BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy Birthday, Chubby Wise! - Oct. 2, 2021
host: Leah Wollenberg
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Can’t You Hear Me Callin’/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/49)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Heavy Traffic Ahead/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/46)
CHUBBY WISE: Waltz of the Wind/Waltzes (Stoneway/72)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: She’s Left Me Again/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
CHUBBY WISE AND THE TENNESSEANS: Flat Rock/The Nashville Sound, Country Fiddle and Banjo (Guest Star/64)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Somehow Tonight/1948-1959 (Bear Family/51)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Walkin’ In My Sleep/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/66)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: How Will I Explain About You?/Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Bear Family/46)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Come Back to Me in My Dreams/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/45)
CHUBBY WISE & THE RAINBOW RANCH BOYS: Shenandoah Waltz/Tennessee Fiddler (Starday/61)
MERLE HAGGARD & THE STRANGERS: Corrina Corrina/The Fightin' Side of Me (Live) (Capitol/70)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & RED ALLEN with DON RENO & CHUBBY WISE: Mountain Strings/single (Starday/61)
CHUBBY WISE: Chubby’s Cacklin Hen/The Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival (CMH/78)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I'll Never Grow Tired of You/The Complete Mercury Recordings (Mercury/57)
CHUBBY WISE: Georgiana Moon Waltz/Chubby Wise in Nashville (Pinecastle/94)
CHUBBY WISE: Lee Highway Blues/Fiddlers’ Hall of Fame (CMH/90)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lovin’ You Too Well/The Complete Mercury Recordings (Mercury/57)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Goodbye Old Pal/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/45)
HANK WILLIAMS: My Sweet Love Ain’t Around/Low Down Blues (Mercury/48)
CHUBBY WISE: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/An American Original (Pinecastle/95)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Grass Special/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/45)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy (Belated) Birthday, Larry Sparks ... live! - Oct. 9, 2021
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LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Carter's Blues/Live At the Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival (2020)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Only Exist/Live In Seattle (Stanley Family/69)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Think Of What You've Done/Live At Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA (Stanleytone/69)
RALPH STANLEY & LARRY SPARKS: Another Night/Tall Trees Bluegrass Festival (King/76)
LARRY SPARKS & DAVE EVANS: I Don't Want Your Rambling Letters/Clinch Mountain Boys Reunion (Stanleytone/96)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Live On The Road: Volume 1 (Crosscut/c. 80)
- Love Of the Mountains
- John Deere Tractor
- When My Time Comes To Go
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Live On The Road: Volume 2 (Crosscut/c. 80)
- Smokey Mountain Memories
- Green Pastures In the Sky
- I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Blues Stay Away From Me/Tall Trees Bluegrass Festival (King/76)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: A Face In the Crowd/Tall Trees Bluegrass Festival (King/76)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Blue Virginia Blues/25th Anniversary: Uncle Pen Days at Bean Blossom (Blossom/99)
Ralph Stanley’s funeral -
JUDY MARSHALL & LARRY SPARKS: If We Ever Meet Again This Side Of Heaven/Live at Hills of Home Park, Coeburn, VA (6/28/16)
JUDY MARSHALL & LARRY SPARKS: Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures/Live at Hills of Home Park, Coeburn, VA (6/28/16)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Cannonball Blues/Live On The Road: Volume 2 (Crosscut/c. 80)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Honey, Please Don’t Go - Oct. 16, 2021
THE KATHY KALLICK BAND: I'm Not Your Honey-Baby Now/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance/Final Fling (One Last Time) (Columbia/69)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: When the Bees Are In the Hive/Blue Grass, 1959-1969 (Bear Family/63)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: My Honey Lou/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
MAC WISEMAN: You're Sweeter Than Honey/Early Dot Recordings. Vol. 3 (County/54)
RED MOLLY: Honey On My Grave/Love and Other Tragedies (self/08)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Honey Please Don't Go/Remembering Merle (Sugar Hill/92)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Please Don't Honey, Please Don't/Steeped In Tradition (Brandywine/98)
RISING APPALACHIA: Honey Baby Blues/Scale Down (Unwound/07)
WINDY HILL: A Fool and His Honey/Lonesome Garbage Man (self/13)
JIMMY MARTIN: Honey, You Don’t Know My Mind/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/60)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: If You've Got The Money, Honey/Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals (Revonah/75)
CLAIRE LYNCH: Somebody Loves You Honey/Out In The Country (Copper Creek/00)
TERRY BAUCOM’S DUKES OF DRIVE: Honey Hurry Home/Catch Another Dream (John Boy & Billy/18)
JUNIOR SISK & JOE MULLINS: Wild Mountain Honey/Hall Of Fame (Rebel/13)
THE LOCAL HONEYS: Cigarette Trees/Little Girls Acting Like Men (self/15)
THE DELMORE BROTHERS: Honey I’m Ramblin’ Away/That Old Train (BACM/41)
THE CARTER FAMILY: Honey In the Rock/In the Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/37)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: (Honey Babe) I'm Bound To Ride/1971-1973 (Rebel/71)
JAKE BLOUNT: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Oct. 23, 2021
NOTE: all tracks from new releases; if it’s not a new recording, date of original session is given.
Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes (Smithsonian-Folkways/1960s)
- HANK BRADLEY/RICK SHUBB/DOC WATSON: Billy in the Lowground
- DR. HUMBEAD’S NEW TRANQUILITY STRING BAND: Milwaukee Blues
- KATHY & CAROL (with Will Scarlett): Searchin'
- THE SWEET’S MILL MOUNTAIN BOYS with KENNY HALL: Paddy, Won't You Drink Some Cider?
- HANK BRADLEY/SANDY ROTHMAN/DOC WATSON: Cherokee Shuffle
NORMAN BLAKE: I’m Free Again/Day By Day (Smithsonian Folkways)
NORMAN BLAKE: My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains /Day By Day (Smithsonian Folkways)
SI KAHN: Houses On the Hill/Been A Long Time (Sliced Bread/97)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: On & On/The Gasoline Brothers (Acoustic Disc/76)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: Salt Creek/The Gasoline Brothers (Acoustic Disc/late ‘70s)
THE NEW ACOUSTIC COLLECTIVE: Old Gray Coat/Art of Acoustics (self)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Over the Line/Live at The Egg, Albany, NY (Less Than Face Productions/9-16-21)
SCROGGINS & ROSE: Bubblicious/Curios (self/20)
LAURA LOVE: Heart Of Nat Turner/Uppity (Octoroon Biography)
SKILLET LICORICE: Libby Bird Song Mazurka/Allsorts Orchestra (Tiki Parlor Recordings)
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BOO-GRASS SIGNAL: Halloween On Sugar Hill - Oct. 30, 2021
NOTE: all tracks released on Sugar Hill Records
THE ORIGINAL COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Bringing Mary Home/Bluegrass – The World’s Greatest Show (82)
THE SELDOM SCENE: I’ve Come To Take You Home/Like We Used To Be (94)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: The Ghost Of Eli Renfro/The Boys Are Back In Town (90)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Dark Shadows Of Night/Unleashed (96)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Who’s That Knockin’ At My Door?/Good N’ Live (88)
KATHY KALLICK: Burying Ground/Call Me a Taxi (96)
FRONT RANGE: Silent Ground/Silent Ground (00)
HOT RIZE: Shadows In My Room/So Long Of A Journey (96)
HOT RIZE: Footsteps So Near/Traditional Ties (85)
PETER ROWAN: Deal With the Devil/All On a Rising Day (91)
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS: At the Crossroads Again/Devil Of a Dream (98)
AUSTIN LOUNGE LIZARDS: Hillbillies In a Haunted House/Never An Adult Moment (00)
DON RIGSBY: Bluestone Mountain/Empty Old Mailbox (00)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Devil Chased Me Around the Stump/Finding the Way (98)
host: Leah Wollenberg
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Can’t You Hear Me Callin’/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/49)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Heavy Traffic Ahead/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/46)
CHUBBY WISE: Waltz of the Wind/Waltzes (Stoneway/72)
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: She’s Left Me Again/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/58)
CHUBBY WISE AND THE TENNESSEANS: Flat Rock/The Nashville Sound, Country Fiddle and Banjo (Guest Star/64)
FLATT & SCRUGGS: Somehow Tonight/1948-1959 (Bear Family/51)
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Walkin’ In My Sleep/Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways/66)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: How Will I Explain About You?/Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Bear Family/46)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Come Back to Me in My Dreams/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/45)
CHUBBY WISE & THE RAINBOW RANCH BOYS: Shenandoah Waltz/Tennessee Fiddler (Starday/61)
MERLE HAGGARD & THE STRANGERS: Corrina Corrina/The Fightin' Side of Me (Live) (Capitol/70)
FRANK WAKEFIELD & RED ALLEN with DON RENO & CHUBBY WISE: Mountain Strings/single (Starday/61)
CHUBBY WISE: Chubby’s Cacklin Hen/The Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival (CMH/78)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I'll Never Grow Tired of You/The Complete Mercury Recordings (Mercury/57)
CHUBBY WISE: Georgiana Moon Waltz/Chubby Wise in Nashville (Pinecastle/94)
CHUBBY WISE: Lee Highway Blues/Fiddlers’ Hall of Fame (CMH/90)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Lovin’ You Too Well/The Complete Mercury Recordings (Mercury/57)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Goodbye Old Pal/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/45)
