Unless otherwise noted, the theme music is: JOHN REISCHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
Jan. 1: "New" Songs For A New Year
host: PT
MARK SCHATZ: New Year's Song/Brand New Old Tyme Way (Rounder/95)
NEVER COME DOWN: New Year’s Day Blues/Better Late Than Never (self/21)
WIL MARING: Things Will Be Better Next Year/An Ocean From Home (Bear Family/98)
JUNIOR SISK & JOE MULLINS: Brand New Shoes/Hall Of Fame (Rebel/13)
TREVOR & TRAVIS STUART: New Five Cents/Mountaineer (self/05)
LARRY SPARKS: Brand New Broken Heart/Ramblin’ Bluegrass (Starday/72)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: New Mule Skinner Blues/Castle Studio, 1950-1951 (RWA/51)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: New White House Blues/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: New Lost Train Blues/String Band Instrumentals (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
THE STRANGE CREEK SINGERS: New River Train/Strange Creek Singers (Arhoolie/72)
JIM & JESSE: When the Wagon Was New/The Old Dominion Masters (Pinecastle/76)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: New Patches/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
THE ROADOILERS: New Money/The Roadoilers (self/07)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Brand New Tennessee Waltz/1971-1973 (Rebel/72)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: Brand New Hit In Nashville/All Suited Up (Rebel/21)
FLOYD TILLMAN: Go Out and Find Somebody New/The Columbia & RCA Years (Columbia/46)
ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION: New Fool/Every Time You Say Goodbye (Rounder/91)
IVAN ROSENBERG: New Year's Waltz/The Littlest Dobro (Slosh Tone/16)
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Jan. 8: (Hell On) Church Street (Blues)
host: LW
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hold Whatcha Got/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Sally Goodin/J.D. Crowe & the New South aka 0044 (Rounder/75)
TONY RICE: Fare Thee Well/Cold on the Shoulder (Rounder/84)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Orphan Annie/Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch/22)
TONY RICE: Orphan Annie/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
TONY RICE: Cattle in the Cane/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Cattle in the Cane/Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: She’ll Change/single (Nonesuch/21)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/The Bluegrass Album Band (Rounder/81)
TONY RICE: Any Old Time/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Any Old Time/Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch/22)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Faithful/I’ll Come Back (self/21)
EVIE LADIN: Precious Days/Float Downstream (Evil Diane/10)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Church Street Blues/Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch/22)
TONY RICE: Church Street Blues/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ocean of Diamonds/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
TONY RICE: Eighth of January/Tony Rice (Rounder/77)
TONY RICE: Farewell Blues/Tony Rice (Rounder/77)
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Jan. 15: Crow On the Banjo
host: PT
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JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Crow On the Banjo/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/66)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hit Parade Of Love/Hit Parade Of Love (Music Mill/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ocean Of Diamonds/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Bear Tracks/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Somehow Tonight/Ramblin' Boy (Lemco/69)
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Little Girl In Tennessee/Live at the Red Slipper Inn, Lexington, KY (11-22-68)
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Talk It All Over With Him/The Model Church (Lemco/70)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: You Can Have Her/Bluegrass Evolution (Starday/73)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Old Home Place/JD Crowe & The New South aka 0044 (Rounder/75)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Dark Hollow/Live In Japan (Towa/75)
THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/Bluegrass Album Band (Rounder/80)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Blue Eyes Cryin’ In the Rain/Live In Japan (Rounder/79)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Born To Be With You > Old Joe Clark/Live at Crowe Fest, Wilmore, KY (2004)
JD CROWE: interview with Jim Mills/Live at the Banjo Showroom (2014)
JD CROWE: solo banjo/Live on Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour (2006)
JD CROWE: interview with Michael Johnathon/Live on Woodsongs OTRH (2006)
JD CROWE, DOYLE LAWSON, & PAUL WILLIAMS: Prayers Bells of Heaven/Live at IBMA Fan Fest (2010)
TRIBUTE TO JD CROWE: Blackjack/IBMA Awards Show (2020)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Crow On the Banjo (aka Bugle Call Rag)/Live In Japan (Towa/75)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Jimmy Martin, J.D.Crowe, Paul Williams, Lightnin Chance, Chubby Wise or Gordon Terry
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS (1968): JD Crowe, Red Allen, Doyle Lawson, Bobby Slone
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS (1969-70): JD Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Larry Rice, Bobby Slone
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH (1973): JD, Tony Rice, Larry Rice, Hal Rugg, Pig Robbins, et al
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH (1975): JD, Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Bobby Slone
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH (1979): JD, Keith Whitley, Jimmy Gaudreau, Bobby Slone, Steve Bryant
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH (2005): JD, Rickey Wasson, Dwight McCall, Ron Stewart, Harold Nixon
THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: JD Crowe, Tony Rice, Doyle Lawson, Bobby Hicks, Todd Phillips
TRIBUTE TO JD CROWE: Kristin Scott Benson, Ned Luberecki, Gena Britt, Scott Vestal, Gina Furtado (IBMA 2020 Banjo Player of the Year Nominees)
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Jan. 22: Bye Felicia
host: Allegra Thompson
BILL MONROE: I’m Sitting On Top of the World/Best of Bill Monroe (Decca/57)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: I Don’t Care Anymore/Selected Cuts (Columbia/58)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Just Because/The King Years '61-'65 (King/63)
RENO & SMILEY: There’s Another Baby Waiting ForMe Down The Line/The Very Best of (King/52)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: When I Loved You/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: You’ll Get No More Of Me/The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce & Maple/16)
PAPER WINGS: Winter Storm/Paper Wings (self/17)
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER: My Better Years/Deep End Sessions Vol. II (Deep End Sessions/15)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Who Done It?/The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen (Rounder/77)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: How Many Times/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce & Maple/14)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: What Was I Supposed To Do?/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/82)
RICHARD BRANDENBURG: That Ain’t Gonna Happen Anymore/Flickering Dreams (Pine Pitch/10)
EMILY MILLER & VAL MINDEL: Lover’s Return/In the Valley (Yodel-ay-hee/06)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: You’re Running Wild/ 20 All Time Greatest Hits (Capitol/56)
KITTY WELLS: Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On?/Makin’ Believe (Decca/55)
HOOT AND HOLLER: Too Many Reasons To Run/Reasons To Run (self/17)
WINDY HILL: Love You Miss You Bye/Lonesome Garbage Man (self/13)
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Jan. 29: All Kinds Of Country
host: SR
BILLY STRINGS: Red Daisy/Renewal (Rounder/21)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Pretty Little Girl/Sunny Side of the Mountain (self/16)
DAVID HOLT Sail Away Ladies/I Got a Bullfrog (self/05)
TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Seneca Square Dance/One-Ring Circus (self/21)
MIMI & RICHARD FARINA: Pack Up Your Sorrows/Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard/65)
CHRIS JONES AND THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Silver City/Make Each Second Last (Mountain Home/20)
TIM AND MOLLIE O’BRIEN: Wichita/Away Out On the Mountain (Sugar Hill/91)
A.J. LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: Back to Bluegrass/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
BILL MONROE: Little Cabin Home on the Hill/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/48)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down/1948-1959 (Bear Family/57)
RICK FARIS: Moonshine Song/The Next Mountain (Dark Shadow/21)
COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN: Hot Rod Lincoln/Too Much Fun (MCA/72)
BILLER AND WAKEFIELD: Martian Guts/The Hot Guitars of Biller and Wakefield (Hightone/99)
RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Milwaukee Blues/Merchants Lunch (Flying Fish/77)
JOEL MABUS: Doc’sology/Omnibus (Fossil/08)
DOC WATSON: Doc’s Guitar/Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
SIERRA FERRELL: The Sea/Long Time Coming (Rounder/21)
SIERRA HULL: In the Middle of the Woods/25 Trips (Rounder/20)
MERLE MONROE: Harlan Darlin’/Songs of a Simple Life (Pinecastle/21)
AMANDA COOK: Lonesome Leaving Train/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever/21)
DAISY CAIRE: La Murcura/Chasin’ After the Wind (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Favorites of 2021 - Feb. 5, 2022
NOTE: all releases in 2021.
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SKILLET LICORICE: 3-in-1 Two-Step/Allsorts Orchestra (Tiki Parlor)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: The Hills Of Mexico/Lively Times: Live at the Anza Club (self)
JOHN REISCHMAN: The Old Steeple/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: On Account Of You/Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno (Free Dirt)
RHIANNON GIDDENS (with FRANCESCO TURRISI): Waterbound/They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
ANYA HINKLE (with GRAHAM SHARP): What's It Gonna Take/Eden & Her Borderlands (Organic)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: After While/Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At The Welcome Table/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
JEREMY STEPHENS: Could I Knock on Your Door/How I Hear It (Rebel)
DEANIE RICHARDSON: Walking In My Sleep/Circle Up (Engelhardt)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Messenger/Turn Your Radio On: Music Recorded Live at KALW, 1999-2019 (Bluegrass Signal)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Readin’, Rightin’, Route 23/Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy (Smithsonian-Folkways)
ALEX LEACH BAND: The Turntable/I'm the Happiest When I'm Moving (Mountain Home)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Born To Be With You/+1 (Compass)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks: West Coast Report - Feb. 12, 2022
NOTE: all releases in 2022.
