DON RENO & RED SMILEY/ Limehouse Blues/ King KBSCD-7001
DON RENO & RED SMILEY/ It’s Grand To Have Someone To Love You/ King KBSCD-7001
CARTER FAMILY/ Hello Central, Give Me Heaven/ Bear Family BCD 15865
CARTER FAMILY/ No Telephone In Heaven/ Bear Family BCD 15865
BLUE SKY BOYS/ The Royal Telephone/ Bear Family BCD 15951
JIM REEVES/ He’ll Have To Go/ Country Music Foundation CMF-009D
VICTORIA SPIVEY/ Telephoning the Blues/ JSP CD 3403
MERLE TRAVIS/ Information Please/ Bear Family BCD 15637
MEMPHIS JUG BAND/ Peaches In the Springtime/ Frog DGF 15
SONS OF THE PIONEERS/ Gentle Annie/ Bear Family BCD 15710
LILLY BROTHERS & DON STOVER/ Little Annie/ Rebel CD 1688
VOL STEVENS/ Baby Got the Rickets (Mama Got the Mobile Blues)/ Frog DGF 15
MEMPHIS JUG BAND/ He’s In the Jailhouse Now/ Frog DGF 18
HANK SNOW/ Beautiful Dreamer/ Bear Family BCD 15488
MADDOX BROTHERS & ROSE/ Beautiful Bouquet/ Bear Family BCD 15850
CHARLIE MONROE/ Camping In Canaan’s Land/ Bear Family BCD 16808
GOLDEN GATE QUARTET/ What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?/ JSP CD 602
MEMPHIS JUG BAND/ Memphis Shakedown/ Old Hat CD-1002
THE BROWNS/ Just As Long As You Love Me/ Bear Family BCD 15665
JIMMY MARTIN/ Hi-De-Diddle/ Bear Family BCD 15705
LOUVIN BROTHERS/ Stuck Up Blues/ Bear Family BCD 15561
PATRICK McAVINUE & MICHAEL CLEVELAND/ Rutland’s Reel Patuxent CD-174
FRANK STOKES/ Nobody’s Business If I Do (Part 2)/ Yazoo 2072
ELIZABETH COTTEN/ Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie/ Smithsonian Folkways CD 40009
REV. GARY DAVIS/ I’m Thowing Up My Hands/ Yazoo 2011
FRANK HOVINGTON/ Digging My Potatoes/Who’s Been Fooling You/ Flyright CD 66
JOHNNIE & JACK/ Two Timing Blues/ Bear Family BCD 15553
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN/ Backwoods Blues/ Starday 3510-2-2
UNCLE DAVE MACON/ Backwater Blues/ County CD-3505
MADDOX BROTHERS & ROSE/ Beautiful Bouquet/ Bear Family BCD 15850
CARL TIPTON/ Kneel and Pray/ Gusto GT7-2135-2
BROWN’S FERRY FOUR/ When We Sing Around the Throne Eternal/ King 3506-2-2

McPHERSON BROTHERS/ Don’t You Call Again
BILL MONROE/ True Life Blues
LEONARD STOKES & GEORGE MORRIS/ There Is a Green Hill Far Away

6:30 p.m., November 14, 2009
James Lee Community Theater, located in the James Lee Community Center
2855-A Annandale Road
Falls Church, VA

Tickets are $18 for DCBU members and children 12 and under; $22.00 for the general public.
For information or to reserve tickets, call (703) 916-0655 or go to DCBU’s website.

*denotes part of our Roots and Branches series

*American Routes – Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals
Celebrate epic moments in American music from the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals–from Duke Ellington’s 1956 comeback to Bob Dylan’s 1965 electric revolution. Mark the 55th anniversary of the Jazz Festival with performances by Ray Charles, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, and a visit from trumpet legend Clark Terry, who played with Ellington in ‘56. Festival founder George Wein also joins us to share his memories, such as the founding of the Folk Festival in 1959 that featured blues, gospel, country, Cajun and more; and folk singer Joan Baez recalls her Newport experiences. Plus Newport performances from Doc Watson, John Lee Hooker and others.

Bluegrass Breakdown – Fives
It’s another chapter in our ongoing look at bluegrass numerology. This time it’s the number “five” that will be placed under the high-lonesome microscope. Del McCoury, the Bluegrass Brothers, Julie Kerr, Troublesome Hollow and Salamander Crossing will be singing about five days, five dollars, five rooms, five minutes, five flat rocks and, of course, the five string banjo.

