Playlist for Alive & Picking, KPFK, Los Angeles, 1/16/10. The format is ARTIST/song title/album title/label.

We began with a set of artists who had birthdays in January. Birth dates are in parentheses after their names.

1. IRIS DeMENT (1/05) Sweet is the Melody/My Life/Warner Bros.
2. FLATT & SCRUGGS (Earl Scruggs 1/06/24) Flint Hill Special/Live at Carnegie Hall, 1962/Kock Int'l.
3. DENNIS McGEE (1/26/1893) Happy One-Step/The Complete Early Recordings of Dennis McGee/Yazoo
4. THE ARMSTRONG TWINS (1/24) Sparkling Blue Eyes/Mandolin Boogie/Arhoolie
5. JOAN BAEZ (1/09) Joe Hill/One Day at a Time/Vanguard
6. BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS (Leon McAuliffe 1/03) Steel Guitar Rag/Take Me Back to Tulsa/Proper Box
7. LEON McAULIFFE (1/03) Take It Away Leon/VA: Country Boy's Dream/Bear Family
8. RUSTY & DOUG (Doug Kershaw 1/24) Diggy Diggy Lo/VA: Mardi Till You Drop/Rhino
9. ELIZABETH COTTEN (1/05/1891) Shake Sugaree/Live/Arhoolie
10. CLAYTON McMICHEN (1/26/1900) Wildcat Rag/The Legenday Fiddler/BACM
11. CINDY KALLET & GREY LARSEN (Cindy Kallet 1/10) If You Say Yes/Cross the Water/Sleepy Creek
12. SAVOY SMITH CAJUN BAND (Ann Savoy 1/20) It's a Sin To Tell A Lie/Now & Then/Arhoolie
13. MICHAEL COONEY (1/19) In the Jailhouse Now/Singer of Old Songs/Front Hall

Then a calendar set of artists who will be appearing locally in the next ten days or so:

14. WILLIAM PINT & FELICIA DALE/Across the Western Ocean/White Horses/Waterbug
15. SUSIE GLAZE & HILONESOME/Green Kentucky Blues/Green Kentucky Blues/Hilonesome
16. THE BRAINSTORMERS/John Henry/The Brainstormers/Simon Slick
17. BOB BROZMAN/Hilo March/Blue Hula Stomp/Kicking Mule
18. STAIRWELL SISTERS/Lost Love/Feet All Over the Floor/Yodel-Ay-Hee
19. JIM MALCOLM/The Valley of Strathmore/The First Cold Day/Beltane
20. CYRIL PAHINUI/Young Street Blues/6 + 12 String Slack Key/Dancing Cat
21. JOHN HAMMOND/32-20 Blues/Best of the Vanguard Years/Vanguard
22. JOHN McEUEN/Fireball Mail/String Wizards/Vanguard
23. KEB' MO'/Tell Everybody I Know/Keb' Mo'/Okeh

End of calendar set, and on with the show:

24. TISH HINOJOSA/Corazon Viajera/VA: Live at the Iron Horse/Signature Sounds
25. BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS/In the Pines/Very Best of/MCA-Decca
26. KARAN CASEY & JOHN DOYLE/The False Lady/Exiles Return/Compass
27. SONS OF THE PIONEERS/Way Out There/Country Music Hall of Fame/MCA
28. HIGH COUNTRY/Alabama Waltz/Perfect Companions/Squirty Records

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