Several new singles will be introduced. The entire second hour will feature bands appearing at the upcoming Pickin' in Parsons Festival. Aug. 4, 5 & 6.
http://fiverivercampground.com/

We will also pay tribute to the late Kenny Baker.

Air Time	Artist Name	Song Title	Album Name	Label	Duration
10:00 PM	Kenny Baker	Jerusalem Ridge (theme)	Plays Bill Monroe	County	3:00
10:03 PM	Ricky Skaggs	Comet Ride	Mark Twain: Words and Music	Mark Twain Museum	2:52
10:06 PM	Doyle Lawson	Better Times a Coming	Mark Twain: Words and Music	Mark Twain Museum	2:37
10:09 PM	Rhonda Vincent	Run Mississippi	Mark Twain: Words and Music	Mark Twain Museum	2:59
10:13 PM	Jerry Salley	The Best Thing I Had going	Coming of Age	Jerry Salley	3:07
10:16 PM	Blue Moon Rising	Hard Luck Joe	Strange New World	Rural Rhythm	3:07
10:19 PM	Bill Monroe	Can't You Hear Me Callin'	Can't You Hear Me Callin'	Columbia Legacy	3:16
10:22 PM	Bill Emerson	Ride It Out	Eclipse	Rural Rhythm	2:19
10:24 PM	John Larmier	He Said Yes	He Said Yes	John Larimer	4;51
10:31 PM	Remington Ryde	Went Down a Begger, Came Up a Millionaire	Let It Shine	Green Valley	3:32
10:35 PM	Shannon Slaughter	I've Hit Everthing in My Life, but My Knees	The Sideman Steps Out	Elite Circuit	3:34
10:39 PM	RidgeRunners	Take Just a Minute for Him	Take Just a Minute for Him	Blue Circle	3:45
10:42 PM	Kathy Kallick	There's a Higher Power	Between the Hollow and the Hig Rrise	Live Oak	3:43
10:46 PM	Triple L Band	It'll Be a Happy Day	CD Single	Triple L	3:43
10:50 PM	Original Quicksilver	My Eyes Shall Be on Canaan's Land	In a Groove	JB&B	3:38
10:53 PM	Val Storey	Little Mountain Church House	CD Single	Val Storey	2:50
10:56 PM	Crowe-Lawson-Williams	Prayer Bells of Heaven	Old Friends Get Together	Mountain Home	2:25
11:00 PM	Kenny Baker	Big Sandy River	Plays Bill Monroe	County	3:30
11:02 PM	Doyle Lawson	Gone At Last	Drive Time	Mountain Home	2:52
11:05 PM	Junior Sisk	Working Hard Ain't Hardly Working Any More	Heartaches and Dreams	Rebel	2:49
11:08 PM	Nothin' Fancy	Sign of the Times	Once Upon a Road	Pinecastle	4:41
11:13 PM	Heather Berry and Tony	Can You Hear Me Now	Before Bluegrass	Blue Circle	3:24
11:19 PM	Lost & Found	That's What Country Folks Do	Down on Sawmill Road	Rebel	3:20
11:22 PM	No One You Know	West Virginia in My Rearview	Calm Before the Storm	Mountain Fever	4:47
11:27 PM	Bluegrass Brothers	The Old Crooked Trail	The Old Crooked Trail	Hay Holler	3:25
11:30 PM	Kenny Baker	Lonesome Moonlight Waltz	Plays Bill Monroe	County	2:43
11:37 PM	Russell Moore	If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again	CD Single	Rural Rhythm	2;58
11:40 PM	Rarely Herd	Keep on Walkin'	What About Him	Pinecastle	3:19
11:43 PM	Tony Holt	Each Memory Is a Treasure	Lost Highway & Treasured Memories	Old Heritage	3:18
11:46 PM	Nu-Blu	Every Shade of Blue	The Blu-Disc	Pincastle	2:37
11:51 PM	Nothin' Fancy	I Met My Baby in the Porta John Line	The Other Side of Nothin' Fancy	Pinecastle	2:14
11:53 PM	Russell Moore	Hard Rock Mountain Prison	Russell Moore & lllrd Tyme Out	Rural Rhythm	2:36
11:57 PM	Kenny Baker	Ashland Breakdown	Plays Bill Monroe	County	2:16

JOHN TROUT, WYEP FM, PITTSBURGH, PA. tties91@hotmail.com
'TRADITIONAL TIES'- NEW RELEASE BLUEGRASS WITH FEATURES. 91.3 WYEP, http://www.wyep.org 10:00 PM Eastern Time (U.S.) Sundays. Streaming Audio
404 PINELLA DR., LATROBE PA, 15650 - 5534

'TRADITIONAL TIES' - Now in our 27th year.

