July 4-8/16: R.I.P. Dr. Ralph
A memorial tribute to the one and only Ralph Stanley via a sampling of the many live recordings Ralph has released with brother Carter and the Stanley Brothers, and as leader of his own band, (Dr.) Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys. White doves will mourn in sorrow, the willows will hang their heads.
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RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Clinch Mountain Backstep/Live In Japan (Rebel/71)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Fling Ding/Stanley Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Copper Creek/56)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Say You'll Take Me Back Again/Stanley Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Copper Creek/56)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Could You Love Me One More Time/Stanley Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Copper Creek/56)
STANLEY BROTHERS: How Mountain Girls Can Love/Stanley Series, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Copper Creek/58)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Rank Stranger/Folk Festival (Stanleytone/61)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Little Birdie/Folk Festival (Stanleytone/61)
STANLEY BROTHERS: East Virginia Blues/Folk Festival (Stanleytone/61)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Take Me Home, Savior/Together For the Last Time (Stanleytone/66)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures/Live At Watermelon Park (Stanleytone/69)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Bright Morning Star/Classic Stanley (Freeland/71)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Death Is Only A Dream/Classic Stanley (Freeland/71)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Long Journey Home/Live In Japan (71)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Oh Death/Classic Stanley (Freeland/76)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Who Will Sing For Me/Classic Stanley (Freeland/75)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Nobody's Love Is Like Mine/Live! At McClure (Rebel/75)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Will You Miss Me/Live In Vancouver (Anza/85)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hard Times/Live In Japan (Rebel/71)
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July 11-15/16: Time Changes Everything, part 1
The first of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
“Time” as a title track (Kathy Kallick Band, Lou Reid & Carolina, New Vintage) and a reminder to leave (Del McCoury Band, Good Ol’ Persons, Larry Sparks). Show and mini-series theme from Larry (and Bill Monroe).
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LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
BILL MONROE: Time Changes Everything/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/60)
CHARLIE SIZEMORE: Time Can't Take Your Memory Away/Back Home (Rebel/94)
BLUE ROSE: Time Has Made A Change/Blue Rose (Sugar Hill/89)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Time (Live Oak/12)
LOU REID & CAROLINA: Time/Time (Lonesome Day/05)
NEW VINTAGE: Time/Sands Of Time (Pinecastle/96)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Doing My Time/1948-1959 (Bear Family/50)
BARRY & HOLLY TASHIAN: I'll Take My Time/Harmony (Rounder/97)
THE BOXCARS: You Can Take Your Time/The Boxcars (Mountain Home/10)
BLUEGRASS CARDINALS: I've Had A Time/The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals (CMH/79)
JOHN HARTFORD: I Wish We Had Our Time Again/Down On The River (Flying Fish/89)
JODY STECHER: Long Time A-Comin'/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Time To Say Goodbye/Waiting At The Homeplace (Hay Holler/04)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Don't You Think It's Time To Go/The Family (Ceili/99)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Now the Time Has Come To Go/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/85)
LARRY SPARKS: When My Time Comes To Go/Let Him Lead You (Rebel/76)
CMH STUDIO BAND: (Ain’t It) Funny How Time Slips Away/Pickin' On Willie Nelson - A Bluegrass Tribute (CMH/03)
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July 18-22/16: Time Changes Everything, part 2
The second of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
Music from the ‘20s (Jimmie Rodgers), ‘60s (Dillards, Benny & Vallie Cain), ‘70s (Lewis Family, Goins Brothers), ‘80s (Tony Rice), ‘90s (New Coon Creek Girls, Gibson Brothers), and more recent releases.
