Jan. 2-6/17: It’s Bluegrass Time!
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JOHN REISCHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
JACK TOTTLE: The Bluegrass Sound/Blockbuster Bluegrass (Copper Creek/06)
GIBSON BROTHERS: That Bluegrass Music/Bona Fide (Sugar Hill/03)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
JOSH SLONE & COALTOWN: Bluegrass and Me/Josh Slone & Coaltown (Rural Rhythm/11)
TOMMY WEBB: If It Weren't For Bluegrass Music I'd Go Crazy/Eastern Kentucky (Kindred/07)
RHONDA VINCENT & THE RAGE: All American Bluegrass Girl/All American Bluegrass Girl (Rounder/06)
CURLY SECKLER: Bluegrass, Don't You Know/Bluegrass, Don't You Know (Copper Creek/06)
RUSSELL JOHNSON & THE GRASS CATS: Bluegrass Time/Anytime, Anyplace But Only You (New Time/11)
AL WOOD & THE SMOKEY RIDGE BOYS: Sing A Bluegrass Song/Sing A Bluegrass Song (Rebel/73)
PINE MOUNTAIN RAILROAD: Break Your Heart With A Bluegrass Song/The Old Radio (CMH/03)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: The Grass That I'm Playing Is Really Blue/News Is Out (Sugar Hill/87)
SPRUCE PINE: High On Bluegrass/European World Of Bluegrass 1998 (Strictly Country/98)
THE BOYS FROM INDIANA: Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight/Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight (King/75)
PETE GOBLE: When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass/When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass (Fireheart/05)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass/The Best Of The Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
VERN & RAY: Blue Grass Style/Cabin On A Mountain (King/61)
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Jan. 9-13/17: The Father Of West Coast Bluegrass
VERN & RAY & THE CARROLL COUNTY BOYS: Thinkin' Of Home/Cabin On A Mountain (Gusto/61)
VERN & RAY: Sweet Fern/San Francisco 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
VERN & RAY: Little Georgia Rose/San Francisco 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Cabin on a Mountain/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Come Back to Me in My Dreams/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Old Kentucky Home/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Clinch Mountain Home/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Roll On Buddy/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Close By/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: In Despair/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/84)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/84)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Love Me Darling Just Tonight/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
ROSE MADDOX (w/ THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND): Foggy Mountain Top/Rose Of the West Coast Country (Arhoolie/80)
OPEN ROAD (w/ VERN WILLIAMS): I’m Lonesome/Lucky Drive (Rounder/05)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: I Hear A Choo-Choo Calling/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: 'Til the Day I Die/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
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Jan. 16-20/17: California Dreamin'
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foxhounds/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
ANNIE STANINEC: Just Wondering Why/Annie Staninec (self/15)
SALLY VAN METER: Hard Times (Come Again No More)/Tre Mistiche (Live Oak/15)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Little Sadie/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
BLUE & LONESOME: Nobody’s Love Is Like Mine/Cruzin’ With Blue & Lonesome (self/16)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Who’s That Knocking?/The Hazel & Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/16)
DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/76)
DON RIGSBY & DAVID THOM: East Virginia Blues/New Territory (9 Lives/16)
BARWICK & SIEGFRIED: Winnsboro Cotten Mill Blues/Long Time Gone (FGM/16)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS (with MOLLY TUTTLE): Rain & Snow/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
DEL McCOURY & DAVID GRISMAN: Dark Hollow/Del & Dawg Live (Acoustic Disc/16)
JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND: Christmas Time’s A-Comin’/Live In Los Angeles (Round/87)
HART VALLEY DRIFTERS: Think Of What You’ve Done/Folk Time (Round/62)
BILL EVANS & FLETCHER BRIGHT: Berkeley Shanghai/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
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Jan. 23-27/17: Happy 40th Anniversary to PT
A celebration of your host’s 40+ years in radio with a collection of live recordings which remain favorites and huge influences.
