BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bay Area Releases In the ‘90s - Jan. 7, 2023
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JOHN REISCHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Big Bug/North Of the Border (Corvus/93)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Part Of A Story/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/95)
KATHY KALLICK: Red Shirt/Matters Of the Heart (Sugar Hill/93)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: True Life Blues/True Life Blues - The Songs Of Bill Monroe (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS & GRANT STREET: When The Cactus Is In Bloom/Singin' My Troubles Away (Flying Fish/90)
TOM ROZUM: Don't Fix Up the Doghouse/Jubilee (Signature Sounds/98)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Our Town (Rounder/93)
TONY RICE: Rock Hearts/Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/90)
SCOTT NYGAARD: Evening Shade/Dreamer’s Waltz (Rounder/96)
SALLY VAN METER: Blues For Your Own/All In Good TIme (Sugar Hill/91)
HIGH COUNTRY: Saturday Matinee/The Earthquake (Strictly Country/98)
PETER ROWAN: Let The Harvest Go To Seed/Bluegrass Boy (Sugar Hill/96)
VERN & DELBERT WILLIAMS BAND: I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair/Live At Grass Valley (Wolf Mountain Music/93)
RICH WILBUR: Dark Shadows Of Night/In the City (Sophronie/93)
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SANDY ROTHMAN & STEVE POTTIER: Denver Belle/Bluegrass Guitar Duets (Tone Bar/91)
CROOKED JADES: Going to the Races/Going to the Races (Crooked Music/98)
ALL GIRL BOYS: Going To See My Baby/Heart's Desire (Wilder Shore/94)
ROANOKE: Cabin On a Mountain/Thoughts Of Home (Iris Cool/96)
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SIDESADDLE: Get Up John, Callin’ In the Cows/Daylight Train (Turquoise/91)
DAVID GRISMAN, MIKE SEEGER, JOHN HARTFORD: Hound Dawg/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/99)
CALIFORNIA CAJUN ORCHESTRA: Sugar Bee/Not Lonesome Anymore (Arhoolie/91)
BILL EVANS: Native and Fine/Native and Fine (Rounder/95)
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70 releases in the 1990s by Bay Area bluegrass and old time musicians:
JOHN REISCHMAN: Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
JOHN REISCHMAN: North Of the Border (Corvus/93)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/95)
TODD PHILIPS: In the Pines (Gourd Music/95)
KATHY KALLICK: Matters Of the Heart (Sugar Hill/93)
KATHY KALLICK: Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
KATHY KALLICK: What Do You Dream About? (Kaleidoscope/91)
KATHY KALLICK: Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom) (Sugar Hill/94)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Walkin' In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Together (Kaleidoscope/91)
LAURIE LEWIS & GRANT STREET: Singin' My Troubles Away (Flying Fish/90)
LAURIE LEWIS: True Stories (Rounder/93)
LAURIE LEWIS: Seeing Things (Rounder/98)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Oak & the Laurel (Rounder/95)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: Winter's Grace (Signature Sounds/99)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee (Signature Sounds/98)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Our Town (Rounder/93)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Blue Lightning (Rounder/91)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Stay Awhile (Rounder/95)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Heart Songs - The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips (Rounder/97)
JODY STECHER: Oh The Wind And Rain - Eleven Ballads (Appleseed/97)
SCOTT NYGAARD: Dreamer’s Waltz (Rounder/96)
SCOTT NYGAARD: No Hurry (Rounder/90)
SALLY VAN METER: All In Good TIme (Sugar Hill/91)
HIGH COUNTRY: The Earthquake (Strictly Country/98)
HIGH COUNTRY: Sunset On the Prairie (Turquoise/90)
BUTCH WALLER: Golden Gate Promenade (Rebel/99)
PETER ROWAN: Bluegrass Boy (Sugar Hill/96)
PETER ROWAN: The First Whippoorwill (Sugar Hill/90)
PETER ROWAN: Dust Bowl Children (Sugar Hill/90)
PETER ROWAN: The Walls Of Time (Sugar Hill/91)
PETER ROWAN: All On a Rising Day (Sugar Hill/91)
PETER ROWAN: Awake Me In the New World (Sugar Hill/93)
THE ROWAN BROTHERS: Tree On a Hill (Sugar Hill/94)
PETER ROWAN & JERRY DOUGLAS: Yonder (Sugar Hill/96)
RICH WILBUR: In the City (Sophronie/93)
SANDY ROTHMAN & STEVE POTTIER: Bluegrass Guitar Duets (Tone Bar/91)
SANDY ROTHMAN: The Old Road to Home (Tone Bar/93)
CROOKED JADES: Going to the Races (Crooked Music/98)
ALL GIRL BOYS: Heart's Desire (Wilder Shore/94)
ROANOKE: Thoughts Of Home (Iris Cool/96)
SIDESADDLE: Daylight Train (Turquoise/91)
SIDESADDLE: Sing Your Praises (Turquoise/93)
SIDESADDLE: California Hills (Faultline99)
DAVID GRISMAN, MIKE SEEGER, JOHN HARTFORD: Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/99)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Dawg '90 (Acoustic Disc/90)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Dawgwood (Acoustic Disc/93)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Dawganova (Acoustic Disc/95)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: DGQ-20 (Acoustic Disc/96)
DAVID GRISMAN & JERRY GARCIA: Jerry Garcia - David Grisman (Acoustic Disc/91
DAVID GRISMAN & JERRY GARCIA: Not for Kids Only (Acoustic Disc/93)
DAVID GRISMAN & JERRY GARCIA: Shady Grove (Acoustic Disc/96)
DAVID GRISMAN & JERRY GARCIA: So What (Acoustic Disc/98)
DAVID GRISMAN & ANDY STATMAN: Songs of Our Fathers (Acoustic Disc/95)
DAVID GRISMAN & DOC WATSON: Doc & Dawg (Acoustic Disc/97)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: Tone Poems (Acoustic Disc/94)
DAVID GRISMAN & MARTIN TAYLOR: Tone Poems 2 (Acoustic Disc/95)
DAVID GRISMAN & VARIOUS ARTISTS: Bluegrass Reunion (Acoustic Disc/92)
DAVID GRISMAN & VARIOUS ARTISTS: Common Chord (Acoustic Disc/93)
DAVID GRISMAN & VARIOUS ARTISTS: Dawg Duos (Acoustic Disc/99)
CALIFORNIA CAJUN ORCHESTRA: Not Lonesome Anymore (Arhoolie/91)
CALIFORNIA CAJUN ORCHESTRA: Nonc Adam Two-Step (Arhoolie/91)
BILL EVANS: Native and Fine (Rounder/95)
MEGAN B. LYNCH: It’s About Time (self/96)
LONE PRAIRIE: Desert Flower (self/96)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: True Life Blues - The Songs Of Bill Monroe (Sugar Hill/96)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/90)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Live At Grass Valley (Wolf Mountain Music/93)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What They Are Doing - Jan. 14, 2023
NOTE: Contains an interview with Kathy Kallick between musical segments.
NOTE: All songs from KATHY KALLICK & FRIENDS + DODI KALLICK: What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22), except as noted.
KATHY KALLICK (with MOLLY TUTTLE): Put My Little Shoes Away
KATHY KALLICK (with LAURIE LEWIS & SUZY THOMPSON): What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
DODI KALLICK: What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
DODI KALLICK: Row Us Over the Tide
KATHY KALLICK (with JODY STECHER, KATE BRISLIN, & AMY STENBERG): Row Us Over the Tide/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/02)
KATHY KALLICK (with JIM HURST): Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
KATHY KALLICK (with THE KATHY KALLICK BAND): Footprints In The Snow
DODI KALLICK (with the Old Town School Of Folk Music audience): My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
KATHY KALLICK (with THE KATHY KALLICK BIG BAND): The Wild Side Of Life > It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
DODI KALLICK: I'm A Long Time Traveling
KATHY KALLICK (with ANNIE STANINEC): Handsome Molly
DODI KALLICK: The Parting Glass
KATHY KALLICK (with MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY): Farther Along
KATHY KALLICK (with TRISTAN SCROGGINS): Sittin' On Top of the World
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ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/16)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Cascade Blues/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
DODI KALLICK: Red Clay Country
KATHY KALLICK (with CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS): Little Moses
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, Tom Rozum! - Jan. 21, 2023
Producer/host: Allegra Thompson
GEOFF STELLING’S HARD TIMES BLUEGRASS BAND: Blue Night/Hard Driving! (Stelling Banjo Works/78)
LAURIE LEWIS: Down To Tampa/One Evening In May (Spruce & Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: River Under The Road/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee/Jubilee (Dog-Boy/98)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: Hot Buttered Rum/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
TOM ROZUM: Without My Walking Stick/Jubilee (Dog-Boy/98)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Just A Lie/LIVE (Spruce & Maple/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: If We Make It Through December/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
TOM ROZUM: Walk Downtown/Jubilee (Dog-Boy/98)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: The Rope/LIVE (Spruce & Maple/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Going To The West/LIVE (Spruce & Maple/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
calendar & musical previews -
SKILLET LICORICE: Adeline Waltz/Allsorts Orchestra (Old Time Tiki Parlour/21)
SKILLET LICORICE: 3-in-1 Two Step/Allsorts Orchestra (Old Time Tiki Parlour/21)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: Cool Water/Silver Jubilee (Acoustic Disc/03)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Between the Wars/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Ride Away/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
DESTINIE LYNN: Once, Twice/Little Ghost (self/22)
JOE NEWBERRY & APRIL VERCH: Baby I’m Blue/Going Home (Slab Town/17)
HAWKTAIL: The Tobogganist/Formations (Paddidle/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Grammy Nominees - Jan. 28, 2023
Producer/host: Sully Roddy
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: Hard Line/Toward the Fray (Americana Vibes/22)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: Pearl of Carolina/Toward the Fray (Americana Vibes/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Crooked Tree/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Big Backyard/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
THE DEL MCCOURY BAND: Almost Proud/Almost Proud (McCoury Music/22)
THE DEL MCCOURY BAND (feat. Vince Gill): Honky Tonk Nights/Almost Proud (McCoury Music/22)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND: Up This Hill/Get Yourself Outside (Frog Pad/22)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND: Into the Fire/Get Yourself Outside (Frog Pad/22)
PETER ROWAN: From My Mountain (Calling You)/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
PETER ROWAN: The Song that Made Hank Williams Dance/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
OLIVIA JO: Mighty Mississippi/single (self/23)
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL: Proud Mary/single (Fantasy/68)
MARTY STUART: Paint the Town Tonight/Tempted (MCA/91)
ALBERT LEE: Country Boy/Hiding (A&M/79)
TIM STAFFORD AND THOMM JUTZ: The Vaudeville Blues/Lost Voices (Mountain Fever/23)
BILL MONROE AND HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: Bluegrass Breakdown/The Essential Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys (Columbia/47)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Memorial Celebration of Dix Bruce – Feb. 4, 2023