Bluegrass Master Class – Banks of the Ohio #74
Treasures of the ‘60s are highlighted, including the music of Red Allen, Benny & Vallie Cain, the Charles River Valley Boys, the Country Gentlemen, Fats Domino, the Greenbriar Boys, Jimi Hendrix, the Kentucky Colonels, the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Sam & Kirk McGee, Jimmy Martin, Bill & James Monroe, Moore & Napier, the Osborne Brothers, Smokey Robinson, the Stanley Brothers, the Texas Troubadours, Doc Watson, and Mac Wiseman. A production of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, hosted by Fred Bartenstein.

Bluegrass Review
After we open the show with a major production job by Alecia Nugent, we turn out attention to the fox chase. It’s a kind of instrumental piece that imitates the sounds of the hounds chasing the fox. On our Gem of Bluegrass, we look at pop and bluegrass from another viewpoint. Although the two forms are very different, pop is able to mine bluegrass from time to time. Later, we talk to Sam Bush, one of the defining mandolin players of his generation. Show host Phil Nusbaum enjoys talking to listeners. Contact him at pnusbaum@bitstream.net.

Bluegrass Signal – New Releases – Rebel
This week on Bluegrass Signal, three new releases on Rebel Records — from David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Spring Creek, and Barry Scott & Second Wind — plus one reissue (Mac Wiseman from 1976-77) and a compilation that includes drivin’ and/or ramblin’ and/or rovin’ songs from Red Allen, Ralph Stanley, Larry Sparks, and Dave Evans.

*The Dick Spottswood Show
Extended visits with Bill Monroe, the Bailes Brothers, Sleepy John Estes and plugged-in Jim and Jesse occupy much of this week’s first hour. An informal ragtime survey precedes a kitty-cat song suite in hour 2. It’s August and days are warm, so the music’s not demanding, even though it remains steadfastly Obsolete.

*etown – Bruce Cockburn & Brett Dennen
Veteran singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn’s Etown appearances have always provided some of the show’s most cherished and memorable performances, and this week’s rebroadcast program, originally taped at the Flynn Theater in Burlington, Vermont, is no exception. Our second musical guest is engaging young singer-songwriter, Brett Dennen.

The Free for All – Wednesday, 6-9 p.m. LIVE, Friday 9 p.m.-12 a.m.

The Gary Henderson Show – Saturday 8-11 a.m. LIVE, Monday 12 p.m., Friday 12 a.m.

LIVE The Katy Daley Show - Monday-Friday 7-10 a.m. ET

The Lee Michael Demsey Show – Saturday 11a.m.-2p.m., Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. ET LIVE

Lonesome Pine RFD with Carol Beaugard – Mon. 12 a.m., Wed. 9 p.m., Thurs. 12 p.m.

*Mountain Stage Featuring Judy Collins, Mavis Staples, Lucy Kaplansky, Todd Snider, Lori McKenna. Playlist.

Music from Foggy Hollow
Mike Kear’s Music from Foggy Hollow this week features a new CD from Flatpicking Guitar Magazine called Flatpicking Bluegrass. It features a host of great guitarists playing lead on some standard bluegrass songs. He’s playing some of the songs and talking about the artists. Also on the show, Mike’s playing new music from David Peterson, will have a peek at the new Lou Reid & Carolina CD, and plays a great old song from Phil Rosenthal. As usual he doesn’t take things too seriously – there’s time for some fun and levity too. It’s another show oozing with bluegrass goodness, so don’t miss it!

Open Mic
Performances from Ralph Stanley & Tim O’Brien recorded at Common Ground on the Hill’s Roots Music and Arts Festival, July 11 & 12 2009 in Westminster, MD.

Old Time Jam
This week it’s tunes in Hubie’s favorite key of “C”. See if you don’t agree that they have a special quality: more melody and hot rhythm. We reach way back to get one by John “Seven-Foot Dilly” Dilleshaw, and others by “Mr. Banjo Dancing” – Stephen Wade, the Georgia Mudcats, Killer Grits, Nate Leath, Gary Harrison and a slew of regulars.

LIVE The Ray Davis Show – Mon-Fri 3-6p.m., Sunday 10am-1p

Rotating Shows
The Old Home Place with Lisa Kay Howard – Sunday 3 a.m. (August 9)
Foster’s Corner – Tuesday 12 p.m., Thursday 12 a.m., Sunday 3 a.m. (August 16)

Special Programming
David Peterson sits down in the studio with Katy Daley, to discuss and play tunes from his new album, Comin’ On Strong. Also, Lee Michael Demsey interviews Tim Shelton, guitar player from Newfound Road. And, of course, Phil Nusbaum presents Gems of Bluegrass.

