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)
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)