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Crossroads/Mountain Home signs The Boxcars

ARDEN, NC., Aug. 4 – Crossroads/Mountain Home today announces the signing of an exclusive agreement with the recently formed powerhouse group, The Boxcars. The first album, self-titled The Boxcars, is scheduled to be released on October 19th 2010.
“We at Crossroads are humbled and thrilled to be working with The Boxcars and Mike Drudge of Class Act Entertainment to move this stellar act forward”, says Mickey Gamble of Crossroads.

Photo above shows  the signing between Mickey Gamble of Crossroads/Mountain Home and Boxcars members Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, John Bowman , Keith Garrett and Harold Nixon and Mike Drudge.

Scruggs revisits Ryman to mark what's considered 65th anniversary of bluegrass

By Chris Talbott (CP) –
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It's been nearly 65 years, but Tut Taylor still vividly remembers the night Earl Scruggs changed it all.
It was Dec. 8, 1945, and Taylor was by his radio in Georgia listening to the Grand Ole Opry from the Ryman Auditorium, as usual. He was a big Bill Monroe fan and that night the Kentuckian's Blue Grass Boys featured a brand new, 21-year-old banjo player who favoured the three-finger picking style.
It wasn't exactly a new way to play the banjo. Others had used it and had even played the style on the radio.
No one played it like Earl Scruggs, though.
Add Monroe's mandolin and Lester Flatt's guitar and it made such an impression that Taylor has no problem remembering most of the details all these decades later — though the name of that first song escapes him.
"That whole Opry House just come alive and I thought it was going to explode," said Taylor, a mandolin and dobro player who has become a friend of Scruggs. "The Opry House is like a guitar box. It absorbs sounds and makes them sound better. Well, that night you could almost see the walls going in and out from the volume of hands clapping and screaming and hollering. It was maybe a lot like some of the rock 'n' roll things they had, you know. But this was a new sound, it was a pretty sound and a welcome sound."
Scruggs, now 86, will commemorate the 65th anniversary of that night ... Read more.

Rowan continues to get closer

By TOM CONWAY
Tribune Correspondent

Peter Rowan may be the only musician who has performed with both bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe and Grateful Dead founder Jerry Garcia.
With a career that spans more than five decades, Rowan is at ease with hardcore and progressive bluegrass audiences equally, making him an ideal choice to close the Niles Bluegrass Festival on Sunday night.
Rowan began playing bluegrass music professionally in 1964, when he was hired as guitarist and singer for Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys. In his two and a half years with Monroe, Rowan learned the fundamentals and traditions of bluegrass music.
“With Bill Monroe, he definitely wants you to keep it within the lines,” Rowan says in a phone interview from Cape Cod, Mass., where he was taking a break after performing at a benefit concert for Tibetan earthquake victims. “That was a tremendous kind of a discipline for me, so I constantly go back to that.”
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, Rowan began blending bluegrass with rock and folk, forming Old & In the Way with Garcia, David Grisman, Vassar Clements and John Kahn in 1973.
Rowan says playing with Monroe helped pave the way for the more progressive style of bluegrass he played in Old & In the Way.
“With Jerry, he loved to go outside the lines,” he says. “You really have to know how to go inside the lines to be able to step outside the lines. Otherwise, it is just, like Bill used to say, note-note-note just to be noting. I am a melody guy.”
“Bill used the analogy of a hound chasing a rabbit. The rabbit will go in the same pattern over and over, and the hound will follow him. A good hound will stay with him on the pattern, and then jump across and catch the rabbit. Bill was using that analogy for fiddle tunes, but it is the same thing with melody, in general”
Since 1978, Rowan, a Grammy Award-winner and five-time nominee, has embarked on a well-received solo career. Read more.

