Ranch Radio Song of the Day

Today Jimmy Murphy tells us about an Educated Fool (1951). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

Its Swingin' Monday and we have A Parting of the Ways, recorded in 1991 by Tom Morrell & Time-Warp Top Hands. Many regular listeners wiil recognize the various album art covers as being by our own A-10, aka Etienne Etcheverry. A-10, be sure and catch the final image in the video. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

Our gospel tune today is Red Foley's 1946 recording of Atomic Power. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

Our gospel tune today is Jesus Is The Answer by The Burchfield Family. The tune is on their 2017 CD I Rejoice. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day.

Its Swingin' Monday and we have It's Hard To Say For Sure by Tommy Alverson. The tune iis on his 2010 CD Texas One More Time. Ranch Radio also has his great tune Cowboy Mardi Gras https://youtu.be/v0_8Y5YzOLQ THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

Today is Dealer's Choice where we go off script to share something different than our normal fare. Today we move ahead 50 years and have some fun with Shel Silverstein's 1980 recording of The Great Conch Train Robbery. This is the guy who wrote A Boy Named Sue. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/sea...

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

The Downtown Mountain Boys have a new CD Hey John from which I've selected I'm Wearing A Hole. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

For the next of this week we'll feature tunes from the Dance-O-Rama series issued in the 1950s. First up will be Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies and their 1936 recording of Brownie Special. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we have Daddy Blues by Chubby Wise. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

Swingin' Monday was a holiday, so we'll have a Swingin" Tuesday. Hot Tuna has resurrected a tune recorded in 1930 by the Mississippi Mud Steppers: Vicksburg Stomp. Let's see if A-10 doesn't drop that crayola and dance a jig on Palomas Creek.

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we have a request from Keith Kimmey Sr., The Golden Rocket by Chubby Wise. The tune is on his 1978 album by the same name and is a natural for Chubby, who fiddled for Hank Snow from 1954-1970.

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

There's One by The Bishops is our gospel tune today. The song is on their 1999 CD Kentucky Bluegrass.

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

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TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and for this one we return to our Country Roots.

On November 15, 1928 the Stripling Brothers (Charles & Ira) recorded The Lost Child. Note in the short bio that scholars say this is the first recording of what was to become The Black Mountain Rag. From early childhood the two brothers, Charlie (Charles Nevins Stripling, 8 August 1896, Pickens County, Alabama, USA, d. 19 January 1966, Alabama, USA) and Ira (b. Ira Lee Stripling, 5 June 1898, Pickens County, Alabama, USA, d. 11 March 1967, Alabama, USA), developed a considerable level of skill as fiddlers and guitarists. By their late teens, they were well known throughout the state, especially in the northern hill country. With a repertoire of traditional songs, they often entered contests and maintained a competitive edge to their performances by developing ear-catching techniques. They played on radio in Alabama and adjacent states and in the late 20s were recorded in Birmingham, Alabama, by Vocalion Records. This first recording date produced ‘The Big Footed Ni...r In The Sandy Lot’ and ‘The Lost Child’, which attracted a lot of attention. Historically, ‘The Lost Child’ was of special importance as researchers and archivists came to regard it as the first recorded example of the musical form that was subsequently known as Black Mountain Blues (or Black Mountain Rag). The brothers soon made more records for Vocalion and continued performing albeit mainly in their home state. In the mid-30s they recorded for Decca Records but by the end of the decade Ira had retired from music. Charlie formed a band with his two sons and continued to play, still locally, and adapting stylistically to accommodate changes in taking place in country music, in particular the popularity of the electric steel guitar. At the end of the 50s, poor health forced Charlie into retirement. Even when judged from the standpoint of today’s virtuoso country fiddlers, the Stripling Brothers’ playing is of a remarkably high standard. Historically speaking, their recordings are invaluable in forming a comprehensive understanding of the roots of country and mountain music. Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Licensed from Muze.

Ranch Radio Song of the Day

Its Swingin' Monday and the Boys In The Bunkhouse are looking for One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer. The tune is on their 1977 album.

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

An early bluegrass classic today with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and their 1952 recording of Old Salty Dog Blues.

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Ranch Radio Song of the Day

We'll dust off an old King 78 and bring you Hawkshaw Hawkins' 1952 recording of Everybody's Got A Girl But Me.

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