BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: I Can't Stand To Ramble - '80s Bay Area - Jan. 4, 2020
host: PT
Happy New Year -
JIMMY MARTIN & THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: 20/20 Vision/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/54)
theme -
TONY RICE UNIT (featuring JOHN REISCHMAN): Birdland Breakdown/Still Inside (Rounder/81)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Blues Stay Away From Me/Blues Stay Away From Me (Takoma/80)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: I Can’t Stand To Ramble/I Can't Stand To Ramble (Kaleidoscope/83)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND: Things In Life/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
HIGH COUNTRY: Home To Me/Home To Me (Swallow/84)
DAVID GRISMAN: My Walking Shoes/Here Today (Rounder/83)
PETER ROWAN: The Walls Of Time/The Walls Of Time (Sugar Hill/82)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Cabin On a Mountain/Bluegrass From the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
ROSE MADDOX with the VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Turn Your Radio On/Beautiful Bouquet (Arhoolie/83)
SIDESADDLE: Ruby’s Run/The Girl From the Red Rose Saloon (Turquoise/88)
ANY OLD TIME: Falls of Richmond>Camp Chase/Ladies' Choice (Bay/83)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: What Was I Supposed To Do/Blue Flame Stringband (Flying Fish/82)
COUNTRY HAM: Sugar In the Gourd/Songs Of Yesterday (Vetco/84)
JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot/Almost Acoustic (Grateful Dead/88)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Paul and Silas/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
- farewell to bluegrass country -
ERIC THOMPSON & ALAN SENAUKE: Big Mon>Miller's Reel/Two Guitars (Flying Fish/86)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: This Young Boy/Part Of A Story (Kaleidoscope/85)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Maple's Lament/Restless Rambling Heart (Flying Fish/86)
HIGH COUNTRY: My Brown-Eyed Darlin'/Blue Highway (Turquoise/87)
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SUZY & ERIC THOMPSON: Three-In-One Two-Step, Carroll County Blues, Chaussettes Blues/Adam & Eve Had the Blues (Arhoolie/89)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Will You Miss Me/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
TONY RICE & PETER ROWAN: Rock Hearts/The Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/c. 83)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Midnight On the Mandolin/The Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/c. 83)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Memories - '80s Bluegrass - Jan. 11, 2020
host: Todd Gracyk
theme -
DAVID GRISMAN QUARTET & SPECIAL GUESTS: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/Dawg Grass (Warner Bros./83)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Old Devil's Dream/Idle Time (Rounder/86)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Only One Was True/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: This Kind Of Life/Take Me To The Mountains (Leather>Rebel/81)
RALPH STANLEY/I Lived In Her World: Ralph Stanley Singing Sixteen Years (River Tracks>Copper Creek>Rounder/86)
JOHN STARLING (with RICKY SKAGGS): Carolyn At The Broken Wheel Inn/Long Time Gone (Sugar Hill/80)
RICKY SKAGGS & TONY RICE: Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies/Skaggs & Rice (Sugar Hill/80)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: Last Train From Poor Valley/Blake & Rice (Rounder/87)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Old River/Antiques & Inventions (Rounder/81)
HAZEL DICKENS: You’ll Get No More Of Me/It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song (Rounder/86)
THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Weathered Gray Stone/Walls Of Time (Rounder/82)
HIGH COUNTRY: Say You Only Will Be Mine/Home To Me (Swallow>Big Chicken/84)
DELIA BELL & BILL GRANT: Thinking Of The Old Days/The Cheer Of The Home Fires (Rounder/84)
LARRY SPARKS: Mommy Please Stay Home With Me/Blue Sparks (Rebel/83)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Who's Going Down To Town?/Bluegrass From The Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE BLUEGRASS BAND: Another Saturday Night/Another Saturday Night (Voyager>Hay Holler Harvest/82)
BILL MONROE: Evening Prayer Blues/Master Of Bluegrass (MCA>Bear Family/81)
JOE VAL & THE NEW ENGLAND BLUEGRASS BOYS: I've Been All Around This World/Cold Wind (Rounder/83)
DAVID GRISMAN (with RED ALLEN): Sad And Lonesome Day/Home Is Where The Heart Is (Rounder/88)
MIKE SEEGER (with OLABELLE & DAVID REED): Boat's Up The River/Third Annual Farewell Reunion (Rounder/82)
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HIGH COUNTRY: Arachnid/Blue Highway (Turquoise>Big Chicken/87); Donner Pass/Blue Highway (Turquoise>Big Chicken/87); Big Hendy Grove/Home To Me (Swallow>Big Chicken/84)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES: Lonesome Whistle Blues/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/83)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/I Still Love You Yet (Mountain Laurel/85)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Shut Up In The Mines At Coal Creek/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/88)
