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 26, 2013

9:00 PM
Watching My Past Go By
Artist : Ernest Tubb
Album : Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello
Label : Bear Family Records
4:33 PM
Could You Love Me One More Time
Artist : Ricky Skaggs
Album : Sweet Temptation
Label : Sugar Hill Records
4:35 PM
Colonel Prentiss
Artist : Ricky Skaggs
Album : Solo: Songs My Dad Loved
Label : Skaggs Family Records
4:36 PM
I’ll Take the Blame
Artist : Ricky Skaggs
Album : Sweet Temptation
Label : Sugar Hill Records
4:37 PM
My Deceitful Heart
Artist : Whitley & Skaggs
Album : Second Generation
Label : Rebel Records
4:38 PM
Pickin’ In Caroline
Artist : Ricky Skaggs
Album : Solo: Songs My Dad Loved
Label : Skaggs Family Records
4:39 PM
I Had But 50 Cents
Artist : Ricky Skaggs
Album : Solo: Songs My Dad Loved
Label : Skaggs Family Records
4:40 PM
Goodbye, Little Darlin’, Goodbye
Artist : Bing Crosby
Album : I'm An Old Cowhand
Label : Living Era
4:41 PM
Strawberry Roan
Artist : Slim Critchlow
Album : Cowboy Songs
Label : Arhoolie
4:44 PM
When The Bloom Is On The Sage
Artist : Bing Crosby
Album : I'm An Old Cowhand
Label : Living Era
4:46 PM
Cow Across the Gate
Artist : The Farr Brothers
Album : South In My Soul
Label : Cattle Records
4:49 PM
This Troubled Mind of Mine
Artist : Jack Guthrie
Album : Swing West, Vol. 3
Label :
4:51 PM
New Spanish Two Step
Artist : Bob Wills
Album : Swing West, Vol. 3
Label :
4:53 PM
Oakie Boogie
Artist : Jack Guthrie
Album : Swing West, Vol. 3
Label :
4:54 PM
Windy Bill
Artist : Slim Critchlow
Album : Cowboy Songs
Label : Arhoolie
4:58 PM
Black Jack
Artist : JD Crowe
Album : Bluegrass Holiday
Label : Rebel Records
4:59 PM
You’re Not Easy To Forget
Artist : Red Allen
Album : Bluegrass Holiday
Label : Rebel Records
5:00 PM
I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow
Artist : Roscoe Holcomb
Album : An Untamed Sense of Control
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
5:02 PM
Benton’s Dream
Artist : Benton Flippen
Album : Old Time, New Tunes
Label : Rounder Records
5:03 PM
Freight Train Blues
Artist : Roy Acuff
Album : The Essential Roy Acuff
Label : Columbia Records
5:04 PM
Wildwood Flower
Artist : Anita Carter
Album : Anita Carter
Label :
5:08 PM
I Got Mine
Artist : The Howington Brothers
Album : The Howington Brothers
Label :
5:09 PM
Black Jack Davie
Artist : Almeda Riddle
Album : Songcatcher II
Label : Vanguard Records
5:11 PM
Duncan’s Reel
Artist : Appalachian Heaven String Band
Album : Been All Around This World
Label :
5:14 PM
Carter’s Blues
Artist : Larry Sparks
Album : 40
Label : Rebel Records
5:16 PM
Where No One Stands Alone
Artist : Allison Krause & The Cox Family
Album : I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
Label : Rounder Records
5:21 PM
La Talle D’Eronces
Artist : The Savoy Doucet Cajun Band
Album : Live! At The Dance
Label : Arhoolie
5:24 PM
Elle Savit Pas J’Etais Marie
Artist : Lejeune, Menard, and Smith
Album : Le Trio Cadien
Label : Rounder Records
5:28 PM
Dans La Louisiane
Artist : The Savoy Doucet Cajun Band
Album : Live! At The Dance
Label : Arhoolie
5:29 PM
Wabash Blues
Artist : The Delmore Brothers
Album : The Delmore Brothers
Label : JSP Records
5:31 PM
The Dying Soldier
Artist : Buell Kazee
Album : Times Ain't Like They Used To Be
Label : Yazoo Records
5:32 PM
Devil On The Stump
Artist : Art Stamper
Album : The Lost Fiddler
Label : County Records
5:40 PM
I’m Lonesome Without You
Artist : The Stanley Brothers
Album : The Stanley Brothers: 1953-1958, 1959
Label : Bear Family Records
5:45 PM
Bitter Creek
Artist : Art Stamper
Album : The Lost Fiddler
Label : County Records
5:46 PM
The Brushy Fork of John’s Creek
Artist : Hiram Stamper
Album : Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes
Label :
5:49 PM
Chiquipin Hunting
Artist : Art Stamper
Album : The Lost Fiddler
Label : County Records
5:49 PM
Cold, Cold Heart
Artist : George Jones
Album :
Label :
5:51 PM
You’re Still On My Mind
Artist : George Jones
Album :
Label :
5:54 PM
Tennessee Waltz
Artist : Patti Page
Album : Classic Country: Golden 50's
Label : Time Life
5:55 PM
A White Sport Coat
Artist : Marty Robbins
Album : Classic Country: Golden 50's
Label : Time Life
5:55 PM
Will There Be Any Yodelers In Heaven
Artist : Girls of the Golden West
Album : American Yodeling
Label : Trikont
5:59 PM
Going Down That Lee Highway
Artist : Grayson & Whitter
Album : Grayson & Whitter
Label : County Records
6:02 PM
Alabam
Artist : Cowboy Copas
Album : Settin' FLat on Ready
Label : Bear Family Records
6:04 PM
Anniversary Blue Yodel
Artist : Merle Haggard
Album : The Peer Sessions
Label : Koch
6:04 PM
Ride Me Down Easy
Artist : Bobby Bare
Album : The Essential Bobby Bare
Label : BMG
6:05 PM
Beale Street Mama
Artist : Milton Brown
Album : Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies
Label : Bear Family Records
6:07 PM
Darkness On The Delta
Artist : Country All Stars
Album : Jazz From the Hills
Label : Bear Family Records
6:09 PM
Fiddle Patch
Artist : Country All Stars
Album : Jazz From the Hills
Label : Bear Family Records
6:12 PM
New Deal Of Love
Artist : Hank Thompson
Album : Hank World
Label : Bloodshot Records
6:13 PM
Why I’m Walking
Artist : Stonewall Jackson
Album : The Best of Stonewall Jackson
Label : Sony
6:14 PM
Who Will Sing For Me
Artist : Ralph Stanley
Album : Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys 1971-1973 Vol. 3
Label : Rebel 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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