“Bluegrass Country” - program #539 (July 5-11/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Blue In the Blue Ridge - A Memorial Celebration of James Alan Shelton
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JAMES ALAN SHELTON: In the Sweet By & By/Guitar Tracks (Copper Creek/99)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Blue In the Blue Ridge/Blue In the Blue Ridge (Freeland/92)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Standing Room Only/Standing Room Only (Freeland/99)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Bill Cheatum/Blue In the Blue Ridge (Freeland/92)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: John Henry/Standing Room Only (Freeland/99)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Road to Coeburn/Road to Coeburn (Copper Creek/97)
RALPH STANLEY: Nobody's Darling/Short Life Of Trouble - Songs Of Grayson & Whitter (Rebel/96)
RALPH STANLEY: Daddy's Wildwood Flower/While the Ages Roll On (Rebel/00)
DR. RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sunny Side Of The Mountain/Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop (DCM/01)
GEORGE SHUFFLER & JAMES ALAN SHELTON: True Life Blues/The Legacy Continues (Copper Creek/00)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room/Song For Greta (Rebel/02)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Foggy Mountain Top/Half Moon Bay (Rebel/04)
RALPH STANLEY: Waves On The Sea/A Distant Land To Roam - Songs Of the Carter Family (DMZ Columbia/06)
RALPH STANLEY: What Kind Of Man/A Mother's Prayer (Rebel/11)
DR. RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Will You Miss Me/Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop (DCM/01)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Faded Love/Song For Greta (Rebel/02)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #540 (July 12-18/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks
LARRY SPARKS: Bitterweeds/Lonesome & Then Some – A Classic 50th Anniversary Celebration (Rebel)
PETER ROWAN: A Grain Of Sand/Dharma Blues (Omnivore)
RICHARD BENNETT: In the Wind Somewhere/In the Wind Somewhere (Lonesome Day)
KATHY BARWICK (& SUZANNE THOMAS): Sweet Sunny South/Braeburn (FGM)
CENTRAL VALLEY BOYS: God Gave You To Me/God Gave You To Me (self)
MOLLY TUTTLE & JOHN MAILANDER: Another Side>Tell Me/Molly Tuttle & John Mailander (Back Studio)
ALLEGHENY DRIFTERS: Climb Heaven's Ladder/Climb Heaven's Ladder (self)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: The Touch Of God's Hand/Kathy & Laurie Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple)
FELLER & HILL: He’s Coming Back To Earth Again/Here Come Feller & Hill … Again (Blue Circle)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER: Fiddlin’ Joe/On Down the Line (Compass)
NATE LEATH & FRIENDS: Molly Put the Kettle On/Volume 2 (Patuxent)
AL JONES & THE SPRUCE MOUNTAIN BOYS: My Friend Frank/Hard Core Bluegrass (Patuxent)
FLATT LONESOME: So Far/Too (Mountain Home)
BALSAM RANGE: Chasing Someone Else's Dreams/Five (Mountain Home)
DANNY ROBERTS: New Gil Ramble/Nighthawk (Mountain Home)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #541 (July 19-25/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything, part 1
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LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
BILL MONROE: Time Changes Everything/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/60)
CHARLIE SIZEMORE: Time Can't Take Your Memory Away/Back Home (Rebel/94)
BLUE ROSE: Time Has Made A Change/Blue Rose (Sugar Hill/89)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Time (Live Oak/12)
LOU REID & CAROLINA: Time/Time (Lonesome Day/05)
NEW VINTAGE: Time/Sands Of Time (Pinecastle/96)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Doing My Time/1948-1959 (Bear Family/50)
BARRY & HOLLY TASHIAN: I'll Take My Time/Harmony (Rounder/97)
THE BOXCARS: You Can Take Your Time/The Boxcars (Mountain Home/10)
BLUEGRASS CARDINALS: I've Had A Time/The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals (CMH/79)
JOHN HARTFORD: I Wish We Had Our Time Again/Down On The River (Flying Fish/89)
JODY STECHER: Long Time A-Comin'/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Time To Say Goodbye/Waiting At The Homeplace (Hay Holler/04)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Don't You Think It's Time To Go/The Family (Ceili/99)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Now the Time Has Come To Go/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/85)
LARRY SPARKS: When My Time Comes To Go/Let Him Lead You (Rebel/76)
CMH STUDIO BAND: (Ain’t It) Funny How Time Slips Away/Pickin' On Willie Nelson - A Bluegrass Tribute (CMH/03)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #542 (July 26 - Aug. 1/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything, part 2
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
BENNY & VALLIE CAIN & THE COUNTRY CLAN: Is It Time/35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass (Rebel/69)
JIMMIE RODGERS: Any Old Time/The Early Years (Rounder/29)
TONY RICE: Any Old Time/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Any Ole Time/The Crooked Road (Crooked Road/11)
THE DILLARDS: There Is A Time/Back Porch Bluegrass & Live … Almost! (Elektra/64)
CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY: Time Was/Mojave River (Backcountry/04)
CHRIS HILLMAN & HERB PEDERSEN: Time Goes So Slow/Bakersfield Bound (Sugar Hill/96)
TOMMY WEBB: Time Stands Still/From Rock-N-Roll To Bill Monroe (self/11)
LILLY OF THE WEST: Time After Time/Time After Time (Music Author/07)
CLIFF WALDRON: Time Passes By/Seasons Past (Rebel/00)
NEW COON CREEK GIRLS: Just One Time/Ain't Love A Good Thing (Pinecastle/95)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Try Me One More Time/Blue Side Of Town (Rounder/92)
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD: Hold Me One More Time/Carolina Road (Pinecastle/12)
GIBSON BROTHERS: One More Time/Another Night Of Waiting (Hay Holler/98)
THE GOINS BROTHERS: One Day At A Time/The Goins Brothers (Rebel/75)
LEWIS FAMILY: Time Is Moving On/16 Greatest Hits (Starday/70)
BLUE MOON RISING: Time To Be Movin' On/Strange New World (Rural Rhythm/10)
PICKIN' ON BAND: Time Between/Eight Miles High - A Bluegrass Tribute To The Byrds (CMH/01)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #543 (Aug. 2-8/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything, part 3
The third of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
STANLEY BROTHERS: I Can Tell You The Time/The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s (Rounder/47)
STANLEY BROTHERS: A Little At A Time/The Early Years 1958-1961 (King/59)
CHARLIE MONROE: Time Clock Of Life/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family/49)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Old Lonesome Time/Venango (Copper Creek/05)
LARRY CORDLE, GLEN DUNCAN & LONESOME STANDARD TIME: Lonesome Standard Time/Lonesome Standard Time (Sugar Hill/92)
RICHARD BENNETT: A Long Lonesome Time/A Long Lonesome Time (Rebel/98)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: That Lonesome Book Of Time/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: My Time Is Running Out/Memories Of The Past (Rebel/13)
HAZEL DICKENS, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES, GINNY HAWKER: Time Is Winding Up/Heart Of A Singer (Rounder/98)
LOST HIGHWAY: Time Waits For No One/A Lifetime Of Sorrow (Hay Holler/01)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Long Time Travelin'/Time (Live Oak/12)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Long Time Gone/The Boys Are Back In Town (Sugar Hill/90)
SNUFFY JENKINS & THE HIRED HANDS: Long Time Gone/Pioneer of the Bluegrass Banjo (Arhoolie/62)
STONEY LONESOME: Long Time Gone/Blue Heartache (Red House/92)
CMH STUDIO BAND: Long Time Gone/Pickin' On Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Vol. 2 (CMH/02)
RON STEWART: Time Stands Still/Time Stands Still (Rounder/01)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #544 (Aug. 9-15/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything, part 4
The final of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
DWIGHT McCALL: Time Of Our Lives/Never Say Never Again (Rural Rhythm/07)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Time the Perfect Stranger/Heart Of The Country (Dog Boy/12)
FRONT RANGE: Maybe This Time/Back To The Red River (Sugar Hill/93)
ALICE GERRARD: Maybe This Time/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
COUNTRY GAZETTE: Time Left To Wander/Out To Lunch (Flying Fish/76)
RONNIE BOWMAN: Time Is On My Side/Starting Over (Sugar Hill/02)
KATHY KALLICK: Time Traveler's Wife/Cut To The Chase (Live Oak/14)
WILL PUTNAM: Making Good Time/Ravin' (Trill Music/10)
TIM O'BRIEN: Time To Learn/Oh Boy O' Boy (Sugar Hill/93)
FRANCINE MICHAELS: Time Can Mend/Time Can Mend (Mountain Top/00)
AMERICAN NOMAD: The Old Time/Country Mile (Spruce and Maple/14)
PETER ROWAN: River Of Time/Dharma Blues (Omnivore/14)
JOSH WILLIAMS & HIGH GEAR: The End Of Time/Come To That River (Copper Creek/97)
IIIRD TYME OUT: When My Time Comes To Go/Back To the MAC (Rounder/00)
JIMMY MARTIN: Time Has Made A Change/Don't Cry To Me (Thrill Jockey/00)
THE TIME JUMPERS: Jumpin' Time/Jumpin' Time (Crosswind/07)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #545 (Aug. 16-22/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Back To Back
Classic songs by the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Reno & Smiley, and others -- along with the original versions of those songs. Plus: additional songs by the original (and lesser-knbown) bands. Guest co-host: Todd Gracyk.
