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

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Saturday December 31: Mary Katherine waves goodbye: This will be my last show.

A major decision, but oddly, not a hard one. I've been doing a radio show in some form or other for over 35 years now, and all this time I have always said that when it stopped being fun I would hang it up. And that time has come; it has stopped being fun. Getting up at 4:00 a.m. on Saturdays? Not fun. Working every single weeknight evening on prep for the coming Saturday's show, instead of playing with my granddaughter or visiting with friends or, you know, just having time to read a book? Not fun. Listening to countless recordings of mediocre singer/songwhiners to find the few jewels that I just love and really want to play? Not fun. Going in to the radio station to find missing or broken equipment, the control room a mess, and things not being done that should be? LONG ago stopped being fun. The fundraising pledge drives, so essential to the radio station's continued well-being but so incredibly draining to do? NEVER were any fun. When I wrote the note to Maggie (the station's Music Director) last week, telling her that I was ready to go, I saved it in my unsent mail for a couple of days, wondering if I might just be a little tired or momentarily depressed or something, and it would pass. Nope. When I finally hit that "send" button, I promise you I felt nothing but an immense relief. I am SO MUCH looking forward to returning to a life in which I *can* go out to hear live music on Friday nights because I won't have to get up at 4 the next morning, and for that matter can go out to shows on Saturday nights without falling asleep during the first set because I have been up since 4 *that* morning. I can go away for a weekend. Did you hear me? I can go away for a whole weekend, yes, starting on a Friday night if I want to, without having to say, no, sorry, can't leave till after I do the show Saturday morning. For 35 years I have been planning my entire life around the obligation of doing a radio show for which, of course, I not only get paid nothing, but which actually costs me anywhere between $2,000 and $3,000 a year to do. I get a lot of records for free, yes, but I have to BUY at least as many more.

But the most important thing is this: listening to music, which I used to love, has become a chore and an obligation. I HAVE to listen to this huge stack of stuff that comes in the mail every week, knowing that most of it is going to be garbage but it all has to get a fair hearing. If listening to music has become a burden; if my favorite part of doing the radio show has become having guest hosts sit in with me so I don't have to program anything that week? Wow, REALLY time to let it go. I have enjoyed it, mostly; but now it's time to say goodbye.

There are some folks in public radio who hang onto their shows with a death grip, because it's all they have; their entire identities and lives have become wrapped up in doing their radio programs. Me? I have a whole big huge busy exciting wonderful life. Terrific kids (and grandkids) whom I adore and who adore me, a full time day job, a vast circle of friends I rarely get to see, projects producing and annotating reissues, my occasional freelance writing work, my annual trips to see my "second family" of friends in New Orleans, my work on the Grammy committees, and a lot more. I don't need to hear my name on the radio every week; I already know who I am. And frankly, my life is winding down now, and I am becoming acutely aware of what time I have left, and the need to spend it wisely. I'm not getting any younger - au contraire - and I want my children and grandchildren and old friends to get as much of my time and attention as possible. So I am leaving radioland in order to give myself time to enjoy being alive while I am alive, and there it is. Last show: last Saturday of the year, December 31. New year: new start.

I have loved serving the music all these years. Thanks for listening.

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Saturday December 24: John and DeAnne Davis bring us their annual Heartfelt Christmas show.

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Saturday December 17: Ben Elder's Wildwood Flower Christmas show.

 1 Songs We Love / Burns Sisters / Tradition / Rounder
2 Deck the Halls / Michael O'Dorn / M.O'D's Magical Christmas / Skylar (self)
3 Noel Chez Pop et Mom / Jambalaya Cajun Band / Joyeux Noel / Swallow
4 Jingle Bells / Gregg Miner / A Christmas Collection / Miner Music (self)
5 12 Days of Christmas / Waimanalo Keikis / Mele Kalikimaka / Tradewinds
6 Christmas Island / Leon Redbone / Christmas Island /Private Music
7 Chipmunk Song / Dakota Dave Hill & Kari Larson / The Goose Is Getting Fat / Arabica (self)
8 Silent Night All Day Long / John Prine / A John Prine Christmas / Oh Boy
9 Old Toy Trains / Roger Miller / (boxed set) / Mercury
10 Buy War Toys For Christmas / The Foremen / (single) / (Metaphor? / self?)
11 We Wish You A Merry Christmas / David Grisman / Acoustic Christmas / Rounder
12 Big Dead Bird / Lou & Peter Berryman / House Concert / Cornbelt (self)
13 Alcoholidays / Chris Gaffney & The Cold Hard Facts / Road To Indio (EP) / Cactus (self)
14 Merry Christmas From the Family / Robert Earl Keen / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
15 If We Make It Through December / Merle Haggard / (boxed set) / Capitol
16 Happy New Year Auld Lang Syne / Dawn Hummer / Live at Boulevard Music / Major Label
17 Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Bill Monroe / (Decca holiday LP 1960s) / Decca
18 Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town / Cluster Pluckers / Cluster Plucker Christmas / (self)
19 Two-Step 'Round the Christmas Tree / Suzy Bogguss / Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / Compadre
20 Riding Home on Christmas Eve / Riders In The Sky / Merry Christmas From Harmony Ranch / Columbia/Sony
21 The Christmas Trail / Michael Martin Murphey / Cowboy Christmas / Warner Bros.
22 The First Noel-It Came Upon a Midnight Clear-Joy to the World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
23 Beautiful Star of Bethlehem / Emmylou Harris / Light of the Stable / Warner Bros.
24 Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring / Leo Kottke / 6 & 12 String Guitar / Takoma
25 The Last Month of the Year / Fairfield Four & Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
26 Silent Night / Seldom Scene / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
27 Christmas Lullaby / Doc Watson / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
28 Away In a Manger / Ben Keith / Seven Gates / Reprise
29 The Friendly Beasts / Johnson Mountain Boys / Must Be Santa! / Rounder
30 A Cradle In Bethlehem / Bass Mountain Boys / Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas / Pinecastle
31 Nothing But A Child / Robin & Linda Williams / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill

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Saturday December 10: A 60's folk music Christmas special with Joe Frazier (Chad Mitchell Trio), George Grove (Kingston Trio), Jim Moran (Chilly Winds), and Art Podell (Art & Paul, New Christy Minstrels)
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Saturday December  3: Tom Nixon guest hosted with a Nixon Tapes Christmas show. Here is his playlist:


1. Stanley Brothers - Holiday Picking
2. Rabbi Joe Black with the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band - Yodel Dreidel
3. Chris Gafney and the Cold Hard Facts - Alcoholidays
4. Tashiro Midori - Jinguru-Beru
5. Swan Silvertones - When Was the Baby Born?
6. Terry Allen - Xmas on the Isthmus
7. Alton Ellis and the Lipsticks - Merry Merry Christmas
8. Nolan Strong and the Diablos - The Wind
9. Eartha Kitt - All I Want is All There is and Then Some
10. Marta Sebestyen - Bethlehem, Bethlehem
11. Bob Rivers and Twisted Radio - O Little Town of Bethlehem
12. Eliza Gilkyson - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
13. Rabbi Joe Black and the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band - Ocho Kandelikas
14. Tany Ponce - Este Año en Navidad
15. The Executor - Christmas is a Joyful Day
16. Save Ferris - Christmas Wrapping
17. Radio Citizen - The Prophets
18. Bob Rivers and Twisted Radio - Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear
19. The Stanley Brothers - Christmas Time is Near
20. Reverend J.M. Gates - Hell Will Be Your Santa Clause
21. Poxy Bogarts - Santa Dog
22. Lord Beginner - Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning
23. Butch Hancock - Junkyard in the Sun
24. Frankie Armstrong - Anti-Carol
25. Ethan James - Bring the Torch Jeannette Isabella
26. Ozie Ware with Duke Ellington's Hot 5 - Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back
27. Mabel Mafunga - Happy Christmas, Happy New Year
28. Geoff and Clare Muldaur - At the Christmas Ball
29. Lord Nelson - Party for Santa Claus
30. Terry Allen - Sawahdi (Christmas Song)
31. Commander Cody - Daddy's Drinkin' Up Our Christmas
32. The Stanley Brothers - The Drunken Driver
33. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Merry Christmas Baby
34. Black On White Affair - Auld Lange Syne

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Saturday November 26: Tom Sauber guest hosts.

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Saturday November 19:

Playlist for Alive and Picking, Saturday November 19, 2011. Format is NAME OF ARTIST / Song title / Album or CD title / label or source.

LAURIE LEWIS / Fair Beauty Bright / Skippin' and Flyin' / Spruce and Maple
BEARFOOT / Come Get Your Lonesome / American Story / www.bearfootband.com
CLACK MOUNTAIN STRING BAND / Susanna Gal / VA: Appalachia: Music From Home / Lonesome
ANDY COHEN & JOE RADCLIFFE / Cincinnati Flow Rag / Four Hands No Waiting / Wepecket
THE ONCE / Jack the Sailor / The Once / Borealis
DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE / Things In Life / So Much In Between / Mountain Home
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS/ Goin' Across the Sea / Vintage and Unique / Corvus
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS / Say You'll Take Me Back / Working Close / Rounder
SWINGING DOORS (Mayne Smith. Ray Bierl, Steve Baker, John Hanes, Markie Sanders) / Blues Come Around (unreleased work in progress)
TARA NEVINS / All I Ever Needed / Wood and Stone / Sugar Hill
DAVID MALLETT / Fire / Inches & Miles / Flying Fish
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS / The Leaving Train / Close As We Can Get / Flying Fish
JOHN McCUTCHEON / Deportees / This Land: Woody Guthrie's America / Appalsongs
SYLVIA HEROLD / Telephone Girl / A Mockingbird Sings in California / www.sylviaherold.com
MOUNTAIN FAITH / Morning's Coming / Save Me / Mountain Home
RICHARD BRANDENBERG / The Wave of the Past / Flickering Dreams / Pine Pitch
COUNTRY HAM / Waterbound / I'll Be Leaving / Vetco
BILL EMERSON / Poor Rebel Soldier / VA: New Cuts of Bluegrass Vol. 2 (radio sampler)
THE 23 STRING BAND / Raleigh & Spencer / Catch 23 / www.the23stringband.com
GATHERING TIME / Oh Shenandoah / Red Apples and Gold / Gathering Time
STRANGE CREEK SINGERS/ New River Train / Strange Creek Singers / Arhoolie
RICKY SKAGGS / Don't Get Above Your Raisin' / Country Hits Bluegrass Style /Skaggs Family
RED HEN STRING BAND / Martin Said to His Man / Birds of a Feather / Wepecket
KATHY KALLICK / There's a Higher Power / Count Your Blessings: A Bluegrass Gospel Collection / Live Oak
STEPHEN KELLOGG & THE SIXERS / Gravity / Gift Horse / Vanguard
ELIZABETH LaPRELLE / Rain and Snow / Rain and Snow / Old 97
BRIAN WRIGHT / Live Again / House on Fire / Entropy
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS / Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas) / Requests / Rounder
THE BAREFOOT MOVEMENT / Southfork By Midnight / Footworks / Lonesome
JOHN BOWMAN / Let Your Light Shine for Jesus / Family Chain: The Songs of Joe Isaacs / Pisgah
RITA HOSKING / Something You Got / Burn / www.ritahosking.com

