BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Remembering & Honoring Earl; R.I.P., Terry Baucom; Happy Birthday, Suzanne Thomas – Jan. 6, 2024
NOTE: The initial broadcast of the first 50 minutes was on March 31, 2012, three days after the passing of Earl Scruggs.
theme –
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Foggy Mountain Chimes/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/53)
Introduction and commentary by BILL EVANS
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Cumberland Gap (mid-1950s radio show)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Why Did You Wander? (Live at the Opry/c. 46)
Introduction and commentary by LARRY COHEA
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/55)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: You Can Feel It In Your Soul/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/55)
Introduction and commentary by AVRAM SIEGEL
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Down the Road/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Sally Goodin/Foggy Mountain Banjo (Columbia/61)
Introduction and commentary by RYAN BREEN
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Foggy Mountain Breakdown/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/49)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: I'm Head Over Heels In Love/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/51)
In-studio jam – Live at KALW (March 31, 2012):
EVANS, COHEA, SIEGEL, & BREEN: Fireball Mail
EVANS, COHEA, SIEGEL, & BREEN: Lonesome Road Blues
EVANS, COHEA, SIEGEL, & BREEN: Foggy Mountain Special
MIKE WITCHER (with RYAN CAVANAUGH): Salt Creek/mikewitcher.com (2013)
MIKE WITCHER (with SCOTT NYGAARD): Banks Of the Ohio/Peghead Nagtion (2015)
TERRY BAUCOM: Knee Deep In Bluegrass/Knee Deep In Bluegrass - The AcuTab Sessions (Rebel/00)
BOONE CREEK: Head Over Heels/One Way Track (Sugar Hill/78)
TERRY BAUCOM: What’ll I Do/Never Thought Of Looking Back (John Boy & Billy/13)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: Thinking About You/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (Sugar Hill/79)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Please Don't Wake Me/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy to Me/Years In the Making (Vetco/78)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: A Mother's Last Words To Her Daughter/Just For the Record (Rounder/93)
SUZANNE THOMAS: Just A Few More Days/Dear Friends & Gentle Hearts (Rounder/98)
BILL EVANS: Heavy Traffic Ahead, New Black Eyed Susie/Bill Evans Plays Banjo (Rounder/01)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: New Beginnings, Moving On - Jan. 13, 2024
host: Leah Wollenberg
KATHY KALLICK: Call Me A Taxi/Call Me a Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
TIM O’BRIEN & DARRELL SCOTT: Walk Beside Me/Real Time (Full Light/05)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Time Changes Everything/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/60)
SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Bury My Troubles/Up the Hill and Through the Fog /21)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Two More Years and I’ll Be Free/Long Journey Home (Country/66)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Leaving Eden/Leaving Eden (Nonesuch/21)
LAURIE LEWIS: Quaking Aspen/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
MILE TWELVE: Sunny Side of Town/Onwards (self/17)
HAZEL DICKENS: You’ll Get No More of Me/It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (Rounder/87)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (self/21)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Farewell Blues/Presenting Flatt & Scruggs (Mercury/51)
DEL McCOURY BAND: All Aboard/Live From The Factory (Music City Roots/9-22-16)
HOT RIZE: Nellie Kane/So Long a Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
TONY RICE: Song for Life/Cold on the Shoulder (Rounder/84)
CLARENCE WHITE: Country Boy Rock & Roll/33 Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals (Sierra/62)
THE ONLIES: Going Across the Sea/The Onlies (self/20)
HAWKTAIL: Updraft/Place of Growth (Paddidle/22)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: I’m Walkin’ the Dog/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
MIGHTY POPULAR: Blackjack Davy/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt/23)
JAKE BLOUNT: Goodbye, Honey, You Call that Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Jump Up and Go/Jump the Fire (Evil Diane/16)
DOM FLEMONS featuring SAM BUSH: Guess I’m Doing Fine/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways/23)
ETHAN JODZIEWICZ & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Farewell to Trion/Ethan Jodziewicz & Tatiana Hargreaves (self/15)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Gotta Travel On/Blue Grass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58)
ART STAMPER: Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston/Goodbye Girls, I'm Going To Boston (County/00)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Few Old Memories - Jan. 20, 2024
HAZEL DICKENS: A Few Old Memories/It's Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song (Rounder/87)
DAVE EVANS: My Bluegrass Memories/My Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
STANLEY BROTHERS & CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Keep A Memory/The Early Starday-King Years (King/59)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Memories Of You/Castle Studio Sessions (RWA - Richard Weize Archives/50)
KATHY KALLICK: Save Everything/Matters Of The Heart (Sugar Hill/93)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Souvenirs/The Lonesome Chroinicles (Live Oak/23)
TONY HOLT & THE WILDWOOD VALLEY BOYS: Just Another Souvenir/Lost Highways & Treasured Memories (Old Heritage/11)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Memories and Dreams/Ramblin’ Bluegrass (Gusto/72)
CHARLIE SIZEMORE: A Dream Where A Memory Used To Be/Back Home (Rebel/93)
BILL GRANT, DELIA BELL & THE KIAMICHI MOUNTAIN BOYS: Memory of Your Smile/My Pathway Leads To Oklahoma (Kiamichi/78)
THE NEW COOK CREEK GIRLS featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY: Your Memory's Not Going Anywhere/Our Point Of View (Pinecastle/12)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: I’ll Remember You Love In My Prayers/1971-1973 (Rebel/72)
CHRIS BRASHEAR & PETER McLAUGHLIN: Remember, I Feel Lonesome Too/Canyoneers (Copper Creek/03)
RENO & SMILEY: Please Remember That I Love You/Wanted (For More Fine Country Music) (King/61)
DON RENO, RED SMILEY & THE TENNESSEE CUT-UPS: All I Have Is Just A Memory/Early Years (King/57)
farewell to Bluegrass Country -
NORMAN BLAKE & TUT TAYLOR: Memories/Flat Pickin' In the Kitchen (Tut Lee/97)
calendar -
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foggy Mountain Chimes, Roscoe Got the Rabbit/The Lonesome Chroinicles (Live Oak/23)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Memories That Bless And Burn (Rounder/99)
JUNIOR SISK: She’s Just a Memory/Brand New Shade of Blue (Mountain Fever/18)
JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: A Memory Of You/1952-55 (Capitol/55)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Your Memory/Big Country Bluegrass (Hay Holler/97)
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Memories That We Shared/Let the Whole World Talk (Rounder/87)
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Memories Cover Everything I Own/Let the Whole World Talk (Rounder/87)
SARAH ELIZABETH CAMPBELL: To Remember/A Little Tenderness (Kaleidoscope/90)
JOHN REISCHMAN & JOHN MILLER: Souvenir de Caracas/The Singing Moon (Corvus/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Grammy Nominations - Jan. 27, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
BILLY STRINGS & WILLIE NELSON: California Sober/single (Reprise/23)
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA: You Can’t Hurry God/Echoes of the South (Single Lock/23)
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW: The Ballad of Jubilee Jones/Jubilee (ATO/23)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: More Like a River/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
RODNEY CROWELL: Lucky/The Chicago Sessions (New West/23)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: For Your Love/Lovin’ of the Game (Compass/22)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Let Him Go On Mama/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt Records/23)
SAM BUSH: In Tall Buildings/Radio John: The Songs of John Hartford (Smithsonian Folkways/22)
DOLLY PARTON: The Last Thing On My Mind/I Am a Pilgrim: 100 Years of Doc Watson (FLI/23)
WILLIE NELSON: Still is Still Moving To Me/Bluegrass (Legacy/23)
BILLY STRINGS: Way Downtown/Me/and/Dad (Rounder/22)
EAST NASH GRASS: I Almost Told Her/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Freight Train Blues/Sittin’ Here Pickin’ the Blues (Rounder/04)
THE TUTTLES with AJ LEE: Train on the Island/Introducting the Tuttles with AJ Lee (Back Studio/10)
THE HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN: Sally Goodin’/Tall Tales (Hightone/99)
NATALIE & BRITTANY HAAS: Harvelands Valsen/Potatis Valsen/Haas (Padiddle/23)
HOMER & JETHRO: I Got Rhythm/Homer & Jethro Sing Tenderly and Other Great Love Ballads (RCA Victor/65)
JASON CARTER: Kissimmee Kid/Lowdown Hoedown (Fiddle Man/22)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: It’s Lonesome Everywhere I Go/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
AJ LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: I’ll Come Back/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
GILLIAN WELCH: Barroom Girls/Revival (Almo/96)
AMANDA COOK: New Star/Restless Soul (Mountain Fever/23)
NOAH VANNORSTRAND: Avocet/Wingspan (Great Bear23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass-Cajun Cross-Pollination & Some Musical Previews - Feb. 3, 2024
host: Allegra Thompson
HAAS KOWERT TICE: The Decade/You Got This (self/14)
MARK SCHATZ & BRYAN MCDOWELL: The Girl I Love Don't Pay Me No Mind/Grit & Polish (self/21)
CANOTE BROTHERS: What Did I Do With That Thinga-Ma-Jig/Thinga-Ma-Jig (Clone Tone/06)
HIGH COUNTRY: The Earthquake/Earthquake (Strictly Country/97)
STANLEY BROTHERS: The Flood/Selected Cuts 1952 - 1959 (Mercury/57)
LAURIE LEWIS: Down On the Levee/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
PIEDMONT BLUZ: When the Levee Breaks/Ambassadors Of Country Blues (self/19)
BILL MONROE: Sally-Jo/Brand New Shoes (Decca/58)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: When I Loved You/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
GREENBRIAR BOYS: Alligator Man/Better Late Than Never! (Vanguard/66)
REEB WILLMS: Cry Cry Darlin’/Farewell, Alligator Man: a Tribute to the Music of Jimmy C. Newman (Valcour/17)
TIM O’BRIEN: Kelly Joe's Shoes/Traveler (Sugar Hill/03)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: Jack of Diamonds/Old As Dirt (Native and Fine/02)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Happy One Step & Road to Malvern/Salt Box (Fenchurch/24)
HOOT AND HOLLER: Goodbye Boozy Suzy/Reasons to Run (self/17)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: ‘Tits Yer Bleaux/Outshine The Sun (self/11)
ANNIE STANINEC: Madaline/Annie Staninec (self/15)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: You Didn’t Have To Go/Oh Do You Remember (West Sound/12)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: Hippé Taiaud/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/83)
BALFA BROTHERS: Flammes D’enfer/Live Recording (unreleased/76)
BALFA BROTHERS: J’ai Passe Devant Ta Porte/Live Recording (unreleased/76)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Lake Arthur Stomp/They All Played For Us: Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Celebration (Arhoolie/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Feb. 10, 2024
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, released in 2024 or late 2023.
