BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Fast Eddie Picks 'Em & Plays 'Em - July 2/16
with guest host Ed Cirimele
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, #73987 - July 9/16
- A celebration of the anniversary of the date (July 9, 1923) that Lloyd Loar signed off on the F5 mandolin made under his supervision that Bill Monroe played for most of his career after acquiring it in 1943.
- All selections are by BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS and, except as noted, are available on various Bear Family releases. Recording dates for each selection are included.
- Songs and tunes selected by Neil Rosenberg (NR), Martino Coppo (MaC), Tom Bekeny (TB), Tom Rozum (TR), Jody Stecher (JS), Skip Gorman (SG), Mike Compton (MiC), John Reischman (JR), Butch Waller (BW), Ed Neff (EN), and yours truly (PT).
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Bluegrass Breakdown (10-31-64 - NR)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky (10-27-47 - MaC)
When You Are Lonely (10-28-47 - TB)
I'm Travelin' On and On (10-28-47 - TR)
Along About Daybreak (10-28-47 - JS)
Rawhide (1-20-51 - JS, TR)
On the Old Kentucky Shore (1-20-51 - SG)
The First Whippoorwill (10-28-51 - JS, MiC)
When Golden Leaves Begin To Fall (10-15-50 - JS, SG, JR)
Get Up John (11-28-53 - BW, JR)
Used to Be - 9-16-55 - MiC)
Out In the Cold World (5-15-57 - EN)
Bluegrass Part One aka Blue Grass Twist (12-3-60 - BW)
Dusty Miller (12-6-66 - SG, TB, TR)
John Henry (11-16-63 - MiC)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
On and On (11-16-63)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz (12-3-70 - MaC, EN)
Bluegrass Stomp (9-23-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
Brakeman's Blues (9-23-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
True Life Blues (2-13-45 - MiC)
Can't You Hear Me Calling (10-22-49- BW)
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Blue Grass Special (2-13-45), Blue Grass Stomp (10-22-49), Blue Grass Ramble (2-3-50)
Close By (5-13-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
My Dying Bed (7-18/19-52 - MiC)
Old Ebenezer Scrooge (2-3-81 - MaC)
Eawhide (11-16-63)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Big Mon’s Mando Legacy - July 16/16
Last week’s program celebrated the July 9th (1923) completion of Bill Monroe’s Gibson F5 mandolin under the supervision of Lloyd Loar, presenting Monroe songs and tunes as selected by contemporary mandolinists Tom Bekeny, Mike Compton, Martino Coppo, Skip Gorman, Ed Neff, John Reischman, Tom Rozum, Jody Stecher, and Butch Waller. This week: recordings by all of these players, with an emphasis on their Monrovian approaches.
SKIP GORMAN: The Lloyd Loar/The Old Style Mandolin Vol. Two - Monroesque (Old West/03)
SKIP GORMAN & RICHARD STARKEY: Feast Here Tonight/ Late Night Feast (No Part A Nothin’/06)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Evening Prayer Blues/Live (self/13)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Rocky Road Blues/Live (self/13)
HIGH COUNTRY with BUTCH WALLER: Butch’s Blues/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: Letter From My Darling/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: You'll Find Her Name Written There/The Road West (Corvus/04)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Joe Ahr’s Dream/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
RED WINE: W.S.M./Italian Cats (self/01)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with MARTINO COPPO: I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome/Live at La Roche (2011)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with TOM BEKENY: Kentucky Mandolin/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin’ On Top Of the World/Blue Lightning (Rounder/91)
BLUE & LONESOME with ED NEFF: Toy Heart/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e’Neff Said/10)
TOM ROZUM: On the Old Kentucky Shore/Jubilee (Dog Boy/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS with TOM ROZUM: The Golden West/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with TOM BEKENY: Lord Protect My Soul/Time (Live Oak/12)
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND with JODY STECHER: In the Pines/In the Deep Rolling Hills Of San Francisco (Bluegrass Signal/07)
BLUE & LONESOME with ED NEFF: Out In the Cold World/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e’Neff Said/10)
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SKIP GORMAN: Trombolin>Jack Across The Way; Right, Right On; Frog On A Lilypad/The Old Style Mandolin Vol. Two - Monroesque (Old West/03)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Indiana Firefly/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
BUTCH WALLER: Bluegrass Stomp/Golden Gate Promenade (Rebel/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Something Auld, Something New - July 23/16
Guest host: Leah Wollenberg
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Snowy Side Of the Mountain/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
KATHY KALLICK: Call Me A Taxi/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
ALISON BROWN: Chicken Road/Twilight Hotel (Vanguard/92)
THE LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND: The Road’s Salvation/Deep Waters (Rounder/16)
BILL KEITH: I’ll Stay Around/ Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass (Rounder/76)
DELIA BELL & BILL GRANT: The Bluest Girl In Town/Rollin’ (Rebel/81)
HAZEL DICKENS: Don’t Bother To Cry/It’s Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song (Rounder/87)
LEADBELLY: John Hardy/Vol. 3, 1939-1947 (Document/39)
CLARENCE WHITE: Farewell Blues/33 Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals (Sierra/62)
DOC WATSON: Milk Cow Blues/At Gerdes Folk City (Sugar Hill/62)
TONY RICE: John Hardy/Cold On the Shoulder (Rounder/84)
JOHN HARTFORD: Long Hot Summer Day/Mark Twang (Flying Fish/76)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Working Girl Blues/The Hazel & Alice Sessions (Spruce & Maple/16)
SELDOM SCENE: Paradise/Act Two (Rebel/73)
TATIANA HARGREAVES & ETHAN JODZIEWICZ: Ostrich With Pearls/Ethan Jodziewicz & Tatiana Hargreaves (self/15)
MICHAEL DAVES: I Only Exist/Orchids & Violence (Nonesuch/16)
DOM FLEMONS: Too Long I’ve Been Gone/Prospect Hill (Music Maker Relief Foundation/14)
DAROL ANGER’S REPUBLIC OF STRINGS: Old Dangerfield/Republic Of Strings (Compass/04)
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BLUE & LONESOME: Crusing Timber, All the Way ‘cross Texas, Foggy Mountain Rock/Cruzin’ With B&L (self/16)
BLAINE SPROUSE: Little Rabbit/Appalachian Mountain Fiddler (Cumberland/96)
BILL MONROE: Toy Heart/The Early Years (Vanguard/46)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: Nine Pound Hammer/Appalachian Swing (EMI/64)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - July 30/16
NOTE: All music from 2016 releases.
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Rattle & Roar (Rounder)
Why Did You Wander?
All I Want Is You
The Girl I Love Don't Pay Me No Mind
JEFF WHITE: Right Beside You (self)
Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
Run Little Rabbit Run
Travelin' That Lonesome Road
DEL McCOURY & DAVID GRISMAN: Brakeman’s Blues/Del & Dawg Live (Acoustic Disc)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Dirty Overalls/Del & Woody (McCoury Music)
SAM BUSH: Play By Your Own Rules/Storyman (Sugar Hill)
IVAN ROSENBERG: Clinch Mountain Bar Mitzvah/The Littlest Dobro (self)
KRISTINE SCHMITT Wild Bird Blues/Good Dirt (self)
CHRIS COOLE Leaving 2674/The Tumbling River (self)
BARWICK & SIEGFRIED: Walkin’ Boss/Long Time Gone (self)
RON CODY: Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine/The Cooper Sessions (self)
BRYAN SUTTON: Backwater Blues/The More I Learn (Sugar Hill)
THE VIVANTS: Bluegrass Special/Bluegrass Special (self)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: Ramblin' Feels Good/Ramblin Feels Good (self)
THE LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND: Deep Waters/Deep Waters (Rounder)
TOWN MOUNTAIN: Southern Crescent/Southern Crescent (Lo Hi)
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KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Great Waterton, Eagle Eye Annie, Farewell Blues/Stringworks (Mountain Home)
LOU REID & CAROLINA: Rollin’ On/Rollin’ On (self)
HIGH FIDELITY: Another Day/High Fidelty (self)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: BOTMC Previews - Aug. 6/13
Guest host: Allegra Thompson
More info: www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.com
THE HURRICANE RIDGERUNNERS: Glory in the Meetinghouse/The Hurricane Ridgerunners (Field Recorders Collective/77)
BILL EVANS (featuring SUZANNE THOMAS): Wondrous Love/Native and Fine (Rounder/95)
VAL MINDEL & EMILY MILLER: Sweet Chariot/Close to Home (Yodel Ay Hee/13)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Let Me Fall/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER: Come All You Roving Gamblers/Deep End Sessions Vol. II (Deep End Sessions/15)
FIDDLIN EARL WHITE: Raleigh And Spencer/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
SPENCER & RAINS: Roustabout/The Old Man And The Old Woman (self/14)
DEBBY McCLATCHY AND THE RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Seeing The Elephant/Silver Jubilee Reissue (Green Linnet/76)
THE GALLUS BROTHERS: Nobody’s Sweetheart Now/Suitcase Rag (self/06)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Rascal Fair/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
WB REID & BONNIE ZAHNOW: Happy Hickey The Hobo/Ryestraw (self/15)
THE HURRICANE RIDGERUNNERS: Southern Moon/The Hurricane Ridgerunners (Field Recorders Collective/77)
THE GALLUS BROTHERS: Too Bad West Coast Blues/Suitcase Rag (self/06)
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER: My Better Years/Deep End Sessions Vol. II (Deep End Sessions/15)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Sun’s Gonna Shine/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
THE HURRICANE RIDGERUNNERS: Glory in the Meetinghouse/The Hurricane Ridgerunners (Field Recorders Collective/77)
VAL MINDEL & EMILY MILLER: You Tied a Love Knot in My Heart/Close to Home (Yodel Ay Hee/13)
FIDDLIN EARL WHITE: Apple Blossom/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
BILL EVANS: Goodbye Liza Jane/Native and Fine (Rounder/95)
THE GALLUS BROTHERS: Don’t Let Your Rag Mama Go Down/Suitcase Rag (self/06)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Who’s on the Way?/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
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BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Sally Johnson/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER: Sally Anne Johnson/Deep End Sessions Vol. II (Deep End Sessions/15)
SPENCER & RAINS: Sally Johnson/The Old Texas Fiddle Vol II (self/15)
DEBBY McCLATCHY & THE RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Hills Of Kentucky/Silver Jubilee Reissue (Green Linnet/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Legacy Of the Carter Family - Aug. 13/16
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS with MOTHER MAYBELLE CARTER: Keep On the Sunny Side/Songs Of The Famous Carter Family (Columbia/61)
BILL MONROE & DOC WATSON: Foggy Mountain Top/Off The Record, Vol. 2: Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
RED ALLEN & THE KENTUCKIANS: I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes/Live On the Radio (Acoustic Oasis/66)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: Wildwood Flower/I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family (King/77)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Little Darling Pal Of Mine/The King Years (King/63) cf. Songs Of the Carter Family (Gusto)
RALPH STANLEY: Worried Man Blues/A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family (Columbia DMZ/06)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Single Girl, Married Girl/Songs Of The Carter Family (Appleseed/00)
GINNY HAWKER & KAY JUSTICE: Loved You Better Than You Knew/Bristol: A Tribute To the Music of the Carter Family (Copper Creek/99)
