BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Windy Grass - July 1/17
Host: Ryan Breen
BOYS FROM INDIAN: You Can Mark It Down/Memories & Dreams (Rebel/77)
DAVID DAVIS & THE WARRIOR RIVER BOYS: Little White Washed Chimney/America’s Music (Wango/c.00)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Would You Care/24 Bluegrass Favorites (Rural Rhythm/68)
BIL MONROE: Changing Partners/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/54)
JIM & JESSE: Look For Me (and I’ll Be There)/First Sounds - The Capitol Years (Capitol/52)
J.D. CROWE: You Go To Your Church/Bluegrass Holiday (Lemco>King>Rebel/68)
LARRY SPARKS: Take A Slow Train/Travelin’ (Rebel/92)
HAZEL DICKENS, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES, GINNY HAWKER: I Can’t Find Your Love/Heart Of A Singer (Rounder/98)
RALPH STANLEY & JIM LAUDERDALE & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Wish Today Could Be Tomorrow/I Feel Like Singing Today (Rebel/99)
BILL DUNCAN & THE HARMONY MOUNTAIN BOYS: You’re the Only One/A Scene Near My Country Home (King/61)
THE LONESOME RIVER BOYS: Leavin’ Tennessee/Raise A Ruckus (Riverside/63)
WALTER ADAMS & ERNEST HENRY: A Woman & A Bottle/This Is Bluegrass (Jayln/69)
DAVE EVANS: If I Ever Get Back To Old Kentucky/Bluegrass Memories>Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/84)
DAVE EVANS: Just To Hear Her Sweet Voice/Poor Rambler>Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/83)
DAVE EVANS: Be Proud Of the Gray In Your Hair/Goin’ Round This World>Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/81)
EARL TAYLOR & JIM McCALL & THE STONEY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ain’t Gonna Do It No More/24 Bluegrass Favorites (Rural Rhythm/c.72)
JIM McCALL: Poor Rebel Soldier/Pickin’ & Singin’ (Vetco/72)
RED ALLEN: Baby Rocked Her Dolly/45 (King/69)
RED ALLEN: All I Want Is You/The WDON Recordings (Patuxent/63)
RED ALLEN: Sing Sing Sing/The WDON Recordings (Patuxent/63)
JIMMY MARTIN: Doin’ My Time/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/67)
JIMMY MARTIN: What Was I Supposed To Do/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/61)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Margie/Live In Holland (Strictly Country/c.83)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Silent Partner/Back To the Blue Ridge (Brandywine/94)
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DAVE EVANS: Dear Old Dixie/High Waters (Neon/98); Road To Columbus/Going Round This World (Rebel/81); Soldier's Joy/Pretty Green Hills (rebel/06)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Here Today & Gone Tomorrow/Valley View Park (Stanley Family/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS: He Will Set Your Fields On Fire/Valley View Park (Stanley Family/57)
DAVE EVANS: I’ll Be On That Good Road Someday/Bluegrass Memories>Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/84)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks (new releases) – July 8/17
Host: PT
RALPH STANLEY II & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: Goin' Round This World (Stanley Family)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foxhounds/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
FLASHBACK: Foxhounds and Fiddles/Foxhounds and Fiddles (Pinecastle)
BUCKING MULES: Smoke Behind the Clouds/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt)
BUCKING MULES: Girl On the Greenbriar Shore/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt)
GALAX BOGTROTTERS: Highlander's Farewell/Old Time Jubilations (Dittyville)
GALAX BOGTROTTERS: Red Rocking Chair/Old Time Jubilations (Dittyville)
DIM LIGHTS: Tavern Down the Hill/Where the Mountains Meet the Sea (self)
DIM LIGHTS: Loving You Too Well/Where the Mountains Meet the Sea (self)
WINDY HILL: Take A Look Before You Leap/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self)
WINDY HILL: I Wonder Where You Are Tonigh/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self)
BRASHEAR/MCLAUGHLIN/PHILLIPS: Big High Mountain/The Colton House Sessions (Arizona Archive)
BRASHEAR/MCLAUGHLIN/PHILLIPS: Unforgettable Ride/The Colton House Sessions (Arizona Archive)
TOM EWING: Take Me Home/Adventures Of A Blue Grass Boy (Patuxent/90)
TOM EWING: Please Come Back, Little Pal/Adventures Of A Blue Grass Boy (Patuxent/90)
SCROGGINS & ROSE: Improvisations On Arkansas Traveler/Grana (self)
SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES: Sleepy Eyed John/Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes (Community Music)
MARK KUYKENDALL & ASHVILLE BLUEGRASS: Mary Jane, Won't You Be Mine/Forever & a Day (Rebel)
GAIL FRATAR: Longest Train/Bluebird (Rollingrobin)
NORTHERN CONNECTION: Mr. Engineer/Northern Connection (Patuxent)
KIM ROBINS: My Baby Thinks He's A Train/ Raining In Baltimore (Pinecastle)
CARSON PETERS & IRON MOUNTAINL Like A Train/Carson Peters & Iron Mountain (self)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Long Gone Out West Blues/The Story We Tell (Rebel)
ROB BENZING: Lonesome Road Blues/Rob Benzing (Patuxent)
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ROB BENZING: Sockeye, Monocacy Crossing/Rob Benzing (Patuxent)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Fest - July 15/17
Host: PT
The BEARCAT STRINGBOARD DUO and THE PICKS (a Handsome Ladies Pick-up Band) performing live in the KALW studios.
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Doc & Merle Live, 1974 – July 22/17
Host: PT
- All selections, except as noted, released in 2017.
- All selections, except as noted, from:
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Never the Same Way Once - Live At the Boarding House - May, 1974 (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
Nancy Rowland
Solid Gone
Matchbook Blues
Mama Don’t Allow
Doc’s Talking Blues
Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas)
Miss the Mississippi & You
Deep Elem Blues
Mountain Dew
Blue Suede Shoes
Tennessee Stud
Black Mountain Rag
Wabash Cannonball
Leather Britches > Cotton Eyed Joe
PAUL KOVAC: Carry On/Ohio Bluegrass - From the Appalachian Plains (YAH)
PAUL KOVAC: In A Song/Ohio Bluegrass - From the Appalachian Plains (YAH)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: If You Were Mine To Lose/Dale Ann Bradley (Pinecastle)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Our Last Goodbye/Dale Ann Bradley (Pinecastle)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Thinking Of the Old Days/Valley View Park 1957 (Stanley Family)
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GOODBYE GIRLS: Goodbye Girls, I'm Going To Boston; Hstrusk/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Doc & Merle Live, 1974 – July 29/17
Host: PT
- All selections, except as noted, released in 2017.
- All selections, except as noted, from:
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Never the Same Way Once - Live At the Boarding House - May, 1974 (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
The Clouds Roll Away
Three Times Seven
Nothing To It
Blue Railroad Train
Brown’s Ferry Blues
Streamlined Cannonball
Freight Train Boogie
New River Train
Frosty Morn
Poor Boy Blues
Way Downtown
Gambler's Yodel aka Pretty Mama’s Gone
Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia
Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad
St. James Infirmary
Beaumont Rag
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: You've Got To Righten That Wrong/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus)
HAMILTON COUNTY BLUEGRASS BAND: Grass Valley/These Old Hands (self)
GRATEFUL BLUEGRASS BOYS: Touch Of Gray/Grateful Bluegrass Boys (self)
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HIGH COUNTRY: Butch's Blues/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09); HIGH COUNTRY: Long Hollow Getaway/The First 25 Years (Big Chicken/87)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Hound Dog/Never the Same Way Once (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Things Are Getting Better - Aug. 5/17
Host: LW
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Snow/Between the Hollow and the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Slippin’ Away/Live in Holland (Strictly Country/89)
NOAM PIKELNY: Old Banjo/Universal Favorite (Rounder/17)
NEW KENTUCKY COLONELS: The Fields Have Turned Brown/Live In Holland (Roland White Music/73)
THE TONY RICE UNIT: Nine Pound Hammer/Manzanita (Rounder/87)
THE PAGE TURNERS: Little Lorrie/The Page Turners (self/17)
BUCKING MULES: Georgia Belles/Smoke Behind the Clouds (self/17)
PAPER WINGS: Winter Storm/Paper Wings (self/17)
JIMMY MARTIN AND THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Losing You/Don’t Cry to Me (Thrill Jockey/68)
AJ LEE: Not Gonna Cry Over You/A Song For Noah (Wildhorse/14)
UNCLE EARL: Sisters Of the Road/Waterloo, Tennessee (Rounder/07)
BILLY STRINGS: Slow Train/Billy Strings (self/16)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: The Old Mountaineer/Let ‘Er Go, Boys (Rounder/06)
COUSIN EMMY: Free Little Bird/Cousin Emmy & Her Kinfolk 1939-1947 (Bear Family)
JULIAN LAGE & CHRIS ELDRIDGE: Greener Grass/Mount Royal (Free Dirt Records/17)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Mountain Song/The Company We Keep (McCoury Music/05)
SUZY THOMPSON: Teabag Blues/No Mockingbird (Native & Fine/03)
JEFF WHITE: This Lonely Heart of Mine/The Broken Road (Rounder/99)
DAN PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again/Forty Years of Trouble (Strictly Country/94)
THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Old-Time Roscoe’s Gone/The Stairwell Sisters (Yodal-ay-hee/03)
LOAFER’S GLORY: I’ll Be Alright Tomorrow/Loafer’s Glory (Arhoolie/12)
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35 YEARS OF TROUBLE: Seneca Square Dance, Carter’s Blues, Ashokan Farewell/Crossing the Line (self/15)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Sweetheart of the Pines/Pocket Full of Keys (Pinecastle/15)
LENA JONSSON & BRITTANY HAAS: Sandy River Belle/Lena Jonsson & Brittany Haas (Playing With Music/15)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Friend and a Friend/Rise (self/17)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Black Eyed Suzy/The Snowy Side of the Mountain
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: R.I.P. Dave Evans - Aug. 12/17
Host: PT
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DAVE EVANS: Buffalo Chips/Just Look At Me Now (Neon+Rebel/97)
LARRY SPARKS & DAVE EVANS: I Don’t Want Your Rambling Letters/Clinch Mountain Boys Reunion (Stanley Tone/96)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Think Of What You’ve Done/Lonesome & Blue (Rebel/72)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Barbara Allen/The Best Of the Vetco Years (Vetco+Rebel/79)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: The Best Of the Vetco Years (Vetco+Rebel/79)
Highway 52
When the Snow Falls On My Foggy Mountain Home
Short Life Of Trouble
Carry Me Back To the Bluegrass
DAVE EVANS: Be Proud Of The Gray In Your Hair/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)*
DAVE EVANS: If I Ever Get Back To Old Kentucky/Poor Rambler (Rebel/83)*
DAVE EVANS: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
DAVE EVANS: Hey Mama, Just Look At Me Now/Just Look At Me Now (Neon+Rebel/97)
DAVE EVNAS: It Ain't Half As Bad As It Seems/Just Look At Me Now (Neon+Rebel/97)
DAVE EVANS: Pretty Green Hills/Pretty Green Hills (Rebel/06)
DAVE EVANS: Buffalo Chips/Just Look At Me Now (Neon+Rebel/97)
DAVE EVANS: Only One Was True/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)*
DAVE EVANS: High Waters (Bad Blood)/High Waters (Neon+Rebel/98)
DAVE EVANS: (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle/Pretty Green Hills (Rebel/06)
DAVE EVANS: 99 Years 'Tis Almost For Life/Live at the 1996 Hills Of Home Bluegrass Festival (McClure, VA)
DAVE EVANS: One Loaf Of Bread/Live at the 1997 Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival (Morehead, KY)
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DAVE EVANS: Dear Old Dixie/High Waters (Neon+Rebel/98); Road To Columbus/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)
*Also on DAVE EVANS: Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/94)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: It Was 60 Years Ago Today, part 1 - Aug. 19/17
Host: PT
All tracks released in 1957, except as noted.