Host: Leah Wollenberg
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Reuben’s Train/Brothers at Heart (FGM/03)
DIX BRUCE & JULIE CLINE: I Am A Pilgrim/Look at it Rain (Musix/12)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: That’s the Way Things Are/The Way Things Are (Musix/99)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Mike’s Marathon/Brothers at Heart (FGM/03)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: That’s the Way Things Are/The Way Things Are (Musix/99)
DIX BRUCE: Tuxedo Blues/Tuxedo Blues (Musix/98)
VIOLIN JAZZ: Eddie’s Blues/The Music of Eddie South (Dorian Solo Luminus/10)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: How Can You Treat Me So?/From Fathers to Sons (Musix/95)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Foggy Mountain Special/From Fathers to Sons (Musix/95)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Dark Hollow/Brothers at Heart (FGM/03)
DIX BRUCE & JULIE CLINE: Fair and Tender Ladies/Look at it Rain (Musix/12)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: When I Die/The Way Things Are (Musix/99)
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HAWKTAIL: Annbjørg/Formations (Padiddle/20)
musical previews -
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Nothin’ So Bad (It Can’t Get Worse)/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND DUO: All Night Long/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/17)
JOE NEWBERRY & APRIL VERCH: Christmas Eve/On This Christmas Day (Slab Town/21)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: The Little Carpenter/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/19)
HAWKTAIL: Updraft/Place of Growth (Paddidle/22)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (self/21)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Baba, Black Sheep/The Thing of Dreams (self/22)
DOM FLEMONS: Tyin’ Knots In the Devil’s Tail/Black Cowboy (Smithsonian-Folkways/15)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: Blue Shadows on the Trail/Salute Roy Rogers: King of the Cowboys (Riders Radio Records/15)
DESTINIE LYNNE: Another Station/single (self/22)
DIX BRUCE: Richard Royal the Baker/Tuxedo Blues (Musix/98)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On? - Feb. 11, 2023
RAY BIERL: If I Should Wander Back Tonight/Solo Ray: Easy Street (self/19)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: We're Burning Moonlight/40 Years the Cowboy Way (Riders Radio Records/18)
STILLHOUSE JUNKIES: Colorado Bound/Small Towns (Dark Shadow/22)
HEAD FOR THE HILLS: Nothing But the Blues/Live at The Agave Room, Ft. Collins, CO (2022)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: There’s A Bright Side Somewhere/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/18)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Fort Smith/Live at McCabe’s (5-13-18)
JOE NEWBERRY & APRIL VERCH: I Can’t Sit Down/Going Home (Slab Town/17)
NEWBERRY & VERCH: Medley (Back Up & Push, Carleton County Breakdown, John Brown’s Dream, Angus Campbell)/Live At Celtic Colours Festival, Cape Breton (self/16)
KATHY KALLICK & FRIENDS (incl. JOE NEWBERRY): I'm Not Your Honey Baby Now/Live at Augusta Heritage Center, Elkins, WV (Bluegrass Week 2016)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Dark As the Night, Blue As the Day/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
LAURIE LEWIS: Carter’s Blues/Skippin’ & Flyin’ (Spruce & Maple/11)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: On the Line/live (self/21)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Faithful/Live at WinterWonderGrass (Paste Studios/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY (with JERRY DOUGLAS): Over the Line/Live at DelFest (Paste Studios/22)
HAWKTAIL: Antilopen/Place of Growth (Padiddle/22)
AUTUMN NICHOLAS: Not Gonna Do This Anymore/World Cafe (WXPN/22)
DESTINIE LYNN: Your Street/Little Ghost EP (self/22)
SERAFIA: Austin Nights/single (self/22)
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HAWKTAIL: Big Sun/Place of Growth (Padiddle/22)
SUZY & ERIC THOMPSON: Lake Arthur Stomp/They All Played for Us (Arhoolie/13)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND: Brown Eyed Rabbit/Live at KALW (2017)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Song for My Mother/The Thing of Dreams (self/22)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: Happy Trails/The Cowboy Way (MCA/87)
FEATURED CONCERTS
Feb. 26: Ray Bierl - The Back Room, Berkeley
Feb. 15: Riders In the Sky - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley*
Feb. 11: Head for the Hills; Stillhouse Junkies - The Back Room, Berkeley
Molsky's Mountain Drifters -
- Feb. 16: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley*
- Feb. 17 3 pm workshops, 7 pm concert): Clendenen Barn Concerts, Healdsburg
- Feb. 18: house concert in Santa Cruz
Newberry & Verch -
- Feb. 14: house concert in Chico
- Feb. 15: Miners Foundry Cultural Center, Nevada City
- Feb. 16: Cloverdale Arts Alliance
- Feb. 17: The Sebastopol Community Center (double bill with the Kathy Kallick Band)
- Feb. 18: The Strum Shop, Roseville
- Feb. 19: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (double bill with the Kathy Kallick Band)*
- Feb. 22: house concert in Mountain View
- Feb. 26: Crazy J Ranch, Topanga
Kathy Kallick Band -
- Feb. 17: The Sebastopol Community Center (double bill with Joe Newberry & April Verch)
- Feb. 18: The Otter Opry, Monterey
- Feb. 19: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (double bill with Joe Newberry & April Verch)*
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Vivian Leva & Riley Calgano -
- March 3: The Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- March 4: Center for the Arts, Grass Valley
AJ Lee & Blue Summit -
- Feb. 24: Almost Famous Wine, Livermore
- Feb. 25: Sierra Meadows, Ahwahnee
- March 31: Winter Wondergrass, Palisades Tahoe
- April 14: Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz
- April 15: Sweetwater, Mill Valley
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway -
- March 30: Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace, Bakersfield
- March 31: Winter Wondergrass, Palisades Tahoe
- April 1: Guild Theatre, Menlo Park
- June: Father’s Day Festival, Grass Valley
Hawktail -
- Feb. 16: Little Saint, Healdsburg
- Feb. 17: Felton Music Hall
- Feb. 18: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley*
- Feb. 19: Hopmonk Novato
- Feb. 21: The Old Steeple, Ferndale
Feb. 17: Black Opry Revue - with Serafia, Destinie Lynn, Autumn Nicholas, and Deidra Hall - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley*
Feb. 21: "Fat Tuesday" Mardi Gras Party with Aux Cajunals plus Billy, Willie, & Lloyd from Motordude Zydeco - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
March 18: Eric & Suzy Thompson, Mitch Greenhill & Mitch's Kitchen - The Back Room, Berkeley
Feb. 25 (and every 4th Sat.) (2 pm): Beasrcat Stringband - Cato's Ale House, Oakland
Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band -
- Feb. 17 (5 pm): HopDogma Brewing Co., Half Moon Bay
- Feb. 18: The Side Door, Sacramento
- Feb. 28: Sweetwater, Mill Valley; opening for Henhouse Prowlers
*KALW Presents … Freight & Salvage Acoustic Roots & Branches series
2/15 - Riders In the Sky
2/16 - Molsky's Mountain Drifters
2/17 - Black Opry Revue with Serafia, Destinie Lynn, Autumn Nicholas, and Deidra Hall
2/18 - Kathy Kallick Band; April Verch & Joe Newberry
2/19 - Hawktail
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Songs of Murphy Hicks Henry – and Remembering Dix Bruce On the Radio - Feb. 18, 2023
Highlights from When My Momma Sang To Me - Songs of Murphy Hicks Henry (Arrandem/22)
RHONDA VINCENT: I Ain't Domesticated Yet
NANCY HICKS PATE: When My Momma Sang to Me
ALICE GERRARD: Save Me a Square On the Floor
LIZZY LONG: Riding Around on Saturday Night
KATHY KALLICK: M & M Blues
NANCY HICKS PATE: Fried Chicken
MURPHY HICKS HENRY: Grandpa, Rock On
THE HICKS SISTERS: Grandmother's Song
ARGEN HICKS: Brand New Gospel Song
THE PRICE SISTERS: Just Remember Where You Could Be
AJ LEE: In the Shenandoah Valley Long Ago
VICKIE VAUGHN: The Band Played On
KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Miss Nora's Blues
GINA FURTADO: Pall Mall Reds
THE PRICE SISTERS: Darling Daughter
GINA FURTADO: Hazel Creek
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DIX BRUCE & JULIE CLINE: Live at KALW (4-28-12)
Little Birdie
Just Someone I Used To Know
Darlin’ Will You Ever Think Of Me
Banks Of the Ohio
Making Believe
DIX BRUCE, MIKE WOLLENBERG & BARRY SOLOMON: Live at KALW (7-20-19)
Faded Love
Salt Creek (with calendar)
Hey Good Lookin’
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - New Releases - Feb. 25, 2023
host: Sully Roddy
TIM RAYBON BAND: Can’t Get Away From this Broken Heart/single (Pinecastle/23)
AUTHENTIC UNLIMITED: Long Gone/Authentic Unlimited (Billy Blue/22)
AARON BURDETT: The Mountains You Carry/single (Organic/22)
STILLHOUSE JUNKIES: Colorado Bound/Small Towns (Dark Shadow/22)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Sunny Days (Are Comin’ Once Again)/Lovin’ of the Game (Compass/23)
ANDY LEFTWICH: Big Mon/The American Fiddler (Mountain Home/22)
BILLY STRINGS: Dig a Little Deeper in the Well/Me And Dad (Rounder/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Sidesaddle (feat. Gillian Welch)/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
IRENE KELLEY: Come Some Winter Morning (feat. The Kruger Brothers/Snow White Memories (IRK/23)
AJ LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: Lemons and Tangerines/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
JASON CARTER: The Likes of Me/Lowdown Hoedown (Fiddleman/22)
PETER ROWAN: Come Along Jody/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
OLIVIA JO: Mighty Mississippi/Single (self/23)
CHRIS JONES AND THE NIGHT DRIVERS: The Price of Falling/Single (Mountain Home/23)
CORY WALKER: Far Away Again (featuring Tim O’Brien)/School Project (Mountain Fever/23)
DAN TYMINSKI: Where the Soul of Man Never Dies (feat. Billy Strings)/One More Time Before You Go: A Tribute to Tony Rice (North Star/22)
ROB ICKES AND TREY HENSLEY: Louisiana Woman/Living in a Song (Compass/23)
ALLISON DE GROOT AND TATIANA HARGREAVES: Dead and Gone (Hen Cackle)/ Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt Records/22)
PHOEBE HUNT AND THE GATHERERS: Good Blood/Neither One Of Us Is Wrong (Popcorn!/2021)
THE RILEY FAMILY BAND: Perrodin 2 Step/La Vie De Riley (Valcour/22)
SHANNON SLAUGHTER: Alberta Clipper/Ridin’ Through the Country (Elite Circuit/22)
TIM STAFFORD AND THOMM JUTZ: Take That Shot/Lost Voices (Mountain Fever/23)
STEVEN MOORE: O’Connell Street/Just a Little Talk With Myself (Tiger Spa/22)
JOE MULLINS AND THE RADIO RAMBLERS: I’ve Been Down That Road/Single (Billy Blue/22)
AUSTIN LOUNGE LIZARDS: Old Blevins/Small Minds (Watermelon/1995)
RUTH WYAND: Po’ Boy/Guitar Routes (Momojo/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Festival - March 4, 2023
LARRY SPARKS: Sweetheart/It’s Just Me (Rebel)
SWEET SALLY: Live at KALW
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BLUE & LONESOME: Billy In The Lowground/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e'Neff Said/12)
BLUE & LONESOME: Salt River, High Country/Some Old Day (e'Neff Said/10)
OL' FRIENDS: Live At KALW
BLUE & LONESOME: Twilight/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - March 11, 2023
NOTE: all releases in 2022 or 2023, except as noted.
