BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Big Mon … live! - Sept. 4, 2021
All songs and tunes performed by BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS
theme -
- Kentucky Mandolin (Live in Vancouver, BC - 11/3/80)
live recordings 1956-1969 - off the record, volume 1 (Smithsonian-Folkways/56)
- Watermelon Hanging On The Vine
- Roanoke
- Brakeman's Blues
- Close By
- Blue Grass Stomp
- Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Friends Of Old Time Music (Smithsonian-Folkways/63)
- Shady Grove
- Grey Eagle
- Lord, Build Me A Cabin In Glory
- Walking the Dog
- Live and Let Live
Two Days At Newport (Bear Family/63)
- Mule Skinner Blues
- Will You Be Loving Another Man
- I Am A Pilgrim
- Get Up John
Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc/63)
- Dark Hollow
- On and On
Live Volume One (Copper Creek/90)
- It's Might Dark To Travel
- Old, Old House
- Take Courage Un Tomorrow
- Watermelon Hanging On The Vine
- Rawhide (Live in Vancouver, BC - 11/3/80)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Previews of the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention, part 1 - Sept. 11, 2021
host: Allegra Thompson
HORSENECKS: Melvin Wine’s Uncle Pen/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand/Return (self/10)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Bear Creek Blues/Playing Our Hand (Evil Diane/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Blackbird Says to the Crow/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Family Tradition (self/16)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Chilly Winds/Live At the Rex Theatre (Heritage/12)
HORSENECKS: Started Out In Town/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Songbird Blues>Backstep Cindy/Evie Ladin Band (Evil Diane/12)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Willie Moore/Stay Awhile (Rounder/95)
HORSENECKS: Lost Gander/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Rivers of Texas/Return (self/10)
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Texas Breakdown/Family Tradition (self/16)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Texas Gals/Put On Your Dancing Shoes (Heritage/08)
STEPWISE: Exile of Erin/unreleased (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Previews of the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention, part 2 - Sept. 18, 2021
host: Allegra Thompson
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Ole Time John Henry/Family Tradition (self/16)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Red Rocking Chair/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
HORSENECKS: Little Maggie/Horsenecks (self/15)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Kansas City Railroad Blues/Put On Your Dancing Shoes (Heritage/08)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Polly Put The Kettle On>Lonesome John/Playing Our Hand (Evil Diane/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Roustabout/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
JODY STECHER: The Lost Brothers/Dreams From the Overlook (self/20)
JODY STECHER: Tanglefoot Blues/Dreams From the Overlook (self/20)
HORSENECKS: Six Foot Under/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
DAVID GREELY: Cotillion>Chatagnier/Sud du Sud (Give and Go/09)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Florida Blues/Put On Your Dancing Shoes (Heritage/08)
BAYOU SECO: Lonesome Cowgirl Blues/The American Fogies, V. 2 (Rounder/96)
JAKE BLOUNT: Brown Skin Baby/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Cacklin’ Hen/ Live at the Floyd Country Store (self/09)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy 80th Anniversary to KALW! - Sept. 25, 2021
NOTE: All releases from 1941.
THE BLUE SKY BOYS: Turn Your Radio On (Bluebird)
THE CARTER FAMILY: Heaven’s Radio (Okeh)
THE CARTER FAMILY: You’ve Got To Righten That Wrong (Conqueror)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do (Bluebird)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Tennessee Blues (Bluebird)
THE DELMORE BROTHERS: Will You Be Lonesome Too? (Decca)
JIMMY WAKELY & HIS ROUGH RIDERS: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (Melotone)
WILEY (WALKER) & GENE (SULLIVAN): Live and Let Live (Okeh)
WADE MAINER & THE MOUNTAINEERS: Short Life and Its Troubles (Montgomery Ward)
ROY ACUFF AND HIS SMOKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Come Back Little Pal (Columbia)
PATSY MONTANA & HER PARDNERS: I’ll Be Waiting For You (Decca)
BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Time Changes Everything (Okeh)
LIL GREEN: Why Don’t You Do Right? (Bluebird)
BIG BILL BROONZY: Key To the Highway (Okeh)
DUKE ELLINGTON: Take the 'A' Train (RCA Victor)
BLUEGRASS COUNTRY FALL MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN -
Fall Membership Campaign Special #1: Sept. 20-26, 2021
*LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: Darling Nellie Across the Sea (Nov. 21, 2015)
CARTER FAMILY: Darling Nellie Across the Sea/In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/30)
CARTER FAMILY: Foggy Mountain Top/In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/29)
*BLUE & LONESOME: Foggy Mountain Top (Feb. 27, 2010)
*JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin’ On Top Of the World (Aug. 21, 1999)
MISSISSIPPI SHIEKS: Sittin’ On Top Of the World/Complete Recorded Works (Document/30)
MISSISSIPPI SHIEKS: River Bottom Blues/Complete Recorded Works (Document/30)
*THOMPSONIA: River Bottom Blues (Dec. 9, 2017)
ROSCOE HOLCOMB: Boats Up the River/The High Lonesome Sound (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
*THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Boats Up the River (May 3, 2008)
OLA BELLE REED: Gonna Write Me A Letter/Ola Belle Reed & Family (Rounder/77)
*THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Gonna Write Me A Letter ( March 20, 2004)
EAST TEXAS SERENADERS: Babe/Complete Recorded Works (Document/30)
*SKILLET LICORICE: Babe (Nov. 9, 2019)
*Selections from Turn Your Radio On: Music Recorded Live at KALW 1999-2019 (Bluegrass Signal).
