BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Industrial Strength Bluegrass - May 1, 2021
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy (Smithsonian-Folkways/21)
• JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Readin’, Rightin’, Route 23
• LARRY CORDLE: The Rolling Mills of Middletown
• SIERRA HULL: Mountain Strings
• BOBBY OSBORNE: We’ll Head Back to Harlan
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN: Once More/The Osborne Brothers 1956-1968 (Bear Family/57)
RED ALLEN & THE KENTUCKIANS: Little Maggie/Bluegrass (Folkways/64)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Think Of What You’ve Done/The Early Years 1958-1961 Vol. 1 (King/58)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: This Lonesome Old Feelin’/Ramblin’ Bluegrass (Starday/72)
DAVE EVANS: Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass/The Best Of the Vetco Years (Rebel/78)
HOTMUD FAMILY: The Singer/Buckeyes In the Briar Patch (Vetco/75)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: A House Divided/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
THE BOYS FROM INDIANA (with PAUL MULLINS and NOAH CRASE): One More Bluegrass Show Tonight/One More Bluegrass Show (King/76)
KATIE LAUR BAND: Little Bessie/Cookin’ With Katie (Vetco/77)
EARL TAYLOR & THE STONEY MOUNTAIN BOYS: When You Are Lonely/Earl Taylor & the Stoney Mt. Boys aka Body and Soul (Vetco/76)
DORSEY HARVEY: Lead Out/Dorsey Harvey (Poca River/77)
THE VALLEY RAMBLERS: Old Home Place Of Mine/Pickin' and Singin' Solid Bluegrass (Jalyn/69)
TOM EWING: O-hio/It’s Good To Be Home (Niptune/89)
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy (Smithsonian-Folkways/21)
• VINCE GILL: Baby Blue Eyes
• JIM LAUDERDALE & HIGH FIDELITY: Barefoot Nellie
• LEE ANN WOMACK: From Life’s Other Side
SMOKEY WARD (with JESSE McREYNOLDS): Doin’ My Time/45 (Barrel Head Gang/51)
JACK LYNCH & THE LEE BROTHERS: You Left Me This Morning/45 (Jalyn/63)
DAVE WOOLUM & HIS KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS (featuring NOAH CRASE): Noah’s Breakdown/The Early Days Of Bluegrass (Rounder/57)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Spring Membership Campaign special – May 8, 2021
All tracks from Turn Your Radio On: Recorded live at KALW, 1999-2019 (Bluegrass Signal)
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THE CROOKED JADES: Valley Forge (2017)
THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Boats Up the River (2008)
THOMPSONIA: River Bottom Blues (2017)
FOG HOLLER: Spider Dance (2018)
WINDY HILL: What Are You Doing Here Today? (2012)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin’ On Top Of the World (1999)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Messenger (2003)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: With Me Wherever You Go (2015)
ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe (2013)
DAVID THOM BAND: I’ve Never Been So Lonesome (2011)
THE MIGHTY CROWS: Somewhere Between (2006)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Gonna Write Me A Letter (2004)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND DUO: All Night Long (2017)
SHARON GILCHRIST & SCOTT NYGAARD: Man Of Constant Sorrow>Walkabout (2013)
MOLLY TUTTLE & THE BAREFOOT NELLIES: A Few Old Memories (2008)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Still Love You Still (2018)
DIX BRUCE & JULIE CLINE: Darling Will You Ever Think Of Me (2012)
AMY & HAILEY: Why Cry For You (2018)
SKILLET LICORICE: Babe (2019)
EARL SCRUGGS TRIBUTE QUARTET: Foggy Mountain Special (2012)
BLUE & LONESOME: Foggy Mountain Top (2010)
WILDCAT MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Ask My Dog (2019)
CRYING UNCLE: Dawg’s Waltz (2019)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Flowers For Mother - May 15, 2021
host: Allegra Thompson