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 and streams live and is archived at www.kpfk.org. Playlist are posted and archived at www.aliveandpicking.com

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Saturday November 12

Playlist for Alive and Picking, KPFK, Los Angeles, 11/12/11. Format is NAME OF ARTIST / Song title / Album title / label or source.
 
Opening set in honor of Veteran’s Day:
 
THE MONROE BROTHERS / The Forgotten Soldier Boy / The Legendary Monroe Brothers, 1936-1938 / Japanese RCA
PATSY MONTANA / GOODNIGHT SOLDIER / The Original Cowboy’s Sweetheart / Living Era
JENKS “TEX” CARMAN / The Caissons Go Rolling Along / The Essential Dixie Cowboy, 1947-57 / Revenant
TANI ALLEN / In The Army Again / VA: Hillbilly Boogie from Bullet Records / T-Bird
MERLE TRAVIS / Re-Enlistment Blues / Guitar Rags and a Too-Fast Past / Bear Family
YORK BROTHERS / Conscription Blues / Going Back To the Sunny South / BACM
MERCY DEE WALTON / G.I. Fever / downloaded from iTunes because I couldn’t find it in my collection
KITTY WELLS / Searching For a Soldier’s Grave / The Queen of Country Music / Bear Family box set
RED RIVER DAVE / I’d Rather Die For My Country Than Live With my Wife / VA: Henpecked Daddies / Jasmine
JOHN PRINE / Sam Stone / Souvenirs / Oh Boy
WILF CARTER / K.P. Blues / Canadian Legend Vol. 3 / Bear Family
RENO & SMILEY / Forgotten Men / Reno & Smiley / King box set
JUNE TABOR / No Man’s Land / Ashes and Diamonds / Topic
PHIL OCHS / I Ain’t Marching Any More / Live at Newport / Vanguard
VANCE BROTHERS / Draft Board Blues / VA: Macy’s Texas Hillbillies / ACR
JIMMIE DRIFTWOOD / How Do You Like the Army / Americana / Bear Family
 RHONDA VINCENT / Till They Come Home / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
 
Second set: Artists who have birthdays in November (birthdays in parentheses after artist’s name)
 
ROY ROGERS (b. 11/5/1911) and DALE EVANS / Happy Trails To You / out of print LP
ROY ROGERS (b. 11/5/1911) with THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS / Some Folks Do / out of print LP
JIM WATSON (b. 11/7), MIKE CRAVER AND TOMMY THOMPSON / When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland / Meeting In the Air: Songs of the Carter Family / Barker-Sapsucker
 ECK ROBERTSON (b. 11/20/1887) with THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS / Leather Britches / VA: Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger’s Collection / Smithsonian Folkways
SAM AND KIRK (b. 11/4/1899) McGEE / Roll On Buddy / The New Lost City Ramblers and Friends: Old Time Music at Newport / Vanguard
SAM AND KIRK (b. 11/4/1899) McGEE / My Family Has Been a Crooked Set / Uncle Dave Macon Vol. 2 / JSP
MERLE TRAVIS (b. 11/29/1917) / I’ll See You In My Dreams / The Legend of Merle Travis / CMH
SENATOR ROBERT BYRD (b. 11/20/1917)/ Turkey In the Straw / Mountain Fiddler / County
ALPHONSE “BOIS SEC” ARDOIN (b. 11/16/1915) with BALFA TOUJOURS / Allon Danser / /Allon Danser / Rounder
 
Third set: New and recent releases
 
PHARIS AND JASON ROMERO / Forsaken Love / A Passing Glimpse / www.jasonandpharis.com
THE ONCE / Cradle Hill / The Once / Borealis
KATHY KALLICK / Daniel Prayed / Count Your Blessings: A Bluegrass Gospel Collection / Live Oak
JOHN McCUTCHEON / Pretty Boy Floyd / This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America / Appleseed
RICKY SKAGGS / I Wouldn’t Change You If I Could / Country Hits Bluegrass Style / Skaggs Family
LAURIE LEWIS / Old Ten Broek / Skippin’ And Flyin’ / Spruce and Maple
 
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, and is also streamed live and archived at www.kpfk.org. Past playlists are archived at www.aliveandpicking.com
 

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Saturday November 5:  Show is pre-empted for special fund drive programming, back next week.

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Saturday October 29: FUND DRIVE TIME: Please call in your pledge of support at (818) 985-5735 this morning.

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Saturday October 22: FUND DRIVE TIME: Please call in your pledge of support at (818) 985-5735 this morning.

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Saturday October 15: John & DeAnne Davis were the guest hosts; this is their playlist.

TIME

ARTIST/GROUP

CD/ALBUM TITLE

SONG

CONTACT INFO

6:00 AM

Bill Clifton

Where the Rainbow Finds it's End

Sunshine & Rain

Elf Records, Box 69, Mendota, VA 24270

 

Clay County

Love is the Source

One Good Song

Clay County, Box 604, San Dimas CA 91773

 

Country Gentlemen

Sugar Hill Collection

For The First Time

www.randywaller.com

 

Bob Cleevers

The Stories I Write

That's What I'll Do Tomorrow

cheeversongs@earthlink.net

6:15

Country Gazette

Hello Operator

The Great Joe Bob

www.flyingfishrecords.com

 

Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick

Together

Is The Blue Moon Still Shining?

www.laurielewis.com

 

Paul Siebel

 

Then Came the Children

www.rounder.com

 

Cherryholmes

 

Will I Be The Winner

http://cherryholmes.musiccitynetworks.com

6:30

The Chieftains

Another Country

Nobody's Darlin' But Mine

www.chieftains.com

 

South Ocean String Band

Spring Picnic

Shenandoah

Cracker Prod, Box 422, Boynton Beach FL 33425

 

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Come On Come On

Not Too Much to Ask

www.marychapincarpenter.com

6:45

Guy Clark

The Dark

Magnolia Wind

www.guyclark.com

 

Aoife Clancy

Silvery Moon

Giving

www.aoifclancy.com

 

Richard Berman

Love, Work & Play

The Kids Are Back

www.richardberman.com

7:00

ALIVE & PICKING

CALENDAR

 

 

 

Huxtable, Christensen & Hood

Wallflowers

Oldest of Friends

www.rounder.com

 

Kathy Chiavola

The Harvest

Thirty Years of Tears

www.kathychiavola.com

 

Stan Rogers

The Very Best of Stan Rogers

Forty-five Years

www.stanrogers.com

7:21

Peter Rowan

 

The Free Mexican Airforce

www.peter-rowan.com

 

Cindy Church

 

What Does She See

www.cindychurch.com

 

Breakaway

Watershed

Last Train Redeemer

Breakaway, Box 8343, Burlington VT 05402

7:35

Fred Eaglesmith

Ralph's Last Show

White Trash

www.fredeaglesmith.com

 

Rosalie Sorrels

Travelin' Lady Rides Again

Post Card From India

www.rosaliesorrels.com

7:42

Tom Russell

Borderland

The Next Thing Smokin'

www.tomrussell.com

 

Wil Maring

The Calling

The Calling

www.shadymix.com

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Saturday October 8:

Playlist for Alive & Picking, Saturday, October 8, 2011. Format is ARTIST / Song Title / Album Title / Label or source

RICKY SKAGGS / Crying My Heart Out Over You / Country Hits Bluegrass Style / Skaggs Family
DALE ROBIN / Boatman/ Sweet & Salty / Wepecket
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS / Cry Cry Darling / Requests / Rounder
DAVE GIEGERICH / Dobro Rumba / It's About Time / www.davegeigerich.com
KYLE CAREY / Let Them Be All / Monogah / www.kyleannecarey.com
JIM LAUDERDALE / Cruel Wind and Rain / Reason and Rhyme / Sugar Hill
DAILEY & VINCENT / Close By / VA: Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
VAL STOREY / Little Mountain Church House / www.valstorey.com
THE O'DONNELLS / John In the Jordan / The O'Donnells / www.odonnells.com.au
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS / Shady Grove / Vintage & Unique / Corvus
RED HEN STRING BAND / Blue Yodel # 3 / Birds of a Feather / Wepecket
COTY HOGUE / Undone In Sorrow / To the West / Cello Room
BLUE HIGHWAY / Sounds of Home / Sounds of Home / Rounder
THE COX FAMILY / In the Highways / VA: O Brother Where Art Thou 10th Anniversary Edition / Lost Highway
RICHARD BRANDENBURG / Did You Know and Not Tell Me / Flickering Dreams / Pine Pitch
GILLIAN WELCH / Silver Dagger / The Harrow & the Harvest / Acony
CEDRIC WATSON & COREY LEDET / Canray's One Step / Goin' Down to Louisiana / Valcour
DEHLIA LOW / Cannonball Blues / Ravens & Crows / Rebel
CLARE MILLINER & WALT KOKEN / Cookhouse Joe / Just Tunes / Mudthumper
AUDIE BLAYLOCK & REDLINE / Mighty Dark to Travel / New Cuts of Bluegrass Sampler (Rural Rhythm)
JOEL MABUS / Grieve My Lord No More / American Anonymous / Fossil
JIM KWESKIN JUG BAND / Ella Speed / Garden of Joy / Reprise (LP)
THE 23 STRING BAND / Cripple Creek / Catch 23 / www.the23stringband.com
TONY McMANUS / The Rolling Waves + Martin Wynne's #1 / The Makers Mark / Compass
NELL ROBINSON / Turn Your Radio On / The Brooklyn Road / Red Level
FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN / Left Out In the Cold / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / www.dirtykitchenband.com
NANCI GRIFFITH / Do Re Mi (duet with Guy Clark) / Other Voices Other Rooms / Elektra
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS / The Boys In Hats & Ties / The Boys In Hats & Ties / Rebel
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE / A Far Cry From Lester and Earl / upcoming CD on Rebel
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS / Tomorrow I'll be Gone / Working Close / Rounder
CHESAPEAKE / Carolina Star / Pier Pressure / Sugar Hill
LAURIE LEWIS / Hold To a Dream / Restless Rambling Heart / Flying Fish
TOMMY WEBB / From Rock and Roll to Bill Monroe / www.thetommywebbband.com
CAROLINA ROAD / A Light In the Window Again / Rural Rhythm