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
BENNY & VALLIE CAIN & THE COUNTRY CLAN: Is It Time/35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass (Rebel/69)
JIMMIE RODGERS: Any Old Time/The Early Years (Rounder/29)
TONY RICE: Any Old Time/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Any Ole Time/The Crooked Road (Crooked Road/11)
THE DILLARDS: There Is A Time/Back Porch Bluegrass & Live … Almost! (Elektra/64)
CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY: Time Was/Mojave River (Backcountry/04)
CHRIS HILLMAN & HERB PEDERSEN: Time Goes So Slow/Bakersfield Bound (Sugar Hill/96)
TOMMY WEBB: Time Stands Still/From Rock-N-Roll To Bill Monroe (self/11)
LILLY OF THE WEST: Time After Time/Time After Time (Music Author/07)
CLIFF WALDRON: Time Passes By/Seasons Past (Rebel/00)
NEW COON CREEK GIRLS: Just One Time/Ain't Love A Good Thing (Pinecastle/95)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Try Me One More Time/Blue Side Of Town (Rounder/92)
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD: Hold Me One More Time/Carolina Road (Pinecastle/12)
GIBSON BROTHERS: One More Time/Another Night Of Waiting (Hay Holler/98)
THE GOINS BROTHERS: One Day At A Time/The Goins Brothers (Rebel/75)
LEWIS FAMILY: Time Is Moving On/16 Greatest Hits (Starday/70)
BLUE MOON RISING: Time To Be Movin' On/Strange New World (Rural Rhythm/10)
PICKIN' ON BAND: Time Between/Eight Miles High - A Bluegrass Tribute To The Byrds (CMH/01)
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July 25-29/16: Time Changes Everything, part 3
The third of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
Time can be lonesome (Mac Martin, Richard Bennett, Waller Brothers, and, of course, Lonesome Standard Time) and long (Nashville Bluegrass Band, Kathy Kallick Band, Snuffy Jenkins, Stoney Lonesome), and lots more.
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
STANLEY BROTHERS: I Can Tell You The Time/The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s (Rounder/47)
STANLEY BROTHERS: A Little At A Time/The Early Years 1958-1961 (King/59)
CHARLIE MONROE: Time Clock Of Life/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family/49)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Old Lonesome Time/Venango (Copper Creek/05)
LARRY CORDLE, GLEN DUNCAN & LONESOME STANDARD TIME: Lonesome Standard Time/Lonesome Standard Time (Sugar Hill/92)
RICHARD BENNETT: A Long Lonesome Time/A Long Lonesome Time (Rebel/98)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: That Lonesome Book Of Time/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: My Time Is Running Out/Memories Of The Past (Rebel/13)
HAZEL DICKENS, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES, GINNY HAWKER: Time Is Winding Up/Heart Of A Singer (Rounder/98)
LOST HIGHWAY: Time Waits For No One/A Lifetime Of Sorrow (Hay Holler/01)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Long Time Travelin'/Time (Live Oak/12)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Long Time Gone/The Boys Are Back In Town (Sugar Hill/90)
SNUFFY JENKINS & THE HIRED HANDS: Long Time Gone/Pioneer of the Bluegrass Banjo (Arhoolie/62)
STONEY LONESOME: Long Time Gone/Blue Heartache (Red House/92)
CMH STUDIO BAND: Long Time Gone/Pickin' On Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Vol. 2 (CMH/02)
RON STEWART: Time Stands Still/Time Stands Still (Rounder/01)
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Aug. 1-5/16: Time Changes Everything, part 4
The final of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
In which we stray to the not-so-bluegrassy (Peter Rowan, American Nomad, Will Putnam, and, of course, the Time Jumpers) as well as some contemporary originals (Chris Brashear, Alice Gerrard, Front Range, Dwight McCall).
