BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - April 5, 2025
NOTE: all releases from 2025, except as noted
BENSON/BRITT/BROWN: Ralph's Banjo Special/80th Anniversary Stanley Brothers Tribute (Compass)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Midnight Storm/Carry Me Back To the Bluegrass (Rebel)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Fiddler Jones /Bluegrass In the Backwoods (Fiddle Man)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Stoney Lonesome/Bluegrass In the Backwoods (Fiddle Man)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Carry Me Back To the Bluegrass (Rebel)
- Carry Me Back To the Bluegrass
- Springtime In the Mountains
- Thinking Of Home
MISSY RAINES & ALLEGHENY (with LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK): Anywhere the Wind Blows/single (Compass)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Been All Around This World/single (Compass)
GREG CAHILL: IBMA Membership Campaign promo
ALISON BROWN & STEVE MARTIN with TIM O'BRIEN: 5 Days Out, 2 Days Back/single (Compass)
THE SELDOM SCENE: The Story Of My Life/Remains to Be Scene (Smithsonian-Folkways)
I’M WITH HER: Ancient Light/Wild and Clear and Blue (Rounder)
SIERRA HULL: Let’s Go/A Tip Toe High Wire (self)
DANNY ROBERTS: Lawson Sizemore/single (Mountain Home)
DOM FLEMONS' SHULTZ'S DREAM: Lonesome River Blues/Live at IBMA’s World Of Bluegrass (2022)
DOM FLEMONS' SHULTZ'S DREAM: Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad/Live at IBMA’s World Of Bluegrass (2022)
SALTY SALLY: Turtle Dove/Live at the Sugar Pine Festival (2023)
MR SUN: Breaker’s Bakedown/Live at Wintergrass (2022)
SUZY THOMPSON: Lose My Blues/Suzy Sings Siebel, Vol. 1 (self)
IRIS DEMENT: One Red Rose/Live at the Kate Wolf Festival (2022)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: There's a Blue Sky Way Out Yonder/Red River Valley (self/22)
DAVID STEWART: Shiny Silver Bar - a tribute to Phil Leadbetter/single (Turnberry)
SAMI BRAMAN & ELLIE HAKANSON: Not Soft Enough/Julia Belle: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2 (2025)
TYLER GRANT: Depot Guitar/Flatpicker (Grant Central)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Stand With Us - April Membership Campaign – April 12, 2025
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, from Julia Belle: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2 (self/25)
theme -
SISTER SADIE: Availability
VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Julia Belle Swain
HAAS SISTERS: Grant Marsh & Joseph La Barge > Little Pig > Entertainment Tonight
SAMI BRAMAN & ELLIE HAKANSON: Not Soft Enough
PHOEBE HUNT & RACHEL BAIMAN: Living Up Stairs
GINGER BOATRIGHT: Learning To Smile All Over Again
PRICE SISTERS: Royal Box Waltz
RHIANNON GIDDENS & JUSTIN ROBINSON: Going To Raleigh/What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch/25)
JOHN HARTFORD: Turn Your Radio On/Aereo-plain (Warner Brothers/71)
JOHN HARTFORD & THE HARTFORD STRING BAND: On the Radio/Good Old Boys (Rounder/99)
KATHY MATTEA: Steam Powered Aereo Plane
DELLA MAE: Kenny and Mac
RHIANNON GIDDENS & JUSTIN ROBINSON: Hook & Line/What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch/25)
UNCLE EARL: Don't Throw Her Down
APRIL VERCH: Merry Christmas
HOLLY ODELL: I’m Still Here
LAURIE LEWIS & SUZY THOMPSON: Champagne Blues
GRISMAN, HARTFORD & SEEGER: Memphis/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/99)
JOHN HARTFORD: I Wish We Had Our Time Again/Live At College Station Pennsylvania (Small Dog A-Barkin'/95)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING: Irish Familiarity
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~ BLUEGRASS COUNTRY ONLY ~
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Membership Campaign Special
Broadcast dates: April 14-26, 2024
NOTE: except as indicated, all tracks released as 45s in early 1967.
NOTE: At 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 2, 1967, listeners to the American University radio station were treated to the sound of fiddle, banjo, and high lonesome harmony. A new half-hour program named “Bluegrass Unlimited,” hosted by Dick Spottswood and engineered by Gary Henderson, marked the small beginning of what was to [become] the best and most influential bluegrass station in the country.