LIVE Stained Glass Bluegrass hosted by Bob Webster
This time around we’ll enjoy some requested favorites by the Rochesters as well as a few new selections by Bobby Maynard (formerly the banjo player with the Dry Branch Fire Squad) that will make us think. Old hymns – for sure at the start of the third hour so be ready to sing.

*Thistle and Shamrock – New World Releases
Hear tracks from the latest albums by North American artists who work to expand the reach of Celtic traditions.

LIVE *Traditions with Mary Cliff – Saturday 2-6 p.m.

Uptown Bluegrass with George McKnight – Late Summer Festivals
This week’s show features the music of many artists from the US and Canada who will be playing and entertaining at the several music shows in the latter part of summer and early fall.

Dale Ann discusses her new album Don’t Turn Your Back.

*denotes part of our Roots and Branches series

*American Routes - American Gothic: Jolie Holland & Homer Bailes
It’s old-time country and folk, as seen from the two very different viewpoints of our guests. Jolie Holland is a young singer-songwriter whose sound incorporates a distinct vision–sometimes dark and somewhat hallucinatory–of blues and country from another era. Homer Bailes is the last remaining member of 1940s country superstar family band the Bailes Brothers. His stern outlook on life, illustrated by songs like “Whiskey is the Devil in Liquid Form,” remains unchanged over half a century later.

Banks of the Ohio
with George McKnight.

Bluegrass Breakdown – Sawmill Road Live
We’ll be sitting at the feet of a band that’s totally in synch and on top of its game, a quintet that always delivers a knock-out punch with a bold originality and a bit of a western tinge. Sawmill Road—bassist Steve Spurgin, guitarist Charles Edsall, mandolinist Mark Miracle, fiddling Bruce Johnson and banjoist Dick Brown—will be pickin’ and singin’ live, commemorating the release of their debut disc, One.

Bluegrass Master Class
Each week on this historical series, one of our expert hosts brings to light the talent, personalities, and music that make up the rich tradition of bluegrass. Learn more about your favorite song or just reminisce. And, don’t worry, there won’t be a quiz!

Bluegrass Review
What is hillbilly music? We ask that question in today’s Gem of Bluegrass. Later on the broadcast, we talk to post-Uncle Dave Macon stylist Leroy Troy about his work. Also, we play important new bluegrass, play a little more “extreme justice” bluegrass, and postscript Jake Schepps. Use the playlist link at BluegrassReview.com for playlists. To contact host Phil Nusbaum, the email address is pnusbaum@bitstream.net.

Bluegrass Signal -

*The Dick Spottswood Show
Hope you’re hungry–this week’s menu features good southern cooking and other culinary surprises for gourmets and gourmands alike. Along with you, celebrity dinner guests will include Merle Travis, Lester & Earl, Maybelle Carter, Mississippi John Hurt, Moon Mullican and the Monroe Brothers too. Come with a good appetite and save some room for dessert.

*etown
Etown and hosts Nick & Helen Forster travel to Portland, Oregon for the first time to record a show at the charming Newmark Theater. Sarah McLachlan is back with us, this time solo, selecting songs from her amazing catalog of new and classic material presented sparsely and in solid style with Nick & Helen and the Etones backing her up here and there. Phenomenal multi-instrumentalist and Grammy-nominated hit songwriter, Darrell Scott joins us, too, with a powerful set of songs supported by Nick & Helen and the Etones and old pals Darol Anger & Gary Ogan. Plus, talented newcomer, singer-songwriter Griffin House, is in Etown for his first visit as well. And you will be moved by a special ‘in-person’ Portland-centric E-Chievement Award story, too, all this week in Etown.

The Free for All Wednesday, 6-9 p.m.LIVE
Echo hosts the program solo, drops the Friday Night prefix and is LIVE right after The Ray Davis Show. She’ll be playing lots of traditional bluegrass in the first hour, and a mix of Americana and bluegrass in the next two hours.

The Old Home Place - Sunday 3 a.m. (1/25)

Foster’s Corner - Tuesday 12 p.m. , Thursday 12 a.m. , Sunday 3 a.m. (2/01)

The Gary Henderson Show Saturday 8-11 a.m. LIVE, Monday 12 p.m., Friday 12 a.m.

