BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: The Fire Next Time - July 4, 2020
FISK JUBILEE SINGERS: O Mary Don’t You Weep Don’t You Mourn/Fisk Jubilee Singers Vol. 2 (Columbia/15)
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON: Motherless Children/Roots Of Classic Rock: The Blues That Inspired Rock 'N' Roll (Columbia/27)
BIRMINGHAM JUBILEE SINGERS: Home in that Rock/ Birmingham Jubilee Singers Vol. 1 (1926-1927) (Columbia/26)
STAPLE SINGERS: Let That Liar Alone/What the World Needs Now Is Love (Riverside/62)
MA RAINEY: Jealous Hearted Blues/Ma Rainey Vol. 2 (1924-1925) (Paramount/25)
LONG “CLEVE” REED & LITTLE HARVEY HILL: The Original Stack O’ Lee Blues/The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (Shanachie/27)
MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS: Sitting On Top of the World/Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (Okeh/30)
REV J M GATES: Death’s Black Train Is Coming/Are You Bound For Heaven Or Hell? The Best Of Reverend J.M. Gates (Columbia/26)
LEAD BELLY: John Hardy/The Legend of Leadbelly (Tradition Everest/70)
HENRY THOMAS: John Henry/Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929 (Shanachie/27)
DOM FLEMONS: John Henry y los Vaqueros/Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS: Polly Ann’s Hammer/Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways/19)
BLIND PETE & PARTNER: Black Bayou Ain’t Got No Bottom (field recording/34)
BEN HUNTER & JOE SEAMONS WITH PHIL WIGGINS: Shanghai Rooster/A Black & Tan Ball (self/17)
JERRON PAXTON: Pretty Saro/Recorded Music For Your Entertainment (self/15)
EARL WHITE: Apple Blossom/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
JAKE BLOUNT: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean/Reparations (Rusting Earth/17)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Darlin’ Corey/Dig (self/13)
HUBBY JENKINS: Reuben Oh Reuben/Hubby Jenkins (self/16)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Nashville Skyline Rag/Uncaged Thoughts (self/20)
RHIANNON GIDDENS WITH FRANCESCO TURRISI: Wayfaring Stranger/there is no Other (Nonesuch/19)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Black Music Matters - July 11, 2020
OTIS TAYLOR: Ran So Hard the Sun Went Down/Recapturing the Banjo (Telarc/08)
KAIA KATER: Paradise Fell/Nine Pin (Kingswood/16)
JAKE BLOUNT: Move, Daniel/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
VERA HALL: Another Man Done Gone/A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings (Rounder/40)
THE EBONY HILLBILLIES: Another Man Done Gone (Hands Up Don’t Shoot)/5 Miles from Town (self/17)
AMYTHYST KIAH (OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS): Blood and Bones/Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways/19)
LEYLA McCALLA: The Capitalist Blues/The Capitalist Blues (Jazz Village/19)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Last Chance/Liveset at Esplanade Studios, New Orleans (2012)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Snowden’s Jig/Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch/10)
HUBBY JENKINS: Little Log Cabin In the Lane/Live at Barns of Rose Hill, Berryville, VA (10-6-18)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: At the Purchaser's Option/Live on NPR’s Fresh Air (5-11-17)
DOM FLEMONS: Po' Howard > Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil In/Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
RICHIE BROWN: The Arnold Schultz Fund
RICHIE BROWN
with THE REUNION BAND: Silky Rock/Fast-track Bluegrass Sampler (self/2014)
with DOM FLEMONS: Lonesome Road Blues aka Going Down the Road Feeling Bad/International Bluegrass Music Museum (2014)
with FRANK WAKEFIELD: Swing Low Sweet Chariot/IBMM Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp (2008)
with BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Old Joe Clark/Wayside Inn, Chatham, MA (9-22-88)
Interview with Richie Brown
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Mule Skinner Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/40)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Honky Tonk Swing/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/41)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Country only
RICHIE BROWN: The Arnold Schultz Fund
RICHIE BROWN with THE REUNION BAND: Silky Rock/Fast-track Bluegrass Sampler (self/2014)
RICHIE BROWN with DOM FLEMONS: Lonesome Road Blues aka Going Down the Road Feeling Bad/International Bluegrass Music Museum (2014)
RICHIE BROWN with BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Old Joe Clark/Wayside Inn, Chatham, MA (9-22-88)
Interview with Richie Brown
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Mule Skinner Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/40)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Dog House Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/40)
MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS: Sitting On Top of the World/Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (Okeh/30)
DeFORD BAILEY: Evening Prayer Blues/Harp Blowers (1925-1936) (Document/27)
“BANJO JOE” (GUS CANNON) & BLIND BLAKE: He's in the Jailhouse Now/Ain't Goin' That Way (Black Swan/27)
MOUND CITY JUBILEE QUARTETTE: I Am A Pilgrim/Vocal Quartets Vol 4 K/L/M 1927–1943 (Document/35)
DOROTHY LOVE COATES & THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES: No Hiding Place/The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes (Specialty/55)
SWAN SILVERTONES: Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep/Jesus Rocked the Jukebox (Concord/59)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Honky Tonk Swing/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/41)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - July 18, 2020
All releases in 2020, except as noted; recording year given for reissues.
JAKE BLOUNT (with TATIANA HARGREAVES): Done Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Hometown Blues/Bet On Love (Lula)
FRANK & ALLIE LEE: When I Was a Cowboy/Treat A Stranger Right (Bake Tone)
SCROGGINS & ROSE: Bubblicious/Curios (self)
BRADLEY & ADAIR: Pick Me Up On Your Way Down/Oh Darling (Pinecastle)
JB & JAMIE DAILEY: Have You Lost Your Love For Me/Step Back In Time (Pinecastle)
LAURIE LEWIS (with KATHY KALLICK): Old Friend/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple)
GREG BOOTH: Buckaroo/The New Reso Gathering (Pinecastle)
APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW: Goin' Across the Mountain/Tribulations (Billy Blue)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Still Here/single (Mountain Home)
ALEX LEACH BAND: Take the Long Way Home/single (Mountain Home)
ELIZA MEYER: Hills Of Home/Hello Stranger (self)
SARO LYNCH-THOMASON & SAM GLEAVES: I Have Known Women/I Have Known Women: Songs by Si Kahn Celebrating Women's Lives and Struggles (Strictly Country)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Kind Girl/Bet On Love (Lula)
KRISTY COX: Finger Picking Good/No Headlights (Mountain Fever)
HAWKTAIL (Brittany Haas, Dominick Leslie, Jordan Tice & Paul Kowert) + ALISON BROWN: Little Country Town/The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1
2020 digital reissues:
BENNY & VALLIE CAIN: You Don't Love Me Like You Used To/Bennie & Vallie Cain & the Country Clan (Rebel/69)
KEITH WHITLEY & RICKY SKAGGS: All I Ever Loved Was You/Second Generation (Rebel/71)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Short Life Of Trouble/Short Life Of Trouble (Rebel/96)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Just Lovin’ You/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/75)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: When The Snow Falls On My Foggy Mountain Home/The Best Of The Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
BILL GRANT & DELIA BELL: Memories In The Fall/Rollin’ (Rebel/81)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Will You Miss Me/Long Journey Home (Rebel/64)
KENNY BAKER & BOBBY HICKS: Tallahassee/With Body & Soul: A Bluegrass Tribute To Bill Monroe (Rebel/80)
KENNY BAKER: Road To Columbus/With Body & Soul: A Bluegrass Tribute To Bill Monroe (Rebel/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - July 25, 2020
All releases in 2020, except as noted; recording year given for reissues.
SIERRA HULL: 25 Trips/25 Trips (Rounder)
JUSTIN MOSES: Fall Like Rain/single (Mountain Fever)
KENNY & AMANDA SMITH: Johnson City Blues/With You (Farm Boy)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Hartford's Lawn/Uncaged Thoughts EP (self)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING, TRISTAN SCROGGINS, ALISON BROWN & MATT COMBS: Just Enough Room to Turn Around/The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 (John Hartford)
THE MOSLEY BROTHERS: Blues Are Just Outside My Door/The Mosley Brothers (Patuxent/19)
FAST TRACK: Blue And Lonesome Again/single (Engelhardt)
HIGH FIDELITY: Banjo Player Blues/Banjo Player Blues (Rebel)
HIGH FIDELITY (with JESSE McREYNOLDS): Tears Of Regret/Banjo Player Blues (Rebel)
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD: Bill Monroe's Ol’ Mandolin/single (Pinecastle)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Open Water/Fiddler’s Pastime (self)
THE JOHN & WENDY MACKIN BAND: Mirrors and Smoke/From the Archives (Patuxent/05)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: We Needed This Ride/single (Mountain Home)
THE GINA FURTADO PROJECT: The Things I Saw/single (Mountain Home)
MARK STOFFEL: Shadowbands/single (Mountain Home)
J.D. CROWE: Born To Be With You/Blackjack (Rebel/80)
RED ALLEN: Close Boy/With Body & Soul: A Bluegrass Tribute To Bill Monroe (Rebel/65)
LARRY RICE: Unemployment Line/If You Only Knew – The Best Of Larry Rice (Rebel/96)
ROY McMILLAN & THE HIGH COUNTRY BOYS: Cold Wind/High Country (Rebel/73)
RALPH STANLEY & DOLLY PARTON: Loving You Too Well/Clinch Mountain Sweethearts (Rebel/01)
A.L. WOOD & THE SMOKEY RIDGE BOYS: Sing A Bluegrass Song/Sing A Bluegrass Song (Rebel/73)
THE BLUEGRASS 45: That’s the Time/The Bluegrass 45 (Rebel/71)
BELA FLECK & TOUMANI DIABATE: Kauonding Sissoko/The Ripple Effect (Craft Recordings/09)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live At KALW - Aug. 1, 2020
THE TUTTLE FAMILY (Oct. 22, 2008)
Jack, Michael, Molly, and Sullivan Tuttle
Close By
Billy In the Lowground
Single Girl
Gentle On My Mind
Annabelle
White Freightliner Blues
Beaumont Rag
THE BAREFOOT NELLIES (Oct. 22, 2008)
Betsy Maudlin, Jess Beebe, Nicole Solis, Prentice Sellers, Molly Tuttle
It’s Harder For Me
These Boots Are Made For Walking
Come Early Morning
I Found Jesus On the Jailhouse Floor
A Few Old Memories
ADAM CHOWNING & FRIENDS: Walking With Winston/Handmade To Hand Played (Thompson Guitars/20)
Handmade To Hand Played (Thompson Guitars/20)
- MOLLY TUTTLE: Little Annie
- BILLY STRINGS: Give The Fiddler a Dram>Whistling Rufus>Ragtime Annie
- JOSH RINKEL & FRIENDS: Kentucky On My Mind
- LAURIE LEWIS, TOM ROZUM & NINA GERBER: Red River Valley
MOLLY TUTTLE: Broken Tie/CBA’s Turn Your Radio OnLINE (6-20-20)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT (featuring SULLIVAN TUTTLE): Mama Tried/CBA’s Turn Your Radio OnLINE (6-20-20)
THE MOLLY TUTTLE BAND (with AJ LEE & SULLIVAN TUTTLE): Standing On the Moon/Live At The Independent (5-24-19)
THE BAREFOOT NELLIES: Flame In My Heart (+ a snippet of Y’All Come)/Live At Amnesia (2-24-20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live At KALW - Aug. 8, 2020
KATHY KALLICK BAND (May 10, 2003)
Kathy Kallick, Amy Stenberg, Avram Siegel, Tom Bekeny
The Messenger
Who’s Going Down To Town
Warmer Kind Of Blue
Metropolis Blues
Just One Time
Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom)
AMY SCHER & HAILEY PEXTON (Oct. 13, 2018)
Medicine Springs
Yearning Burning Heart
Wrong About You
Go Away With Me
I’m Barely Hanging On To Me
Cry For You
If Anyone Ought To Know
What About You
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Flight (self/20)
Tessa Schwartz, Ida Winfree, Megan January, Christine Wilhoyte, John Gooding
Blackberry Awesome
Picture Frame
Undone In Sorrow
Marry Me
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Flight (self/20)
Birdwatching Stanley
Birdsong
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Live At the Freight (May 16, 2003)
Kathy Kallick, Amy Stenberg, Avram Siegel, Tom Bekeny, Brian Wicklund
Walkin’ In My Shoes
Beaumont Rag
Honky Tonk Blues
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live At KALW - Aug. 15, 2020
THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS with DENISE BROWN (Aug. 21, 1999)
(I’m Going Home On the) Morning Train
The Storm Is Passing Over
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN (Aug. 21, 1999)
Sittin’ On Top Of the World
Sow ‘em On the Mountain
Broken Hearted Lover
Away Out On The Old Saint Sabbath
HIGH COUNTRY (Aug. 21, 1999)
I Hear A Choo-Choo Coming
Perfect Companion
Louisville Breakdown
Finally Home
Blues For Your Own
BUTCH WALLER: Bluegrass Stomp/Golden Gate Promenade (Rebel/99)
SHARON GILCHRIST & SCOTT NYGAARD (April 27, 2013)
It’s My Lazy Day
Man Of Constant Sorrow >Walkabout
Walker
Blue Railroad Train
I’ve Been All Around This World
Gonna Write Me A Letter
Forked Deer
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: (Mostly) Live At KALW - Aug. 22, 2020
THE WEBSTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Richmond Blues/Ten Thousand Miles (Lots Of Rabbits/04)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Gonna Write Me A Letter/Live At KALW (March 20, 2004)
THE WEBSTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Calling My Children Home/Ten Thousand Miles (Lots Of Rabbits/04)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Live At KALW (March 20, 2004)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: It’s My Lazy Day/Live At KALW (March 20, 2004) >
THE WEBSTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: It’s My Lazy Day/Ten Thousand Miles (Lots Of Rabbits/04)
CIRCLE R BOYS (Nov. 11, 2006)
When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland
You're Not Easy to Forget
Hello Trouble
Rock Island Line
Down By the Riverside
I Am a Pilgrim
A Beautiful Life
HIGH COUNTRY: B.A.R.T. By Night/Sunset On the Prairie (Turquoise/90)
KATHY KALLICK (w/ GENE TORTORA): My Native Home/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/01)
KATHY KALLICK & GENE TORTORA (April 13, 2019)
New Jersey Meltdown
Dark As the Night, Blue As the Day
I Live In the Country
KATHY KALLICK & FRIENDS (incl. GENE TORTORA): It’s Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song/Tribute To Hazel Dickens (3-23-02)
ARNA BONTEMPS: Song For a Dark Girl by Langston Hughes/Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. - 200 Years (Smithsonian-Folkways/55)
LEYLA McCALLA: Song For a Dark Girl/Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (Smithsonian-Folkways/13 > 20)
LEYLA McCALLA: Bluerunner/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live At KALW - and a Memorial Tribute To Steve Gulley - Aug. 29, 2020
BLUE & LONESOME (Feb. 27, 2010)
Ed Neff, Larry Cohea, Paul Shelasky, Mike Wilhoyt, Jeff King
Nobody’s Love Is Like Mine
Poison Love
Chalk Up Another One
Some Old Day
Come Back To Me Little Pal
Waves On the Sea
High Country
Foggy Mountain Top
CHICKEN TRAIN (June 30, 2018)
John Engle, John Herrmann, Meredith McIntosh
John Brown’s Dream
Payday
Old Bud
Train 45
THE NEW SOUTHERN RAMBLERS: Great Big Taters/Old-Time Mountain Music (Yodel-ay-hee/12)