PAUL SHELASKY: A Retrospective - Studio & Live Recordings From 1980 - 2016 (self)
- GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Devil’s Dream/Mason’s Apron (live)
- FOG CITY RAMBLERS: Grigsby’s Hornpipe
- PAUL SHELASKY: Fire On the Mountain
LAURIE LEWIS: Freight 98 (Spruce & Maple)
- Blue Days, Sleepless Nights
- Love Is a Lonely Street
- Girlfriend, Guard Your Heart
NICK HORNBUCKLE & ANNIE STANINEC: Twin Sisters (forthcoming on Ruby’s Slipper Records)
- Ducks On the Millpond
- Nine Degrees
- Twin Sisters
-MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Crooked Tree (forthcoming on Nonesuch)
- She’ll Change
- Crooked Tree
- Grass Valley (live)
THE DONE GONE BAND: The Done Gone Band (Police/79)
- The Boys Are Back
- Idaho Sands
- Quiet Grave
TUT TAYLOR & DON HUMPHRIES: Flat Pickin’ Dobro Man/The Walnut Valley Spring Thing (Takoma/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks: Mostly Singles - Feb. 19, 2022
NOTE: all releases in 2022, all advance singles from forthcoming albums (some of which remain untitled).
LAURA ORSHAW: Hank/single (Dark Shadow)
PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: The Blues Are Close At Hand/Never Slow Down (Smithsonian-Folkways)
JIM HURST: Back To the One/single (Pinecastle)
DALE ANN BRADLEY & DANNY PAISLEY: One By One/single (Pinecastle)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Once Again/Almost Proud (McCoury Music)
JUNIOR SISK: Patches On My Heart/single (Mountain Fever)
JUNIOR SISK: I Wanna Be Where You Are/single (Mountain Fever)
MIKE COMPTON: Trail Of Tears/Rare & Fine - Uncommon Tunes of Bill Monroe (Taterbug)
ALISON DeGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: The Banks of the Miramichi/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt)
MR. SUN: Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long, Long Way)/Extrovert (Compass)
KENNY & AMANDA SMITH: Everything To Me/single (self)
ALEX LEACH BAND: Up To You/single (Mountain Home)
TINA ADAIR: Tell Me Baby Why You Been Gone So Long/single (Engelhardt)
THE NO JOKE JIMMY'S: Be Proud Of the Gray In Your Hair/single (self)
MR. SUN: Breaker’s Bakedown/Extrovert (Compass)
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Feb. 21-27: Favorites of 2021 – part 1 (Winter Membership Campaign special)
DAVID THOM BAND: I’ve Never Been So Lonesome/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: On & On/The Gasoline Brothers (Acoustic Disc/76)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: On Account Of You/Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno (Free Dirt)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: The Hills Of Mexico/Lively Times: Live at the Anza Club (self)
RHIANNON GIDDENS (with FRANCESCO TURRISI): Waterbound/They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
ANYA HINKLE (with GRAHAM SHARP): What's It Gonna Take/Eden & Her Borderlands (Organic)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: After While/Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At The Welcome Table/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Messenger/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
EARL SCRUGGS TRIBUTE QUARTET: Foggy Mountain Special/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
DEANIE RICHARDSON: Walking In My Sleep/Circle Up (Engelhardt)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Readin’, Rightin’, Route 23/Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy (Smithsonian-Folkways)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Roll On Buddy/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
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Feb. 28 - March 6: Favorites of 2021 – part 2 (Winter Membership Campaign special)
JEREMY STEPHENS: Could I Knock on Your Door/How I Hear It (Rebel)
THOMPSONIA: Very Bad Mood/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
STAIRWELL SISTERS: Boats Up the River/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
JOHN REISCHMAN: The Old Steeple/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Born To Be With You/+1 (Compass)
ALEX LEACH BAND: The Turntable/I'm The Happiest When I'm Moving (Mountain Home)
JUNIOR SISK: I Wanna Be Where You Are/single (Mountain Fever)
BLUE & LONESOME: Foggy Mountain Top/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
MATT DUDMAN: One Short Year/POA (Pleasant Valley)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Put All Your Troubles Away/Put All Your Troubles Away (self)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: jd plays clyde davenport plays an unnamed dee hicks tune/the aluminum wonder (self)
J.D. CROWE & RICKY WASSON: Have You Come To Say Goodbye/Crowe & Wasson (Truegrass)
SKILLET LICORICE: Babe/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - Feb. 26, 2022
host: Sully Roddy
Bill Monroe: It’s Mighty Dark to Travel/The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys 1945-1949 (Sony/46)
The Dillards: Ebo Walker/Home Coming & Family Reunion (Flying Fish/79)
David Holt: Who Broke the Lock/I Got a Bullfrog (High Windy Audio/05)
Spider John Koerner: Sail Away Ladies/ Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Been (Red House/86)
Billy Strings: Red Daisy/Renewal (Rounder/21)
Andrew Crawford: Lonesome Season/Lonesome Season (Bonfire/21)
Nashville Bluegrass Band: Blue Train /Home of the Blues (Sugar Hill/91)
The Tuttles With AJ Lee: Wayside, Back in Time (Back Studio/10)
David Grisman: Waiting On Vassar/DGQ-20 (Acoustic Disc/76)
Stringbean: Run Little Rabbit Run/Front Porch Funnies (King/59)
The Wildmans: Garfield Blackberry Blossom/The Wildmans (Travianna/20)
Old Crow Medicine Show: Tennessee Bound/Remedy (ATO/14)
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder: Going Back to Old Kentucky/Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass (Skaggs Family Records/08)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Last Kind Words Blues/Raise the Roof (Rounder/21)
Doc Watson: Sitting On Top Of The World/Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
The Stanley Brothers: Rank Strangers/The Best of the Best of the Stanley Brothers (Gusto/60)
Brad Kolodner: Ants in the Honey Jar/Chimney Swifts (Fenchurch/21)
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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)
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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: <[email protected]>
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
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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
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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)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin' On - April 2, 2022
host: Leah Wollenberg
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been a Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Locust Grove/Stringworks (Mountain Home/16)
KATHY KALLICK (with ANNIE STANINEC): Handsome Molly/What are They Doing in Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Crooked Tree/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Each Season Changes You/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: A Few Old Memories/Over the Line (Patuxent/19)
CHRIS THILE & MICHAEL DAVES: Mississippi Waltz/Sleep With One Eye Open (Nonesuch/11)
JAKE BLOUNT: Brown Skin Baby/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
RON STEWART: Riding the Saranac/Time Stands Still (Rounder/01)
THE SELDOM SCENE: Steel Rail Blues/Changes Rounder/19)
AOIFE O’DONOVAN: Prodigal Daughter/Age of Apathy (Yep Roc/22)
SARAH JAROSZ: Little Satchel/World on the Ground (Rounder/20)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Monroe Bridge/Monroe Bridge (self/20
MIKO MARKS & THE RESURRECTORS: Foggy Mountain Top/Race Records (Redtone/21)
MISSY RAINES: Nashville Rag/My Place In the Sun (self/98)
NICK HORNBUCKLE & ANNIE STANINEC: Twin Sisters/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper/forthcoming)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - April 9, 2022
host: PT
All releases in 2022, except as noted.
