July 15, 2021

Greetings -

Thanks very much for your interest in Bay Area bluegrass and old time music events -- and for sending me updates and corrections. Please visit the Bluegrass Signal web site for the latest listings, playlists, and a number of items and articles of interest to bluegrass and old time music fans.

For the third consecutive year, I’ve been nominated for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s “Broadcaster Of the Year.” This is, indeed, a true honor, one that I’m proud to share with other Bluegrass Signal producer/hosts Allegra Thompson, Leah Wollenberg, Todd Gracyk, Jose Segue, Sully Roddy, and Ryan Breen. The irony of this selection in light of the news presented below is inescapable.

Congratulations also to Ellen Silva for her nomination as IBMA’s “Graphic Designer Of the Year,” in part for the outstanding work she did on Turn Your Radio On, the 2-CD set of recordings done live at KALW that was offered to listeners during the Spring Membership Campaign.

Additional congratulations to other California nominees: the CBA Jam-a-Thon (Event of the Year); Porch Pride (Event of the Year); Kara Kundert (Momentum Industry Involvement); Daisy Caire (Moment Instrumentalist of the Year); Miles Quale (Moment Instrumentalist of the Year); Teo Quale (Moment Instrumentalist of the Year); and Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band (Momentum Band of the Year).

A complete list of IBMA Industry and Momentum Award nominees is HERE. 

Be well -

PeterT

I apologize for the length of these comments, but trust you are interested in hearing about changes to KALW programming. 

Some of it is positive: the station is not only significantly increasing the number of music programs offered but also has made sure that the new shows are characterized by much-needed diversity, in terms of both the staffing and content. All of us involved in KALW — as listeners, programmers, and supporters — applaud the new and exciting directions for the station.

However, at the same time and for no plausible reasons, KALW management has reduced the times of the current local music shows broadcast on Saturdays from 9 hours each week to 5 hours.

Folk Music & Beyond, A Patchwork Quilt, and Tangents, as well as Bluegrass Signal, have been mainstays in KALW’s schedule for many years. I’m proud to be part of this award-winning group of programs, programs that are characterized by ongoing excellence, commitment to the principles of “local public radio,” and significance sources of financial support by listeners like you who appreciate their inclusion in KALW’s schedule.

I joined the producer/hosts of these programs, along with the station’s other local music programmers, to present KALW management with scheduling possibilities that accommodated the program additions without affecting the current offerings. These possibilities were not given serious consideration by KALW management. Rather, KALW management has decided to maintain syndicated programming that is duplicated on other Bay Area public radio and/or available elsewhere on demand — instead of prioritizing programming that is at the heart of local public radio.

Tangents producer/host Dore Stein recently articulated four key aspects of public radio music programs:

• local origination

• high quality

• listener support 

• alignment with station values

KALW’s current Saturday music programs more than meet this criteria. All are important components of the Bay Area music scenes that they reflect each week on the radio and all have contributed to KALW in numerous and meaningful ways. To be targeted for airtime reduction with no explanation is not only disparaging to the producer/hosts but also insulting to you loyal listeners and supporters.

Starting on July 24th, these are the new broadcast times for KALW's long-running Saturday local music programs:

• 3-4 pm: Folk Music & Beyond

• 4-5 pm: A Patchwork Quilt

• 5-6 pm: Bluegrass Signal 

• 10 pm-midnight: Tangents

NOTE: Africa Mix and Fog City Blues move to Saturdays, maintaining their existing 2-hour lengths, broadcast from 6-10 pm.

Starting on July 19th, THESE are the new Monday-Friday, 8 pm - midnight music shows. 

If you have any comments, concerns, or reaction to these changes, you can send them to feedback@kalw.org; please send copies of your comments to me at bgsignal@comcast.net and to the following members of the San Francisco Board of Education (which holds the license to KALW):

President Gabriela Lopez <gabrielalopez@sfusd.edu>

Vice President Faauuga Moliga <faauugamoliga@sfusd.edu>

Commissioner Matt Alexander <mattalexander@sfusd.edu>

Commissioner Alison Collins <alisonmcollins@sfusd.edu>

Commissioner Jenny Lam <jennylam@sfusd.edu>

Commissioner Mark Sanchez <marksanchez@sfusd.edu>

Commissioner Kevine Boggess <kevineboggess@sfusd.edu>

You are also encouraged to submit your thoughts in the KALW Listener Survey.

