PLAYLISTS/GUEST HOSTS/ALIVE & PICKING VISITING TEAM SCHEDULE:



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Saturday December 26th: The format is ARTIST/Song title/CD title/Label

First, the December birthdays set; the artist's birthday is in parentheses after his/her name:

1. CARTER FAMILY (A.P. Carter 12/15/1893) Will The Roses Bloom/Give Me the Roses While I Live/Rounder
2. LILLY BROTHERS & DON STOVER (Bea Lilly 12/15) The Old Home Town/On The Radio, 1952-1953/Rounder
3. TISH HINOJOSA (12/6) Joaquin/Homeland/A&M
4. MIKE AULDRIDGE (12/30) Panhandle Country/Dobro Blues & Bluegrass/Takoma
5. MADDOX BROS. & ROSE (Rose 12/15) Milk Cow Blues/America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band/Arhoolie
6. PHIL OCHS (12/19) Changes/In Concert/A&M
7. JEAN CARIGNAN (12/7) Devil's Dream/French Canadian, Irish & Scottish Fiddle Music/Legacy
8. JOHN HARTFORD (12/30) Where The Old Red River Flows/Steam Powered Aereo-Takes/Rounder
9. MARY McCASLIN (12/22) Things We Said Today/The Best of Mary McCaslin/Philo
10. THE DELMORE BROTHERS (both of them! Alton12/25 and Rabon 12/3) The Storms Are On The Ocean/box set/JSP
11. PENTANGLE (Jacqui McShee 12/25) The Lark in the Clear Air/Think of Tomorrow/Green Linnet
12. HARRY CHOATES (12/26) Allons a Lafayette/The Fiddle King of Cajun Swing/Arhoolie
13. BLUE FLAME STRING BAND (Alan Senauke 12/13) Are You Afraid To Die/Blue Flame String band/14 Carrot
14. KATE RUSBY (12/4) Cruel/Underneath the Stars/Compass
15. OSBORNE BROS. (Bobby Osborne 12/7) Will You be Loving Another Man/Bluegrass Melodies/Decca-MCA
16. ODETTA (12/31) Gallows Pole/The Essential Odetta/Vanguard
17. BILL CARLISLE (12/19/1908) Sparkling Blue Eyes/Tramp On the Street/Cattle
18. GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST (Dolly Good 12/1) Will There Be Any Yodelers In Heaven/VA: American Yodeling 1911-1946/Trikont
19. SPADE COOLEY (12/17/1910) oklahoma Stomp/VA: Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys, A Western Swing Anthology/Proper
20. JEAN RITCHIE (12/8) The Cuckoo/Field Trip/Greenhays
21. DEFORD BAILEY (12/14) Pan American/The Legendary DeFord Bailey/Tennessee Folklore Society
22. RALPH BLIZARD (12/50 Pan American/Southern Ramble/Rounder

End of birthdays set - and now, on with the show!

23. FRANK FAIRFIELD/Call Me a Dog When I'm Gone/Frank Fairfield/Tompkins Square
24. MADISON VIOLET/Lauralee/No Fool For Trying/True North
25. JON BELL, JOLIE HOLLAND & SAMANTHA PARTON/Fathers Have a Home Sweet Home/VA: Face A Frowning World: An E.C. Ball Memorial Album/Tompkins Square
26. EUPHONIA/Cotton Eyed Joe/The Old Jawbone/www.euphonia.com
27. MIKE SEEGER & PETE SEEGER/Well May the World Go/Mike Seeger's 2nd Annual Farewell Reunion/Mercury LP, released 1973
28. THE SELDOM SCENE/City of New Orleans/Best of the Seldom Scene/Rebel
29. SARAH McQUAID/East Virginia/I Won't Go Home Till Morning/www.sarahmcquaid.com
30. TENNESSEE GENTLEMEN/Teardrop Will Kiss the Morning Dew/Tennessee Gentlemen/www.tennesseegentlemen.com
31. DOC WATSON/Georgie/VA: Songcatcher II/Vanguard
32. SPRING CREEK/Pathway of Teardrops/Lonesome Way to Go/self
33. KATHY & CAROL, Ray Bierl & Larry Hanks/Fly Swift Around/rec. by Lou Curtiss at the San Diego Folk Festival, early 1960s/unreleased
34. KEITH WHITLEY & RICKY SKAGGS/This Weary Heart You Stole Away/Second Generation Bluegrass/Rebel

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Saturday December 19: Special guest host Ben Elder ("Wildwood Flower") did the show with me this morning. Here is his playlist as he emailed it to me:

Songs We Love - Burns Sisters – Tradition – Rounder
12 Days of Christmas – Waimanalo Keikis – Mele Kalikimaka – (? LP ca. 1979)        
Christmas Island – Leon Redbone- Christmas Island – August
Colorado Christmas – Steve Goodman – Unfinished Business - Red Pajamas
Silent Night All Day Long - John Prine – A John Prine Christmas – Oh Boy
Old Toy Trains – Roger Miller – (King of the Road? – 3 CD box set) – Mercury
Jingle Bells – Gregg Miner – A Christmas Collection –Miner Music (minermusic.com)
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town -  Cluster Pluckers – (self-released)
Sur La Couverture – Jambalaya Cajun Band – Joyeux Noel –Swallow
We Wish You a Merry Christmas – David Grisman –Rounder
The Chipmunk Song – Dakota Dave Hull and Kari Larson – Arabica
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Gene Autry – Christmas Legends – Direct Source
Sidemeat’s Christmas Stew – Riders in the Sky – Christmas the Cowboy Way – Rounder
Two-Step Around the Christmas Tree – Suzy Bogguss – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Compadre
Silent Night – Asleep at the Wheel with Don Walser & Willie Nelson – Merry Texas Christmas Y’all – High Street
Song for a Winter’s Night – Tony Rice -  T R Sings Gordon Lightfoot – Rounder
Christmas in My Hometown – David John & the Comstock Cowboys – Christmas in the Sierra – Aztec
The Christmas Trail – Michael Martin Murphey with Don Edwards – Cowboy Christmas – Warner Western
Alcoholidays – Chris Gaffney & the Cold Hard Facts – Road to Indio (EP) – (Cactus?)
Merry Christmas from the Family – Robert Earl Keen –Gringo Honeymoon – Sugar Hill
Big Dead Bird – Lou & Peter Berryman – (House Concert?) – (self-released)
Buy War Toys for Christmas – Foremen – (demo cassette) – ( ? )
If We Make It Through December – Merle Haggard - (4 CD box set) – Capitol
Happy New Year Auld Lang Syne – Dawn Hummer – Live at Boulevard Music – Major Label
The Last Month of the Year – Fairfield Four  & Nashville Bluegrass Band – Tinsel Tunes – Sugar Hill
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring – Leo Kottke -6 & 12-String Guitar -  Takoma
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem –Emmylou Harris – Light of the Stable – Warner Bros.
Christmas Lullaby – Doc Watson –Sugar Plums – Sugar Hill
The Little Drummer Boy – Butch Baldassari – Evergreen – SoundArt
The First Noel/It Came Upon a Midnight Clear/Joy to the World – Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Sugar Plums – Sugar Hill
Angels We Have Heard on High – Cal Hand – The Wylie Butler – Takoma
The Friendly Beasts – Johnson Mountain Boys – Must Be Santa – Rounder
Cradle in Bethlehem – Bass Mountain Boys – (A ? Christmas) – Pinecastle
Nothing But a Child – Robin & Linda Williams –Sugar Plums – Sugar Hill
(music under) Blue Christmas – Dick Fegy – A Back Porch Christmas – self-released

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Saturday December 12: Special guest host Tom Nixon ("The Nixon Tapes") visited us this morning; here is his playlst as he emailed it to me:

12-12-09

 

