BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - July 6, 2024
NEW DANGERFIELD: Dangerfield Newby/single (Free Dirt)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Blue Collared Dog and His Green Eyed Friend/single (Mountain Home)
GINA FURTADO: Submarine/single (Mountain Home)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): I Can’t Find You At All/City of Glass (Signature Sounds)
SOLID GOLD STRANGER: Whalers Village/Solid Gold Stranger (self)
SOLID GOLD STRANGER: You Used to Love Me/Solid Gold Stranger (self)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Give It Away/single (Fiddle Man)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: I Built A World/I Built A World (Sugar Petunia)
BRANDON GODMAN: Thelma Lilly/I Heard the Morgan Bell (FiddleMeOne)
NEVER COME DOWN: Mother/Live at Ear Trumpet Labs (self)
DANNY PAISLEY: Till Lonesome Comes Around/single (Pinecastle)\
THE VESTAL BROTHERS: Let Those Fingers Fly/single (True Lonesome)
AMANDA COOK: Last Road Going Home/single (Mountain Fever)
BLUE HIGHWAY: Soil And Soul/Lonesome State of Mind (Down the Road)
LARRY & JOE: Runnin’ From the Weather/Manos Panamericanos (self) [includes i.d. over music]
NATALIE SPEARS: One-Eyed John/Hymn of Wild Things
THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Lonely Pine/single (Smithsonian Folkways)
BASIN & GRANGE: Pines of Caroline/Walk You Down the Road (Molinello)
LEVEL BEST: Drivin’ the Blue/Drivin’ the Blue (Redstart)
LEVEL BEST: Good Morning, Mr. Railroad Man/Drivin’ the Blue (Redstart)
BEPPE GAMBETTA: Sit and Pick with You/Terra Madre (Egea Music)
JACKSON HOLLOW: Nothing But Sky/single (Mountain Fever)
BENSON: Donner Pass/single (Mountain Home)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Birthdays - July 13, 2024
host: Leah Wollenberg
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Can’t You Hear Me Calling/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
BRANDON GODMAN: I Heard the Morgan Bell/I Heard the Morgan Bell (self/24)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/88)
DAROL ANGER & BRUCE MOLSKY: Ain’t That Trouble in Mind/Lockdown Breakdown (self/24)
MISSION BLUE: Memories & Dreams/Traditional Ways (self/24)
JIM & JESSE: I Will Always Be Waiting for You/Best of the Early Years (Cleopatra/53)
THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: It Hurts Me More the Second Time Around/Live from the Grand Ole Opry (Floating World Collections/early ‘60s)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Hound Dog Blues/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
BRITTANY HASS & LENO JONSSON: The Shipping Tunes: Shipping Port/Shipping Polska/The Snake (self/24)
ALICE GERRARD: Strange Land/Follow the Music (Tompkins Square/14)
PETER ROWAN (feat. MOLLY TUTTLE): The Red, The White and the Blue/Calling You from My Mountain (Rebel/22)
ALICE GERRARD: Winding Road/Sun to Sun (Sleepy Cat/23)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: The One I Love is Gone/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Mama’s Gonna Stay/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
ALICE GERRARD: Sun Keep Shining on Me/Bittersweet (Spruce & Maple/13)
BLUE & LONESOME (feat. PAUL SHELASKY): Salt River/Some Old Day (e’Neff/10)
THE DILLARDS with BYRON BERLINE: Black Mountain Rag/Pickin’and Fiddlin’ (Elekra/65)
BYRON BERLINE with BILL MONROE & EARL SCRUGGS: Sally Goodin” Byron Berline/Fiddle & A Song (Sugar Hill/95)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Live at the Grand Ole Opry (1967)
- Train 45
- Love, Please Come Home
- instrumental over advertisement
- Sally Goodin
- I Live in the Past
AMY & HAILEY: You Won’t be Satisfied That Way/Sidekick Sessions (self/19)
RHONDA VINCENT: What Is To Be Will Be, What Ain’t To Be Just Might Happen/Music is What I See (Upper Management/21)
BYRON BERLINE & JOHN HICKMAN: Double Trouble/Double Trouble (Sugar Hill/86)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, #73987 - July 20, 2024
- All selections are by BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS and, except as noted, are available on various Bear Family releases. Recording dates for each selection are included.
- Songs and tunes selected by Neil Rosenberg (NR), Martino Coppo (MaC), Tom Bekeny (TB), Tom Rozum (TR), Jody Stecher (JS), Skip Gorman (SG), Mike Compton (MiC), John Reischman (JR), Butch Waller (BW), Ed Neff (EN), and myownself (PT).
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Bluegrass Breakdown (10-31-64 - NR)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky (10-27-47 - MaC)
When You Are Lonely (10-28-47 - TB)
I'm Travelin' On and On (10-28-47 - TR)
Along About Daybreak (10-28-47 - JS)
Rawhide (1-20-51 - JS, TR)
On the Old Kentucky Shore (1-20-51 - SG)
The First Whippoorwill (10-28-51 - JS, MiC)
When Golden Leaves Begin To Fall (10-15-50 - JS, SG, JR)
Get Up John (11-28-53 - BW, JR)
Used to Be - 9-16-55 - MiC)
Out In the Cold World (5-15-57 - EN)
Bluegrass Part One aka Blue Grass Twist (12-3-60 - BW)
Dusty Miller (12-6-66 - SG, TB, TR)
John Henry (11-16-63 - MiC)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
On and On (11-16-63 - MiC)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz (12-3-70 - MaC, EN)
True Life Blues (2-13-45 – MaC)
Can't You Hear Me Calling (10-22-49 – BW)
Bluegrass Stomp (9-23-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
Brakeman's Blues (9-23-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
Close By (5-13-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
Lord Protect My Soul (10-15-50 - JS)
I’ve Found a Hiding Place (3-20-58 - TR)
Old Ebenezer Scrooge (2-3-81 - MaC)
My Last Days On Earth (2-19-81, 4-7-81, 4-28-81 – EN)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Big Mon’s Mando Legacy - July 27, 2024
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND with MIKE COMPTON: Monroebillia/My Native Home (Rounder/88)
RED WINE with MARTINO COPPO: W.S.M./Italian Cats (self/01)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Joe Ahr’s Dream/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Indiana Firefly/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
HIGH COUNTRY with BUTCH WALLER: Long Hollow Getaway/Blue Highway (Turquoise/87)
RHONDA VINCENT: Is The Grass Any Bluer (On The Other Side)/The Storm Still Rages (Rounder/01)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: You're Drifting Away/Live at the Brandywine Mountain Music Convention (Brandywine Friends Of Old Time Music/90)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Evening Prayer Blues/Live (self/13)
SIERRA HULL: Get Up John/Pandemic Sessions (self/20)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with TOM BEKENY: Kentucky Mandolin/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with MARTINO COPPO: I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome/Live at La Roche (2011)
THE PRICE SISTERS: The Lee Wedding Tune/A Heart Never Knows (Rebel/17)
SKIP GORMAN: The Lloyd Loar/The Old Style Mandolin Vol. Two - Monroesque (Old West/03)
TOM ROZUM: On the Old Kentucky Shore/Jubilee (Dog Boy/99)
BLUE & LONESOME with ED NEFF: Summertime Is Past And Gone/Some Old Day (e’Neff Said/09)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS with TOM ROZUM: The Golden West/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: Letter From My Darling/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
BLUE & LONESOME with ED NEFF: Toy Heart/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e’Neff Said/10)
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND with JODY STECHER: In the Pines/In the Deep Rolling Hills Of San Francisco (Bluegrass Signal/07)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with TOM BEKENY: Lord Protect My Soul/Time (Live Oak/12)
LAUREN PRICE NAPIER with Joe Newberry: Lonesome Midnight Waltz/Mandolin Camp North (2023)
SKIP GORMAN & RICHARD STARKEY: Have a Feast Here Tonight/ Late Night Feast (No Part A Nothin’/06)
MIKE COMPTON: Let’s Get Close Together Blues/Rare & Fine - Uncommon Tunes of Bill Monroe (self/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks: New Releases - Aug. 3, 2024
NOTE: all releases in 2024, except as noted.