STEVE GULLEY: The Grand Tour/Sounds Like Home (Lonesome Day/07)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Snow/Dogwood Winter (Rural Rhythm/10)
STEVE GULLEY: You Couldn't Pay Me To Care/Sounds Like Home (Lonesome Day/07)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Still Here/Still Here (Mountain Home/20)
STEVE GULLEY (featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY): Stormy Waters/Family, Friends & Fellowship (Rural Rhythm/14)
PHIL LEADBETTER & THE ALL-STARS OF BLUEGRASS (featuring STEVE & DEBBIE GULLEY): Yesterday’s Gone/Swing For the Fences (Pinecastle/20)
STEVE GULLEY & NEW PINNACLE: Not Fade Away/Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle (Rural Rhythm/15)
GRASSTOWNE: Grasstowne City Limits/The Road Headin' Home (Pinecastle/07)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Labor Day Bluegrass - Sept. 5, 2020
host: PT
SI KAHN & THE LOOPING BROTHERS: Five Days A Week/Aragon Mill - The Bluegrass Sessions (Strictly Country/13)
BLINKY MOON BOYS: Go To Work On Monday/Moonlight Theatre (Hay Holler/04)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Aragon Mill/Dig (self/13)
SI KAHN & THE LOOPING BROTHERS: Brookside Strike/Aragon Mill - The Bluegrass Sessions (Strictly Country/13)
FLORENCE REESE: Which Side Are You On/Coal Mining Women (Rounder/76)
HAZEL DICKENS: They’ll Never Keep Us Down/Coal Mining Women (Rounder/76)
NEW HARMONY SISTERHOOD BAND: Union Maid/Classic Labor Songs (Smithsonian-Folkways/77)
JOE GLAZER with the SELDOM SCENE: We Shall Not Be Moved/Singing BRAC (Smithsonian-Folkways/75)
KENNY WINFREE with PHIL ROSENTHAL & HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: I'm A Union Card/Classic Labor Songs (Smithsonian-Folkways/91)
PHYLLIS BOYENS: Dream Of a Miner’s Child/Coal Mining Women (Rounder/76)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Blue Diamond Mines/Blue Lightning (Rounder/90)
DON STOVER: West Virginia Coal Miner's Blues/West Virginia Coal Miner's Blues (Old Homestead/73)
TOM BREIDING: Union Miner/The Unbroken Circle: Songs of the West Virginia Coalfields (AmeriSon/08)
BLUE HIGHWAY: Union Man/Still Climbin’ Mountains (Rounder/01)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: I Don’t Want Your Millions (Mandolins), Mister/Tone Poems (Acoustic Disc/94)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Get Up, Go To Work/I Can’t Stand To Ramble (Kaleidoscope/83)
RICHARD BENNETT: Working Man Blues/Last Train From Poor Valley (Lonesome Day/12)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Working Girl Blues/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
TIM O'BRIEN: Workin'/Chicken & Egg (Howdy Skies/10)
BERNARD “SLIM” SMITH: Breadline Blues/Moneyland (McCoury Music/32)
DEL McCOURY: Breadline Blues 2008/Moneyland (McCoury Music/08)
PETER ROWAN: Will Work For Food/Bluegrass Boy (Sugar Hill/96)
ALISON KRAUSS: Another Day Another Dollar/Every Time You Say Goodbye (Rounder/92)
REBECCA FRAZIER: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/When We Fall (Amtoco /13)
JERRY DOUGLAS: It’s Gonna Work Out Fine/Fluxedo (Rounder/82)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Fall Membership Campaign Special - Sept. 12, 2020
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Hendersonville Hop/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Old-Timey Grey Eagle/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Last Train/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Where Did You Sleep Last Night/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Natchez Whistle/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Open Water/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Hello Trouble/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Done Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Mad Mama's Blues/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Move, Daniel/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Fiddler’s Pastime/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: I Don’t Know Why/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Blackbird Says To The Crow/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Rocky Road To Dublin/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: The Minstrel Boy/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Happy Hollow/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Roustabout/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Boll Weevil/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: North Garden/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention preview - Sept. 19, 2020
host: Allegra Thompson
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Sally Ann (Square Dance)/Live at the Floyd County Store (self/09)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Too Late, Too Late/Our Town (Rounder/93)
DAVID GREELY: Cotillion/Chatagnier/Sud du Sud (Give and Go/09)
JAKE BLOUNT: Boll Weevil/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
ALICE GERRARD: Borderland/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Songbird Blues>Backstep Cindy/Evie Ladin Band (Evil Diane/12)
THE HORSENECKS: Asheville Junction/The Horsenecks (self/15)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Old Country Stomp/Our Town (Rounder/93)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Let Me Lay Down/Caught On A Wire (Evil Diane/19)
ALICE GERRARD: Ruben (and Ruby)/Pieces of My Heart (Copper Creek/94)
EARL WHITE STRINGBAND: Raleigh And Spencer/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
PLAID STRANGERS: Cider/Plaid Strangers (unreleased)
SQUIRREL BUTTER: Little Stream of Whiskey/Chestnuts (self/15)
THE HORSENECKS: Little Maggie/The Horsenecks (self/15)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS (with Eddie Bond): Kansas City Railroad Blues/Put On Your Dancing Shoes (Heritage/08)
THE BUCKING MULES: Railroad/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt/17)
JAKE BLOUNT: Blackbird Says to the Crow/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Home/Our Town (Rounder/93)
EARL WHITE STRINGBAND: I Truly Understand /Earl White Stringband (self/14)
THE NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Texas Gals/Bogtrotter Blues (self/14)
WB REID & BONNIE ZAHNOW: The Farmer Feeds Us All/Ryestraw (self/16)
ALICE GERRARD AND KAY JUSTICE: Cotton Mill Girls/Tear Down The Fences (self/17)
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Texas Breakdown/Family Tradition (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: September Birthdays Celebration - Sept. 26, 2020
GOOD OL’ PERSONS (featuring BETH WEIL [9-5]): Who's That Knockin' At My Door?/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/88)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: The Mill Was Made Of Marble/Angels Rejoice (Strictly Country/88)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND (with Beth Weil & Laurie Lewis): The Old Crossroads/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: When I Get Home/Angels Rejoice (Strictly Country/88)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND (featuring SUZY THOMPSON [9-20]): Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/82)
LAURIE LEWIS [9-28] (with Suzy Thompson): Sophie’s House/Blossoms (Spruce and Maple/09)
KATHY KALLICK [9-19] (with Laurie Lewis): Wreck Of the Old #9/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/01)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: If I Had My Life To Live Over Again/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Little Annie/Together (Rounder/91)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND: Cash On The Barrelhead/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS (with Suzy Thompson, featuring BILL EVANS [9-2]): Petersburg Gal/Old As Dirt (Native & Fine/02)
KATHY KALLICK BAND (featuring ANNIE STANINEC [9-16]): Solid Gone/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: This Beautiful World/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
LAURIE LEWIS (and Molly Tuttle): The Lonely One (written by EMILY MANN [9-21])/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple/20)
OAKUM (with Beth Weil): Tallahassee, Limehouse Blues/Live (late ‘70s/early ‘80s)
SUZY THOMPSON & DEL REY: Misery Blues/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
BILL MONROE [9-13] & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: When the Golden Leaves Begin To Fall x2/Castle Studio Complete Sessions (RWA/50)
LARRY SPARKS [9-25] & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Too Late to Walk the Floor/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/75)
BUZZ BUSBY [9-6] & THE BAYOU BOYS: The Lonesome Road/Going Home (Starday Records/57)
HOT RIZE (featuring CHARLES SAWTELLE [9-20]): Think Of What You’ve Done/Take It Home (Sugar Hill/90)
JIMMIE RODGERS [9-8]: Blue Yodel No 4 (California Blues)/The Essential Jimmie Rodgers (RCA/29)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND: Prairie Lullaby/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
KATHY KALLICK (with Laurie Lewis): Hobo’s Lullaby/American Lullaby (Ellipsis Arts/03)
SUZY THOMPSON (and Andrew Carrière): Blues a Bebe/Retro (self/05)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy (almost) Birthday, Lynn Morris - Oct. 3, 2020
host: PT
CITY LIMITS BLUEGRASS BAND: Hello City Limits/Hello City Limits (Biscuit City/75)
CITY LIMITS BLUEGRASS BAND: Cold Hard Rain/Hello City Limits (Biscuit City/75)
WETSTONE RUN: If Teardrops Were Pennies/Fire on the Mountain (TNN/early ‘80s)
WHETSTONE RUN: Talking About That Old Time Religion/Angels Rejoice - Live In Holland (Strictly Country/85)
THE LYNN MORRIS (born 10-8) BAND: My Heart Skips A Beat/The Lynn Morris Band (Rounder/90)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Kisses Don't Lie/The Lynn Morris Band (Rounder/90)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: What Was I Supposed To Do/The Lynn Morris Band (Rounder/90)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Blue Skies and Teardrops/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Love Grown Cold/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
LYNN MORRIS with Benny Martin, Mike Compton, John Hartford, Roy Husky, Jr.): Cripple Creek/Banjo Meltdown (Tennessee Banjo Institute/92)
TOGETHER (Lynn Morris, Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick, Sally Van Meter, Markie Sanders): Walking The Blues/Live In Berkeley (5-21-97)
TOGETHER: Dancing In the Hog Trough/Live In Berkeley (5-21-97)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Scraps From Your Table/Live In Harpel, Netherlands (5-7-92)
LYNN MORRIS: Mama's Hand/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: It Rains Everywhere I Go/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: Mason’s Lament/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: The Likes of You/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
LYNN MORRIS: Wrong Road Again/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
~ farewell to bluegrass country ~
LYNN MORRIS: Old Rip/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: You'll Never Be the Sun/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Goodbye To the Blues/Shape of a Tear (Rounder/03)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Gonna Have Love/Shape of a Tear (Rounder/03)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Don’t Neglect the Rose/Shape of a Tear (Rounder/03)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: I Wish It Would Rain/Apple Blossom Bluegrass Festival - Winchester, VA (5-1-11)
TOGETHER featuring Sally Van Meter (born 10-7): High Country/Live In Berkeley (5-21-97)
TOGETHER: Honky Tonk Blues/Live In Berkeley (5-21-97)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: Spay Your Pet (SPAY-USA/98)
MARSHALL WILBORN: Benny's Revenge (w/ Lynn Morris and Tom Adams)/Root 5: Bass & Banjo (Pinecastle/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: New-To-Me Traditional Bluegrass - Oct. 10, 2020
host: Todd Gracyk
theme - TOMMY BROWN & THE COUNTY LINE GRASS: Half Moon Bay/Leaving This Town (Randm/14)
MILLER BROTHERS: Her Love Is True/45 RPM Single (Baron/c.69)
MILLER BROTHERS: Empty Cradle/Teenage Angel In Heaven (Jessup/72)
MILLER BROTHERS: Tribulations/Sacred Songs With A Down Home Flavor (Old Homestead/72)
MILLER BROTHERS: Detroit Blues/Detroit Blues (Old Homestead/73)
MILLER BROTHERS: I’m Losing My Family (And Breaking Up My Home)/45 RPM Single (Old Homestead/c.73)
MILLER BROTHERS: A House Of Sorrow/The Bluegrass Sound Of The Miller Brothers (Old Homestead/74)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: This Weary Heart You Stole Away/unissued live recording (Sunset Park, West Grove, PA, 5/26/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: Could You Love Me (One More Time)/unissued live recording (Sunset Park, West Grove, PA, 5/26/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sugar Coated Love/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Loving You Too Well/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Our Last Goodbye/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: Who Will Call You Sweetheart/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Poison Love/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
JOHN REEDY & THE STONE MOUNTAIN TRIO: Oh, Death/45 RPM Single (self/60>Starday/61>Gusto/09)
JOHN REEDY & THE STONE MOUNTAIN TRIO: Somebody Touched Me/45 RPM EP (Starday/61)
GARY BREWER: The Last Song/Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner: A Tribute To The King Of Bluegrass (Stretchgrass/99)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE CHAIN MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Find Another Woman/Early Bluegrass: The 1950s (Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers) (Anthology Of Country Music/83)
FORREST DAVIS & THE KY-CUT-UPS: Give Me The Bottle/45 RPM Single (Starlite/66)
BILL MONROE: Honky Tonk Swing/unissued live recording (Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA, 9/3/67)
CLIFF WALDRON & THE NEW SHADES OF GRASS: Ramblers Call/One More Mile, One More Town, One More Time (Rebel/72)
COOKE DUET: What Heaven Means To Me/45 RPM Single (self/c.65)
DANNY LEE DAVIS: Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind/Danny Lee Davis (self/c.15)
LILLY BROTHERS with DON STOVER & SCOTTY STONEMAN: Lee Highway Blues (aka Talking Fiddle Blues)/unissued live recording (Hillbilly Ranch, Boston, MA, c.59)
LILLY BROTHERS with DON STOVER & SCOTTY STONEMAN: Smoke Along The Track/unissued live recording (Hillbilly Ranch, Boston, MA, c.59)
LARRY RICHARDSON & CLINTON BULLINS with THE BLUE RIDGE BOYS: Bitter Tears/45 RPM Single (MKB/68)
TOMMY BROWN & THE COUNTY LINE GRASS: A Dark Road Is A Hard Road To Travel/Leaving This Town (Randm/14)
J.D CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Love Please Come Home/unissued live recording (Red Slipper Lounge, Lexington, KY, 3/69)
J.D CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Swinging Doors/unissued live recording (Red Slipper Lounge, Lexington, KY, 3/69)
J.D CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Mountain Dew/unissued live recording (Red Slipper Lounge, Lexington, KY, 3/69)
J.D CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Helen/unissued live recording (Red Slipper Lounge, Lexington, KY, 3/69)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Fling Ding/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks: New Releases & Reissues - Oct. 17, 2020
host: PT
NOTE: All tracks released in 2020; reissues include the date of the original release.
