BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On? - March 7, 2025
JESSE APPLEMAN: Where We Go (self/26)
- Valley Springs
- Out in the Valley
- Montara
FIVE MILE MOUNTAIN ROAD: Tennessee Cut Up Breakdown/Live in Ringgold, GA (2025)
FIVE MILE MOUNTAIN ROAD: Helen/Live in Ringgold, GA (2025)
KAREN CELIA HEIL with JASON & PHARIS ROMERO: Walk Chalk Chicken With A Necktie On/Back Up and Push (self/10)
KAREN CELIA HEIL and MAXINE GERBER: Ladies In the Ballroom/KALW On Air Folk Festival (11-23-24)
LAURIE LEWIS & NINA GERBER: Live on Midday Music (Northern California Public Media/25)
- Just A Little Ways Down the Road
- Rock the Pain Away
- Girlfriend, Guard Your Heart
MONROE CROSSING: Easy To Get Lost/Live at Ozarkly House Concerts (8-25-25)
MONROE CROSSING: Cicada/Live at Ozarkly House Concerts (8-25-25)
EVIE LADIN BAND: How Did You Know/Live at The Freight (2024)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Glory>Valley Forge/Live at The Freight (2022)
BLUE & LONESOME: Old Home Town/Some Old Day (e'Neff Said/09)
BLUE & LONESOME: I Love You and You Don't Even Know/A Tiny Taste Of Blue & Lonesome (e'Neff Said/20)
BLUE & LONESOME: Toy Heart/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e'Neff Said/12)
PAPER WINGS: River Stones/Mountains on the Moon (self/26)
HANNAH MAYREE: Laying Hen/Live at SierraGrass 2025
PETER ROWAN: Calling You From My Mountain/Live at WinterWonderGrass (Paste Studio/22)
B*CRAFT STRING BAND: Stomp Around/Live At the CBA’s Father’s Day Festival (2024)
PULSO DE BARRO: La Gallina (self/23)
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Musical previews of the Sonoma County Bluegrass and Folk Festival (Sebastopol Community Cultural Center on March 14th) with selections from Jesse Appleman’s West Coast Stringband Project, Five Mile Mountain Road, square dance with music by KC Heil & Friends and Evie Ladin calling, Laurie Lewis & Nina Gerber, Monroe Crossing, Evie Ladin Band, and Pulso de Barro.
Also at the festival: youth performers of Manning Music and a vocal harmony workshop with Michaela Mae and Ryan Harlin
Blue & Lonesome performs at the Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma, on the first two Thursdays of the month; March 12th is their 30th Anniversary celebration!
Paper Wings and Hannah Mayree tour:
- March 12: Little Saint, Healdsburg
- March 13: The Crepe Place, Santa Cruz
- March 14: The Ivy Room, Albany
- March 15: McCabe’s, Santa Monica
Hannah Mayree also leads the Black Banjo Reclamation Project Online Study Group on the first Saturday (10 am)
Peter Rowan performs at The Freight, Berkeley on March 13.
B*craft Stringband (and John Barleycorn) perofrm at the Back Room, Berkeley, on March 8.
Walker Creek Music Camp (April 23-26) instructors heard on this show include Yoseff Tucker (guitar), Mike Witcher (group jam, bluegrass band), Evie Ladin (singing), and Hannah Mayree (community singing).
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - March 14, 2026
NOTE: all tracks released in 2026, although some (as noted) recorded earlier.