Alive & Picking is produced, engineered and hosted by Mary Katherine Aldin and is heard live every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, and also streams live at www.kpfk.org. Each program is archived for two weeks after it airs. Playlists can be found at www.aliveandpicking.com

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Saturday October 1: Joe Frazier (Chad Mitchell Trio), George Grove (Kingston Trio), Jim Moran (Chilly Winds) and Art Podell (New Christy Minstrels, Art & Paul) guest host.

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Saturday September 24: Mark Humphrey guest hosted.

KPFK                                       -1-

Alive & Picking

June 24, 201, 6-8 a.m.

Host: Mary Katherine Aldin

Guest host:  Mark Humphrey

Hour 1, set 1[total time: 15:07}
1.     
Carson Robison: “Cowboy Romeo” 1937 Source: CD BACM CD D 331 Carson Robison: Long Long Ways from Home
2.     
Andy Parker & the Plainsmen: “Union Pacific” 1947 [recorded in L.A.] Source: CD BACM CD D 329 Andy Parker & the Plainsmen, Vol. 2 The Coast Recordings
3.     
Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith & His Dixeliners (Clyde Moody, guitar): “Peacock Rag” 1940 Source: CD County  CO-CD-3526 Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners
4.     
The Stalsby Family: “Greasy Greens” 1940 Source: CD BACM CD D 324 Various: Texas & Oklahoma: Duos & Trios, 1935-1940
5.     
Bobbie Gentry: “Ode to Billie Joe” 1967 (Jimmie Haskell, arranger. #1 pop for 4 weeks, 1967) Source: Lp Capitol Bobbie Gentry: Ode to Billie Joe

Hour 1, set 2 [Time: 17:21]

Themes & variations

1.      Hank Williams: “Ramblin’ Man’ 1951 Source: CD Label: Mercury Hank Williams: Alone & Forsaken
2.     
Frankie Laine: “Ramblin’ Man” 1953 Source: CD Label: Bear Family Frankie Laine: On the Trail Again
3.      Blue Sky Boys: “Katie Dear” 1938 Source: CD Label: BMG Various: Are You from Dixie? Great Country Brother Teams of the 1930s
4.      Joe & Rose Lee Maphis: “Let’s Fly Away” 1952 Source: CD Jasmine JASMCD 3590 Joe & Rose Lee Maphis: Ridin’ the Frets
5.     
Avis Armbrister & Almeda Campbell: “All in the Woods” 1995 Source: CD label: Smithsonian Folkways Various: The Bahamas: Islands of Song
6.     
Lonzo & Oscar: “There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea” 1948 Source: CD BACM CD D 198 Lonzo & Oscar: There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

Hour 1, set 3 [time: 15:56]

1.      Vern Gosdin: “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Loud, Loud Music’ 1985 Source: Lp Compleat label Vern Gosdin: Time Stood Still
2.      The Three Williamsons (Kitty, vocal & fiddle): “I Ain’t Got Nobody” 1937 Source: CD BACM CD D 324 Various: Texas & Oklahoma: Duos & Trios, 1935-1940
3.      Tony Furtado: “Ralph Trischka” 1992 Source: CD Rounder CD 0290 Tony Furtdao: Within Reach
4.       The Wilburn Brothers: “Much Too Often” 1950s Source: CD Gold Star label  The Wilburn Brothers: In Harmony
5. The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover: “Forgotten Soldier Boy” 1961 Source: CD Label: Smithsonian Folkways The Lily Brothers & Don Stover:Bluegrass at the Roots, 196

Calendar  music  bed: Gasparini Organ (the Gypsy Queen): `I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles’  & `Under the Double Eagle’ (1970) Source: Lp Audio Fidelity Records: After 1300 Hours, Vol. 2  Total time: 6:2

Hour 2, set 1
1.     
Reno & Smiley: `Freight Train Boogie’ (1959) Source: CD King KBSCD 7001Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups, 1951-1959
2.     
Ken Smith & D.L. Menard: `Blues de Port Arthur’ (1992) Source: CD Rounder CD 6049 Eddie LeJeune, D.L. Menard, Ken Smith: Le Trio Cadien
3.     
Tex Ritter: `The Night Herding Song’ 1945 Source: CD Bear Family BCD 15634 Tex Ritter: High Noon
4.     
 Rosalie Allen: `Yodel Boogie’ (late 1940s) Source: CD Jasmine JASMCD 3598/9 The Versatile Rosalie Allen
5.      Dillard Chandler: `Short Time Here, Long Time Gone’ (circa 1963)  Source: CD Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40159  Various: Dark Holler: Old Love Songs & Ballads
6.     
Wanda Jackson: `Blues Stay Away from Me’ (circa `66) Source: Lp Capitol T2306 Wanda Jackson: Blues in My Heart

Total time, Hr 2, set 1: 15:02
 
Hour 2, set 2

1.      Delmore Brothers: `I’ve Got the Big River Blues’ (1933) Source: CD RCA 8417-2-R Various: Are You from Dixie? Great Country  Brother Teams of the 1930s
2.     
Doc Watson: `Wild Bill Jones’ (1979) Doc & Merle Watson: Live & Pickin’
3.      Lonzo & Oscar: `Metro Polka’ (late `40s) Source: Lp Cow Girl Boy Lp 5041 Lonzo & Oscar: Honky Tonk Sweetheart
4.      Floyd  Cramer: `On the Rebound’ (1961) Source: CD RCA 66591-2 The Essential  Floyd Cramer
5.      Bob Wills Texas Playboys (Tommy Duncan, vocals): `Across the Alley from the Alamo’ (1946) Source: Lp Rhino RNDF 284 Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: The Greatest Hits of Texas
6.     
The O’Kanes Jamie O’Hara, Kieran Kane): `Blue Love’ (1988) Source: Lp CBS Records The O’Kanes: Tired of the Runnin’

Total time: 16:08

 Hour 2, set 3 [total time: 13:18]

      1.      Emmylou Harris: “I’ll Go Stepping Too” 1980 Source: CD label: Warner Bros. Emmylou Harris: Roses in the Snow
2.     
Sam Nichols: “Who Put the Cat Out” 1950s Source: CD Cactus CACD-063 Various: MGM Hillbilly, Vol. 6
3.      Porter Wagoner: “Trying to Forget the Blues” 1956 Source: CD Label: Bear Family Porter Wagoner: The Thin Man from West Plains
4.      Joe Ayers: “Whoop Jamboree Reprise” 1994 Source: CD Label: Rounder Various: Minstrel Banjo Style
5.      Martha Carson: “Old Blind Barnabas” (M. Travis, guitar) 1940s Source: CD BACM CD 161 James Roberts & Martha Carson: I’m Going to Let It Shine
 6.       The Dixon Brothers: “Time for Me to Go” 1938 Source: CD label: Document Dixon Brothers, Volume 4

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Saturday September 17:

Format is ARTIST/ Song title / CD or Album title / record label or source
 
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER / The White Rose / Old Starday LP, out of print
WILMA LEE COOPER / You Tried To Ruin My Name / VA:  Oh Sister: The Women’s Bluegrass Collection / Rounder
WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER / Little Darling Pal of Mine / Sing the Carter Family’s Greatest Hits / Gusto
LYNN MORRIS / Mama’s Hand /
RENO & SMILEY / No Longer a Sweetheart of Mine / Good Old Country Ballads / King
THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS / Standing in the Need of Prayer / Requests / Rounder
COTY HOGUE / Going To the West / To the West / Cello Room
PETER MAYER / All the World Is One / Heaven Below / Blue Boat
DEHLIA LOW / What Do You Think of Her Now? / Ravens & Crows / Rebel
MICHELLE NIXON & DRIVE / Top of the World / A Place I Belong / Mountain Fever
JESSE LEGE, JOEL SAVOY & THE CAJUN COUNTRY REVIVAL / Ouvre La Port (Open The Door) / The Right Combination / Valcour
BLUE HIGHWAY / Heather & Billy / Sounds of Home / Rounder
DONNA ULISSE / Hand Me Down Home / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group
HUNGRY TOWN / The Sweetest Flower / Any Forgotten Thing / Listen Here
LOAFER’S GLORY / I’ll Be All Smiles Tomorrow / unreleased track from a CD they’re still recording / don’t know label yet
MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER / The Nights Are So Long / Fired Up / Rounder
BILL MONROE / Roanoke / American Traveler / County
NU-BLU / Other Woman’s Blues / The Blu-Disc / Pinecastle
JOHN DOYLE / Little Sparrow / Shadows & Light / Compass
JOEL MABUS / The Drunken Hiccups / American Anonymous / Fossil
IIIRD TYME OUT / If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again / Rural Rhythm
ASHLEE BLANKENSHIP & BLADES OF BLUE / Give More Than I Take / Ashlee Blankenship & Blades of Blue / Mountain Fever
JIM KWESKIN JUG BAND / The Circus Song / Garden of Joy (out of print LP . Vanguard
HARLEY ALLEN / In the Jailhouse Now / VA: O Brother Where Art Thou 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Mercury
MOYA BRENNAN & CORMAC DE BARRA / An Seanduine Doite / Voices and Harps / BEO
RICHARD BRANDENBURG / No Part of Nothing / Flickering Dreams / Pine Pitch Music
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS / Scarlet Town / The Harrow & the Harvest / Acony
CEDRIC WATSON & COREY LEDET / Colinda / Goin’ Down to Louisiana / Valcour
PLOW / Bring It On Down to My House / Plow / Sugar Mama
JUSTIN HAYWARD  / It’s Cold Outside of Your Heart / VA: Moody Bluegrass - Two Much Love - A Nashville Celebration of the Moody Blues
THE 23 STRING BAND / Raleigh & Spencer / Caatch 23 / www.the23stringband.com
 