MIKE COMPTON: California Forest Fire/Rare & Fine-Uncommon Tunes of Bill Monroe (self/23)
COMPTON & NEWBERRY: Cherry River Line/Home In My Heart (forthcoming - EMG)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO, LUKE RICHARDSON, CLEEK SCHREY: Lost Girl/Beehive Cathedral (self)
DAROL ANGER & BRUCE MOLSKY: Lockdown Breakdown/Lockdown Breakdown (self)
TONY TRISCHKA with BRUCE MOLSKY: My Horses Ain’t Hungry/Earl Jam: A Tribute To Earl Scruggs (Down the Road)
TONY TRISCHKA with DEL McCOURY & BRITTANY HAAS: Little Liza Jane/Earl Jam: A Tribute To Earl Scruggs (Down the Road)
BRITTANY HAAS & LENA JONSSON: Fiddle Claw/The Snake (Padiddle)
COUNTRY GONGBANG: Live at the CBA Father's Day Festival, Grass Valley, CA (6/13/24)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER with CHAO TIAN: Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points of Attention/From China to Appalachia (Community Music)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Till Summer Is Gone/Detour To the Moon (Mountain Home)
SONIA SHELL: Roving Gambler/We’re Going Home (Inscrutable)
BILL EMERSON: String Time/Early Recordings (Patuxent/63-4>24)
EMERSON & WALDRON: I'm Bound To Ride/Best Of (Rebel/68)
BOBBY OSBORNE & C.J. LEWANDOWSKI: Cora Is Gone/single (Turnberry)
THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Wanderers Like Me/Wanderers Like Me (Smithsonian-Folkways)
MISSION BLUE: Walking Down the Line/Traditional Ways (self)
BIGFOOT: Gilsaw, Speed the Plough/I’ve Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
CROOKED JADES: Whiteface (excerpt)/rehearsal demo (self)
RED WINE: Start Sawing On the Strings/Bluegrass Party (self/20)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Hillside/City of Glass (Signature Sounds)
LAURIE LEWIS: Just A Little Ways Down the Road/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
BRANDON GODMAN: I Heard The Morgan Bell/I Heard The Morgan Bell (self)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, Jimmy! - Aug. 10, 2024
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JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Theme Time/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/65)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: River Of Death/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/50)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Sitting Alone In the Moonlight/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/54)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: On And On/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/54) 2.46
JIMMY MARTIN & THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: Chalk Up Another One/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/54)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: 20/20 Vision/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/54)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hit Parade Of Love/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/56)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ocean Of Diamonds/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Rock Hearts/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I'll Never Take No For An Answer/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58) JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sophronie/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hold Whatcha Got/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: You Don't Know My Mind /Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/60)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: My Walking Shoes/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/60)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: This World Is Not My Home/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/61)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Prayer Bells Of Heaven/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/62)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Stormy Waters/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/62)
JIMMY MARTIN with the NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: Losin’ You (Might Be the Best Thing Yet)/Will the Circle Be Unbroken (United Artists/72)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Big Country/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/66)
ticket giveaway -
BILLY STRINGS: Foggy Old London/Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, England (12/7/22)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sunny Side Of the Mountain/High Lonesome - The Story of Bluegrass Music (CMH/64>94)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Milwaukee Here I Come/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/69)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Freeborn Man/Live on Del Reeves TV show (c.70)
JIMMY MARTIN with BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: The Old Cross Road/The Story Of Blue Grass Music (Live at Fincastle/65)
JIMMY MARTIN with RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: White Dove/Live at McClure (Rebel/75)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone/Hit Parade Of Love - Live 1958-1960 (Music Mill Entertainment)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: The Last Song/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/65)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Red Rooster/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/66)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Fly Me To Frisco: Interpretations of Jimmy Martin Music - Aug. 17, 2024
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JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Fly Me To Frisco/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/73)
HIGH COUNTRY: I Cried Again/The First 25 Years (Big Chicken/71)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: What Was I Supposed To Do/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/83)
TONY RICE: Rock Hearts/The Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/90)
DEL & DAWG (DEL McCOURY & DAVID GRISMAN): Hit Parade Of Love/Hardcore Bluegrass in the Dawg House (Acoustic Oasis/’90s)
DAVID GRISMAN, JOHN HARTFORD & MIKE SEEGER: My Walking Shoes/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/99)
WINDY HILL TRIO: Across the Sea Blues/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/13)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Before the Sun Goes Down/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
PETER ROWAN & TONY RICE: Sunny Side Of the Mountain/Quartet (Rounder/07)
BLUE & LONESOME: Chalk Up Another One/Live from Harrietville, Australia (e’Neff Said/10)
KATE BRISLIN & KATY MOFFATT: It Takes One To Know One/Sleepless Nights (Rounder/96)
DAVID THOM: God Guide Our Leader’s Hand/The Thief (Swollen/04)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: That's How I Can Count On You/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/05)
BEAN CREEK: Pretending I Don’t Care/Nightbird (Sloughfish/11)
DAVID THOM BAND with DON RIGSBY: The Last Song/Live at the Freight (2-10-13)
GOOD OL’ BOYS: Drink Up & Go Home/Drink Up & Go Home (RockBeat/75)
HIGH COUNTRY: Big Country/Earthquake - Bluegrass From California (Strictly Country/97)
KATE WOLF: 20/20 Vision/Live In Mendocino (Owl/79-82)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: Stepping Stones/Innocent Road (West Sound/16)
SAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ocean of Diamonds/Live at Murphy's Tavern, Corvallis, OR (1975)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & LAUREL BLISS: Stormy Waters/Ridin’ Along (Yodel-Ay-Hee/05)
LAUREL CANYON RAMBLERS: Shake Hands With Mother Again/Blue Rambler 2 (Sugar Hill/96)
THE GOLDEN STATE BOYS: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone/45 (Shamrock/c.61)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Lonesome Instrument(al)s - Aug. 24, 2024
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THE LEVERETT BROTHERS: Lonesome Mandolin/Lonesome Mandolin (Birch/47)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Live at the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
BRYON SUTTON (and TONY RICE): Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Not Too Far From the Tree (Sugar Hill/06)
CURLY RAY CLINE: Wednesday Night Waltz/The Old Kentucky Fox Hunter and His Lonesome Pine Fiddle (Old Homestead/69)
OMGG: Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Obviously Minor Guys & a Girl (self/10)
THE STONEMAN FAMILY: Lonesome Banjo/28 Big Ones (King/69)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Lonesome Banjo/Home Sweet Home (Sugar Hill (67 + 98)
EDDIE ADCOCK: Lonesome Banjo/Renaissance Man (Pinecastle/96)
CHARLIE MOORE, BILL NAPIER & THE DIXIE PARTNERS: Lonesome Guitar/45 (King/65)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Faded Love/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/84)
GARY BREWER & THE KENTUCKY RAMBLERS: Lonesome Guitar/Home Brew (Copper Creek/02)
LARA & REYES: Lonesome Mandolin/Lara & Reyes (Fusion Acustica/06)
UNCLE JOHN: Lonesome Mandolin/This Here Road (self/02)
KATHY KALLICK BAND (featuring GREG BOOTH): Lonesome Dobro Blues/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
TUT TAYLOR: Lonesome Dobro/The Great Dobro Sessions (Sugar Hill/94)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lonesome Banjo Man/Clinch Mountain Country (Rebel/98)
THE LONESOME RIVER BAND: Lonesome Won’t Get the Best Of Me/The Road With No End (Mountain Home/06)
PAOLO BONFANTI & MARTINO COPPO: Visa Application Blues/Pracina Stomp (self/19)
THE CANOTE BROTHERS: Kamala Walz Waltz/demo (self/24)
THE BLOGGRASS BOYS: Democrat Ain’t A Dirty Word No More/single (self/08)
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BRITTANY HAAS & LENA JONSSON: The Shipping Tunes: Shipping Port>Shipping Polska/The Snake (self/24)
THE CROOKED JADES: Beautiful World/demo (self/20)
JOHN HARTFORD FIDDLE TUNES PROJECT: The Julia Belle Swain/The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2 (forthcoming)
FOG HOLLER: Bodega Rock/Live at Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival (self/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention Preview - Aug. 31, 2024
host: Allegra Thompson
THE ONLIES: A Few More Years Shall Roll/The Onlies (self/20)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER: High on a Mountain/Wahoo! (self/19)
RALPH STANLEY WITH MARIA MULDAUR: The Memory Of Your Smile/Clinch Mountain Sweethearts (Rebel/01)
BIGFOOT: I’ve Got A Girl In Baltimore/I’ve Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
SQUIRRELLY STRINGBAND: Reuben’s Train (live/06)
THE ONLIES: Billy in the Lowground/The Onlies (self/20)
MARIA MULDAUR: Honey Babe Blues/Waitress In A Donut Shop (Reprise/74)
CEDRIC WATSON ET BIJOU CRÉOLE: J'suis Gone A La Blue Moon/L'esprit Créole (Valcour/16)
MARLEY’S GHOST: Honky Tonk (unreleased)
PATRICE STRAHAN: Poor Howard (live/2024)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER: Get Up and Do Right/Get Up and Do Right (Community Music/17)
BIGFOOT: Hell On The Wabash/I’ve Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
LES AMIS CREOLE: La Reel DesHotels/Les Amis Creole (Arhoolie/06)
NOKOSEE FIELDS & FRIENDS: Love Nobody (unreleased)
CLEAN HEAT: God’s Golden Key (unreleased)
VIV & RILEY: The Blackest Crow (self/24)
MARLEY'S GHOST: I Can See Your Aura/Four Spacious Guys (Fly-By-Night/96)
RAYNA GELLERT & SUSIE GOEHRING: Willow Garden/Starch & Iron (Heard Her Squeal/05)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Shadow of the Pines/Evie Ladin Band (Evil Diane/12)
BIGFOOT: I Wish I Had My Time Again/I've Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Memorial Celebrations of Katie Laur and Bobby Hicks – Sept. 7, 2024
KATIE LAUR: interview on "Traditions: Ohio Heritage Fellows”
KATIE LAUR BAND: When Earl Taylor Played the Mandolin For Me/Main Street (Jim Bob’s/97)
APPALACHIAN GRASS (featuring KATIE LAUR): Rock Salt & Nails/Jim McCall, Vernon McIntyre & the Appalachian Grass (Vetco/73)
KATIE LAUR: interview on "Traditions: Ohio Heritage Fellows”
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Driving Back To Tennessee/Good Time Girl (Vetco/75)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: T For Texas/Good Time Girl (Vetco/75)
KATIE LAUR BAND: Walk On By/Main Street (Jim Bob’s/97)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Little Bessie/Cookin’ With Katie (Vetco/77)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine/Hidden Treasures: Cincinnati's Tribute to King Records’ Legacy (Inclusion Network/02)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Lovesick Blues/Cookin’ With Katie (Vetco/77)
BOBBY HICKS: Angel’s Waltz/Fiddle Patch (Rounder/98)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Wheel Hoss/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/54)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Brown County Breakdown/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/55)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Dark As The Night, Blue As The Day/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/59)
BOBBY HICKS: Big Mon/Texas Crapshooter (County/78)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: We Can't Be Darlings Anymore/The Bluegrass Album (Rounder/81)
BOBBY HICKS & KENNY BAKER: Faded Love/Darkness on the Delta(County/80)
RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER: Uncle Pen/Live on Iowa Public TV (1997)
BOBBY HICKS: Fiddle Patch/Fiddle Patch (Rounder/98)
BOBBY HICKS (with DEL McCOURY): We’re Steppin’ Out Tonight/Fiddle Patch (Rounder/98)
BOBBY HICKS & FRIENDS: Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)/Live at the Raleigh Convention Center (IBMA/14)
MARK KUYKENDALL, BOBBY HICKS & ASHEVILLE BLUEGRASS: Journey’s End/Forever & A Day (Rebel/17)
THE TENNESSEE BLUEGRASS BAND: Far From You/The Future of The Past (Billy Blue/22)
CASEY CONNORS aka THE BOY FROM BLUEGRASS: Lizzie Lou/single (self)
THE GRASCALS: Tennessee Hound Dog/20 (Mountain Home/24)
DANNY ROBERTS: The Drifter/single (Mountain Home/24)
BOBBY HICKS: Maiden’s Prayer/Texas Crapshooter (County/78)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Seasonal Songs & Tunes – Sept. 14, 2024
KENNY BAKER & BLAINE SPROUSE: September Waltz/Indian Springs (Rounder/89)
THE CARTER FAMILY: (My) Dark Haired True Lover/The Country Music Hall Of Fame (MCA/37)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I'll Forgive You/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
JIM & JESSE: Did You Ever Go Sailing?/In the Tradition (Rounder/87)
THE ALEX LEACH BAND: October Fall/I'm the Happiest When I'm Moving (Mountain Home/21)
NORMAN BLAKE: The Fields Of November/The Fields Of November (Flying Fish/74)
JAELEE ROBERTS: November/Something You Didn’t Count On (Mountain Home/22)
LARRY CORDLE: November Wind/single (Mighty Cord/23)
BILL HARRELL & THE VIRGINIANS: Cold November Rain/Walking In The Early Morning Dew (Rebel/83)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Blue Virginia Blues/Silver Reflections (Rebel/87)
BILL CLIFTON & HIS DIXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS: When Autumn Leaves Begin to Fall/Mountain Folk Songs (Starday/59)
CLIFF WALDRON & THE NEW SHADES OF GRASS: Falling Leaves/Traveling Light (Rebel/71)
HIGH COUNTRY: Stay Away From Me/Home To Me (Swallow/84)
JOE VAL: When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall/Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys (Rounder/75)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: The Old, Old House/Live, Volume One (Copper Creek/90)
THE DEL McCOURY BAND: Seasons Of My Heart/Blue Side Of Town (Rounder/92)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Each Season Changes You/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
KATHY KALLICK: Thoughts Of Love and Home/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
THE DILLARDS: There Is a Time/Live!!! Almost!!! (Elektra/64)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: A Few More Seasons/Sacred Songs From the Hills (Starday/60)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Amber Tresses Tied With Blue/The Fabulous Sound Of Flatt & Scruggs (Columbia/64)
J.P. FRALEY: October Waltz/Wild Rose Of The Mountain (Rounder/74)
WALT KOKEN: November Waltz/Hei-wa Hoedown (Rounder/95)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: When the Golden Leaves Begin To Fall/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/50)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Sept. 21, 2024
All releases, except as noted, in 2024; original recording dates of archival material also given.