theme -
MARK STOFFEL (+ 19 other mandolinists): In the Mood/Coffee & Cake (Mountain Home)
DIRK POWELL: The Little Things/When I Wait For You (Compass)
DIRK POWELL: Ain’t Never Fell/When I Wait For You (Compass)
DIRK POWELL: I Ain’t Playing Pretty Polly/When I Wait For You (Compass)
RHIANNON GIDDENS & DIRK POWELL: Wish In Vain/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2 (Bandcamp & Voting Rights Lab)
LEYLA McCALLA: Mèsi Bondye/Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (Smithsonian-Folkways/13>20)
THE EBONY HILLBILLIES: Liza Jane/Trimmin’ Da Fat (EH Music/05>20)
WANDERING RAMBLERS: North Country/Wandering & Rambling (self/71>20)
THE ONLIES: A Few More Years Shall Roll/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Still Looking for You/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Karen Collins' Tune/The Onlies (self)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Bear Creek Blues/Playing Our Hand (self)
LAURIE LEWIS: It’s Up To You and Me/single (self)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING: Dally Welters Waltz/Born At Night – A Raw Fiddle Album, Vol. 3 (FiddleStar)
ADAM HURT: The Scolding Wife/Back To the Earth (self)
MATT DUDMAN: One Short Year/Poa (Pleasant Valley Records)
THE ALEX LEACH BAND: October Fall/single (Mountain Home)
SCOTT VESTAL, PATRICK McAVINUE, CODY KILBY, DOMINICK LESLIE, & CURTIS VESTAL: Five & Dime/Bluegrass 2020 (Pinecastle)
MILE TWELVE: Rocky Island/Roll the Tapes All Night Long (self)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Put All Your Troubles Away/single (self)
CAROLINA BLUE: Lost and Lonely/Take Me Back (Billy Blue)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: These Old Blues/Bluegrass Old and New (Old Homestead/72>20)
DEHLIA LOW: Ravens & Crows/Ravens & Crows (Rebel/11>20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo/Playing Our Hand (self)
ROBERT HALE & THE 8th WONDER BAND: It’s All Over Now/Blue Haze (Pinecastle)
MOLLY TUTTLE: She’s Like A Rainbow/… but i'd rather be with you (Compass)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Keeping the Cats Happy - Oct. 24, 2020
host: Leah Wollenburg
SISTER SADIE: Morning Sun/Sister Sadie II (Pinecastle/18)
BRITTANY HAAS & LENA JONSSON: Keeping the Cats Happy/Brittany Haas & Lena Jonsson (self/15)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Living in the Past (Sierra/64)
EVIE LADIN BAND: You Gotta Be Hunting the Buffalo/Playing Our Hand (Evil Diane/20)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Working Girl Blues/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring BOBBY HICKS: Fiddle Patch/Portraits in Fiddles (Compass/17)
DREADFUL SNAKES: Cash On the Barrelhead/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/84)
LARRY SPARKS: Great High Mountain/John Deere Tractor (Rebel/80)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES (featuring SARAH JAROSZ): Last Train/Fiddlers Pastime (Sugar Petunia/20)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Darling Corey/Dig (self/13)
JAKE BLOUNT: Boll Weevil/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
ALLISON DeGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Cuckoo’s Nest/Allison DeGroot & Tatiana Hargreaves (self/19)
RHIANNON GIDDENS & FRANCESCO TURRISI: I’m On My Way/There is No Other (Nonesuch/19)
BRYAN SUTTON: Virginia Creeper/The More I Learn (Sugar Hill/16)
LAURIE LEWIS: American Chestnuts/Skippin' and Flyin’ (Spruce and Maple/11)
THE ONLIES: All Young/The Onlies (self/20)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: White House Blues/Country Music Hall of Fame (MCA/54)
LAURIE LEWIS: It’s Up To You and Me/single (self/20)
HAWKTAIL: Padiddle/Formations (Padiddle/20)
MILE TWELVE (featuring BILLY STRINGS): Cold Wind/Roll the Tapes All Night Long (self/20)
HOT RIZE: I Am the Road/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: This Beautiful World/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: I Am A Pilgrim/Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/17)
JOHN REISCHMAN (featuring BRUCE MOLSKY): Side By Each/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
JOHN REISCHMAN (full band): Side By Each/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
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BOO-GRASS SIGNAL: Bringing Scary Home - Oct. 31, 2020
host: Allegra Thompson
RALPH STANLEY: O Death/O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury/00)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear Family/70)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Bringing Mary Home/Bringing Mary Home (Rebel/66)
RAYNA GELLERT: The Cruel Mother/Old Light: Songs From My Childhood & Other Gone Worlds (StorySound/12)
GAILANNE AMUNDSEN: Tall Lover Man/You've Been A Friend To Me (Dirty Feet/18)
LAURIE LEWIS: O The Wind And Rain/… and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple/20)
THE ONLIES: House Carpenter/The Onlies (self/20)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Over Yonder In the Graveyard/Dig (self/12)
KATHY KALLICK: Burying Ground/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Reynadine/Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch/10)
RED HEN: The Moon Is Over the Mountain/Crossing (self/09)
LEYLA McCALLA: Song For A Dark Girl/Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (Smithsonian Folkways/20)
ALICE GERRARD: Borderland/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
GOLDEN SHOALS: Brood Of Hate/Golden Shoals (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Beyond This Wall/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Birdwatching Stanley/Flight (self/20)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Nashville Cats/The Family (Ceili/99)
CRYING UNCLE: Dawg Funk/Monroe Bridge (self/20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Tightrope/Whiteface / Playing Our Hand (Evil Diane/20)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: We All Fall/Bet On Love (Lula/20)
MARGOT LEVERETT & THE KLEZMER MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz & Volich/Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys (Traditional Crossroads/03)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks, the SoCal Edition - Nov. 7, 2020
host: Jose Segue
theme -
THE SHUTDOWNS: Four On the Floor
GENE VINCENT: Why Don’t You People Learn To Drive
VERNON GREEN & THE MEDALLIONS: Buick ‘59
CHARLIE RYAN: Hot Rod Lincoln
SUN DEMONS: Go Like 60
DEKE DICKERSON: Hod Rodder’s Lament
SPADE COOLEY: Miss Molly
GENE AUTRY: Back In the Saddle Again
SONS OF THE PIONEERS: Way Out There
ROY ROGERS: Along the Navajo Trail
RIDERS IN THE SKY: Cattle Call
WYNN STEWART: I Bought the Shoes That Just Walked Out On Me
MADOX BROTHERS & ROSE: Ugly and Slouchy
BUCK OWENS & ROSE MADDOX: Mental Cruelty
MERLE HAGGARD: Beer Can Hill
IRIS DEMENT: Big City
DWIGHT YOKUM: It Won’t Hurt
GRAM PARSONS: Streets Of Baltimore
FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: White Line Fever
BYRDS: Have You Seen Her Face
CHRIS HILLMAN & HERB PEDERSEN: Which One Is To Blame
GYPSY KINGS: Hotel California
MARK RUFO: Spyin’ Eyes
KNITTERS: Poor Little Critter On the Road
RANK & FILE: I Don’t Go Out Much Anymore
MOJO NIXON & JELLO BIAFRA: Are You Drinkin’ With Me Jesus
BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-RIGHT BOYS: Hey Lowdown
THE BLASTERS: One Bad Stud
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Between the Wars - Nov. 14, 2020
host: Allegra Thompson
JOHN PRINE: Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore/John Prine (Atlantic/71)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Universal Soldier/Nashville Airplane(Columbia/68)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Between The Wars/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
THE MONROE BROTHERS: The Forgotten Soldier Boy/Protest! American Protest Songs 1928-53 (Viper/36)
COUNTRY JOE McDONALD: I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag/This Ain't No Mouse Music (Arhoolie/13)
THE ONLIES: Dear Little Soldier Boy/The Onlies (self/20)
DEL McCOURY: Take Me To The Mountains/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/94)
DAILEY & VINCENT: More Than a Name on a Wall/ Dailey & Vincent (Rounder/08)
THE BLUEGRASS CARDINALS: Blue-Eyed Boston Boy/Welcome To Virginia (Rounder/77)
SUZY THOMPSON: Mike in the Wilderness/Stop & Listen (Arhoolie/05)
JOHN DOYLE: Clear the Way/Shadow and Light (Compass/11)
THOMM JUTZ: Shelton Laurel Valley/To Live In Two Worlds Vol. 1 (Mountain Home/20)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: Julie/Freedom Highway (Nonesuch/17)
TONY TRISCHKA: Carry Me Over The Sea/Shall We Hope (Shefa/21)
JERRON PAXTON: Soldier’s Joy/Recorded Music For Your Entertainment (Blind Boy/15)
DAVID BRAGGER & SUSAN PLATZ: Rebel Raid/King’s Lament (Old-Time Tiki Parlor/17)
OLD TIME SNAKE MILKERS WITH HOOT & HOLLER: Soldier’s Joy/Milkers and Hollers (self/18)
DAVID GRISMAN & FRIENDS: I’m Comin Back But I Don’t Know When/Home is Where The Heart Is (Rounder/88)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Lost Soldier Son/Wanderlust (Copper Creek/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: My Heart’s Own Love/Guest House (High Tone/04)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Jeano/The Invisible Comes To Us (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Eat At the Welcome Table - Nov. 21, 2020
host: PT
JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: Y'all Come/The Essential Jim & Jesse (Epic/65)
MONROE BROTHERS: Have A Feast Here Tonight/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/37)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At the Welcome Table/Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass (Rounder/81)
THE JOHN LOWELL BAND: Don't Be Late For Dinner/The Skalkaho Road (self/16)
LULU BELLE & SCOTTY: Saturday Night Supper On the Table/Down Memory Lane (Starday/64)
FLATT & SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Martha White theme/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
COON CREEK GIRLS: How Many Biscuits Can You Eat/Coon Creek Girls (County/68)
LOST & FOUND: Leftover Biscuits/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/80
FLATT & SCRUGGS with Grant Turner: Martha White Corn Meal (mid-‘60s TV spot)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Cornbread and Butterbeans/Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch/10)
HOTMUD FAMILY: Country Ham & Red Gravy/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER: You Can’t Hurt Ham/Music To My Ears (Skaggs Family/12)
CANOTE BROTHERS: I Hear the Voice Of A Porkchop/Thinga-ma-jig (Clone Tone/98)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Pig In A Pen/On Radio (Rebel/60)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Who's Goin' Down To Town/Walkin' In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Rutabaga Boogie/Live at The Freight (2013)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Buttermilk Lemon Pie/JD’s Bluegrass Kitchen (CBA/15)
JOE & ODELL THOMPSON: Pumpkin Pie/Back Roads To Cold Mountain (Smithsonian-Folkways/89)
BROTHERS COMATOSE: Pie For Breakfast/Respect the Van (self/12)
RAYNA GELLERT: Great Big Taters in the Sandy Land/Ways of the World (yodel-ay-hee/00)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: The Lonesome Cowboy's Breakfast/Blue Flame Stringband (Flying Fish)
HAZEL DICKENS: Scraps From Your Table/Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (Rounder/80)
LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Dirty Dishes Blues/Windy Mountain (Bear Family/53)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Singing All Day & Dinner On the Ground/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/70)
GARY BREWER & THE KENTUCKY RAMBLERS: Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner/Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner (Stretchgrass/99)
TOM T. HALL: Bill Monroe For Breakfast/Home Grown (Mercury/97)
MONROE BROTHERS: Watermelon Hangin' On the Vine/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/36)
WAYNE HENDERSON (featuring KATY TAYLOR): Hey, Good Lookin’/W.C. Henderson & Co. (Hay Holler/94)
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Morning Bugle/Flight (self/20)
BARBARA LAMB (with APRIL VERCH): Whiskey Before Breakfast/Bootsy Met A Bank Robber (Lots of Coffee/06)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Fiddlistics! - Nov. 28, 2020
host: Leah Wollenberg
DAROL ANGER (featuring Natalie McMaster): Melt the Tea Kettle/Diary Of a Fiddler (Compass/99)
MIKE MARSHALL & DAROL ANGER: Big Man From Syracuse/The Duo Live: At Home and On the Range (Compass/02)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee/Jubilee (Dog Boy/98)
TONY RICE: Manzanita/Manzanita (Rounder/79)
DAROL ANGER: Key Signator/Fiddlistics (Kaleidoscope/79)
TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET: Blues For Oaktown/Skylife (Windam Hill Jazz/90)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Opus 57/The David Grisman Quintet (Kaleidoscope/77)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: When I Stop Dreaming/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Don’t Mind Me/Walkin’ In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
DAROL ANGER: Homer the Roamer/E-and’A (Adventure Music/14)
DAVID GRISMAN: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/Dawg Jazz-Dawg Grass (Warner Brothers/83)