JAMES BRYAN: Monroe's Farewell To Long Hollow/Lookout Blues (Rounder/83)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Legacy Of Grayson & Whitter, part 1 - Jan. 18, 2020
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Train Forty Five/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
DOC WATSON: Old Ruben/Original Folkways Recordings (Smithsonian-Folkways/62)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Train 45/Bluegrass Holiday (Rebel/69)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: The Nine Pound Hammer/Ommie Wise (Suncoast/28)
MONROE BROTHERS: Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/36)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Roll On Buddy/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Short Life Of Trouble/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
DAVE EVANS & THE RIVER BEND: Short Life Of Trouble/The Best Of the Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
DUDLEY CONNELL & DON RIGSBY: Short Life Of Trouble/Meet Me By The Moonlight (Sugar Hill/00)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Little Maggie With a Dram Glass in Her Hand/Ommie Wise (Suncoast/28)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Little Maggie/Live In Japan (Rebel/71)
BARBARA DANE with TOM PALEY: Little Maggie/When I Was A Young Girl (Horizon/62)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: A Dark Road Is A Hard Road To Travel/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/28)
RALPH STANLEY: A Dark Road Is A Hard Road To Travel/Short Life Of Trouble - Songs Of Grayson and Whitter (Rebel/96)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Going Down the Lee Highway/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/28)
LEE HIGHWAY: Lee Highway Blues/Bluegrass Music (self/07)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: On the Banks Of Old Tennessee/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/28)
GLEN NEAVES & THE VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN BOYS: On the Banks Of Old Tennessee/Country Bluegrass From Southwest Virginia (Folkways/74)
RALPH STANLEY: On the Banks Of Old Tennessee/Short Life Of Trouble - Songs Of Grayson and Whitter (Rebel/96)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Nobody's Darling/Ommie Wise (Suncoast/27)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Be Nobody's Darlin' But Mine, Love/Weiser Sunrise (Nettwerk/12)
THE CHIEFTANS (with EMMYLOU HARRIS): Nobody’s Darling But Mine/Another Country (RCA Victor/92)
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FRED PRICE (with CLINT HOWARD & DOC WATSON): Lee Highway Blues/Original Folkways Recordings (Smithsonian-Folkways/62)
LITTLE GRASSCALS: Lee Highway Blues/Little Grasscals (Naxos/02)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Lee Highway Blues /Flame Keeper (Rounder/02)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Legacy Of Grayson & Whitter, part 2 - Jan. 25, 2020
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Handsome Molly/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Handsome Molly/An Evening Long Ago (Sony/56)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Handsome Molly/On the Road (and More) (Smithsonian-Folkways/63)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Handsome Molly/1959-1963 (Bear Family/62)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Rose Conley/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
CHARLIE MONROE & HIS KENTUCKY PARTNERS:Down In the Willow Garden/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family/47)
DODI KALLICK & HOBART SMITH: Down In the Willow Garden/home recording (Old Town School Of Folk Music/63)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: I’ll Never Be Yours/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
THE LILLY BROTHERS & DON STOVER: Down On the Banks Of the Ohio/Bluegrass At the Roots (Smithsonian-Folkways/61)
KATHY KALLICK (with PETER ROWAN): Banks Of the Ohio/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/02)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Ommie Wise/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
DOC WATSON: Little Omie Wise/Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
HASEE CIACCIO (featuring KALIA YEAGLE): Omie Wise/Big Bend Killing – The Appalachian Ballad Tradition (Great Smoky Mountains Association/17)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Sally Gooden/Ommie Wise (Suncoast/28)
BYRON BERLINE (with BILL MONROE and EARL SCRUGGS): Sally Goodin/Fiddle & A Song (Sugar Hill/95)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Tom Dooley/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/29)
FRANK PROFFITT: Tom Dooley (Dula)/Frank Proffitt of Reese, NC (Folk-Legacy/62)
LAURA BOOSINGER with THE KRUGER BROTHERS: Tom Dula/Big Bend Killing – The Appalachian Ballad Tradition (Great Smoky Mountains Association/17)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: I’ve Always Been A Rambler/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: I’ve Always Been A Rambler/Out Standing in Their Field, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
