BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On? - March 1, 2025
Previews of the Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival (3/8), plus AJ Lee & Blue Summit at the Chapel, SF (3/15) [includes ticket giveaway]
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
- Oh! Susanna
- Thinking Of Home
- To Hell With the Land
- If I Had My Life To Live Over Again
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: First Frost > Blue Grouse/Live at The Empress Theatre (Fort Macleod, Alberta/2023)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: You'll Be There/Live at The Empress Theatre (Fort Macleod, Alberta/2023)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Jerusalem Ridge (live in 2024)
MISSION BLUE: Traditional Ways (self/23)
- Walkin' Down the Line
- Memories & Dreams
- Fennario
SALTY SALLY: Unbroken/Live at La Peña Cultural Center (11/12/23)
SALTY SALLY: Quiet Quincy/Live at La Peña Cultural Center (11/12/23)
SALTY SALLY: Footprints In the Snow/ Live at the 2024 CBA Spring Campout.
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Alien Song/Live at Sweetwater (1-27-24)
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Fairies and Lightning/Sweet Harmony Sessions (24)
LATE FOR THE TRAIN: live versions of songs from The Flowers of Yesteryear (self/24)
- You Can’t Hurry Love
- River Daughter (NPR 2024 Tiny Desk Contest)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: City Of Glass (Signature Sounds/24)
- City Of Glass
- Bedside Window
- I Can’t Find You At All
CHARLIE TORCH: Red Rocking Chair/demo (self/24)
BIRCHES BEND: Oxen Run > Lily Pond/While We're Waiting (self/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything – March 8, 2025
GRANDPA JONES: Daylight Saving Time/An American Original (CMH/58)
BENNY & VALLIE CAIN AND THE COUNTRY CLAN: Is It Time/Best in Bluegrass (Rebel/69)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Old Lonesome Time/Venango (Copper Creek/05)
JIMMY MARTIN: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone/Jimmy Martin & Sunny Mt Boys (Bear Family/60)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Time (Live Oak/12)
LOU REID & CAROLINA: Time/Time (Lonesome Day/05)
TONY RICE: Any Old Time/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Just One Time/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/05)
BILL MONROE: Time Changes Everything/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/60)
CHARLIE SIZEMORE: Time Can't Take Your Memory Away/Back Home (Rebel/94)
STANLEY BROTHERS: A Little At A Time/The Early Years 1958-1961 (King/59)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Doing My Time/1949-1959 (Bear Family/50)
JODY STECHER: Long Time A-Comin'/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Long Time Gone/The Boys Are Back In Town (Sugar Hill/90)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Time the Perfect Stranger/Heart Of The Country (Dog Boy/12)
MOLLY O’DAY & THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN FOLKS: When My Time Comes To Go/Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks (Bear Family/50)
THE LEWIS FAMILY: Time Is Moving On/Time Is Moving On (Starday/67)
DICKENS, JONES, HAWKER: Time Is Winding Up/Heart Of A Singer (Rounder/98)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & LAUREL BLISS: Ain't Got Time/Live at RBA – 10/26/13
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Time To Say Goodbye/Waiting At The Homeplace (Hay Holler/04)
PETER ROWAN: Stealin’ My Time/The Old School (Compass/13)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Now the Time Has Come To Go/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/85)
JOHN HARTFORD: I Wish We Had Our Time Again/Down On The River (Flying Fish/89)
CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY: Time Was/Mojave River (Backcountry/04)
LARRY CORDLE, GLEN DUNCAN & LONESOME STANDARD TIME: Lonesome Standard Time/Lonesome Standard Time (Sugar Hill/92)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Time For Movin' On/Long I Ride (Compass/16)
LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - March 15, 2025
NOTE: All tracks released in 2024 or 2025.