Thank you very much for your support of Bluegrass Signal and KALW’s other Saturday music programs. That support is crucial to maintaining — and even expanding — KALW’s local music programming that has proven successful and popular among listeners like you.

Until Saturday -

Peter

CONCERTS

July 15: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma

July 16: (6:30 pm): The Knuckle Knockers Trio; Bill Foss & Martha Hawthorne (Italian tunes) - Bernal Star, SF

July 16: Joe Troop (Che Apalache) with the Crying Uncle Trio - Amado’s, SF

July 16: AJ Lee & Blue Summit - Casa Amaranta, Palo Alto

July 17 (4 pm): Kathy Kallick Band - The Back Room (outside), Berkeley

(photo: Irene Young)

July 17: Joe Craven & the Sometimers - Ruhstaller Farm & Yard, Dixon

July 17-18: Infamous Stringdusters - Terrapin Crossroads, San Rafael

July 18 (2 pm): Midnight Ramblers (Cajun - Agi Bon, Mark Marcin, Allegra Thompson, Alan Senauke, Paul Knight) - Junction Beer Garden, Mill Valley

July 18: Joe Troop (Che Apalache) - Ruhstaller Farm & Yard, Dixon

July 22: Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands - Mendocino Music Festival

July 22: Mission Blue - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma

July 24 (4 pm): Mission Blue - HopDogma Brewing, Half Moon Bay

July 25 (2 pm): Lowell Levinger Blues Band - The Junction Beer Garden, Mill Valley

July 25 (5 pm): Mission Blue - A Grape In The Fog, Pacifica

July 29: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma

July 31: Fog Holler - The The Back Room (indoors), Berkeley

Aug 1 (2 pm): Summer at the Green Bluegrass Day - The Del McCoury Band; Watkins Family Hour; Fog Holler - Sonoma State University

Aug. 1 (2 pm): Ginseng Moonshiners (Sean Alan, Kendrick Freeman, Johnny Ginseng, Paul Knight) - William Tell House, Tomales

Aug. 5: Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma

Aug. 7: AJ Lee & Blue Summit; The Coffis Brothers; The Sam Chase Trio - The Independent, SF

Aug. 8 (2 pm): Zinger Phillips (Mark Holtzinger, June Staal Robles, David Phillips, Michael Pinkham, Paul Knight) - Junction Beer Garden, Mill Valley

Aug. 12 (6 pm): Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Summit House, Los Gatos

Aug. 12: Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma

Aug. 14 (6 pm): Mission Blue - Smiley’s Schooner Saloon, Bolinas

Aug. 15 (2:30 pm): Stadler-Gibbons Band - Lucca’s Beer Garden, Benicia

Aug. 15 (4 pm): Mission Blue - Winters Tavern, Pacifica

Aug. 19: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma

Aug. 22 (1 pm): Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Bloomfield Community Park

Aug. 26: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma

Aug. 26: Films At the Freight - "Grateful Dawg" - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Aug. 27 (5:30 pm): Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - William Tell House, Tomales

Aug. 27-28: David Nelson & Eric Thompson; Suzy Sings Siebel - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

​Aug. 28: North Country Blue - The Back Room (indoors), Berkeley

Aug. 29 (1 pm): Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Brewsters Beer Garden, Petaluma 

RIVER TRIPS with LAURIE LEWIS

• August 5-7: Tuolumne River Bluegrass
• Sept. 12-16: Rogue River Bluegrass



Sept. 10: Bill Monroe Birthday Celebration - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Sept. 17: Darrell Scott Celebrates Hank Williams - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Sept. 21: Marty Stuart & his Fabulous Superlatives (acoustic) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Sept. 22: Marty Stuart & his Fabulous Superlatives (electric) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Sept. 23: Jake Blount; Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin; Slate Mountain Ramblers (Richard & Barbara Bowman, Ivy & David Sheppard) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Sept. 24: Eddie Bond & Band; The Horsenecks; Evie Ladin Band - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Oct. 2-3: Asleep At the Wheel - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Oct. 7: The Quebe Sisters - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Oct. 14: Riders In The Sky - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Oct. 30: AJ Lee & Blue Summit - Felton Music Hall 