  1. Burning Love – The Meat Purveyors (from “Sweet in the Pants” on Bloodshot)
  2. Blue Moon of Kentucky – Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys (from “Folk Music at Newport part 1” on Vanguard)
  3. Xmas on the Istmus – Terry Allen (from “Salivation” on Sugar Hill)
  4. The Myster of Life – I See Hawks in LA (from “I See Hawks in LA” on Ethic)
  5. Alcoholidays – Chris Gafney and the Cold Hard Facts (from “Road to Indio” on Cactus – re-released on “Live and Then Some” on Tres Pescadores)
  6. Railroad Bill – Frank Hovington (from “Songs of Migration & Immigration” on Library of Congress)
  7. Soar Away – Word of Mouth Chorus (from “Rivers of Delight” on Nonesuch)
  8. My Biggest Mistake –  The Meat Purvyors (same as cut one)
  9. Red Rocking Chair – Charlie Monroe (from “Early Rural String Bands” on RCA Vintage)
  10. Anti-Carol – Frankie Armstrong (from “…out of love, hope, and suffering” on Bay)
  11. Hangman – Almede Riddle and Tangle Eye (from “Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey Remixed” on Zoe)
  12. Codine – Janis Joplin (from “This is Janis” on Big City)
  13. Damn, I Wish I was a Man – Cherry Lee Berry Hill (from “Radio Tokyo Tapes vol. 3” on Passport)
  14. More Man – The Meat Purveyors (from “More Songs about Buildings and Cows” on Bloodshot)
  15. She’ll Have to Go – Martin Simpson, David Hidalgo, Viji Krishnan, and Puvalur Srinivasan (from “Kambara Music in Native Tongues” on Water Lily Acoustics)
  16. Up Jumped the Devil – Byron Parker and his Mountaineers (same as cut 9)
  17. O Death – Bessie Jones and Tangle Eye (same as cut 11)
  18. You Saddle is Empty Old Pal – The Stanley Brothers (from “Long Journey Home, The Stanley Brothers of Virginia vol. 2” on County)
  19. Hearts Road - Terry Allen  (from “The Silent Majority” on Sugar Hill)
  20. Love is not Gold - Kerry McBride (same as cut 13)
  21. Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone – The Blue Sky Boys (from “Songs of Death & Tragedy” on Library of Congress)
  22. The Lord Will Provide – Lenville Ball (from “Religious Music Congregational & Ceremonial” on Library of Congress)
  23. How Many Biscuits Can I Eat – Gwen Foster (same as cuts 16 and 9)
  24. Dancing in the Streets – Mitch Greenhill (from “Shepherd of the City Blues” on Prestige)
  25. Joe Bowers – J.C. White (from “Songs of Love, Courtship, & Marriage” on Library of Congress)
  26. Este Ano en Navidad – Tany Ponce (from “Con Amor Para Ti… en Navidad” on Luna)
  27. Money Cannot Buy Your Soul – The Anglin Brothers (same as cut 21)
  28. Dempsey Nash – The Meat Purveyors (same as cuts 1 and 8)
  29. The Moore Girl – A. and J. Baxter (same as cut 6)

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Saturday December 5 Special guest hosts John & Deanne Davis did a Heartfelt Music Christmas Special. Here is the playlist as John emailed it to me:

TIME

                     ARTIST/GROUP

                      CD/ALBUM TITLE

                                SONG

6:00 AM

Maura O’Connell

Slide Rule

It’s A Beautiful Life

 

Geoff & Clare Muldaur

Password

At The Christmas Ball

 

The Isaacs                  (Crossroads CD)

I Feel the Christmas Spirit

The Night Before Christmas

6:15 AM

Wil Maring

An Ocean From Home

Bucky’s Present

 

Tim & Mollie O’Brien

Take Me Back                      (Sugar Plums)

Christ Was Born in Bethlehem

 

Tom Rozum & Laurie Lewis

Winter’s Grace

Hot Buttered Rum

6:30 AM

Rosalie Sorrels

An Imaginary Christmas in Idaho

Bread and Fishes

 

John McCutcheon

Live at Wolf Trap

Christmas in the Trenches

 

Robin & Linda Williams

Sugar Plums

Nothing But a Child

6:45 AM

Kathy Mattea

Joy for Christmas Day

Straw Against the Child

 

Tom Rozum & Laurie Lewis

Winter’s Grace

The Gift

 

Tim O’Brien

A Christmas Heritage

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

7:00 AM

Geno Sky

An Imaginary Christmas in Idaho

The Fruitcake

 

Kate Campbell

Wandering Strange

Dear Little Stranger

7:15 AM

Cornerstone (Dee Specker)

Out Of The Valley

Mary’s Song

 

Reba McEntire             (MCA Sampler)

Merry Christmas to You

The Christmas Guest

7:30 AM

Robert Earl Keen, Jr.

No. 2 Live Dinner

Merry Christmas from The Family

 

Wil Maring

An Ocean From Home

Christmastime in My Hometown

7:45 AM

The Weavers

On Tour

Of Peace & Good Will medley

 
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Alive & Picking Playlist for Saturday, November 28, 2009. The format is ARTIST/Song title/CD title/Label

First set was called "Controlled Substance Serenade":

1. GREENBRIAR BOYS/Take a Whiff on Me/Big Apple Bluegrass/Vanguard
2. BILL NETTLES & THE DIXIE BLUE BOYS/Hadacol Boogie/ (old LP, rec. 1949)
3. STATE STREET SWINGERS/You Drink Too Much/VA: Booze & the Blues/Columbia Legacy
4. EUPHONIA/Tear My Still House Down/The Old Jaw Bone/Euphonia
5. MERLE TRAVIS/Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette/The Legend of Merle Travis/Intermedia
6. ANDY REYNOLDS & HIS 101 RANCH BOYS/Beer Bottle Mama/VA: Juice Head Baby/Buzzola
7. KITTY WELLS/Death at the Bar/
VA: Juice Head Baby/Buzzola
8. SELDOM SCENE/Cheap Whiskey/Like We Used to Be/Sugar Hill
9. DAVE VAN RONK/Cocaine/Two Side of Dave Van Ronk/Prestige-Fantasy
10. JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS/I Can't Quit Cigarettes/(old Decca LP, rec. 1966)

Then we moved to the calendar set; these folks will be performing locally in the next week or so:

11.TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT/Lay My Burden Down/Meeting In the Air/self (www.triplechickenfoot.com)
12. TOM RUSSELL (with Iris DeMent on guest vocal) Acres of Corn/The Man From God Knows Where/HighTone
13. SQUEAKIN' WHEELS/Volver Volver/Things Have Changed/Folkalicious
14. TUMBLING TUMBLEWEEDS/Little Patch of Heaven/Tumbling Tumbleweeds (self)
15. CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Mighty Day/Mighty Day On Campus/Folk Era
16. BRUCE MOLSKY/Catfish Blues/Poor Man's Troubles/Rounder

Started the last set off with a nod to the late Allen Shelton, who passed away last week:

17. JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS (featuring Allen Shelton on banjo)/Y'All Come/Ya'll Come: The Essential Jim & Jesse/Columbia Legacy
18. GILLIAN WELCH/Acony Bell/VA: Coal Country Music/Heartwood
19. COOPE, BOYES & SIMPSON/Horkstow Grange/Triple Echo/No Masters
20. SAM BUSH/Diamond Joe/Circles Around Me/Sugar Hill
21. ROCK COUNTY/The Old Home Place/Rock Solid/Rebel
22. ROY HARVEY & JESS JOHNSON/Guitar Rag/VA: Old Time Mountain Guitar/County
23. TOM RUSH/Casey Jones/What I Know/Appleseed
24. TENNESSEE GENTLEMEN/If I Could Only Win Your Love/Tennessee Gentlemen/self (www,tennesseegentlemen.com)
25. MIKE SEEGER (with Ry Cooder on guitar)/Train That Carried My Girl From Town/Second Annual Farewell Reunion (old Mercury LP, rec. 1973)
26. LAUREL CANYON RAMBLERS/Preachin' Prayin' Singin'/VA: Legacy, a Tribute to the First Generation of Bluegrass/Sugar Hill
27. ALMEDA RIDDLE/Babes In the Woods/VA: Songcatcher II/Vanguard
28. RENO & SMILEY/No Longer a Sweetheart of Mine/box set: Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cutups, 1951-1959/King
29. DIXON BROTHERS & MUTT EVANS/Are You Sure?/VA: In the Pines - Tar Heel Folk Songs and Fiddle Tunes of North Carolina, 1926-1936/Old Hat
30. MAURA O'CONNELL (with Tim O'Brien on duet vocal)/The Blacksmith/Naked With Friends/Sugar Hill
31. TOM BALL & KENNY SULTAN/He's In the Jail House Now/20th Anniversary Live/No Guru

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Saturday November 21: Today's show starts off with a special set of songs about food in honor of Thanksgiving! The format is ARTIST/song title/CD title/label

