BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What's Goin' On - March 5, 2022
with PT
JAKE BLOUNT: The Man Was Burning/single (Free Dirt/22)
SARAH JAROSZ: Hometown/Live on Austin City Limits (10-23-21)
AOIFE O’DONOVAN (with ALISON RUSSELL): Prodigal Daughter/Live At the Newport Folk Festival (2021)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: On the Line/live (2021)
MELODY WALKER & MOLLY TUTTLE: Bigger Than This/Live at Carter’s Vintage Guitars, Nashville (2017)
RACHEL BAIMAN & MOLLY TUTTLE: Never Tire Of the Road/Live At the Kilkenny Roots Festival, Ireland (5-7-18)
SUZY THOMPSON: Nashville Again/home recording (2022)
ERIC THOMPSON & DAVID NELSON: The Poor Old Dirt Farmer/Live on KPFA (2-26-22)
THOMPSONIA: How Can You Have the Blues/Live At the Deep End Sessions (11-11-17)
DELLA MAE: You Don’t Have To Do That/live (2021)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Little Pine Siskin/Live At the Deep End Sessions (5-12-18)
LAURIE LEWIS (with TATIANA HARGREAVES): The Pika Song/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce & Maple/20)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Footprints In the Snow/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today (Live Oak - released 4-30-22)
R.I.P. Mac Martin -
MAC MARTIN & THE CALIFORNIA TRAVELERS: I'll Just Pretend, Fireball Mail/Live at Redwood Bluegrass Associates (10-14-06)
<><><> Musical previews of these events <><><>
April 19: Jake Blount – Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Sarah Jarosz -
- April 1: Felton Music Hall, Felton
- April 2: Mystic Theatre, Petaluma
- April 3: Center for the Arts, Grass Valley
- April 4: Great American Music Hall, SF
Aoife O'Donovan -
- April 7: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- April 8: The Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- April 9: Center For the Arts, Grass Valley
- April 10-14: Carmel, Santa Barbara, La Jolla, Hollywood
March 8: Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno; Rachel Baiman; Melody Walker – Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
April 28: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - The Guild Theatre, Menlo Park
March 20 (5 pm): Thompsonia - outdoor house concert in the Santa Cruz hills; info/res: <justsayyess@hotmail.com>
March 23: David Nelson & Eric Thompson; Suzy (Thompson) Sings Siebel - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Della Mae -
- March 29: Hopmonk Tavern, Sebastopol
- March 30: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- April 1: Winter Wondergrass - Olympic Valley
John Reischman & the Jaybirds -
- March 10: The Old Steeple, Ferndale
- March 11: The Little River Inn
- March 12: Sebastopol Community Center Annex
- April 7: Otter Opry at the Monterey United Methodist Church
- April 9: Deep End Sessions, Santa Paula
- April 10: Piazza’s Pine Cone Inn, Kernville
April 29 – May 1: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival – Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- Fri: Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Tim O’Brien & Jan Fabricius; Jacob Joliff Band
- Sat: Seldom Scene; Windy Hill; NorthSouthEastWest Jam (Michael Daves, Tatiana Hargreaves, Missy Raines, Kristin Scott Benson, Laurie Lewis)
- Sun: The Grascals; Kathy Kallick Band; Missy Raines & Allegheny
Kathy Kallick Band -
- April 29: The Side Door, Sacramento
- April 30: Pacifica Performances
- May 1: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, Tom Bekeny! - March 12, 2022
with PT
theme -
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Kentucky Mandolin/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Metropolis Blues/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/05)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Walkin’ In My Shoes/Walkin’ In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: A Warmer Kind of Blue/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/05)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Edale/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
DONE GONE: Friend of The Devil/The Done Gone Band (Police/79)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND: My Sweet Love Ain’t Around/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
THE BAY RAMBLERS: Let the Light Shine Down On Me/Live in ’85 (demo/85)
TENBROOKS: I’ll Drink No More Wine/Thoroughbred Bluegrass (Sonic Zen/mid-90s)
HIGH COUNTRY: Blues For Your Own/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/93)
HIGH COUNTRY: Number Two Express/Sunset on the Prairie (Turquoise/95)
HIGH COUNTRY: That Home Far Away/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
HIGH COUNTRY: Saturday Matinee/The Earthquake (Strictly Country/97)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Old Red Mandolin/Time (Live Oak/12)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Dark As the Night/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Girl Next Door/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
TOM BEKENY: St. Thomas/Jazzolin (self/13)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Neon Chief/Walkin’ In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Songs About … Bluegrass! - March Membership Campaign special - March 19, 2022
with PT
theme -
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Bluegrass Signal/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/12)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
GIBSON BROTHERS: That Bluegrass Music/Bona Fide (Sugar Hill/03)