RHIANNON GIDDENS & JUSTIN ROBINSON: Hook and Line/What Did the Blackbird Say To the Crow (Nonesuch)
HILLARY KLUG: Black Eyed Suzie/single (Fiddle Feet)
JESSE SMATHERS: Sleepy Eyed John/single (Mountain Home)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: I’m On To You/single (Mountain Home)
KENNY & AMANDA SMITH: Million Lonely Days/single (Farm Boy)
THE SELDOM SCENE: Farewell, Angelina/Remains to Be Scene (Smithsonian-Folkways)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: With A Vamp in the Middle/Carter & Cleveland (Fiddleman)
THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: Daydreamer/single (McCoury Music)
ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION: Looks Like The End of The Road/Arcadia (Rounder)
SIERRA HULL: Come Out Of My Blues/A Tip Toe High Wire (self)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: Blue Ain’t the Word/single (Rebel)
RED WINE: The Fields/New Night Dawning (self)
RED WINE: Too Old To Cry/New Night Dawning (self)
AARON BURNETT: Paris/single (self)
SHELBY MEANS: Streets of Boulder/single (self)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Heading For the Mountains/Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass (Rebel)
TASHA ANN: When the Waters Rise/single (self)
BRAND NEW BOX OF MATCHES: Cold Tonight Here In Georgia/single (self)
JUNIOR SISK: Old Cold Shoulder/If There’s A Will, There’s A Way (Mountain Fever)
RED CAMEL COLLECTIVE: Last Time I Saw Him/Red Camel Collective (Pinecastle)
MATT WALLACE: Back Away/single (Huckleberry)
C.J. LEWANDOWSKI & PAUL BREWSTER: Rosie Bokay/single (Turnberry)
RED WINE: New Night Dawning/New Night Dawning (self)
ANDY STATMAN: Stoney Lonesome/Bluegrass Tracks (Shefa)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy March Birthdays - March 22, 2025
NOTE: dates of birth in parenthesis.
ERIC THOMPSON (21) and DAVID GRISMAN (23): Salt Creek/Bluegrass Guitar (Kicking Mule/93)
THE SELDOM SCENE [featuring JOHN DUFFEY (4) and JOHN STARLING (26)]: Last Train From Poor Valley/Act Two (Rebel/72)
NORMAN BLAKE (10) & TONY RICE with DOC WATSON (3): Blackberry Blossom/Norman Blake & Tony Rice 2 (Rounder/90)
RONNIE McCOURY (16), TIM O’BRIEN (16), and CHRIS THILE: Bluegrass Stomp/Bluegrass Journey: A Documentary (2004)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS [featuring RUDY LYLE (17)]: White House Blues/Live at the Camp Spring Bluegrass Festival (8-31-69)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS [featuring HOWDY FORRESTER (31)]: Cotton Eyed Joe/Live on the Grand Ole Opry (2-16-46)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS [with CLEO DAVIS (9)]: Bile Them Cabbage Down/Live on the Grand Ole Opry (11-25-39)
THE GRASCALS [featuring KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON (14)]: Bugle Call Rag/Live at the Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival, Preston, CT (6-4-11)
DON STOVER: Things In Life/Things In Life (Rounder/72)
WINDY HILL [featuring RYAN BREEN (14)]: You’ll Never Know/Live from the Ratz Nest (self/18)
KATHY KALLICK BAND [featuring TOM BEKENY (12)]: Never Been So Lonesome/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
BOB PAISLEY (14) & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Old Love Affair/Live In Holland (Strictly Country/89)
LIZ MEYER (7) with NUGGET: I Miss You/Live at the European World Of Bluegrass (Strictly Country/01)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS [featuring BETHANY RAINE SORKEY (25)]: Settin’ the Woods On Fire/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
MARSHALL WILBORN (12) & RON STEWART: Been All Around This World/Route 5 (Pinecastle/99)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND [with ROBIN FISCHER (30)]: The Bravest Cowboy/Live At KALW (7-15-2017)
TOMMY JARRELL (1) & FRED COCKERHAM: Tommy & Fred - Best Banjo-Fiddle Duets (County/71)
TOMMY JACKSON (31): Crazy Creek/Square Dance Tonight (Dot/58)
CROWE, LAWSON & WILLIAMS [featuring PAUL WILLIAMS (30)]: Pretending I Don't Care/Standing Tall And Tough (Mountain Home/14)
WALTER HENSLEY (18): Bear Tracks/The 5-String Banjo Today (Capitol/64)
JUBILEE [featuring AERIE & TUKI WALKER (17)]: Sunny Side Of the Mountain/Jubilee (self/19)
THE MIGHTY CROWS [featuring CHRIS SMITH (30): It’s Not Like Home/Live at KALW (9-23-09)
CROOKED STOVEPIPE [featuring NEIL ROSENBERG (21)]: Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone/Hand-Picked Bluegrass Music From Newfoundland (self/19)
CHARLIE POOLE (22) & THE NORTH CAROLINA RAMBLERS: Old and Only In The Way/You Ain't Talkin' To Me (Columbia/28)
FIDDLIN’ JOHN CARSON (23): The Kicking Mule/Fiddlin' John Carson 1923-1924 (Warped/23)
DOC WATSON (3) & DAVID GRISMAN (23): Fiddle Tune Medley (East Tennessee Blues, Tennessee Wagoner, Beaumont Rag)/Live In Watsonville (Acoustic Disc/3-22-98)
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Previews of the Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival (3/8), plus AJ Lee & Blue Summit at the Chapel, SF (3/15) [includes ticket giveaway]
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs Of Vern & Ray (Spruce and Maple/14)
- Oh! Susanna
- Thinking Of Home
- To Hell With the Land
- If I Had My Life To Live Over Again
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: First Frost > Blue Grouse/Live at The Empress Theatre (Fort Macleod, Alberta/2023)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: You'll Be There/Live at The Empress Theatre (Fort Macleod, Alberta/2023)
LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Jerusalem Ridge (live in 2024)
MISSION BLUE: Traditional Ways (self/23)
- Walkin' Down the Line
- Memories & Dreams
- Fennario
SALTY SALLY: Unbroken/Live at La Peña Cultural Center (11/12/23)
SALTY SALLY: Quiet Quincy/Live at La Peña Cultural Center (11/12/23)
SALTY SALLY: Footprints In the Snow/ Live at the 2024 CBA Spring Campout.