Nov. 12: Sierra Hull; Dead Horses - Center for the Arts, Grass Valley

Nov. 13: Sierra Hull; Dead Horses - The Chapel, SF

Nov. 13: Red Dog Ash; North Country Blue - Westside Theatre, Newman

Nov. 14: California Bluegrass Reunion with Bill Evans, Darol Anger, John Reischman, Jim Nunally, Chad Maning, and Sharon Gilchrist - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Nov. 20: AJ Lee & Blue Summit; The Coffis Brothers - Hopmonk Tavern, Novato

Nov. 27: Laurie Lewis & Friends - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Dec. 5: Kathy Kallick Band; The High Water Line - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Dec. 11: Iris DeMent - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

FESTIVALS

July 22-25: Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival - Skamania County Fairgrounds, Stevenson, WA (1 hr. east of Portland)

Kathy Kallick Band; Central Valley Boys; Runaway Train; Hardshell Harmony; Sunny South; Whisky Deaf; Portland Radio Ponies

Aug. 13-15: Brookdale Bluegrass Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Pinos

Peter Rowan; Laurie Lewis with Eli West; Stoney Mountain Ramblers; Cactus Bob & Prairie Flower with Peg Leg Reza; Dave Holodilloff; others 

Aug. 20-22: Bowers Mansion Bluegrass Festival - Washoe Valley, NV

Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley; Sonora Dogs; Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band; others

Aug. 20-22: Summergrass San Diego - Vista

Lonesome River Band; Special Consensus; High Fidelity; The Po’ Rambling Boys; Bluegrass Etc.; Virtual Strangers; Chris Cerna & Bluegrass Republic; others

Sept. 3-5: Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival - Plumas County Fairgrounds, Quincy (90 min. NW of Reno)

Sept. 3: Keith Little Band; Sept. 4: Laurie Lewis, Eli West & Friends

Sept. 23-26: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention

Concerts, jamming, string band contest, workshops, more

Jake Blount; Eddie Bond & Band; Richard & Barbara Bowman (Slate Mountain Ramblers); Ivy & David Sheppard (Southern Broadcasters); The Horsenecks; Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin; Evie Ladin Band

Sept. 28 - Oct. 2: IBMA World of Bluegrass - Raleigh, NC

- Sept. 28-30: IBMA Business Conference - 

includes exhibit hall; seminars and panels; keynote address; awards luncheons; networking receptions; Health Fair; Gig Fair; Agent Pitch Session; DJ Taping Session; focused content tracks for Talent Buyers, Songwriters, and Broadcasters; more 

- Sept. 28-30: IBMA Bluegrass Ramble

artist showcases: Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves; Armchair Boogie; Bella White; Bowregard; East Nash Grass; Henhouse Prowlers; Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road; Lindley Creek; MohaviSoul; Rock Hearts; Starlett & Big John; Stillhouse Junkies; The Amanda Cook Band; The Arcadian Wild; The Martin Gilmore Trio; The MilBillies; The New Acoustic Collective; The Sweet Lillies; The Wooks; Twisted Pine; Barbaro, Cedar Hill, Crandall Creek, Fair Black Rose, Hillary Klug, Hubby Jenkins, Jake Blount, Never Come Down, Special Consensus, Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike. Virtual showcases streaming performances to WOB from around the globe: Bluegrass Stuff, Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, Hot Diggity, Lluis Gómez FlamencoGrass Quartet, Mike Sanyshyn, Radim Zenkl & Ondra Kozák, Shane Hennessy, The Fountaineers, The Often Herd, Under the Rocks

- Oct. 1-2: IBMA Bluegrass Live - Red Hat Amphitheater

Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart (w/ Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, and Bryan Sutton); The Del McCoury Band; Sister Sadie; Steep Canyon Rangers; Yonder Mountain String Band; Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer & Odessa Settles; The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys; others