DON RENO & BILL HARRELL: Mama Don’t Allow/Live! At McClure, Virginia (Rebel/76)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Mama Blues/At Carnegie Hall (Columbia/63)
BILL MONROE: My Little Georgia Rose/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/50)
ROSE MADDOX & THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Beautiful Bouquet/A Beautiful Bouquet (Arhoolie/83)
EMILY MILLER & VAL MINDEL: Baby Rose/In the Valley (Yodel Ay Hee/06)
PAPER WINGS: Ashby/Clementine (self/19)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: The Bramble & The Rose/Our Town (Rounder/93)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Give Me the Roses/Rock Island Grange (self/18)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Pharaoh’s Daughter/Skippin’ and Flyin’ (Spruce & Maple/11)
CHRIS BRASHEAR, PETER MCLAUGHLIN, & TODD PHILLIPS: Silverbell Mine/The Colton House Sessions - Songs For The Southwest (Arizona Archive Recordings/17)
RHIANON GIDDENS: We Could Fly/Freedom Highway (Nonesuch/17)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Little Bitty Mama/Dream Shadows (self/08)
JAKE BLOUNT: Mad Mama’s Blues/Spider Tales (self/20)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: In Texas/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
LAURIE LEWIS (& MOLLY TUTTLE): You Are My Flower/… and Laurie Lewis (Spruce & Maple/21)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Wildflowers/Between the Hollow& the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Over Yonder In the Graveyard/Dig (self/13)
TOM, BRAD & ALICE: Lost Love/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
THE ONLIES: House Carpenter/The Onlies (self/20)
SUZY THOMPSON: In the Pines/Stop & Listen (Arhoolie/05)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Rockin’ ‘Grass - May 22, 2021
RENO & SMILEY: Country Boy Rock & Roll/The Hillbillies - They Tried To Rock, Vol. 2 (Bear Family/56)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Finger Poppin’ Time/The Hillbillies - They Tried To Rock, Vol. 1 (Bear Family/60)
JIM & JESSE: Maybelline/Berry Pickin in the Country (Epic/65)
DAVID GRISMAN, JOHN HARTFORD, & MIKE SEEGER: Memphis/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/00)
THE CHARLES RIVER VALLEY BOYS: I Feel Fine/Beatle Country (Elektra/66)
BILL EVANS: A Hard Day’s Night/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
OLD & IN THE GRAY: Honky Tonk Women/Old & In The Gray (Acoustic Disc/02)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Down In the Flood/Changin’ Times (Columbia/68)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Walking Down the Line/Early Rebel Recordings (Rebel/71)
NICKLE CREEK: Tomorrow Is a Long Time/Why Should The Fire Die? (Sugar Hill/05)
TIM O’BRIEN: Tombstone Blues/Red On Blonde (Sugar Hill/96)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Tear Stained Letter/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Waltzin’s For Dreamers/Waiting For the Hard Times To Go (Sugar Hill/93)
DEL McCOURY BAND: 1952 Vincent Black Lightning/Del & the Boys (Ceili/01)
DONE GONE: Friend Of the Devil/The Done Gone Band (Police/79)
JESSE McREYNOLDS & FRIENDS: Black Muddy River/A Tribute to Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter (Woodstock/10)
THE GRASS IS DEAD: Tennessee Jed/Built To Grass (self/02)
SELDOM SCENE: I Know You Rider/Live At the Cellar Door (Rebel/75)
DUDLEY CONNELL: interview excerpt
SELDOM SCENE: Rollin’ & Tumblin’/Scene It All (Sugar Hill/00)
FRONT RANGE: Ramblin' On My Mind/Ramblin' On My Mind (Sugar Hill/96)
JIM & JESSE: Bye Bye Johnny/Berry Pickin in the Country (Epic/65)
THE GIBSON BROTHERS: It’s All Over Now/Red Letter Day (Sugar Hill/06)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - May 29, 2021
NOTE: all releases in 2021, except as noted.