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES (with Dudley Connell): Will You Ever Be Mine/single (Sugar Petunia)
MISSY RAINES (with Dudley Connell): Ghost Of A Love/Highlander (Compass)
MISSY RAINES (with Laurie Lewis): I Would Be A Blackbird/Highlander (Compass)
LAURIE LEWIS: Just A Little Ways Down The Road/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
LAURIE LEWIS: Texas Wind/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
EDGAR LOUDERMILK: The Banks Of The River/single (Pinecastle)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: If I Lose/The Rosewood Sessions (Rosewood/06)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Love and Wealth/The Rosewood Sessions (Rosewood/06)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: This Old Lonesome Song/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
THE PRICE SISTERS: There's A Song In There Somewhere/There's A Song In There Somewhere (McCoury Music)
THE PRICE SISTERS: When I'm Not Thinking About You/There's A Song In There Somewhere (McCoury Music)
DEL McCOURY BAND: If You Talk In Your Sleep/single (McCoury Music)
BELA FLECK: Rhapsody In Blue(grass)/Rhapsody In Blue (Thirty Tigers)
DAVE ATKINS: Bad Moon Rising/What I’m For (Billy Blue)
BILLY GILMAN (with RHONDA VINCENT): That’s Bluegrass To Me/single (Pinecastle)
BLUEGRASS EXPRESS: Don’t Say Goodbye If You Love Me/Tribute to Jim & Jesse (Plum River)
calendar –
HAWKTAIL + VASEN: Tell Me Whatcha Gonna Do Now/Live at Fuller Hall, St Johnsbury, VT (Less Than Face/10-28-23)
HAWKTAIL + VASEN: Kackerlackan/Live in the studio (8-31-23)
THE BOW TIES: Old Reuben No. 1/Old Morphine (self/17)
WINDY HILL: You’ll Never Know/Live from the Ratz Nest (Hoss Unit/18)
THE CANOTE BROTHERS: Railroad Dog/Live at the NimbleFingers Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Workshop, Sorrento, BC (Aug., 2022)
THE CANOTE BROTHERS: Dogs In The Dishes/Dogs In the Dishes (CloneTone/13)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Feb. 17, 2024
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, released in 2024 or late 2023.
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Born To Be With You/+1 (Compass/20)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE and THE PUNCH BROTHERS): Born To Be With You/3+ (Compass)
THE BLUE RIDGE GIRLS: Wildflowers/3614 Jackson Highway (self)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Wildflowers/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: 25 Chickens/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
CHRIS BURTON: How Are Your Tomatoes This Year?/single (self)
BENNY MARTIN & HIS ELECTRIC TURKEYS: Freight Train Blues/Turkey in the Grass (CMH/77)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Blow Whistle/Pages In Your Hand (Mountain Home)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Those Gambler’s Blues/Pages In Your Hand (Mountain Home)
KING STREET BLUEGRASS: Try My Way/single (self)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Blues Of the Night/single (Mountain Home)
SISTER SADIE: Blue As My Broken Heart/No Fear (Mountain Home)
SISTER SADIE: Baby You’re Gone/No Fear (Mountain Home)
WYATT ELLIS (featuring LAUREN PRICE NAPIER): Wildwood/Happy Valley (Knee-High Records)
WYATT ELLIS (featuring DAVID McLAUGHLIN): Johnson Mountain Blues/Happy Valley (Knee-High Records)
APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW (featuring DOLLY PARTON): In Time, Jubilation/Jubilation (Billy Boy)
APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW: Hard Times In The Mines/Jubilation (Billy Boy)
LIAM PURCELL & CANE MILL ROAD: Homesick For Virginia/Yellow Line (Pinecastle)
SERENE GREEN: Back To Appalachia/If It Wasn’t For Longing (Patuxent)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Happy One Step>Road to Malvern/Salt Box (Fenchurch)
calendar –
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Scorpio's Return/Salt Box (Fenchurch)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Minnie Put the Kettle On>Killavil Reel/Salt Box (Fenchurch)
GREG BLAKE: It Ain't Their Heart That's Breaking/single (Turnberry)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I'm Gonna Miss This House/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
ANDY LEFWICH: Behind the 8-Ball/single (Mountain Home)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: New Releases - Feb. 24, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
PAUL WHITMAN & HIS CONCERT ORCHESTRA (with GEORGE GERSHWIN): Rhapsody in Blue (Victor/1924)
BELA FLECK: Rhapsody in Blue(grass)/Rhapsody in Blue (Thirty Tigers/2024)
RICK FARIS: The Power of Love/Uncommon Sky (Dark Shadow Recordings/23)
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Roll On Blues/Blue Diamond (Rounder/93)
EAST NASH GRASS: Starlet Iris/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Hard Time Killing Floor/Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium (Concord/23)
ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS: Last Kind Word Blues/Raise the Roof (Rounder/21)
DANILO BRITO & DAVID GRISMAN: Perpetual Dawg/Dawgnilo! (Acoustic Disc/24)
RED KNUCKLES AND THE TRAILBLAZERS: Texas Hambone Blues/Hot Rize Presents Red Kuckles and the Trailblazers (Flying Fish/82)
BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: That’s What I Like ‘Bout the South/Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys (Columbia/47)
ALISON BROWN: Foggy Morning Breaking/Alison Brown on Banjo (Compass/23)
AUTHENTIC UNLIMITED: Thank You God For Grace/Gospel Sessions Vol. 2 (Billy Blue/24)
MAHALIA JACKSON: Let the Church Roll On/The Essential Mahalia Jackson (Columbia/55)
ALISON KRAUSS AND THE COX FAMILY: Walk All Over God’s Heaven/I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (Rounder/94)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: 25 Chickens/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak Music/23)
STANLEY BROTHERS AND THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow/The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers (Columbia/51)
WYATT ELLIS: Happy Valley (feat. Dominic Leslie/Happy Valley (Knee High Music/24)
LESTER FLATT AND EARL SCRUGGS: Old Salty Dog Blues/The Best of Bluegrass Vol. 1: Classics (Mercury/52)
THE GOODWIN BROTHERS: Barefoot Girl/If You Hadn’t Noticed (Pinecastle/23)
FULL CORD: I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You/Cambium (Dark Shadow/23)
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN: There’ll Be Some Changes Made/Tall Tales (Hightone/99)
ALBERT LEE: Country Boy/Hiding (A&M/79)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, John Reischman - March 2, 2024
host: Leah Wollenberg
JOHN REISCHMAN: Eighth of February/Up in the Woods (Corvus/99)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: It’s Gonna Rain/Part of a Story (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock/86)
JOHN REISCHMAN, SCOTT NYGAARD, SHARON GILCHRIST: I Am A Pilgrim/Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
JOHN RESICHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Gonna Walk/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
TONY RICE UNIT: Birdland Breakdown/Still Inside (Rounder/81)
JOHN REISCHMAN (featuring BRUCE MOLSKY): Side By Each/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Old World Style/Sweet Old Religion ( 2018
JOHN RESICHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: The Jaybird Song/Stellar Jays (Corvus/07)
JOHN RESICHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Little Pine Siskin/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Just Like Rain/Together (Kaleidoscope>Rounder/91)
TONY RICE UNIT: On Green Dolphin Street/Backwaters (Rounder/82)
JOHN REISCHMAN & JOHN MILLER: Pacoca/The Bumpy Road (Corvus/02)
JOHN RESICHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: The First Whippoorwill/Vintage & Unique (Corvus/11)
JOHN REISCHMAN, SCOTT NYGAARD, SHARON GILCHRIST: The Road to the Malvern/Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Get Up, Go to Work/I Can’t Stand to Ramble (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock/83)
TONY RICE UNIT: Vonetta/Still Inside (Rounder/81)
JOHN RESICHMAN: The Coyote Trail/Old Time New Acoustic (Corvus/21)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Kissing Comes Easy/I Can’t Stand to Ramble (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock/83)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & LAUREL BLISS: Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy to Me/Girl From Jericho (Copper Creek/03)
JOHN RESICHMAN: Suzanne’s Journey/Old Time New Acoustic (Corvus/21)
JOHN RESICHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up in the Woods (Corvus/99)
JOHN RESICHMAN: Salt Spring/Old Time New Acoustic (Corvus/21)
JOHN RESICHMAN: Brooks/North of the Border (Rounder/93)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - March 9, 2024
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Spring Membership Campaign - March 16, 2024
theme -
THE PRICE SISTERS: Tuel’s Landing/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
THE PRICE SISTERS: Weary Lonesome Blues/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
LAURIE LEWIS: Hound Dog Blues/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
MISSY RAINES: These Old Blues/Highlander (Compass)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Lonesome Dobro Blues/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
LAURIE LEWIS: Down On the Levee/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
THE PRICE SISTERS: Deep River/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
THE PRICE SISTERS: What Am I Gonna Do/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Just Lonesome Ol' Me and the Radio/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
MISSY RAINES: Cryin' & Singin'/Highlander (Compass)
LAURIE LEWIS: Texas Wind/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
MISSY RAINES: Listen To the Lonesome Wind/Highlander (Compass)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: It’s Lonesome Everywhere I Go/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
MISSY RAINES: Ghost Of A Love/Highlander (Compass)
THE PRICE SISTERS: I Can Read Between the Lines In Your Letters/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: A Lonesome Feeling/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
LAURIE LEWIS: Long Gone/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
MISSY RAINES: Are You Ready To Say Goodbye?/Highlander (Compass)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I'm Gonna Miss This House/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
THE PRICE SISTERS: Rabbit in the Rosebush/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy 78th/78s/1946 - March 23, 2024
theme –
OLD & IN THE WAY: Old & In The Way Breakdown/Breakdown (Acoustic Disc/73)
SNUFFY JENKINS & PAPPY SHERRILL (3-23-15): intro/33 Years Of Pickin' And Pluckin’ (Rounder/71)
BYRON PARKER & HIS HILLBILLIES: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Early Days Of Bluegrass (Rounder/46)
FIDDLIN’ JOHN CARSON (3-23-1868): The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Going To Crow/Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Volume 1 (Document/23)
OLD AND IN THE WAY (David Grisman: 3-23-45): Old and In the Way/Old and In the Way (Sugar Hill/73)
HAZEL DICKENS: Old and (Only) In the Way/By The Sweat Of My Brow (Rounder/84)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Old and In the Way/The King Years 1961-1965 (King/63)
TED LUNDY & BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN BOYS: Grown Old/Lovesick and Sorrow (Rounder/78)
DAVE EVANS: Be Proud Of the Grey In Your Hair/Goin' 'Round This World (Rebel/81)
CLYDE DAVENPORT: My Old Grey Beard's A-Flappin'/The American Fogies, Vol. 1 (Rounder/95)
BILLY & TERRY SMITH: Touch Of Grey/Long Live the Dead (K-Tel/96)
JOHN PRINE & MAC WISEMAN: Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age/Standard Songs for Average People (Oh Boy/07)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Time (Live Oak/12)
JAMES KING: I Just Want To Grow Old Lovin' You/Webco Classics, Vol. 2 (Pinecastle/89)
OLA BELLE (REED &) THE NORTH CAROLINA RIDGERUNNERS: (It’s) Raining, Raining Here This Morning/78 (Security/46)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Rocky Road Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/46)
DELMORE BROTHERS: Freight Train Boogie/Freight Train Boogie (King>Ace/46)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Tennessee Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/46>49)
MONROE BROTHERS: My Long Journey Home/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/36)
CHARLIE MONROE & HIS KENTUCKY PARDNERS: It's Only A Phonograph Record/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family/47)
WHITEY & HOGAN: Have I Told You Lately That I Love You/Sunny Side Of Life (B.A.C.M./46)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Why Don’t You Tell Me So/1948-1959 (Bear Family/49)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Let Me Be Your Friend/The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers (Columbia/49)
MOLLY O'DAY & THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN FOLKS: Too Late-Too Late/ Molly O'Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks (Bear Family/47)
THE LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Lonesome, Sad, and Blue/Windy Mountain (Bear Family/50)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Big Midnight Special (Bear Family/50)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Bluegrass Stomp/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/49)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - March 30, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
DANILO BRITO & DAVID GRISMAN: Dawgalipso/Dawgnilo! (Acoustic Disc/24)
NEW GRASS REVIVAL: Vamp in the Middle/When the Storm is Over (Flying Fish/77)
DANNY BURNS: Dirty Old Town (feat. Sam Bush)/Promised Land (Bonfire/23)
DARYL MOSLEY: Big God (feat. Ronnie Booth)/A Life Well Lived (Bonfire/23)
SONS OF THE PIONEERS: You Must Come in at the Door/Sons of the Pioneers (Columbia/37)
REVEREND TIMOTHY WRIGHT & THE NEW YORK FELLOWSHIP MASS CHOIR: You Must Come in at the Door/Jesus, Jesus, Jesus (Koch Records/07)
PETE SEEGER: Mail Myself To You/We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert (Columbia/63)
THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: Hopin That You’re Hoping/ single (Columbia/56)
EAST NASH GRASS: Railroadin’ and Gamblin’/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW: Keel Over and Die/Jubilee (ATO/23)
BUTCH ROBBINS: I’ll Be On That Good Road Someday (feat. Alan O’Bryant)/The Fifth Child (Rounder/80)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Wellington/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
DON WILLIAMS: Till the Rivers All Run Dry/single (ABC Dot/75)
THE BAND: When I Paint My Masterpiece/Cahoots (Capitol/71)
TONY TRISCHKA: Brown’s Ferry Blues (feat. Billy Strings) /Earl Jam: a Tribute to Earl Scruggs (Down the Road/24)
KENNY BAKER: Lost Indian/Master Fiddler (County/93)
COLE GALLAGHER: Delilah/The Confluence (self/23)
THE AMAZING RHYTHM ACES: These Dreams of Losing You/The Amazing Rhythm Aces Ride Again (ABC/76)
RUTH WYAND: Windy and Warm/Guitar Routes (self/23)
TIM RAYBON BAND: Headed Back to Tulsa/Bonfire Sampler (Pinecastle/24)
JASON CARTER: Kissimmee Kid/Lowdown Hoe Down (FiddleMan/22)
HANK SNOW: The Golden Rocket/The Essential Hank Snow (RCA/50)
LAUREL CANYON RAMBLERS: He Said If I Be Lifted Up/Rambler’s Blues (Sugar Hill/95)
DOYLE LAWSON AND QUICKSILVER: Rock My Soul/Rock My Soul (Sugar Hill/81)
ALAN MUNDE: Holler Up a Possum/Excelsior (Patuxent/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - April 6, 2024
NOTE: all tracks released in 2024, except as noted.
