BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #253: Taterbug Is Sixteen
Broadcast dates: April 3-9, 2020
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Monroebillia/My Native Home (Rounder/85)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: No One But My Darlin’/Idle Time (Rounder/86)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Gospel Plow/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
JOHN HARTFORD: Wish We Had Our Time Again/Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate/94-96)
JOHN HARTFORD: In the Heart Of the Cross-Eyed Child/A Tribute To John Hartford - Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate/00)
COMPTON & GRIER: Honky Tonk Swing/Climbing the Walls (Rounder/91)
BUTCH ROBINS: Tanyards/Grounded, Centered, Focused (Hay Holler/95)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Gambling Barroom Blues/20 Year Blues (Sugar Hill/04)
NORMAN BLAKE: You Are My Sunshine/O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Lost Highway/00)
COMPTON & NEWBERRY: Sittin' On Top Of The World/Live (Taterbug/12)
COMPTON & NEWBERRY: Evening Prayer Blues/Live (Taterbug/12)
MIKE COMPTON: Midnight Hour Blues/Rotten Taters (Taterbug/11)
MIKE COMPTON: Wood Butcher’s Walkabout/Rotten Taters (Taterbug/11)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #254: Across the Tracks
Broadcast dates: April 10-16, 2020
NOTE: all releases from 2020 unless otherwise noted.
BLUE & LONESOME: I Hope You Have Learned/A Tiny Taste (self)
BLUE & LONESOME: I Love You and You Don't Even Know/A Tiny Taste (self)
CRARY, EVANS & BARNICK: 20/20 Vision>Clinch Mtn Backstep/Prime Time (Native & Fine)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: When the Black Dog Came Around/13 Or So (Ruby’s Slipper/19)
LAURIE LEWIS (with CRAIG SMITH): Rooster Crow/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple)
LAURIE LEWIS (with KATHY KALLICK): Old Friend/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple)
GOAT HILL GIRLS: Banjo Pickin’ Girl/Live! (self)
GOAT HILL GIRLS: Rooster Bill/Live! (self)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Cleo Belle/13 Or So (Ruby’s Slipper/19)
FOG HOLLER: Or Else the Sun/Or Else the Sun (self/19)
WENDY BURCH STEEL & REDWOOD: Blue Skies & Teardrops/In Flight (self)
WENDY BURCH STEEL & REDWOOD: Ocean of the Blues/In Flight (self)
WENDY BURCH STEEL & REDWOOD: My Texas Girl/In Flight (self)
LAURIE LEWIS (with LEAH WOLLENBERG): Troubled Times/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple)
FOG HOLLER: Doo-Rite Rag/Or Else the Sun (self/19)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #255: Happy Birthday, Eric Thompson
Broadcast dates: April 17-23, 2020
Host: Allegra Thompson
RED MURRELL WITH JIMMY RIVERS & THE CHEROKEES: Ernest Tubbs’s Talkin’ Blues/ Sittin' On Top Of The World (Cavalier/57)
BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Steel Guitar Rag/Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (Vocalion/36)
ERIC THOMPSON: Panhandle Rag/Thompson’s Real (Kicking Mule/79)
BACKWOODS BAND: Rocks And Gravel/Jes’ Fine (Rounder/80)
BLACK ASPHALT MOUNTAIN JUNGLE BOYS: Darlin’ Corey/Live at KPFA (2014)
OLD AND IN THE WAY: Panama Red/Live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (6-6-73)
OLD AND IN THE WAY: Hardhearted/Live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (6-6-73)
ERIC THOMPSON: Dixie Hoedown/Thompson’s Real (Kicking Mule/79)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Beaver Slide Rag/Dream Shadows (Herringbone/08)
BILL MONROE: Muleskinner Blues/Music Of Bill Monroe: From 1936 To 1994 (MCA/72)
BLACK ASPHALT MOUNTAIN JUNGLE BOYS: Louisiana Blues/Live at KPFA (2014)
HARRY CHOATES: Jole Blon/Devil In The Bayou (D/58)
ERIC THOMPSON: Impressionists’ Two-Step/Kleptograss (Herringbone/10)
CALIFORNIA CAJUN ORCHESTRA: Hix Wagon Wheel Special/Not Lonesome Anymore (Arhoolie/91)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #256: Lonesome Old Songs
Broadcast dates: April 24-30, 2020
theme –
KENNY BAKER: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lost & I’ll Never Find the Way aka Lonesome/1953-1958 (Bear Family/57)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: The Lonesome River/1949-52 (Bear Family/51)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’m Lonesome Without You /1953-1958 (Bear Family/53)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: A Lonesome Night/The King Years, 1961-1965 (King/63)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: That Lonesome Old Song/1971-1973 (Rebel/71)
LONGVIEW: Lonesome Old Home/Longview (Rounder/97)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: This Lonesome Old Feeling/Ramblin' Bluegrass (Starday/72)
HAZEL DICKENS: Lonesome Pine Special/Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People (Rounder/81)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES Lonesome Whistle Blues/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/84)
THE KATHY KALLICK BAND: So Danged Lonesome/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/76)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: A Lonesome Road (To Travel)/Blue Grass 1950-1959 (Bear Family/57)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Lonesome Road Blues/Two Days At Newport (And More Bears/63)
OLD & IN THE WAY: High Lonesome Sound/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
Broadcast dates: April 3-9, 2020
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Monroebillia/My Native Home (Rounder/85)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: No One But My Darlin’/Idle Time (Rounder/86)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Gospel Plow/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
JOHN HARTFORD: Wish We Had Our Time Again/Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate/94-96)
JOHN HARTFORD: In the Heart Of the Cross-Eyed Child/A Tribute To John Hartford - Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate/00)
COMPTON & GRIER: Honky Tonk Swing/Climbing the Walls (Rounder/91)
BUTCH ROBINS: Tanyards/Grounded, Centered, Focused (Hay Holler/95)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Gambling Barroom Blues/20 Year Blues (Sugar Hill/04)
NORMAN BLAKE: You Are My Sunshine/O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Lost Highway/00)
COMPTON & NEWBERRY: Sittin' On Top Of The World/Live (Taterbug/12)
COMPTON & NEWBERRY: Evening Prayer Blues/Live (Taterbug/12)
MIKE COMPTON: Midnight Hour Blues/Rotten Taters (Taterbug/11)
MIKE COMPTON: Wood Butcher’s Walkabout/Rotten Taters (Taterbug/11)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #254: Across the Tracks
Broadcast dates: April 10-16, 2020
NOTE: all releases from 2020 unless otherwise noted.