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Loving You Too Well (Mercury 45)/1953-1958 & 1959 (Bear Family)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Let Me Walk, Lord, By Your Side (Mercury 45)/1953-1958 & 1959 (Bear Family)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Sitting Alone In the Moonlight (Decca 45 & 78)/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: I'm Sitting On Top Of the World (Decca 45 & 78)/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: A Hundred Years From Now (Columbia 45)/1949-1959 (Bear Family)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Won't Be Hanging Around (Columbia 45)/1949-1959 (Bear Family)
DON RENO, RED SMILEY & THE TENNESSEE CUTUPS: I Know You're Married (King 45)/1951-1959 (King)
DON RENO, RED SMILEY & THE TENNESSEE CUTUPS: No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine (King 45 & 78)/1951-1959 (King)
OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN: Once More (MGM 45 & 78)/1956-1968 (Bear Family)
OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN: Della Mae (MGM 45 & 78)/1956-1968 (Bear Family)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Skip, Hop, and Wobble (Decca 45)/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I'll Drink No More Wine (Decca 45)/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Going To The Races (Dixie 45)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Heavenward Bound (Dixie 45)
CARL STORY & THE RAMBLING MOUNTAINEERS: Light At the River (Mercury 45 & 78)
CARL STORY & THE RAMBLING MOUNTAINEERS: Family Reunion (Mercury 45 & 78)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Valley View Park 1957 (Stanley Family Records/17)
Thinking Of the Old Days
You’d Better Get Right
Wild Horse aka Holiday Pickin'
Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
I’ll Be There While You’re Gone
Feast Here Tonight
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Foggy Mountain Special/Foggy Mountain Jamboree (Columbia LP)
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LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Foggy Mountain Chimes, Flint Hill Special, Earl’s Breakdown/Foggy Mountain Jamboree (Columbia LP)
DEL McCOURY BAND & FREINDS: For What It’s Worth (self/17)
CHARLIE MONROE & HIS KENTUCKY PARDNERS: I'm Weary Of Heartaches (Decca 45)/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Randy Lynn Rag/Foggy Mountain Jamboree (Columbia LP)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: It Was 60 Years Ago Today, part 2 - Aug. 26/17
host: PT
MAC WISEMAN: ‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered/’Tis Sweet To Be Remembered (Dot LP)
RONI STONEMAN: Lonesome Road Blues/American Banjo Tunes & Songs In Scruggs Style (Folkways LP)
THE STONEMAN FAMILY: Say Darling Say/Old-Time Tunes Of the South (Folkways LP)
SCOTTY STONEMAN & THE BLUEGRASS CHAMPS: Heartaches Keep Coming On (Bakersfield 45)
HARRY & JEANIE WEST: The Sea of Life/Favorite Gospel Songs (Folkways LP)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: My Heart Keeps Crying (Hickory 45)/Big Midnight Special (Hickory)
McCORMICK BROTHERS: Darling, Why Can't You Be True (Hickory 45 & 78)/The McCormick Brothers (Hickory)
WRIGHT BROTHERS: Carolina Mountain Home (Starday 45)/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King)
FLATT MOUNTAIN BOYS: Choo Choo Coming (Starday 45)/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King)
BILL & MARY REID & THE MEOLDY MOUNTAINEERS: I Want To Be Loved (Starday 45)/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King)
LEON JACKSON, JOHNNY BRYANT & WHITE OAK MTN BOYS: Love Please Come Home (King 45)/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King)
TOMMY JACKSON: Camptown Races/Square Dance Tonight! (Dot LP)
MARVIN COBB, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE CHAIN MTN BOYS: New Camptown Races (Wayside 45)//Appalachian Heart - The Original Bluegrass Classics (Fuel) and The Early Days Of Bluegrass, Vol. 2 (Rounder)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & BUSTER TURNER: Leave Well Enough Alone (Wayside 45)/Old Time Banjo - Vintage String Sound (Vintage Masters)
BUZZ BUSBY: The Lonesome Road (Starday 45)/Going Home (Gusto)
HOBO JACK (ADKINS): Lonesome Old Road (Starday 45)
BILL HARRELL'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Reno Bound (Carol 45)
LILLY BROTHERS & DON STOVER: Are You Tired Of Me, My Darling (Event 45 & 78)/Early Recordings (Rebel)
HYLO BROWN & THE TIMBERLINERS: Nobody's Darling But Mine (Capitol 45)/The Best Of 1954-60 (Goldenlane)
TOMMY JACKSON: Liza Jane/Square Dance Tonight (Dot LP)
DAVE WOOLUM & HIS KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS featuring NOAH CRASE: Noah's Breakdown (Sage 45)/The Early Days Of Bluegrass, Vol. 2 (Rounder)
BILL CLIFTON & HIS DIXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Pal Of Yesterday (Mercury 45)/The Bluegrass Sound Of Bill Clifton (Gusto)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Valley View Park 1957 (Stanley Family Records)
Gathering Flowers From the Hillside (w/ Bill Clifton)
I Hope You Have Learned
Little Birdie
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TOMMY JACKSON: Snowflake Reel, Fiddler’s Dream/Popular Square Dance Music Without Calls (Dot LP); TOMMY JACKSON: Down Yonder, Cherokee Shuffle/Square Dance Tonight (Dot LP)
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RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD& THE KENTUCKIANS: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone/The Folkways Years (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: I Am Weary(Let Me Rest)/The Early Rebel Recordings -1962-1971 (Rebel/63)
PETE KUYKENDALL: Sawmill Shuffle/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent/14)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: BOTMC Previews - Sept. 2/17
Host: AT
LOUVIN BROTHERS: Southern Moon/A Tribute to the Delmore Brothers (Capitol/60)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: In Texas/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
HOOT AND HOLLER: Goodbye Boozy Suzy/Reasons To Run (self/17)
DEL REY & SUZY THOMPSON: See You In Seaview/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Gospel Ship/Outshine the Sun (self/12)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARTZ: Climbing Up the Golden Stairs/Draw Closer (Rounder/04)
CANOTE BROTHERS: What Did I Do With That Thinga-Ma-Jig/Thinga-Ma-Jig (Clone Tone/98)
BUCKING MULES: My Wife Died On Saturday Night/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt/17)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Lovin’ Babe/Anna & Elizabeth (Trade Roots Music Group/15)
DAVID BRAGGER: Kiss Me Quick, My Papa’s A-Coming/Big Fancy (Old Time Tiki Parlor/15)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Old Kimball/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Columbus Stockade Blues/Devil in the Seat (self/15)
RED MOUNTAIN: Barnyard Dance/Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence (Whoop It Up/09)
DEL REY & SUZY THOMPSON: Everybody Two-Step/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
BEN HUNTER & JOE SEAMONS WITH PHIL WIGGINS: Shanghai Rooster/A Black & Tan Ball (self/17)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Free Little Bird/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
KIM JOHNSON: Dunbar/Keepers (Buffalo Skinner/09)
WB REID & BONNIE ZAHNOW: Katie Dear/Poca River Blues (Padsnug/07)
MODOCK ROUNDERS: Barlow Knife/Home Music (Buffalo Skinner/16)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Won’t You Come and Sing For Me/Anna & Elizabeth (Trade Roots Music Group/15)
DAVID BRAGGER: Jingle at the Window, Tidy-O/Big Fancy (Old Time Tiki Parlor/15)
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DAVID BRAGGER: Cripple Creek, Going to the Free State, Big Fancy/Big Fancy (Old Time Tiki Parlor/15)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Over the Garden Wall/Outshine The Sun (self/12)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Isambard’s Waltz/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Voice from on High/Anna & Elizabeth (Trade Roots Music Group/15)
DEL REY & SUZY THOMPSON: Monongahela River Waltz/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
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Sept. 9 & 16: KALW Fall Membership Campaign - thanks for your support!