TONY TRISCHKA (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Red River Valley/Earl Jam 2 (Down the Road)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: There Where the River Rolls Around/single (Mountain Home)
FRANK EVANS: T.J.’s Last Ride/single (self)
JEFF BROWN & WAYNE TAYLOR: The Ballad Of the Dry Fork River/single (Huckleberry)
MILAN MILLER: Never Cross A Crow/single (Melton & Miller Music)
THE LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Honey Babe Blues/single (self)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Wildflowers/Made To Wonder (Tin Foil Studio)
TOMMY EMMANUEL: Ready For the Times To Get Better/single (self)
PAPER WINGS: Morning Again/Mountains Of the Moon (self)
DEL McCOURY BAND (with PETER ROWAN & DAVID GRISMAN): Sitting Alone In the Moonlight/A Bluegrass Summit (Acoustic Disc/00)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND (with JOHN COWAN): Let’s Sing Our Song/Live at the Grand Olde Opry (12-2-25)
THE BURNETT SISTERS BAND: Blaming You/single (Pinecastle)
THE CARTER SISTERS: Foggy Mountain Top/Voices from the Ridge: The Final Sessions (StarVista Music/93)
WYATT ELLIS (featuring CHRISTOPHER HENRY): West Dakota Rose/single (Knee High)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: City of Glass/Live at The Chapel, SF (3-15-25)
UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS: It’s Real To Touch/live performance video of song from Fallen Angel (2026)
BECKY BULLER: Auction At the Old Home Place/single (Dark Shadow)
JOE TROOP & THE TRUTH MACHINE: Billionaires/The Truth Machine (self)
RED CAMEL COLLECTIVE: Finding Your Way Home/single (Pinecastle)
JUNIOR SISK: A Brand New Whippoorwill/single (Turnberry)
DELLA MAE: Out Run ‘Em/Magic Accident (Compass)
DEL McCOURY BAND (with DAVID GRISMAN): Roanoke/A Bluegrass Summit (Acoustic Disc/00)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Celebration Of 1946ers – March 21, 2026
NOTE: All tracks feature musicians (or songs) born in 1946.
BLACK MOUNTAIN BOYS (with ERIC THOMPSON): Rosa Lee McFall/Before the Dead (Round/64)
BLACK MOUNTAIN BOYS (with SANDY ROTHMAN): Walkin’ the Dog/Before the Dead (Round/64)
ASPHALT JUNGLE MOUNTAIN BOYS (with JODY STECHER & ERIC): Roll On Buddy/Before the Dead (Round/64)
JODY STECHER: Going Up On The Mountain/Going Up On The Mountain (Bay/77)
ANY OLD TIME (with KATE BRISLIN): California Blues/Ladies Choice (Bay/80)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Lover's Return/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Paul & Silas/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
ANY OLD TIME STRING BAND (with VAL MINDEL): Dixieland One Step/Any Old Time String Band (Arhoolie/78)
EMILY MILLER & VAL MINDEL: My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You/In the Valley (self/09)
TODALO SHAKERS (with FRANNIE LEOPOLD & ERIC): Memphis Blues/Live at the Portland (OR) Old Time Music Gathering (1-18-13)
HIGH COUNTRY (with ED NEFF): Cold Hard Rain/Dreams (WB-Raccoon/71)
HIGH COUNTRY (with LARRY COHEA): Maple On the Hill/Rough & Rocky (Storm/79)
BLUE & LONESOME (with ED & LARRY): Nobody’s Love Is Like Mine/A Tiny Taste Of Blue & Lonesome (e'Neff Said/20)
HOT RIZE (with PETE WERNICK & CHARLES SAWTELLE): Just Like You/So Long Of A Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS (with CHRIS WARNER): Doin’ My Time/Freeborn Man (Decca/69)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS (with ALAN MUNDE): Homesick/Fly Me To Frisco (MCA/70>74)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS BLUEGRASS BAND (with GREG CAHILL): Think Of What You’ve Done/Special Consensus (Tin Ear/79)
DOLLY PARTON: I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open/The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill/99)
LINDA RONSTADT (with DOLLY): I Never Will Marry/Simple Dreams (Asylum/77)