ANTIQUE PERSUASION: Broken Hearted Lover/Don't Forget Me Little Darling: Remembering the Carter Family (Voxhall/15)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: A Distant Land To Roam/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: Where The Silv'ry Colorado Wends Its Way/Spirits Of Love (Telegraph/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: My Dixie Darlin'/The Oak & the Laurel (Rounder/95)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: When Springtime Comes Again/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
KATHY KALLICK: My Clinch Mountain Home/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
PETER ROWAN & JERRY DOUGLAS: Cannonball Blues/Yonder (Sugar Hill/96)
ROSANNE CASH: The Winding Stream/The Winding Stream: The Carters, the Cashes and The Course Of Country Music (Omnivore/15)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Darling Nellie Across the Sea/Weary River (Patuxent/15)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Orphan Child/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
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BILL EVANS: Big Chief Sonny, Dakota/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Don't Forget This Song/Don't Forget This Song (self/14)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: You've Been A Friend To Me/Spirits Of Love (Telegraph/08)
CARTER FAMILY: In the Shadow Of Clinch Mountain/In the Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/37)
CARTER FAMILY: Keep On the Sunny Side > Cannonball Blues/The Winding Stream (Omnivore)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: James King Memorial Tribute - Aug. 20/16
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS - INTRODUCING JAMES KING: Let Me Be Your Friend/Stanley Brothers Classics (Wango/85)
RALPH STANLEY FEATURING GEORGE SHUFFLER AND JAMES KING: I Love No One But You/Reunion (Wango/87)
JAMES KING: It's A Cold, Cold World/It's a Cold, Cold World (Webco/89)
JAMES KING: The Old Swinging Bridge/These Old Pictures (Rounder/93)
JAMES KING: Weary Angel Of Death/These Old Pictures (Rounder/93)
JAMES KING: A Few Old Memories/Lonesome and Then Some (Rounder/95)
LONGVIEW: I've Never Been So Lonesome/Longview (Rounder/97)
LONGVIEW: Voice Of My Savior/High Lonesome (Rounder/99)
LONGVIEW: Where The Dim Lights Are The Dimmest/High Lonesome (Rounder/99)
THE BASEMENT BAND: Walk Softly On this Heart Of Mine/Radio Series, Vol. Two (Wango/98)
THE BASEMENT BAND: Does It Have To End This Way/Radio Series, Vol. Two (Wango/98)
THE BASEMENT BAND: Travelin’ the Highway Home/Radio Series, Vol. Two (Wango/98)
JAMES KING: Chiseled In Stone/Three Chords & the Truth (Rounder/13)
JAMES KING: Will You Feel At Home/Gardens In the Sky (Rounder/08)
LONGVIEW: Cotton Eyed Joe/Deep In The Mountains (Rounder/08)
JAMES KING: Will He Wait A Little Longer/Gardens In the Sky (Rounder/99)
JAMES KING: He Stopped Loving Her Today/Three Chords & the Truth (Rounder/13)
LONGVIEW: Don't Leave Me Alone/Deep In The Mountains (Rounder/08)
LONGVIEW: I've Lived A Lot In My Time/Lessons In Stone (Rounder/02)
LONGVIEW: The River Underground/Longview (Rounder/97)
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O’CONNOR BAND: Jerusalem Ridge, Fishers Hornpipe/Coming Home (Rounder/16)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS - INTRODUCING JAMES KING: Loving You Too Well/Stanley Brothers Classics (Wango/85)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Aug. 27/16
TRAVERS CHANDLER: Shot Man Blues/Archaic (Patuxent)
AUDIE BLAYLOCK & REDLINE: Ride and Roll/The Road That Winds (Patuxent)
TRAVERS CHANDLER: In the Shadow Of a Lie/Archaic (Patuxent)
AUDIE BLAYLOCK & REDLINE: The Road That Winds/The Road That Winds (Patuxent)
MICKEY GALYEAN & CULLEN'S BRIDGE: I Found My Daddy's Grass/My Daddy's Grass (Rebel)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Will You Be Lonesome Too?/Rattle & Roar (Rounder)
MICKEY GALYEAN & CULLEN'S BRIDGE: We'll Be Sweethearts In Heaven/My Daddy's Grass (Rebel)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: I'm Working On a Road (To Glory Land)/Rattle & Roar (Rounder)
SISTER SADIE: Look What I'm Trading For a Mansion/Sister Sadie (Pinecastle)
EDGAR LOUDERMILK: Homesick Blues/Georgia Maple (Pinecastle)
SISTER SADIE: Don't Tell Me Stories/Sister Sadie (Pinecastle)
EDGAR LOUDERMILK: Georgia Maple/Georgia Maple (Pinecastle)
COTY HOGUE: Poor Ellen Smith/Flight (Perpetual Hoedown)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Baby I'm Blue/Long I Ride (Compass)
THE WESTERN FLYERS: No Moon At All/Wild Blue Yonder (Versa-Tone)
STEVE BAUGHMAN: Monroe/O'er Quiet Lands Suspended (self)
O'CONNOR BAND: Jerusalem Ridge/Coming Home (Rounder)
ILYA TOSHINSKIY: Red Grass/Red Grass (Hadley)
STEVE BAUGHMAN: Briar Picker Brown/O'er Quiet Lands Suspended (self)
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STANLEY BROTHERS: Next Sunday Darling Is My Birthday > Happy Birthday, Carter/Riding That New River Train (Stanleytone/8-27-61)
STANLEY BROTHERS: The Fields Have Turned Brown/The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys: 1949-52 (Bear Family/49) - Columbia
STANLEY BROTHERS: (Say) Won't You Be Mine/Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys: 1953-59 (Bear Family/53 or 54) - Mercury
STANLEY BROTHERS: Think Of What You've Done/The Early Starday/King Years, 1958-1961 (King/59) - King 615
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DAVID GRISMAN SEXTET: Del & Dawg/The David Grisman Sextet (Acoustic Disc)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: New Old Time - Sept. 3/16
Guest host: Todd Gracyk
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Little Black Train/Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt/15)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Goin’ Across The Mountain/ Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt/15)
BRUCE MOLSKY: Rove Riley Rove/Poor Man’s Trouble (Rounder/00)
BRUCE MOLSKY & BIG HOEDOWN: Train On the Island/Golden Chain Tree/Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown (Rounder/97)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: O Captain! My Captain!/Echoes Of The Mountains (Rounder/09)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Long Journey/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARZ: The Butcher’s Boy/Good Songs For Hard Times (Copper Creek/00)
GINNY HAWKER & KAY JUSTICE: The Unquiet Grave/Come All You Tenderhearted (June Appal/93)
JIM & KIM LANSFORD: The Time Draws Near/Call Your Dogs (JL/03)
JIM & KIM LANSFORD: Look On and Cry/Call Your Dogs (JL/03)
SKIP GORMAN: Old Paint’s A Pony/A Greener Prairie (Rounder/94)
SKIP GORMAN: Song Of A Cowboy/A Cowboy’s Wild Song To His Herd (Rounder/99)
DIRK POWELL: Little Satchel/If I Go Ten Thousand Miles (Rounder/96)
DIRK POWELL: Rubin/If I Go Ten Thousand Miles (Rounder/96)
NORMAN & NANCY BLAKE: Dry Bones/The Morning Glory Ramblers (Plectrafone/04)
NORMAN BLAKE: Little Bunch Of Roses/Flower From the Fields Of Alabama (Shanachie/01)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: Oh, Take Me Back/Spirit Of Love (Telegraph Music/09)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Latter Rain Done Fell On Me/Dark Was the Night: Tribute To Blind Willie Johnson (Deep Sea/03)
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BRUCE MOLSKY: Sally Ann/If It Ain’t Here When I Get Back (Tree Frog Music/13); THE FREIGHT HOPPERS: Elzik’s Farewell/Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go? (Rounder/96); RAYNA GELLERT: Willow On the Lake/Ways Of the World (Yodel-Ay-Hee/00); THE FREIGHT HOPPERS: Been To the East, Been To the West/Mike Marker (Bake Tone/96)
JORMA KAUKONEN: Arabella/Unreleased (promo disc for Blue Country Heart) (Columbia/02)
RAYNA GELLERT: Winder Slide/Ways Of the World (Yodel-Ay-Hee/00)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Sept. 10/16
BLUE HIGHWAY: What You Wanted/Original Traditional (Rounder)
BLUE HIGHWAY: If Lonesome Don't Kill Me/Original Traditional (Rounder)
CLAIRE LYNCH: It's Worth Believin’/North By South (Compass)
CLAIRE LYNCH: Milo/North By South (Compass)
IVAN ROSENBERG: Aardvarked/The Littlest Dobro (self)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Metis Set/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog)
JOE K. WALSH: Cumberland Gap/Borderland (self)
JOE K. WALSH: Never More Will Roam/Borderland (self)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Across The Plains Of Illinois/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog)
GINA FORSYTH: Copper Rooster/Copper Rooster & Other Tunes & Tales (Waterbug)
THE PRICE SISTERS: What Does the Deep Sea Say?/The Price Sisters (Rebel)
THE TIME JUMPERS: We’re the Time Jumpers/Kid Sister (Rounder)
THE TIME JUMPERS: My San Antonio Rose/Kid Sister (Rounder)
JIM KWESKIN & GEOFF MULDAUR: Downtown Blues/Penny's Farm (Kingswood)
BUCKING MULES: Sequatchie Valley/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
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JOE K. WALSH: various tracks/Borderland (self)
HIGH COUNTRY: Blues For Your Own/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
THE BOW TIES: It Ain't Gonna Rain No More/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
THE DIM LIGHTS: Time To Go Home/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
BLUE & LONESOME: Twilight/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Fall Membership Campaign Special - Sept. 17/16
Selections from Live On Arrival and In the Deep Rollig Hills Of San Francisco
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On - Sept. 24/16
BRAD LEFTWICH & HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Rabbit In the Lowland/Rascal Fair (Dark Train/11)
HURRICANE RIDGERUNNERS: Roster Tone Blues/Old Time String Band Of Seattle (Field Recorders Collective/80)
LAURIE LEWIS: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Skippin’ and Flyin’/Spruce and Maple/11)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: All The Good Times Are Over Here/Don't Forget This Song (self/14)
THOMPSONIA: How Can You Have The Blues/Thompsonia (self/15)
DOM FLEMONS: Polly Put the Kettle On/Prospect Hill (Music Maker Relief Foundation/14)
LEYLA McCALLA: A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
DANNY BARNES: Get Myself Together/Got Myself Together (Ten Years Later) (Eight 30/16)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Rocky Island/Live (self/12)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Berkeley Shanghai/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native and Fine/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I’m Not Your Honey-Baby Now/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: Love Please Come Home/Ramblin Feels Good (self/16)
DEL McCOURY BAND: The Bluest Man In Town/By Request (McCoury Music/09)
HIGH COUNTRY: You Live In a World All Your Own/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
FRONT COUNTRY: Undertaker/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/16)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Little Pine Siskin/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
PETER ROWAN: Dharma Blues/Live at MerleFest (FestivaLink/09)
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FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Sugar Tree Stomp, Norman & Nancy, Hannah In The Springhouse/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native and Fine/15)
THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: Cumberland Blues/The Travelin’ McCourys (McCoury Music/16)
ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY: Friend Of the Devil/The Country Blues (Compass/16)
LEYLA McCALLA: Bluerunner (feat. Louis Michot)/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Carter Family ‘Grass - Oct. 1/16
Host: Allegra Thompson
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Foggy Mountain Top/Bluegrass From the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
BILL MONROE: I’m Working On A Building/The Music Of Bill Monroe From 1936-1994 (Decca/55)
