Playlist for Alive & Picking, 11/28/09. The format is ARTIST/Song title/CD title/Label

First set was called "Controlled Substance Serenade":

1. GREENBRIAR BOYS/Take a Whiff on Me/Big Apple Bluegrass/Vanguard
2. BILL NETTLES & THE DIXIE BLUE BOYS/Hadacol Boogie/ (old LP, rec. 1949)
3. STATE STREET SWINGERS/You Drink Too Much/VA: Booze & the Blues/Columbia Legacy
4. EUPHONIA/Tear My Still House Down/The Old Jaw Bone/Euphonia
5. MERLE TRAVIS/Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette/The Legend of Merle Travis/Intermedia
6. ANDY REYNOLDS & HIS 101 RANCH BOYS/Beer Bottle Mama/VA: Juice Head Baby/Buzzola
7. KITTY WELLS/Death at the Bar/VA: Juice Head Baby/Buzzola
8. SELDOM SCENE/Cheap Whiskey/Like We Used to Be/Sugar Hill
9. DAVE VAN RONK/Cocaine/Two Side of Dave Van Ronk/Prestige-Fantasy
10. JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS/I Can't Quit Cigarettes/(old Decca LP, rec. 1966)

Then we moved to the calendar set; these folks will be performing locally in the next week or so:

11.TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT/Lay My Burden Down/Meeting In the Air/self (www.triplechickenfoot.com)
12. TOM RUSSELL (with Iris DeMent on guest vocal) Acres of Corn/The Man From God Knows Where/HighTone
13. SQUEAKIN' WHEELS/Volver Volver/Things Have Changed/Folkalicious
14. TUMBLING TUMBLEWEEDS/Little Patch of Heaven/Tumbling Tumbleweeds (self)
15. CHAD MITCHELL TRIO/Mighty Day/Mighty Day On Campus/Folk Era
16. BRUCE MOLSKY/Catfish Blues/Poor Man's Troubles/Rounder

Started the last set off with a nod to the late Allen Shelton, who passed away last week:

17. JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS (featuring Allen Shelton on banjo)/Y'All Come/Ya'll Come: The Essential Jim & Jesse/Columbia Legacy
18. GILLIAN WELCH/Acony Bell/VA: Coal Country Music/Heartwood
19. COOPE, BOYES & SIMPSON/Horkstow Grange/Triple Echo/No Masters
20. SAM BUSH/Diamond Joe/Circles Around Me/Sugar Hill
21. ROCK COUNTY/The Old Home Place/Rock Solid/Rebel
22. ROY HARVEY & JESS JOHNSON/Guitar Rag/VA: Old Time Mountain Guitar/County
23. TOM RUSH/Casey Jones/What I Know/Appleseed
24. TENNESSEE GENTLEMEN/If I Could Only Win Your Love/Tennessee Gentlemen/self (www,tennesseegentlemen.com)
25. MIKE SEEGER (with Ry Cooder on guitar)/Train That Carried My Girl From Town/Second Annual Farewell Reunion (old Mercury LP, rec. 1973)
26. LAUREL CANYON RAMBLERS/Preachin' Prayin' Singin'/VA: Legacy, a Tribute to the First Generation of Bluegrass/Sugar Hill
27. ALMEDA RIDDLE/Babes In the Woods/VA: Songcatcher II/Vanguard
28. RENO & SMILEY/No Longer a Sweetheart of Mine/box set: Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cutups, 1951-1959/King
29. DIXON BROTHERS & MUTT EVANS/Are You Sure?/VA: In the Pines - Tar Heel Folk Songs and Fiddle Tunes of North Carolina, 1926-1936/Old Hat
30. MAURA O'CONNELL (with Tim O'Brien on duet vocal)/The Blacksmith/Naked With Friends/Sugar Hill
31. TOM BALL & KENNY SULTAN/He's In the Jail House Now/20th Anniversary Live/No Guru

Alive & Picking is heard every Saturday morning on KPFK-FM, 90.7, Pacific Radio in Los Angeles. The show is produced and hosted by Mary Katherine Aldin. The show's web site is www.aliveandpicking.com