(RANGER) DOUG GREEN: You Won't Be Satisfied That Way/Liza Jane & Sally Anne (Old Homestead/72)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS (with TOM EWING): It's Might Dark To Travel/Live, Volume One (Copper Creek/90)
78s released in 1946 -
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Rocky Road Blues (Columbia)
OLA BELLE & THE NORTH CAROLINA RIDGE RUNNERS: Raining, Raining Here This Morning (Security)
DELMORE BROTHERS: Freight Train Boogie (King)
BYRON PARKER (THE OLD HIRED HAND) AND HIS HILLBILLIES: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (De Luxe)
BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Stay A Little Longer (Columbia)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Dead Grass - March 28, 2026
THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: Cumberland Blues/DelFest Does Dead (DelFest/25)
SISTER SADIE: Touch of Grey/DelFest Does Dead (DelFest/25)
DALE ANN BRADLEY (with Tina Adair): Ripple/The Hard Way (Pinecastle/19)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: Black Muddy River/The Wheel - A Musical Celebration Of Jerry Garcia (Rex Foundation/12-4-10)
MOLLY TUTTLE BAND (with AJ Lee & Sullivan Tuttle): Standing On the Moon/Live at The Independent, SF (5-24-19)
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Deal/Live Picks Volume One (self/23)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: He’s Gone/Silver Sky (High Country/12)
GRASS IS DEAD: Foolish Heart/Twenty Degrees Of Solitude (self/04)
RICE, RICE, HILLMAN & PEDERSEN: Friend Of the Devil/Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen (Rounder/99)
SAM GRISMAN PROJECT: Lazy River Road/Live at the Aladdin Theatre, Portland (11-16-24)
ticket giveaway -
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS: The Monkey & the Engineer/Live at Telluride (6-19-25)
BILLY STRINGS: Cassidy/Live at the University of Georgia (2-6-26)
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS: Brokedown Palace/Live at the Haw River Ballroon, Saxapahaw, NC (10-25-24)
JESSE APPLEMAN: Where We Go (self/26)
- Valley Springs
- Out in the Valley
- Montara
FIVE MILE MOUNTAIN ROAD: Tennessee Cut Up Breakdown/Live in Ringgold, GA (2025)
FIVE MILE MOUNTAIN ROAD: Helen/Live in Ringgold, GA (2025)
KAREN CELIA HEIL with JASON & PHARIS ROMERO: Walk Chalk Chicken With A Necktie On/Back Up and Push (self/10)
KAREN CELIA HEIL and MAXINE GERBER: Ladies In the Ballroom/KALW On Air Folk Festival (11-23-24)
LAURIE LEWIS & NINA GERBER: Live on Midday Music (Northern California Public Media/25)
- Just A Little Ways Down the Road
- Rock the Pain Away
- Girlfriend, Guard Your Heart
MONROE CROSSING: Easy To Get Lost/Live at Ozarkly House Concerts (8-25-25)
MONROE CROSSING: Cicada/Live at Ozarkly House Concerts (8-25-25)
EVIE LADIN BAND: How Did You Know/Live at The Freight (2024)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Glory>Valley Forge/Live at The Freight (2022)
BLUE & LONESOME: Old Home Town/Some Old Day (e'Neff Said/09)
BLUE & LONESOME: I Love You and You Don't Even Know/A Tiny Taste Of Blue & Lonesome (e'Neff Said/20)
BLUE & LONESOME: Toy Heart/Live From Harrietville, Australia (e'Neff Said/12)
PAPER WINGS: River Stones/Mountains on the Moon (self/26)
HANNAH MAYREE: Laying Hen/Live at SierraGrass 2025
PETER ROWAN: Calling You From My Mountain/Live at WinterWonderGrass (Paste Studio/22)
B*CRAFT STRING BAND: Stomp Around/Live At the CBA’s Father’s Day Festival (2024)
PULSO DE BARRO: La Gallina (self/23)
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Musical previews of the Sonoma County Bluegrass and Folk Festival (Sebastopol Community Cultural Center on March 14th) with selections from Jesse Appleman’s West Coast Stringband Project, Five Mile Mountain Road, square dance with music by KC Heil & Friends and Evie Ladin calling, Laurie Lewis & Nina Gerber, Monroe Crossing, Evie Ladin Band, and Pulso de Barro.