STEVE MARTIN & ALISON BROWN: Bluegrass Radio/single (Compass)
TONY TRISCHKA (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE & SAM BUSH): Dooley/Earl Jam: A Tribute to Earl Scruggs (Down the Road)
REBECCA FRAZIER: Make Hay While the Moon Shines/single (Amtoco)
EVIE LADIN: Cozy/Live At the Freight & Salvage (Evil Diane)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Let Me Roll/Salt Box (Fenchurch)
PAPER WINGS: Is It True?/Listen To the World Spin (self)
VIV & RILEY: Time Is Everything/single (Free Dirt)
TRAY WELLINGTON BAND: Lift Up Every Stone/single (Mountain Home)
JUNIOR SISK: If There's a Will, There's a Way/If There's a Will, There's a Way (Mountain Fever)
RED CAMEL COLLECTIVE: Roll On Mississippi/single (Pinecastle)
JUNIOR SISK: Nothing's Good About Goodbye/If There's a Will There's a Way (Mountain Fever)
BECKY BULLER: Alone/single (Dark Shadow)
MISSION BLUE: Memories & Dreams/Traditional Ways (self)
MISSION BLUE: Peggy O/Traditional Ways (self)
MISSION BLUE: Walkin' Down the Line/Traditional Ways (self)
other musical previews …
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Katy Bar the Door/Live at Deep End Sessions (5-12-18)
THE SLOCAN RAMBLERS: East Virginia Blues/Live at the Station Inn (10-10-22)
SALTY SALLY: Unbroken/Live at La Peña Cultural Center (11-12-23)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Souvenirs/Live at the Freight & Salvage (9-28-23)
JOHN JORGENSON BLUEGRASS BAND: I Will Shelter/Live at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival (2-14-16)
SIDELINE: The Lives Of the Innocent/single (Mountain Home)
JACOB JOLIFF: Vera/Instrumentals Vol. 2: Mandolin Mysteries (Adhyâropa)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival (and other) Previews – April 13, 2024
APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW: Hard Times In The Mines/Jubilation (Billy Blue/22)
NEVER COME DOWN: Better Late Than Never (NimbleFingers 2023)
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Fool's Gold/Fool's Gold (self/23)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Together (Kaleidoscope>Rounder/91)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Just A Little Ways Down The Road/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Weather Song/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
HARD DRIVE: Where Is My Sailor Boy?/Random Access Mash (self/19)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: My Home In Virginia/Rhinestone Revival (Rebel/23)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle/21)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS BLUEGRASS BAND: Chalk up Another One/Innocent Road (self/20)
MARIN COUNTY BREAKDOWN: New Man/demo (self/22)
SALTY SALLY: Quiet Quincy/Live at the La Peña Cultural Center (11/12/23)
FOG HOLLER: Los Angeles Desert Blues/Fog Holler (self/22)
HARD DRIVE: Shanghai Rooster/Live at Rockbridge (self/21)
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KATHY KALLICK BAND featuring ANNIE STANINEC -
- Roscoe/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
- Roscoe Got the Rabbit/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
other musical previews -
SWEET SALLY with SIERRA HULL: Grey Owl/Live at High Sierra Music Festival (7-2-23)
JOHN JORGESON BLUEGRASS BAND: Midnight Flyer/Live at The Factory (Music City Roots/5-10-17)
SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Mighty Hard Road/Queen City Jubilee (2018)
HYDRA-MATIC DRIVE BLUEGRASS BAND: Home Far Away/demo (self)
PAM BRANDON & MAURIE TANI: Brown Eyed Women/single (self/22)
SAM GRISMAN PROJECT: Reuben and Cerise/Live at FreshGrass (2023)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Sittin' On Top Of the World - April 20, 2024
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SCOTTDALE STRING BAND: Sitting On Top Of the World/single (Okeh/30)
THE MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS: Sitting On Top Of the World/single (Okeh/30)
SHELTON BROTHERS: Sittin' On Top Of The World/Vol.2: Beautiful Louisiana (B.A.C.M./35)
BOB WILLS: I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World/The Bob Wills Anthology (Columbia/35)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/58)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Sitting On Top Of the World/45 (Gateway/62)
THE CARTER FAMILY: Sitting On Top Of the World/On Border Radio 1938-1942, Vol. 3 (Arhoolie/39)
DOC WATSON: Sitting On Top Of the World/Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sitting On Top Of the World/Live in Japan (Rebel/71)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Sittin' On Top Of the World/Live (self/12)
KATHY KALLICK (with TRISTAN SCROGGINS): Sittin' On Top Of the World/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin' On Top Of the World/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/99)
SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE McGHEE: Sitting On Top Of the World/Home Town Blues (Mainstream/65)
RAY CHARLES TRIO: Sitting On Top Of the World/single (Swing Time/50)
HOWLIN’ WOLF: Sitting On Top Of the World/The Original Masterpieces (Chess/57)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Sitting On Top Of the World/Steppin’ Out (Arista/72)
WALT COCHRAN & HIS HOLLY RIVER BOYS: I'm Sittin' On Top Of the World/single (Olimpic/63)
JACK WHITE: Sitting On Top Of the World/Cold Mountain - Music From The Miramax Motion Picture (DMZ-Sony-Columbia/03)
TARA NEVINS: Sitting On Top Of the World/Mule To Ride (Sugar Hill/99)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Sitting On Top Of the World/Color Of the Blues (Strictly Country/94)
WILLIE NELSON & ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL (featuring Elizabeth McQueen): I’m Sittin' On Top of the World/Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux/09)
JAMES “BLOOD” ULMER with ALISON KRAUSS: Sitting On Top Of the World/Lightning in a Bottle (Columbia/04)
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK: Sitting On Top Of the World/I Believe I’ll Run On (Redwoods/78)
ROBERT CRAY BAND: Sitting On Top Of The World/Cookin' In Mobile (Nozzle-Vanguard/10)
BILL FRISELL: Sittin' On Top Of the World/The Willies (Nonesuch/02)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - April 27, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Let Me Fall/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/19)
SYNCOPATHS: Meriweather/Five Gears (self/10)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Blackjack Davy/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt/23)
THE BLUE SKY BOYS: Sunny Side of Life/single (Bluebird/36)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Poor Boy Blues/Two Days in November (Poppy/74)
HOT RIZE: Texas Hambone Blues/Extra Attaction Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers in Concert (Flying Fish/84)
LINDSAY LOU: Nothing Else Matters/Queen of Time (Kill Rock Stars/23)
MARY McCASLIN: Prairie in the Sky/Prairie in the Sky (Philo/75)
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG: Teach Your Children/single (Atlantic/70)
BONNIE RAITT: Big Road Blues/Bonnie Raitt (Warner Brothers/71)
CHRIS SMITHER: Time to Move On/All About the Bones (Signature Sounds/24)
THE PRICE SISTERS: Don’t Mind Me/Between the Lines (McCoury Music/23)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Blues Of the Night/The Winning Hand (Mountain Home/24)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Alice In the Bluegrass/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: When My Race is Won/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW: One Drop (feat. Mavis Staples)/Jubilee (ATO/23)
WYATT ELLIS: Wildwood (feat. Lauren Price Napier/Happy Valley (Knee High Music/24)
DELMORE BROTHERS: Pan American Boogie/single (King/49)
THE TRAVELIN’ MCCOURYS: Runaway Train/forthcoming album (McCoury Music/24)
EAST NASH GRASS: Railroadin’ and Gamblin’/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
LAURIE LEWIS: Long Gone/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Just Lonesome Ol’ Me and the Radio/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
KEITH WHITLEY & RICKY SKAGGS: Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown/2nd Generation Bluegrass (Rebel/71)
TONY RICE: Old Train/Manzanita (Rounder/75)
BUTCH ROBBINS: I’ll Be On That Good Road Someday/The Fifth Child (Rounder/80)
DANILO BRITO & DAVID GRISMAN: In Santa Cruz/Dawgnilo! (Acoustic Disc/24)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks – May 4, 2024
VIV & RILEY: The Blackest Crow/single (Free Dirt/24)
ANN SAVOY: Waterloo Sunset/Another Heart (Smithsonian-Folkways/24)
THE ONLIES: Matty Groves/single (self/24)
THE ONLIES: Deep End Sessions - June 22, 2019
Troubles
All Young
Old Soph’s Cumberland Gap
House Carpenter
Piper’s Run
THE ONLIES: Deep End Sessions - June 22, 2019
Lonesome Pine Special
Dear Little Soldier Boy > Preacher’s Unknown Tune
Let’s Be Lovers Again aka Lover's Quarrel
Molly in the Window > Cups and Mugs
Chilly Winds
ASHBY FRANK: Knee Deep In Bluegrass/single (Mountain Home)
TONY TRISCHKA with BILLY STRINGS: Brown’s Ferry Blues/Earl Jam (Down the Road/24)
RHONDA VINCENT: Please Mr. Please/single (self/24)
LORI KING & JUNCTION 63: Where Dear Friends Will Never Part/Straight From the Heartland (JLK Music/24)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: Take Me To The Mountains (Leather/81 >Rebel/24)
Take Me To The Mountains
Undone In Sorrow aka Over Yonder In The Graveyard
This Kind Of Love
DEL McCOURY: Livin’ On the Mountain (Grasssound/71 >Rebel/24)
Livin' On The Mountain
Don't Stop The Music
Golden Slippers
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Wake Frankfield Memorial Celebration – May 11, 2024
intro -
FRANK WAKEFIELD: KALW I.D. >
RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE KENTUCKIANS: Catnip/bluegrass (Folkways/64)
MARVIN COBB, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE CHAIN MOUNTAIN BOYS: New Camptown Races/The Early Days Of Bluegrass (Rounder/57)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & BUSTER TURNER: Leave Well Enough Alone/single (Wayside/57)
THE RED HEADS: You’ll Always Be Untrue/single (BMC/59)
RED ALLEN & FRANK WAKEFIELD: Summertime Is Past And Gone/The Kitchen Tapes (Acoustic Disc/63)
RED ALLEN & FRANK WAKEFIELD: I’m Just Here To Get My Baby Out of Jail/The Kitchen Tapes (Acoustic Disc/63)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & RED ALLEN: Bluegrass Mandolin (as Mountain Strings)/The Mountain Music Sound Of the Stanley Brothers (Starday/62)
RED ALLEN & FRANK WAKEFIELD: Alone and Forgotten/The WDON Recordings (Patuxent/63)
RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE KENTUCKIANS: Somebody Loves You, Darling/bluegrass (Folkways/64)
RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE KENTUCKIANS: Deep Elem Blues/bluegrass (Folkways/64)
RED ALLEN featuring FRANK WAKEFIELD: Lonesome Weary Heart/Keep On Going: The Rebel And Melodeon Recordings (Rebel/63)
RED ALLEN featuring FRANK WAKEFIELD: Faded Memory/Keep On Going: The Rebel And Melodeon Recordings (Rebel/63)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: I’ll Never Make You Blue/single (Silver-Belle/65)
THE GREENBRIER BOYS: The Train That I Ride/Better Late Than Never (Vanguard/66)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Jesus Loves His Mandolin Player #16/Frank Wakefield (Rounder/72)
THE GOOD OLD BOYS: Pistol Packin' Mama/Pistol Packin' Mama (Round/75)
THE GOOD OLD BOYS: Drink Up & Go Home/Drink Up & Go Home (Rockbeat/75)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Blues Stay Away From Me/Blues Stay Away From Me (Takoma/80)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: When I Stop Dreaming/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: End Of the Rainbow/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Midnight On The Mandolin/The BlueGrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/81?)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Play It Pretty, Me/Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza (Acoustic Disc/99)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Ownself Blues/Ownself Blues (Patuxent/09)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Letter From My Darling/A Tribute To Bill Monroe (Patuxent/11)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: When You Are Lonely/A Tribute To Bill Monroe (Patuxent/11)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Waltz In Bluegrass/That Was Now … This Is Then (Rosewood/96)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Next Sunday Is My Birthday - May 18, 2024
host: Allegra Thompson
STANLEY BROTHERS: Next Sunday Darling Is My Birthday/16 Greatest Hits (King/59)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: Y’all Come/Bluegrass 1950-1958, Vol. 3 (Decca/54)
MIKE BRYANT & PAUL BROWN: Sweet Sixteen on Sunday/Mike Bryant & Paul Brown (Old Time Tiki Parlour/18)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Blackjack Davy/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt/23)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Nancy Blevins/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
BIG RICHARD: Greasy Coat/Live From Telluride (self/22)
TIM O’BRIEN: Bear/Cup of Sugar (Howdy Skies/23)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Half Past Four/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
PAPER WINGS: Left Hand Lane/Listen to the World Spin (self/24)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Souvenirs/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
NEW DANGERFIELD: Dangerfield Newby (Free Dirt/24)
BRANDON GODMAN: Cry Baby Bridge/I Heard the Morgan Bell (self/24)
BEN HUNTER & JOE SEAMONS with PHIL WIGGINS: Shanghai Rooster/A Black & Tall Ball (self/17)
HORSENECKS: Melvin Wine’s Uncle Pen/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
BIGFOOT: I Wish I Had My Time Again/I've Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
LEAH LARSON: Dangerous Boys/Long Journey (Spruce and Maple/04)
JERRON PAXTON & DENNIS LICHTMAN: When The World Is At Rest/Jerron Paxton & Dennis Lichtman (self/21)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER: My Huge Mistake/Get Up & Do Right (self/20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Coffeeshop/Evie Ladin Band LIVE (Evil Diane/24)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Down Home Dispensary/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: Is It All Over/Imaginary People (Free Dirt/23)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Goodbye Waltz/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - May 25, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
CHRIS SMITHER: All About the Bones/All About the Bones (Signature Sounds/24)
JAKE BLOUNT: The Downward Road/The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways/22)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES: Who’s That Knocking At My Door/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/83)
JILL ROGERS & CRYING TIME: Devil in the Details/Many Worlds Theory (WCC/23)
BOSWELL SISTERS: 42nd Street/Volume Two 1930-1935 (Biograph/82)
BOB WILLS & THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS: That’s What I Like About the South/Legends of Country Music (Columbia/06)
LAURIE LEWIS: Just a Little Ways Down the Road/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
EAST NASH GRASS: Papa’s On the Housetop/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Why Don’t You Tell Me So/The New South (Rounder/75)
JEFF TALMADGE: Hurricane/Sparrow (Berkalin/24)
RORY BLOCK: Bye Bye Blues/Mama’s Blues (Rounder/91)
TONY RICE: Blue Railroad Train/ Manzanita (Rounder/78)
NOAH VANNORSTRAND: The Avocet>Wingspan/ Share the Moon (Great Bear/23)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: There’s a Bright Side Somewhere/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/19)
RALPH STANLEY: Palms of Victory/Shine On (Rebel/05)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Can’t Live Without Love/single (Sugar Petunia/23)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Saltbox (self/24)
BELA FLECK: Rhapsody In Bluegrass/Rhapsody In Blue (Thirty Tigers/24)
OLIVIA JO: Nothing to Lose/single (self/23)
BENSON: Conway/Pick Your Poison (Mountain Home Music, Crossroads/23)
BILLY JOE SHAVER: The Devil Made Me Do it the First Time/Salt of the Earth (Columbia/87)
STONY EDWARDS: Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul/Mississippi You’re On My Mind (Capitol/75)
BILLY STRINGS: Know it All/Renewal (Rounder/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: June Membership Campaign - June 1, 2024
All selections from Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal) - music recorded live in the KALW studios from 1999-2019
theme -
CRYING UNCLE: Dawg’s Waltz (11/9/19)
THE TUTTLE FAMILY: White Freightliner Blues (10/22/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: Darling Nellie Across the Sea (11/21/15)
ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe (4/27/13)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Messenger (5/10/03)
EARL SCRUGGS TRIBUTE QUARTET: Foggy Mountain Special (3/31/12)
WINDY HILL: What Are You Doing Here Today? (3/10/12)
BLUE & LONESOME: Foggy Mountain Top (2/27/10)
THE SECRET LIFE OF BANJOS: Lonesome Polka (1/7/06)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin’ On Top Of the World (8/21/99)
THOMPSONIA: River Bottom Blues (12/9/17)
THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Boats Up the River (5/3/08)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Gonna Write Me A Letter (3/20/04)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Still Love You Still (4/28/18)
THE BAREFOOT NELLIES featuring MOLLY TUTTLE: A Few Old Memories (10/22/08)
DAVID THOM BAND: Never Been So Lonesome (10/16/11)
HIGH COUNTRY: Blues For Your Own (8/21/99)
FOG HOLLER: Spider Dance (4/28/18)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND DUO: All Night Long (aka Richmond Blues) (7/16/17)
SKILLET LICORICE: Babe (11/9/19)
THE CROOKED JADES: Valley Forge (5/27/17)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Gearing Up For Grass Valley - June 8, 2024
TROUBLE TOWN: Love Off My Mind/Live at Bird & Beckett (self/6-11-23)
ONE BUTTON SUIT: Ophelia/demo (self/17)
SALTY SALLY: Mockingbird/Live at the Sugar Pine Festival (2023)
SOLID GOLD STRANGER: LA Looks/demo (self/24)
CALTUCKY: Dead Man’s Hand/Live at Vern’s Stage (CBA/23)
COUNTRY GONGBANG: Born To Be Chicken/We All Need Bluegrass (self/18)
MOSTLY MARYS: Think Of What You’ve Done/demo (self/22)
HYDRA-MATIC DRIVE: Before I Met You/demo (self/17)
THE TOWN HOWLERS: Radio Boogie/Live at the Starry Plough (self/6-2-18)
HAY BLACKBIRD: Train on the Island/Hay Blackbird (self/23)
CLINTON DAVIS BAND: Curly Headed Woman/If I Live and I Don’t Get Killed (Tiki Parlour/21)
PAUL BROWN & TERRI McMURRY: Rocking In A Weary Land/Slow Jam Fizz (Berkeley Old Time Music Convention/3-19-21)
THE HORSENECKS: Started Out In Town/Started Out In Town (Tiki Parlour/21)
MISSION BLUE DUO: Rosa Lee McFall/demo (self/24)
BEAN CREEK: Home In the Mountains/Home Again (Sloughfish/19)
JOHN BARLEYCORN: Foggy Mountain Top/Live at Salesforce Rooftop Park (self/23)
LONESOME STILL: Jack Of No Trades/demo (self/22)
LUCAS LAWSON & THE UNTURNED STONE: Everywhere/Live at Wind River Studio (self/23)
WELCOME WEST: Gettin’ Older/demo (self/24)
SYCAMORE BEND: Cold Hard Winter/Live in either Clovis or Porterville (2021)
SAVAGE BOND: Learning From Vern & Ray/AmeriCali Alley (self/23)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
ALISON BROWN: Foggy Morning Breaking/On Banjo (Compass/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Summer Membership Campaign - June 9-22, 2024
MOLLY & JACK TUTTLE: The Old Apple Tree/The Old Apple Tree (Back Studio/07)
THE TUTTLE FAMILY: White Freightliner Blues/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/08)
THE BAREFOOT NELLIES featuring MOLLY TUTTLE: A Few Old Memories/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/08)
THE TUTTLES with A.J. LEE: It's A Long Road/Introducing the Tuttles with A.J. Lee (Back Studio/10)
THE TUTTLES with A.J. LEE: Where the Old Red River Flows/Endless Ocean (Back Studio13)
THE TUTTLES WITH AJ LEE: Devil On My Mind/In the Deep Rolling Hills Of San Francisco (Bluegrass Signal/13)
THE TUTTLES WITH A.J. LEE: Another Side/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/1-3-13)
MOLLY TUTTLE & JOHN MAILANDER: Red Prairie Dawn/Molly Tuttle & John Mailander (Back Studio/14)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Black-Eyed Susie/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Little Annie/Handmade To Hand Played (Preston Guitars/20)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Broken Tie/Turn Your Radio Online (CBA/20)
KATHY KALLICK with MOLLY TUTTLE: Put My Little Shoes Away/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
MOLLY & JACK TUTTLE: Alabama Jubilee/The Old Apple Tree (Back Studio/07)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - June 15, 2024
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Festival - June 22, 2024
25th Anniversary Celebration!