Dates given are when the music was originally broadcast.
Fall Membership Campaign Special #2: Sept. 27 - Oct. 3, 2021
*KATHY KALLICK BAND: Who’s Going Down To Town (May 10, 2003)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Who’s Going Down To Town/Bluegrass From the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Roll On Buddy/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
*AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Roll On Buddy (April 28, 2018)
TED LUNDY & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ve Never Been So Lonesome/Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys (Old Blue/62)
*DAVID THOM BAND: I’ve Never Been So Lonesome (Oct. 16, 2011)
THE GOINS BROTHERS: Across the Sea Blues/The Goins Brothers (Rebel/75)
*WINDY HILL: Across the Sea Blues (June 22, 2013)
*THE MIGHTY CROWS: Somewhere Between (July 1, 2006)
MERLE HAGGARD: Somewhere Between/Branded Man (Capitol/67)
RUSTY & DOUG KERSHAW: Why Cry For You/A Shot in the Dark - Tennessee Jive, 1945-1955, Vol. 6 (Bear Family/55)
*AMY & HAILEY: Why Cry For You (Oct. 13, 2018)
*THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Stay All Night (May 3, 2008)
TOMMY JARRELL & FRED COCKERHAM: Stay All Night/Stay All Night & Don’t Go Home
(County/67-71)
KYLE CREED, BOBBY PATTERSON & THE CAMP CREEK BOYS: Roscoe/Blue Ridge Style Square Dance Time (Mountain Records/72)
*ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe (April 27, 2013)
*Selections from Turn Your Radio On: Music Recorded Live at KALW 1999-2019 (Bluegrass Signal).
Dates given are when the music was originally broadcast.
All songs and tunes performed by BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS
theme -
- Kentucky Mandolin (Live in Vancouver, BC - 11/3/80)
live recordings 1956-1969 - off the record, volume 1 (Smithsonian-Folkways/56)
- Watermelon Hanging On The Vine
- Roanoke
- Brakeman's Blues
- Close By
- Blue Grass Stomp
- Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Friends Of Old Time Music (Smithsonian-Folkways/63)
- Shady Grove
- Grey Eagle
- Lord, Build Me A Cabin In Glory
- Walking the Dog
- Live and Let Live
Two Days At Newport (Bear Family/63)
- Mule Skinner Blues
- Will You Be Loving Another Man
- I Am A Pilgrim
- Get Up John
Live At Mechanics Hall (Acoustic Disc/63)
- Dark Hollow
- On and On
Live Volume One (Copper Creek/90)
- It's Might Dark To Travel
- Old, Old House
- Take Courage Un Tomorrow
- Watermelon Hanging On The Vine
- Rawhide (Live in Vancouver, BC - 11/3/80)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Previews of the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention, part 1 - Sept. 11, 2021
host: Allegra Thompson
HORSENECKS: Melvin Wine’s Uncle Pen/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand/Return (self/10)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Bear Creek Blues/Playing Our Hand (Evil Diane/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Blackbird Says to the Crow/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow/Family Tradition (self/16)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Chilly Winds/Live At the Rex Theatre (Heritage/12)
HORSENECKS: Started Out In Town/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Songbird Blues>Backstep Cindy/Evie Ladin Band (Evil Diane/12)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Willie Moore/Stay Awhile (Rounder/95)
HORSENECKS: Lost Gander/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Rivers of Texas/Return (self/10)
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Texas Breakdown/Family Tradition (self/16)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Texas Gals/Put On Your Dancing Shoes (Heritage/08)
STEPWISE: Exile of Erin/unreleased (self/21)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Previews of the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention, part 2 - Sept. 18, 2021
host: Allegra Thompson
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Ole Time John Henry/Family Tradition (self/16)
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Red Rocking Chair/A Song That Will Linger (Rounder/89)
HORSENECKS: Little Maggie/Horsenecks (self/15)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Kansas City Railroad Blues/Put On Your Dancing Shoes (Heritage/08)
EVIE LADIN BAND: Polly Put The Kettle On>Lonesome John/Playing Our Hand (Evil Diane/20)
JAKE BLOUNT: Roustabout/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
JODY STECHER: The Lost Brothers/Dreams From the Overlook (self/20)
JODY STECHER: Tanglefoot Blues/Dreams From the Overlook (self/20)
HORSENECKS: Six Foot Under/Started Out In Town (Old Time Tiki Parlour/20)
DAVID GREELY: Cotillion>Chatagnier/Sud du Sud (Give and Go/09)
NEW BALLARD’S BRANCH BOGTROTTERS: Florida Blues/Put On Your Dancing Shoes (Heritage/08)
BAYOU SECO: Lonesome Cowgirl Blues/The American Fogies, V. 2 (Rounder/96)
JAKE BLOUNT: Brown Skin Baby/Spider Tales (Free Dirt/20)
SLATE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Cacklin’ Hen/ Live at the Floyd Country Store (self/09)
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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Happy 80th Anniversary to KALW! - Sept. 25, 2021
NOTE: All releases from 1941.
