BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Turn up your radio; your neighbors might enjoy it too! -
A Memorial Tribute To Ray Davis, originally broadcast on Dec. 27, 2014
NOTE: All releases on Wango Records
STANLEY BROTHERS: On the Air (1963)
(includes Ray Davis intros and Johnny's Used Cars commercials)
Intro theme (Cripple Creek)
God Gave You To Me
Banjo Boogie
Man Of Constant Sorrow
Gathering Flowers For the Hillside
Happy, Sunny Side Of Life
Extro theme (Cripple Creek)
THE BASEMENT BAND (Bob, Danny, & Michael Paisley; James King; Bobby & TJ Lundy; Jon Glik): Radio Series, Vol. 2 (1998)
Katy Hill
No Mother Or Dad
Last Old Shovel
Traveling the Highway Home
Does It Have To End This Way
RAY DAVIS: interview excerpts - NPR’s All Things Considered (2008)
WARRIOR RIVER BOYS: Radio Series, Vol. 7 (2002)
Fire On the Mountain
I’m Coming Back (But I Don’t Know When)
Down In the Willow Garden
GILLIS BROTHERS: Radio Series, Vol. 5 (1993)
Bad Case Of The Blues
If I Lose
Next Sunday Darlin' Is My Birthday
STANLEY BROTHERS: Radio Series, Vols. 1, 4, & 6 (1963)
Ray Davis intro & theme (Cripple Creek)
Going To Georgia
Little Maggie
Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die
Big Tilda
Little Birdie
Ray Davis extro
STANLEY BROTHERS: Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone/Plum Pitiful, Vol. 2 (1964)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS (Danny & Michael Paisley; Bobby & TJ Lundy; Donnie Eldreth): Radio Series, Vol. 6 (2005)
Sweet Potato Rag
Darlin' Nellie Across The Sea
Margie
When My Time Comes To Go
THE BASEMENT BAND (James King, Danny & Michael Paisley, Bobby & TJ Lundy, Jon Glik): Radio Series, Vol. 1 (1998)
I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home
Lonesome Old Home
Billy In The Low Ground
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Vintage Bluegrass Radio (1947-1958) - June 12, 2021
Radio tuning >
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Classic Country Radio intro/Tuned In (self/08) >
JOHN REISCHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
BUZZ BUSBY & THE BAYOU BOYS: WARL (Arlington, Virginia) - 1957
Opening theme (Come On Along)
Wake Up Susan
Don't Stop The Music
Just Me And The Juke Box
I'm Working On A Building
Gone Home
'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered & closing theme
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER & THEIR CLINCH MOUNTAIN CLAN: Radio Broadcasts 1957-58 (Radio Gems)
Diamond Joe
Come Walk With Me
Row #2 Seat #3
When My Time Comes To Go
Poor Ellen Smith
Is It Right
Tramp On the Street
Cumberland Gap
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Martha White Biscuit Time 1953 (Radio Gems)
Martha White Commercial
Katy Hill
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)
Preachin', Prayin', Singin’
I'm Head Over Heels In Love With You
Doing My Time
I Have Found the Way
Steel Guitar Rag
Martha White Commercial
BUZZ BUSBY, PETE PIKE & THE BAYOU BOYS: WGAY (Silver Spring, Maryland) - 1954
Intro theme (Mandolin Tango)
Poison Love
Cold and Windy Night
This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)
Lonesome Wind
Extro theme (Old Joe Clark)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Live Again! WCYB Bristol Farm & Fun Time (Rebel/1947 & *1949)
Intro
Our Darling's Gone
*Let Me Be Your Friend
*Short Life Of Trouble
*Blackberry Blossom
Lonely Tombs
Standing In The Need Of Prayer
The Jealous Lover
Goodbye Old Pal
JOHN REISCHMAN: Salt Spring/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus/21)
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* Bluegrass Country only *
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Summer Membership Campaign – Favorite Bluegrass Singer/Songwriters
Broadcast dates: June 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, and 25
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Keep A Memory/The Early Starday-King Years (King/59)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Memories Of You/Castle Studio, 1950-1951: Complete Sessions (Richard Weize Archive/50)