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Live At KALW (Aug. 21, 1999)
- Sittin’ On Top Of the World
- Sow ‘Em On the Mountain (aka You’re Gonna Reap Just What You Sow)
- Broken Hearted Lover
- Away Out On The Old Saint Sabbath
HIGH COUNTRY: Live At KALW (Aug. 21, 1999)
- I Hear A Choo-Choo Coming
- Perfect Companion
- Louisville Breakdown
- Finally Home
- Blues For Your Own
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BRANDON GODMAN: I Heard The Morgan Bell (self/23)
- All Cooped Up
- Thelma Lilly
- Godman's Bottoms
THE MARIN BLUEGRASS SESSIONS support band (Bruce Sadownick, Sonia Shell, Jack Murphy, Dana Roth, Marc Francis) - live
- Hold Whatcha Got
- Down the Road
- Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow
- Dark Hollow
- Roving Gambler
- Walk the Way the Wind Blows
- Love Of the Mountains
NOTE: The initial broadcast of the first 50 minutes was on March 31, 2012, three days after the passing of Earl Scruggs.
theme –
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Foggy Mountain Chimes/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/53)
Introduction and commentary by BILL EVANS
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Cumberland Gap (mid-1950s radio show)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Why Did You Wander? (Live at the Opry/c. 46)
Introduction and commentary by LARRY COHEA
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/55)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: You Can Feel It In Your Soul/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/55)
Introduction and commentary by AVRAM SIEGEL
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Down the Road/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Sally Goodin/Foggy Mountain Banjo (Columbia/61)
Introduction and commentary by RYAN BREEN
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Foggy Mountain Breakdown/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/49)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: I'm Head Over Heels In Love/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/51)
In-studio jam – Live at KALW (March 31, 2012):
EVANS, COHEA, SIEGEL, & BREEN: Fireball Mail
EVANS, COHEA, SIEGEL, & BREEN: Lonesome Road Blues
EVANS, COHEA, SIEGEL, & BREEN: Foggy Mountain Special
MIKE WITCHER (with RYAN CAVANAUGH): Salt Creek/mikewitcher.com (2013)
MIKE WITCHER (with SCOTT NYGAARD): Banks Of the Ohio/Peghead Nagtion (2015)
TERRY BAUCOM: Knee Deep In Bluegrass/Knee Deep In Bluegrass - The AcuTab Sessions (Rebel/00)
BOONE CREEK: Head Over Heels/One Way Track (Sugar Hill/78)
TERRY BAUCOM: What’ll I Do/Never Thought Of Looking Back (John Boy & Billy/13)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: Thinking About You/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (Sugar Hill/79)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Please Don't Wake Me/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy to Me/Years In the Making (Vetco/78)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: A Mother's Last Words To Her Daughter/Just For the Record (Rounder/93)
SUZANNE THOMAS: Just A Few More Days/Dear Friends & Gentle Hearts (Rounder/98)
BILL EVANS: Heavy Traffic Ahead, New Black Eyed Susie/Bill Evans Plays Banjo (Rounder/01)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: New Beginnings, Moving On - Jan. 13, 2024
host: Leah Wollenberg
KATHY KALLICK: Call Me A Taxi/Call Me a Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
TIM O’BRIEN & DARRELL SCOTT: Walk Beside Me/Real Time (Full Light/05)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Time Changes Everything/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/60)
SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Bury My Troubles/Up the Hill and Through the Fog /21)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Two More Years and I’ll Be Free/Long Journey Home (Country/66)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Leaving Eden/Leaving Eden (Nonesuch/21)
LAURIE LEWIS: Quaking Aspen/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
MILE TWELVE: Sunny Side of Town/Onwards (self/17)
HAZEL DICKENS: You’ll Get No More of Me/It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (Rounder/87)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Not Gonna Cry Over You/I’ll Come Back (self/21)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Farewell Blues/Presenting Flatt & Scruggs (Mercury/51)
DEL McCOURY BAND: All Aboard/Live From The Factory (Music City Roots/9-22-16)
HOT RIZE: Nellie Kane/So Long a Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
TONY RICE: Song for Life/Cold on the Shoulder (Rounder/84)
CLARENCE WHITE: Country Boy Rock & Roll/33 Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals (Sierra/62)
THE ONLIES: Going Across the Sea/The Onlies (self/20)
HAWKTAIL: Updraft/Place of Growth (Paddidle/22)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: I’m Walkin’ the Dog/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
MIGHTY POPULAR: Blackjack Davy/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt/23)
JAKE BLOUNT: Goodbye, Honey, You Call that Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Jump Up and Go/Jump the Fire (Evil Diane/16)
DOM FLEMONS featuring SAM BUSH: Guess I’m Doing Fine/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways/23)
ETHAN JODZIEWICZ & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Farewell to Trion/Ethan Jodziewicz & Tatiana Hargreaves (self/15)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Gotta Travel On/Blue Grass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58)
ART STAMPER: Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston/Goodbye Girls, I'm Going To Boston (County/00)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Few Old Memories - Jan. 20, 2024
HAZEL DICKENS: A Few Old Memories/It's Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song (Rounder/87)
DAVE EVANS: My Bluegrass Memories/My Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
STANLEY BROTHERS & CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Keep A Memory/The Early Starday-King Years (King/59)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Memories Of You/Castle Studio Sessions (RWA - Richard Weize Archives/50)
KATHY KALLICK: Save Everything/Matters Of The Heart (Sugar Hill/93)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Souvenirs/The Lonesome Chroinicles (Live Oak/23)
TONY HOLT & THE WILDWOOD VALLEY BOYS: Just Another Souvenir/Lost Highways & Treasured Memories (Old Heritage/11)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Memories and Dreams/Ramblin’ Bluegrass (Gusto/72)
CHARLIE SIZEMORE: A Dream Where A Memory Used To Be/Back Home (Rebel/93)
BILL GRANT, DELIA BELL & THE KIAMICHI MOUNTAIN BOYS: Memory of Your Smile/My Pathway Leads To Oklahoma (Kiamichi/78)
THE NEW COOK CREEK GIRLS featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY: Your Memory's Not Going Anywhere/Our Point Of View (Pinecastle/12)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: I’ll Remember You Love In My Prayers/1971-1973 (Rebel/72)
CHRIS BRASHEAR & PETER McLAUGHLIN: Remember, I Feel Lonesome Too/Canyoneers (Copper Creek/03)
RENO & SMILEY: Please Remember That I Love You/Wanted (For More Fine Country Music) (King/61)
DON RENO, RED SMILEY & THE TENNESSEE CUT-UPS: All I Have Is Just A Memory/Early Years (King/57)
farewell to Bluegrass Country -
NORMAN BLAKE & TUT TAYLOR: Memories/Flat Pickin' In the Kitchen (Tut Lee/97)
calendar -
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foggy Mountain Chimes, Roscoe Got the Rabbit/The Lonesome Chroinicles (Live Oak/23)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Memories That Bless And Burn (Rounder/99)
JUNIOR SISK: She’s Just a Memory/Brand New Shade of Blue (Mountain Fever/18)
JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: A Memory Of You/1952-55 (Capitol/55)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Your Memory/Big Country Bluegrass (Hay Holler/97)
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Memories That We Shared/Let the Whole World Talk (Rounder/87)
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Memories Cover Everything I Own/Let the Whole World Talk (Rounder/87)
SARAH ELIZABETH CAMPBELL: To Remember/A Little Tenderness (Kaleidoscope/90)
JOHN REISCHMAN & JOHN MILLER: Souvenir de Caracas/The Singing Moon (Corvus/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Grammy Nominations - Jan. 27, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
BILLY STRINGS & WILLIE NELSON: California Sober/single (Reprise/23)
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA: You Can’t Hurry God/Echoes of the South (Single Lock/23)
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW: The Ballad of Jubilee Jones/Jubilee (ATO/23)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: More Like a River/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
RODNEY CROWELL: Lucky/The Chicago Sessions (New West/23)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: For Your Love/Lovin’ of the Game (Compass/22)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Let Him Go On Mama/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt Records/23)
SAM BUSH: In Tall Buildings/Radio John: The Songs of John Hartford (Smithsonian Folkways/22)
DOLLY PARTON: The Last Thing On My Mind/I Am a Pilgrim: 100 Years of Doc Watson (FLI/23)
WILLIE NELSON: Still is Still Moving To Me/Bluegrass (Legacy/23)
BILLY STRINGS: Way Downtown/Me/and/Dad (Rounder/22)
EAST NASH GRASS: I Almost Told Her/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Freight Train Blues/Sittin’ Here Pickin’ the Blues (Rounder/04)
THE TUTTLES with AJ LEE: Train on the Island/Introducting the Tuttles with AJ Lee (Back Studio/10)
THE HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN: Sally Goodin’/Tall Tales (Hightone/99)
NATALIE & BRITTANY HAAS: Harvelands Valsen/Potatis Valsen/Haas (Padiddle/23)
HOMER & JETHRO: I Got Rhythm/Homer & Jethro Sing Tenderly and Other Great Love Ballads (RCA Victor/65)
JASON CARTER: Kissimmee Kid/Lowdown Hoedown (Fiddle Man/22)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: It’s Lonesome Everywhere I Go/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
AJ LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT: I’ll Come Back/I’ll Come Back (Old White Horse/21)
GILLIAN WELCH: Barroom Girls/Revival (Almo/96)
AMANDA COOK: New Star/Restless Soul (Mountain Fever/23)
NOAH VANNORSTRAND: Avocet/Wingspan (Great Bear23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass-Cajun Cross-Pollination & Some Musical Previews - Feb. 3, 2024
host: Allegra Thompson
HAAS KOWERT TICE: The Decade/You Got This (self/14)
MARK SCHATZ & BRYAN MCDOWELL: The Girl I Love Don't Pay Me No Mind/Grit & Polish (self/21)
CANOTE BROTHERS: What Did I Do With That Thinga-Ma-Jig/Thinga-Ma-Jig (Clone Tone/06)
HIGH COUNTRY: The Earthquake/Earthquake (Strictly Country/97)
STANLEY BROTHERS: The Flood/Selected Cuts 1952 - 1959 (Mercury/57)
LAURIE LEWIS: Down On the Levee/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
PIEDMONT BLUZ: When the Levee Breaks/Ambassadors Of Country Blues (self/19)
BILL MONROE: Sally-Jo/Brand New Shoes (Decca/58)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: When I Loved You/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
GREENBRIAR BOYS: Alligator Man/Better Late Than Never! (Vanguard/66)
REEB WILLMS: Cry Cry Darlin’/Farewell, Alligator Man: a Tribute to the Music of Jimmy C. Newman (Valcour/17)
TIM O’BRIEN: Kelly Joe's Shoes/Traveler (Sugar Hill/03)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: Jack of Diamonds/Old As Dirt (Native and Fine/02)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Happy One Step & Road to Malvern/Salt Box (Fenchurch/24)
HOOT AND HOLLER: Goodbye Boozy Suzy/Reasons to Run (self/17)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: ‘Tits Yer Bleaux/Outshine The Sun (self/11)
ANNIE STANINEC: Madaline/Annie Staninec (self/15)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: You Didn’t Have To Go/Oh Do You Remember (West Sound/12)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: Hippé Taiaud/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/83)
BALFA BROTHERS: Flammes D’enfer/Live Recording (unreleased/76)
BALFA BROTHERS: J’ai Passe Devant Ta Porte/Live Recording (unreleased/76)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Lake Arthur Stomp/They All Played For Us: Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Celebration (Arhoolie/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Feb. 10, 2024
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, released in 2024 or late 2023.
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES (with Dudley Connell): Will You Ever Be Mine/single (Sugar Petunia)
MISSY RAINES (with Dudley Connell): Ghost Of A Love/Highlander (Compass)
MISSY RAINES (with Laurie Lewis): I Would Be A Blackbird/Highlander (Compass)
LAURIE LEWIS: Just A Little Ways Down The Road/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
LAURIE LEWIS: Texas Wind/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
EDGAR LOUDERMILK: The Banks Of The River/single (Pinecastle)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: If I Lose/The Rosewood Sessions (Rosewood/06)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Love and Wealth/The Rosewood Sessions (Rosewood/06)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: This Old Lonesome Song/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
THE PRICE SISTERS: There's A Song In There Somewhere/There's A Song In There Somewhere (McCoury Music)
THE PRICE SISTERS: When I'm Not Thinking About You/There's A Song In There Somewhere (McCoury Music)
DEL McCOURY BAND: If You Talk In Your Sleep/single (McCoury Music)
BELA FLECK: Rhapsody In Blue(grass)/Rhapsody In Blue (Thirty Tigers)
DAVE ATKINS: Bad Moon Rising/What I’m For (Billy Blue)
BILLY GILMAN (with RHONDA VINCENT): That’s Bluegrass To Me/single (Pinecastle)
BLUEGRASS EXPRESS: Don’t Say Goodbye If You Love Me/Tribute to Jim & Jesse (Plum River)
calendar –
HAWKTAIL + VASEN: Tell Me Whatcha Gonna Do Now/Live at Fuller Hall, St Johnsbury, VT (Less Than Face/10-28-23)
HAWKTAIL + VASEN: Kackerlackan/Live in the studio (8-31-23)
THE BOW TIES: Old Reuben No. 1/Old Morphine (self/17)
WINDY HILL: You’ll Never Know/Live from the Ratz Nest (Hoss Unit/18)
THE CANOTE BROTHERS: Railroad Dog/Live at the NimbleFingers Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Workshop, Sorrento, BC (Aug., 2022)
THE CANOTE BROTHERS: Dogs In The Dishes/Dogs In the Dishes (CloneTone/13)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Feb. 17, 2024
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, released in 2024 or late 2023.
