BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass All-Stars Trading Cards: Vol. 1 - Dec. 5, 2020
host: Todd Gracyk
theme -
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Grass Ramble/Castle Studio, 1950-1951: Complete Sessions (Decca>RWA/50>17)
DEL McCOURY: I Feel the Blues Moving In/Don’t Stop the Music (Rounder/90)
JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: (It’s a Long, Long Way) To the Top Of The World/Bluegrass and More (Epic>Bear Family/64>94)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Rock Hearts/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Decca>Bear Family/58>94)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: My Better Years/Hazel & Alice (Rounder/73)
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Take The Blame/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (CBS Special Products/County>Bear Family/57>78>91)
DAVID GRISMAN: Feast Here Tonight/Home Is Where the Heart Is (Rounder/88)
MAC WISEMAN: Fire In My Heart/’Tis Sweet To Be Remembered (Dot>Bear Family/52>03)
ALISON KRAUSS: I Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind/Masters Of the Folk Violin (Arhoolie/88)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Wall Around Your Heart/California Connection - Vol. Three (Rounder/83)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Along About Daybreak/Blue Moon Of Kentucky, 1936-1949 (Columbia>Bear Family/47>02)
CARTER FAMILY: I Ain’t Goin’ To Work Tomorrow/In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Victor>Bear Family/28>00)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: One Tear/The Osborne Brothers, 1956-1968 (Decca>Bear Family/65>95)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Old Home Place/The New South (Rounder/75)
JERRY DOUGLAS & PETER ROWAN: Girl In the Blue Velvet Band/Yonder (Sugar Hill/96)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)/The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys, 1953-58 & 1959 (Mercury>Bear Family/53>93)
NORMAN BLAKE: Church Street Blues/Whiskey Before Breakfast (Rounder/76)
MARK SCHATZ: Oh My Little Darlin’/Brand New Old Tyme Way (Rounder/95)
KENNY BAKER: Jerusalem Ridge/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
OLD & IN THE WAY: White Dove/Live At the Boarding House: The Complete Shows (Round>Acoustic Disc/73>75>13)
MULESKINNER: Dark Hollow/Classic Bluegrass Collection: Volume 4 (Warner Bros.>Time-Life/74>06)
JOHN HARTFORD: With A Vamp In the Middle/Aereo-Plain (Warner Bros.>Rounder/71>97)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Journey’s End/The Model Church (Lemco>Rebel/71>79)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Little Annie/Handmade To Hand Played (Thompson Guitars/19)
RHONDA VINCENT: Drivin’ Nails In My Coffin/The Storm Still Rages (Rounder/01)
NORMAN BLAKE/TUT TAYLOR/SAM BUSH/BUTCH ROBINS/VASSAR CLEMENTS/DAVID HOLLAND/JETHRO BURNS: McKinley’s Blues/Norman Blake-Tut Taylor-Sam Bush-Butch Robins-Vassar Clements-David Holland-Jethro Burns (HDS/75)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/88)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Dec. 12, 2020
NOTE: All tracks released in 2020; reissues include the date of the original release/recording.
ANYA HINKLE: I’ve Got A Lot Riding On These Wheels/single (self)
BECKY BULLER: The Barber's Fiddle/single (Dark Shadow)
EDDIE BOND*KAREN CARR*DONALD HILL*PECO WATSON: Sally Anne/The Fries Sessions (Never Met A Stranger/16)
JODY STECHER: Hey Don John/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
JODY STECHER: Sheets and Buckets/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone/Monroe Bridge (self)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Monroe Bridge/Monroe Bridge (self)
THE ONLIES: Going Across the Sea/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Still Looking for You/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Lonesome Pine Special/The Onlies (self)
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: Amen, There’s A Higher Power/The Legendary Marshall Family, Vol. 1 (Rebel/76)
THE FORBES FAMILY: Something That the World Didn’t Give Me/A Forbes Family Treasury, Vol. 1 (Rebel/83)
J.D. CROWE: I’ll Talk It All Over With Him/The Model Church (Rebel/78)
STANLEY BROTHERS: If We Never Meet Again/On Radio (Rebel/60)