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Into The Wild/Into the Wild (Nonesuch)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: City Of Glass/City Of Glass (Signature Sounds)
JODY STECHER with MILE TWELVE: A Little Home To Go To/Instant Lonesome & the Twinkle Brigade (Don Giovanni)
DAVID GRISMAN & THE ROUNDER ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/Live at Grass Valley (Acoustic Disc/89)
JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN: Friend Of the Devil/Bare Bones, Vol. II (Acoustic Disc/90-93)
ANDY STATMAN: Stoney Lonesome/Bluegrass Tracks (Shefa)
SOUTHWEST BLUEGRASS ALL-STARS: Deputy Dalton/Introducing the Southwest Bluegrass All Stars (Native & Fine)
JERRON PAXTON: What’s Gonna Become Of Me/Things Done Changed (Smithsonian-Folkways)
THE LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: The Log Train/single (self)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Outrun The Rain/single (Fiddle Man)
BIG JOE: Skin To Seed/Wanna Go Dancing? (self)
BONNIE & THE SALTY DAWGS: Surer Ei Jhor Jhor Jhorna/Vol. I (self)
THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND: While My Guitar Gently Weeps/The Set (Nolivan)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: He’s Gone/Gold In Your Pocket (Free Dirt)
GRASSOMOXOA: He’s Gone/demo (self)
ALICE GERRARD: The Things I Notice Now/Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)
DANNY PAISLEY: Ramblin’ Boy/Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)
LAURIE LEWIS: Central Square/Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)
RHONDA VINCENT: Nine to Five/Destinations and Fun Places (Upper Management)
EMMYLOU HARRIS, LINDA RONSTADT, DOLLY PARTON: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind/Trio II (Asylum/16)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Roland/single (EMG)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Heartaches By the Number - Oct. 5, 2024
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JIM & JESSE: Heartaches By the Number/Our Kind Of Country (Pinecastle/01)
GINNY HAWKER: Those Two Blue Eyes/Letters From My Father (Rounder/01)
MAC WISEMAN: Four Walls All Around Me/Name In the Sand (Dot/52)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: Seven Years Blues/single (Decca/49)
WIL MARING: Eight More Miles To Louisville/Live at Carter Vintage Guitars (2013)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: This Morning At Nine/Live at McCabe's (8-14-75)
RHONDA VINCENT: Nine to Five/Destinations and Fun Places (Upper Management/24)
BRADLEY & ADAIR: Apartment #9/Oh Darlin’ (Pinecastle/20)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Nine Pound Hammer/An Evening Long Ago (Sony/56)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sixteen Years/Sixteen Years (Copper Creek (86)
DELLA MAE: Sixteen Tons/The Butcher Shoppe (Rounder/19)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Sixteen Cents/Dogwood Winter (Rural Rhythm/10)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: Seventeen Cents/You Never Be The Sun (Rounder/)
MOLLY ANDREWS: That 25 Cents That You Paid/WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour (2011)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: 25 Chickens/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
BGC farewell -
SCOTTY STONEMAN with the KENTUCKY COLONELS: Eighth Of January/Live in LA (Sierra Briar/65)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: 20/20 Vision/JM & SMB (Bear Family/54)
CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY: Twenty Naked Pentecostals In a Pontiac/Saints & Strangers (Backcountry/03)
THE LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Twenty One Years/Windy Mountain (Bear Family/52)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/Back to the Blue Ridge (Brandywine/94)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON (featuring GILLIAN WELCH): Fifty Miles of Elbow Room/Song For Greta (Rebel/05)
RICKY SKAGGS: I Had But 50 Cents/Songs My Dad Loved (Skaggs Family/09)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Highway 52/Highway Fifty Two (Vetco/79)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: 99 Years - 'Tis Almost For Life/Highway Fifty Two (Vetco/79)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: A Hundred Years From Now/1948-1959 (Bear Family/57)
SUZY THOMPSON (SUZY’S FLOOZIES): Half Past Four/Retro (self/01)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Here In California - Oct. 12, 2024
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Into The Wild (Nonesuch)
- Here In California
- Into the Wild
- Getaway Girl
AMY KASSIR: Bread and Butter (self)
- China Camp
- Little Pine Siskin
- Wagnerd
JODY STECHER with MILE TWELVE: Instant Lonesome & the Twinkle Brigade (Don Giovanni)
- A Little Home To Go To
- People Keep A Comin’
- Little Black Train
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: City Of Glass (Signature Sounds)
- City Of Glass
- Bedside Window
- I Can’t Find You At All
SONIA SHELL: We’re Going Home (Inscrutable)
- Roving Gambler
- Betting On Jones
BIG JOE:
- Skin To Seed
- Pallet On Your Floor
DAVID GRISMAN & THE ROUNDER ALBUM BAND: Live at Grass Valley (Acoustic Disc/89)
- Blue Ridge Cabin Home
- Little Maggie
- White Dove
JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN: Bare Bones: The Duo Recordings (Acoustic Disc/90-93)
- When First Unto This Country/Vol. I: Master Takes
- Whiskey In the Jar/Volume III: Alternate Takes
- Grateful Dawg/Volume II: Other Tunes & Arrangements
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - Oct. 19, 2024
host: Jose Segue
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BOO-GRASS SIGNAL: Ghost Stories, Scary Songs, and Evocative Tunes - Oct. 26, 2024
host: Leah Wollenberg
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THE GRASSMASTERS: Ghost Riders In the Sky/Cash Grass (Synergy/06)
DREADFUL SNAKES: Who’s That Knocking At My Door?/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/83)
TONY HOLT & THE WILDWOOD VALLEY BOYS: Silver Ghost/Daylight’s Burnin’ (Rebel/06)
BRANDON GODMAN: Death Comes Creepin’/I Heard the Morgan Bell (self/24)
WILLIE WELLS & THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN GRASS: Ghost Riders in the Sky/Full Throttle (Son Sound/20)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Long Black Veil/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/65)
JAKE BLOUNT: Where Did You Sleep Last Night/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
SARAH JAROSZ: Shankill Butchers/Live at the Troubadour (Sugar Hill/13)
CHRISTIAN SEDELMYER: The Butcher’s Last Dance/Ravine Palace (self/20)
DOM FLEMONS: Tyin’ Knots in the Devil’s Tale/Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Bringing Mary Home/The Early Rebel Recordings (Rebel/66)
THE SELDOM SCENE: I’ve Come to Take You Home/Like We Used To Be (Sugar Hill/94)
FRONT RANGE: The Lantern/Ramblin' On My Mind (Sugar Hill/97)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off Of Me/Folk Song Festival (King/62)
EVIE LADIN featuring LISA ORENSTEIN: The Bone Doc/Riding the Rooster II (Evil Diane/24)
COL. LONGSHANKS & THE BACK ON THE MENU BOYS (aka SKILLET LICORICE): Lord of the Rings Medley Waltz>Chilly Winds/rehearsal (self/24)
OWEN “SNAKE” CHAPMAN: Big Black Cat/Up in Chapman’s Hollow (Rounder/96)
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE: The Grave Robber/The Heart Of a Song (Rebel/11)
JORDAN TICE, ANDREW MARLIN, & CHRISTIAN SEDELMYER: Wild Bill Jones/Wild Rose Of the Mountain (self/24)
CHARLIE TORCH: Red Rocking Chair/demo (self/24)
KATHY KALLICK: Burying Ground/Call Me a Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
RHIANNON GIDDENS with FRANCESCO TURISI: Calling Me Home/They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch/21)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Light/Love Chooses You (Flying Fish/89)
KENNY BAKER: Frost On the Pumpkin/Frost On the Pumpkin (County/77)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: California Bluegrass Reunion - Nov. 2, 2024
CALIFORNIA BANJO EXTRAVAGANZA: The Distance Between Two Points/Live at the Freight & Salvage (2015)
CALIFORNIA BANJO EXTRAVAGANZA: The Train That Carried My Girl From Town/Live at the Freight & Salvage (2016)
BILL EVANS: Along Came Sonny/Things Are Simple (Native and Fine/23)
BILL EVANS: Sierra Blanca/Things Are Simple (Native and Fine/23)
JOHN REISCHMAN: John intro > The Coyote Trail/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus/21)
MIKE WITCHER: Little Rabbit/demo (self/24)
CHARLIE TORCH: Red Rocking Chair/Live at the Freight & Salvage (3-9-24)
MIKE WITCHER: Deep River Blues/demo (self/24)
CALIFORNIA BLUEGRASS REUNION: Live at the Freight & Salvage (2021)
- Big Spike Hammer
- Dandy Long Legs
CALIFORNIA BLUEGRASS REUNION: Live at the Freight & Salvage (2021)
- Steel
- Midnight In Rosine
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: The Finest Things/Live at Empty Sea Studios, Seattle (2015)
NELL & JIM BAND: Folsom Prison Blues/Live at the Freight & Salvage (2015)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/Live in Roanoke (11-27-83)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Chalk Up Another One/Live in Roanoke (11-27-83)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Dreamer’s Waltz/Live at Empty Sea Studios, Seattle (2015)
MIKE WITCHER: Shenandoah/Peghead Nation (2020)
BILL EVANS: Chinquapin Hunting/Things Are Simple (Native and Fine/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Music For Veterans Day - Nov. 9, 2024
host: Allegra Thompson
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: Will You Be Loving Another Man?/Essential Bill Monroe 1945-1949 (Columbia/47)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: Faded Coat of Blue/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
DAVID GRISMAN & FRIENDS: I’m Comin' Back But I Don’t Know When/Home is Where The Heart Is (Rounder/88)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Miner’s Lullaby/Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs Of Utah Phillips (Rounder/97)
TIM O’BRIEN: Mick Ryan’s Lament/Two Journeys (Howdy Skies/01)
JOHN DOYLE: Clear the Way/Shadow and Light (Compass/11)
LAURIE LEWIS: Return to the Fire/Blossoms (Spruce and Maple/09)
HENHOUSE PROWLERS: Line The Avenues/single (Dark Shadow/24)
HOOT AND HOLLER: The Blue Sky Ain't No Friend of Mine/Reasons To Run (self/16)
SONYA COHEN CRAMER: When I Was Most Beautiful/You've Been A Friend To Me (Smithsonian Folkways/24)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Jeano/The Invisible Comes To Us (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER with CHAO TIAN: Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention/From China To Appalachia (Community/24)
JAKE BLOUNT: Beyond This Wall/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
DOM FLEMONS: Nobody Wrote It Down/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways/23)
KAIA KATER: Fedon/Strange Medicine (Free Dirt/24)
WAR & PIERCE: Search & Destroy/War & Pierce (self/20)
TOM, BRAD, & ALICE: Fair Beauty Bright/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & LAUREL BLISS: One Morning In May/Girl From Jericho (Copper Creek/03)
KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Bugle Call Rag/Second Session (Pinecastle/09)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Nov. 16, 2024
NOTE: all releases (except *) from 2024.
NEFESH MOUNTAIN: Regrets In the Rearview/Beacons (forthcoming)
MAX WAREHAM: Hard Times Are Far Behind/Dagommit! (forthcoming)
SISTER SADIE: All Will Be Well/single (Mountain Home)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Bluegrass in the Backwoods/single (Fiddleman)
DAN TYMINSKI: Say Won’t You Be Mine/Live From the Ryman (8 Track)
REBECCA FRAZIER: Train Is Moving/Boarding Windows In Paradise (Amtoco-Compass)
JIM HURST: One More Lonesome Train/single (Pinecastle)
GEORGE JACKSON & BRAD KOLODNER: Grigsby’s Hornpipe/Shady Lane (self)
HILLS OF BELGIUM: Come On Buddy, Don’t You Want To Go/Come On Buddy, Don’t You Want To Go (self)
KENNY KOSEK (with MARTY CUTLER): Gojira County Breakdown (Japanese Army March>Gojira County)/Twisted Sage (Shefa)
ERIC SHI: Amarillo By Morning/single (self)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: The Auctioneer/single (Rebel)
RHONDA VINCENT: Nine to Five/Destinations and Fun Places (Upper Management)
BENSON: This Drinkin' Will Kill Me/single (Mountain Home)
CHARLOTTE CARRIVICK: Little Red Riding Hood/Sensible or Otherwise (self)
BONNIE & THE SALTY DAWGS: Julley/Vol II (self)
CHRIS DAVIS: Blue Kentucky Wind/single (Pinecastle)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: I'll Be Here Either Way/single (EMG)
BEAN CREEK: I’ll Break Out Again Tonight, Lonely Highway/Live On Vern’s Stage (CBA/24)
*PLAID STRANGERS: Georgia Blues, Goodbye Girls/demo (self)
*BILL EVANS: Nesser/Things Are Simple (Native & Fine/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Festival - Nov. 23, 2024
BEAN CREEK and PLAID STRANGERS live in the KALW studio!