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LEON JACKSON, JOHNNY BRYANT & THE WHITE OAK MOUNTAIN BOYS: Buttahatchee aka Leon's Breakdown/20 Bluegrass Originals - Instrumentals (King/56)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Another Night/The Early Starday-King Years (King/59)
HOBO JACK ADKINS & HIS KENTUCKY PALS: Another Night/Early Bluegrass (Big A/59)
HOBO JACK ADKINS: Will They Have A Resting Place/Early Bluegrass (Big A/58)
BILL MONROE: Cabin Of Love/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/51)
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY TRIO: Cabin Of Love/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Columbia/50)
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY TRIO: Little Sunshine Girl/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Columbia/50)
LONGVIEW: Lonesome Old Home/Longview (Rounder/97)
THE WILSON BROTHERS: Lonesome Old Home/Lonesome Old Home (Vetco/80)
THE WILSON BROTHERS: Six Hours On the Cross/My Ride Is Coming (Old Homestead/79)
RENO & SMILEY: Love Please Come Home/Wanted - For More Fine Country Music (King/60)
LEON JACKSON, JOHNNY BRYANT & THE WHITE OAK MOUNTAIN BOYS: Love Please Come Home/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King/56)
LEON JACKSON, JOHNNY BRYANT & THE WHITE OAK MOUNTAIN BOYS: This Heart's Been Broken Before/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King/56)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Baby Blue Eyes/1948-1959 (Bear Family/49)
JIM EANES: Baby Blue Eyes/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Capitol/49)
JIM EANES: You Better Wake Up/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Capitol/49)
BUZZ BUSBY: Reno Bound/Going Home (Starday/59)
BILL HARRELL'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Reno Bound/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Carol/57)
BILL HARRELL'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Rocky Mountain Ramble/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Carol/57)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #546 (Aug. 23-29/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Two Anniversaries
Originally broadcast on Aug. 9th, the date that the Stanley Brothers did their first recordings for Mercury (in 1953) and that Jerry Garcia passed (in 1995). Both are remembered. Note: All the songs done by Jerry et al were learned from the Stanley Brothers.
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: 1953-1959 (Bear Family/53)
(Say) Won't You Be Mine
This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)
I'm Lonesome Without You
Our Last Goodbye
OLD & IN THE WAY: Goin' to the Races/Breakdown (Acoustic Disc/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: White Dove/Old & In the Way (Arista/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Pig in a Pen/Old & In the Way (Arista/73)
JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND: Ragged But Right (Rhino/87)
If I Lose
Bright Morning Stars
Short Life of Trouble
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: 1953-1959 (Bear Family/53+54)
Nobody's Love Is Like Mine
Could You Love Me (One More Time)
I Just Got Wise
Harbor Of Love
Our Last Goodbye (alternate take)
Dickson County Breakdown
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #547 (Aug. 30 - Sept. 5/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks
LARRY SPARKS (with Judy Marshall and Alison Krauss): Going Up Home To Live in Green Pastures/Lonesome and Then Some … 50th Anniversary Celebration (Rebel)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: Saro Jane/Straight-Ahead Bluegrass (self)
DOWNTOWN MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ridin' on the L&N/Heartland (self)
THE SPINNEY BROTHERS: Gonna Catch A Train/Tried & True (Mountain Fever)
CROWE, LAWSON, WILLIAMS: Pretending I Don't Care/Standing Tall And Tough
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE: Honky-Tonked to Death/Trouble Follows Me (Rebel)
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: Half A Mind/Nashville (Pinecastle/95)
FELLER & HILL: Forget the Past/Here Come Feller & Hill Again (Blue Circle)
RHONDA VINCENT: We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds/Only Me (Upper Management)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER: Just Call Me Crazy/On Down the Line (Compass)
VARIOUS: The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
CASEY HENRY: Purple Creek
TOM ADAMS: Sugarfoot Rag
STEPHEN WADE: Once I Had An Old Banjo>Billy In the Low Ground
MIKE MUNFORD: Hot Burrito Breakdown
FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN: Country Song/Cold Spell (Compass)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #548 (Sept. 6-12/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Cumberland Gap/Twelve By Two (Plus Or Minus One) (Corvus)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Cold Frosty Morning/Twelve By Two (Plus Or Minus One) (Corvus)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Too Young To Marry/Twelve By Two (Plus Or Minus One) (Corvus)
DOWNTOWN MOUNTAIN BOYS: Up and Down the Mountain/Heartland (Stringsound)
SHAWN LANE: Mountain Songs Of Yesterday/Mountain Songs (Cat Town)
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: Going Back To The Mountains/Nashville (Pinecastle/75)
LARRY SPARKS (with Curly Seckler and Bobby Osborne): Dim Lights, Thick Smoke/Lonesome and Then Some … 50th Anniversary Celebration (Rebel)
DICK SMITH: Dear Old Dixie/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: I'd Rather Be Alone/Straight-Ahead Bluegrass (self)
RONI STONEMAN: Going Home/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
PETE KUYKENDALL: Sawmill Shuffle/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
CHRIS WARNER: Lickity Split/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
STEVE GULLEY (& DALE ANN BRADLEY): Stormy Waters/Family, Friends, and Fellowship (Rural Rhythm)
DALE ANN BRADLEY & ALISON BROWN: Go Dig My Grave/Dear Jean - Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie (Compass)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: The Touch Of God’s Hand/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple)
CROWE, LAWSON, WILLIAMS: Those Gone and Left Me Blues/Standing Tall and Tough (Mountain Home)
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Sept. 13-19/14: What's Goin' On
Musical previews of the Strawberry Fall Music Festival, Bluegrassin' In the Foothills, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Old Time Bluegrass Jamboree, Bill Monroe Birthday Celebration, and the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention -- although the last one will be explored deeper next week with BOTMC's Suzy Thompson.
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND (featuring KEITH LITTLE): I Hear A Choo Choo Coming/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple)
VERN & RAY: Little Georgia Rose/San Francisco - 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
ROSE MADDOX: $35 And A Dream/$35 And A Dream (Arhoolie/94)
THE DESERT ROSE BAND: Hello Trouble/Running (MCA-Curb/88)
RED KNUCKLES & THE TRAILBLAZERS: Window Up Above/Classic Hot Rize with Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers LIVE (self/87)
HOT RIZE: Life's Too Short/So Long Of A Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS: Old Ten Broeck/Skippin' & Flyin' (Spruce and Maple/11)
BLUE & LONESOME: Summertime Is Past And Gone/Some Old Day (e'Neff Said/09)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: Letter From My Darling/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARTZ: Those Brown Eyes/Draw Closer (Rounder/04)
JERRY DOUGLAS: Wheel Hoss/Everything's Gonna Work Out Fine (Rounder/79)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Lord Protect My Soul/Time (Live Oak/12)
LARRY GILLIS & THE HARD DRIVING BLUEGRASS BAND: Nobody Answered Me/Swampgrass (Tinman/10)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: That Home Far Away/Memories That Bless & Burn (Rounder/99)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Washed In the Blood/A Mother's Prayer (Rebel/11)
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Sept. 20-26/14: BOTMC Previews
with guest co-host Suzy Thompson
MOSTLY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Cluck Old Hen/Mostly Mountain Boys (L-Century)
TWICE AS NICE: Bear Creek/demo (self)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: Sequatchie Valley/Sequatchie Valley (self)
FRANK GEORGE & KIM JOHNSON: Hop High Ladies/Live at 2013 BOTMC (self)
MARK SIMOS: Found Indian/Big Ears - Cliffnotes Vol. 2 (5 String)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARTZ: Love Will Roll the Clouds Away/Draw Closer (Rounder)
THE ONLIES: Dance Set/Setting Out To Sea (self)
WB REID & BONNIE ZAHNOW: Slim Gal/demo (self)
FIDDLIN' EARL WHITE: Apple Blossom/Earl White String Band (self)
GINNY HAWKER: Amazing Grace/Live at 2010 BOTMC (self)
MARK SIMOS: Because It's There/Cliffnotes Vol. 1 (5 String)
FRANK GEORGE & KIM JOHNSON: Kid On the Roof/Live at 2013 BOTMC (self)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARTZ: Salem's Bright King/Draw Closer (Rounder)
MOSTLY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Kansas City Railroad Blues/Mostly Mountain Boys (L-Century)
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Sept. 27 - Oct. 3/14: It's Just the Night, Part 1
DEL McCOURY BAND: It's Just the Night/It's Just the Night (McCoury Music/03)
JIMMY MARTIN & HIS SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Night/Jimmy Martin & His Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Night/Let 'er Go, Boys/Rounder/06)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Don’t Go Out Tonight/The Early Starday-King Years 1958-1961 (King/60)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Another Night/The Early Starday-King Years 1958-1961 (King/59)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: A Lonesome Night/1953-1958 & 1959 (Bear Family/56)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Love Me Darling, Just Tonight/The Early Starday-King Years 1958-1961 (King/58)
BILL MONROE & DOC WATSON: Have A Feast Here Tonight/Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
BILL MONROE: Dark As The Night, Blue As The Day/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/59)
BILL MONROE: Blue Night/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/67)
ALLEGHENY DRIFTERS: Long Lonesome Night Without End/Can't Wait (self/08)
NEW COON CREEK GIRLS: Stormy Night/The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Pinecastle/94)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: Starry Night/Fork In The Road (Sugar Hill/07)
STEELDRIVERS: Angel Of the Night/Reckless (Rounder/10)
JEFF WHITE: When the Night Is Near/The White Album (Rounder/96)
TOMMY JARRELL & FRED COCKERHAM: Stay All Night/Best Fiddle-Banjo Duets (County)
TOMMY JARRELL: Dance All Night With A Bottle In Your Hand/Vol. 4 - Pickin' On Tommy's Porch (County)
HIGH COUNTRY: B.A.R.T. By Night/Sunset On The Prairie (Turquoise/91)
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Oct. 4-10/14: It's Just the Night, Part 2
DEL McCOURY BAND: It's Just the Night/It's Just the Night (Mccoury Music/03)
DOC WATSON: Late Last Night (Way Dowtown)/The Essential Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Late Last Night/Live, At Last (Rounder/96)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Blue Night/Celebrating the First Twenty Years (California Bluegrass Association/86)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Dark As the Night, Blue As the Day/The Best Of the Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Another Night/Basic Blue Grass (Old Homestead/87)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Lonesome Night/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
RED ALLEN: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight/Lonesome and Blue (Rebel/66)
THE GRASCALS: My Night To Howl/Long List Of Heartaches (Rounder/06)
JOHN PRINE & MAC WISEMAN: Where The Blue Of the Night/Standard Songs For Average People (Oh Boy/07)
KATHY KALLICK: What A Night/Reason & Rhyme (Copper Creek/04)
TONY RICE: Night Flyer/Native American (Rounder/88)
TONY RICE: One More Night/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Late Last Night/Count Your Blessings (Live Oak/04)
DAVID DAVIS & THE WARRIOR RIVER BOYS: Voice In The Night/My Dixie Home (Wango/94)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Night Walk/Folk Session Inside (Mercury/63)
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Oct. 11-17/14: Blue Is Fallin'
On the anniversary of Charles Sawtelle's birth, selections from the first Hot Rize studio recording since his passing, along with some favorite recorded moments from Charles. His guitar playing was like no one this side of Clarence and his singing is as soulful as it gets.