Also at the festival: youth performers of Manning Music and a vocal harmony workshop with Michaela Mae and Ryan Harlin
- Jesse Appelman & the West Coast Stringband Project are also performing at Sierragrass (April 30 - May 2)
- Five Mile Mountain Road are also performing at The Pearl, Walnut Grove (March 15) and Blondies (March 16)
- Karen Celia Heil also hosts and plays for the Feral Friday Square Dance at The Polish Club, SF, every second Friday; preceded (at 6:45 pm) by old time jam. Next FFSD: March 13
- Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands are also performing at the Berkeley Bluegrass Festival (May 2-3)
- Nina Gerber is also performing at the Strawberry Spring Music Festival (May 21-25) with the Bill Kirchen Band, Eliza Gilkyson, Keith Greeninger, and Duo Quartet
- Monroe Crossing is also performing at the Otter Opry, Monterey (March 12)
- The Evie Ladin Band is also performing at a house concert in Santa Cruz (March 13), Half Moon Bay Odd Fellows (March 15), San Francisco Public Library main branch (April 4), Strings, Oakland (April 8), and the Strawberry Spring Music Festival (May 21-25)
- Pulso de Barro is also leading a Mexican folk music workshop at the Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival
Blue & Lonesome performs at the Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma, on the first two Thursdays of the month; March 12th is their 30th Anniversary celebration!
Paper Wings and Hannah Mayree tour:
- March 12: Little Saint, Healdsburg
- March 13: The Crepe Place, Santa Cruz
- March 14: The Ivy Room, Albany
- March 15: McCabe’s, Santa Monica
Hannah Mayree also leads the Black Banjo Reclamation Project Online Study Group on the first Saturday (10 am)
Peter Rowan performs at The Freight, Berkeley on March 13.
B*craft Stringband (and John Barleycorn) perofrm at the Back Room, Berkeley, on March 8.
Walker Creek Music Camp (April 23-26) instructors heard on this show include Yoseff Tucker (guitar), Mike Witcher (group jam, bluegrass band), Evie Ladin (singing), and Hannah Mayree (community singing).
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - March 14, 2026
NOTE: all tracks released in 2026, although some (as noted) recorded earlier.
TONY TRISCHKA (featuring MOLLY TUTTLE): Red River Valley/Earl Jam 2 (Down the Road)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: There Where the River Rolls Around/single (Mountain Home)
FRANK EVANS: T.J.’s Last Ride/single (self)
JEFF BROWN & WAYNE TAYLOR: The Ballad Of the Dry Fork River/single (Huckleberry)
MILAN MILLER: Never Cross A Crow/single (Melton & Miller Music)
THE LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND: Honey Babe Blues/single (self)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Wildflowers/Made To Wonder (Tin Foil Studio)
TOMMY EMMANUEL: Ready For the Times To Get Better/single (self)
PAPER WINGS: Morning Again/Mountains Of the Moon (self)
DEL McCOURY BAND (with PETER ROWAN & DAVID GRISMAN): Sitting Alone In the Moonlight/A Bluegrass Summit (Acoustic Disc/00)
JASON CARTER & MICHAEL CLEVELAND (with JOHN COWAN): Let’s Sing Our Song/Live at the Grand Olde Opry (12-2-25)
THE BURNETT SISTERS BAND: Blaming You/single (Pinecastle)
THE CARTER SISTERS: Foggy Mountain Top/Voices from the Ridge: The Final Sessions (StarVista Music/93)
WYATT ELLIS (featuring CHRISTOPHER HENRY): West Dakota Rose/single (Knee High)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: City of Glass/Live at The Chapel, SF (3-15-25)
UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS: It’s Real To Touch/live performance video of song from Fallen Angel (2026)
BECKY BULLER: Auction At the Old Home Place/single (Dark Shadow)
JOE TROOP & THE TRUTH MACHINE: Billionaires/The Truth Machine (self)
RED CAMEL COLLECTIVE: Finding Your Way Home/single (Pinecastle)
JUNIOR SISK: A Brand New Whippoorwill/single (Turnberry)
DELLA MAE: Out Run ‘Em/Magic Accident (Compass)
DEL McCOURY BAND (with DAVID GRISMAN): Roanoke/A Bluegrass Summit (Acoustic Disc/00)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Celebration Of 1946ers – March 21, 2026
NOTE: All tracks feature musicians (or songs) born in 1946.
