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

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Saturday September 18: John and Deann Davis return with more of their Heartfelt Music.
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Playlist for Alive and Picking, KPFK, Los Angeles, Saturday September 4, 2010. The format is ARTIST / Song title / Album title / Label.

The first part of the show was the September birthdays set - each artist's birthdays is shown in parentheses after his/her name.

HANK WILLIAMS (9/17) Never Again Will you Knock on My Door / recorded in 1946 for Sterling with the Willis Brothers
MARIA MULDAUR (9/12) I'm A Woman / Jim Kweskin Jug Band's Greatest Hits / Vanguard
MARTY ROBBINS (9/26) Shackles and Chains / rec. 1958
BILL MONROE (9/13) I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky / Sixteen Gems / MCA-Decca
MAURA O'CONNELL / Love Divine (duet with James Taylor) / Stories / Hannibal
NOAH LEWIS (9/3) Chickasaw Special (rec. 1929)
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON (Suzy 9/20) Corrina Corrina / Adam & Eve Had the Blues / Arhoolie
JOE FALCON (9/28) Allon Danser Colinda / Cajun Music Pioneer / Arhoolie
EDDIE LANG & JOE VENUTI (Joe Venuti 9/16) Wild Cat / rec. 1928
LAURIE LEWIS (9/28) Rank Stranger / The Golden West / HighTone
JIMMIE RODGERS (9/8/1897) My Carolina Sunshine Girl / The Complete Jimmie Rodgers / Bear Family box set
LAST FOREVER (Dick Connette 9/25) What Are They Doing in Heaven Today / Train Fare Home / Nonesuch
CLARENCE ASHLEY (9/29/1895) Little Sadie / Greenback Dollar / County
RAY CHARLES (9/23) How Long Blues / Let's Have a Ball / Catfish
BILL BOYD'S COWBOY RAMBLERS (Bill Boyd 9/28/1914) Way Out There (rec. 1936)
JOHN STEWART (9/15) If You Don't Look Around / Greetings From John Stewart / Capitol
JIMMIE DAVIS (9/11/1902) Arabella Blues (rec. 1930)
PATSY CLINE (9/8) Crazy / Country Music Hall of Fame Series / MCA-Decca
DOUGIE MaCLEAN (9/14) Caledonia / Live From the Ends of the Earth / Dunkeld
GENE AUTRY (9/29) Birmingham Daddy / Gene Autry: Blues Singer / Columbia Legacy
ROY ACUFF (9/15/1903) Wabash Cannonball / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy
GEORGE JONES (9/12) / Half Over You / The Rock / BMG

end of birthdays set

JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS / Another Day Another Dollar / Ramblers Call / Rebel
RHYS JONES & CHRISTINA WHEELER /The Rebel's Raid / Starry Crown / Vigortone
PERFECT STRANGERS / Roll On John / Perfect Strangers / Rebel
SENATOR ROBERT BYRD / Forked Deer / Mountain Fiddler / County
CARPENTER AND MAY / We Can Work It Out / Carpenter and May / Violin Shop
CALEB KLAUDER / My Time Is Gonna Come / Western Country / Quicksilver
THE FUREY BROS. AND DAVEY ARTHUR / Clare To Here / 30 Years On / Global Records Ireland
RHYS JONES, JEFF MILLER AND JIM NELSON / Possum on a Rail / Mississippi Square Dance Vol. 2 / Vigortone
RAMBLING JACK ELLIOTT / Roll On Buddy / Best of the Vanguard Years / Vanguard

Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK in Los Angeles.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Playlist for Alive & Picking, Saturday 8/28/10. Format is ARTIST / Song title / Album title / label 
 
We started the show with a tribute to Flatt & Scruggs. From the album Flatt & Scruggs, Live at Carnegie Hall, recorded December 1962, we heard: 
 
Salty Dog Blues 
Durham's Reel 
Down the Road 
Rainbow 
Bill Ball in Brooklyn 
Flint Hill Special 
Dig A Hole in the Meadow 
I Hung My Head and Cried 
Hot Corn Cold Corn 
Little Darlin' Pal of Mine 
You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming 
Footprints In the Snow 
The Martha White Theme 
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight 
Old McDonald Had a Farm 
He Will Set Your Fields On Fire 
Let The Church Roll On 
Wildwood Flower 
Hear That Whistle Blow A Hundred Miles 
Fiddle and Banjo 
Old Leather Britches 
Ballad of Jed Clampett 
 
WOLFE BROTHERS/ Some Day Soon / Old Virginia Hills / Old Virginia 
DOC WATSON with MERLE TRAVIS / Kinfolks In Caroline / The Vanguard Years/ Vanguard 
CEDRIC WATSON / Cedric Zydeco / Cedric Watson / Valcour 
TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS / Simple and True / Twangtown Paramours / Inside Edge 
JORMA KAUKONEN / Fur Peace Rag / Stars In My Crown / Red House 
LYNN MORRIS / No One Has To Tell Me What Love Is / Mama's Hand / Rounder 
RAY CAMPI / Oklahoma Hills / More Hard Travelin' / Real Music 
THE ILL-MO BOYS / Gone Indian / Laugh and Grow Fat / Vigortone 
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND and THE FAIRFIELD FOUR / Roll Jordan Roll / VA: Sacred Voices / Sugar Hill 
KATHY KALLICK BAND / Girl Next Door / Between The Hollow and the High Rise / Live Oak 
DONAL CLANCY / The Monaghan Jig /Old Hag You Have Killed Me / Close to Home / Compass 
HOT RIZE / If I Should Wander Back Tonight / VA: Legacy, a Tribute To the First Generation of Bluegrass / Sugar Hill 
THE BARRA MACNEILS / One Wild Rose / The Barra MacNeils 20th Anniversary Collection / www.barramacneils.com 
MARTY STUART with JOHNNY CASH / Get In Line Brother / VA: Legacy, a Tribute To the First Generation of Bluegrass / Sugar Hill 
RICKY SKAGGS AND TONY RICE / Memories of Mother and Dad / Skaggs and Rice / Sugar Hill 
 
Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. 
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Playlist for Alive & Picking, KPFK, Los Angeles, 8/21/10. Format is ARTIST / Song title / Album title / Label
 
Today during the show there was a special mini-pledge drive, so we alternated between regular programming and asking for donations. The premiums offered, which were played throughout the pitching intervals, were:
 
VA: Bluegrass Special / Rounder
VA: Soundtrack to Get Low / Rounder
The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder

Plus for any donation of $100 or more, a pair of tickets to the Santa Barbara Old Time Fiddlers Convention. Thanks to Rounder and to Andy Doerr at Santa Barbara Rotary Sunrise for donating the premiums AND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU who called in and made a pledge. You guys are the champs!

Regular programming blocks were:
 
PERFECT STRANGERS / Sing Me A Song / Perfect Strangers / Rebel
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT / Guabi Guabi / The Bets of the Vanguard Years / Vanguard
WAILIN' JENNYS / Saucy Sailor / 40 Days / Red House
ANDREW & NOAH VAN NORSTRAND / Samuel Mason / All the Good Summers / Great Bear
GEOFF MULDAUR & JIM KWESKIN / Chicken / recorded live in Germany / unreleased
THE ROLAND WHITE BAND / Cabin On the Hill / Jelly on My Tofu / Copper Creek
RICH IN TRADITION / Preachin' Prayin' Singin' / Black Mountain Special/ Mountain Roads
KATHY KALLICK BAND / Lonesome Night / Between the Hollow and the High Rise / Live Oak
CHRIS BRASHEAR / Mason's Lament / Wanderlust / Copper Creek
THE LAWS / Home at Last / VA: North To Ontario / Coot Music
 
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN / The Mermaid / Return / www.jodyandkate.com
JAMES ALAN SHELTON / Riding on the Clinchfield / Where I'm Bound / Sheltone
JIM MURDOCH / La Reine de la Salle / Yonder Shore / www.jimmurdoch,com/
LONESOME RIVER BAND / Long Gone / VA: Top of the Hill / Sugar Hill
KATHY & CAROL / My Dixie Darling / Keepsake / Hazelwood
TONY RICE / Banks of the Ohio / Tony Rice / Rounder
RHYS JONES, JEFF MILLER AND JIM NELSON / Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase / All I've Got's Done Gone / Vigortone
ELIZABETH LaPRELLE / Handsome Molly / Lizard In the Spring / Old 97 Wrecords
ROGER McGUINN with PETE SEEGER and JOSH WHITE JR. / Dink's Blues / Treasures From the Folk Den / Appleseed
 
Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Playlist for Alive & Picking, KPFK, Los Angeles, Saturday 8/14/10. Format is ARTIST / Song title / Album title / CD Label (if no label info, it's from an old LP)

Today's show is dedicated to Allyson Rose Smith, born last night around 7:20 p.m. in Tennessee. Congratulations to her mommy Tara and grandma Sharon.