JASON CARTER: Highway 52/Lowdown Hoedown (Fiddleman)
BECKY ISAACS BOWMAN: I’ll Meet You In the Morning/Songs That Pulled Me Through the Tough Times (self)
JASON BARIE: Keep A Memory/Radioactive (Billy Blue)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: I’d Rather Be Alone/A Tribute To Flatt & Scruggs (Americana Vibes)
ZOE & CLOYD: We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart/single (Mountain Home)
ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY: Way Downtown/Living In a Song (Compass)
DOM FLEMONS & SHULTZ’S DREAM: Shultz’s Dream (IBMA Foundation/PineCone)
SAMI BRAMAN: Honeycutt/Riveter (Padiddle)
CASEY PENN: We Go Together Like a Guitar and a Fiddle/One Step Away (Mountain Fever)
LARRY SPARKS: You’ve Gotta Move/New Highway (Remastered) (Mountain Home/98>23)
DANNY PAISLEY & SOUTHERN GRASS (featuring SAGE PAISER): What Crosses Your Mind/single (Pinecastle)
PRAIRIE WILDFIRE: Heart You Couldn’t Hold/single (Turnberry)
SAM BUSH: In Tall Buildings/Radio John (Smithsonian-Folkways)
DOM FLEMONS (featuring SAM BUSH): Guess I'm Doing Fine/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
NORA BROWN: Bertie Mae's Chilly Winds/Long Time To Be Gone (Jalopy)
NORA BROWN: Little Satchel/Long Time To Be Gone (Jalopy)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: Possum Up a Gum Stump/While You Were Slumbering (Sleepy Cat)
CORN MAIZ STRING BAND: Hook and Line/Fresh-Picked Kentucky Music (Redbird)
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JOE WALSH: Madison, The Bills/If Not Now, Who? (Adhyaropa Records)
BLUE RIDGE GIRLS: Blue Ridge Mountain Bound/Floyd Fest Bus Stop (self)
BLOOMFIELD BLUEGRASS BAND: Branded Wherever I Go/Live at the 2019 Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival (self)
MARK & MAGGIE O’CONNOR: Jerusalem Ridge/Duo (self/15)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: For Your Love/Lovin’ Of the Game (Compass)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Spring Membership Campaign - March 18, 2023
NOTE: all music by performers coming to the 2023 Berkeley Bluegrass Festival
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Bring It On Home To Me/Echoes of the Mountains (Rounder/08)
LAURA LOVE: This Train>Ezekiel Saw the Wheel/NeGrass (self/07)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Stasbourg-St Denis/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
SISTER SADIE: Katy Daly/Live at the Hall (Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum/21)
PETER ROWAN: New York Town/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Down on the Levee/Trees (Spruce and Maple/23)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Hartford's Lawn/Uncaged Thoughts (self/20)
MR SUN: Likes Of You/Live at the Freight (self/18)
LARRY & JOE: Nuevo South Train/Nuevo South Train, Vol. I (self/23)
LARRY & JOE: Gabanjo/Nuevo South Train, Vol. II (self/23)
SISTER SADIE: Don’t Tell Me Stories/Live at the Hall (Country Music HOF and Museum/21)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Old Slewfoot/Tearin’ Outta the Wilderness (self/18)
MR SUN: Just a Little Lovin’/Extrovert (Compass/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Enough/Trees (Spruce and Maple/23)
PETER ROWAN (with TONY RICE): You Were There For Me/YWTFE (Rounder/04)
LAURA LOVE: Sakatchewan (Juneteenth)/NeGrass (self/07)
MR SUN: Braker’s Bakedown/Extrovert (Compass/22)
PETER ROWAN: Frog On the Lily Pad/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - March 25, 2023
NOTE: all releases in 2022 or 2023, except as noted.
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Love Train/single (Pinecastle)
LORI KING & JUNCTION 63: Mercy of a Train/Straight from the Heartland (self)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Forsaken Love/Let Time Ride (Billy Blue)
THE TENNESSEE BLUEGRASS BAND: Far From You/The Future Of the Past (Billy Blue)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Alberta Bound/Great Blue North (Compass)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Flying Backpp To You/Travelers Rest (Tinfoil)
NICKEL CREEK: Where the Long Line Leads/Celebrants (Thirty Tigers)
BIG HOWDY: You're the Only One For Me/single (self)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Up On the Divide/single (Free Dirt)
RETRO 78: Black Vinyl 45/single (Ram Cat)
LARRY SPARKS: Sweetheart/It’s Just Me (Rebel)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: Shady Grove (featuring ALICE GERRARD)/While You Were Slumbering (Sleepy Cat)
MISSY RAINES & ALLEGHENY (featuring DANNY PAISLEY): These Old Blues/Highlander (Compass)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Alabama Waltz > Wolves Howling/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
DOM FLEMONS: Tough Luck/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
IRIS DEMENT: Workin' On A World/Workin' On A World (self)
MARTY STUART & HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES: Altitude/Altitude (Snakefarm)
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JASON BARIE: Bottom Of the Ninth, Pickin’ In the Parlor/Radioactive (Billy Blue)
FOG HOLLER: The Genuine Guarantee/Fog Holler (Chicken Cairn)
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Fool’s Gold/Fool’s Gold (self)
CHRIS JONES: The Price Of Falling/single (Mountain Home)
PAM GADD: Inch By Inch/single (self)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Johnny's Peacock > The Red-Tailed Hawk/Travelers Rest (Tinfoil Studios)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Flatt & Scruggs - live in concert - April 1, 2023
FLATT & SCRUGGS: At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (Koch/62)
theme -
Rueben
Salty Dog Blues
band intro
Durham's Reel
Down the Road
Rainbow
Big Ball In Brooklyn
Flint Hill Special
Dig A Hole In the Meadow aka Darling Corey
Hot Corn, Cold Corn
Little Darlin' Pal Of Mine
You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming
The Martha White Theme
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
He Will Set Your Field On Fire
Let the Church Roll On
Wildwood Flower
Fiddle & Banjo aka Wild Horses At Stoney Point
(Old) Leather Britches
Ballad Of Jed Clampett
(Yonder Stands) Little Maggie
Reuben
Mama Blues
I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome
Foggy Mountain Rock
Take This Hammer
McKinley's Gone aka White House Blues
Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms
add Merle Travis:
Gotta Travel On
Mountain Dew
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Recorded Live At Vanderbilt University (Columbia/63)
Intro
Long Journey Home
Maggie Blues
Paul & Silas
Cannonball Blues
You Are My Flower
(My Home’s) Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
Old Folks
Going Back to Harlan aka Shady Grove
Wabash Cannonball
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - April 8, 2022
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival (and other) Musical Previews - April 15, 2023
host: Leah Wollenberg
SISTER SADIE: Well/single (Mountain Home/23)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Crooked Mind/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Long Gone/Trees (Spruce & Maple/forthcoming - 23)
MR. SUN: Tamp 'Em Up Solid/Extrovert (Compass/22)
GENA BRITT: Untold Stories/Chronicles: Friends and Music (Pinecastle/19)
PETER ROWAN: Veil of Deja Blue/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
BIRCHES BEND: Bent Creek/While We’re Waiting (self/22)
HANNAH MAYREE (of Black Banjo Reclamation Project): Home/Thoughts Of the Night (self/17)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Great Occasion/Tearin’ Outta the Wilderness (self/18)
PETER ROWAN: Light at the End of the World/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
LAURA LOVE: Angry Days/NeGrass (Octoroon/07)
LARRY & JOE: Gabanjo/Nuevo South Train (self/23)
JAELEE ROBERTS: Sad Songs/Something You Didn’t Count On (Mountain Home/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Just a Little Ways Down the Road/Trees (Spruce & Maple/forthcoming - 23)
DEANIE RICHARDSON: Walkin in My Sleep/Circle Up (Engelhardt/21)
MR. SUN: Blackbird/Extrovert (Compass/22)
ELI WEST: Johnny Wombat/Tapered Point of Stone (self/21)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Blackjack Davy/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt/23)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Daylighting the Creek/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
FOG HOLLER: Spanish Moss/Fog Holler (self/22)
JACOB JOLLIFF BAND: One Night in Glasgow/The Jacob Jolliff Band (self/22)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Pond Mountain Breakaway/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Sally Goodin/The Way Things Are (Musix/99)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Foggy Mountain Special/From Fathers To Sons (Musix/95)
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April 22, 2023 is Earth Day, so KALW had special programming all day
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Allegra Picks ‘Em & Plays ‘Em - April 29, 2023
Host: Allegra Thompson
JERRY WICENTOWSKI: Travelin’ This Lonesome Road/Thanks, Mac! (Wizgrass/17)
TIM O’BRIEN: Look Down That Lonesome Road/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Ease On Down/Jump the Fire (Evil Diane/16)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Daylighting the Creek/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: River Under The Road/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
CALEB KLAUDER: Deep River/Western Country (Quicksilver Productions/10)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Half Past Four/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
DOM FLEMONS: Nobody Wrote It Down/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways/23)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: The Banks of the Miramichi/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Maple’s Lament/Restless Rambling Heart (Flying Fish/86)
MARK SCHATZ & BRYAN MCDOWELL: Muskrat/Grit & Polish (self/21)
JAKE BLOUNT: Boll Weevil/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
SAMI BRAMAN: Weevils in the Grits/Riveter (Padiddle/23)
BOSCO TAKAKI: As Time Draws Near/Bosco (Old Time Tiki Parlour/23)
THE BOW TIES: Close By/Old Morphine (self/17)
GINNY HAWKER: Long Black Limousine/Letters From My Father (Rounder/01)
KATHY KALLICK: Put My Little Shoes Away/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: I Know Whose Tears/Live At Brandywine Friends (self/12)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: I Don't Want to Say Goodbye/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
BILL EVANS: The Distance Between Two Points/In Good Company (Native and Fine/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Flatt & Scruggs On the Radio, 1953-1955 - May 6, 2023
host: Ryan Breen
All selections: Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: Live on WSM Radio (except as noted)
theme -
2 O’Clock
Martha White theme
I’m Gonna Settle Down
Me & My Fiddle
Cumberland Gap
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
I’ll Go Stepping Too
Give Me the Roses Now
Black Mountain Rag
Pain In My Heart
Martin Waltz
Someone Took My Place With You
I’m Head Over Heels In Love
Steel Guitar Rag
A Purple Heart
Over the Hills To the Poorhouse
Doing My Time
Moonlight On My Cabin
Lover’s Lane
Martha White theme
Nobody Loves Me
Nine Pound Hammer
You Took My Sunshine
We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore
Martha White theme (waltz)
Alimony
Mama’s Blues
Joy Bells
Cumberland Gap
Don’t Get Above Your Raising
Sawin’ On the Strings
Foggy Mountain Rock
Don’t Forget Me
Turkey In the Straw
I’d Rather Be Alone
Martha White theme
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WINDY HILL: Pinecone Banjo/Lonesome Garbage Man (self/13)
WINDY HILL: Run On Banjo/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self/17)
WINDY HILL: Springfield Connection 745/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self/17)
JERRY & THE WISEMAN INSTITUTE: Four Walls All Around Me/Live at the Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival (2019)
previewing
Jerry & the Wiseman Institute [Jerry Wicentowski (gtr, ld vocal) w/ Butch Waller (mando), Keith Little (bjo), Tom Bekeny (fid), and Steve Pottier (bs)] -
- May 8: house concert in Mountain View; info/res: [email protected]
- May 9: house concert in Oakland; info/res: [email protected]
- May 10: house concert in Santa Cruz; infor/res: [email protected]
- May 11: Hopmonk Tavern, Sebastopol
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy BirthdayS, Johnnie and Jack - May 13, 2023
Note: JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS tracks taken from Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Master Tape) and/or Johnnie & Jack and the Tennessee Mountain Boys (Bear Family). Recording dates are included in this playlist.