host: PT
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On - Sept. 23/17
host: PT
SFBOT Fest previews with Chuck Poling, plus music:
THE CALIFORNIA TALLBOYS: Unwanted Love/This Here Roof's Too Low (self – advance demo)
AJ LEE & THE VALLEY RAMBLERS: City Of Glass/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
EVIE LADEN BAND: Coocoo/Jump the Fire (Evil Diane/16)
THE BOW TIES: It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: So Dang Lonesome/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES: Lonesome Homesick Blues/Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes (self/17)
BEAN CREEK: Will You Be Lonesome Too/Nightbird (Sloughfish/11)
HIGH COUNTRY: Last Old Dollar/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
CHRIS HILLMAN: When I Get A Little Money/Bidin' My Time (Rounder/17)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Berkeley Shanghai/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING & ADAM HURT: Stumptown Stomp/Inside Out (self/16)
SPENCER & RAINS: Stumptown Stomp/The Old Texas Fiddle Vol II: Weird Tunes Of Old Texas (self/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I’m Not Your Honey Baby Now/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
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PETE WERNICK: Spring Break, Limber Jack, Birdsong Creek/On A Roll (Sugar Hill/93)
Wernick Jam class previews with Andy Lentz
ANDY LENTZ: Kentucky Girl/Live at KALW
ANDY KENTIZ: Emily’s Waltz/Live at KALW
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live On Arrival - Sept. 30/17
host: PT
WENDY BURCH STEEL & REDWOOD - live at KALW:
Mourning Dove
Beau Fleuve
Ocean Of the Blues
Leah's Lullaby
Long Time Gone
First One to Cry
Don't Wash Me Away
Ambrosia
Blue Skies and Teardrops
HIGH COUNTRY: A Cold Winter Sun/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
BUTCH WALLER: Rosine/Golden Gate Promenade (Rebel/99)
HIGH COUNTRY: Highway Of Pain/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
THOMPSONIA: The Yogurt Song/Thompsonia (self/15)
THE DRIFTER SISTERS: Ranger's Command/The Drifter Sisters (self/13)
THOMPSONIA: Pain Reliever/Thompsoia (self/15)
THE DRIFTER SISTERS: The Race Is On/The Drifter Sisters (self/13)
SIDESADDLE & CO.: Flame In My Heart/Queen For A Day (Faultline/05)
HIGH COUNTRY: Butch’s Blues/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
SIDESADDLE & CO.: Queen For A Day/Queen For A Day (Faultline/05)
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BUTCH WALLER: Pine Valley Waltz/Waltz Collection (Big Chicken/15)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Oct. 7/17
Host: PT
PAUL KOVAC: Carry On/Ohio Bluegrass - From the Appalachian Plains (YAH)
PAUL KOVAC: In A Song/Ohio Bluegrass - From the Appalachian Plains (YAH)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Would You Care/The Story We Tell (Rebel)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Long Gone Out West Blues/The Story We Tell (Rebel)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: If You Were Mine To Lose/Dale Ann Bradley (Pinecastle)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Our Last Goodbye/Dale Ann Bradley (Pinecastle)
HAMILTON COUNTY BG BAND: How Mountain Girls Can Love/These Old Hands (self)
HAMILTON COUNTY BLUEGRASS BAND: Grass Valley/These Old Hands (self)
MATT AND GEORGE & THEIR PVB: The Love I Have For You/Blue Grass Style (Pleasant Valley)
MATT AND GEORGE & THEIR PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS: Why Do You Cry Little Darling/Blue Grass Style (Pleasant Valley)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Daylighting the Creek/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus)
JOHN REISCHMAN & JBs: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus)
CLAYTON KNIGHT: I’m Just Here For the Moon/Big As Life (Electicacoustica)
GRATEFUL BLUEGRASS BOYS: Montana Cowboy/Grateful Bluegrass Boys (self)
ANDY HALL & ROOSEVELT COLLIER: Crazy Fingers/Let the Steel Play (self)
EDDIE ADCOCK: Country Gentleman/Vintage Banjo Jam (Patuxent/63)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: Ralph's Banjo Special/Dawg & T Live At Acoustic Stage (Acoustic Disc)
FINE COMPANY: Dixie Darling/In Fine Company (self)
STORY HOUSE: Weeping Blue Tears/Ground Floor (self)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: I Don’t Want Your Mandolins Mister/Dawg & T (Acoustic Disc)
calendar –
ANDREW VOGTS: Rosin On The Gourd, Sasquatch With An Alien On Its Head, Bumblebee In A Jug/ Sasquatch With An Alien On Its Head (Patuxent)
MILE TWELVE: The Day You Left/Onwards (Taurus)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Gospel According to Allegra - Oct. 14/17
Host: AT
BILL MONROE: A Voice From on High/The King and the Father (Decca/54)
HAZEL DICKENS, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES, & GINNY HAWKER: Coming Down From God/Heart of a Singer (Rounder/98)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Harbor Of Love/The King Years '61-'65 (King/62)
DON RENO & RED SMILEY: Get Behind Me Satan/The Very Best of (King/56)
BILL MONROE: Beautiful Life/Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate/99)
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Daniel Prayed/At the Old Schoolhouse (Rounder/89)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Let That Liar Alone/The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/16)
THE BRAINSTORMERS: I Wish I Had My Time Again/Never Gonna Rain (Simon Slick/16)
MELODY WALKER & JACOB GROOPMAN: Black Grace/We Made It Home (Maker/Mender/13)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Super Moon/Rise (self/17)
EMILY ANDERSON: Space/Simple Things (self/17)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: Innocent Road/Innocent Road (West Sound/16)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Won't You Come And Sing For Me/Our Town (Rounder/93)
SHADIES: Sick, Sober and Sorry/Cuttin' at the Point (self/13)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Fare Thee Well/Time (Live Oak/12)
BIGFOOT: I Wish I Had My Time Again/I've Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
calendar –
SNAP JACKSON & THE KNOCK ON WOOD PLAYERS: Clinch Mountain Backstep/Live In Parkfield (self/15)
WENDY BURCH STEEL: Your Sweet Hand/Open Wings (Dragonfly Bridge/12)
THE BUCK STOPS HERE: Goin’ Up On A Mountain/The Buck Stops Here (self/15)
EMILY ANDERSON: Simple Things/Simple Things (self/17)
THE GET DOWN BOYS: Smokey Mountain Home/The Get Down Boys (self/17)
BILL EVANS: Big Chief Sonny/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - Oct. 21/17
Host: Sully Roddy
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The End Of the Beginning - Oct. 28/17
Host: PT
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Columbia -> Bear Family/10-28-47)
That Home Above
When You Are Lonely
Molly and Tenbrooks
I'm Travelin' On and On
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Flatt & Scruggs 1948-1959 (Mercury -> Bear Family/10-28-48)
God Loves His Children
We'll Meet Again Sweetheart
My Cabin In Caroline
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Columbia -> Bear Family/10-22-49)
Can't You Hear Me Callin'
Blue Grass Stomp
Travelin' This Lonesome Road
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Flatt & Scruggs 1948-1959 (Mercury -> Bear Family/April+May, 1949)
Down the Road
Baby Blue Eyes
Why Don't You Tell Me So?
STANLEY BROTHERS: Mother No Longer Awaits Me At Home/Earliest Recordings (Rich-R-Tone -> Rounder/1947)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: Wicked Path Of Sin/Bluegrass Beginnings, Vol. 1 (Rich-R-Tone -> Heaven & Earth/1947)
NORTH CAROLINA RIDGE RUNNERS: Orange Blossom Special/Authentic Rare Bluegrass, Vol. 4 (Security -> Country Music Group/1947)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Little Maggie/Earliest Recordings (Rich-R-Tone -> Rounder/1948)
CHARLIE MONROE & HIS KENTUCKY PARDNERS: Walking With You In My Dreams/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (RCA -> Bear Family/1948)
RED BELCHER & HIS KENTUCKY RIDGE RUNNERS: Old Gray Goose/Raw Fiddle (Page -> Rounder/1948)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: On the Banks Of the River/On the Banks Of the River (Rich-R-Tone -> B.A.C.M./1949)
WAYNE RANEY: Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me/ Songs Of The Hills (King/1949)
CARL STORY & HIS RAMBLING MOUNTAINEERS: Keep On the Firing Line/ Country Gospel Classics (Mercury -> Rockabilly/1949)
BILL EVANS: The Distance Between Two Points/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Shine Hallelujah Shine/Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Columbia -> Bear Family/10-28-47)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: California Banjo Extravaganza Previews - Nov. 4/17
host: PT
(Johnny) WARREN & (Charlie) CUSHMAN: Back To Foggy Mountain/Purely Instrumental (self/15)
EARLS OF LEISCESTER: Why Did You Wander?/Rattle & Roar (Rounder/16)
CHARLIE CUSHMAN: Tennessee Cut-Up Breakdown/Five String Time (CMC/06)
BOB CARLIN: Big Scioty/Fiddle Tunes for the Clawhammer Banjo (Rounder/79)
JOHN HARTFORD STRING BAND: Dixie Trucker's Home/Good Old Boys (Rounder/99)
BOB CARLIN: Cotton Eyed Joe/The Boys From North Carolina (Car Tunes/03)
BILL EVANS: A Hard Day's Night/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
BILL EVANS: Heavy Traffic Ahead/Bill Evans Plays Banjo (Mighty Fine/01)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Bb Hornpipe Medley/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/15)
TIM STAFFORD: The Girl I Left Behind Me/Acoustic Guitar (Hedge Drive/17)
BLUE HIGHWAY: If Lonesome Don't Kill Me/Original Traditional (Rounder/16)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Dogwood Winter/Dogwood Winter (Rural Rhythm/10)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Little Sadie/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Little Pine Siskin/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Sail Away Ladies/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
CHAD MANNING: Back Up & Push/Chicken On A Rocketship (self/12)
other previews –
SAM BUSH: Roll On Buddy, Roll On/Circles Around Me (Sugar Hill/09)
HAAS KOWERT TICE: Down the Hatch/You Got This (self/14)
PETER ROWAN: Jerry In the Deep Blue Sea/My Aloha (Omnivore/17)
CANOTE BROTHERS: Drink More Cider/Dogs In The Dishes (CloneTone/09)
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TIM STAFFORD: Backseat Blues, Watercolor Sky, Tideline/Acoustic Guitar (Hedge Drive/17)
JIMBO TROUT: Cripple Creek/JimBo’s Jamboree (self/17)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Music For Armistice/Veterans Day - Nov. 11/17
Host: AT
STANLEY BROTHERS: Searching For a Soldier’s Grave/King Years 1961-1965 (King/65)
DON RENO & HIS TENNESSEE CUT-UPS: Military Five String/Play Blue Grass (Dot/65)
BILL MONROE: Rotation Blues/Blue Grass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/51)
THE BUCKING MULES: The Soldier and the Lady/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt/17)
TIM O’BRIEN: Pretty Fair Maid In the Garden/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
TOM, BRAD & ALICE: Fair Beauty Bright/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: Julie/Freedom Highway (Nonesuch/17)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Goin’ Across the Mountain/Anna & Elizabeth (Trade Roots/15)
BLUEGRASS CARDINALS: Blue Eyed Boston Boy/Welcome To Virginia (Rounder/77)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Two Little Boys/ The Early Rebel Recordings: 1962-1971 (Rebel/63)
WALLER BROTHERS: Faded Coat Of Blue/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: The Dying Soldier/A Wanderer I’ll Stay (Lula/15)
RED ALLEN: Purple Heart/Keep On Going - The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings (Rebel/66)
PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS: Some Old Day/Wonderful World Outside (Vigortone/16)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Pray For the Boys/King Years 1961-1965 (King/65)
DEL McCOURY: Take Me To The Mountains/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/94)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Lost Soldier Son/Wanderlust (Copper Creek/99)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Between The Wars/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
HOOT AND HOLLER: The Blue Sky Ain't No Friend of Mine/Reasons To Run (self/16)
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HAAS KOWERT TICE: Leadfoot, Grandpa's Cheesebarn/You Got This (self/14)
LAURIE LEWIS: Return to the Fire/Blossoms (Spruce and Maple/09)
GINNY HAWKER: My Warfare Will Soon Be Over/Letters From My Father (Rounder/01)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Mid Days of Bluegrass - Nov. 18/17
(small label, deep catalog vinyl from the '60s & ‘70s)
Host: Todd Gracyk
theme -
FRANK NECESSARY: Necessary's Theme/No More Tomorrows (Cabut/70)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: These Old Blues/Bluegrass Old And New (Old Homestead/71)
THE COOKE DUET: Green Pastures/God Is Not Dead, He’s Still Alive (no label; custom pressed by Rite/70)
THE FOOT HILL BOYS: Days Of Grey And Black/Bluegrass In The Carolina Mountains (County/72)
LEE ALLEN: You’re Going Away/Songs Of Love And Tragedy (Jalyn/70)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Sitting On Top Of The World/45 RPM Single (Gateway/64)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Willie Boy/Circle Of Friends (Donerail/70)
CHARLIE MOORE, BILL NAPIER & THE DIXIE PARTNERS: Big Daddy Of The Blues/45 RPM Single (American/60)
RED ALLEN: I Beg To You/Bluegrass Special (Power Pak/69)
THE BARTON BROTHERS & THE BIG A MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lonely Highway/Virginia Bluegrass (Jalyn/73)
CONNIE & BABE & THE BACKWOODS BOYS: Just Outside/Basic Bluegrass (Rounder/73)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: The Convict And The Child/45 RPM Single (Silver-Belle/65)
THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS; When I Can Forget/45 RPM Single (Copper Creek/78)
JIM McCALL & THE COUNTRY ROYALS: A Rambler And Rover/45 RPM Single (Vetco/68)
JOHN’S GOSPEL QUARTET (THE STANLEY BROTHERS): Lord, I’m Coming Home/John’s Gospel Quartet (Wango/64)
WENDY SMITH & THE WINDY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Carolyn (The Teenage Queen)/45 RPM Single (Fortune/67)
LEON MORRIS & THE BLUEGRASS ASSOCIATES: Upstairs In The Bedroom/Sings International Bluegrass (Jessup/72)
THE KENTUCKY GENTLEMEN: Bootleg John/True Bluegrass (King Bluegrass/75)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Bonnie And Clyde’s Hop/Old Time Music (Jalyn/67)
CURTIS BLACKWELL, RANDALL COLLINS & THE DIXIE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Crying For You Darling/45 RPM Single (Coran/67)
ROY McMILLIAN & THE HIGH COUNTRY BOYS: Wandering In The Darkness/High Country (Rebel/73)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: I’m Walking The Dog/Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals (Revonah/75)
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THE VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN BOYS: Virginia Mountain Banjo/45 RPM Single (Gambler/63); KEITH DANIELS & THE BLUE RIDGE RAMBLERS: Mocking Mandolin/45 RPM Single (Empire/62); JACK CASEY: Willie’s Ride/45 RPM Single (Tag/68)
R.C. HARRIS & BLUE DENIM: Going Home/Grass Won’t Grow On A Busy Street (Grassound/78)
THE BLACK MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS BOYS: East Virginia Blues/Pure Old Bluegrass (Lark/68)
THE WILSON BROTHERS: We’ll Work, Till Jesus Comes/We’ll Work, Till Jesus Comes (Pine Tree/71)
JACK LYNCH & THE LEE BROTHERS WITH LONNIE BOLIN: Roy Lee’s Breakdown/45 RPM Single (Jalyn/64)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - Nov. 25/17
Host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Misadventures & Difficulties - Dec. 2/17
Host: LW
LAURIE LEWIS AND TOM ROZUM: Willie Poor Boy/Guest House (HighTone/04)
JEFF WHITE: Cabin Among the Trees/The White Album (Rounder/96)
DON RENO, RED SMILEY, BILL HARRELL AND THE TENNESSEE CUT-UPS: Wreck Of the Old 97/Letter Edged In Black (Wango/71)
KATHY KALLICK: Wreck Of the Old #9/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/02)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Dreary Black Hills/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/17)
TONY RICE: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Drowning Sailor/The Room Over Mine (Rounder/08)
CALEB KALUDER & REEB WILLMS: Chalk Up Another One/Innocent Road (West Sound/16)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Long Black Veil/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/65)
OLA BELLE REED: You Lead Me To the Wrong/Ola Belle Reed & Family (Rounder/77)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee/Jubilee (Signature Sounds/98)
JOE K. WALSH: Never More Will Roam/Borderland (Skinny Elephant/16)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Snowy Side Of the Mountain/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Henry Walker/Cold Hard Facts (Rounder/96)
DOS VALLEY TRIO: Wolves A-Howlin’/Jewels Of the San Joaquin (Mt Wow/17)
RALPH STANLEY: Dream Of a Miner’s Child/Down Where the River Bends (Rebel/78)
MILE TWELVE: The Magaret Keene/Onwards (Delores the Taurus/17)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Run Rufus Run/Catch Tomorrow (Compass/06)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: Following the Northern Star/Freedom Highway (Nonesuch/17)
calendar –
JIM HURST TRIO: Modaliousness/JHT-1 (self/16); JIM HURST: Open G Medley/Intrepid (self/12); JIM HURST: C5 A La Mode/A Box Of Chocolates (self/07)
THE BOW TIES: Old Reuben No. 1/Old Morphine (self/17)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: One More Dollar/Unleashed (Sugar Hill/95)
ANY OLD TIME STRING BAND: I Wish I’d Stayed In the Wagonyard/I Bid You Goodnight (Arhoolie/78)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Festival - Dec. 9/17
host: PT
Live In the KALW studios:
MATT & GEORGE & THEIR PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS
THOMPSONIA
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Leah Picks 'Em & Plays 'Em - Dec. 16/17
host: LW
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Sounds Of the Season - Dec. 23/17
host: AT
THE DEL McCOURY BAND: Bluegrass Christmas/Christmas On The Mountain (Universal South/02)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Christmas Time Is Near/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (Starday/58)
BILL MONROE: Christmas Time’s A-Coming/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Decca/51)
RENO & SMILEY: Christmas Doll/The True Meaning Of Christmas (King/63)
JIMMY MARTIN: Daddy Will Santa Claus Ever Have To Die/To Mother At Christmas (Gusto/80)
COMMANDER CODY: Daddy’s Drinking Up Our Christmas/All I Want For Christmas Is Country (Dot/73)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: If We Make It Through December/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
THE DEL McCOURY BAND: Blue Christmas/Christmas On The Mountain (Universal South/02)
LONZO & OSCAR: Jangle Bells/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (Decca/53)
HOMER & JETHRO: Santy’s Movin’ On/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (RCA/55)
ERNEST TUBB: Merry Texas Christmas, You All/Santa's on His Way - Merry Country Christmas (Decca/52)
RALPH STANLEY: Children Go Where I Send Thee/Classic Stanley (Freeland/75)
JIMMY MARTIN: Old Fashioned Christmas/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (Decca/60)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Beautiful Star of Bethlehem/The Best of the Best (King/64)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Snow/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise
ERIC THOMPSON: Rain & Snow/Thompson’s Real (Herringbone/78)
TIM O’BRIEN: First Snow/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
BILLY BRIGGS: North Pole Boogie/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (Imperial/51)
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DAVID BRAGGER & SUSAN PLATZ: King’s Lament/King’s Lament (Old Time Tiki Parlor/17)
JODY STECHER: Look Me Up When You’re Down Under/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Longest Day Of The Year/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Alaska/Live (Spruce & Maple/07)
DEL REY & SUZY THOMPSON: At the Christmas Ball/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
THE GROOVE GRASS BOYZ: Auld Lang Syne/Christmas On The Mountain (Universal South/02)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Lonesome Old Songs - Dec. 30/17
host: PT
theme –
KENNY BAKER: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MN BOYS: Lost & I’ll Never Find the Way aka Lonesome/1953-1958 & 1959 (Mercury -> Bear Family/57)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: The Lonesome River/1949-52 (Columbia ->Bear Family/51)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’m Lonesome Without You /1953-1958 & 1959 (Mercury -> Bear Family/53)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: A Lonesome Night/The King Years, 1961-1965 (King/63)
RALPH STANLEY AND THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: That Lonesome Old Song/1971-1973 (Rebel/71)
LONGVIEW: Lonesome Old Home/ Longview (Rounder/97)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: This Lonesome Old Feeling/Ramblin' Bluegrass (Starday/72)
HAZEL DICKENS: Lonesome Pine Special/Hard Hitting Music for Hard Hit People (Rounder/81)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES Lonesome Whistle Blues/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/84)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: So Danged Lonesome/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/81)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: A Lonesome Road (To Travel)/Blue Grass 1950-1959 (Bear Family/57)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Lonesome Road Blues/Two Days At Newport (And More Bears/63)
OLD & IN THE WAY: High Lonesome Sound/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
HIGH COUNTRY: A Lonesome Highway/The First 25 Years (Big Chicken/84)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
calendar –
DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS EXPERIENCE: Muddy Roads (bluegrass)/Muddy Roads (Acoustic Disc/13); DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS EXPERIENCE: Muddy Roads (old-time)/Muddy Roads (Acoustic Disc/13); DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS EXPERIENCE: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/ DGBX (Acoustic Disc/06 )
LONESOME STANDARD TIME: Lonesome As It Gets/Lonesome As It Gets (Sugar Hill/95)
RHONDA VINCENT: Lonesome Wind Blues/Back Home Again (Rounder/00)
BUZZ BUSBY: Lonesome Wind/Going Home (King/58)
LARRY SPARKS: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry/Sings Hank Williams (County/77)
KENNY BAKER: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
Host: Ryan Breen
BOYS FROM INDIAN: You Can Mark It Down/Memories & Dreams (Rebel/77)
DAVID DAVIS & THE WARRIOR RIVER BOYS: Little White Washed Chimney/America’s Music (Wango/c.00)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Would You Care/24 Bluegrass Favorites (Rural Rhythm/68)
BIL MONROE: Changing Partners/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/54)
JIM & JESSE: Look For Me (and I’ll Be There)/First Sounds - The Capitol Years (Capitol/52)
