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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September 01, 2012

9:00 PM
Carter’s Blues
Artist : Larry Sparks
Album : 40
Label : Rebel Records
4:34 PM
Railroading On The Great Divide
Artist : The Carter Family
Album : The Carter Family: The Acme Sessions
Label : JSP Records
4:38 PM
I’ll See You In My Dreams
Artist : Ann & Phil Case
Album : When Shadows Fall
Label : Dry Run Recordings
4:46 PM
I’ve Loved and Lost Again
Artist : Ann & Phil Case
Album : When Shadows Fall
Label : Dry Run Recordings
4:47 PM
Give My Love To Rose
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : Johnny Cash Collection
Label : Sun Records
4:51 PM
When My Baby Double Talks To Me
Artist : Merle Travis
Album : The Best of Merle Travis
Label : Rhino Records
4:54 PM
Tis Sweet To Be Remembered
Artist : Red Allen & Frank Wakefield
Album : The Kitchen Tapes
Label : Acoustic Disc
4:56 PM
Cacklin Hen and Rooster Too
Artist : The Skillet Lickers
Album : Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, 1927-1934
Label : JSP Records
5:01 PM
Ride Me Down Easy
Artist : Bobby Bare
Album : The Essential Bobby Bare
Label : BMG
5:04 PM
Jerusalem Ridge
Artist : Tony Rice
Album : The Bluegrass Guitar Collection
Label : Rounder Records
5:05 PM
I Hear You Talking
Artist : Bob Wills
Album :
Label :
5:06 PM
Home
Artist : Ann & Phil Case
Album : When Shadows Fall
Label : Dry Run Recordings
5:17 PM
Mother’s Bible
Artist : Red & Joyce Spurlock
Album : Family Friends and Favorites
Label :
5:18 PM
Song of the Range
Artist : Jim & Bob
Album :
Label :
5:24 PM
Bear Cat Papa Blues
Artist : Gene Autry
Album : Gene Autry: Early Sides 1930-1931
Label : JSP Records
5:29 PM
Just Because
Artist : Pineridge Partners
Album : Back To Jericho
Label :
5:30 PM
The Rich and the Poor
Artist : Hank Locklin
Album : Golden Memories
Label : Golden Stars
5:34 PM
Little Orphan Girl
Artist : Doc Watson
Album : The Essential Doc Watson
Label : Vanguard Records
5:36 PM
Rock That Cradle Lucy
Artist : Cofer Brothers
Album :
Label :
5:37 PM
Hangover Heart
Artist : Hank Thompson
Album : Country Drinking Songs
Label : Delta Music
5:38 PM
Tupelo Blues
Artist : Hoyt Ming
Album :
Label :
5:38 PM
I Love You So Much It Hurts Me
Artist : Floyd Tillman
Album : Honky Tonk Heroes
Label : Columbia Records
5:39 PM
Run Molly Run
Artist : Rick Good
Album : The Human Banjo Player
Label :
5:39 PM
Blackberry Blossom
Artist : Tony Rice
Album : The Bluegrass Guitar Collection
Label : Rounder Records
5:40 PM
Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
Artist : Merle Haggard
Album : The Lonesome Fugitive
Label :
5:41 PM
Oh, Lonesome Me
Artist : Don Gibson
Album : 18 Greatest Hits
Label : Curb Records
5:41 PM
Reuben’s Train
Artist : Nick McMillian and Kelley Breiding
Album : The New Young Fogies
Label :
5:43 PM
Milwaukee Blues
Artist : Nikos Pappas, Seth Folsom, and Jesse Wells
Album : The New Young Fogies
Label :
5:43 PM
I’m Only Human
Artist : The Stanley Brothers
Album : The King Years, 1961-1965
Label : King
5:44 PM
Hello Walls
Artist : Faron Young
Album : Classic Country
Label : Time Life
5:45 PM
The Dying Soldier
Artist : Buell Kazee
Album : Mountain Frolic
Label : JSP Records
5:45 PM
The End of the World
Artist : Skeeter Davis
Album : Classic Country
Label : Time Life
5:46 PM
Cindy
Artist : Bradley Kincaid
Album : Mountain Frolic
Label : JSP Records
5:46 PM
Walk Softly On The Bridges
Artist : Mel Street
Album : The Very Best of Mel Street
Label : Sunbird
5:47 PM
Yellow Roses
Artist : Hank Snow
Album : The Essential Hank Snow
Label : RCA
5:47 PM
I’ll Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
Artist : Buster Carter & Preston Young
Album : Bluegrass, 1931-1946
Label : JSP Records
5:50 PM
I Can’t Help It If I’m Still In Love With You
Artist : Hank Williams
Album : 24 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits
Label : Polydor
5:55 PM
Dixie Hoedown
Artist : David Grisman
Album : Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
Label : Acoustic Disc
5:56 PM
Marie Laveau
Artist : Bobby Bare
Album : The Essential Bobby Bare
Label : RCA
5:57 PM
This Land Is Your Land
Artist : Woody Guthrie
Album : Woody At 100
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
5:57 PM
Deepening Snow
Artist : Red & Joyce Spurlock
Album : Family Friends and Favorites
Label :
5:58 PM
Don’t Make Me Go
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : Johnny Cash Collection
Label : Sun Records
5:58 PM
The Convict and the Rose
Artist : The Blue Sky Boys
Album : The Blue Sky Boys
Label : JSP Records
6:01 PM
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Artist : Loretta Lynn
Album : Honky Tonk Girl
Label : MCA
6:02 PM
A Conversation With Death
Artist : Lloyd Chandler
Album : Old Time Music: The Essential Collection
Label : Rounder Records
6:07 PM
Old Blind Sow, She Stole the Middlins
Artist : John W. Summers
Album : Old Time Music: The Essential Collection
Label : Rounder Records
6:09 PM
Brain Cloudy Blues
Artist : Bob Wills
Album : Honky Tonk Heroes
Label : Columbia Records
6:10 PM
Who Will Buy the Wine?
Artist : Charlie Walker
Album : Honky Tonk Heroes
Label : Columbia Records
6:13 PM
1-800-Do U Care
Artist : Larry Sparks
Album : 40
Label : Rebel Records
6:14 PM
I Want You To Be My Friend
Artist : Larry Sparks
Album : 40
Label : Rebel Records
6:15 PM
Mother, the Queen of My Heart
Artist : Jimmie Rodgers
Album : Jimmie Rodgers:Recordings 1931-1932
Label : JSP Records
6:16 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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