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Friday nights at 11 pm on West Virginia Public Radio

Sidetracks is a one-hour weekly program of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and related styles of contemporary acoustic music.

Producer: Ed McDonald
Associate Producer/Music Director: Karen McDonald

Send recordings for possible air play to: Sidetracks, c/o EIO Productions, 151 S. Mineral Street, Keyser WV 26726

June 27 - Hurricanes, Tornados & Floods

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
CHRISTINE LAVIN	Here Comes Hurricane Season	Happydance of the Xenophobe	Yellow Tail
TONY RICE	Galveston Flood	Plays & Sings Bluegrass	Rounder
BILL STAINES	Louisiana Storm	Bridges	Red House
MARTIN SIMPSON	Louisiana 1927	Prodigal Son	Compass
STEVE GILLETTE & CINDY MANGSEN	Hurricane	Being There	Compass Rose
ROD MacDONALD	The Lucky Ones	A Tale of Two Americas	Wind River
TIM GRIMM	Twister	Coyote's Dream	Vault
MOUNTAIN HEART	Twister (Devil's Dance)	Force of Nature	Skaggs Family
GUY CLARK	Tornado Time in Texas	Workbench Songs	Dualtone
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD	Oh! What a Storm	Tried & True	Rounder
MARCIA BALL	Ride It Out	Peace, Love & BBQ	Alligator
JACK WILLIAMS	O, Chain Lightnin'	(CD Single)	Wind River
DON RIGSBY	Muddy Water	The Midnight Call	Sugar Hill
NEW GRASS REVIVAL	When the Storm Is Over	When the Storm Is Over	Flying Fish

June 20 - West Virginia's Birthday

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
DOUG & SHELLEY HARPER	I'll Always Return	Keepsakes	Fiction So True
TIM O'BRIEN	Megna's	Chameleon	Proper American
COLLEEN ANDERSON	The Pawpaw & the Pepper	Potluck	Delectable
JULIE ADAMS	Stella Could Bake	Potluck	Delectable
JULIE ADAMS et al	Grandma's Hands	Potluck	Delectable
MOLLIE O'BRIEN	Beware	Always Lift Him Up	Proper American
NAT REESE	Black & Blue Blues	Always Lift Him Up	Proper American
TIM O'BRIEN	Phantom Phone Call	Chameleon	Proper American
KEITH & JOAN PITZER	Mountains of Blues	Gathering Stones	Falling Mountain
T. PAIGE DALPORTO	Church Bells at Sago	Solid Pearl	(self)
ANNE FEENEY	How Much for the Life of a Miner	Dump the Bosses off Your Back	USW
KATHY MATTEA	Coal Tattoo/Black Lung/Coal	Coal	Captain Potato
TODD BURGE	Move On (To Another Song)	My Lost & Found	Bunj Jam

June 13 - Father's Day

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
JOE CROOKSTON	Hands, Metal & Wood	Able Baker Charlie & Dog	Milagrito
AUBREY HAYNIE w/RONNIE BOWMAN	A Man Must Carry On	A Man Must Carry On	Sugar Hill
JAMES KING	Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore	Gardens in the Sky	Rounder
TIM GRIMM	Reverend Mr. Black	Names	Wind River
THE CHARLIE SIZEMORE BAND	Devil on a Plow	Good News	Rounder
JOE JENCKS	All the Pieces	The Candle & the Flame	Turtle Bear
BOB FRANKE	My Father's Wound/For Real	The Other Evening in Chicago	Waterbug
PAT WICTOR	Whiskey Vacation	Sunset Waltz	Risky Disc
JOHN McCUTCHEON	Catch	Sermon on the Mound	AppalSongs
CHUCK BRODSKY	The Point	Tulips for Lunch	Waterbug
DOUG & SHELLEY HARPER	Daddy's Shoes	Keepsakes	Fiction So True
RICKY SKAGGS	Amanda Jewell	Bluegrass Rules	Skaggs Family
TOM PAXTON	Jennifer & Kate	Comedians & Angels	Appleseed

June 6 - Music from New CD's 2

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
SIERRA HULL	From Now On	Secrets	Rounder
RED WINE	Winter's Come & Gone	Ten Years of European World of Bluegrass	Strictly Country
LOUVAT BROTHERS	St. Anne's Reel	Ten Years of European World of Bluegrass	Strictly Country
TONY TRISCHKA	Celtic Medley/Fox Chase	Territory	Smithsonian Folkways
JOE CROOKSTON	Able Baker Charlie & Dog/Brooklyn in July	Able Baker Charlie & Dog	Milagrito
JOHN MCCUTCHEON	Cross That Line/Talking Yogi Talk	Sermon on the Mound	AppalSongs
JACK WILLIAMS	Aunt Hagar's Blues/Hallelujah I Love Her So	Don't Let Go	Wind River
ELIZA GILKYSON	The Great Collection	Beautiful World	Red House
GREG GREENWAY	Lately (The Church of What Is)	Standing on the Side of Love	Sheen of Heat