NEW GRANGE: Under the Hood/New Grange (Compass/99)
DAROL ANGER-MIKE MARSHALL BAND: Coal Burnin’ Grease Fire/Brand New Can (Compass/00)
PSYCHOGRASS: Ride the Wild Brains/Like Minds (Sugar Hill/96)
DAROL ANGER & THE AMERICAN FIDDLE ENSEMBLE: Old Dangerfield/Republic Of Strings (Compass/04)
DAROL ANGER (featuring Mavis Staples): Oh, Death/Heritage (Six Degrees/97)
MIKE MARSHALL & DAROL ANGER: Emy In the Woods/Da Capo (Adventure Music/19)
EMY PHELPS & DAROL ANGER: Magpie/Treasures (self/18)
BRITTANY HAAS: Smith’s Reel/Brittany Haas (Ook/04)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass All-Stars Trading Cards: Vol. 1 - Dec. 5, 2020
host: Todd Gracyk
theme -
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Grass Ramble/Castle Studio, 1950-1951: Complete Sessions (Decca>RWA/50>17)
DEL McCOURY: I Feel the Blues Moving In/Don’t Stop the Music (Rounder/90)
JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: (It’s a Long, Long Way) To the Top Of The World/Bluegrass and More (Epic>Bear Family/64>94)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Rock Hearts/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Decca>Bear Family/58>94)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: My Better Years/Hazel & Alice (Rounder/73)
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Take The Blame/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (CBS Special Products/County>Bear Family/57>78>91)
DAVID GRISMAN: Feast Here Tonight/Home Is Where the Heart Is (Rounder/88)
MAC WISEMAN: Fire In My Heart/’Tis Sweet To Be Remembered (Dot>Bear Family/52>03)
ALISON KRAUSS: I Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind/Masters Of the Folk Violin (Arhoolie/88)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Wall Around Your Heart/California Connection - Vol. Three (Rounder/83)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Along About Daybreak/Blue Moon Of Kentucky, 1936-1949 (Columbia>Bear Family/47>02)
CARTER FAMILY: I Ain’t Goin’ To Work Tomorrow/In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Victor>Bear Family/28>00)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: One Tear/The Osborne Brothers, 1956-1968 (Decca>Bear Family/65>95)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Old Home Place/The New South (Rounder/75)
JERRY DOUGLAS & PETER ROWAN: Girl In the Blue Velvet Band/Yonder (Sugar Hill/96)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)/The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys, 1953-58 & 1959 (Mercury>Bear Family/53>93)
NORMAN BLAKE: Church Street Blues/Whiskey Before Breakfast (Rounder/76)
MARK SCHATZ: Oh My Little Darlin’/Brand New Old Tyme Way (Rounder/95)
KENNY BAKER: Jerusalem Ridge/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
OLD & IN THE WAY: White Dove/Live At the Boarding House: The Complete Shows (Round>Acoustic Disc/73>75>13)
MULESKINNER: Dark Hollow/Classic Bluegrass Collection: Volume 4 (Warner Bros.>Time-Life/74>06)
JOHN HARTFORD: With A Vamp In the Middle/Aereo-Plain (Warner Bros.>Rounder/71>97)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Journey’s End/The Model Church (Lemco>Rebel/71>79)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Little Annie/Handmade To Hand Played (Thompson Guitars/19)
RHONDA VINCENT: Drivin’ Nails In My Coffin/The Storm Still Rages (Rounder/01)
NORMAN BLAKE/TUT TAYLOR/SAM BUSH/BUTCH ROBINS/VASSAR CLEMENTS/DAVID HOLLAND/JETHRO BURNS: McKinley’s Blues/Norman Blake-Tut Taylor-Sam Bush-Butch Robins-Vassar Clements-David Holland-Jethro Burns (HDS/75)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/88)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Dec. 12, 2020
NOTE: All tracks released in 2020; reissues include the date of the original release/recording.
ANYA HINKLE: I’ve Got A Lot Riding On These Wheels/single (self)
BECKY BULLER: The Barber's Fiddle/single (Dark Shadow)
EDDIE BOND*KAREN CARR*DONALD HILL*PECO WATSON: Sally Anne/The Fries Sessions (Never Met A Stranger/16)
JODY STECHER: Hey Don John/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
JODY STECHER: Sheets and Buckets/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone/Monroe Bridge (self)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Monroe Bridge/Monroe Bridge (self)
THE ONLIES: Going Across the Sea/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Still Looking for You/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Lonesome Pine Special/The Onlies (self)
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: Amen, There’s A Higher Power/The Legendary Marshall Family, Vol. 1 (Rebel/76)
THE FORBES FAMILY: Something That the World Didn’t Give Me/A Forbes Family Treasury, Vol. 1 (Rebel/83)
J.D. CROWE: I’ll Talk It All Over With Him/The Model Church (Rebel/78)
STANLEY BROTHERS: If We Never Meet Again/On Radio (Rebel/60)
MELVIN GOINS & FRIENDS (featuring DAVE EVANS): He Took Your Place/I Wouldn't Miss It (Rebel/04)
WES CORBETT: Boss Fight/Cascade (Padiddle)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Long Way Around the Mountain/single (Mountain Home)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Falling Down/advance single from Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle/21)
TINA ADAIR: Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses/single (Englehardt)
JESSE BROCK: Streamliner/single (Sound Biscuit)
MATT DUDMAN: My Louisiana Home/Poa (Pleasant Valley Records)
MILE TWELVE: Cold Wind/Roll the Tapes All Night Long (self)
COLEBROOK ROAD: Run Run Rudolph/single (Mountain Fever)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: Blue Christmas/Christmas (self/19)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: The Man With the Bag/Christmas (self/19)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Holiday Membership Campaign Special - Dec. 19, 2020
host: PT & Allegra Thompson
Selections from JODY STECHER: Dreams From the Overlook (self/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Boxing Day / Bluegrass, Eh? - Dec. 26, 2020
theme -
(BC) JOHN REISCHMAN: Little Pine Siskin (CBC Radio/18)
(BC) JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
(BC) PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Hometown Blues/Bet On Love (Lula/20)
(BC) NICK HORNBUCKLE: Fleetwood’s Ford/13 Or So (Ruby’s Slipper/19)
(BC) VIPER CENTRAL: I Won't Be Left Behind/The Spirit of God and Madness (self/17)
(BC) KATHLEEN NISBET: Red River Jig/Métis Dance Hall Volume 2 (self/18)
(BC) REDGIRL: Knitting Song/Road to Gravel (self/18)
(BC) UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS: Take My Arm/The Unfaithful Servants (self/19)
(BC) OLD PAINT DUO: Which One Is To Blame/Old Paint Duo (self/19)
(BC) THE LONESOME TOWN PAINTERS: The Lonesome Town Painter/The Lonesome Town Painters (self/17)
(Alberta) THE BIX MIX BOYS: Albertan/The Bix Mix Boys (self/20)
(Alberta) CHRIS JONES: Quiet Click/single (Mountain Home/20)
(Saskatchewan) MIKE KLEIN: Georgia Row>Rockingham Cindy/Over the Waves (self/19)
(Alberta) NOMAD JONES: Let Me Fall/Pickin’ Up & Puttin’ Down (self/18)
(Ontario & BC) LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Farewell Medley (Highlander’s Farewell>Monroe’s Farewell To Long Hollow)/Modern Old-Time Sounds for the Bluegrass and Folksong Jamboree (self/19)
(Ontario) SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Mighty Hard Road/Queen City Jubilee (self/18)
(Ontario) THE BARREL BOYS: Cold Spring/Cold Spring (self/17)
(Quebec) ALL DAY BREAKFAST STRING BAND: Breaking Up Christmas/Who Let the Dogs Out (self/19)
(Quebec) KAIA KATER: The Right One/Grenades (Smithsonian-Folkways/19)
(Nova Scotia) OLD MAN LUEDECKE: I Wanna Go/Easy Money (True North/19)
(Ontario) CLAIRE LYNCH: Kingdom Come/North By South (Compass/16)
(Newfoundland) CROOKED STOVEPIPE: Stop the Trains/Hand-Picked Bluegrass Music From Newfoundland (self/19)
(BC) ROY FORBES: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/Almost Overnight (AKA/95)
(Manitoba) ALLISON DEGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Eighth Of January/Allison deGroot and Tatiana Hargreaves (Free Dirt/19)
Canadian bluegrass & old time bands that have not recorded in recent years, are defunct, and/or there was not time to include:
BC -
The Sweet Lowdown
Clover Point Drifters
Highrise Lonesome
5 On A String
Story House
Erynn Marshall (w/ Carl Jones)
PRAIRIES -
Kayla Hotte (Alberta)
The Dead South (Saskatchewan)
ONTARIO -
Foggy Hogtown Boys
Ivan Rosenberg
Hard Ryde
Winterline
Julie Pennell (w/ John Pennell)
OTTAWA VALLEY -
Concession 23
MARITIMES -
The Spinney Brothers (Nova Scotia)
Ray Legere (NS)
Janey McGarry (PEI)
The Bluegrass Diamonds (New Brunswick)
MULTIPLE -
Heartship [April Verch (Ontario), Annie Lou (Toronto >Vanc Island), and Cara Luft (Calgary)]
Noteworthy historical Canadian bluegrass & old time bands include:
(BC) Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Boys
(BC) Swampgrass
(BC) Hungry Hill
(Alberta) Jerusalem Ridge
(Saskatchewan) Humphrey & The Dumptrucks
(Ontario) The Good Brothers
(Ottawa Valley) Cody
(Ottawa Valley) Dick Smith-Mike O'Reilly Band
(Quebec) White River Bluegrass Band
(Nova Scotia) Vic Mullen's Birch Mountain Boys (with Harry Cromwell & Brent Williams)
(Newfoundland) Bluegrass Mountaineers
FISK JUBILEE SINGERS: O Mary Don’t You Weep Don’t You Mourn/Fisk Jubilee Singers Vol. 2 (Columbia/15)
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON: Motherless Children/Roots Of Classic Rock: The Blues That Inspired Rock 'N' Roll (Columbia/27)
BIRMINGHAM JUBILEE SINGERS: Home in that Rock/ Birmingham Jubilee Singers Vol. 1 (1926-1927) (Columbia/26)
STAPLE SINGERS: Let That Liar Alone/What the World Needs Now Is Love (Riverside/62)
MA RAINEY: Jealous Hearted Blues/Ma Rainey Vol. 2 (1924-1925) (Paramount/25)
LONG “CLEVE” REED & LITTLE HARVEY HILL: The Original Stack O’ Lee Blues/The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (Shanachie/27)
MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS: Sitting On Top of the World/Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (Okeh/30)
REV J M GATES: Death’s Black Train Is Coming/Are You Bound For Heaven Or Hell? The Best Of Reverend J.M. Gates (Columbia/26)
LEAD BELLY: John Hardy/The Legend of Leadbelly (Tradition Everest/70)
HENRY THOMAS: John Henry/Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929 (Shanachie/27)
DOM FLEMONS: John Henry y los Vaqueros/Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS: Polly Ann’s Hammer/Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways/19)
BLIND PETE & PARTNER: Black Bayou Ain’t Got No Bottom (field recording/34)
BEN HUNTER & JOE SEAMONS WITH PHIL WIGGINS: Shanghai Rooster/A Black & Tan Ball (self/17)
JERRON PAXTON: Pretty Saro/Recorded Music For Your Entertainment (self/15)
EARL WHITE: Apple Blossom/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
JAKE BLOUNT: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean/Reparations (Rusting Earth/17)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Darlin’ Corey/Dig (self/13)
HUBBY JENKINS: Reuben Oh Reuben/Hubby Jenkins (self/16)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Nashville Skyline Rag/Uncaged Thoughts (self/20)
RHIANNON GIDDENS WITH FRANCESCO TURRISI: Wayfaring Stranger/there is no Other (Nonesuch/19)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Black Music Matters - July 11, 2020
OTIS TAYLOR: Ran So Hard the Sun Went Down/Recapturing the Banjo (Telarc/08)
KAIA KATER: Paradise Fell/Nine Pin (Kingswood/16)
JAKE BLOUNT: Move, Daniel/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
VERA HALL: Another Man Done Gone/A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings (Rounder/40)
THE EBONY HILLBILLIES: Another Man Done Gone (Hands Up Don’t Shoot)/5 Miles from Town (self/17)
AMYTHYST KIAH (OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS): Blood and Bones/Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways/19)
LEYLA McCALLA: The Capitalist Blues/The Capitalist Blues (Jazz Village/19)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Last Chance/Liveset at Esplanade Studios, New Orleans (2012)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Snowden’s Jig/Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch/10)
HUBBY JENKINS: Little Log Cabin In the Lane/Live at Barns of Rose Hill, Berryville, VA (10-6-18)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: At the Purchaser's Option/Live on NPR’s Fresh Air (5-11-17)
DOM FLEMONS: Po' Howard > Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil In/Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
RICHIE BROWN: The Arnold Schultz Fund
RICHIE BROWN
with THE REUNION BAND: Silky Rock/Fast-track Bluegrass Sampler (self/2014)
with DOM FLEMONS: Lonesome Road Blues aka Going Down the Road Feeling Bad/International Bluegrass Music Museum (2014)
with FRANK WAKEFIELD: Swing Low Sweet Chariot/IBMM Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp (2008)
with BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Old Joe Clark/Wayside Inn, Chatham, MA (9-22-88)
Interview with Richie Brown
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Mule Skinner Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/40)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Honky Tonk Swing/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/41)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Country only
RICHIE BROWN: The Arnold Schultz Fund