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CHARLES SAWTELLE: The Butcher’s Dog/Music From Rancho deVille (Acoustic Disc/01)
HOT RIZE: Country Boy Rock ‘n’ Roll/Hot Rize (Flying Fish/79)
HOT RIZE: Think Of What You've Done/Take It Home (Sugar Hill/90)
HOT RIZE: Walkin' the Dog/Radio Boogie (Flying Fish/81)
HOT RIZE: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning/Traditional Ties (Sugar Hill/86)
HOT RIZE: If I Lose/Live In Kansas 1986 (Acoustic Disc/86)
HOT RIZE: Radio Boogie/Live In Kansas 1986 (Acoustic Disc/86)
RED KNUCKLES & THE TRAILBLAZERS: Slade's Samba>I Know My Baby Loves Me/Live In Kansas 1986 (Acoustic Disc/86)
HOT RIZE: Doggone/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: I Never Met A One Like You/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Sky Rider/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Blue Is Fallin'/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Western Skies/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: I Am the Road/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: The Butcher’s Dog/So Long Of a Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
CHARLES SAWTELLE: Aragon Mill/Music From Rancho deVille (Acoustic Disc/01)
CHARLES SAWTELLE: Let's Go Home/Music From Rancho deVille (Acoustic Disc/01)
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Oct. 18-24/14: Fall Membership Campaign Special
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: You’re Not A Drop In the Bucket/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: On My Mind/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
HOT RIZE: Western Skies/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Sky Rider/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Hard Pressed (But We Can Find A Way)/Live In Kansas 1986 (Acoustic Disc/86)
HOT RIZE: Radio Boogie/Radio Boogie (Flying Fish/81)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: I’m Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling/1948-1959 (Bear Family/50)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Why Did You Wander/1948-1959 (Bear Family/52)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Shuckin’ the Corn/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Big Black Train/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Til the End Of the World Rolls ‘Round/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
HOT RIZE: You Were On My Mind/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Blue Is Fallin'/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Glory In the Meeting House/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Doggone/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
LOST COAST: Drink Up & Go Home/Live at the Freight (2-5-07)
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Oct. 25-31/14: It’s Bluegrass Time!
A few songs celebrating music from the true vine, as a reminder of the inspiration for the annual SF fester which now has hardly any bluegrass. Guarantee: all songs (but one) have “bluegrass” in the title. The one repeated song is from 1961 and 2014 recordings.
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JOHN REISCHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
JACK TOTTLE: The Bluegrass Sound/Blockbuster Bluegrass (Copper Creek/06)
GIBSON BROTHERS: That Bluegrass Music/Bona Fide (Sugar Hill/03)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
JOSH SLONE & COALTOWN: Bluegrass and Me/Josh Slone & Coaltown (Rural Rhythm/11)
TOMMY WEBB: If It Weren't For Bluegrass Music I'd Go Crazy/Eastern Kentucky (Kindred/07)
RHONDA VINCENT & THE RAGE: All American Bluegrass Girl/All American Bluegrass Girl (Rounder/06)
CURLY SECKLER: Bluegrass, Don't You Know/Bluegrass Don't You Know (Copper Creek/06)
RUSSELL JOHNSON & THE GRASS CATS: Bluegrass Time/Anytime, Anyplace But Only You (New Time/11)
AL WOOD & THE SMOKEY RIDGE BOYS: Sing A Bluegrass Song/Sing A Bluegrass Song (Rebel/73)
PINE MOUNTAIN RAILROAD: Break Your Heart With A Bluegrass Song/The Old Radio (CMH/03)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: The Grass That I'm Playing Is Really Blue/News Is Out (Sugar Hill/87)
SPRUCE PINE: High On Bluegrass/European World Of Bluegrass 1998 (Strictly Country/98)
THE BOYS FROM INDIANA: Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight/Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight (King/75)
PETE GOBLE: When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass/When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass (Fireheart/05)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass/The Best Of The Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
VERN & RAY: Blue Grass Style/Cabin On A Mountain - Classic King & Starday Bluegrass From the 1950s and '60s (King/61)
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Nov. 1-7/14: Dobro Heaven
Originally broadcast on Josh Graves’ birthday, a few of Josh’s contributions to Flatt & Scruggs, plus two new dobro-centric releases: “Three Bells” with the late Mike Auldridge, Rob Ickes, and Jerry Douglas, and “The Earls Of Leiscester,” Jerry’s tribute to Josh & Flatt & Scruggs.
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JOSH GRAVES: Flatt Lonesome/Memories Of Foggy Mountain (OMS/02)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Some Old Day/1948-1959 (Bear Family/55)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Let Those Brown Eyes Smile At Me/1948-1959 (Bear Family/55)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Shuckin' The Corn/1948-1959 (Bear Family/57)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Someone You Have Forgotten/1948-1959 (Bear Family/59)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Big Black Train/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: I'll Go Stepping Too/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: On My Mind/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
JERRY DOUGLAS, ROB ICKES, MIKE AULDRIDGE: Silver Threads Among The Gold/Three Bells (Rounder/14)
JERRY DOUGLAS, ROB ICKES, MIKE AULDRIDGE: Panhandle Rag/Three Bells (Rounder/14)
JERRY DOUGLAS, ROB ICKES, MIKE AULDRIDGE: Dobro Heaven/Three Bells (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: ’Til the End Of The World Rolls ‘Round/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Dig A Hole In The Meadow/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Foggy Mountain Rock/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
JOSH GRAVES: Just Joshin’/The Great Dobro Sessions (Sugar Hill/94)
JERRY DOUGLAS, ROB ICKES, MIKE AULDRIDGE: I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap/Three Bells (Rounder/14)
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Nov. 8-14: Blue Diamond Strings
A gazillion years of musical experience provides the foundation for a new SF Bay Area band comprised of Eric Thompson, Jody Stecher, Kate Brislin, Paul Knight, Paul Shelasky, and Suzy Thompson. Music from some of their previous collaborations in bands like the Blue Flame Stringband, Any Old Time Stringband, Kleptograss, the Bluegrass Intentions, and, yes, others.
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ERIC THOMPSON: Cross-Eyed Fiddler/Thompson's Real (Herringbone/78)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Boat’s Up The River/Return (self/10)
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND (featuring JODY STECHER): Catfish Blues/Legacy (Compass/10)
JODY STECHER: Kenny in Kansas City/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
ERIC THOMPSON: Louisiana Blues/Kleptograss (Herringbone/10)
BLACK MOUNTAIN BOYS: Catnip/Live at Ashkenaz 3/8/13 (festivalink.net)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: You Don't Know My Mind/Old As Dirt (Native & Fine/02)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Beaver Slide Rag/Dream Shadows (Herringbone/08)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: What Was I Supposed To Do/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/82)
ANY OLD TIME STRING BAND: I Bid You Goodnight/I Bid You Goodnight (Arhoolie/78)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Somebody's Boy/Return (self/10)
PAUL SHELASKY: I'm Never Going Home ('Cause Mother's Waiting)/Fiddle-Crazy (Lost Highway/99)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: It Seems There's Nothing I Can Do/Part Of A Story (Flat Rock/85)
ERIC THOMPSON: Crazy Creek>Thompson's Reel/Thompson's Real (Herringbone/78)
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Nov. 15-21/14: Across the Tracks
A survey of new releases, including four songs from international bands, four from Rebel, four from different duets — plus three featuring the duet vocals of Dale Ann Bradley and Steve Gulley.
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Now the Summer’s Gone/Another Day From Life (Rebel)
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLER’S CHOICE: Frost On the Bluegrass/Trouble Follows Me (Rebel)
LARRY SPARKS (featuring JUDY MARSHALL & ALISON KRAUSS): Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures/Lonesome and Then Some … (Rebel)
JON WEISBERGER (featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY & STEVE GULLEY): Now and Then/I’ve Been Mostly Awake (Wise Kings)
PHIL LEADBETTER (featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY & STEVE GULLEY): I’ve Never Seen A Love That Wasn’t Blind/The Next Move (Pinecastle)
STEVE GULLEY (featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY): Stormy Waters/Family, Friends & Fellowship (Rural Rhythm)
JIMMY GAUDREAU & MOONDI KLEIN: One More Night/If I Had A Boat (Rebel)
BILLY STRINGS & DON JULIN: Walk On Boy/Fiddle Tune X (self)
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN: New South Africa/Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn (Rounder)
THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS: Every Time I Leave/Wanderlust (self) * Australia *
DUNDERHEAD: Little By Little/Dunderhead (self) * Sweden *
HANDL BLUEGRASS BAND: On the Festival/Handl Bluegrass Band (self) *Czech Republic *
JANIS McCOURY & THE WALL OF SOUND: Corn Around My House/demo (self) * Netherlands *
ALAN MUNDE & BILLY BRIGHT: Geezer Ride/Bright Munde (Munde’s Child)
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Nov. 22-28/14: Live On Arrival
Highlights from two Main Stage sets at the recent Strawberry Music Festival, featuring one emerging and one established Bay Area bluegrass band: Steep Ravine and the Kathy Kallick Band.
NOTE: All tracks on this show (except as noted) recorded live on 9-14-14 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds by Hog Ranch Radio, and used by permission of the musicians.