BLACK MOUNTAIN BOYS (with ERIC THOMPSON): Rosa Lee McFall/Before the Dead (Round/64)
BLACK MOUNTAIN BOYS (with SANDY ROTHMAN): Walkin’ the Dog/Before the Dead (Round/64)
ASPHALT JUNGLE MOUNTAIN BOYS (with JODY STECHER & ERIC): Roll On Buddy/Before the Dead (Round/64)
JODY STECHER: Going Up On The Mountain/Going Up On The Mountain (Bay/77)
ANY OLD TIME (with KATE BRISLIN): California Blues/Ladies Choice (Bay/80)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Lover's Return/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Paul & Silas/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
ANY OLD TIME STRING BAND (with VAL MINDEL): Dixieland One Step/Any Old Time String Band (Arhoolie/78)
EMILY MILLER & VAL MINDEL: My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You/In the Valley (self/09)
TODALO SHAKERS (with FRANNIE LEOPOLD & ERIC): Memphis Blues/Live at the Portland (OR) Old Time Music Gathering (1-18-13)
HIGH COUNTRY (with ED NEFF): Cold Hard Rain/Dreams (WB-Raccoon/71)
HIGH COUNTRY (with LARRY COHEA): Maple On the Hill/Rough & Rocky (Storm/79)
BLUE & LONESOME (with ED & LARRY): Nobody’s Love Is Like Mine/A Tiny Taste Of Blue & Lonesome (e'Neff Said/20)
HOT RIZE (with PETE WERNICK & CHARLES SAWTELLE): Just Like You/So Long Of A Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS (with CHRIS WARNER): Doin’ My Time/Freeborn Man (Decca/69)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS (with ALAN MUNDE): Homesick/Fly Me To Frisco (MCA/70>74)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS BLUEGRASS BAND (with GREG CAHILL): Think Of What You’ve Done/Special Consensus (Tin Ear/79)
DOLLY PARTON: I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open/The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill/99)
LINDA RONSTADT (with DOLLY): I Never Will Marry/Simple Dreams (Asylum/77)
(RANGER) DOUG GREEN: You Won't Be Satisfied That Way/Liza Jane & Sally Anne (Old Homestead/72)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS (with TOM EWING): It's Might Dark To Travel/Live, Volume One (Copper Creek/90)
78s released in 1946 -
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Rocky Road Blues (Columbia)
OLA BELLE & THE NORTH CAROLINA RIDGE RUNNERS: Raining, Raining Here This Morning (Security)
DELMORE BROTHERS: Freight Train Boogie (King)
BYRON PARKER (THE OLD HIRED HAND) AND HIS HILLBILLIES: Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (De Luxe)
BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Stay A Little Longer (Columbia)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Dead Grass - March 28, 2026
THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: Cumberland Blues/DelFest Does Dead (DelFest/25)
SISTER SADIE: Touch of Grey/DelFest Does Dead (DelFest/25)
DALE ANN BRADLEY (with Tina Adair): Ripple/The Hard Way (Pinecastle/19)
JESSE McREYNOLDS: Black Muddy River/The Wheel - A Musical Celebration Of Jerry Garcia (Rex Foundation/12-4-10)
MOLLY TUTTLE BAND (with AJ Lee & Sullivan Tuttle): Standing On the Moon/Live at The Independent, SF (5-24-19)
BROKEN COMPASS BLUEGRASS: Deal/Live Picks Volume One (self/23)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: He’s Gone/Silver Sky (High Country/12)
GRASS IS DEAD: Foolish Heart/Twenty Degrees Of Solitude (self/04)
RICE, RICE, HILLMAN & PEDERSEN: Friend Of the Devil/Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen (Rounder/99)
SAM GRISMAN PROJECT: Lazy River Road/Live at the Aladdin Theatre, Portland (11-16-24)
ticket giveaway -
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS: The Monkey & the Engineer/Live at Telluride (6-19-25)
BILLY STRINGS: Cassidy/Live at the University of Georgia (2-6-26)
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS: Brokedown Palace/Live at the Haw River Ballroon, Saxapahaw, NC (10-25-24)