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Previews of the DeFord Bailey Legacy Festival - Nov. 30, 2024
DEFORD BAILEY: Pan American Blues/Harp Blowers (1925-1936)(Document/27)
DEFORD BAILEY: Evening Prayer Blues/Harp Blowers (1925-1936)(Document/27)
DEFORD BAILEY: Stove Pipe Blues/Country Music’s First Black Star (Texas Folklore Society/74)
DEFORD BAILEY: Fox Chase/Harp Blowers (1925-1936)(Document/27)
DEFORD BAILEY: Lost John/Country Music’s First Black Star (Texas Folklore Society/74)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Evening Prayer Blues/Live In Vancouver, BC (9-3-80)
DOM FLEMONS: There's a Brownskin Girl Down the Road Somewhere/Black Opry Revue Writers Round, Cayamo - Norwegian Pearl (3-4-24)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS (featuring DOM FLEMONS, with LAYLA McCALLA): Milwaukee Blues/Live at Folk Alley (2011)
TRUE BLUES with COREY HARRIS & CEDRIC WATSON: Everybody's Got to Change Sometime/Live at Focal Point (1-20-24)
TRUE BLUES with COREY HARRIS & CEDRIC WATSON: Tit Monde/Live at Focal Point (3-30-2)
MIKO MARKS & THE RESURRECTORS: Feel Like Going Home/Feel Like Going Home (Redtone/22)
YASMIN WILLIAMS: On A Friday Night/Tiny Desk (NPR/21)
LEYLA McCALLA: Merci Bon Dieu/Live at the Rosslyn (VA) Jazz Festival (2019)
CEDRIC WATSON & LEYLA McCALLA: Pa Janvier/demo (self/16)
BOBBY RUSH: Hoedown Breakdown/Live at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ (5-3-24)
JERRON PAXTON: What's Gonna Become of Me/Things Done Changed (Smithsonian-Folkways/24)
FANTASTIC NEGRITO: Oh Betty/Live at The Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center, Lexington, KY (4-7-23)
DOM FLEMONS: Tough Luck/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways/22)
MIKO MARKS & THE RESURRECTORS: Long As I Can See the Light/single (Redtone/21)
MIKO MARKS & THE RESURRECTORS: One More Night/Feel Like Going Home (Redtone/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Memorial Celebration of Gene Tortora - Dec. 7, 2024
GENE TORTORA & KATHY KALLICK: Live At KALW (3-31-19)
- You Won’t Be Satisfied That Way
- Wicked Messenger
- New Jersey Meltdown
- Big River
PHANTOMS OF THE OPRY: Live at the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (1973)
- You Know Whatcha Know
- In the City
- Homesick
- Fort Worth Drag
RICH WILBUR: In The City/In The City: A Memorial Retrospective (Sophronie/78)
THE SQUIDS: Bone Down/Live at the CBA Father’s Day Festival (self/80)
PAUL KING & FRIENDS: Who Do You Love?/Hillbilly At Heart (self/11)
PAUL KING & FRIENDS: May You Never Be Alone/Hillbilly At Heart (self/11)
PAUL KING & FRIENDS: Old Man’s Place/Hillbilly At Heart (self/11)
PETER KESSLER & GAIL FRATAR: Just Dreaming/Just Dreaming (Swallow/86)
PETER KESSLER & GAIL FRATAR: My Ollie Is Waiting For Me/Take Me Up (Rolling Robin/97)
BLUE MOON BROTHERS: Loafer’s Glory/Live at the Amador County Fair, Plymouth (7-25-04)
KATHY KALLICK & FRIENDS: It’s Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song/Tribute To Hazel Dickens (St. John’s Church, Berkeley/3-23-02)
KATHY KALLICK: My Native Home/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/02)
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VERN & RAY: San Francisco – 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
- Little Georgia Rose
- Touch Of God’s Hand
- Sweet Fern
NOTE: celebrating the anniversary of the Dec. 2, 1961, Vern & Ray concert at the Washington School, Berkeley.
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Great American Music Hall - 1977 (Echoes/77)
- Dawg's Bull
- 16/16
- Ricochet
NOTE: celebrating the anniversary of the Dec. 3, 1976, DGQ Bread & Roses concert at the Berkeley Community Center.
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Membership Campaign Special - Dec. 14, 2024
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GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Get Up, Go To Work/I Can’t Stand To Ramble (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /83>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: You Don’t Miss Your Water/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Broken Tie/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Anywhere the Wind Blows/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: The Danny J/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Hamsters In the Pantry/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Waterbound/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: What Am I Gonna Do/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Wildflowers/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: I Can’t Stand To Ramble/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/88)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Think About Me/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/88)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Jesusita En Chihuahua/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: La Arboleta/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Walking the Floor Over You/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Now The Time Has Come To Go/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/85)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Hard Times/Live At the Freight and Salvage (3-10-17)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Itzbin Reel/Live At the Freight and Salvage (3-10-17)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Settin’ the Woods On Fire/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Red Shirt/Live At Grass Valley: Wolf Mountain Bluegrass Festival (1993)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Blue Night/Celebrating The First 20 Years (CBA/85)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Rutabaga Boogie/Live At the Freight and Salvage (3-10-17)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Songs For A Winter’s Night - Dec. 21, 2024
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: While Roving On Last Winter's Night/Hand Hewn (Rounder01)
TONY RICE: Song for a Winter’s Night/Me and My Guitar (Rounder/86)
LONESOME SISTERS & RILEY BAUGUS: Lonesome Scene Of Winter/Lonesome Scenes (Tin Halo/12)
SAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Faded Love and Winter Roses/Bluegrass (Home Comfort/76)
FRIENDS OF SALLY JOHNSON: Winter Blues/1986-1989 (self)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Cold, Cold Winter Love/Misbehavin’ (Vetco/79)
HIGH COUNTRY: A Cold Winter Sun/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
LARRY SPARKS: Winter In Miami/The Coldest Part Of Winter (Rebel/05)
RALPH STANLEY II: It Sure Gets Cold This Time of Year/Pretty Girls, City Lights (Rebel/00)
DONNA ULISSE: Whatever Winter Brings/Breakin’ Easy (Mountain Home/17)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: Old Man Winter/Roundtable (Billy Blue/21)
ALISON KRAUSS: Winter Of A Broken Heart/I've Got That Old Feeling (Rounder/90)
IRENE KELLEY (with the KRUGER BROTHERS): Come Some Winter Morning/Snow White Memories (IRK/23)
SELDOM SCENE: Winter Wind/At The Scene (Sugar Hill/83)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Winterlight Aire/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter’s Grace (Signature Sounds/99)
KATHY KALLICK: Ring the Bells At Midnight/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
Christmas Time's A-Comin’ - The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection (Time Life Music)
- RALPH STANLEY: I’m Going Home, It’s Christmas Time (93)
- THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Christmas Is Near (58)
- BILL MONROE: Christmas Time’s A-Comin’ (51)
FIDDLIN’ JOHN CARSON & HIS VIRGINIA REELERS: Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over/Vol. 5 (Document/27)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: Winter Wonderland/Christmas (self/20)
ANDY STATMAN & DAVID GRISMAN: Kazatski/Songs Of Our Fathers Live (Acoustic Disc/3-13-97)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Memorial Celebration of Hozan Alan Senauke – Dec. 28, 2024
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ALAN SENAUKE: Fairbanks/Wooden Man (Old Songs From The Southern School) (Native & Fine/02)
FICTION BROTHERS: White Fences/Country Cooking with the Fiction Brothers (Flying Fish/76)
FICTION BROTHERS: (Gonna) Go To Work On Monday (One More Time)/Things Are Coming My Way (Flying Fish/79)
KATE BRISLIN with ALAN SENAUKE: What Was I Supposed To Do/Wooden Man (Old Songs From The Southern School) (Native & Fine/81)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: The Lonesome Cowboy’s Breakfast/Blue Flame Stringband (Flying Fish/83)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: Are You Afraid To Die/Blue Flame Stringband (Flying Fish/83)
ERIC THOMPSON & ALAN SENAUKE: Sandy River Belle > Polly Put The Kettle On/Two Guitars (Flying Fish/86)
MICHAEL DOUCET, DANNY POULLARD & ALAN SENAUKE: Port Arthur Stomp/Cajun Jam Session (Arhoolie/83)
KATHY KALLICK: Bye Bye Kitty/Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom) (Sugar Hill/94)
ALAN SENAUKE, JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Spanish Cavalier/The Young Fogies: Vol. II (Rounder/94)
THE BAY RAMBLERS: I Could Change My Mind/demo (1985)
HIGH COUNTRY: Dark Side Of The Road/Blue Highway (Turquoise/87)
ALAN SENAUKE: The Bravest Cowboy/Wooden Man (Old Songs From The Southern School) (Native & Fine/02)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: Burn Another Honky Tonk Down/Bluegrass Intentions (Native & Fine/02)
ALAN SENAUKE: Relax Your Mind/Everything Is Broken: Songs About Things As They Are (Clear View Project/12)
ALAN SENAUKE: I Will Not Abandon You/Upaya Zen Center (Santa Fe, NM) Dharma Podcast (3-12-14)
ERIC THOMPSON & ALAN SENAUKE: Big Mon > Miller's Reel/Two Guitars (Flying Fish/86)
THE BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: On A Monday/Bluegrass Intentions (Native & Fine/02)
ALAN SENAUKE: The Unquiet Grave/Wooden Man/(Old Songs From The Southern School) (Native & Fine/02)
ALAN SENUAKE: Busted, part 2: the Saga Of Donald Trump/single (self/23)
ALAN SENAUKE: Nobody's Fault But Mine/Everything Is Broken: Songs About Things As They Are (Clear View Project/12)
ALAN SENAUKE: Midnight Hour Blues/Everything Is Broken: Songs About Things As They Are (Clear View Project/12)
FICTION BROTHERS: Things Are Coming My Way/Things Are Coming My Way (Flying Fish/79)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: All Night Long/Live (self/02)
NEW DANGERFIELD: Dangerfield Newby/single (Free Dirt)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Blue Collared Dog and His Green Eyed Friend/single (Mountain Home)
GINA FURTADO: Submarine/single (Mountain Home)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): I Can’t Find You At All/City of Glass (Signature Sounds)
SOLID GOLD STRANGER: Whalers Village/Solid Gold Stranger (self)
SOLID GOLD STRANGER: You Used to Love Me/Solid Gold Stranger (self)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Give It Away/single (Fiddle Man)
BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES: I Built A World/I Built A World (Sugar Petunia)
BRANDON GODMAN: Thelma Lilly/I Heard the Morgan Bell (FiddleMeOne)
NEVER COME DOWN: Mother/Live at Ear Trumpet Labs (self)
DANNY PAISLEY: Till Lonesome Comes Around/single (Pinecastle)\
THE VESTAL BROTHERS: Let Those Fingers Fly/single (True Lonesome)
AMANDA COOK: Last Road Going Home/single (Mountain Fever)
BLUE HIGHWAY: Soil And Soul/Lonesome State of Mind (Down the Road)
LARRY & JOE: Runnin’ From the Weather/Manos Panamericanos (self) [includes i.d. over music]
NATALIE SPEARS: One-Eyed John/Hymn of Wild Things
THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Lonely Pine/single (Smithsonian Folkways)
BASIN & GRANGE: Pines of Caroline/Walk You Down the Road (Molinello)
LEVEL BEST: Drivin’ the Blue/Drivin’ the Blue (Redstart)
LEVEL BEST: Good Morning, Mr. Railroad Man/Drivin’ the Blue (Redstart)
BEPPE GAMBETTA: Sit and Pick with You/Terra Madre (Egea Music)
JACKSON HOLLOW: Nothing But Sky/single (Mountain Fever)
BENSON: Donner Pass/single (Mountain Home)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Bluegrass Birthdays - July 13, 2024
host: Leah Wollenberg
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Can’t You Hear Me Calling/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
BRANDON GODMAN: I Heard the Morgan Bell/I Heard the Morgan Bell (self/24)
BELA FLECK: Whitewater/Drive (Rounder/88)
DAROL ANGER & BRUCE MOLSKY: Ain’t That Trouble in Mind/Lockdown Breakdown (self/24)
MISSION BLUE: Memories & Dreams/Traditional Ways (self/24)
JIM & JESSE: I Will Always Be Waiting for You/Best of the Early Years (Cleopatra/53)
THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: It Hurts Me More the Second Time Around/Live from the Grand Ole Opry (Floating World Collections/early ‘60s)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Hound Dog Blues/Trees (Spruce and Maple/24)
BRITTANY HASS & LENO JONSSON: The Shipping Tunes: Shipping Port/Shipping Polska/The Snake (self/24)
ALICE GERRARD: Strange Land/Follow the Music (Tompkins Square/14)
PETER ROWAN (feat. MOLLY TUTTLE): The Red, The White and the Blue/Calling You from My Mountain (Rebel/22)
ALICE GERRARD: Winding Road/Sun to Sun (Sleepy Cat/23)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: The One I Love is Gone/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian-Folkways/65)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Mama’s Gonna Stay/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/76)
ALICE GERRARD: Sun Keep Shining on Me/Bittersweet (Spruce & Maple/13)
BLUE & LONESOME (feat. PAUL SHELASKY): Salt River/Some Old Day (e’Neff/10)
THE DILLARDS with BYRON BERLINE: Black Mountain Rag/Pickin’and Fiddlin’ (Elekra/65)
BYRON BERLINE with BILL MONROE & EARL SCRUGGS: Sally Goodin” Byron Berline/Fiddle & A Song (Sugar Hill/95)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Live at the Grand Ole Opry (1967)
- Train 45
- Love, Please Come Home
- instrumental over advertisement
- Sally Goodin
- I Live in the Past
AMY & HAILEY: You Won’t be Satisfied That Way/Sidekick Sessions (self/19)
RHONDA VINCENT: What Is To Be Will Be, What Ain’t To Be Just Might Happen/Music is What I See (Upper Management/21)
BYRON BERLINE & JOHN HICKMAN: Double Trouble/Double Trouble (Sugar Hill/86)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, #73987 - July 20, 2024
- All selections are by BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS and, except as noted, are available on various Bear Family releases. Recording dates for each selection are included.