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
DWIGHT McCALL: Time Of Our Lives/Never Say Never Again (Rural Rhythm/07)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Time the Perfect Stranger/Heart Of The Country (Dog Boy/12)
FRONT RANGE: Maybe This Time/Back To The Red River (Sugar Hill/93)
ALICE GERRARD: Maybe This Time/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
COUNTRY GAZETTE: Time Left To Wander/Out To Lunch (Flying Fish/76)
RONNIE BOWMAN: Time Is On My Side/Starting Over (Sugar Hill/02)
KATHY KALLICK: Time Traveler's Wife/Cut To The Chase (Live Oak/14)
WILL PUTNAM: Making Good Time/Ravin' (Trill Music/10)
TIM O'BRIEN: Time To Learn/Oh Boy O' Boy (Sugar Hill/93)
FRANCINE MICHAELS: Time Can Mend/Time Can Mend (Mountain Top/00)
AMERICAN NOMAD: The Old Time/Country Mile (Spruce and Maple/14)
PETER ROWAN: River Of Time/Dharma Blues (Omnivore/14)
JOSH WILLIAMS & HIGH GEAR: The End Of Time/Come To That River (Copper Creek/97)
IIIRD TYME OUT: When My Time Comes To Go/Back To the MAC (Rounder/00)
JIMMY MARTIN: Time Has Made A Change/Don't Cry To Me (Thrill Jockey/00)
THE TIME JUMPERS: Jumpin' Time/Jumpin' Time (Crosswind/07)
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Aug. 8-12: Across the Tracks
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)
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Aug. 13-19: Between Rock & A Hard Place
Guest host: Allegra Thompson
JIM KWESKIN: Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train/In the 21st Century (Kingswood/15)
DON RENO & RED SMILEY: Freight Train Boogie/The Very Best Of … (Goldenlane/60)
THE TUTTLES & AJ LEE: White Freightliner Blues/Introducing … (Back Studio/11)
JIM & JESSE: Bye, Bye Johnny/Bluegrass & More (Bear Family/65)
BILL EVANS: Heavy Traffic Ahead/Bill Evans Plays Banjo (Native & Fine/01)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Rocky Top/1956-1968 (Bear Family/67)
DON RENO & RED SMILEY: Country Boy Rock 'n' Roll/The Very Best Of … (Goldenlane/56)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Just A Lie/Live (Spruce & Maple/08)
DAVID GRISMAN, JOHN HARTFORD & MIKE SEEGER: Maggie's Farm/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/00)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Hard Times/1956-1968 (Bear Family/67)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: Cash On The Barrelhead/When I Stop Dreaming - Best Of (Razor & Tie/56)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Nashville Cats/By Request (McCoury Music/09)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Just Plain Yellow/Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/73)
JODY STECHER: Weasels and Snakes/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: New White House Blues/50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go? (Smithsonian Folkways/59)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: To Hell With The Land/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce & Maple/14)
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Aug. 20-26: Jump Up & Go
Guest host: Leah Wollenberg
EVIE LADEN BAND: Jump Up and Go/Jump the Fire (Evil Diane/16)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/87)
STEEP RAVINE: Wildflower Honey/Trampin’ On (self/13
FLATT & SCRUGGS: ‘Til the End of the World Runs Round/’Tis Sweet to Be Remembered (Columbia/54)
RED SQUIRREL CHASERS: Shakin’ Down the Acorns/Shakin’ Down the Acorns (Vigortone/15)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Kissin’ Comes Easy/I Can’t Stand to Ramble (Flat Rock/83)
HIGH COUNTRY: Highway of Pain/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
LARRY SPARKS: Great High Mountain/John Deere Tractor (Rebel/80)
VERN & RAY: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight/San Francisco 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
TAYLOR’S KENTUCKY BOYS: Forked Deer/Kentucky Mountain Music Part 1 (Yazoo/27)
OLA BELLE REED: Springtime of Life/Rising Sun Melodies (Smithsonian Folkways/76)
MILE TWELVE: Ain’t Coming Back/Mile Twelve (self/15)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Before the Sun Goes Down/Live (Spruce & Maple/07)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Milwaukee Here I Come/Live ’69 and ’71 (Rockbeat/71)
GRANT GORDY: Little Liza Jane/Grant Gordy (self/10)
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Aug. 27 - Sept. 2: The Legacy Of the Carter Family
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 It's 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)
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Sept. 5-9: Across the Tracks
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)
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Sept. 12-16: Happy Birthday, #73987
- Originally broadcast on 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, this show now serves as a celebration of the week of Big Mon’s birth. Songs and tunes selected by Neil Rosenberg, Martino Coppo, Tom Bekeny, Tom Rozum, Jody Stecher, Skip Gorman, Mike Compton, John Reischman, Butch Waller, Ed Neff, and PeterT.