Oct. 1-3: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - San Francisco

JAM SESSIONS

photo: Patrick Campbell 

Saturdays (1-4 pm): People's Music Jam - People's Music Store, 122 N. Main St., Sebastopol; contact: Mark Hogan

First Sunday (3-5 pm): Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers Association monthly jam - Rose Garden Park, Naglee & Garden Dr., San Jose

First Monday (6-8 pm): The Garage Jam - Out West Roadhouse, 321-2nd St., Petaluma

Third Sundays (10 am): Old Time Harmony Singalong w/ Evie Ladin - live (July 18th from Bishop, CA) and online

Wednesdays (7 pm): Andronico’s Oldtime Jam via Zoom



INSTRUCTION

photo of Annie Staninec fiddle class by Peter Oppenheimer

CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

(email to check current schedule)

Mon/Wed: Old Time Fiddling w/ Suzy Thompson <suzy@ericandsuzy.com>

Tues/Wed: Bernal Jam Workshop w/ Richard Brandenburg <richardericbrandenburg@gmail.com>

Wed: Flatpicking Fundamentals w/ Eric Thompson <eric@ericandsuzy.com>

Wed: Structure of Music w/ Avram Siegel <avramsiegel@comcast.net>

Individual (and, perhaps, group) lessons possible with the above as well as with

Dix Bruce <Contact@musixnow.com>

Evie Ladin <info@evieladin.com>

Jack Tuttle <jackfiddle@gmail.com>

Manning Music <chadandcath@gmail.com>

and, of course, others

Current series of online Freight & Salvage classes began this week, and includes ...

Sundays (6:30 pm): Easy Fiddle Tune Repertoire w/ Erik Hoffman

Mondays (7 pm): Fiddle Tunes with a Touch of Theory w/ Erik Hoffman

Wednesdays (7 pm): Singing From Inside The Song w/ Richard Brandenburg

Thursdays (7 pm): Flatpicking Essentials w/ Richard Brandenburg

Thursdays (8:15 pm): Expand Your Country/Bluegrass Song Repertoire w/ Richard Brandenburg

Third Sundays: SCVFA workshops

​MUSIC CAMPS

July 11-15 and July 18-22: California Coast Music Camp - east of Auburn in Placer County; about 3 hrs east of SF

instructors: Verlene Schermer, Valerie Rose, Tristan Scroggins, Tony Marcus, Sylvia Herold, Steve Kritzer, Steve Baughman, Neal Chin, Mike Wollenberg, Marla Fibish, Jack Tuttle, Ed Johnson, Daniel Ward, Chris Grampp, Carol McComb, Caitlin Belem, Amy Friedricks

July 19-23: West Marin Fiddle Camp, Bolinas

instructors: Dirk Powell, Riley Baugus, Caleb Klauder, Reeb Willms, Rainy Eyes, Caroline Oakley, Amelia Powell, Simon Leone

Sept. 11–12 (10 am - 6 pm): American Banjo Camp Online (Zoom)

Bluegrass instructors: Alan Munde, Casey Henry, Greg Cahill, Jeff Scroggins

Old time instructors: Ken Perlman, Lukas Pool, Molly Tenenbaum, Stephen Wade

April 7-10, 2022: Walker Creek Music Camp - Marshall

instructors: Greg Schochet (Beginning Bluegrass Jamming) • Steve Pottier (Bluegrass Guitar) • Evie Ladin (Old Time Ensemble) • Howard Rains (Rhythm & Old Time Back-up Guitar) • Alan Munde (Bluegrass Banjo) • Tony Marcus (Swing Rhythm Guitar) • Leela Grace (Clawhammer Banjo) • Joe K Walsh (Bluegrass to Newgrass Mandolin) • Steve Roy (Bass) • Richard Brown (Bluegrass Monroe Style Mandolin) • Ivan Rosenberg (Dobro) • Tim Connell (Swing & Jazz Repertoire Mandolin) • Nate Lee (Bluegrass Fiddle) • TBA(Bluegrass Vocals) • Tricia Spencer (Old Time Fiddle) • Rebecca Stout & Clinton Davis (Harmony Singing) • Paul Shelasky (Swing Fiddle) • Katie Glassman (Swing Vocals) 

Puget Sound Guitar Workshop - instructors’ online offerings

RADIO SHOWS

Bluegrass Signal is broadcast on Saturdays, 5-6 pm (Pacific) on KALW (91.7 FM in Bay Area). It is then archived for one week HERE.