- Songs and tunes selected by Neil Rosenberg (NR), Martino Coppo (MaC), Tom Bekeny (TB), Tom Rozum (TR), Jody Stecher (JS), Skip Gorman (SG), Mike Compton (MiC), John Reischman (JR), Butch Waller (BW), Ed Neff (EN), and myownself (PT).
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Bluegrass Breakdown (10-31-64 - NR)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky (10-27-47 - MaC)
When You Are Lonely (10-28-47 - TB)
I'm Travelin' On and On (10-28-47 - TR)
Along About Daybreak (10-28-47 - JS)
Rawhide (1-20-51 - JS, TR)
On the Old Kentucky Shore (1-20-51 - SG)
The First Whippoorwill (10-28-51 - JS, MiC)
When Golden Leaves Begin To Fall (10-15-50 - JS, SG, JR)
Get Up John (11-28-53 - BW, JR)
Used to Be - 9-16-55 - MiC)
Out In the Cold World (5-15-57 - EN)
Bluegrass Part One aka Blue Grass Twist (12-3-60 - BW)
Dusty Miller (12-6-66 - SG, TB, TR)
John Henry (11-16-63 - MiC)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
On and On (11-16-63 - MiC)/Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc)
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz (12-3-70 - MaC, EN)
True Life Blues (2-13-45 – MaC)
Can't You Hear Me Calling (10-22-49 – BW)
Bluegrass Stomp (9-23-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
Brakeman's Blues (9-23-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
Close By (5-13-56 - PT)/Live Recordings 1956-1969 (Smithsonian-Folkways)
Lord Protect My Soul (10-15-50 - JS)
I’ve Found a Hiding Place (3-20-58 - TR)
Old Ebenezer Scrooge (2-3-81 - MaC)
My Last Days On Earth (2-19-81, 4-7-81, 4-28-81 – EN)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Big Mon’s Mando Legacy - July 27, 2024
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND with MIKE COMPTON: Monroebillia/My Native Home (Rounder/88)
RED WINE with MARTINO COPPO: W.S.M./Italian Cats (self/01)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Joe Ahr’s Dream/Walk Along John (Corvus/13)
JOHN REISCHMAN: Indiana Firefly/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
HIGH COUNTRY with BUTCH WALLER: Long Hollow Getaway/Blue Highway (Turquoise/87)
RHONDA VINCENT: Is The Grass Any Bluer (On The Other Side)/The Storm Still Rages (Rounder/01)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: You're Drifting Away/Live at the Brandywine Mountain Music Convention (Brandywine Friends Of Old Time Music/90)
MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY: Evening Prayer Blues/Live (self/13)
SIERRA HULL: Get Up John/Pandemic Sessions (self/20)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with TOM BEKENY: Kentucky Mandolin/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with MARTINO COPPO: I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome/Live at La Roche (2011)
THE PRICE SISTERS: The Lee Wedding Tune/A Heart Never Knows (Rebel/17)
SKIP GORMAN: The Lloyd Loar/The Old Style Mandolin Vol. Two - Monroesque (Old West/03)
TOM ROZUM: On the Old Kentucky Shore/Jubilee (Dog Boy/99)
BLUE & LONESOME with ED NEFF: Summertime Is Past And Gone/Some Old Day (e’Neff Said/09)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS with TOM ROZUM: The Golden West/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: Letter From My Darling/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
BLUE & LONESOME with ED NEFF: Toy Heart/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e’Neff Said/10)
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND with JODY STECHER: In the Pines/In the Deep Rolling Hills Of San Francisco (Bluegrass Signal/07)
KATHY KALLICK BAND with TOM BEKENY: Lord Protect My Soul/Time (Live Oak/12)
LAUREN PRICE NAPIER with Joe Newberry: Lonesome Midnight Waltz/Mandolin Camp North (2023)
SKIP GORMAN & RICHARD STARKEY: Have a Feast Here Tonight/ Late Night Feast (No Part A Nothin’/06)
MIKE COMPTON: Let’s Get Close Together Blues/Rare & Fine - Uncommon Tunes of Bill Monroe (self/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks: New Releases - Aug. 3, 2024
NOTE: all releases in 2024, except as noted.
MIKE COMPTON: California Forest Fire/Rare & Fine-Uncommon Tunes of Bill Monroe (self/23)
COMPTON & NEWBERRY: Cherry River Line/Home In My Heart (forthcoming - EMG)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO, LUKE RICHARDSON, CLEEK SCHREY: Lost Girl/Beehive Cathedral (self)
DAROL ANGER & BRUCE MOLSKY: Lockdown Breakdown/Lockdown Breakdown (self)
TONY TRISCHKA with BRUCE MOLSKY: My Horses Ain’t Hungry/Earl Jam: A Tribute To Earl Scruggs (Down the Road)
TONY TRISCHKA with DEL McCOURY & BRITTANY HAAS: Little Liza Jane/Earl Jam: A Tribute To Earl Scruggs (Down the Road)
BRITTANY HAAS & LENA JONSSON: Fiddle Claw/The Snake (Padiddle)
COUNTRY GONGBANG: Live at the CBA Father's Day Festival, Grass Valley, CA (6/13/24)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER with CHAO TIAN: Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points of Attention/From China to Appalachia (Community Music)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Till Summer Is Gone/Detour To the Moon (Mountain Home)
SONIA SHELL: Roving Gambler/We’re Going Home (Inscrutable)
BILL EMERSON: String Time/Early Recordings (Patuxent/63-4>24)
EMERSON & WALDRON: I'm Bound To Ride/Best Of (Rebel/68)
BOBBY OSBORNE & C.J. LEWANDOWSKI: Cora Is Gone/single (Turnberry)
THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: Wanderers Like Me/Wanderers Like Me (Smithsonian-Folkways)
MISSION BLUE: Walking Down the Line/Traditional Ways (self)
BIGFOOT: Gilsaw, Speed the Plough/I’ve Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
CROOKED JADES: Whiteface (excerpt)/rehearsal demo (self)
RED WINE: Start Sawing On the Strings/Bluegrass Party (self/20)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Hillside/City of Glass (Signature Sounds)
LAURIE LEWIS: Just A Little Ways Down the Road/Trees (Spruce and Maple)
BRANDON GODMAN: I Heard The Morgan Bell/I Heard The Morgan Bell (self)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, Jimmy! - Aug. 10, 2024
theme -
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Theme Time/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/65)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: River Of Death/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/50)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Sitting Alone In the Moonlight/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/54)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: On And On/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/54) 2.46
JIMMY MARTIN & THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: Chalk Up Another One/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/54)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: 20/20 Vision/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/54)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hit Parade Of Love/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/56)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ocean Of Diamonds/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Rock Hearts/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: I'll Never Take No For An Answer/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58) JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sophronie/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Hold Whatcha Got/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: You Don't Know My Mind /Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/60)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: My Walking Shoes/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/60)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: This World Is Not My Home/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/61)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Prayer Bells Of Heaven/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/62)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Stormy Waters/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/62)
JIMMY MARTIN with the NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: Losin’ You (Might Be the Best Thing Yet)/Will the Circle Be Unbroken (United Artists/72)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Big Country/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/66)
ticket giveaway -
BILLY STRINGS: Foggy Old London/Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, England (12/7/22)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sunny Side Of the Mountain/High Lonesome - The Story of Bluegrass Music (CMH/64>94)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Milwaukee Here I Come/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/69)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Freeborn Man/Live on Del Reeves TV show (c.70)
JIMMY MARTIN with BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: The Old Cross Road/The Story Of Blue Grass Music (Live at Fincastle/65)
JIMMY MARTIN with RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: White Dove/Live at McClure (Rebel/75)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone/Hit Parade Of Love - Live 1958-1960 (Music Mill Entertainment)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: The Last Song/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/65)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Red Rooster/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/66)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Fly Me To Frisco: Interpretations of Jimmy Martin Music - Aug. 17, 2024
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JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Fly Me To Frisco/Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/73)
HIGH COUNTRY: I Cried Again/The First 25 Years (Big Chicken/71)
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND: What Was I Supposed To Do/Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish/83)
TONY RICE: Rock Hearts/The Bluegrass Suspects (Kaleidoscope/90)
DEL & DAWG (DEL McCOURY & DAVID GRISMAN): Hit Parade Of Love/Hardcore Bluegrass in the Dawg House (Acoustic Oasis/’90s)
DAVID GRISMAN, JOHN HARTFORD & MIKE SEEGER: My Walking Shoes/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/99)