Alive & Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7FM, Los Angeles. Playlists are posted on the station’s web site at www.kpfk.org and also on the program’s web site at www.aliveandpicking.com. In addition to terrestrial radio, the show streams live, and is archived for two weeks at www.kpfk.org/audioarchives


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Saturday September 10: Mary Katherine hosts a tribute to the music of Bill Monroe, a few days before his 100th birthday.

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June 18:  JOHN & DEANNE DAVIS did a special Father's Day special edition of Heartfelt Music on Alive & Picking. Here is the playlist as John emailed it to me:

TIME

              ARTIST/GROUP

        CD/ALBUM TITLE

                          SONG

CONTACT INFO

6:00 AM

Bob Young

 

Heart & Soul

(949) 588-0476

 

Jim St. Ours

The Gift

The Gift

www.reverbnation.com/jimstours

 

Smoky River Boys

O' Brother

Happy Father's Day, Mama

www.smokyriverboys.com

6:15

Barry & Holly Tashian

Straw Into Gold

Straw Into Gold

www.tashianmusic.com

 

Deborah Liv Johnson

The Cowboys of Baja Have Stolen My heart

Daddy Can I Be A Cowboy

http://deborahlivjohnson.com

 

Valerie Smith

Turtle Wings

Sweeter Field of Clover

www.valeriesmithonline.com

 

Lonesome Standard Time

Mighty Lonesome

The Track That We Leave

www.sugarhillrecords.com

6:30

Michael Smith

Michael Margaret Pat & Kate

I Brought My Father With Me

www.michaelpetersmith.com

 

Jim Henry

Jacksonville

Pals Forever Dad

www.jimhenry.net

 

Pam Gadd

The Long Road

All The Old Men Are Gone

www.pamgadd.com

6:45

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

Live at the Charleston Music Hall

Cats in the Cradle

www.skaggsfamilyrecords.com

 

David Mallett

Parallel Lives

My Old Man

www.davidmallet.com

7:00

ALIVE & PICKIN’

CALENDAR

 

 

 

Del Rey

Boogie Mysterioso

Dad Blues

www.hobemianrecords.com/delrey

 

Kristina Olsen

Duet

Mt Father's Piano

www.kristinaolsen.net

7:15

Iris Dement

My Life

No Time to Cry

www.irisdement.com

 

The Acoustics

Down at Evangelina's

Mt Daddy's Watch

www.flyingfishrecords.com

 

Carrie Newcomer

My Father's Only Son

My Father's Only Son

www.carrienewcomer.com

7:30

Guy Clark

Dublin Blues

The Randall Knife

www.guyclark.com

 

Fred Eaglesmith

Ralph's Last Show

How's Ernie?

www.fredeaglesmith.com

 

Tim O'Brien

Daddies Sing Good Night

Full Circle

www.sugarhillrecords.com

7:45

Iris Dement

My Life

Childhood Memories

www.irisdement.com

 

Mumbo Gumbo

Mumbo Gumbo

Barbeque

www.mumbogumbo.com

 

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June 11: No show today. See note above.

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June 4: We'll be joined by special guest hosts JOE FRAZIER (Chad Mitchell Trio), GEORGE GROVE (Kingston Trio), JIM MORAN (Chilly Winds) and ART PODELL (Art & Paul, The New Christy Minstrels)

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MAY IS FUND DRIVE TIME so for either two or three of the Saturdays in May I will be asking you to call in with a pledge. Thanks!

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April 30: MARK HUMPHREY
was the guest host today; here is his playlist as he emailed it to me:

Hour 1, set 1

  1. The Pickard Family: “Rabbit in the Pea Patch” 1929 [Obed `Dad’ Pickard, lead vocal, harmonica & Jew’s harp] Source: CD BACM CD D 084 The Pickard Family: Walking in the Parlour
  2. Nimrod Workman: “Good Morning” 1982 [Workman was 87] Source: CD 2s&Fews DC379CD Nimrod Workman: I Want to Go Where Things Are Beautiful
  3. The Carlisles [Chet Atkins, gtr.]: “Pickin’ Peas Down A Long Pea Row” 1956

Source: CD BACM CD D 167 The Carlisles: Tennessee Memories

  1. Vera Ward Hall: “Boll Weevil Blues” 1940 Source: CD Rounder 11661-1829-2 Various: Deep River of Song: Alabama (from Lullabies to Blues)
  2. Tapan Varis: “Fanitullen” [artist is from Finland, tune is Norwegian dance tune] 1996 Source: CD North Side Tapani Varis: Jews Harp
  3. Dolly Parton: “Down from Dover” 1968 Source: CD Omni 138 Dolly Parton: The Fairest of Them All/My Favorite Songwriter

Hour 1, set 2 [Jimmie Rodgers theme]

  1. Ernest Tubb: “The Passing of Jimmie Rodgers” Oct. 27, 1936 [ET’s 1st recording] Source: Lp ACM-7  Various: Sounds Like Jimmie Rodgers
  2. Jimmie Rodgers: “Those Gambler’s Blues” July 5, 1930 [recorded Hollywood; Lani McIntire, guitar] Source: CD Rounder CD 1059 Jimmie Rodgers: Riding High: 1929-1930
  3. Bill Monroe & Bluegrass Boys: “Blue Yodel #7” 1941 Source: CD JSP7712 {boxed set] Bill Monroe & his Bluegrass Boys: All the Classic Releases, 1937-1949
  4. Jerry Lee Lewis: “My Carolina Sunshine Girl” 1956 Source: Lp Sun 6467 029 Jerry Lee Lewis: Rockin’ & Free: Previously Unissued Sun Sessions
  5. The Johnson Mountain Boys: “Blue Yodel #3” 1983 Source: Lp Rounder 0191 Johnson Mountain Boys: Live at the Birchmere
  6. Doc Watson: “I Was a Stranger” 1963 [Newport Folk Festival] Source: Lp Vanguard [Japan} LAX 6036 The Essential Doc Watson
  7. Tony Rice [w/Sam Bush, Vassar Clements, Bela Fleck]: “Muleskinner Blues” 1984 Source: Lp Rounder 0183 Tony Rice: Cold on the Shoulder

 
Hour 1, set 3

  1. Wanda Jackson: “I’d Rather Have a Broken Heart” 1955 [WJ was 18 when she recorded this] Source: Lp Bear Family BFX 15109 Early Wanda Jackson
  2. Little Jimmy Dickens: “Slow Suicide” 1954 Source: Lp Columbia FC 38905 Columbia Historic Edition Little Jimmy Dickens
  3. Louis Innes: “Suicide” 1953 Source: CD BACM CD 148 Various: Another Taste of King Recorded 1946-1954
  4. Bill Boyd’s Cowboy Ramblers [Jesse Ashlock, vocal & fiddle]: “River Blues” 1936 Source: CD Acrobat ACRCD 132 Bill Boyd’s Cowboy Ramblers: Saturday Night Rag, 1934-1936, vol. 1
  5. Roscoe Holcomb: “Boat’s Up the River” circa 1961 Source: CD Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40079 Roscoe Holcomb: The High Lonesome Sound
  6. Rose Maddox: “Down to the River” circa early `60s [Ralph Mooney, steel, probably James Burton or Roy Nichols, gtr.] Source: Lp Pickwick Js-6163 Rose Maddox

Calendar Music:[Time: 5:30]

Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Billy in the Low Ground” 1949

2. Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Fisher’s Hornpipe” 1949

from Bear family BCD 15727 FI Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys

Hour 2, set 1
  1. Tom Anderson: “Our Love Goes On Just Like a Ballgame” circa 1954 Source: CD Cactus CACD-063 Various: MGM Records: Hillbilly Vol. 6
  2. Cowboy Copas: “Three Strikes and You’re Out” 1947 Source: CD Ace CDCHD 854 Various: Hillbilly Bop `n Boogie: King/Federal’s Roots of Rockabilly 1944-56
  3. Loretta Lynn: “A Hundred Proof Heartache” 1963 [written by LL for her 1st Decca album] Source: Lp Stetson HAT 3023 Loretta Lynn Sings
  4. Jimmy Murphy [vocal, guitar w/Onie Wheeler, harmonica]: “I’m Looking for a Mustard Parch” 1955 Source: CD Bear Family BCD 15451 Jimmy Murphy: Sixteen Tons Rock & Roll
  5. Melba Montgomery: “The Blues Are Closing In” [written by MM] 1963 Source: Lp United Artists UAS 6341 Melba Montgomery: America’s No. One Country and Western Girl Singer
  6. Red Foley: “Sugar Foot Rag Square Dance” 1952 Source: CD BACM CD D 064 Red Foley: Tater Pie

Hour 2, set 2

  1. Vernon Dalhart: “The Wreck of the Shenandoah” 09-18-25 Source: CD Document DOCD-1105 Vernon Dalhart: Puttin’ on the Style