May 30 - Music from New CD's

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS	Get It While You Can	The Infamous Stringdusters	Sugar Hill
LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS	Just a Lie	Live	Spruce & Maple Music
JAMES KING w/ DUDLEY CONNELL	These Old Pictures	Gardens in the Sky	Rounder
LONGVIEW	Weathered Grey Stone	Deep in the Mountains	Rounder
TIM O'BRIEN	Hoss Race/Chameleon	Chameleon	Proper American
KATHY MATTEA	Dark As a Dungeon/ Red-Winged Black Bird	Coal	Captain Potato
MEG HUTCHINSON	Song for Jeffrey Lucey	Come Up Full	Red House
PAT WICTOR	Marching Still	Sunset Waltz	Risky Disc
SHAWN MULLINS	For America	Honeydew	Vanguard
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS	Golden Ticket	The Infamous Stringdusters	Sugar Hill
DAVID ROTH	Practice Makes Progress	Practice Makes Progress	Wind River

May 23 - Memorial Day

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
JED MARUM	Last Day in May	Miles from Home	Boston Road
GREG GREENWAY	A Song for Soldiers	Weightless	Sheen of Heat
JOEL MABUS	Touch a Name on the Wall	Retold	Fossil
KATE POWER	Travis John	Music to Life 2006	Public Domain
RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM	O Death	Gambling Eden	Signature Sounds
MARIE KNIGHT	Death Don't Have No Mercy	Let Us Get Together	M.C.
THE DUHKS	Death Came a Knockin'	The Duhks	Sugar Hill
TIM O'BRIEN	Time To Learn	Oh Boy! O'Boy	Sugar Hill
MISSION STREET PROJECT	When I Die (Don't Cry for Me)	Liberty Tree, Vol. 1	Hudson Harding
BARRY & HOLLY TASHIAN	Don't Kneel at My Graveside	Harmony	Rounder
UNCLE EARL	My Epitaph	Waterloo, Tennessee	Rounder
CLAIRE LYNCH	Long After I'm Gone	New Day	Rounder
ANNIE & ROD CAPPS	When My Time Comes	In This Town	Yellow Room

May 16 - Farming & Living Close to the Land

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
STAN ROGERS	The Field Behind the Plow	Northwest Passage	Fogerty's Cove
STEVE YOUNG	Blackland Farmer	Primal Young	Appleseed
TIM GRIMM	80 Acres	Heart Land	Vault
ERNIE THACKER	Little Piece of Land	The Chill of Lonesome	Doobie Shea
RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM	The Farmer Is the Man	Gambling Eden	Signature Sounds
LEVON HELM	Poor Old Dirt Farmer	Dirt Farmer	Vanguard
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD	Devil Take the Farmer	Fertile Ground	Rounder
TOM PAXTON	Who Will Feed the People	Live from Mountain Stage	Blue Plate
GINNY HAWKER & TRACY SCHWARZ	32 Acres	Good Songs for Hard Times	Copper Creek
JAMES KING	Thirty Years of Farming	Thirty Years of Farming	Rounder
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD	Auction at the Home Place	Tried & True	Rounder
COUNTRY GAZETTE	Sweet Allis Chalmers	Hello, Operator,This Is Country Gazette	Flying Fish
KENNY SMITH	Me & My Farmall	Studebaker	Sugar Hill
JOEL MABUS	Holding to the Land	Retold	Fossil

May 9 - Salute to the Centennial of Mother's Day

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
CAREY CREED	Who Do I Love?	Peace of Wild Things	Azalea City
THE DIXIE BEE-LINERS	She's My Angel	Ripe	Pinecastle
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS	Hungry Eyes	Visions of Love	Sugar Hill
SELDOM SCENE	Mama Tried	SCENEchronized	Sugar Hill
MERLE HAGGARD	Momma's Prayers	The Bluegrass Sessions	McCoury Music
RALPH STANLEY	Motherless Children	A Distant Land To Roam	Columbia/DMZ
LONESOME STANDARD TIME	Mother, The Queen of My Hear	Mother, The Queen of My Hear	Sugar Hill
RICKY SKAGGS	Mother's Only Sleeping	Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass	Skaggs Family
DAVID LAFLEUR	The Quilt Song	Blue Ridge	(Self)
JOHN MCCUTCHEON	Twenty Todays Ago	This Fire	AppalSongs
MISSION STREET PROJECT	My Two Sons	Liberty Tree	Hudson Harding
CAREY CREED	I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a Soldier	Peace of Wild Things	Azalea City
HAZEL DICKENS	Mama's Hand	A Few Old Memories	Rounder
CATHY FINK w/ CHRIS COOLE	Old Mother Flanagan	Banjo Talkin'	Rounder
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD	A Mother's Last Words to Her Daughter	Mama's Hand	Rounder