WINDY HILL TRIO: Across the Sea Blues/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/13)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Before the Sun Goes Down/The Golden West (Hightone/06)
PETER ROWAN & TONY RICE: Sunny Side Of the Mountain/Quartet (Rounder/07)
BLUE & LONESOME: Chalk Up Another One/Live from Harrietville, Australia (e’Neff Said/10)
KATE BRISLIN & KATY MOFFATT: It Takes One To Know One/Sleepless Nights (Rounder/96)
DAVID THOM: God Guide Our Leader’s Hand/The Thief (Swollen/04)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: That's How I Can Count On You/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/05)
BEAN CREEK: Pretending I Don’t Care/Nightbird (Sloughfish/11)
DAVID THOM BAND with DON RIGSBY: The Last Song/Live at the Freight (2-10-13)
GOOD OL’ BOYS: Drink Up & Go Home/Drink Up & Go Home (RockBeat/75)
HIGH COUNTRY: Big Country/Earthquake - Bluegrass From California (Strictly Country/97)
KATE WOLF: 20/20 Vision/Live In Mendocino (Owl/79-82)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: Stepping Stones/Innocent Road (West Sound/16)
SAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Ocean of Diamonds/Live at Murphy's Tavern, Corvallis, OR (1975)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & LAUREL BLISS: Stormy Waters/Ridin’ Along (Yodel-Ay-Hee/05)
LAUREL CANYON RAMBLERS: Shake Hands With Mother Again/Blue Rambler 2 (Sugar Hill/96)
THE GOLDEN STATE BOYS: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone/45 (Shamrock/c.61)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Lonesome Instrument(al)s - Aug. 24, 2024
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THE LEVERETT BROTHERS: Lonesome Mandolin/Lonesome Mandolin (Birch/47)
OLD & IN THE WAY: Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Live at the Boarding House (Acoustic Disc/73)
BRYON SUTTON (and TONY RICE): Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Not Too Far From the Tree (Sugar Hill/06)
CURLY RAY CLINE: Wednesday Night Waltz/The Old Kentucky Fox Hunter and His Lonesome Pine Fiddle (Old Homestead/69)
OMGG: Lonesome Fiddle Blues/Obviously Minor Guys & a Girl (self/10)
THE STONEMAN FAMILY: Lonesome Banjo/28 Big Ones (King/69)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Lonesome Banjo/Home Sweet Home (Sugar Hill (67 + 98)
EDDIE ADCOCK: Lonesome Banjo/Renaissance Man (Pinecastle/96)
CHARLIE MOORE, BILL NAPIER & THE DIXIE PARTNERS: Lonesome Guitar/45 (King/65)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Faded Love/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/84)
GARY BREWER & THE KENTUCKY RAMBLERS: Lonesome Guitar/Home Brew (Copper Creek/02)
LARA & REYES: Lonesome Mandolin/Lara & Reyes (Fusion Acustica/06)
UNCLE JOHN: Lonesome Mandolin/This Here Road (self/02)
KATHY KALLICK BAND (featuring GREG BOOTH): Lonesome Dobro Blues/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
TUT TAYLOR: Lonesome Dobro/The Great Dobro Sessions (Sugar Hill/94)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lonesome Banjo Man/Clinch Mountain Country (Rebel/98)
THE LONESOME RIVER BAND: Lonesome Won’t Get the Best Of Me/The Road With No End (Mountain Home/06)
PAOLO BONFANTI & MARTINO COPPO: Visa Application Blues/Pracina Stomp (self/19)
THE CANOTE BROTHERS: Kamala Walz Waltz/demo (self/24)
THE BLOGGRASS BOYS: Democrat Ain’t A Dirty Word No More/single (self/08)
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BRITTANY HAAS & LENA JONSSON: The Shipping Tunes: Shipping Port>Shipping Polska/The Snake (self/24)
THE CROOKED JADES: Beautiful World/demo (self/20)
JOHN HARTFORD FIDDLE TUNES PROJECT: The Julia Belle Swain/The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2 (forthcoming)
FOG HOLLER: Bodega Rock/Live at Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival (self/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention Preview - Aug. 31, 2024
host: Allegra Thompson
THE ONLIES: A Few More Years Shall Roll/The Onlies (self/20)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER: High on a Mountain/Wahoo! (self/19)
RALPH STANLEY WITH MARIA MULDAUR: The Memory Of Your Smile/Clinch Mountain Sweethearts (Rebel/01)
BIGFOOT: I’ve Got A Girl In Baltimore/I’ve Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
SQUIRRELLY STRINGBAND: Reuben’s Train (live/06)
THE ONLIES: Billy in the Lowground/The Onlies (self/20)
MARIA MULDAUR: Honey Babe Blues/Waitress In A Donut Shop (Reprise/74)
CEDRIC WATSON ET BIJOU CRÉOLE: J'suis Gone A La Blue Moon/L'esprit Créole (Valcour/16)
MARLEY’S GHOST: Honky Tonk (unreleased)
PATRICE STRAHAN: Poor Howard (live/2024)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER: Get Up and Do Right/Get Up and Do Right (Community Music/17)
BIGFOOT: Hell On The Wabash/I’ve Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
LES AMIS CREOLE: La Reel DesHotels/Les Amis Creole (Arhoolie/06)
NOKOSEE FIELDS & FRIENDS: Love Nobody (unreleased)
CLEAN HEAT: God’s Golden Key (unreleased)
VIV & RILEY: The Blackest Crow (self/24)
MARLEY'S GHOST: I Can See Your Aura/Four Spacious Guys (Fly-By-Night/96)
RAYNA GELLERT & SUSIE GOEHRING: Willow Garden/Starch & Iron (Heard Her Squeal/05)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Shadow of the Pines/Evie Ladin Band (Evil Diane/12)
BIGFOOT: I Wish I Had My Time Again/I've Got A Bulldog (Yodel-Ay-Hee/12)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Memorial Celebrations of Katie Laur and Bobby Hicks – Sept. 7, 2024
KATIE LAUR: interview on "Traditions: Ohio Heritage Fellows”
KATIE LAUR BAND: When Earl Taylor Played the Mandolin For Me/Main Street (Jim Bob’s/97)
APPALACHIAN GRASS (featuring KATIE LAUR): Rock Salt & Nails/Jim McCall, Vernon McIntyre & the Appalachian Grass (Vetco/73)
KATIE LAUR: interview on "Traditions: Ohio Heritage Fellows”
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Driving Back To Tennessee/Good Time Girl (Vetco/75)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: T For Texas/Good Time Girl (Vetco/75)
KATIE LAUR BAND: Walk On By/Main Street (Jim Bob’s/97)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Little Bessie/Cookin’ With Katie (Vetco/77)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine/Hidden Treasures: Cincinnati's Tribute to King Records’ Legacy (Inclusion Network/02)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Lovesick Blues/Cookin’ With Katie (Vetco/77)
BOBBY HICKS: Angel’s Waltz/Fiddle Patch (Rounder/98)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Wheel Hoss/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/54)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Brown County Breakdown/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/55)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: Dark As The Night, Blue As The Day/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/59)
BOBBY HICKS: Big Mon/Texas Crapshooter (County/78)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: We Can't Be Darlings Anymore/The Bluegrass Album (Rounder/81)
BOBBY HICKS & KENNY BAKER: Faded Love/Darkness on the Delta(County/80)
RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER: Uncle Pen/Live on Iowa Public TV (1997)
BOBBY HICKS: Fiddle Patch/Fiddle Patch (Rounder/98)
BOBBY HICKS (with DEL McCOURY): We’re Steppin’ Out Tonight/Fiddle Patch (Rounder/98)
BOBBY HICKS & FRIENDS: Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)/Live at the Raleigh Convention Center (IBMA/14)
MARK KUYKENDALL, BOBBY HICKS & ASHEVILLE BLUEGRASS: Journey’s End/Forever & A Day (Rebel/17)
THE TENNESSEE BLUEGRASS BAND: Far From You/The Future of The Past (Billy Blue/22)
CASEY CONNORS aka THE BOY FROM BLUEGRASS: Lizzie Lou/single (self)
THE GRASCALS: Tennessee Hound Dog/20 (Mountain Home/24)
DANNY ROBERTS: The Drifter/single (Mountain Home/24)
BOBBY HICKS: Maiden’s Prayer/Texas Crapshooter (County/78)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Seasonal Songs & Tunes – Sept. 14, 2024
KENNY BAKER & BLAINE SPROUSE: September Waltz/Indian Springs (Rounder/89)
THE CARTER FAMILY: (My) Dark Haired True Lover/The Country Music Hall Of Fame (MCA/37)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: I'll Forgive You/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
JIM & JESSE: Did You Ever Go Sailing?/In the Tradition (Rounder/87)
THE ALEX LEACH BAND: October Fall/I'm the Happiest When I'm Moving (Mountain Home/21)
NORMAN BLAKE: The Fields Of November/The Fields Of November (Flying Fish/74)
JAELEE ROBERTS: November/Something You Didn’t Count On (Mountain Home/22)
LARRY CORDLE: November Wind/single (Mighty Cord/23)
BILL HARRELL & THE VIRGINIANS: Cold November Rain/Walking In The Early Morning Dew (Rebel/83)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Blue Virginia Blues/Silver Reflections (Rebel/87)
BILL CLIFTON & HIS DIXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS: When Autumn Leaves Begin to Fall/Mountain Folk Songs (Starday/59)
CLIFF WALDRON & THE NEW SHADES OF GRASS: Falling Leaves/Traveling Light (Rebel/71)
HIGH COUNTRY: Stay Away From Me/Home To Me (Swallow/84)
JOE VAL: When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall/Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys (Rounder/75)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: The Old, Old House/Live, Volume One (Copper Creek/90)
THE DEL McCOURY BAND: Seasons Of My Heart/Blue Side Of Town (Rounder/92)
ALLISON DE GROOT & TATIANA HARGREAVES: Each Season Changes You/Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt/22)
KATHY KALLICK: Thoughts Of Love and Home/Call Me A Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
THE DILLARDS: There Is a Time/Live!!! Almost!!! (Elektra/64)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: A Few More Seasons/Sacred Songs From the Hills (Starday/60)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Amber Tresses Tied With Blue/The Fabulous Sound Of Flatt & Scruggs (Columbia/64)
J.P. FRALEY: October Waltz/Wild Rose Of The Mountain (Rounder/74)
WALT KOKEN: November Waltz/Hei-wa Hoedown (Rounder/95)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: When the Golden Leaves Begin To Fall/Blue Grass, 1950-1959 (Bear Family/50)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Sept. 21, 2024
All releases, except as noted, in 2024; original recording dates of archival material also given.