calendar -
BARBARA LAMB: Sally Goodin/Fiddle Fatale (Sugar Hill/93)
host: PT
Happy New Year -
JIMMY MARTIN & THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: 20/20 Vision/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/54)
theme -
TONY RICE UNIT (featuring JOHN REISCHMAN): Birdland Breakdown/Still Inside (Rounder/81)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Blues Stay Away From Me/Blues Stay Away From Me (Takoma/80)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: I Can’t Stand To Ramble/I Can't Stand To Ramble (Kaleidoscope/83)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND: Things In Life/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
HIGH COUNTRY: Home To Me/Home To Me (Swallow/84)
DAVID GRISMAN: My Walking Shoes/Here Today (Rounder/83)
PETER ROWAN: The Walls Of Time/The Walls Of Time (Sugar Hill/82)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Cabin On a Mountain/Bluegrass From the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
ROSE MADDOX with the VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Turn Your Radio On/Beautiful Bouquet (Arhoolie/83)
SIDESADDLE: Ruby’s Run/The Girl From the Red Rose Saloon (Turquoise/88)
ANY OLD TIME: Falls of Richmond>Camp Chase/Ladies' Choice (Bay/83)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: What Was I Supposed To Do/Blue Flame Stringband (Flying Fish/82)
COUNTRY HAM: Sugar In the Gourd/Songs Of Yesterday (Vetco/84)
JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot/Almost Acoustic (Grateful Dead/88)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Paul and Silas/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
- farewell to bluegrass country -
ERIC THOMPSON & ALAN SENAUKE: Big Mon>Miller's Reel/Two Guitars (Flying Fish/86)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: This Young Boy/Part Of A Story (Kaleidoscope/85)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Maple's Lament/Restless Rambling Heart (Flying Fish/86)
HIGH COUNTRY: My Brown-Eyed Darlin'/Blue Highway (Turquoise/87)
calendar –
SUZY & ERIC THOMPSON: Three-In-One Two-Step, Carroll County Blues, Chaussettes Blues/Adam & Eve Had the Blues (Arhoolie/89)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Will You Miss Me/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
TONY RICE & PETER ROWAN: Rock Hearts/The Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/c. 83)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Midnight On the Mandolin/The Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/c. 83)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Memories - '80s Bluegrass - Jan. 11, 2020
host: Todd Gracyk
theme -
DAVID GRISMAN QUARTET & SPECIAL GUESTS: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/Dawg Grass (Warner Bros./83)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Old Devil's Dream/Idle Time (Rounder/86)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Only One Was True/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: This Kind Of Life/Take Me To The Mountains (Leather>Rebel/81)
RALPH STANLEY/I Lived In Her World: Ralph Stanley Singing Sixteen Years (River Tracks>Copper Creek>Rounder/86)
JOHN STARLING (with RICKY SKAGGS): Carolyn At The Broken Wheel Inn/Long Time Gone (Sugar Hill/80)
RICKY SKAGGS & TONY RICE: Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies/Skaggs & Rice (Sugar Hill/80)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: Last Train From Poor Valley/Blake & Rice (Rounder/87)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Old River/Antiques & Inventions (Rounder/81)
HAZEL DICKENS: You’ll Get No More Of Me/It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song (Rounder/86)
THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Weathered Gray Stone/Walls Of Time (Rounder/82)
HIGH COUNTRY: Say You Only Will Be Mine/Home To Me (Swallow>Big Chicken/84)
DELIA BELL & BILL GRANT: Thinking Of The Old Days/The Cheer Of The Home Fires (Rounder/84)
LARRY SPARKS: Mommy Please Stay Home With Me/Blue Sparks (Rebel/83)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Who's Going Down To Town?/Bluegrass From The Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE BLUEGRASS BAND: Another Saturday Night/Another Saturday Night (Voyager>Hay Holler Harvest/82)
BILL MONROE: Evening Prayer Blues/Master Of Bluegrass (MCA>Bear Family/81)
JOE VAL & THE NEW ENGLAND BLUEGRASS BOYS: I've Been All Around This World/Cold Wind (Rounder/83)
DAVID GRISMAN (with RED ALLEN): Sad And Lonesome Day/Home Is Where The Heart Is (Rounder/88)
MIKE SEEGER (with OLABELLE & DAVID REED): Boat's Up The River/Third Annual Farewell Reunion (Rounder/82)
calendar -
HIGH COUNTRY: Arachnid/Blue Highway (Turquoise>Big Chicken/87); Donner Pass/Blue Highway (Turquoise>Big Chicken/87); Big Hendy Grove/Home To Me (Swallow>Big Chicken/84)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES: Lonesome Whistle Blues/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/83)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/I Still Love You Yet (Mountain Laurel/85)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Shut Up In The Mines At Coal Creek/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/88)