RICHIE BROWN with THE REUNION BAND: Silky Rock/Fast-track Bluegrass Sampler (self/2014)
RICHIE BROWN with DOM FLEMONS: Lonesome Road Blues aka Going Down the Road Feeling Bad/International Bluegrass Music Museum (2014)
RICHIE BROWN with BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Old Joe Clark/Wayside Inn, Chatham, MA (9-22-88)
Interview with Richie Brown
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Mule Skinner Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/40)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Dog House Blues/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/40)
MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS: Sitting On Top of the World/Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (Okeh/30)
DeFORD BAILEY: Evening Prayer Blues/Harp Blowers (1925-1936) (Document/27)
“BANJO JOE” (GUS CANNON) & BLIND BLAKE: He's in the Jailhouse Now/Ain't Goin' That Way (Black Swan/27)
MOUND CITY JUBILEE QUARTETTE: I Am A Pilgrim/Vocal Quartets Vol 4 K/L/M 1927–1943 (Document/35)
DOROTHY LOVE COATES & THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES: No Hiding Place/The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes (Specialty/55)
SWAN SILVERTONES: Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep/Jesus Rocked the Jukebox (Concord/59)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Honky Tonk Swing/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/41)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - July 18, 2020
All releases in 2020, except as noted; recording year given for reissues.
JAKE BLOUNT (with TATIANA HARGREAVES): Done Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Hometown Blues/Bet On Love (Lula)
FRANK & ALLIE LEE: When I Was a Cowboy/Treat A Stranger Right (Bake Tone)
SCROGGINS & ROSE: Bubblicious/Curios (self)
BRADLEY & ADAIR: Pick Me Up On Your Way Down/Oh Darling (Pinecastle)
JB & JAMIE DAILEY: Have You Lost Your Love For Me/Step Back In Time (Pinecastle)
LAURIE LEWIS (with KATHY KALLICK): Old Friend/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple)
GREG BOOTH: Buckaroo/The New Reso Gathering (Pinecastle)
APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW: Goin' Across the Mountain/Tribulations (Billy Blue)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Still Here/single (Mountain Home)
ALEX LEACH BAND: Take the Long Way Home/single (Mountain Home)
ELIZA MEYER: Hills Of Home/Hello Stranger (self)
SARO LYNCH-THOMASON & SAM GLEAVES: I Have Known Women/I Have Known Women: Songs by Si Kahn Celebrating Women's Lives and Struggles (Strictly Country)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Kind Girl/Bet On Love (Lula)
KRISTY COX: Finger Picking Good/No Headlights (Mountain Fever)
HAWKTAIL (Brittany Haas, Dominick Leslie, Jordan Tice & Paul Kowert) + ALISON BROWN: Little Country Town/The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1
2020 digital reissues:
BENNY & VALLIE CAIN: You Don't Love Me Like You Used To/Bennie & Vallie Cain & the Country Clan (Rebel/69)
KEITH WHITLEY & RICKY SKAGGS: All I Ever Loved Was You/Second Generation (Rebel/71)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Short Life Of Trouble/Short Life Of Trouble (Rebel/96)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Just Lovin’ You/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/75)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: When The Snow Falls On My Foggy Mountain Home/The Best Of The Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
BILL GRANT & DELIA BELL: Memories In The Fall/Rollin’ (Rebel/81)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Will You Miss Me/Long Journey Home (Rebel/64)
KENNY BAKER & BOBBY HICKS: Tallahassee/With Body & Soul: A Bluegrass Tribute To Bill Monroe (Rebel/80)
KENNY BAKER: Road To Columbus/With Body & Soul: A Bluegrass Tribute To Bill Monroe (Rebel/76)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - July 25, 2020
All releases in 2020, except as noted; recording year given for reissues.
SIERRA HULL: 25 Trips/25 Trips (Rounder)
JUSTIN MOSES: Fall Like Rain/single (Mountain Fever)
KENNY & AMANDA SMITH: Johnson City Blues/With You (Farm Boy)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Hartford's Lawn/Uncaged Thoughts EP (self)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING, TRISTAN SCROGGINS, ALISON BROWN & MATT COMBS: Just Enough Room to Turn Around/The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 (John Hartford)
THE MOSLEY BROTHERS: Blues Are Just Outside My Door/The Mosley Brothers (Patuxent/19)
FAST TRACK: Blue And Lonesome Again/single (Engelhardt)
HIGH FIDELITY: Banjo Player Blues/Banjo Player Blues (Rebel)
HIGH FIDELITY (with JESSE McREYNOLDS): Tears Of Regret/Banjo Player Blues (Rebel)
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD: Bill Monroe's Ol’ Mandolin/single (Pinecastle)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Open Water/Fiddler’s Pastime (self)
THE JOHN & WENDY MACKIN BAND: Mirrors and Smoke/From the Archives (Patuxent/05)
CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS: We Needed This Ride/single (Mountain Home)
THE GINA FURTADO PROJECT: The Things I Saw/single (Mountain Home)
MARK STOFFEL: Shadowbands/single (Mountain Home)
J.D. CROWE: Born To Be With You/Blackjack (Rebel/80)
RED ALLEN: Close Boy/With Body & Soul: A Bluegrass Tribute To Bill Monroe (Rebel/65)
LARRY RICE: Unemployment Line/If You Only Knew – The Best Of Larry Rice (Rebel/96)
ROY McMILLAN & THE HIGH COUNTRY BOYS: Cold Wind/High Country (Rebel/73)
RALPH STANLEY & DOLLY PARTON: Loving You Too Well/Clinch Mountain Sweethearts (Rebel/01)
A.L. WOOD & THE SMOKEY RIDGE BOYS: Sing A Bluegrass Song/Sing A Bluegrass Song (Rebel/73)
THE BLUEGRASS 45: That’s the Time/The Bluegrass 45 (Rebel/71)
BELA FLECK & TOUMANI DIABATE: Kauonding Sissoko/The Ripple Effect (Craft Recordings/09)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live At KALW - Aug. 1, 2020
THE TUTTLE FAMILY (Oct. 22, 2008)
Jack, Michael, Molly, and Sullivan Tuttle
Close By
Billy In the Lowground
Single Girl
Gentle On My Mind
Annabelle
White Freightliner Blues
Beaumont Rag
THE BAREFOOT NELLIES (Oct. 22, 2008)
Betsy Maudlin, Jess Beebe, Nicole Solis, Prentice Sellers, Molly Tuttle
It’s Harder For Me
These Boots Are Made For Walking
Come Early Morning
I Found Jesus On the Jailhouse Floor
A Few Old Memories
ADAM CHOWNING & FRIENDS: Walking With Winston/Handmade To Hand Played (Thompson Guitars/20)
Handmade To Hand Played (Thompson Guitars/20)
- MOLLY TUTTLE: Little Annie
- BILLY STRINGS: Give The Fiddler a Dram>Whistling Rufus>Ragtime Annie
- JOSH RINKEL & FRIENDS: Kentucky On My Mind
- LAURIE LEWIS, TOM ROZUM & NINA GERBER: Red River Valley
MOLLY TUTTLE: Broken Tie/CBA’s Turn Your Radio OnLINE (6-20-20)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT (featuring SULLIVAN TUTTLE): Mama Tried/CBA’s Turn Your Radio OnLINE (6-20-20)
THE MOLLY TUTTLE BAND (with AJ LEE & SULLIVAN TUTTLE): Standing On the Moon/Live At The Independent (5-24-19)
THE BAREFOOT NELLIES: Flame In My Heart (+ a snippet of Y’All Come)/Live At Amnesia (2-24-20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live At KALW - Aug. 8, 2020
KATHY KALLICK BAND (May 10, 2003)
Kathy Kallick, Amy Stenberg, Avram Siegel, Tom Bekeny
The Messenger
Who’s Going Down To Town
Warmer Kind Of Blue
Metropolis Blues
Just One Time
Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom)
AMY SCHER & HAILEY PEXTON (Oct. 13, 2018)
Medicine Springs
Yearning Burning Heart
Wrong About You
Go Away With Me
I’m Barely Hanging On To Me
Cry For You
If Anyone Ought To Know
What About You
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Flight (self/20)
Tessa Schwartz, Ida Winfree, Megan January, Christine Wilhoyte, John Gooding
Blackberry Awesome
Picture Frame
Undone In Sorrow
Marry Me
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Flight (self/20)
Birdwatching Stanley
Birdsong
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Live At the Freight (May 16, 2003)
Kathy Kallick, Amy Stenberg, Avram Siegel, Tom Bekeny, Brian Wicklund
Walkin’ In My Shoes
Beaumont Rag
Honky Tonk Blues
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live At KALW - Aug. 15, 2020
THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS with DENISE BROWN (Aug. 21, 1999)
(I’m Going Home On the) Morning Train
The Storm Is Passing Over
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN (Aug. 21, 1999)
Sittin’ On Top Of the World
Sow ‘em On the Mountain
Broken Hearted Lover
Away Out On The Old Saint Sabbath
HIGH COUNTRY (Aug. 21, 1999)
I Hear A Choo-Choo Coming
Perfect Companion
Louisville Breakdown
Finally Home
Blues For Your Own
BUTCH WALLER: Bluegrass Stomp/Golden Gate Promenade (Rebel/99)
SHARON GILCHRIST & SCOTT NYGAARD (April 27, 2013)
It’s My Lazy Day
Man Of Constant Sorrow >Walkabout
Walker
Blue Railroad Train
I’ve Been All Around This World
Gonna Write Me A Letter
Forked Deer
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: (Mostly) Live At KALW - Aug. 22, 2020
THE WEBSTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Richmond Blues/Ten Thousand Miles (Lots Of Rabbits/04)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Gonna Write Me A Letter/Live At KALW (March 20, 2004)
THE WEBSTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Calling My Children Home/Ten Thousand Miles (Lots Of Rabbits/04)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Live At KALW (March 20, 2004)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: It’s My Lazy Day/Live At KALW (March 20, 2004) >
THE WEBSTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: It’s My Lazy Day/Ten Thousand Miles (Lots Of Rabbits/04)
CIRCLE R BOYS (Nov. 11, 2006)
When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland
You're Not Easy to Forget
Hello Trouble
Rock Island Line
Down By the Riverside
I Am a Pilgrim
A Beautiful Life
HIGH COUNTRY: B.A.R.T. By Night/Sunset On the Prairie (Turquoise/90)
KATHY KALLICK (w/ GENE TORTORA): My Native Home/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/01)
KATHY KALLICK & GENE TORTORA (April 13, 2019)
New Jersey Meltdown
Dark As the Night, Blue As the Day
I Live In the Country
KATHY KALLICK & FRIENDS (incl. GENE TORTORA): It’s Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song/Tribute To Hazel Dickens (3-23-02)
ARNA BONTEMPS: Song For a Dark Girl by Langston Hughes/Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. - 200 Years (Smithsonian-Folkways/55)
LEYLA McCALLA: Song For a Dark Girl/Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (Smithsonian-Folkways/13 > 20)
LEYLA McCALLA: Bluerunner/A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Live At KALW - and a Memorial Tribute To Steve Gulley - Aug. 29, 2020
BLUE & LONESOME (Feb. 27, 2010)
Ed Neff, Larry Cohea, Paul Shelasky, Mike Wilhoyt, Jeff King
Nobody’s Love Is Like Mine
Poison Love
Chalk Up Another One
Some Old Day
Come Back To Me Little Pal
Waves On the Sea
High Country
Foggy Mountain Top
CHICKEN TRAIN (June 30, 2018)
John Engle, John Herrmann, Meredith McIntosh
John Brown’s Dream
Payday
Old Bud
Train 45
THE NEW SOUTHERN RAMBLERS: Great Big Taters/Old-Time Mountain Music (Yodel-ay-hee/12)
STEVE GULLEY: The Grand Tour/Sounds Like Home (Lonesome Day/07)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Snow/Dogwood Winter (Rural Rhythm/10)
STEVE GULLEY: You Couldn't Pay Me To Care/Sounds Like Home (Lonesome Day/07)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Still Here/Still Here (Mountain Home/20)
STEVE GULLEY (featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY): Stormy Waters/Family, Friends & Fellowship (Rural Rhythm/14)
PHIL LEADBETTER & THE ALL-STARS OF BLUEGRASS (featuring STEVE & DEBBIE GULLEY): Yesterday’s Gone/Swing For the Fences (Pinecastle/20)
STEVE GULLEY & NEW PINNACLE: Not Fade Away/Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle (Rural Rhythm/15)
GRASSTOWNE: Grasstowne City Limits/The Road Headin' Home (Pinecastle/07)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Labor Day Bluegrass - Sept. 5, 2020
host: PT
SI KAHN & THE LOOPING BROTHERS: Five Days A Week/Aragon Mill - The Bluegrass Sessions (Strictly Country/13)
BLINKY MOON BOYS: Go To Work On Monday/Moonlight Theatre (Hay Holler/04)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Aragon Mill/Dig (self/13)
SI KAHN & THE LOOPING BROTHERS: Brookside Strike/Aragon Mill - The Bluegrass Sessions (Strictly Country/13)
FLORENCE REESE: Which Side Are You On/Coal Mining Women (Rounder/76)
HAZEL DICKENS: They’ll Never Keep Us Down/Coal Mining Women (Rounder/76)
NEW HARMONY SISTERHOOD BAND: Union Maid/Classic Labor Songs (Smithsonian-Folkways/77)
JOE GLAZER with the SELDOM SCENE: We Shall Not Be Moved/Singing BRAC (Smithsonian-Folkways/75)
KENNY WINFREE with PHIL ROSENTHAL & HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: I'm A Union Card/Classic Labor Songs (Smithsonian-Folkways/91)
PHYLLIS BOYENS: Dream Of a Miner’s Child/Coal Mining Women (Rounder/76)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Blue Diamond Mines/Blue Lightning (Rounder/90)
DON STOVER: West Virginia Coal Miner's Blues/West Virginia Coal Miner's Blues (Old Homestead/73)
TOM BREIDING: Union Miner/The Unbroken Circle: Songs of the West Virginia Coalfields (AmeriSon/08)