THE BLUE SKY BOYS: Turn Your Radio On (Bluebird)
THE CARTER FAMILY: Heaven’s Radio (Okeh)
THE CARTER FAMILY: You’ve Got To Righten That Wrong (Conqueror)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do (Bluebird)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Tennessee Blues (Bluebird)
THE DELMORE BROTHERS: Will You Be Lonesome Too? (Decca)
JIMMY WAKELY & HIS ROUGH RIDERS: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (Melotone)
WILEY (WALKER) & GENE (SULLIVAN): Live and Let Live (Okeh)
WADE MAINER & THE MOUNTAINEERS: Short Life and Its Troubles (Montgomery Ward)
ROY ACUFF AND HIS SMOKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Come Back Little Pal (Columbia)
PATSY MONTANA & HER PARDNERS: I’ll Be Waiting For You (Decca)
BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Time Changes Everything (Okeh)
LIL GREEN: Why Don’t You Do Right? (Bluebird)
BIG BILL BROONZY: Key To the Highway (Okeh)
DUKE ELLINGTON: Take the 'A' Train (RCA Victor)
BLUEGRASS COUNTRY FALL MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN -
Fall Membership Campaign Special #1: Sept. 20-26, 2021
*LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM: Darling Nellie Across the Sea (Nov. 21, 2015)
CARTER FAMILY: Darling Nellie Across the Sea/In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/30)
CARTER FAMILY: Foggy Mountain Top/In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family/29)
*BLUE & LONESOME: Foggy Mountain Top (Feb. 27, 2010)
*JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Sittin’ On Top Of the World (Aug. 21, 1999)
MISSISSIPPI SHIEKS: Sittin’ On Top Of the World/Complete Recorded Works (Document/30)
MISSISSIPPI SHIEKS: River Bottom Blues/Complete Recorded Works (Document/30)
*THOMPSONIA: River Bottom Blues (Dec. 9, 2017)
ROSCOE HOLCOMB: Boats Up the River/The High Lonesome Sound (Smithsonian-Folkways/64)
*THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Boats Up the River (May 3, 2008)
OLA BELLE REED: Gonna Write Me A Letter/Ola Belle Reed & Family (Rounder/77)
*THE WEBSTER SISTERS & SCOTT NYGAARD: Gonna Write Me A Letter ( March 20, 2004)
EAST TEXAS SERENADERS: Babe/Complete Recorded Works (Document/30)
*SKILLET LICORICE: Babe (Nov. 9, 2019)
*Selections from Turn Your Radio On: Music Recorded Live at KALW 1999-2019 (Bluegrass Signal).
Dates given are when the music was originally broadcast.
Fall Membership Campaign Special #2: Sept. 27 - Oct. 3, 2021
*KATHY KALLICK BAND: Who’s Going Down To Town (May 10, 2003)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Who’s Going Down To Town/Bluegrass From the Gold Country (Rounder/81)
VERN WILLIAMS BAND: Roll On Buddy/Traditional Bluegrass (Arhoolie/82)
*AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT: Roll On Buddy (April 28, 2018)
TED LUNDY & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN BOYS: I’ve Never Been So Lonesome/Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys (Old Blue/62)
*DAVID THOM BAND: I’ve Never Been So Lonesome (Oct. 16, 2011)
THE GOINS BROTHERS: Across the Sea Blues/The Goins Brothers (Rebel/75)
*WINDY HILL: Across the Sea Blues (June 22, 2013)
*THE MIGHTY CROWS: Somewhere Between (July 1, 2006)
MERLE HAGGARD: Somewhere Between/Branded Man (Capitol/67)
RUSTY & DOUG KERSHAW: Why Cry For You/A Shot in the Dark - Tennessee Jive, 1945-1955, Vol. 6 (Bear Family/55)
*AMY & HAILEY: Why Cry For You (Oct. 13, 2018)
*THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Stay All Night (May 3, 2008)
TOMMY JARRELL & FRED COCKERHAM: Stay All Night/Stay All Night & Don’t Go Home
(County/67-71)
KYLE CREED, BOBBY PATTERSON & THE CAMP CREEK BOYS: Roscoe/Blue Ridge Style Square Dance Time (Mountain Records/72)
*ANNIE STANINEC & KATHY KALLICK: Roscoe (April 27, 2013)
*Selections from Turn Your Radio On: Music Recorded Live at KALW 1999-2019 (Bluegrass Signal).
Dates given are when the music was originally broadcast.