July 17: Rain Please Go Away (note: 6:30 - 8:00 pm ... for the last time)

Ha - we wish! Part two of an exploration of bluegrass and old time music songs about rain. ​Also: a brief tribute to the wonderful fiddler and human being, Byron Berline.

July 24 & 31: Allegra Thompson Picks 'Em & Plays 'Em

Aug. 7 & 14: New Time & Old Acoustic 

John Reischman (Bluegrass Signal theme-meister) talks about every track on his new all-instrumental album, as well as the musicians who accompany him: Allison DeGroot, Chris Eldridge, Trent Freeman, Trisha Gagnon, Sharon Gilchrist, Alex Hargreaves, Nick Hornbuckle, Chris Jones, Patrick Metzger, Todd Phillips, Jason Romero, Pharis Romero, Patrick Sauber, Max Schwartz, Greg Spatz, Molly Tuttle, Sullivan Tuttle, and Mike Witcher.

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Bluegrass Signal is also broadcast three times each week on Bluegrass Country. 

New shows on Fridays (6 pm), then rebroadcasts Mondays (11 pm) and Tuesdays (midnight), all times EASTERN ... because that's what you'll need to listen to any program for two weeks after the broadcast on the Bluegrass Country Archive Player.

July 16-22: Rockin’ Grass

PT present bluegrass versions of songs done from Chuck Berry, the Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Dead, Richard Thompson, and others.

July 23-30: "Turn up your radio; your neighbors might enjoy it too!" 

A Memorial Celebration of Ray Davis

Rebroadcast of PT's remembrance of the influential broadcaster (who released many "basement sessions" on his Wango label) just days after his passing in December, 2014.

July 31 - Aug. 5: Do the Radio Boogie

PT presents recently-unearthed vintage radio programs with Buzz Busby & the Bayou Boys, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Flatt & Scruggs, and others.

Aug. 6-12: A Baker’s Dozen (and more)

Leah Wollenberg spends an hour with her favorite fiddler: Kenny Baker.

KALW PLAYLISTS

BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Baker’s Dozen (and then some) - June 26, 2021

host: Leah Wollenberg

BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: You Won’t Be Satisfied That Way/Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear Family/73)

KENNY BAKER: Brandywine/Master Fiddler (County/72)

BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz/Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear Family/70)

BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: With Body and Soul/Bluegrass 1959-1969 (Bear Family/69)

KENNY BAKER: Road to Columbus/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (Country/77)

HOBO JACK & HIS KENTUCKY PALS: Another Night/single (Big A/58)  

BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Jenny Lynn/Bill Monroe’s Uncle Pen (Decca/72)

KENNY BAKER: Festival Waltz/Kenny Baker Country (County/72) 

BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine/Live in Japan (1974)

KENNY BAKER & JOSH GRAVES: Little Red Shoes/Bucktime! (Puritan/74)

BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Panhandle Country/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58) 

BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Rocky Road Blues/Bluegrass 1959-1969 (Bear Family) 

KENNY BAKER: Mississippi Waltz/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (County/77)

MAC WISEMAN & KENNY BAKER: The Girl Of My Dreams/Live at Bean Blossom (1969)

KENNY BAKER: First Day in Town/Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler (County Records/69)

JIMMY MARTIN: I Cried Again/Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys (Bear Family/71)

KENNY BAKER: Grassy Fiddle Blues/Grassy Fiddle Blues (County/75)

THE GOINS BROTHERS: Black Lung Blues/Live at Bean Blossom (1969)

BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: A Lonesome Road/Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Bear Family/58) 

KENNY BAKER & BLAINE SPROUSE: Three Days in Dublin/Indian Springs (Rounder/89)

KENNY BAKER & JOE GREENE: High Point/High Country (County/68)