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Finn's Rescue /Put All Your Troubles Away (self)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: Jenny Hang the Kettle On/The Aluminum Wonder (self)
MATHIS HAUG & BENOIT NOGARET: The Cuckoo/Here's to you, Mr Watson (self)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Put All Your Troubles Away/Put All Your Troubles Away (self)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Pond Mountain Breakaway/single (Mountain Home)
LEVEL BEST: The Other Side Of the Hill/Happy Together (Redstart)
LORI KING & JUNCTION 63: Walkin’ the Blues/single (Turnberry)
LARRY SPARKS: Where We'll Never Say Farewell/Ministry In Song (Rebel)
ANDY FALCO: Merriam Special/The Will Of the Way (American Vibes)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: My Sweet Blue Eyed Darling/A Tribute To Bill Monroe (American Vibes)
SHANNON BAKER & SOMETIME SOON: Sittin’ On Top Of the World/Shannon Baker & sometime soon (self)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Highway Of Regret/The Memory Of Your Smile (Rebel/82>21)
GINA FURTADO PROJECT: Kansas City Railroad Blues (Mountain Home)
JEFF BROWN & STILL LONESOME: Gone Like the Wind/single (Turnberry)
ANYA HINKLE: Why Women Need Wine/single (Organic)
ANDRE DAL: Dal’s Breakdown/Beyond the Tagus River (self)
ANDY LEFTWICH: Over Cincinnati/single (Mountain Home)
TIM O’BRIEN: I Breathe In/He Walked On (Howdy Skies)
RHONDA VINCENT: Like I Could/Music Is What I See (Upper Management)
COLEBROOK ROAD: Mountainside/single (Mountain Fever)
CORN BRED: Pike County Breakdown/Live at the San Diego Folk Festival (1972)
BUDDY MERRIAM & BACK ROADS: Blue Grass Time/It's Bluegrass Time (self/93)
JOHN HICKMAN: Banjo Signal/Don’t Mean Maybe (Rounder/78)
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy (Smithsonian-Folkways/21)
• JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS: Readin’, Rightin’, Route 23
• LARRY CORDLE: The Rolling Mills of Middletown
• SIERRA HULL: Mountain Strings
• BOBBY OSBORNE: We’ll Head Back to Harlan
THE OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN: Once More/The Osborne Brothers 1956-1968 (Bear Family/57)
RED ALLEN & THE KENTUCKIANS: Little Maggie/Bluegrass (Folkways/64)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Think Of What You’ve Done/The Early Years 1958-1961 Vol. 1 (King/58)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: This Lonesome Old Feelin’/Ramblin’ Bluegrass (Starday/72)
DAVE EVANS: Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass/The Best Of the Vetco Years (Rebel/78)
HOTMUD FAMILY: The Singer/Buckeyes In the Briar Patch (Vetco/75)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: A House Divided/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
THE BOYS FROM INDIANA (with PAUL MULLINS and NOAH CRASE): One More Bluegrass Show Tonight/One More Bluegrass Show (King/76)
KATIE LAUR BAND: Little Bessie/Cookin’ With Katie (Vetco/77)
EARL TAYLOR & THE STONEY MOUNTAIN BOYS: When You Are Lonely/Earl Taylor & the Stoney Mt. Boys aka Body and Soul (Vetco/76)
DORSEY HARVEY: Lead Out/Dorsey Harvey (Poca River/77)
THE VALLEY RAMBLERS: Old Home Place Of Mine/Pickin' and Singin' Solid Bluegrass (Jalyn/69)
TOM EWING: O-hio/It’s Good To Be Home (Niptune/89)
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy (Smithsonian-Folkways/21)
• VINCE GILL: Baby Blue Eyes
• JIM LAUDERDALE & HIGH FIDELITY: Barefoot Nellie
• LEE ANN WOMACK: From Life’s Other Side
SMOKEY WARD (with JESSE McREYNOLDS): Doin’ My Time/45 (Barrel Head Gang/51)
JACK LYNCH & THE LEE BROTHERS: You Left Me This Morning/45 (Jalyn/63)