The Katy Daley Show Monday-Friday 7-10 a.m. ET LIVE

The Lee Michael Demsey Show Saturday 11a.m.-2p.m., Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-12 p.m. ET LIVE,

Lonesome Pine RFD with Carol Beaugard, Mon. 12 a.m., Wed. 9 p.m.

*Mountain Stage
Featuring: Jose Gonzalez, Nellie McKay, everybodyfields, 17 Hippies, Mia Doi Todd, and Julia Douglass. Playlist

Music from Foggy Hollow
In Music from Foggy Hollow from Australia this week,  there’s a great start to the year, with a new CD from Donna Ulisse called “Walk This Mountain Down”.  It’s the feature album on the show this week.  Mike Kear’s playing some songs from the CD and talking a bit about Donna’s life and career. Also on the show new music from Pam Gadd, Jeanette Williams, Michael Martin Murphey and a fantastic new single from Audie Blaylock and Redline that is gonna knock your socks right off! Mike doesn’t take himself too seriously – there’s time for some fun and levity too. It’s another show jam packed with bluegrass goodness.

Open Mic

Old Time Jam
Hubie King “vegges out” this week with a program of tunes which all have vegetables in their names.  The menu includes familiar produce items such as corn, peas, potatoes and beans, but also some less familiar ones like chinquapins, collards and leather britches.  Yum!

The Ray Davis Show Mon-Fri 3-6p.m., Sunday 10am-1p, LIVE

Special Programming

LIVE Stained Glass Bluegrass Hosted by Bob Webster

*Thistle and Shamrock – Mando Banjo Magic
Stringed instruments of all sorts help forge this music’s identity.  This week we feature two that have become central to its sound with Seamus Egan, Jane Rothfield, and Gerry O’Connor

LIVE *Traditions with Mary Cliff, Saturday 2-6 p.m.

*denotes part of our Roots and Branches series

*American Routes - Martin Luther King,  Jr.
As historic events take place in Washington, DC this holiday, American Routes reflects on the legacy of Martin Luther King in both words and music. We’ll talk music with Civil Rights activist and college professor Julian Bond. Jazz trumpet legend Freddie Hubbard stops by to share stories of his life in the jazz world during those tumultuous times. All this plus songs and voices to commemorate our past and look to our future.

Banks of the Ohio
with George McKnight.

Bluegrass Breakdown – Bed By The Window
We’ll be embarking on one of our most adventuresome outings to date—an in depth, no holds barred, no stone unturned look at, bluegrass … “beds.” It’s a potentially risqué subject, but we’ll handle it with our usual bull-in-the-china closet, Neanderthal, but well-meaning way. With insight and guidance from such mattress connoisseurs as James King, Avery County, Bill Clifton, David Peterson & 1946, Kate MacKenzie and David Parmley we’ll be celebrating beds on the floor, beds by the window, feather beds, dying beds, neighbor’s beds, bedsides, riverbeds, creek beds and rose beds. of her own.

Bluegrass Master Class
Each week on this historical series, one of our expert hosts brings to light the talent, personalities, and music that make up the rich tradition of bluegrass. Learn more about your favorite song or just reminisce. And, don’t worry, there won’t be a quiz!

Bluegrass Review
Today we feature progressive stylists on our show. The Gem of Bluegrass focuses on one of the most influential mandolin players ever, Jethro Burns. His meal ticket was comedy, but insiders always knew of his great skill as a jazz mandolinist, and his work played a major role in the formation of progressive acoustic music. Also, we speak with Colorado progressive banjoist, Jake Schepps. Plus, we play some songs where extreme justice plays a role, and postscript April Verch. Use the playlist link at the home page of BluegrassReview.com for playlists. To contact host Phil Nusbaum, the email address is pnusbaum@bitstream.net or visit Phil’s blog: Culture11,  where bluegrass people discuss bluegrass.

Bluegrass Signal - 5-String Productions
An introduction to 5-String Productions, a record company that’s been very active recently, with new music ranging from the old time sounds of John Hoffman & Mac Benford and Alice Gerrard, Gail Gillespie & Sharon Sandomirsky to the originals of Carol Elizabeth Jones to the Mali-Appalachian fusion of Cheick Hamala Diabate & Bob Carlin to the solo offerings of Matt Brown. There’s also a new “legacy” release of Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger. And it somehow all fits on this week’s Bluegrass Signal.

*The Dick Spottswood Show
A few tunes from Buzz Busby are followed by excerpts from In the Pines, a new Old Hat cd of judiciously selected North Carolina string band and gospel tracks from the 78 rpm days.  The second hour is dominated by accordionists;  if you share the opinion that in hell everybody plays an accordion, then what you’ll hear will help you rconsider.