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KATHY KALLICK BAND: Kentucky Mandolin
KATHY KALLICK BAND:
Panhandle Rag
Time
Tryin' So Hard To Get To You
Banjo Pickin' Girl
STEEP RAVINE:
Time & Again
Moody River
Wooden Floors
KATHY KALLICK BAND:
My House
Fare Thee Well
Cotton-Eyed Joe
STEEP RAVINE: Highland Hornpipe
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Nov. 29 - Dec. 5/14: Across the Tracks
Reissues from Larry Rice and J.D. Crowe, plus a survey of new releases, with an overall theme of travel and sub-themes related to Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and a memorial tribute to “Car Talk”’s Tom Magliozzi.
NOTE: All releases are 2014, except as noted.
R.I.P., Tom Magliozzi
THE MYSTIC RIVER VALLEY BOYS: Mountain Dew/Martin guitar presentation to Click & Clack (2008)
DAVID GRISMAN: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/Dawg Grass (Warner Brothers/83)
LARRY RICE: Four Wheel Drive/If You Only Knew [nee Hurricanes & Daydreams] (Rebel/86)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MT. BOYS: Born To Be With You/Blackjack [nee Ramblin’ Boy (Lemco)] (Rebel/71)
THE CROWE BROTHERS: Lost Highway/Forty Years Old (Mountain Fever)
LARRY CORDLE & LONESOME STANDARD TIME (with ALISON KRAUSS): Two Highways/All-Star Duets (MightyCord)
RONI STONEMAN: The Day the Banjo Dies/The Day the Banjo Dies (Cumbria/RDB advance single)
TERRY BAUCOM: Martha White, Lester and Earl/Never Thought Of Looking Back (John Boy & Billy/13)
EARLS OF LEISCESTER: Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down/Earls Of Leiscester (Rounder)
NO GRASS LIMIT: Good Ole Days of Bill Monroe/No Grass Limit (Universe Unlimited)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: On My Way Back To the Old Home/Straight-Ahead Bluegrass (self)
JOE MULLINS & RADIO RAMBLERS: Every Road Leads Back to You/Another Day From Life (Rebel)
STEVE GULLEY & NEW PINNACLE: Leaving Crazytown/Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle (Rural Rhythm advance single)
CHRIS COOLE & IVAN ROSENBERG: Train That Carried My Girl From Town/Return to Trion (Vole-O-Tone)
JAMES LEVA: Sally Gal/All Over the Map (Patuxent)
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Dec. 6-12/14: Day Of the Dead (Grass)
Originally broadcast on El Dia de los Muertos, a program of the Grateful Dead playing bluegrass and bluegrass bands playing the Dead.
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McEUEN & SALAZAR: Franklin's Tower/Tribute To Jerry Garcia (Chrome/99)
JG intro -> THE KENTUCKY COLONELS: Jordan/Livin’ In the Past (Sierra) - 8/18/64 (Cabale, Berkeley)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Cold (sic) Jordan/Road Trips, Vol. 3 No. 3: 5/15/70 (Fillmore East, NYC)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Rosalie McFall/Reckoning: 9/25/80 (Warfield Theatre, SF)
CHARLIE MONROE & THE KENTUCKY PARTNERS: Rosa Lee McFall/I’m Old Kentucky Bound 1938-1956 (Bear Family/49)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Dark Hollow/Reckoning: 10/23/80 (Radio City Music Hall, NYC)
DEL McCOURY with BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Dark Hollow/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc) - 11/16/63 (Worcester, MA)
BILL MONROE: I’m (sic) Sittin' On Top Of The World/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/57)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Sitting On Top Of The World/Steppin' Out With the Grateful Dead - England ’72: 5/23/72 (Lyceum Theatre, London)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: Black Muddy River/The Wheel: A Musical Celebration of Jerry Garcia (Rex Foundation) - 12/4/10 (Fillmore Auditorium, SF)
RICE, RICE, HILLMAN & PEDERSEN: Friend of the Devil/Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen (Rounder/99)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: He’s Gone/Silver Sky - Deluxe Edition (High Country/12)
AJ LEE: Ripple/Song For Noah (Whitehorse/14)
THE GRASS IS DEAD: Lazy River Road/The Grass Is Dead (self/00)
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Dec. 13-19/14: Across the Tracks
More new releases, this time with thematic sets encompassing death (continuing last week's motif), duets, destinations (including home), and dreaming.
Note: All releases in 2014, unless otherwise noted.
THE CROWE BROTHERS: Two Feet On the Floor/Forty Years Old (Mountain Fever)
LARRY CORDLE & LONESOME STANDARD TIME (with DEL McCOURY): The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall)/All-Star Duets (MightyCord)
BILL EVANS & PAUL SHELASKY: Fiddle & Banjo aka Wild Horse at Stony Point/Live at the Freight (2-15-11)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Thinkin’ Of Home/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce & Maple)
DONNA HUGHES: There’s No Place Like Home/From The Heart (Running Dog)
BALSAM RANGE: Moon Over Memphis/Five (Mountain Home)
NU-BLU: It’s Not That Cold In Montana/All the Way (Rural Rhythm)
RUSS CARSON: New York Chimes/Avenue Of the Giants (Patuxent)
JIM HURST: I Picked the Wildwood Flower/Looking Glass (NN Guido)
BILLY STRINGS & DON JULIN: I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow/Fiddle Tune X (self)
CHRIS COOLE & IVAN ROSENBERG: Bound To Ride/Return to Trion (Vole-O-Tone)
JAMES LEVA: Another Man Done Gone > Baby Please Don't Go/All over the Map (Patuxent)
GOODBYE GIRLS: Graveyard/Going To Boston (self)
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE: Honky-Tonked to Death/Trouble Follows Me (Rebel)Pinecastle)
AMY GALLATIN & STILLWATERS: I Dreamed Of An Old Love Affair/Everything I Wanted Love To Be (Happy Appy)
JON WEISBERGER (featuring CRIS JONES): What My Memory Tells Me/I've Been Mostly Awake (Wise Kings)
PHIL LEADBETTER (featuring JERRY DOUGLAS & ROB ICKES): Just Joshin’/The Next Move (Pinecastle)
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Dec. 20-26/14: Ring the Bells At Midnight
Songs and tunes of the season, taken primarily from three new releases — John Reischman & the Jaybirds’ “On A Winter’s Night,” the Claire Lynch Band’s “Holiday,” and the Pinecastle compilation, “Christmas In the Smokies” — plus dobro player Greg Booth’s sterling home recordings. Plus: a couple more new ones and a couple old faves. Merry, merry to you & yours!
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BILL MONROE: Christmas Time's A-Coming/Bluegrass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/51)
THE CLAIRE LYNCH BAND: Home For the Holidays/Holiday (Thrill Hill/14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Shine Like A Star In The Morning/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
THE CLAIRE LYNCH BAND: In the Window/Holiday (Thrill Hill/14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Christmas Eve/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
DALE ANN BRADLEY & STEVE GULLEY: Christmas The Mountain Way/Christmas The Mountain Way (Rural Rhythm/12)
GREG BOOTH: Sleigh Ride/Christmas Dobro (self/14)
CHRIS BURTON: Mountain Hallelujah/Wandering Again (Slaughterhouse advance single)
GREG BOOTH: I'll Be Home For Christmas/Christmas Dobro (self/14)
PHIL LEADBETTER & FRIENDS: Jingle Bells/Christmas In the Smokies (Pinecastle/14)
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD: Christmas In the Smokies/Christmas In the Smokies (Pinecastle/14)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Go Tell It On the Mountain/Christmas In the Smokies (Pinecastle/03>14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Breaking Up Christmas/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
THE CLAIRE LYNCH BAND: Snow Day/Holiday (Thrill Hill/14)
RICK LANG (featuring STEPHEN MOUGIN): Looks Like Snow/That’s What I Love About Christmas (RLM/14)
GREG BOOTH: The Christmas Song/Christmas Dobro (self/14)
KATHY KALLICK & THE LITTLE BIG BAND: Ring The Bells At Midnight/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
RALPH STANLEY: I’m Going Home, It's Christmas Time/Christmas Time (Freeland/93)
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Dec. 27/14 - Jan. 2/15: Eat At the Welcome Table
An important part of many holidays — food! — is celebrated with bluegrass and old time songs about baking, porcine products, welcoming company, and … doing the dishes.