ALVEY/CIACCIO/EVANS/JACKSON/KILIANSKI: The Cannon Ball /Tune Hash Vol. 1&2: Smothered and Covered (self)
ALVEY/CIACCIO/EVANS/JACKSON/KILIANSKI: Rabbit in the Pea Patch/Tune Hash Vol. 1&2: Smothered and Covered (self)
KATHY KALLICK (with TRISTAN SCROGGINS): Sittin’ On Top Of the World/What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? (Live Oak)
ANYA HINKLE: Nightingale (соловейко)/Bootleg for Peace (self)
ANDY BUNN: Missy, Where’s Your Shoes/Hickory (self)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Blackbird/single (Compass)
JD CROWE & RICKY WASSON: Holding Things Together/Crowe & Wasson (Truegrass)
JD CROWE & RICKY WASSON: Love and Wealth/Crowe & Wasson (Truegrass)
THE TRUFFLE VALLEY BOYS: Airwaves Of Zion/Looking For An Old Fashioned Church (Tenbrooks)
THE TRUFFLE VALLEY BOYS: Looking For An Old Fashioned Church/Looking For An Old Fashioned Church (Tenbrooks)
TAMMY ROGERS & THOMM JUTZ: On Your Own/Surely Will Be Singing (Mountain Fever/21)
LAURA ORSHAW (featuring TREY HENSLEY): On Her Own/Solitary Diamond (Dark Shadow)
THEO & BRENNA: Be My Baby/single (Mountain Fever)
SETH MULDAR & MIDNIGHT RUN: My, My, My/single (Mountain Fever)
ALVEY/CIACCIO/EVANS/JACKSON/KILIANSKI: Hannahmarriah/Tune Hash Vol. 1&2: Smothered and Covered (self)
ANDY LEFTWICH: Kimper County/single (Mountain Home)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What's Going On? - April 16, 2022
host: Allegra Thompson
KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Foggy Mountain Top/Stringworks (Mountain Home/16)
MISSY RAINES: Swept Away/Royal Traveller (Compass/18)
TIM O’BRIEN: Early Morning Rain/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
KATHY KALLICK (with CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS): Little Moses/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Pharaoh’s Daughter/Skippin’ and Flyin’ (Spruce and Maple/11)
WINDY HILL: Pretty Bird/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self/q17)
SELDOM SCENE: California Cottonfields/Long Time … (Smithsonian-Folkways/14)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND: New Dusty Miller/Black Sheep (Frog Pad/15)
JAKE BLOUNT: The Man Was Burning/single (Free Dirt/22)
ALLISON DEGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Each Season Changes You/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
ANNIE STANINEC: Willow On the Lake/Annie Staninec (self/15)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: You’ll Get No More Of Me/The Hazel & Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/16)
SCROGGINS & ROSE: Anxiety Jig/Curios (self/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - April 23, 2022
host: Sully Roddy
RICK FARRIS: I’m Asking You Today/The Next Mountain (Dark Shadow/21)
CHRIS JONES AND THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Riding the Chief/Make Each Second Count (Mountain Home/21)
AMANDA COOK: Lonesome Leaving Train/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever/21)
SCOTT VESTAL & FRIENDS: EMD/Bluegrass 2022 (Pinecastle/22)
TAJ MAHAL & RY COODER: Hooray Hooray/Get On Board (Nonesuch/22)
RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Chicken/Hard Times (Flying Fish/81)
DAVID HOLT: Ain’t No Bugs On Me/I Got a Bullfrog (High Windy Audio/94)
DOC WATSON: Nashville Blues/Doc Watson (Vanguard/05)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: San Francisco Blues/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
AMAZING RHYTHM ACES: I Pity the Mother and the Father (When the Kids Move Away)/Amazing Rhythm Aces Ride Again Vol. 1 (self/94)
TIM AND MOLLIE O’BRIEN: Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea/Away Out On The Mountain (Sugar Hill/94)
BRAD KOLODNER: Ants in the Honey Jar/Chimney Swifts (Fenchurch/21)
AJ LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: Put Your Head Down/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
DOYLE LAWSON AND QUICKSILVER: A Little More Faith In Jesus/Roundtable (Billy Blue/21)
RALPH STANLEY & JOE ISAACS: Jonah And the Whale/Gospel Gathering (Freeland/95)
STAPLE SINGERS: Jacob’s Ladder/Freedom Highway (Epic/65)
TONY RICE: Hold Whatcha Got/Manzanita (Rounder/79)
KODY NORRIS SHOW: Brand New Hit In Nashville/All Suited Up (Rebel/21)
TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Don’t Get Around Much Anymore/One-Ring Circus (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - April 30, 2022
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On - May 7, 2022
host: PT
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Lively Times: Live at the Anza Club (self/21)
- Highlander’s Farewell>Monroe’s Farewell to Long Hollow
- Too Much Water
- Long Hot Summer Day
THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Never Slow Down (Smithsonian-Folkways/22)
- Blues Are Close at Hand
- Where Grass Won’t Grow
- Woke Up With Tears in My Eyes
CHRIS BRASHEAR & PETER McLAUGHLIN: St. Anne’s Reel>Fisher’s Hornpipe/Live at the Tucson Folk Festival (2022)
CALEB KALUDER-REEB WILLMS COUNTRY BAND: Innocent Road/ArtLab Sessions (2021)
AMY & HAILEY: What About You?/Sidekick Sessions (self/22)
KATHY KALLICK (with LAURIE LEWIS & SUZY THOMPSON): What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
DAVE BERRY: Mussel Rock/Morning Walk (self/22)
MISSION BLUE: Your Lone Journey/Live (2020)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Tear My Stillhouse Down/Live at WinterWonderGrass (Paste Studio/22)
SKILLET LICORICE (with THOMPSONIA): Babe/BOTMC Spring Situation (2021)
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Lonesome Ace Stringband -
- May 10: The Back Room, Berkeley
- May 11: Otter Opry - United Methodist Church, Monterey
The Po' Ramblin' Boys -
- May 12: Miners Foundry Cultural Center, Nevada City
- May 13: Moe's Alley, Sant Cruz; AJ Lee & Blue Summit opens
- May 14: The Wayfarer, Costa Mesa; Moonsville Collective opens
- May 15: Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Festival - Paramount Ranch, near Agoura Hills
Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin with Paul Knight -
- May 11: Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- May 12: HopMonk Tavern, Sepastapol
- May 13: house concert Napa
- May 14: house concert in Marshall
- May 15 (4:30 pm): Chochmat HaLev, Berkeley
Caleb Klauder-Reed Willms Country Band -
- May 11: Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- May 12: Moe’s Alley, Santa Cruz
- May 14: Deep End Sessions, Santa Paula
- May 15 (4:30 pm): Chochmat HaLev, Berkeley
Kathy Kallick, Laurie Lewis, Suzy Thompson -
- May 24: Ray Fest: honoring Ray Edlund - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley - with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick; Thompsonia; High Country; The Road Oilers; High Water Line; North Country Blue
Dave Berry -
- May 13 (9 am): Lucy Smith & Dave Berry - Bernal Pop-Up Bakery @ Charlie’s Cafe, 3202 Folsom St. @Precita Park, SF
Mission Blue -
- May 21: Back Room, Berkeley
- June 3: Smiley’s Saloon, Bolinas
- June 4: HopDogma Brewing Company, Half Moon Bay
- Wednesdays (6 pm): Dana Frankel - Coast Cafe, Bolinas
AJ Lee & Blue Summit -
- May 12: Dying Breed Brewing, Oakdale
- May 13: Moe's Alley, Sant Cruz; opening for The Po' Ramblin’ Boys
- May 14: McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica
- May 15: Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Festival - Paramount Ranch, near Agoura Hills
- May 20: Castoro Cellars, Templeton; with The Coffis Brothers
- May 21: Winstons Beach Club, San Diego
- May 26: Strawberry Music Festival, Grass Valley
- May 27: Ruhstaller Farm, Dixon
- May 28: Ember Stomp (wildfire prevention festival) - Marin Civic Center, San Rafael
Skillet Licorice & Friends -
- Tuesdays (5 pm): The Page, SF
- June 11: square dance at RiverTunes JAMboree - Ruhstaller Farm, Dixon; with Rowan McCallister; Robin Fisher calling
- June 15: Amado's, SF
Thompsonia -
- May 24: Ray Fest: honoring Ray Edlund - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley - see above
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Remembering Roland - May 14, 2022
theme -
JERRY GARCIA: intro/Livin' In The Past (Briar/65) > KENTUCKY COLONELS: Bill Cheatham/Long Journey Home (Vanguard/64)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Appalachian Swing (World Pacific/64)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: If You're Ever Gonna Love Me/Livin' In The Past (Briar/65)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: Brakeman's Blues/Long Journey Home (Vanguard/64)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Walls of Time/1959-1969 (Bear Family/68)
LESTER FLATT & NASHVILLE GRASS: I’ll Be Over You/Kentucky Ridgerunner (RCA/72)
THE NEW KENTUCKY COLONELS: You Won't Be Satisfied That Way/Live In Sweden (RWM/73)
COUNTRY GAZETTE: Blue Blue Day/Live (Transatlantic/75)
COUNTRY GAZETTE: Still Feeling Blue/Out To Lunch (Flying Fish/76)
ROLAND WHITE: I'm Head Over Heels In Love With You/I Wasn't Born To Rock 'n Roll (Ridge Runner/76)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES: Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/84)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Weary Blues From Waitin’/The Boys Are Back In Town (Sugar Hill/90)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Doorstep Of Trouble/Live In Munich (1991)
ROLAND WHITE & FRIENDS: Soldier’s Joy>Ragtime Annie/A Tribute To the Kentucky Colonels (Mountain Home/18)
KENTUCKY COLONELS REUNION: Pike County Breakdown/Live at the CBA’s Father’s Day Festival (2015)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: She’s Gone, Gone, Gone/Live at McCabe’s (2013)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: Roland’s Rag/Jelly On My Tofu (Copper Creek/03)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Dynamic Duos - May 21, 2022