THE GRASCALS / Last Train to Clarksville / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
LEFTY FRIZZELL / Brakeman's Blues / rec. 1951
UNCLE DAVE MACON / When the Train Comes Along / Country Museic Hall of Fame / MCA-Decca
MERLE HAGGARD / Waiting for a Train
JIM & JESSE / Yonder Comes a Freight Train / Y'All Come / Columbia Legacy
CARL BUTLER / Heartbreak Express / rec. 1947
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE / This Train / The Gospel of the Blues / MCA-Decca
ROSIE FLORES / Heartbreak Train / rec. 1987
MILTON BROWN & HIS MUSICAL BROWNIES / Brownie Special / rec. 1935
LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK / Don't You See That Train / VA: Freight Train Blues / Rounder
THE YORK BROTHERS / We're Gonna Catch That Train / ca. 1942
TAJ MAHAL / She Caught the Katy / In Progress & In Motion, 1968-1998 / Sony Legacy
HANK SNOW / The Golden Rocket / rec. 1950
FRANK HUTCHISON / The Train That Carried My Girl From Town / His Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order / Document
SHORTY LONG / Good Night Cincinnati, Good Morning Tennessee / rec . 1951
THE COX FAMILY / Look Me Up By the Ocean Door / Everybody's Reaching Out for Someone / Rounder
 HANK WILLIAMS SR. / I Heard That Lonesome Whistle / rec. 1951
LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANI FIVE / Choo Choo Ch-Boogie / CA: Night Train / Rounder
JOHNNY HORTON / First Train Heading South / rec. 1952
DAVID MALLETT / Pennsylvania Sunrise / Inches & Miles / Flying Fish
JOHNNY AND JACK / Hummingbird / rec . 1951
ROY ACUFF / Fireball Mail / Columbia Country Classics / Legacy
JIMMY MARTIN / Mr. Engineer / rec. 1966
NANCI GRIFFITH / The Banks of the Ponchartrain / Last of the True Believers / Philo
RED KNUCKLES & THE TRAIL BLAZERS / Dixie Cannonball / VA: Freight Train Blues / Rounder
DELTA RHYTHM BOYS / Take the A Train / VA: Night Train / Rounder
LONESOME RIVER BAND / Hobo Blues / VA Freight Train / Rounder
RHONDA VINCENT / Passing of the Train / Back Home Again / Rounder
DOC & MERLE WATSON / Freight Train Blues / VA: Freight Train Blues / Rounder
JUDITH EDELMAN / Ride on a Train / Perfect World / Compass
GOLDEN GATE QUARTET / Gospel Train / Their Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order / Document
EMMYLOU HARRIS / Smoke Along the Tracks / Live at the Ryman / Warner Bros.
PETER, PAUL & MARY / Freight Train / In the Wind / Warner Bros.
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND / Get a Transfer / VA: Freight Train Blues / Rounder

Alive & Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, and on the web at www.kpfk.org.
www.aliveandpicking.com
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Playlist for Alive & Picking, KPFK, Los Angeles, 8/7/10. The format is ARTIST / song title / album title / label.

First, a set of songs celebrating my granddaughter Eliza's first birthday, which is this coming week.
JOHN McCUTCHEON / Cut the Cake / Live at Wolf Trap / Rounder
TIM & MOLLIE O'BRIEN / Hush While the Little Ones Sleep/ VA: Daddies Sing Goodnight / Sugar Hill
PETER, PAUL & MARY / The Marvelous Toy / Peter, Paul & Mommy / Warner Brothers
SWEET POTATO PIE / Her Father's Eyes / Journey Called Life / Mountain Fever
RED CLAY RAMBLERS / Way long Timey Ago / VA: Daddies Sing Goodnight / Sugar Hill
RICKY SKAGGS / Baby Girl / Sweet Temptation / Sugar Hill
CLAIRE LYNCH / Friends For a Lifetime / Friends For a Lifetime / Rounder
BRYAN BOWERS / Twinkle Twinkle Little Star / Friend for Life / Rounder
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS / Nothing But a Child / VA: Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
JONATHAN EDWARDS & THE SELDOM SCENE / Little Hands / VA: Daddies Sing Goodnight / Sugar Hill
DALE ANN BRADLEY / Will I Be Good Enough / Catch Tomorrow / Compass

Tribute to Mitch Jayne of the Dillards, who died earlier this week of cancer at age 80:
THE DILLARDS: Old Joe Clark, Ground Hog, Banjo In the Hollow, Polly Vaughn, Dueling Banjos / VA: Bluegrass Breakdown / Vanguard

The rest of the show is music by artists who all have birthdays in August; birth dates are listed in parentheses after their names
J.D. CROWE (8/27) Old Home Place (written by Mitch Jayne) / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
KITTY WELLS (8/30) Making Believe / The Best of Kitty Wells / MCA-Decca
HANK PENNY (8/18) Tobacco State Swing / VA: Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper box set
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT (8/1) More Pretty Girls Than One / Best of the Vanguard Years / Vanguard
RIDERS IN THE SKY (Woody Paul 8/23) Blue Bonnet Lady / Silver Jubilee / Acoustic Disc
ROSE MADDOX (8/15) Ashes of Love / Rose of the West Coast Country / Arhoolie
JIMMY MARTIN (8/10) Sunny Side of the Mountain / Gretest Hits / King-Gusto
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS (John Cohen 8/2) Automobile Trip Through Alabama / Out Standing In Their Field / Smithsonian Folkways
MIKE SEEGER (8/15) Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / True Vine / Smithsonian Folkways
ALISON BROWN (8/7) Late On Arrival / Fair Weather / Compass
THE STANLEY BROTHERS (Carter Stanley 8/27) Are You Afraid To Die / Hymns and Sacred Songs / King
 SPIDER JOHN KOERNER (8/31) When First Unto This Country / Star Geezer / Red House
DAVE CARTER (8/13) AND TRACY GRAMMER /The Gentle Arms of Eden / Signature Sounds 10th Anniversary Collection / Signature Sounds
WATERSON:CARTHY (Eliza Carthy 8/23) Raggle Taggle Gypsies / Broken Ground / Topic
CISCO HOUSTON (8/18) Do Re Mi / Cisco Houston Sings The Songs of Woody Guthrie / Vanguard
WALLACE "CHEESE" REED (8/12) Perrodin Two-Step / Cajun House Party / Arhoolie
ANDY COHEN (8/21) Buckdancer's Choice / Ridiculous Instrumentals / RiverLark
BUCK OWENS (8/12) Hello Trouble / The Buck Owens Collection / Rhino

Alive & Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7FM in Los Angeles.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Saturday July 31: Mark Humphrey was today's special guest host; here's his playlist as he sent it to me:

Alive and Picking
Host: Mary Katherine Aldin
Guest host: Mark Humphrey
Date: 07-31-10

Hour 1, set 1:
Theme: California   Time: 21:03

1. Jimmie Rodgers: "Blue Yodel #4 (California Blues)" 1928 Source: CD Rounder CD 1057 Jimmie Rodgers: The Early Years, 1928-1929
2. Woody Guthrie: "Do Re Mi" 1940 Source: Lp Rounder 1040 Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Ballads
3. Doye O’Dell: "Okies in California" 1949 Source: CD Documents Various: American Road Songs from Coast to Coast
4. Merle Haggard: "They’re Tearing the Labor Camps Down" 1971 Source: CD Capitol Merle Haggard Vintage Collections
5. Otis Pierce: "Annabelle" circa 1958 Source: CD Cactus CACCD052 Various: High On the Hog: Honky Tonk & Hillbilly Bop 
6. The Sauceman Brothers: "Alcatraz Island Blues" circa 1951 Source: CD Copper Creek CCCD-0124 Sauceman Brothers On WCYB Bristol
7. The McKinney Sisters w/Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: "There’s a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate" 1946 Source: CD Kaleidoscope K-6002 Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: 
Tiffany Transcriptions with the McKinney Sisters 
8. Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens (with Flaco Jimenez): "Streets of Bakersfield" 1988 [#1 hit!] Source: CD The Buck Owens Collection, 1959-1990

Hour 1, set 2
1st set answered question: `Where are we?’ 1st song below answers the question: `What day is it?’
1. Oklahoma Wranglers [Willis Brothers]: "Shine Shave Shower" circa 1947  Source: CD BACM CD 190 Oklahoma Wranglers: Hillbilly Rhythm
2. Tommy Sosebee: "Barbershop Boogie" early `50s Source: CD Cactus Various: Coral Hillbilly Vol. 1
3. Rhonda Vincent: "Passin’ of the Train" 1993 Source: CD Giant Rhonda Vincent: Written in the Stars
4. Marty Stuart [mandolin] with Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass: "Rawhide" 1974 Source: CD Superlatone Marty Stuart: Compadres: An Anthology of Duets
5. The Texas Rangers {Herb Kratoska, guitar]: "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" 1942 Source: CD BACM CD 285 The Texas Rangers: Vol. 1 The Early Years 
6. Pam Tillis: "I Ain’t Never" 2002 Source: CD Lucky Dog Pam Tillis: It’s All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis 

Hour 1, set 3[Total time: 13:23]
1.Ray Campi "Doin’ My Time" 2009 Source: CD Real Music 1009 Ray Campi: The Ultimate Jimmie Skinner Songbook
2.Jimmie Skinner: "Don’t Get Around Much Anymore" 1954 Source: CD  BACM CD D 184 Jimmie Skinner:  Too Hot to Handle
3. Patty Loveless: "Nothin’ Like the Lonely" 2003 Source: CD Epic EK 86620 Patty Loveless: On Your Way Home
4. Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys [J.D. Crowe, banjo; Chubby Wise, fiddle]: "Cripple Creek" 1958 Source: CD Bear Family BCD 15705 Jimmy Martin, 
1954-1974, Vol. 1
5. Amber Sisters: "When I Want Lovin’, Baby, I Want You" 1952 Source: CD Cattle CCD 289 Salty Holmes & Mattie O’Neil with the Amber Sisters and Joe Maphis

Calendar music bed:[talk at :36]
Mat Mathews: "Summertime" (1955) Source: CD Properbox 114 Squeeze Me: The Jazz & Swing Accordion Story

Hour 2, Set 1  Time: 16:44
1. Jesse Rodgers: "San Antonio Blues" 1936  Source: CD BACM CD 284 Jesse Rodgers: Songs of the Hills & Plains
2. Ralph Stanley: "Hemlocks & Primroses" 1967 Source: CD King K3CD-0951 Ralph Stanley: Poor Rambler: His Complete King & Gusto Recordings 
3. Chet Atkins: "Black Mountain Rag" 1952 Source: CD Bear Family Chet Atkins: The Early Years, 1945-1954
4. Marvin Rainwater: "I Gotta Go Get My Baby" `50s Source:  CD Cactus Various: Coral Hillbilly Vol. 1
5. The Ventures: "Theme from `Silver City’" `60s Source: CD Microwerks MW 054 The Ventures Anthology
6. Vernon Dalhart & Carson Robison: `My Blue Ridge Mountain Home’ 1927  Source CD Document DOCD-1105 Vernon Dalhart: Puttin’ On the Style
7. The Dinning Sisters [George Barnes, guitar]: "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" circa 1950 Source: CD Jasmine JASMCD 3551 The Dinning Sisters: Back in 
Country Style 

