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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July 21, 2012

9:00 PM
Making Believe
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Kitty Wells: The Essential Recordings
Label : Primo
3:15 PM
Love or Hate
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Kitty Wells: The Essential Recordings
Label : Primo
3:17 PM
Wild Side of Life
Artist : Hank Thompson
Album : Vintage Collections
Label : Capitol
3:17 PM
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Kitty Wells
Label : MCA
3:19 PM
One By One
Artist : Kitty Wells & Red Foley
Album : Kitty Wells: The Essential Recordings
Label : Primo
3:28 PM
Back Street Affair
Artist : Webb Pierce
Album : The Best of Webb Pierce
Label : MCA
3:18 PM
Paying for That Back Street Affair
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Kitty Wells: The Essential Recordings
Label : Primo
3:26 PM
There’s Poison In Your Heart
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Kitty Wells: The Essential Recordings
Label : Primo
3:20 PM
Release Me
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Kitty Wells
Label : MCA
3:32 PM
Hop High Ladies
Artist : Emily Schaad and Mark Freed
Album : The New Young Fogies
Label :
3:42 PM
She Ain’t No Good
Artist : Hannah Johnson & Aviva Speigneyer
Album : The New Young Fogies
Label :
3:43 PM
Flatwoods
Artist : Julie and Adrian Shepherd-Powell
Album : The New Young Fogies
Label :
3:44 PM
The Roots of My Rasin’
Artist : Merle Haggard
Album : For the Record
Label : BMG
3:46 PM
How’m I Doing?
Artist : The Aaron Sisters
Album : Flowers In the Wildwood
Label : Trikont
3:50 PM
Ask That Pretty Girl To Be My Wife
Artist : Mary Jane Epps, Joseph Decosimo, Ben Nelson, Pan Riggs
Album : The New Young Fogies
Label :
3:56 PM
Round Up Time In Texas
Artist : Girls of the Golden West
Album : Flowers In the Wildwood
Label : Trikont
3:57 PM
The Way I Am
Artist : Merle Haggard
Album : For the Record
Label :
3:57 PM
Footprints In the Snow
Artist : Mike Scott
Album : Blue Moon of Kentucky
Label : Rural Rhythm
4:00 PM
Bluegrass Stomp
Artist : Doc Watson & David Grisman
Album : Doc & Dawg
Label : Acoustic Disc
4:01 PM
A Few Old Memories
Artist : Hazel Dickens
Album : A Few Old Memories
Label : Rounder Records
4:01 PM
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Kitty Wells
Label : MCA
4:02 PM
Make Believe
Artist : Kitty Wells & Red Foley
Album : Kitty Wells: The Essential Recordings
Label : Primo
4:04 PM
You Win Again
Artist : Jethro Burns
Album :
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4:05 PM
Faded Love
Artist : Tony Rice
Album :
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4:05 PM
Lulu Lee
Artist : The Coon Creek Girls
Album : Early Radio Favorites
Label : Old Homestead
4:05 PM
This Ain’t My First Rodeo
Artist : Vern Gosdin
Album : Super Hits
Label : Sony
4:10 PM
Little Birdie
Artist : The Coon Creek Girls
Album : Early Radio Favorites
Label : Old Homestead
4:11 PM
Tryin’ To Forget Blues
Artist : Porter Wagoner
Album : The Essential Porter Wagoner
Label : RCA
4:15 PM
Pharoah
Artist : Darley Fulks
Album : Along the Kentucky River
Label : Rounder Records
4:21 PM
The Downfall of Paris
Artist : Darley Fulks
Album : Along the Kentucky River
Label : Rounder Records
4:24 PM
When You And I Were Young, Maggie
Artist : Peter Rowan and Jerry Douglas
Album : Yonder
Label : Sugar Hill
4:29 PM
Death At the Bar
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Rounding Up The Gals
Label : Jasmine
4:30 PM
Is It Really Over
Artist : Jim Reeves
Album : Welcome To My World
Label : BMG
4:33 PM
Philadelphia Lawyer
Artist : Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston
Album : Cowboy Songs on Folkways
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
4:35 PM
There’s An Empty Cot In The Bunkhouse Tonight
Artist : Rosalie Sorrells
Album : Cowboy Songs on Folkways
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
4:42 PM
Mule Skinner Blues
Artist : Bill Monroe
Album : American Yodeling
Label : Trikont
4:48 PM
That High Born Gal of Mine
Artist : Bashful Brother Oswald
Album :
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4:52 PM
Yodeling Mule
Artist : Three Tobacco Tags
Album : American Yodeling
Label : Trikont
4:54 PM
Where the Old Red River Flows
Artist : The Whitstein Brothers
Album :
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4:54 PM
Fathers Have A Home Sweet Home
Artist : EC and Orna Ball
Album :
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4:55 PM
Blue Yodel #1
Artist : Bob Wills
Album :
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4:57 PM
Cowboy Night Herding Song
Artist : Roy Rogers
Album : American Yodeling
Label : Trikont
4:57 PM
Things In Life
Artist : Don Stover
Album :
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4:58 PM
Soppin’ The Gravy
Artist : Mark O’Connor
Album :
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4:59 PM
Fox Chase
Artist : Dink Roberts
Album : Old Time Music: The Essential Collection
Label : Rounder Records
5:07 PM
Red Bird
Artist : Clark Kessinger
Album : Old Time Music: The Essential Collection
Label : Rounder Records
5:08 PM
I Got Mine
Artist : The Howington Brothers
Album :
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5:11 PM
Won’t You Believe Me
Artist : Abbie Neal
Album :
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5:14 PM
Larry’s Ride
Artist : Larry Richardson
Album : Springtime In The Mountains
Label : County Records
5:16 PM
I’m A Long Time Traveling Here Below
Artist : Almeda Riddle
Album : Old Time Music: The Essential Collection
Label : Rounder Records
5:17 PM
A Place to Fall Apart
Artist : Merle Haggard
Album : For the Record
Label : BMG

11:33am

Wed June 5, 2013
Music

Ramblin' with Sugargrove

On this episode of The Midnight Ramble, host Tom Duffee has Miami County band Sugargrove in the studio.

In the first segment, avid banjoist Duffee learns of the origins of Sugargrove's 1968 Gibson banjo, followed by a live performance of a pair of Bill Monroe tunes: an off-the-cuff rendition of Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky" and a more rehearsed instrumental,  "Jerusalem Ridge."

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12:48pm

Sat June 11, 2011
Music

Corndaddies live on the Midnight Ramble

Host Tom Duffee talks with local bluegrass band the Corndaddies about the formation of their band, the fun of being street performers, and the importance of live music. The band sings about steel drivin' with their rendition of "John Henry" and answers the burning question, "What occupation will never lose their job to a machine?" Listen to find out!

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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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