host: Leah Wollenberg
DEL McCOURY & DAVID GRISMAN: Dark Hollow/Del and Dawg Live (Acoustic Disc/16)
MIKE BARNETT featuring STASH WYSLOUCH: Fire in the Hole/+1 (Compass/21)
LAURIE LEWIS featuring KATHY KALLICK: Old Friend/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple/20)
PAPER WINGS: Woods and Fields/Clementine (self/19)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Seven Year Blues/Stay Awhile (Rounder/95)
JAKE BLOUNT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: We’re Gonna Hunt the Buffalo/Reparations (self/17)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: James Alley Blues/Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
ERIC THOMPSON featuring SUZY THOMPSON: Crapaud/Kleptograss (self/10)
MONROE BROTHERS: All the Good Times are Past and Gone/Complete RCA Victor Bluebird Recordings, Vol. 3 (37)
REEB WILLMS & CALEB KLAUDER: Can I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister?/Oh Do You Remember (self/14)
KATHY KALLICK featuring TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Sittin' On Top of the World/What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
TOM ROZUM & LAURIE LEWIS: Millionaire/Live in Cedar Rapids (self/late ‘90s)
BILL MONROE & DOC WATSON: Where is My Sailor Boy? (aka What Does the Deep Sea Say?)/Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian Folkways/63)
JULIAN LAGE & CHRIS ELDRIDGE: Greener Grass/Mount Royal (Free Dirt/17)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: I’m Comin’ Back But I Don’t Know When/Blake and Rice (Rounder/87)
SKILLET LICORICE: Dora Dean/Allsorts Orchestra (self/21)
ALVEY/CIACCIO/EVANS/JACKSON/KILIANSKI: Polecat Blues/Tune Hash Vol. 1&2: Smothered and Covered (self/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - May 28, 2022
Host: Sully Roddy
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: That Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore/Roundtable (Billy Blue Records/21)
RANDY NEWMAN: Dixie Flyer/Land of Dreams (Reprise/88)
ROY ACUFF: Wabash Cannon Ball/The Essential Roy Acuff (1936-1949) (Columbia Legacy/92)
AMANDA COOK: Get on Board/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever/21)
NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright/Dirt Does Dylan (NGDB/22)
EMMYLOU HARRIS: If I Could Only Win Your Love/Profile, Best of Emmylou Harris (Warner Brothers/78)
JIM & JESSE: She Left Me Standing On the Mountain/Bluegrass and More (Bear Family/94)
EVERLY BROTHERS: When Will I Be Loved/Heartaches and Harmonies (Rhino/1994)
JOHNNY GIMBLE: Lime Rock/Texas Fiddle Collection (CMH/1981)
SETH MULDER AND MIDNIGHT RUN: My, My, My/single (Mountain Fever/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Grass Valley/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
HAZEL DICKENS AND ALICE GERRARD: Won’t You Come and Sing for Me/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/1996)
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA: Didn’t It Rain/I Brought Him With Me (House of Blues/1995)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Goodnight the Lord’s Coming/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
CEDAR HILL: Number One At the Bottom/New Chapter (Mountain Fever/21)
HANK THOMPSON & HIS BRAZOS VALLEY BOYS: Number One On the Hurt Parade/Pathway Of My Life (Bear Family Records/13)
CHIP TAYLOR: 101 In Cashbox: Last Chance (Gadfly Records/73)
MASON VIA: Gettin' Gone/Gettin' Gone (Mountain Fever/22)
SCOTT VESTAL & BLUEGRASS 2022: EMD (Pinecastle/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Gearin’ Up For Grass Valley, part 1 - June 4, 2022
NOTE: all musicians scheduled to perform at the CBA’s 2022 FDF
PETER ROWAN: Six White Horses + Let the Church Roll On + See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (aka One Kind Favor)/Live at WinterWondergrass (Paste Studio/20) >
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND: The Song That Made Hank Williams Dance/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
DOM FLEMONS: Long Journey Home/Dustbowl Revival & Jam (The Van's Sway-At-Home Fest/20)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Jerusalem Ridge/Live On DittyTV (self/18)
PLAID STRANGERS: Goodbye Girls/Old Time Tiki Parlour (self/19)
THE ONLIES: Lonesome Pine Special/Live at the Deep End Sessions (self/19)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Katie Bar the Door//Live at the Deep End Sessions (self/18)
DELLA MAE: The Way It Was Before/Live at WinterWondergrass (Paste Studio/20)
THE ROSE VALLEY THORNS: Big Spike Hammer/Live (2018)
JEE-HEE & JESSE: Better Days/demo (self/21)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Faithful/Live at WinterWondergrass (Paste Studio/20)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Movin' the Gouda/Live (self/21)
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Pick Me Up on Your Way Down/Live (self/21)
BIRCHES BEND: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go/Live at The Giddings Horse Ranch (self/21)
WHO’S FEELING YOUNG NOW: New Camptown Races/SF Free Folk Festival (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Gearing Up For Grass Valley, part 2 - June 11, 2022
KATHY KALLICK: The Wild Side Of Life > It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Blackbird/single (Compass/22)
THE GOAT HILL GIRLS: Rooster Bill/Live (self/19)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Long Gone/single rough mix (Spruce and Maple/22)
SKILLET LICORICE: 3-in-1 2-Step/Allsorts Orchestra (self/21)
BLUE & LONESOME: Nobody's Love Is Like Mine/A Tiny Taste Of Blue & Lonesome (self/16)
THE BETTY JACKS: The One You Slip Around With/demo (self/22)
SOLID GOLD STRANGER: Me & You/demo (self/22)
MISS LEO & HER BLUEGRASS BOYS: Still Searching/All I Need (self/21)
MULESKINNER STOMP: You I Adore/demo (self/22)
Info about the GoFundMe Campaign for Danny Paisley
DANNY PAISLEY with RYAN PAISLEY & TJ LUNDY: Longing For A Love I’ll Never Know/Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line (Dust-to-Digital/15)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Cabin On a Mountain/Road Into Town (Patuxent/12)
THE BASEMENT BAND (James King, Danny Paisley, Bobby Lundy, TJ Lundy, Michael Paisley, Jon Glick): Does It Have To End This Way?/Radio Series - Volume Two (Wango/98)
THE BASEMENT BAND (James King, Danny Paisley, Bobby Lundy, TJ Lundy, Michael Paisley, Jon Glick): No Mother Or Dad/Radio Series - Volume Two (Wango/98)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (June Membership Campaign) - June 18, 2022
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KATHY KALLICK BAND (featuring GREG BOOTH): Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
OLD & IN THE WAY: I Ain’t Broke But I’m Badly Bent/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/10-1-73)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: When I Get the Money Made/When I Get the Money Made (self/17)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: There’s Better Times A-Comin’/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/65)
KELSEY WALDON: They'll Never Keep Us Down/They'll Never Keep Us Down (self/20)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES: Cash On the Barrelhead/Snakes Alive (Rounder/83)
VALERIE SMITH & LIBERTY PIKE: Bluegrass Dollars/Small Town Heroes (Bell Buckle/16)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Rockin' Chair Money/Twenty Year Blues (Sugar Hill/04)
THE SPINNEY BROTHERS: One Day Late/Memories (Mountain Fever/12)
JEANETTE WILLIAMS (with GEORGE JONES): Thank You For Caring/Thank You For Caring (Blue Circle/08)
HOT RIZE: Hard Pressed/1986-03-15 Winfield, KS (Acoustic Disc/86)
KATHY KALLICK (and LAURIE LEWIS): Count Your Blessings/Count Your Blessings (Live Oak/90)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Seventeen Cents/Stay Awhile (Rounder/95)
THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Get Off Your Money/Get Off Your Money (Yodel-Ay-Hee/08)
LARRY SPARKS & HIS LONESOME RAMBLERS: Long Journey Home/Ramblin’ Bluegrass (Starday/72)
KATHY KALLICK BAND (featuring GREG BOOTH): Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - June 25, 2022
host: Sully Roddy
ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY: Biscuits and Gravy/The Country Blues (Compass/16)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Big Backyard/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
JEREMY GARRETT: Travel Light/Circles (Organic/19)
AMANDA COOK: Get On Board/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever/22)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Riding the Chief/Make Each Second Last (Mountain Home/21)
JOHN REISCHMAN: The Coyote Trail/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus/21)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: A Little More Faith in Jesus/Roundtable (New Day/21)
RICK FARIS: See You On the Other Side/The Next Mountain (Dark Shadow/21)
ANDREW CRAWFORD: The Lonesome Season/The Lonesome Season (Bonfire/21)
SIDELINE: I’ll Always Be a Gypsy/Ups, Downs, and No Name Towns (Mountain Home/21)
LAURA ORSHAW: I Can’t Settle Down/Solitary Diamond (Dark Shadow/22)
SIERRA HULL: In the Middle of the Woods/25 Trips (Rounder/20)
JAELEE ROBERTS: All My Tears/single (Euphony Records/19)
TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Seneca Square Dance/One Ring Circus (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Do the Radio Boogie - June 27 - July 3, 2022 (Bluegrass Country only)
PT presents the second (of two) specials for the June Membership Campaign, this time with all the music taken from the 6-CD box set, The Early Days Of Bluegrass (Rounder, 1946-1958).
