Playlist for Alive & Picking, KPFK, Los Angeles, 8/7/10. The format is ARTIST / song title / album title / label.

First, a set of songs celebrating my granddaughter Eliza's first birthday, which is this coming week.
JOHN McCUTCHEON / Cut the Cake / Live at Wolf Trap / Rounder
TIM & MOLLIE O'BRIEN / Hush While the Little Ones Sleep/ VA: Daddies Sing Goodnight / Sugar Hill
PETER, PAUL & MARY / The Marvelous Toy / Peter, Paul & Mommy / Warner Brothers
SWEET POTATO PIE / Her Father's Eyes / Journey Called Life / Mountain Fever
RED CLAY RAMBLERS / Way long Timey Ago / VA: Daddies Sing Goodnight / Sugar Hill
RICKY SKAGGS / Baby Girl / Sweet Temptation / Sugar Hill
CLAIRE LYNCH / Friends For a Lifetime / Friends For a Lifetime / Rounder
BRYAN BOWERS / Twinkle Twinkle Little Star / Friend for Life / Rounder
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS / Nothing But a Child / VA: Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
JONATHAN EDWARDS & THE SELDOM SCENE / Little Hands / VA: Daddies Sing Goodnight / Sugar Hill
DALE ANN BRADLEY / Will I Be Good Enough / Catch Tomorrow / Compass

Tribute to Mitch Jayne of the Dillards, who died earlier this week of cancer at age 80:
THE DILLARDS: Old Joe Clark, Ground Hog, Banjo In the Hollow, Polly Vaughn, Dueling Banjos / VA: Bluegrass Breakdown / Vanguard

The rest of the show is music by artists who all have birthdays in August; birth dates are listed in parentheses after their names
J.D. CROWE (8/27) Old Home Place (written by Mitch Jayne) / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
KITTY WELLS (8/30) Making Believe / The Best of Kitty Wells / MCA-Decca
HANK PENNY (8/18) Tobacco State Swing / VA: Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys / Proper box set
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT (8/1) More Pretty Girls Than One / Best of the Vanguard Years / Vanguard
RIDERS IN THE SKY (Woody Paul 8/23) Blue Bonnet Lady / Silver Jubilee / Acoustic Disc
ROSE MADDOX (8/15) Ashes of Love / Rose of the West Coast Country / Arhoolie
JIMMY MARTIN (8/10) Sunny Side of the Mountain / Gretest Hits / King-Gusto
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS (John Cohen 8/2) Automobile Trip Through Alabama / Out Standing In Their Field / Smithsonian Folkways
MIKE SEEGER (8/15) Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / True Vine / Smithsonian Folkways
ALISON BROWN (8/7) Late On Arrival / Fair Weather / Compass
THE STANLEY BROTHERS (Carter Stanley 8/27) Are You Afraid To Die / Hymns and Sacred Songs / King
SPIDER JOHN KOERNER (8/31) When First Unto This Country / Star Geezer / Red House
DAVE CARTER (8/13) AND TRACY GRAMMER /The Gentle Arms of Eden / Signature Sounds 10th Anniversary Collection / Signature Sounds
WATERSON:CARTHY (Eliza Carthy 8/23) Raggle Taggle Gypsies / Broken Ground / Topic
CISCO HOUSTON (8/18) Do Re Mi / Cisco Houston Sings The Songs of Woody Guthrie / Vanguard
WALLACE "CHEESE" REED (8/12) Perrodin Two-Step / Cajun House Party / Arhoolie
ANDY COHEN (8/21) Buckdancer's Choice / Ridiculous Instrumentals / RiverLark
BUCK OWENS (8/12) Hello Trouble / The Buck Owens Collection / Rhino

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