*etown
Etown returns to Fort Collins, CO, in this encore broadcast, for a taping at the Lincoln Center. Joining hosts Nick & Helen Forster are a pair of fantastic singer-songwriters: one with an established history and award-winning hits, and the other whose star is rising quickly. First, Marc Cohn, along with his band, shares some intensely personal observations set to his strongly crafted music. Then, young and gifted singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile takes the stage with her powerful vocals and a set of sophisticated songs that belies her youth (she’s only 27!). There’s fine music, insightful conversation, and an amazing E-Chievement award story all coming up in this week’s Etown broadcast.

The Free for All Wednesday, 6-9 p.m.LIVE
Echo hosts the program solo, drops the Friday Night prefix and is LIVE right after The Ray Davis Show. She’ll be playing lots of traditional bluegrass in the first hour, and a mix of Americana and bluegrass in the next two hours.

The Tom “Cat” Reeder Show Sunday 3 a.m. (1/18)

The Old Home Place Tuesday 12 p.m. , Thursday 12 a.m. , Sunday 3 a.m. (1/25)

The Gary Henderson Show Saturday 8-11 a.m. LIVE, Monday 12 p.m., Friday 12 a.m.

The Katy Daley Show Monday-Friday 7-10 a.m. ET LIVE

The Lee Michael Demsey Show Saturday 11a.m.-2p.m., Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-12 p.m. ET LIVE,

Lonesome Pine RFD with Carol Beaugard, Mon. 12 a.m., Wed. 9 p.m.

*Mountain Stage
Featuring:
Ani DiFranco
moe.
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Paul Kelly
George Stanford.
Playlist.

Music from Foggy Hollow
This week, Mike Kear features a new CD from Pam Gadd called “Benefit of Doubt”.  It’s her fourth CD and it’s a beauty.  Mike plays some songs from the album and talks a bit about Pam and her career.   There’s lots of new music and some you’ll know and love too,  and plenty of chuckles along the way.  Also the regular features – the segment from Sao Paulo, Brazil and the nostalgic look back at what was going on in Foggy Hollow 5 years ago.   It’s a packed show as always.   Bluegrass from Australia – who’d a thunk it?!!

Open Mic
(a rebroadcast) Over 400 people joined us on Sunday, June 22 for the very first Bluegrass Country Open House. This week, we open the mic for the bands that entertained everyone from the lawn of our building in Northwest D.C.; All4Hym, Andrew Acosta’s New Old Time String Band, Hubie King and the Old Timers, The Lisa Kay Band, and Scythian.

Old Time Jam
Hubie King plays two sets of Civil War songs, remembering both Confederate and Union soldiers.  The rest is a variety of old-time music, including two original songs, “Walk Along John to Kansas,” and “Little Caty Sage,” from the latest Wolfe Brothers CD, Old Virginia Hills.

The Ray Davis Show Mon-Fri 3-6p.m., Sunday 10am-1p, LIVE

Special Programming
2009 promises to be a great year in Bluegrass, two up and coming bands this year, also happen to be family bands: The Doerfels, based in Florida, and Ohio’s Jett’s Creek. We’ll hear live performances with these two family bands, plus Phil Nusbaum’s Gems of Bluegrass on this week’s Special Programming.

LIVE Stained Glass Bluegrass Hosted by Bob Webster

*Thistle and Shamrock – New Voices
This is your chance to get onto some new singing talent before everyone else does! We’ll enjoy music of a number of rising artists from Ireland and beyond, and meet Scottish singer-songwriter Fraser Anderson who recorded a studio session for us.

LIVE *Traditions with Mary Cliff, Saturday 2-6 p.m.

*denotes part of our Roots and Branches series

*American Routes - George Gershwin
This two hour tribute maps the Route to Genius for this great American composer. We’ll speak with those who know his work and perform his work about Gershwin’s relationship with klemzer and the blues, his work for the stage, and his place in the American soundscape. Plus hear great versions of Gershwin’s enduring tunes in jazz, country, the blues and more.

Banks of the Ohio
Enjoy a trip down the bluegrass memory lane, as George McKnight presents a show with songs all about Time and Memories.