VALERIE SMITH & LIBERTY PIKE: Bluegrass Dollars/Small Town Heroes (Bell Buckle/16)
JACK TOTTLE: The Bluegrass Sound/The Bluegrass Sound (Copper Creek/99)
AL WOOD & THE SMOKEY RIDGE BOYS: Sing A Bluegrass Song/Sing A Bluegrass Song (Rebel/73)
IRENE KELLY: Bluegrass Radio/Benny's TV Repair (Mountain Fever/19)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass/The Best Of The Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
RHONDA VINCENT: All American Bluegrass Girl/All American Bluegrass Girl (Rounder/06)
DAUGHTERS OF BLUEGRASS: Proud to Be a Daughter of Bluegrass/Bluegrass Bouquet (Blue Circle/08)
BOYS FROM INDIANA: Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight/Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight (King/75)
BOYS FROM INDIANA: One More Bluegrass Show/One More Bluegrass Show (King/76)
RUSSELL JOHNSON & GRASSCATS: Bluegrass Time/Anytime, Anyplace But Only You (New Time/11)
CURLY SECKLER: Bluegrass, Don't You Know/Bluegrass, Don't You Know (Copper Creek/06)
VERN & RAY: Blue Grass Style/Cabin On A Mountain - Classic King & Starday Bluegrass From the 1950s and ‘60s (King/61)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Grass Ramble/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/50)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - March 26, 2022
with Sully Roddy
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY (with OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW): Big Backyard/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
DAVID GIDEON: Moving to the Country/Lonesome Desert Strum (self/22)
BILLY JOE SHAVER: I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train /Restless Wind: The Legendary Billy Joe Shaver, 1973-1987 (Razor & Tie/95)
RICKY SKAGGS: Goin’ Back to Old Kentucky/Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass (Skaggs Family/08)
LINDA LAY: Lost in the Shuffle/Linda Lay (Mountain Fever/21)
TIM & MOLLIE O’BRIEN: Wichita/Away Out On the Mountain (Sugar Hill/94)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Come Back Darling/’Tis Sweet To Be Remembered (Columbia/87)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Blue Train/Home of the Blues (Sugar Hill/91)
BELA FLECK (featuring BILLY STRINGS and CHRIS THILE): Slipper Eel/My Bluegrass Heart (BMG/21)
THE WEEPING WILLOWS: Lonesome Now I’m Gone/You Reap What You Sow (Compass Brothers/22)
ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY: That’s What Leaving’s For/The Country Blues (Compass/16)
JUNIOR SISK: Patches On My Heart/Lost and Alone (Mountain Fever/22)
SCOTT VESTAL & BLUEGRASS 2022: EMD/Bluegrass 2022 (Pinecastle/22)
JUDITH EDELMAN: Don’t Open that Door/Drama Queen (Compass/00)
A.J. LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (self/21)
LEO KOTTKE: Vaseline Machine Gun/6- & 12- String Guitar (Takoma/04)
with PT
JAKE BLOUNT: The Man Was Burning/single (Free Dirt/22)
SARAH JAROSZ: Hometown/Live on Austin City Limits (10-23-21)
AOIFE O’DONOVAN (with ALISON RUSSELL): Prodigal Daughter/Live At the Newport Folk Festival (2021)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: On the Line/live (2021)
MELODY WALKER & MOLLY TUTTLE: Bigger Than This/Live at Carter’s Vintage Guitars, Nashville (2017)
RACHEL BAIMAN & MOLLY TUTTLE: Never Tire Of the Road/Live At the Kilkenny Roots Festival, Ireland (5-7-18)
SUZY THOMPSON: Nashville Again/home recording (2022)
ERIC THOMPSON & DAVID NELSON: The Poor Old Dirt Farmer/Live on KPFA (2-26-22)
THOMPSONIA: How Can You Have the Blues/Live At the Deep End Sessions (11-11-17)
DELLA MAE: You Don’t Have To Do That/live (2021)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Little Pine Siskin/Live At the Deep End Sessions (5-12-18)
LAURIE LEWIS (with TATIANA HARGREAVES): The Pika Song/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce & Maple/20)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Footprints In the Snow/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today (Live Oak - released 4-30-22)
R.I.P. Mac Martin -
MAC MARTIN & THE CALIFORNIA TRAVELERS: I'll Just Pretend, Fireball Mail/Live at Redwood Bluegrass Associates (10-14-06)
<><><> Musical previews of these events <><><>
April 19: Jake Blount – Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Sarah Jarosz -
- April 1: Felton Music Hall, Felton
- April 2: Mystic Theatre, Petaluma
- April 3: Center for the Arts, Grass Valley
- April 4: Great American Music Hall, SF
Aoife O'Donovan -
- April 7: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- April 8: The Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- April 9: Center For the Arts, Grass Valley
- April 10-14: Carmel, Santa Barbara, La Jolla, Hollywood
March 8: Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno; Rachel Baiman; Melody Walker – Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
April 28: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - The Guild Theatre, Menlo Park
March 20 (5 pm): Thompsonia - outdoor house concert in the Santa Cruz hills; info/res: <justsayyess@hotmail.com>
March 23: David Nelson & Eric Thompson; Suzy (Thompson) Sings Siebel - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Della Mae -
- March 29: Hopmonk Tavern, Sebastopol
- March 30: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- April 1: Winter Wondergrass - Olympic Valley
John Reischman & the Jaybirds -
- March 10: The Old Steeple, Ferndale
- March 11: The Little River Inn
- March 12: Sebastopol Community Center Annex
- April 7: Otter Opry at the Monterey United Methodist Church
