Today's show opened with a set of music by folks who were born in the month of September. Their birthdays are in parentheses after their name.
BILL MONROE (9/13)/I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky/The Very Best Of Bill Monroe/Decca-MCA
ERIC & SUZY THOMPSON (Suzy 9/20)/In My Girlish Days/Adam & Eve Had the Blues/Arhoolie
JIMMIE RODGERS (9/8) My Blue Eyed Jane/The Singing Brakeman (box set)/Bear Family
DOC WATSON & CLARENCE ASHLEY (Clarence 9/29)/The Coo Coo Bird/The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962/Smithsonian-Folkways
BUDDY HOLLY (9/7)/Everyday/Gold/MCA-Decca
JIM KWESKIN JUG BAND (Maria Muldaur 9/12)/Richland Women Blues/Greatest Hits/Vanguard
BILL BOYD & HIS COUNTRY RAMBLERS (9/29)/Barn Dance Rag/VA: Doughboys, Playboys & Cowboys (box set)/Proper
GENE AUTRY (9/29)/Birmingham Daddy (with Roy Smeck on banjo)/Gene Autry Blues Singer/Columbia Legacy
KELLY HARRELL (9/13)/John Johanna/VA: American Folk Music: The Harry Smith Anthology/Smithsonian-Folkways
ROY ACUFF (9/15)/Wreck on the Highway/The Essential Roy Acuff/Columbia Legacy
BYRON PARKER'S MOUNTAINEERS (9/6)/C + N W Railroad Blues/VA: Classic Country Music on the Bluebird Label/BACM
HANK WILLIAMS SR. (9/17)/They'll Never Take Her Love From Me/The Essential Hank Williams Collection/Mercury-Universal
Tribute to the late Sam Hinton, who died this week:
SAM HINTON/The Barnyard Song/VA: Evening Concerts at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival/Vanguard
SAM HINTON/Must I Go Bound/VA: Evening Concerts at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival/Vanguard
SAM HINTON/Arkansas Traveller/VA: Evening Concerts at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival/Vanguard
OSBORNE BROTHERS/Pathway of Trouble/Bluegrass Melodies/MCA Japan
BLUE FLAME STRING BAND/Are You Afraid to Die?/Blue Flame String Band/14 Carrot Records
RICE BROTHERS/This Old House/VA: Bluegrass Class of 1990/Rounder radio sampler
GRASS TOWNE/Hard Workin' Man/The Other Side of Towne/Pinecastle
CAROLINA JUG STOMPERS/Maybelle Rag/Rooster On a Limb/Old 97 Wrecords
CLAIRE LYNCH/If Wishes Were Horses/Silver and Gold/Rounder
FRONT RANGE/My Heavenly Home/VA: Sacred Voices, A Collection of A Cappella Gospel/Sugar Hill
Then a few songs about county fairs, in honor of the just-opened Los Angeles County Fair:
SONS OF THE PIONEERS with DALE EVANS/Love at the County Fair/Wagons West/Bear Family
RED CLAY RAMBLERS/Fourth of July at the County Fair/Chuckin the Frizz/Flying Fish
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS/Let's Go to the Fair/Poor Rambler/King
GOLDEN RING/Captain Kidd/VA: Golden Ring/Folk-Legacy
RONNIE BOWMAN/Will You Be Lonesome Too?/Cold Virginia Night/Rebel
DALE ANN BRADLEY/The Rocking Chair/Cumberland River Dreams/Doobie Shea
DUDLEY CONNELL & DON RIGSBY/Short Life of Trouble/Meet Me By the Moonlight/Sugar Hill
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS/See God's Ark A-Movin'/Blue Diamond/Rounder
JO EL SONNIER/Jolie Blond/VA: 21 Cajun Classics/Swallow
LAURIE LEWS & DUDLEY CONNELL/The Lover's Return/VA: Masters of the Banjo/Arhoolie