GLORIA BELLE (FLICKINGER): Today I Can Smile (Redwing)
THE SOUTHLAND BOYS: Tears On My Pillow (Low Land)
TIP SHARP & THE KY MT BOYS: When the Bluegrass Is Covered With Snow (King)
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: Roll, Muddy River (Decca)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Living Like A Fool (Decca)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sweet Sally Brown (King)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Nashville Cats (Columbia)
JOHN HARTFORD: (Good Old Electric) Washing Machine (Circa 1943) (RCA Victor)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: (It’s All Over Now) Baby Blue (Rebel)
JOHNNY STILLS & THE LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN BOYS: Baby Don't Leave Me (Vaca)
BOB HILL & THE SPRING VALLEY BOYS: All That Glitters Isn't Gold (Pyramid)
THE LIBERTY SINGERS: You're Too, Too Late (With Too, Too Little) (King's Music City)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Night/Blue Grass Time (Decca LP – June/67)
THE DIXIE GENTLEMEN w/ TUT TAYLOR: The Waves of Sorrow/Blues & Bluegrass (Tune LP – Feb/67)
SCOTTY STONEMAN: Low Down Billy/Mr. Country Fiddler (Design LP – May/67)
DON RENO, BILL HARRELL & THE TENNESSEE CUT-UPS: Flat Tops A-Pickin’ (Rebel)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On? - April 19, 2025
JOHN JORGENSON BLUEGRASS BAND: Beautiful Sound/Live at Zlock Performing Arts Center - Newtown, PA - 2/28/25
JOHN JORGENSON BLUEGRASS BAND: Midnight Flyer/Live at Zlock Performing Arts Center - Newtown, PA - 2/28/25
TRAY WELLINGTON BAND: Solar Fuel/Live at Focal Point - St. Louis, MO - 2/9/24
TRAY WELLINGTON BAND: Dark Hollow/Live at Focal Point - St. Louis, MO - 2/9/24
FOG HOLLER: Darling Nellie Across the Sea/Live at Chicken Cairn Studios - Portland, OR (2025)
FOG HOLLER: The Genuine Guarantee/The Chicken Cairn Session (2025)
JESSE APPELMAN & ELI WEST: Freight Train/Live at the CBA’s Summer Music Camp instructor concert - Grass Valley, CA (2024)
DELLA MAE: (Livin’ On) Tulsa Time/Live at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival (2-1-25)
PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Lonely Pine/Live Performance Video (Smithsonian-Folkways/24)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Quaking Aspen Live at The Freight (4-27-24)
BEAN CREEK: I’ll Break Out Again Tonight/Live on Vern’s Stage, CBA Father’s Day Festival (2024)
DOM FLEMONS’ SCHULTZ’S DREAM: Polly Put the Kettle On/Live at IBMA World Of Bluegrass (2022)
MR SUN: The Fiddler’s Boot/Live At the Freight (self/14>18)
SALTY SALLY: Strong Wind/Live at the Folk Yeah Festival - Big Sur Fiddle Camp (2024)
TOWN HOWLERS: Placer County Ramble/Alright Everybody! (self/18)
THE PRICE SISTERS: What Does The Deep Sea Say?/Live at The Floyd Country Store (9-23-23)
SHOWMAN & COOLE: Devil’s Train/Live at Roncesvalles United Church - Toronto, ON (1922)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: It Takes One To Know One/Live at Carter Vintage Guitars (2025)
VIV & RILEY: Cold Mountain/Live at Focal Point - St. Louis, MO (9-17-23)
SIERRA HULL BAND: I Feel the Blues Moving In/Live at DelFest - Cumberland, MD (5/28/22)
SETH MULDAR & MIDNIGHT RUN: Johnny B. Goode/Live at the Nevada County Fairgrounds (CBA/23)
JOHN JORGENSON BLUEGRASS BAND (featuring HERB PEDERSEN): Old Train/Live at Zlock Performing Arts Center - Newtown, PA - 2/28/25
GRAVENSTEIN MANDOLIN ENSEMBLE: Boston Ideal March/Live at the Green Center, Sonoma State University (9/21/23)
Events previewed -
May 2-4: BERKELEY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- May 2: John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band, Tray Wellington, Fog Holler; Jesse Appelman & the West Coast Stringband Project (with Yoseff Tucker and Christine Wilhoyt) in the lobby before the concert
- May 3: Mr. Sun, Dom Flemons' Shultz's Dream (with Dom, Tray, Dr. Richard Brown, Dante’ Pope, and Brian Farrow), Salty Sally; The Town Howlers in the lobby before the concert
- May 4: Della Mae, Po' Ramblin' Boys, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Bean Creek in the lobby before the concert