HAZEL DICKENS: A Few Old Memories/It’s Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song (Rounder/86)
HAZEL DICKENS: They'll Never Keep Us Down/Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (Rounder/80)
DAVE EVANS: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
DAVE EVANS: Be Proud Of the Gray In Your Hair/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)
OLA BELLE REED: I've Endured/Rising Sun Melodies (Smithsonian-Folkways/76)
OLA BELLE REED: High On the Mountain/Rising Sun Melodies (Smithsonian-Folkways/76)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: It's Mighty Dark To Travel/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/47)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: I’m On My Way To the Old Home (Richard Weize Archive/50)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Broken Tie/Live At the Freight (4-3-13)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Live at the Freight (4-22-16)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Think Of What You've Done/Stanley Series, Vol. 3, No. 4 - Live at New River Ranch, 9-7-58 (Copper Creek)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: The Fields Have Turned Brown/Stanley Series, Vol. 3, No. 4 - Live at New River Ranch, 9-7-58 (Copper Creek)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Hard Times/Stanley Series, Vol. 4, No. 1 - Live at New River Ranch, 7-29-56 (Copper Creek)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - June 19, 2021
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Baker’s Dozen (and then some) - June 26, 2021
host: Leah Wollenberg
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: You Won’t Be Satisfied That Way/Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear Family/73)
KENNY BAKER: Brandywine/Master Fiddler (County/72)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear Family/70)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: With Body and Soul/Bluegrass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/69)
KENNY BAKER: Road to Columbus/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (Country/77)
HOBO JACK & HIS KENTUCKY PALS: Another Night/single (Big A/58)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Jenny Lynn/Bill Monroe’s Uncle Pen (Decca/72)
KENNY BAKER: Festival Waltz/Kenny Baker Country (County/72)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine/Live in Japan (1974)
KENNY BAKER & JOSH GRAVES: Little Red Shoes/Bucktime! (Puritan/74)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Panhandle Country/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Rocky Road Blues/Bluegrass 1959-1969 (Bear Family)
KENNY BAKER: Mississippi Waltz/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/77)
MAC WISEMAN & KENNY BAKER: The Girl Of My Dreams/Live at Bean Blossom (1969)
KENNY BAKER: First Day in Town/Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler (County Records/69)
JIMMY MARTIN: I Cried Again/Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/71)
KENNY BAKER: Grassy Fiddle Blues/Grassy Fiddle Blues (County/75)
THE GOINS BROTHERS: Black Lung Blues/Live at Bean Blossom (1969)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: A Lonesome Road/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58)
KENNY BAKER & BLAINE SPROUSE: Three Days in Dublin/Indian Springs (Rounder/89)
KENNY BAKER & JOE GREENE: High Point/High Country (County/68)
KENNY BAKER & JOSH GRAVES: Step It Up & Go/Something Different (Puritan/72)
NOAM PIKELNY: Wheel Hoss/Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (Compass/13)
AUBRIE HAYNIE: Bluegrass in the Backwoods/The Bluegrass Fiddle Album (Sugar Hill/03)
DAROL ANGER: Denver Belle/E-and’ a (Adventure Music/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Walking in My Sleep/The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/15)
BROWYN KEITH-HYNES: Fiddler’s Pastime/Fiddler’s Pastime (Sugar Petunia/20)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Muleskinner Blues/Bean Blossom (MCA/73)
KENNY BAKER & BOBBY HICKS: Faded Love/Darkness on the Delta (County/80)
