The Midnight Ramble

Saturday, 9pm-midnight

On the Midnight Ramble, you get an opportunity to take a leisurely stroll through the highways and byways in the history of country music, finding old gems that no one plays anymore and giving them new life.  You may discover that these old songs and tunes have an intrinsic value that belies their age and their obscurity.  For instance, you may be pleased to find a still vital fiddling tradition that has maintained links to generations of fiddlers past – a part of American culture that should not be forgotten or abandoned.  Or, perhaps you may unearth a bit of old popular culture that, through the poetry of its lyrics or the cry of its steel guitar, can still articulate a world-view that has not lost its impact in this age of high-tech cultural consolidation.  Or, by listening to these old tunes, you may simply gain some insight to why we are the way we are today (positive and negative).  For, as always in the human condition, when you take time to observe the past, you become more informed about the present, and may even gain some insight into the path of the future.

Whether it is only for the occasional few minutes at home; during an extended car ride down the road; or you just like to leave your radio on when you go to bed on a Saturday night:  take a listen to the Midnight Ramble.  You may be surprised at how addicting these old country sounds can be! 

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January 05, 2013

9:00 PM
Hartford’s Waltz
Artist : Tony Ellis
Album : Farewell My Home
Label : Rounder Records
3:24 PM
Banging Breakdown
Artist : Stephen Wade
Album : Dancing In The Parlor
Label : County Records
3:25 PM
Rain On The Water
Artist : Tony Ellis
Album : Farewell My Home
Label : Rounder Records
3:25 PM
Minstrel Medley
Artist : Stephen Wade
Album : Dancing In The Parlor
Label : County Records
3:31 PM
Durham’s Ninth
Artist : Rick Good
Album : The Human Banjo Player
Label :
3:36 PM
Coleman’s March
Artist : Cathy Fink
Album : Banjo Talking
Label : Rounder Records
3:36 PM
Flowery Girl
Artist : Rick Good
Album : The Human Banjo Player
Label :
3:41 PM
Dixie Hoedown
Artist : Phillips, Grier, and Flinner
Album : Looking Back
Label : Compass Records
3:38 PM
Flood of 57
Artist : Ralph Stanley
Album : Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys 1971-1973 Vol. 3
Label : Rebel Records
3:43 PM
Tennessee Waltz
Artist : Patti Page
Album : Classic Country: Golden 50's
Label : Time Life
3:45 PM
My Sweet Papa
Artist : Patti Page
Album : Al Clauser and the Oklahoma Outlaws
Label : Krazy Kat
3:51 PM
Never Pretend
Artist : Patti Page
Album : Al Clauser and the Oklahoma Outlaws
Label : Krazy Kat
3:52 PM
Mom And Dad’s Waltz
Artist : Patti Page
Album : Golden Age of Popular Music
Label :
3:53 PM
Deep Water
Artist : Mike Auldridge
Album : Treasures Untold
Label : Sugar Hill Records
3:54 PM
Fireball Mail
Artist : Mike Auldridge
Album : The Great Dobro Sessions
Label : Sugar Hill Records
3:55 PM
Treasures Untold
Artist : Jimmie Rodgers
Album : Jimmie Rodgers Recordings 1927-1928
Label : JSP Records
3:56 PM
Cannonball
Artist : The Seldom Scene
Album : The Best of the Seldom Scene
Label : Rebel Records
4:00 PM
Sing Me Back Home
Artist : The Seldom Scene
Album : The Best of the Seldom Scene
Label : Rebel Records
4:03 PM
Why Should I Be Lonely?
Artist : Mike Auldridge
Album : Treasures Untold
Label : Sugar Hill Records
4:07 PM
Last Ride
Artist : Legends of the Potomac
Album : Take Off
Label : Patunxet Music
4:15 PM
Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
Artist : Mike Auldridge
Album : Treasures Untold
Label : Sugar Hill Records
4:18 PM
Raisin’ The Dickens
Artist : Mike Auldridge
Album : Treasures Untold
Label : Sugar Hill Records
4:21 PM
I’d Rather Stay Home