- All selections by BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS and, except as noted, available on various Bear Family releases. Recording dates for each selection are included.
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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 - PT)/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)
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Sept. 19-23: Big Mon’s Mando Legacy
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)
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Sept. 26-30: Something Auld, Something New
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)
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Oct. 3-7: BOTMC Previews
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)
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Oct. 10-14: James King Memorial Tribute
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)
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Oct. 17-21: New Old Time
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)
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Oct. 24-28: Across the Tracks
BLUE HIGHWAY: What You Wanted/Original Traditional (Rounder)
BLUE HIGHWAY: If Lonesome Don't Kill Me/Original Traditional (Rounder)
CLAIRE LYNCH: Milo/North By South (Compass)
CLAIRE LYNCH: It's Worth Believin’/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: Never More Will Roam/Borderland (self)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Across The Plains Of Illinois/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog)
JOE K. WALSH: Cumberland Gap/Borderland (self)
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)
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Oct. 31 - Nov. 4: Live On Arrival
All tracks from Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
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
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Nov. 5-11: What’s Goin’ On
Musical previews of upcoming events in Northern California; updated and complete list of concerts, festivals, and much more here: www.bgsignal.com.
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)
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Nov. 12-18: Carter Family ‘Grass
Host: Allegra Thompson
Bluegrass (and a few old time) versions of Carter Family songs.
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)
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Nov. 19-25: An Interview With & the (Mostly New) Music Of Kathy Kallick, part 1
A track-by-track discussion of the music on the Kathy Kallick Band’s Foxhounds, plus some related topics and music.
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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Nov. 26 - Dec. 2: An Interview With & the (Mostly New) Music Of Kathy Kallick, part 2
A track-by-track discussion of the music on the Kathy Kallick Band’s Foxhounds, plus some related topics and music.
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)
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
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Dec. 5-9/16: A Few Old Memories
Guest host Kathy Kallick presents a few of her favorite bluegrass women from recordings done between 1934 and 2013. Originally broadcast on International Women's Day.
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LYNN MORRIS BAND: Dancing in the Hog Trough/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/65)
THE CARTER FAMILY: East Virginia Blues/Longing For Old Virginia (Rounder/34)
KITTY WELLS: It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels/Country Music Hall of Fame (MCA/52)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: Come Walk With Me/Big Wheel (Birchmount/60)
ROSE MADDOX (with the Vern Williams Band): Beautiful Bouquet/Beautiful Bouquet (Arhoolie/83)
DELIA BELL & BILL GRANT: The Moods Of a Fool/Rollin' (Rebel/81)
SUZANNE THOMAS (with The Hotmud Family): I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name/The Complete Vetco Recordings (self/79)
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: Amen, There's A Higher Power/The Legendary Marshall Family, Vol. 1 (Rebel/76)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: It Rains Everywhere I Go/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
HAZEL DICKENS: A Few Old Memories/It's Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song (Rounder/86)
CLAIRE LYNCH: The Day That Lester Died/Carry Me Back To the Fold (Rebel/00)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: In Despair/Somewhere South of Crazy (Compass/11)
PAM GADD: Hold Whatcha Got/Benefit of Doubt (Home Sweet Highway/08)
THE TUTTLES + AJ LEE: Alabam'/Endless Ocean (Back Studio/13)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Together (Kaleidoscope>Rounder/91)
SALLY VAN METER: Road To Columbus/All In Good Time (Sugar Hill/91)
LAURIE LEWIS (with Tom Rozum & Nina Gerber): The Crooked Miles/One Evening in May (Spruce & Maple/14)
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A memorial tribute to the one and only Ralph Stanley via a sampling of the many live recordings Ralph has released with brother Carter and the Stanley Brothers, and as leader of his own band, (Dr.) Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys. White doves will mourn in sorrow, the willows will hang their heads.