BLUE HIGHWAY: Union Man/Still Climbin’ Mountains (Rounder/01)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: I Don’t Want Your Millions (Mandolins), Mister/Tone Poems (Acoustic Disc/94)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Get Up, Go To Work/I Can’t Stand To Ramble (Kaleidoscope/83)
RICHARD BENNETT: Working Man Blues/Last Train From Poor Valley (Lonesome Day/12)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Working Girl Blues/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
TIM O'BRIEN: Workin'/Chicken & Egg (Howdy Skies/10)
BERNARD “SLIM” SMITH: Breadline Blues/Moneyland (McCoury Music/32)
DEL McCOURY: Breadline Blues 2008/Moneyland (McCoury Music/08)
PETER ROWAN: Will Work For Food/Bluegrass Boy (Sugar Hill/96)
ALISON KRAUSS: Another Day Another Dollar/Every Time You Say Goodbye (Rounder/92)
REBECCA FRAZIER: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/When We Fall (Amtoco /13)
JERRY DOUGLAS: It’s Gonna Work Out Fine/Fluxedo (Rounder/82)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Fall Membership Campaign Special - Sept. 12, 2020
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Hendersonville Hop/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Old-Timey Grey Eagle/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Last Train/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Where Did You Sleep Last Night/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Natchez Whistle/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Open Water/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Hello Trouble/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Done Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Mad Mama's Blues/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Move, Daniel/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Fiddler’s Pastime/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: I Don’t Know Why/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Blackbird Says To The Crow/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Rocky Road To Dublin/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: The Minstrel Boy/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: Happy Hollow/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Roustabout/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Boll Weevil/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: North Garden/Fiddler’s Pastime (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt Records/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention preview - Sept. 19, 2020
host: Allegra Thompson
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Sally Ann (Square Dance)/Live at the Floyd County Store (self/09)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Too Late, Too Late/Our Town (Rounder/93)
DAVID GREELY: Cotillion/Chatagnier/Sud du Sud (Give and Go/09)
JAKE BLOUNT: Boll Weevil/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
ALICE GERRARD: Borderland/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Songbird Blues>Backstep Cindy/Evie Ladin Band (Evil Diane/12)
THE HORSENECKS: Asheville Junction/The Horsenecks (self/15)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Old Country Stomp/Our Town (Rounder/93)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Let Me Lay Down/Caught On A Wire (Evil Diane/19)
ALICE GERRARD: Ruben (and Ruby)/Pieces of My Heart (Copper Creek/94)
EARL WHITE STRINGBAND: Raleigh And Spencer/Earl White Stringband (self/14)
PLAID STRANGERS: Cider/Plaid Strangers (unreleased)
SQUIRREL BUTTER: Little Stream of Whiskey/Chestnuts (self/15)
THE HORSENECKS: Little Maggie/The Horsenecks (self/15)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS (with Eddie Bond): Kansas City Railroad Blues/Put On Your Dancing Shoes (Heritage/08)
THE BUCKING MULES: Railroad/Smoke Behind the Clouds (Free Dirt/17)
JAKE BLOUNT: Blackbird Says to the Crow/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Home/Our Town (Rounder/93)
EARL WHITE STRINGBAND: I Truly Understand /Earl White Stringband (self/14)
THE NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Texas Gals/Bogtrotter Blues (self/14)
WB REID & BONNIE ZAHNOW: The Farmer Feeds Us All/Ryestraw (self/16)
ALICE GERRARD AND KAY JUSTICE: Cotton Mill Girls/Tear Down The Fences (self/17)
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Texas Breakdown/Family Tradition (self/16)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: September Birthdays Celebration - Sept. 26, 2020
GOOD OL’ PERSONS (featuring BETH WEIL [9-5]): Who's That Knockin' At My Door?/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/88)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: The Mill Was Made Of Marble/Angels Rejoice (Strictly Country/88)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND (with Beth Weil & Laurie Lewis): The Old Crossroads/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: When I Get Home/Angels Rejoice (Strictly Country/88)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND (featuring SUZY THOMPSON [9-20]): Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/82)
LAURIE LEWIS [9-28] (with Suzy Thompson): Sophie’s House/Blossoms (Spruce and Maple/09)
KATHY KALLICK [9-19] (with Laurie Lewis): Wreck Of the Old #9/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/01)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: If I Had My Life To Live Over Again/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Little Annie/Together (Rounder/91)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND: Cash On The Barrelhead/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS (with Suzy Thompson, featuring BILL EVANS [9-2]): Petersburg Gal/Old As Dirt (Native & Fine/02)
KATHY KALLICK BAND (featuring ANNIE STANINEC [9-16]): Solid Gone/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: This Beautiful World/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
LAURIE LEWIS (and Molly Tuttle): The Lonely One (written by EMILY MANN [9-21])/and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple/20)
OAKUM (with Beth Weil): Tallahassee, Limehouse Blues/Live (late ‘70s/early ‘80s)
SUZY THOMPSON & DEL REY: Misery Blues/Communiqué (Hobemian/17)
BILL MONROE [9-13] & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: When the Golden Leaves Begin To Fall x2/Castle Studio Complete Sessions (RWA/50)
LARRY SPARKS [9-25] & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Too Late to Walk the Floor/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/75)
BUZZ BUSBY [9-6] & THE BAYOU BOYS: The Lonesome Road/Going Home (Starday Records/57)
HOT RIZE (featuring CHARLES SAWTELLE [9-20]): Think Of What You’ve Done/Take It Home (Sugar Hill/90)
JIMMIE RODGERS [9-8]: Blue Yodel No 4 (California Blues)/The Essential Jimmie Rodgers (RCA/29)
GRANT STREET STRING BAND: Prairie Lullaby/Grant Street String Band (Bonita/83)
KATHY KALLICK (with Laurie Lewis): Hobo’s Lullaby/American Lullaby (Ellipsis Arts/03)
SUZY THOMPSON (and Andrew Carrière): Blues a Bebe/Retro (self/05)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy (almost) Birthday, Lynn Morris - Oct. 3, 2020
host: PT
CITY LIMITS BLUEGRASS BAND: Hello City Limits/Hello City Limits (Biscuit City/75)
CITY LIMITS BLUEGRASS BAND: Cold Hard Rain/Hello City Limits (Biscuit City/75)
WETSTONE RUN: If Teardrops Were Pennies/Fire on the Mountain (TNN/early ‘80s)
WHETSTONE RUN: Talking About That Old Time Religion/Angels Rejoice - Live In Holland (Strictly Country/85)
THE LYNN MORRIS (born 10-8) BAND: My Heart Skips A Beat/The Lynn Morris Band (Rounder/90)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Kisses Don't Lie/The Lynn Morris Band (Rounder/90)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: What Was I Supposed To Do/The Lynn Morris Band (Rounder/90)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Blue Skies and Teardrops/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Love Grown Cold/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)
LYNN MORRIS with Benny Martin, Mike Compton, John Hartford, Roy Husky, Jr.): Cripple Creek/Banjo Meltdown (Tennessee Banjo Institute/92)
TOGETHER (Lynn Morris, Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick, Sally Van Meter, Markie Sanders): Walking The Blues/Live In Berkeley (5-21-97)
TOGETHER: Dancing In the Hog Trough/Live In Berkeley (5-21-97)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Scraps From Your Table/Live In Harpel, Netherlands (5-7-92)
LYNN MORRIS: Mama's Hand/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: It Rains Everywhere I Go/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: Mason’s Lament/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: The Likes of You/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
LYNN MORRIS: Wrong Road Again/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
~ farewell to bluegrass country ~
LYNN MORRIS: Old Rip/Mama's Hand (Rounder/95)
LYNN MORRIS: You'll Never Be the Sun/You'll Never Be the Sun (Rounder/99)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Goodbye To the Blues/Shape of a Tear (Rounder/03)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Gonna Have Love/Shape of a Tear (Rounder/03)
THE LYNN MORRIS BAND: Don’t Neglect the Rose/Shape of a Tear (Rounder/03)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: I Wish It Would Rain/Apple Blossom Bluegrass Festival - Winchester, VA (5-1-11)
TOGETHER featuring Sally Van Meter (born 10-7): High Country/Live In Berkeley (5-21-97)
TOGETHER: Honky Tonk Blues/Live In Berkeley (5-21-97)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: Spay Your Pet (SPAY-USA/98)
MARSHALL WILBORN: Benny's Revenge (w/ Lynn Morris and Tom Adams)/Root 5: Bass & Banjo (Pinecastle/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: New-To-Me Traditional Bluegrass - Oct. 10, 2020
host: Todd Gracyk
theme - TOMMY BROWN & THE COUNTY LINE GRASS: Half Moon Bay/Leaving This Town (Randm/14)
MILLER BROTHERS: Her Love Is True/45 RPM Single (Baron/c.69)
MILLER BROTHERS: Empty Cradle/Teenage Angel In Heaven (Jessup/72)
MILLER BROTHERS: Tribulations/Sacred Songs With A Down Home Flavor (Old Homestead/72)
MILLER BROTHERS: Detroit Blues/Detroit Blues (Old Homestead/73)
MILLER BROTHERS: I’m Losing My Family (And Breaking Up My Home)/45 RPM Single (Old Homestead/c.73)
MILLER BROTHERS: A House Of Sorrow/The Bluegrass Sound Of The Miller Brothers (Old Homestead/74)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: This Weary Heart You Stole Away/unissued live recording (Sunset Park, West Grove, PA, 5/26/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: Could You Love Me (One More Time)/unissued live recording (Sunset Park, West Grove, PA, 5/26/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sugar Coated Love/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Loving You Too Well/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Our Last Goodbye/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MT. BOYS: Who Will Call You Sweetheart/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Poison Love/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
JOHN REEDY & THE STONE MOUNTAIN TRIO: Oh, Death/45 RPM Single (self/60>Starday/61>Gusto/09)
JOHN REEDY & THE STONE MOUNTAIN TRIO: Somebody Touched Me/45 RPM EP (Starday/61)
GARY BREWER: The Last Song/Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner: A Tribute To The King Of Bluegrass (Stretchgrass/99)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE CHAIN MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Find Another Woman/Early Bluegrass: The 1950s (Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers) (Anthology Of Country Music/83)
FORREST DAVIS & THE KY-CUT-UPS: Give Me The Bottle/45 RPM Single (Starlite/66)
BILL MONROE: Honky Tonk Swing/unissued live recording (Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA, 9/3/67)
CLIFF WALDRON & THE NEW SHADES OF GRASS: Ramblers Call/One More Mile, One More Town, One More Time (Rebel/72)
COOKE DUET: What Heaven Means To Me/45 RPM Single (self/c.65)
DANNY LEE DAVIS: Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind/Danny Lee Davis (self/c.15)
LILLY BROTHERS with DON STOVER & SCOTTY STONEMAN: Lee Highway Blues (aka Talking Fiddle Blues)/unissued live recording (Hillbilly Ranch, Boston, MA, c.59)
LILLY BROTHERS with DON STOVER & SCOTTY STONEMAN: Smoke Along The Track/unissued live recording (Hillbilly Ranch, Boston, MA, c.59)
LARRY RICHARDSON & CLINTON BULLINS with THE BLUE RIDGE BOYS: Bitter Tears/45 RPM Single (MKB/68)
TOMMY BROWN & THE COUNTY LINE GRASS: A Dark Road Is A Hard Road To Travel/Leaving This Town (Randm/14)
J.D CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Love Please Come Home/unissued live recording (Red Slipper Lounge, Lexington, KY, 3/69)
J.D CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Swinging Doors/unissued live recording (Red Slipper Lounge, Lexington, KY, 3/69)
J.D CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Mountain Dew/unissued live recording (Red Slipper Lounge, Lexington, KY, 3/69)
J.D CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Helen/unissued live recording (Red Slipper Lounge, Lexington, KY, 3/69)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Fling Ding/unissued live recording (Union Hall, Front Royal, VA, 8/30/57)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks: New Releases & Reissues - Oct. 17, 2020
host: PT
NOTE: All tracks released in 2020; reissues include the date of the original release.
