Playlist for Alive & Picking for 11/21/09.

The first set celebrates Thanksgiving, which is this coming Thursday. The format is ARTIST/song title/CD title/label

1. VASSAR CLEMENTS/Turkey in the Straw (LP)
2. JOHNNY HORTON/Smokey Joe's Barbecue (LP) rec. 1951
3. LONNIE JOHNSON/Sewet Potato Blues (rec. 1927)/Steppin' On the Blues/Columbia-Legacy
4. RENO & SMILEY/Dill Pickle Rag (LP)
5. BILL NETTLES & THE DIXIE BLUE BOYS/Hungry (rec. 1946) (LP)
6. RED CLAY RAMBLERS/Merchant's Lunch/Merchant's Lunch/Flying Fish
7. GRANDPA JONES/Gooseberry Pie (rec. 1955)/LP
8. GUY CLARK/Home Grown Tomatoes/Keepers/Sugar Hill
9. FLATT & SCRUGGS/Shuckin' the Corn (rec. 1957)/Bear Family box set
10. JOHN McCUTCHEON/Calling All the Children Home/Supper's On the Table Everybody Come In/Rounder

11. THE UNWANTED/The Morning Blues/Music From the Atlantic Fringe/Compass
12. GRASSTOWNE/Heartbreak Express/The Other Side of Towne/Pinecastle
13. JOHN DOYLE (with Linda Thompson on backing vocals)/The Month of January/Wayward Son/Compass
14. DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD/Walking Back to Richmond/VA: Come to the Mountain/Rounder
15. FINDERS & YOUNGBERG/Ball & Chain Blues/Keep Your Suitcase Packed/Neighborly
16. BRUCE MOLSKY (with Carla Gover on backing vocals)/The Blackest Crow/Lost Boy/Rounder
17. SAM McGEE/Buckdancer's Choice/VA: Old Time Mountain Guitar, 1926-1931/County
18. TEXAS SHEIKS/The World Is Going Wrong/Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks/Tradition und Moderne
19. TENNESSEE GENTLEMEN/Jesus is Coming Soon/Tennessee Gentlemen/self (www.tennesseegentlemen.com)
20. SQUEAKIN' WHEELS/Fair & Tender Ladies/Devil's Racetrack/Grease Axle Records
21. SAM BUSH (with Del McCoury on harmony vocals)/Midnight on the Stormy Deep/Circles Around Me/Sugar Hill
22. DAVID DAVIS & THE WARRIOR RIVER BOYS/The Train that Carried My Girl From Town/Two Dimes & a Nickel/Rebel
23. MIKE JACKSON/When We Goin' Back/When We Goin' Back/Red Oak Records
24. RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT/Mean Mama Blues/Country Style/Prestige-Fantasy
25. CHRIS STUART & BACKCOUNTRY/Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts/Mojave River/Backcountry
26. ALICE GERRARD & MIKE SEEGER/Pretty Polly/Bowling Green/5-String Productions
27. RHONDA VINCENT/Wishing Well Blues/My Blue Tears/Rebel
28. DAVID HOLT & JOSH GOFORTH/I've Got the Blues and I Can't Be Satisfied/Cutting Loose/High Windy
29. RON BLOCK (with Alison Krauss on harmony vocals)/Your Heart Has Found a Home/VA: Come To the Mountain/Rounder
30. DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER/Till The Last Leaf Shall Fall/VA: Gospel Radio Gems/Sugar Hill
31. CINDY KALLETT & GREY LARSEN/If You Say Yes/Cross the Water/Sleepy Creek

Alive & Picking is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, produced and hosted by Mary Katherine Aldin.
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