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RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Clinch Mountain Backstep/Live In Japan (Rebel/71)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Fling Ding/Stanley Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Copper Creek/56)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Say You'll Take Me Back Again/Stanley Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Copper Creek/56)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Could You Love Me One More Time/Stanley Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Copper Creek/56)
STANLEY BROTHERS: How Mountain Girls Can Love/Stanley Series, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Copper Creek/58)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Rank Stranger/Folk Festival (Stanleytone/61)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Little Birdie/Folk Festival (Stanleytone/61)
STANLEY BROTHERS: East Virginia Blues/Folk Festival (Stanleytone/61)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Take Me Home, Savior/Together For the Last Time (Stanleytone/66)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures/Live At Watermelon Park (Stanleytone/69)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Bright Morning Star/Classic Stanley (Freeland/71)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Death Is Only A Dream/Classic Stanley (Freeland/71)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Long Journey Home/Live In Japan (71)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Oh Death/Classic Stanley (Freeland/76)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Who Will Sing For Me/Classic Stanley (Freeland/75)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Nobody's Love Is Like Mine/Live! At McClure (Rebel/75)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Will You Miss Me/Live In Vancouver (Anza/85)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hard Times/Live In Japan (Rebel/71)
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July 11-15/16: Time Changes Everything, part 1
The first of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
“Time” as a title track (Kathy Kallick Band, Lou Reid & Carolina, New Vintage) and a reminder to leave (Del McCoury Band, Good Ol’ Persons, Larry Sparks). Show and mini-series theme from Larry (and Bill Monroe).
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LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
BILL MONROE: Time Changes Everything/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/60)
CHARLIE SIZEMORE: Time Can't Take Your Memory Away/Back Home (Rebel/94)
BLUE ROSE: Time Has Made A Change/Blue Rose (Sugar Hill/89)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Time (Live Oak/12)
LOU REID & CAROLINA: Time/Time (Lonesome Day/05)
NEW VINTAGE: Time/Sands Of Time (Pinecastle/96)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Doing My Time/1948-1959 (Bear Family/50)
BARRY & HOLLY TASHIAN: I'll Take My Time/Harmony (Rounder/97)
THE BOXCARS: You Can Take Your Time/The Boxcars (Mountain Home/10)
BLUEGRASS CARDINALS: I've Had A Time/The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals (CMH/79)
JOHN HARTFORD: I Wish We Had Our Time Again/Down On The River (Flying Fish/89)
JODY STECHER: Long Time A-Comin'/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Time To Say Goodbye/Waiting At The Homeplace (Hay Holler/04)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Don't You Think It's Time To Go/The Family (Ceili/99)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Now the Time Has Come To Go/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/85)
LARRY SPARKS: When My Time Comes To Go/Let Him Lead You (Rebel/76)
CMH STUDIO BAND: (Ain’t It) Funny How Time Slips Away/Pickin' On Willie Nelson - A Bluegrass Tribute (CMH/03)
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July 18-22/16: Time Changes Everything, part 2
The second of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
Music from the ‘20s (Jimmie Rodgers), ‘60s (Dillards, Benny & Vallie Cain), ‘70s (Lewis Family, Goins Brothers), ‘80s (Tony Rice), ‘90s (New Coon Creek Girls, Gibson Brothers), and more recent releases.