HANK WILLIAMS: My Sweet Love Ain’t Around/Low Down Blues (Mercury/48)
CHUBBY WISE: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/An American Original (Pinecastle/95)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Blue Grass Special/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bear Family/45)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy (Belated) Birthday, Larry Sparks ... live! - Oct. 9, 2021
theme –
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Carter's Blues/Live At the Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival (2020)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: I Only Exist/Live In Seattle (Stanley Family/69)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: Think Of What You've Done/Live At Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA (Stanleytone/69)
RALPH STANLEY & LARRY SPARKS: Another Night/Tall Trees Bluegrass Festival (King/76)
LARRY SPARKS & DAVE EVANS: I Don't Want Your Rambling Letters/Clinch Mountain Boys Reunion (Stanleytone/96)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Live On The Road: Volume 1 (Crosscut/c. 80)
- Love Of the Mountains
- John Deere Tractor
- When My Time Comes To Go
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Live On The Road: Volume 2 (Crosscut/c. 80)
- Smokey Mountain Memories
- Green Pastures In the Sky
- I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Blues Stay Away From Me/Tall Trees Bluegrass Festival (King/76)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: A Face In the Crowd/Tall Trees Bluegrass Festival (King/76)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Blue Virginia Blues/25th Anniversary: Uncle Pen Days at Bean Blossom (Blossom/99)
Ralph Stanley’s funeral -
JUDY MARSHALL & LARRY SPARKS: If We Ever Meet Again This Side Of Heaven/Live at Hills of Home Park, Coeburn, VA (6/28/16)
JUDY MARSHALL & LARRY SPARKS: Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures/Live at Hills of Home Park, Coeburn, VA (6/28/16)
LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Cannonball Blues/Live On The Road: Volume 2 (Crosscut/c. 80)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Honey, Please Don’t Go - Oct. 16, 2021
THE KATHY KALLICK BAND: I'm Not Your Honey-Baby Now/Foxhounds (Live Oak/15)
LESTER FLATT, EARL SCRUGGS & THE FOGGY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance/Final Fling (One Last Time) (Columbia/69)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS: When the Bees Are In the Hive/Blue Grass, 1959-1969 (Bear Family/63)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: My Honey Lou/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)
MAC WISEMAN: You're Sweeter Than Honey/Early Dot Recordings. Vol. 3 (County/54)
RED MOLLY: Honey On My Grave/Love and Other Tragedies (self/08)
DOC & MERLE WATSON: Honey Please Don't Go/Remembering Merle (Sugar Hill/92)
BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Please Don't Honey, Please Don't/Steeped In Tradition (Brandywine/98)
RISING APPALACHIA: Honey Baby Blues/Scale Down (Unwound/07)
WINDY HILL: A Fool and His Honey/Lonesome Garbage Man (self/13)
JIMMY MARTIN: Honey, You Don’t Know My Mind/Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/60)
DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: If You've Got The Money, Honey/Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals (Revonah/75)
CLAIRE LYNCH: Somebody Loves You Honey/Out In The Country (Copper Creek/00)
TERRY BAUCOM’S DUKES OF DRIVE: Honey Hurry Home/Catch Another Dream (John Boy & Billy/18)
JUNIOR SISK & JOE MULLINS: Wild Mountain Honey/Hall Of Fame (Rebel/13)
THE LOCAL HONEYS: Cigarette Trees/Little Girls Acting Like Men (self/15)
THE DELMORE BROTHERS: Honey I’m Ramblin’ Away/That Old Train (BACM/41)
THE CARTER FAMILY: Honey In the Rock/In the Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/37)
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS: (Honey Babe) I'm Bound To Ride/1971-1973 (Rebel/71)
JAKE BLOUNT: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - Oct. 23, 2021
NOTE: all tracks from new releases; if it’s not a new recording, date of original session is given.
Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes (Smithsonian-Folkways/1960s)
- HANK BRADLEY/RICK SHUBB/DOC WATSON: Billy in the Lowground
- DR. HUMBEAD’S NEW TRANQUILITY STRING BAND: Milwaukee Blues
- KATHY & CAROL (with Will Scarlett): Searchin'
- THE SWEET’S MILL MOUNTAIN BOYS with KENNY HALL: Paddy, Won't You Drink Some Cider?
- HANK BRADLEY/SANDY ROTHMAN/DOC WATSON: Cherokee Shuffle
NORMAN BLAKE: I’m Free Again/Day By Day (Smithsonian Folkways)
NORMAN BLAKE: My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains /Day By Day (Smithsonian Folkways)
SI KAHN: Houses On the Hill/Been A Long Time (Sliced Bread/97)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: On & On/The Gasoline Brothers (Acoustic Disc/76)
DAVID GRISMAN & TONY RICE: Salt Creek/The Gasoline Brothers (Acoustic Disc/late ‘70s)
THE NEW ACOUSTIC COLLECTIVE: Old Gray Coat/Art of Acoustics (self)
MOLLY TUTTLE: Over the Line/Live at The Egg, Albany, NY (Less Than Face Productions/9-16-21)
SCROGGINS & ROSE: Bubblicious/Curios (self/20)
LAURA LOVE: Heart Of Nat Turner/Uppity (Octoroon Biography)
SKILLET LICORICE: Libby Bird Song Mazurka/Allsorts Orchestra (Tiki Parlor Recordings)
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BOO-GRASS SIGNAL: Halloween On Sugar Hill - Oct. 30, 2021
NOTE: all tracks released on Sugar Hill Records
THE ORIGINAL COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Bringing Mary Home/Bluegrass – The World’s Greatest Show (82)
THE SELDOM SCENE: I’ve Come To Take You Home/Like We Used To Be (94)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: The Ghost Of Eli Renfro/The Boys Are Back In Town (90)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Dark Shadows Of Night/Unleashed (96)
GOOD OL’ PERSONS: Who’s That Knockin’ At My Door?/Good N’ Live (88)
KATHY KALLICK: Burying Ground/Call Me a Taxi (96)
FRONT RANGE: Silent Ground/Silent Ground (00)
HOT RIZE: Shadows In My Room/So Long Of A Journey (96)
HOT RIZE: Footsteps So Near/Traditional Ties (85)
PETER ROWAN: Deal With the Devil/All On a Rising Day (91)
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS: At the Crossroads Again/Devil Of a Dream (98)
AUSTIN LOUNGE LIZARDS: Hillbillies In a Haunted House/Never An Adult Moment (00)
DON RIGSBY: Bluestone Mountain/Empty Old Mailbox (00)
LONESOME RIVER BAND: Devil Chased Me Around the Stump/Finding the Way (98)