Further info on the topic of this song: http://mike.whybark.com/archives/000093.html

  1. Slim Pickens: “The Fireman Cowboy” 1977 Source: Lp Blue Canyon BCS 506 Slim Pickens
  2. Ray Price [w/the Driftiing Cowboys]: “Who Stole That Train” 1953 Source: Lp Rounder Special Series 88-82 Ray Price: The Honly-Tonk Years, 1951-1953
  3. Reno & Smiley: “I’m Blue and Lonesome” [written by Hank Williams for Bill Monroe] 1959 Source: CD [boxed set] King KBSCD-7001 Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cutups, 1951-1959, Collector’s Box Set
  4. Scotty Stoneman: “Orange Blossom Breakdown” 1963  Source: CD Righteous Psalm 23:23 Various: Jukebox at the Last Chance Saloon

 Hour 2, set 3

  1. Jim Gatlin [vocal & saxophone w/Les Smithart & His Super X Cowboys]: “Would It Matter at All” circa 1950 Source: CD Rykodisc RCD 20126 Various: Get with the Beat: The Mar-Vel Masters
  2. Joan Baez: “Wildwood Flower” 1960 Source: CD Vanguard VMD-2077 Joan Baez Vol. 1
  3. Roy Clark: “Wildwood Twist” 1962 Source: Lp  Capitol St 1780 The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark
  4. Charles B. Smith [AKA Bernard Smith w/Benny Goodman, clarinet, & King Benny Nawahi, Hawaiian guitar, gtr., mandolin & harmonica!]: “My Little A-1 Brownie” 1931 Source: CD BACM CD D 057 Various: The Columbia Label: Classic Old Time Music
  5. George Jones: “Developing My Pictures” circa 1970 Source: Lp Rounder Special Series 15 George Jones: Burn the Honky-Tonk Down
  6. Bob Newman: “A-Round the Corner” 1952 Source: Lp Bear Family BFX 15168 Bob Newman: Hangover Boogie
  7. Roy Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Boys featuring Jimmy Riddle, harmonica: “Sailor’s Hornpipe” 1954 Opry broadcast Source: CD RME Music, Inc. Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys: The RC Cola Shows Vol. 1

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ALIVE AND PICKING PLAYLIST FOR 4/23/11

Format is ARTIST/ Song title / Album title / record label or source

HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD / T.B. Blues / Pioneering Women of Bluegrass / Smithsonian-Folkways
HAZEL DICKENS / West Virginia My Home / Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People / Rounder
HAZEL DICKENS, GINNY HAWKER & CAROL ELIZABETH JONES /Times Are Not What They Used to Be (with Bruce Molsky, gtr) / Heart of a Singer / Rounder
HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD / Let That Liar Alone / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Rounder
TUMBLING TUMBLEWEEDS / California / Blaze Across the West / no label
MARA LEVINE / Stepstone / Mara’s Gems / MBL
HOT MUD FAMILY / Over the Mountain / The Complete Vetco Recordings / www.hotmudfamily.com
WILL WHITE / Mournin’ Dove / Rise Above / Whippoorwill Music
BLUEGRASS GOSPEL PROJECT /I Hear Them All / The Blue Morpho / Vital
LAUREN SHEEHAN / Honey Babe Blues / Rose City Rambler / www.laurensheehan.com
GERRY O’BEIRNE & ROSIE SHIPLEY / Cape Breton Set / Yesterday I Saw the Earth Beautiful / ShipWhistle
BOB DYLAN / Bob Dylan’s Dream / Live at Brandeis University 1963 / Legacy
LYNN MORRIS / You’ll Never Be the Sun / You’ll Never Be the Sun / Rounder
J. D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH / Freeborn Man / Holiday in Japan / www.jdcrowe.net
SARAH JAROSZ / Ring Them Bells / Follow Me Down / Sugar Hill
DAVID GRINDSTAFF / Memories of an Angel / Here and Now / DaySight
ALAN SENAUKE (with KATE BRISLIN lead vocal) / What Was I Supposed To Do / Wooden Man: Old Songs From the Southern School / Native & Fine
THE LEWIS TRADITION / I Can’t Take You With Me / Precious Memories / Thoroughbred
RALPH STANLEY / John the Revelator / Mother’s Prayer / Rebel
MIKE AND PEGGY SEEGER / Little Birdie / Fly Down Little Bird / Appleseed
THE GIBSON BROTHERS / I’ll Love Nobody But You / Help My Brother / Compass
LARRY HANKS & DEBORAH ROBINS / Cotton Mill Girls / No Hiding Place / Zippety Whippet
HARVEY REID & JOYCE ANDERSON / Will You Go to the Sea / The Great Sad River / Woodpecker
THE HAGARS MOUNTAIN BOYS / Salvation’s Final Plan / Where’s the Lonesome / HMB
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS / Don’t Let Me Come Home a Stranger / VA: Appalachia – Music From Home / Lonesome
THE GRASCALS / Stay All Night Stay a Little Longer / Dance Till Your Stockings Are Hot & Raveling: A Tribute to the Music of the Andy Griffith Show / BluGrascal
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS / Yesterday I Didn’t Know / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS / Hold On to the Old Gospel Way / Hymns From the Hills / Rebel

Alive and Picking is produced, engineered and hosted by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard live every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and on the web at www.kpfk.org. Current and past playlists are archived at  www.aliveandpicking.com

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ALIVE AND PICKING PLAYLIST FOR 4/16/11

Format is ARTIST/ Song title / Album title / record label\

SELDOM SCENE / Big Rig / The New Seldom Scene Album (1976) / Rebel
VALERIE SMITH / No Vacancy / Blame It on the Bluegrass / Bell Buckle
MARA LEVINE / Wild Rose of the Mountain / Mara’s Gems / MBL
KEN AND BRAD KOLODNER / Medley: Liza Jane-Sandy Boys-Hangmans / Otter Creek / Fenchurch
FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN / Paul & Silas / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / www.dirtykitchenband.com
LARRY HANKS & DEBORAH ROBINS / Angelina Baker / No Hiding Place / Zippety Whippet
THE VW BOYS / I Feel Fine / RetroActive / Mountain Roads
THE GIBSON BROTHERS / Walkin’ West to Memphis / Help My Brother / Compass
NOTORIOUS / Boatman / The Road to Damascus / Black Socks
CORY LEDET / Oh Yaille / Do You Want More / no label
DAVID GRINDSTAFF / Another Lonely Day / Here and Now / Daysight Music?
MOLASSES CREEK / That’s What I Like About You / More Better / Sound Side
DAVID MALLET / Hungry For Love / In The Falling Dark / Vanguard
MIKE AND PEGGY SEEGER / The Farmer Is the Man / Fly Down Little Bird / Appleseed
HAGAR’S MOUNTAIN BOYS / Didn’t It Rain / Where‘s the Lonesome / Mountain Fever
THE KNUCKLE KNOCKERS / Little Black Train / The Knuckle Knockers / www.knuckleknockers.com
JUBILANT BRIDGE / Another Run at the Mountain-Willie’s Jig / Power Lines / Jubilant Bridge
RYAN SPEARMAN / Sugar In the Gourd / Live at the Chapel / Cornfed
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN / Roving Gambler / Jesse James / London LP 1968
JODY STECHER / The Hills of Isle Au Haut / Going Up no the Mountain / Acoustic Disc
BLUE HIGHWAY / Union Man / VA: Appalachia - Music From Home / Lonesome
BIG COUNTRY BLUEGRASS / Pages of Time / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel
FLATT & SCRUGGS / Cabin on the Hill / VA: Bluegrass Super Hits / Sony BMG
EDGAR LOUDERMILK / Can’t Live Life / Roads Traveled / Mountain Fever
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS / Come On / Hymns From the Hills / Rebel

Alive and Picking is produced, engineered and hosted by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard live every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and on the web at www.kpfk.org. Playlists are archived at  www.aliveandpicking.com

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Playlist for Alive and Picking, 4/9/11. Format is ARTIST / Song Title / Album title / label or contact info

Today's show was originally going to be one set of songs about rabbits, in honor of Easter coming up, but as I was putting it together it evolved, or devolved, into a whole show about fur, fins and feathers.

JOHN McCUTCHEON / All God's Critters / Howjadoo (out of print LP) / Rounder
ANY OLD TIME / Free Little Bird / I Bid You Goodnight / Arhoolie
HANK PENNY / Rabbits Don't Ever Get Married / (out of print LP) rec. 1949
HOT RIZE / Walking the Dog / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
ED TRICKETT / Yea Ho Little Fish / The Telling Takes Me Home / Folk Legacy
YOUNG TRADITION / Chicken on a Raft / Transatlantic Folk Box / Sanctuary
JODY STECHER / Turtle Dove / Gong Up on the Mountain / Acoustic Disc
JOHNNY LEE WILLS & HIS BOYS / Milk Cow Boogie / (out of print LP) rec. 1941
KATHY KALLICK / The Tailor and the Mouse / My Mother's Voice / Copper Creek
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS / The Old Bell Cow / 40 Years of Live Performances / Rounder
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS / The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake / Bear Family box set
MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT / C-h-i-c-k-e-n / Memorial Anthology / Genes
NICKEL CREEK / The Fox / Nickel Creek / Sugar Hill
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD / The Cuckoo Is a Pretty Bird / Hand Hewn / Rounder
WAYNE HENDERSON / Gray Eagle / VA: Folk Masters Live at Wolf Trap / Smithsonian-Folkways
WALTER SMITH / Cat's Got the Measles, Dog's Got the Whooping Cough / Walter Smith & Friends, 1929-1920 / Document
HOT MUD FAMILY / Stewball / Meat and Potatoes and Stuff Like That (out of print LP) / Flying Fish
LOUIS JORDAN / Two Little Squirrels (Nuts to You) / (out of print LP) / rec. 1941
MIKE, PENNY, BARBARA AND PEGGY SEEGER / Racoon and Possum / Animal Folk Songs for Children / Rounder
GORDON BOK, ED TRICKETT AND ANN MAYO MUIR / Waltzing With Bears / The First 15 Years / Folk Legacy
DOC WATSON / The Intoxicated Rat / Doc Watson / Vanguard
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND / The Boll Weevil / Blue Flame String Band / Carrot
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT / Tennessee Stud / The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott / Vanguard
ALICE GERRARD & MIKE SEEGER / Old Blue / Bowling Green / 5-String Productions
JOHN McCUTCHEON / Dog's Lfe / Spring Songs / Rounder
REELTIME TRAVELERS / Little Bird of Heaven / Livin' Reeltime Thinkin' Oldtime / www.reeltimetravelers.com
LONESOME RIVER BAND / Stray Dogs and Alley Cats / Window of Time / Doobie Shea
NEW GOLDEN RING / The Kangaroo Song / Five Days Singing Vol. 2 / Folk Legacy
KENTUCKY COLONELS / Listen to the Mockingbird / Livin' In the Past / Sierra
FERLIN HUSKY / Wings of a Dove / Vintage Collection / Capitol
MIKE SEEGER / Tennessee Dog / Solo Oldtime Country Music / Rounder
MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK / Skewbald / Skin and Bone / Topic
RALPH RICHARDSON / Little Dog Yodel / (out of print LP) / Rec. 1928
MIKE, PENNY, BARBARA AND PEGGY SEEGER / The Kicking Mule / Animal Folk Songs for Children / Rounder