STANLEY BROTHERS: Think Of What You've Done/Stanley Series Vol. 3, No. 4 (Copper Creek/58)
BILL MONROE: Brakeman's Blues/Off The Record, Vol. 1 (Smithsonian- Folkways/56)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Dig A Hole In the Meadow/Live At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
JIMMY MARTIN: The White Dove/Live! At McClure (Rebel/75)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Livin' In The Past (Sierra/64)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Walking In My Sleep/Nashville At Newport (Vanguard/65)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: The Bluest Man In Town/Live In Japan (Copper Creek/79)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: East Virginia Blues/Holiday In Japan (Towa/75)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Blue Night/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/91)
HOT RIZE: Walkin' the Dog/So Long Of A Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
HOTMUD FAMILY: Please Don't Wake Me/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: In Despair/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/Forty Years Of Trouble (Strictly Country/94)
MAC MARTIN & THE CALIFORNIA TRAVELERS: Alcatraz Blues/Live At RBA (self/06)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Fare Thee Well, North Carolina Breakdown/Live at Strawberry (self/14)
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Jan. 30 - Feb. 3/17:Goodbye, Bluegrass Country on WAMU
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FLATT & SCRUGGS: Farewell Blues/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/50)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Goodbye Old Pal/Blue Grass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Our Last Goodbye/The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mt. Boys 1953-58 & 1959 (Bear Family/53)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: My Darling’s Last Goodbye/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/51)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Goodbye/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/62)
LARRY SPARKS: Goodbye Little Darlin'/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King/72)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: Goodbye To the Blues/Shape Of A Tear (Rounder/03)
TRAVERS CHANDLER & AVERY COUNTY: Have You Come To Say Goodbye?/State of Depression (Patuxent/10)
LONGVIEW: Goodbye and So Long To You/Longview (Rounder/97)
GINGER BOATWRIGHT: So Long, Farewell, Goodbye/Sipsey (GFA/00)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER: Farewell For A Little While/Leavin' Town (Rounder/08)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Final Farewell/Lost Souls & Free Spirits (Rebel/12)
TONY RICE: Fare Thee Well/Cold On the Shoulder (Rounder/84)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Fare Thee Well/Time (Live Oak/12)
78 RPM: Fare Ye Well/Folk Mountain Concert (Rural/00)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Love Farewell/Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: Farewell Blues/Clarence White & the Kentucky Colonels (Rounder/65)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Goodbye Girls, I'm Going To Boston/Snowy Side of the Mountain (self/16)
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JOHN REISCHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
JACK TOTTLE: The Bluegrass Sound/Blockbuster Bluegrass (Copper Creek/06)
GIBSON BROTHERS: That Bluegrass Music/Bona Fide (Sugar Hill/03)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
JOSH SLONE & COALTOWN: Bluegrass and Me/Josh Slone & Coaltown (Rural Rhythm/11)
TOMMY WEBB: If It Weren't For Bluegrass Music I'd Go Crazy/Eastern Kentucky (Kindred/07)
RHONDA VINCENT & THE RAGE: All American Bluegrass Girl/All American Bluegrass Girl (Rounder/06)
CURLY SECKLER: Bluegrass, Don't You Know/Bluegrass, Don't You Know (Copper Creek/06)
RUSSELL JOHNSON & THE GRASS CATS: Bluegrass Time/Anytime, Anyplace But Only You (New Time/11)
AL WOOD & THE SMOKEY RIDGE BOYS: Sing A Bluegrass Song/Sing A Bluegrass Song (Rebel/73)
PINE MOUNTAIN RAILROAD: Break Your Heart With A Bluegrass Song/The Old Radio (CMH/03)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: The Grass That I'm Playing Is Really Blue/News Is Out (Sugar Hill/87)
SPRUCE PINE: High On Bluegrass/European World Of Bluegrass 1998 (Strictly Country/98)
THE BOYS FROM INDIANA: Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight/Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight (King/75)
PETE GOBLE: When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass/When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass (Fireheart/05)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass/The Best Of The Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
VERN & RAY: Blue Grass Style/Cabin On A Mountain (King/61)
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Jan. 9-13/17: The Father Of West Coast Bluegrass
VERN & RAY & THE CARROLL COUNTY BOYS: Thinkin' Of Home/Cabin On A Mountain (Gusto/61)
VERN & RAY: Sweet Fern/San Francisco 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
VERN & RAY: Little Georgia Rose/San Francisco 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Cabin on a Mountain/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Come Back to Me in My Dreams/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Old Kentucky Home/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Clinch Mountain Home/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Roll On Buddy/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Close By/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: In Despair/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/84)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/84)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Love Me Darling Just Tonight/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