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MARVIN COBB, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE CHAIN MOUNTAIN BOYS: New Camptown Races
L.C. SMITH, RALPH MAYO & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN BOYS: Radio Boogie
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Little Glass Of Wine
ESTIL STEWART & THE FLAT MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Could Love You All the Time
LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Don't Forget Me
THE BAILEY BROTHERS & THE HAPPY VALLEY BOYS: Have You Forgotten
DAVE WOOLUM & HIS KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS (featuring NOAH CRASE): Noah's Breakdown
JIM EANES & THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY BOYS: Long Journey Home
CONNIE & BABE & THE BACKWOODS BOYS: Home Is Where the Heart Is
BILL CLIFTON: Just Another Broken Heart
SHANNON GRAYSON: If You Don't Love Your Neighbor
STONEY COOPER & WILMA LEE: Wicked Path of Sin
RED ALLEN: Preaching, Praying, Singing
RED ALLEN: Paul & Silas
BUSTER PACK & HIS LONESOME PINE BOYS: Better Late Than Never
BILL CLIFTON: You Don't Think About Me (When I'm Gone)
PHEBEL WRIGHT: Lint Head Stomp
Jan. 1: "New" Songs For A New Year
host: PT
MARK SCHATZ: New Year's Song/Brand New Old Tyme Way (Rounder/95)
NEVER COME DOWN: New Year’s Day Blues/Better Late Than Never (self/21)
WIL MARING: Things Will Be Better Next Year/An Ocean From Home (Bear Family/98)
JUNIOR SISK & JOE MULLINS: Brand New Shoes/Hall Of Fame (Rebel/13)
TREVOR & TRAVIS STUART: New Five Cents/Mountaineer (self/05)
LARRY SPARKS: Brand New Broken Heart/Ramblin’ Bluegrass (Starday/72)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: New Mule Skinner Blues/Castle Studio, 1950-1951 (RWA/51)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: New White House Blues/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: New Lost Train Blues/String Band Instrumentals (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
THE STRANGE CREEK SINGERS: New River Train/Strange Creek Singers (Arhoolie/72)
JIM & JESSE: When the Wagon Was New/The Old Dominion Masters (Pinecastle/76)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: New Patches/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
THE ROADOILERS: New Money/The Roadoilers (self/07)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Brand New Tennessee Waltz/1971-1973 (Rebel/72)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: Brand New Hit In Nashville/All Suited Up (Rebel/21)
FLOYD TILLMAN: Go Out and Find Somebody New/The Columbia & RCA Years (Columbia/46)
ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION: New Fool/Every Time You Say Goodbye (Rounder/91)
IVAN ROSENBERG: New Year's Waltz/The Littlest Dobro (Slosh Tone/16)
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Jan. 8: (Hell On) Church Street (Blues)
host: LW
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hold Whatcha Got/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Sally Goodin/J.D. Crowe & the New South aka 0044 (Rounder/75)
TONY RICE: Fare Thee Well/Cold on the Shoulder (Rounder/84)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Orphan Annie/Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch/22)
TONY RICE: Orphan Annie/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
TONY RICE: Cattle in the Cane/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Cattle in the Cane/Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: She’ll Change/single (Nonesuch/21)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/The Bluegrass Album Band (Rounder/81)
TONY RICE: Any Old Time/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Any Old Time/Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch/22)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Faithful/I’ll Come Back (self/21)
EVIE LADIN: Precious Days/Float Downstream (Evil Diane/10)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Church Street Blues/Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch/22)
TONY RICE: Church Street Blues/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ocean of Diamonds/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
TONY RICE: Eighth of January/Tony Rice (Rounder/77)
TONY RICE: Farewell Blues/Tony Rice (Rounder/77)
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Jan. 15: Crow On the Banjo
host: PT
theme -
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Crow On the Banjo/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/66)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hit Parade Of Love/Hit Parade Of Love (Music Mill/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ocean Of Diamonds/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Bear Tracks/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Somehow Tonight/Ramblin' Boy (Lemco/69)
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Little Girl In Tennessee/Live at the Red Slipper Inn, Lexington, KY (11-22-68)
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Talk It All Over With Him/The Model Church (Lemco/70)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: You Can Have Her/Bluegrass Evolution (Starday/73)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Old Home Place/JD Crowe & The New South aka 0044 (Rounder/75)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Dark Hollow/Live In Japan (Towa/75)
THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/Bluegrass Album Band (Rounder/80)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Blue Eyes Cryin’ In the Rain/Live In Japan (Rounder/79)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Born To Be With You > Old Joe Clark/Live at Crowe Fest, Wilmore, KY (2004)
JD CROWE: interview with Jim Mills/Live at the Banjo Showroom (2014)
JD CROWE: solo banjo/Live on Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour (2006)
JD CROWE: interview with Michael Johnathon/Live on Woodsongs OTRH (2006)
JD CROWE, DOYLE LAWSON, & PAUL WILLIAMS: Prayers Bells of Heaven/Live at IBMA Fan Fest (2010)
TRIBUTE TO JD CROWE: Blackjack/IBMA Awards Show (2020)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Crow On the Banjo (aka Bugle Call Rag)/Live In Japan (Towa/75)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Jimmy Martin, J.D.Crowe, Paul Williams, Lightnin Chance, Chubby Wise or Gordon Terry
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS (1968): JD Crowe, Red Allen, Doyle Lawson, Bobby Slone
THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS (1969-70): JD Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Larry Rice, Bobby Slone
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH (1973): JD, Tony Rice, Larry Rice, Hal Rugg, Pig Robbins, et al
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH (1975): JD, Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Bobby Slone
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH (1979): JD, Keith Whitley, Jimmy Gaudreau, Bobby Slone, Steve Bryant
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH (2005): JD, Rickey Wasson, Dwight McCall, Ron Stewart, Harold Nixon
THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: JD Crowe, Tony Rice, Doyle Lawson, Bobby Hicks, Todd Phillips
TRIBUTE TO JD CROWE: Kristin Scott Benson, Ned Luberecki, Gena Britt, Scott Vestal, Gina Furtado (IBMA 2020 Banjo Player of the Year Nominees)
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Jan. 22: Bye Felicia
host: Allegra Thompson
BILL MONROE: I’m Sitting On Top of the World/Best of Bill Monroe (Decca/57)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: I Don’t Care Anymore/Selected Cuts (Columbia/58)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Just Because/The King Years '61-'65 (King/63)
RENO & SMILEY: There’s Another Baby Waiting ForMe Down The Line/The Very Best of (King/52)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: When I Loved You/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: You’ll Get No More Of Me/The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce & Maple/16)
PAPER WINGS: Winter Storm/Paper Wings (self/17)
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER: My Better Years/Deep End Sessions Vol. II (Deep End Sessions/15)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Who Done It?/The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen (Rounder/77)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: How Many Times/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce & Maple/14)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: What Was I Supposed To Do?/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/82)
RICHARD BRANDENBURG: That Ain’t Gonna Happen Anymore/Flickering Dreams (Pine Pitch/10)
EMILY MILLER & VAL MINDEL: Lover’s Return/In the Valley (Yodel-ay-hee/06)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: You’re Running Wild/ 20 All Time Greatest Hits (Capitol/56)
KITTY WELLS: Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On?/Makin’ Believe (Decca/55)
HOOT AND HOLLER: Too Many Reasons To Run/Reasons To Run (self/17)
WINDY HILL: Love You Miss You Bye/Lonesome Garbage Man (self/13)
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Jan. 29: All Kinds Of Country
host: SR
BILLY STRINGS: Red Daisy/Renewal (Rounder/21)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Pretty Little Girl/Sunny Side of the Mountain (self/16)
DAVID HOLT Sail Away Ladies/I Got a Bullfrog (self/05)
TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Seneca Square Dance/One-Ring Circus (self/21)
MIMI & RICHARD FARINA: Pack Up Your Sorrows/Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard/65)
CHRIS JONES AND THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Silver City/Make Each Second Last (Mountain Home/20)
TIM AND MOLLIE O’BRIEN: Wichita/Away Out On the Mountain (Sugar Hill/91)
A.J. LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: Back to Bluegrass/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
BILL MONROE: Little Cabin Home on the Hill/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/48)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down/1948-1959 (Bear Family/57)
RICK FARIS: Moonshine Song/The Next Mountain (Dark Shadow/21)
COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN: Hot Rod Lincoln/Too Much Fun (MCA/72)
BILLER AND WAKEFIELD: Martian Guts/The Hot Guitars of Biller and Wakefield (Hightone/99)
RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Milwaukee Blues/Merchants Lunch (Flying Fish/77)
JOEL MABUS: Doc’sology/Omnibus (Fossil/08)
DOC WATSON: Doc’s Guitar/Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
SIERRA FERRELL: The Sea/Long Time Coming (Rounder/21)
SIERRA HULL: In the Middle of the Woods/25 Trips (Rounder/20)
MERLE MONROE: Harlan Darlin’/Songs of a Simple Life (Pinecastle/21)
AMANDA COOK: Lonesome Leaving Train/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever/21)
DAISY CAIRE: La Murcura/Chasin’ After the Wind (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Favorites of 2021 - Feb. 5, 2022
NOTE: all releases in 2021.
theme -
SKILLET LICORICE: 3-in-1 Two-Step/Allsorts Orchestra (Tiki Parlor)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: The Hills Of Mexico/Lively Times: Live at the Anza Club (self)
JOHN REISCHMAN: The Old Steeple/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: On Account Of You/Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno (Free Dirt)
RHIANNON GIDDENS (with FRANCESCO TURRISI): Waterbound/They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
ANYA HINKLE (with GRAHAM SHARP): What's It Gonna Take/Eden & Her Borderlands (Organic)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: After While/Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At The Welcome Table/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
JEREMY STEPHENS: Could I Knock on Your Door/How I Hear It (Rebel)
DEANIE RICHARDSON: Walking In My Sleep/Circle Up (Engelhardt)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Messenger/Turn Your Radio On: Music Recorded Live at KALW, 1999-2019 (Bluegrass Signal)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Readin’, Rightin’, Route 23/Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy (Smithsonian-Folkways)
ALEX LEACH BAND: The Turntable/I'm the Happiest When I'm Moving (Mountain Home)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Born To Be With You/+1 (Compass)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks: West Coast Report - Feb. 12, 2022
NOTE: all releases in 2022.