Hour 2, set 2 Time: 17:07

1. Charlie Moore & Bill Napier: "Bluegrass Truck Driver" 1960s Source: CD King Records KG-0248-2 Charlie Moore & Bill Napier: Truckin’ Favorites
2. Terry Fell: "Truck Driving Man" 1954 [recorded Hollywood, CA] Source: CD Bear Family BCD 15762 AH Terry Fell: Truck Driving Man
3. Hoyt `Slim’ Bryant & His Wildcats: "Helena Polka" [Al Azzaro, accordion] late 1940s Source: CD BACM CD D 268 Hoyt `Slim’ Bryant & His Wildcats Vol. 3
4. Charline Arthur: "I Heard About You" 1953 Source: CD Proper P1509 [boxed set] Various: From Boppin’ Hillbilly to Red Hot Rockabilly
5. Tommy Jackson: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" circa `54  Source: CD  BACM CD D 294 Tommy Jackson: The Legendary Session Fiddler Playing Classic 
Square Dance Tunes 
6. Al Rogers: "Workin’ Man Blues" `50s Source: CD Cactus CAC-CD059 Various: `X’ Hillbilly (From RCA’s Sister Label) 
7. Billy Hill: "Too Much Month at the End of the Money" `89 Source: CD Warner Bros. 9 4534-2 Various: The Greatest Country Dance Record Ever, Vol. One 
8. Zeke & Red: "The World Would Be a Better Place if It Was a Farm"  `50s Source: CD Cactus CAC-CD059 Various: `X’ Hillbilly (From RCA’s Sister Label)

Hour 2, set 3 Time: 16:51
[Mac Wiseman sings Bill Monroe & the Clovers] 1.Mac Wiseman & the Country Boys: "Footprints in the Snow"circa 1960  Source: CD Vanguard VCD 121/22 Various: Bluegrass at Newport
2. Mac Wiseman: "One Mint Julep" 1956  Source: CD Bear Family BCD 15694 Mac Wiseman: Teenage Hangout 
3. Tommy Duncan [w/Bob Wills Tx. Playboys]: "My Window Faces the South" 1938 Source: CD Properbox 32  Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: Take Me Back to Tulsa
4. Tommy Duncan: "Hound Dog" circa 1953 Source: CD Cactus CACD-057 Various: Intro Hillbilly, Volume 1
5.Merle Travis: "Everly Rag" circa 1946 Source; CD capitol Vintasge 7243 Merle Travis: Walkin’ the Strings
6. Hank Williams [& Jerry Rivers, aka Burrhead]: "Just Waitin’" 1951 Source: CD Time-Life 24922-D Hank Williams: Revealed—The Unreleased Recordings 
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Saturday July 24:  The format is ARTIST / song title / album title / label

RICH IN TRADITION / Black Mountain Special / Black Mountain Special / Mountain Roads
LENA HUGHES / Spanish Fandango / VA: Rural Parlor Guitar 1967-1971 / County
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS / Duncan & Brady / Blue Diamond / Rounder
MOLLIE O'BRIEN & RICH MOORE / Keep It Clean / Saints and Sinners / Remington Road
RHYS JONES, JEFF MILLER & JIM NELSON / Rye Straw / All I've Got's Done Gone / VigorTone
SAVOY-DOUCET CAJUN BAND / Bosco Stomp / Home Music With Spirits / Arhoolie
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLRES CHOICE / Humble Man / Heartaches & Dreams / Rebel
JOHN PRINE / Everybody / Diamonds in the Rough
SUSAN McKEOWN & LORIN SKLAMBERG / Heart's Blood / Saints & Tzadiks / World Village
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III / High Wide and Handsome / High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project / 2nd Story Sound
DALE ANN BRADLEY / Grandma's Gift / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
THE JOHN HARTFORD STRING BAND (with guest vocals by Tim O'Brien) / Lorena / Memories of John / Red Clay
JAMES ALAN SHELTON / Cherokee Shuffle / Where I'm Bound / Sheltone
ROSANNE CASH / Sea of Heartbreak / Motherless Children / Manhattan
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN / Feel Like My Time Ain't Long / VA: Sacred Voices, An A Cappella Gospel Collection / Sugar Hill
TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT / Citico / Tar River / Old Time Is a Good Time
NEW GOLDEN RING / Poor Howard / Five Days Singing Vol. 1 / Folk Legacy
PINE LEAF BOYS / Allon Danser Colinda / Live at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival / JazzFest Live
KATHY KALLICK BAND / Whistle Stop Town / Between the Hollow and the High Rise / Live Oak
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN / Hold to God's Unchanging Hand / Return / www.jodyandkate.com
CROWE, LAWSON & WILLIAMS / The Little White Church / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
RANDY MORRISON & FLATT RIVER BAND / Good Old Bluegrass Fun  VA: North to Ontario 2010 / Coot Music
EARL TAYLOR & HIS BLUEGRASS MOUNTAINEERS / I've Lived a Lot In My Time / Bluegrass Taylor Made / 1964 Capitol LP
ELIZABETH LaPRELLE / Moonshiner / Lizard In the Spring / Old 97 Wrecords
HOT RIZE / Radio Boogie / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
JANET BEAZLEY / Rose of Allandale / 5 South / Backcountry
CHIRPS SMITH / Lost Indian / Down In Little Egypt / VigorTone
JONATHAN EDWARDS & THE SELDOM SCENE / Don't This Road Look Rough & Rocky / VA: Legacy: A Tribute to the First Generaltion of Bluegrass / Sugar Hill
DOC WATSON AND MERLE TRAVIS / Bye Bye Bluebells / Doc Watson: The Vanguard Years / Vanguard
KATHY AND CAROL / Oh Take Me Back  / Keepsake / Hazelwood

Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, Los Angeles, 90.7 FM.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Playlist for Alive & Picking, Saturday July 17

Guest hosts today were Joe Frazier of the Chad Mitchell Trio, Art Podell of the New Christy Minstrels and Art & Paul, and Jim Moran. This is their playlist as they sent it to me:

THE WEAVERS/ Goodnight Irene
THE ALMANAC SINGERS/Which Side are You On?
THE WEAVERS/If I Had A Hammer
THE WEAVERS/Banks Are Made of Marble
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Dona Dona
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Come Along Home
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/John Birch Society
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Blowin’ In the Wind
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Me Voy Pa Bete
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Barry’s Boys
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/School Song
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Draft Dodger Rag
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/African Song
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Rhymes For the Irreverent
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Which Hat Shall I Wear
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/One Man’s Hands
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/That’s The Way
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/We Didn’t Know
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Bells of Rhymney
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Business Goes On As Usual
BRUCE COCKBURN/Nicaragua
RANDY NEWMAN/Sail Away
RANDY NEWMAN/Political Science
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Mighty Day

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Saturday July 10: John and Deann Davis were my guest hosts today; here is their playlist as they emailed it to me:

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Saturday July 3: Alive & Picking playlist for Saturday, 7/03/10.

Saturday June 26: No show today, special Fund Drive programming.

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Playlist for Alive & Picking, 6/5/10. Format is ARTIST / song title / album title / label.

The first part of the show featured artists who were born in the month of June. Their birth dates appear in parentheses after their names.

JODY STECHER (6/1) AND KATE BRISLIN / Every Bush and Tree / Return / www.jodyandkate.com
THE CARTER FAMILY (June Carter 6/23) / Cyclone of Rye Cove / On Border Radio 1939 Vol. 3 / Arhoolie
FLATT AND SCRUGGS (Lester Flatt 6/19/1914) / Cora is Gone / The Complete Mercury Recordings/ Mercury
DAVE VAN RONK (6/30) / Did You Hear John Hurt? / And The Tin Pan Bended And the Story Ended / Smithsonian Folkways
MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT (6/3) / Candy Man / The Complete Studio Recordings / Vanguard
EARL TAYLOR (6/17) / Cabin Home On the Hill / Blue Grass Taylor Made (1964 Capitol LP)
BOYS OF THE LOUGH (Cathal McConnell 6/8) / Medley: Down the Broom/The Gatehouse Maid / Good Friends Good Music / Philo
GID TANNER (6/6/1885) and the Skillet Lickers / Soldier's Joy / VA: Roots and Blues, The Retrospective / Sony Legacy
NATHAN ABSHIRE (6/27/1913) / Choupique Two-Step / French Blues / Arhoolie
BLIND ALFRED REED (6/15/1880) / The Telephone Girl / Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, 1927-1929 / Document
ROSALIE SORRELS (6/24) / Waltzing With Bears / What Does it Mean to Love / Green Linnet
LESLIE RIDDLE (6/13) / Careless Love (with Mike Seeger on mandolin) / VA: Second Annual Farewell Reunion (Mercury LP)
HAZEL DICKENS (6/1) AND ALICE GERRARD / Banjo Picking Girl / Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard / Rounder
T. TEXAS TYLER (6/20/1910) AND HIS OKLAHOMA MELODY BOYS / T Texas Blues (rec. 1945) / VA: Western Swing anthology LP on Old Timey
BO CARTER (born Armenter Chatman 6/30/1893) /I Want You To Know / Bo Carter's Advice / Catfish
GORDON BOK, ED TRICKETT AND ANN MAYO MUIR (AMM 6/30) / I Knew This Place / The First Fifteen Years Vol. 1 / Folk Legacy
DAVID "STRINGBEAN" AKEMAN (6/17/1914) / How Many Biscuits Can You Eat / A Salute to Uncle Dave Macon / Starday-Gusto
CLIFTON CHENIER (6/25) Zydeco Et Pas Sale / Louisiana Blues / Arhoolie
CHET ATKINS (6/20) / Country Gentleman / The Early Years 1945-1954 / Bear Family
MEMPHIS MINNIE (6/24) / Me and My Chauffeur Blues / Hot Stuff / Magnum
RED FOLEY (6/16) / Single Life Is Good Enough For me / Tater Pie / BACM

Then a brief tribute to Hoyt "Slim" Bryant, who died last week at age 101; in addition to his own long career, he was the last person to have recorded with the great Jimmie Rodgers.