RED ALLEN: Sad and Lonesome Day/Keep On Going - The Rebel and Melodeon Recordings (Rebel/66)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: My Native Home/Hard Travelin’ - Final Fling (Columbia/63)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Worried Man Blues/The Osborne Brothers 1956-1968 (Bear Family/63)
DEL MCCOURY: Prisoner’s Song/I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (Arhoolie/68)
STANLEY BROTHERS: The Wandering Boy/The Complete Columbia Recordings (Columbia/52)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Homestead On The Farm/Outshine The Sun (self/12)
EMILY MILLER & VAL MINDEL: Lover’s Return/In the Valley (Yodel-ay-hee/06)
RICKY SKAGGS AND TONY RICE: Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow/Skaggs & Rice (Sugar Hill/80)
WALLER BROTHERS: Faded Coat Of Blue/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy/Old As Dirt (Native and Fine/02)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Coal Miner’s Blues/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Folkways/65)
SQUIRREL BUTTER: Lonesome For You/Chestnuts (self/15)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: Oh Take Me Back/Spirits Of Love (Telegraph/08)
LAURIE LEWIS AND THE RIGHT HANDS: Let That Liar Alone/The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/16)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: My Clinch Mountain Home/Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Wildwood Flower/The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 (King/61)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: East Virginia Blues/Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1971-73 (Rebel)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Over The Garden Wall/Outshine The Sun (self/12)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Cowboy Jack/Bluegrass From The Gold Country (New Rounder/81)
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BRUCE MOLSKY: Wandering Boy/Soon Be Time (Alliance/06); OSBORNE BROTHERS: John Hardy/The Osborne Brothers 1956-1968 (Bear Family); STANLEY BROTHERS: Wildwood Flower/ The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 (King/61)
BUCKSTANKLE BOYS: Rainbow Sign/The New Young Fogies, Volume One (self/12)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: The Orphan Child/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/87)
STANLEY BROTHERS: We Shall Rise/The King Years ’61-’65 Vol. 2 (King/62)
THOMPSONIA: Forrest Rag/Thompsonia (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: An Interview With & the Music Of Kathy Kallick, part 1 - Oct. 8/16
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, from the KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
Foxhounds
So Danged Lonesome
I'm Not Your Honey Baby Now
I'll Forgive You
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: I’ll Just Pretend/Live at RBA (self/06)
KATHY KALLICK: Griddle In the Middle/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/95)
Sally Ann
Roscoe
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KATHY KALLICK BAND: Panhandle Rag, Monobrow, Winterlight Aire/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
WINDY HILL: Shady Grove/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/12)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING & ADAM HURT: Oyster River Hornpipe/Inside Out FiddleStar/16)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: Down The Road Of Life/Ramblin Feels Good (self/16)
THE BOW TIES: It Ain't Gonna Rain No More/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/16)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: Sometimes Dig For Taters/Ramblin Feels Good (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: An Interview With & the Music Of Kathy Kallick, part 2 - Oct. 15/16
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, from the KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
Roscoe
Snowflakes
Longest Day Of the Year
Tear Stained Letter
My Montana Home
Banjo Picking Girl
Kentucky Mandolin
In Texas
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Live at the Freight (self/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
GOOD OL' PERSONS: One Slow Dance/In the Deep Rolling Hills Of San Francisco (Bluegrass Signal/95)
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KATHY KALLICK BAND: North Carolina Breakdown, Shuckin' The Acorns, Old Red Mandolin/Time (Live Oak/12)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Whiskey Before Breakfast/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
DOM FLEMONS: My Money Never Runs Out/Prospect Hill (Music Maker Foundation/14)
LEYLA McCALLA: Bluerunner/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Berkeley Shanghai/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live On Arrival – Oct. 22/16
NOTE: Except as noted, all tracks from Live On Arrival: A Collection Of Bay Area Bluegrass & Old Time Live Recordings (Bluegrass Signal/16)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Bluegrass Signal
THE TUTTLES with AJ LEE: Another Side
DAVID GRISMAN & THE BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Fare Thee Well
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Worried Man Blues
BUCKING MULES: Sequatchie Valley
EVIE LADIN BAND: Jump Up & Go
STEEP RAVINE: Trampin' On
AJ LEE & THE VALLEY RAMBLERS: City Of Glass
WINDY HILL: Shady Grove
HIGH COUNTRY: Blues For Your Own
GRATEFUL BLUEGRASS BOYS: Lonesome Road Blues
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Waterbound
BLUE & LONESOME: Twilight
MOLLY TUTTLE BAND: Lightning In A Jar
THE BOW TIES: It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
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THOMPSON STRING TICKLERS: Cherry River Rag; SKILLET LICORICE: Adeline Waltz
THE DIM LIGHTS: Time To Go Home
FRONT COUNTRY: Undertaker
JEANIE & CHUCK'S COUNTRY ROUNDUP: 20 Below
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Righteous Pathway/Live (self/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks – Oct. 29/16
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THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS (John Resichman/Scott Nygaard/Sharon Gilchrist): Half Past Four/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Fiddler's Dream (Compass/16)
Fiddler's Dream
Steamboat Whistle Blues
Blues For BIll
Unwanted Love
SIDELINE: Unwanted Love/Colors & Crossroads (Mountain Fever/16)
KENNY & AMANDA SMITH: You Know That I Would/Unbound (Farm Boy/16)
GIBSON BROTHERS: Highway/forthcoming (Rounder/17)
JIM HURST TRIO: Modalicious/JHT-1 (NN Guido/16)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Little Sadie/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
THE LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Going Across The Sea/Gone For Evermore (self/16)
MAPLE HILL: Lone Pine Standing/Back To You (self/16)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & LEON MORRIS: Sitting Here Waiting For You/Frank Wakefield & Leon Morris (Patuxent/16)
DWIGHT YOAKAM: Please, Please Baby/Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars … (Sugar Hill/16)
VALERIE SMITH & LIBERTY PIKE: Bluegrass Dollars/Small Town Heroes (Bell Buckle/16)
LARRY STEPHENSON BAND: Midnight Train/Weep Little Willow (Whysper Dream/16)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: I Am A Pilgrim /The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
DANNY BARNES: Cumberland Gap/Got Myself Together (Ten Years Later) (Eight 30/16)
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THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: My Father's Footsteps, Sail Away Ladies, Little Liza Jane/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
DEL McCOURY: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight/I Wonder Where You Are Tonight aka Sings Bluegrass (Arhoolie/67)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Lazy John/Live (self/02)
FRONT COUNTRY: Kissin’ Comes Easy/Mixtape (self/16)
SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Call Me Long Gone/Coffee Creek (self/15)
TWO FOR THE ROAD: Forest Of Bondi>Needle Case/Bring It On Down To My House (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Tell Me True - Nov. 5/16
Host: Leah Wollenberg
ALISON BROWN: Girl’s Breakdown/Fair Weather (Compass /00)
CROOKED STILL (w/ Laurie Lewis): Can’t You Hear Me Calling?/Live (Signature Sounds/09)
GINNY HAWKER: Those Two Blue Eyes/Letters from my Father (Rounder/01)
NATE LEATH & TATIANA HARGREAVES: What Time Is It, My Pretty Little Miss?/Rockville Pike (Patuxent/08)
ALICE GERRARD: Payday at the Mill/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
HAAS KOWERT TICE: The Decade/Haas Kowert Tice (self/13)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: How Many Times/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
ALISON KRAUSS: Dark Skies/I’ve Got That Old Feeling (Rounder/90)
OLA BELLE REED: Undone in Sorrow/Rising Sun Melodies (Smithsonian Folkways/72)
SARAH JAROSZ: Tell Me True/Live at the Troubadour (Sugar Hill/13)
NICKEL CREEK: Cuckoo’s Nest/Nickel Creek (Sugar Hill/00)
CARTER FAMILY: Lonesome Homesick Blues/In the Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/41)
DELIA BELL & BILL GRANT: Sad Situation/Dreaming (Rounder/97)
SIERRA HULL: Weighted Mind/Weighted Mind (Rounder/16)
ANNIE STANINEC: Sinner’s Waltz/Annie Staninec (self/15)
COUSIN EMMY & HER KINFOLK: Bowling Green/Radio Recordings From 1939-1947 (Bear Family)
THOMPSONIA: Pain Reliever/Thompsonia (self/15)
LEYLA McCALLA (feat. Louis Michot): Bluerunner/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
DELLA MAE: Shambles/Della Mae (Rounder/15)
LONESOME SISTERS (w/ Reyna Gellert): Blue Eyed Girl/Lonesome Sisters with Reyna Gellert (Tin Halo/06)
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FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Fiddler's Dream; Abe's Retreat>Fine Times at Our House; Liverpool Hornpipe; Going Back to Israel/Fine Times at Fletcher's House (Native & Fine/13)
SALLY VAN METER: Weary Lonesome Blues/All In Good Time (Sugar Hill/91)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: I’ve Always Been A Rambler/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: West End Blues/Leaving Eden (Nonesuch/12)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/66)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Celebrating Lynn & Suzanne - Nov. 12/16
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LYNN MORRIS: Dancing In the Hog Trough/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
WHETSTONE RUN: Talking About That Old Time Religion/Angels Rejoice - Live In Holland (Strictly Country/85)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: My Heart Skips A Beat/The Lynn Morris Band (Rounder/90)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Blue Skies and Teardrops/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Love Grown Cold/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: I Thought I Heard You Callin’ My Name/The Complete Vetco Recordings (self/78)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: If You Don't Love Your Neighbor/The Complete Vetco Recordings (self/78)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Love Has Brought Me To Despair/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Please Don't Wake Me/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
LYNN MORRIS: It Rains Everywhere I Go/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: Mama's Hand/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: The Likes of You/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Goodbye To the Blues/Shape of a Tear (Rounder/03)
THE KENTUCKY WARBLERS: I Have No Mother Now/The Green Grass Cloggers (Rounder/86)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: A House Divided/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Housework Is My Life -> Red Rocking Chair/Live! At Last (Rounder/95)
SUZANNE THOMAS: Just A Few More Days/Dear Friends & Gentle Hearts (Rounder/98)
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LYNN MORRIS BAND: Spay Your Pet PSA (SPAY/USA)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Hawkins Rag -> East Tennessee Blues -> Stone Mountain Wobble/The Complete Vetco Recordings (self/74)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Memories That Bless & Burn/Memories That Bless & Burn (Rounder/99)