PAUL SHELASKY: A Retrospective - Studio & Live Recordings From 1980 - 2016 (self)
- GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Devil’s Dream/Mason’s Apron (live)
- FOG CITY RAMBLERS: Grigsby’s Hornpipe
- PAUL SHELASKY: Fire On the Mountain
LAURIE LEWIS: Freight 98 (Spruce & Maple)
- Blue Days, Sleepless Nights
- Love Is a Lonely Street
- Girlfriend, Guard Your Heart
NICK HORNBUCKLE & ANNIE STANINEC: Twin Sisters (forthcoming on Ruby’s Slipper Records)
- Ducks On the Millpond
- Nine Degrees
- Twin Sisters
-MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Crooked Tree (forthcoming on Nonesuch)
- She’ll Change
- Crooked Tree
- Grass Valley (live)
THE DONE GONE BAND: The Done Gone Band (Police/79)
- The Boys Are Back
- Idaho Sands
- Quiet Grave
TUT TAYLOR & DON HUMPHRIES: Flat Pickin’ Dobro Man/The Walnut Valley Spring Thing (Takoma/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks: Mostly Singles - Feb. 19, 2022
NOTE: all releases in 2022, all advance singles from forthcoming albums (some of which remain untitled).
LAURA ORSHAW: Hank/single (Dark Shadow)
PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: The Blues Are Close At Hand/Never Slow Down (Smithsonian-Folkways)
JIM HURST: Back To the One/single (Pinecastle)
DALE ANN BRADLEY & DANNY PAISLEY: One By One/single (Pinecastle)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Once Again/Almost Proud (McCoury Music)
JUNIOR SISK: Patches On My Heart/single (Mountain Fever)
JUNIOR SISK: I Wanna Be Where You Are/single (Mountain Fever)
MIKE COMPTON: Trail Of Tears/Rare & Fine - Uncommon Tunes of Bill Monroe (Taterbug)
ALISON DeGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: The Banks of the Miramichi/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt)
MR. SUN: Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long, Long Way)/Extrovert (Compass)
KENNY & AMANDA SMITH: Everything To Me/single (self)
ALEX LEACH BAND: Up To You/single (Mountain Home)
TINA ADAIR: Tell Me Baby Why You Been Gone So Long/single (Engelhardt)
THE NO JOKE JIMMY'S: Be Proud Of the Gray In Your Hair/single (self)
MR. SUN: Breaker’s Bakedown/Extrovert (Compass)
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Feb. 21-27: Favorites of 2021 – part 1 (Winter Membership Campaign special)
DAVID THOM BAND: I’ve Never Been So Lonesome/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: On & On/The Gasoline Brothers (Acoustic Disc/76)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: On Account Of You/Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno (Free Dirt)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: The Hills Of Mexico/Lively Times: Live at the Anza Club (self)
RHIANNON GIDDENS (with FRANCESCO TURRISI): Waterbound/They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
ANYA HINKLE (with GRAHAM SHARP): What's It Gonna Take/Eden & Her Borderlands (Organic)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: After While/Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At The Welcome Table/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Messenger/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
EARL SCRUGGS TRIBUTE QUARTET: Foggy Mountain Special/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
DEANIE RICHARDSON: Walking In My Sleep/Circle Up (Engelhardt)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Readin’, Rightin’, Route 23/Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy (Smithsonian-Folkways)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Roll On Buddy/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
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Feb. 28 - March 6: Favorites of 2021 – part 2 (Winter Membership Campaign special)
JEREMY STEPHENS: Could I Knock on Your Door/How I Hear It (Rebel)
THOMPSONIA: Very Bad Mood/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
STAIRWELL SISTERS: Boats Up the River/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
JOHN REISCHMAN: The Old Steeple/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Born To Be With You/+1 (Compass)
ALEX LEACH BAND: The Turntable/I'm The Happiest When I'm Moving (Mountain Home)
JUNIOR SISK: I Wanna Be Where You Are/single (Mountain Fever)
BLUE & LONESOME: Foggy Mountain Top/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
MATT DUDMAN: One Short Year/POA (Pleasant Valley)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Put All Your Troubles Away/Put All Your Troubles Away (self)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: jd plays clyde davenport plays an unnamed dee hicks tune/the aluminum wonder (self)
J.D. CROWE & RICKY WASSON: Have You Come To Say Goodbye/Crowe & Wasson (Truegrass)
SKILLET LICORICE: Babe/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - Feb. 26, 2022
host: Sully Roddy
Bill Monroe: It’s Mighty Dark to Travel/The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys 1945-1949 (Sony/46)
The Dillards: Ebo Walker/Home Coming & Family Reunion (Flying Fish/79)
David Holt: Who Broke the Lock/I Got a Bullfrog (High Windy Audio/05)
Spider John Koerner: Sail Away Ladies/ Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Been (Red House/86)
Billy Strings: Red Daisy/Renewal (Rounder/21)
Andrew Crawford: Lonesome Season/Lonesome Season (Bonfire/21)
Nashville Bluegrass Band: Blue Train /Home of the Blues (Sugar Hill/91)
The Tuttles With AJ Lee: Wayside, Back in Time (Back Studio/10)
David Grisman: Waiting On Vassar/DGQ-20 (Acoustic Disc/76)
Stringbean: Run Little Rabbit Run/Front Porch Funnies (King/59)
The Wildmans: Garfield Blackberry Blossom/The Wildmans (Travianna/20)
Old Crow Medicine Show: Tennessee Bound/Remedy (ATO/14)
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder: Going Back to Old Kentucky/Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass (Skaggs Family Records/08)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Last Kind Words Blues/Raise the Roof (Rounder/21)
Doc Watson: Sitting On Top Of The World/Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
The Stanley Brothers: Rank Strangers/The Best of the Best of the Stanley Brothers (Gusto/60)
Brad Kolodner: Ants in the Honey Jar/Chimney Swifts (Fenchurch/21)
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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)
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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: <[email protected]>
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)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin' On - April 2, 2022
host: Leah Wollenberg
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been a Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Locust Grove/Stringworks (Mountain Home/16)
KATHY KALLICK (with ANNIE STANINEC): Handsome Molly/What are They Doing in Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Crooked Tree/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Each Season Changes You/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: A Few Old Memories/Over the Line (Patuxent/19)
CHRIS THILE & MICHAEL DAVES: Mississippi Waltz/Sleep With One Eye Open (Nonesuch/11)
JAKE BLOUNT: Brown Skin Baby/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
RON STEWART: Riding the Saranac/Time Stands Still (Rounder/01)
THE SELDOM SCENE: Steel Rail Blues/Changes Rounder/19)
AOIFE O’DONOVAN: Prodigal Daughter/Age of Apathy (Yep Roc/22)
SARAH JAROSZ: Little Satchel/World on the Ground (Rounder/20)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Monroe Bridge/Monroe Bridge (self/20
MIKO MARKS & THE RESURRECTORS: Foggy Mountain Top/Race Records (Redtone/21)
MISSY RAINES: Nashville Rag/My Place In the Sun (self/98)
NICK HORNBUCKLE & ANNIE STANINEC: Twin Sisters/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper/forthcoming)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - April 9, 2022
host: PT
All releases in 2022, except as noted.