HOYT "SLIM" BRYANT & HIS WILD CATS / Eeny Meeny Dixie Deeny / Vol. 3 / BACM
HOYT "SLIM" BRYANT & HIS WILD CATS / I Ain't Gonna Worry No More / Vol. 1 / BACM

JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE / Working Hard Ain't Hardly Working Any More / Heartaches and Dreams / Rebel
E.C. BALL / Walking The Wires / VA: Rural Parlor Guitar 1967-1971 / County
OLD BLIND DOGS / Star O' the Bar / Four on the Floor / Vertical
DAILEY & VINCENT / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Singing From the Heart / Rounder
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS / Cornbread and Butterbeans / Genuine Negro Jigs / Nonesuch
JAMES ALAN SHELTON / Theme From Dillinger (Old Gospel Ship) / Where I'm Bound / Sheltone
DIERKS BENTLEY / Roving Gambler / Up On The Ridge / Capitol
TOM PAXTON, ANNE HILLS and BOB GIBSON / Home To Me Is Anywhere You Are / Best of Friends / Appleseed
JONATHAN EDWARDS & THE SELDOM SCENE / Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky / Jonathan Edwards & the Seldom Scene / Sugar Hill
ROLAND WHITE / Head Over Heels In Love With You / I Wasn't Born to Rock and Roll / Tompkins Square

Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
www.aliveandpicking.com
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Playlist for Alive & Picking for Saturday May 29, 2010, KPFK, Los Angeles. Format is ARTIST / Song title / Album title / Label

JIMMIE RODGERS (with Hoyt "Slim" Bryant, who passed away yesterday, on guitar) / Mother the Queen of My Heart / Box Set / Bear Family (rec. 1932)
JIMMIE RODGERS (with Hoyt "Slim" Bryant, who passed away yesterday, on guitar) / No Hard Times / Box Set / Bear Family (rec. 1932)
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE / Train Without a Track / Heartaches and Dreams / Rebel
PETER, PAUL & MARY / Settle Down / Moving / Warner Brothers
WATERSON:CARTHY / The Royal Forester, The Bald Headed End of the Broom/ Broken Ground / Topic
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN / If That's The Way You Feel / High Lonesome: The Complete Starday Recordings / Starday-Gusto
NEW GOLDEN RING / Leaning On The Everlasting Arms / Five Days Singing Vol. 1 / Folk Legacy
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS / See God's Ark A-Moving / Blue Diamond / Rounder
THE HAINTS OLD TIME STRING BAND / Riley The Furniture Man / Shout Monah / The Haints
KATHY KALLICK & LAURIE LEWIS /Count Your Blessings / VA: The Angels Are Singing / Rounder
THE EARL BROTHERS / Red Top Rumble / The Earl Brothers / www.earlbrothers.com
DAVID MALLETT / Main Street / This Town / Vanguard
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER / In Your Arms / Light On My Feet, Ready to Fly / Horizon
SI KAHN / Playing The Old Songs / Courage / Strictly Country
PETER ROWAN & THE NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND / That High Lonesome Sound / VA: Top of the Hill / Sugar Hill
BOB GIBSON / Lula Gal / Offbeat Folk Songs (Elektra LP)
RALPH STANLEY II / Moms Are the Reasons Wild Flowers Grow / VA: The Very Things You Treasure: 24 Bluegrass Songs of Faith & Family / Lonesome Day
NANCI GRIFFITH / Ten Degrees and Getting Colder / Other Voices, Other Rooms / Elektra
GORDON LIGHTFOOT / Ten Degrees and Getting Colder / Summer Side of Life / Reprise
ROLAND WHITE / Kansas City Railroad Blues / I Wasn't Born to Rock and Roll / Tompkins Square
THE LONG GONE SMILES / The Mystery of Number Five / The Most Important Part / Blue Standard
THE LONESOME RIVER BAND / I'll Take The Blame / VA: Legacy, A Tribute to the First Generation of Bluegrass / Sugar Hill
DAVID HOLT / When The Train Comes Along / VA: Old Time Music On the Air Vol. 1 / Rounder
HOT RIZE / High On a Mountain / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
ANDY COHEN / Railroad Blues / Built Right On the Ground / Earwig
TONY RICE & RICKY SKAGGS / Talk About Suffering / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
IAN & SYLVIA / Down By The Willow Garden / Their Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings / Vanguard
ALICE GERRARD & MIKE SEEGER / Dear Companion / Bowling Green / 5-String Productions
POLLY POSSUM with JOE WOLVERTON & THE DOG PATCH BOYS / I'm a Tired Woman / Polly Possum / HBR

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Saturday May 22: Kelly Marie Martin  was today's guest host; here is her playlist as she emailed it to me:

The Carter Family/Meeting in the Air/Chicago, NY City 1940-41Track 8/JSP Records

Old Sledge/Pretty Saro/Self-Titled/Track 2/oldsledgemusic.com

The Rockinghams/Baby-O/Shout Lulu/ADD Track 1

Aunt Jenny Wilson/Elk River Boys/Field Recorders Collective FRC408/Track 7/Field Recorders' Collective

Coon Creek Gals/Lulu Lee/Early Radio Favorites/Track 13/Old Homestead Records

The Flat Mountain Girls/Dubuque/Self Titled/Track 14/self-published

Roan Mountain Hilltoppers/Train 45/Down Home/Track 18/self-published

Fiddlin John Carson and Moonshine Kate/My Man's a Jolly Railroad Man/Complete Recorded Works Vol. 7/Track 3/Document Records

Madame Pamita/Good By, Miss Liza Jane/Madame Pamita's Wax Works/Track 7/Old Time Is A Good Time

Elizabeth LaPrelle/Lizard in the Spring/Liza Up a 'Simmon Tree/Track 7

Jim & Kim Lansford/Cuckoo Bird/Call Your Dogs/Track 16/Old 97 Wreckords

Rafe & Clelia Stefanini/Blackberry Blossom/Never Seen the LIke.../Track 6/Yodel-ay-hee Records

Black Crown Stringband/Arnold Van Pelt's Tune/Self Titled/Track 13/blackcrownstringband.com

Dykes "Magic City" Trio/Red Steer/Complete Recordings/Track 11/

The Ross County Farmers/March Winds going to Blow My Blues All Away/Field Recorders Collective FRC307/Track 35/Field Recorders' Collective

Amy&Karen/Christmas Eve/Play Old Time Quality Tunes&Songs/Track 2/amyandkaren.net

Matokie Slaughter and the Back Creek Buddies/Sally Ann/Saro/Track 7/Marimac

Alice Gerrard and Mike Seeger/Old Bunch of Keys/ Mike and Alice/Track 5/

Slate Mountain Ramblers/Rag Time Annie/Live at the Floyd County Store/Floyd Country Store

Hazel & Alice/Distant Land to Roam /Pioneering Women of Bluegrass/Track 20/Folkways

Tallboys/Cindy/Around the Bend/Track 1/The Tallboys

Sausage Grinder/Good Grinding/Delicious Moments/Track 4/Mooch Piddle Records

 Lydia Mendoza/Novillero/Vida Mia/Track 5/Arhoolie

Wade Ward/Nobody's Darling But Mine/Field Recorders Collective FRC507/Track 8/Field Recorders' Collective

 Red Mules/When Silver Threads are Gold Again/Self-Titled/Track 20

Ola Belle Reed & Family/Over Yonder in the Graveyard/Self-Titled/Track 6/Rounder

Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson/Go Dig My Grave/Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson at Folk City/Track 2/Folkways

 Elizabeth Cotten/Holy Ghost, Unchain My Name/Shake Sugaree/Track 21/Folkways

E.C. Ball with Orna Ball/If I could Hear My Mother Pray Again/Self-Titled/Track 21/Rounder

Lester & Linda McUmbers/Shake My Mother's Hand /Old Timey Tunes of Central West Virginia/Track 8

Triple Chicken Foot/There's a Beautiful City Called Heaven/Tar River/Track 12/Old Time Is A Good Time

Addie Graham/Sisters Thou Art Mild and Lovely/Been a Long Time Travelling/Track 21/June Appal Recordings

Freight Hoppers/ Fall On My Knees/Waiting On The Gravy Train/Track 10/Rounder

The Doc Watson Family/Your Long Journey/Self-Titled/Track 6/Folkways

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Saturday May 15
Playlist for Alive & Picking, KPFK Los Angeles, 5/15/10. Format is ARTIST / Song title / Album title / label

HOT RIZE / Gone But Not Forgotten / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
BEVERLY SMITH & CARL JONES / A. P. / Moving Lightly Through This World/ Dittyville
SELDOM SCENE / I Couldn't Find My Walking Shoes / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
ELIZABETH LaPRELLE / Awake Awake / Lizard In the Spring / www.old97wrecords.com
SI KAHN / Going Up the Mountain / Courage / Strictly Country
THE EARL BROTHERS / Going Back Home / The Earl Brothers / www.earlbrothers.com
KATHY & CAROL / Gold Watch & Chain / Kathy & Carol / Collector's Choice
THE WOLFE BROTHERS / Milwaukee Blues / Old Virginia Hills / Old Virginia
WHITETOP MOUNTAIN BAND / If That's The Way You Feel / Loafer's Dream / Mountain Roads
JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN / Beautiful / Return / www.jodyandkate.com
LARRY STEPHENSON Have You Come to Say Goodbye (with Del McCoury) / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
EVIE LADIN / One of These Days / Float Downstream / www.evieladin.com
JOHN PRINE / This Guitar Is For Sale / VA: Twistable Turnable Man: A Tribute to the Music of Shel Silverstein / Sugar Hill
CINDY KALLET & GREY LARSEN / Playing With a Full Deck / Cross the Water / Sleepy Creek
FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS / God's Own Singer / Anthology, 1969-1972 / A&M
SWEET POTATO PIE / Her Father's Eyes / Journey Called Life / Mountain Fever
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS / My Better Years / Blue Diamond / Rounder
ERNIE THACKER / Little Piece of Land / VA The Very Things You Treasure: Songs of Faith and Family / Lonesome Day
JIM RATTS & RUNAWAY EXPRESS / Ozark Night / Howling at the Moon / Raven
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN / High Lonesome / The Complete Starday Recordings / Starday-Gusto
ELKVILLE STRING BAND / Where the Roses Never Fade / Over the Mountain / Mountain Roads
THE GRASCALS / Can't You Hear That Whistle Blow / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder
LAKE OF STEW / The 1:05 / Ain't Tired of Lovin' / Woodhog
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS / Just Another Broken Heart / Open For Business / Mountain Roads
RON BLOCK / Your Heart Has Found a Home (with Alison Krauss) /VA: Come To The Mountain / Rounder
KATE RUSBY / Night Visiting Song / 10 / Compass
THE CHAPMANS / River of Sorrow / Grown up / Compass
ROLAND WHITE / Ocean of Diamonds / Trying To Get To You / Sugar Hill
MIKE SEEGER / Only Remembered (with Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin) / 3rd Annual Farewell Reunion / Rounder
LYNN MORRIS / Mama's Hands / Mama's Hands / Rounder

Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, Pacifica Radio for Southern California.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Saturday May 8: Ben Guzman of Triple Chicken Foot was today's guest host. Here's his playlist as he emailed it to me:

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Playlist for Alive & Picking, Saturday May 1, 2010. The format is ARTIST / song title / album title / label.