LYNN MORRIS: You'll Never Be the Sun/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
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35 YEARS OF TROUBLE: Take Your Shoes Off Moses/demo (self/16)
FRONT COUNTRY: Three Of A Perfect Pair/Mixtape (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - Nov. 19/16
Host: Sully Roddy
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks (New Releases) – Nov. 26/16
RICKEY WASSON: I'm Walkin’/Croweology (Truegrass)
RICKEY WASSON: Ramblin’ Boy/Croweology (Truegrass)
RICKEY WASSON: Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord/Croweology (Truegrass)
PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS: Troublesome Waters/Wonderful World Outside (Vigortone)
PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS: Little Boy Loser/Wonderful World Outside (Vigortone)
PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS: I'll Be There/Wonderful World Outside (Vigortone)
ALICE GERRARD: Ground Hog/On Top Of Old Smoky - New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music (Great Smoky Mountains Association)
TRAVIS & TREVOR STUART: Lost Indian/On Top Of Old Smoky - New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music (Great Smoky Mountains Association)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES: On Top Of Old Smoky/On Top Of Old Smoky - New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music (Great Smoky Mountains Association)
JODY STRECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Come All You Young Ladies/On Top Of Old Smoky - New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music (Great Smoky Mountains Association)
HART VALLEY DRIFTERS: Roving Gambler/Folk Time (Round-ATO/62)
HART VALLEY DRIFTERS: Billy Grimes, The Rover/Folk Time (Round-ATO/62)
NEW KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Live in Sweden 1973 (Roland White Music)
NEW KENTUCKY COLONELS: Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms/Live in Sweden 1973 (Roland White Music)
GILLIAN WELCH: Acony Bell (demo)/Boots No. 1 – The Official Revival Bootleg (Acony/95)
RHONDA VINCENT & THE RAGE: Wow Baby/All The Rage – In Concert Vol. One (Upper Management)
RHONDA VINCENT & THE RAGE: Muleskinner Blues/All The Rage – In Concert Vol. One (Upper Management)
SHAWN CAMP: Going Back To Bristol/I Sang the Song (Mountain Fever)
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CORRINA ROSE LOGSTON: Smokey Mountain Rag, Snowflake Breakdown, Wilson's Hornpipe/Bluegrass Fiddler (Patuxent)
CORRINA ROSE LOGSTON: I Don’t Blame You/Bluegrass Fiddler (Patuxent)
KARL SHIFLETT & BIG COUNTRY SHOW: Six Pack To Go/Sho-Nuff Country (Patuxent)
GILLIAN WELCH: Tear My Stillhouse Down (home demo)/Boots No. 1 – The Official Revival Bootleg (Acony/95)
KARL SHIFLETT & BIG COUNTRY SHOW: Pick Me Up On Your Way Down/Sho-Nuff Country (Patuxent)
IVAN ROSENBERG: Spock’s Brain/The Littlest Dobro (Slosh Tone)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Dreamy Bluegrass - Dec. 3/16
Host: Allegra Thompson
BILL MONROE: Travelin’ Blues/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Decca/51)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby/20 All Time Greatest Hits (Capitol/56)
TOM, BRAD, & ALICE: I’ll See You Tonight In My Dreams/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
RALPH STANLEY: Dream Of A Miner’s Child/Man Of Constant Sorrow (Rebel/78)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I’m Lonesome Without You/Time (Live Oak/12)
LAURIE LEWIS AND THE RIGHT HANDS: River Under the Road /The Golden West (Hightone/06)
THE BUCK STOPS HERE: Mister Moon/The Buck Stops Here (self/15)
SKILLET LICORICE: Dream Shadows/Skillet Licorice (self/15)
WINDY HILL: Sleepwalker/Let’s Go To The Fair (self/11)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Who Done It?/ The Osborne Brothers and Red Allen (Rounder/56)
LAURIE LEWIS: Dreams/Skippin’ and Flyin’ (Spruce and Maple/11)
HOT RIZE: Colleen Malone/Take It Home (Sugar Hill/90)
BILL MONROE: Come Back To Me In My Dreams/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58)
GEOFF MULDAUR & THE TEXAS SHEIKS: Under The Chicken Tree/Geoff Muldaur & The Texas Sheiks (Tradition & Moderne/09)
THE FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Columbus Stockade Blues/Devil in the Seat (self/15)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Hey, Hey, Hey/The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 (King/61)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: What Was I Supposed To Do?/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/82)
THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: I’d Rather Be Alone/Vol. 3 - California Connection (Rounder/83)
GEORGE JONES & MELBA MONTGOMERY: I Dreamed My Baby Came Home/Vintage Collections (Capitol/65)
WENDY BURCH STEEL: Leah’s Lullaby/Open Wings (Dragonfly Bridge/12)
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SKILLET LICORICE: Texas Gals, Sleeping Lulu/Skillet Licorice (self/15)
MEGAN LYNCH CHORNING & MARY SUE ENGLUND: Christmas Time’s a Comin’/All Year Long (self/15)
RALPH STANLEY: Children Go Where I Send Thee/Classic Stanley (Freeland/75)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Beautiful Star of Bethlehem/The Best of the Best (King/64)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Father Of West Coast Bluegrass - Dec. 10/16
VERN & RAY & THE CARROLL COUNTY BOYS: Thinkin' Of Home/Cabin On A Mountain (Starday>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: Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
Cabin on a Mountain
Come Back to Me in My Dreams
Old Kentucky Home
Clinch Mountain Home
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82 & 84)
Roll On Buddy
Close By
In Despair
When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall
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)
VERN & RAY: Muleskinner Blues/San Francisco 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Happy I'll Be/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
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BLUE & LONESOME: Crusing Timber, All The Way 'Cross Texas, Spinning Wheel/Cruzin' With Blue & Lonesome (self/16)
LARRY SPARKS & LONESOME RAMBLERS: Christmas In The Hills (Rebel/76 & 97)
Christmas Is Near
Blue Christmas
Christmas In the Mountains
Go Tell It On the Mountain
It’s Christmas Time
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Travelin' the Highway Home/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/88)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Last-Minute Gift Suggestions (Relatively Recent NorCal Releases) - Dec. 17/16
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)
THOMPSONIA: Pain Reliever/Thompsonia (self/16)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Worried Man Blues/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/00)
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BUTCH WALLER: Pine Valley Waltz, Roberta's Homecoming Waltz/Waltz Collection (Big Chicken/15)
35 YEARS OF TROUBLE: How Many Times/Stay Behind Yellow Line (self)
SKILLET LICORICE: Texas Gals/Skillet Licorice (self/15)
THE VIVANTS: I Heard My Savior Call/Bluegrass Special (self/16)
PAUL KING & FRIENDS: May You Never Be Alone/Hillbilly At Heart (self)
SMALL TOWN THERAPY: Small Town Therapy/Small Town Therapy (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Mandolin Christmas – Dec. 24/16
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ADAM STEFFEY: We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Christmas Grass, Vol. 2 (Koch/04)
DAVID GRISMAN: Winter Wonderland/David Grisman’s Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/84)
DAVID GRISMAN: The Christmas Song/David Grisman’s Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/84)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
BUTCH BALDASSARI: Angels We Have Heard On High/Evergreen – Mandolin Music For Christmas (SoundArt/90)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/Winter Wonderland (Copper Creek/99)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Blue Christmas/Winter Wonderland (Copper Creek/99)
MIKE WOLLENBERG & DIX BRUCE: We Three Kings/Live In the Living Room (2001)
MIKE WOLLENBERG & DIX BRUCE: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/Live In the Living Room (2001)
WAYNE BENSON: Frosty The Snowman/A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' (Pinecastle/03)
SAM BUSH: Sleigh Ride/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter's Grace (Signature Sounds/99)
ANDY STATMAN & DAVID GRISMAN: Shalom Aleichem/Songs Of Our Fathers (Acoustic Disc/95)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Nilent Sight/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Christmas Eve/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
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RONNIE McCOURY: Jingle Bells, O Christmas Tree/Christmas Grass (Audium/02)
KATHY KALLICK & THE LITTLE BIG BAND: Ring The Bells At Midnight/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
TOM BEKENY with THE KATHY KALLICK BAND: Winterlight Aire/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
CHRIS THILE with SCOTT NYGAARD: Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)
ADAM STEFFEY: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/Christmas Grass, Vol. 2 (Koch/04)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!/Winter Wonderland (Copper Creek/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hank Williams ‘Grass - Dec. 31/16
BILL MONROE: I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome/Blue Grass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/50)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Alabama Waltz/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN: Lost Highway/1958-1968 (Bear Family/58)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: No One Will Ever Know/Larry Sparks Sings Hank Williams (County/77)
DAVE EVANS: (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle/Pretty Green Hills (Rebel/06)
TOMMY WEBB: Someday You'll Call My Name/Eastern Kentucky (Kindred/07)
JAMES KING: A Teardrop On A Rose/These Old Pictures (Rounder/93)
MADDOX BROTHERS & ROSE: Honky Tonkin'/Live On the Radio (Arhoolie/53)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: Move It On Over/Shape Of A Tear (Rounder/03)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Honky Tonk Blues/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/04)
ALLEGHENY DRIFTERS: Mind Your Own Business/Can't Wait (self/08)
BUDDY MERRIAM & BACK ROADS: Your Cheatin' Heart/Live At The Vail Leavitt Music Hall 25th Anniversary Show (Lilypad/05)
WHITSTEIN BROTHERS: Mansion On The Hill/Old Time Duets (Rounder/90)
CLAIRE LYNCH: I Can't Get You Off My Mind/A Picture Of Hank - The New Bluegrass Way (Mercury/95)
HANK WILLIAMS: I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive/40 Greatest Hits (Mercury/52)
LOST & FOUND: Take These Chains From My Heart>They'll Never Take Her Love From Me/A Ride Through The Country (Rebel/95)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Settin' The Woods On Fire/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/86)
BLUE GRASS BOOGIEMEN: The Blues Come Around/Hits of Hank Williams (Continental/10)
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BRYAN SUTTON: Roanoke, Big Sandy River, Daley's Reel/Bluegrass Guitar (Sugar Hill/03)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/Larry Sparks Sings Hank Williams(County/77)
JAMES KING: The Devil’s Train/Three Cords and the Truth (Rounder/13)
LONGVIEW: At the First Fall Of Snow/Deep In the Mountains (Rounder/08),
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THE TUTTLES & AJ LEE: Another Side/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/13)
with guest host Ed Cirimele
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, #73987 - July 9/16
- A celebration of the anniversary of the date (July 9, 1923) that Lloyd Loar signed off on the F5 mandolin made under his supervision that Bill Monroe played for most of his career after acquiring it in 1943.
