BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #295: R.I.P., Tony Rice
Broadcast dates: Jan. 1-7. 2021
PT presents an all-too-brief tribute to the recently deceased Tony Rice, unquestionably THE guitarist and singer in the last 50 years.
theme -
BOBBY ATKINS, FRANK POINDEXTER, & TONY RICE: John Hardy/1968 Session (Old Homestead/81)
secondary theme -
TONY RICE: Jerusalem Ridge/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
BLUEGRASS ALLIANCE: Whisper My Name/Mac Wiseman Festival - Renfro Valley, KY (1972)
TONY RICE: Freeborn Man/Guitar (King/73)
J.D. CROWE: Ten Degrees/The New South (Rounder/75)
TONY RICE: Way Downtown/Tony Rice (Rounder/77)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: E.M.D./David Grisman Quintet (Kaleidoscope/77)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: I Don’t Want Your Mandolins, Mister/Dawg & T (Acoustic Disc/97)
TONY RICE UNIT: On Green Dolphin Street/Backwaters (Rounder/82)
TONY RICE UNIT: Nine Pound Hammer/Manzanita (Rounder/78)
RICKY SKAGGS & TONY RICE: Mansions For Me/Skaggs & Rice (Sugar Hill/80)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: I'm Comin' Back But I Don't Know When (Rounder/87)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/The Bluegrass Album (Rounder/81)
ALISON KRAUSS & FRIENDS: Sawing On the Strings/A Hundred Miles Or More: Live From the Tracking Room (Rounder DVD/08)
TONY RICE: Church Street Blues/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
TONY RICE: Fare Thee Well/Cold On The Shoulder (Rounder/84)
TONY RICE ALL STARS: Whitewater/Pickin' For Merle (KET/93)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #291: Fiddlistics!
Broadcast dates: Jan. 8-14
Leah Wollenberg pays tribute to the recent recipient of an IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award, Darol Anger
DAROL ANGER (featuring Natalie McMaster): Melt the Tea Kettle/Diary Of a Fiddler (Compass/99)
MIKE MARSHALL & DAROL ANGER: Big Man From Syracuse/The Duo Live: At Home and On the Range (Compass/02)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee/Jubilee (Dog Boy/98)
TONY RICE: Manzanita/Manzanita (Rounder/79)
DAROL ANGER: Key Signator/Fiddlistics (Kaleidoscope/79)
TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET: Blues For Oaktown/Skylife (Windam Hill Jazz/90)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Opus 57/The David Grisman Quintet (Kaleidoscope/77)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: When I Stop Dreaming/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Don’t Mind Me/Walkin’ In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
DAROL ANGER: Homer the Roamer/E-and’A (Adventure Music/14)
DAVID GRISMAN: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/Dawg Jazz-Dawg Grass (Warner Brothers/83)
NEW GRANGE: Under the Hood/New Grange (Compass/99)
DAROL ANGER-MIKE MARSHALL BAND: Coal Burnin’ Grease Fire/Brand New Can (Compass/00)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #292: Bluegrass All Stars
Broadcast dates: Jan. 15-21
Todd Gracyk plays music by many of those in the Bluegrass Trading Card set.
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 And 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 (live)/Masters Of The Folk Violin (Arhoolie/88>89>93)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Wall Around Your Heart/California Connection: The Bluegrass Album: 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)
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)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/88)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #293: Recent Discoveries
Broadcast dates: Jan. 22-28
Todd Gracyk shares some of his finds in the wonderful world of trad ‘grass, with an emphasis on the Miller Brothers and two unissued live recordings of the Stanley Brothers.