Today's show was devoted to artists born in May. Birth dates are in parentheses after each artist's name.

BAILES BROTHERS (Homer Bailes 5/8/1922) As Long As I Live / Oh So Many Years / Bear Family
BING CROSBY (5/2) New San Antonio Rose (with Bob Crosby & His Bob Cats / rec. 1940
JOEL RAFAEL (5/11) Sowing on the Mountain / Woodeye / www.joelrafael.com
ROBERT JOHNSON (5/8/1911) Traveling Riverside Blues / The Complete Robert Johnson / Sony Legacy
FATS WALLER (5/21) Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do (from a piano roll, circa 1927)
RENO & SMILEY (Red Smiley 5/17) Gone Home / On Stage / Copper Creek
CEPHAS & WIGGINS (Phil Wiggins 5/8) Caroline in the Morning / Cool Down / Alligator
JENKS TEX CARMAN (5/14) Hillbilly Hula / The Essential Dixie Cowboy, 1947-1957 / Revenant
JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS (Joe Maphis 5/12) The Go-Fer Song
PETE SEEGER (5/3/1919) Oh Had I A Golden Thread / The Essential Pete Seeger / Vanguard
JUDY COLLINS (5/1) Suzanne / In My Life / Elektra
AL DEXTER (5/4) Diddy Wah Boogie / Honky Tonk Blues 1936-1940 / Jasmine
THE CARTER FAMILY (Maybelle Carter 5/10/1909) I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes / Can The Circle Be Unbroken / Columbia
CARL STORY (5/29) Rank Stranger / Mighty Close to Heaven / Starday
KILBY SNOW (5/28/1926) He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / VA: Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection / Smithsonian Folkways
LESLIE KEITH (5/30) Black Mountain Blues
BING CROSBY (5/2) Don't Fence Me In (with the Andrews Sisters) / rec. 1944
MARY BLACK (5/22) Past The Point of Rescue / No Frontiers / Gift Horse
JIMMIE TARLTON (5/8/1892) Jimmie's Blue Heaven / Steel Guitar Rag / HighTone
THE DILLARDS (Rodney Dillard 5/18) Polly Vaughn / There Is a Time / Vanguard
BROWNIE McGHEE (5/1) Key To My Door / The Complete Brownie McGhee / Sony Legacy
BOB DYLAN (5/24) One Too Many Mornings / The Times They Are A-Changing / Columbia
SAM McGEE (5/1/1894) Pig Ankle Rag / Grand Dad of the Country Guitar Pickers / Arhoolie
JOHNNIE & JACK (Johnny Wright 5/14/1914, Jack Anglin 5/14/1916) Live & Let Live / Johnnie & Jack With The Tennessee Mountain Boys / BACM
DAVE EVANS / The Man In The Middle (songwriter Tom Harley Campbell 5/31) / Hang Out a Light For Me /Rebel
ERNEST V. STONEMAN (5/14/1893) Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone / Edison Recordings 1928 / County
CLIFF CARLISLE (5/6/1904) Pan American Man /Blue Yodeler and Steel Guitar Wizard / Arhoolie
THE MORRIS BROTHERS (Zeke Morris 5/19/1916) Somebody Loves You Darlin' / VA: Bona Fide Bluegrass and Mountain Music / BMG
GUY DAVIS (5/12) You Don't Know My Mind / You Don't Know My Mind / Red House
DICK GAUGHAN (5/7) Medley: Rattlin' Roarin' Willie/The Friar's Britches / No More Forever / Leader
BLIND WILLIE McTELL (5/5/1901) Statesboro Blues / Traveling Blues / Catfish
PETER, PAUL & MARY (Peter Yarrow 5/31) Stewball Was a Race Horse / The Collection / Warner Brothers
And that song started me on a tanget, because the Kentucky Derby was being run this afternoon, so from Stewball we went to
CHET ATKINS /Kentucky Derby / Bear Family box set
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS / Molly & Tenbrooks / The Best of Bill Monroe / MCA-Decca
WILL RYAN & THE CACTUS COUNTY COWBOYS / My Horse Likes Accordion Music / Rhythm Rides The Range / Audible

Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK in Los Angeles.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Playlist for Alive & Picking for Saturday, April 24, 2010. Format is ARTIST/Song title/Album title/Label

THE CHAPMANS/Bring It On Home to Me/Grown Up/Compass
GRADA/Pretty Polly/Natural Angle/Compass
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER/Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly/Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly/Horizon
EMMYLOU HARRIS/Gold Watch and Chain/Roses in the Snow/Warner Brothers
JOSH WILLIAMS/We'll Burn That Bridge/Down Home/Pinecastle
MATT BROWN/Carroll County Blues/My Native Home/5-String Productions
SWEET POTATO PIE/My Lord What a Morning/Journey Called Life/Mountain Fever
HOT RIZE/Blue Night/VA: Bluegrass Roots Live on E-Town/E-Town
WOLFE BROTHERS/Music in the Old Virginia Hills/Old Virginia Hills/Old Virginia
SNYDER FAMILY BAND/Little BLuebird/Comin' On Strong/Mountain Roads
CARL JACKSON/Erase the Miles/Song of the South/Sugar Hill
SYLVIA HEROLD & EUPHONIA/Fennario/Lovely Nancy/www.sylviaherold.com
STATEMENT/What a Beautiful Day/Around the Corner/Mountain Fever
ALICE GERRARD & MIKE SEEGER with Tommy Jarrell/Sweet Sunny South/Bowling Green/5-String Productions
THE GRASCALS/Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms/Keep On Walkin'/Rounder
TIM ERIKSEN/The Gallows Tree/Soul of the January Hills/Appleseed
ELKVILLE STRING BAND/Otto Wood/Over the Mountain/Mountain Roads
JIM & JESSE/I'll Love Nobody But You/VA: Bluegrass Class of 1990/Rounder
THE HAGAR'S MOUNTAIN BOYS/Forever Yours/Forever Yours/www.thehagarsmountainboys.com
ARLO GUTHRIE/City of New Orleans/HARP: A Time to Sing/Appleseed
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN/Dixie Lookaways/High Lonesome/Gusto
THE BRAINSTORMERS/Whoop 'Em Up Cindy/The Brainstormers/www.brainstormermusic.com
ALBEMARLE RAMBLERS/Lonesome Homesick Blues/Gentleman From Virginia/Merriweather
BEVERLY SMITH & CARL JONES/I'm Going To the West/Moving Lightly Through This World/Dittyville
DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE/Sweetest Waste of Time/Darin & Brooke Aldridge/Mountain Home
NANCI GRIFFITH/The Loving Kind/The Loving Kind/Rounder
JEAN CARIGNAN/Hangman's Reel/French Canadian, Irish and Scottish Fiddle Tunes/Legacy
BIG COUNTY BLUEGRASS/Ghost of a Love/Open for Business/Mountain Roads
DAVID MALLETT/Inches and Miles/Inches and Miles/Flying Fish
PRISCILLA HERDMAN/Underneath the Stars/Into the Stars/Stardreamer
JOE VAL & THE NEW ENGLAND BLUEGRASS BOYS/I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling/VA: The Stained Glass Hour/Rounder
LARRY STEPHENSON with Dailey & Vincent/Give This Message to Your Heart/20th Anniversary/Pinecastle

Alive & Picking is produced, engineered and hosted by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Saturday April 17: Tom & Patrick Sauber were the guest hosts, and also played live on the show!

Playlist for Alive & Picking, KPFK-FM, Los Angeles, Saturday 4/17/10.
Mary Katherine's guest hosts today were Tom  Patrick Sauber.
The format IS ARTIST/song title/album title.
A lot of the material that they brought in was unreleased live recordings from their own collections.

ACOUSTIC ALLSTARS/Nine Pound Hammer/Live at the Birchmere 1/23/88/unreleased
GOOD OLD PERSONS/You're the Song/Good Old Persons
BILL MONROE/Bluegrass Swing/Rare Live Performances Vol. 2
SKIP GORMAN/Pretty Little Dogies/The Cowboy's Wild Song
THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND/One Tear/Live, 11/24/83/unreleased

Tom and Patrick then played a couple of tunes live: "The Cuckoo" and "June Apple"

COOKE DUET/I'm Longing For Home/Early Cooke Duet
CLINT HOWARD AND FRIENDS/Otto Wood/Live Times 2
FLATT AND SCRUGGS/I'll Never Shed Another Tear/Martha White Biscuit Time, June 1953/unreleased
J.E. MAINER & HIS MOUNTAINEERS/Johnson's Old Grey Mule
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN/The Fields Have Turned Brown/Live 8/6/63/unreleased

Tom and Patrick then played live: "Southern Moon" and "Beaumont Rag"

DJANGO REINHARDT/Swanee River/Vol. 1: 1934/1935
E.C. BALL/When I Get Home I'm Gonna be Satisfied/Through the Years
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH/Some Old Day/Live at Berryville 6/18/75/unreleased
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS/Long Journey Home/Live at Watermelon Park/unreleased
McGEE BROTHERS/Railroad Blues/Smithsonian Folkways
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS/Love Chooses You/Live, unreleased

Tom and Patrick then played live: "Give Me Back My Fifteen Cents"

BILL MONROE/Travel On/Live 7/1/1964/unreleased
McGEE BROTHERS AND ARTHUR SMITH/Pig At Home In a Pen/Milk 'Em In the Evening Blues/Smithsonian Folkways
THE SOUL STIRRERS/Jesus Done Just What He Said/Jesus Gave Me Water
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH/Don't Give Your Heart to a Rambler/Live, Stuart, VA 7/1/79/unreleased
LOWE STOKES/Home Brew Rag/Lowe Stokes Vol. 1
CARTER BROS./Jenny on the Railroad/Mississippi String bands/Document

Tom and Patrick played live: "Sunny Side of Life" and "Milwaukee Blues"

Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Saturday April 10:
Playlist for Alive & Picking, Saturday April 10, 2010, KPFK, Los Angeles. Format is ARTIST/Song title/Album title/Label

April birthday set: artist's birthday is shown after his/her name.