- All selections are by BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS and, except as noted, are available on various Bear Family releases. Recording dates for each selection are included.
- Songs and tunes selected by Neil Rosenberg (NR), Martino Coppo (MaC), Tom Bekeny (TB), Tom Rozum (TR), Jody Stecher (JS), Skip Gorman (SG), Mike Compton (MiC), John Reischman (JR), Butch Waller (BW), Ed Neff (EN), and yours truly (PT).
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Bluegrass Breakdown (10-31-64 - NR)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky (10-27-47 - MaC)
When You Are Lonely (10-28-47 - TB)
I'm Travelin' On and On (10-28-47 - TR)
Along About Daybreak (10-28-47 - JS)
Rawhide (1-20-51 - JS, TR)
On the Old Kentucky Shore (1-20-51 - SG)
The First Whippoorwill (10-28-51 - JS, MiC)
When Golden Leaves Begin To Fall (10-15-50 - JS, SG, JR)
Get Up John (11-28-53 - BW, JR)
Used to Be - 9-16-55 - MiC)
Out In the Cold World (5-15-57 - EN)
Bluegrass Part One aka Blue Grass Twist (12-3-60 - BW)
Dusty Miller (12-6-66 - SG, TB, TR)
John Henry (11-16-63 - MiC)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
On and On (11-16-63)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz (12-3-70 - MaC, EN)
Bluegrass Stomp (9-23-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
Brakeman's Blues (9-23-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
True Life Blues (2-13-45 - MiC)
Can't You Hear Me Calling (10-22-49- BW)
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Blue Grass Special (2-13-45), Blue Grass Stomp (10-22-49), Blue Grass Ramble (2-3-50)
Close By (5-13-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
My Dying Bed (7-18/19-52 - MiC)
Old Ebenezer Scrooge (2-3-81 - MaC)
Eawhide (11-16-63)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Big Mon’s Mando Legacy - July 16/16
Last week’s program celebrated the July 9th (1923) completion of Bill Monroe’s Gibson F5 mandolin under the supervision of Lloyd Loar, presenting Monroe songs and tunes as selected by contemporary mandolinists Tom Bekeny, Mike Compton, Martino Coppo, Skip Gorman, Ed Neff, John Reischman, Tom Rozum, Jody Stecher, and Butch Waller. This week: recordings by all of these players, with an emphasis on their Monrovian approaches.
SKIP GORMAN: The Lloyd Loar/The Old Style Mandolin Vol. Two - Monroesque (Old West/03)
SKIP GORMAN & RICHARD STARKEY: Feast Here Tonight/ Late Night Feast (No Part A Nothin’/06)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Evening Prayer Blues/Live (self/13)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Rocky Road Blues/Live (self/13)
HIGH COUNTRY with BUTCH WALLER: Butch’s Blues/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: Letter From My Darling/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: You'll Find Her Name Written There/The Road West (Corvus/04)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Joe Ahr’s Dream/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
RED WINE: W.S.M./Italian Cats (self/01)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with MARTINO COPPO: I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome/Live at La Roche (2011)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with TOM BEKENY: Kentucky Mandolin/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin’ On Top Of the World/Blue Lightning (Rounder/91)
BLUE & LONESOME with ED NEFF: Toy Heart/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e’Neff Said/10)
TOM ROZUM: On the Old Kentucky Shore/Jubilee (Dog Boy/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS with TOM ROZUM: The Golden West/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with TOM BEKENY: Lord Protect My Soul/Time (Live Oak/12)
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND with JODY STECHER: In the Pines/In the Deep Rolling Hills Of San Francisco (Bluegrass Signal/07)
BLUE & LONESOME with ED NEFF: Out In the Cold World/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e’Neff Said/10)
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SKIP GORMAN: Trombolin>Jack Across The Way; Right, Right On; Frog On A Lilypad/The Old Style Mandolin Vol. Two - Monroesque (Old West/03)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Indiana Firefly/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
BUTCH WALLER: Bluegrass Stomp/Golden Gate Promenade (Rebel/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Something Auld, Something New - July 23/16
Guest host: Leah Wollenberg
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Snowy Side Of the Mountain/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
KATHY KALLICK: Call Me A Taxi/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
ALISON BROWN: Chicken Road/Twilight Hotel (Vanguard/92)
THE LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND: The Road’s Salvation/Deep Waters (Rounder/16)
BILL KEITH: I’ll Stay Around/ Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass (Rounder/76)
DELIA BELL & BILL GRANT: The Bluest Girl In Town/Rollin’ (Rebel/81)
HAZEL DICKENS: Don’t Bother To Cry/It’s Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song (Rounder/87)
LEADBELLY: John Hardy/Vol. 3, 1939-1947 (Document/39)
CLARENCE WHITE: Farewell Blues/33 Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals (Sierra/62)
DOC WATSON: Milk Cow Blues/At Gerdes Folk City (Sugar Hill/62)
TONY RICE: John Hardy/Cold On the Shoulder (Rounder/84)
JOHN HARTFORD: Long Hot Summer Day/Mark Twang (Flying Fish/76)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Working Girl Blues/The Hazel & Alice Sessions (Spruce & Maple/16)
SELDOM SCENE: Paradise/Act Two (Rebel/73)
TATIANA HARGREAVES & ETHAN JODZIEWICZ: Ostrich With Pearls/Ethan Jodziewicz & Tatiana Hargreaves (self/15)
MICHAEL DAVES: I Only Exist/Orchids & Violence (Nonesuch/16)
DOM FLEMONS: Too Long I’ve Been Gone/Prospect Hill (Music Maker Relief Foundation/14)
DAROL ANGER’S REPUBLIC OF STRINGS: Old Dangerfield/Republic Of Strings (Compass/04)
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BLUE & LONESOME: Crusing Timber, All the Way ‘cross Texas, Foggy Mountain Rock/Cruzin’ With B&L (self/16)
BLAINE SPROUSE: Little Rabbit/Appalachian Mountain Fiddler (Cumberland/96)
BILL MONROE: Toy Heart/The Early Years (Vanguard/46)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: Nine Pound Hammer/Appalachian Swing (EMI/64)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - July 30/16
NOTE: All music from 2016 releases.
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Rattle & Roar (Rounder)
Why Did You Wander?
All I Want Is You
The Girl I Love Don't Pay Me No Mind
JEFF WHITE: Right Beside You (self)
Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
Run Little Rabbit Run
Travelin' That Lonesome Road
DEL McCOURY & DAVID GRISMAN: Brakeman’s Blues/Del & Dawg Live (Acoustic Disc)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Dirty Overalls/Del & Woody (McCoury Music)
SAM BUSH: Play By Your Own Rules/Storyman (Sugar Hill)
IVAN ROSENBERG: Clinch Mountain Bar Mitzvah/The Littlest Dobro (self)
KRISTINE SCHMITT Wild Bird Blues/Good Dirt (self)
CHRIS COOLE Leaving 2674/The Tumbling River (self)
BARWICK & SIEGFRIED: Walkin’ Boss/Long Time Gone (self)
RON CODY: Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine/The Cooper Sessions (self)
BRYAN SUTTON: Backwater Blues/The More I Learn (Sugar Hill)
THE VIVANTS: Bluegrass Special/Bluegrass Special (self)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: Ramblin' Feels Good/Ramblin Feels Good (self)
THE LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND: Deep Waters/Deep Waters (Rounder)
TOWN MOUNTAIN: Southern Crescent/Southern Crescent (Lo Hi)
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KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Great Waterton, Eagle Eye Annie, Farewell Blues/Stringworks (Mountain Home)
LOU REID & CAROLINA: Rollin’ On/Rollin’ On (self)
HIGH FIDELITY: Another Day/High Fidelty (self)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: BOTMC Previews - Aug. 6/13
Guest host: Allegra Thompson
More info: www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.com
THE HURRICANE RIDGERUNNERS: Glory in the Meetinghouse/The Hurricane Ridgerunners (Field Recorders Collective/77)
BILL EVANS (featuring SUZANNE THOMAS): Wondrous Love/Native and Fine (Rounder/95)
VAL MINDEL & EMILY MILLER: Sweet Chariot/Close to Home (Yodel Ay Hee/13)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Let Me Fall/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER: Come All You Roving Gamblers/Deep End Sessions Vol. II (Deep End Sessions/15)
FIDDLIN EARL WHITE: Raleigh And Spencer/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
SPENCER & RAINS: Roustabout/The Old Man And The Old Woman (self/14)
DEBBY McCLATCHY AND THE RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Seeing The Elephant/Silver Jubilee Reissue (Green Linnet/76)
THE GALLUS BROTHERS: Nobody’s Sweetheart Now/Suitcase Rag (self/06)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Rascal Fair/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
WB REID & BONNIE ZAHNOW: Happy Hickey The Hobo/Ryestraw (self/15)
THE HURRICANE RIDGERUNNERS: Southern Moon/The Hurricane Ridgerunners (Field Recorders Collective/77)
THE GALLUS BROTHERS: Too Bad West Coast Blues/Suitcase Rag (self/06)
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER: My Better Years/Deep End Sessions Vol. II (Deep End Sessions/15)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Sun’s Gonna Shine/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
THE HURRICANE RIDGERUNNERS: Glory in the Meetinghouse/The Hurricane Ridgerunners (Field Recorders Collective/77)
VAL MINDEL & EMILY MILLER: You Tied a Love Knot in My Heart/Close to Home (Yodel Ay Hee/13)
FIDDLIN EARL WHITE: Apple Blossom/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
BILL EVANS: Goodbye Liza Jane/Native and Fine (Rounder/95)
THE GALLUS BROTHERS: Don’t Let Your Rag Mama Go Down/Suitcase Rag (self/06)
BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Who’s on the Way?/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
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BRAD LEFTWICH & THE HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Sally Johnson/Rascal Fair (Dark Train Records/11)
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER: Sally Anne Johnson/Deep End Sessions Vol. II (Deep End Sessions/15)
SPENCER & RAINS: Sally Johnson/The Old Texas Fiddle Vol II (self/15)
DEBBY McCLATCHY & THE RED CLAY RAMBLERS: Hills Of Kentucky/Silver Jubilee Reissue (Green Linnet/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Legacy Of the Carter Family - Aug. 13/16
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS with MOTHER MAYBELLE CARTER: Keep On the Sunny Side/Songs Of The Famous Carter Family (Columbia/61)
BILL MONROE & DOC WATSON: Foggy Mountain Top/Off The Record, Vol. 2: Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
RED ALLEN & THE KENTUCKIANS: I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes/Live On the Radio (Acoustic Oasis/66)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: Wildwood Flower/I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family (King/77)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Little Darling Pal Of Mine/The King Years (King/63) cf. Songs Of the Carter Family (Gusto)
RALPH STANLEY: Worried Man Blues/A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family (Columbia DMZ/06)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Single Girl, Married Girl/Songs Of The Carter Family (Appleseed/00)
GINNY HAWKER & KAY JUSTICE: Loved You Better Than You Knew/Bristol: A Tribute To the Music of the Carter Family (Copper Creek/99)