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Into The Wild/Into the Wild (Nonesuch)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: City Of Glass/City Of Glass (Signature Sounds)
JODY STECHER with MILE TWELVE: A Little Home To Go To/Instant Lonesome & the Twinkle Brigade (Don Giovanni)
DAVID GRISMAN & THE ROUNDER ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/Live at Grass Valley (Acoustic Disc/89)
JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN: Friend Of the Devil/Bare Bones, Vol. II (Acoustic Disc/90-93)
ANDY STATMAN: Stoney Lonesome/Bluegrass Tracks (Shefa)
SOUTHWEST BLUEGRASS ALL-STARS: Deputy Dalton/Introducing the Southwest Bluegrass All Stars (Native & Fine)
JERRON PAXTON: What’s Gonna Become Of Me/Things Done Changed (Smithsonian-Folkways)
THE LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: The Log Train/single (self)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Outrun The Rain/single (Fiddle Man)
BIG JOE: Skin To Seed/Wanna Go Dancing? (self)
BONNIE & THE SALTY DAWGS: Surer Ei Jhor Jhor Jhorna/Vol. I (self)
THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND: While My Guitar Gently Weeps/The Set (Nolivan)
CALEB KLAUDER & REEB WILLMS: He’s Gone/Gold In Your Pocket (Free Dirt)
GRASSOMOXOA: He’s Gone/demo (self)
ALICE GERRARD: The Things I Notice Now/Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)
DANNY PAISLEY: Ramblin’ Boy/Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)
LAURIE LEWIS: Central Square/Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)
RHONDA VINCENT: Nine to Five/Destinations and Fun Places (Upper Management)
EMMYLOU HARRIS, LINDA RONSTADT, DOLLY PARTON: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind/Trio II (Asylum/16)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Roland/single (EMG)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Heartaches By the Number - Oct. 5, 2024
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JIM & JESSE: Heartaches By the Number/Our Kind Of Country (Pinecastle/01)
GINNY HAWKER: Those Two Blue Eyes/Letters From My Father (Rounder/01)
MAC WISEMAN: Four Walls All Around Me/Name In the Sand (Dot/52)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: Seven Years Blues/single (Decca/49)
WIL MARING: Eight More Miles To Louisville/Live at Carter Vintage Guitars (2013)
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH: This Morning At Nine/Live at McCabe's (8-14-75)
RHONDA VINCENT: Nine to Five/Destinations and Fun Places (Upper Management/24)
BRADLEY & ADAIR: Apartment #9/Oh Darlin’ (Pinecastle/20)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Nine Pound Hammer/An Evening Long Ago (Sony/56)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sixteen Years/Sixteen Years (Copper Creek (86)
DELLA MAE: Sixteen Tons/The Butcher Shoppe (Rounder/19)
STEVE GULLEY & TIM STAFFORD: Sixteen Cents/Dogwood Winter (Rural Rhythm/10)
LYNN MORRIS BAND: Seventeen Cents/You Never Be The Sun (Rounder/)
MOLLY ANDREWS: That 25 Cents That You Paid/WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour (2011)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: 25 Chickens/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
BGC farewell -
SCOTTY STONEMAN with the KENTUCKY COLONELS: Eighth Of January/Live in LA (Sierra Briar/65)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: 20/20 Vision/JM & SMB (Bear Family/54)
CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY: Twenty Naked Pentecostals In a Pontiac/Saints & Strangers (Backcountry/03)
THE LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Twenty One Years/Windy Mountain (Bear Family/52)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Forty Years Of Trouble/Back to the Blue Ridge (Brandywine/94)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON (featuring GILLIAN WELCH): Fifty Miles of Elbow Room/Song For Greta (Rebel/05)
RICKY SKAGGS: I Had But 50 Cents/Songs My Dad Loved (Skaggs Family/09)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: Highway 52/Highway Fifty Two (Vetco/79)
DAVE EVANS & RIVER BEND: 99 Years - 'Tis Almost For Life/Highway Fifty Two (Vetco/79)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: A Hundred Years From Now/1948-1959 (Bear Family/57)
SUZY THOMPSON (SUZY’S FLOOZIES): Half Past Four/Retro (self/01)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Here In California - Oct. 12, 2024
MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY: Into The Wild (Nonesuch)
- Here In California
- Into the Wild
- Getaway Girl
AMY KASSIR: Bread and Butter (self)
- China Camp
- Little Pine Siskin
- Wagnerd
JODY STECHER with MILE TWELVE: Instant Lonesome & the Twinkle Brigade (Don Giovanni)
- A Little Home To Go To
- People Keep A Comin’
- Little Black Train
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: City Of Glass (Signature Sounds)
- City Of Glass
- Bedside Window
- I Can’t Find You At All
SONIA SHELL: We’re Going Home (Inscrutable)
- Roving Gambler
- Betting On Jones
BIG JOE:
- Skin To Seed
- Pallet On Your Floor
DAVID GRISMAN & THE ROUNDER ALBUM BAND: Live at Grass Valley (Acoustic Disc/89)
- Blue Ridge Cabin Home
- Little Maggie
- White Dove
JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN: Bare Bones: The Duo Recordings (Acoustic Disc/90-93)
- When First Unto This Country/Vol. I: Master Takes
- Whiskey In the Jar/Volume III: Alternate Takes
- Grateful Dawg/Volume II: Other Tunes & Arrangements
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - Oct. 19, 2024
host: Jose Segue
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BOO-GRASS SIGNAL: Ghost Stories, Scary Songs, and Evocative Tunes - Oct. 26, 2024
host: Leah Wollenberg
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THE GRASSMASTERS: Ghost Riders In the Sky/Cash Grass (Synergy/06)
DREADFUL SNAKES: Who’s That Knocking At My Door?/Snakes Alive! (Rounder/83)
TONY HOLT & THE WILDWOOD VALLEY BOYS: Silver Ghost/Daylight’s Burnin’ (Rebel/06)
BRANDON GODMAN: Death Comes Creepin’/I Heard the Morgan Bell (self/24)
WILLIE WELLS & THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN GRASS: Ghost Riders in the Sky/Full Throttle (Son Sound/20)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Long Black Veil/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/65)
JAKE BLOUNT: Where Did You Sleep Last Night/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
SARAH JAROSZ: Shankill Butchers/Live at the Troubadour (Sugar Hill/13)
CHRISTIAN SEDELMYER: The Butcher’s Last Dance/Ravine Palace (self/20)
DOM FLEMONS: Tyin’ Knots in the Devil’s Tale/Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Bringing Mary Home/The Early Rebel Recordings (Rebel/66)
THE SELDOM SCENE: I’ve Come to Take You Home/Like We Used To Be (Sugar Hill/94)
FRONT RANGE: The Lantern/Ramblin' On My Mind (Sugar Hill/97)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off Of Me/Folk Song Festival (King/62)
EVIE LADIN featuring LISA ORENSTEIN: The Bone Doc/Riding the Rooster II (Evil Diane/24)
COL. LONGSHANKS & THE BACK ON THE MENU BOYS (aka SKILLET LICORICE): Lord of the Rings Medley Waltz>Chilly Winds/rehearsal (self/24)
OWEN “SNAKE” CHAPMAN: Big Black Cat/Up in Chapman’s Hollow (Rounder/96)
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE: The Grave Robber/The Heart Of a Song (Rebel/11)
JORDAN TICE, ANDREW MARLIN, & CHRISTIAN SEDELMYER: Wild Bill Jones/Wild Rose Of the Mountain (self/24)
CHARLIE TORCH: Red Rocking Chair/demo (self/24)
KATHY KALLICK: Burying Ground/Call Me a Taxi (Sugar Hill/96)
RHIANNON GIDDENS with FRANCESCO TURISI: Calling Me Home/They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch/21)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Light/Love Chooses You (Flying Fish/89)
KENNY BAKER: Frost On the Pumpkin/Frost On the Pumpkin (County/77)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: California Bluegrass Reunion - Nov. 2, 2024
CALIFORNIA BANJO EXTRAVAGANZA: The Distance Between Two Points/Live at the Freight & Salvage (2015)
CALIFORNIA BANJO EXTRAVAGANZA: The Train That Carried My Girl From Town/Live at the Freight & Salvage (2016)
BILL EVANS: Along Came Sonny/Things Are Simple (Native and Fine/23)
BILL EVANS: Sierra Blanca/Things Are Simple (Native and Fine/23)
JOHN REISCHMAN: John intro > The Coyote Trail/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus/21)
MIKE WITCHER: Little Rabbit/demo (self/24)
CHARLIE TORCH: Red Rocking Chair/Live at the Freight & Salvage (3-9-24)
MIKE WITCHER: Deep River Blues/demo (self/24)
CALIFORNIA BLUEGRASS REUNION: Live at the Freight & Salvage (2021)
- Big Spike Hammer
- Dandy Long Legs
CALIFORNIA BLUEGRASS REUNION: Live at the Freight & Salvage (2021)
- Steel
- Midnight In Rosine
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: The Finest Things/Live at Empty Sea Studios, Seattle (2015)
NELL & JIM BAND: Folsom Prison Blues/Live at the Freight & Salvage (2015)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/Live in Roanoke (11-27-83)
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Chalk Up Another One/Live in Roanoke (11-27-83)
THE HARMONIC TONE REVEALERS: Dreamer’s Waltz/Live at Empty Sea Studios, Seattle (2015)
MIKE WITCHER: Shenandoah/Peghead Nation (2020)
BILL EVANS: Chinquapin Hunting/Things Are Simple (Native and Fine/23)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Music For Veterans Day - Nov. 9, 2024
host: Allegra Thompson
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUEGRASS BOYS: Will You Be Loving Another Man?/Essential Bill Monroe 1945-1949 (Columbia/47)
THE WALLER BROTHERS: Faded Coat of Blue/The Old Photograph (Strictly Country/08)
DAVID GRISMAN & FRIENDS: I’m Comin' Back But I Don’t Know When/Home is Where The Heart Is (Rounder/88)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Miner’s Lullaby/Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs Of Utah Phillips (Rounder/97)
TIM O’BRIEN: Mick Ryan’s Lament/Two Journeys (Howdy Skies/01)
JOHN DOYLE: Clear the Way/Shadow and Light (Compass/11)
LAURIE LEWIS: Return to the Fire/Blossoms (Spruce and Maple/09)
HENHOUSE PROWLERS: Line The Avenues/single (Dark Shadow/24)
HOOT AND HOLLER: The Blue Sky Ain't No Friend of Mine/Reasons To Run (self/16)
SONYA COHEN CRAMER: When I Was Most Beautiful/You've Been A Friend To Me (Smithsonian Folkways/24)
ANNA & ELIZABETH: Jeano/The Invisible Comes To Us (Smithsonian Folkways/18)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER with CHAO TIAN: Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention/From China To Appalachia (Community/24)
JAKE BLOUNT: Beyond This Wall/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
DOM FLEMONS: Nobody Wrote It Down/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways/23)
KAIA KATER: Fedon/Strange Medicine (Free Dirt/24)
WAR & PIERCE: Search & Destroy/War & Pierce (self/20)
TOM, BRAD, & ALICE: Fair Beauty Bright/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & LAUREL BLISS: One Morning In May/Girl From Jericho (Copper Creek/03)
KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Bugle Call Rag/Second Session (Pinecastle/09)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Nov. 16, 2024
NOTE: all releases (except *) from 2024.