DAVE WOOLUM & HIS KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS (featuring NOAH CRASE): Noah’s Breakdown/The Early Days Of Bluegrass (Rounder/57)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Spring Membership Campaign special – May 8, 2021
All tracks from Turn Your Radio On: Recorded live at KALW, 1999-2019 (Bluegrass Signal)
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THE CROOKED JADES: Valley Forge (2017)
THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Boats Up the River (2008)
THOMPSONIA: River Bottom Blues (2017)
FOG HOLLER: Spider Dance (2018)
WINDY HILL: What Are You Doing Here Today? (2012)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin’ On Top Of the World (1999)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: The Messenger (2003)
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: With Me Wherever You Go (2015)
ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe (2013)
DAVID THOM BAND: I’ve Never Been So Lonesome (2011)
THE MIGHTY CROWS: Somewhere Between (2006)
THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Gonna Write Me A Letter (2004)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND DUO: All Night Long (2017)
SHARON GILCHRIST & SCOTT NYGAARD: Man Of Constant Sorrow>Walkabout (2013)
MOLLY TUTTLE & THE BAREFOOT NELLIES: A Few Old Memories (2008)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Still Love You Still (2018)
DIX BRUCE & JULIE CLINE: Darling Will You Ever Think Of Me (2012)
AMY & HAILEY: Why Cry For You (2018)
SKILLET LICORICE: Babe (2019)
EARL SCRUGGS TRIBUTE QUARTET: Foggy Mountain Special (2012)
BLUE & LONESOME: Foggy Mountain Top (2010)
WILDCAT MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Ask My Dog (2019)
CRYING UNCLE: Dawg’s Waltz (2019)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Flowers For Mother - May 15, 2021
host: Allegra Thompson
DON RENO & BILL HARRELL: Mama Don’t Allow/Live! At McClure, Virginia (Rebel/76)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Mama Blues/At Carnegie Hall (Columbia/63)
BILL MONROE: My Little Georgia Rose/Blue Grass, 1950-1958 (Bear Family/50)
ROSE MADDOX & THE VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Beautiful Bouquet/A Beautiful Bouquet (Arhoolie/83)
EMILY MILLER & VAL MINDEL: Baby Rose/In the Valley (Yodel Ay Hee/06)
PAPER WINGS: Ashby/Clementine (self/19)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: The Bramble & The Rose/Our Town (Rounder/93)
FOGHORN STRINGBAND: Give Me the Roses/Rock Island Grange (self/18)
LAURIE LEWIS: The Pharaoh’s Daughter/Skippin’ and Flyin’ (Spruce & Maple/11)
CHRIS BRASHEAR, PETER MCLAUGHLIN, & TODD PHILLIPS: Silverbell Mine/The Colton House Sessions - Songs For The Southwest (Arizona Archive Recordings/17)
RHIANON GIDDENS: We Could Fly/Freedom Highway (Nonesuch/17)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON: Little Bitty Mama/Dream Shadows (self/08)
JAKE BLOUNT: Mad Mama’s Blues/Spider Tales (self/20)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: In Texas/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
LAURIE LEWIS (& MOLLY TUTTLE): You Are My Flower/… and Laurie Lewis (Spruce & Maple/21)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Wildflowers/Between the Hollow& the High-Rise (Live Oak/10)
AMYTHYST KIAH: Over Yonder In the Graveyard/Dig (self/13)
TOM, BRAD & ALICE: Lost Love/Carve That Possum (Copper Creek/05)
THE ONLIES: House Carpenter/The Onlies (self/20)
SUZY THOMPSON: In the Pines/Stop & Listen (Arhoolie/05)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Rockin’ ‘Grass - May 22, 2021