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HEIDI CLAIRE & RON THOMASON: Turkey In the Straw/Bygone Days (self/13)
BILL MONROE: Y'all Come/The Music Of Bill Monroe From 1936 To 1994 (MCA/54)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At the Welcome Table/Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass (Rounder/81)
THE HUNGER MOUNTAIN BOYS: Feast Here Tonight/10 Years of European World of Bluegrass (Strictly Country/06)
WAYNE HENDERSON (featuring KATY TAYLOR): Hey, Good Lookin’/W.C. Henderson & Co. (Hay Holler/94)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Martha White theme/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
THE FREIGHT HOPPERS: How Many Biscuits Can You Eat/Where'd You Come From, Where'd You Go? (Rounder/96)
LOST & FOUND: Leftover Biscuits/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/80)
HAZEL DICKENS: Scraps From Your Table/Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (Rounder/80)
HOTMUD FAMILY: Country Ham & Red Gravy/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
RICKY SKAGGS: 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: 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/Good Ol' Persons (Bay/77)
JOE & ODELL THOMPSON: Pumpkin Pie/Back Roads To Cold Mountain (Smithsonian-Folkways/89)
SWEET POTATO PIE: Sweet Potato Jingle/Nothing's the Same (self/09)
LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Dirty Dishes Blues/Windy Mountain (Bear Family/53)
DONE GONE: Watermelon Hangin' On the Vine/The Done Gone Band (self/79)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Blue In the Blue Ridge - A Memorial Celebration of James Alan Shelton
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JAMES ALAN SHELTON: In the Sweet By & By/Guitar Tracks (Copper Creek/99)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Blue In the Blue Ridge/Blue In the Blue Ridge (Freeland/92)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Standing Room Only/Standing Room Only (Freeland/99)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Bill Cheatum/Blue In the Blue Ridge (Freeland/92)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: John Henry/Standing Room Only (Freeland/99)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Road to Coeburn/Road to Coeburn (Copper Creek/97)
RALPH STANLEY: Nobody's Darling/Short Life Of Trouble - Songs Of Grayson & Whitter (Rebel/96)
RALPH STANLEY: Daddy's Wildwood Flower/While the Ages Roll On (Rebel/00)
DR. RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sunny Side Of The Mountain/Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop (DCM/01)
GEORGE SHUFFLER & JAMES ALAN SHELTON: True Life Blues/The Legacy Continues (Copper Creek/00)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room/Song For Greta (Rebel/02)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Foggy Mountain Top/Half Moon Bay (Rebel/04)
RALPH STANLEY: Waves On The Sea/A Distant Land To Roam - Songs Of the Carter Family (DMZ Columbia/06)
RALPH STANLEY: What Kind Of Man/A Mother's Prayer (Rebel/11)
DR. RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Will You Miss Me/Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop (DCM/01)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Faded Love/Song For Greta (Rebel/02)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #540 (July 12-18/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks
LARRY SPARKS: Bitterweeds/Lonesome & Then Some – A Classic 50th Anniversary Celebration (Rebel)
PETER ROWAN: A Grain Of Sand/Dharma Blues (Omnivore)
RICHARD BENNETT: In the Wind Somewhere/In the Wind Somewhere (Lonesome Day)
KATHY BARWICK (& SUZANNE THOMAS): Sweet Sunny South/Braeburn (FGM)
CENTRAL VALLEY BOYS: God Gave You To Me/God Gave You To Me (self)
MOLLY TUTTLE & JOHN MAILANDER: Another Side>Tell Me/Molly Tuttle & John Mailander (Back Studio)
ALLEGHENY DRIFTERS: Climb Heaven's Ladder/Climb Heaven's Ladder (self)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: The Touch Of God's Hand/Kathy & Laurie Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple)
FELLER & HILL: He’s Coming Back To Earth Again/Here Come Feller & Hill … Again (Blue Circle)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER: Fiddlin’ Joe/On Down the Line (Compass)
NATE LEATH & FRIENDS: Molly Put the Kettle On/Volume 2 (Patuxent)
AL JONES & THE SPRUCE MOUNTAIN BOYS: My Friend Frank/Hard Core Bluegrass (Patuxent)
FLATT LONESOME: So Far/Too (Mountain Home)
BALSAM RANGE: Chasing Someone Else's Dreams/Five (Mountain Home)
DANNY ROBERTS: New Gil Ramble/Nighthawk (Mountain Home)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #541 (July 19-25/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything, part 1
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LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
BILL MONROE: Time Changes Everything/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/60)
CHARLIE SIZEMORE: Time Can't Take Your Memory Away/Back Home (Rebel/94)
BLUE ROSE: Time Has Made A Change/Blue Rose (Sugar Hill/89)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Time (Live Oak/12)
LOU REID & CAROLINA: Time/Time (Lonesome Day/05)
NEW VINTAGE: Time/Sands Of Time (Pinecastle/96)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Doing My Time/1948-1959 (Bear Family/50)
BARRY & HOLLY TASHIAN: I'll Take My Time/Harmony (Rounder/97)
THE BOXCARS: You Can Take Your Time/The Boxcars (Mountain Home/10)
BLUEGRASS CARDINALS: I've Had A Time/The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals (CMH/79)
JOHN HARTFORD: I Wish We Had Our Time Again/Down On The River (Flying Fish/89)
JODY STECHER: Long Time A-Comin'/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Time To Say Goodbye/Waiting At The Homeplace (Hay Holler/04)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Don't You Think It's Time To Go/The Family (Ceili/99)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Now the Time Has Come To Go/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/85)
LARRY SPARKS: When My Time Comes To Go/Let Him Lead You (Rebel/76)
CMH STUDIO BAND: (Ain’t It) Funny How Time Slips Away/Pickin' On Willie Nelson - A Bluegrass Tribute (CMH/03)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #542 (July 26 - Aug. 1/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything, part 2
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
BENNY & VALLIE CAIN & THE COUNTRY CLAN: Is It Time/35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass (Rebel/69)
JIMMIE RODGERS: Any Old Time/The Early Years (Rounder/29)
TONY RICE: Any Old Time/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Any Ole Time/The Crooked Road (Crooked Road/11)
THE DILLARDS: There Is A Time/Back Porch Bluegrass & Live … Almost! (Elektra/64)
CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY: Time Was/Mojave River (Backcountry/04)
CHRIS HILLMAN & HERB PEDERSEN: Time Goes So Slow/Bakersfield Bound (Sugar Hill/96)
TOMMY WEBB: Time Stands Still/From Rock-N-Roll To Bill Monroe (self/11)
LILLY OF THE WEST: Time After Time/Time After Time (Music Author/07)
CLIFF WALDRON: Time Passes By/Seasons Past (Rebel/00)
NEW COON CREEK GIRLS: Just One Time/Ain't Love A Good Thing (Pinecastle/95)
DEL McCOURY BAND: Try Me One More Time/Blue Side Of Town (Rounder/92)
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD: Hold Me One More Time/Carolina Road (Pinecastle/12)
GIBSON BROTHERS: One More Time/Another Night Of Waiting (Hay Holler/98)
THE GOINS BROTHERS: One Day At A Time/The Goins Brothers (Rebel/75)
LEWIS FAMILY: Time Is Moving On/16 Greatest Hits (Starday/70)
BLUE MOON RISING: Time To Be Movin' On/Strange New World (Rural Rhythm/10)
PICKIN' ON BAND: Time Between/Eight Miles High - A Bluegrass Tribute To The Byrds (CMH/01)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #543 (Aug. 2-8/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything, part 3
The third of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
STANLEY BROTHERS: I Can Tell You The Time/The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s (Rounder/47)
STANLEY BROTHERS: A Little At A Time/The Early Years 1958-1961 (King/59)
CHARLIE MONROE: Time Clock Of Life/I’m Old Kentucky Bound (Bear Family/49)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Old Lonesome Time/Venango (Copper Creek/05)
LARRY CORDLE, GLEN DUNCAN & LONESOME STANDARD TIME: Lonesome Standard Time/Lonesome Standard Time (Sugar Hill/92)
RICHARD BENNETT: A Long Lonesome Time/A Long Lonesome Time (Rebel/98)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: That Lonesome Book Of Time/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: My Time Is Running Out/Memories Of The Past (Rebel/13)
HAZEL DICKENS, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES, GINNY HAWKER: Time Is Winding Up/Heart Of A Singer (Rounder/98)
LOST HIGHWAY: Time Waits For No One/A Lifetime Of Sorrow (Hay Holler/01)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Long Time Travelin'/Time (Live Oak/12)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Long Time Gone/The Boys Are Back In Town (Sugar Hill/90)
SNUFFY JENKINS & THE HIRED HANDS: Long Time Gone/Pioneer of the Bluegrass Banjo (Arhoolie/62)
STONEY LONESOME: Long Time Gone/Blue Heartache (Red House/92)
CMH STUDIO BAND: Long Time Gone/Pickin' On Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Vol. 2 (CMH/02)
RON STEWART: Time Stands Still/Time Stands Still (Rounder/01)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #544 (Aug. 9-15/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything, part 4
The final of a four-part exploration of bluegrass songs about … TIME.
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LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
DWIGHT McCALL: Time Of Our Lives/Never Say Never Again (Rural Rhythm/07)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Time the Perfect Stranger/Heart Of The Country (Dog Boy/12)
FRONT RANGE: Maybe This Time/Back To The Red River (Sugar Hill/93)
ALICE GERRARD: Maybe This Time/Bittersweet (Spruce and Maple/13)
COUNTRY GAZETTE: Time Left To Wander/Out To Lunch (Flying Fish/76)
RONNIE BOWMAN: Time Is On My Side/Starting Over (Sugar Hill/02)
KATHY KALLICK: Time Traveler's Wife/Cut To The Chase (Live Oak/14)
WILL PUTNAM: Making Good Time/Ravin' (Trill Music/10)
TIM O'BRIEN: Time To Learn/Oh Boy O' Boy (Sugar Hill/93)
FRANCINE MICHAELS: Time Can Mend/Time Can Mend (Mountain Top/00)
AMERICAN NOMAD: The Old Time/Country Mile (Spruce and Maple/14)
PETER ROWAN: River Of Time/Dharma Blues (Omnivore/14)
JOSH WILLIAMS & HIGH GEAR: The End Of Time/Come To That River (Copper Creek/97)
IIIRD TYME OUT: When My Time Comes To Go/Back To the MAC (Rounder/00)
JIMMY MARTIN: Time Has Made A Change/Don't Cry To Me (Thrill Jockey/00)
THE TIME JUMPERS: Jumpin' Time/Jumpin' Time (Crosswind/07)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #545 (Aug. 16-22/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Back To Back
Classic songs by the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Reno & Smiley, and others -- along with the original versions of those songs. Plus: additional songs by the original (and lesser-knbown) bands. Guest co-host: Todd Gracyk.