BLUE & LONESOME: I Hope You Have Learned/A Tiny Taste (self)
BLUE & LONESOME: I Love You and You Don't Even Know/A Tiny Taste (self)
CRARY, EVANS & BARNICK: 20/20 Vision>Clinch Mtn Backstep/Prime Time (Native & Fine)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: When the Black Dog Came Around/13 Or So (Ruby’s Slipper/19)
LAURIE LEWIS (with CRAIG SMITH): Rooster Crow/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple)
LAURIE LEWIS (with KATHY KALLICK): Old Friend/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple)
GOAT HILL GIRLS: Banjo Pickin’ Girl/Live! (self)
GOAT HILL GIRLS: Rooster Bill/Live! (self)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Cleo Belle/13 Or So (Ruby’s Slipper/19)
FOG HOLLER: Or Else the Sun/Or Else the Sun (self/19)
WENDY BURCH STEEL & REDWOOD: Blue Skies & Teardrops/In Flight (self)
WENDY BURCH STEEL & REDWOOD: Ocean of the Blues/In Flight (self)
WENDY BURCH STEEL & REDWOOD: My Texas Girl/In Flight (self)
LAURIE LEWIS (with LEAH WOLLENBERG): Troubled Times/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple)
FOG HOLLER: Doo-Rite Rag/Or Else the Sun (self/19)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #255: Happy Birthday, Eric Thompson
Broadcast dates: April 17-23, 2020
Host: Allegra Thompson
RED MURRELL WITH JIMMY RIVERS & THE CHEROKEES: Ernest Tubbs’s Talkin’ Blues/ Sittin' On Top Of The World (Cavalier/57)
BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Steel Guitar Rag/Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (Vocalion/36)
ERIC THOMPSON: Panhandle Rag/Thompson’s Real (Kicking Mule/79)
BACKWOODS BAND: Rocks And Gravel/Jes’ Fine (Rounder/80)
BLACK ASPHALT MOUNTAIN JUNGLE BOYS: Darlin’ Corey/Live at KPFA (2014)
OLD AND IN THE WAY: Panama Red/Live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (6-6-73)
OLD AND IN THE WAY: Hardhearted/Live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (6-6-73)
ERIC THOMPSON: Dixie Hoedown/Thompson’s Real (Kicking Mule/79)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Beaver Slide Rag/Dream Shadows (Herringbone/08)
BILL MONROE: Muleskinner Blues/Music Of Bill Monroe: From 1936 To 1994 (MCA/72)
BLACK ASPHALT MOUNTAIN JUNGLE BOYS: Louisiana Blues/Live at KPFA (2014)
HARRY CHOATES: Jole Blon/Devil In The Bayou (D/58)
ERIC THOMPSON: Impressionists’ Two-Step/Kleptograss (Herringbone/10)
CALIFORNIA CAJUN ORCHESTRA: Hix Wagon Wheel Special/Not Lonesome Anymore (Arhoolie/91)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #256: Lonesome Old Songs
Broadcast dates: April 24-30, 2020
theme –
KENNY BAKER: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lost & I’ll Never Find the Way aka Lonesome/1953-1958 (Bear Family/57)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: The Lonesome River/1949-52 (Bear Family/51)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’m Lonesome Without You /1953-1958 (Bear Family/53)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: A Lonesome Night/The King Years, 1961-1965 (King/63)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: That Lonesome Old Song/1971-1973 (Rebel/71)
LONGVIEW: Lonesome Old Home/Longview (Rounder/97)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: This Lonesome Old Feeling/Ramblin' Bluegrass (Starday/72)
HAZEL DICKENS: Lonesome Pine Special/Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People (Rounder/81)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES Lonesome Whistle Blues/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/84)
THE KATHY KALLICK BAND: So Danged Lonesome/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/76)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: A Lonesome Road (To Travel)/Blue Grass 1950-1959 (Bear Family/57)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Lonesome Road Blues/Two Days At Newport (And More Bears/63)
OLD & IN THE WAY: High Lonesome Sound/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