Plus workshops with Dom Flemons, Laurie Lewis, Tray Wellington, Kimber Ludiker, Fog Holler, and others
The Price Sisters -
- May 2: Morgan Hill Grange
- May 3: Folsom Opry House
- May 4: Nashville Social Club, Carson City, NV
- May 5: Wild Eye Pub, Grass Valley
- May 6: house concert in Petaluma; info/res: marykussmaul735-at-gmail-dot-com
- May 9-11: PARKFIELD BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL - V6 Ranch, Parkfield
Also includes Seth Mulder & Midnight Run and Showman & Coole (from Lonesome Ace Stringband),
May 9-11: SIERRAGRASS - Sierra Meadows, Ahwahnee
Includes AJ Lee & Blue Summit (host band) and Viv & Riley
April 27: San Francisco Festival of the Mandolins - Croatian American Cultural Center, 60 Onondaga Ave., SF
Includes Gravenstein Mandolin Ensemble
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks (1975 edition) - April 29, 2025
NOTE: all tracks (other than the theme) released In 1975; reissues or live recordings have original recording date if other than 1975.
theme -
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Just Lonesome Ol' Me & the Radio/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: The Old Home Place/J. D. Crowe & the New South aka #0044 (Rounder)
TONY RICE: You Don’t Know My Mind/California Autumn (Rebel)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: True Life Blues/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder)
JOE VAL & THE NEW ENGLAND BLUEGRASS BOYS: When the Golden Leaves Begin To Fall/Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys (Rounder)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Teardrops Falling In the Snow/Buckeyes In the Briar Patch (Vetco)
NORMAN BLAKE: Sweet Heaven aka Goin’ To the Races/Old And New (Flying Fish)
NORMAN BLAKE, TUT TAYLOR, SAM BUSH, BUTCH ROBINS, VASSAR CLEMENTS, DAVID HOLLAND & JETHRO BURNS: Sweet Georgia Brown/The Hank Deane Sessions (HDS)
CITY LIMITS BLUEGRASS BAND (featuring LYNN MORRIS): Cold Hard Rain/Hello City Limits (Biscuit City)
THE BOOKER ORCHESTRA: Camp Nelson Blues/Old Time String Band Classics (County/27>75)
LARRY RICHARDSON & HAPPY SMITH: Let Me Fall/Springtime In the Mountains (County/53>75)
TED LUNDY & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN BOYS: I've Never Been So Lonesome/Springtime In the Mountains (County/72>75)
BUFFALO GALS: Foggy Mountain Locomotion/First Borne (Revonah)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: Walkin’ the Dog/Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals (Revonah)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Drivin’ Back To Tennessee/Good Time Girl (Vetco)
CONNIE & BABE & THE BACKWOODS BOYS: Home Is Where the Heart Is/Backwoods Bluegrass (Rounder) [#0043]
THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: Dry & Dusty/On the Great Divide (Folkways)
IRON MOUNTAIN STRINGBAND: Sugar Hill/Walkin’ In the Parlor (Folkways)
DOC WATSON & BAND: Homesick For Heaven/Bill & Doc Sing Country Songs (FBN/63 [bootleg])
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: I Just Want To Thank You, Lord/Come Springtime (Rebel)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Looking For the Stone/Let Me Rest On A Peaceful Mountain (Rebel)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Pig In A Pen/Old & In the Way (Round/73>75)
THE SELDOM SCENE: The Fields Have Turned Brown/ Live At the Cellar Door (Rebel/74>75)
THE KENTUCKY COLONELS: Jordan/Livin’ In the Past (Sierra Briar/64>75)
BOYS FROM INDIANA: Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight/Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight (King)
HUMPHREY & THE DUMPTRUCKS: Viper's Drag/Gopher Suite (Sunflower)
BETTY FISHER & THE DIXIE BLUEGRASS BAND: Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor/Leaving Town (Playhouse)
KENNY BAKER: Grassy Fiddle Blues/Grassy Fiddle Blues (County)
NOTE: all releases from 2025, except as noted