ANTIQUE PERSUASION: Broken Hearted Lover/Don't Forget Me Little Darling: Remembering the Carter Family (Voxhall/15)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: A Distant Land To Roam/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: Where The Silv'ry Colorado Wends Its Way/Spirits Of Love (Telegraph/08)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: My Dixie Darlin'/The Oak & the Laurel (Rounder/95)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: When Springtime Comes Again/Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
KATHY KALLICK: My Clinch Mountain Home/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
PETER ROWAN & JERRY DOUGLAS: Cannonball Blues/Yonder (Sugar Hill/96)
ROSANNE CASH: The Winding Stream/The Winding Stream: The Carters, the Cashes and The Course Of Country Music (Omnivore/15)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Darling Nellie Across the Sea/Weary River (Patuxent/15)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Orphan Child/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
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BILL EVANS: Big Chief Sonny, Dakota/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Don't Forget This Song/Don't Forget This Song (self/14)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: You've Been A Friend To Me/Spirits Of Love (Telegraph/08)
CARTER FAMILY: In the Shadow Of Clinch Mountain/In the Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/37)
CARTER FAMILY: Keep On the Sunny Side > Cannonball Blues/The Winding Stream (Omnivore)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: James King Memorial Tribute - Aug. 20/16
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS - INTRODUCING JAMES KING: Let Me Be Your Friend/Stanley Brothers Classics (Wango/85)
RALPH STANLEY FEATURING GEORGE SHUFFLER AND JAMES KING: I Love No One But You/Reunion (Wango/87)
JAMES KING: It's A Cold, Cold World/It's a Cold, Cold World (Webco/89)
JAMES KING: The Old Swinging Bridge/These Old Pictures (Rounder/93)
JAMES KING: Weary Angel Of Death/These Old Pictures (Rounder/93)
JAMES KING: A Few Old Memories/Lonesome and Then Some (Rounder/95)
LONGVIEW: I've Never Been So Lonesome/Longview (Rounder/97)
LONGVIEW: Voice Of My Savior/High Lonesome (Rounder/99)
LONGVIEW: Where The Dim Lights Are The Dimmest/High Lonesome (Rounder/99)
THE BASEMENT BAND: Walk Softly On this Heart Of Mine/Radio Series, Vol. Two (Wango/98)
THE BASEMENT BAND: Does It Have To End This Way/Radio Series, Vol. Two (Wango/98)
THE BASEMENT BAND: Travelin’ the Highway Home/Radio Series, Vol. Two (Wango/98)
JAMES KING: Chiseled In Stone/Three Chords & the Truth (Rounder/13)
JAMES KING: Will You Feel At Home/Gardens In the Sky (Rounder/08)
LONGVIEW: Cotton Eyed Joe/Deep In The Mountains (Rounder/08)
JAMES KING: Will He Wait A Little Longer/Gardens In the Sky (Rounder/99)
JAMES KING: He Stopped Loving Her Today/Three Chords & the Truth (Rounder/13)
LONGVIEW: Don't Leave Me Alone/Deep In The Mountains (Rounder/08)
LONGVIEW: I've Lived A Lot In My Time/Lessons In Stone (Rounder/02)
LONGVIEW: The River Underground/Longview (Rounder/97)
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O’CONNOR BAND: Jerusalem Ridge, Fishers Hornpipe/Coming Home (Rounder/16)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS - INTRODUCING JAMES KING: Loving You Too Well/Stanley Brothers Classics (Wango/85)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Aug. 27/16
TRAVERS CHANDLER: Shot Man Blues/Archaic (Patuxent)
AUDIE BLAYLOCK & REDLINE: Ride and Roll/The Road That Winds (Patuxent)
TRAVERS CHANDLER: In the Shadow Of a Lie/Archaic (Patuxent)
AUDIE BLAYLOCK & REDLINE: The Road That Winds/The Road That Winds (Patuxent)
MICKEY GALYEAN & CULLEN'S BRIDGE: I Found My Daddy's Grass/My Daddy's Grass (Rebel)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Will You Be Lonesome Too?/Rattle & Roar (Rounder)
MICKEY GALYEAN & CULLEN'S BRIDGE: We'll Be Sweethearts In Heaven/My Daddy's Grass (Rebel)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: I'm Working On a Road (To Glory Land)/Rattle & Roar (Rounder)
SISTER SADIE: Look What I'm Trading For a Mansion/Sister Sadie (Pinecastle)
EDGAR LOUDERMILK: Homesick Blues/Georgia Maple (Pinecastle)
SISTER SADIE: Don't Tell Me Stories/Sister Sadie (Pinecastle)
EDGAR LOUDERMILK: Georgia Maple/Georgia Maple (Pinecastle)
COTY HOGUE: Poor Ellen Smith/Flight (Perpetual Hoedown)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Baby I'm Blue/Long I Ride (Compass)
THE WESTERN FLYERS: No Moon At All/Wild Blue Yonder (Versa-Tone)
STEVE BAUGHMAN: Monroe/O'er Quiet Lands Suspended (self)
O'CONNOR BAND: Jerusalem Ridge/Coming Home (Rounder)
ILYA TOSHINSKIY: Red Grass/Red Grass (Hadley)
STEVE BAUGHMAN: Briar Picker Brown/O'er Quiet Lands Suspended (self)
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STANLEY BROTHERS: Next Sunday Darling Is My Birthday > Happy Birthday, Carter/Riding That New River Train (Stanleytone/8-27-61)
STANLEY BROTHERS: The Fields Have Turned Brown/The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys: 1949-52 (Bear Family/49) - Columbia
STANLEY BROTHERS: (Say) Won't You Be Mine/Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys: 1953-59 (Bear Family/53 or 54) - Mercury
STANLEY BROTHERS: Think Of What You've Done/The Early Starday/King Years, 1958-1961 (King/59) - King 615
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DAVID GRISMAN SEXTET: Del & Dawg/The David Grisman Sextet (Acoustic Disc)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: New Old Time - Sept. 3/16
Guest host: Todd Gracyk
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Little Black Train/Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt/15)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Goin’ Across The Mountain/ Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt/15)
BRUCE MOLSKY: Rove Riley Rove/Poor Man’s Trouble (Rounder/00)
BRUCE MOLSKY & BIG HOEDOWN: Train On the Island/Golden Chain Tree/Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown (Rounder/97)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: O Captain! My Captain!/Echoes Of The Mountains (Rounder/09)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Long Journey/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARZ: The Butcher’s Boy/Good Songs For Hard Times (Copper Creek/00)
GINNY HAWKER & KAY JUSTICE: The Unquiet Grave/Come All You Tenderhearted (June Appal/93)
JIM & KIM LANSFORD: The Time Draws Near/Call Your Dogs (JL/03)
JIM & KIM LANSFORD: Look On and Cry/Call Your Dogs (JL/03)
SKIP GORMAN: Old Paint’s A Pony/A Greener Prairie (Rounder/94)
SKIP GORMAN: Song Of A Cowboy/A Cowboy’s Wild Song To His Herd (Rounder/99)
DIRK POWELL: Little Satchel/If I Go Ten Thousand Miles (Rounder/96)
DIRK POWELL: Rubin/If I Go Ten Thousand Miles (Rounder/96)
NORMAN & NANCY BLAKE: Dry Bones/The Morning Glory Ramblers (Plectrafone/04)
NORMAN BLAKE: Little Bunch Of Roses/Flower From the Fields Of Alabama (Shanachie/01)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: Oh, Take Me Back/Spirit Of Love (Telegraph Music/09)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Latter Rain Done Fell On Me/Dark Was the Night: Tribute To Blind Willie Johnson (Deep Sea/03)
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BRUCE MOLSKY: Sally Ann/If It Ain’t Here When I Get Back (Tree Frog Music/13); THE FREIGHT HOPPERS: Elzik’s Farewell/Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go? (Rounder/96); RAYNA GELLERT: Willow On the Lake/Ways Of the World (Yodel-Ay-Hee/00); THE FREIGHT HOPPERS: Been To the East, Been To the West/Mike Marker (Bake Tone/96)
JORMA KAUKONEN: Arabella/Unreleased (promo disc for Blue Country Heart) (Columbia/02)
RAYNA GELLERT: Winder Slide/Ways Of the World (Yodel-Ay-Hee/00)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Sept. 10/16
BLUE HIGHWAY: What You Wanted/Original Traditional (Rounder)
BLUE HIGHWAY: If Lonesome Don't Kill Me/Original Traditional (Rounder)
CLAIRE LYNCH: It's Worth Believin’/North By South (Compass)
CLAIRE LYNCH: Milo/North By South (Compass)
IVAN ROSENBERG: Aardvarked/The Littlest Dobro (self)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Metis Set/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog)
JOE K. WALSH: Cumberland Gap/Borderland (self)
JOE K. WALSH: Never More Will Roam/Borderland (self)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Across The Plains Of Illinois/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog)
GINA FORSYTH: Copper Rooster/Copper Rooster & Other Tunes & Tales (Waterbug)
THE PRICE SISTERS: What Does the Deep Sea Say?/The Price Sisters (Rebel)
THE TIME JUMPERS: We’re the Time Jumpers/Kid Sister (Rounder)
THE TIME JUMPERS: My San Antonio Rose/Kid Sister (Rounder)
JIM KWESKIN & GEOFF MULDAUR: Downtown Blues/Penny's Farm (Kingswood)
BUCKING MULES: Sequatchie Valley/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
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JOE K. WALSH: various tracks/Borderland (self)
HIGH COUNTRY: Blues For Your Own/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
THE BOW TIES: It Ain't Gonna Rain No More/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
THE DIM LIGHTS: Time To Go Home/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
BLUE & LONESOME: Twilight/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Fall Membership Campaign Special - Sept. 17/16
Selections from Live On Arrival and In the Deep Rollig Hills Of San Francisco
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On - Sept. 24/16
BRAD LEFTWICH & HOGWIRE STRINGBAND: Rabbit In the Lowland/Rascal Fair (Dark Train/11)
HURRICANE RIDGERUNNERS: Roster Tone Blues/Old Time String Band Of Seattle (Field Recorders Collective/80)
LAURIE LEWIS: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Skippin’ and Flyin’/Spruce and Maple/11)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: All The Good Times Are Over Here/Don't Forget This Song (self/14)
THOMPSONIA: How Can You Have The Blues/Thompsonia (self/15)
DOM FLEMONS: Polly Put the Kettle On/Prospect Hill (Music Maker Relief Foundation/14)
LEYLA McCALLA: A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
DANNY BARNES: Get Myself Together/Got Myself Together (Ten Years Later) (Eight 30/16)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Rocky Island/Live (self/12)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Berkeley Shanghai/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native and Fine/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I’m Not Your Honey-Baby Now/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: Love Please Come Home/Ramblin Feels Good (self/16)
DEL McCOURY BAND: The Bluest Man In Town/By Request (McCoury Music/09)
HIGH COUNTRY: You Live In a World All Your Own/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
FRONT COUNTRY: Undertaker/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/16)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Little Pine Siskin/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
PETER ROWAN: Dharma Blues/Live at MerleFest (FestivaLink/09)
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FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Sugar Tree Stomp, Norman & Nancy, Hannah In The Springhouse/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native and Fine/15)
THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: Cumberland Blues/The Travelin’ McCourys (McCoury Music/16)
ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY: Friend Of the Devil/The Country Blues (Compass/16)
LEYLA McCALLA: Bluerunner (feat. Louis Michot)/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Carter Family ‘Grass - Oct. 1/16
Host: Allegra Thompson
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Foggy Mountain Top/Bluegrass From the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
BILL MONROE: I’m Working On A Building/The Music Of Bill Monroe From 1936-1994 (Decca/55)
