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June 16th is Father’s Day and bluegrass, being the honest and true-to-life musical form that it is, suffers no shortage of songs honoring the dads in our lives.

Bill Monroe
We’ll get started with one from “The Father of Bluegrass” Bill Monroe, and songs from Norman & Nancy Blake, Ralph Stanley, IIIrd Tyme Out, Ronnie Bowman, Ricky Skaggs, Blue Moon Rising, Del McCoury, The Country Gentlemen, Flatt & Scruggs and many more will all visit the subject of fathers and the folks that love them.
Join us at 9PM Eastern if you’re in “The Land of Bean Blossom.” You’ll find us at 88.7 on your FM dial, right smack dab in the middle of “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem! The current show is posted on the player on the right side of this very page and updates once a week, friends.
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BLUE SIDE OF TOWN WITH DEL MCCOURY
SHOW #130603
SEGMENT #1
Molly & Tenbrooks—Bill Monroe
Gotta Travel On—American Drive
Snowflake Breakdown—Jim & Jesse
SEGMENT #2
Long Lonesome Day—Infamous Stringdusters
If Today Was The Last Day—Lost & Found
Pistol Packin’ Mama—John Prine & Mac Wiseman
SEGMENT #3
I’ll Just Pretend—Flatt & Scruggs
Letter From Down The Road—Della Mae
Train That Carried My Girl From Town-Sutton, Holt & Coleman
He Put A Rainbow In The Clouds For Me—Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
SEGMENT #4
She’s Left Me Again—Jimmy Martin
Looking Forward To Looking Back—The Bankesters
Does My Ring Burn Your Finger?—Del McCoury Band
Fields Of Bluegrass Gospel Set:
This World Is Not My Home-Doyle Lawson, JD Crowe & Paul Williams
Will You Feel At Home-James King

Join us at 9PM Eastern if you’re in “The Land of Bean Blossom.” You’ll find us at 88.7 on your FM dial, right smack dab in the middle of “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem!
The current show is posted on the player on the right side of this very page and updates once a week, friends.
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BLUE SIDE OF TOWN WITH DEL MCCOURY
SHOW #130527

SEGMENT #1
Show Open
My Saro Jane—Flatt & Scruggs
That’s All She Wrote—Peter Rowan
Turtle Dove—Della Mae
SEGMENT #2
Big Sandy River—Kenny Baker
Get Along Stray Dog—Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
High Sierras—Big Dogs
SEGMENT #3
Song—Let Me Be Your Salty Dog—Morris Brothers
Songs—Randy Lynn Rag—Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman
End Of The Line—Jeremy Garrett
Wailin’ On Waldron—Ronnie & Rob McCoury
SEGMENT #4
Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong—Bill Monroe
That Moon Is No Stopping Place For Me—Buddy Griffin & Ashley Messenger
The Bluegrass Country—Del McCoury Band
Fields Of Bluegrass Gospel Set:
A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy’s Grave – Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys
The Great Speckled Bird- Jim & Jesse
Join us at 9PM Eastern if you’re in “The Land of Bean Blossom.” You’ll find us at 88.7 on your FM dial, right smack dab in the middle of “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem!
The current show is posted on the player on the right side of this very page and updates once a week, friends.
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Ready for some mighty righteous bluegrass both old and new this weekend?
So are we!
Del McCoury & Jon Weisberger will be your hosts, and here’s what lies in store:
BLUE SIDE OF TOWN w/ DEL McCOURY
SHOW #130513
SEGMENT #1
Show Open
“Why Don’t You Tell Me So” Flatt & Scruggs
‘Cept Old Bill” Sam Bush & David Grisman
“Don’t That Moon Look Lonesome” Betty Harper & The Black Mountain Boys
SEGMENT #2
“Give This Message To Your Heart” Osborne Brothers
“Squirrel Hunters” John Hartford
“Wolf Creek Pass” Chris Jones & The Night Drivers
SEGMENT #3
“Cascade” Ashley Lewis
“I Am Ready To Go” Monroe Brothers
“Six More Miles” Don Rigsby
SEGMENT #4
“When We Fall” Rebecca Frazier
“We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore” Bluegrass Album Band
“Jesus Carried Me A Cross” Del McCoury Band
Show Close
And Del and Jon were even nice enough to leave us enough room to end the program with a couple of good gospel numbers to follow that wonderful rendition of “Jesus Carried Me A Cross” from Del and the boys. We’ll have one from Don Rigsby‘s new tribute to Dr. Ralph Stanley, namely “Traveling The High Way Home.” Then we’ll wrap things up with Dailey & Vincent singing “Won’t It Be Wonderful There” from that great new “Brothers of the Highway” project of theirs.
Join us at 9PM Eastern if you’re in “The Land of Bean Blossom.” You’ll find us at 88.7 on your FM dial, right smack dab in the middle of “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem!
The current show is posted on the player on the right side of this very page and updates once a week, friends.