1. VASSAR CLEMENTS/Turkey in the Straw (LP)
2. JOHNNY HORTON/Smokey Joe's Barbecue (LP) rec. 1951
3. LONNIE JOHNSON/Sewet Potato Blues (rec. 1927)/Steppin' On the Blues/Columbia-Legacy
4. RENO & SMILEY/Dill Pickle Rag (LP)
5. BILL NETTLES & THE DIXIE BLUE BOYS/Hungry (rec. 1946) (LP)
6. RED CLAY RAMBLERS/Merchant's Lunch/Merchant's Lunch/Flying Fish
7. GRANDPA JONES/Gooseberry Pie (rec. 1955)/LP
8. GUY CLARK/Home Grown Tomatoes/Keepers/Sugar Hill
9. FLATT & SCRUGGS/Shuckin' the Corn (rec. 1957)/Bear Family box set
10. JOHN McCUTCHEON/Calling All the Children Home/Supper's On the Table Everybody Come In/Rounder

11. THE UNWANTED/The Morning Blues/Music From the Atlantic Fringe/Compass
12. GRASSTOWNE/Heartbreak Express/The Other Side of Towne/Pinecastle
13. JOHN DOYLE (with Linda Thompson on backing vocals)/The Month of January/Wayward Son/Compass
14. DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD/Walking Back to Richmond/VA: Come to the Mountain/Rounder
15. FINDERS & YOUNGBERG/Ball & Chain Blues/Keep Your Suitcase Packed/Neighborly
16. BRUCE MOLSKY (with Carla Gover on backing vocals)/The Blackest Crow/Lost Boy/Rounder
17. SAM McGEE/Buckdancer's Choice/VA: Old Time Mountain Guitar, 1926-1931/County
18. TEXAS SHEIKS/The World Is Going Wrong/Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks/Tradition und Moderne
19. TENNESSEE GENTLEMEN/Jesus is Coming Soon/Tennessee Gentlemen/self (www.tennesseegentlemen.com)
20. SQUEAKIN' WHEELS/Fair & Tender Ladies/Devil's Racetrack/Grease Axle Records
21. SAM BUSH (with Del McCoury on harmony vocals)/Midnight on the Stormy Deep/Circles Around Me/Sugar Hill
22. DAVID DAVIS & THE WARRIOR RIVER BOYS/The Train that Carried My Girl From Town/Two Dimes & a Nickel/Rebel
23. MIKE JACKSON/When We Goin' Back/When We Goin' Back/Red Oak Records
24. RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT/Mean Mama Blues/Country Style/Prestige-Fantasy
25. CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY/Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts/Mojave River/Backcountry
26. ALICE GERRARD & MIKE SEEGER/Pretty Polly/Bowling Green/5-String Productions
27. RHONDA VINCENT/Wishing Well Blues/My Blue Tears/Rebel
28. DAVID HOLT & JOSH GOFORTH/I've Got the Blues and I Can't Be Satisfied/Cutting Loose/High Windy
29. RON BLOCK (with Alison Krauss on harmony vocals)/Your Heart Has Found a Home/VA: Come To the Mountain/Rounder
30. DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER/Till The Last Leaf Shall Fall/VA: Gospel Radio Gems/Sugar Hill
31. CINDY KALLETT & GREY LARSEN/If You Say Yes/Cross the Water/Sleepy Creek

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Alive & Picking playlist for 11/14/09. The format is ARTIST/song title/album title/label

Started the show this morning with a set of music by artists whose birthdays fall in the month of November. Birth dates are in parentheses after the artist’s name.
(First two songs are written by John Lennon, whose birthday was actually in October.)
1. CHARLES RIVER VALLEY BOYS (J. Lennon 10/9)/I’ve Just Seen a Face/Beatle Country/Rounder
2. JUDY COLLINS (J. Lennon 10/9)/In My Life/In My Life/Elektra
3. ECK ROBERTSON (11/20/1887)/Brilliancy Medley/Vintage Recordings 1922-1929/County
4. NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS (Tracy Schwarz 11/13) The Girl I Left Behind Me/There Ain’t No Way Out/Smithsonian Folkways
5. BLUEGRASS CARDINALS (Don Parmely 11/19)/Sweet Hour of Prayer/The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals/CMH
6. BOIS SEC ARDOIN (11/16) Allon Danser/Allon Danser/Rounder
7. STAN ROGERS/Second Effort/Turnaround/Fogarty’s Cove
8. WILMOUTH HOUDINI (11/25)/No More Bench and Board/Poor But Ambitious/Arhoolie
9. MERLE TRAVIS (11/20) Sixteen Tons/The Legend of Merle Travis/Intermusic
10. STEVE GILLETTE (11/23)/Darcy Farrow/Steve Gillette/Vanguard
11. ROY ROGERS (11/5/1911)/I’m Gonna Gallop Gallop Gallop to Gallup New Mexico/old LP, track rec. in 1948
12. JUDITH EDELMAN (11/14)/Ride on a Train/Perfect World/Compass
13. GORDON LIGHTFOOT (11/17)/Bitter Green/Sunday Concert Plus/Bear Family
14. JIM WATSON (11/7), MIKE CRAVER & TOMMY THOMPSON/Dixie Darling/Meeting In the Air/BSAP
15. LULUBELLE & SCOTTY (11/8/1909) WISEMAN/I Told Them All About You/Sweethearts Still/Starday
16. SAM & KIRK (11/4) McGEE/Roll on Buddy/old LP, track rec. 1957
17. JONI MITCHELL (11/7)/Morning Morgantown/Ladies of the Canyon/Reprise

Then a calendar set: all these artists are appearing locally this week.
18. PETER YARROW/Gilgarra Mountain/Peter, Paul & Mary: A Song Will Rise/Warner Bros.
19. JIM KWESKIN JUG BAND/Morning Blues/Greatest Hits/Vanguard
20. THE OLD TIME BAND/Gospel Ship/Down By the Brazos/Hen Cackle
21. ANNE HILLS & CINDY MANGSEN (with Priscilla Herdman)/Wait Till the Clouds Roll By/Never Grow Up/Flying Fish
22. ANNE HILLS & CINDY MANGSEN (with Tom Paxton)/Mary Anne/Never Grow Old/Flying Fish
23. RICK SHEA/No Good Time for Goodbye/Shelter Valley Blues/Tres Pescadores
24. CHARLIE HADEN with DAN TYMINSKI/Ocean of Diamonds/Rambling Boy/Decca
And the final set:
25. JIMMY MARTIN/Hit Parade of Love/Live at the Louisiana Hayride 1958-1960/Music Mill Entertainment
26. EMMYLOU HARRIS & CARL JACKSON/Nobody’s Darlin’ But Mine/Always Needed You/Eldorado
27. CROOKED JADES/The Evening Train/The Unfortunate Rake/Crooked
28. SQUEAKIN’ WHEELS/High On a Mountain/Devil’s Racetrack/Grease Axle
29. LAURIE LEWIS/Here We Go Again/Restless Ramblin’ Heart/Flying Fish

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Saturday November 7: Mark Humphrey hosted today's show; here is the playlist as he emailed it to me:

Hr. 1, Set 1
Total time: 9:04
Theme: Wake Up!
1. Stringbean (Dave Akeman): "Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy" Label: Gusto Format: CD Title: Stringbean: Hee Haw Corn Shucker
2. Herb & Kay Adams: "Coffee Blues" (1953) Label: B.A.C.M. Format: CD Title: Various: Another Taste of King, Recorded 1946-1954
3. Curtis Gordon: "Caffeine and Nicotine" (1954) Label: Bear Family Format: vinyl Lp Title: Curtis Gordon: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
4.
Nimrod Workman: "Good Morning" (1982) Label: 2s & Fews Format: CD Title: Nimrod Workman: I Want to Go Where Things Are Beautful
5. The Dinning Sisters: "Morning on the Farm" (circa 1951) Label: Jasmine Format: CD Title: The Dinning Sisters: Back in Country Style

