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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August 25, 2012

9:00 PM
Soldier’s Last Letter
Artist : Ernest Tubb
Album : Walking the Floor Over You
Label : Proper
3:19 PM
Flowery Girls
Artist : Rick Good
Album : The Human Banjo Player
Label :
3:20 PM
Born With the Blues
Artist : George Jones and Merle Haggard
Album : Kicking Out The Footlights ... Again
Label : Bandit Records
3:22 PM
Over the Waterfall
Artist : Mike Compton
Album : Climbing the Walls
Label : Rounder Records
3:23 PM
The Lightning Express
Artist : The Blue Sky Boys
Album : from the original 78
Label :
3:25 PM
Truck Driving Son of A Gun
Artist : Dave Dudley
Album : The Best of Dave Dudley
Label : Mercury
3:28 PM
Nobody’s Darling
Artist : Jeannette Carter
Album : the Carter Family On Border Radio, Vol 2
Label : Arhoolie
3:34 PM
Willingly
Artist : Willie Nelson & Shirley Collie
Album : Classic Duets
Label : Liberty
3:37 PM
Bubbles In My Beer
Artist : Bob Wills
Album : Country Drinking Songs
Label : Delia Music
3:42 PM
Death At the Bar
Artist : Kitty Wells
Album : Country Drinking Songs
Label : Delia Music
3:45 PM
Grey Eagle
Artist : Bartow Riley
Album : Texas Hoedown Revisited
Label : County Records
3:47 PM
Leaving Here Blues
Artist : Kentucky String Ticklers
Album :
Label :
3:53 PM
Home is Where The Heart Is
Artist : Connie And Babe and the Backwood Boys
Album : Hand Picked: 25 Years of Bluegrass on Rounder Records
Label : Rounder Records
3:58 PM
My Heart Would Know
Artist : Hank Williams
Album : 24 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits
Label : Polydor
3:59 PM
Your Cold Cold Heart
Artist : Norah Jones
Album : Come Away With Me
Label : Blue Note
4:00 PM
House of David Blues
Artist : Sam & Kirk McGee with Arthur Smith
Album : Look Who Is Here
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
4:01 PM
Whispering Pines
Artist : Johnny Horton
Album : Classic Country
Label :
4:03 PM
Shotgun Boogie
Artist : Tennessee Ernie Ford
Album : Night Train
Label : Delia Music
4:06 PM
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
Artist : Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty
Album : Country Classics
Label :
4:08 PM
I’ll Never Be Free
Artist : Tennessee Ernie Ford & Kay Starr
Album : Night Train
Label : Delia Music
4:08 PM
Rabbit Hash Kentucky
Artist : Rabbit Hash String Band
Album : Rabbit Hash String Band, Vol. 1
Label :
4:09 PM
Miner’s Lullaby
Artist : Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin
Album : Heart Songs
Label : Rounder Records
4:10 PM
Cottage Hill/Miss Petermeyer’s Hornpipe
Artist : Ed Baggott & Elsie Peterson
Album : Scratching the Surface
Label :
4:15 PM
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Artist : Ray Charles
Album : Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music
Label : Rhino Records
4:17 PM
High Toned Dance
Artist : Glenn Ohrlin
Album : Old Time Music: The Essential Collection
Label : Rounder Records
4:17 PM
Big Bad John
Artist : Jimmy Dean
Album : The Best of Jimmy Dean
Label : Columbia Records
4:18 PM
The Sally Picker / The Opera Piece
Artist : Ed Baggott & Elsie Peterson
Album : Scratching the Surface
Label :
4:19 PM
Poison Love
Artist : Johnny & Jack
Album : For Old Time's Sake
Label : Bear Family Records
4:20 PM
Hubbin It
Artist : Bob Wills
Album :
Label :
4:21 PM
Dear John
Artist : Ferlin Husky & Jean Shephard
Album : Classic Duets
Label : Liberty
4:24 PM
How Can It Be Wrong?
Artist : Bob Wills
Album :
Label :
4:24 PM
Don’t Step Over an Old Love
Artist : The Stanley Brothers
Album : The King Years, 1961-1965
Label : King
4:40 PM
Crazy Arms
Artist : Ray Price
Album : The Essential Ray Price
Label : Columbia Records
4:41 PM
At The End
Artist : Leon Morris & Buzz Busby
Album : Hand Picked: 25 Years of Bluegrass on Rounder Records
Label : Rounder Records
4:42 PM
Rock the Cradle Lucy
Artist : Cofer Brothers
Album :
Label :
4:42 PM
Hangover Heart
Artist : Hank Thompson
Album : Country Drinking Songs
Label : Delta Music
4:44 PM
Tupelo Blues
Artist : Hoyt Ming
Album :
Label :
4:44 PM
I Love You So Much It Hurts Me
Artist : Floyd Tillman
Album : Honky Tonk Heroes
Label : Columbia Records
4:46 PM
Run Molly Run
Artist : Rick Good
Album : The Human Banjo Player
Label :
4:46 PM
Going Up Caney
Artist : Mike Compton
Album : Climbing the Walls
Label : Rounder Records
4:47 PM
Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
Artist : Merle Haggard
Album : The Lonesome Fugitive
Label : Razor & Tie
4:49 PM
Oh, Lonesome Me
Artist : Don Gibson
Album : 18 Greatest Hits
Label : Curb Records
4:49 PM
Nick McMillian and Kelley Breiding
Artist : Reuben’s Train
Album : The New Young Fogies
Label :
4:51 PM
Milwaukee Blues
Artist : Nikos Pappas, Seth Folsom, and Jesse Wells
Album : The New Young Fogies
Label :
4:52 PM
I’m Only Human
Artist : The Stanley Brothers
Album : The King Years, 1961-1965
Label : King
4:53 PM
Hello Walls
Artist : Faron Young
Album : Classic Country
Label : Time Life
4:54 PM
The Dying Soldier
Artist : Buell Kazee
Album : Mountain Frolic
Label : JSP Records
4:56 PM
The End of the World
Artist : Skeeter Davis
Album : Classic Country
Label : Time Life
4:57 PM
Cindy
Artist : Bradley Kincaid
Album : Mountain Frolic
Label : JSP Records
4:58 PM
Walk Softly On The Bridges
Artist : Mel Street
Album : The Very Best of Mel Street
Label : Sunbird
4:59 PM
Yellow Roses
Artist : Hank Snow
Album : The Essential Hank Snow
Label : RCA
5:00 PM
Hobo’s Meditation
Artist : Ernest Tubb
Album : Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello
Label : Bear Family Records
5:02 PM
Taps
Artist : Jim & Bob
Album :
Label :

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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