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
BENNY & VALLIE CAIN & THE COUNTRY CLAN: Is It Time/35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass (Rebel/69)
JIMMIE RODGERS: Any Old Time/The Early Years (Rounder/29)
TONY RICE: Any Old Time/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Any Ole Time/The Crooked Road (Crooked Road/11)
THE DILLARDS: There Is A Time/Back Porch Bluegrass & Live … Almost! (Elektra/64)
CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY: Time Was/Mojave River (Backcountry/04)
CHRIS HILLMAN & HERB PEDERSEN: Time Goes So Slow/Bakersfield Bound (Sugar Hill/96)
TOMMY WEBB: Time Stands Still/From Rock-N-Roll To Bill Monroe (self/11)
LILLY OF THE WEST: Time After Time/Time After Time (Music Author/07)
CLIFF WALDRON: Time Passes By/Seasons Past (Rebel/00)
NEW COON CREEK GIRLS: Just One Time/Ain't Love A Good Thing (Pinecastle/95)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Try Me One More Time/Blue Side Of Town (Rounder/92)
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD: Hold Me One More Time/Carolina Road (Pinecastle/12)
GIBSON BROTHERS: One More Time/Another Night Of Waiting (Hay Holler/98)
THE GOINS BROTHERS: One Day At A Time/The Goins Brothers (Rebel/75)
LEWIS FAMILY: Time Is Moving On/16 Greatest Hits (Starday/70)
BLUE MOON RISING: Time To Be Movin' On/Strange New World (Rural Rhythm/10)
PICKIN' ON BAND: Time Between/Eight Miles High - A Bluegrass Tribute To The Byrds (CMH/01)
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July 25-29/16: Time Changes Everything, part 3
The third of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
Time can be lonesome (Mac Martin, Richard Bennett, Waller Brothers, and, of course, Lonesome Standard Time) and long (Nashville Bluegrass Band, Kathy Kallick Band, Snuffy Jenkins, Stoney Lonesome), and lots more.
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
STANLEY BROTHERS: I Can Tell You The Time/The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s (Rounder/47)
STANLEY BROTHERS: A Little At A Time/The Early Years 1958-1961 (King/59)
CHARLIE MONROE: Time Clock Of Life/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family/49)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Old Lonesome Time/Venango (Copper Creek/05)
LARRY CORDLE, GLEN DUNCAN & LONESOME STANDARD TIME: Lonesome Standard Time/Lonesome Standard Time (Sugar Hill/92)
RICHARD BENNETT: A Long Lonesome Time/A Long Lonesome Time (Rebel/98)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: That Lonesome Book Of Time/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: My Time Is Running Out/Memories Of The Past (Rebel/13)
HAZEL DICKENS, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES, GINNY HAWKER: Time Is Winding Up/Heart Of A Singer (Rounder/98)
LOST HIGHWAY: Time Waits For No One/A Lifetime Of Sorrow (Hay Holler/01)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Long Time Travelin'/Time (Live Oak/12)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Long Time Gone/The Boys Are Back In Town (Sugar Hill/90)
SNUFFY JENKINS & THE HIRED HANDS: Long Time Gone/Pioneer of the Bluegrass Banjo (Arhoolie/62)
STONEY LONESOME: Long Time Gone/Blue Heartache (Red House/92)
CMH STUDIO BAND: Long Time Gone/Pickin' On Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Vol. 2 (CMH/02)
RON STEWART: Time Stands Still/Time Stands Still (Rounder/01)
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Aug. 1-5/16: Time Changes Everything, part 4
The final of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
In which we stray to the not-so-bluegrassy (Peter Rowan, American Nomad, Will Putnam, and, of course, the Time Jumpers) as well as some contemporary originals (Chris Brashear, Alice Gerrard, Front Range, Dwight McCall).