BENSON/BRITT/BROWN: Ralph's Banjo Special/80th Anniversary Stanley Brothers Tribute (Compass)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Midnight Storm/Carry Me Back To the Bluegrass (Rebel)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Fiddler Jones /Bluegrass In the Backwoods (Fiddle Man)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Stoney Lonesome/Bluegrass In the Backwoods (Fiddle Man)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Carry Me Back To the Bluegrass (Rebel)
- Carry Me Back To the Bluegrass
- Springtime In the Mountains
- Thinking Of Home
MISSY RAINES & ALLEGHENY (with LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK): Anywhere the Wind Blows/single (Compass)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Been All Around This World/single (Compass)
GREG CAHILL: IBMA Membership Campaign promo
ALISON BROWN & STEVE MARTIN with TIM O'BRIEN: 5 Days Out, 2 Days Back/single (Compass)
THE SELDOM SCENE: The Story Of My Life/Remains to Be Scene (Smithsonian-Folkways)
I’M WITH HER: Ancient Light/Wild and Clear and Blue (Rounder)
SIERRA HULL: Let’s Go/A Tip Toe High Wire (self)
DANNY ROBERTS: Lawson Sizemore/single (Mountain Home)
DOM FLEMONS' SHULTZ'S DREAM: Lonesome River Blues/Live at IBMA’s World Of Bluegrass (2022)
DOM FLEMONS' SHULTZ'S DREAM: Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad/Live at IBMA’s World Of Bluegrass (2022)
SALTY SALLY: Turtle Dove/Live at the Sugar Pine Festival (2023)
MR SUN: Breaker’s Bakedown/Live at Wintergrass (2022)
SUZY THOMPSON: Lose My Blues/Suzy Sings Siebel, Vol. 1 (self)
IRIS DEMENT: One Red Rose/Live at the Kate Wolf Festival (2022)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: There's a Blue Sky Way Out Yonder/Red River Valley (self/22)
DAVID STEWART: Shiny Silver Bar - a tribute to Phil Leadbetter/single (Turnberry)
SAMI BRAMAN & ELLIE HAKANSON: Not Soft Enough/Julia Belle: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2 (2025)
TYLER GRANT: Depot Guitar/Flatpicker (Grant Central)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Stand With Us - April Membership Campaign – April 12, 2025
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, from Julia Belle: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2 (self/25)
theme -
SISTER SADIE: Availability
VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Julia Belle Swain
HAAS SISTERS: Grant Marsh & Joseph La Barge > Little Pig > Entertainment Tonight
SAMI BRAMAN & ELLIE HAKANSON: Not Soft Enough
PHOEBE HUNT & RACHEL BAIMAN: Living Up Stairs
GINGER BOATRIGHT: Learning To Smile All Over Again
PRICE SISTERS: Royal Box Waltz
RHIANNON GIDDENS & JUSTIN ROBINSON: Going To Raleigh/What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch/25)
JOHN HARTFORD: Turn Your Radio On/Aereo-plain (Warner Brothers/71)
JOHN HARTFORD & THE HARTFORD STRING BAND: On the Radio/Good Old Boys (Rounder/99)
KATHY MATTEA: Steam Powered Aereo Plane
DELLA MAE: Kenny and Mac
RHIANNON GIDDENS & JUSTIN ROBINSON: Hook & Line/What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch/25)
UNCLE EARL: Don't Throw Her Down
APRIL VERCH: Merry Christmas
HOLLY ODELL: I’m Still Here
LAURIE LEWIS & SUZY THOMPSON: Champagne Blues
GRISMAN, HARTFORD & SEEGER: Memphis/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/99)
JOHN HARTFORD: I Wish We Had Our Time Again/Live At College Station Pennsylvania (Small Dog A-Barkin'/95)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING: Irish Familiarity
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~ BLUEGRASS COUNTRY ONLY ~
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Membership Campaign Special
Broadcast dates: April 14-26, 2024
NOTE: except as indicated, all tracks released as 45s in early 1967.
NOTE: At 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 2, 1967, listeners to the American University radio station were treated to the sound of fiddle, banjo, and high lonesome harmony. A new half-hour program named “Bluegrass Unlimited,” hosted by Dick Spottswood and engineered by Gary Henderson, marked the small beginning of what was to [become] the best and most influential bluegrass station in the country.