Alive and Picking is produced, hosted and engineered by Mary Katherine Aldin and is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK in Los Angeles and streaming and archived on the web at www.kpfk.org. Past playlists are at www.aliveandpicking.com


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Alive and Picking playlist for April 2, 2011
 
Format is ARTIST / Song Title / Album title / label or website
 
We started this morning’s show with a set of songs by musicians whose birthdays fall in April. Birth dates are in parentheses after the artist’s name.
 
LUE BERLINE (4/11/1894) Crazy Creek/Dusty Miller / VA: Bluegrass Breakdown / Vanguard
MERLE HAGGARD (4/6/37) California Blues / Down Every Road / Capitol box set
CARTER FAMILY (A.P. Carter 4/15/1891) My Dixie Darling / Country Music Hall of Fame / Decca-MCA
D. L. MENARD (4/14/32) Where The Money Goes / Cajun Memories / Swallow
GRAYSON & WHITTER (Henry Whitter 4/4/1892) Going Down the Lee Highway / Their Complete Recordings in Chronological Order, Vol. 2 / Document
SAM BUSH (4/13/52) Roll On Buddy / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
DAVID MALLETT (4/21/51) Ballad of the St. Anne’s Reel / Inches and Miles / Flying Fish
MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK (Dave Swarbrick 4/5/41) Medley: The Hens/The Four Poster Bed / Both Ears & the Tail / Gadfly
TRACY GRAMMER (4/8/68) Any Way I Do / Flower of Avalon / Signature Sounds
SI KAHN (4/23/44) Aragon Mill / New Wood / Philo
EMMYLOU HARRIS (4/2/47) and WILLIE NELSON (4/30/33) One Paper Kid / Quarter Moon In a Ten Cent Town / Warner Bros.
JOHN DILLESHAW (4/28/1897) Georgia Bust Down / Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order / Document
GABBY PAHINUI (4/22/21) Lihue / Gabby / Panini
IRA LOUVIN (4/21/24) Empty Wallet and a Broken Heart / The Complete Recordings of Ira Louvin / King
LORETTA LYNN (4/14/32) You’re Looking at Country / Legendary Country Singer / MCA
 
Something about the stars:
 
SELDOM SCENE / Stars In My Crown / Act 1 / Rebel
EMMYLOU HARRIS / Bring Morning Stars / Angel Band / Warner Bros.
BILLY BRAGG / California Stars / Mermaid Avenue / Elektra
DAVE VAN RONK / Would You Like to Swing on a Star / Sunday Street / Philo
CLAIRE LYNCH / Out Among the Stars / Moonlighter / Rounder
JOHN STARLING / Carolina Star / Waiting For a Southern Train / Sugar Hill
 
New releases:
 
LARRY HANKS & DEBORAH ROBINS / The Boll Weevil / No Hiding Place / Zippety Whippet Music
THE GRASCALS /Dooley / Dance Till Your Stocking Are Hot and Ravelin’: A Tribute to the Music of the Andy Griffith Show / Blugrascal
THE KNUCKLE KNOCKERS / Georgia Blues / Knuckle Knockers / Yodel Ay Hee
THE VW BOYS / All I Have to Do Is Dream / RetroActive / Mountain Roads
HAGARS MOUNTAIN BOYS / Where’s The Lonesome? / Where’s The Lonesome? / Mountain Fever
BLUEGRASS GOSPEL PROJECT/ Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven / Blue Morph / Vital
SUSIE GLAZE & HILONESOME / Maggie Bailey / Live at the Freight & Salvage / www.susieglaze.com
DAVID BERKELEY / Steel Mill / Some Kind of Cure / www.davidberkeley.com
 
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 and around the world on www.kpfk.org. Playlists are archived at www.aliveandpicking.com.

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ALIVE AND PICKING PLAYLIST FOR 3/26/11

Format is ARTIST/ Song title / Album title / record label\

Saluting Spring, which arrive amidst a deluge earlier this week, today’s show looks at flowers.

DAVID MALLETT / The Garden Song / Inches and Miles / Flying Fish
EMMYLOU HARRIS / Roses In the Snow / Roses in the Snow / Warner Brothers
FLATT & SCRUGGS / You Are My Flower / Bear Family Box Set
THE CARTER FAMILY / Wildwood Flower / Can The Circle Be Unbroken / Sony Legacy
BILL CLIFTON & HIS DIXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS / A Flower Blooming in the Wildwood / old LP, rec. 1954
KATHY & CAROL / A Sprig of Thyme / Kathy & Carol / Collector’s Choice
THE COX FAMILY / Beautiful Bouquet / Beyond the City / Rounder
JIM WATSON, MIKE CRAVER & TOMMY THOMPSON / Give Me the Roses While I Live / Meeting In The Air / Barker-Sapsucker
JIM RINGER & MARY McCASLIN / Bramble & the Rose / Things We Said Today / Philo
THE CHURCH BROTHERS & THEIR BLUE RIDGE RAMBLERS / You’re Still the Rose of My Heart / old LP, rec. 1951
TONY RICE / Blackberry Blossom / Manzanita / Rounder
JANET BEAZLEY / Rose of Allandale / 5 South / Backcountry
MIKE SEEGER / Rose In the Mountain / 3rd Annual Farewell Reunion / Rounder
THE BAILES BROTHERS / Pretty Flowers / old LP, rec. 1948
BOB WILLS / San Antonio Rose / Take Me Back to Tulsa / Sony
BILL MONROE / When The Cactus Is In Bloom / The Very Best of Bill Monroe / Decca-MCA
LAURIE LEWIS / Texas Bluebonnets / Earth & Sky / Rounder
THE McCLENDON BROS. WITH GEORGIA DELL / Red Roses, Sweet Violets So Blue / old LP, rec. 1938
KATE WOLF / The Trumpet Vine / Lines on the Paper / Kaleidoscope
SELDOM SCENE / My Little Georgia Rose / The Best of the Seldom Scene / Rebel
SYLVIA HEROLD / Seven Daffodils / A Mockingbird Sings in California / Tuxedo
HYLO BROWN / Heart’s Bouquet / old LP, rec.1959
RHONDA VINCENT / Prettiest Flower There / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
NICK LUCAS / Tiptoe Through the Tulips / The Crooning Troubadour / Living Era
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS / Orange Blossom Special / Live at the Old School House / Rounder
NANCI GRIFFITH / Gulf Coast Highway / The Complete MCA Studio Recordings / MCA
HUGH & SHUG’S RADIO PALS /Where the Golden Poppies Grow / old LP, rec. 1936
MADDOX BROS & ROSE / Gathering Flowers for the Master’s Bouquet / On The Air / Arhoolie
THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND / Your Love is Like a Flower / Vol. 2 / Rounder
ROSALIE SORRELS / The Bells of Ireland / Report From Grimes Creek / Green Linnet
THE WHITSTEIN BROS. / Rose of My Heart / Rose of My Heart / Rounder
MAURA O’CONNELL / Bright Blue Rose / Naked With Friends / Sugar Hill
MERLE TRAVIS & HANK THOMPSON / Wildwood Flower / old LP, rec. 1954

Alive and Picking is produced, engineered and hosted by Mary Katherine Aldin, and is heard live every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and on the web at www.kpfk.org. Playlists are archived at  www.aliveandpicking.com

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March 19: Our special guest hosts were John and Deanne Davis. Here is their playlist as they emailed it to me.

TIME

              ARTIST/GROUP

       CD/ALBUM TITLE

                          SONG

RECORD COMPANY

6:00 AM

Calaveras

Ready to Fly

Ready to Fly

www.calaverassongs.com

 

Ken Whiteley with Guy Davis

Another’s Day Journey

Too Much Trouble

                 borealisrecords.com

 

Burnt Toast

Quick Rising

Mary Ellen Carter

Joyous Gard Records

www.myspace.com/tomhanwaymusic

6:15

The Seldom Scene

At the Scene

The Champion

Sugar Hill Records SH-CD-3736

 

Bill Staines

Looking For The Wind

The Sampler Song

Red House Records RHR CD 79

 

Cache Valley Drifters

mightyfine.net

Rings

www.cachevalleydrifters.com

 

Billy Don Burns

Train Called Lovesome

Where Was Love

www.billydonburns.com

6:30

Neal Phillips

Lovegrove St.

