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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December 08, 2012

9:00 PM
I’m A Ding Dong Daddy
Artist : Bob Wills
Album : The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol 3
Label : Rhino Records
4:37 PM
Banging Breakdown
Artist : Hobart Smith
Album : In Sacred Trust
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
4:38 PM
Our Hearts Are Holding Hands
Artist : Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn
Album : Honky Tonk Girl
Label : MCA
4:39 PM
Do Something
Artist : Country All Stars
Album : Jazz From the Hills
Label : Bear Family Records
4:40 PM
A Scale to Measure Love
Artist : Hank Snow
Album : Bluegrass Country Classics
Label : Tannen Music
4:41 PM
I’m The Talk of the Town
Artist : Reno & Smiley
Album : Reno & Smiley Early Years 1951-1959
Label : Gusto Records
4:43 PM
Step It Up And Go
Artist : Baker and Graves
Album : The Puritan Sessions
Label : Rebel Records
4:45 PM
I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight
Artist : Baker and Graves
Album : The Puritan Sessions
Label : Rebel Records
4:46 PM
Eight More Miles To Louisville
Artist : Grandpa Jones
Album : 28 Greatest Hits
Label : King
4:48 PM
Mountain Dew
Artist : The Stanley Brothers
Album : Bluegrass Country Classics
Label : Tannen Music
4:49 PM
Devil’s Dream/Rickett’s Hornpipe/Fisher’s Hornpipe
Artist : Clayton McMichen
Album : Legendary Fiddler
Label : BACM
4:51 PM
Rock My Cradle Once Again
Artist : Mac Martin
Album : Sun Racer
Label : Patunxet Music
4:52 PM
At The First Fall of Snow
Artist : Molly O’Day
Album : Molly O'Day and the Cumberland Mountain Folks
Label : Bear Family Records
4:52 PM
When My Time Comes To Go
Artist : Molly O’Day
Album : Molly O'Day and the Cumberland Mountain Folks
Label : Bear Family Records
4:53 PM
Cluckin Hen
Artist : JP Fraley
Album : Wild Rose of the Mountain
Label : Rounder Records
4:54 PM
I Walk the Line
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : Nashville At Newport
Label : Vanguard Records
4:55 PM
Foggy Mountain Chimes
Artist : Flatt & Scruggs
Album : Foggy Mountain Jamboree
Label : Columbia Records
4:56 PM
Muddy Waters
Artist : Frank Bard
Album : Harmonica From the Hearland
Label :
4:57 PM
Back to Birmingham
Artist : The Delmore Brothers
Album : The Delmore Brothers
Label : JSP Records
4:58 PM
Moanin the Blues
Artist : Hank Williams
Album : Live At the Grand Ole Opry
Label :
4:59 PM
Sally Johnson
Artist : Vernon Solomon
Album : Texas Hoedown Revisited
Label : County Records
5:00 PM
Dreaming My Dreams With You
Artist : Walon Jennings
Album : The Essential Waylon Jennings
Label : Sony Legacy
5:02 PM
Wednesday Night Waltz
Artist : Leake County Revelers
Album : Mississippi String Bands
Label : County Records
5:03 PM
Send Me Your Address From Heaven
Artist : Greg Cahill and Don Stiernberg
Album : Night Skies
Label : Shy Town Records
5:04 PM
Will You Miss Me
Artist : The Red Clay Ramblers
Album : Merchant's Lunch
Label : Flying Fish Records
5:06 PM
Slowly
Artist : Webb Pierce
Album : The Best of Webb Pierce
Label : MCA
5:08 PM
A Falling Star
Artist : Jimmy C. Newman
Album : Golden Age of Popular Music
Label :
5:08 PM
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Artist : Mike Scott
Album : Blue Moon of Kentucky
Label : Rural Rhythm
5:10 PM
Saddle Up The Grey
Artist : Carter Brothers
Album : Mississippi String Bands
Label : County Records
5:10 PM
Why Can’t He Be You
Artist : Loretta Lynn
Album : Honky Tonk Girl
Label : MCA
5:12 PM
Chicken Reel
Artist : Snuffy Jenkins
Album : American Banjo Three Finger and Scruggs Style
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
5:13 PM
I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine
Artist : Mac Wiseman
Album : Songs That Made the Jukebox Play
Label : Wise Records
5:14 PM
Me and Bobby McGee
Artist : Janis Joplin
Album : Kris Kristofferson: Singer/Songwriter
Label : Sony

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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