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Love In the First Degree (3/25/47)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: What About You (1/31/49)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: What About You/1971-1973 (Rebel/73)
AMY & HAILEY: What About You/Sidekick Sessions (self/22)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Poison Love (3/27/50)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Poison Love/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/51)
ALISON KRAUSS: Poison Love/Windy City (Capital/17)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: I'm Gonna Love You One More Time (10/17/50)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Crying Heart Blues (5/6/51)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide (5/6/51)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: You Tried To Ruin My Name/Early Recordings (County [Columbia]/52)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: You Tried To Ruin My Name (10/12/51)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ashes of Love (10/12/51)
JIM & JESSE: Ashes of Love/Superior Sounds Of Bluegrass (Old Dominion/74)
HOTMUD FAMILY: Ashes of Love/Buckeyes In the Briar Patch (Vetco/75)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: (Down) South in New Orleans (4/1/53)
MAC MARTIN & THE CALIFORNIA TRAVELERS: (Down) South in New Orleans/Live at RBA (self/08)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Don't Say Goodbye if You Love Me/Live In Holland (Strictly Country/83)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Don't Say Goodbye if You Love Me (7/14/53)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Oh Baby Mine (I Get So Lonely) (2/21/54)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Want To Be Loved (12/14/55)
DELIA BELL: I Want To Be Loved/Bluer Than Midnight (County/78)
JOHNNIE & JACK with KITTY WELLS: At KWKH (Bear Family/48)
Wake Up, Susan (fiddle tune)
Little Cabin Home On The Hill
Love Or Hate Kitty, lead (original)
It's Raining On The Mountain (theme)
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PAUL WARREN with THE NASHVILLE GRASS: fiddle tune medley/America's Greatest Breakdown Fiddle Player (CMH/78)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Gearin’ Up For Grass Valley - May 20, 2023
MATT & GEORGE & THEIR PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS: Matt and George's Blue Grass Style Show, episodes 1 and 2 (Pleasant Valley Music/23)
- On & On
- Pleasant Vally Hop
- I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
- Does It Have To End This Way
- Why Did You Wander
WEST 45: That’s How I Got To Memphis/demo (self)
CLINTON DAVIS BAND: Curly Headed Woman (Hesitation Blues)/If I Live and I Don’t Get Killed (Tiki Parlour/21)
HOT OCTOBER: If I Knew Your Name/Chevy Van Sessions
WATER TOWER BAND: Take Me Back/Live at The Garage in Camp Verde, AZ (2022)
MATT & GEORGE & THEIR PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS: Matt and George's Blue Grass Style Show, episode 3 (Pleasant Valley Music/23)
- A Voice From On High
- To A Cross On A Lonely Dark Hill
- You Can Feel It In Your Soul
- I’m Travelin’ On & On
CLINTON DAVIS BAND: The Wild Horse, All Night Long/If I Live and I Don’t Get Killed (Tiki Parlour/21)
BIRCHES BEND: Dusty Fields/While We're Waiting (self/22)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Down By the Old Pier/The Thing Of Dreams (self/22)
MARIN COUNTY BREAKDOWN: New Man/demo (self)
ANGEL CITY BLUEGRASS BOYS: Let Me Fall/demo (self)
DELTA GRASS: Crazy Heart/demo (self)
TOUBLE TOWN: Texas Eagle/Live at the Sales Force Rooftop Park, SF (2-12-22)
CALTUCKY: Black Bart/Live on KVMR (FDF 6-18-22)
WHOLE HOG: Cheyenne/demo (self)
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BLUEGRASS COUNTRY ONLY -
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Give A Little Back - May Membership Campaign #2
Broadcast dates: May 22-28, 2023
theme –
CHUBBY WISE: Give the Fiddler A Dram/Hoedown #2 (Stoneway/73)
GINGER BOATRIGHT: Give A Little Back/Fertile Ground (Flying Fish/91)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: Give This Message To Your Heart/Sing and Play Their Current Hits (Capitol/62)
HAZEL DICKENS: They’ll Never Keep Us Down/Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (Rounder/80)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Give Me the Roses While I Live/1971-1973 (Rebel)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Give Me the Flowers (While I'm Living)/Songs of Glory (Columbia/60)
LARRY STEPHENSON: Give Me the Chance/Far Away in Tennessee (Pinecastle/12)
MOTHER MAYBELLE CARTER: Give Me Your Love and I’ll Give You Mine/A Living Legend (Columbia/66)
J.D. CROWE, PAUL WILLIAMS, DOYLE LAWSON: Give Me Your Hand/Old Friends (Mountain Home/10)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin)/2 (Rounder/90)
RONNIE & ROB McCOURY: Thanks A Lot/Ronnie & Rob McCoury (Rounder/95)
SALLY JONES: Thanks Again/Songs About Us (Gal Sal/07)
SELDOM SCENE: California Cottonfields/Live at the Cellar Door (Rebel/75)
SELDOM SCENE: Hit Parade Of Love/Live at the Cellar Door (Rebel/75)
THE WHITES: Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling/Old Familiar Feeling (Warner Bros/83)
THE WATSON FAMILY: Give the Fiddler A Dram/Tradition (Rounder/64)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country: Bluegrass Classics With a Focus on Fiddlers - May 27, 2023
host: Sully Roddy
GID TANNER & HIS SKILLET LICKERS: Soldier’s Joy/Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection of Recordings (RCA BMG/29)
RILEY PUCKETT: Ragged But Right/Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection of Recordings (RCA BMG/34)
JIMMIE RODGERS: Waiting For a Train/Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection of Recordings (RCA BMG/28)
ARTHUR SMITH with DON RENO: Feudin’ Banjos/Best of Bluegrass Vol. One (Polygram/55)
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS: Salty Dog Blues/Best of Bluegrass Vol. One (Polygram/52)
SYNCOPATHS: Merriweather/Five Gears (self/10)
BENSON: Living in These Troubled Times/Pick Your Poison (Mountain Home/23)
IRIS DEMENT: Workin’ on a World/Workin’ on a World (Flariella/23)
KODY NORRIS SHOW: Fiddlers Rock/Rhinestone Revival (Rebel/23)
BENNY MARTIN: Big Tiger Revival/30 Fiddlers’ Greatest Hits (King/61)
A.J. LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: I’ll Come Back/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
EVERLY BROTHERS: Bye Bye Love/Heartaches and Harmonies (Rhino/57)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Honey Babe Blues/Sittin’ Here Pickin’ the Blues (Rounder/84)
BLIND WILLIE McTELL: Statesboro Blues/The Blues Collection (Orbis/28)
THE COX FAMILY: Pardon Me/Everybody’s Reaching Out For Someone (Rounder/93)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Why Don’t You Tell Me So/Blue Ribbon Bluegrass (Rounder/75)
CURLY RAY CLINE & THE LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Kentucky Fiddler/30 Fiddlers’ Greatest Hits (King/62)
LEFTOVER SALMON: Blue Railroad Train/Grass Roots (Compass/23)
LINDLEY CREEK: Fare Thee Well/Pincecastle Sampler (Pinecastle/23)
RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Long Time Traveling/Hard Times (Flying Fish/81)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: El Dorado/City of Gold (Nonesuch/22)
LARRY & JOE: Gavilan Tocuyano (Pablo Canela)/Larry and Joe (self/23)
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN: I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You/Tall Tales (High Tone/99)
BOB WILLS & THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Beaumont Rag/30 Fiddlers’ Greatest Hits (King/38)
DAN TYMINSKI: Keep Your Eyes on Kentucky/God Fearing Heathen (8 Track Entertainment/23)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Can’t You Hear Me Calling/The Best of Bluegrass Vol. One (Polygram/63)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: No Hiding Place/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
WILLIAM J. BELL: Syncopatin’ Shuffle/Son of Rounder Banjo (Rounder/92)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: June Membership Campaign – June 3, 2023
theme:
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Twin Sisters/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Dry and Dusty>Duck River/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Ninety Degrees/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
DOM FLEMONS: Big Money Blues/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
DOM FLEMONS: Saddle It Around/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin)/2 (Rounder/90)
SALLY JONES: Thanks Again/Songs About Us (Gal Sal/07)
DOM FLEMONS: Guess I’m Doing Fine/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
ANNIE & NICK: Pretty Little Indian/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Ducks On the Millpond/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Little Rabbit/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
DOM FLEMONS: Tough Luck/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
DOM FLEMONS: Nobody Wrote It Down/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
GINGER BOATRIGHT: Give A Little Back/Fertile Ground (Flying Fish/91)
THE WHITES: Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling/Old Familiar Feeling (Warner Bros/83)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Pa Janvier/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Chinquapin Pie/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
DOM FLEMONS: Rabbit Foot Rag/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: (Mostly) Music Coming To Grass Valley - June 10, 2023
host: Leah Wollenberg
RHONDA VINCENT: Drivin Nails in My Coffin/The Storm Still Rages (Rounder/01)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: El Dorado/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
JAKE BLOUNT: The Downward Road/The New Faith (Smithsonian-Folkways/22)
MILE TWELVE: Anywhere Town/Close Enough to Hear (self/23)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: Fiddler's Rock/Rhinestone Revival (Rebel/23)
NEVER COME DOWN: New Year’s Day Blues/Better Late Than Never (self/21)
BLUE HIGHWAY: Ain't No Better, Ain't No Worse/Somewhere Far Away: Silver Anniversary (Rounder/19)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: Alabama Waltz/Oh Do You Remember (self/12)
SETH MULDAR & MIDNIGHT RUN: The Mountains Are Calling/The Mountains Are Calling (Mountain Fever/22)
ALLISON deGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Featherbed/Hurricane Clarice: Outtakes, Vol. 1 (Free Dirt/23)
ELI WEST: Brick in the Road/ Tapered Point of Stone (Tender and Mild/21)
EAST GRASS NASH: Time At Hand/single? (Mountain Fever/23)
THE BOW TIES: Your Saddle Is Empty, Old Pal/Old Morphine (self/17)
THE JACOB JOLIFF BAND: Don’t Cry Blue/The Jacob Joliff Band (Adhyâropa/22)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Rosco's Ramble/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus/21)
BIRCHES BEND: Oxen Run > Lily Pond/While We’re Waiting (self/22)
SAM BUSH: California Earthquake/Radio John - Songs of John Hartford (Smithsonian Folkways/22)
SAM GRISMAN PROJECT: Shady Grove/Temple Cabin Sessions, Volume I (SGP/23)
MISSION BLUE: East Virginia Blues/Live at the Back Room (self/20)
TALL POPPY STRING BAND: Kiss Me Quick My Papa's a Coming/Tall Poppy String Band (self/22)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Moonshiner/Ahoy (Nonesuch/12)
HAWKTAIL: Abbzug/Unless (Padiddle/18)
SAMI BRAMAN: Train In the Wilderness/Riveter (Padiddle/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - June 17, 2023
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Pride - June 24, 2023
Producer/host: Kevin Vance
JUSTIN HILTNER, MELODY WALKER & FRIENDS: Live and Let Live/single (Bluegrass Pride/19)
TALL POPPY STRING BAND:The Coo Coo/Tall Poppy String Band (self/22)
JUSTIN HILTNER (with CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER): Wildflowers Don't Care Where They Grow/single (self/23)
TALL POPPY STRING BAND: The Train That Carried My Man From Town/Tall Poppy String Band (self/22)