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Born To Be With You/+1 (Compass/20)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE and THE PUNCH BROTHERS): Born To Be With You/3+ (Compass)
THE BLUE RIDGE GIRLS: Wildflowers/3614 Jackson Highway (self)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Wildflowers/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: 25 Chickens/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
CHRIS BURTON: How Are Your Tomatoes This Year?/single (self)
BENNY MARTIN & HIS ELECTRIC TURKEYS: Freight Train Blues/Turkey in the Grass (CMH/77)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Blow Whistle/Pages In Your Hand (Mountain Home)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Those Gambler’s Blues/Pages In Your Hand (Mountain Home)
KING STREET BLUEGRASS: Try My Way/single (self)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Blues Of the Night/single (Mountain Home)
SISTER SADIE: Blue As My Broken Heart/No Fear (Mountain Home)
SISTER SADIE: Baby You’re Gone/No Fear (Mountain Home)
WYATT ELLIS (featuring LAUREN PRICE NAPIER): Wildwood/Happy Valley (Knee-High Records)
WYATT ELLIS (featuring DAVID McLAUGHLIN): Johnson Mountain Blues/Happy Valley (Knee-High Records)
APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW (featuring DOLLY PARTON): In Time, Jubilation/Jubilation (Billy Boy)
APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW: Hard Times In The Mines/Jubilation (Billy Boy)
LIAM PURCELL & CANE MILL ROAD: Homesick For Virginia/Yellow Line (Pinecastle)
SERENE GREEN: Back To Appalachia/If It Wasn’t For Longing (Patuxent)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Happy One Step>Road to Malvern/Salt Box (Fenchurch)
calendar –
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Scorpio's Return/Salt Box (Fenchurch)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Minnie Put the Kettle On>Killavil Reel/Salt Box (Fenchurch)
GREG BLAKE: It Ain't Their Heart That's Breaking/single (Turnberry)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I'm Gonna Miss This House/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
ANDY LEFWICH: Behind the 8-Ball/single (Mountain Home)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: New Releases - Feb. 24, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
PAUL WHITMAN & HIS CONCERT ORCHESTRA (with GEORGE GERSHWIN): Rhapsody in Blue (Victor/1924)
BELA FLECK: Rhapsody in Blue(grass)/Rhapsody in Blue (Thirty Tigers/2024)
RICK FARIS: The Power of Love/Uncommon Sky (Dark Shadow Recordings/23)
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Roll On Blues/Blue Diamond (Rounder/93)
EAST NASH GRASS: Starlet Iris/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Hard Time Killing Floor/Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium (Concord/23)
ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS: Last Kind Word Blues/Raise the Roof (Rounder/21)
DANILO BRITO & DAVID GRISMAN: Perpetual Dawg/Dawgnilo! (Acoustic Disc/24)
RED KNUCKLES AND THE TRAILBLAZERS: Texas Hambone Blues/Hot Rize Presents Red Kuckles and the Trailblazers (Flying Fish/82)
BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: That’s What I Like ‘Bout the South/Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys (Columbia/47)
ALISON BROWN: Foggy Morning Breaking/Alison Brown on Banjo (Compass/23)
AUTHENTIC UNLIMITED: Thank You God For Grace/Gospel Sessions Vol. 2 (Billy Blue/24)
MAHALIA JACKSON: Let the Church Roll On/The Essential Mahalia Jackson (Columbia/55)
ALISON KRAUSS AND THE COX FAMILY: Walk All Over God’s Heaven/I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (Rounder/94)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: 25 Chickens/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak Music/23)
STANLEY BROTHERS AND THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow/The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers (Columbia/51)
WYATT ELLIS: Happy Valley (feat. Dominic Leslie/Happy Valley (Knee High Music/24)
LESTER FLATT AND EARL SCRUGGS: Old Salty Dog Blues/The Best of Bluegrass Vol. 1: Classics (Mercury/52)
THE GOODWIN BROTHERS: Barefoot Girl/If You Hadn’t Noticed (Pinecastle/23)
FULL CORD: I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You/Cambium (Dark Shadow/23)
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN: There’ll Be Some Changes Made/Tall Tales (Hightone/99)
ALBERT LEE: Country Boy/Hiding (A&M/79)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, John Reischman - March 2, 2024
host: Leah Wollenberg
JOHN REISCHMAN: Eighth of February/Up in the Woods (Corvus/99)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: It’s Gonna Rain/Part of a Story (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock/86)
JOHN REISCHMAN, SCOTT NYGAARD, SHARON GILCHRIST: I Am A Pilgrim/Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
JOHN RESICHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Gonna Walk/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
TONY RICE UNIT: Birdland Breakdown/Still Inside (Rounder/81)
JOHN REISCHMAN (featuring BRUCE MOLSKY): Side By Each/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Old World Style/Sweet Old Religion ( 2018
JOHN RESICHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: The Jaybird Song/Stellar Jays (Corvus/07)
JOHN RESICHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Little Pine Siskin/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Just Like Rain/Together (Kaleidoscope>Rounder/91)
TONY RICE UNIT: On Green Dolphin Street/Backwaters (Rounder/82)
JOHN REISCHMAN & JOHN MILLER: Pacoca/The Bumpy Road (Corvus/02)
JOHN RESICHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: The First Whippoorwill/Vintage & Unique (Corvus/11)
JOHN REISCHMAN, SCOTT NYGAARD, SHARON GILCHRIST: The Road to the Malvern/Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Get Up, Go to Work/I Can’t Stand to Ramble (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock/83)
TONY RICE UNIT: Vonetta/Still Inside (Rounder/81)
JOHN RESICHMAN: The Coyote Trail/Old Time New Acoustic (Corvus/21)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Kissing Comes Easy/I Can’t Stand to Ramble (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock/83)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & LAUREL BLISS: Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy to Me/Girl From Jericho (Copper Creek/03)
JOHN RESICHMAN: Suzanne’s Journey/Old Time New Acoustic (Corvus/21)
JOHN RESICHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up in the Woods (Corvus/99)
JOHN RESICHMAN: Salt Spring/Old Time New Acoustic (Corvus/21)
JOHN RESICHMAN: Brooks/North of the Border (Rounder/93)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - March 9, 2024
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Spring Membership Campaign - March 16, 2024
theme -
THE PRICE SISTERS: Tuel’s Landing/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
THE PRICE SISTERS: Weary Lonesome Blues/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
LAURIE LEWIS: Hound Dog Blues/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
MISSY RAINES: These Old Blues/Highlander (Compass)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Lonesome Dobro Blues/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
LAURIE LEWIS: Down On the Levee/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
THE PRICE SISTERS: Deep River/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
THE PRICE SISTERS: What Am I Gonna Do/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Just Lonesome Ol' Me and the Radio/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
MISSY RAINES: Cryin' & Singin'/Highlander (Compass)
LAURIE LEWIS: Texas Wind/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
MISSY RAINES: Listen To the Lonesome Wind/Highlander (Compass)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: It’s Lonesome Everywhere I Go/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
MISSY RAINES: Ghost Of A Love/Highlander (Compass)
THE PRICE SISTERS: I Can Read Between the Lines In Your Letters/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: A Lonesome Feeling/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
LAURIE LEWIS: Long Gone/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
MISSY RAINES: Are You Ready To Say Goodbye?/Highlander (Compass)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I'm Gonna Miss This House/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)
THE PRICE SISTERS: Rabbit in the Rosebush/Between the Lines (McCoury Music)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy 78th/78s/1946 - March 23, 2024
theme –
OLD & IN THE WAY: Old & In The Way Breakdown/Breakdown (Acoustic Disc/73)
SNUFFY JENKINS & PAPPY SHERRILL (3-23-15): intro/33 Years Of Pickin' And Pluckin’ (Rounder/71)
BYRON PARKER & HIS HILLBILLIES: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Early Days Of Bluegrass (Rounder/46)
FIDDLIN’ JOHN CARSON (3-23-1868): The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Going To Crow/Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Volume 1 (Document/23)
OLD AND IN THE WAY (David Grisman: 3-23-45): Old and In the Way/Old and In the Way (Sugar Hill/73)
HAZEL DICKENS: Old and (Only) In the Way/By The Sweat Of My Brow (Rounder/84)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Old and In the Way/The King Years 1961-1965 (King/63)
TED LUNDY & BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN BOYS: Grown Old/Lovesick and Sorrow (Rounder/78)
DAVE EVANS: Be Proud Of the Grey In Your Hair/Goin' 'Round This World (Rebel/81)
CLYDE DAVENPORT: My Old Grey Beard's A-Flappin'/The American Fogies, Vol. 1 (Rounder/95)
BILLY & TERRY SMITH: Touch Of Grey/Long Live the Dead (K-Tel/96)
JOHN PRINE & MAC WISEMAN: Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age/Standard Songs for Average People (Oh Boy/07)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Time (Live Oak/12)
JAMES KING: I Just Want To Grow Old Lovin' You/Webco Classics, Vol. 2 (Pinecastle/89)
OLA BELLE (REED &) THE NORTH CAROLINA RIDGERUNNERS: (It’s) Raining, Raining Here This Morning/78 (Security/46)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Rocky Road Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/46)
DELMORE BROTHERS: Freight Train Boogie/Freight Train Boogie (King>Ace/46)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Tennessee Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/46>49)
MONROE BROTHERS: My Long Journey Home/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/36)
CHARLIE MONROE & HIS KENTUCKY PARDNERS: It's Only A Phonograph Record/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family/47)
WHITEY & HOGAN: Have I Told You Lately That I Love You/Sunny Side Of Life (B.A.C.M./46)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Why Don’t You Tell Me So/1948-1959 (Bear Family/49)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Let Me Be Your Friend/The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers (Columbia/49)
MOLLY O'DAY & THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN FOLKS: Too Late-Too Late/ Molly O'Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks (Bear Family/47)
THE LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Lonesome, Sad, and Blue/Windy Mountain (Bear Family/50)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Big Midnight Special (Bear Family/50)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Bluegrass Stomp/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/49)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - March 30, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
DANILO BRITO & DAVID GRISMAN: Dawgalipso/Dawgnilo! (Acoustic Disc/24)
NEW GRASS REVIVAL: Vamp in the Middle/When the Storm is Over (Flying Fish/77)
DANNY BURNS: Dirty Old Town (feat. Sam Bush)/Promised Land (Bonfire/23)
DARYL MOSLEY: Big God (feat. Ronnie Booth)/A Life Well Lived (Bonfire/23)
SONS OF THE PIONEERS: You Must Come in at the Door/Sons of the Pioneers (Columbia/37)
REVEREND TIMOTHY WRIGHT & THE NEW YORK FELLOWSHIP MASS CHOIR: You Must Come in at the Door/Jesus, Jesus, Jesus (Koch Records/07)
PETE SEEGER: Mail Myself To You/We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert (Columbia/63)
THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: Hopin That You’re Hoping/ single (Columbia/56)
EAST NASH GRASS: Railroadin’ and Gamblin’/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW: Keel Over and Die/Jubilee (ATO/23)
BUTCH ROBBINS: I’ll Be On That Good Road Someday (feat. Alan O’Bryant)/The Fifth Child (Rounder/80)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Wellington/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
DON WILLIAMS: Till the Rivers All Run Dry/single (ABC Dot/75)
THE BAND: When I Paint My Masterpiece/Cahoots (Capitol/71)
TONY TRISCHKA: Brown’s Ferry Blues (feat. Billy Strings) /Earl Jam: a Tribute to Earl Scruggs (Down the Road/24)
KENNY BAKER: Lost Indian/Master Fiddler (County/93)
COLE GALLAGHER: Delilah/The Confluence (self/23)
THE AMAZING RHYTHM ACES: These Dreams of Losing You/The Amazing Rhythm Aces Ride Again (ABC/76)
RUTH WYAND: Windy and Warm/Guitar Routes (self/23)
TIM RAYBON BAND: Headed Back to Tulsa/Bonfire Sampler (Pinecastle/24)
JASON CARTER: Kissimmee Kid/Lowdown Hoe Down (FiddleMan/22)
HANK SNOW: The Golden Rocket/The Essential Hank Snow (RCA/50)
LAUREL CANYON RAMBLERS: He Said If I Be Lifted Up/Rambler’s Blues (Sugar Hill/95)
DOYLE LAWSON AND QUICKSILVER: Rock My Soul/Rock My Soul (Sugar Hill/81)
ALAN MUNDE: Holler Up a Possum/Excelsior (Patuxent/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - April 6, 2024
NOTE: all tracks released in 2024, except as noted.
