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TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we present the great Howdy Forrester and his rendition of Still on the Hill. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/ TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we present the great Howdy Forrester and his rendition of Still on the Hill. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/ At Ranch Radio we have 80+ fiddle tunes including many by Forrester, See the Ranch Radio Fiddle playlist. https://youtu.be/MYhTPoR35WU

This tune has an interesting history, going back to the 1880s The Monroe Brothers had a pretty version in the late 30s, but I prefer this 1964 recording of Goodbye Maggie by the Lilly Brothers. Ranch Radio also has one of our favorites by the Lilly Brothers, Dig A Hole in the Meadow  THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Our selection today is Little Jimmy Dickens' 1954 recording of Out Behind The Barn. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/ Also available on Ranch Radio is his tune A Sleepin' At The Foot Of The Bed

Its Swingin' Monday and we have Memories of Old San Antone by Playboys II from their 1994 CD Back in the Swing of Things. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/

Our gospel tune today is I'm S-A-V-E-D by the Blue Sky Boys (Bill & Earl Bolick) from 1940. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we have Fourty Years Ago Waltz by J.T. Perkins. The tune is on his 1975 album Fiddle Favorites Perkins Style. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Some of you will be familiar with this topic. I sure am. Here is Deuce Spriggins and his 1952 recording of Hungover. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

 2 years ago I posted Fruit Wagon Gal by Slim Harbert & His Okey Boys. Yesterday i received a request for their 1942 recording of Who Comes In At My Back Door, which is our tune today. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/

Today Ranch Radio brings you Eddy Arnold's 1948 recording of A Heart Full Of Love. The Westerner http://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Its Swingin' Monday and this one goes out to Gramma Dee, who tells us she just got out of the hospital and needs a "picker upper." Well here is Doug Jernigan and his version of Roadside Rag, which provides 4 minutes of picker upper picking. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Our gospel tune this week is Sleep, Little Moses by Rex Allen. The tune is on his 1959 album Mister Cowboy. The Westerner http://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Years ago when I would play the Cattle LP depicted, this was my little daughter's favorite song. This one is for you Sevon: Rosalie Allen's 1946 recording of Me Go Where You Go, Amigo . THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Tts Country Roots as we dust off an old 78 recorded in 1930 by Vernon Dalhart under the name Al Craver: . Squint Eyed Cactus Jones THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Its Swingin' Monday and we have Tag Along by Jim Stringer & The AM Band. The tune is on their 2001 CD On The Radio. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Our tune today - Teneha, Timpson, Bobo and Blair - was recorded by Tex Ritter on Dec. 30, 1947. For some interesting historical background on the tune see Tenaha, Timpson, Bobo, and Blair which quotes Ritter in the song and also see Tenaha, Timpson, Bobo, and Blair by East Texas historian A.P. McDonald.

Its Swingin' Monday on Ranch Radio and here is Roy Hogsed's 1951 recording of Put Some Sugar In Your Shoes. Artist Biography by Stacia Proefrock Born in Arkansas, Roy Hogsed (b. 1919, d. 1978) relocated to San Diego at the beginning of his career. He was responsible for one of the most original sounds in post-war country music, often throwing in elements of the not-yet articulated styles of rockabilly and rock & roll. His Rainbow Riders Trio combined accordion, guitar and slapped-bass rhythm to help produce hits like his version of "Cocaine Blues." Several other hits were made by him...

Faron Young - What Can He Do (1958)

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we have Corrina Rose Logston with Charleston No. 1. The tune is on her 2016 CD Bluegrass Fiddler. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/ Ranch Radio on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RanchRadio4U/

Thursday on ABC’s The View, co-host Joy Behar slammed Wednesday night’s Country Music Awards show for staying out of politics. As nearly every entertainment awards show has made itself part of the resistance against President Trump, Behar was sorely disappointed to see this was one show where Trump’s name wasn’t mentioned. . . Whoopi pointed out that people “voted” to fulfill that duty of resisting Trump. “I'm happy for that,” Behar acknowledged, before touting that she, unlike the country music artists, was willing to take a financial hit in order to be loudly anti-Trump.

NEWS Roy Clark, country guitar virtuoso, 'Hee Haw' star, has died KRISTIN M. HALL KRISTIN M. HALL Associated PressNovember 15, 2018, 1:21 PM CST Country star Roy Clark, the guitar virtuoso and singer who headlined the cornpone TV show "Hee Haw" for nearly a quarter century and was known for such hits as "Yesterday When I was Young" and "Honeymoon Feeling," has died. He was 85. Publicist Jeremy Westby said Clark died Thursday due to complications from pneumonia at home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.