MELODY WALKER & MOLLY TUTTLE: Bigger Than This/Live At Carter’s Vintage Guitars, Nashville (2017)
MELODY WALKER & MERCY BELL: Jesus Was A Drag Queen/single (self/23)
THE HIGH WATER LINE: North Of Jackson/Introducing The High Water Line (self/19)
CRYS MATTHEWS: The Prodigal Son/Come What May (self/14)
HEATHER MAY: Be Not Afraid/Glimmer (self/19)
GANGSTAGRASS: You Can Never Go Home Again/American Music (Rench Audio/15)
WILLI CARLISLE: Cheap Cocaine/Too Nice To Mean Much (self/16)
THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Missing Her Has Never Slowed Me Down/Never Slow Down (Smithsonian-Folkways/22)
JAKE BLOUNT: The Angels Done Bowed Down/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
JACKIE & RESA: Mean Church People/single (self/20)
LISA LIU: Duke and Dukie/Introducing ... Lisa Liu (self/20)
LARRY & JOE: Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms/Nuevo South Train (self/23)
ISMAY: Sonoma Mountain Theme/Songs of Sonoma Mountain (self/20)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER: Dancin' In the Kitchen/Dancin' In the Kitchen (Community Music/20)
ROBIN FLOWER & LIBBY McLAREN: Kitchen Girl>Boost's Paw>Mayflies On The Water/One Plus One (Little Cat/15)
SAM GLEAVES (with TIM O’BRIEN): Ain't We Brothers?/Ain't We Brothers? (Community Music/15)
GINA FORSYTH: Fourth Of July/Promised Land (Waterbug/12)
WOODY SIMMONS: Banjo Raga/Oregon Mountain (Deep River/77)
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JOHN REISCHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Big Bug/North Of the Border (Corvus/93)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Part Of A Story/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/95)
KATHY KALLICK: Red Shirt/Matters Of the Heart (Sugar Hill/93)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: True Life Blues/True Life Blues - The Songs Of Bill Monroe (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS & GRANT STREET: When The Cactus Is In Bloom/Singin' My Troubles Away (Flying Fish/90)
TOM ROZUM: Don't Fix Up the Doghouse/Jubilee (Signature Sounds/98)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Our Town (Rounder/93)
TONY RICE: Rock Hearts/Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/90)
SCOTT NYGAARD: Evening Shade/Dreamer’s Waltz (Rounder/96)
SALLY VAN METER: Blues For Your Own/All In Good TIme (Sugar Hill/91)
HIGH COUNTRY: Saturday Matinee/The Earthquake (Strictly Country/98)
PETER ROWAN: Let The Harvest Go To Seed/Bluegrass Boy (Sugar Hill/96)
VERN & DELBERT WILLIAMS BAND: I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair/Live At Grass Valley (Wolf Mountain Music/93)
RICH WILBUR: Dark Shadows Of Night/In the City (Sophronie/93)
farewell to Bluegrass Country -
SANDY ROTHMAN & STEVE POTTIER: Denver Belle/Bluegrass Guitar Duets (Tone Bar/91)
CROOKED JADES: Going to the Races/Going to the Races (Crooked Music/98)
ALL GIRL BOYS: Going To See My Baby/Heart's Desire (Wilder Shore/94)
ROANOKE: Cabin On a Mountain/Thoughts Of Home (Iris Cool/96)
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SIDESADDLE: Get Up John, Callin’ In the Cows/Daylight Train (Turquoise/91)
DAVID GRISMAN, MIKE SEEGER, JOHN HARTFORD: Hound Dawg/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/99)
CALIFORNIA CAJUN ORCHESTRA: Sugar Bee/Not Lonesome Anymore (Arhoolie/91)
BILL EVANS: Native and Fine/Native and Fine (Rounder/95)
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70 releases in the 1990s by Bay Area bluegrass and old time musicians:
JOHN REISCHMAN: Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
JOHN REISCHMAN: North Of the Border (Corvus/93)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/95)
TODD PHILIPS: In the Pines (Gourd Music/95)
KATHY KALLICK: Matters Of the Heart (Sugar Hill/93)
KATHY KALLICK: Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
KATHY KALLICK: What Do You Dream About? (Kaleidoscope/91)
KATHY KALLICK: Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom) (Sugar Hill/94)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Walkin' In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Together (Kaleidoscope/91)
LAURIE LEWIS & GRANT STREET: Singin' My Troubles Away (Flying Fish/90)
LAURIE LEWIS: True Stories (Rounder/93)
LAURIE LEWIS: Seeing Things (Rounder/98)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Oak & the Laurel (Rounder/95)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: Winter's Grace (Signature Sounds/99)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee (Signature Sounds/98)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Our Town (Rounder/93)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Blue Lightning (Rounder/91)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Stay Awhile (Rounder/95)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Heart Songs - The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips (Rounder/97)
JODY STECHER: Oh The Wind And Rain - Eleven Ballads (Appleseed/97)
SCOTT NYGAARD: Dreamer’s Waltz (Rounder/96)
SCOTT NYGAARD: No Hurry (Rounder/90)
SALLY VAN METER: All In Good TIme (Sugar Hill/91)
HIGH COUNTRY: The Earthquake (Strictly Country/98)
HIGH COUNTRY: Sunset On the Prairie (Turquoise/90)
BUTCH WALLER: Golden Gate Promenade (Rebel/99)
PETER ROWAN: Bluegrass Boy (Sugar Hill/96)
PETER ROWAN: The First Whippoorwill (Sugar Hill/90)
PETER ROWAN: Dust Bowl Children (Sugar Hill/90)
PETER ROWAN: The Walls Of Time (Sugar Hill/91)
PETER ROWAN: All On a Rising Day (Sugar Hill/91)
PETER ROWAN: Awake Me In the New World (Sugar Hill/93)
THE ROWAN BROTHERS: Tree On a Hill (Sugar Hill/94)
PETER ROWAN & JERRY DOUGLAS: Yonder (Sugar Hill/96)
RICH WILBUR: In the City (Sophronie/93)
SANDY ROTHMAN & STEVE POTTIER: Bluegrass Guitar Duets (Tone Bar/91)
SANDY ROTHMAN: The Old Road to Home (Tone Bar/93)
CROOKED JADES: Going to the Races (Crooked Music/98)
ALL GIRL BOYS: Heart's Desire (Wilder Shore/94)
ROANOKE: Thoughts Of Home (Iris Cool/96)
SIDESADDLE: Daylight Train (Turquoise/91)
SIDESADDLE: Sing Your Praises (Turquoise/93)
SIDESADDLE: California Hills (Faultline99)
DAVID GRISMAN, MIKE SEEGER, JOHN HARTFORD: Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/99)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Dawg '90 (Acoustic Disc/90)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Dawgwood (Acoustic Disc/93)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Dawganova (Acoustic Disc/95)
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: DGQ-20 (Acoustic Disc/96)
DAVID GRISMAN & JERRY GARCIA: Jerry Garcia - David Grisman (Acoustic Disc/91
DAVID GRISMAN & JERRY GARCIA: Not for Kids Only (Acoustic Disc/93)
DAVID GRISMAN & JERRY GARCIA: Shady Grove (Acoustic Disc/96)
DAVID GRISMAN & JERRY GARCIA: So What (Acoustic Disc/98)
DAVID GRISMAN & ANDY STATMAN: Songs of Our Fathers (Acoustic Disc/95)
DAVID GRISMAN & DOC WATSON: Doc & Dawg (Acoustic Disc/97)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: Tone Poems (Acoustic Disc/94)
DAVID GRISMAN & MARTIN TAYLOR: Tone Poems 2 (Acoustic Disc/95)
DAVID GRISMAN & VARIOUS ARTISTS: Bluegrass Reunion (Acoustic Disc/92)
DAVID GRISMAN & VARIOUS ARTISTS: Common Chord (Acoustic Disc/93)
DAVID GRISMAN & VARIOUS ARTISTS: Dawg Duos (Acoustic Disc/99)
CALIFORNIA CAJUN ORCHESTRA: Not Lonesome Anymore (Arhoolie/91)
CALIFORNIA CAJUN ORCHESTRA: Nonc Adam Two-Step (Arhoolie/91)
BILL EVANS: Native and Fine (Rounder/95)
MEGAN B. LYNCH: It’s About Time (self/96)
LONE PRAIRIE: Desert Flower (self/96)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: True Life Blues - The Songs Of Bill Monroe (Sugar Hill/96)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/90)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Live At Grass Valley (Wolf Mountain Music/93)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What They Are Doing - Jan. 14, 2023
NOTE: Contains an interview with Kathy Kallick between musical segments.
NOTE: All songs from KATHY KALLICK & FRIENDS + DODI KALLICK: What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22), except as noted.
KATHY KALLICK (with MOLLY TUTTLE): Put My Little Shoes Away
KATHY KALLICK (with LAURIE LEWIS & SUZY THOMPSON): What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
DODI KALLICK: What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
DODI KALLICK: Row Us Over the Tide
KATHY KALLICK (with JODY STECHER, KATE BRISLIN, & AMY STENBERG): Row Us Over the Tide/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/02)
KATHY KALLICK (with JIM HURST): Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
KATHY KALLICK (with THE KATHY KALLICK BAND): Footprints In The Snow
DODI KALLICK (with the Old Town School Of Folk Music audience): My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
KATHY KALLICK (with THE KATHY KALLICK BIG BAND): The Wild Side Of Life > It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
DODI KALLICK: I'm A Long Time Traveling
KATHY KALLICK (with ANNIE STANINEC): Handsome Molly
DODI KALLICK: The Parting Glass
KATHY KALLICK (with MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY): Farther Along
KATHY KALLICK (with TRISTAN SCROGGINS): Sittin' On Top of the World
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ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/16)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Cascade Blues/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
DODI KALLICK: Red Clay Country
KATHY KALLICK (with CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS): Little Moses
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, Tom Rozum! - Jan. 21, 2023
Producer/host: Allegra Thompson
GEOFF STELLING’S HARD TIMES BLUEGRASS BAND: Blue Night/Hard Driving! (Stelling Banjo Works/78)
LAURIE LEWIS: Down To Tampa/One Evening In May (Spruce & Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: River Under The Road/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee/Jubilee (Dog-Boy/98)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: Hot Buttered Rum/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
TOM ROZUM: Without My Walking Stick/Jubilee (Dog-Boy/98)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Just A Lie/LIVE (Spruce & Maple/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: If We Make It Through December/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
TOM ROZUM: Walk Downtown/Jubilee (Dog-Boy/98)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: The Rope/LIVE (Spruce & Maple/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Going To The West/LIVE (Spruce & Maple/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
calendar & musical previews -
SKILLET LICORICE: Adeline Waltz/Allsorts Orchestra (Old Time Tiki Parlour/21)
SKILLET LICORICE: 3-in-1 Two Step/Allsorts Orchestra (Old Time Tiki Parlour/21)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: Cool Water/Silver Jubilee (Acoustic Disc/03)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Between the Wars/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Ride Away/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
DESTINIE LYNN: Once, Twice/Little Ghost (self/22)
JOE NEWBERRY & APRIL VERCH: Baby I’m Blue/Going Home (Slab Town/17)
HAWKTAIL: The Tobogganist/Formations (Paddidle/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Grammy Nominees - Jan. 28, 2023
Producer/host: Sully Roddy
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: Hard Line/Toward the Fray (Americana Vibes/22)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: Pearl of Carolina/Toward the Fray (Americana Vibes/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Crooked Tree/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Big Backyard/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
THE DEL MCCOURY BAND: Almost Proud/Almost Proud (McCoury Music/22)
THE DEL MCCOURY BAND (feat. Vince Gill): Honky Tonk Nights/Almost Proud (McCoury Music/22)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND: Up This Hill/Get Yourself Outside (Frog Pad/22)
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND: Into the Fire/Get Yourself Outside (Frog Pad/22)