theme – TOMMY BROWN & THE COUNTY LINE GRASS: Half Moon Bay/Leaving This Town (Randm/14)
MILLER BROTHERS: Her Love Is True/45 RPM Single (Baron/c.69)
MILLER BROTHERS: Empty Cradle/Teenage Angel In Heaven (Jessup/72)
MILLER BROTHERS: Tribulations/Sacred Songs With A Down Home Flavor (Old Homestead/72)
MILLER BROTHERS: Detroit Blues/Detroit Blues (Old Homestead/73)
MILLER BROTHERS: I’m Losing My Family (And Breaking Up My Home)/45 RPM Single (Old Homestead/c.73)
MILLER BROTHERS: A House Of Sorrow/The Bluegrass Sound Of The Miller Brothers (Old Homestead/74)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: unissued live recording (Sunset Park, West Grove, PA, 5/26/57)
- This Weary Heart You Stole Away/
- Could You Love Me (One More Time)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
- Sugar Coated Love
- Loving You Too Well
- Our Last Goodbye
- Who Will Call You Sweetheart
- Poison Love
JOHN REEDY & THE STONE MOUNTAIN TRIO: Oh, Death/45 RPM Single (self/60>Starday/61>Gusto/09)
JOHN REEDY & THE STONE MOUNTAIN TRIO: Somebody Touched Me/45 RPM EP (Starday/61)
GARY BREWER: The Last Song/Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner: A Tribute To The King Of Bluegrass (Stretchgrass/99)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE CHAIN MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Find Another Woman/Early Bluegrass: The 1950s (Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers) (Anthology Of Country Music/83)
FORREST DAVIS & THE KY-CUT-UPS: Give Me The Bottle/45 RPM Single (Starlite/66)
BILL MONROE: Honky Tonk Swing/unissued live recording (Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA, 9/3/67)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #294: Across the Tracks
Broadcast dates: Jan. 29 – Feb. 4, 2021
PT surveys a few new releases, mostly advance singles from forthcoming albums.
NOTE: All tracks released in 2020 or 2021; reissues include the date of the original release/recording.
DEL McCOURY BAND: She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye/single (McCoury Music)
THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: Passin’ Thru/single (McCoury Music)
JUSTIN MOSES (featuring DEL McCOURY): My Baby's Gone/Fall Like Rain (Mountain Home)
JUSTIN MOSES (featuring SIERRA HULL): Taxman/Fall Like Rain (Mountain Home)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: Will You/Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno (Free Dirt)
LINDA LAY: Blue Blue Ridge Mountain Girl/single (Mountain Fever)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Long Way Around the Mountain/single (Mountain Home)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Things She Couldn’t Get Over/Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle)
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)
ANYA HINKLE: I Belong To the Band/single (Organic)
THE GINA FURTADO PROJECT: Gone/single (Mountain Home)
JODY STECHER: Perfik/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
TONY RICE: Red-Haired Boy/California Autumn (Rebel/75)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #296: Across the Tracks
Broadcast dates: Feb. 5-11, 2021
PT surveys a few more new releases, along with some digitally-reissued gospel from Rebel.
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)
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)
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Broadcast dates: Jan. 1-7. 2021
PT presents an all-too-brief tribute to the recently deceased Tony Rice, unquestionably THE guitarist and singer in the last 50 years.
theme -
BOBBY ATKINS, FRANK POINDEXTER, & TONY RICE: John Hardy/1968 Session (Old Homestead/81)
secondary theme -
TONY RICE: Jerusalem Ridge/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
BLUEGRASS ALLIANCE: Whisper My Name/Mac Wiseman Festival - Renfro Valley, KY (1972)
TONY RICE: Freeborn Man/Guitar (King/73)
J.D. CROWE: Ten Degrees/The New South (Rounder/75)
TONY RICE: Way Downtown/Tony Rice (Rounder/77)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: E.M.D./David Grisman Quintet (Kaleidoscope/77)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: I Don’t Want Your Mandolins, Mister/Dawg & T (Acoustic Disc/97)
TONY RICE UNIT: On Green Dolphin Street/Backwaters (Rounder/82)
TONY RICE UNIT: Nine Pound Hammer/Manzanita (Rounder/78)
RICKY SKAGGS & TONY RICE: Mansions For Me/Skaggs & Rice (Sugar Hill/80)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: I'm Comin' Back But I Don't Know When (Rounder/87)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/The Bluegrass Album (Rounder/81)
ALISON KRAUSS & FRIENDS: Sawing On the Strings/A Hundred Miles Or More: Live From the Tracking Room (Rounder DVD/08)
TONY RICE: Church Street Blues/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
TONY RICE: Fare Thee Well/Cold On The Shoulder (Rounder/84)
TONY RICE ALL STARS: Whitewater/Pickin' For Merle (KET/93)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #291: Fiddlistics!
