Alive & Picking playlist for 10/31/09. The format is ARTIST/song title/album title/label
Started the show this morning with a musical reminder that we set our clocks back tonight, then went into a set of music by artists whose birthdays fall in the month of October. Birth dates are in parentheses after the artist’s name.
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- GRANDPA JONES (10/20)/Daylight Savings Time/from an old Grandpa Jones LP
- LYNN MORRIS (10/8)/The Likes of You/You’ll Never Be The Sun/Rounder Select
- E.C. BALL (10/1)/The Fox/Through the Years, 1937-1975/Copper Creek
- SAVOY FAMILY BAND (Marc Savoy 10/1)/Rockin’ Chair Two-Step/Turn Loose But Don’t Let Go/Arhoolie
- BLUE SKY BOYS (Bill Bolick 10/28)/Down On the Banks of the Ohio/There’ll Come a Time/BSR
- HOYT MING’S PEP STEPPERS (Hoyt Ming 10/6) Indian War Whoop/VA: Mississippi String Bands Vol. 1/County
- BYRON BERLINE & JOHN HICKMAN (John Hickman 10/7)/Liberty/Double Trouble/Sugar Hill
- IRY LEJEUNE (10/28)/Lacassine Special/The Definitive Collection/Ace
- ROY BOOK BINDER (10/5) Davis/Travis Rag/Live Book – Don’t Start Me To Talkin’/Rounder
- UNCLE DAVE MACON (10/7)/When The Train Comes Along/Country Music Hall of Fame Series/MCA
- THE OSBORNE BROTHERS (Sonny Osborne 10/12)/Making Plans/Bluegrass Melodies/MCA
- CANRAY FONTENOT (10/16)/Bernadette/VA: 15 Louisiana Cajun Classics/Arhoolie
- DAVID HOLT (10/15) & JOSH GOFORTH/Jesus Said Go/Cutting Loose/High Windy
- SNUFFY JENKINS (10/27) & PAPPY SHERRILL/Watermelon Hanging on the Vine/Pioneer of the Bluegrass Banjo/Arhoolie
- SONNY TERRY (10/29)/Goin’ to Kansas City/Sonny Terry & His Mouth Harp/Fantasy
- NARCISO MARTINEZ (10/29)/Muchachos Alegre/Father of the Texas-Mexican Conjunto/Arhoolie
- GRANDPA JONES (10/20) I’m My Own Grandpa/28 Greatest Hits/King
- WILMA LEE & STONEY (10/16) COOPER/Sunny Side of the Mountain/Sunny Side of the Mountain (Old Columbia-Harmony LP)
Then mentioned the passing earlier this week of Fred Starner.
- FRED STARNER/Cairo/Old Dan Tucker/Patchwork Quilt/self
- ROY HARVEY & LEONARD COPELAND/Lonesome Weary Blues/VA: Old Time Mountain Guitar/County
- CARL JACKSON & MELBA MONTGOMERY/Something Draws Me to You/I’ve Always Needed You/Eldorado
- BILLY BRAGG/Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key/Mermaid Avenue/Elektra
- JOHN DOYLE with guest vocals by Karan Casey/Bitter the Parting/Wayward Son/Compass
- STEEP CANYON RANGERS/I Must Be Somebody Else You’ve Known/Deep in the Shade/Rebel
- EUPHONIA/Angeline the Baker’s Gone/The Old Jawbone/Tuxedo
- MAURA O’CONNELL with guest vocals by Kate Rusby and Dolly Parton/The Bright Blue Rose/Naked With Friends/Sugar Hill
- GEOFF MULDAUR & THE TEXAS SHEIKS with guest vocals by Jim Kweskin/Blues In the Bottle/Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks/Tradition und Moderne
- MONROE CROSSING/When You are Lonely/Heartache & Stone/MC
- THE CROOKED JADES/Fly Around/The Unfortunate Rake/Crooked
- BYRON BERLINE & VINCE GILL/Rose of Old Kentucky/VA: Legacy, a Tribute to the First Generation of Bluegrass/Sugar Hill
- JAMES KEELAGHAN/Safe Home/House of Cards/Borealis