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Alien Song/Live at Sweetwater (1-27-24)
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Fairies and Lightning/Sweet Harmony Sessions (24)
LATE FOR THE TRAIN: live versions of songs from The Flowers of Yesteryear (self/24)
- You Can’t Hurry Love
- River Daughter (NPR 2024 Tiny Desk Contest)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: City Of Glass (Signature Sounds/24)
- City Of Glass
- Bedside Window
- I Can’t Find You At All
CHARLIE TORCH: Red Rocking Chair/demo (self/24)
BIRCHES BEND: Oxen Run > Lily Pond/While We're Waiting (self/22)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Time Changes Everything – March 8, 2025
GRANDPA JONES: Daylight Saving Time/An American Original (CMH/58)
BENNY & VALLIE CAIN AND THE COUNTRY CLAN: Is It Time/Best in Bluegrass (Rebel/69)
MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: Old Lonesome Time/Venango (Copper Creek/05)
JIMMY MARTIN: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone/Jimmy Martin & Sunny Mt Boys (Bear Family/60)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Time/Time (Live Oak/12)
LOU REID & CAROLINA: Time/Time (Lonesome Day/05)
TONY RICE: Any Old Time/Church Street Blues (Sugar Hill/83)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Just One Time/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/05)
BILL MONROE: Time Changes Everything/Blue Grass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/60)
CHARLIE SIZEMORE: Time Can't Take Your Memory Away/Back Home (Rebel/94)
STANLEY BROTHERS: A Little At A Time/The Early Years 1958-1961 (King/59)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Doing My Time/1949-1959 (Bear Family/50)
JODY STECHER: Long Time A-Comin'/Wonders & Signs (Vegetiboy/12)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Long Time Gone/The Boys Are Back In Town (Sugar Hill/90)
CHRIS BRASHEAR: Time the Perfect Stranger/Heart Of The Country (Dog Boy/12)
MOLLY O’DAY & THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN FOLKS: When My Time Comes To Go/Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks (Bear Family/50)
THE LEWIS FAMILY: Time Is Moving On/Time Is Moving On (Starday/67)
DICKENS, JONES, HAWKER: Time Is Winding Up/Heart Of A Singer (Rounder/98)
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & LAUREL BLISS: Ain't Got Time/Live at RBA – 10/26/13
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Time To Say Goodbye/Waiting At The Homeplace (Hay Holler/04)
PETER ROWAN: Stealin’ My Time/The Old School (Compass/13)
GOOD OL' PERSONS: Now the Time Has Come To Go/Good N' Live (Sugar Hill/85)
JOHN HARTFORD: I Wish We Had Our Time Again/Down On The River (Flying Fish/89)
CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY: Time Was/Mojave River (Backcountry/04)
LARRY CORDLE, GLEN DUNCAN & LONESOME STANDARD TIME: Lonesome Standard Time/Lonesome Standard Time (Sugar Hill/92)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS: Time For Movin' On/Long I Ride (Compass/16)
LARRY SPARKS: Time Changes Everything/Lonesome Guitar (Rebel/85)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - March 15, 2025
NOTE: All tracks released in 2024 or 2025.
