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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Story Songs - May 3, 2025
Producer/host: Bria Light

TIM O’BRIEN: Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS: Caleb Meyer/Hell Among the Yearlings (Almo/98)
TONY RICE UNIT: Ginseng Sullivan/Manzanita (Rounder/79)

JIM & JESSE: I Heard the Bluebirds Sing/The Jim & Jesse Show (Old Dominion/72)
KATHY KALLICK: Wreck of the Old #9/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/02)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: 1901: A Canyon Odyssey/Laws of Gravity (Compass/17)

DARRELL SCOTT: You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive/Aloha from Nashville (Sugar Hill/97)
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Little Annie/Together (Rounder/91)
PETER ROWAN & TONY RICE: Angel Island/You Were There For Me (Rounder/04)

I’M WITH HER: Crossing Muddy Waters/Be My Husband (self/15)
KOSSOY SISTERS: I Will Never Marry/Bowling Green & Other Folk Songs from the Southern Mountains (Tradition/56)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Katy Daley/One Step Forward (Sugar Hill/96)

ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION: Momma Cried/New Favorite (Rounder/01)
TIM & MOLLIE O’BRIEN: Witchita/Away Out On The Mountain (Sugar Hill/96)
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT: Resume Man/Born on the Wrong Planet (SCI Fidelity/96)

TIM O’BRIEN: Buffalo Skinners/Fiddler’s Green (Sugar Hill/05)
HOT RIZE: Montana Cowboy/Traditional Ties (Sugar Hill/06)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: Discontented Cowboy/Love & Wealth: The Lost Recordings (Modern Harmonic/51-56)

KELLER WILLIAMS & THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: What A Waste of Good Corn Liquor/Pick (SCI Fidelity/12)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: I Got A Date/Unleashed (Sugar Hill/95)
NICKEL CREEK: The Fox/Nickel Creek (Sugar Hill/00)

EARL TAYLOR, JIM McCALL & THE STONEY MOUNTAIN BOYS: It Felt So Good/ Vol. 3 (Rural Rhythm/71)
KENNY BAKER: Cheyenne/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/76)

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​BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Mama Always Had A Song - May 10, 2025

THE MARSHALL FAMILY: Mama Always Had A Song To Sing/Requests (Rebel/76)
NANCY HICKS PATE: When My Momma Sang to Me/Songs of Murphy Hicks Henry (Arrandem/22)
IRIS DEMENT: Mama's Opry/Infamous Angel (Philo-Rounder/92)

RUSSELL MOORE & IIIrd TYME OUT: Mama Tried/Live at WAMU’s Bluegrass Country (2017)
DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Mother Knows Best/Weary River (Patuxent/15) 
TED LUNDY, BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN BOYS: Picture On the Wall/Lovesick and Sorrow (Rounder/78)

KATHY KALLICK: My Native Home/My Mother's Voice (Copper Creek/02)
CARTER FAMILY: Will My Mother Know Me There?/Gold Watch & Chain (Rounder/33)
*SUZANNE THOMAS & CAROL ELIZABETH JONES: I Have No Mother Now/Green Grass Cloggers: Through the Ears (Rounder/86)

CAROLYN CIRIMELE: Big Green Chair/Looking For Ida Rose (Wilder Shore/96)
**KATHY KALLICK: Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom)/Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom) (Sugar Hill/95)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Mama Blues/Live at Carnegie Hall (Koch/62)

*HAZEL DICKENS: Mama's Hand/By the Sweat Of My Brow (Rounder/84)
*HAZEL & ALICE: Mama's Gonna Stay/Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (Rounder/75)
KATHY KALLICK & LAURIE LEWIS: Don't Leave Your Little Girl All Alone/Together (Rounder/91)

GREG BLAKE (with CLAIRE LYNCH): Dreaming of a Little Cabin/Songs of Heart & Home (self/15)
STANLEY BROTHERS: A Vision Of Mother/The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers (Columbia/49)
STANLEY BROTHERS: Mother No Longer Awaits Me At Home/Earliest Recordings - The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s (Rounder/47)