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
DWIGHT McCALL: Time Of Our Lives/Never Say Never Again (Rural Rhythm/07)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Time the Perfect Stranger/Heart Of The Country (Dog Boy/12)
FRONT RANGE: Maybe This Time/Back To The Red River (Sugar Hill/93)
ALICE GERRARD: Maybe This Time/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
COUNTRY GAZETTE: Time Left To Wander/Out To Lunch (Flying Fish/76)
RONNIE BOWMAN: Time Is On My Side/Starting Over (Sugar Hill/02)
KATHY KALLICK: Time Traveler's Wife/Cut To The Chase (Live Oak/14)
WILL PUTNAM: Making Good Time/Ravin' (Trill Music/10)
TIM O'BRIEN: Time To Learn/Oh Boy O' Boy (Sugar Hill/93)
FRANCINE MICHAELS: Time Can Mend/Time Can Mend (Mountain Top/00)
AMERICAN NOMAD: The Old Time/Country Mile (Spruce and Maple/14)
PETER ROWAN: River Of Time/Dharma Blues (Omnivore/14)
JOSH WILLIAMS & HIGH GEAR: The End Of Time/Come To That River (Copper Creek/97)
IIIRD TYME OUT: When My Time Comes To Go/Back To the MAC (Rounder/00)
JIMMY MARTIN: Time Has Made A Change/Don't Cry To Me (Thrill Jockey/00)
THE TIME JUMPERS: Jumpin' Time/Jumpin' Time (Crosswind/07)
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Aug. 8-12: Across the Tracks
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)
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Aug. 13-19: Between Rock & A Hard Place
Guest host: Allegra Thompson
JIM KWESKIN: Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train/In the 21st Century (Kingswood/15)
DON RENO & RED SMILEY: Freight Train Boogie/The Very Best Of … (Goldenlane/60)
THE TUTTLES & AJ LEE: White Freightliner Blues/Introducing … (Back Studio/11)
JIM & JESSE: Bye, Bye Johnny/Bluegrass & More (Bear Family/65)
BILL EVANS: Heavy Traffic Ahead/Bill Evans Plays Banjo (Native & Fine/01)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Rocky Top/1956-1968 (Bear Family/67)
DON RENO & RED SMILEY: Country Boy Rock 'n' Roll/The Very Best Of … (Goldenlane/56)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Just A Lie/Live (Spruce & Maple/08)
DAVID GRISMAN, JOHN HARTFORD & MIKE SEEGER: Maggie's Farm/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/00)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: Hard Times/1956-1968 (Bear Family/67)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: Cash On The Barrelhead/When I Stop Dreaming - Best Of (Razor & Tie/56)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Nashville Cats/By Request (McCoury Music/09)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Just Plain Yellow/Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/73)
JODY STECHER: Weasels and Snakes/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: New White House Blues/50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go? (Smithsonian Folkways/59)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: To Hell With The Land/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce & Maple/14)
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Aug. 20-26: Jump Up & Go
Guest host: Leah Wollenberg
EVIE LADEN BAND: Jump Up and Go/Jump the Fire (Evil Diane/16)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/87)
STEEP RAVINE: Wildflower Honey/Trampin’ On (self/13
FLATT & SCRUGGS: ‘Til the End of the World Runs Round/’Tis Sweet to Be Remembered (Columbia/54)
RED SQUIRREL CHASERS: Shakin’ Down the Acorns/Shakin’ Down the Acorns (Vigortone/15)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Kissin’ Comes Easy/I Can’t Stand to Ramble (Flat Rock/83)
HIGH COUNTRY: Highway of Pain/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
LARRY SPARKS: Great High Mountain/John Deere Tractor (Rebel/80)
VERN & RAY: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight/San Francisco 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
TAYLOR’S KENTUCKY BOYS: Forked Deer/Kentucky Mountain Music Part 1 (Yazoo/27)
OLA BELLE REED: Springtime of Life/Rising Sun Melodies (Smithsonian Folkways/76)
MILE TWELVE: Ain’t Coming Back/Mile Twelve (self/15)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Before the Sun Goes Down/Live (Spruce & Maple/07)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Milwaukee Here I Come/Live ’69 and ’71 (Rockbeat/71)
GRANT GORDY: Little Liza Jane/Grant Gordy (self/10)
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Aug. 27 - Sept. 2: The Legacy Of the Carter Family
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 It's 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)
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Sept. 5-9: Across the Tracks
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)
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Sept. 12-16: Happy Birthday, #73987
- Originally broadcast on 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, this show now serves as a celebration of the week of Big Mon’s birth. Songs and tunes selected by Neil Rosenberg, Martino Coppo, Tom Bekeny, Tom Rozum, Jody Stecher, Skip Gorman, Mike Compton, John Reischman, Butch Waller, Ed Neff, and PeterT.
