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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March 16, 2013

9:00 PM
Wabash Cannonball
Artist : Roy Acuff
Album : The Golden Age
Label : Columbia Classics
3:49 PM
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Artist : Hank Williams
Album : 24 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits
Label : Polydor
3:57 PM
To An Old Rose
Artist : Frank Ferrel
Album : Yankee Dreams
Label : Flying Fish
3:58 PM
Working In Tennessee
Artist : Merle Haggard
Album : Working In Tennessee
Label : Vanguard
3:50 PM
Mathematician’s Hornpipe
Artist : Frank Ferrel
Album : Yankee Dreams
Label : Flying Fish
3:58 PM
Cocaine Blues
Artist : Merle Haggard
Album : Working In Tennessee
Label : Vanguard
4:00 PM
Jackson
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983
Label : Columbia Classics
4:00 PM
Jackson
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983
Label : Columbia Classics
4:01 PM
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
Artist : Wiley Walker
Album : The Golden Age
Label : Columbia Classics
4:02 PM
Shame On You
Artist : Spade Cooley
Album : The Golden Age
Label : Columbia Classics
4:04 PM
Don’t Fence Me In
Artist : Bing Crosby
Album : I'm An Old Cowhand
Label : Living Era
4:15 PM
Wolverton Mountain
Artist : Claude King
Album : Americana
Label : Columbia Classics
4:18 PM
There Goes My Everything
Artist : Jack Greene
Album : There Goes My Everything
Label : Decca Records
4:16 PM
The Commancheros
Artist : Claude King
Album : The Country Hits
Label : Ace Records
4:20 PM
All The Time
Artist : Jack Greene
Album : There Goes My Everything
Label : Decca Records
4:06 PM
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
Artist : Bob Wills
Album : Bob Wills: The Tiffany Transcriptions
Label : Rhino Records
4:07 PM
Kentucky
Artist : The Blue Sky Boys
Album : The Blue Sky Boys
Label : JSP
4:09 PM
Down the Road
Artist : Flatt & Scruggs
Album : The Complete Mercury Sessions
Label : Mercury Records
4:14 PM
Will The Roses Bloom
Artist : Flatt & Scruggs
Album : The Complete Mercury Sessions
Label : Mercury Records
4:25 PM
Trouble On The Mind
Artist : Eryyn Marshall
Album : Tune Tramp
Label : Hickoryjack
4:31 PM
Molly Put the Kettle On
Artist : The Skillett Lickers
Album : Gid Tanner and the Skillett Lickers 1927-1934
Label : JSP
4:35 PM
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Artist : Bob Dylan
Album : A New Tradition
Label : Columbia Classics
4:37 PM
Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
Artist : Asleep At the Wheel
Album : A New Tradition
Label : Columbia Classics
4:37 PM
Darkness On The Delta
Artist : Country All Stars
Album : Jazz From the Hills
Label : Bear Family Records
4:38 PM
Fiddle Patch
Artist : Country All Stars
Album : Jazz From the Hills
Label : Bear Family Records
4:39 PM
Miss The Mississippi And You
Artist : Crystal Gayle
Album : A New Tradition
Label : Columbia Classics
4:40 PM
My Elusive Dreams
Artist : David Huston & Tammy Wynette
Album : The Nashville Sound
Label : Columbia Classics
4:41 PM
Funny How Time Slips Away
Artist : Billy Walker
Album : The Nashville Sound
Label : Columbia Classics
4:42 PM
All I Ever Loved Was You
Artist : Ralph Stanley
Album : Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys
Label : Rebel
4:44 PM
I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home
Artist : Jack Cook
Album : Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys
Label : Rebel
4:45 PM
Prisoner At the Bar
Artist : Mac Martin
Album : Sun Racer
Label : Patunxet Records
4:48 PM
Old Pal of Yesterday
Artist : Girls of the Golden West
Album : Girls of the Golden West
Label :
4:51 PM
Miner’s Lullaby
Artist : Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin
Album : Heart Songs
Label : Rounder Records
4:52 PM
The Downfall of Paris
Artist : Darley Fulks
Album : Along the Kentucky River
Label : Rounder Records
4:57 PM
Atlanta Schottische
Artist : Darley Fulks
Album : Along the Kentucky River
Label : Rounder Records
4:58 PM
Singing the Blues
Artist : Marty Robbins
Album : The Nashville Sound
Label : Columbia Classics
4:59 PM
Walk Softly on the Bridges
Artist : Mel Street
Album : The Very Best of Mel Street
Label : Sunbird
5:00 PM
Crazy
Artist : Patsy Cline
Album : Patsy Cline
Label : MCA
5:01 PM
Uncle Len’s Rhythm Roundup
Artist : Uncle Len’s Rhythm Roundup
Album :
Label :
5:03 PM
No Letter In The Mail Today
Artist : Mac Wiseman
Album : The Mac Wiseman Story
Label : Wise Records
5:03 PM
Another Place, Another Time
Artist : Jerry Lee Lewis
Album : Jerry Lee Lewis
Label : Tee Vee Records
5:04 PM
Brown Ferry Blues
Artist : Kenny Baker & Josh Graves
Album : Puritan Sessions
Label : Rebel Records
5:06 PM
I Overlooked An Orchid
Artist : Carl Smith
Album : Honky Tonk Heroes
Label : Columbia Classics
5:08 PM
Fire On The Mountain
Artist : Camp Creek Boys
Album : Old Time String Band
Label : County 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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