SAM BUSH (4/13) Midnight on the Stormy Deep/Circles Around Me/Sugar Hill
CARTER FAMILY (A.P. Carter 4/15/1891) When the Roses Come Again/Complete Victor Recordings 1933-1934/Rounder
D. L. MENARD (4/14) Eunice Two-Step/D. L. Menard, Eddie LeJeune and Ken Smith: Le Trio Cadien/Rounder
CLIFF BRUNER (4/25/1915) Corrine Corrina/VA: Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys/Proper
DOYLE LAWSON (4/20) Just Over Yonder/Rock My Soul/Sugar Hill
THE BROWNS (Jim Ed 4/1, Maxine 4/27) The Three Bells/Bear Family box set
DON SANTIAGO JIMENEZ (4/25/1913) La Duena de la Llave/His First and Last Recordings/Arhoolie
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND (Stuart Duncan 4/14, Pat Enright 4/14, Roland White 4/23) Red Clay Halo/American Beauty/Sugar Hill
SONS OF THE PIONEERS (Bob Nolan 4/1) Way Out There/The Ultimate Collection/MCA
MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK (DS 4/5) Medley: The Barmaid/Peter St./The Mason's Apron/ Both Ears & the Tail, Live 1966/Gadfly
CLIFFORD GIBSON (4/17/1901) Blues Without a Dime/Complete Works/RST
KARL & HARTY (Harty Taylor 4/11/1905) I Wonder How the Old Folks Are At Home/Old Time Harmony Singing/BACM
EMMYLOU HARRIS (4/2) Hello Stranger/Luxury Liner/Warner Bros.
GABBY PAHINUI (4/22) Royal Hawaiian Hotel/Gabby/Panini
DAVID MALLETT (4/21) I Knew This Place/Inches and Miles/Flying Fish
VASSAR CLEMENTS (4/4/1913) Barnyard Boogie/Unreleased
MUDDY WATERS (4/4/1913) You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had)/One More Mile/MCA-Chess
WADE MAINER (4/21/1907 - 103 years old and still playing music!) Short Life and It's Trouble/VA: Ragged But Right/BMG
MERLE HAGGARD (4/6) Always Late With Your Kisses/Roots Vol. 1/Anti
LUE BERLINE (4/11/1894) Crazy Creek/VA: Bluegrass Breakdown: Live at the Newport Folk Festival/Vanguard
GRAYSON & WHITTER (Henry Whitter 4/6) Little Maggie With a Dram Glass In Her Hand/Complete Works in Chronological Order Vol. 2/Document
LORETTA LYNN (4/14) Blue Kentucky Girl/CMF Legendary Singers Series/MCA
JOHN "DAD" CROCKETT (4/28/1877) Fresno Blues/VA: Old Time Mountain Guitar/County
LOUVIN BROTHERS (Ira L 4/21/1924) If I Could Only Win Your Love/Bear Family box set
DAKOTA DAVE HULL (4/19) Seven Sisters/Sheridan Square Rag/Arabica
LAUREL CANYON RAMBLERS (Herb Pedersen 4/27) To A Heart Always True/Ramblers Blues/Sugar Hill

RANDY KOHRS/Handmade Nails and Homemade Love/VA: The Very Things You Treasure: 24 Bluegrass Songs of Faith and Family/Lonesome Day
FLATT & SCRUGGS/Don't Get Above Your Raisin'/VA: Columbia Country Classics Vol. 1/Columbia
BEVERLY SMITH & CARL JONES/Carter's Blues/Moving Lightly Through This World/Dittyville
DICK WEISSMAN/Double Banjo Intuition/Four Directions/Long Bridge

Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, Los Angeles.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Saturday April 3: Mark Hunmphrey was the guest host today. Here is his playlist as he emailed it to me:
Playlist for Alive and Picking, 4/3/10, KPFK
Host; Mary Katherine Aldin
Guest Host: Mark Humphrey

Hour 1, set 1 {Time: 17:09]
Theme: Old-time country & bluegrass radio
1.The Carter Family: “Intro/Theme/The Wandering Boy” 1939
Source: CD Arhoolie CD 411 The Carter Family On Border Radio, Vol. 1
2.Leslie Keith: “Going Round This World, Baby Mine” 1949
Source: CD Copper Creeek CCCD-0126 The Blue Sky Boys; Farm & Fun Time Favorites, Vol. 2
3.Don Reno & Red Smiley & the Tennessee Cutups: “I’ll Stay Around” circa 1960
Source: CD Copper Creek CCCD-0128 Don Reno & Red Smiley: `On the Air’
4.Hank Snow: “Intro”
5.Hank Snow: “Anniversary Blue Yodel (Blue Yodel # 7)” 1950 Source: CD Bear Family BCD 15488-1 Hank Snow: The Thesaurus Transcriptions
6.Hank Williams: “Everything’s Okay” 1951 Source: CD Time-Life 24922-D Hank Williams Revealed: The Unreleased Recordings
7.Kitty Wells: “Making Believe” 1955 Source: Lp: Anthology of Country Music ACM-16 Johnnie & Jack with Kitty Wells: Early Country Live

Hour 1, set 2 [Time: 17:49]
Theme: Dance tunes inspired by our barnyard buddies
1.Hoyt Slim Bryant & His Wildcats (vocal trio): “Barnyard Band” (circa late 1940s)
Source: CD BACM CD D 178 Hoyt Slim Bryant & His Wildcats
2.Clayton McMichen & His Georgia Wildcats: “Hog Trough Reel” 1932 Source: Lp Davis Unlimited Records  DU-33032 Clayton McMichen: The Traditional Years
3.Reece Shipley: “Milk Bucket Boogie” circa 1950 Source: Lp  Revivial Rec. 4002 Various: Rockabilly Boogie, Rare Items Vol. 2
4.Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang: “Cowbell Polka” circa late 1940s
Source: CD Bloodshot Revival BS 802 Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang:Shame On You
5.Charlie Herald & His Roundup Rangers: “Turkey in the Straw/Chicken Reel” 1933
Source; CD BACM CD D 255 Charlie Herald & His Roundup Rangers: Pioneering Canadian Cowboy Group
6.Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners: “Peacock Rag” 1940
Source: CD County CO-CD-3526 Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners
7.Cousin Deems Sanders  & His Goatherders: “Goatburger Boogie” late 1940s Source: Lp White label WLP 2809 Various: Boppin’ Hillbilly Vol. 9

Hour 1, set 3 [Time: 13:49]
1. The Ernie Thacker/Junior Blankenship Band: “Used to Be” [composer: Bill Monroe] 1995 Source: CD Copper Creek CCCD-0136 Thacker-Blankenship Band: “Tennessee Blues”
2. Bowman Sisters: “Old Lonesome Blues” [date unknown] Source: CD JSP 7740 A Various: Mountain Blues: Blues, Ballads & String bands, 1927-1938
3. Benny Martin:”That’s What I’ll Do to You” [circa 1955]
Source: CD Cactus Various: Mercury Hillbilly Vol. 3
4. Milo Twins {Edwin & Edward]: “Baby Buggy Boogie” [circa late `40s]
Source: CD CD BACM CD D 272 Milo Twins: Swamp Woman Blues
5.Rex Allen & the Arizona Wranglers: “the Girl I Left behind Me” 1946
Source: CD Soundies SCD 4101 Rex Allen: The Last of the Singing Cowboys
6. Emmylou Harris: “Heartbreak Hill” 1988 Source: Lp Reprise 9 25776-1 Emmylou Harris: Bluebird

Calendar music bed: Leo Kottke:` Easter’ Source: CD Rhino CD R2 72585/72438 The Leo Kottke Anthology

Hour 2, set 1 {Time: 17:44]
1.    Marty Stuart & the Fabulous Superlatives: “No Hard Times” 2005
Source: CD Universal UNSF-02670-2 Marty Stuart Live at the Ryman
2.Melba Montgomery: “Big, Big Heartaches” circa 1963 Source: Lp Melba Montgomery: America’s No. 1 Country and Western Girl Singer United Artists UAS 6341
3. Carson Robison & His Pleasant Valley Boys [Carl Kress, guitar]: “That Horse Named Pete” 1950 Source: Lp Cattle Records 107 Carson J. Robison: The Kansas Jayhawk: America’s First Real Hillbilly
4. Hank Snow: `Peter Cottontail’ 1953 Source: CD Bear Family  BCD 15488-4 Hank Snow: The Thesaurus Transcriptions
5. Jimmie Driftwood: `Shanghaied’ 1961 Bear Family BCD 15465-3 Jimmie Driftwood: Americana
6. Merle Haggard: `You Don’t Have Far to Go’  (circa 1967) Source: CD Capitol 7243-5-3454-2-3  Merle Haggard: Hurtin’
7. Tanya Tucker: `Don’t Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You’ 1975 Source: CD MCA 088 170 159-2 The Best of Tanya Tucker