- April 9: Deep End Sessions, Santa Paula
- April 10: Piazza’s Pine Cone Inn, Kernville
April 29 – May 1: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival – Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- Fri: Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Tim O’Brien & Jan Fabricius; Jacob Joliff Band
- Sat: Seldom Scene; Windy Hill; NorthSouthEastWest Jam (Michael Daves, Tatiana Hargreaves, Missy Raines, Kristin Scott Benson, Laurie Lewis)
- Sun: The Grascals; Kathy Kallick Band; Missy Raines & Allegheny
Kathy Kallick Band -
- April 29: The Side Door, Sacramento
- April 30: Pacifica Performances
- May 1: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, Tom Bekeny! - March 12, 2022
with PT
theme -
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Kentucky Mandolin/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Metropolis Blues/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/05)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Walkin’ In My Shoes/Walkin’ In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: A Warmer Kind of Blue/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/05)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Edale/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
DONE GONE: Friend of The Devil/The Done Gone Band (Police/79)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND: My Sweet Love Ain’t Around/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
THE BAY RAMBLERS: Let the Light Shine Down On Me/Live in ’85 (demo/85)
TENBROOKS: I’ll Drink No More Wine/Thoroughbred Bluegrass (Sonic Zen/mid-90s)
HIGH COUNTRY: Blues For Your Own/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/93)
HIGH COUNTRY: Number Two Express/Sunset on the Prairie (Turquoise/95)
HIGH COUNTRY: That Home Far Away/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
HIGH COUNTRY: Saturday Matinee/The Earthquake (Strictly Country/97)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Old Red Mandolin/Time (Live Oak/12)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Dark As the Night/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Girl Next Door/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
TOM BEKENY: St. Thomas/Jazzolin (self/13)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Neon Chief/Walkin’ In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Songs About … Bluegrass! - March Membership Campaign special - March 19, 2022
with PT
theme -
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Bluegrass Signal/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/12)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
GIBSON BROTHERS: That Bluegrass Music/Bona Fide (Sugar Hill/03)
VALERIE SMITH & LIBERTY PIKE: Bluegrass Dollars/Small Town Heroes (Bell Buckle/16)
JACK TOTTLE: The Bluegrass Sound/The Bluegrass Sound (Copper Creek/99)
AL WOOD & THE SMOKEY RIDGE BOYS: Sing A Bluegrass Song/Sing A Bluegrass Song (Rebel/73)
IRENE KELLY: Bluegrass Radio/Benny's TV Repair (Mountain Fever/19)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass/The Best Of The Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
RHONDA VINCENT: All American Bluegrass Girl/All American Bluegrass Girl (Rounder/06)
DAUGHTERS OF BLUEGRASS: Proud to Be a Daughter of Bluegrass/Bluegrass Bouquet (Blue Circle/08)
BOYS FROM INDIANA: Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight/Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight (King/75)
BOYS FROM INDIANA: One More Bluegrass Show/One More Bluegrass Show (King/76)
RUSSELL JOHNSON & GRASSCATS: Bluegrass Time/Anytime, Anyplace But Only You (New Time/11)
CURLY SECKLER: Bluegrass, Don't You Know/Bluegrass, Don't You Know (Copper Creek/06)
VERN & RAY: Blue Grass Style/Cabin On A Mountain - Classic King & Starday Bluegrass From the 1950s and ‘60s (King/61)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Grass Ramble/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/50)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - March 26, 2022
with Sully Roddy
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY (with OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW): Big Backyard/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
DAVID GIDEON: Moving to the Country/Lonesome Desert Strum (self/22)
BILLY JOE SHAVER: I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train /Restless Wind: The Legendary Billy Joe Shaver, 1973-1987 (Razor & Tie/95)
RICKY SKAGGS: Goin’ Back to Old Kentucky/Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass (Skaggs Family/08)
LINDA LAY: Lost in the Shuffle/Linda Lay (Mountain Fever/21)
TIM & MOLLIE O’BRIEN: Wichita/Away Out On the Mountain (Sugar Hill/94)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Come Back Darling/’Tis Sweet To Be Remembered (Columbia/87)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Blue Train/Home of the Blues (Sugar Hill/91)
BELA FLECK (featuring BILLY STRINGS and CHRIS THILE): Slipper Eel/My Bluegrass Heart (BMG/21)
THE WEEPING WILLOWS: Lonesome Now I’m Gone/You Reap What You Sow (Compass Brothers/22)
ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY: That’s What Leaving’s For/The Country Blues (Compass/16)
JUNIOR SISK: Patches On My Heart/Lost and Alone (Mountain Fever/22)
SCOTT VESTAL & BLUEGRASS 2022: EMD/Bluegrass 2022 (Pinecastle/22)
JUDITH EDELMAN: Don’t Open that Door/Drama Queen (Compass/00)
A.J. LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (self/21)
LEO KOTTKE: Vaseline Machine Gun/6- & 12- String Guitar (Takoma/04)