BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Dawn Of the Dawg: A 46th Anniversary Celebration - Dec. 3, 2022
host: PT
theme -
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Muleskinner tease > Dawg's Rag/Live At the Great American Music Hall (Acoustic Disc/79)
*THE EVEN DOZEN JUG BAND: Mandolin King Rag/The Even Dozen Jug Band (Elektra/64)
*THE NEW YORK RAMBLERS: New York Ramble (aka Dawggy Mountain Breakdown)/single (Silver-Belle/65)
*DAVID GRISMAN: Cedar Hill/Early Dawg (Sugar Hill/66)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Lover’s Return/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
RED ALLEN & THE KENTUCKIANS: Love Please Come Home/Live On the Radio (Acoustic Disc/66)
*Also available on Early Dawg - Deluxe Edition (Acoustic Disc)
MULESKINNER: Goin’ To the Races/Live - Original Television Soundtrack (Sierra/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Old & In the Way/The Boarding House Tapes (Acoustic Oasis/73)
THE GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC BAND: Bud’s Bounce/Live at the Keystone, Berkeley, CA (6/13/74)
DAVID GRISMAN: Opus 38/The David Grisman Rounder Album (Rounder/76)
DAVID GRISMAN & THE BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/76)
THE DAVID GRISMAN TRIO: Ricochet/Dawg Works, Vol. 2 (Acoustic Disc/76)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: E.M.D./The David Grisman Quintet/Kaleidoscope/77)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: E.M.D./Live At the Great American Music Hall (Acoustic Disc/79)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUARTET: Shasta Bull/DGQ 20 (Acoustic Disc/77)
DAVID GRISMAN: Dawg’s Bull/Hot Dawg (Horizon/79)
THE (original) DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Cedar Hill/DGQ 20 (Acoustic Disc/76)
DAVID GRISMAN: Minor Swing/Hot Dawg (Horizon/79)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Dawg Patch (aka Dogwood)/DGQ 20 (Acoustic Disc/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: 2022 Top 10 (of PT & Sully) - Dec. 10, 2022
NOTE: all albums released in 2022.
theme -
* TRAY WELLINGTON: Pond Mountain Breakaway/Black Banjo (Mountain Home)
* PETER ROWAN: Little Joe/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel)
* KATHY KALLICK: Footprints In the Snow/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today (Live Oak)
* MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Crooked Tree/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch)
* PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Souvenir/Tell 'Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian-Folkways)
+ AMY & HAILEY: What About You/Sidekick Sessions (self)
- THE WEEPING WILLOWS: Fall Out Of Time/You Reap What You Sow (Compass Brothers)
+ THE LOCAL HONEYS: Throw Me In The Thicket (When I Die)/The Local Honeys (La Honda)
- OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW: DeFord Rides Again/Paint This Town (ATO)
- LONESOME RIVER BAND: Come On Down From the Mountain Top/Heyday (Mountain Home)
+ VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Cannon Ball/Tune Hash - Smothered and Covered (self)
+ VARIOUS ARTISTS: M & M Blues/When My Momma Sang To Me - Songs Of Murphy Hicks Henry (Arrandem)
- PRAIRIE WILDFIRE: Whatcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy/Prairie Wildfire (Turnberry)
+ JAKE BLOUNT: The Downward Road/The New Faith (Smithsonian-Folkways)
- SETH MULDAR & MIDNIGHT RUN: My, My, My/In Dreams I Go Back (Mountain Fever)
* TRAY WELLINGTON: Naima/Black Banjo (Mountain Home)
* selected by both PT & SR
+ selected by PT
- selected by SR
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Holiday Membership Campaign - Dec. 17, 2022
host: PT
theme -
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Flying Cloud/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Bluegrass Style/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Oh Susanna/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS (with Kathy Kallick): Blue Days, Sleepless Nights/Freight 98 (Spruce and Maple (98>21)
KATHY KALLICK (with Laurie Lewis & Suzy Thompson): What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
DODI KALLICK: What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
LAURIE LEWIS: Girlfriend, Guard Your Heart/Freight 98 (Spruce and Maple (98>21)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Thinkin' Of Home/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: To Hell With The Land/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
KATHY KALLICK (with Tristan Scroggins): Sittin' On Top Of the World/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
KATHY KALLICK (with The Kathy Kallick Big Band): The Wild Side Of Life > It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
LAURIE LEWIS: I'll Take Back My Heart/Freight 98 (Spruce and Maple (98>21)
DODI KALLICK: The Parting Glass/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
KATHY KALLICK (with Molly Tuttle): Put My Little Shoes Away/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
KATHY KALLICK (with Mike Compton & Joe Newberry): Farther Along/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Flying Cloud/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