Set 2
Total time: 18:54
Theme: Go back to bed…
1. Elton Britt: "Dreamyland Bay" Label: Jasmine Format: CD Title: I Love to Yodel! The Best of Country Yodel, Volume Two
2. Sons of the Pioneers: "Wind" (1950) Label: Bear Family Format: CD Title: Sons of the Pioneers: Wagons West, Vol. 3
3. Jimmy Wakely: "Moon Over Montana" (1948) Label: Capitol Format: CD Title: Jimmy Wakely: Vintage Collections
4. Texas Jim Lewis & His Lone Star Cowboys: "Who Broke the Lock on the Henhouse Door" (1937) Label: B.A.C.M. Format: CD Title: Texas Jim Lewis & His Lone Star Cowboys in New York & Hollywood, 1937-1939
5. The Fairfield Four: "Who Stole My Old Shoes" (1946) Label: Acrobat Format: CD Title: The Fairfield Four: Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around
6. Roy Hogsed: "Ain’t a Bump in the Road" Label: Cactus Format: CD Title: Hot Stuff: Capitol Hillbilly Vol. 1
7. The Willis Brothers: "Give Me 40 Acres" (1963) Label: Gusto Format: CD Title: The Willis Brothers: 20 Great Truck Drivin’ Songs

Hr. 1 Set 3
Total time: 17:41
Theme: Songs associated with Bill Monroe
1. Bill Monroe & Doc Watson: "A Feast Here Tonight" (1964) label: Smithsonian Folkways Format: CD Title: Bill Monroe & Doc Watson: The Duet Recordings, 1963-1980
2. Cliff Carlisle: "Footprints in the Snow" Label: JSP Format: CD Title: Cliff Carlisle: A Country Legacy, 1930-1939
3. Hylo Brown: "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band" (1959) Label: Copper Creek Format: CD Title: Hylo Borwn in Concert
4. George Jones & Melba Montgomery: Blue Moon of Kentucky" (1963) Label: Capitol Format: CD Title: George Jones & Melba Montgomery: Vintage Collections
5. Rose Maddox: "Molly & Tenbrooks" (1962) Label: Capitol Format: CD Title: Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass
6. Jerry Reed: "Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel # 8)" (1970) Label: RCA Format: Vinyl Lp Title: Jerry Reed: Georgia Sunshine
7. Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys: "No One But My Darling" (1958) Label: Bear Family Format: CD Title: Bill Monroe: Bluegrass, 1950-1958 Vol. 4

Hr. 1, set 4
Total time: 4:57
Theme: Fillin’ out the hour
1. Buell Kazee: "A Mountain Boy Makes His First Record, part 1" (1929) label: B.A.C.M. Format: CD Title: Buell Kazee: Legendary Kentucky Ballad Singer, Vol. 2
2.
Hoyt ‘Slim’ Bryant & His Wildcats (Al Azarro, accordion): "Cactus Polka" (1940s) label: B.A.C.M. Format: CD Title: Hoyt `Slim’ Bryant & His Wildcats, Vol. 3

Hr. 2, Set 1
Theme: Guitars `n gender issues
Total time: 15:10
1. Hank Snow: "How to Play the Guitar" (1955) Label: Bear Family Format: CD Title: Hank Snow: The Singing Ranger (Vol. 2)
2. Roy Harvey & Jess Johnson: "Guitar Rag" (1930) Label: County Format: CD Title: Various: Old-Time Mountain Guitar—Vintage Recordings, 1926-1931
3. Jumpin’ Bill Carlisle (w/Chet Atkins): "Female Hercules" (1954) Label: Bear Family Format: CD Title: Jumpin’ Bill Carlisle: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
4. Peck Touchton: "Let Me Catch My Breath" (1954) Label: Jasmine Format: CD Title: Various: Hillbilly Bop, Boogie & the Honky Tonk Blues, Vol. 3 1954-1955
5.
Carl Smith: "No, I Don’t Believe I Will" (1954) Label: Living Era Format: CD Title: Carl Smith: Let’s Live a Little
6. Les Thomas & May Hawks: "Jealousy vs. Bossy" Label: Jasmine Format: CD Title: Various: Henpecked Daddies: Fussin’ an’ Fightin’

Hr. 2, Set 2
Total time: 17:33
Themes: Rocky roads, dishwashers, diners
1.Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: "Rocky Road Blues" (1945) label: Columbia, Format: CD Title: The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949
2.Flatt & Scruggs: "Don’t This Road Look Rough & Rocky" (1954) label: Bear Family Format: CD Title: Flatt & Scruggs, 1948-1959, Vol. 3
3. Curtis Gordon: "Rocky Road of Love" (1953) Label: Bear Family Format: vinyl Lp Title: Curtis Gordon: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
4. Al Clauser & His Oklahoma Outlaws: "Saddle Your Worries" (1941) Label: Krazy Kat Format: CD Title: Al Clauser & His Oklahoma Outlaws: Hot Western Swing, 1937-48
5. The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers: "Dirty Dishes Blues" (1953) Label: Bear Family Format: CD Title: The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers: Windy Mountain
6. Jim Boyd & His Men of the West: "Waxahachie Boogie Woogie Dishwasher Boy" Label: Detour Format: Vinyl Lp Title: Various: More Ballroom Kings
7. Beaver Valley Sweethearts (Trudy & Gloria Martin): "Juke Box Diner" Label: Jasmine Format: CD Title: Various: Treating Her Wrong: Sweetheart & Heartbreak Songs

Hr. 2, Set 3 [final]
Total time: 17:39
Theme: `Surprise’ folk singers
1. Jimmie Rodgers: "T.B. Blues" (1931) Label: Rounder Format: CD Title: Jimmie Rodgers: America’s Blue Yodeler, 1930-1931
2.
Grandpa Jones: "TV Blues" (1952) Label: B.A.C.M. Format: CD Title: Grandpa Jones: You’re Never Too Old for Love
3.
Hank Williams: "On Top of Ol’ Smoky" (1951) Label: Time-Life Format: CD Title: Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings
4. Marty Robbins: "Paper of Pins" (1956) Label: Bear Family Format: CD Title: Marty Robbins: Country—1951-1958, Vol. 3
5. Jimmy Bryant: "Ol’ Joe Clark" Label: Cattle Format: CD Title: Speedy West Meets Jimmy Bryant in Hollywood
6. Dick Hartman’s Tennessee Ramblers (Harry Blair, vocal): "Meet Me at the Ice House" (1936) Label: B.A.C.M. Format: CD Title: Dick Hartman’s Washboard Wonders/Tennessee Ramblers
7. Curly Williams: "Just a-Pickin’ and a-Singin’" (1948) Label: Bear Family Format: CD Title: various: `Perfect for Parties’ Highlight Album

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Alive & Picking playlist for Saturday, October 31. The format is ARTIST/song/CD title/label:

Started the show this morning with a musical reminder that we set our clocks back tonight (GRANDPA JONES/Daylight Savings Time/from an old Grandpa Jones LP), then went into a set of music by artists whose birthdays fall in the month of October. Birth dates are in parentheses after the artist’s name. 

  1. LYNN MORRIS (10/8)/The Likes of You/You’ll Never Be The Sun/Rounder Select
  2. E.C. BALL (10/1)/The Fox/Through the Years, 1937-1975/Copper Creek
  3. SAVOY FAMILY BAND (Marc Savoy 10/1)/Rockin’ Chair Two-Step/Turn Loose But Don’t Let Go/Arhoolie
  4. BLUE SKY BOYS (Bill Bolick 10/28)/Down On the Banks of the Ohio/There’ll Come a Time/BSR
  5. HOYT MING’S PEP STEPPERS (Hoyt Ming 10/6) Indian War Whoop/VA: Mississippi String Bands Vol. 1/County
  6. BYRON BERLINE & JOHN HICKMAN (John Hickman 10/7)/Liberty/Double Trouble/Sugar Hill
  7. IRY LEJEUNE (10/28)/Lacassine Special/The Definitive Collection/Ace
  8. ROY BOOK BINDER (10/5) Davis/Travis Rag/Live Book – Don’t Start Me To Talkin’/Rounder
  9. UNCLE DAVE MACON (10/7)/When The Train Comes Along/Country Music Hall of Fame Series/MCA
  10. THE OSBORNE BROTHERS (Sonny Osborne 10/12)/Making Plans/Bluegrass Melodies/MCA
  11. CANRAY FONTENOT (10/16)/Bernadette/VA: 15 Louisiana Cajun Classics/Arhoolie
  12. DAVID HOLT (10/15) & JOSH GOFORTH/Jesus Said Go/Cutting Loose/High Windy
  13. SNUFFY JENKINS (10/27) & PAPPY SHERRILL/Watermelon Hanging on the Vine/Pioneer of the Bluegrass Banjo/Arhoolie
  14. SONNY TERRY (10/29)/Goin’ to Kansas City/Sonny Terry & His Mouth Harp/Fantasy
  15. NARCISO MARTINEZ (10/29)/Muchachos Alegre/Father of the Texas-Mexican Conjunto/Arhoolie
  16. GRANDPA JONES (10/20) I’m My Own Grandpa/28 Greatest Hits/King
  17. WILMA LEE & STONEY (10/16) COOPER/Sunny Side of the Mountain/Sunny Side of the Mountain (Old Columbia-Harmony LP)

 Then mentioned the passing earlier this week of Fred Starner.