RHIANNON GIDDENS & JUSTIN ROBINSON: Hook and Line/What Did the Blackbird Say To the Crow (Nonesuch)
HILLARY KLUG: Black Eyed Suzie/single (Fiddle Feet)
JESSE SMATHERS: Sleepy Eyed John/single (Mountain Home)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: I’m On To You/single (Mountain Home)
KENNY & AMANDA SMITH: Million Lonely Days/single (Farm Boy)
THE SELDOM SCENE: Farewell, Angelina/Remains to Be Scene (Smithsonian-Folkways)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND: With A Vamp in the Middle/Carter & Cleveland (Fiddleman)
THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: Daydreamer/single (McCoury Music)
ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION: Looks Like The End of The Road/Arcadia (Rounder)
SIERRA HULL: Come Out Of My Blues/A Tip Toe High Wire (self)
THE KODY NORRIS SHOW: Blue Ain’t the Word/single (Rebel)
RED WINE: The Fields/New Night Dawning (self)
RED WINE: Too Old To Cry/New Night Dawning (self)
AARON BURNETT: Paris/single (self)
SHELBY MEANS: Streets of Boulder/single (self)
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS: Heading For the Mountains/Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass (Rebel)
TASHA ANN: When the Waters Rise/single (self)
BRAND NEW BOX OF MATCHES: Cold Tonight Here In Georgia/single (self)
JUNIOR SISK: Old Cold Shoulder/If There’s A Will, There’s A Way (Mountain Fever)
RED CAMEL COLLECTIVE: Last Time I Saw Him/Red Camel Collective (Pinecastle)
MATT WALLACE: Back Away/single (Huckleberry)
C.J. LEWANDOWSKI & PAUL BREWSTER: Rosie Bokay/single (Turnberry)
RED WINE: New Night Dawning/New Night Dawning (self)
ANDY STATMAN: Stoney Lonesome/Bluegrass Tracks (Shefa)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy March Birthdays - March 22, 2025
NOTE: dates of birth in parenthesis.
ERIC THOMPSON (21) and DAVID GRISMAN (23): Salt Creek/Bluegrass Guitar (Kicking Mule/93)
THE SELDOM SCENE [featuring JOHN DUFFEY (4) and JOHN STARLING (26)]: Last Train From Poor Valley/Act Two (Rebel/72)
NORMAN BLAKE (10) & TONY RICE with DOC WATSON (3): Blackberry Blossom/Norman Blake & Tony Rice 2 (Rounder/90)
RONNIE McCOURY (16), TIM O’BRIEN (16), and CHRIS THILE: Bluegrass Stomp/Bluegrass Journey: A Documentary (2004)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS [featuring RUDY LYLE (17)]: White House Blues/Live at the Camp Spring Bluegrass Festival (8-31-69)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS [featuring HOWDY FORRESTER (31)]: Cotton Eyed Joe/Live on the Grand Ole Opry (2-16-46)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS [with CLEO DAVIS (9)]: Bile Them Cabbage Down/Live on the Grand Ole Opry (11-25-39)
THE GRASCALS [featuring KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON (14)]: Bugle Call Rag/Live at the Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival, Preston, CT (6-4-11)
DON STOVER: Things In Life/Things In Life (Rounder/72)
WINDY HILL [featuring RYAN BREEN (14)]: You’ll Never Know/Live from the Ratz Nest (self/18)
KATHY KALLICK BAND [featuring TOM BEKENY (12)]: Never Been So Lonesome/The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak/23)
BOB PAISLEY (14) & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Old Love Affair/Live In Holland (Strictly Country/89)
LIZ MEYER (7) with NUGGET: I Miss You/Live at the European World Of Bluegrass (Strictly Country/01)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS [featuring BETHANY RAINE SORKEY (25)]: Settin’ the Woods On Fire/Good N’ Live (Sugar Hill/86)
MARSHALL WILBORN (12) & RON STEWART: Been All Around This World/Route 5 (Pinecastle/99)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND [with ROBIN FISCHER (30)]: The Bravest Cowboy/Live At KALW (7-15-2017)
TOMMY JARRELL (1) & FRED COCKERHAM: Tommy & Fred - Best Banjo-Fiddle Duets (County/71)
TOMMY JACKSON (31): Crazy Creek/Square Dance Tonight (Dot/58)
CROWE, LAWSON & WILLIAMS [featuring PAUL WILLIAMS (30)]: Pretending I Don't Care/Standing Tall And Tough (Mountain Home/14)
WALTER HENSLEY (18): Bear Tracks/The 5-String Banjo Today (Capitol/64)
JUBILEE [featuring AERIE & TUKI WALKER (17)]: Sunny Side Of the Mountain/Jubilee (self/19)
THE MIGHTY CROWS [featuring CHRIS SMITH (30): It’s Not Like Home/Live at KALW (9-23-09)
CROOKED STOVEPIPE [featuring NEIL ROSENBERG (21)]: Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone/Hand-Picked Bluegrass Music From Newfoundland (self/19)
CHARLIE POOLE (22) & THE NORTH CAROLINA RAMBLERS: Old and Only In The Way/You Ain't Talkin' To Me (Columbia/28)
FIDDLIN’ JOHN CARSON (23): The Kicking Mule/Fiddlin' John Carson 1923-1924 (Warped/23)
DOC WATSON (3) & DAVID GRISMAN (23): Fiddle Tune Medley (East Tennessee Blues, Tennessee Wagoner, Beaumont Rag)/Live In Watsonville (Acoustic Disc/3-22-98)
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