MELVIN GOINS & FRIENDS (featuring DAVE EVANS): He Took Your Place/I Wouldn't Miss It (Rebel/04)
WES CORBETT: Boss Fight/Cascade (Padiddle)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Long Way Around the Mountain/single (Mountain Home)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Falling Down/advance single from Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle/21)
TINA ADAIR: Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses/single (Englehardt)
JESSE BROCK: Streamliner/single (Sound Biscuit)
MATT DUDMAN: My Louisiana Home/Poa (Pleasant Valley Records)
MILE TWELVE: Cold Wind/Roll the Tapes All Night Long (self)
COLEBROOK ROAD: Run Run Rudolph/single (Mountain Fever)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: Blue Christmas/Christmas (self/19)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: The Man With the Bag/Christmas (self/19)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Holiday Membership Campaign Special - Dec. 19, 2020
host: PT & Allegra Thompson
Selections from JODY STECHER: Dreams From the Overlook (self/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Boxing Day / Bluegrass, Eh? - Dec. 26, 2020
theme -
(BC) JOHN REISCHMAN: Little Pine Siskin (CBC Radio/18)
(BC) JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
(BC) PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Hometown Blues/Bet On Love (Lula/20)
(BC) NICK HORNBUCKLE: Fleetwood’s Ford/13 Or So (Ruby’s Slipper/19)
(BC) VIPER CENTRAL: I Won't Be Left Behind/The Spirit of God and Madness (self/17)
(BC) KATHLEEN NISBET: Red River Jig/Métis Dance Hall Volume 2 (self/18)
(BC) REDGIRL: Knitting Song/Road to Gravel (self/18)
(BC) UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS: Take My Arm/The Unfaithful Servants (self/19)
(BC) OLD PAINT DUO: Which One Is To Blame/Old Paint Duo (self/19)
(BC) THE LONESOME TOWN PAINTERS: The Lonesome Town Painter/The Lonesome Town Painters (self/17)
(Alberta) THE BIX MIX BOYS: Albertan/The Bix Mix Boys (self/20)
(Alberta) CHRIS JONES: Quiet Click/single (Mountain Home/20)
(Saskatchewan) MIKE KLEIN: Georgia Row>Rockingham Cindy/Over the Waves (self/19)
(Alberta) NOMAD JONES: Let Me Fall/Pickin’ Up & Puttin’ Down (self/18)
(Ontario & BC) LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Farewell Medley (Highlander’s Farewell>Monroe’s Farewell To Long Hollow)/Modern Old-Time Sounds for the Bluegrass and Folksong Jamboree (self/19)
(Ontario) SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Mighty Hard Road/Queen City Jubilee (self/18)
(Ontario) THE BARREL BOYS: Cold Spring/Cold Spring (self/17)
(Quebec) ALL DAY BREAKFAST STRING BAND: Breaking Up Christmas/Who Let the Dogs Out (self/19)
(Quebec) KAIA KATER: The Right One/Grenades (Smithsonian-Folkways/19)
(Nova Scotia) OLD MAN LUEDECKE: I Wanna Go/Easy Money (True North/19)
(Ontario) CLAIRE LYNCH: Kingdom Come/North By South (Compass/16)
(Newfoundland) CROOKED STOVEPIPE: Stop the Trains/Hand-Picked Bluegrass Music From Newfoundland (self/19)
(BC) ROY FORBES: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/Almost Overnight (AKA/95)
(Manitoba) ALLISON DEGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Eighth Of January/Allison deGroot and Tatiana Hargreaves (Free Dirt/19)
Canadian bluegrass & old time bands that have not recorded in recent years, are defunct, and/or there was not time to include:
BC -
The Sweet Lowdown
Clover Point Drifters
Highrise Lonesome
5 On A String
Story House
Erynn Marshall (w/ Carl Jones)
PRAIRIES -
Kayla Hotte (Alberta)
The Dead South (Saskatchewan)
ONTARIO -
Foggy Hogtown Boys
Ivan Rosenberg
Hard Ryde
Winterline
Julie Pennell (w/ John Pennell)
OTTAWA VALLEY -
Concession 23
MARITIMES -
The Spinney Brothers (Nova Scotia)
Ray Legere (NS)
Janey McGarry (PEI)
The Bluegrass Diamonds (New Brunswick)
MULTIPLE -
Heartship [April Verch (Ontario), Annie Lou (Toronto >Vanc Island), and Cara Luft (Calgary)]
Noteworthy historical Canadian bluegrass & old time bands include:
(BC) Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Boys
(BC) Swampgrass
(BC) Hungry Hill
(Alberta) Jerusalem Ridge
(Saskatchewan) Humphrey & The Dumptrucks
(Ontario) The Good Brothers
(Ottawa Valley) Cody
(Ottawa Valley) Dick Smith-Mike O'Reilly Band
(Quebec) White River Bluegrass Band
(Nova Scotia) Vic Mullen's Birch Mountain Boys (with Harry Cromwell & Brent Williams)