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LEON JACKSON, JOHNNY BRYANT & THE WHITE OAK MOUNTAIN BOYS: Buttahatchee aka Leon's Breakdown/20 Bluegrass Originals - Instrumentals (King/56)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Another Night/The Early Starday-King Years (King/59)
HOBO JACK ADKINS & HIS KENTUCKY PALS: Another Night/Early Bluegrass (Big A/59)
HOBO JACK ADKINS: Will They Have A Resting Place/Early Bluegrass (Big A/58)
BILL MONROE: Cabin Of Love/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/51)
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY TRIO: Cabin Of Love/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Columbia/50)
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY TRIO: Little Sunshine Girl/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Columbia/50)
LONGVIEW: Lonesome Old Home/Longview (Rounder/97)
THE WILSON BROTHERS: Lonesome Old Home/Lonesome Old Home (Vetco/80)
THE WILSON BROTHERS: Six Hours On the Cross/My Ride Is Coming (Old Homestead/79)
RENO & SMILEY: Love Please Come Home/Wanted - For More Fine Country Music (King/60)
LEON JACKSON, JOHNNY BRYANT & THE WHITE OAK MOUNTAIN BOYS: Love Please Come Home/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King/56)
LEON JACKSON, JOHNNY BRYANT & THE WHITE OAK MOUNTAIN BOYS: This Heart's Been Broken Before/The Best Of King & Starday Bluegrass (King/56)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Baby Blue Eyes/1948-1959 (Bear Family/49)
JIM EANES: Baby Blue Eyes/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Capitol/49)
JIM EANES: You Better Wake Up/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Capitol/49)
BUZZ BUSBY: Reno Bound/Going Home (Starday/59)
BILL HARRELL'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Reno Bound/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Carol/57)
BILL HARRELL'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Rocky Mountain Ramble/Bluegrass From Joe Bussard's Collection (Carol/57)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #546 (Aug. 23-29/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Two Anniversaries
Originally broadcast on Aug. 9th, the date that the Stanley Brothers did their first recordings for Mercury (in 1953) and that Jerry Garcia passed (in 1995). Both are remembered. Note: All the songs done by Jerry et al were learned from the Stanley Brothers.
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: 1953-1959 (Bear Family/53)
(Say) Won't You Be Mine
This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)
I'm Lonesome Without You
Our Last Goodbye
OLD & IN THE WAY: Goin' to the Races/Breakdown (Acoustic Disc/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: White Dove/Old & In the Way (Arista/73)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Pig in a Pen/Old & In the Way (Arista/73)
JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND: Ragged But Right (Rhino/87)
If I Lose
Bright Morning Stars
Short Life of Trouble
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: 1953-1959 (Bear Family/53+54)
Nobody's Love Is Like Mine
Could You Love Me (One More Time)
I Just Got Wise
Harbor Of Love
Our Last Goodbye (alternate take)
Dickson County Breakdown
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #547 (Aug. 30 - Sept. 5/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks
LARRY SPARKS (with Judy Marshall and Alison Krauss): Going Up Home To Live in Green Pastures/Lonesome and Then Some … 50th Anniversary Celebration (Rebel)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: Saro Jane/Straight-Ahead Bluegrass (self)
DOWNTOWN MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ridin' on the L&N/Heartland (self)
THE SPINNEY BROTHERS: Gonna Catch A Train/Tried & True (Mountain Fever)
CROWE, LAWSON, WILLIAMS: Pretending I Don't Care/Standing Tall And Tough
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE: Honky-Tonked to Death/Trouble Follows Me (Rebel)
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: Half A Mind/Nashville (Pinecastle/95)
FELLER & HILL: Forget the Past/Here Come Feller & Hill Again (Blue Circle)
RHONDA VINCENT: We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds/Only Me (Upper Management)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER: Just Call Me Crazy/On Down the Line (Compass)
VARIOUS: The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
CASEY HENRY: Purple Creek
TOM ADAMS: Sugarfoot Rag
STEPHEN WADE: Once I Had An Old Banjo>Billy In the Low Ground
MIKE MUNFORD: Hot Burrito Breakdown
FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN: Country Song/Cold Spell (Compass)
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“Bluegrass Country” - program #548 (Sept. 6-12/14)
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Cumberland Gap/Twelve By Two (Plus Or Minus One) (Corvus)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Cold Frosty Morning/Twelve By Two (Plus Or Minus One) (Corvus)
NICK HORNBUCKLE: Too Young To Marry/Twelve By Two (Plus Or Minus One) (Corvus)
DOWNTOWN MOUNTAIN BOYS: Up and Down the Mountain/Heartland (Stringsound)
SHAWN LANE: Mountain Songs Of Yesterday/Mountain Songs (Cat Town)
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: Going Back To The Mountains/Nashville (Pinecastle/75)
LARRY SPARKS (with Curly Seckler and Bobby Osborne): Dim Lights, Thick Smoke/Lonesome and Then Some … 50th Anniversary Celebration (Rebel)
DICK SMITH: Dear Old Dixie/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: I'd Rather Be Alone/Straight-Ahead Bluegrass (self)
RONI STONEMAN: Going Home/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
PETE KUYKENDALL: Sawmill Shuffle/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
CHRIS WARNER: Lickity Split/The Patuxent Banjo Project (Patuxent)
STEVE GULLEY (& DALE ANN BRADLEY): Stormy Waters/Family, Friends, and Fellowship (Rural Rhythm)
DALE ANN BRADLEY & ALISON BROWN: Go Dig My Grave/Dear Jean - Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie (Compass)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: The Touch Of God’s Hand/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple)
CROWE, LAWSON, WILLIAMS: Those Gone and Left Me Blues/Standing Tall and Tough (Mountain Home)
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Sept. 13-19/14: What's Goin' On
Musical previews of the Strawberry Fall Music Festival, Bluegrassin' In the Foothills, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Old Time Bluegrass Jamboree, Bill Monroe Birthday Celebration, and the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention -- although the last one will be explored deeper next week with BOTMC's Suzy Thompson.
THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND (featuring KEITH LITTLE): I Hear A Choo Choo Coming/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple)
VERN & RAY: Little Georgia Rose/San Francisco - 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
ROSE MADDOX: $35 And A Dream/$35 And A Dream (Arhoolie/94)
THE DESERT ROSE BAND: Hello Trouble/Running (MCA-Curb/88)
RED KNUCKLES & THE TRAILBLAZERS: Window Up Above/Classic Hot Rize with Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers LIVE (self/87)
HOT RIZE: Life's Too Short/So Long Of A Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
LAURIE LEWIS: Old Ten Broeck/Skippin' & Flyin' (Spruce and Maple/11)
BLUE & LONESOME: Summertime Is Past And Gone/Some Old Day (e'Neff Said/09)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: Letter From My Darling/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARTZ: Those Brown Eyes/Draw Closer (Rounder/04)
JERRY DOUGLAS: Wheel Hoss/Everything's Gonna Work Out Fine (Rounder/79)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Lord Protect My Soul/Time (Live Oak/12)
LARRY GILLIS & THE HARD DRIVING BLUEGRASS BAND: Nobody Answered Me/Swampgrass (Tinman/10)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: That Home Far Away/Memories That Bless & Burn (Rounder/99)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Washed In the Blood/A Mother's Prayer (Rebel/11)
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Sept. 20-26/14: BOTMC Previews
with guest co-host Suzy Thompson
MOSTLY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Cluck Old Hen/Mostly Mountain Boys (L-Century)
TWICE AS NICE: Bear Creek/demo (self)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: Sequatchie Valley/Sequatchie Valley (self)
FRANK GEORGE & KIM JOHNSON: Hop High Ladies/Live at 2013 BOTMC (self)
MARK SIMOS: Found Indian/Big Ears - Cliffnotes Vol. 2 (5 String)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARTZ: Love Will Roll the Clouds Away/Draw Closer (Rounder)
THE ONLIES: Dance Set/Setting Out To Sea (self)
WB REID & BONNIE ZAHNOW: Slim Gal/demo (self)
FIDDLIN' EARL WHITE: Apple Blossom/Earl White String Band (self)
GINNY HAWKER: Amazing Grace/Live at 2010 BOTMC (self)
MARK SIMOS: Because It's There/Cliffnotes Vol. 1 (5 String)
FRANK GEORGE & KIM JOHNSON: Kid On the Roof/Live at 2013 BOTMC (self)
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARTZ: Salem's Bright King/Draw Closer (Rounder)
MOSTLY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Kansas City Railroad Blues/Mostly Mountain Boys (L-Century)
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Sept. 27 - Oct. 3/14: It's Just the Night, Part 1
DEL McCOURY BAND: It's Just the Night/It's Just the Night (McCoury Music/03)
JIMMY MARTIN & HIS SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Night/Jimmy Martin & His Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Night/Let 'er Go, Boys/Rounder/06)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Don’t Go Out Tonight/The Early Starday-King Years 1958-1961 (King/60)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Another Night/The Early Starday-King Years 1958-1961 (King/59)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: A Lonesome Night/1953-1958 & 1959 (Bear Family/56)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Love Me Darling, Just Tonight/The Early Starday-King Years 1958-1961 (King/58)
BILL MONROE & DOC WATSON: Have A Feast Here Tonight/Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
BILL MONROE: Dark As The Night, Blue As The Day/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/59)
BILL MONROE: Blue Night/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/67)
ALLEGHENY DRIFTERS: Long Lonesome Night Without End/Can't Wait (self/08)
NEW COON CREEK GIRLS: Stormy Night/The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Pinecastle/94)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: Starry Night/Fork In The Road (Sugar Hill/07)
STEELDRIVERS: Angel Of the Night/Reckless (Rounder/10)
JEFF WHITE: When the Night Is Near/The White Album (Rounder/96)
TOMMY JARRELL & FRED COCKERHAM: Stay All Night/Best Fiddle-Banjo Duets (County)
TOMMY JARRELL: Dance All Night With A Bottle In Your Hand/Vol. 4 - Pickin' On Tommy's Porch (County)
HIGH COUNTRY: B.A.R.T. By Night/Sunset On The Prairie (Turquoise/91)
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Oct. 4-10/14: It's Just the Night, Part 2
DEL McCOURY BAND: It's Just the Night/It's Just the Night (Mccoury Music/03)
DOC WATSON: Late Last Night (Way Dowtown)/The Essential Doc Watson (Vanguard/64)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Late Last Night/Live, At Last (Rounder/96)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Blue Night/Celebrating the First Twenty Years (California Bluegrass Association/86)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Dark As the Night, Blue As the Day/The Best Of the Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Another Night/Basic Blue Grass (Old Homestead/87)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Lonesome Night/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
RED ALLEN: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight/Lonesome and Blue (Rebel/66)
THE GRASCALS: My Night To Howl/Long List Of Heartaches (Rounder/06)
JOHN PRINE & MAC WISEMAN: Where The Blue Of the Night/Standard Songs For Average People (Oh Boy/07)
KATHY KALLICK: What A Night/Reason & Rhyme (Copper Creek/04)
TONY RICE: Night Flyer/Native American (Rounder/88)
TONY RICE: One More Night/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Late Last Night/Count Your Blessings (Live Oak/04)
DAVID DAVIS & THE WARRIOR RIVER BOYS: Voice In The Night/My Dixie Home (Wango/94)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Night Walk/Folk Session Inside (Mercury/63)
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Oct. 11-17/14: Blue Is Fallin'
On the anniversary of Charles Sawtelle's birth, selections from the first Hot Rize studio recording since his passing, along with some favorite recorded moments from Charles. His guitar playing was like no one this side of Clarence and his singing is as soulful as it gets.