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Kitty Wells: The Essential Recordings
Label : Primo
4:26 PM
Since I Met You Baby
Artist : Freddy Fender
Album : Country Hall of Fame
Label : Forever Gold
4:24 PM
You And Me
Artist : Kitty Wells & Red Foley
Album : Kitty Wells: The Essential Recordings
Label : Primo
4:29 PM
Wasted Words
Artist : Ray Price
Album : The Essential Ray Price
Label : Columbia Records
4:32 PM
So Wrong
Artist : Patsy Cline
Album : Patsy Cline: The Definitive Collection
Label : MCA
4:34 PM
Jimmie’s Jump
Artist : Jimmy Widener
Album :
Label :
4:39 PM
I Can Tell Just The Same
Artist : Jimmie Widener
Album :
Label :
4:41 PM
Mississippi Bound
Artist : Mike Compton & David Long
Album : Stomp
Label : Acoustic Disc
4:44 PM
I’m A Stranger Here
Artist : The Corndrinkers
Album : The Corndrinkers Still
Label : Bee Balm Music
4:45 PM
The Old Man From the North Country
Artist : Hazel Rhymer
Album : On The Threshold of a Dream
Label : Ballad Records
4:46 PM
Smith’s Reel/Oyster Girl
Artist : The Corndrinkers
Album : The Corndrinkers Still
Label : Bee Balm Music
4:47 PM
Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family
Artist : The Carter Family & Jimmie Rodgers
Album : Jimmie Rodgers Recordings 1931-9132
Label : JSP Records
4:48 PM
The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers in Texas
Artist : The Carter Family & Jimmie Rodgers
Album : Jimmie Rodgers Recordings 1931-9132
Label : JSP Records
4:48 PM
Why There is A Tear In My Eye
Artist : The Carter Family & Jimmie Rodgers
Album : The Carter Family 1927-1934
Label : JSP Records
4:49 PM
Jenny Allinder
Artist : Julia Mae
Album : The Hayslett Collection
Label : Music Mentors
4:50 PM
Midnight
Artist : Red Foley
Album : Red Foley
Label : CMA
4:52 PM
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Artist : Jerry Lee Lewis
Album : Jerry Lee Lewis
Label : Tee Vee Records
4:52 PM
Carolina In The Pines
Artist : Harley Allen
Album : Across the Blueridge Mountains
Label : Folkways Records
4:53 PM
Durang’s Hornpipe
Artist : Adam Steffey
Album : One More For the Roadq
Label : Sugar Hill Records
4:53 PM
Wabash Blues
Artist : Milton Brown
Album : Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies
Label : Bear Family Records
4:55 PM
I Love You Mostly
Artist : Lefty Frizzell
Album : Look What Thoughts Will Do
Label : Columbia Legacy
4:58 PM
The Soldier and the Lady
Artist : The Coon Creek Girls
Album : Early Radio Favorites
Label : Old Homestead
5:01 PM
Old Joe Clark
Artist : The New Lost City Ramblers
Album : The New Lost City Ramblers 20th Anniversary Concert
Label : Flying Fish Records
5:02 PM
I Don’t Hurt Anymore
Artist : Hank Snow
Album : The Essential Hank Snow
Label : RCA
5:03 PM
Mrs. Maxwell
Artist : John Hartford and Bab Carlin
Album : The Fun of Open Discussion
Label : Rounder Records
5:03 PM
I Know What It’s Like To Be Alone
Artist : Vern Gosdin
Album : The Voice
Label : BTM Records

4:39pm

Tue March 29, 2011
WYSO Programming Notes

Host Highlights: Tom Duffee

Host highlights features conversations between WYSO Music Director, Niki Dakota and WYSO's volunteer hosts about their programs, how they came to WYSO, etc. This week, fill-in host Juliet Fromholt chats with Tom Duffee of the Midnight Ramble. They discuss the Duffee's love of old-time music and how hosting a program on WYSO was a family affair.

The Midnight Ramble airs Saturday nights, 9pm - midnight.

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3:35pm

Sat September 4, 2010
Music

Red Spurlock Live on the Midnight Ramble

Red Spurlock

Legendary bluegrass banjo player Red Spurlock joins Tom Duffee in the WYSO studios to share songs and stories from his career including first coming to Dayton in the 1950s and meeting fellow musician Red Allen. 

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