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Bluegrass Country only -
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Have Yourself A Mando Little Christmas - Dec. 19-24, 2022
host: PT
theme –
ADAM STEFFEY & FRIENDS: We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Christmas Grass Vol.2 (Koch/04)
DAVID GRISMAN: Winter Wonderland/David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/83)
DAVID GRISMAN: The Christmas Song/David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/83)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Blue Christmas/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
WAYNE BENSON & FRIENDS: Frosty The Snowman/A Pinecastle Christmas Gathering (Pinecastle/03)
SAM BUSH: Sleigh Ride/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter's Grace (Signature Sounds/99)
RICKY SKAGGS: Deck the Halls/A Skaggs Family Christmas (Skaggs Family/05)
ANDY STATMAN & DAVID GRISMAN: Shalom Aleichem/Songs Of Our Fathers (Acoustic Disc/95)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Nilent Sight/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Christmas Eve/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Breaking Up Christmas/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
MIKE WOLLENBERG & DIX BRUCE: O Holy Night/Live AT KALW (2001)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Santa Grass - Dec. 24, 2022
host: Leah Wollenberg
theme -
RONNIE McCOURY, ROB ICKES & Friends: Jingle Bells/Christmas Grass (Koch/02)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Blue Christmas/Christmas on the Mountain (Universal South/02)
KATHY KALLICK & THE LITTLE BIG BAND: Ring the Bells at Midnight/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter’s Grace (Signature Sounds/02)
DOC WATSON: Green Sleeves/Sittin‘ On Top of the World (RockBeat/64)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Christmas is Near/The Early Starday-King Years, Vol. 1 (King/58)
NEFESH MOUNTAIN: Banjo Medley (Ma’oz Tzur>Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah)/Live From Levon Helm Studios (self/21)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: We Three Kings/Christmas (self/20)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Beautiful Star of Bethlehem/Christmas In the Hills (King/76)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: Call Collect on Christmas/35 Years of the Best in Bluegrass (Rebel/74)
TIM O’BRIEN: Bah Humbug/Christmas on the Mountain (Universal South/02)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: If We Make It Through December/Winter’s Grace (Signature Sounds/02)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Cold Frosty Morning/12 X 2 (+-1) (self/14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Oh Mary, Where is Your Baby?/On A Winter’s Night (Corvus/14)
JIMMY (and LISA) MARTIN: Daddy, Will Santa Claus Ever Have to Die/To Mother at Christmas (Gusto/80)
TOMMY JARRELL & FRED COCKERHAM: Breaking Up Christmas/Tommy & Fred (County/73)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: Christmas Time’s A-Comin’/Castle Studio 1950-1951 (RWA (Richard Weize Archives)/51)
DAVID GRISMAN: Santa Claus is Coming to Town/David Grisman’s Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/83)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - Dec. 31, 2022
host: Sully Roddy
host: PT
theme -
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Muleskinner tease > Dawg's Rag/Live At the Great American Music Hall (Acoustic Disc/79)
*THE EVEN DOZEN JUG BAND: Mandolin King Rag/The Even Dozen Jug Band (Elektra/64)
*THE NEW YORK RAMBLERS: New York Ramble (aka Dawggy Mountain Breakdown)/single (Silver-Belle/65)
*DAVID GRISMAN: Cedar Hill/Early Dawg (Sugar Hill/66)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Lover’s Return/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
RED ALLEN & THE KENTUCKIANS: Love Please Come Home/Live On the Radio (Acoustic Disc/66)
*Also available on Early Dawg - Deluxe Edition (Acoustic Disc)
MULESKINNER: Goin’ To the Races/Live - Original Television Soundtrack (Sierra/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Old & In the Way/The Boarding House Tapes (Acoustic Oasis/73)
THE GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC BAND: Bud’s Bounce/Live at the Keystone, Berkeley, CA (6/13/74)
DAVID GRISMAN: Opus 38/The David Grisman Rounder Album (Rounder/76)
DAVID GRISMAN & THE BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/76)
THE DAVID GRISMAN TRIO: Ricochet/Dawg Works, Vol. 2 (Acoustic Disc/76)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: E.M.D./The David Grisman Quintet/Kaleidoscope/77)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: E.M.D./Live At the Great American Music Hall (Acoustic Disc/79)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUARTET: Shasta Bull/DGQ 20 (Acoustic Disc/77)
DAVID GRISMAN: Dawg’s Bull/Hot Dawg (Horizon/79)
THE (original) DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Cedar Hill/DGQ 20 (Acoustic Disc/76)
DAVID GRISMAN: Minor Swing/Hot Dawg (Horizon/79)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Dawg Patch (aka Dogwood)/DGQ 20 (Acoustic Disc/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: 2022 Top 10 (of PT & Sully) - Dec. 10, 2022
NOTE: all albums released in 2022.