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…no forgetting Mommy’s Day ’round here!
Boy I’ll tell you, if there’s one topic that makes it into more bluegrass songs than any other, mother is sure in the running. Right alongside equally relevant subject matter such as loneliness, murder, the old home place, the road that never ends, and coon dogs. You are sure enough in good company mom!
In all the years “Fields of Bluegrass” has been on the air our approach to this most sacrosanct of subjects has been to spin a bunch of them pitiful, mournful, “Mama’s up yonder in heaven a-waiting” type numbers and then put it out there that there’s just one more shopping day until you-know-what. No hidden agendas here, pretty all out there indeed.
Larry Sparks will share one in which mama is the first person he writes when life in the big city isn’t all he’d hoped it would be. Newfound Road sings one from the perspective of a daddy telling his motherless little girl what her mommy was like. Lynn Morris sings one written by the great Hazel Dickens about letting your child leave the poverty she was born into for the hope of a better life elsewhere.
Yup, on a ‘pitiful scale’ of 1-10 we’re looking at about a 9.3 this time around, friends.
Any buddy have an ‘in’ with the folks that make Kleenex so we can look into an endorsement deal?
Other artists in the program include Reno & Smiley, Jesse Brock, Flatt & Scruggs, David Grisman, Del McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, IIIrd Tyme Out, Grasstowne, The Stanley Brothers,The Dry Branch Fire Squad and more. And lest we lose sight of the fact that grandmothers are mommies too, Randy Kohrs will provide a fine number that’ll serve to remind us.
Join us at 9PM Eastern if you’re in “The Land of Bean Blossom.” You’ll find us at 88.7 on your FM dial, right smack dab in the middle of “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem!
The current show is posted on the player at the right side of this very page and updates once a week, friends.

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Sadly, had to say goodbye to George Jones this week. We have a fine bluegrass rendition of “Her Name Is…” from The Lost & Found to share, will have George Jones ending the program singing “Angel Band” with Dr. Ralph Stanley at the end of the gospel set, too.
Been listening to Doc Watson a lot at home this week. Songs from Peter Rowan and Jack Lawrence gave me reason to believe I’m not the only one. And towards the end of the show Doc will get a nice version of “I Am A Pilgrim” going in the gospel set.
Let’s see. In addtion to those already mentioned…Del McCoury, Gibson Brothers, Ricky Skaggs, Frank Solivan. Sutton, Holt, & Coleman. John Reischman. Steel Drivers. Country Gentlemen, Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass. Ralph Stanley. Don Rigsby.
Yeah, I know. Right?
Join us at 9PM Eastern if you’re in “The Land of Bean Blossom.” You’ll find us at 88.7 on your FM dial, right smack dab in the middle of “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem! The current show is posted on the player at the right side of this very page and updates once a week, friends.

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All Spring. All Birds.
That’s the theme.
The Music?
Well, fiddles. Banjers. Mandolins. The whole nine.
You know, bluegrass and old-time mountain music.
I’d be real surprised if any bluegrass artist performed more songs on the subject of the little winged ones than The Stanley Brothers. And after brother Carter’s passing, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys added quite a few on the subject to their repertoire as well. We’ll even squeeze a Don Reno & Benny Martin collaboration in there that was recorded some time ago too, if time allows.
So, this week, no matter who is singing them, they’re going to be about birds. Redbirds, bluebirds, thrush, white doves, mourning doves, blackbirds and crows of course, and the Eastern Whippoorwill (Caprimulgus vociferus). Even the cuckoo makes an appearance, in the form of an old-timey instrumental from Norman Blake.
Offerings from the modern era include Donna Hughes, Cadillac Sky, King Wilkie, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Blue Highway, The Wilders, The Grascals, Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers, Tim O’Brien, Rowan & Rice, Reeltime Travelers, Don Rigsby, Laurie Lewis, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper…
…and you’d better know that ain’t all!
We’ll take it on out with a number about a robin that built a nest on daddy’s grave and one popularized by Roy Acuff about that ‘great speckled bird’ from Jim & Jesse.
Join us at 9PM Eastern if you’re in “The Land of Bean Blossom.” You’ll find us at 88.7 on your FM dial, right smack dab in the middle of “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem! The current show is posted on the player at the right side of this very page and updates once a week, friends.