PAUL SHELASKY: I'm Never Going Home ('Cause Mother's Waiting)/Fiddle-Crazy! (Lost Highway/99)
THE GOOD OL’ BOYS: Pistol Packin’ Mama/Pistol Packin’ Mama (Round/76)
DEL McCOURY BAND: That's All Right, Mama/Blue Side Of Town (Rounder/92)

MADDOX BROTHERS & ROSE: Mama Says It’s Naughty/Vol. 2 (Arhoolie/47)
RAYMOND FAIRCHILD & THE FROSTY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Mama Likes Bluegrass Music/Mama Likes Bluegrass Music (Rural Rhythm/66)
**DOC WATSON: Mama Don't Allow No Music/Remembering Merle (Sugar Hill/70-76)

BUDDY MERRIAM: My Dear Mother’s Waltz/Back Roads Mandolin (Lily Pad/09)

*also on Mama’s Hand: Bluegrass and Mountain Songs About Mother (Rounder)
**also on Mother, Queen Of My Heart: A Collection Of Songs Inspired By Mom (Sugar Hill)

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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: When My Momma Sang To Me - May 17, 2025   

Selections from When My Momma Sang To Me - Songs of Murphy Hicks Henry (Arrandem/22), except as noted.

RHONDA VINCENT: I Ain't Domesticated Yet
NANCY HICKS PATE: When My Momma Sang to Me
ALICE GERRARD: Save Me a Square On the Floor

LIZZY LONG: Riding Around on Saturday Night
KATHY KALLICK: M & M Blues
NANCY HICKS PATE: Fried Chicken

MURPHY HICKS HENRY: Grandpa, Rock On
THE HICKS SISTERS: Grandmother's Song
ARGEN HICKS: Brand New Gospel Song

THE PRICE SISTERS: Just Remember Where You Could Be
AJ LEE: In the Shenandoah Valley Long Ago
VICKIE VAUGHN: The Band Played On

KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON: Miss Nora's Blues
GINA FURTADO: Pall Mall Reds
THE PRICE SISTERS: Darling Daughter
GINA FURTADO: Hazel Creek

musical previews -

SWEET SALLY: Lies/single (self)
BUSHWICK MOUNTAIN BOYS: Why Did You Wander?/Live at Skyline Records (IBMA/2024)
LAURIE LEWIS & MEN OF NOTE: Just A Little Ways Down the Road/Live at the Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View (9-16-22)

CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND (featuring JIM LAUDERDALE): The Sun Won't Go Down/single (Engelhardt Music)
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS: Wellsley Station/Live at the Portland Folk Music Society (3-18-23)
BLOOMFIELD BLUEGRASS BAND: Black-Eyed Susie/Live at the Willowbrook Ale House (10-26-23)

EAST NASH GRASS: Following You/DelFest Sessions (2024)
THE SLOCAN RAMBLERS: Summerland/Live at WTJU Charlottsville (5-1-24)

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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Gearing Up For Grass Valley - May 24, 2025

JUNIOR SISK BAND: Nobody Cares/Live at The Floyd Country Store (7/8/23)
AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: City Of Glass/Live at The Chapel, SF (3/15/25)
ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY: Living In A Song/Live at DelFest (Paste Studio/22) 
THE ALUM RIDGE BOYS & ASHLEE: Katy Hill > Thinking Of Home/Live on WDVX’s Blue Plate Special (11/8/23)

GOOD OL' PERSONS: Life’s Too Short/Live on KPFA’s Pig In A Pen (1983)
THE GIBSON BROTHERS: So Long Mama/Live at the Stoughton (WI) Opera House (2023)
THE CANOTE BROTHERS: Railroad Dog/Live at Nimblefingers (2022)
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Texas Bluebonnets/Live at the Floyd Country Store (8/27/22)

LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: If I Had My Life To Live Over Again/Live at CBA’s Father’s Day Festival (2014)
CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND (featuring JIM LAUDERDALE): The Sun Won't Go Down/single (Engelhardt Music)
THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS: Daydreamer/single (McCoury Music)
CLINTON DAVIS STRINGBAND: Swannanoa Tunnel/Live at the San Diego Violin Shop (2024)