theme -
* TRAY WELLINGTON: Pond Mountain Breakaway/Black Banjo (Mountain Home)
* PETER ROWAN: Little Joe/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel)
* KATHY KALLICK: Footprints In the Snow/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today (Live Oak)
* MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Crooked Tree/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch)
* PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Souvenir/Tell 'Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian-Folkways)
+ AMY & HAILEY: What About You/Sidekick Sessions (self)
- THE WEEPING WILLOWS: Fall Out Of Time/You Reap What You Sow (Compass Brothers)
+ THE LOCAL HONEYS: Throw Me In The Thicket (When I Die)/The Local Honeys (La Honda)
- OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW: DeFord Rides Again/Paint This Town (ATO)
- LONESOME RIVER BAND: Come On Down From the Mountain Top/Heyday (Mountain Home)
+ VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Cannon Ball/Tune Hash - Smothered and Covered (self)
+ VARIOUS ARTISTS: M & M Blues/When My Momma Sang To Me - Songs Of Murphy Hicks Henry (Arrandem)
- PRAIRIE WILDFIRE: Whatcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy/Prairie Wildfire (Turnberry)
+ JAKE BLOUNT: The Downward Road/The New Faith (Smithsonian-Folkways)
- SETH MULDAR & MIDNIGHT RUN: My, My, My/In Dreams I Go Back (Mountain Fever)
* TRAY WELLINGTON: Naima/Black Banjo (Mountain Home)
* selected by both PT & SR
+ selected by PT
- selected by SR
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Holiday Membership Campaign - Dec. 17, 2022
host: PT
theme -
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Flying Cloud/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Bluegrass Style/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Oh Susanna/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS (with Kathy Kallick): Blue Days, Sleepless Nights/Freight 98 (Spruce and Maple (98>21)
KATHY KALLICK (with Laurie Lewis & Suzy Thompson): What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
DODI KALLICK: What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
LAURIE LEWIS: Girlfriend, Guard Your Heart/Freight 98 (Spruce and Maple (98>21)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Thinkin' Of Home/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: To Hell With The Land/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
KATHY KALLICK (with Tristan Scroggins): Sittin' On Top Of the World/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
KATHY KALLICK (with The Kathy Kallick Big Band): The Wild Side Of Life > It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
LAURIE LEWIS: I'll Take Back My Heart/Freight 98 (Spruce and Maple (98>21)
DODI KALLICK: The Parting Glass/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
KATHY KALLICK (with Molly Tuttle): Put My Little Shoes Away/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
KATHY KALLICK (with Mike Compton & Joe Newberry): Farther Along/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Flying Cloud/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
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Bluegrass Country only -
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Have Yourself A Mando Little Christmas - Dec. 19-24, 2022
host: PT
theme –
ADAM STEFFEY & FRIENDS: We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Christmas Grass Vol.2 (Koch/04)
DAVID GRISMAN: Winter Wonderland/David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/83)
DAVID GRISMAN: The Christmas Song/David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/83)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Blue Christmas/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
WAYNE BENSON & FRIENDS: Frosty The Snowman/A Pinecastle Christmas Gathering (Pinecastle/03)
SAM BUSH: Sleigh Ride/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter's Grace (Signature Sounds/99)
RICKY SKAGGS: Deck the Halls/A Skaggs Family Christmas (Skaggs Family/05)
ANDY STATMAN & DAVID GRISMAN: Shalom Aleichem/Songs Of Our Fathers (Acoustic Disc/95)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Nilent Sight/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Christmas Eve/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Breaking Up Christmas/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
MIKE WOLLENBERG & DIX BRUCE: O Holy Night/Live AT KALW (2001)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Santa Grass - Dec. 24, 2022
host: Leah Wollenberg
theme -
RONNIE McCOURY, ROB ICKES & Friends: Jingle Bells/Christmas Grass (Koch/02)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Blue Christmas/Christmas on the Mountain (Universal South/02)
KATHY KALLICK & THE LITTLE BIG BAND: Ring the Bells at Midnight/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter’s Grace (Signature Sounds/02)
DOC WATSON: Green Sleeves/Sittin‘ On Top of the World (RockBeat/64)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Christmas is Near/The Early Starday-King Years, Vol. 1 (King/58)
NEFESH MOUNTAIN: Banjo Medley (Ma’oz Tzur>Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah)/Live From Levon Helm Studios (self/21)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: We Three Kings/Christmas (self/20)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Beautiful Star of Bethlehem/Christmas In the Hills (King/76)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: Call Collect on Christmas/35 Years of the Best in Bluegrass (Rebel/74)
TIM O’BRIEN: Bah Humbug/Christmas on the Mountain (Universal South/02)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: If We Make It Through December/Winter’s Grace (Signature Sounds/02)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Cold Frosty Morning/12 X 2 (+-1) (self/14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Oh Mary, Where is Your Baby?/On A Winter’s Night (Corvus/14)
JIMMY (and LISA) MARTIN: Daddy, Will Santa Claus Ever Have to Die/To Mother at Christmas (Gusto/80)
TOMMY JARRELL & FRED COCKERHAM: Breaking Up Christmas/Tommy & Fred (County/73)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: Christmas Time’s A-Comin’/Castle Studio 1950-1951 (RWA (Richard Weize Archives)/51)
DAVID GRISMAN: Santa Claus is Coming to Town/David Grisman’s Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/83)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - Dec. 31, 2022
host: Sully Roddy