JAMES BRYAN: Monroe's Farewell To Long Hollow/Lookout Blues (Rounder/83)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Legacy Of Grayson & Whitter, part 1 - Jan. 18, 2020
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Train Forty Five/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
DOC WATSON: Old Ruben/Original Folkways Recordings (Smithsonian-Folkways/62)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Train 45/Bluegrass Holiday (Rebel/69)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: The Nine Pound Hammer/Ommie Wise (Suncoast/28)
MONROE BROTHERS: Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/36)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Roll On Buddy/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Short Life Of Trouble/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
DAVE EVANS & THE RIVER BEND: Short Life Of Trouble/The Best Of the Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
DUDLEY CONNELL & DON RIGSBY: Short Life Of Trouble/Meet Me By The Moonlight (Sugar Hill/00)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Little Maggie With a Dram Glass in Her Hand/Ommie Wise (Suncoast/28)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Little Maggie/Live In Japan (Rebel/71)
BARBARA DANE with TOM PALEY: Little Maggie/When I Was A Young Girl (Horizon/62)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: A Dark Road Is A Hard Road To Travel/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/28)
RALPH STANLEY: A Dark Road Is A Hard Road To Travel/Short Life Of Trouble - Songs Of Grayson and Whitter (Rebel/96)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Going Down the Lee Highway/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/28)
LEE HIGHWAY: Lee Highway Blues/Bluegrass Music (self/07)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: On the Banks Of Old Tennessee/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/28)
GLEN NEAVES & THE VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN BOYS: On the Banks Of Old Tennessee/Country Bluegrass From Southwest Virginia (Folkways/74)
RALPH STANLEY: On the Banks Of Old Tennessee/Short Life Of Trouble - Songs Of Grayson and Whitter (Rebel/96)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Nobody's Darling/Ommie Wise (Suncoast/27)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Be Nobody's Darlin' But Mine, Love/Weiser Sunrise (Nettwerk/12)
THE CHIEFTANS (with EMMYLOU HARRIS): Nobody’s Darling But Mine/Another Country (RCA Victor/92)
calendar -
FRED PRICE (with CLINT HOWARD & DOC WATSON): Lee Highway Blues/Original Folkways Recordings (Smithsonian-Folkways/62)
LITTLE GRASSCALS: Lee Highway Blues/Little Grasscals (Naxos/02)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Lee Highway Blues /Flame Keeper (Rounder/02)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Legacy Of Grayson & Whitter, part 2 - Jan. 25, 2020
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Handsome Molly/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Handsome Molly/An Evening Long Ago (Sony/56)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Handsome Molly/On the Road (and More) (Smithsonian-Folkways/63)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Handsome Molly/1959-1963 (Bear Family/62)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Rose Conley/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
CHARLIE MONROE & HIS KENTUCKY PARTNERS:Down In the Willow Garden/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family/47)
DODI KALLICK & HOBART SMITH: Down In the Willow Garden/home recording (Old Town School Of Folk Music/63)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: I’ll Never Be Yours/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
THE LILLY BROTHERS & DON STOVER: Down On the Banks Of the Ohio/Bluegrass At the Roots (Smithsonian-Folkways/61)
KATHY KALLICK (with PETER ROWAN): Banks Of the Ohio/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/02)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Ommie Wise/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
DOC WATSON: Little Omie Wise/Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
HASEE CIACCIO (featuring KALIA YEAGLE): Omie Wise/Big Bend Killing – The Appalachian Ballad Tradition (Great Smoky Mountains Association/17)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Sally Gooden/Ommie Wise (Suncoast/28)
BYRON BERLINE (with BILL MONROE and EARL SCRUGGS): Sally Goodin/Fiddle & A Song (Sugar Hill/95)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: Tom Dooley/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/29)
FRANK PROFFITT: Tom Dooley (Dula)/Frank Proffitt of Reese, NC (Folk-Legacy/62)
LAURA BOOSINGER with THE KRUGER BROTHERS: Tom Dula/Big Bend Killing – The Appalachian Ballad Tradition (Great Smoky Mountains Association/17)
GRAYSON & WHITTER: I’ve Always Been A Rambler/The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (County/27)
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: I’ve Always Been A Rambler/Out Standing in Their Field, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
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BARBARA LAMB: Sally Goodin/Fiddle Fatale (Sugar Hill/93)