May 2 - Greet the Month of May

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
LUI COLLINS	Spring!/Red Red Robin	Closer	Waterbug
PRISCILLA HERDMAN	This Time of Year	Forever & Always	Flying Fish
JP JONES	So Early Early in the Spring	Jeremiah	Vision Company
CAROL ELIZABETH JONES & LAUREL BLISS	One Morning in May	Girl from Jericho	Copper Creek
ALISON BROWN w/ ANDREA ZONN	One Morning in May	Stolen Moments	Compass
PAUL EPSTEIN	Take a Lesson from the Earth	Lessons Life's Taught Me	(Self)
FRONT RANGE	High Mountain Meadow	The Road Home	Sugar Hill
SCOTT & MICHELLE DALZIEL	Texas in the Spring	Thinking Out Loud	DL Arts
GUY CLARK	Cinco de Mayo in Memphis	Workbench Songs	Dualtone
HERDMAN, HILLS & MANGSEN	Swinton May Song	At the Turning of the Year	Hand & Heart
DAVID MALLETT	Greenin' Up	Ambition	Flying Fish
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER	The Garden Song	Bon Appétit	Rounder Kids
PETE SEEGER	Sower of Seeds	Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3	Appleseed
RICKY SKAGGS & THE WHITES	One Seed of Love	Salt of the Earth	Skaggs Family

April 25 - Celebrating the Associate Producer's Birthday

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
THE STEELDRIVERS	Blue Side of the Mountain	The SteelDrivers	Rounder
LEVON HELM	False Hearted Lover Blues	Dirt Farmer	Vanguard
KANE WELCH KAPLIN	No One Told Me	Kane Welch Kaplin	Compass
MARCIA BALL w/ DR. JOHN	I'll Never Be Free	Peace, Love & BBQ	Alligator
BROOKS WILLIAMS	Lightning	The Time I Spend with You	Red Guitar Blue Music
JERRY JEFF WALKER	Navajo Rug	Tom Russell: Wounded Heart of America	Hightone
ELIZA GILKYSON	Walking on the Moon	Tom Russell: Wounded Heart of America	Hightone
TODD BURGE	She Looks Up to Me (Because She Has To)	My Lost & Found	Bunj Jam
THE CARPENTER ANTS	Money Cravin' Folks	Always Lift Him Up	Proper
JOHN MCCUTCHEON	Dick Cheney	This Fire	AppalSongs
ANDREW MCKNIGHT	George Washington	Something Worth Standing For	Falling Mountain
JOE JENCKS	The Ballad of JeShawn	The Candle & the Flame	Turtle Bear Music
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK	Chinese Proverb	Experience 101	Appleseed
BROOKS WILLIAMS	Vagabond Blues	The Time I Spend with You	Red Guitar Blue Music
TOM PAXTON	How Beautiful upon the Mountain	Comedians & Angels	Appleseed

April 18 - Music from Recent Releases

Artist	Song	Album	Record Label
RICKY SKAGGS	Goin' Back to Old Kentucky	Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass	Skaggs Family
BEN BEDFORD	Black As Coal	Lincoln's Man	Hopeful Sky
GIBSON BROTHERS	Iron & Diamonds	Iron & Diamonds	Sugar Hill
JIMMY GAUDREAU & MOONDI KLEIN	2:10 Train	2:10 Train	Rebel
TERENCE MARTIN	Never Look Back	Even Trade	Good Dog
MARCIA BALL	Falling Back in Love with You	Peace, Love & BBQ	Alligator
BROOKS WILLIAMS	Johnny's Farewell/Statesboro Blues	The Time I Spend with You	Red Guitar Blue Music
GIBSON BROTHERS	Picker's Blues	Iron & Diamonds	Sugar Hill
NOEL PAUL STOOKEY	Facets of the Jewel	Facets	New World
TERENCE MARTIN	Even Trade	Even Trade	Good Dog
ERICA WHEELER	The First Sunset	Good Summer Rain	Blue Pie
NOEL PAUL STOOKEY	Quartet	Facets	New World
JANET BATES	Martin	For All of His Wealth	Janet Bates

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