ROSE MADDOX (w/ THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND): Foggy Mountain Top/Rose Of the West Coast Country (Arhoolie/80)
OPEN ROAD (w/ VERN WILLIAMS): I’m Lonesome/Lucky Drive (Rounder/05)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: I Hear A Choo-Choo Calling/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: 'Til the Day I Die/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
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Jan. 16-20/17: California Dreamin'
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foxhounds/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
ANNIE STANINEC: Just Wondering Why/Annie Staninec (self/15)
SALLY VAN METER: Hard Times (Come Again No More)/Tre Mistiche (Live Oak/15)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Little Sadie/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
BLUE & LONESOME: Nobody’s Love Is Like Mine/Cruzin’ With Blue & Lonesome (self/16)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Who’s That Knocking?/The Hazel & Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/16)
DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/76)
DON RIGSBY & DAVID THOM: East Virginia Blues/New Territory (9 Lives/16)
BARWICK & SIEGFRIED: Winnsboro Cotten Mill Blues/Long Time Gone (FGM/16)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS (with MOLLY TUTTLE): Rain & Snow/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
DEL McCOURY & DAVID GRISMAN: Dark Hollow/Del & Dawg Live (Acoustic Disc/16)
JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND: Christmas Time’s A-Comin’/Live In Los Angeles (Round/87)
HART VALLEY DRIFTERS: Think Of What You’ve Done/Folk Time (Round/62)
BILL EVANS & FLETCHER BRIGHT: Berkeley Shanghai/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
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Jan. 23-27/17: Happy 40th Anniversary to PT
A celebration of your host’s 40+ years in radio with a collection of live recordings which remain favorites and huge influences.
STANLEY BROTHERS: Think Of What You've Done/Stanley Series Vol. 3, No. 4 (Copper Creek/58)
BILL MONROE: Brakeman's Blues/Off The Record, Vol. 1 (Smithsonian- Folkways/56)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Dig A Hole In the Meadow/Live At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
JIMMY MARTIN: The White Dove/Live! At McClure (Rebel/75)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Livin' In The Past (Sierra/64)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Walking In My Sleep/Nashville At Newport (Vanguard/65)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: The Bluest Man In Town/Live In Japan (Copper Creek/79)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: East Virginia Blues/Holiday In Japan (Towa/75)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Blue Night/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/91)
HOT RIZE: Walkin' the Dog/So Long Of A Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
HOTMUD FAMILY: Please Don't Wake Me/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: In Despair/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/Forty Years Of Trouble (Strictly Country/94)
MAC MARTIN & THE CALIFORNIA TRAVELERS: Alcatraz Blues/Live At RBA (self/06)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Fare Thee Well, North Carolina Breakdown/Live at Strawberry (self/14)
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Jan. 30 - Feb. 3/17:Goodbye, Bluegrass Country on WAMU
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FLATT & SCRUGGS: Farewell Blues/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/50)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Goodbye Old Pal/Blue Grass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Our Last Goodbye/The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mt. Boys 1953-58 & 1959 (Bear Family/53)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: My Darling’s Last Goodbye/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (Bear Family/51)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Goodbye/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/62)
LARRY SPARKS: Goodbye Little Darlin'/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King/72)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: Goodbye To the Blues/Shape Of A Tear (Rounder/03)
TRAVERS CHANDLER & AVERY COUNTY: Have You Come To Say Goodbye?/State of Depression (Patuxent/10)
LONGVIEW: Goodbye and So Long To You/Longview (Rounder/97)
GINGER BOATWRIGHT: So Long, Farewell, Goodbye/Sipsey (GFA/00)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER: Farewell For A Little While/Leavin' Town (Rounder/08)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: Final Farewell/Lost Souls & Free Spirits (Rebel/12)
TONY RICE: Fare Thee Well/Cold On the Shoulder (Rounder/84)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Fare Thee Well/Time (Live Oak/12)
78 RPM: Fare Ye Well/Folk Mountain Concert (Rural/00)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Love Farewell/Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: Farewell Blues/Clarence White & the Kentucky Colonels (Rounder/65)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Goodbye Girls, I'm Going To Boston/Snowy Side of the Mountain (self/16)