RED ALLEN: Sad and Lonesome Day/Keep On Going - The Rebel and Melodeon Recordings (Rebel/66)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: My Native Home/Hard Travelin’ - Final Fling (Columbia/63)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Worried Man Blues/The Osborne Brothers 1956-1968 (Bear Family/63)
DEL MCCOURY: Prisoner’s Song/I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (Arhoolie/68)
STANLEY BROTHERS: The Wandering Boy/The Complete Columbia Recordings (Columbia/52)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Homestead On The Farm/Outshine The Sun (self/12)
EMILY MILLER & VAL MINDEL: Lover’s Return/In the Valley (Yodel-ay-hee/06)
RICKY SKAGGS AND TONY RICE: Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow/Skaggs & Rice (Sugar Hill/80)
WALLER BROTHERS: Faded Coat Of Blue/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy/Old As Dirt (Native and Fine/02)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Coal Miner’s Blues/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Folkways/65)
SQUIRREL BUTTER: Lonesome For You/Chestnuts (self/15)
CLIFF PERRY & LAUREL BLISS: Oh Take Me Back/Spirits Of Love (Telegraph/08)
LAURIE LEWIS AND THE RIGHT HANDS: Let That Liar Alone/The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/16)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: My Clinch Mountain Home/Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Wildwood Flower/The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 (King/61)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: East Virginia Blues/Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1971-73 (Rebel)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Over The Garden Wall/Outshine The Sun (self/12)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Cowboy Jack/Bluegrass From The Gold Country (New Rounder/81)
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BRUCE MOLSKY: Wandering Boy/Soon Be Time (Alliance/06); OSBORNE BROTHERS: John Hardy/The Osborne Brothers 1956-1968 (Bear Family); STANLEY BROTHERS: Wildwood Flower/ The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 (King/61)
BUCKSTANKLE BOYS: Rainbow Sign/The New Young Fogies, Volume One (self/12)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: The Orphan Child/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/87)
STANLEY BROTHERS: We Shall Rise/The King Years ’61-’65 Vol. 2 (King/62)
THOMPSONIA: Forrest Rag/Thompsonia (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: An Interview With & the Music Of Kathy Kallick, part 1 - Oct. 8/16
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, from the KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
Foxhounds
So Danged Lonesome
I'm Not Your Honey Baby Now
I'll Forgive You
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: I’ll Just Pretend/Live at RBA (self/06)
KATHY KALLICK: Griddle In the Middle/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/95)
Sally Ann
Roscoe
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KATHY KALLICK BAND: Panhandle Rag, Monobrow, Winterlight Aire/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
WINDY HILL: Shady Grove/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/12)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING & ADAM HURT: Oyster River Hornpipe/Inside Out FiddleStar/16)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: Down The Road Of Life/Ramblin Feels Good (self/16)
THE BOW TIES: It Ain't Gonna Rain No More/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/16)
JEFF SCROGGINS & COLORADO: Sometimes Dig For Taters/Ramblin Feels Good (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: An Interview With & the Music Of Kathy Kallick, part 2 - Oct. 15/16
NOTE: All tracks, except as noted, from the KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
Roscoe
Snowflakes
Longest Day Of the Year
Tear Stained Letter
My Montana Home
Banjo Picking Girl
Kentucky Mandolin
In Texas
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Live at the Freight (self/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
GOOD OL' PERSONS: One Slow Dance/In the Deep Rolling Hills Of San Francisco (Bluegrass Signal/95)
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KATHY KALLICK BAND: North Carolina Breakdown, Shuckin' The Acorns, Old Red Mandolin/Time (Live Oak/12)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Whiskey Before Breakfast/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
DOM FLEMONS: My Money Never Runs Out/Prospect Hill (Music Maker Foundation/14)
LEYLA McCALLA: Bluerunner/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Berkeley Shanghai/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live On Arrival – Oct. 22/16
NOTE: Except as noted, all tracks from Live On Arrival: A Collection Of Bay Area Bluegrass & Old Time Live Recordings (Bluegrass Signal/16)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Bluegrass Signal
THE TUTTLES with AJ LEE: Another Side
DAVID GRISMAN & THE BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Fare Thee Well
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Worried Man Blues
BUCKING MULES: Sequatchie Valley
EVIE LADIN BAND: Jump Up & Go
STEEP RAVINE: Trampin' On
AJ LEE & THE VALLEY RAMBLERS: City Of Glass
WINDY HILL: Shady Grove
HIGH COUNTRY: Blues For Your Own
GRATEFUL BLUEGRASS BOYS: Lonesome Road Blues
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Waterbound
BLUE & LONESOME: Twilight
MOLLY TUTTLE BAND: Lightning In A Jar
THE BOW TIES: It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
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THOMPSON STRING TICKLERS: Cherry River Rag; SKILLET LICORICE: Adeline Waltz
THE DIM LIGHTS: Time To Go Home
FRONT COUNTRY: Undertaker
JEANIE & CHUCK'S COUNTRY ROUNDUP: 20 Below
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Righteous Pathway/Live (self/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks – Oct. 29/16
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THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS (John Resichman/Scott Nygaard/Sharon Gilchrist): Half Past Four/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Fiddler's Dream (Compass/16)
Fiddler's Dream
Steamboat Whistle Blues
Blues For BIll
Unwanted Love
SIDELINE: Unwanted Love/Colors & Crossroads (Mountain Fever/16)
KENNY & AMANDA SMITH: You Know That I Would/Unbound (Farm Boy/16)
GIBSON BROTHERS: Highway/forthcoming (Rounder/17)
JIM HURST TRIO: Modalicious/JHT-1 (NN Guido/16)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Little Sadie/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
THE LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Going Across The Sea/Gone For Evermore (self/16)
MAPLE HILL: Lone Pine Standing/Back To You (self/16)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & LEON MORRIS: Sitting Here Waiting For You/Frank Wakefield & Leon Morris (Patuxent/16)
DWIGHT YOAKAM: Please, Please Baby/Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars … (Sugar Hill/16)
VALERIE SMITH & LIBERTY PIKE: Bluegrass Dollars/Small Town Heroes (Bell Buckle/16)
LARRY STEPHENSON BAND: Midnight Train/Weep Little Willow (Whysper Dream/16)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: I Am A Pilgrim /The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
DANNY BARNES: Cumberland Gap/Got Myself Together (Ten Years Later) (Eight 30/16)
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THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: My Father's Footsteps, Sail Away Ladies, Little Liza Jane/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
DEL McCOURY: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight/I Wonder Where You Are Tonight aka Sings Bluegrass (Arhoolie/67)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Lazy John/Live (self/02)
FRONT COUNTRY: Kissin’ Comes Easy/Mixtape (self/16)
SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Call Me Long Gone/Coffee Creek (self/15)
TWO FOR THE ROAD: Forest Of Bondi>Needle Case/Bring It On Down To My House (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Tell Me True - Nov. 5/16
Host: Leah Wollenberg
ALISON BROWN: Girl’s Breakdown/Fair Weather (Compass /00)
CROOKED STILL (w/ Laurie Lewis): Can’t You Hear Me Calling?/Live (Signature Sounds/09)
GINNY HAWKER: Those Two Blue Eyes/Letters from my Father (Rounder/01)
NATE LEATH & TATIANA HARGREAVES: What Time Is It, My Pretty Little Miss?/Rockville Pike (Patuxent/08)
ALICE GERRARD: Payday at the Mill/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
HAAS KOWERT TICE: The Decade/Haas Kowert Tice (self/13)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: How Many Times/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
ALISON KRAUSS: Dark Skies/I’ve Got That Old Feeling (Rounder/90)
OLA BELLE REED: Undone in Sorrow/Rising Sun Melodies (Smithsonian Folkways/72)
SARAH JAROSZ: Tell Me True/Live at the Troubadour (Sugar Hill/13)
NICKEL CREEK: Cuckoo’s Nest/Nickel Creek (Sugar Hill/00)
CARTER FAMILY: Lonesome Homesick Blues/In the Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/41)
DELIA BELL & BILL GRANT: Sad Situation/Dreaming (Rounder/97)
SIERRA HULL: Weighted Mind/Weighted Mind (Rounder/16)
ANNIE STANINEC: Sinner’s Waltz/Annie Staninec (self/15)
COUSIN EMMY & HER KINFOLK: Bowling Green/Radio Recordings From 1939-1947 (Bear Family)
THOMPSONIA: Pain Reliever/Thompsonia (self/15)
LEYLA McCALLA (feat. Louis Michot): Bluerunner/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
DELLA MAE: Shambles/Della Mae (Rounder/15)
LONESOME SISTERS (w/ Reyna Gellert): Blue Eyed Girl/Lonesome Sisters with Reyna Gellert (Tin Halo/06)
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FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Fiddler's Dream; Abe's Retreat>Fine Times at Our House; Liverpool Hornpipe; Going Back to Israel/Fine Times at Fletcher's House (Native & Fine/13)
SALLY VAN METER: Weary Lonesome Blues/All In Good Time (Sugar Hill/91)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: I’ve Always Been A Rambler/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: West End Blues/Leaving Eden (Nonesuch/12)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/66)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Celebrating Lynn & Suzanne - Nov. 12/16
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LYNN MORRIS: Dancing In the Hog Trough/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
WHETSTONE RUN: Talking About That Old Time Religion/Angels Rejoice - Live In Holland (Strictly Country/85)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: My Heart Skips A Beat/The Lynn Morris Band (Rounder/90)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Blue Skies and Teardrops/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Love Grown Cold/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: I Thought I Heard You Callin’ My Name/The Complete Vetco Recordings (self/78)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: If You Don't Love Your Neighbor/The Complete Vetco Recordings (self/78)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Love Has Brought Me To Despair/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Please Don't Wake Me/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
LYNN MORRIS: It Rains Everywhere I Go/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: Mama's Hand/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: The Likes of You/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Goodbye To the Blues/Shape of a Tear (Rounder/03)
THE KENTUCKY WARBLERS: I Have No Mother Now/The Green Grass Cloggers (Rounder/86)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: A House Divided/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Housework Is My Life -> Red Rocking Chair/Live! At Last (Rounder/95)
SUZANNE THOMAS: Just A Few More Days/Dear Friends & Gentle Hearts (Rounder/98)
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LYNN MORRIS BAND: Spay Your Pet PSA (SPAY/USA)