NEFESH MOUNTAIN: Regrets In the Rearview/Beacons (forthcoming)
MAX WAREHAM: Hard Times Are Far Behind/Dagommit! (forthcoming)
SISTER SADIE: All Will Be Well/single (Mountain Home)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: Bluegrass in the Backwoods/single (Fiddleman)
DAN TYMINSKI: Say Won’t You Be Mine/Live From the Ryman (8 Track)
REBECCA FRAZIER: Train Is Moving/Boarding Windows In Paradise (Amtoco-Compass)
JIM HURST: One More Lonesome Train/single (Pinecastle)
GEORGE JACKSON & BRAD KOLODNER: Grigsby’s Hornpipe/Shady Lane (self)
HILLS OF BELGIUM: Come On Buddy, Don’t You Want To Go/Come On Buddy, Don’t You Want To Go (self)
KENNY KOSEK (with MARTY CUTLER): Gojira County Breakdown (Japanese Army March>Gojira County)/Twisted Sage (Shefa)
ERIC SHI: Amarillo By Morning/single (self)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: The Auctioneer/single (Rebel)
RHONDA VINCENT: Nine to Five/Destinations and Fun Places (Upper Management)
BENSON: This Drinkin' Will Kill Me/single (Mountain Home)
CHARLOTTE CARRIVICK: Little Red Riding Hood/Sensible or Otherwise (self)
BONNIE & THE SALTY DAWGS: Julley/Vol II (self)
CHRIS DAVIS: Blue Kentucky Wind/single (Pinecastle)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND: I'll Be Here Either Way/single (EMG)
BEAN CREEK: I’ll Break Out Again Tonight, Lonely Highway/Live On Vern’s Stage (CBA/24)
*PLAID STRANGERS: Georgia Blues, Goodbye Girls/demo (self)
*BILL EVANS: Nesser/Things Are Simple (Native & Fine/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Festival - Nov. 23, 2024
BEAN CREEK and PLAID STRANGERS live in the KALW studio!
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Previews of the DeFord Bailey Legacy Festival - Nov. 30, 2024
DEFORD BAILEY: Pan American Blues/Harp Blowers (1925-1936)(Document/27)
DEFORD BAILEY: Evening Prayer Blues/Harp Blowers (1925-1936)(Document/27)
DEFORD BAILEY: Stove Pipe Blues/Country Music’s First Black Star (Texas Folklore Society/74)
DEFORD BAILEY: Fox Chase/Harp Blowers (1925-1936)(Document/27)
DEFORD BAILEY: Lost John/Country Music’s First Black Star (Texas Folklore Society/74)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Evening Prayer Blues/Live In Vancouver, BC (9-3-80)
DOM FLEMONS: There's a Brownskin Girl Down the Road Somewhere/Black Opry Revue Writers Round, Cayamo - Norwegian Pearl (3-4-24)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS (featuring DOM FLEMONS, with LAYLA McCALLA): Milwaukee Blues/Live at Folk Alley (2011)
TRUE BLUES with COREY HARRIS & CEDRIC WATSON: Everybody's Got to Change Sometime/Live at Focal Point (1-20-24)
TRUE BLUES with COREY HARRIS & CEDRIC WATSON: Tit Monde/Live at Focal Point (3-30-2)
MIKO MARKS & THE RESURRECTORS: Feel Like Going Home/Feel Like Going Home (Redtone/22)
YASMIN WILLIAMS: On A Friday Night/Tiny Desk (NPR/21)
LEYLA McCALLA: Merci Bon Dieu/Live at the Rosslyn (VA) Jazz Festival (2019)
CEDRIC WATSON & LEYLA McCALLA: Pa Janvier/demo (self/16)
BOBBY RUSH: Hoedown Breakdown/Live at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ (5-3-24)
JERRON PAXTON: What's Gonna Become of Me/Things Done Changed (Smithsonian-Folkways/24)
FANTASTIC NEGRITO: Oh Betty/Live at The Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center, Lexington, KY (4-7-23)
DOM FLEMONS: Tough Luck/Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian-Folkways/22)
MIKO MARKS & THE RESURRECTORS: Long As I Can See the Light/single (Redtone/21)
MIKO MARKS & THE RESURRECTORS: One More Night/Feel Like Going Home (Redtone/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Memorial Celebration of Gene Tortora - Dec. 7, 2024
GENE TORTORA & KATHY KALLICK: Live At KALW (3-31-19)
- You Won’t Be Satisfied That Way
- Wicked Messenger
- New Jersey Meltdown
- Big River
PHANTOMS OF THE OPRY: Live at the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (1973)
- You Know Whatcha Know
- In the City
- Homesick
- Fort Worth Drag
RICH WILBUR: In The City/In The City: A Memorial Retrospective (Sophronie/78)
THE SQUIDS: Bone Down/Live at the CBA Father’s Day Festival (self/80)
PAUL KING & FRIENDS: Who Do You Love?/Hillbilly At Heart (self/11)
PAUL KING & FRIENDS: May You Never Be Alone/Hillbilly At Heart (self/11)
PAUL KING & FRIENDS: Old Man’s Place/Hillbilly At Heart (self/11)
PETER KESSLER & GAIL FRATAR: Just Dreaming/Just Dreaming (Swallow/86)
PETER KESSLER & GAIL FRATAR: My Ollie Is Waiting For Me/Take Me Up (Rolling Robin/97)
BLUE MOON BROTHERS: Loafer’s Glory/Live at the Amador County Fair, Plymouth (7-25-04)
KATHY KALLICK & FRIENDS: It’s Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song/Tribute To Hazel Dickens (St. John’s Church, Berkeley/3-23-02)
KATHY KALLICK: My Native Home/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/02)
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VERN & RAY: San Francisco – 1968 (Arhoolie/68)
- Little Georgia Rose
- Touch Of God’s Hand
- Sweet Fern
NOTE: celebrating the anniversary of the Dec. 2, 1961, Vern & Ray concert at the Washington School, Berkeley.
DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET: Great American Music Hall - 1977 (Echoes/77)
- Dawg's Bull
- 16/16
- Ricochet
NOTE: celebrating the anniversary of the Dec. 3, 1976, DGQ Bread & Roses concert at the Berkeley Community Center.
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Membership Campaign Special - Dec. 14, 2024
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GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Get Up, Go To Work/I Can’t Stand To Ramble (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /83>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: You Don’t Miss Your Water/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Broken Tie/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Anywhere the Wind Blows/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: The Danny J/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Hamsters In the Pantry/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Waterbound/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: What Am I Gonna Do/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Wildflowers/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: I Can’t Stand To Ramble/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/88)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Think About Me/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/88)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Jesusita En Chihuahua/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: La Arboleta/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Walking the Floor Over You/Anywhere the Wind Blows (Kaleidoscope>Flat Rock Records /89>95)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Now The Time Has Come To Go/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/85)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Hard Times/Live At the Freight and Salvage (3-10-17)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Itzbin Reel/Live At the Freight and Salvage (3-10-17)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Settin’ the Woods On Fire/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Red Shirt/Live At Grass Valley: Wolf Mountain Bluegrass Festival (1993)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Blue Night/Celebrating The First 20 Years (CBA/85)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Rutabaga Boogie/Live At the Freight and Salvage (3-10-17)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Songs For A Winter’s Night - Dec. 21, 2024
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: While Roving On Last Winter's Night/Hand Hewn (Rounder01)
TONY RICE: Song for a Winter’s Night/Me and My Guitar (Rounder/86)
LONESOME SISTERS & RILEY BAUGUS: Lonesome Scene Of Winter/Lonesome Scenes (Tin Halo/12)
SAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Faded Love and Winter Roses/Bluegrass (Home Comfort/76)
FRIENDS OF SALLY JOHNSON: Winter Blues/1986-1989 (self)
THE KATIE LAUR BAND: Cold, Cold Winter Love/Misbehavin’ (Vetco/79)
HIGH COUNTRY: A Cold Winter Sun/Perfect Companions (Squirty/09)
LARRY SPARKS: Winter In Miami/The Coldest Part Of Winter (Rebel/05)
RALPH STANLEY II: It Sure Gets Cold This Time of Year/Pretty Girls, City Lights (Rebel/00)
DONNA ULISSE: Whatever Winter Brings/Breakin’ Easy (Mountain Home/17)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: Old Man Winter/Roundtable (Billy Blue/21)
ALISON KRAUSS: Winter Of A Broken Heart/I've Got That Old Feeling (Rounder/90)
IRENE KELLEY (with the KRUGER BROTHERS): Come Some Winter Morning/Snow White Memories (IRK/23)
SELDOM SCENE: Winter Wind/At The Scene (Sugar Hill/83)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Winterlight Aire/Between the Hollow & the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: The Snowy Road/Winter’s Grace (Signature Sounds/99)
KATHY KALLICK: Ring the Bells At Midnight/Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill/96)
Christmas Time's A-Comin’ - The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection (Time Life Music)
- RALPH STANLEY: I’m Going Home, It’s Christmas Time (93)
- THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Christmas Is Near (58)
- BILL MONROE: Christmas Time’s A-Comin’ (51)
FIDDLIN’ JOHN CARSON & HIS VIRGINIA REELERS: Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over/Vol. 5 (Document/27)
MIKE WOLLENBERG: Winter Wonderland/Christmas (self/20)
ANDY STATMAN & DAVID GRISMAN: Kazatski/Songs Of Our Fathers Live (Acoustic Disc/3-13-97)
TONY WILLIAMSON TRIO: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!/Winter Wonderland (Doobie Shea/99)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: A Memorial Celebration of Hozan Alan Senauke – Dec. 28, 2024
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ALAN SENAUKE: Fairbanks/Wooden Man (Old Songs From The Southern School) (Native & Fine/02)
FICTION BROTHERS: White Fences/Country Cooking with the Fiction Brothers (Flying Fish/76)
FICTION BROTHERS: (Gonna) Go To Work On Monday (One More Time)/Things Are Coming My Way (Flying Fish/79)
KATE BRISLIN with ALAN SENAUKE: What Was I Supposed To Do/Wooden Man (Old Songs From The Southern School) (Native & Fine/81)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: The Lonesome Cowboy’s Breakfast/Blue Flame Stringband (Flying Fish/83)
BLUE FLAME STRINGBAND: Are You Afraid To Die/Blue Flame Stringband (Flying Fish/83)
ERIC THOMPSON & ALAN SENAUKE: Sandy River Belle > Polly Put The Kettle On/Two Guitars (Flying Fish/86)
MICHAEL DOUCET, DANNY POULLARD & ALAN SENAUKE: Port Arthur Stomp/Cajun Jam Session (Arhoolie/83)
KATHY KALLICK: Bye Bye Kitty/Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom) (Sugar Hill/94)
ALAN SENAUKE, JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Spanish Cavalier/The Young Fogies: Vol. II (Rounder/94)
THE BAY RAMBLERS: I Could Change My Mind/demo (1985)
HIGH COUNTRY: Dark Side Of The Road/Blue Highway (Turquoise/87)
ALAN SENAUKE: The Bravest Cowboy/Wooden Man (Old Songs From The Southern School) (Native & Fine/02)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: Burn Another Honky Tonk Down/Bluegrass Intentions (Native & Fine/02)
ALAN SENAUKE: Relax Your Mind/Everything Is Broken: Songs About Things As They Are (Clear View Project/12)
ALAN SENAUKE: I Will Not Abandon You/Upaya Zen Center (Santa Fe, NM) Dharma Podcast (3-12-14)
ERIC THOMPSON & ALAN SENAUKE: Big Mon > Miller's Reel/Two Guitars (Flying Fish/86)
THE BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: On A Monday/Bluegrass Intentions (Native & Fine/02)
ALAN SENAUKE: The Unquiet Grave/Wooden Man/(Old Songs From The Southern School) (Native & Fine/02)
ALAN SENUAKE: Busted, part 2: the Saga Of Donald Trump/single (self/23)
ALAN SENAUKE: Nobody's Fault But Mine/Everything Is Broken: Songs About Things As They Are (Clear View Project/12)
ALAN SENAUKE: Midnight Hour Blues/Everything Is Broken: Songs About Things As They Are (Clear View Project/12)
FICTION BROTHERS: Things Are Coming My Way/Things Are Coming My Way (Flying Fish/79)
BLUEGRASS INTENTIONS: All Night Long/Live (self/02)