(Newfoundland) Bluegrass Mountaineers
host: Todd Gracyk
theme -
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Grass Ramble/Castle Studio, 1950-1951: Complete Sessions (Decca>RWA/50>17)
DEL McCOURY: I Feel the Blues Moving In/Don’t Stop the Music (Rounder/90)
JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: (It’s a Long, Long Way) To the Top Of The World/Bluegrass and More (Epic>Bear Family/64>94)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Rock Hearts/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Decca>Bear Family/58>94)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: My Better Years/Hazel & Alice (Rounder/73)
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Take The Blame/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (CBS Special Products/County>Bear Family/57>78>91)
DAVID GRISMAN: Feast Here Tonight/Home Is Where the Heart Is (Rounder/88)
MAC WISEMAN: Fire In My Heart/’Tis Sweet To Be Remembered (Dot>Bear Family/52>03)
ALISON KRAUSS: I Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind/Masters Of the Folk Violin (Arhoolie/88)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Wall Around Your Heart/California Connection - Vol. Three (Rounder/83)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Along About Daybreak/Blue Moon Of Kentucky, 1936-1949 (Columbia>Bear Family/47>02)
CARTER FAMILY: I Ain’t Goin’ To Work Tomorrow/In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Victor>Bear Family/28>00)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: One Tear/The Osborne Brothers, 1956-1968 (Decca>Bear Family/65>95)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Old Home Place/The New South (Rounder/75)
JERRY DOUGLAS & PETER ROWAN: Girl In the Blue Velvet Band/Yonder (Sugar Hill/96)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)/The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys, 1953-58 & 1959 (Mercury>Bear Family/53>93)
NORMAN BLAKE: Church Street Blues/Whiskey Before Breakfast (Rounder/76)
MARK SCHATZ: Oh My Little Darlin’/Brand New Old Tyme Way (Rounder/95)
KENNY BAKER: Jerusalem Ridge/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
OLD & IN THE WAY: White Dove/Live At the Boarding House: The Complete Shows (Round>Acoustic Disc/73>75>13)
MULESKINNER: Dark Hollow/Classic Bluegrass Collection: Volume 4 (Warner Bros.>Time-Life/74>06)
JOHN HARTFORD: With A Vamp In the Middle/Aereo-Plain (Warner Bros.>Rounder/71>97)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Journey’s End/The Model Church (Lemco>Rebel/71>79)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Little Annie/Handmade To Hand Played (Thompson Guitars/19)
RHONDA VINCENT: Drivin’ Nails In My Coffin/The Storm Still Rages (Rounder/01)
NORMAN BLAKE/TUT TAYLOR/SAM BUSH/BUTCH ROBINS/VASSAR CLEMENTS/DAVID HOLLAND/JETHRO BURNS: McKinley’s Blues/Norman Blake-Tut Taylor-Sam Bush-Butch Robins-Vassar Clements-David Holland-Jethro Burns (HDS/75)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/88)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Dec. 12, 2020
NOTE: All tracks released in 2020; reissues include the date of the original release/recording.
ANYA HINKLE: I’ve Got A Lot Riding On These Wheels/single (self)
BECKY BULLER: The Barber's Fiddle/single (Dark Shadow)
EDDIE BOND*KAREN CARR*DONALD HILL*PECO WATSON: Sally Anne/The Fries Sessions (Never Met A Stranger/16)
JODY STECHER: Hey Don John/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
JODY STECHER: Sheets and Buckets/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone/Monroe Bridge (self)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Monroe Bridge/Monroe Bridge (self)
THE ONLIES: Going Across the Sea/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Still Looking for You/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Lonesome Pine Special/The Onlies (self)
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: Amen, There’s A Higher Power/The Legendary Marshall Family, Vol. 1 (Rebel/76)
THE FORBES FAMILY: Something That the World Didn’t Give Me/A Forbes Family Treasury, Vol. 1 (Rebel/83)
J.D. CROWE: I’ll Talk It All Over With Him/The Model Church (Rebel/78)
STANLEY BROTHERS: If We Never Meet Again/On Radio (Rebel/60)
MELVIN GOINS & FRIENDS (featuring DAVE EVANS): He Took Your Place/I Wouldn't Miss It (Rebel/04)