RENO & SMILEY: Country Boy Rock & Roll/The Hillbillies - They Tried To Rock, Vol. 2 (Bear Family/56)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Finger Poppin’ Time/The Hillbillies - They Tried To Rock, Vol. 1 (Bear Family/60)
JIM & JESSE: Maybelline/Berry Pickin in the Country (Epic/65)
DAVID GRISMAN, JOHN HARTFORD, & MIKE SEEGER: Memphis/Retrograss (Acoustic Disc/00)
THE CHARLES RIVER VALLEY BOYS: I Feel Fine/Beatle Country (Elektra/66)
BILL EVANS: A Hard Day’s Night/In Good Company (Native & Fine/12)
OLD & IN THE GRAY: Honky Tonk Women/Old & In The Gray (Acoustic Disc/02)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Down In the Flood/Changin’ Times (Columbia/68)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Walking Down the Line/Early Rebel Recordings (Rebel/71)
NICKLE CREEK: Tomorrow Is a Long Time/Why Should The Fire Die? (Sugar Hill/05)
TIM O’BRIEN: Tombstone Blues/Red On Blonde (Sugar Hill/96)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Tear Stained Letter/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Waltzin’s For Dreamers/Waiting For the Hard Times To Go (Sugar Hill/93)
DEL McCOURY BAND: 1952 Vincent Black Lightning/Del & the Boys (Ceili/01)
DONE GONE: Friend Of the Devil/The Done Gone Band (Police/79)
JESSE McREYNOLDS & FRIENDS: Black Muddy River/A Tribute to Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter (Woodstock/10)
THE GRASS IS DEAD: Tennessee Jed/Built To Grass (self/02)
SELDOM SCENE: I Know You Rider/Live At the Cellar Door (Rebel/75)
DUDLEY CONNELL: interview excerpt
SELDOM SCENE: Rollin’ & Tumblin’/Scene It All (Sugar Hill/00)
FRONT RANGE: Ramblin' On My Mind/Ramblin' On My Mind (Sugar Hill/96)
JIM & JESSE: Bye Bye Johnny/Berry Pickin in the Country (Epic/65)
THE GIBSON BROTHERS: It’s All Over Now/Red Letter Day (Sugar Hill/06)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - May 29, 2021
NOTE: all releases in 2021, except as noted.
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Finn's Rescue /Put All Your Troubles Away (self)
JOSEPH DECOSIMO: Jenny Hang the Kettle On/The Aluminum Wonder (self)
MATHIS HAUG & BENOIT NOGARET: The Cuckoo/Here's to you, Mr Watson (self)
THE FOREIGN LANDERS: Put All Your Troubles Away/Put All Your Troubles Away (self)
TRAY WELLINGTON: Pond Mountain Breakaway/single (Mountain Home)
LEVEL BEST: The Other Side Of the Hill/Happy Together (Redstart)
LORI KING & JUNCTION 63: Walkin’ the Blues/single (Turnberry)
LARRY SPARKS: Where We'll Never Say Farewell/Ministry In Song (Rebel)
ANDY FALCO: Merriam Special/The Will Of the Way (American Vibes)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: My Sweet Blue Eyed Darling/A Tribute To Bill Monroe (American Vibes)
SHANNON BAKER & SOMETIME SOON: Sittin’ On Top Of the World/Shannon Baker & sometime soon (self)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Highway Of Regret/The Memory Of Your Smile (Rebel/82>21)
GINA FURTADO PROJECT: Kansas City Railroad Blues (Mountain Home)
JEFF BROWN & STILL LONESOME: Gone Like the Wind/single (Turnberry)
ANYA HINKLE: Why Women Need Wine/single (Organic)
ANDRE DAL: Dal’s Breakdown/Beyond the Tagus River (self)
ANDY LEFTWICH: Over Cincinnati/single (Mountain Home)
TIM O’BRIEN: I Breathe In/He Walked On (Howdy Skies)
RHONDA VINCENT: Like I Could/Music Is What I See (Upper Management)
COLEBROOK ROAD: Mountainside/single (Mountain Fever)
CORN BRED: Pike County Breakdown/Live at the San Diego Folk Festival (1972)
BUDDY MERRIAM & BACK ROADS: Blue Grass Time/It's Bluegrass Time (self/93)
JOHN HICKMAN: Banjo Signal/Don’t Mean Maybe (Rounder/78)