Bluegrass Breakdown – Dailey & Vincent/Dale Ann Bradley Live
We’ll be paying tribute to a duo that, between them, brought home an unprecedented truckload of 2008 IBMA awards including “Album of the Year,” “Vocal Group of the Year,” “Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year,” “Male Vocalist of the Year,” Emerging Artist of the Year” and “Entertainer of the Year.” Jamie Dailey & Darrin Vincent will be our special live guests, talking about their self-titled Rounder debut. And, as though that wasn’t enough to bring you to your knees in solemn reverence, the 2008 IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Dale Ann Bradley, will also be on board with some live pickin’ and singin’ of her own.

Bluegrass Master Class
Each week on this historical series, one of our expert hosts brings to light the talent, personalities, and music that make up the rich tradition of bluegrass. Learn more about your favorite song or just reminisce. And, don’t worry, there won’t be a quiz!

Bluegrass Review
More great bluegrass on today’s show. The Gem of Bluegrass considers how the community basis of traditional fiddling has changed. Later, we talk to April Verch about how she approaches bluegrass audiences from a base in Ottawa Valley Canadian fiddle playing. We play examples of Metis and old time Canadian fiddling, and squeeze in some new bluegrass, too. Use the playlist link at the home page of BluegrassReview.com for playlists. To contact host Phil Nusbaum, the email address is pnusbaum@bitstream.net or visit Phil’s blog: Culture11,  where bluegrass people discuss bluegrass.

Bluegrass Signal - IBMA Awards Show
Highlights from the 2008 IBMA Awards Show, live (on Oct. 2/08) from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Host Del McCoury comments on the historic location, Ricky Skaggs and Doyle Lawson offer tributes to some of those who played there in the past, and Bill Clifton’s induction to the IBMA Hall Of Fame is followed by a sample of his recordings. Other live performances by the Infamous Stringdusters, SteelDrivers, Steep Canyon Rangers, Dale Ann Bradley, and, of course, the Del Band.

*The Dick Spottswood Show
Bill Monroe sports triple fiddles on a couple of 1954 treasures, the Stanley Brothers feature finger-picked guitar in a musical response to Elvis Presley, and we hear what Merle Travis and a couple of African guitarists have in common. Bessie Smith rebaptizes Casey Jones as J.C. Holmes, Johnnie and Jack sing some glorious gospel, as do a couple of Texas bluesmen. Oh, and there’s a cheerful (let’s hope) medley of Depression songs, to remind us that this is only a Recession.Right? Right!

*etown
Rickie Lee Jones, makes her way back to the Etown stage for her fourth visit. In this repeat broadcast, she shares some newer music along with select tunes from her amazing catalog amassed over a career of nearly 30 years. Also joining us is singer-songwriter Chris Smither, who wows us with masterful guitar picking on his selection of tunes rooted in blues and folk. Incorporating lyrics drawn from modern poets and humanist philosophers, Chris shares some solo tunes and also gangs up with Nick & Helen Forster and the Etones for a full band performance.

The Free for All Wednesday, 6-9 p.m.LIVE
Echo hosts the program solo, drops the Friday Night prefix and is LIVE right after The Ray Davis Show. She’ll be playing lots of traditional bluegrass in the first hour, and a mix of Americana and bluegrass in the next two hours.

The Bill Miller Show Sunday 3 a.m. (1/11)

The Tom “Cat” Reeder Show Tuesday 12 p.m. LIVE, Thursday 12 a.m. , Sunday 3 a.m. (1/18)

The Gary Henderson Show Saturday 8-11 a.m. LIVE, Monday 12 p.m., Friday 12 a.m.

The Katy Daley Show Monday-Friday 7-10 a.m. ET LIVE

The Lee Michael Demsey Show Saturday 11a.m.-2p.m., Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-12 p.m. ET LIVE,

Lonesome Pine RFD with Carol Beaugard, Mon. 12 a.m., Wed. 9 p.m.

*Mountain Stage
Featuring Peter Case, Le Trio Joubran, Band of Heathens, Storyhill, and Comparsa. Playlist

Music from Foggy Hollow
This week, Mike Kear features a new CD from Jeanette Williams, called Thank You for Caring, out on Blue Circle Records.   He’s playing some songs from the album and talking about Jeanette and her career.   There’s lots of new music, and some you’ll know and love too.  Also on the show, the regular segment from Sao Paulo Brazil, a nostalgic look back at what was playing on the show 5 years ago, and lots more.   It’s a packed show as always, and you’d be a wombat to miss it!   Bluegrass from Australia.  Who’d a thunk it!

Open Mic
Top 40 Bluegrass Countdown – Lee Michael Demsey reviews the top 40 Bluegrass songs of 2008. No hints on what’s the most popular song of the year, but if you follow Bluegrass Unlimited charts, which Lee has been compiling since April 1990, you might have an idea of how the list will shake out.