  1. FRED STARNER/Cairo/Old Dan Tucker/Patchwork Quilt/self
  2. ROY HARVEY & LEONARD COPELAND/Lonesome Weary Blues/VA: Old Time Mountain Guitar/County
  3. CARL JACKSON & MELBA MONTGOMERY/Something Draws Me to You/I’ve Always Needed You/Eldorado
  4. BILLY BRAGG/Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key/Mermaid Avenue/Elektra
  5. JOHN DOYLE with guest vocals by Karan Casey/Bitter the Parting/Wayward Son/Compass
  6. STEEP CANYON RANGERS/I Must Be Somebody Else You’ve Known/Deep in the Shade/Rebel
  7. EUPHONIA/Angeline the Baker’s Gone/The Old Jawbone/Tuxedo
  8. MAURA O’CONNELL with guest vocals by Kate Rusby and Dolly Parton/The Bright Blue Rose/Naked With Friends/Sugar Hill        
  9. GEOFF MULDAUR & THE TEXAS SHEIKS with guest vocals by Jim Kweskin/Blues In the Bottle/Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks/Tradition und Moderne
  10. MONROE CROSSING/When You are Lonely/Heartache & Stone/MC
  11. THE CROOKED JADES/Fly Around/The Unfortunate Rake/Crooked
  12. BYRON BERLINE & VINCE GILL/Rose of Old Kentucky/VA: Legacy, a Tribute to the First Generation of Bluegrass/Sugar Hill
  13. JAMES KEELAGHAN/Safe Home/House of Cards/Borealis

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Saturday October 24: Ben Elder ("Wildwood Flower") did the show with me today - here is his playlist:

BLIND ALFRED REED/Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
ANN MAGNUSON/Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls?/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls #2/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
KATHY MATTEA/We've Just Got To Have 'Em, That's All/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/Woman's Been After Man Ever Since/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
TODD BURGE/Telephone Girl/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/Beware/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
THE CARPENTER ANTS/Money Cravin' Folks/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/You Must Unload/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
TIM & MOLLIE O'BRIEN/You'll Miss Me/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/Explosion in the Fairmount Mines/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
CHARLIE McCOY/Fate of Chris Lively and Wife/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/The Prayer of the Drunkard's Little Girl/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
EVERETT LILLY & THE SONGCATCHERS/I Mean To Life For Jesus/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/Walking In the Way With Jesus/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
BARE BONES/There'll Be No Distinction There/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/Black and Blue Blues/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
LITTLE JIMMY DICKENS/Woman's Been After Man Ever Since/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls?/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
MOLLIE O'BRIEN/Beware/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/We've Just Got To Have 'Em, That's All/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
THE NICHOLS FAMILY/Walking In the Way With Jesus/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/I Mean To Live For Jesus/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
CONNIE SMITH/The Prayer of the Drunkard's Little Girl/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
JOHN LILLY/Explosion in the Fairmount Mines/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/There'll Be No Distinction There/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001
DWIGHT DILLER & JOHN MORRIS/Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down/VA: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed/Proper Records
BLIND ALFRED REED/How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Rounder LP 1001

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Saturday October 17: John and DeAnn Davis ("Heartfelt Music") were the guest hosts on today's show - here is their playlist as emailed to me by John.

TIME

                       ARTIST/GROUP

                    CD/ALBUM TITLE

                                SONG

TRACK

6:00 AM

Wil Maring

Turning of the Century

Turning of the Century

1

 

Tom Russell, with Iris DeMent

The Man from God Knows Where

Love Abides

26

 

Jim Ringer

The Band of Jesse James

Rachel

7

6:15

Robert Earl Keen, with Maura O’Connell

A Bigger Piece of Sky

Night Right for Love

4

 

Pam Gadd

The Long Road

All The Old Men are Gone

5

 

Richard Berman

Stored Lives

Broken Wings

1

6:30

Michael Smith

Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate

Sister Clarissa

5

 

Prudence Johnson

Songs of Greg Brown

Bands of Gold

8

 

Marley’s Ghost

Let De Groove Rise Up

Meet De Boys on the Battlefront

7

6:45

Iris DeMent

Lifetime

God Walks the Dark Hills

13

 

The New Tradition

Love Here Today

My Baby’s Gone

10

7:00

Country Gazette

Hello Operator

The Great Joe Bob

8

 

Guy Clark

Boats to Build

Boats to Build

4

 

Rosalie Sorrels

Travelin’ Lady Rides Again

Traveling Lady

1

7:15

Peter Ostroushko

Pilgrims of the Heart Road

I’m So Glad You Came Into my Life

7

 

John McCutcheon

Supper’s on the Table

Happy Adoption Day

13

7:30

Jerry Jeff Walker

Cowboy Boots and Bathin’ Suits

The Moon is Still Over Her Shoulder

10

 

Aileen & Elkin Thomas

The Journey

The Journey

6

 

Tom Hanway & Blue Horizon

 

What Are They Doing in Heaven Today

6

7:45

The Seldom Scene

15th Anniversary Celebration

Lorena

3

 

Dan Knowles & His Hot Band

The Banjo Never Sleeps

I Will Sail No More

7

 

Kate Wolf

An Evening in Austin

One More Song

14

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There will be NO SHOW on Saturday, October 10 - Special programming for theFund Drive.

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September 19 and 26 and October 3 were the KPFK Fund Drive, so no playlists for these three weeks.
THANKS
to everyone who called in and pledged their supportl; the show did VERY well. And I appreciate it.

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Alive and Picking playlist for September 12, 2009. The format is ARTIST/Song/CD title/label:

Today's show opened with a set of music by folks who were born in the month of September. Their birthdays are in parentheses after their name.
1. BILL MONROE (9/13)/I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky/The Very Best Of Bill Monroe/Decca-MCA
2. ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON (Suzy 9/20)/In My Girlish Days/Adam & Eve Had the Blues/Arhoolie
3. JIMMIE RODGERS (9/8) My Blue Eyed Jane/The Singing Brakeman (box set)/Bear Family
4. DOC WATSON & CLARENCE ASHLEY (Clarence 9/29)/The Coo Coo Bird/The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962/Smithsonian-Folkways
5. BUDDY HOLLY (9/7)/Everyday/Gold/MCA-Decca
6. JIM KWESKIN JUG BAND (Maria Muldaur 9/12)/Richland Women Blues/Greatest Hits/Vanguard
7. BILL BOYD & HIS COUNTRY RAMBLERS (9/29)/Barn Dance Rag/VA: Doughboys, Playboys & Cowboys (box set)/Proper
8. GENE AUTRY (9/29)/Birmingham Daddy (with Roy Smeck on banjo)/Gene Autry Blues Singer/Columbia Legacy
9. KELLY HARRELL (9/13)/John Johanna/VA: American Folk Music: The Harry Smith Anthology/Smithsonian-Folkways
10. ROY ACUFF (9/15)/Wreck on the Highway/The Essential Roy Acuff/Columbia Legacy
11. BYRON PARKER'S MOUNTAINEERS (9/6)/C + N W Railroad Blues/VA: Classic Country Music on the Bluebird Label/BACM
12. HANK WILLIAMS SR. (9/17)/They'll Never Take Her Love From Me/The Essential Hank Williams Collection/Mercury-Universal

Tribute to the late Sam Hinton, who died this week:
13. SAM HINTON/The Barnyard Song/VA: Evening Concerts at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival/Vanguard
14. SAM HINTON/Must I Go Bound/VA: Evening Concerts at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival/Vanguard
15. SAM HINTON/Arkansas Traveller/VA: Evening Concerts at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival/Vanguard