- All selections by BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS and, except as noted, available on various Bear Family releases. Recording dates for each selection are included.
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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 - PT)/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)
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Sept. 19-23: Big Mon’s Mando Legacy
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)
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Sept. 26-30: Something Auld, Something New
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)
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Oct. 3-7: BOTMC Previews
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)
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Oct. 10-14: James King Memorial Tribute
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)
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Oct. 17-21: New Old Time
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)
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Oct. 24-28: Across the Tracks
BLUE HIGHWAY: What You Wanted/Original Traditional (Rounder)
BLUE HIGHWAY: If Lonesome Don't Kill Me/Original Traditional (Rounder)
CLAIRE LYNCH: Milo/North By South (Compass)
CLAIRE LYNCH: It's Worth Believin’/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: Never More Will Roam/Borderland (self)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Across The Plains Of Illinois/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog)
JOE K. WALSH: Cumberland Gap/Borderland (self)
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)
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Oct. 31 - Nov. 4: Live On Arrival
All tracks from Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
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
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Nov. 5-11: What’s Goin’ On
Musical previews of upcoming events in Northern California; updated and complete list of concerts, festivals, and much more here: www.bgsignal.com.
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)
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Nov. 12-18: Carter Family ‘Grass
Host: Allegra Thompson
Bluegrass (and a few old time) versions of Carter Family songs.
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)
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Nov. 19-25: An Interview With & the (Mostly New) Music Of Kathy Kallick, part 1
A track-by-track discussion of the music on the Kathy Kallick Band’s Foxhounds, plus some related topics and music.
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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Nov. 26 - Dec. 2: An Interview With & the (Mostly New) Music Of Kathy Kallick, part 2
A track-by-track discussion of the music on the Kathy Kallick Band’s Foxhounds, plus some related topics and music.
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)
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
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Dec. 5-9/16: A Few Old Memories
Guest host Kathy Kallick presents a few of her favorite bluegrass women from recordings done between 1934 and 2013. Originally broadcast on International Women's Day.
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LYNN MORRIS BAND: Dancing in the Hog Trough/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/65)
THE CARTER FAMILY: East Virginia Blues/Longing For Old Virginia (Rounder/34)
KITTY WELLS: It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels/Country Music Hall of Fame (MCA/52)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: Come Walk With Me/Big Wheel (Birchmount/60)
ROSE MADDOX (with the Vern Williams Band): Beautiful Bouquet/Beautiful Bouquet (Arhoolie/83)
DELIA BELL & BILL GRANT: The Moods Of a Fool/Rollin' (Rebel/81)
SUZANNE THOMAS (with The Hotmud Family): I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name/The Complete Vetco Recordings (self/79)
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: Amen, There's A Higher Power/The Legendary Marshall Family, Vol. 1 (Rebel/76)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: It Rains Everywhere I Go/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
HAZEL DICKENS: A Few Old Memories/It's Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song (Rounder/86)
CLAIRE LYNCH: The Day That Lester Died/Carry Me Back To the Fold (Rebel/00)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: In Despair/Somewhere South of Crazy (Compass/11)
PAM GADD: Hold Whatcha Got/Benefit of Doubt (Home Sweet Highway/08)
THE TUTTLES + AJ LEE: Alabam'/Endless Ocean (Back Studio/13)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/Together (Kaleidoscope>Rounder/91)
SALLY VAN METER: Road To Columbus/All In Good Time (Sugar Hill/91)
LAURIE LEWIS (with Tom Rozum & Nina Gerber): The Crooked Miles/One Evening in May (Spruce & Maple/14)
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