theme -
MARK STOFFEL (+ 19 other mandolinists): In the Mood/Coffee & Cake (Mountain Home)
DIRK POWELL: The Little Things/When I Wait For You (Compass)
DIRK POWELL: Ain’t Never Fell/When I Wait For You (Compass)
DIRK POWELL: I Ain’t Playing Pretty Polly/When I Wait For You (Compass)
RHIANNON GIDDENS & DIRK POWELL: Wish In Vain/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2 (Bandcamp & Voting Rights Lab)
LEYLA McCALLA: Mèsi Bondye/Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (Smithsonian-Folkways/13>20)
THE EBONY HILLBILLIES: Liza Jane/Trimmin’ Da Fat (EH Music/05>20)
WANDERING RAMBLERS: North Country/Wandering & Rambling (self/71>20)
THE ONLIES: A Few More Years Shall Roll/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Still Looking for You/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Karen Collins' Tune/The Onlies (self)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Bear Creek Blues/Playing Our Hand (self)
LAURIE LEWIS: It’s Up To You and Me/single (self)
MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING: Dally Welters Waltz/Born At Night – A Raw Fiddle Album, Vol. 3 (FiddleStar)
ADAM HURT: The Scolding Wife/Back To the Earth (self)
MATT DUDMAN: One Short Year/Poa (Pleasant Valley Records)
THE ALEX LEACH BAND: October Fall/single (Mountain Home)
SCOTT VESTAL, PATRICK McAVINUE, CODY KILBY, DOMINICK LESLIE, & CURTIS VESTAL: Five & Dime/Bluegrass 2020 (Pinecastle)
MILE TWELVE: Rocky Island/Roll the Tapes All Night Long (self)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Put All Your Troubles Away/single (self)
CAROLINA BLUE: Lost and Lonely/Take Me Back (Billy Blue)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: These Old Blues/Bluegrass Old and New (Old Homestead/72>20)
DEHLIA LOW: Ravens & Crows/Ravens & Crows (Rebel/11>20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo/Playing Our Hand (self)
ROBERT HALE & THE 8th WONDER BAND: It’s All Over Now/Blue Haze (Pinecastle)
MOLLY TUTTLE: She’s Like A Rainbow/… but i'd rather be with you (Compass)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Keeping the Cats Happy - Oct. 24, 2020
host: Leah Wollenburg
SISTER SADIE: Morning Sun/Sister Sadie II (Pinecastle/18)
BRITTANY HAAS & LENA JONSSON: Keeping the Cats Happy/Brittany Haas & Lena Jonsson (self/15)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Living in the Past (Sierra/64)
EVIE LADIN BAND: You Gotta Be Hunting the Buffalo/Playing Our Hand (Evil Diane/20)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Working Girl Blues/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
MIKE BARNETT (featuring BOBBY HICKS: Fiddle Patch/Portraits in Fiddles (Compass/17)
DREADFUL SNAKES: Cash On the Barrelhead/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/84)
LARRY SPARKS: Great High Mountain/John Deere Tractor (Rebel/80)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES (featuring SARAH JAROSZ): Last Train/Fiddlers Pastime (Sugar Petunia/20)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Darling Corey/Dig (self/13)
JAKE BLOUNT: Boll Weevil/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
ALLISON DeGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Cuckoo’s Nest/Allison DeGroot & Tatiana Hargreaves (self/19)
RHIANNON GIDDENS & FRANCESCO TURRISI: I’m On My Way/There is No Other (Nonesuch/19)
BRYAN SUTTON: Virginia Creeper/The More I Learn (Sugar Hill/16)
LAURIE LEWIS: American Chestnuts/Skippin' and Flyin’ (Spruce and Maple/11)
THE ONLIES: All Young/The Onlies (self/20)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: White House Blues/Country Music Hall of Fame (MCA/54)
LAURIE LEWIS: It’s Up To You and Me/single (self/20)
HAWKTAIL: Padiddle/Formations (Padiddle/20)
MILE TWELVE (featuring BILLY STRINGS): Cold Wind/Roll the Tapes All Night Long (self/20)
HOT RIZE: I Am the Road/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: This Beautiful World/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: I Am A Pilgrim/Harmonic Tone Revealers (Corvus/17)
JOHN REISCHMAN (featuring BRUCE MOLSKY): Side By Each/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
JOHN REISCHMAN (full band): Side By Each/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
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BOO-GRASS SIGNAL: Bringing Scary Home - Oct. 31, 2020
host: Allegra Thompson
RALPH STANLEY: O Death/O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury/00)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear Family/70)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Bringing Mary Home/Bringing Mary Home (Rebel/66)
RAYNA GELLERT: The Cruel Mother/Old Light: Songs From My Childhood & Other Gone Worlds (StorySound/12)
GAILANNE AMUNDSEN: Tall Lover Man/You've Been A Friend To Me (Dirty Feet/18)
LAURIE LEWIS: O The Wind And Rain/… and Laurie Lewis (Spruce and Maple/20)
THE ONLIES: House Carpenter/The Onlies (self/20)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Over Yonder In the Graveyard/Dig (self/12)
KATHY KALLICK: Burying Ground/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Reynadine/Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch/10)
RED HEN: The Moon Is Over the Mountain/Crossing (self/09)
LEYLA McCALLA: Song For A Dark Girl/Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (Smithsonian Folkways/20)
ALICE GERRARD: Borderland/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
GOLDEN SHOALS: Brood Of Hate/Golden Shoals (self/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Beyond This Wall/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Birdwatching Stanley/Flight (self/20)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Nashville Cats/The Family (Ceili/99)
CRYING UNCLE: Dawg Funk/Monroe Bridge (self/20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Tightrope/Whiteface / Playing Our Hand (Evil Diane/20)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: We All Fall/Bet On Love (Lula/20)
MARGOT LEVERETT & THE KLEZMER MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz & Volich/Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys (Traditional Crossroads/03)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks, the SoCal Edition - Nov. 7, 2020
host: Jose Segue
theme -
THE SHUTDOWNS: Four On the Floor
GENE VINCENT: Why Don’t You People Learn To Drive
VERNON GREEN & THE MEDALLIONS: Buick ‘59
CHARLIE RYAN: Hot Rod Lincoln
SUN DEMONS: Go Like 60
DEKE DICKERSON: Hod Rodder’s Lament
SPADE COOLEY: Miss Molly
GENE AUTRY: Back In the Saddle Again
SONS OF THE PIONEERS: Way Out There
ROY ROGERS: Along the Navajo Trail
RIDERS IN THE SKY: Cattle Call
WYNN STEWART: I Bought the Shoes That Just Walked Out On Me
MADOX BROTHERS & ROSE: Ugly and Slouchy
BUCK OWENS & ROSE MADDOX: Mental Cruelty
MERLE HAGGARD: Beer Can Hill
IRIS DEMENT: Big City
DWIGHT YOKUM: It Won’t Hurt
GRAM PARSONS: Streets Of Baltimore
FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: White Line Fever
BYRDS: Have You Seen Her Face
CHRIS HILLMAN & HERB PEDERSEN: Which One Is To Blame
GYPSY KINGS: Hotel California
MARK RUFO: Spyin’ Eyes
KNITTERS: Poor Little Critter On the Road
RANK & FILE: I Don’t Go Out Much Anymore
MOJO NIXON & JELLO BIAFRA: Are You Drinkin’ With Me Jesus
BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-RIGHT BOYS: Hey Lowdown
THE BLASTERS: One Bad Stud
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Between the Wars - Nov. 14, 2020
host: Allegra Thompson
JOHN PRINE: Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore/John Prine (Atlantic/71)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Universal Soldier/Nashville Airplane(Columbia/68)
MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: Between The Wars/Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Tree Frog/16)
THE MONROE BROTHERS: The Forgotten Soldier Boy/Protest! American Protest Songs 1928-53 (Viper/36)
COUNTRY JOE McDONALD: I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag/This Ain't No Mouse Music (Arhoolie/13)
THE ONLIES: Dear Little Soldier Boy/The Onlies (self/20)
DEL McCOURY: Take Me To The Mountains/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/94)
DAILEY & VINCENT: More Than a Name on a Wall/ Dailey & Vincent (Rounder/08)
THE BLUEGRASS CARDINALS: Blue-Eyed Boston Boy/Welcome To Virginia (Rounder/77)
SUZY THOMPSON: Mike in the Wilderness/Stop & Listen (Arhoolie/05)
JOHN DOYLE: Clear the Way/Shadow and Light (Compass/11)
THOMM JUTZ: Shelton Laurel Valley/To Live In Two Worlds Vol. 1 (Mountain Home/20)
RHIANNON GIDDENS: Julie/Freedom Highway (Nonesuch/17)
TONY TRISCHKA: Carry Me Over The Sea/Shall We Hope (Shefa/21)
JERRON PAXTON: Soldier’s Joy/Recorded Music For Your Entertainment (Blind Boy/15)
DAVID BRAGGER & SUSAN PLATZ: Rebel Raid/King’s Lament (Old-Time Tiki Parlor/17)
OLD TIME SNAKE MILKERS WITH HOOT & HOLLER: Soldier’s Joy/Milkers and Hollers (self/18)
DAVID GRISMAN & FRIENDS: I’m Comin Back But I Don’t Know When/Home is Where The Heart Is (Rounder/88)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Lost Soldier Son/Wanderlust (Copper Creek/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: My Heart’s Own Love/Guest House (High Tone/04)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Jeano/The Invisible Comes To Us (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Eat At the Welcome Table - Nov. 21, 2020
host: PT
JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: Y'all Come/The Essential Jim & Jesse (Epic/65)
MONROE BROTHERS: Have A Feast Here Tonight/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/37)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At the Welcome Table/Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass (Rounder/81)
THE JOHN LOWELL BAND: Don't Be Late For Dinner/The Skalkaho Road (self/16)
LULU BELLE & SCOTTY: Saturday Night Supper On the Table/Down Memory Lane (Starday/64)
FLATT & SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Martha White theme/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
COON CREEK GIRLS: How Many Biscuits Can You Eat/Coon Creek Girls (County/68)
LOST & FOUND: Leftover Biscuits/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/80
FLATT & SCRUGGS with Grant Turner: Martha White Corn Meal (mid-‘60s TV spot)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Cornbread and Butterbeans/Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch/10)
HOTMUD FAMILY: Country Ham & Red Gravy/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER: You Can’t Hurt Ham/Music To My Ears (Skaggs Family/12)
CANOTE BROTHERS: I Hear the Voice Of A Porkchop/Thinga-ma-jig (Clone Tone/98)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Pig In A Pen/On Radio (Rebel/60)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Who's Goin' Down To Town/Walkin' In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Rutabaga Boogie/Live at The Freight (2013)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Buttermilk Lemon Pie/JD’s Bluegrass Kitchen (CBA/15)
JOE & ODELL THOMPSON: Pumpkin Pie/Back Roads To Cold Mountain (Smithsonian-Folkways/89)
BROTHERS COMATOSE: Pie For Breakfast/Respect the Van (self/12)
RAYNA GELLERT: Great Big Taters in the Sandy Land/Ways of the World (yodel-ay-hee/00)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: The Lonesome Cowboy's Breakfast/Blue Flame Stringband (Flying Fish)