16. OSBORNE BROTHERS/Pathway of Trouble/Bluegrass Melodies/MCA Japan
17. BLUE FLAME STRING BAND/Are You Afraid to Die?/Blue Flame String Band/14 Carrot Records
18. RICE BROTHERS/This Old House/VA: Bluegrass Class of 1990/Rounder radio sampler
19. GRASS TOWNE/Hard Workin' Man/The Other Side of Towne/Pinecastle
20. CAROLINA JUG STOMPERS/Maybelle Rag/Rooster On a Limb/Old 97 Wrecords
21. CLAIRE LYNCH/If Wishes Were Horses/Silver and Gold/Rounder
22. FRONT RANGE/My Heavenly Home/VA: Sacred Voices, A Collection of A Cappella Gospel/Sugar Hill

Then a few songs about county fairs, in honor of the just-opened Los Angeles County Fair:
23. SONS OF THE PIONEERS with DALE EVANS/Love at the County Fair/Wagons West/Bear Family
24. RED CLAY RAMBLERS/Fourth of July at the County Fair/Chuckin the Frizz/Flying Fish
25. RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS/Let's Go to the Fair/Poor Rambler/King

26. GOLDEN RING/Captain Kidd/VA: Golden Ring/Folk-Legacy
27. RONNIE BOWMAN/Will You Be Lonesome Too?/Cold Virginia Night/Rebel
28. DALE ANN BRADLEY/The Rocking Chair/Cumberland River Dreams/Doobie Shea
29. DUDLEY CONNELL & DON RIGSBY/Short Life of Trouble/Meet Me By the Moonlight/Sugar Hill
30. JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS/See God's Ark A-Movin'/Blue Diamond/Rounder
31. JO EL SONNIER/Jolie Blond/VA: 21 Cajun Classics/Swallow
32. LAURIE LEWS & DUDLEY CONNELL/The Lover's Return/VA: Masters of the Banjo/Arhoolie

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Alive and Picking playlist for September 5, 2009.  The format is ARTIST/Song/CD title/label:

Today's show opened with a set of songs about Labor Day.

THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS/John Henry/At The Old School House/Rounder
THE ALMANAC SINGERS/Union Maid/Songs of Protest/Prism Leisure
DORSEY DIXON/Weave Room Blues/Babies In the Mill/HighTone
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD/Devil Take the Farmer/VA: Bluegrass Class of 1990/Rounder radio sampler
JOHN McCUTCHEON AND TOM CHAPIN/Doing Our Job/Doing Our Job/Rounder
MIKE SEEGER & ALICE GERRARD/Doggin' In the U.S. Mail/Bowling Green/5 String Productions
HAZEL DICKENS/They'll Never Keep Us Down/Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People/Rounder
BILL MONROE/New Mule Skinner Blues/The Very Best Of Bill Monroe/MCA-Decca
MERLE TRAVIS/Nine Pound Hammer/The Legend of Merle Travis/CMH
ROSE MADDOX/$35 And a Dream/$35 And a Dream/Arhoolie
RED CLAY RAMBLERS/Hard Times Come Again No More/Hard Times/Flying Fish
HOYT "SLIM" BRYANT/ He Holds The Lantern While Mother Chops the Wood/Hoyt "Slim" Bryant & His Wild Cats/BACM
GORDON BOK, ED TRICKETT AND ANN MAYO MUIR/Aragon Mill/The First 15 Years Vol. 2/Folk Legacy
PETE SEEGER/Peg and Awl/Headlines and Footnotes/Smithsonian-Folkways
CLAIRE LYNCH/Moonlighter/Moonlighter/Rounder
LEW DOCKSTADERS MINSTREL SHOW/Everybody Works But Father (rec. 1905)/VA: Monarchs of Minstrelsy/Archeophone
PETER, PAUL & MARY/Because All Men Are Brothers/See What Tomorrow Brings/Warner Brothers
STAN ROGERS/White Collar Holler (written by Nigel Russell, who passed away two weeks ago)/Between The Breaks...Live!/Fogarty's Cove
RY COODER/The Farmer Feeds Us All/Into the Purple Valley/Warner Brothers
JOHN McCUTCHEON/Labor Day/Supper's On The Table, Everybody Come In/Rounder

JERRY DOUGLAS & PETER ROWAN/You Can't Get There From Here/Yonder/Sugar Hill
CATHIE RYAN/High On a Mountain/Somewhere Along the Road/Shanachie
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN/Some Old Day/The Last Album/Rebel-Seven Seas
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT/Roving Gambler/The Best of the Vanguard Years/Vanguard
RALPH STANLEY & DUDLEY CONNELL/Nobody's Love Is Like Mine/Masters of the Banjo/Arhoolie
THE EBONY HILLBILLIES/Waltz Across Texas/I Thought You Knew/EH Music
FOGHORN STRING BAND/Nobody's Darling But Mine/Weiser Sunrise//Netwerk
LYNN MORRIS/Help Me Climb That Mountain/VA: Come To the Mountain/Rounder
BUCK MOUNTAIN BAND/Oklahoma Waltz/Chicken In the Snowbank/Buck Mountain
ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION/Last Love Letter/Every Time You Say Goodbye/Rounder
TONY RICE/Banks of the Ohio/Tony Rice/Rounder
RICKY SKAGGS/Lost and I'll Never Find the Way/VA: Bluegrass Class of 1990/Rounder radio sampler

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Alive and Picking playlist for August 29, 2009.  The format is ARTIST/Song/CD title/label:

The show started with a brief tribute to the late Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers, whose birthday was August 27.

THE STANLEY BROTHERS/Molly & Tenbrooks/Earliest Recordings 1947-1952/Rich-R-Tone
THE STANLEY BROTHERS/Daniel Prayed/Hymns and Sacred Songs/King
THE STANLEY BROTHERS/Nobody's Love Is Like Mine/Stanley Series Vol. 2/CCCD
THE STANLEY BROTHERS/Are You Waiting Just For Me/Earliest Recordings 1947-1952/Rich-R-Tone
THE STANLEY BROTHERS/He Said If I Be Lifted Up/Hymns and Sacred Songs/King
THE STANLEY BROTHERS/Meet Me By the Moonlight/Stanley Series Vol. 2/CCCD
THE STANLEY BROTHERS/Say Won't You Be Mine/The Complete Mercury Recordings/Mercury-Decca
THE STANLEY BROTHERS/That Weary Heart You Stole Away/The Complete Mercury Recordings/Mercury-Decca
THE STANLEY BROTHERS/I'm Lonesome Without You/The Complete Mercury Recordings/Mercury-Decca
THE GORDONS/I Can't Settle Down/Our Time/Inside-Out
JOAN BAEZ/Sweet Sunny South/One Day At a Time/Vanguard
ALICE GERRARD & MIKE SEEGER/Sugar Baby/Bowling Green/5-String Productions
TONY RICE/Any Old Time/Church Street Blues/Sugar Hill
SYLVIA HEROLD/Katie Cruel/Folk Roots Sampler #9
BILL MONROE/Walk Softly On This Heart of Mine/The Very Best of Bill Monroe/MCA Decca
RILEY BAUGUS/George Collins/Long Steel Rail/Sugar Hill
KATHY & CAROL/George Collins/Kathy & Carol/Collectors Choice
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN/Our Town/Our Town/Rounder
DOC & MERLE WATSON/Worried Blues/Home Sweet Home/Sugar Hill
IAN & SYLVIA/Rocks & Gravel/The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings/Vanguard
RICKY SKAGGS/City That Lies Foursquare/Solo/Skaggs Family Records
ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER/Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still/You Don't Have to Like Them Both/Red Beet
BUCK MOUNTAIN BAND/Fiddlers Reel/Chicken In the Snowbank/Bent Trees
ADAM STEFFEY/Warm Kentucky Sunshine (w/guest vocal by Alison Krauss)/One More For the Road/Sugar Hill
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM/My Dixie Darling/The Oak & the Laurel/Rounder
JIM KWESKIN JUG BAND/Jug Band Music/Greatest Hits/Vanguard
HAZEL DICKENS, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & GINNY HAWKER/Not A Word of That Be Said/Heart of a Singer/Rounder
TWO HIGH STRING BAND/Hello City Limits/Hot Texas Bluegrass Burrito/THSB Records
FINDERS AND YOUNGBERG/Iowa Winter/Keep Your Suitcase Packed/
LOST AND FOUND/Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die/Love, Lost And Found/Rebel
BLUE MURDER/Stars In My Crown/No One Stands Alone/Topic
BRUCE MOLSKY/Sail Away Ladies/Lost Boy/Rounder