J.D. CROWE: You Go To Your Church/Bluegrass Holiday (Lemco>King>Rebel/68)
LARRY SPARKS: Take A Slow Train/Travelin’ (Rebel/92)
HAZEL DICKENS, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES, GINNY HAWKER: I Can’t Find Your Love/Heart Of A Singer (Rounder/98)
RALPH STANLEY & JIM LAUDERDALE & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Wish Today Could Be Tomorrow/I Feel Like Singing Today (Rebel/99)
BILL DUNCAN & THE HARMONY MOUNTAIN BOYS: You’re the Only One/A Scene Near My Country Home (King/61)
THE LONESOME RIVER BOYS: Leavin’ Tennessee/Raise A Ruckus (Riverside/63)
WALTER ADAMS & ERNEST HENRY: A Woman & A Bottle/This Is Bluegrass (Jayln/69)
DAVE EVANS: If I Ever Get Back To Old Kentucky/Bluegrass Memories>Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/84)
DAVE EVANS: Just To Hear Her Sweet Voice/Poor Rambler>Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/83)
DAVE EVANS: Be Proud Of the Gray In Your Hair/Goin’ Round This World>Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/81)
EARL TAYLOR & JIM McCALL & THE STONEY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ain’t Gonna Do It No More/24 Bluegrass Favorites (Rural Rhythm/c.72)
JIM McCALL: Poor Rebel Soldier/Pickin’ & Singin’ (Vetco/72)
RED ALLEN: Baby Rocked Her Dolly/45 (King/69)
RED ALLEN: All I Want Is You/The WDON Recordings (Patuxent/63)
RED ALLEN: Sing Sing Sing/The WDON Recordings (Patuxent/63)
JIMMY MARTIN: Doin’ My Time/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/67)
JIMMY MARTIN: What Was I Supposed To Do/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/61)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Margie/Live In Holland (Strictly Country/c.83)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Silent Partner/Back To the Blue Ridge (Brandywine/94)
calendar -
DAVE EVANS: Dear Old Dixie/High Waters (Neon/98); Road To Columbus/Going Round This World (Rebel/81); Soldier's Joy/Pretty Green Hills (rebel/06)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Here Today & Gone Tomorrow/Valley View Park (Stanley Family/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS: He Will Set Your Fields On Fire/Valley View Park (Stanley Family/57)
DAVE EVANS: I’ll Be On That Good Road Someday/Bluegrass Memories>Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/84)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks (new releases) – July 8/17
Host: PT
RALPH STANLEY II & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: Goin' Round This World (Stanley Family)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Foxhounds/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
FLASHBACK: Foxhounds and Fiddles/Foxhounds and Fiddles (Pinecastle)
BUCKING MULES: Smoke Behind the Clouds/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt)
BUCKING MULES: Girl On the Greenbriar Shore/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt)
GALAX BOGTROTTERS: Highlander's Farewell/Old Time Jubilations (Dittyville)
GALAX BOGTROTTERS: Red Rocking Chair/Old Time Jubilations (Dittyville)
DIM LIGHTS: Tavern Down the Hill/Where the Mountains Meet the Sea (self)
DIM LIGHTS: Loving You Too Well/Where the Mountains Meet the Sea (self)
WINDY HILL: Take A Look Before You Leap/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self)
WINDY HILL: I Wonder Where You Are Tonigh/Bluegrass Sounds From California (self)
BRASHEAR/MCLAUGHLIN/PHILLIPS: Big High Mountain/The Colton House Sessions (Arizona Archive)
BRASHEAR/MCLAUGHLIN/PHILLIPS: Unforgettable Ride/The Colton House Sessions (Arizona Archive)
TOM EWING: Take Me Home/Adventures Of A Blue Grass Boy (Patuxent/90)
TOM EWING: Please Come Back, Little Pal/Adventures Of A Blue Grass Boy (Patuxent/90)
SCROGGINS & ROSE: Improvisations On Arkansas Traveler/Grana (self)
SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES: Sleepy Eyed John/Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes (Community Music)
MARK KUYKENDALL & ASHVILLE BLUEGRASS: Mary Jane, Won't You Be Mine/Forever & a Day (Rebel)
GAIL FRATAR: Longest Train/Bluebird (Rollingrobin)
NORTHERN CONNECTION: Mr. Engineer/Northern Connection (Patuxent)
KIM ROBINS: My Baby Thinks He's A Train/ Raining In Baltimore (Pinecastle)
CARSON PETERS & IRON MOUNTAINL Like A Train/Carson Peters & Iron Mountain (self)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Long Gone Out West Blues/The Story We Tell (Rebel)
ROB BENZING: Lonesome Road Blues/Rob Benzing (Patuxent)
calendar –
ROB BENZING: Sockeye, Monocacy Crossing/Rob Benzing (Patuxent)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Fest - July 15/17
Host: PT
The BEARCAT STRINGBOARD DUO and THE PICKS (a Handsome Ladies Pick-up Band) performing live in the KALW studios.
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Doc & Merle Live, 1974 – July 22/17
Host: PT
- All selections, except as noted, released in 2017.
- All selections, except as noted, from:
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Never the Same Way Once - Live At the Boarding House - May, 1974 (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
Nancy Rowland
Solid Gone
Matchbook Blues
Mama Don’t Allow
Doc’s Talking Blues
Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas)
Miss the Mississippi & You
Deep Elem Blues
Mountain Dew
Blue Suede Shoes
Tennessee Stud
Black Mountain Rag
Wabash Cannonball
Leather Britches > Cotton Eyed Joe
PAUL KOVAC: Carry On/Ohio Bluegrass - From the Appalachian Plains (YAH)
PAUL KOVAC: In A Song/Ohio Bluegrass - From the Appalachian Plains (YAH)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: If You Were Mine To Lose/Dale Ann Bradley (Pinecastle)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Our Last Goodbye/Dale Ann Bradley (Pinecastle)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Thinking Of the Old Days/Valley View Park 1957 (Stanley Family)
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GOODBYE GIRLS: Goodbye Girls, I'm Going To Boston; Hstrusk/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Doc & Merle Live, 1974 – July 29/17
Host: PT
- All selections, except as noted, released in 2017.
- All selections, except as noted, from:
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Never the Same Way Once - Live At the Boarding House - May, 1974 (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
The Clouds Roll Away
Three Times Seven
Nothing To It
Blue Railroad Train
Brown’s Ferry Blues
Streamlined Cannonball
Freight Train Boogie
New River Train
Frosty Morn
Poor Boy Blues
Way Downtown
Gambler's Yodel aka Pretty Mama’s Gone
Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia
Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad
St. James Infirmary
Beaumont Rag
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: You've Got To Righten That Wrong/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus)
HAMILTON COUNTY BLUEGRASS BAND: Grass Valley/These Old Hands (self)
GRATEFUL BLUEGRASS BOYS: Touch Of Gray/Grateful Bluegrass Boys (self)
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HIGH COUNTRY: Butch's Blues/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09); HIGH COUNTRY: Long Hollow Getaway/The First 25 Years (Big Chicken/87)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Hound Dog/Never the Same Way Once (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Things Are Getting Better - Aug. 5/17
Host: LW
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Snow/Between the Hollow and the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Slippin’ Away/Live in Holland (Strictly Country/89)
NOAM PIKELNY: Old Banjo/Universal Favorite (Rounder/17)
NEW KENTUCKY COLONELS: The Fields Have Turned Brown/Live In Holland (Roland White Music/73)
THE TONY RICE UNIT: Nine Pound Hammer/Manzanita (Rounder/87)
THE PAGE TURNERS: Little Lorrie/The Page Turners (self/17)
BUCKING MULES: Georgia Belles/Smoke Behind the Clouds (self/17)
PAPER WINGS: Winter Storm/Paper Wings (self/17)
JIMMY MARTIN AND THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Losing You/Don’t Cry to Me (Thrill Jockey/68)
AJ LEE: Not Gonna Cry Over You/A Song For Noah (Wildhorse/14)
UNCLE EARL: Sisters Of the Road/Waterloo, Tennessee (Rounder/07)
BILLY STRINGS: Slow Train/Billy Strings (self/16)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: The Old Mountaineer/Let ‘Er Go, Boys (Rounder/06)
COUSIN EMMY: Free Little Bird/Cousin Emmy & Her Kinfolk 1939-1947 (Bear Family)
JULIAN LAGE & CHRIS ELDRIDGE: Greener Grass/Mount Royal (Free Dirt Records/17)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Mountain Song/The Company We Keep (McCoury Music/05)
SUZY THOMPSON: Teabag Blues/No Mockingbird (Native & Fine/03)
JEFF WHITE: This Lonely Heart of Mine/The Broken Road (Rounder/99)
DAN PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again/Forty Years of Trouble (Strictly Country/94)
THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Old-Time Roscoe’s Gone/The Stairwell Sisters (Yodal-ay-hee/03)
LOAFER’S GLORY: I’ll Be Alright Tomorrow/Loafer’s Glory (Arhoolie/12)
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35 YEARS OF TROUBLE: Seneca Square Dance, Carter’s Blues, Ashokan Farewell/Crossing the Line (self/15)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Sweetheart of the Pines/Pocket Full of Keys (Pinecastle/15)
LENA JONSSON & BRITTANY HAAS: Sandy River Belle/Lena Jonsson & Brittany Haas (Playing With Music/15)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Friend and a Friend/Rise (self/17)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Black Eyed Suzy/The Snowy Side of the Mountain
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: R.I.P. Dave Evans - Aug. 12/17
Host: PT
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DAVE EVANS: Buffalo Chips/Just Look At Me Now (Neon+Rebel/97)
LARRY SPARKS & DAVE EVANS: I Don’t Want Your Rambling Letters/Clinch Mountain Boys Reunion (Stanley Tone/96)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Think Of What You’ve Done/Lonesome & Blue (Rebel/72)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Barbara Allen/The Best Of the Vetco Years (Vetco+Rebel/79)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: The Best Of the Vetco Years (Vetco+Rebel/79)
Highway 52
When the Snow Falls On My Foggy Mountain Home
Short Life Of Trouble
Carry Me Back To the Bluegrass
DAVE EVANS: Be Proud Of The Gray In Your Hair/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)*
DAVE EVANS: If I Ever Get Back To Old Kentucky/Poor Rambler (Rebel/83)*
DAVE EVANS: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
DAVE EVANS: Hey Mama, Just Look At Me Now/Just Look At Me Now (Neon+Rebel/97)
DAVE EVNAS: It Ain't Half As Bad As It Seems/Just Look At Me Now (Neon+Rebel/97)
DAVE EVANS: Pretty Green Hills/Pretty Green Hills (Rebel/06)
DAVE EVANS: Buffalo Chips/Just Look At Me Now (Neon+Rebel/97)
DAVE EVANS: Only One Was True/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)*
DAVE EVANS: High Waters (Bad Blood)/High Waters (Neon+Rebel/98)
DAVE EVANS: (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle/Pretty Green Hills (Rebel/06)
DAVE EVANS: 99 Years 'Tis Almost For Life/Live at the 1996 Hills Of Home Bluegrass Festival (McClure, VA)
DAVE EVANS: One Loaf Of Bread/Live at the 1997 Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival (Morehead, KY)
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DAVE EVANS: Dear Old Dixie/High Waters (Neon+Rebel/98); Road To Columbus/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)
*Also on DAVE EVANS: Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/94)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: It Was 60 Years Ago Today, part 1 - Aug. 19/17
Host: PT
All tracks released in 1957, except as noted.