Broadcast dates: Jan. 8-14
Leah Wollenberg pays tribute to the recent recipient of an IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award, Darol Anger
DAROL ANGER (featuring Natalie McMaster): Melt the Tea Kettle/Diary Of a Fiddler (Compass/99)
MIKE MARSHALL & DAROL ANGER: Big Man From Syracuse/The Duo Live: At Home and On the Range (Compass/02)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee/Jubilee (Dog Boy/98)
TONY RICE: Manzanita/Manzanita (Rounder/79)
DAROL ANGER: Key Signator/Fiddlistics (Kaleidoscope/79)
TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET: Blues For Oaktown/Skylife (Windam Hill Jazz/90)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Opus 57/The David Grisman Quintet (Kaleidoscope/77)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: When I Stop Dreaming/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Don’t Mind Me/Walkin’ In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
DAROL ANGER: Homer the Roamer/E-and’A (Adventure Music/14)
DAVID GRISMAN: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/Dawg Jazz-Dawg Grass (Warner Brothers/83)
NEW GRANGE: Under the Hood/New Grange (Compass/99)
DAROL ANGER-MIKE MARSHALL BAND: Coal Burnin’ Grease Fire/Brand New Can (Compass/00)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #292: Bluegrass All Stars
Broadcast dates: Jan. 15-21
Todd Gracyk plays music by many of those in the Bluegrass Trading Card set.
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 And 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 (live)/Masters Of The Folk Violin (Arhoolie/88>89>93)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Wall Around Your Heart/California Connection: The Bluegrass Album: 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)
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)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/88)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #293: Recent Discoveries
Broadcast dates: Jan. 22-28
Todd Gracyk shares some of his finds in the wonderful world of trad ‘grass, with an emphasis on the Miller Brothers and two unissued live recordings of the Stanley Brothers.
theme – TOMMY BROWN & THE COUNTY LINE GRASS: Half Moon Bay/Leaving This Town (Randm/14)
MILLER BROTHERS: Her Love Is True/45 RPM Single (Baron/c.69)
MILLER BROTHERS: Empty Cradle/Teenage Angel In Heaven (Jessup/72)
MILLER BROTHERS: Tribulations/Sacred Songs With A Down Home Flavor (Old Homestead/72)
MILLER BROTHERS: Detroit Blues/Detroit Blues (Old Homestead/73)
MILLER BROTHERS: I’m Losing My Family (And Breaking Up My Home)/45 RPM Single (Old Homestead/c.73)
MILLER BROTHERS: A House Of Sorrow/The Bluegrass Sound Of The Miller Brothers (Old Homestead/74)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: unissued live recording (Sunset Park, West Grove, PA, 5/26/57)
- This Weary Heart You Stole Away/
- Could You Love Me (One More Time)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
- Sugar Coated Love
- Loving You Too Well
- Our Last Goodbye
- Who Will Call You Sweetheart
- Poison Love
JOHN REEDY & THE STONE MOUNTAIN TRIO: Oh, Death/45 RPM Single (self/60>Starday/61>Gusto/09)
JOHN REEDY & THE STONE MOUNTAIN TRIO: Somebody Touched Me/45 RPM EP (Starday/61)
GARY BREWER: The Last Song/Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner: A Tribute To The King Of Bluegrass (Stretchgrass/99)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE CHAIN MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Find Another Woman/Early Bluegrass: The 1950s (Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers) (Anthology Of Country Music/83)
FORREST DAVIS & THE KY-CUT-UPS: Give Me The Bottle/45 RPM Single (Starlite/66)
BILL MONROE: Honky Tonk Swing/unissued live recording (Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA, 9/3/67)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #294: Across the Tracks
Broadcast dates: Jan. 29 – Feb. 4, 2021
PT surveys a few new releases, mostly advance singles from forthcoming albums.
NOTE: All tracks released in 2020 or 2021; reissues include the date of the original release/recording.
DEL McCOURY BAND: She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye/single (McCoury Music)
THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: Passin’ Thru/single (McCoury Music)
JUSTIN MOSES (featuring DEL McCOURY): My Baby's Gone/Fall Like Rain (Mountain Home)
JUSTIN MOSES (featuring SIERRA HULL): Taxman/Fall Like Rain (Mountain Home)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: Will You/Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno (Free Dirt)
LINDA LAY: Blue Blue Ridge Mountain Girl/single (Mountain Fever)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Long Way Around the Mountain/single (Mountain Home)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Things She Couldn’t Get Over/Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle)
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)
ANYA HINKLE: I Belong To the Band/single (Organic)
THE GINA FURTADO PROJECT: Gone/single (Mountain Home)
JODY STECHER: Perfik/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
TONY RICE: Red-Haired Boy/California Autumn (Rebel/75)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL #296: Across the Tracks
Broadcast dates: Feb. 5-11, 2021
PT surveys a few more new releases, along with some digitally-reissued gospel from Rebel.
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)
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)
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