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CHARLES SAWTELLE: The Butcher’s Dog/Music From Rancho deVille (Acoustic Disc/01)
HOT RIZE: Country Boy Rock ‘n’ Roll/Hot Rize (Flying Fish/79)
HOT RIZE: Think Of What You've Done/Take It Home (Sugar Hill/90)
HOT RIZE: Walkin' the Dog/Radio Boogie (Flying Fish/81)
HOT RIZE: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning/Traditional Ties (Sugar Hill/86)
HOT RIZE: If I Lose/Live In Kansas 1986 (Acoustic Disc/86)
HOT RIZE: Radio Boogie/Live In Kansas 1986 (Acoustic Disc/86)
RED KNUCKLES & THE TRAILBLAZERS: Slade's Samba>I Know My Baby Loves Me/Live In Kansas 1986 (Acoustic Disc/86)
HOT RIZE: Doggone/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: I Never Met A One Like You/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Sky Rider/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Blue Is Fallin'/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Western Skies/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: I Am the Road/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: The Butcher’s Dog/So Long Of a Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
CHARLES SAWTELLE: Aragon Mill/Music From Rancho deVille (Acoustic Disc/01)
CHARLES SAWTELLE: Let's Go Home/Music From Rancho deVille (Acoustic Disc/01)
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Oct. 18-24/14: Fall Membership Campaign Special
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: You’re Not A Drop In the Bucket/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: On My Mind/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
HOT RIZE: Western Skies/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Sky Rider/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Hard Pressed (But We Can Find A Way)/Live In Kansas 1986 (Acoustic Disc/86)
HOT RIZE: Radio Boogie/Radio Boogie (Flying Fish/81)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: I’m Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling/1948-1959 (Bear Family/50)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Why Did You Wander/1948-1959 (Bear Family/52)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Shuckin’ the Corn/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Big Black Train/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Til the End Of the World Rolls ‘Round/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
HOT RIZE: You Were On My Mind/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Blue Is Fallin'/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Glory In the Meeting House/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
HOT RIZE: Doggone/When I’m Free (Ten In Hand/14)
LOST COAST: Drink Up & Go Home/Live at the Freight (2-5-07)
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Oct. 25-31/14: It’s Bluegrass Time!
A few songs celebrating music from the true vine, as a reminder of the inspiration for the annual SF fester which now has hardly any bluegrass. Guarantee: all songs (but one) have “bluegrass” in the title. The one repeated song is from 1961 and 2014 recordings.
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JOHN REISCHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Blue Grass Style/Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
JACK TOTTLE: The Bluegrass Sound/Blockbuster Bluegrass (Copper Creek/06)
GIBSON BROTHERS: That Bluegrass Music/Bona Fide (Sugar Hill/03)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
JOSH SLONE & COALTOWN: Bluegrass and Me/Josh Slone & Coaltown (Rural Rhythm/11)
TOMMY WEBB: If It Weren't For Bluegrass Music I'd Go Crazy/Eastern Kentucky (Kindred/07)
RHONDA VINCENT & THE RAGE: All American Bluegrass Girl/All American Bluegrass Girl (Rounder/06)
CURLY SECKLER: Bluegrass, Don't You Know/Bluegrass Don't You Know (Copper Creek/06)
RUSSELL JOHNSON & THE GRASS CATS: Bluegrass Time/Anytime, Anyplace But Only You (New Time/11)
AL WOOD & THE SMOKEY RIDGE BOYS: Sing A Bluegrass Song/Sing A Bluegrass Song (Rebel/73)
PINE MOUNTAIN RAILROAD: Break Your Heart With A Bluegrass Song/The Old Radio (CMH/03)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: The Grass That I'm Playing Is Really Blue/News Is Out (Sugar Hill/87)
SPRUCE PINE: High On Bluegrass/European World Of Bluegrass 1998 (Strictly Country/98)
THE BOYS FROM INDIANA: Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight/Bluegrass Music Is Out Of Sight (King/75)
PETE GOBLE: When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass/When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass (Fireheart/05)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass/The Best Of The Vetco Years (Rebel/79)
VERN & RAY: Blue Grass Style/Cabin On A Mountain - Classic King & Starday Bluegrass From the 1950s and '60s (King/61)
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Nov. 1-7/14: Dobro Heaven
Originally broadcast on Josh Graves’ birthday, a few of Josh’s contributions to Flatt & Scruggs, plus two new dobro-centric releases: “Three Bells” with the late Mike Auldridge, Rob Ickes, and Jerry Douglas, and “The Earls Of Leiscester,” Jerry’s tribute to Josh & Flatt & Scruggs.
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JOSH GRAVES: Flatt Lonesome/Memories Of Foggy Mountain (OMS/02)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Some Old Day/1948-1959 (Bear Family/55)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Let Those Brown Eyes Smile At Me/1948-1959 (Bear Family/55)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Shuckin' The Corn/1948-1959 (Bear Family/57)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Someone You Have Forgotten/1948-1959 (Bear Family/59)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Big Black Train/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: I'll Go Stepping Too/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: On My Mind/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
JERRY DOUGLAS, ROB ICKES, MIKE AULDRIDGE: Silver Threads Among The Gold/Three Bells (Rounder/14)
JERRY DOUGLAS, ROB ICKES, MIKE AULDRIDGE: Panhandle Rag/Three Bells (Rounder/14)
JERRY DOUGLAS, ROB ICKES, MIKE AULDRIDGE: Dobro Heaven/Three Bells (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: ’Til the End Of The World Rolls ‘Round/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER: Dig A Hole In The Meadow/The Earls Of Leicester (Rounder/14)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Foggy Mountain Rock/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
JOSH GRAVES: Just Joshin’/The Great Dobro Sessions (Sugar Hill/94)
JERRY DOUGLAS, ROB ICKES, MIKE AULDRIDGE: I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap/Three Bells (Rounder/14)
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Nov. 8-14: Blue Diamond Strings
A gazillion years of musical experience provides the foundation for a new SF Bay Area band comprised of Eric Thompson, Jody Stecher, Kate Brislin, Paul Knight, Paul Shelasky, and Suzy Thompson. Music from some of their previous collaborations in bands like the Blue Flame Stringband, Any Old Time Stringband, Kleptograss, the Bluegrass Intentions, and, yes, others.
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ERIC THOMPSON: Cross-Eyed Fiddler/Thompson's Real (Herringbone/78)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Boat’s Up The River/Return (self/10)
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND (featuring JODY STECHER): Catfish Blues/Legacy (Compass/10)
JODY STECHER: Kenny in Kansas City/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
ERIC THOMPSON: Louisiana Blues/Kleptograss (Herringbone/10)
BLACK MOUNTAIN BOYS: Catnip/Live at Ashkenaz 3/8/13 (festivalink.net)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: You Don't Know My Mind/Old As Dirt (Native & Fine/02)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Beaver Slide Rag/Dream Shadows (Herringbone/08)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: What Was I Supposed To Do/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/82)
ANY OLD TIME STRING BAND: I Bid You Goodnight/I Bid You Goodnight (Arhoolie/78)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Somebody's Boy/Return (self/10)
PAUL SHELASKY: I'm Never Going Home ('Cause Mother's Waiting)/Fiddle-Crazy (Lost Highway/99)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: It Seems There's Nothing I Can Do/Part Of A Story (Flat Rock/85)
ERIC THOMPSON: Crazy Creek>Thompson's Reel/Thompson's Real (Herringbone/78)
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Nov. 15-21/14: Across the Tracks
A survey of new releases, including four songs from international bands, four from Rebel, four from different duets — plus three featuring the duet vocals of Dale Ann Bradley and Steve Gulley.
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Now the Summer’s Gone/Another Day From Life (Rebel)
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLER’S CHOICE: Frost On the Bluegrass/Trouble Follows Me (Rebel)
LARRY SPARKS (featuring JUDY MARSHALL & ALISON KRAUSS): Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures/Lonesome and Then Some … (Rebel)
JON WEISBERGER (featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY & STEVE GULLEY): Now and Then/I’ve Been Mostly Awake (Wise Kings)
PHIL LEADBETTER (featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY & STEVE GULLEY): I’ve Never Seen A Love That Wasn’t Blind/The Next Move (Pinecastle)
STEVE GULLEY (featuring DALE ANN BRADLEY): Stormy Waters/Family, Friends & Fellowship (Rural Rhythm)
JIMMY GAUDREAU & MOONDI KLEIN: One More Night/If I Had A Boat (Rebel)
BILLY STRINGS & DON JULIN: Walk On Boy/Fiddle Tune X (self)
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN: New South Africa/Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn (Rounder)
THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS: Every Time I Leave/Wanderlust (self) * Australia *
DUNDERHEAD: Little By Little/Dunderhead (self) * Sweden *
HANDL BLUEGRASS BAND: On the Festival/Handl Bluegrass Band (self) *Czech Republic *
JANIS McCOURY & THE WALL OF SOUND: Corn Around My House/demo (self) * Netherlands *
ALAN MUNDE & BILLY BRIGHT: Geezer Ride/Bright Munde (Munde’s Child)
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Nov. 22-28/14: Live On Arrival
Highlights from two Main Stage sets at the recent Strawberry Music Festival, featuring one emerging and one established Bay Area bluegrass band: Steep Ravine and the Kathy Kallick Band.
NOTE: All tracks on this show (except as noted) recorded live on 9-14-14 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds by Hog Ranch Radio, and used by permission of the musicians.