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Loving You Too Well (Mercury 45)/1953-1958 & 1959 (Bear Family)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Let Me Walk, Lord, By Your Side (Mercury 45)/1953-1958 & 1959 (Bear Family)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Sitting Alone In the Moonlight (Decca 45 & 78)/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: I'm Sitting On Top Of the World (Decca 45 & 78)/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: A Hundred Years From Now (Columbia 45)/1949-1959 (Bear Family)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Won't Be Hanging Around (Columbia 45)/1949-1959 (Bear Family)
DON RENO, RED SMILEY & THE TENNESSEE CUTUPS: I Know You're Married (King 45)/1951-1959 (King)
DON RENO, RED SMILEY & THE TENNESSEE CUTUPS: No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine (King 45 & 78)/1951-1959 (King)
OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN: Once More (MGM 45 & 78)/1956-1968 (Bear Family)
OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN: Della Mae (MGM 45 & 78)/1956-1968 (Bear Family)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Skip, Hop, and Wobble (Decca 45)/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I'll Drink No More Wine (Decca 45)/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Going To The Races (Dixie 45)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Heavenward Bound (Dixie 45)
CARL STORY & THE RAMBLING MOUNTAINEERS: Light At the River (Mercury 45 & 78)
CARL STORY & THE RAMBLING MOUNTAINEERS: Family Reunion (Mercury 45 & 78)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Valley View Park 1957 (Stanley Family Records/17)
Thinking Of the Old Days
You’d Better Get Right
Wild Horse aka Holiday Pickin'
Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
I’ll Be There While You’re Gone
Feast Here Tonight
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Foggy Mountain Special/Foggy Mountain Jamboree (Columbia LP)
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LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Foggy Mountain Chimes, Flint Hill Special, Earl’s Breakdown/Foggy Mountain Jamboree (Columbia LP)
DEL McCOURY BAND & FREINDS: For What It’s Worth (self/17)
CHARLIE MONROE & HIS KENTUCKY PARDNERS: I'm Weary Of Heartaches (Decca 45)/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Randy Lynn Rag/Foggy Mountain Jamboree (Columbia LP)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: It Was 60 Years Ago Today, part 2 - Aug. 26/17
host: PT
MAC WISEMAN: ‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered/’Tis Sweet To Be Remembered (Dot LP)
RONI STONEMAN: Lonesome Road Blues/American Banjo Tunes & Songs In Scruggs Style (Folkways LP)
THE STONEMAN FAMILY: Say Darling Say/Old-Time Tunes Of the South (Folkways LP)
SCOTTY STONEMAN & THE BLUEGRASS CHAMPS: Heartaches Keep Coming On (Bakersfield 45)
HARRY & JEANIE WEST: The Sea of Life/Favorite Gospel Songs (Folkways LP)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: My Heart Keeps Crying (Hickory 45)/Big Midnight Special (Hickory)
McCORMICK BROTHERS: Darling, Why Can't You Be True (Hickory 45 & 78)/The McCormick Brothers (Hickory)
WRIGHT BROTHERS: Carolina Mountain Home (Starday 45)/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King)
FLATT MOUNTAIN BOYS: Choo Choo Coming (Starday 45)/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King)
BILL & MARY REID & THE MEOLDY MOUNTAINEERS: I Want To Be Loved (Starday 45)/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King)
LEON JACKSON, JOHNNY BRYANT & WHITE OAK MTN BOYS: Love Please Come Home (King 45)/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King)
TOMMY JACKSON: Camptown Races/Square Dance Tonight! (Dot LP)
MARVIN COBB, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE CHAIN MTN BOYS: New Camptown Races (Wayside 45)//Appalachian Heart - The Original Bluegrass Classics (Fuel) and The Early Days Of Bluegrass, Vol. 2 (Rounder)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & BUSTER TURNER: Leave Well Enough Alone (Wayside 45)/Old Time Banjo - Vintage String Sound (Vintage Masters)
BUZZ BUSBY: The Lonesome Road (Starday 45)/Going Home (Gusto)
HOBO JACK (ADKINS): Lonesome Old Road (Starday 45)
BILL HARRELL'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Reno Bound (Carol 45)
LILLY BROTHERS & DON STOVER: Are You Tired Of Me, My Darling (Event 45 & 78)/Early Recordings (Rebel)
HYLO BROWN & THE TIMBERLINERS: Nobody's Darling But Mine (Capitol 45)/The Best Of 1954-60 (Goldenlane)
TOMMY JACKSON: Liza Jane/Square Dance Tonight (Dot LP)
DAVE WOOLUM & HIS KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS featuring NOAH CRASE: Noah's Breakdown (Sage 45)/The Early Days Of Bluegrass, Vol. 2 (Rounder)
BILL CLIFTON & HIS DIXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Pal Of Yesterday (Mercury 45)/The Bluegrass Sound Of Bill Clifton (Gusto)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Valley View Park 1957 (Stanley Family Records)
Gathering Flowers From the Hillside (w/ Bill Clifton)
I Hope You Have Learned
Little Birdie
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TOMMY JACKSON: Snowflake Reel, Fiddler’s Dream/Popular Square Dance Music Without Calls (Dot LP); TOMMY JACKSON: Down Yonder, Cherokee Shuffle/Square Dance Tonight (Dot LP)
R.I.P. Pete Kuykendall -
RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD& THE KENTUCKIANS: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone/The Folkways Years (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: I Am Weary(Let Me Rest)/The Early Rebel Recordings -1962-1971 (Rebel/63)
PETE KUYKENDALL: Sawmill Shuffle/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent/14)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: BOTMC Previews - Sept. 2/17
Host: AT
LOUVIN BROTHERS: Southern Moon/A Tribute to the Delmore Brothers (Capitol/60)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: In Texas/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
HOOT AND HOLLER: Goodbye Boozy Suzy/Reasons To Run (self/17)
DEL REY & SUZY THOMPSON: See You In Seaview/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Gospel Ship/Outshine the Sun (self/12)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARTZ: Climbing Up the Golden Stairs/Draw Closer (Rounder/04)
CANOTE BROTHERS: What Did I Do With That Thinga-Ma-Jig/Thinga-Ma-Jig (Clone Tone/98)
BUCKING MULES: My Wife Died On Saturday Night/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt/17)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Lovin’ Babe/Anna & Elizabeth (Trade Roots Music Group/15)
DAVID BRAGGER: Kiss Me Quick, My Papa’s A-Coming/Big Fancy (Old Time Tiki Parlor/15)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Old Kimball/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Columbus Stockade Blues/Devil in the Seat (self/15)
RED MOUNTAIN: Barnyard Dance/Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence (Whoop It Up/09)
DEL REY & SUZY THOMPSON: Everybody Two-Step/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
BEN HUNTER & JOE SEAMONS WITH PHIL WIGGINS: Shanghai Rooster/A Black & Tan Ball (self/17)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Free Little Bird/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
KIM JOHNSON: Dunbar/Keepers (Buffalo Skinner/09)
WB REID & BONNIE ZAHNOW: Katie Dear/Poca River Blues (Padsnug/07)
MODOCK ROUNDERS: Barlow Knife/Home Music (Buffalo Skinner/16)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Won’t You Come and Sing For Me/Anna & Elizabeth (Trade Roots Music Group/15)
DAVID BRAGGER: Jingle at the Window, Tidy-O/Big Fancy (Old Time Tiki Parlor/15)
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DAVID BRAGGER: Cripple Creek, Going to the Free State, Big Fancy/Big Fancy (Old Time Tiki Parlor/15)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Over the Garden Wall/Outshine The Sun (self/12)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Isambard’s Waltz/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Voice from on High/Anna & Elizabeth (Trade Roots Music Group/15)
DEL REY & SUZY THOMPSON: Monongahela River Waltz/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
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Sept. 9 & 16: KALW Fall Membership Campaign - thanks for your support!