GLORIA BELLE (FLICKINGER): Today I Can Smile (Redwing)
THE SOUTHLAND BOYS: Tears On My Pillow (Low Land)
TIP SHARP & THE KY MT BOYS: When the Bluegrass Is Covered With Snow (King)
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: Roll, Muddy River (Decca)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Living Like A Fool (Decca)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sweet Sally Brown (King)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Nashville Cats (Columbia)
JOHN HARTFORD: (Good Old Electric) Washing Machine (Circa 1943) (RCA Victor)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: (It’s All Over Now) Baby Blue (Rebel)
JOHNNY STILLS & THE LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN BOYS: Baby Don't Leave Me (Vaca)
BOB HILL & THE SPRING VALLEY BOYS: All That Glitters Isn't Gold (Pyramid)
THE LIBERTY SINGERS: You're Too, Too Late (With Too, Too Little) (King's Music City)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Night/Blue Grass Time (Decca LP – June/67)
THE DIXIE GENTLEMEN w/ TUT TAYLOR: The Waves of Sorrow/Blues & Bluegrass (Tune LP – Feb/67)
SCOTTY STONEMAN: Low Down Billy/Mr. Country Fiddler (Design LP – May/67)
DON RENO, BILL HARRELL & THE TENNESSEE CUT-UPS: Flat Tops A-Pickin’ (Rebel)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On? - April 19, 2025
JOHN JORGENSON BLUEGRASS BAND: Beautiful Sound/Live at Zlock Performing Arts Center - Newtown, PA - 2/28/25
JOHN JORGENSON BLUEGRASS BAND: Midnight Flyer/Live at Zlock Performing Arts Center - Newtown, PA - 2/28/25
TRAY WELLINGTON BAND: Solar Fuel/Live at Focal Point - St. Louis, MO - 2/9/24
TRAY WELLINGTON BAND: Dark Hollow/Live at Focal Point - St. Louis, MO - 2/9/24
FOG HOLLER: Darling Nellie Across the Sea/Live at Chicken Cairn Studios - Portland, OR (2025)
FOG HOLLER: The Genuine Guarantee/The Chicken Cairn Session (2025)
JESSE APPELMAN & ELI WEST: Freight Train/Live at the CBA’s Summer Music Camp instructor concert - Grass Valley, CA (2024)
DELLA MAE: (Livin’ On) Tulsa Time/Live at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival (2-1-25)
PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Lonely Pine/Live Performance Video (Smithsonian-Folkways/24)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Quaking Aspen Live at The Freight (4-27-24)
BEAN CREEK: I’ll Break Out Again Tonight/Live on Vern’s Stage, CBA Father’s Day Festival (2024)
DOM FLEMONS’ SCHULTZ’S DREAM: Polly Put the Kettle On/Live at IBMA World Of Bluegrass (2022)
MR SUN: The Fiddler’s Boot/Live At the Freight (self/14>18)
SALTY SALLY: Strong Wind/Live at the Folk Yeah Festival - Big Sur Fiddle Camp (2024)
TOWN HOWLERS: Placer County Ramble/Alright Everybody! (self/18)
THE PRICE SISTERS: What Does The Deep Sea Say?/Live at The Floyd Country Store (9-23-23)
SHOWMAN & COOLE: Devil’s Train/Live at Roncesvalles United Church - Toronto, ON (1922)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: It Takes One To Know One/Live at Carter Vintage Guitars (2025)
VIV & RILEY: Cold Mountain/Live at Focal Point - St. Louis, MO (9-17-23)
SIERRA HULL BAND: I Feel the Blues Moving In/Live at DelFest - Cumberland, MD (5/28/22)
SETH MULDAR & MIDNIGHT RUN: Johnny B. Goode/Live at the Nevada County Fairgrounds (CBA/23)
JOHN JORGENSON BLUEGRASS BAND (featuring HERB PEDERSEN): Old Train/Live at Zlock Performing Arts Center - Newtown, PA - 2/28/25
GRAVENSTEIN MANDOLIN ENSEMBLE: Boston Ideal March/Live at the Green Center, Sonoma State University (9/21/23)
Events previewed -
May 2-4: BERKELEY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- May 2: John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band, Tray Wellington, Fog Holler; Jesse Appelman & the West Coast Stringband Project (with Yoseff Tucker and Christine Wilhoyt) in the lobby before the concert
- May 3: Mr. Sun, Dom Flemons' Shultz's Dream (with Dom, Tray, Dr. Richard Brown, Dante’ Pope, and Brian Farrow), Salty Sally; The Town Howlers in the lobby before the concert