Old Time Jam
Hubie King introduces some new CDs he found in his stocking over the holidays: “Burnin’ It Down”, by brothers Tim & Dave (Bing); “Midnight on the Run”, by Killer Grits; “Homestead on the Farm”, by the Hushpuppies; and “Waiting on the Gravy Train”, by the Freight Hoppers. Artists whose CDs are revisited include Paul Brown, Mac & Jenny Traynham, the Mill Run Dulcimer Band, “Chirps” Smith, Mac Benford, Bruce Molsky and more.

The Ray Davis Show Mon-Fri 3-6p.m., Sunday 10am-1p, LIVE

Special Programming
2009 promises to be a great year in Bluegrass, two up and coming bands this year, also happen to be family bands: The Doerfels, based in Florida, and Ohio’s Jett’s Creek. We’ll hear live performances with these two family bands, plus Phil Nusbaum’s Gems of Bluegrass on this week’s Special Programming.

LIVE Stained Glass Bluegrass Hosted by Bob Webster
Let’s brighten the dreary days of winter with some thoughts of flowers. Flowers have long been admired and used to beautify our surroundings and are sometimes a source of food. The bluegrass music community is rich with songs involving flowers, roses, bouquets and the symbolic representation of new beginnings. We’ll enjoy many gospels numbers this week that use flowers in the lyrical messages, many of them bluegrass gospel classics. And for sure we’ll have some old hymns so don’t forget your song books for the third hour.

*Thistle and Shamrock – Horizons
Tune into sounds that are turning a new generation onto Celtic music including flute and whistle player Michael McGoldrick, singer Emily Smith, and piper Stuart Cassells who fronts the Red Hot Chilli Pipers.

LIVE *Traditions with Mary Cliff, Saturday 2-6 p.m.

*denotes part of our Roots and Branches series

*American Routes
Ring in the new year with some of our favorite live music. We’ll have a set from New Orleans’ trumpet player, Kermit Ruffins with an all-star Crescent City band featuring vocalist Thais Clark. Lafayette, Louisiana’s Pine Leaf Boys bring rock and roll energy to their own version of traditional Cajun music. Step into a holiday soiree of reels, jigs and waltzes by French fiddlers in Westbrook, Maine. And pull up a set for a club set from singer and banjo player Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders. It’s a festive set of live music that will keep you swinging well into 2009.

Banks of the Ohio – Looking Ahead to 09
George McKnight features artists performing in the upcoming River City Bluegrass Festival as well as Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mtn Boys.

Bluegrass Breakdown – More Reissue Mania
We’ll be starting off the New Year right, by hotly pursuing tunes that have recently resurfaced for the first time in the pristine, snap/crackle/and pop free CD format and/or have been thoughtfully repackaged as part of a larger collection. Dave Evans & River Bend, James King, Jim & Jesse, David Bromberg, Claire Lynch and Bluegrass, Etc. will lead the charge.

NEW PROGRAM: Bluegrass Master Class
Each week on this historical series, one of our expert hosts brings to light the talent, personalities, and music that make up the rich tradition of bluegrass. Learn more about your favorite song or just reminisce. And, don’t worry, there won’t be a quiz!

Bluegrass Review
There’s a lot of great fiddling on today’s show. The Gem of Bluegrass finds a reason why the fiddle is the instrument with the greatest connection to old time music and bluegrass. Later, we talk to Canadian fiddle master, April Verch, and she addresses differences between United States and Canadian traditions. We play some of the fiddlers she suggested from two of Canada’s fiddling sub styles. Plus, we find time for a few more songs from the Tom Paxton bluegrass songbook. Visit the home page of BluegrassReview.com for playlists. To contact host Phil Nusbaum, the email address is pnusbaum@bitstream.net or visit Phil’s blog: Culture11, where bluegrass people discuss bluegrass.

Bluegrass Signal - Across the Tracks (New Releases)
A survey of new releases, including ones featuring banjo players (Earl Scruggs, Kristin Scott Benson, Alan Munde), songwriters (Carol Elizabeth Jones, Chris Stuart, Robin & Linda Williams, Town Mountain), interpreters (Carol Elizabeth Jones [again], David Parmley, Valerie Smith & Becky Buller, Wes Miller), and songs suitable for New Year’s resolutions (Tenbrooks, Ernie Thacker, Ernest V/ Stoneman).