KENNY BAKER & JOSH GRAVES: Step It Up & Go/Something Different (Puritan/72)

NOAM PIKELNY: Wheel Hoss/Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (Compass/13)

AUBRIE HAYNIE: Bluegrass in the Backwoods/The Bluegrass Fiddle Album (Sugar Hill/03)

DAROL ANGER: Denver Belle/E-and’ a (Adventure Music/14) 

LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS: Walking in My Sleep/The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Spruce and Maple/15)

BROWYN KEITH-HYNES: Fiddler’s Pastime/Fiddler’s Pastime (Sugar Petunia/20)

BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS: Muleskinner Blues/Bean Blossom (MCA/73)

KENNY BAKER & BOBBY HICKS: Faded Love/Darkness on the Delta (County/80)

KENNY BAKER: Jerusalem Ridge/Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe (Country/77)

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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Across the Tracks - July 3, 2021

NOTE: All releases in 2021.

JOHN REISCHMAN: Salt Spring/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus)

TINA ADAIR: I Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind/Tina Adair (Engelhardt)

JOHN REISCHMAN: Cascadia/New Time & Old Acoustic (Corvus)

ADELINE: Hickory/Adeline (self) 

ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS: A Better Day A-Coming/single (self)

TRAY WELLINGTON: Half Past Four/single (Mountain Home)

JAKE & CARTER EDDY, JENS KOCK & ERIK INGELSTROM: Goodbye Liza Jane (self)

EAST NASH GRASS: Country Blue/single (Lamb Lyfe)

MADDIE DENTON: Glory In The Meeting House/Playin’ In This Town (self)

MATT LEADBETTER: Fireball/Masters of Slide - Spider Sessions (Mountain Home)

ABBIE GARDNER: Down the Mountain/Masters of Slide - Spider Sessions (Mountain Home)

SALLY VAN METER & ORVILLE JOHNSON: Tex Mex Shindig/Masters of Slide - Spider Sessions (Mountain Home)

JESSE BROCK: Black Rock City/Streamliner (Sound Biscuit)

JESSE BROCK: Nobody Loves Me/Streamliner (Sound Biscuit)

JESSE BROCK: Hey, Spikedriver /Streamliner (Sound Biscuit)

JAKE EDDY: Black Mountain Rag/single (self)

JEREMY STEPHENS: Could I Knock on Your Door/How I Hear It (Rebel)

MARK SCHATZ & BRYAN McDOWELL: There Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens/Grit & Polish (Patuxent) 

MARK SCHATZ & BRYAN McDOWELL: First Snow Of December>Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss/Grit & Polish (Patuxent) 

HAYDE BLUEGRASS ORCHESTRA: Going Out West/Migrants (self)

JEAN-LUC LEROUX: Croquette Danse/Mandologie (self)

VALERIE SMITH & LIBERTY PIKE: I Found/Renaissance (Bell Buckle)

GREG BOOTH: Take 5/Masters of Slide - Spider Sessions (Mountain Home)

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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: I Wish It Would Rain - July 10, 2021 

LYNN MORRIS BAND: I Wish It Would Rain/Shape Of A Tear (Rounder/03)

BRAINSTORMERS: It Looks Like It’s Never Gonna Rain/Never Gonna Rain (Simon Slick/15)

KATHY KALLICK (GOOD OL’ PERSONS): It's Gonna Rain/Count Your Blessings - A Bluegrass Gospel Collection (Live Oak/85)

THE NEW COON CREEK GIRLS: It's Gonna Rain/Ain't Love A Good Thing (Pinecastle/95)

DALE ANN BRADLEY: Rain On the Roof/Old Southern Porches (Pinecastle/99)

PAM GADD: Listening To the Rain/The Long Road (Vanguard/97)

DAVID DAVIS: Listening To the Falling Rain/Retrospective: Live, 1984-2014 (self)

BUCK WHITE & THE DOWN HOME FOLKS: Rain/That Down Home Feeling (Ridge Runner/77)

DIX BRUCE & JULIE CLINE: Look At It Rain/Look At It Rain (Musix/13)

TONY RICE: Early Morning Rain/Me & My Guitar (Rounder/86)