PETER ROWAN: From My Mountain (Calling You)/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
PETER ROWAN: The Song that Made Hank Williams Dance/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
OLIVIA JO: Mighty Mississippi/single (self/23)
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL: Proud Mary/single (Fantasy/68)
MARTY STUART: Paint the Town Tonight/Tempted (MCA/91)
ALBERT LEE: Country Boy/Hiding (A&M/79)
TIM STAFFORD AND THOMM JUTZ: The Vaudeville Blues/Lost Voices (Mountain Fever/23)
BILL MONROE AND HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: Bluegrass Breakdown/The Essential Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys (Columbia/47)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Memorial Celebration of Dix Bruce – Feb. 4, 2023
Host: Leah Wollenberg
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Reuben’s Train/Brothers at Heart (FGM/03)
DIX BRUCE & JULIE CLINE: I Am A Pilgrim/Look at it Rain (Musix/12)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: That’s the Way Things Are/The Way Things Are (Musix/99)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Mike’s Marathon/Brothers at Heart (FGM/03)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: That’s the Way Things Are/The Way Things Are (Musix/99)
DIX BRUCE: Tuxedo Blues/Tuxedo Blues (Musix/98)
VIOLIN JAZZ: Eddie’s Blues/The Music of Eddie South (Dorian Solo Luminus/10)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: How Can You Treat Me So?/From Fathers to Sons (Musix/95)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Foggy Mountain Special/From Fathers to Sons (Musix/95)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Dark Hollow/Brothers at Heart (FGM/03)
DIX BRUCE & JULIE CLINE: Fair and Tender Ladies/Look at it Rain (Musix/12)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: When I Die/The Way Things Are (Musix/99)
calendar –
HAWKTAIL: Annbjørg/Formations (Padiddle/20)
musical previews -
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Nothin’ So Bad (It Can’t Get Worse)/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND DUO: All Night Long/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/17)
JOE NEWBERRY & APRIL VERCH: Christmas Eve/On This Christmas Day (Slab Town/21)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: The Little Carpenter/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/19)
HAWKTAIL: Updraft/Place of Growth (Paddidle/22)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (self/21)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Baba, Black Sheep/The Thing of Dreams (self/22)
DOM FLEMONS: Tyin’ Knots In the Devil’s Tail/Black Cowboy (Smithsonian-Folkways/15)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: Blue Shadows on the Trail/Salute Roy Rogers: King of the Cowboys (Riders Radio Records/15)
DESTINIE LYNNE: Another Station/single (self/22)
DIX BRUCE: Richard Royal the Baker/Tuxedo Blues (Musix/98)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On? - Feb. 11, 2023
RAY BIERL: If I Should Wander Back Tonight/Solo Ray: Easy Street (self/19)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: We're Burning Moonlight/40 Years the Cowboy Way (Riders Radio Records/18)
STILLHOUSE JUNKIES: Colorado Bound/Small Towns (Dark Shadow/22)
HEAD FOR THE HILLS: Nothing But the Blues/Live at The Agave Room, Ft. Collins, CO (2022)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: There’s A Bright Side Somewhere/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/18)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Fort Smith/Live at McCabe’s (5-13-18)
JOE NEWBERRY & APRIL VERCH: I Can’t Sit Down/Going Home (Slab Town/17)
NEWBERRY & VERCH: Medley (Back Up & Push, Carleton County Breakdown, John Brown’s Dream, Angus Campbell)/Live At Celtic Colours Festival, Cape Breton (self/16)
KATHY KALLICK & FRIENDS (incl. JOE NEWBERRY): I'm Not Your Honey Baby Now/Live at Augusta Heritage Center, Elkins, WV (Bluegrass Week 2016)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Dark As the Night, Blue As the Day/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
LAURIE LEWIS: Carter’s Blues/Skippin’ & Flyin’ (Spruce & Maple/11)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: On the Line/live (self/21)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Faithful/Live at WinterWonderGrass (Paste Studios/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY (with JERRY DOUGLAS): Over the Line/Live at DelFest (Paste Studios/22)
HAWKTAIL: Antilopen/Place of Growth (Padiddle/22)
AUTUMN NICHOLAS: Not Gonna Do This Anymore/World Cafe (WXPN/22)
DESTINIE LYNN: Your Street/Little Ghost EP (self/22)
SERAFIA: Austin Nights/single (self/22)
calendar -
HAWKTAIL: Big Sun/Place of Growth (Padiddle/22)
SUZY & ERIC THOMPSON: Lake Arthur Stomp/They All Played for Us (Arhoolie/13)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND: Brown Eyed Rabbit/Live at KALW (2017)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Song for My Mother/The Thing of Dreams (self/22)
RIDERS IN THE SKY: Happy Trails/The Cowboy Way (MCA/87)
FEATURED CONCERTS
Feb. 26: Ray Bierl - The Back Room, Berkeley
Feb. 15: Riders In the Sky - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley*
Feb. 11: Head for the Hills; Stillhouse Junkies - The Back Room, Berkeley
Molsky's Mountain Drifters -
- Feb. 16: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley*
- Feb. 17 3 pm workshops, 7 pm concert): Clendenen Barn Concerts, Healdsburg
- Feb. 18: house concert in Santa Cruz
Newberry & Verch -
- Feb. 14: house concert in Chico
- Feb. 15: Miners Foundry Cultural Center, Nevada City
- Feb. 16: Cloverdale Arts Alliance
- Feb. 17: The Sebastopol Community Center (double bill with the Kathy Kallick Band)
- Feb. 18: The Strum Shop, Roseville
- Feb. 19: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (double bill with the Kathy Kallick Band)*
- Feb. 22: house concert in Mountain View
- Feb. 26: Crazy J Ranch, Topanga
Kathy Kallick Band -
- Feb. 17: The Sebastopol Community Center (double bill with Joe Newberry & April Verch)
- Feb. 18: The Otter Opry, Monterey
- Feb. 19: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (double bill with Joe Newberry & April Verch)*
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Vivian Leva & Riley Calgano -
- March 3: The Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- March 4: Center for the Arts, Grass Valley
AJ Lee & Blue Summit -
- Feb. 24: Almost Famous Wine, Livermore
- Feb. 25: Sierra Meadows, Ahwahnee
- March 31: Winter Wondergrass, Palisades Tahoe
- April 14: Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz
- April 15: Sweetwater, Mill Valley
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway -
- March 30: Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace, Bakersfield
- March 31: Winter Wondergrass, Palisades Tahoe
- April 1: Guild Theatre, Menlo Park
- June: Father’s Day Festival, Grass Valley
Hawktail -
- Feb. 16: Little Saint, Healdsburg
- Feb. 17: Felton Music Hall
- Feb. 18: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley*
- Feb. 19: Hopmonk Novato
- Feb. 21: The Old Steeple, Ferndale
Feb. 17: Black Opry Revue - with Serafia, Destinie Lynn, Autumn Nicholas, and Deidra Hall - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley*
Feb. 21: "Fat Tuesday" Mardi Gras Party with Aux Cajunals plus Billy, Willie, & Lloyd from Motordude Zydeco - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
March 18: Eric & Suzy Thompson, Mitch Greenhill & Mitch's Kitchen - The Back Room, Berkeley
Feb. 25 (and every 4th Sat.) (2 pm): Beasrcat Stringband - Cato's Ale House, Oakland
Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band -
- Feb. 17 (5 pm): HopDogma Brewing Co., Half Moon Bay
- Feb. 18: The Side Door, Sacramento
- Feb. 28: Sweetwater, Mill Valley; opening for Henhouse Prowlers
*KALW Presents … Freight & Salvage Acoustic Roots & Branches series
2/15 - Riders In the Sky
2/16 - Molsky's Mountain Drifters
2/17 - Black Opry Revue with Serafia, Destinie Lynn, Autumn Nicholas, and Deidra Hall
2/18 - Kathy Kallick Band; April Verch & Joe Newberry
2/19 - Hawktail
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Songs of Murphy Hicks Henry – and Remembering Dix Bruce On the Radio - Feb. 18, 2023
Highlights from When My Momma Sang To Me - Songs of Murphy Hicks Henry (Arrandem/22)
RHONDA VINCENT: I Ain't Domesticated Yet
NANCY HICKS PATE: When My Momma Sang to Me
ALICE GERRARD: Save Me a Square On the Floor
LIZZY LONG: Riding Around on Saturday Night
KATHY KALLICK: M & M Blues
NANCY HICKS PATE: Fried Chicken
MURPHY HICKS HENRY: Grandpa, Rock On
THE HICKS SISTERS: Grandmother's Song
ARGEN HICKS: Brand New Gospel Song
THE PRICE SISTERS: Just Remember Where You Could Be
AJ LEE: In the Shenandoah Valley Long Ago
VICKIE VAUGHN: The Band Played On
KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Miss Nora's Blues
GINA FURTADO: Pall Mall Reds
THE PRICE SISTERS: Darling Daughter
GINA FURTADO: Hazel Creek
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DIX BRUCE & JULIE CLINE: Live at KALW (4-28-12)
Little Birdie
Just Someone I Used To Know
Darlin’ Will You Ever Think Of Me
Banks Of the Ohio
Making Believe
DIX BRUCE, MIKE WOLLENBERG & BARRY SOLOMON: Live at KALW (7-20-19)
Faded Love
Salt Creek (with calendar)
Hey Good Lookin’
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - New Releases - Feb. 25, 2023
host: Sully Roddy
TIM RAYBON BAND: Can’t Get Away From this Broken Heart/single (Pinecastle/23)
AUTHENTIC UNLIMITED: Long Gone/Authentic Unlimited (Billy Blue/22)
AARON BURDETT: The Mountains You Carry/single (Organic/22)
STILLHOUSE JUNKIES: Colorado Bound/Small Towns (Dark Shadow/22)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Sunny Days (Are Comin’ Once Again)/Lovin’ of the Game (Compass/23)
ANDY LEFTWICH: Big Mon/The American Fiddler (Mountain Home/22)
BILLY STRINGS: Dig a Little Deeper in the Well/Me And Dad (Rounder/22)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Sidesaddle (feat. Gillian Welch)/Crooked Tree (Nonesuch/22)
IRENE KELLEY: Come Some Winter Morning (feat. The Kruger Brothers/Snow White Memories (IRK/23)
AJ LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: Lemons and Tangerines/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
JASON CARTER: The Likes of Me/Lowdown Hoedown (Fiddleman/22)
PETER ROWAN: Come Along Jody/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
OLIVIA JO: Mighty Mississippi/Single (self/23)
CHRIS JONES AND THE NIGHT DRIVERS: The Price of Falling/Single (Mountain Home/23)
CORY WALKER: Far Away Again (featuring Tim O’Brien)/School Project (Mountain Fever/23)
DAN TYMINSKI: Where the Soul of Man Never Dies (feat. Billy Strings)/One More Time Before You Go: A Tribute to Tony Rice (North Star/22)
ROB ICKES AND TREY HENSLEY: Louisiana Woman/Living in a Song (Compass/23)
ALLISON DE GROOT AND TATIANA HARGREAVES: Dead and Gone (Hen Cackle)/ Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt Records/22)
PHOEBE HUNT AND THE GATHERERS: Good Blood/Neither One Of Us Is Wrong (Popcorn!/2021)
THE RILEY FAMILY BAND: Perrodin 2 Step/La Vie De Riley (Valcour/22)
SHANNON SLAUGHTER: Alberta Clipper/Ridin’ Through the Country (Elite Circuit/22)
TIM STAFFORD AND THOMM JUTZ: Take That Shot/Lost Voices (Mountain Fever/23)
STEVEN MOORE: O’Connell Street/Just a Little Talk With Myself (Tiger Spa/22)
JOE MULLINS AND THE RADIO RAMBLERS: I’ve Been Down That Road/Single (Billy Blue/22)
AUSTIN LOUNGE LIZARDS: Old Blevins/Small Minds (Watermelon/1995)
RUTH WYAND: Po’ Boy/Guitar Routes (Momojo/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Festival - March 4, 2023
LARRY SPARKS: Sweetheart/It’s Just Me (Rebel)
SWEET SALLY: Live at KALW
calendar -
BLUE & LONESOME: Billy In The Lowground/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e'Neff Said/12)
BLUE & LONESOME: Salt River, High Country/Some Old Day (e'Neff Said/10)
OL' FRIENDS: Live At KALW
BLUE & LONESOME: Twilight/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - March 11, 2023
NOTE: all releases in 2022 or 2023, except as noted.