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Alive and Picking playlist for August 22, 2009. The format is ARTIST/Song/CD title/label:

COUNTRY GENTLEMEN/Jesse James/Jesse James/London LP (1968)
LOST AND FOUND/Back In Her Arms/Love, Lost and Found/Rebel
DAVID HOLT/Cousin Sally Brown/VA: Old Time Banjo Festival/Rounder
ANY OLD TIME STRING BAND/Home In Pasadena/I Bid You Goodnight/Arhoolie
RICKY SKAGGS/What Is a Home Without Love/from the forthcoming release Solo: Songs My Father Loved (due out September 22)/Skaggs Family Records
ELIZABETH COTTON/In The Sweet Bye and Bye/VA: Close To Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger’s Collection/Smithsonian-Folkways
RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT/Guabi Guabi/The Essential Ramblin’ Jack Elliott/Vanguard
SELDOM SCENE/Old Train/Old Train/Rebel
TIM THOMPSON/Theme from The Flintstones/Revved Up/Hidden Giant Records
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN/The Bramble & the Rose/Our Town/Rounder
SPRING CREEK/My Love is Way Up On a Mountain/Way Up On a Mountain/Rebel
SAVOY-DOUCET CAJUN BAND/Sam’s Big Rooster/Sam’s Big Rooster/Arhoolie
BOBBY MAYNARD/Weight (Wait) Problem/Livin’ Lovin’ Laughin’/Lamon Records
HUGH AND KARL FARR/Blues In E/Hot ‘N’ Bluesy/Country Routes
CAROLINA JUG STOMPERS/Money Never Runs Out/Rooster on a Limb/Old 97 Wrecords
FUR DIXON & STEVE WERNER/Friends Around the Fire/Travelers/
SUSIE GLAZE & HILONESOME/Green Kentucky Blues/Green Kentucky Blues
NANCI GRIFFITH/The Loving Kind/The Loving Kind/Rounder
JIM & JESSE/East Bound Freight Train/Songs From the Home Place/Pinecastle
TIM O’BRIEN/Father of Night/Red on Blonde/Sugar Hill
EMMYLOU HARRIS & THE NASH RAMBLERS/Scotland (with Sam Bush on fiddle)/Live at the Ryman/Reprise
WASHINGTON PHILLIPS/What Are They Doing in Heaven Today (1927 version)/I Am Born to Preach the Gospel/Yazoo
LAST FOREVER/What Are They Doing in Heaven Today (2007 version)/Train Fare Home/Nonesuch
CANUCKY BLUEGRASS BOYS/Standin’ Up/VA: North to Ontario 2009/
WAYNE HENDERSON with LINDA AND DAVID LAY/Carter Family Medley/VA: Masters of the Steel String Guitar/Arhoolie
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS/Shouting In the Air/VA: The Stained Glass Hour/Rounder
LES PAUL/Steel Guitar Rag/The Complete Decca Trios Plus, 1936-1947/Decca-MCA
DAVID DAVIS & THE WARRIOR RIVER BOYS/I’ve Been All Around This World/Two Dimes and a Nickel/Rebel
MIKE SEEGER & ALICE GERRARD/Bowling Green/Bowling Green/5-String Productions
MAC WISEMAN/My Little Home In Tennessee/Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs/Rebel
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND/What Was I Supposed To Do/Blue Flame String Band/14 Carrot Records
KATHY KALLICK/Red Shirt/Matters of the Heart/Sugar Hill
ANNE HILLS & CINDY MANGSEN with TOM PAXTON/Mary Anne/Never Grow Old/Flying Fish

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Alive and Picking playlist for August 15, 2009.
The format is ARTIST/Song/CD title/label:

The first set is songs to welcome my newborn granddaughter Eliza.

PETER, PAUL & MARY/All Through the Night/Peter, Paul & Mommy/Warner Brothers
JONATHAN EDWARDS & THE SELDOM SCENE/Little Hands/Daddies Sing Goodnight/Sugar Hill
THE CARLISLES/Goo Goo Da Da/Tennessee Memories/B.A.C.M.
RON BLOCK/Donal's Lullabye/Faraway Land/Rounder
RICKY SKAGGS/Little Girl/Sweet Temptation/Sugar Hill
STAN ROGERS/Delivery Delayed/Between the Breaks Live/Fogarty's Cove
THE DeZURIK SISTERS/Go To Sleep My Darling/VA: Yodeling Memories/Country Star
SI KAHN & JOHN McCUTCHEON/Welcome to the World/Signs of the Times/Rounder

TOM RUSSELL/St. Olav's Gate (with Nanci Griffith on duet vocal)/The Long Way Around/HighTone
THE COX FAMILY/Pardon Me/Everybody's Reaching Out for Someone/Rounder
ADAM STEFFEY/Let Me Fall/from the forthcoming CD One More For the Road/Sugar Hill Bluegrass Radio Sampler
TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT/Meeting In the Air/Meeting In the Air/triplechickenfoot.net
BOTHY BAND/Music in the Glen/Old Hag You Have Killed Me/Compass
DELMORE BROTHERS/Blue Railroad Train/Brown's Ferry Blues/County
JOEL RAFAEL BAND/Stepstone/WoodyBoye/Appleseed
THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND/Take Me In the Lifeboat/The Bluegrass Album CD/Rounder

The rest of the show was a tribute to the late Mike Seeger, who died on August 7th. Today would have been his 76th birthday.

MIKE SEEGER/Soon In the Morning Babe/Southern Banjo Sounds/Smithsonian-Folkways
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS/I'm On My Way To the Old Home/There Ain't No Way Out/Smithsonian-Folkways
DOCK BOGGS/Wild Bill Jones/Dock Boggs, Legenday Singer and Banjo Player (album recorded and edited by Mike Seeger in 1964)/Folkways LP 2351
ROBERT PLANT & ALLISON KRAUSS/Your Long Journey (with Mike Seeger on autoharp)/Raising Sand/Rounder
MIKE SEEGER/Wildwood Flower/Early Southern Guitar Sounds/Smithsonian-Folkways
MAYBELLE CARTER & THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS/The Old Gospel Ship/The New Lost City Ramblers & Friends: Old Time Music at the Newport Folk Festival/Vanguard
MIKE SEEGER, JODY STECHER, KATE BRISLIN AND LARRY HANKS/Only Remembered/Third Annual Farewell Reunion/Rounder
LESLEY RIDDLE with Mike Seeger on autoharp/Step By Step/Step By Step (recorded and edited by Mike Seeger)/Rounder
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS/The Old Man at the Mill/40 Years of Concert Performances/Rounder
MIKE SEEGER/Coo Coo Bird/Music From True Vine/Smithsonian-Folkways
THE STRANGE CREEK SINGERS/Sunny Side of Life/Strange Creek Singers/Arhoolie
MIKE SEEGER WITH THE HIGHWOODS STRING BAND/Rye Straw/Second Annual Farewell Reunion/Mercury LP from 1973
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS/The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake/Out Standing In Their Field/Smithsonian-Folkways
SARA CARTER BAYES AND MAYBELLE CARTER/I'm Leaving You/Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection/Smithsonian-Folkways
MIKE SEEGER/Little Birdie/Southern Banjo Sounds/Smithsonian-Folkways
MIKE SEEGER AND RALPH STANLEY/East Virginia Blues/Third Annual Farewell Reunion/Rounder
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Alive and Picking playlist for August 8, 2009. The format is ARTIST/Song/CD title/label:

DIRK POWELL/Wild Bill Jones/Hand Me Down/Rounder
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN/Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky/Going Back to the Blue Ridge/Smithsonian Folkways
RED CLAY RAMBLERS/Daniel Prayed/Merchants Lunch/Flying Fish
KATE RUSBY/Bring Me a Boat/Underneath the Stars/Compass
CHARLIE POOLE/You Ain't Talkin' To Me/Old Time Songs/County
THE DREADFUL SNAKES/Linda Lou/Snakes Alive/Rounder
JOEL SONNIER/Evangeline Special/Cajun Roots/Rounder
SELDOM SCENE/Easy Ride From Good Times to the Blues/The New Seldom Scene Album/Rebel
TIM ERIKSEN, RILEY BAUGUS AND TIM O'BRIEN/I Wish My Baby Was Born/OST Cold Mountain/Columbia
DAN TYMINSKI/How Long Is This Train?/Wheels/Rounder
TAJ MAHAL/Corrina/Martin Scorcese Presents the Blues/Columbia Legacy
FEUFOLLET/Cow Island Hop/Cow Island Hop/feufollet.net
TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT/Calinda/Meeting In the Air/triplechickenfoot.com
SPRING CREEK/Done This To Yourself/Lonesome Way to Go/RC Records
LAUREL CANYON RAMBLERS/Wait A Minute/Blue Rambler 2/Sugar Hill
J.D CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH/Crying Holy/ J.D. Crowe & the New South/Rounder

The second hour of today's show is called "All In The Family" (or maybe "It's All Relative"), featuring songs by people who are related to each other by blood or marriage.