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Red Allen & His Kentuckians “Close By.” Ralph Stanley “Blue Moon of Kentucky.” Keller Williams & The Traveling McCourys “The Graveyard Shift.”
Marty Raybon “The Late Night Cry of the Whippoorwill.” Lonesome River Band “Harvest Time.” Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice “Jesse James.” Town Mountain “Leave The Bottle.”
The Steel Drivers “Cry No Mississippi.” Special Consensus “Monroe.” Rhonda Vincent “I’d Rather Hear I Don’t Love You Than Nothing At All.” Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass “Alcatraz Island Blues.” The Gibson Brothers “Home On The River.”
Osborne Brothers “Mansions For Me.” Blue Highway “Wicked Path of Sin.” Larry Sparks “I Am The Man, Thomas.” The Grass Cats “Meet Me Up In Heaven.” Hot Rize “Man in the Middle.” Tim O’Brien, Charles Sawtelle & Friends “Angel Band.”
If you’re in the greater Indianapolis area, tune in to 88.7 on your FM dial at 9PM EASTERN during “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem!
You can pick up our live stream by clicking on the WICR logo on the right here, or the program will be posted right here on “The Old Homepage” later this week and remains on our player for 7 days.

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Ralph Stanley “With Whiskey & Wine.” Del McCoury & His Dixie Pals “Big Ball In Boston.” Keller Williams & The Travelin’ McCourys “What a Waste.” Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers ”Steel Guitar Rag.”
Michael Cleveland “Old Brown Co. Barn.” Ronnie Bowman “Cold Virginia Night.” Old & In The Way “Knockin’ On Your Door.” The Dillards “Old Man at the Mill.” The Johnson Mountain Boys “Memories Cover Everything.”
The Gibson Brothers “Buy A Ring, Find Us A Preacher.” Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver “By The Waters of the Clinch.” Leroy Troy & Tennessee Mafia Jug Band “Bald Knob Arkansas.” Sutton, Holt, & Coleman “Down the Road.” Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice “Old Bicycle Chain.” Chris Jones & The Night Drivers “If That Was Love.”
Kim Robins “Heartache & Regret” and “What A Friend We Have In Jesus/Shuckin’ The Corn.” Fiddlin’ Tim Smith “I Saw The Light.” The Louvin Brothers “Do You Live What You Preach?”
If you’re in the greater Indianapolis area, tune in to 88.7 on your FM dial at 9PM EASTERN during “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem!
You can pick up our live stream by clicking on the WICR logo on the right here, or the program will be posted right here on “The Old Homepage” later this week and remains on our player for 7 days.

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Us bluegrassers frustrated with spring being slow in coming don’t waste a second frettin’. We just fire-up a number where that prognosticating rodent what claimed it’d be early ends up in gravy, that’s all. We’re talking about the Doc Watson rendition of said selection friends, in case you’re wondering.
We’re still working to squeeze in all the killer new and recent releases we’re dying to share this week, you’d better know it. Fresh material from The Gibson Brothers, Jr. Sisk & Rambler’s Choice, Kenny & Amanda Smith, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, Dailey & Vincent, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, The Hillbenders, IIIrd Tyme Out, The Steeldrivers, Audie Blaylock & Redline and a stand-out track from that new ” The Mandolin Chronicles” project from Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson will all figure prominently in the playlist.
Any classics from yesteryear, you ask? Why, of course!
In addition to the aforementioned Doc Watson number, Flatt & Scruggs, Claire Lynch & The Front Porch String Band, Ronnie McCoury, and Norman Blake, who celebrated a March birthday, all share a song with us. And as if that weren’t enough, the gospel set that closes the program features The Stanley Brothers, Reno & Smiley, and Carl Story and his Ramblin’ Mountaineers.
If you’re in the greater Indianapolis area, tune in to 88.7 on your FM dial at 9PM EASTERN during “Friday Night Folk” programming on WICR.
Not in Indy? Not a problem!
You can pick up our live stream by clicking on the WICR logo on the right here, or the program will be posted right here on “The Old Homepage” later this week and remains on our player for 7 days.

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