ALVEY/CIACCIO/EVANS/JACKSON/KILIANSKI: The Cannon Ball /Tune Hash Vol. 1&2: Smothered and Covered (self)
ALVEY/CIACCIO/EVANS/JACKSON/KILIANSKI: Rabbit in the Pea Patch/Tune Hash Vol. 1&2: Smothered and Covered (self)
KATHY KALLICK (with TRISTAN SCROGGINS): Sittin’ On Top Of the World/What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? (Live Oak)
ANYA HINKLE: Nightingale (соловейко)/Bootleg for Peace (self)
ANDY BUNN: Missy, Where’s Your Shoes/Hickory (self)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Blackbird/single (Compass)
JD CROWE & RICKY WASSON: Holding Things Together/Crowe & Wasson (Truegrass)
JD CROWE & RICKY WASSON: Love and Wealth/Crowe & Wasson (Truegrass)
THE TRUFFLE VALLEY BOYS: Airwaves Of Zion/Looking For An Old Fashioned Church (Tenbrooks)
THE TRUFFLE VALLEY BOYS: Looking For An Old Fashioned Church/Looking For An Old Fashioned Church (Tenbrooks)
TAMMY ROGERS & THOMM JUTZ: On Your Own/Surely Will Be Singing (Mountain Fever/21)
LAURA ORSHAW (featuring TREY HENSLEY): On Her Own/Solitary Diamond (Dark Shadow)
THEO & BRENNA: Be My Baby/single (Mountain Fever)
SETH MULDAR & MIDNIGHT RUN: My, My, My/single (Mountain Fever)
ALVEY/CIACCIO/EVANS/JACKSON/KILIANSKI: Hannahmarriah/Tune Hash Vol. 1&2: Smothered and Covered (self)
ANDY LEFTWICH: Kimper County/single (Mountain Home)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What's Going On? - April 16, 2022
host: Allegra Thompson
KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Foggy Mountain Top/Stringworks (Mountain Home/16)
MISSY RAINES: Swept Away/Royal Traveller (Compass/18)
TIM O’BRIEN: Early Morning Rain/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
KATHY KALLICK (with CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS): Little Moses/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Pharaoh’s Daughter/Skippin’ and Flyin’ (Spruce and Maple/11)
WINDY HILL: Pretty Bird/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self/q17)
SELDOM SCENE: California Cottonfields/Long Time … (Smithsonian-Folkways/14)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND: New Dusty Miller/Black Sheep (Frog Pad/15)
JAKE BLOUNT: The Man Was Burning/single (Free Dirt/22)
ALLISON DEGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Each Season Changes You/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
ANNIE STANINEC: Willow On the Lake/Annie Staninec (self/15)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: You’ll Get No More Of Me/The Hazel & Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/16)
SCROGGINS & ROSE: Anxiety Jig/Curios (self/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - April 23, 2022
host: Sully Roddy
RICK FARRIS: I’m Asking You Today/The Next Mountain (Dark Shadow/21)
CHRIS JONES AND THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Riding the Chief/Make Each Second Count (Mountain Home/21)
AMANDA COOK: Lonesome Leaving Train/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever/21)
SCOTT VESTAL & FRIENDS: EMD/Bluegrass 2022 (Pinecastle/22)
TAJ MAHAL & RY COODER: Hooray Hooray/Get On Board (Nonesuch/22)
RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Chicken/Hard Times (Flying Fish/81)
DAVID HOLT: Ain’t No Bugs On Me/I Got a Bullfrog (High Windy Audio/94)
DOC WATSON: Nashville Blues/Doc Watson (Vanguard/05)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: San Francisco Blues/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
AMAZING RHYTHM ACES: I Pity the Mother and the Father (When the Kids Move Away)/Amazing Rhythm Aces Ride Again Vol. 1 (self/94)
TIM AND MOLLIE O’BRIEN: Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea/Away Out On The Mountain (Sugar Hill/94)
BRAD KOLODNER: Ants in the Honey Jar/Chimney Swifts (Fenchurch/21)
AJ LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: Put Your Head Down/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
DOYLE LAWSON AND QUICKSILVER: A Little More Faith In Jesus/Roundtable (Billy Blue/21)
RALPH STANLEY & JOE ISAACS: Jonah And the Whale/Gospel Gathering (Freeland/95)
STAPLE SINGERS: Jacob’s Ladder/Freedom Highway (Epic/65)
TONY RICE: Hold Whatcha Got/Manzanita (Rounder/79)
KODY NORRIS SHOW: Brand New Hit In Nashville/All Suited Up (Rebel/21)
TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Don’t Get Around Much Anymore/One-Ring Circus (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - April 30, 2022
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On - May 7, 2022
host: PT
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Lively Times: Live at the Anza Club (self/21)
- Highlander’s Farewell>Monroe’s Farewell to Long Hollow
- Too Much Water
- Long Hot Summer Day
THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Never Slow Down (Smithsonian-Folkways/22)
- Blues Are Close at Hand
- Where Grass Won’t Grow
- Woke Up With Tears in My Eyes
CHRIS BRASHEAR & PETER McLAUGHLIN: St. Anne’s Reel>Fisher’s Hornpipe/Live at the Tucson Folk Festival (2022)
CALEB KALUDER-REEB WILLMS COUNTRY BAND: Innocent Road/ArtLab Sessions (2021)
AMY & HAILEY: What About You?/Sidekick Sessions (self/22)
KATHY KALLICK (with LAURIE LEWIS & SUZY THOMPSON): What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
DAVE BERRY: Mussel Rock/Morning Walk (self/22)
MISSION BLUE: Your Lone Journey/Live (2020)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Tear My Stillhouse Down/Live at WinterWonderGrass (Paste Studio/22)
SKILLET LICORICE (with THOMPSONIA): Babe/BOTMC Spring Situation (2021)
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Lonesome Ace Stringband -
- May 10: The Back Room, Berkeley
- May 11: Otter Opry - United Methodist Church, Monterey
The Po' Ramblin' Boys -
- May 12: Miners Foundry Cultural Center, Nevada City
- May 13: Moe's Alley, Sant Cruz; AJ Lee & Blue Summit opens
- May 14: The Wayfarer, Costa Mesa; Moonsville Collective opens
- May 15: Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Festival - Paramount Ranch, near Agoura Hills
Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin with Paul Knight -
- May 11: Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- May 12: HopMonk Tavern, Sepastapol
- May 13: house concert Napa
- May 14: house concert in Marshall
- May 15 (4:30 pm): Chochmat HaLev, Berkeley
Caleb Klauder-Reed Willms Country Band -
- May 11: Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- May 12: Moe’s Alley, Santa Cruz
- May 14: Deep End Sessions, Santa Paula
- May 15 (4:30 pm): Chochmat HaLev, Berkeley
Kathy Kallick, Laurie Lewis, Suzy Thompson -
- May 24: Ray Fest: honoring Ray Edlund - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley - with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick; Thompsonia; High Country; The Road Oilers; High Water Line; North Country Blue
Dave Berry -
- May 13 (9 am): Lucy Smith & Dave Berry - Bernal Pop-Up Bakery @ Charlie’s Cafe, 3202 Folsom St. @Precita Park, SF
Mission Blue -
- May 21: Back Room, Berkeley
- June 3: Smiley’s Saloon, Bolinas
- June 4: HopDogma Brewing Company, Half Moon Bay
- Wednesdays (6 pm): Dana Frankel - Coast Cafe, Bolinas
AJ Lee & Blue Summit -
- May 12: Dying Breed Brewing, Oakdale
- May 13: Moe's Alley, Sant Cruz; opening for The Po' Ramblin’ Boys
- May 14: McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica
- May 15: Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Festival - Paramount Ranch, near Agoura Hills
- May 20: Castoro Cellars, Templeton; with The Coffis Brothers
- May 21: Winstons Beach Club, San Diego
- May 26: Strawberry Music Festival, Grass Valley
- May 27: Ruhstaller Farm, Dixon
- May 28: Ember Stomp (wildfire prevention festival) - Marin Civic Center, San Rafael
Skillet Licorice & Friends -
- Tuesdays (5 pm): The Page, SF
- June 11: square dance at RiverTunes JAMboree - Ruhstaller Farm, Dixon; with Rowan McCallister; Robin Fisher calling
- June 15: Amado's, SF
Thompsonia -
- May 24: Ray Fest: honoring Ray Edlund - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley - see above
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Remembering Roland - May 14, 2022
theme -
JERRY GARCIA: intro/Livin' In The Past (Briar/65) > KENTUCKY COLONELS: Bill Cheatham/Long Journey Home (Vanguard/64)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Appalachian Swing (World Pacific/64)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: If You're Ever Gonna Love Me/Livin' In The Past (Briar/65)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: Brakeman's Blues/Long Journey Home (Vanguard/64)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Walls of Time/1959-1969 (Bear Family/68)
LESTER FLATT & NASHVILLE GRASS: I’ll Be Over You/Kentucky Ridgerunner (RCA/72)
THE NEW KENTUCKY COLONELS: You Won't Be Satisfied That Way/Live In Sweden (RWM/73)
COUNTRY GAZETTE: Blue Blue Day/Live (Transatlantic/75)
COUNTRY GAZETTE: Still Feeling Blue/Out To Lunch (Flying Fish/76)
ROLAND WHITE: I'm Head Over Heels In Love With You/I Wasn't Born To Rock 'n Roll (Ridge Runner/76)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES: Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/84)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Weary Blues From Waitin’/The Boys Are Back In Town (Sugar Hill/90)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Doorstep Of Trouble/Live In Munich (1991)
ROLAND WHITE & FRIENDS: Soldier’s Joy>Ragtime Annie/A Tribute To the Kentucky Colonels (Mountain Home/18)
KENTUCKY COLONELS REUNION: Pike County Breakdown/Live at the CBA’s Father’s Day Festival (2015)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: She’s Gone, Gone, Gone/Live at McCabe’s (2013)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: Roland’s Rag/Jelly On My Tofu (Copper Creek/03)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Dynamic Duos - May 21, 2022
host: Leah Wollenberg
DEL McCOURY & DAVID GRISMAN: Dark Hollow/Del and Dawg Live (Acoustic Disc/16)
MIKE BARNETT featuring STASH WYSLOUCH: Fire in the Hole/+1 (Compass/21)
LAURIE LEWIS featuring KATHY KALLICK: Old Friend/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple/20)
PAPER WINGS: Woods and Fields/Clementine (self/19)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Seven Year Blues/Stay Awhile (Rounder/95)