HAZEL DICKENS: Scraps From Your Table/Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (Rounder/80)
LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Dirty Dishes Blues/Windy Mountain (Bear Family/53)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Singing All Day & Dinner On the Ground/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/70)
GARY BREWER & THE KENTUCKY RAMBLERS: Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner/Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner (Stretchgrass/99)
TOM T. HALL: Bill Monroe For Breakfast/Home Grown (Mercury/97)
MONROE BROTHERS: Watermelon Hangin' On the Vine/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/36)
WAYNE HENDERSON (featuring KATY TAYLOR): Hey, Good Lookin’/W.C. Henderson & Co. (Hay Holler/94)
NORTH COUNTRY BLUE: Morning Bugle/Flight (self/20)
BARBARA LAMB (with APRIL VERCH): Whiskey Before Breakfast/Bootsy Met A Bank Robber (Lots of Coffee/06)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Fiddlistics! - Nov. 28, 2020
host: Leah Wollenberg
DAROL ANGER (featuring Natalie McMaster): Melt the Tea Kettle/Diary Of a Fiddler (Compass/99)
MIKE MARSHALL & DAROL ANGER: Big Man From Syracuse/The Duo Live: At Home and On the Range (Compass/02)
TOM ROZUM: Jubilee/Jubilee (Dog Boy/98)
TONY RICE: Manzanita/Manzanita (Rounder/79)
DAROL ANGER: Key Signator/Fiddlistics (Kaleidoscope/79)
TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET: Blues For Oaktown/Skylife (Windam Hill Jazz/90)
THE DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Opus 57/The David Grisman Quintet (Kaleidoscope/77)
FRANK WAKEFIELD: When I Stop Dreaming/End Of the Rainbow (Bay/80)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Don’t Mind Me/Walkin’ In My Shoes (Live Oak/99)
DAROL ANGER: Homer the Roamer/E-and’A (Adventure Music/14)
DAVID GRISMAN: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/Dawg Jazz-Dawg Grass (Warner Brothers/83)
NEW GRANGE: Under the Hood/New Grange (Compass/99)
DAROL ANGER-MIKE MARSHALL BAND: Coal Burnin’ Grease Fire/Brand New Can (Compass/00)
PSYCHOGRASS: Ride the Wild Brains/Like Minds (Sugar Hill/96)
DAROL ANGER & THE AMERICAN FIDDLE ENSEMBLE: Old Dangerfield/Republic Of Strings (Compass/04)
DAROL ANGER (featuring Mavis Staples): Oh, Death/Heritage (Six Degrees/97)
MIKE MARSHALL & DAROL ANGER: Emy In the Woods/Da Capo (Adventure Music/19)
EMY PHELPS & DAROL ANGER: Magpie/Treasures (self/18)
BRITTANY HAAS: Smith’s Reel/Brittany Haas (Ook/04)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass All-Stars Trading Cards: Vol. 1 - Dec. 5, 2020
host: Todd Gracyk
theme -
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Grass Ramble/Castle Studio, 1950-1951: Complete Sessions (Decca>RWA/50>17)
DEL McCOURY: I Feel the Blues Moving In/Don’t Stop the Music (Rounder/90)
JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: (It’s a Long, Long Way) To the Top Of The World/Bluegrass and More (Epic>Bear Family/64>94)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Rock Hearts/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Decca>Bear Family/58>94)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: My Better Years/Hazel & Alice (Rounder/73)
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ll Take The Blame/Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959 (CBS Special Products/County>Bear Family/57>78>91)
DAVID GRISMAN: Feast Here Tonight/Home Is Where the Heart Is (Rounder/88)
MAC WISEMAN: Fire In My Heart/’Tis Sweet To Be Remembered (Dot>Bear Family/52>03)
ALISON KRAUSS: I Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind/Masters Of the Folk Violin (Arhoolie/88)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Wall Around Your Heart/California Connection - Vol. Three (Rounder/83)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Along About Daybreak/Blue Moon Of Kentucky, 1936-1949 (Columbia>Bear Family/47>02)
CARTER FAMILY: I Ain’t Goin’ To Work Tomorrow/In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Victor>Bear Family/28>00)
OSBORNE BROTHERS: One Tear/The Osborne Brothers, 1956-1968 (Decca>Bear Family/65>95)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: Old Home Place/The New South (Rounder/75)
JERRY DOUGLAS & PETER ROWAN: Girl In the Blue Velvet Band/Yonder (Sugar Hill/96)
STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)/The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys, 1953-58 & 1959 (Mercury>Bear Family/53>93)
NORMAN BLAKE: Church Street Blues/Whiskey Before Breakfast (Rounder/76)
MARK SCHATZ: Oh My Little Darlin’/Brand New Old Tyme Way (Rounder/95)
KENNY BAKER: Jerusalem Ridge/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)
OLD & IN THE WAY: White Dove/Live At the Boarding House: The Complete Shows (Round>Acoustic Disc/73>75>13)
MULESKINNER: Dark Hollow/Classic Bluegrass Collection: Volume 4 (Warner Bros.>Time-Life/74>06)
JOHN HARTFORD: With A Vamp In the Middle/Aereo-Plain (Warner Bros.>Rounder/71>97)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Journey’s End/The Model Church (Lemco>Rebel/71>79)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Little Annie/Handmade To Hand Played (Thompson Guitars/19)
RHONDA VINCENT: Drivin’ Nails In My Coffin/The Storm Still Rages (Rounder/01)
NORMAN BLAKE/TUT TAYLOR/SAM BUSH/BUTCH ROBINS/VASSAR CLEMENTS/DAVID HOLLAND/JETHRO BURNS: McKinley’s Blues/Norman Blake-Tut Taylor-Sam Bush-Butch Robins-Vassar Clements-David Holland-Jethro Burns (HDS/75)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/88)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Dec. 12, 2020
NOTE: All tracks released in 2020; reissues include the date of the original release/recording.
ANYA HINKLE: I’ve Got A Lot Riding On These Wheels/single (self)
BECKY BULLER: The Barber's Fiddle/single (Dark Shadow)
EDDIE BOND*KAREN CARR*DONALD HILL*PECO WATSON: Sally Anne/The Fries Sessions (Never Met A Stranger/16)
JODY STECHER: Hey Don John/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
JODY STECHER: Sheets and Buckets/Dreams From the Overlook (self)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone/Monroe Bridge (self)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Monroe Bridge/Monroe Bridge (self)
THE ONLIES: Going Across the Sea/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Still Looking for You/The Onlies (self)
THE ONLIES: Lonesome Pine Special/The Onlies (self)
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: Amen, There’s A Higher Power/The Legendary Marshall Family, Vol. 1 (Rebel/76)
THE FORBES FAMILY: Something That the World Didn’t Give Me/A Forbes Family Treasury, Vol. 1 (Rebel/83)
J.D. CROWE: I’ll Talk It All Over With Him/The Model Church (Rebel/78)
STANLEY BROTHERS: If We Never Meet Again/On Radio (Rebel/60)
MELVIN GOINS & FRIENDS (featuring DAVE EVANS): He Took Your Place/I Wouldn't Miss It (Rebel/04)
WES CORBETT: Boss Fight/Cascade (Padiddle)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Long Way Around the Mountain/single (Mountain Home)
DALE ANN BRADLEY: Falling Down/advance single from Things She Couldn’t Get Over (Pinecastle/21)
TINA ADAIR: Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses/single (Englehardt)
JESSE BROCK: Streamliner/single (Sound Biscuit)
MATT DUDMAN: My Louisiana Home/Poa (Pleasant Valley Records)
MILE TWELVE: Cold Wind/Roll the Tapes All Night Long (self)
COLEBROOK ROAD: Run Run Rudolph/single (Mountain Fever)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: Blue Christmas/Christmas (self/19)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: The Man With the Bag/Christmas (self/19)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Holiday Membership Campaign Special - Dec. 19, 2020
host: PT & Allegra Thompson
Selections from JODY STECHER: Dreams From the Overlook (self/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Boxing Day / Bluegrass, Eh? - Dec. 26, 2020
theme -
(BC) JOHN REISCHMAN: Little Pine Siskin (CBC Radio/18)
(BC) JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Today Has Been A Lonesome Day/On That Other Green Shore (Corvus/17)
(BC) PHARIS & JASON ROMERO: Hometown Blues/Bet On Love (Lula/20)
(BC) NICK HORNBUCKLE: Fleetwood’s Ford/13 Or So (Ruby’s Slipper/19)
(BC) VIPER CENTRAL: I Won't Be Left Behind/The Spirit of God and Madness (self/17)
(BC) KATHLEEN NISBET: Red River Jig/Métis Dance Hall Volume 2 (self/18)
(BC) REDGIRL: Knitting Song/Road to Gravel (self/18)
(BC) UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS: Take My Arm/The Unfaithful Servants (self/19)
(BC) OLD PAINT DUO: Which One Is To Blame/Old Paint Duo (self/19)
(BC) THE LONESOME TOWN PAINTERS: The Lonesome Town Painter/The Lonesome Town Painters (self/17)
(Alberta) THE BIX MIX BOYS: Albertan/The Bix Mix Boys (self/20)
(Alberta) CHRIS JONES: Quiet Click/single (Mountain Home/20)
(Saskatchewan) MIKE KLEIN: Georgia Row>Rockingham Cindy/Over the Waves (self/19)
(Alberta) NOMAD JONES: Let Me Fall/Pickin’ Up & Puttin’ Down (self/18)
(Ontario & BC) LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Farewell Medley (Highlander’s Farewell>Monroe’s Farewell To Long Hollow)/Modern Old-Time Sounds for the Bluegrass and Folksong Jamboree (self/19)
(Ontario) SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Mighty Hard Road/Queen City Jubilee (self/18)
(Ontario) THE BARREL BOYS: Cold Spring/Cold Spring (self/17)
(Quebec) ALL DAY BREAKFAST STRING BAND: Breaking Up Christmas/Who Let the Dogs Out (self/19)
(Quebec) KAIA KATER: The Right One/Grenades (Smithsonian-Folkways/19)
(Nova Scotia) OLD MAN LUEDECKE: I Wanna Go/Easy Money (True North/19)
(Ontario) CLAIRE LYNCH: Kingdom Come/North By South (Compass/16)
(Newfoundland) CROOKED STOVEPIPE: Stop the Trains/Hand-Picked Bluegrass Music From Newfoundland (self/19)
(BC) ROY FORBES: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/Almost Overnight (AKA/95)
(Manitoba) ALLISON DEGROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Eighth Of January/Allison deGroot and Tatiana Hargreaves (Free Dirt/19)
Canadian bluegrass & old time bands that have not recorded in recent years, are defunct, and/or there was not time to include:
BC -
The Sweet Lowdown
Clover Point Drifters
Highrise Lonesome
5 On A String
Story House
Erynn Marshall (w/ Carl Jones)
PRAIRIES -
Kayla Hotte (Alberta)
The Dead South (Saskatchewan)
ONTARIO -
Foggy Hogtown Boys
Ivan Rosenberg
Hard Ryde
Winterline
Julie Pennell (w/ John Pennell)
OTTAWA VALLEY -
Concession 23
MARITIMES -
The Spinney Brothers (Nova Scotia)
Ray Legere (NS)
Janey McGarry (PEI)
The Bluegrass Diamonds (New Brunswick)
MULTIPLE -
Heartship [April Verch (Ontario), Annie Lou (Toronto >Vanc Island), and Cara Luft (Calgary)]
Noteworthy historical Canadian bluegrass & old time bands include:
(BC) Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Boys
(BC) Swampgrass
(BC) Hungry Hill
(Alberta) Jerusalem Ridge
(Saskatchewan) Humphrey & The Dumptrucks
(Ontario) The Good Brothers
(Ottawa Valley) Cody
(Ottawa Valley) Dick Smith-Mike O'Reilly Band
(Quebec) White River Bluegrass Band
(Nova Scotia) Vic Mullen's Birch Mountain Boys (with Harry Cromwell & Brent Williams)
(Newfoundland) Bluegrass Mountaineers