Playlist for Alive & Picking, Saturday May 1, 2010. The format is ARTIST / song title / album title / label.

Today's show was devoted to artists born in May. Birth dates are in parentheses after each artist's name.

BAILES BROTHERS (Homer Bailes 5/8/1922) As Long As I Live / Oh So Many Years / Bear Family
BING CROSBY (5/2) New San Antonio Rose (with Bob Crosby & His Bob Cats / rec. 1940
JOEL RAFAEL (5/11) Sowing on the Mountain / Woodeye / www.joelrafael.com
ROBERT JOHNSON (5/8/1911) Traveling Riverside Blues / The Complete Robert Johnson / Sony Legacy
FATS WALLER (5/21) Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do (from a piano roll, circa 1927)
RENO & SMILEY (Red Smiley 5/17) Gone Home / On Stage / Copper Creek
CEPHAS & WIGGINS (Phil Wiggins 5/8) Caroline in the Morning / Cool Down / Alligator
JENKS TEX CARMAN (5/14) Hillbilly Hula / The Essential Dixie Cowboy, 1947-1957 / Revenant
JOE & ROSE LEE MAPHIS (Joe Maphis 5/12) The Go-Fer Song
PETE SEEGER (5/3/1919) Oh Had I A Golden Thread / The Essential Pete Seeger / Vanguard
JUDY COLLINS (5/1) Suzanne / In My Life / Elektra
AL DEXTER (5/4) Diddy Wah Boogie / Honky Tonk Blues 1936-1940 / Jasmine
THE CARTER FAMILY (Maybelle Carter 5/10/1909) I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes / Can The Circle Be Unbroken / Columbia
CARL STORY (5/29) Rank Stranger / Mighty Close to Heaven / Starday
KILBY SNOW (5/28/1926) He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / VA: Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection / Smithsonian Folkways
LESLIE KEITH (5/30) Black Mountain Blues
BING CROSBY (5/2) Don't Fence Me In (with the Andrews Sisters) / rec. 1944
MARY BLACK (5/22) Past The Point of Rescue / No Frontiers / Gift Horse
JIMMIE TARLTON (5/8/1892) Jimmie's Blue Heaven / Steel Guitar Rag / HighTone
THE DILLARDS (Rodney Dillard 5/18) Polly Vaughn / There Is a Time / Vanguard
BROWNIE McGHEE (5/1) Key To My Door / The Complete Brownie McGhee / Sony Legacy
BOB DYLAN (5/24) One Too Many Mornings / The Times They Are A-Changing / Columbia
SAM McGEE (5/1/1894) Pig Ankle Rag / Grand Dad of the Country Guitar Pickers / Arhoolie
JOHNNIE & JACK (Johnny Wright 5/14/1914, Jack Anglin 5/14/1916) Live & Let Live / Johnnie & Jack With The Tennessee Mountain Boys / BACM
DAVE EVANS / The Man In The Middle (songwriter Tom Harley Campbell 5/31) / Hang Out a Light For Me /Rebel
ERNEST V. STONEMAN (5/14/1893) Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone / Edison Recordings 1928 / County
CLIFF CARLISLE (5/6/1904) Pan American Man /Blue Yodeler and Steel Guitar Wizard / Arhoolie
THE MORRIS BROTHERS (Zeke Morris 5/19/1916) Somebody Loves You Darlin' / VA: Bona Fide Bluegrass and Mountain Music / BMG
GUY DAVIS (5/12) You Don't Know My Mind / You Don't Know My Mind / Red House
DICK GAUGHAN (5/7) Medley: Rattlin' Roarin' Willie/The Friar's Britches / No More Forever / Leader
BLIND WILLIE McTELL (5/5/1901) Statesboro Blues / Traveling Blues / Catfish
PETER, PAUL & MARY (Peter Yarrow 5/31) Stewball Was a Race Horse / The Collection / Warner Brothers
And that song started me on a tanget, because the Kentucky Derby was being run this afternoon, so from Stewball we went to
CHET ATKINS /Kentucky Derby / Bear Family box set
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS / Molly & Tenbrooks / The Best of Bill Monroe / MCA-Decca
WILL RYAN & THE CACTUS COUNTY COWBOYS / My Horse Likes Accordion Music / Rhythm Rides The Range / Audible

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