JAKE BLOUNT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: We’re Gonna Hunt the Buffalo/Reparations (self/17)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: James Alley Blues/Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
ERIC THOMPSON featuring SUZY THOMPSON: Crapaud/Kleptograss (self/10)
MONROE BROTHERS: All the Good Times are Past and Gone/Complete RCA Victor Bluebird Recordings, Vol. 3 (37)
REEB WILLMS & CALEB KLAUDER: Can I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister?/Oh Do You Remember (self/14)
KATHY KALLICK featuring TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Sittin' On Top of the World/What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
TOM ROZUM & LAURIE LEWIS: Millionaire/Live in Cedar Rapids (self/late ‘90s)
BILL MONROE & DOC WATSON: Where is My Sailor Boy? (aka What Does the Deep Sea Say?)/Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian Folkways/63)
JULIAN LAGE & CHRIS ELDRIDGE: Greener Grass/Mount Royal (Free Dirt/17)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: I’m Comin’ Back But I Don’t Know When/Blake and Rice (Rounder/87)
SKILLET LICORICE: Dora Dean/Allsorts Orchestra (self/21)
ALVEY/CIACCIO/EVANS/JACKSON/KILIANSKI: Polecat Blues/Tune Hash Vol. 1&2: Smothered and Covered (self/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - May 28, 2022
Host: Sully Roddy
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: That Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore/Roundtable (Billy Blue Records/21)
RANDY NEWMAN: Dixie Flyer/Land of Dreams (Reprise/88)
ROY ACUFF: Wabash Cannon Ball/The Essential Roy Acuff (1936-1949) (Columbia Legacy/92)
AMANDA COOK: Get on Board/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever/21)
NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright/Dirt Does Dylan (NGDB/22)
EMMYLOU HARRIS: If I Could Only Win Your Love/Profile, Best of Emmylou Harris (Warner Brothers/78)
JIM & JESSE: She Left Me Standing On the Mountain/Bluegrass and More (Bear Family/94)
EVERLY BROTHERS: When Will I Be Loved/Heartaches and Harmonies (Rhino/1994)
JOHNNY GIMBLE: Lime Rock/Texas Fiddle Collection (CMH/1981)
SETH MULDER AND MIDNIGHT RUN: My, My, My/single (Mountain Fever/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Grass Valley/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
HAZEL DICKENS AND ALICE GERRARD: Won’t You Come and Sing for Me/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/1996)
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA: Didn’t It Rain/I Brought Him With Me (House of Blues/1995)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Goodnight the Lord’s Coming/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
CEDAR HILL: Number One At the Bottom/New Chapter (Mountain Fever/21)
HANK THOMPSON & HIS BRAZOS VALLEY BOYS: Number One On the Hurt Parade/Pathway Of My Life (Bear Family Records/13)
CHIP TAYLOR: 101 In Cashbox: Last Chance (Gadfly Records/73)
MASON VIA: Gettin' Gone/Gettin' Gone (Mountain Fever/22)
SCOTT VESTAL & BLUEGRASS 2022: EMD (Pinecastle/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Gearin’ Up For Grass Valley, part 1 - June 4, 2022
NOTE: all musicians scheduled to perform at the CBA’s 2022 FDF
PETER ROWAN: Six White Horses + Let the Church Roll On + See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (aka One Kind Favor)/Live at WinterWondergrass (Paste Studio/20) >
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND: The Song That Made Hank Williams Dance/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
DOM FLEMONS: Long Journey Home/Dustbowl Revival & Jam (The Van's Sway-At-Home Fest/20)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Jerusalem Ridge/Live On DittyTV (self/18)
PLAID STRANGERS: Goodbye Girls/Old Time Tiki Parlour (self/19)
THE ONLIES: Lonesome Pine Special/Live at the Deep End Sessions (self/19)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Katie Bar the Door//Live at the Deep End Sessions (self/18)
DELLA MAE: The Way It Was Before/Live at WinterWondergrass (Paste Studio/20)
THE ROSE VALLEY THORNS: Big Spike Hammer/Live (2018)
JEE-HEE & JESSE: Better Days/demo (self/21)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Faithful/Live at WinterWondergrass (Paste Studio/20)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Movin' the Gouda/Live (self/21)
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Pick Me Up on Your Way Down/Live (self/21)
BIRCHES BEND: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go/Live at The Giddings Horse Ranch (self/21)
WHO’S FEELING YOUNG NOW: New Camptown Races/SF Free Folk Festival (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Gearing Up For Grass Valley, part 2 - June 11, 2022
KATHY KALLICK: The Wild Side Of Life > It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Blackbird/single (Compass/22)
THE GOAT HILL GIRLS: Rooster Bill/Live (self/19)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Long Gone/single rough mix (Spruce and Maple/22)
SKILLET LICORICE: 3-in-1 2-Step/Allsorts Orchestra (self/21)
BLUE & LONESOME: Nobody's Love Is Like Mine/A Tiny Taste Of Blue & Lonesome (self/16)
THE BETTY JACKS: The One You Slip Around With/demo (self/22)
SOLID GOLD STRANGER: Me & You/demo (self/22)
MISS LEO & HER BLUEGRASS BOYS: Still Searching/All I Need (self/21)
MULESKINNER STOMP: You I Adore/demo (self/22)
Info about the GoFundMe Campaign for Danny Paisley
DANNY PAISLEY with RYAN PAISLEY & TJ LUNDY: Longing For A Love I’ll Never Know/Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line (Dust-to-Digital/15)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Cabin On a Mountain/Road Into Town (Patuxent/12)
THE BASEMENT BAND (James King, Danny Paisley, Bobby Lundy, TJ Lundy, Michael Paisley, Jon Glick): Does It Have To End This Way?/Radio Series - Volume Two (Wango/98)
THE BASEMENT BAND (James King, Danny Paisley, Bobby Lundy, TJ Lundy, Michael Paisley, Jon Glick): No Mother Or Dad/Radio Series - Volume Two (Wango/98)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (June Membership Campaign) - June 18, 2022
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KATHY KALLICK BAND (featuring GREG BOOTH): Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
OLD & IN THE WAY: I Ain’t Broke But I’m Badly Bent/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/10-1-73)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: When I Get the Money Made/When I Get the Money Made (self/17)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: There’s Better Times A-Comin’/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/65)
KELSEY WALDON: They'll Never Keep Us Down/They'll Never Keep Us Down (self/20)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES: Cash On the Barrelhead/Snakes Alive (Rounder/83)
VALERIE SMITH & LIBERTY PIKE: Bluegrass Dollars/Small Town Heroes (Bell Buckle/16)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Rockin' Chair Money/Twenty Year Blues (Sugar Hill/04)
THE SPINNEY BROTHERS: One Day Late/Memories (Mountain Fever/12)
JEANETTE WILLIAMS (with GEORGE JONES): Thank You For Caring/Thank You For Caring (Blue Circle/08)
HOT RIZE: Hard Pressed/1986-03-15 Winfield, KS (Acoustic Disc/86)
KATHY KALLICK (and LAURIE LEWIS): Count Your Blessings/Count Your Blessings (Live Oak/90)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Seventeen Cents/Stay Awhile (Rounder/95)
THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Get Off Your Money/Get Off Your Money (Yodel-Ay-Hee/08)
LARRY SPARKS & HIS LONESOME RAMBLERS: Long Journey Home/Ramblin’ Bluegrass (Starday/72)
KATHY KALLICK BAND (featuring GREG BOOTH): Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - June 25, 2022
host: Sully Roddy
ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY: Biscuits and Gravy/The Country Blues (Compass/16)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Big Backyard/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
JEREMY GARRETT: Travel Light/Circles (Organic/19)
AMANDA COOK: Get On Board/Narrowing the Gap (Mountain Fever/22)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Riding the Chief/Make Each Second Last (Mountain Home/21)
JOHN REISCHMAN: The Coyote Trail/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus/21)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: A Little More Faith in Jesus/Roundtable (New Day/21)
RICK FARIS: See You On the Other Side/The Next Mountain (Dark Shadow/21)
ANDREW CRAWFORD: The Lonesome Season/The Lonesome Season (Bonfire/21)
SIDELINE: I’ll Always Be a Gypsy/Ups, Downs, and No Name Towns (Mountain Home/21)
LAURA ORSHAW: I Can’t Settle Down/Solitary Diamond (Dark Shadow/22)
SIERRA HULL: In the Middle of the Woods/25 Trips (Rounder/20)
JAELEE ROBERTS: All My Tears/single (Euphony Records/19)
TRISTAN SCROGGINS: Seneca Square Dance/One Ring Circus (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Do the Radio Boogie - June 27 - July 3, 2022 (Bluegrass Country only)
PT presents the second (of two) specials for the June Membership Campaign, this time with all the music taken from the 6-CD box set, The Early Days Of Bluegrass (Rounder, 1946-1958).
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MARVIN COBB, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE CHAIN MOUNTAIN BOYS: New Camptown Races
L.C. SMITH, RALPH MAYO & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN BOYS: Radio Boogie
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Little Glass Of Wine
ESTIL STEWART & THE FLAT MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Could Love You All the Time
LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Don't Forget Me
THE BAILEY BROTHERS & THE HAPPY VALLEY BOYS: Have You Forgotten
DAVE WOOLUM & HIS KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS (featuring NOAH CRASE): Noah's Breakdown
JIM EANES & THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY BOYS: Long Journey Home
CONNIE & BABE & THE BACKWOODS BOYS: Home Is Where the Heart Is
BILL CLIFTON: Just Another Broken Heart
SHANNON GRAYSON: If You Don't Love Your Neighbor
STONEY COOPER & WILMA LEE: Wicked Path of Sin
RED ALLEN: Preaching, Praying, Singing
RED ALLEN: Paul & Silas
BUSTER PACK & HIS LONESOME PINE BOYS: Better Late Than Never
BILL CLIFTON: You Don't Think About Me (When I'm Gone)
PHEBEL WRIGHT: Lint Head Stomp