JASON CARTER: Highway 52/Lowdown Hoedown (Fiddleman)
BECKY ISAACS BOWMAN: I’ll Meet You In the Morning/Songs That Pulled Me Through the Tough Times (self)
JASON BARIE: Keep A Memory/Radioactive (Billy Blue)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: I’d Rather Be Alone/A Tribute To Flatt & Scruggs (Americana Vibes)
ZOE & CLOYD: We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart/single (Mountain Home)
ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY: Way Downtown/Living In a Song (Compass)
DOM FLEMONS & SHULTZ’S DREAM: Shultz’s Dream (IBMA Foundation/PineCone)
SAMI BRAMAN: Honeycutt/Riveter (Padiddle)
CASEY PENN: We Go Together Like a Guitar and a Fiddle/One Step Away (Mountain Fever)
LARRY SPARKS: You’ve Gotta Move/New Highway (Remastered) (Mountain Home/98>23)
DANNY PAISLEY & SOUTHERN GRASS (featuring SAGE PAISER): What Crosses Your Mind/single (Pinecastle)
PRAIRIE WILDFIRE: Heart You Couldn’t Hold/single (Turnberry)
SAM BUSH: In Tall Buildings/Radio John (Smithsonian-Folkways)
DOM FLEMONS (featuring SAM BUSH): Guess I'm Doing Fine/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
NORA BROWN: Bertie Mae's Chilly Winds/Long Time To Be Gone (Jalopy)
NORA BROWN: Little Satchel/Long Time To Be Gone (Jalopy)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: Possum Up a Gum Stump/While You Were Slumbering (Sleepy Cat)
CORN MAIZ STRING BAND: Hook and Line/Fresh-Picked Kentucky Music (Redbird)
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JOE WALSH: Madison, The Bills/If Not Now, Who? (Adhyaropa Records)
BLUE RIDGE GIRLS: Blue Ridge Mountain Bound/Floyd Fest Bus Stop (self)
BLOOMFIELD BLUEGRASS BAND: Branded Wherever I Go/Live at the 2019 Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival (self)
MARK & MAGGIE O’CONNOR: Jerusalem Ridge/Duo (self/15)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: For Your Love/Lovin’ Of the Game (Compass)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Spring Membership Campaign - March 18, 2023
NOTE: all music by performers coming to the 2023 Berkeley Bluegrass Festival
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Bring It On Home To Me/Echoes of the Mountains (Rounder/08)
LAURA LOVE: This Train>Ezekiel Saw the Wheel/NeGrass (self/07)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Stasbourg-St Denis/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
SISTER SADIE: Katy Daly/Live at the Hall (Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum/21)
PETER ROWAN: New York Town/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Down on the Levee/Trees (Spruce and Maple/23)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Hartford's Lawn/Uncaged Thoughts (self/20)
MR SUN: Likes Of You/Live at the Freight (self/18)
LARRY & JOE: Nuevo South Train/Nuevo South Train, Vol. I (self/23)
LARRY & JOE: Gabanjo/Nuevo South Train, Vol. II (self/23)
SISTER SADIE: Don’t Tell Me Stories/Live at the Hall (Country Music HOF and Museum/21)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Old Slewfoot/Tearin’ Outta the Wilderness (self/18)
MR SUN: Just a Little Lovin’/Extrovert (Compass/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Enough/Trees (Spruce and Maple/23)
PETER ROWAN (with TONY RICE): You Were There For Me/YWTFE (Rounder/04)
LAURA LOVE: Sakatchewan (Juneteenth)/NeGrass (self/07)
MR SUN: Braker’s Bakedown/Extrovert (Compass/22)
PETER ROWAN: Frog On the Lily Pad/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - March 25, 2023
NOTE: all releases in 2022 or 2023, except as noted.
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Love Train/single (Pinecastle)
LORI KING & JUNCTION 63: Mercy of a Train/Straight from the Heartland (self)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Forsaken Love/Let Time Ride (Billy Blue)
THE TENNESSEE BLUEGRASS BAND: Far From You/The Future Of the Past (Billy Blue)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Alberta Bound/Great Blue North (Compass)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Flying Backpp To You/Travelers Rest (Tinfoil)
NICKEL CREEK: Where the Long Line Leads/Celebrants (Thirty Tigers)
BIG HOWDY: You're the Only One For Me/single (self)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Up On the Divide/single (Free Dirt)
RETRO 78: Black Vinyl 45/single (Ram Cat)
LARRY SPARKS: Sweetheart/It’s Just Me (Rebel)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: Shady Grove (featuring ALICE GERRARD)/While You Were Slumbering (Sleepy Cat)
MISSY RAINES & ALLEGHENY (featuring DANNY PAISLEY): These Old Blues/Highlander (Compass)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Alabama Waltz > Wolves Howling/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
DOM FLEMONS: Tough Luck/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
IRIS DEMENT: Workin' On A World/Workin' On A World (self)
MARTY STUART & HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES: Altitude/Altitude (Snakefarm)
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JASON BARIE: Bottom Of the Ninth, Pickin’ In the Parlor/Radioactive (Billy Blue)
FOG HOLLER: The Genuine Guarantee/Fog Holler (Chicken Cairn)
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Fool’s Gold/Fool’s Gold (self)
CHRIS JONES: The Price Of Falling/single (Mountain Home)
PAM GADD: Inch By Inch/single (self)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Johnny's Peacock > The Red-Tailed Hawk/Travelers Rest (Tinfoil Studios)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Flatt & Scruggs - live in concert - April 1, 2023
FLATT & SCRUGGS: At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (Koch/62)
theme -
Rueben
Salty Dog Blues
band intro
Durham's Reel
Down the Road
Rainbow
Big Ball In Brooklyn
Flint Hill Special
Dig A Hole In the Meadow aka Darling Corey
Hot Corn, Cold Corn
Little Darlin' Pal Of Mine
You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming
The Martha White Theme
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
He Will Set Your Field On Fire
Let the Church Roll On
Wildwood Flower
Fiddle & Banjo aka Wild Horses At Stoney Point
(Old) Leather Britches
Ballad Of Jed Clampett
(Yonder Stands) Little Maggie
Reuben
Mama Blues
I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome
Foggy Mountain Rock
Take This Hammer
McKinley's Gone aka White House Blues
Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms
add Merle Travis:
Gotta Travel On
Mountain Dew
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Recorded Live At Vanderbilt University (Columbia/63)
Intro
Long Journey Home
Maggie Blues
Paul & Silas
Cannonball Blues
You Are My Flower
(My Home’s) Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
Old Folks
Going Back to Harlan aka Shady Grove
Wabash Cannonball
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - April 8, 2022
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival (and other) Musical Previews - April 15, 2023
host: Leah Wollenberg
SISTER SADIE: Well/single (Mountain Home/23)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Crooked Mind/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Long Gone/Trees (Spruce & Maple/forthcoming - 23)
MR. SUN: Tamp 'Em Up Solid/Extrovert (Compass/22)
GENA BRITT: Untold Stories/Chronicles: Friends and Music (Pinecastle/19)
PETER ROWAN: Veil of Deja Blue/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
BIRCHES BEND: Bent Creek/While We’re Waiting (self/22)
HANNAH MAYREE (of Black Banjo Reclamation Project): Home/Thoughts Of the Night (self/17)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Great Occasion/Tearin’ Outta the Wilderness (self/18)
PETER ROWAN: Light at the End of the World/Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel/22)
LAURA LOVE: Angry Days/NeGrass (Octoroon/07)
LARRY & JOE: Gabanjo/Nuevo South Train (self/23)
JAELEE ROBERTS: Sad Songs/Something You Didn’t Count On (Mountain Home/22)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Just a Little Ways Down the Road/Trees (Spruce & Maple/forthcoming - 23)
DEANIE RICHARDSON: Walkin in My Sleep/Circle Up (Engelhardt/21)
MR. SUN: Blackbird/Extrovert (Compass/22)
ELI WEST: Johnny Wombat/Tapered Point of Stone (self/21)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Blackjack Davy/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt/23)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Daylighting the Creek/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
FOG HOLLER: Spanish Moss/Fog Holler (self/22)
JACOB JOLLIFF BAND: One Night in Glasgow/The Jacob Jolliff Band (self/22)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Pond Mountain Breakaway/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Sally Goodin/The Way Things Are (Musix/99)
DIX BRUCE & JIM NUNALLY: Foggy Mountain Special/From Fathers To Sons (Musix/95)
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April 22, 2023 is Earth Day, so KALW had special programming all day
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Allegra Picks ‘Em & Plays ‘Em - April 29, 2023
Host: Allegra Thompson
JERRY WICENTOWSKI: Travelin’ This Lonesome Road/Thanks, Mac! (Wizgrass/17)
TIM O’BRIEN: Look Down That Lonesome Road/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Ease On Down/Jump the Fire (Evil Diane/16)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Daylighting the Creek/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: River Under The Road/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
CALEB KLAUDER: Deep River/Western Country (Quicksilver Productions/10)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Half Past Four/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
DOM FLEMONS: Nobody Wrote It Down/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways/23)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: The Banks of the Miramichi/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Maple’s Lament/Restless Rambling Heart (Flying Fish/86)
MARK SCHATZ & BRYAN MCDOWELL: Muskrat/Grit & Polish (self/21)
JAKE BLOUNT: Boll Weevil/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
SAMI BRAMAN: Weevils in the Grits/Riveter (Padiddle/23)
BOSCO TAKAKI: As Time Draws Near/Bosco (Old Time Tiki Parlour/23)
THE BOW TIES: Close By/Old Morphine (self/17)
GINNY HAWKER: Long Black Limousine/Letters From My Father (Rounder/01)
KATHY KALLICK: Put My Little Shoes Away/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: I Know Whose Tears/Live At Brandywine Friends (self/12)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: I Don't Want to Say Goodbye/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
BILL EVANS: The Distance Between Two Points/In Good Company (Native and Fine/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Flatt & Scruggs On the Radio, 1953-1955 - May 6, 2023
host: Ryan Breen
All selections: Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: Live on WSM Radio (except as noted)
theme -
2 O’Clock
Martha White theme
I’m Gonna Settle Down
Me & My Fiddle
Cumberland Gap
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
I’ll Go Stepping Too
Give Me the Roses Now
Black Mountain Rag
Pain In My Heart
Martin Waltz
Someone Took My Place With You
I’m Head Over Heels In Love
Steel Guitar Rag
A Purple Heart
Over the Hills To the Poorhouse
Doing My Time
Moonlight On My Cabin
Lover’s Lane
Martha White theme
Nobody Loves Me
Nine Pound Hammer
You Took My Sunshine
We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore
Martha White theme (waltz)
Alimony
Mama’s Blues
Joy Bells
Cumberland Gap
Don’t Get Above Your Raising
Sawin’ On the Strings
Foggy Mountain Rock
Don’t Forget Me
Turkey In the Straw
I’d Rather Be Alone
Martha White theme
calendar -
WINDY HILL: Pinecone Banjo/Lonesome Garbage Man (self/13)
WINDY HILL: Run On Banjo/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self/17)
WINDY HILL: Springfield Connection 745/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self/17)
JERRY & THE WISEMAN INSTITUTE: Four Walls All Around Me/Live at the Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival (2019)
previewing
Jerry & the Wiseman Institute [Jerry Wicentowski (gtr, ld vocal) w/ Butch Waller (mando), Keith Little (bjo), Tom Bekeny (fid), and Steve Pottier (bs)] -
- May 8: house concert in Mountain View; info/res: [email protected]
- May 9: house concert in Oakland; info/res: [email protected]
- May 10: house concert in Santa Cruz; infor/res: [email protected]
- May 11: Hopmonk Tavern, Sebastopol
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy BirthdayS, Johnnie and Jack - May 13, 2023
Note: JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS tracks taken from Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Master Tape) and/or Johnnie & Jack and the Tennessee Mountain Boys (Bear Family). Recording dates are included in this playlist.
