover/Till I Dance Again With You (self)
BOSTON RAVINE: Riding That Midnight Train/Ragged Road (self)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: I'd Rather Live By The Side of the Road/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At The Welcome Table/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
THE GRASCALS: Travelling the Highway Home/single (Mountain Home)
ALEX LEACH BAND: The Turntable/I'm The Happiest When I'm Moving (Mountain Home)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: I'm Going Back To The Mountains/All Suited Up (Rebel)
THE ROCKY CREEK RAMBLERS: Black Mountain Blues/Hearty Old-Time Music (Vigortone)
LINDA LAY: Blue Blue Ridge Mountain Girl/single (Mountain Fever)
AMANDA COOK: My Used To Be Blue Ridge Mountain Home/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever)
MADDIE DENTON: Hope You Hang Around/single (self)
JIM HURST: It’s A Beautiful Day/single (self)
SARA WATKINS (with Nickel Creek): Blue Shadows On the Trail/Under the Pepper Tree (New West)
ALAN BIBEY & DOYLE LAWSON: Happy Go Lucky/single (Billy Blue)
DEWEY & LESLIE BROWN & THE CAROLINA GENTLEMEN: Jealousy (Liberty Showcase/Bell Buckle)
JESSE BROCK: Kiss on a Cold Cold Stone/Streamliner (Sound Biscuit)
GREG BLAKE: People, Places and Songs/single (Turnberry)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Whither You Roam/single (Mountain Home)
NEFESH MOUNTAIN: Wanderlust/Songs For The Sparrows (Eden Sky)
ABBY HOLLANDER BAND: This Life/Letters (self)
ANYA HINKLE: Meditation: Beyond the Shores of Darkness/single (Organic)
JOHN MAILANDER’s FORECAST: Song For John/Look Closer (Nine Athens)