*The Dick Spottswood Show
Jimmy Martin and Cousin Wilbur sing tenor to Bill Monroe,and there’s more great vocal harmony from the Stanleys, Osbornes (with Red Allen), Jimmie (no relation) Osborne, and the great Silver Leaf Quartette.  Country meets Cajun with Hank Williams, Buck Owens, Papa Cairo and Dennis McGee.  Too many banjos?  No such thing!  The Osbornes return in the second hour with double banjos, as do a couple of minstrel men from 1897.  The Dixieland Jug Blowers and a ragtime banjo band from the Philippines sport even more.  It’s mid-winter, and Obsolete Music knows how to turn up the heat.

*etown
This encore airing features two young songwriters and singers. Matt Nathanson, a talented musician and conversational ‘free-spirit’ with a marvelously gregarious stage presence, pays a visit to Etown. He plays some stripped down versions of recent hit songs, accompanied in exceptional style by Nick & Helen Forster and the Etones. We also welcome Ian Ball of the successful British rock trio, Gomez, who offers his own blend of Brit-pop tunes. Plus, we’ll share a moving E-Chievement Award story with you, too, right here in Etown.

The Free for All is moving to Wednesday, 6-9 p.m.
Beginning January 7, Echo hosts the program solo, drops the Friday Night prefix and is LIVE right after The Ray Davis Show. She’ll be playing lots of traditional bluegrass in the first hour, and a mix of Americana and bluegrass in the next two hours.

Foster’s Corner Sunday 3 a.m. (1/4)

The Bill Miller Show Tuesday 12 p.m. , Thursday 12 a.m., Sunday 3 a.m. (1/11)

The Gary Henderson Show Saturday 8-11 a.m. LIVE, Monday 12 p.m., Friday 12 a.m.

The Katy Daley Show Monday-Friday 7-10 a.m. ET LIVE

The Lee Michael Demsey Show Saturday 11a.m.-2p.m., Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-12 p.m. ET LIVE,

Lonesome Pine RFD with Carol Beaugard, Mon. 12 a.m., Wed. 9 p.m.

*Mountain Stage
Featuring Cherryholmes, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Claire Lynch Band, Kane Welch Kaplin and, Bare Bones. Playlist.

Music from Foggy Hollow
This week, Mike Kear responds to a challenge from a listener in Maryland that there aren’t many bluegrass love songs.  So he’s devoted the whole week’s show to bluegrass love songs.   There are some soggy moments,  some soppy moments,  some fun moments.  Plus the regular segment from Sao Paulo, Brazil and a lot of fun and entertainment.  It’s another packed show and you’d be a wombat if you missed it.

Open Mic
Top 40 Bluegrass Countdown – Lee Michael Demsey reviews the top 40 Bluegrass songs of 2008. No hints on what’s the most popular song of the year, but if you follow Bluegrass Unlimited charts, which Lee has been compiling since April 1990, you might have an idea of how the list will shake out.

Old Time Jam
Hubie King introduces two CDs: “Burnin’ it Down” – brand new banjo and fiddle duets by Tim and Dave Bing, and an album by “The Mysterious Redbirds” featuring Tom Paley, a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, on banjo, with guitar by James Reams and fiddle by Bill Christopherson.  This solves the “mystery” of “whatever happened to Tom Paley?”  A wide variety of other artists flesh out the program, including Riley Baugus, Laura Boosinger, Paul Brown, Reed Martin and many more.

The Ray Davis Show Mon-Fri 3-6p.m., Sunday 10am-1p, LIVE

Special Programming
The Free For All is moving to Wednesdays! Beginning in January, Echo hosts the program solo, drops the Friday Night prefix and is LIVE right after The Ray Davis Show. She’ll be playing lots of traditional bluegrass in the first hour, and a mix of Americana and bluegrass in the next two hours. To give you a taste of the programming Echo has to offer we’ll hear an hour of The Free For All during this week’s Special Programming.

LIVE Stained Glass Bluegrass Hosted by Bob Webster
We’ll kick off the new year with some humor by Wendy Bagwell and his 1969 story of “Here Come the Rattlesnakes” that hasn’t been aired on Stained Glass Bluegrass in over two years.  Lots of old traditional favorites are featured as well as a special arrangement of “Near the Cross” to close the old hymns portion of the program that begins our third hour.

*Thistle and Shamrock – Cara Dillon
Her voice has mesmerized audiences in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America and Cara Dillon has won many accolades for her recordings, including two prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Meet this great singer from County Derry and share her infectious passion for the songs of her homeland.

LIVE *Traditions with Mary Cliff, Saturday 2-6 p.m.