host: PT
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On - Sept. 23/17
host: PT
SFBOT Fest previews with Chuck Poling, plus music:
THE CALIFORNIA TALLBOYS: Unwanted Love/This Here Roof's Too Low (self – advance demo)
AJ LEE & THE VALLEY RAMBLERS: City Of Glass/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
EVIE LADEN BAND: Coocoo/Jump the Fire (Evil Diane/16)
THE BOW TIES: It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: So Dang Lonesome/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES: Lonesome Homesick Blues/Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes (self/17)
BEAN CREEK: Will You Be Lonesome Too/Nightbird (Sloughfish/11)
HIGH COUNTRY: Last Old Dollar/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
CHRIS HILLMAN: When I Get A Little Money/Bidin' My Time (Rounder/17)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Berkeley Shanghai/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/16)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING & ADAM HURT: Stumptown Stomp/Inside Out (self/16)
SPENCER & RAINS: Stumptown Stomp/The Old Texas Fiddle Vol II: Weird Tunes Of Old Texas (self/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I’m Not Your Honey Baby Now/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
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PETE WERNICK: Spring Break, Limber Jack, Birdsong Creek/On A Roll (Sugar Hill/93)
Wernick Jam class previews with Andy Lentz
ANDY LENTZ: Kentucky Girl/Live at KALW
ANDY KENTIZ: Emily’s Waltz/Live at KALW
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live On Arrival - Sept. 30/17
host: PT
WENDY BURCH STEEL & REDWOOD - live at KALW:
Mourning Dove
Beau Fleuve
Ocean Of the Blues
Leah's Lullaby
Long Time Gone
First One to Cry
Don't Wash Me Away
Ambrosia
Blue Skies and Teardrops
HIGH COUNTRY: A Cold Winter Sun/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
BUTCH WALLER: Rosine/Golden Gate Promenade (Rebel/99)
HIGH COUNTRY: Highway Of Pain/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
THOMPSONIA: The Yogurt Song/Thompsonia (self/15)
THE DRIFTER SISTERS: Ranger's Command/The Drifter Sisters (self/13)
THOMPSONIA: Pain Reliever/Thompsoia (self/15)
THE DRIFTER SISTERS: The Race Is On/The Drifter Sisters (self/13)
SIDESADDLE & CO.: Flame In My Heart/Queen For A Day (Faultline/05)
HIGH COUNTRY: Butch’s Blues/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
SIDESADDLE & CO.: Queen For A Day/Queen For A Day (Faultline/05)
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BUTCH WALLER: Pine Valley Waltz/Waltz Collection (Big Chicken/15)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Oct. 7/17
Host: PT
PAUL KOVAC: Carry On/Ohio Bluegrass - From the Appalachian Plains (YAH)
PAUL KOVAC: In A Song/Ohio Bluegrass - From the Appalachian Plains (YAH)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Would You Care/The Story We Tell (Rebel)
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Long Gone Out West Blues/The Story We Tell (Rebel)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: If You Were Mine To Lose/Dale Ann Bradley (Pinecastle)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Our Last Goodbye/Dale Ann Bradley (Pinecastle)
HAMILTON COUNTY BG BAND: How Mountain Girls Can Love/These Old Hands (self)
HAMILTON COUNTY BLUEGRASS BAND: Grass Valley/These Old Hands (self)
MATT AND GEORGE & THEIR PVB: The Love I Have For You/Blue Grass Style (Pleasant Valley)
MATT AND GEORGE & THEIR PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS: Why Do You Cry Little Darling/Blue Grass Style (Pleasant Valley)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Daylighting the Creek/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus)
JOHN REISCHMAN & JBs: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus)
CLAYTON KNIGHT: I’m Just Here For the Moon/Big As Life (Electicacoustica)
GRATEFUL BLUEGRASS BOYS: Montana Cowboy/Grateful Bluegrass Boys (self)
ANDY HALL & ROOSEVELT COLLIER: Crazy Fingers/Let the Steel Play (self)
EDDIE ADCOCK: Country Gentleman/Vintage Banjo Jam (Patuxent/63)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: Ralph's Banjo Special/Dawg & T Live At Acoustic Stage (Acoustic Disc)
FINE COMPANY: Dixie Darling/In Fine Company (self)
STORY HOUSE: Weeping Blue Tears/Ground Floor (self)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: I Don’t Want Your Mandolins Mister/Dawg & T (Acoustic Disc)
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ANDREW VOGTS: Rosin On The Gourd, Sasquatch With An Alien On Its Head, Bumblebee In A Jug/ Sasquatch With An Alien On Its Head (Patuxent)
MILE TWELVE: The Day You Left/Onwards (Taurus)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Gospel According to Allegra - Oct. 14/17
Host: AT
BILL MONROE: A Voice From on High/The King and the Father (Decca/54)
HAZEL DICKENS, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES, & GINNY HAWKER: Coming Down From God/Heart of a Singer (Rounder/98)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Harbor Of Love/The King Years '61-'65 (King/62)
DON RENO & RED SMILEY: Get Behind Me Satan/The Very Best of (King/56)
BILL MONROE: Beautiful Life/Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate/99)
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Daniel Prayed/At the Old Schoolhouse (Rounder/89)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Let That Liar Alone/The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/16)
THE BRAINSTORMERS: I Wish I Had My Time Again/Never Gonna Rain (Simon Slick/16)
MELODY WALKER & JACOB GROOPMAN: Black Grace/We Made It Home (Maker/Mender/13)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Super Moon/Rise (self/17)
EMILY ANDERSON: Space/Simple Things (self/17)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: Innocent Road/Innocent Road (West Sound/16)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Won't You Come And Sing For Me/Our Town (Rounder/93)
SHADIES: Sick, Sober and Sorry/Cuttin' at the Point (self/13)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Fare Thee Well/Time (Live Oak/12)
BIGFOOT: I Wish I Had My Time Again/I've Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
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SNAP JACKSON & THE KNOCK ON WOOD PLAYERS: Clinch Mountain Backstep/Live In Parkfield (self/15)
WENDY BURCH STEEL: Your Sweet Hand/Open Wings (Dragonfly Bridge/12)
THE BUCK STOPS HERE: Goin’ Up On A Mountain/The Buck Stops Here (self/15)
EMILY ANDERSON: Simple Things/Simple Things (self/17)
THE GET DOWN BOYS: Smokey Mountain Home/The Get Down Boys (self/17)
BILL EVANS: Big Chief Sonny/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: All Kinds Of Country - Oct. 21/17
Host: Sully Roddy
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The End Of the Beginning - Oct. 28/17
Host: PT
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Columbia -> Bear Family/10-28-47)
That Home Above
When You Are Lonely
Molly and Tenbrooks
I'm Travelin' On and On
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Flatt & Scruggs 1948-1959 (Mercury -> Bear Family/10-28-48)
God Loves His Children
We'll Meet Again Sweetheart
My Cabin In Caroline
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Columbia -> Bear Family/10-22-49)
Can't You Hear Me Callin'
Blue Grass Stomp
Travelin' This Lonesome Road
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Flatt & Scruggs 1948-1959 (Mercury -> Bear Family/April+May, 1949)
Down the Road
Baby Blue Eyes
Why Don't You Tell Me So?
STANLEY BROTHERS: Mother No Longer Awaits Me At Home/Earliest Recordings (Rich-R-Tone -> Rounder/1947)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: Wicked Path Of Sin/Bluegrass Beginnings, Vol. 1 (Rich-R-Tone -> Heaven & Earth/1947)
NORTH CAROLINA RIDGE RUNNERS: Orange Blossom Special/Authentic Rare Bluegrass, Vol. 4 (Security -> Country Music Group/1947)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Little Maggie/Earliest Recordings (Rich-R-Tone -> Rounder/1948)
CHARLIE MONROE & HIS KENTUCKY PARDNERS: Walking With You In My Dreams/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (RCA -> Bear Family/1948)
RED BELCHER & HIS KENTUCKY RIDGE RUNNERS: Old Gray Goose/Raw Fiddle (Page -> Rounder/1948)
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER: On the Banks Of the River/On the Banks Of the River (Rich-R-Tone -> B.A.C.M./1949)
WAYNE RANEY: Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me/ Songs Of The Hills (King/1949)
CARL STORY & HIS RAMBLING MOUNTAINEERS: Keep On the Firing Line/ Country Gospel Classics (Mercury -> Rockabilly/1949)
BILL EVANS: The Distance Between Two Points/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Shine Hallelujah Shine/Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Columbia -> Bear Family/10-28-47)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: California Banjo Extravaganza Previews - Nov. 4/17
host: PT
(Johnny) WARREN & (Charlie) CUSHMAN: Back To Foggy Mountain/Purely Instrumental (self/15)
EARLS OF LEISCESTER: Why Did You Wander?/Rattle & Roar (Rounder/16)
CHARLIE CUSHMAN: Tennessee Cut-Up Breakdown/Five String Time (CMC/06)
BOB CARLIN: Big Scioty/Fiddle Tunes for the Clawhammer Banjo (Rounder/79)
JOHN HARTFORD STRING BAND: Dixie Trucker's Home/Good Old Boys (Rounder/99)
BOB CARLIN: Cotton Eyed Joe/The Boys From North Carolina (Car Tunes/03)
BILL EVANS: A Hard Day's Night/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
BILL EVANS: Heavy Traffic Ahead/Bill Evans Plays Banjo (Mighty Fine/01)
FLETCHER BRIGHT & BILL EVANS: Bb Hornpipe Medley/Songs That Are Mostly Older Than Us (Native & Fine/15)
TIM STAFFORD: The Girl I Left Behind Me/Acoustic Guitar (Hedge Drive/17)
BLUE HIGHWAY: If Lonesome Don't Kill Me/Original Traditional (Rounder/16)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Dogwood Winter/Dogwood Winter (Rural Rhythm/10)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Little Sadie/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Little Pine Siskin/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Sail Away Ladies/The Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/16)
CHAD MANNING: Back Up & Push/Chicken On A Rocketship (self/12)
other previews –
SAM BUSH: Roll On Buddy, Roll On/Circles Around Me (Sugar Hill/09)
HAAS KOWERT TICE: Down the Hatch/You Got This (self/14)
PETER ROWAN: Jerry In the Deep Blue Sea/My Aloha (Omnivore/17)
CANOTE BROTHERS: Drink More Cider/Dogs In The Dishes (CloneTone/09)
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TIM STAFFORD: Backseat Blues, Watercolor Sky, Tideline/Acoustic Guitar (Hedge Drive/17)
JIMBO TROUT: Cripple Creek/JimBo’s Jamboree (self/17)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Music For Armistice/Veterans Day - Nov. 11/17
Host: AT
STANLEY BROTHERS: Searching For a Soldier’s Grave/King Years 1961-1965 (King/65)
DON RENO & HIS TENNESSEE CUT-UPS: Military Five String/Play Blue Grass (Dot/65)
BILL MONROE: Rotation Blues/Blue Grass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/51)
THE BUCKING MULES: The Soldier and the Lady/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt/17)
TIM O’BRIEN: Pretty Fair Maid In the Garden/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
TOM, BRAD & ALICE: Fair Beauty Bright/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: Julie/Freedom Highway (Nonesuch/17)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Goin’ Across the Mountain/Anna & Elizabeth (Trade Roots/15)
BLUEGRASS CARDINALS: Blue Eyed Boston Boy/Welcome To Virginia (Rounder/77)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Two Little Boys/ The Early Rebel Recordings: 1962-1971 (Rebel/63)