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KATHY KALLICK BAND: Kentucky Mandolin
KATHY KALLICK BAND:
Panhandle Rag
Time
Tryin' So Hard To Get To You
Banjo Pickin' Girl
STEEP RAVINE:
Time & Again
Moody River
Wooden Floors
KATHY KALLICK BAND:
My House
Fare Thee Well
Cotton-Eyed Joe
STEEP RAVINE: Highland Hornpipe
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Nov. 29 - Dec. 5/14: Across the Tracks
Reissues from Larry Rice and J.D. Crowe, plus a survey of new releases, with an overall theme of travel and sub-themes related to Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and a memorial tribute to “Car Talk”’s Tom Magliozzi.
NOTE: All releases are 2014, except as noted.
R.I.P., Tom Magliozzi
THE MYSTIC RIVER VALLEY BOYS: Mountain Dew/Martin guitar presentation to Click & Clack (2008)
DAVID GRISMAN: Dawggy Mountain Breakdown/Dawg Grass (Warner Brothers/83)
LARRY RICE: Four Wheel Drive/If You Only Knew [nee Hurricanes & Daydreams] (Rebel/86)
J.D. CROWE & THE KENTUCKY MT. BOYS: Born To Be With You/Blackjack [nee Ramblin’ Boy (Lemco)] (Rebel/71)
THE CROWE BROTHERS: Lost Highway/Forty Years Old (Mountain Fever)
LARRY CORDLE & LONESOME STANDARD TIME (with ALISON KRAUSS): Two Highways/All-Star Duets (MightyCord)
RONI STONEMAN: The Day the Banjo Dies/The Day the Banjo Dies (Cumbria/RDB advance single)
TERRY BAUCOM: Martha White, Lester and Earl/Never Thought Of Looking Back (John Boy & Billy/13)
EARLS OF LEISCESTER: Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down/Earls Of Leiscester (Rounder)
NO GRASS LIMIT: Good Ole Days of Bill Monroe/No Grass Limit (Universe Unlimited)
ROLAND WHITE BAND: On My Way Back To the Old Home/Straight-Ahead Bluegrass (self)
JOE MULLINS & RADIO RAMBLERS: Every Road Leads Back to You/Another Day From Life (Rebel)
STEVE GULLEY & NEW PINNACLE: Leaving Crazytown/Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle (Rural Rhythm advance single)
CHRIS COOLE & IVAN ROSENBERG: Train That Carried My Girl From Town/Return to Trion (Vole-O-Tone)
JAMES LEVA: Sally Gal/All Over the Map (Patuxent)
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Dec. 6-12/14: Day Of the Dead (Grass)
Originally broadcast on El Dia de los Muertos, a program of the Grateful Dead playing bluegrass and bluegrass bands playing the Dead.
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McEUEN & SALAZAR: Franklin's Tower/Tribute To Jerry Garcia (Chrome/99)
JG intro -> THE KENTUCKY COLONELS: Jordan/Livin’ In the Past (Sierra) - 8/18/64 (Cabale, Berkeley)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Cold (sic) Jordan/Road Trips, Vol. 3 No. 3: 5/15/70 (Fillmore East, NYC)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Rosalie McFall/Reckoning: 9/25/80 (Warfield Theatre, SF)
CHARLIE MONROE & THE KENTUCKY PARTNERS: Rosa Lee McFall/I’m Old Kentucky Bound 1938-1956 (Bear Family/49)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Dark Hollow/Reckoning: 10/23/80 (Radio City Music Hall, NYC)
DEL McCOURY with BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Dark Hollow/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc) - 11/16/63 (Worcester, MA)
BILL MONROE: I’m (sic) Sittin' On Top Of The World/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/57)
GRATEFUL DEAD: Sitting On Top Of The World/Steppin' Out With the Grateful Dead - England ’72: 5/23/72 (Lyceum Theatre, London)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: Black Muddy River/The Wheel: A Musical Celebration of Jerry Garcia (Rex Foundation) - 12/4/10 (Fillmore Auditorium, SF)
RICE, RICE, HILLMAN & PEDERSEN: Friend of the Devil/Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen (Rounder/99)
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: He’s Gone/Silver Sky - Deluxe Edition (High Country/12)
AJ LEE: Ripple/Song For Noah (Whitehorse/14)
THE GRASS IS DEAD: Lazy River Road/The Grass Is Dead (self/00)
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Dec. 13-19/14: Across the Tracks
More new releases, this time with thematic sets encompassing death (continuing last week's motif), duets, destinations (including home), and dreaming.
Note: All releases in 2014, unless otherwise noted.
THE CROWE BROTHERS: Two Feet On the Floor/Forty Years Old (Mountain Fever)
LARRY CORDLE & LONESOME STANDARD TIME (with DEL McCOURY): The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall)/All-Star Duets (MightyCord)
BILL EVANS & PAUL SHELASKY: Fiddle & Banjo aka Wild Horse at Stony Point/Live at the Freight (2-15-11)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Thinkin’ Of Home/Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce & Maple)
DONNA HUGHES: There’s No Place Like Home/From The Heart (Running Dog)
BALSAM RANGE: Moon Over Memphis/Five (Mountain Home)
NU-BLU: It’s Not That Cold In Montana/All the Way (Rural Rhythm)
RUSS CARSON: New York Chimes/Avenue Of the Giants (Patuxent)
JIM HURST: I Picked the Wildwood Flower/Looking Glass (NN Guido)
BILLY STRINGS & DON JULIN: I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow/Fiddle Tune X (self)
CHRIS COOLE & IVAN ROSENBERG: Bound To Ride/Return to Trion (Vole-O-Tone)
JAMES LEVA: Another Man Done Gone > Baby Please Don't Go/All over the Map (Patuxent)
GOODBYE GIRLS: Graveyard/Going To Boston (self)
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE: Honky-Tonked to Death/Trouble Follows Me (Rebel)Pinecastle)
AMY GALLATIN & STILLWATERS: I Dreamed Of An Old Love Affair/Everything I Wanted Love To Be (Happy Appy)
JON WEISBERGER (featuring CRIS JONES): What My Memory Tells Me/I've Been Mostly Awake (Wise Kings)
PHIL LEADBETTER (featuring JERRY DOUGLAS & ROB ICKES): Just Joshin’/The Next Move (Pinecastle)
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Dec. 20-26/14: Ring the Bells At Midnight
Songs and tunes of the season, taken primarily from three new releases — John Reischman & the Jaybirds’ “On A Winter’s Night,” the Claire Lynch Band’s “Holiday,” and the Pinecastle compilation, “Christmas In the Smokies” — plus dobro player Greg Booth’s sterling home recordings. Plus: a couple more new ones and a couple old faves. Merry, merry to you & yours!
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BILL MONROE: Christmas Time's A-Coming/Bluegrass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/51)
THE CLAIRE LYNCH BAND: Home For the Holidays/Holiday (Thrill Hill/14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Shine Like A Star In The Morning/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
THE CLAIRE LYNCH BAND: In the Window/Holiday (Thrill Hill/14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Christmas Eve/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
DALE ANN BRADLEY & STEVE GULLEY: Christmas The Mountain Way/Christmas The Mountain Way (Rural Rhythm/12)
GREG BOOTH: Sleigh Ride/Christmas Dobro (self/14)
CHRIS BURTON: Mountain Hallelujah/Wandering Again (Slaughterhouse advance single)
GREG BOOTH: I'll Be Home For Christmas/Christmas Dobro (self/14)
PHIL LEADBETTER & FRIENDS: Jingle Bells/Christmas In the Smokies (Pinecastle/14)
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD: Christmas In the Smokies/Christmas In the Smokies (Pinecastle/14)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Go Tell It On the Mountain/Christmas In the Smokies (Pinecastle/03>14)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Breaking Up Christmas/On A Winter's Night (Corvus/14)
THE CLAIRE LYNCH BAND: Snow Day/Holiday (Thrill Hill/14)
RICK LANG (featuring STEPHEN MOUGIN): Looks Like Snow/That’s What I Love About Christmas (RLM/14)
GREG BOOTH: The Christmas Song/Christmas Dobro (self/14)
KATHY KALLICK & THE LITTLE BIG BAND: Ring The Bells At Midnight/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
RALPH STANLEY: I’m Going Home, It's Christmas Time/Christmas Time (Freeland/93)
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Dec. 27/14 - Jan. 2/15: Eat At the Welcome Table
An important part of many holidays — food! — is celebrated with bluegrass and old time songs about baking, porcine products, welcoming company, and … doing the dishes.
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HEIDI CLAIRE & RON THOMASON: Turkey In the Straw/Bygone Days (self/13)
BILL MONROE: Y'all Come/The Music Of Bill Monroe From 1936 To 1994 (MCA/54)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Eat At the Welcome Table/Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass (Rounder/81)
THE HUNGER MOUNTAIN BOYS: Feast Here Tonight/10 Years of European World of Bluegrass (Strictly Country/06)
WAYNE HENDERSON (featuring KATY TAYLOR): Hey, Good Lookin’/W.C. Henderson & Co. (Hay Holler/94)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Martha White theme/At Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)
THE FREIGHT HOPPERS: How Many Biscuits Can You Eat/Where'd You Come From, Where'd You Go? (Rounder/96)
LOST & FOUND: Leftover Biscuits/Classic Bluegrass (Rebel/80)
HAZEL DICKENS: Scraps From Your Table/Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (Rounder/80)
HOTMUD FAMILY: Country Ham & Red Gravy/Live, As We Know It (Flying Fish/79)
RICKY SKAGGS: 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: 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/Good Ol' Persons (Bay/77)
JOE & ODELL THOMPSON: Pumpkin Pie/Back Roads To Cold Mountain (Smithsonian-Folkways/89)
SWEET POTATO PIE: Sweet Potato Jingle/Nothing's the Same (self/09)
LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Dirty Dishes Blues/Windy Mountain (Bear Family/53)
DONE GONE: Watermelon Hangin' On the Vine/The Done Gone Band (self/79)
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