STEVE MARTIN & ALISON BROWN: Bluegrass Radio/single (Compass)
TONY TRISCHKA (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE & SAM BUSH): Dooley/Earl Jam: A Tribute to Earl Scruggs (Down the Road)
REBECCA FRAZIER: Make Hay While the Moon Shines/single (Amtoco)
EVIE LADIN: Cozy/Live At the Freight & Salvage (Evil Diane)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: Let Me Roll/Salt Box (Fenchurch)
PAPER WINGS: Is It True?/Listen To the World Spin (self)
VIV & RILEY: Time Is Everything/single (Free Dirt)
TRAY WELLINGTON BAND: Lift Up Every Stone/single (Mountain Home)
JUNIOR SISK: If There's a Will, There's a Way/If There's a Will, There's a Way (Mountain Fever)
RED CAMEL COLLECTIVE: Roll On Mississippi/single (Pinecastle)
JUNIOR SISK: Nothing's Good About Goodbye/If There's a Will There's a Way (Mountain Fever)
BECKY BULLER: Alone/single (Dark Shadow)
MISSION BLUE: Memories & Dreams/Traditional Ways (self)
MISSION BLUE: Peggy O/Traditional Ways (self)
MISSION BLUE: Walkin' Down the Line/Traditional Ways (self)
other musical previews …
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Katy Bar the Door/Live at Deep End Sessions (5-12-18)
THE SLOCAN RAMBLERS: East Virginia Blues/Live at the Station Inn (10-10-22)
SALTY SALLY: Unbroken/Live at La Peña Cultural Center (11-12-23)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Souvenirs/Live at the Freight & Salvage (9-28-23)
JOHN JORGENSON BLUEGRASS BAND: I Will Shelter/Live at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival (2-14-16)
SIDELINE: The Lives Of the Innocent/single (Mountain Home)
JACOB JOLIFF: Vera/Instrumentals Vol. 2: Mandolin Mysteries (Adhyâropa)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival (and other) Previews – April 13, 2024
APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW: Hard Times In The Mines/Jubilation (Billy Blue/22)
NEVER COME DOWN: Better Late Than Never (NimbleFingers 2023)
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Fool's Gold/Fool's Gold (self/23)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Together (Kaleidoscope>Rounder/91)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Just A Little Ways Down The Road/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Weather Song/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
HARD DRIVE: Where Is My Sailor Boy?/Random Access Mash (self/19)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: My Home In Virginia/Rhinestone Revival (Rebel/23)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/Bluegrass Troubadour (Pinecastle/21)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS BLUEGRASS BAND: Chalk up Another One/Innocent Road (self/20)
MARIN COUNTY BREAKDOWN: New Man/demo (self/22)
SALTY SALLY: Quiet Quincy/Live at the La Peña Cultural Center (11/12/23)
FOG HOLLER: Los Angeles Desert Blues/Fog Holler (self/22)
HARD DRIVE: Shanghai Rooster/Live at Rockbridge (self/21)
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KATHY KALLICK BAND featuring ANNIE STANINEC -
- Roscoe/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
- Roscoe Got the Rabbit/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
other musical previews -
SWEET SALLY with SIERRA HULL: Grey Owl/Live at High Sierra Music Festival (7-2-23)
JOHN JORGESON BLUEGRASS BAND: Midnight Flyer/Live at The Factory (Music City Roots/5-10-17)
SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Mighty Hard Road/Queen City Jubilee (2018)
HYDRA-MATIC DRIVE BLUEGRASS BAND: Home Far Away/demo (self)
PAM BRANDON & MAURIE TANI: Brown Eyed Women/single (self/22)
SAM GRISMAN PROJECT: Reuben and Cerise/Live at FreshGrass (2023)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Sittin' On Top Of the World - April 20, 2024
theme -
SCOTTDALE STRING BAND: Sitting On Top Of the World/single (Okeh/30)
THE MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS: Sitting On Top Of the World/single (Okeh/30)
SHELTON BROTHERS: Sittin' On Top Of The World/Vol.2: Beautiful Louisiana (B.A.C.M./35)
BOB WILLS: I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World/The Bob Wills Anthology (Columbia/35)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/58)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Sitting On Top Of the World/45 (Gateway/62)
THE CARTER FAMILY: Sitting On Top Of the World/On Border Radio 1938-1942, Vol. 3 (Arhoolie/39)
DOC WATSON: Sitting On Top Of the World/Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sitting On Top Of the World/Live in Japan (Rebel/71)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Sittin' On Top Of the World/Live (self/12)
KATHY KALLICK (with TRISTAN SCROGGINS): Sittin' On Top Of the World/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin' On Top Of the World/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/99)
SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE McGHEE: Sitting On Top Of the World/Home Town Blues (Mainstream/65)
RAY CHARLES TRIO: Sitting On Top Of the World/single (Swing Time/50)
HOWLIN’ WOLF: Sitting On Top Of the World/The Original Masterpieces (Chess/57)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Sitting On Top Of the World/Steppin’ Out (Arista/72)
WALT COCHRAN & HIS HOLLY RIVER BOYS: I'm Sittin' On Top Of the World/single (Olimpic/63)
JACK WHITE: Sitting On Top Of the World/Cold Mountain - Music From The Miramax Motion Picture (DMZ-Sony-Columbia/03)
TARA NEVINS: Sitting On Top Of the World/Mule To Ride (Sugar Hill/99)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Sitting On Top Of the World/Color Of the Blues (Strictly Country/94)
WILLIE NELSON & ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL (featuring Elizabeth McQueen): I’m Sittin' On Top of the World/Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux/09)
JAMES “BLOOD” ULMER with ALISON KRAUSS: Sitting On Top Of the World/Lightning in a Bottle (Columbia/04)
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK: Sitting On Top Of the World/I Believe I’ll Run On (Redwoods/78)
ROBERT CRAY BAND: Sitting On Top Of The World/Cookin' In Mobile (Nozzle-Vanguard/10)
BILL FRISELL: Sittin' On Top Of the World/The Willies (Nonesuch/02)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - April 27, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Let Me Fall/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/19)
SYNCOPATHS: Meriweather/Five Gears (self/10)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Blackjack Davy/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt/23)
THE BLUE SKY BOYS: Sunny Side of Life/single (Bluebird/36)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Poor Boy Blues/Two Days in November (Poppy/74)
HOT RIZE: Texas Hambone Blues/Extra Attaction Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers in Concert (Flying Fish/84)
LINDSAY LOU: Nothing Else Matters/Queen of Time (Kill Rock Stars/23)
MARY McCASLIN: Prairie in the Sky/Prairie in the Sky (Philo/75)
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG: Teach Your Children/single (Atlantic/70)
BONNIE RAITT: Big Road Blues/Bonnie Raitt (Warner Brothers/71)
CHRIS SMITHER: Time to Move On/All About the Bones (Signature Sounds/24)
THE PRICE SISTERS: Don’t Mind Me/Between the Lines (McCoury Music/23)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Blues Of the Night/The Winning Hand (Mountain Home/24)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Alice In the Bluegrass/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY: When My Race is Won/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW: One Drop (feat. Mavis Staples)/Jubilee (ATO/23)
WYATT ELLIS: Wildwood (feat. Lauren Price Napier/Happy Valley (Knee High Music/24)
DELMORE BROTHERS: Pan American Boogie/single (King/49)
THE TRAVELIN’ MCCOURYS: Runaway Train/forthcoming album (McCoury Music/24)
EAST NASH GRASS: Railroadin’ and Gamblin’/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
LAURIE LEWIS: Long Gone/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Just Lonesome Ol’ Me and the Radio/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
KEITH WHITLEY & RICKY SKAGGS: Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown/2nd Generation Bluegrass (Rebel/71)
TONY RICE: Old Train/Manzanita (Rounder/75)
BUTCH ROBBINS: I’ll Be On That Good Road Someday/The Fifth Child (Rounder/80)
DANILO BRITO & DAVID GRISMAN: In Santa Cruz/Dawgnilo! (Acoustic Disc/24)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks – May 4, 2024
VIV & RILEY: The Blackest Crow/single (Free Dirt/24)
ANN SAVOY: Waterloo Sunset/Another Heart (Smithsonian-Folkways/24)
THE ONLIES: Matty Groves/single (self/24)
THE ONLIES: Deep End Sessions - June 22, 2019
Troubles
All Young
Old Soph’s Cumberland Gap
House Carpenter
Piper’s Run
THE ONLIES: Deep End Sessions - June 22, 2019
Lonesome Pine Special
Dear Little Soldier Boy > Preacher’s Unknown Tune
Let’s Be Lovers Again aka Lover's Quarrel
Molly in the Window > Cups and Mugs
Chilly Winds
ASHBY FRANK: Knee Deep In Bluegrass/single (Mountain Home)
TONY TRISCHKA with BILLY STRINGS: Brown’s Ferry Blues/Earl Jam (Down the Road/24)
RHONDA VINCENT: Please Mr. Please/single (self/24)
LORI KING & JUNCTION 63: Where Dear Friends Will Never Part/Straight From the Heartland (JLK Music/24)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: Take Me To The Mountains (Leather/81 >Rebel/24)
Take Me To The Mountains
Undone In Sorrow aka Over Yonder In The Graveyard
This Kind Of Love
DEL McCOURY: Livin’ On the Mountain (Grasssound/71 >Rebel/24)
Livin' On The Mountain
Don't Stop The Music
Golden Slippers
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Wake Frankfield Memorial Celebration – May 11, 2024
intro -
FRANK WAKEFIELD: KALW I.D. >
RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE KENTUCKIANS: Catnip/bluegrass (Folkways/64)
MARVIN COBB, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE CHAIN MOUNTAIN BOYS: New Camptown Races/The Early Days Of Bluegrass (Rounder/57)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & BUSTER TURNER: Leave Well Enough Alone/single (Wayside/57)
THE RED HEADS: You’ll Always Be Untrue/single (BMC/59)
RED ALLEN & FRANK WAKEFIELD: Summertime Is Past And Gone/The Kitchen Tapes (Acoustic Disc/63)
RED ALLEN & FRANK WAKEFIELD: I’m Just Here To Get My Baby Out of Jail/The Kitchen Tapes (Acoustic Disc/63)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & RED ALLEN: Bluegrass Mandolin (as Mountain Strings)/The Mountain Music Sound Of the Stanley Brothers (Starday/62)
RED ALLEN & FRANK WAKEFIELD: Alone and Forgotten/The WDON Recordings (Patuxent/63)
RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE KENTUCKIANS: Somebody Loves You, Darling/bluegrass (Folkways/64)
RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE KENTUCKIANS: Deep Elem Blues/bluegrass (Folkways/64)
RED ALLEN featuring FRANK WAKEFIELD: Lonesome Weary Heart/Keep On Going: The Rebel And Melodeon Recordings (Rebel/63)