Traditional ties, 06/06/10, Playlist

Contact info for new adds:
Hagar's Mountain Boys -
 http://www.thehagarsmountainboys.com/ -
 http://www.mountainfever.com/
Sweet Potato Pie -  http://www.sweet-potato-pie.com/ -   http://www.mountainfever.com/

Air Time
Artist Name
Song Title
Album Name
Label
Duration

10:00 PM
Kenny Baker
Jerusalem Ridge
Plays Bill Monroe
County
2:00

10:02 PM
Hagar's Mountain Boys
Wasting Away
Forever Yours
Mountain Fever

2:41

10:06 PM
Junior Sisk
Humble Man
Heartaches and Dreams
Rebel
3:15

10:09 PM
Cana Ramblers
Things Things Things
No Expectations
Cana Ramblers
3:08

10:12 PM
David Parmley
Three Silver Dollars
Three Silver Dollars
Pinecastle
2:52

10:16 PM
Joe Mullins
Boston Jail
Rambler's Call
Rebel
3:05

10:19 PM
Grascals
Up This Hill and Down
The Famous Lefty Fynn'a
Rounder
2:49

10:22 PM
Danny Paisley
Don't Throw Mamma's Flowers Away
The Room Over Mine
Rounder
3:05

10:25 PM
Mountain Therapy
Over rhe Rainbow
Looking Back
Mountain Therapy
3:55

10:33 PM
Sweet Potato Pie
Shout Hallelujah
Journey Called Life
Mountain Fever
3:08

10:35 PM
Sweet Potato Pie
River of Jordan
Journey Called Life
Mountain Fever
2:43

10:38 PM
Sweet Potato Pie
Wait on the Lord
Journey Called Life
Mountain Fever
1:55

10:41 PM
Sweet Potato Pie
Mary's Kiss
Journey Called Life
Mountain Fever
4:21

10:46 PM
Hagar's Mountain Boys
Lord Don't Leave Me Here
Forever Yours
Mountain Fever
2:14

10:48 PM
Larry Stephenson
You'll See Jesus
20th Anniversary
Pinecastle
3:00

10:52 PM
Nothin' Fancy
Let the Light Shine Down
Lord Bless this House
Pinecastle
2:31

10:54 PM
Doyle Lawson
Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly
Light on My Feet, Ready to Fly
Horizon
2:57

10:56 PM
Sweet Potato Pie
My Lord What a Morning
Journey Called Life
Mountain Fever
1:28

11:00 PM
True Bluegrass
With Care from Someone (Theme)
True Bluegrass 1979
True Bluegrass
2:31

11:04 PM
Hagar's Mountain Boys
Forever Yours
Forever Yours
Mountain Fever
2:39

11:08 PM
Hargar's Mountain Boys
Sweet Summer Dreams
Forever Yours
Mountain Fever
3:25

11:12 PM
Hagar's Mountain Boys
I'm Waiting to Hear You Call Me Darling
Foever Yours
Mountain Fever
2:12

11:14 PM
Hagar's Mountain Boys
Poet with Wings
Foever Yours
Mountain Fever
3_01

11:18 PM
Wayne Taylor
I'm Gonna Be
Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa
Raincoe
3:04

11:21 PM
Blue Shades
Catawba
Chasing Dreams
Blue Shades
2:39

11:23 PM
Brandon Rickman
Dime Store Rings
Young Man Old Soul
Rural Rhyrhm
3:26

11:27 PM
Carolina Road
Carolina Hurricane
Carolina Hurricane
Blue Circle
2:06

11:30 PM
Summertown Road
You're Not Easy to Forget
Summertown Road
Rounder
3:41

11:34 PM
Audie Blaylock
Can't Keep Running
Cryin' Heart Blues
Rural Rhythm
2:58

11:37 PM
Gibson Brothers
Farm of Yesterday
Ring the Bell
Compass
3:34

11:40 PM
Mon River Ramblers
Economic Breakdown
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Mon River Ramblers
3:21