KENNY BAKER: Jerusalem Ridge/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (Country/77)
A Memorial Tribute To Ray Davis, originally broadcast on Dec. 27, 2014
NOTE: All releases on Wango Records
STANLEY BROTHERS: On the Air (1963)
(includes Ray Davis intros and Johnny's Used Cars commercials)
Intro theme (Cripple Creek)
God Gave You To Me
Banjo Boogie
Man Of Constant Sorrow
Gathering Flowers For the Hillside
Happy, Sunny Side Of Life
Extro theme (Cripple Creek)
THE BASEMENT BAND (Bob, Danny, & Michael Paisley; James King; Bobby & TJ Lundy; Jon Glik): Radio Series, Vol. 2 (1998)
Katy Hill
No Mother Or Dad
Last Old Shovel
Traveling the Highway Home
Does It Have To End This Way
RAY DAVIS: interview excerpts - NPR’s All Things Considered (2008)
WARRIOR RIVER BOYS: Radio Series, Vol. 7 (2002)
Fire On the Mountain
I’m Coming Back (But I Don’t Know When)
Down In the Willow Garden
GILLIS BROTHERS: Radio Series, Vol. 5 (1993)
Bad Case Of The Blues
If I Lose
Next Sunday Darlin' Is My Birthday
STANLEY BROTHERS: Radio Series, Vols. 1, 4, & 6 (1963)
Ray Davis intro & theme (Cripple Creek)
Going To Georgia
Little Maggie
Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die
Big Tilda
Little Birdie
Ray Davis extro
STANLEY BROTHERS: Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone/Plum Pitiful, Vol. 2 (1964)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS (Danny & Michael Paisley; Bobby & TJ Lundy; Donnie Eldreth): Radio Series, Vol. 6 (2005)
Sweet Potato Rag
Darlin' Nellie Across The Sea
Margie
When My Time Comes To Go
THE BASEMENT BAND (James King, Danny & Michael Paisley, Bobby & TJ Lundy, Jon Glik): Radio Series, Vol. 1 (1998)
I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home
Lonesome Old Home
Billy In The Low Ground
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Vintage Bluegrass Radio (1947-1958) - June 12, 2021
Radio tuning >
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Classic Country Radio intro/Tuned In (self/08) >
JOHN REISCHMAN: Bluegrass Signal/Up In the Woods (Corvus/99)
BUZZ BUSBY & THE BAYOU BOYS: WARL (Arlington, Virginia) - 1957
Opening theme (Come On Along)
Wake Up Susan
Don't Stop The Music
Just Me And The Juke Box
I'm Working On A Building
Gone Home
'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered & closing theme
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER & THEIR CLINCH MOUNTAIN CLAN: Radio Broadcasts 1957-58 (Radio Gems)
Diamond Joe
Come Walk With Me
Row #2 Seat #3
When My Time Comes To Go
Poor Ellen Smith
Is It Right
Tramp On the Street
Cumberland Gap
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Martha White Biscuit Time 1953 (Radio Gems)
Martha White Commercial
Katy Hill
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)
Preachin', Prayin', Singin’
I'm Head Over Heels In Love With You
Doing My Time
I Have Found the Way
Steel Guitar Rag
Martha White Commercial
BUZZ BUSBY, PETE PIKE & THE BAYOU BOYS: WGAY (Silver Spring, Maryland) - 1954
Intro theme (Mandolin Tango)
Poison Love
Cold and Windy Night
This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)
Lonesome Wind
Extro theme (Old Joe Clark)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Live Again! WCYB Bristol Farm & Fun Time (Rebel/1947 & *1949)
Intro
Our Darling's Gone
*Let Me Be Your Friend
*Short Life Of Trouble
*Blackberry Blossom
Lonely Tombs
Standing In The Need Of Prayer
The Jealous Lover
Goodbye Old Pal
JOHN REISCHMAN: Salt Spring/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus/21)
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* Bluegrass Country only *
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Summer Membership Campaign – Favorite Bluegrass Singer/Songwriters
Broadcast dates: June 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, and 25
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Keep A Memory/The Early Starday-King Years (King/59)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Memories Of You/Castle Studio, 1950-1951: Complete Sessions (Richard Weize Archive/50)
HAZEL DICKENS: A Few Old Memories/It’s Hard To Tell the Singer From the Song (Rounder/86)