Hour 2, set 2 {Time: 11:29]
1. The Horseflies: “Link of Chain” 1987  Source: Lp Rounder 0239 The Horseflies: Human Fly
2. Nimrod Workman: “Ida Red” 1982
Source: CD 2s&Fews DC379CD Nimrod Workman: I Want to Go Where Things Are Beautiful
3. Rusty & Doug Kershaw: “Sweet Sweet Girl (to Me)” 1962 Source: Lp Bear Family BFX 15036 Rusty & Doug Kershaw: Cajun Country Rockers
4. Paul & Roy: “The Way You Lied to Me” [circa late`50s]
Source: CD Cactus Various: Mercury Hillbilly Vol. 2
5. Jimmy Haynie: “My Mind Goes Blank” [circa `early 1950s]
Source: CD Cactus Various: Okeh 18000 Series—Hillbilly
6.Tennessee Ernie Ford & the Dinning Sisters: “Rock City Boogie” 1952 Source: Lp see For Miles Records SEE 262 Tennessee Ernie Ford & Friends: Farmyard Boogie

Hour 2, set 3 {Time: 20:20]
1.Fess Parker: `Daniel Boone’ 1964 Source: CD Bear Family BCD 17032 Various: Country Boy’s Dream
2.    Cherryholmes: `Greedy Hands’ 2007 Source: CD Skaggs Family 6989020182 Cherryholmes II: Black and White
3.    The Swing Billies (Charlie Poole, Jr., vocals): `Crazy Yodeling Blues’ 1937 Source: CD BACM CD 261 Various:  Southeastern Swing Bands
4.    Jim Reeves: `Penny Candy’ 1954 Source: CD Bear Family BCD 15656 PI Jim Reeves: Welcome to My World
5.    Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers: `Montana’ 1936  Source: CD Living Era CD AJA 5516 Patsy Montana: The Original Cowboy’s Sweetheart
6.    Mattie O’Neil & Salty Holmes: `Wake Up, Little Boy Blue’ 1953 Source: CD Cattle CD 289 salty Holmes & Mattie O’Neil with the Amber Sisters and Joe Maphis
7.    Johnny Cash: `Beans for Breakfast’ 1991 Source: CD Mercury 440069089 Johnny Cash: The Mystery of Life
[End of hour 2]

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Saturday March 27:
Playlist for Alive & Picking, KPFK, Los Angeles, for 3/27/10. Format is ARTIST/Title/Album/Label

JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS/Let The Whole World Talk/VA: Bluegrass Mountain Style/Rounder
BOB WILLS/Time Changes Everything/VA: Columbia Country Classics Vol. 1/Columbia
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS/Visions of Mother and Dad/Buena Vista/Red House
LAUREL CANYON RAMBLERS/It Hurts To know/Back on the Street Again/Sugar Hill
THE HONEY DEW DROPS/How We Used to Be/If the Sun Will Shine/www.thehoneydewdrops.com
TOM, BRAD & ALICE/I'll See You Tonight In My Dreams/Carve That Possum/Copper Creek
BILL GRANT AND DELIA BELL/Won't You Come and Sing For Me/VA: The Stained Glass Hour/Rounder
VIOLET HENSLEY/Soldier's Joy/Family Treasures/no label
GORDON LIGHTFOOT/Alberta Bound/Don Quixote/Warner Brothers
RED MOLLY/The End of the Line/James/www.redmolly.com
THE GRASCALS/Feeling Blue/Keep On Walkin'/Rounder
RED CLAY RAMBLERS/Aragon Mill/Chuckin' the Frizz/Flying Fish
TISH HINOJOSA/Our Little Planet/Our Little Planet/Varese Vintage
SOUTHERN RAIL/Hobo On a Freight Train to heaven/On the Road From Appomattox/Railway
MAURA O'CONNELL/The Blacksmith (with Tim O'Brien)/Naked With Friends/Sugar Hill
DEL McCOURY BAND/Love Is a Long Road/VA:Bluegrass Roots Live/E-Town
DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE/Let's Not Go There/Darin & Brooke Aldridge/Mountain Home
EVIE LADIN/Going Across the Sea/Float Downstream/www.evieladin.com
THE CHAPMANS/I Wanna Be Loved Like That/Grown Up/Compass
MIKE SEEGER & ALICE GERRARD/Sunny Side of Life/Bowling Green/5-String Productions
STEEP CANYON RANGERS/Shades of Gray/Deep in the Shade/Rebel
DEWEY BALFA, STEVE RILEY & FRIENDS/Orphans Waltz/VA: Folk Masters Live at Wolf Trap/Smithsonian Folkways
ALBEMARLE RAMBLERS/From Earth to Heaven/Gentleman From Virginia/Merriweather
KALAMA'S QIARTET/Na Moku Eha/Early Hawaiian Classics 1927-1932/Arhoolie
THE VOLO BOGTROTTERS/Quit That Ticking Me/VA: Old Time Music On the Air Vol 1/Rounder
THE BLACK FAMILY/Donkey Riding/The Black Family/Dara
ELKVILLE STRING BAND/Cindy/Over the Mountain/Mountain Roads
DAILEY & VINCENT/I Am Resolved/Singing From the Heart/Rounder
JIM LLOYD & THE SKYLINERS/Are You From Dixie/Songs From My Atic/Mountain Roads
YORKSHIRE RELISH/The Old Cock Crows/VA: Voices In Harmony/Fellside
GEOFF MULDAUR & JIM KWESKIN/Guabi Guabi/Geoff Muldaur Rare & Unissued Collectors Items/no label (Japan)
MARLEY'S GHOST/Palms Of Victory/Spooked/Sage Arts

Alive and Picking is produced, engineered and hosted by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, Pacifica Radio for Southern California.
www.aliveandpicking.com

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Saturday March 20: John and Deanne Davis guest hosted the show with me this morning. Here is their playlist as they emailed it to me:

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Saturday March 13:

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Saturday March 6
Playlist for Alive & Picking, Saturday, March 6, 2010. The format is ARTIST/song title/album title/label

LAURIE LEWIS/Old Friend/Earth & Sky/Rounder
TIM O'BRIEN/Time to Learn/OhBoy!/Sugar Hill
MATT BROWN/Time Has Made a Change in Me/My Native Home/5 String Productions
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS/The Angels Are Singing in Heaven Tonight/VA: Bluegrass Roots, Live from E-Town/www.etown.com
THE HONEY DEW DROPS/Don't Leave Me Here/If The Sun Will Shine/www.thehoneydewdrops.com
THE SNYDER FAMILY BAND/Red Haired Boy/Comin' On Strong/Mountain Roads
BARRY & HOLLY TASHIAN/Straw Into Gold/Straw Into Gold/Rounder
LARRY STEPHENSON/The Bluebirds are Singing for Me (w/Dudley Connell)/20th Anniversary/Pinecastle
WHITETOP MOUNTAIN BAND/Where the Mountain Laurel Blooms/Loafer's Dream/Mountain Roads
CHESAPEAKE/Are You Tired of Me My Darling/Full Sail/Sugar Hill
WHEELER/Lord I Wanna Go/Bluegrass Gospel/Mountain Roads
JOSH WILLIAMS/Blue Railroad Train (w/Tony Rice)/Down Home/Pinecastle
THE SONGS OF CULLEN GALYEAN/Judy Lou/VA: Born Into Bluegrass/Mountain Roads
THE CHAPMANS/Love's Gonna Live Here (w/Rhonda Vincent)/Grown Up/Compass
PATHWAY/What Must I Do/Somewhere Tonight/Mountain Roads
ALBEMARLE RAMBLERS/Yew Piney Mountain-My Mama Always Talked To Me/Gentleman From Virginia/Merriweather Records
DUDLEY & VINCENT/Jesus Is Coming Soon/Singing From the Heart/Rounder
RENO & SMILEY/I Can't Stop Loving You/On Stage/Copper Creek
ANY OLD TIME STRING BAND/C-U-B-A/I Bid You Goodnight/Arhoolie
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS/High Alleghenies/Open For Business/Mountain Roads
TONY RICE/Don't Give Your Heart to a Rambler/Tony Rice/Rounder
ELKVILLE STRING BAND/There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere/Over the Mountain/Mountain Roads
EVIE LADIN/I Love My Honey/Float Downstream/www.evieladin.com
JOHNNY WILLIAMS/Helping Hand/Last Day of Galax/Mountain Roads
TENNESSEE GENTLEMEN/You Can Have Her/Tennessee Gentlemen/www.tennesseegentlemen,com
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS/Blue Moon of Kentucky/VA: Bluegrass Breakdown/Vanguard
GINNY HAWKER & KAY JUSTICE/Distant Land to Roam/VA: Old Time Music On the Air Vol. 1/Rounder
ALECIA NUGENT/God Knows What/A Little Girl A Big Four Lane/Rounder
LAURIE LEWIS/The Roughest Road/Blossoms/Spruce & Maple Music

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Saturday February 27 Mark Humphrey guest hosted the show today; here is his playlist as he emailed it to me:

Alive `n Pickin’ 
6-8 a.m. Sat. KPFK
Host: Mary Katherine Aldin 
Guest host 02-27-2010: Mark Humphrey

Hour 1, set 1

1. Slim Whitman: "Love Song of the Waterfall"[writer: Bob Nolan] 1954 
Source: CD Capitol Vintage Collections Slim Whitman
2. Sons of the Pioneers: "The Timber Trail"  1945 Source: CD Bear Family 
BCD 15640
Sons of the Pioneers: Wagons West
3. Rhonda Vincent: "Jolene" 2000 Source: CD Rounder 11661 Rhonda Vincent: 
Back Home Again
4. Eddie Hill: "The Hot Guitar" 1951 Source: CD Bear Family BCD 17032 
Various Artists: Country Boy’s Dream


Hour 1, Set 2

1.Oscar Ford [vocal, fiddle & Riley Puckett, guitar) "Married Life Blues" 
1929
Source: CD JSP 7740 Various Artists: Mountain Blues: Blues, Ballads & 
String Bands 1927-1938 
2.Gene Autry: "(I’ve Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle Jingle" 1942 Source: CD 
 Columbia Legacy CK 48957 The Essential Gene Autry, 1933-1946
3.Jimmy Murphy: "Electricity" 1951 Source: CD Bear Family BCD 15451 Jimmy 
Murphy: Sixteen Tons Rock `n Roll
4.Luke Wills’ Rhythm Busters (Johnny Tyler, vocal) "High Voltage Gal" 1947 
Source: CD Proper P1431 Various Artists: Stompin’ Singers & Western Swingers
5. Dolly Parton: "Muleskinner Blues" 1970 Source: CD RCA 07863 Dolly 
Parton: The RCA Years, 1967-1986
6. Kessinger Brothers (Clark, fiddle, Luches, guitar): "Mississippi Sawyer 
(Le Reel Gaspesien)" 1929 Source: CD Document DOCD-8010 Kessinger Brothers: 
Volume 1, 1928-1929