THE KENTUCKY COLONELS/If You're Ever Gonna Love Me/Livin' In the Past/Sierra
THE BLUE SKY BOYS/Where The Soul Never Dies/There'll Come a Time/BSR
THE RANKIN FAMILY/Roving Gypsy/The Rankin Collection/Rounder
THE BALFA BROTHERS/Lacassine Special/Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Music/Swallow
THE STANLEY BROTHERS/Old Love Letters/20 Bluegrass Originals/Deluxe
WATERSON:CARTHY/The Forsaken Mermaid/Broken Ground/Topic
DOC & MERLE WATSON/Mean Mama Blues/Lonesome Road/EMI
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS/The Leaving Train/Close As We Can Get/Flying Fish
THE MONROE BROTHERS/What Would You Give/Collection, 1936-1938/BMG
THE MADDOX BROTHERS AND SISTER ROSE/Move It On Over/America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band/Arhoolie
MALICORNE/Nous Sommes Chanteurs de Sornettes/Malicorne/Hexagone
NICKEL CREEK/The Fox/Nickel Creek/Sugar Hill
IAN & SYLVIA/Handsome Molly/The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings/Vanguard
THE DeZURIK SISTERS/The Arizona Yodeler/VA: American Yodeling 1911-1946/Trikont

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Alive and Picking playlist for August 1, 2009. The format is ARTIST/Song/CD title/label:
Today's show includes a tribute to the late Sandy Paton, co-founder of Folk Legacy Records, who died on July 26.

SELDOM SCENE/Joshua/Act I/Rebel
PETER ROWAN/Roving Gambler/The Walls of Time/Sugar Hill
EMMYLOU HARRIS/Coat of Many Colors/Pieces of the Sky/Reprise
MIKE SEEGER & TIM O'BRIEN/Leaving Tennessee/Third Annual Farewell Reunion/Rounder
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN/Amelia Earhart/The Last Album (1970)/Seven Seas (Japan)
ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER/The First In Line/You Don't Have to Like Them Both/Red Beet
GOOD OL' PERSONS/Ellie/I Can't Stand to Ramble/Flat Rock
MIMI & RICHARD FARINA/Hamish/The Complete Vanguard Recordings/Vanguard
THE BLUE SKY BOYS/Sunny Side of Life/There'll Come a Time/Bluetone
JOE VAL/When the Cactus Is In Bloon/Diamond Joe/Rounder
RHONDA VINCENT/Prettiest Flower There/All American Bluegrass Girl/Rounder
DOC WATSON/The Cyclone of Rye Cove/The Best of Doc Watson, 1964-1968/Vanguard
MARLEY'S GHOST/Lay Down Your Weary Tune/Haunting Melodies/Sage Arts
RICKY SKAGGS & THE NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND/Little Mountain Church House/Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol. 2/Universal
DUDLEY CONNELL & DON RIGSBY/Meet Me By the Moonlight/Meet Me By the Moonlight/Sugar Hill
FLATT & SCRUGGS/Will The Roses Bloom/The Complete Mercury Sessions/Mercury
TINY MOORE & JETHRO BURNS/Tiny's Rag/Back to Back
BILL MONROE/Molly & Tenbrooks/The Very Best of Bill Monroe/MCA Decca
DAVE VAN RONK/Did You Hear John Hurt/Somebody Else Not Me/Philo
CINDY KALLETT & GREY LARSEN/If You Say Yes/Cross the Water/Sleepy Creek
MOTHERS BOYS (Peter Feldmann, Rick Cunha & David Jackson)/Coal Miner's Blues/unreleased demo from forthcoming album
TONY RICE/Green Light on the Southern/Bluegrass Class of 1990/Rounder
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER/On the Sea of Life/Rock My Soul/Sugar Hill
David Mallett/Hungry For Love/In the Falling Dark/Vanguard
NICOLETTE LARSEN & HERB PEDERSEN/The Angels Rejoiced/The Very Best of Nicolette Larsen/Warner-Rhino
Tribute to Sandy Paton:
JOE HICKERSON/Waterbound/Folk Legacy
BOK, TRICKETT & MUIR/How Can I Keep From Singing/Folk Legacy
ED TRICKETT/Angeline The Baker/Folk Legacy
BOK, TRICKETT & MUIR/Waltzing With Bears/Folk Legacy
JOE HICKERSON & ED TRICKETT/Leaning on the Everlasting Arms/Folk Legacy
BOK, TRICKETT & MUIR/I Knew This Place/Folk Legacy
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Alive & Picking Saturday, June 27, 2009 (one hour show)
IIIrd Tyme Out/White House Blues
Dock Boggs/Country Blues (rec. in 1927)
Hot Rize/Country Blues (rec. in 1987)
Kate Rusby/High on a Hill
Stanley Brothers/Think of What You've Done
Ralph Blizard/Blackberry Blossom
Nothin' Fancy/Lord Bless This House
Carl Butler/I'll Go Steppin' Too
Janet Beazley/Rose of Allandale
New Lost City Ramblers/Anchored in Love Divine
Tony Rice & Ricky Skaggs/Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys/Footprints in the Snow
Ferlin Husky (as Terry Preston) with Cliffie Stone's Band/Tennessee Central #9
Carl Jackson/Love and Weslth
Doc & Merle Watson/Blue Railroad Train
Blue Highway/Only a Thought Away
Adie Grey/Mr. Roy

Alive & Picking, Saturday, May 30, 2009 (one hour show)
Dan Tyminski/Wheels
Ricky Skaggs & The Chieftains/Cotton Eyed Joe
Emmylou Harris,  Iris DeMent & Randy Scruggs/Wildwood Flower
Joe Van & the New England Bluegrass Boys/Why Don't You Tell Me So
The Carter Family/You Are My Flower
The Pine Leaf Boys/Two-Step des Festival Acadiens
Uncle Earl/Walkin' In My Sleep
Mississippi John Hurt/Candy Man
Blue Highway/Born With a Hammer In My Hand
Molly O'Day/Tramp on the Street
Front Range/My Heavenly Home
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings with The Chieftains/Katie Dear
Tim Eriksen & Riley Baugus/The Cuckoo
Laurie Lewis & Grant Street/When The Cactus Is in Bloom
Doc Watson/Down in the Valley to Pray
Allison Krauss/Down to the River to Pray
Carl Jackson/On My Mind

Alive and Picking, Saturday, May 23, 2009 (one hour show)
The Lost Pines/Die Some Day
Steve Martin (with Tim O'Brien on vocals)/Daddy Played the Banjo
Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church/I'm Going Home
Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys/Jimmie Brown the Newsboy
Merle Travis/Merle's Boogie
Carl Jackson (with Emmylou Harris on duet vocals)/Erase the Miles
The Farr Brothers/Deed I Do
The Wailin' Jennys/Long Time Traveling
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver/Climbing Up the Mountain
The JD Steele Singers/Every Burden
Bill Evans & Megan Lynch/Rocks and Water
Chris Stuart & Backcountry/Crooked Man
June Tabor/The Devil & Bailiff mcGlynn
Jeremy Garrett/I Am a Stranger
Bob Dylan (whose birthday is today)/Baby Let Me Follow You Down
Peter Kasin & Richard Adrianowicz/Hills of Isle Au Haut
Blue Highway/That Could Be You

 
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