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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November 24, 2012

9:00 PM
Cripple Crrek
Artist : Hobart Smith
Album : Instrumental Music and Songs of the Southern Appalachians
Label : Legacy International
11:53 AM
Durang’s Hornpipe
Artist : Adam Steffey
Album : One More For the Roadq
Label : Sugar Hill Records
12:29 PM
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Artist : Flatt & Scruggs
Album : Flatt & Scruggs 1948-1959
Label : Bear Family Records
12:30 PM
Chinese Breakdown
Artist : The Carter Family
Album : The Carter Family On Border Radio, Vol. 3
Label : Arhoolie
12:32 PM
Leather Britches
Artist : Smiley Hobbs
Album : Mountain Music Bluegrass Style
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
12:40 PM
Fortune
Artist : Fred Cockerham
Album : Blue Ribbon Banjo
Label : Easy Disc
12:40 PM
Sleepy Eyed John / Tom & Jerry
Artist : Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum
Album : Blue Ribbon Banjo
Label : Easy Disc
12:46 PM
Stealing the Blues
Artist : Jerry Byrd
Album : 30 Nostalgic Steel Guitar Instrumentals
Label : Bronco Buster
12:50 PM
Bud’s Bounce
Artist : Bud Isaacs
Album : 30 Nostalgic Steel Guitar Instrumentals
Label : Bronco Buster
12:54 PM
Plow Boy Hop
Artist : Grinnel Giggers
Album : Down In The Basement
Label : Old Hat
12:55 PM
Green Leaf Fancy
Artist : Norman Blake
Album : Old and New
Label : Flying Fish Records
12:57 PM
The Lost Child
Artist : The Stripling Brothers
Album : Down In The Basement
Label : Old Hat
12:58 PM
The Old Brown Case
Artist : Norman Blake
Album : Old and New
Label : Flying Fish Records
1:02 PM
Texas Playboy Rag
Artist : Bob Wills
Album : The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol 9
Label : Rhino Records
1:03 PM
Goodbye My Bluebell
Artist : Merle Travis
Album : Merle Travis: In Boston 1959
Label : Notebook
1:07 PM
Fat Boy Rag
Artist : Asleep At The Wheel
Album : 20 Greatest Hits
Label :
1:08 PM
Roanoke
Artist : Bill Monroe
Album : Blue Grass 1950-1958 Vol. 3
Label : Bear Family Records
1:11 PM
Nancy Rollin
Artist : The Skillet Lickers
Album : Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, 1929, 1930
Label : JSP Records
1:15 PM
Colored Aristocracy
Artist : Taj Mahal
Album : Giant Step
Label : Columbia Records
1:19 PM
The Cuckoo’s Nest
Artist : The Hutchison Brothers
Album : The Hutchison Brothers
Label :
1:19 PM
Three Thin Dimes
Artist : The Hutchison Brothers
Album : The Hutchison Brothers
Label :
1:19 PM
Shuffle Creek
Artist : The Hotmud Family
Album : The Complete Vetco Recordings
Label :
1:21 PM
Cattle In the Cane
Artist : Sam Bush
Album : Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
Label : Acoustic Disc
1:25 PM
Miller’s Reel
Artist : Texas Shorty & John Hartford
Album : Old Sport
Label : Small Dog A'Barkin'
1:30 PM
Lee Highway Blues
Artist : Fred Price
Album : Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
1:32 PM
Salt Creek /Bill Cheathem
Artist : Doc Watson
Album : Doc Watson: The Vanguard Years
Label : Vanguard Records
1:33 PM
Evening Star Waltz
Artist : Ann & Phil Case
Album : When Shadows Fall
Label : Dry Run Records
1:36 PM
Steeling the Mood
Artist : Shot Jackson
Album : Steeling the Mood
Label : Proper
1:39 PM
Earl’s Breakdown
Artist : Flatt & Scruggs
Album : Foggy Mountain Jamboree
Label : Columbia Records
1:40 PM
Tom Jerry
Artist : Uncle Dave Macon
Album : Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
Label : Bear Family Records
1:47 PM
Listen To The Mockingbird
Artist : The Kentucky Colonels
Album : Appalachian Swing
Label : World Pacific
1:48 PM
Liberty
Artist : Buddy Spicher & Benny Martin
Album : The Fiddler's Hall of Fame
Label : CMH
1:52 PM
Black Mountain Rag
Artist : Ron Thomason
Album : The Mandolin and Other Stuff
Label : Kanawha Records
1:53 PM
Goodnight Waltz
Artist : Red Herron
Album : The Fiddler's Hall of Fame
Label : CMH
1:57 PM
Steel Guitar Rag
Artist : Merle Lindsay
Album : Merle Lindsay and Oklahoma Nite Riders
Label : Krazy Kat
2:02 PM
Bonaparte’s Retreat
Artist : Tommy Jarrell
Album : Sail Away Ladies
Label : County Records
2:03 PM
Bound To Ride
Artist : Stanley Brothers
Album : The Stanley Brothers Live At Antioch College
Label : Vintage Collectors Club
2:07 PM
New Camptown Races
Artist : Red Allen & Frank Wakefield
Album : The Kitchen Tapes
Label : Acoustic Disc
2:08 PM
Big Tilda
Artist : The Stanley Brothers
Album : The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1953-1958, 1959
Label : Bear Family Records
2:12 PM
Darkness On The Delta
Artist : The Farr Brothers
Album : South In My Soul
Label : Cattle Records
2:14 PM
The Shiek of Araby
Artist : Milton Brown
Album : Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies
Label : Bear Family Records
2:17 PM
Streak of Lean, Streak of Fat
Artist : AA Grey and Seven Foot Dilly
Album : Times Ain't Like They Used To Be
Label : Yazoo Records
2:19 PM
Jesse Polka
Artist : The Corndrinkers
Album : The Corndrinkers Still
Label : Bee Balm Music
2:20 PM
Border Ride
Artist : Jim & Jesse
Album :
Label :
2:21 PM
Indian War Hoop
Artist : Hoyt Ming
Album : Mississippi String Bands
Label : County Records
2:23 PM
Victory Rag
Artist : The New Lost City Ramblers
Album : Out Standing In Their Field
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
2:27 PM
Cook Waltz
Artist : Pete McMahan
Album : 50 Old Time Fiddle Gems
Label : Notebook
2:28 PM
Stratosphere Boogie
Artist : Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
Album : Stratosphere Boogie
Label : Razor & Tie
2:28 PM
Blackberry Blossom
Artist : Tony Rice
Album : The Bluegrass Guitar Collection
Label : Rounder Records
2:31 PM
Steel Guitar Stomp
Artist : Hank Penny
Album : Steel Guitar Stomp
Label : Proper
2:36 PM
Annie Laurie
Artist : Craig Smith
Album : Craig Smith
Label : Rounder Records
2:40 PM
New Lost Train Blues
Artist : JE Mainer
Album : JE Mainer
Label : JSP
2:40 PM
Dixie Breakdown
Artist : Reno & Smiley
Album : Reno & Smiley Early Years 1951-1959
Label : Gusto Records
2:44 PM
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
Artist : Kenny Baker
Album : Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe
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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