11:44 PM
Dailey & Vincent
Bed of Roses
Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers
Cracker Barrel
2:43

11:47 PM
Del McCoury
White Pass Railroad
Family Circle
McCoury Music
3:45

11:51 PM
Lou Reid
I'm a Tall Cornstalk
My Own Set of Rules
Rural Rhyrhm
3:50

11:56 PM
Nate Grower
Cattle in the Cane
Nate Grower
Patuxent
3:36


JOHN TROUT, WYEP FM, PITTSBURGH, PA.  tties91@hotmail.com
'TRADITIONAL TIES'- NEW RELEASE BLUEGRASS WITH FEATURES. 91.3 WYEP,  http://www.wyep.org/ 10:00 PM Eastern Time (U.S.) Sundays. Streaming Audio
1608 JEFFERSON ST, LATROBE PA, 15650 -2940

'TRADITIONAL TIES' - 25 YEARS IN 2010

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Augusta Bluegrass Week Details Announced

Bluegrass Week

July 26 - 31, 2009
Tuition $420
On-Campus Housing and Meals

2009 Bluegrass Week Flyer (pdf) to print and share with other students, musicians, and groups.
Full-page flyer (4M pdf)
Two half-page flyers (6M pdf)

For 2009, Bluegrass Week coordinators, John Rossbach with Mary Burdette, bring together our most spectacular lineup yet for Augusta’s 26th anniversary of Bluegrass Week. A staff of legendary figures will share their talents with students in workshops, demonstrations, special presentations, concerts and picking sessions throughout the week. Two levels of bluegrass vocal classes are offered again this year. Informal picking sessions at all levels will go on into the wee hours all over campus as students get together with old friends and make new ones. Evening concerts will feature exciting combinations of master bluegrass artists with special guests. Picking time with the teaching staff will be part of the program for all students. On Friday afternoon, an optional student showcase will give students the special opportunity to perform for each other and the staff. Don’t miss this special week of music making where you can pick amongst the stars in “Almost Heaven” West Virginia!

The Bluegrass staff includes Guest Master Artist, Bobby Osborne [middle left photo], and Staff Musician, Casey Henry . Teaching fiddle are Casey Driessen, Buddy Spicher [top left photo], and Clayton Campbell. Mandolin will be taught by Herschel Sizemore, Sharon Gilchrist, and David McLaughlin. Teaching guitar are Russ Barenberg, Tyler Grant, and Leigh Gibson. Banjo will be handled by Tony Trischka, Charlie Cushman, and Eric Gibson. Dobro/Resonator Guitar teachers are Mike Witcher and Dave Giegerich. Bass is taught by Ira Gitlin and Mike Barber. Vocal instructors are Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum [bottom right photo] and Chris Stuart & Janet Beazley.
Young people who are able to maintain an adult level of participation are welcome. There will be opportunities to form bands, dance, and socialize with other teenagers at Augusta that week. Bluegrass Week will run concurrently with Swing Week and Discover Augusta Week providing lots of opportunities for some lively dancing at night.
To register, specify “Bluegrass Week” and your instrument/vocal level.

2009 Classes and Staff John Rossbach - Coordinator Mary Burdette - Asst. Coordinator
What level should I take?
Guest Master Artist
Bobby Osborne

Banjo
Eric Gibson

Beginning
Charlie Cushman

Intermediate
Tony Trischka

Advanced
Bass
Mike Barber

Beginning
Ira Gitlin

Intermediate/Advanced
Dobro/Reso Guitar
Dave Giegerich

Beginning
Mike Witcher

Intermediate/Advanced
Fiddle
Clayton Campbell

Beginning
Buddy Spicher

Intermediate
Casey Driessen

Advanced
Guitar
Leigh Gibson

Beginning
Tyler Grant

Intermediate
Russ Barenberg

Advanced
Mandolin
David McLaughlin

Beginning
Sharon Gilchrist

Intermediate
Herschel Sizemore

Advanced
Vocals
Chris Stuart and Janet Beazley

Intro to Bluegrass Singing(Level 1)

Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum
Bluegrass Harmony Singing(Level 2)