THE TOWN HOWLERS: Bravest Cowboy/Alright Everybody! (self/18)
WINDY HILL: Down South In New Orleans/Live From The Ratz Nest (Hoss Unit/18) 
MISSION BLUE: My Home In the Mountains/Traditional Ways (self/24)
BEARCAT STRINGBAND: Walkin’ In My Sleep/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/17)

HIGH COUNTRY: I Cried Again/The First Twenty Five Years (Big Chicken/71)
BLUE & LONESOME: Foggy Mountain Top/Turn Your Radio (Bluegrass Signal/10)
ARKANSAS SHEIKS: Whiskey Before Breakfast/Whiskey Before Breakfast (Bay/75)

THE CAFFERY FAMILY: Pretty Polly/Country Thoughts (Century Productions/75)
SIDESADDLE: Bells Of Saint Mary's/Saratoga Gap (Faultline/85)
MATT MICHIENZIE BAND: For Me/single (self/24)
CRITICAL GRASS: Gold Rush/Live at Gather, Berkeley (9/7/24)

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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: On Air Folk Festival - May 31, 2025

other Vern's Stage bands -
​MATT & GEORGE & THEIR PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS: Your Heart Was Made To Be Free/demo (2024)
JIMMY TOUZEL & THE BLUEGRASS EXPLOSION: True Life Blues/Life In SF (2025)
CHARLIE TORCH: Suzanne’s Journey/live demo (2024)

CRITICAL GRASS - live in the KALW studio

calendar -
SKILLET LICORICE: 3-in-1 2-Step/Allsorts Orchestra (Old-Time Tiki Parlour/21)
SKILLET LICORICE: Dora Dean/Allsorts Orchestra (Old-Time Tiki Parlour/21)
SKILLET LICORICE: Babe/Turn Your Radio On (Bluegrass Signal/19)

HIGH OL' PERSONS - live in the KALW studio

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EVENTS PREVIEWED
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Critical Grass –
- June 1 (2-4 pm): Armistice Brewing Company, Richmond                                                                 
- June 14 (1:30 pm): Vern’s Stage – FATHER'S DAY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
- Aug. 3 (2-4 pm): Armistice Brewing Company, Richmond ​
- Aug. 7-10: GOOD OLD FASHIONED BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL – San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Piños
Leah Wollenberg (with Jesse Appelman’s West Coast Stringband Project) -
- June 28: The Pearl, Locke
- June 29: house concert in Alameda
High Country (Larry Cohea & Tom Bekeny) -
- June 12 (6:10 pm): Pioneer Stage - FATHER'S DAY FESTIVAL - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Blue & Lonesome (Larry) -
- First two Thursdays of the month: Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma; next one - June 5
- June 13 (4:45 pm): Pioneer Stage - FATHER'S DAY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Dark Hollow (Larry) -
- First Tuesday of the month: Sam’s BBQ, San Jose; next on - June 3
Tom Bekeny & Friends - 
- June 8 (3 pm): O'Reilly’s Pub, SF
- July 17: The Liberties, SF
- July 21: Blondie’s, SF
- Aug. 17 (3 pm): O'Reilly’s Pub, SF
Good Ol’ Persons (Kathy Kallick & Bethany Sorkey) -
- June 8 (3 pm): Folsom Opry House
- June 13 (6:50 pm): Main Stage - FATHER'S DAY FESTIVAL - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
- June 14 (6:10 pm): Pioneer Stage - FATHER'S DAY FESTIVAL - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Kathy -
- June 3 (8:30 pm): Bluegrass & Old Time Films - Roxie, 3125 16th St., SF; "In the Groove" (mini documentary about KK)
- June 14 (3:30 pm): Main Stage - FATHER'S DAY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL (Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick Band with John Reischman)
- Aug. 9-15: teaching Guitar and Repertoire at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Bremerton, WA
Bethany -
- June 1 (1 pm): with Sugar Mountain – Ocean View Brew Works, Albany
- June 21: Taco Jam - Baja Tacqueria, Oakland
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