Hour 1, set 3 

1.Ralph Stanley: "True Blue Bill" 1986 Source: CD Rebel CD 7520 Ralph 
Stanley: Old-Time Pickin’: A Clawhammer Banjo Collection
2.Chubby Wise: "Carroll County Blues" [Jimmy Campbell, 2nd fiddle] 1994 
Source: CD Pinecastle PRC 1031 Chubby Wise in Nashville
3.The Lone Star Cowboys (Joe Attlesey, vocal) "Hang Out the Front Door Key" 
1933 Source: CD origin Jazz Library OJL 1001 Leon Chappelear {Leon’s Lone 
Star Cowboys): Western Swing Chronicles, Volume 2
4.Red Murrell: "Talkin’ Blues" late 1940s Source: CD Cactus Vol. 1 Various: 
Hot Stuff: Capitol Hillbilly Vol. 1 


Hour 2, set 1

Hour 2, set 2 [Total time: 14:58]
Theme: Like father, like daughter?
1.Bill Monroe & Blue Grass Boys: "Train 45 (Headin’ South)" 1968 Source: CD 
Bear Family BCD 15529 Bill Monroe: Bluegrass 1959-1969
2.Melissa Monroe [Bill’s daughter]: "I’m Waiting Just for You" 1950s 
Source: CD Jasmine JASMCD 3550  Various: Treating Her Wrong: Sweetheart & 
Heartbreak Songs
3.Wilburn Brothers: "Mixed Up Medley (No Foolin’/All About You)" 1955 
Source: CD BACM CD D 254 The Wilburn Brothers (Teddy & Doyle): The Knoxville 
Girl 
4.The Johnson Mountain Boys: "You Done Me Wrong" 1993 Source: CD Rounder CD 
0293 The Johnson Mountain Boys: Blue Diamond
5.Al Dexter "Wine Women & Song" 1945 Source: CD Proper P1400 Various: 
Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
6.Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: "You Can’t Hardly Get Them No 
More" 1955 Source: CD Bear Family BCD 15727 Pee Wee King & The Golden West 
Cowboys 

Hour 2, set 3 
Themes: Hank’s kith & kin 
1.Hank Williams: "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" 1951 (Mother’s Best radio show)
Source: CD Time LIFE 24923 Hank Williams Revealed: The Unreleased Recordings
2.Holly Williams {Hank’s granddaughter]: "Between Your Lines" 2004 Source: 
CD Universal UNSF 02561 Holly Williams: The Ones We Never Knew 
3.Big Bill Lister [Hank’s pal, died Dec. 1,`09 age 86]: "There’s a Tear in 
My Beer" 1951 [written for BBL by Hank] Source: Lp Capitol C1-91436 
Various: Hillbilly Music…Thank God!  Vol. 1 
4.The Bailes Brothers (Johnnie & Walter, Hank’s pals):  "Whiskey Is the 
Devil in Liquid Form" 1947 Source: CD Bear Family  BCD 15973 The Bailes 
Brothers: Oh So Many Years
5.Tony Rice (guitar), Norman Blake (mandolin): "Fiddler’s Dram/Whiskey 
Before Breakfast" 1987 Source: Lp Rounder 0233 Blake & Rice

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Saturday February 20: KPFK pre-empted the show today for special Fund Drive programming.
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Saturday February 13: Still the Fund Drive -

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Saturday February 6: The KPFK Fund Drive -
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Saturday January 30

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Saturday January 23 

1. BILL MONROE & CARTER STANLEY/Sugar Coasted Love/Live show, 1961, unreleased
2. WAYNE RANEY/Don't Know Why
3. BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS/Live & Let Live/Live show, 1967, unreleased
4. TOM, BRAD & ALICE/Devilish Mary/We'll Die In the Pigpen Fighting
5. BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS/My Dixie Home/1946-48 Grand Old Opry Transcriptions
6. ROAN MOUNTAIN HILLTOPPERS/Rattletrap/Down Home
7. RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS/How Mountain Girls Can Love/KBOO #1
8. BURNETT & RUTHERFORD/She is a Flower Blooming/Complete Recordings/Document
9. DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER/Some Beautiful Day/Thank God
8. CARRIERE BROTHERS/Blue Runner/Musique Creole
9. DWIGHT McCALL/Tennessee Border/Kentucky Peace of Mind
10. PAUL BROWN/Brushy Fork/VA: Banjo Gathering/Rounder
11. FLATT & SCRUGGS/Turkey In the Straw/Live Martha White Biscuit Time 1953/unreleased
12. THE BRAINSTORMERS/Rockingham Cindy/Brainstormers
13. FLATT & SCRUGGS/I Have Found The Way/Live Martha White Biscuit Time 1953/unreleased
14. SARA & MAYBELLE CARTER/I'm Leaving You/VA: Close to Home: Music from the Mike Seeger Collection/Smithsonian Folkways
15. GEORGE JONES/Just One More/Best of George Jones 1955-1967
16. THE GRASCALS/Keep Me From Blowing Away/Long List of Heartaches
17. COUSIN EMMY/Ground Hog
18. J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH/You Don't Know My Mind/Live at McCabe's 1975/unreleased
19. DOUBLE DECKER STRING BAND/ Down the River I Go/Marimac
20. J. D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH/Leaves That Are Green/Live board tape 1974/unreleased
21. BIG CHARLIE BUTLER/Diamond Joe/VA Deep River of Song: Mississippi Saints & Sinners/Rounder
22. JOHN REISCHMAN/Eighth of February/Up In the Woods
23. KIMBLE & WAGONER FAMILIES/Silver Threads & Golden Needles/Kimble & Wagoner Families/Field Recorders Collective
24. LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS/Live Forever/The Golden West
25. THE LEWIS BROTHERS/Sally Johson/VA: Texas String Bands/County
26. FLATT & SCRUGGS/We'll Meet Again Sweetheart/The Complete Mercury Sessions/Mercury
27. MEL DURHAM/Going to the Free State/Skillet Fork" Southern Illinois Tunes
28. MICHAEL CLEVELAND/Montana Cowboy/Let 'Er Go Boys
29. ALICE, GAIL & SHARON/Wild Hog In the Woods/The Road to Agate Hill
30. THE BRAINSTORMERS/New River Train/The Brainstormers

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Saturday January 2 Format is ARTIST/song title/album title/label

1. MARLEY’S GHOST/Fiddlers Green/Live at the Freight/Sage Arts
2. BILL KEITH/Auld Lang Syne/Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass/Rounder
3. SPRING CREEK BLUEGRASS BAND/Gone But Not Forgotten/Rural & Cosmic Bluegrass/self
4. SALLY ROGERS/I Wish I Had Someone To Love Me/The Unclaimed Pint/Flying Fish
5. SOUTHERN RAIL/Beyond the Heavens/On the Road From Appomatox/Railway
6. ALMEDA RIDDLE/Chick-a-Li-Lee-O/VA: Oh My Little Darling: Folk Song Types/New World
7. THE DILLARDS/Dooley/There is a Time/Vanguard
8. TIM O’BRIEN/Get Out There and Dance/Chameleon/Proper
9. JOYCE ANDERSON/Short Life of Trouble/The Girl I Left Behind/Joyscream
10. HIGH COUNTRY/Down Hearted/Perfect Companions/Squirty
11. CAROLINA JUG STOMPERS/Medley: New Orleans Wiggle/Somebody Stole My Gal/Rooster on a Limb/Old 97 Wrecords
12. RAY NAYLOR/Come Fare Away With Me/No Shrink Wrap/Polar Bear
13. RED ALLEN/Preachin’ Prayin’ Singin’/VA: Authentic Rare Bluegrass/JSP
14. DAVID RAWLINGS/Sweet Tooth/A Friend of a Friend/Acony
15. MAC WISEMAN/When The Roses Bloom Again/Bluegrass Hits & Heartsongs/Rebel
16. PETE SEEGER/When I First Came to This Land/Live In 65/Appleseed
17. JONATHAN EDWARDS & THE SELDOM SCENE/How Long Have I Been Waiting For You/VA: Bluegrass Essentials/Hip-O
18. KATHY KALLICK/Banks of the Ohio/My Mother’s Voice/Copper Creek
19. NEW GOLDEN RING/Sam Gone Away/Five Days Singing Vol. 2/Folk Legacy
20. JANE VOSS/Goodbye To My Stepstone/VA: Folk Music The Bay Years Vol. 1/Bay
21. JIMMY MARTIN/All The Good Times/Hit Parade of Loe, Live 1958-1960/Music Mill Entertainment
22. TOM, BRAD & ALICE/The Cuckoo/Holly Ding/Copper Creek
23. JOHN McCUTCHEON/Room at the Top of the Stairs/Supper’s On The Table Everybody Come In/Rounder
24. TIM ERIKSEN/Farewell to Old Bedford/Tim Eriksen/Appleseed
25. TOM RUSH/Late Night Radio/Live at Symphony Hall/Varese Saraband
26. COUNTRY GENTLEMEN/A Beautiful Life/The Last Album/Seven Seas-Rebel
27. LOUISE MOSRIE/Home/Home/www.louisemosrie.com
28. NORMAN BLAKE & TONY RICE/Thank You Mr. Martin (The D-18 Song)/Norman Blake & Tony Rice 2/Rounder
29. GERRY MILNES & LORRAINE HAMMOND/Who’s Been Here Since I’ve Been Gone/Hell Up Coal Holler: Traditional Fiddle & Dulcimer Music/Shanachie
30. RENO & SMILEY/Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die/20 Bluegrass Originals/DeLuxe
31. STEVE EARLE & DEL McCOURY/Leroy’s Dust Bowl Blues/High On a Mountain/Acoustic Artists
32. DADDY JOHN LOVE/Cotton Mill Blues/ VA: Oh My Little Darling: Folk Song Types/New World

 

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