HAZEL DICKENS: They'll Never Keep Us Down/Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (Rounder/80)
DAVE EVANS: My Bluegrass Memories/Bluegrass Memories (Rebel/84)
DAVE EVANS: Be Proud Of the Gray In Your Hair/Goin' Round This World (Rebel/81)
OLA BELLE REED: I've Endured/Rising Sun Melodies (Smithsonian-Folkways/76)
OLA BELLE REED: High On the Mountain/Rising Sun Melodies (Smithsonian-Folkways/76)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: It's Mighty Dark To Travel/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/47)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: I’m On My Way To the Old Home (Richard Weize Archive/50)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Broken Tie/Live At the Freight (4-3-13)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Live at the Freight (4-22-16)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Think Of What You've Done/Stanley Series, Vol. 3, No. 4 - Live at New River Ranch, 9-7-58 (Copper Creek)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: The Fields Have Turned Brown/Stanley Series, Vol. 3, No. 4 - Live at New River Ranch, 9-7-58 (Copper Creek)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Hard Times/Stanley Series, Vol. 4, No. 1 - Live at New River Ranch, 7-29-56 (Copper Creek)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Hicks With Sticks - June 19, 2021
host: Jose Segue
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Baker’s Dozen (and then some) - June 26, 2021
host: Leah Wollenberg
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: You Won’t Be Satisfied That Way/Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear Family/73)
KENNY BAKER: Brandywine/Master Fiddler (County/72)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear Family/70)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: With Body and Soul/Bluegrass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/69)
KENNY BAKER: Road to Columbus/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (Country/77)
HOBO JACK & HIS KENTUCKY PALS: Another Night/single (Big A/58)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Jenny Lynn/Bill Monroe’s Uncle Pen (Decca/72)
KENNY BAKER: Festival Waltz/Kenny Baker Country (County/72)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine/Live in Japan (1974)
KENNY BAKER & JOSH GRAVES: Little Red Shoes/Bucktime! (Puritan/74)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Panhandle Country/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Rocky Road Blues/Bluegrass 1959-1969 (Bear Family)
KENNY BAKER: Mississippi Waltz/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/77)
MAC WISEMAN & KENNY BAKER: The Girl Of My Dreams/Live at Bean Blossom (1969)
KENNY BAKER: First Day in Town/Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler (County Records/69)
JIMMY MARTIN: I Cried Again/Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/71)
KENNY BAKER: Grassy Fiddle Blues/Grassy Fiddle Blues (County/75)
THE GOINS BROTHERS: Black Lung Blues/Live at Bean Blossom (1969)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: A Lonesome Road/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58)
KENNY BAKER & BLAINE SPROUSE: Three Days in Dublin/Indian Springs (Rounder/89)
KENNY BAKER & JOE GREENE: High Point/High Country (County/68)
KENNY BAKER & JOSH GRAVES: Step It Up & Go/Something Different (Puritan/72)
NOAM PIKELNY: Wheel Hoss/Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (Compass/13)
AUBRIE HAYNIE: Bluegrass in the Backwoods/The Bluegrass Fiddle Album (Sugar Hill/03)
DAROL ANGER: Denver Belle/E-and’ a (Adventure Music/14)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Walking in My Sleep/The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/15)
BROWYN KEITH-HYNES: Fiddler’s Pastime/Fiddler’s Pastime (Sugar Petunia/20)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Muleskinner Blues/Bean Blossom (MCA/73)
KENNY BAKER & BOBBY HICKS: Faded Love/Darkness on the Delta (County/80)
KENNY BAKER: Jerusalem Ridge/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (Country/77)