RED ALLEN featuring FRANK WAKEFIELD: Faded Memory/Keep On Going: The Rebel And Melodeon Recordings (Rebel/63)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: I’ll Never Make You Blue/single (Silver-Belle/65)
THE GREENBRIER BOYS: The Train That I Ride/Better Late Than Never (Vanguard/66)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Jesus Loves His Mandolin Player #16/Frank Wakefield (Rounder/72)
THE GOOD OLD BOYS: Pistol Packin' Mama/Pistol Packin' Mama (Round/75)
THE GOOD OLD BOYS: Drink Up & Go Home/Drink Up & Go Home (Rockbeat/75)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Blues Stay Away From Me/Blues Stay Away From Me (Takoma/80)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: When I Stop Dreaming/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: End Of the Rainbow/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Midnight On The Mandolin/The BlueGrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/81?)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Play It Pretty, Me/Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza (Acoustic Disc/99)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Ownself Blues/Ownself Blues (Patuxent/09)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Letter From My Darling/A Tribute To Bill Monroe (Patuxent/11)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: When You Are Lonely/A Tribute To Bill Monroe (Patuxent/11)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Waltz In Bluegrass/That Was Now … This Is Then (Rosewood/96)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Next Sunday Is My Birthday - May 18, 2024
host: Allegra Thompson
STANLEY BROTHERS: Next Sunday Darling Is My Birthday/16 Greatest Hits (King/59)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: Y’all Come/Bluegrass 1950-1958, Vol. 3 (Decca/54)
MIKE BRYANT & PAUL BROWN: Sweet Sixteen on Sunday/Mike Bryant & Paul Brown (Old Time Tiki Parlour/18)
MIGHTY POPLAR: Blackjack Davy/Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt/23)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Nancy Blevins/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
BIG RICHARD: Greasy Coat/Live From Telluride (self/22)
TIM O’BRIEN: Bear/Cup of Sugar (Howdy Skies/23)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Half Past Four/Black Banjo (Mountain Home/22)
PAPER WINGS: Left Hand Lane/Listen to the World Spin (self/24)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Souvenirs/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
NEW DANGERFIELD: Dangerfield Newby (Free Dirt/24)
BRANDON GODMAN: Cry Baby Bridge/I Heard the Morgan Bell (self/24)
BEN HUNTER & JOE SEAMONS with PHIL WIGGINS: Shanghai Rooster/A Black & Tall Ball (self/17)
HORSENECKS: Melvin Wine’s Uncle Pen/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
BIGFOOT: I Wish I Had My Time Again/I've Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
LEAH LARSON: Dangerous Boys/Long Journey (Spruce and Maple/04)
JERRON PAXTON & DENNIS LICHTMAN: When The World Is At Rest/Jerron Paxton & Dennis Lichtman (self/21)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER: My Huge Mistake/Get Up & Do Right (self/20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Coffeeshop/Evie Ladin Band LIVE (Evil Diane/24)
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Down Home Dispensary/City of Gold (Nonesuch/23)
VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO: Is It All Over/Imaginary People (Free Dirt/23)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Goodbye Waltz/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - May 25, 2024
host: Sully Roddy
CHRIS SMITHER: All About the Bones/All About the Bones (Signature Sounds/24)
JAKE BLOUNT: The Downward Road/The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways/22)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES: Who’s That Knocking At My Door/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/83)
JILL ROGERS & CRYING TIME: Devil in the Details/Many Worlds Theory (WCC/23)
BOSWELL SISTERS: 42nd Street/Volume Two 1930-1935 (Biograph/82)
BOB WILLS & THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS: That’s What I Like About the South/Legends of Country Music (Columbia/06)
LAURIE LEWIS: Just a Little Ways Down the Road/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
EAST NASH GRASS: Papa’s On the Housetop/Last Chance to Win (Mountain Fever/23)
JD CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Why Don’t You Tell Me So/The New South (Rounder/75)
JEFF TALMADGE: Hurricane/Sparrow (Berkalin/24)
RORY BLOCK: Bye Bye Blues/Mama’s Blues (Rounder/91)
TONY RICE: Blue Railroad Train/ Manzanita (Rounder/78)
NOAH VANNORSTRAND: The Avocet>Wingspan/ Share the Moon (Great Bear/23)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: There’s a Bright Side Somewhere/Closing the Gap (Tree Frog/19)
RALPH STANLEY: Palms of Victory/Shine On (Rebel/05)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Can’t Live Without Love/single (Sugar Petunia/23)
CHARM CITY JUNCTION: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Saltbox (self/24)
BELA FLECK: Rhapsody In Bluegrass/Rhapsody In Blue (Thirty Tigers/24)
OLIVIA JO: Nothing to Lose/single (self/23)
BENSON: Conway/Pick Your Poison (Mountain Home Music, Crossroads/23)
BILLY JOE SHAVER: The Devil Made Me Do it the First Time/Salt of the Earth (Columbia/87)
STONY EDWARDS: Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul/Mississippi You’re On My Mind (Capitol/75)
BILLY STRINGS: Know it All/Renewal (Rounder/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: June Membership Campaign - June 1, 2024
All selections from Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal) - music recorded live in the KALW studios from 1999-2019
theme -
CRYING UNCLE: Dawg’s Waltz (11/9/19)
THE TUTTLE FAMILY: White Freightliner Blues (10/22/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: Darling Nellie Across the Sea (11/21/15)
ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe (4/27/13)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Messenger (5/10/03)
EARL SCRUGGS TRIBUTE QUARTET: Foggy Mountain Special (3/31/12)
WINDY HILL: What Are You Doing Here Today? (3/10/12)
BLUE & LONESOME: Foggy Mountain Top (2/27/10)
THE SECRET LIFE OF BANJOS: Lonesome Polka (1/7/06)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin’ On Top Of the World (8/21/99)
THOMPSONIA: River Bottom Blues (12/9/17)
THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Boats Up the River (5/3/08)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Gonna Write Me A Letter (3/20/04)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Still Love You Still (4/28/18)
THE BAREFOOT NELLIES featuring MOLLY TUTTLE: A Few Old Memories (10/22/08)
DAVID THOM BAND: Never Been So Lonesome (10/16/11)
HIGH COUNTRY: Blues For Your Own (8/21/99)
FOG HOLLER: Spider Dance (4/28/18)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND DUO: All Night Long (aka Richmond Blues) (7/16/17)
SKILLET LICORICE: Babe (11/9/19)
THE CROOKED JADES: Valley Forge (5/27/17)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Gearing Up For Grass Valley - June 8, 2024
TROUBLE TOWN: Love Off My Mind/Live at Bird & Beckett (self/6-11-23)
ONE BUTTON SUIT: Ophelia/demo (self/17)
SALTY SALLY: Mockingbird/Live at the Sugar Pine Festival (2023)
SOLID GOLD STRANGER: LA Looks/demo (self/24)
CALTUCKY: Dead Man’s Hand/Live at Vern’s Stage (CBA/23)
COUNTRY GONGBANG: Born To Be Chicken/We All Need Bluegrass (self/18)
MOSTLY MARYS: Think Of What You’ve Done/demo (self/22)
HYDRA-MATIC DRIVE: Before I Met You/demo (self/17)
THE TOWN HOWLERS: Radio Boogie/Live at the Starry Plough (self/6-2-18)
HAY BLACKBIRD: Train on the Island/Hay Blackbird (self/23)
CLINTON DAVIS BAND: Curly Headed Woman/If I Live and I Don’t Get Killed (Tiki Parlour/21)
PAUL BROWN & TERRI McMURRY: Rocking In A Weary Land/Slow Jam Fizz (Berkeley Old Time Music Convention/3-19-21)
THE HORSENECKS: Started Out In Town/Started Out In Town (Tiki Parlour/21)
MISSION BLUE DUO: Rosa Lee McFall/demo (self/24)
BEAN CREEK: Home In the Mountains/Home Again (Sloughfish/19)
JOHN BARLEYCORN: Foggy Mountain Top/Live at Salesforce Rooftop Park (self/23)
LONESOME STILL: Jack Of No Trades/demo (self/22)
LUCAS LAWSON & THE UNTURNED STONE: Everywhere/Live at Wind River Studio (self/23)
WELCOME WEST: Gettin’ Older/demo (self/24)
SYCAMORE BEND: Cold Hard Winter/Live in either Clovis or Porterville (2021)
SAVAGE BOND: Learning From Vern & Ray/AmeriCali Alley (self/23)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
ALISON BROWN: Foggy Morning Breaking/On Banjo (Compass/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Summer Membership Campaign - June 9-22, 2024
MOLLY & JACK TUTTLE: The Old Apple Tree/The Old Apple Tree (Back Studio/07)
THE TUTTLE FAMILY: White Freightliner Blues/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/08)
THE BAREFOOT NELLIES featuring MOLLY TUTTLE: A Few Old Memories/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/08)
THE TUTTLES with A.J. LEE: It's A Long Road/Introducing the Tuttles with A.J. Lee (Back Studio/10)
THE TUTTLES with A.J. LEE: Where the Old Red River Flows/Endless Ocean (Back Studio13)
THE TUTTLES WITH AJ LEE: Devil On My Mind/In the Deep Rolling Hills Of San Francisco (Bluegrass Signal/13)
THE TUTTLES WITH A.J. LEE: Another Side/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/1-3-13)
MOLLY TUTTLE & JOHN MAILANDER: Red Prairie Dawn/Molly Tuttle & John Mailander (Back Studio/14)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Black-Eyed Susie/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Little Annie/Handmade To Hand Played (Preston Guitars/20)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Broken Tie/Turn Your Radio Online (CBA/20)
KATHY KALLICK with MOLLY TUTTLE: Put My Little Shoes Away/What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Live Oak/22)
MOLLY & JACK TUTTLE: Alabama Jubilee/The Old Apple Tree (Back Studio/07)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - June 15, 2024
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Festival - June 22, 2024
25th Anniversary Celebration!
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Live At KALW (Aug. 21, 1999)
- Sittin’ On Top Of the World
- Sow ‘Em On the Mountain (aka You’re Gonna Reap Just What You Sow)
- Broken Hearted Lover
- Away Out On The Old Saint Sabbath
HIGH COUNTRY: Live At KALW (Aug. 21, 1999)
- I Hear A Choo-Choo Coming
- Perfect Companion
- Louisville Breakdown
- Finally Home
- Blues For Your Own
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BRANDON GODMAN: I Heard The Morgan Bell (self/23)
- All Cooped Up
- Thelma Lilly
- Godman's Bottoms
THE MARIN BLUEGRASS SESSIONS support band (Bruce Sadownick, Sonia Shell, Jack Murphy, Dana Roth, Marc Francis) - live
- Hold Whatcha Got
- Down the Road
- Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow
- Dark Hollow
- Roving Gambler
- Walk the Way the Wind Blows
- Love Of the Mountains