HOTMUD FAMILY: It’s Rainin’ Here This Morning/Years In the Making (Vetco/78)

DELMORE BROTHERS: Rainin' On the Mountain/Brown’s Ferry Blues (County/40)

LYNN MORRIS BAND: It Rains Everywhere I Go/Mama’s Hand (Rounder/95) 

KATHY KALLICK BAND: Pockets Full Of Rain/Horrible World (Live Oak/18)

THE STAIRWELL SISTERS: Buckets Of Rain/The Stairwell Sisters

THOMPSONIA: It Don’t Do Nothing But Rain/Nothing But Rain (self/17)

JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: Latter Rain Done Fell On Me/In the Deep Rolling Hills Of San Francisco (Bluegrass Signal/03)

JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN: The Rainy Day>Pretty Little Widow/Return (self/10)

JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND: Oh, the Wind & the Rain/Almost Acoustic (GD/87)

THE GOODBYE GIRLS: Rain & Snow/Snowy Side Of the Mountain (self/16)

LAURIE LEWIS: Here Comes the Rain/True Stories (Rounder/93)

HYLO BROWN: Take A Look At That Rain/Sing Me A Bluegrass Song (Starday/63)

THE GIBSON BROTHERS: Crying In the Rain/Brotherhood (Rounder/15)

DOLLY PARTON: Steady As the Rain/The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill/99)

FLATT & SCRUGGS: Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35/Nashville Airplane (Columbia/68)

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BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: Rain Please Go Away - July 17, 2021 

DEL McCOURY & THE DIXIE PALS: Rain Please Go Away/Best Of (Rebel/75)

BOB PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS: Please Stop Falling/Heritage (Brandywine/02)

DALE ANN BRADLEY: I Can't Stand the Rain/Catch Tomorrow (Compass/06)

LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME RAMBLERS: Blue Eyes Cryin’ In the Rain/Early And Essential, Volume 2 (Pine Tree>Old Homestead/70)

MAC MARTIN & THE DIXIE TRAVELERS: When the Cold Rain Is Falling/24 Bluegrass Favorites (Rural Rhythm/71)

HIGH COUNTRY: Cold Hard Rain/The First Twenty Five Years (Big Chicken/71)

HIGH COUNTRY: Tears In the Rain/The Earthquake (Strictly Country/97)

SPECIAL CONSENSUS: I'm No Stranger To the Rain/25th Anniversary (Pinecastle/00)

LAURIE LEWIS & KATHY KALLICK: Just Like Rain/Together (Rounder/91)

BILL HARRELL & THE VIRGINIANS: I Get the Blues When It Rains/I Can Hear Virginia Calling (Rebel/80)

JIM EANES & THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY BOYS: Rainy Day Feeling/Your Old Standby: Complete Starday Recordings (King/59)

LYNN MORRIS: I’ll Just Pretend It’s Raining/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)

LYNN MORRIS: Blue Skies & Teardrops/The Bramble & the Rose (Rounder/92)

JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Teardrops Fell Like Rain Drops/Blue Diamond (Rounder/92)

PETE PIKE: Teardrops Falling Like Rain/Rolling Again (Copper Creek/05)

ALHAMBRA VALLEY BAND: Just Let It Rain/Willow Pass Road (self/06)

BUTCH BALDASSARI: It's Rainin' the Blues ... for Bill Monroe/New Classics for Bluegrass Mandolin (SoundArt/98)

TONY RICE: I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today/Cold On The Shoulder (Rounder/84)

JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: Rider In the Rain/Jim & Jesse Today! (CMH/80)

THE BIX MIX BOYS: Driving Rain/The Bix Mix Boys (self/20)

DEL McCOURY BAND: Walk Out In the Rain/Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (2008)

JUSTIN MOSES: Fall Like Rain/Fall Like Rain (Mountain Fever/20)

DEL McCOURY: Because You Took Me In Out Of the Rain/Del & Woody (McCoury Music/16)

BERLINE, CRARY & HICKMAN: Storm Over Oklahoma/Chambergrass (Sugar Hill/81)

R.I.P., Byron Berline (7/6/44 - 7/10/21)