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Love In the First Degree (3/25/47)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: What About You (1/31/49)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: What About You/1971-1973 (Rebel/73)
AMY & HAILEY: What About You/Sidekick Sessions (self/22)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Poison Love (3/27/50)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Poison Love/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/51)
ALISON KRAUSS: Poison Love/Windy City (Capital/17)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: I'm Gonna Love You One More Time (10/17/50)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Crying Heart Blues (5/6/51)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide (5/6/51)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: You Tried To Ruin My Name/Early Recordings (County [Columbia]/52)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: You Tried To Ruin My Name (10/12/51)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ashes of Love (10/12/51)
JIM & JESSE: Ashes of Love/Superior Sounds Of Bluegrass (Old Dominion/74)
HOTMUD FAMILY: Ashes of Love/Buckeyes In the Briar Patch (Vetco/75)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: (Down) South in New Orleans (4/1/53)
MAC MARTIN & THE CALIFORNIA TRAVELERS: (Down) South in New Orleans/Live at RBA (self/08)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Don't Say Goodbye if You Love Me/Live In Holland (Strictly Country/83)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Don't Say Goodbye if You Love Me (7/14/53)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Oh Baby Mine (I Get So Lonely) (2/21/54)
JOHNNIE & JACK and THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Want To Be Loved (12/14/55)
DELIA BELL: I Want To Be Loved/Bluer Than Midnight (County/78)
JOHNNIE & JACK with KITTY WELLS: At KWKH (Bear Family/48)
Wake Up, Susan (fiddle tune)
Little Cabin Home On The Hill
Love Or Hate Kitty, lead (original)
It's Raining On The Mountain (theme)
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PAUL WARREN with THE NASHVILLE GRASS: fiddle tune medley/America's Greatest Breakdown Fiddle Player (CMH/78)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Gearin’ Up For Grass Valley - May 20, 2023
MATT & GEORGE & THEIR PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS: Matt and George's Blue Grass Style Show, episodes 1 and 2 (Pleasant Valley Music/23)
- On & On
- Pleasant Vally Hop
- I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
- Does It Have To End This Way
- Why Did You Wander
WEST 45: That’s How I Got To Memphis/demo (self)
CLINTON DAVIS BAND: Curly Headed Woman (Hesitation Blues)/If I Live and I Don’t Get Killed (Tiki Parlour/21)
HOT OCTOBER: If I Knew Your Name/Chevy Van Sessions
WATER TOWER BAND: Take Me Back/Live at The Garage in Camp Verde, AZ (2022)
MATT & GEORGE & THEIR PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS: Matt and George's Blue Grass Style Show, episode 3 (Pleasant Valley Music/23)
- A Voice From On High
- To A Cross On A Lonely Dark Hill
- You Can Feel It In Your Soul
- I’m Travelin’ On & On
CLINTON DAVIS BAND: The Wild Horse, All Night Long/If I Live and I Don’t Get Killed (Tiki Parlour/21)
BIRCHES BEND: Dusty Fields/While We're Waiting (self/22)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Down By the Old Pier/The Thing Of Dreams (self/22)
MARIN COUNTY BREAKDOWN: New Man/demo (self)
ANGEL CITY BLUEGRASS BOYS: Let Me Fall/demo (self)
DELTA GRASS: Crazy Heart/demo (self)
TOUBLE TOWN: Texas Eagle/Live at the Sales Force Rooftop Park, SF (2-12-22)
CALTUCKY: Black Bart/Live on KVMR (FDF 6-18-22)
WHOLE HOG: Cheyenne/demo (self)
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BLUEGRASS COUNTRY ONLY -
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Give A Little Back - May Membership Campaign #2
Broadcast dates: May 22-28, 2023
theme –
CHUBBY WISE: Give the Fiddler A Dram/Hoedown #2 (Stoneway/73)
GINGER BOATRIGHT: Give A Little Back/Fertile Ground (Flying Fish/91)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: Give This Message To Your Heart/Sing and Play Their Current Hits (Capitol/62)
HAZEL DICKENS: They’ll Never Keep Us Down/Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (Rounder/80)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Give Me the Roses While I Live/1971-1973 (Rebel)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Give Me the Flowers (While I'm Living)/Songs of Glory (Columbia/60)
LARRY STEPHENSON: Give Me the Chance/Far Away in Tennessee (Pinecastle/12)
MOTHER MAYBELLE CARTER: Give Me Your Love and I’ll Give You Mine/A Living Legend (Columbia/66)
J.D. CROWE, PAUL WILLIAMS, DOYLE LAWSON: Give Me Your Hand/Old Friends (Mountain Home/10)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin)/2 (Rounder/90)
RONNIE & ROB McCOURY: Thanks A Lot/Ronnie & Rob McCoury (Rounder/95)
SALLY JONES: Thanks Again/Songs About Us (Gal Sal/07)
SELDOM SCENE: California Cottonfields/Live at the Cellar Door (Rebel/75)
SELDOM SCENE: Hit Parade Of Love/Live at the Cellar Door (Rebel/75)
THE WHITES: Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling/Old Familiar Feeling (Warner Bros/83)
THE WATSON FAMILY: Give the Fiddler A Dram/Tradition (Rounder/64)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country: Bluegrass Classics With a Focus on Fiddlers - May 27, 2023
host: Sully Roddy
GID TANNER & HIS SKILLET LICKERS: Soldier’s Joy/Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection of Recordings (RCA BMG/29)
RILEY PUCKETT: Ragged But Right/Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection of Recordings (RCA BMG/34)
JIMMIE RODGERS: Waiting For a Train/Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection of Recordings (RCA BMG/28)
ARTHUR SMITH with DON RENO: Feudin’ Banjos/Best of Bluegrass Vol. One (Polygram/55)
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS: Salty Dog Blues/Best of Bluegrass Vol. One (Polygram/52)
SYNCOPATHS: Merriweather/Five Gears (self/10)
BENSON: Living in These Troubled Times/Pick Your Poison (Mountain Home/23)
IRIS DEMENT: Workin’ on a World/Workin’ on a World (Flariella/23)
KODY NORRIS SHOW: Fiddlers Rock/Rhinestone Revival (Rebel/23)
BENNY MARTIN: Big Tiger Revival/30 Fiddlers’ Greatest Hits (King/61)
A.J. LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: I’ll Come Back/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
EVERLY BROTHERS: Bye Bye Love/Heartaches and Harmonies (Rhino/57)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Honey Babe Blues/Sittin’ Here Pickin’ the Blues (Rounder/84)
BLIND WILLIE McTELL: Statesboro Blues/The Blues Collection (Orbis/28)
THE COX FAMILY: Pardon Me/Everybody’s Reaching Out For Someone (Rounder/93)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Why Don’t You Tell Me So/Blue Ribbon Bluegrass (Rounder/75)
CURLY RAY CLINE & THE LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Kentucky Fiddler/30 Fiddlers’ Greatest Hits (King/62)
LEFTOVER SALMON: Blue Railroad Train/Grass Roots (Compass/23)
LINDLEY CREEK: Fare Thee Well/Pincecastle Sampler (Pinecastle/23)
RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Long Time Traveling/Hard Times (Flying Fish/81)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: El Dorado/City of Gold (Nonesuch/22)
LARRY & JOE: Gavilan Tocuyano (Pablo Canela)/Larry and Joe (self/23)
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN: I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You/Tall Tales (High Tone/99)
BOB WILLS & THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Beaumont Rag/30 Fiddlers’ Greatest Hits (King/38)
DAN TYMINSKI: Keep Your Eyes on Kentucky/God Fearing Heathen (8 Track Entertainment/23)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Can’t You Hear Me Calling/The Best of Bluegrass Vol. One (Polygram/63)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: No Hiding Place/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
WILLIAM J. BELL: Syncopatin’ Shuffle/Son of Rounder Banjo (Rounder/92)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: June Membership Campaign – June 3, 2023
theme:
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Twin Sisters/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Dry and Dusty>Duck River/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Ninety Degrees/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
DOM FLEMONS: Big Money Blues/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
DOM FLEMONS: Saddle It Around/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE: D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin)/2 (Rounder/90)
SALLY JONES: Thanks Again/Songs About Us (Gal Sal/07)
DOM FLEMONS: Guess I’m Doing Fine/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
ANNIE & NICK: Pretty Little Indian/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Ducks On the Millpond/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Little Rabbit/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
DOM FLEMONS: Tough Luck/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
DOM FLEMONS: Nobody Wrote It Down/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
GINGER BOATRIGHT: Give A Little Back/Fertile Ground (Flying Fish/91)
THE WHITES: Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling/Old Familiar Feeling (Warner Bros/83)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Pa Janvier/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
ANNIE STANINEC & NICK HORNBUCKLE: Chinquapin Pie/Twin Sisters (Ruby’s Slipper)
DOM FLEMONS: Rabbit Foot Rag/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: (Mostly) Music Coming To Grass Valley - June 10, 2023
host: Leah Wollenberg
RHONDA VINCENT: Drivin Nails in My Coffin/The Storm Still Rages (Rounder/01)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: El Dorado/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
JAKE BLOUNT: The Downward Road/The New Faith (Smithsonian-Folkways/22)
MILE TWELVE: Anywhere Town/Close Enough to Hear (self/23)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: Fiddler's Rock/Rhinestone Revival (Rebel/23)
NEVER COME DOWN: New Year’s Day Blues/Better Late Than Never (self/21)
BLUE HIGHWAY: Ain't No Better, Ain't No Worse/Somewhere Far Away: Silver Anniversary (Rounder/19)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: Alabama Waltz/Oh Do You Remember (self/12)
SETH MULDAR & MIDNIGHT RUN: The Mountains Are Calling/The Mountains Are Calling (Mountain Fever/22)
ALLISON deGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Featherbed/Hurricane Clarice: Outtakes, Vol. 1 (Free Dirt/23)
ELI WEST: Brick in the Road/ Tapered Point of Stone (Tender and Mild/21)
EAST GRASS NASH: Time At Hand/single? (Mountain Fever/23)
THE BOW TIES: Your Saddle Is Empty, Old Pal/Old Morphine (self/17)
THE JACOB JOLIFF BAND: Don’t Cry Blue/The Jacob Joliff Band (Adhyâropa/22)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Rosco's Ramble/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus/21)
BIRCHES BEND: Oxen Run > Lily Pond/While We’re Waiting (self/22)
SAM BUSH: California Earthquake/Radio John - Songs of John Hartford (Smithsonian Folkways/22)
SAM GRISMAN PROJECT: Shady Grove/Temple Cabin Sessions, Volume I (SGP/23)
MISSION BLUE: East Virginia Blues/Live at the Back Room (self/20)
TALL POPPY STRING BAND: Kiss Me Quick My Papa's a Coming/Tall Poppy String Band (self/22)
PUNCH BROTHERS: Moonshiner/Ahoy (Nonesuch/12)
HAWKTAIL: Abbzug/Unless (Padiddle/18)
SAMI BRAMAN: Train In the Wilderness/Riveter (Padiddle/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - June 17, 2023
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Pride - June 24, 2023
Producer/host: Kevin Vance
JUSTIN HILTNER, MELODY WALKER & FRIENDS: Live and Let Live/single (Bluegrass Pride/19)
TALL POPPY STRING BAND:The Coo Coo/Tall Poppy String Band (self/22)
JUSTIN HILTNER (with CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER): Wildflowers Don't Care Where They Grow/single (self/23)
TALL POPPY STRING BAND: The Train That Carried My Man From Town/Tall Poppy String Band (self/22)
MELODY WALKER & MOLLY TUTTLE: Bigger Than This/Live At Carter’s Vintage Guitars, Nashville (2017)
MELODY WALKER & MERCY BELL: Jesus Was A Drag Queen/single (self/23)
THE HIGH WATER LINE: North Of Jackson/Introducing The High Water Line (self/19)
CRYS MATTHEWS: The Prodigal Son/Come What May (self/14)
HEATHER MAY: Be Not Afraid/Glimmer (self/19)
GANGSTAGRASS: You Can Never Go Home Again/American Music (Rench Audio/15)
WILLI CARLISLE: Cheap Cocaine/Too Nice To Mean Much (self/16)
THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Missing Her Has Never Slowed Me Down/Never Slow Down (Smithsonian-Folkways/22)
JAKE BLOUNT: The Angels Done Bowed Down/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
JACKIE & RESA: Mean Church People/single (self/20)
LISA LIU: Duke and Dukie/Introducing ... Lisa Liu (self/20)
LARRY & JOE: Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms/Nuevo South Train (self/23)
ISMAY: Sonoma Mountain Theme/Songs of Sonoma Mountain (self/20)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER: Dancin' In the Kitchen/Dancin' In the Kitchen (Community Music/20)
ROBIN FLOWER & LIBBY McLAREN: Kitchen Girl>Boost's Paw>Mayflies On The Water/One Plus One (Little Cat/15)
SAM GLEAVES (with TIM O’BRIEN): Ain't We Brothers?/Ain't We Brothers? (Community Music/15)
GINA FORSYTH: Fourth Of July/Promised Land (Waterbug/12)
WOODY SIMMONS: Banjo Raga/Oregon Mountain (Deep River/77)