WES CORBETT: Boss Fight/Cascade (Padiddle)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Long Way Around the Mountain/single (Mountain Home)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Falling Down/advance single from Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle/21)
TINA ADAIR: Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses/single (Englehardt)
JESSE BROCK: Streamliner/single (Sound Biscuit)
MATT DUDMAN: My Louisiana Home/Poa (Pleasant Valley Records)
MILE TWELVE: Cold Wind/Roll the Tapes All Night Long (self)
COLEBROOK ROAD: Run Run Rudolph/single (Mountain Fever)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: Blue Christmas/Christmas (self/19)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: The Man With the Bag/Christmas (self/19)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Holiday Membership Campaign Special - Dec. 19, 2020
host: PT & Allegra Thompson
Selections from JODY STECHER: Dreams From the Overlook (self/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Boxing Day / Bluegrass, Eh? - Dec. 26, 2020
theme -
(BC) JOHN REISCHMAN: Little Pine Siskin (CBC Radio/18)
(BC) JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
(BC) PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Hometown Blues/Bet On Love (Lula/20)
(BC) NICK HORNBUCKLE: Fleetwood’s Ford/13 Or So (Ruby’s Slipper/19)
(BC) VIPER CENTRAL: I Won't Be Left Behind/The Spirit of God and Madness (self/17)
(BC) KATHLEEN NISBET: Red River Jig/Métis Dance Hall Volume 2 (self/18)
(BC) REDGIRL: Knitting Song/Road to Gravel (self/18)
(BC) UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS: Take My Arm/The Unfaithful Servants (self/19)
(BC) OLD PAINT DUO: Which One Is To Blame/Old Paint Duo (self/19)
(BC) THE LONESOME TOWN PAINTERS: The Lonesome Town Painter/The Lonesome Town Painters (self/17)
(Alberta) THE BIX MIX BOYS: Albertan/The Bix Mix Boys (self/20)
(Alberta) CHRIS JONES: Quiet Click/single (Mountain Home/20)
(Saskatchewan) MIKE KLEIN: Georgia Row>Rockingham Cindy/Over the Waves (self/19)
(Alberta) NOMAD JONES: Let Me Fall/Pickin’ Up & Puttin’ Down (self/18)
(Ontario & BC) LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Farewell Medley (Highlander’s Farewell>Monroe’s Farewell To Long Hollow)/Modern Old-Time Sounds for the Bluegrass and Folksong Jamboree (self/19)
(Ontario) SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Mighty Hard Road/Queen City Jubilee (self/18)
(Ontario) THE BARREL BOYS: Cold Spring/Cold Spring (self/17)
(Quebec) ALL DAY BREAKFAST STRING BAND: Breaking Up Christmas/Who Let the Dogs Out (self/19)
(Quebec) KAIA KATER: The Right One/Grenades (Smithsonian-Folkways/19)
(Nova Scotia) OLD MAN LUEDECKE: I Wanna Go/Easy Money (True North/19)
(Ontario) CLAIRE LYNCH: Kingdom Come/North By South (Compass/16)
(Newfoundland) CROOKED STOVEPIPE: Stop the Trains/Hand-Picked Bluegrass Music From Newfoundland (self/19)
(BC) ROY FORBES: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/Almost Overnight (AKA/95)
(Manitoba) ALLISON DEGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Eighth Of January/Allison deGroot and Tatiana Hargreaves (Free Dirt/19)
Canadian bluegrass & old time bands that have not recorded in recent years, are defunct, and/or there was not time to include:
BC -
The Sweet Lowdown
Clover Point Drifters
Highrise Lonesome
5 On A String
Story House
Erynn Marshall (w/ Carl Jones)
PRAIRIES -
Kayla Hotte (Alberta)
The Dead South (Saskatchewan)
ONTARIO -
Foggy Hogtown Boys
Ivan Rosenberg
Hard Ryde
Winterline
Julie Pennell (w/ John Pennell)
OTTAWA VALLEY -
Concession 23
MARITIMES -
The Spinney Brothers (Nova Scotia)
Ray Legere (NS)
Janey McGarry (PEI)
The Bluegrass Diamonds (New Brunswick)
MULTIPLE -
Heartship [April Verch (Ontario), Annie Lou (Toronto >Vanc Island), and Cara Luft (Calgary)]
Noteworthy historical Canadian bluegrass & old time bands include:
(BC) Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Boys
(BC) Swampgrass
(BC) Hungry Hill
(Alberta) Jerusalem Ridge
(Saskatchewan) Humphrey & The Dumptrucks
(Ontario) The Good Brothers
(Ottawa Valley) Cody
(Ottawa Valley) Dick Smith-Mike O'Reilly Band
(Quebec) White River Bluegrass Band
(Nova Scotia) Vic Mullen's Birch Mountain Boys (with Harry Cromwell & Brent Williams)
(Newfoundland) Bluegrass Mountaineers