WALLER BROTHERS: Faded Coat Of Blue/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: The Dying Soldier/A Wanderer I’ll Stay (Lula/15)
RED ALLEN: Purple Heart/Keep On Going - The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings (Rebel/66)
PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS: Some Old Day/Wonderful World Outside (Vigortone/16)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Pray For the Boys/King Years 1961-1965 (King/65)
DEL McCOURY: Take Me To The Mountains/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/94)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Lost Soldier Son/Wanderlust (Copper Creek/99)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Between The Wars/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
HOOT AND HOLLER: The Blue Sky Ain't No Friend of Mine/Reasons To Run (self/16)
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HAAS KOWERT TICE: Leadfoot, Grandpa's Cheesebarn/You Got This (self/14)
LAURIE LEWIS: Return to the Fire/Blossoms (Spruce and Maple/09)
GINNY HAWKER: My Warfare Will Soon Be Over/Letters From My Father (Rounder/01)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Mid Days of Bluegrass - Nov. 18/17
(small label, deep catalog vinyl from the '60s & ‘70s)
Host: Todd Gracyk
theme -
FRANK NECESSARY: Necessary's Theme/No More Tomorrows (Cabut/70)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: These Old Blues/Bluegrass Old And New (Old Homestead/71)
THE COOKE DUET: Green Pastures/God Is Not Dead, He’s Still Alive (no label; custom pressed by Rite/70)
THE FOOT HILL BOYS: Days Of Grey And Black/Bluegrass In The Carolina Mountains (County/72)
LEE ALLEN: You’re Going Away/Songs Of Love And Tragedy (Jalyn/70)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Sitting On Top Of The World/45 RPM Single (Gateway/64)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Willie Boy/Circle Of Friends (Donerail/70)
CHARLIE MOORE, BILL NAPIER & THE DIXIE PARTNERS: Big Daddy Of The Blues/45 RPM Single (American/60)
RED ALLEN: I Beg To You/Bluegrass Special (Power Pak/69)
THE BARTON BROTHERS & THE BIG A MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lonely Highway/Virginia Bluegrass (Jalyn/73)
CONNIE & BABE & THE BACKWOODS BOYS: Just Outside/Basic Bluegrass (Rounder/73)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: The Convict And The Child/45 RPM Single (Silver-Belle/65)
THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS; When I Can Forget/45 RPM Single (Copper Creek/78)
JIM McCALL & THE COUNTRY ROYALS: A Rambler And Rover/45 RPM Single (Vetco/68)
JOHN’S GOSPEL QUARTET (THE STANLEY BROTHERS): Lord, I’m Coming Home/John’s Gospel Quartet (Wango/64)
WENDY SMITH & THE WINDY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Carolyn (The Teenage Queen)/45 RPM Single (Fortune/67)
LEON MORRIS & THE BLUEGRASS ASSOCIATES: Upstairs In The Bedroom/Sings International Bluegrass (Jessup/72)
THE KENTUCKY GENTLEMEN: Bootleg John/True Bluegrass (King Bluegrass/75)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Bonnie And Clyde’s Hop/Old Time Music (Jalyn/67)
CURTIS BLACKWELL, RANDALL COLLINS & THE DIXIE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Crying For You Darling/45 RPM Single (Coran/67)
ROY McMILLIAN & THE HIGH COUNTRY BOYS: Wandering In The Darkness/High Country (Rebel/73)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: I’m Walking The Dog/Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals (Revonah/75)
calendar -
THE VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN BOYS: Virginia Mountain Banjo/45 RPM Single (Gambler/63); KEITH DANIELS & THE BLUE RIDGE RAMBLERS: Mocking Mandolin/45 RPM Single (Empire/62); JACK CASEY: Willie’s Ride/45 RPM Single (Tag/68)
R.C. HARRIS & BLUE DENIM: Going Home/Grass Won’t Grow On A Busy Street (Grassound/78)
THE BLACK MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS BOYS: East Virginia Blues/Pure Old Bluegrass (Lark/68)
THE WILSON BROTHERS: We’ll Work, Till Jesus Comes/We’ll Work, Till Jesus Comes (Pine Tree/71)
JACK LYNCH & THE LEE BROTHERS WITH LONNIE BOLIN: Roy Lee’s Breakdown/45 RPM Single (Jalyn/64)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - Nov. 25/17
Host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Misadventures & Difficulties - Dec. 2/17
Host: LW
LAURIE LEWIS AND TOM ROZUM: Willie Poor Boy/Guest House (HighTone/04)
JEFF WHITE: Cabin Among the Trees/The White Album (Rounder/96)
DON RENO, RED SMILEY, BILL HARRELL AND THE TENNESSEE CUT-UPS: Wreck Of the Old 97/Letter Edged In Black (Wango/71)
KATHY KALLICK: Wreck Of the Old #9/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/02)
MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Dreary Black Hills/Molsky’s Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/17)
TONY RICE: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Drowning Sailor/The Room Over Mine (Rounder/08)
CALEB KALUDER & REEB WILLMS: Chalk Up Another One/Innocent Road (West Sound/16)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Long Black Veil/Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/65)
OLA BELLE REED: You Lead Me To the Wrong/Ola Belle Reed & Family (Rounder/77)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee/Jubilee (Signature Sounds/98)
JOE K. WALSH: Never More Will Roam/Borderland (Skinny Elephant/16)
THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Snowy Side Of the Mountain/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Henry Walker/Cold Hard Facts (Rounder/96)
DOS VALLEY TRIO: Wolves A-Howlin’/Jewels Of the San Joaquin (Mt Wow/17)
RALPH STANLEY: Dream Of a Miner’s Child/Down Where the River Bends (Rebel/78)
MILE TWELVE: The Magaret Keene/Onwards (Delores the Taurus/17)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Run Rufus Run/Catch Tomorrow (Compass/06)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: Following the Northern Star/Freedom Highway (Nonesuch/17)
calendar –
JIM HURST TRIO: Modaliousness/JHT-1 (self/16); JIM HURST: Open G Medley/Intrepid (self/12); JIM HURST: C5 A La Mode/A Box Of Chocolates (self/07)
THE BOW TIES: Old Reuben No. 1/Old Morphine (self/17)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: One More Dollar/Unleashed (Sugar Hill/95)
ANY OLD TIME STRING BAND: I Wish I’d Stayed In the Wagonyard/I Bid You Goodnight (Arhoolie/78)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Festival - Dec. 9/17
host: PT
Live In the KALW studios:
MATT & GEORGE & THEIR PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS
THOMPSONIA
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Leah Picks 'Em & Plays 'Em - Dec. 16/17
host: LW
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Sounds Of the Season - Dec. 23/17
host: AT
THE DEL McCOURY BAND: Bluegrass Christmas/Christmas On The Mountain (Universal South/02)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Christmas Time Is Near/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (Starday/58)
BILL MONROE: Christmas Time’s A-Coming/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Decca/51)
RENO & SMILEY: Christmas Doll/The True Meaning Of Christmas (King/63)
JIMMY MARTIN: Daddy Will Santa Claus Ever Have To Die/To Mother At Christmas (Gusto/80)
COMMANDER CODY: Daddy’s Drinking Up Our Christmas/All I Want For Christmas Is Country (Dot/73)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: If We Make It Through December/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
THE DEL McCOURY BAND: Blue Christmas/Christmas On The Mountain (Universal South/02)
LONZO & OSCAR: Jangle Bells/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (Decca/53)
HOMER & JETHRO: Santy’s Movin’ On/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (RCA/55)
ERNEST TUBB: Merry Texas Christmas, You All/Santa's on His Way - Merry Country Christmas (Decca/52)
RALPH STANLEY: Children Go Where I Send Thee/Classic Stanley (Freeland/75)
JIMMY MARTIN: Old Fashioned Christmas/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (Decca/60)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Beautiful Star of Bethlehem/The Best of the Best (King/64)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Snow/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise
ERIC THOMPSON: Rain & Snow/Thompson’s Real (Herringbone/78)
TIM O’BRIEN: First Snow/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter’s Grace (Spruce & Maple/99)
BILLY BRIGGS: North Pole Boogie/Santa Claus Is From The South: Christmas Country, 1947-1963 (Imperial/51)
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DAVID BRAGGER & SUSAN PLATZ: King’s Lament/King’s Lament (Old Time Tiki Parlor/17)
JODY STECHER: Look Me Up When You’re Down Under/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Longest Day Of The Year/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Alaska/Live (Spruce & Maple/07)
DEL REY & SUZY THOMPSON: At the Christmas Ball/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
THE GROOVE GRASS BOYZ: Auld Lang Syne/Christmas On The Mountain (Universal South/02)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Lonesome Old Songs - Dec. 30/17
host: PT
theme –
KENNY BAKER: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MN BOYS: Lost & I’ll Never Find the Way aka Lonesome/1953-1958 & 1959 (Mercury -> Bear Family/57)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: The Lonesome River/1949-52 (Columbia ->Bear Family/51)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’m Lonesome Without You /1953-1958 & 1959 (Mercury -> Bear Family/53)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: A Lonesome Night/The King Years, 1961-1965 (King/63)
RALPH STANLEY AND THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: That Lonesome Old Song/1971-1973 (Rebel/71)
LONGVIEW: Lonesome Old Home/ Longview (Rounder/97)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: This Lonesome Old Feeling/Ramblin' Bluegrass (Starday/72)
HAZEL DICKENS: Lonesome Pine Special/Hard Hitting Music for Hard Hit People (Rounder/81)
THE DREADFUL SNAKES Lonesome Whistle Blues/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/84)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: So Danged Lonesome/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS QUINTET: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome/Live On Arrival (Bluegrass Signal/81)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: A Lonesome Road (To Travel)/Blue Grass 1950-1959 (Bear Family/57)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Lonesome Road Blues/Two Days At Newport (And More Bears/63)
OLD & IN THE WAY: High Lonesome Sound/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Live At the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
HIGH COUNTRY: A Lonesome Highway/The First 25 Years (Big Chicken/84)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
calendar –
DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS EXPERIENCE: Muddy Roads (bluegrass)/Muddy Roads (Acoustic Disc/13); DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS EXPERIENCE: Muddy Roads (old-time)/Muddy Roads (Acoustic Disc/13); DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS EXPERIENCE: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/ DGBX (Acoustic Disc/06 )
LONESOME STANDARD TIME: Lonesome As It Gets/Lonesome As It Gets (Sugar Hill/95)
RHONDA VINCENT: Lonesome Wind Blues/Back Home Again (Rounder/00)
BUZZ BUSBY: Lonesome Wind/Going Home (King/58)
LARRY SPARKS: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry/Sings Hank Williams (County/77)
KENNY BAKER: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)