White Stackable Chairs

nwphillips@netzero.net

 

Joel Rafael Band

 

The Truth Cannot Abide

www.joelrafael.com

 

Dale Ann Bradley

East Kentucky Morning

My Conscience is Clear Tonight

www.pinecastlemusic.com

6:45

Ian Tyson

Cowboyography

Summer Wages

www.sugarhillrecords.com

 

Rosalie Sorrels

Misc. Abstract Records No. 1

You’ve Got to Go to Sleep Along

www.rosaliesorrels.com

 

Chuck Suchy

Different Line of Time

The Way Your Looking

www.chucksuchy.com

 

Laura Boosinger

Let Me Linger

New Panhandle Rag

www.lauraboosinger.com

 

 

 

 

 


 

7:00

ALIVE & PICKIN’

CALENDAR

 

 

 

Breanna Flores

 

The Soprano Song

 

 

Dolores Keane & Iris DeMent

Tom Russell’s The Man From God Knows Where

When Irish Girls Grow Up

www.hightone.com

7:15

Wil Maring

The Calling

Keeper of the Farm

www.wilmaring.com

 

Aaron Neville

Devotion

Jesus is a Friend of Mine

Tell It Records

 

Kate Wolf

Evening in Austin

Love Still Remains

www.katewolf.com

7:30

Kate Campbell, with Guy Clark

Moonpie Dreams

Bud’s Sea-Mint Boat

www.compassrecords.com

 

Guy Clark

Boats to Build

Boats to Build

www.guyclark.com

 

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Stones in the Road

Jubilee

www.marychapincarpenter.com

 

Iris DeMent

Lifeline

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

www.irisdement.com

7:50

Aileen and Elkin Thomas

A Handful of Honeysuckle

Before We Say Tonight

www.aethomas.com

 


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Alive and Picking playlist for January 29, 2011-02-10 Format is ARTIST / Song title / Album title / label 
 
The show started with a salute to the late Charlie Louvin, who passed away earlier in the week: 
 
LOUVIN BROTHERS / Alabama (1949) 
LOUVIN BROTHERS / You’ll Be Rewarded Over There (1952) 
LOUVIN BROTHERS / Plenty of Everything But You (1957) 
LOUVIN BROTHERS / Cash on the Barrelhead (1956) 
LOUVIN BROTHERS / Here Today and Gone Tomorrow (1958) 
LOUVIN BROTHERS / Making Believe (1958) 
LOUVIN BROTHERS / The Christian Life (1959) 
LOUVIN BROTHERS / Brown’s Ferry Blues (1960 
All above from the multi-CD Louvin Brothers box set on Bear Family 
 
Groundhog Day is this coming Wednesday, so there will be a few Groundhog songs scattered throughout the rest of the show 
 
THE DILLARDS / Ground Hog / VA: Bluegrass Breakdown / Vanguard 
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH / Stoney Creek / Holiday In Japan / www.jdcrowe.net 
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH / God’s Own Singer / Holiday In Japan / www.jdcrowe.net 
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH / Banks of the Ohio / Holiday In Japan / www.jdcrowe.net 
THE WATSON FAMILY / Ground Hog / The Watson Family / Smithsonian Folkways 
SHAUN CROMWELL with Devon Sproule/ I Am Undone / Folk-Worn Prose /www.shauncromwell.com 
ELIZA CARTHY & NORMA WATERSON / Little Grey Hawk / The Gift / Topic 
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS with Rhonda Vincent / We Missed You in Church Last Sunday / Hymns From the Hills / Rebel 
PAUL SMITH / Devil Eat The Groundhog / VA: Traditional Fiddle Tunes / Rounder 
TIM O’BRIEN / The Sun Jumped Up / Chicken & the Egg / Howdy Skies 
RED HEN / Too Late For the Bacon / Crossing / Red Hen 
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ & BEN KYLE / You’re Still On My Mind / We Still Love Our Country / Ninth St. Opus 
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ & BEN KYLE / Unwed Fathers / We Still Love Our Country / Ninth St. Opus 
HOMER & JETHRO / Ground Hog (rec. 1947) old LP 
KATY MOFFATT / Midwester / Fewer Things / Zeppelin 
JODY STECHER, KATE BRISLIN & LARRY HANKS / Kneelin’ Down Inside the Gate / VA: Out On the Rolling Sea: A Tribute to The Music of Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family / Green Linnet 
THE GRASCALS with Brad Paisley / Tiger By the Tail / The Grascals / Cracker Barrel 
THE GRASCALS with Dolly Parton / Pain of Loving You / The Grascals / Cracker Barrel 
THE GRASCALS / Louisiana Saturday Night / The Grascals / Cracker Barrel 
THE BROWNS / Ground Hog / (rec. 1960 – old LP) 
FLATT & SCRUGGS / Salty Dog Blues / VA: Bluegrass at Newport 1959 / Vanguard 
FLATT & SCRUGGS / That Was Before I Met You / VA: Bluegrass at Newport 1959 / Vanguard 
FLATT & SCRUGGS / Cabin On the Hill / VA: Bluegrass at Newport 1959 / Vanguard 
FLATT & SCRUGGS / Jimmie Brown The Newsboy / VA: Bluegrass at Newport 1959 / 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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Saturday January 22: JOE FRAZIER (Chad Mitchell Trio), GEORGE GROVE (Kingston Trio), ART PODELL (New Christy Minstrels, Art & Paul) and JIM MORAN (Chilly Winds) joined me this morning. Here is their playlist:

BOB GIBSON: Wayfaring Stranger 
BOB GIBON: Where I’m Bound 
BOB GIBSON: Copper Kettle 
BOB GIBSON: Foghorn 
BOB GIBSON: You Can Tell The World 
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO: You Can Tell the World 
NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS: This Land Is Your Land 
ALMANAC SINGERS: Which Side Are You On? 
CHAD MTCHELL TRIO: Dear Mr. President 
ALMANAC SINGERS: Reuben James 
THE WEAVERS: Roll On Columbia 
ALMANAC SINGERS: All I Want 
NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS: There But For Fortune 
ODETTA: Ain’t No More Cane On This Brazos 
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO: Ain’t No More Cane On This Brazos 
ODETTA: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out 
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out 
MIRIAM MAKEBA: The Click Song 
MIRIAM MAKEBA: Mbube 
JOSH WHITE: St. James Infirmary 
JOSH WHITE: Strange Fruit 
JOSH WHITE: Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho 
JOSH WHITE: One Meatball 
JOSH WHITE: Midnight Special 
 
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Playlist for Alive and Picking, January 15, 2011. Format is ARTIST /song title / album title / record label (or artist's web site if no label).

First, a set of music by artists whose birthdays fall in January; birth dates are in parentheses after the artist's name.

DJANGO REINHARDT (1/23/1910) AND STEPHANE GRAPPELLI / Sweet Georgia Brown / The Ultimate Collection / Prism
JOAN BAEZ (1/9/1941) / I Still Miss Someone / Joan Baez 5 / Vanguard
LEO SOILEAU (1/19/1904) & HIS ACES / Ma Jolie Petite Fille / VA: Cajun String Bands / Arhoolie
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS (Earl 1/6/1924) / Take Me In a Lifeboat / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
CINDY KALLET (1/15) AND GREY LARSEN / If You Say yes / Cross the Water / Sleepy Creek
LEON McAULIFFE (1/3) & HIS WESTERN SWING BAND / Panhandle Rag
THE EVERLY BROTHERS (Phil E. 1/19) / Paradise / Pass the Chicken and Listen / BMG
THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS (Ludern Darbone 1/4/1913) / Black Bayou Rag / Jolie Blond / Arhoolie
MICHAEL COONEY (1/19) / Spanish Flang Dang / Singer of Old Songs/ Front Hall
ELIZABETH COTTEN (1/5/1891) / Spanish Flang Dang / Live / Arhoolie
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD (Suzanne Thomas 1/6/45) / Walk ThE Streets of Glory / Live at Last / Rounder
IRIS DeMENT (1/5/1961) / Sweet Is The Melody / My Life / Warner Bros.
CLAYTON McMICHEN (1/26/1900) McMichen's Reel / The Legendary Fiddler / BACM
SARAH MacLACHLAN (1/29), THE INDIGO GIRLS, AND JEWEL . The Water is Wide / Lillith Fair Live / Netwerk

End of birthdays set

THE HIGHWAYMEN / Cotton Fields / VA: Treasury of Folk Music Vol. 2 / Time-Life
NANCI GRIFFITH / Trouble In the Fields / The MC Years / MCA
THE STANLEY BROTHERS / The Fields Have Turned Brown / Their Complete Columbia Recordings / Columbia-Legacy
EVA CASSIDY / Fields of Gold / Live at BLues Alley / Blixstreet
STAN ROGERS / The Field Behind the Plow / Home in Halifax / Fogarty's Cove
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS / He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / Bear Family box set

J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH / East Virginia Blues / Holiday in Japan / www.jdcrowe.net
J.D. CROWE & THE NEW SOUTH / Why Don't You Tell Me So / Holiday in Japan / www.jdcrowe.net
SHAUN CROMWELL / The Grist Mill / Folk-Worn Prose / www.shauncromwell.com
DAVID GRINDSTAFF / Another Lonely Day / (single) / Mountain Fever
CHESAPEAKE / Blackjack Davey / Rising Tide / Sugar Hill
POKEY LaFARGE & THE SOUTH CITY THREE / Hard Times Come and Go / Riverboat Soul / Free Dirt Records
LUKE ABBOTT / Sweet Sunny South / Take Me Home / www.lukeabbott.com
NORMA WATERSON & ELIZA CARTHY / Shallow Brown / The Gift / Topic
JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS / He Loves Me / Hymns From the Hills / Rebel

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 and streaming live on the web at www.kpfk.org.