- May 4: Della Mae, Po' Ramblin' Boys, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Bean Creek in the lobby before the concert
Plus workshops with Dom Flemons, Laurie Lewis, Tray Wellington, Kimber Ludiker, Fog Holler, and others
The Price Sisters -
- May 2: Morgan Hill Grange
- May 3: Folsom Opry House
- May 4: Nashville Social Club, Carson City, NV
- May 5: Wild Eye Pub, Grass Valley
- May 6: house concert in Petaluma; info/res: marykussmaul735-at-gmail-dot-com
- May 9-11: PARKFIELD BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL - V6 Ranch, Parkfield
Also includes Seth Mulder & Midnight Run and Showman & Coole (from Lonesome Ace Stringband),
May 9-11: SIERRAGRASS - Sierra Meadows, Ahwahnee
Includes AJ Lee & Blue Summit (host band) and Viv & Riley
April 27: San Francisco Festival of the Mandolins - Croatian American Cultural Center, 60 Onondaga Ave., SF
Includes Gravenstein Mandolin Ensemble
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks (1975 edition) - April 29, 2025
NOTE: all tracks (other than the theme) released In 1975; reissues or live recordings have original recording date if other than 1975.
theme -
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Just Lonesome Ol' Me & the Radio/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: The Old Home Place/J. D. Crowe & the New South aka #0044 (Rounder)
TONY RICE: You Don’t Know My Mind/California Autumn (Rebel)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: True Life Blues/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder)
JOE VAL & THE NEW ENGLAND BLUEGRASS BOYS: When the Golden Leaves Begin To Fall/Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys (Rounder)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Teardrops Falling In the Snow/Buckeyes In the Briar Patch (Vetco)
NORMAN BLAKE: Sweet Heaven aka Goin’ To the Races/Old And New (Flying Fish)
NORMAN BLAKE, TUT TAYLOR, SAM BUSH, BUTCH ROBINS, VASSAR CLEMENTS, DAVID HOLLAND & JETHRO BURNS: Sweet Georgia Brown/The Hank Deane Sessions (HDS)
CITY LIMITS BLUEGRASS BAND (featuring LYNN MORRIS): Cold Hard Rain/Hello City Limits (Biscuit City)
THE BOOKER ORCHESTRA: Camp Nelson Blues/Old Time String Band Classics (County/27>75)
LARRY RICHARDSON & HAPPY SMITH: Let Me Fall/Springtime In the Mountains (County/53>75)
TED LUNDY & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN BOYS: I've Never Been So Lonesome/Springtime In the Mountains (County/72>75)
BUFFALO GALS: Foggy Mountain Locomotion/First Borne (Revonah)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: Walkin’ the Dog/Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals (Revonah)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Drivin’ Back To Tennessee/Good Time Girl (Vetco)
CONNIE & BABE & THE BACKWOODS BOYS: Home Is Where the Heart Is/Backwoods Bluegrass (Rounder) [#0043]
THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: Dry & Dusty/On the Great Divide (Folkways)
IRON MOUNTAIN STRINGBAND: Sugar Hill/Walkin’ In the Parlor (Folkways)
DOC WATSON & BAND: Homesick For Heaven/Bill & Doc Sing Country Songs (FBN/63 [bootleg])
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: I Just Want To Thank You, Lord/Come Springtime (Rebel)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Looking For the Stone/Let Me Rest On A Peaceful Mountain (Rebel)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Pig In A Pen/Old & In the Way (Round/73>75)
THE SELDOM SCENE: The Fields Have Turned Brown/ Live At the Cellar Door (Rebel/74>75)
THE KENTUCKY COLONELS: Jordan/Livin’ In the Past (Sierra Briar/64>75)
BOYS FROM INDIANA: Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight/Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight (King)
HUMPHREY & THE DUMPTRUCKS: Viper's Drag/Gopher Suite (Sunflower)
BETTY FISHER & THE DIXIE BLUEGRASS BAND: Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor/Leaving Town (Playhouse)
KENNY BAKER: Grassy Fiddle Blues/Grassy Fiddle Blues (County)