THE HOTMUD FAMILY: Hawkins Rag -> East Tennessee Blues -> Stone Mountain Wobble/The Complete Vetco Recordings (self/74)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Memories That Bless & Burn/Memories That Bless & Burn (Rounder/99)
LYNN MORRIS: You'll Never Be the Sun/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
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35 YEARS OF TROUBLE: Take Your Shoes Off Moses/demo (self/16)
FRONT COUNTRY: Three Of A Perfect Pair/Mixtape (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - Nov. 19/16
Host: Sully Roddy
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks (New Releases) – Nov. 26/16
RICKEY WASSON: I'm Walkin’/Croweology (Truegrass)
RICKEY WASSON: Ramblin’ Boy/Croweology (Truegrass)
RICKEY WASSON: Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord/Croweology (Truegrass)
PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS: Troublesome Waters/Wonderful World Outside (Vigortone)
PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS: Little Boy Loser/Wonderful World Outside (Vigortone)
PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS: I'll Be There/Wonderful World Outside (Vigortone)
ALICE GERRARD: Ground Hog/On Top Of Old Smoky - New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music (Great Smoky Mountains Association)
TRAVIS & TREVOR STUART: Lost Indian/On Top Of Old Smoky - New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music (Great Smoky Mountains Association)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES: On Top Of Old Smoky/On Top Of Old Smoky - New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music (Great Smoky Mountains Association)
JODY STRECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Come All You Young Ladies/On Top Of Old Smoky - New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music (Great Smoky Mountains Association)
HART VALLEY DRIFTERS: Roving Gambler/Folk Time (Round-ATO/62)
HART VALLEY DRIFTERS: Billy Grimes, The Rover/Folk Time (Round-ATO/62)
NEW KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Live in Sweden 1973 (Roland White Music)
NEW KENTUCKY COLONELS: Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms/Live in Sweden 1973 (Roland White Music)
GILLIAN WELCH: Acony Bell (demo)/Boots No. 1 – The Official Revival Bootleg (Acony/95)
RHONDA VINCENT & THE RAGE: Wow Baby/All The Rage – In Concert Vol. One (Upper Management)
RHONDA VINCENT & THE RAGE: Muleskinner Blues/All The Rage – In Concert Vol. One (Upper Management)
SHAWN CAMP: Going Back To Bristol/I Sang the Song (Mountain Fever)
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CORRINA ROSE LOGSTON: Smokey Mountain Rag, Snowflake Breakdown, Wilson's Hornpipe/Bluegrass Fiddler (Patuxent)
CORRINA ROSE LOGSTON: I Don’t Blame You/Bluegrass Fiddler (Patuxent)
KARL SHIFLETT & BIG COUNTRY SHOW: Six Pack To Go/Sho-Nuff Country (Patuxent)
GILLIAN WELCH: Tear My Stillhouse Down (home demo)/Boots No. 1 – The Official Revival Bootleg (Acony/95)
KARL SHIFLETT & BIG COUNTRY SHOW: Pick Me Up On Your Way Down/Sho-Nuff Country (Patuxent)
IVAN ROSENBERG: Spock’s Brain/The Littlest Dobro (Slosh Tone)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Dreamy Bluegrass - Dec. 3/16
Host: Allegra Thompson
BILL MONROE: Travelin’ Blues/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Decca/51)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby/20 All Time Greatest Hits (Capitol/56)
TOM, BRAD, & ALICE: I’ll See You Tonight In My Dreams/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
RALPH STANLEY: Dream Of A Miner’s Child/Man Of Constant Sorrow (Rebel/78)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I’m Lonesome Without You/Time (Live Oak/12)
LAURIE LEWIS AND THE RIGHT HANDS: River Under the Road /The Golden West (Hightone/06)
THE BUCK STOPS HERE: Mister Moon/The Buck Stops Here (self/15)
SKILLET LICORICE: Dream Shadows/Skillet Licorice (self/15)
WINDY HILL: Sleepwalker/Let’s Go To The Fair (self/11)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Who Done It?/ The Osborne Brothers and Red Allen (Rounder/56)
LAURIE LEWIS: Dreams/Skippin’ and Flyin’ (Spruce and Maple/11)
HOT RIZE: Colleen Malone/Take It Home (Sugar Hill/90)
BILL MONROE: Come Back To Me In My Dreams/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58)
GEOFF MULDAUR & THE TEXAS SHEIKS: Under The Chicken Tree/Geoff Muldaur & The Texas Sheiks (Tradition & Moderne/09)
THE FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Columbus Stockade Blues/Devil in the Seat (self/15)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Hey, Hey, Hey/The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 (King/61)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: What Was I Supposed To Do?/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/82)
THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: I’d Rather Be Alone/Vol. 3 - California Connection (Rounder/83)
GEORGE JONES & MELBA MONTGOMERY: I Dreamed My Baby Came Home/Vintage Collections (Capitol/65)
WENDY BURCH STEEL: Leah’s Lullaby/Open Wings (Dragonfly Bridge/12)
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SKILLET LICORICE: Texas Gals, Sleeping Lulu/Skillet Licorice (self/15)
MEGAN LYNCH CHORNING & MARY SUE ENGLUND: Christmas Time’s a Comin’/All Year Long (self/15)
RALPH STANLEY: Children Go Where I Send Thee/Classic Stanley (Freeland/75)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Beautiful Star of Bethlehem/The Best of the Best (King/64)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Father Of West Coast Bluegrass - Dec. 10/16
VERN & RAY & THE CARROLL COUNTY BOYS: Thinkin' Of Home/Cabin On A Mountain (Starday>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: Bluegrass from the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
Cabin on a Mountain
Come Back to Me in My Dreams
Old Kentucky Home
Clinch Mountain Home
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82 & 84)
Roll On Buddy
Close By
In Despair
When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall
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)
VERN & RAY: Muleskinner Blues/San Francisco 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Happy I'll Be/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
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BLUE & LONESOME: Crusing Timber, All The Way 'Cross Texas, Spinning Wheel/Cruzin' With Blue & Lonesome (self/16)
LARRY SPARKS & LONESOME RAMBLERS: Christmas In The Hills (Rebel/76 & 97)
Christmas Is Near
Blue Christmas
Christmas In the Mountains
Go Tell It On the Mountain
It’s Christmas Time
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Travelin' the Highway Home/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/88)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Last-Minute Gift Suggestions (Relatively Recent NorCal Releases) - Dec. 17/16
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)
THOMPSONIA: Pain Reliever/Thompsonia (self/16)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Worried Man Blues/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/00)
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BUTCH WALLER: Pine Valley Waltz, Roberta's Homecoming Waltz/Waltz Collection (Big Chicken/15)
35 YEARS OF TROUBLE: How Many Times/Stay Behind Yellow Line (self)
SKILLET LICORICE: Texas Gals/Skillet Licorice (self/15)
THE VIVANTS: I Heard My Savior Call/Bluegrass Special (self/16)
PAUL KING & FRIENDS: May You Never Be Alone/Hillbilly At Heart (self)
SMALL TOWN THERAPY: Small Town Therapy/Small Town Therapy (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Mandolin Christmas – Dec. 24/16
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ADAM STEFFEY: We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Christmas Grass, Vol. 2 (Koch/04)
DAVID GRISMAN: Winter Wonderland/David Grisman’s Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/84)
DAVID GRISMAN: The Christmas Song/David Grisman’s Acoustic Christmas (Rounder/84)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
BUTCH BALDASSARI: Angels We Have Heard On High/Evergreen – Mandolin Music For Christmas (SoundArt/90)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/Winter Wonderland (Copper Creek/99)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Blue Christmas/Winter Wonderland (Copper Creek/99)
MIKE WOLLENBERG & DIX BRUCE: We Three Kings/Live In the Living Room (2001)
MIKE WOLLENBERG & DIX BRUCE: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/Live In the Living Room (2001)
WAYNE BENSON: Frosty The Snowman/A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' (Pinecastle/03)
SAM BUSH: Sleigh Ride/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter's Grace (Signature Sounds/99)
ANDY STATMAN & DAVID GRISMAN: Shalom Aleichem/Songs Of Our Fathers (Acoustic Disc/95)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: Nilent Sight/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Christmas Eve/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
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RONNIE McCOURY: Jingle Bells, O Christmas Tree/Christmas Grass (Audium/02)
KATHY KALLICK & THE LITTLE BIG BAND: Ring The Bells At Midnight/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
TOM BEKENY with THE KATHY KALLICK BAND: Winterlight Aire/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
CHRIS THILE with SCOTT NYGAARD: Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/A Mandolin Christmas (Double J/98)
ADAM STEFFEY: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/Christmas Grass, Vol. 2 (Koch/04)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!/Winter Wonderland (Copper Creek/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hank Williams ‘Grass - Dec. 31/16
BILL MONROE: I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome/Blue Grass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/50)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Alabama Waltz/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN: Lost Highway/1958-1968 (Bear Family/58)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: No One Will Ever Know/Larry Sparks Sings Hank Williams (County/77)
DAVE EVANS: (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle/Pretty Green Hills (Rebel/06)
TOMMY WEBB: Someday You'll Call My Name/Eastern Kentucky (Kindred/07)
JAMES KING: A Teardrop On A Rose/These Old Pictures (Rounder/93)
MADDOX BROTHERS & ROSE: Honky Tonkin'/Live On the Radio (Arhoolie/53)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: Move It On Over/Shape Of A Tear (Rounder/03)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Honky Tonk Blues/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/04)
ALLEGHENY DRIFTERS: Mind Your Own Business/Can't Wait (self/08)
BUDDY MERRIAM & BACK ROADS: Your Cheatin' Heart/Live At The Vail Leavitt Music Hall 25th Anniversary Show (Lilypad/05)
WHITSTEIN BROTHERS: Mansion On The Hill/Old Time Duets (Rounder/90)
CLAIRE LYNCH: I Can't Get You Off My Mind/A Picture Of Hank - The New Bluegrass Way (Mercury/95)
HANK WILLIAMS: I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive/40 Greatest Hits (Mercury/52)
LOST & FOUND: Take These Chains From My Heart>They'll Never Take Her Love From Me/A Ride Through The Country (Rebel/95)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Settin' The Woods On Fire/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/86)
BLUE GRASS BOOGIEMEN: The Blues Come Around/Hits of Hank Williams (Continental/10)
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BRYAN SUTTON: Roanoke, Big Sandy River, Daley's Reel/Bluegrass Guitar (Sugar Hill/03)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/Larry Sparks Sings Hank Williams(County/77)
JAMES KING: The Devil’s Train/Three Cords and the Truth (Rounder/13)
LONGVIEW: At the First Fall Of Snow/Deep In the Mountains (Rounder/08),
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THE TUTTLES & AJ LEE: Another Side/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/13)