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Saturday January 8: MARK HUMPHREY was today's guest host; here is his playlist as he emailed it to me:

Hour 1, Set 1

1.      The Arkansas Barefoot Boys: The Eighth of January
 Source:  CD ARKive Music [Center for Arkansas & Regional Studies]  Various: Old-Time Arkansas String Bands, Vol. 1 The Arkansas Barefoot Boys made the first recording of `Eigth of January in Memphis, TN on Feb. 14, 1928 The band hailed from Vanndale, Arkansas, and was comprised of two harmonicas, fiddle and guitar.
2.     
Prairie Ramblers (Bernie Smith, guitar): “Shortnin’ Bread”  19465 Source: CD B.A.C.M. label The Prairie Ramblers, Vol. 3: Huckleberry Picnic
3.      The Blue Sky Boys: “Hang Out the Front Door Key” 1938  Source: Lp Provincia Records The Blue Sky Boys: Collector’s Items [Woody Guthrie borrowed tune to write:]
4.      Ry Cooder: “Do Re Mi”  1970 Source: Lp Reprise label Ry Cooder  (his 1st album)
5.      Mac Odell: “Life’s Elevator” 1952 Source: CD B.A.C.M. label
6.      Mac Odell: The Old Country Boy
7.      Buck Griffin: “Watchin’ the 7-10 Roll By” 1956 Source: Lp MGM label Various: MGM Rockabilly
8.      Dee Stone & His Virginia Boys: “Highway 220” 1953 Source: CD JSP label  Various: Bluegrass: Historic Cuts—Blue Ridge Sides
Total time [set 1, hour 1]
18:30

Hour 1, set 2

6.      Ted Gossett’’s Band: “Eight [sic] of January” Sept. 16, 1930 Source: CD JSP label Various: Gennett Old Time Music Classic Country Recordings, 1927-1930
7.     
Roy Newman & His Boys [Earl Brown, vocal]: “The Devil with the Devil” 1939 Source: Lp Rambler Records Various: Devil with the Devil: Hot Western Swing from the 1930s
8.      George Jones: “Take the Devil Out of Me”  1957 Source: CD Mercury label George Jones: Cup of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years
9.      Harry Choates; “Devil in the Bayou” circa 1949 Source: Lp Arhoolie label
10.  Harry Choates: His Original 1946-1949 Recordings 
11.  Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang: “Swinging the Devil’s Dream” circa 1947  Source: CD  Bloodshot Revival label Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang: Shame On You
Total time {set 2, hour 1}
12:24

 Hour 1, set 3

1.      Rual Parker, fiddle: “Eighth of January” circa 1946 Source: CD Copper Creek label Blue Sky Boys on Radio, Volume One
2.     
Jimmie Driftwood: “The Battle of New Orleans” 1957 Source: CD Bear Family label Jimmie Dritwood: Americana, Vol. 1
3.     
Roscoe Holcomb: “Trouble in Mind’ circa 1964 Source: CD Smithsonian Folkways label Roscoe Holcomb: The High Lonesome Sound
4.     
Tex Ritter (with the Dinning Sisters): “Trouble in Mind” 1946 Source: CD Capitol label Tex Ritter: Vintage Collections
5.     
Nimrod Workman: “Jack Straw Straddle” 1982 Source: CD 2s & Fews label Nimrod Workman: I Want to Go Where Things Are Beautiful [Workman was 87 when Mike Seeger recorded him]
6.      Rosalie Allen (with the Black River Riders) : “Yodel Boogie” late `40s Source: CD Jasmine label The Versatile Rosalie Allen
7.      Bob Gallion: “My Square Dancin’ Mama (She Done Learned to Rock `n Roll)” 1956 Source: Lp MGM label Various: MGM Rockabilly
Total time [set 3, Hour 1] 16:45

Hour 2, set 1

1.Hardy Sharp: “Eighth of January” May 29, 1937 Source: Lp Mississippi Department of Archives & History Various: Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo-American Fidddle Music from Mississippi
2. Pine Ridge Boys: “You Are My Sunshine” 1939 Source:  CD JSP Label Various: Classic Field Recordings, 1937-1940
3. Allen Holloway & His Prairie Ramblers: “Red Rose of Arkansas”  1957 Source: CD Jasmine label Various: Hillbilly Bop, Boogie & the Honky Tonk Blues Vol. 4, 1956-1957
4. Dillard Chandler: “Short Time Here, Long Time Gone” early `60s Source: CD Smithsonian Folkways label Various: Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads
5. James Roberts & Martha Carson: “Let it Shine” circa late `40s Source: CD BACM label James Roberts & Martha Carson: I’m Gonna Let It Shine
6.Lefty Frizzell: “Heart’s Highway” 1956 Source: Lp Columbia label Lefty Frizzell: Columbia Historic Edition
8.     
Jack Morris & the Night Owls: “4-Wheel Bungalow” 1957 Source: CD Jasmine label Various: Hillbilly Bop, Boogie & the Honky Tonk Blues Vol. 4, 1956-1957
Total time {Hour 2, set 1} 15:

Hour 2, set 2
1.Jerry Rivers & the Drifting Cowboys: “Eighth of January” 1951 Source: CD Time-LIFE label Hank Williams Revealed; The Unreleased Recordings
2. Three Tobacco Tags: “V-8 Blues” 1936 Source: CD JSP label Various: Mountain Blues: Blues, Ballads & String Bands, 1927-1938
3. Dick Thomas (with the Nashville Ramblers): “My Guitar Is My Sweetheart” 1947 Source: CD Jasmine label Dick Thomas: Country, Ragtime, Rockin’ Hillbilly & Cowboy Music
4. Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys (Clyde Moody, vocal): “Six White Horses” 1940 Source; CD JSP label Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946
5.       
Clyde Moody: “I’m So Lonesome” circa 1949 Source: CD TBIRD label Various: Early Country & Western from Bullet Records of Nashville
6.        Elvis Presley [born Jan. 8, 1935]: “Mystery Train” 1955 [from his last Sun session] Source: CD Properbox label Various: From Boppin’ Hillbilly to Red Hot Rockabilly
Total time {Hour 2, set 2} 13:4

Hour 2, final set

1.      Tony Rice (w/David Grisman & Darol Anger): “Eighth of January” 1976 Source: CD Rounder label Tony Rice
2.      Johnny Horton: “The Battle of New Orleans” 1959 Source: CD Bear Family label Johnny Horton, 1956-1960
3.      Sons of the Pioneers {Bob Nolan, lead vocal): “The Glendy Burke” circa 1934 Source: CD Varese Sarabande label Sons of the Pioneers Sing the Stephen Foster Songbook
4.      Billy Joe Walker, Jr.: “Defeated Creek” 1987 Source: Lp MCA label Billy Joe Walker, Jr.: Treehouse
5.      Johnnie Lee Wills & His Boys: “Coyote Blues” circa 1950 Source: CD TBIRD label Various: Hillbilly Boogie; the Roots of Rockabilly from Bullet Records of Nashville
6.     
Les `Carrot Top’ Anderson w/Tex Atchison & His Orchestra: “32 Riverside Drive” circa 1956 1957 Source: CD Jasmine label Various: Hillbilly Bop, Boogie & the Honky Tonk Blues Vol. 4, 1956-1957
7. Jimmy Riddle, harmonica, with Roy Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Boys: “Sailor’s Hornpipe” 1954 Source: CD RME Music label Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys: the RC Cola Shows, Vol. 1

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Saturday January 1:

Playlist for Alive and Picking,  KPFK Los Angeles, Saturday 1/1/11. Format is ARTIST / Song title / Album title / Label

FLATT AND SCRUGGS / Gone Home / You Can Feel It In Your Soul / County
FRANK PROFFITT / Going Across The Mountain / Traditional Songs and Ballads of Appalachia / Folk-Legacy
EMMYLOU HARRIS / He Said If I Be Lifted Up / Angel Band / Warner Bros.
SOUL STIRRERS /Well Well Well / VA: Roots and Branches / Capitol
ED TRICKETT / Come Fare Away / The Telling Takes Me Home / Folk-Legacy
BILL KEITH / Auld Lang Syne / Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass / Rounder
THE WILSON FAMILY / Keep Walking /Chasing Faith / WFB
BOB GIBSON / Lula Gal / Joy Joy: The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson / Riverside
JIM & JESSE / When I Stop Dreaming / VA: Bluegrass Super Hits / Rounder
DAILEY & VINCENT / More Than a Name on a Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
JANET BEAZLEY / Rose of Allandale / 5 South/ Backcountry
URBAN MONROES / Ashes of Love / One Fret Makes a Difference / Heart Spring
TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT / Free State Hornpipe / Tar River / Old Time is a Good Time
BLUE SKY BOYS / Corrina Corrina / VA: Roots and Branches / Capitol
BLUEGRASS CARDINALS / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Sunday Mornin’ Singin’ / CMH
RHONDA VINCENT / Prettiest Flower There / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
NOTORIOUS / Wild Rose of the Mountain / The Road to Damascus / Black Socks
CLARENCE ASHLEY & DOC WATSON / Honey Babe Blues / The Original Folkways Recordings/  Smithsonian-Folkways
KATHY & CAROL / Fair Beauty Bright / Kathy & Carol / Collector’s Choice
TONY RICE / The House Carpenter / Church Street Blues / Sugar Hill
LUKE ABBOTT / Way Down The Old Plank Road / Take Me Home / www.lukeabbott.com
JOE DIFFIE / Somehow Tonight / Homecoming / Rounder
NORMA WATERSON & ELIZA CARTHY / Prairie Lullaby / The Gift / Topic
REELTIME TRAVELERS / Sally Goodin / Livin’ Reeltime, Thinkin’ Old-Time / www.reeltimetravelers.com
MARY McCASLIN / Blackbird / Things We Said Today / Philo
PINE LEAF BOYS / Eunice Two-Step / Back Home / Valcour
DALE ANN BRADLEY with LARRY SPARKS / Pass Me Not / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
CHRIS SMITHER / Mississippi John Hurt Medley / VA: Roots and Branches / Capitol
DREADFUL SNAKES / Linda Lou / Snakes Alive / Rounder
JODY STECHER AND KATE BRISLIN / Our Town / Our Town / Rounder
THE COX FAMILY with ALISON KRAUSS /  Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown / V: O Sister, The Women’s Bluegrass Collection / Rounder
VASSAR CLEMENTS / Turkey In the Straw / VA: Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder
DOC AND MERLE WATSON / Freight Train Blues / VA: Freight Train Blues / Rounder

 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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