Matuto | Courtesy Vincent Soyez

Tune in t0 101.5 The Valley’s Music Place on your FM dial, or stream the show via 1015tvmp.com. Tuesday Night News starts at 9 p.m.

1. David Wax Museum – Chuchumbe – Everything Is Saved
2. Matuto – Thousand to Three – The Devil & The Diamond
3. Erin Lunsford – Hey James – I Saw The Thread EP
4. Ben Bullington – Appalachian Mnt. Delta Blues – Ben Bullington
5. Yarn – Annie – Almost Home
6. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker – Aquatic Hitchhiker
7. L Shape Lot – Down to Ride – Blackwater Sessions –
8. Corey Hunley – Kid on the Way – Red to the Bone
9. Folk Soul Revival with Brittany Carter – This Ol’ Flame – Prompting the Dapperness
10. The Rootdowns – Boogie In My Room – Songs with Friends
11. Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds – Lasso – Pound of Dirt
12. Dumpstaphunk – Blues

Nappy Roots | File photo

On the first seven songs of tonight’s show, we play music from bands who played Growler’s American Grill and Venue or Awful Arthur’s Towers over the past few years. Growler’s closed over the weekend. Hear it at 9 p.m. on 101.5 The Valley’s Music Place or 1015tvmp.com.

1. Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Too Much, Pound of Dirt
2. Big Sam’s Funky Nation – Peace, Love & Understanding – Peace, Love & Understanding
3. Jeff Coffin – TAG – Jeff Coffin & the Mu’tet – LIVE!
4. James McMurtry – Ruby and Carlos – Live in Europe
5. Nappy Roots – Po Folks (Josh One Remix) – Nappy University 2 – Fall Semester
6. Folk Soul Revival – Jawbone Blues – Prompting the Dapperness
7. Soulive – Come Together – Rubber Soulive Live Download
8. Corey Hunley – Kid on the Way – Red to the Bone
9. Daniel McBroom – Catching it all – EP Shadows of a tree
10. Erin Lunsford – Only A Child – I Saw The Thread EP

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101.5 The Valley’s Music Place is opening its airwaves (and web stream) to Child Health Investment Partnership of the Roanoke Valley, aka CHIP, on Thursday. Between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. that day, you can call 339-9000 and donate in honor of a mom you dig, and the radio station will air her name. If she’s the shy type, you can have a certificate mailed to her before Mother’s Day. Either way, you will be entered din a prize drawing.

And best yet, your gift will help more than 1,000 children get a healthier start in life, according to CHIP and the radio station.

If you are too busy that day, you could always go to http://www.chiprv.org or call 857-6993 to see how you can help a valley-based organization.

While you’re at it, might as well like facebook.com/CHIPRoanokeValley and facebook.com/1015thevalleysmusicplace. Donate local. Listen local.

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Tune in to 101.5 The Valley’s Music place at 9 p.m. today, or stream it via 1015tvmp.com.

1. Erin Lunsford – Only A Child – I Saw The Thread EP
2. Ben Bullington – Appalachian Mnt. Delta Blues – Ben Bullington
3. Bonnie Bishop – Shrinking Violet – Free
4. Dangermuffin – The Rising Souls – Olly Oxen Free
5. Daniel McBroom – Catching it all – EP Shadows of a tree
6. Jonathan Scales Fourchestra – TNFJ – Jonathan Scales Fourchestra
7. Vandaveer – The Knoxville Girl – Oh, Willie, Please
8. Alexa Rose  – The Bear – North
9. Nikki Hill – Her Destination – Here’s Nikki Hill
10. The  Black Lillies – The Fall – Runaway Freeway Blues
11. Town Mountain  – Lawdog – Leave The Bottle
12. Tobacco Apache – Virginia Breeze

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We’re on for an hour at 9 p.m. Here’s what you’ll hear at 101.5 The Valley’s Music place, or streaming via 1015tvmp.com.

1. Chuck Prophet – Sonny Liston’s Blues – Let Freedom Ring!
2. Town Mountain  – Lawdog – Leave The Bottle
3. Vandaveer – Pretty Polly – Oh, Willie, Please
4. Alexa Rose  – The Bear – North
5. The Howlin Brothers – Big Time – Howl
6. The Black Lillies – Ruby – Runaway Freeway Blues
7. Eric Brace & Peter Cooper – Ancient History – The Comeback Album
8. Tobacco Apache – Virginia Breeze
9. Holy Ghost Tent Revival – The Mayan King – Sweat Like The Old Days
10. The Rootdowns – Porter Jr.  – Songs With Friends
11. Slightly Stoopid – Hiphoppablues (featuring G. Love) – Top of the World
12. Slightly Stoopid – Pon Da Horizon – Top of the World

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Go terrestrial at 101.5 FM or stream via 1015tvmp.com.

1. The Infamous Stringdusters – Fork In The Road – We’ll Do It Live
2. Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line – The Baker’s Boy – Carnival
3. The Seed – A New Season – The Seed
4. Tim Reynolds – Chatterbox – Stream
5. Dirt Road Travelers – Don’t Slow Down – The Dirt Road Travelers
6. Corey Hunley – Something Strong – Red to the Bone.MP3
7. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell – When You Get to Asheville
8. Jamiel Allen (The Color J) – Convenient Love – Tunestone
9. Pimps of Joytime – Keep That Music Playin – Janxta Funk
10. James Carter Organ Trio – JC Off The Set – At The Crossroads
11. The Old Ceremony – Tender Age – Tender Age, Happy Hour

Sam Lunsford of The Young Sinclairs | Courtesy Brian Hamelman

Festival season is nigh. Down by Downtown is first, and we bring you Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys, James Carter Organ Trio and The Mantras. Rooster Walk hits next month, and we bring you Jon Stickley Trio. Plus, Roanoke songs from The Young Sinclairs, The Situationist (both of which play Kirk Avenue Music Hall on Saturday) and Wyatt Lee Law — plus Nora Jane Struthers, whose band includes Salemites (it always tickles me to write or say “Salemites”) P.J. George and Drew Lawhorn.

1. Jon Stickley Trio – Shutterbug
2. The Situationist – Yellow House – I Need You- Yellow House [7 inch single]
3. The Young Sinclairs – Turned Around – New Day [7 inch single]
4. Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys – Settin’ the Woods on Fire – Back at the Quonset Hut
5. ArtOfficial – Low Level – Vitamins & Minerals
6. James Carter Organ Trio – Lettuce Toss Yo Salad – At The Crossroads
7. Jamie McLean – Hurricane – Time Of My Life
8. Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line- Listen With Your Heart – Carnival
9. Jon Stickley Trio – Billie’s Fog – Jon Stickley Trio
10. Wyatt Lee Law – My Back Porch – The Willow
11. The Mantras – Dr. Ssanasinod – JambandsRuinedMyLife

Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds | File 2012

Rooster Walk special, with great acts on that bill at the front and back. Plus, a couple of numbers from Rock The Block Bands. And Branford Marsalis  & Joey Caldarazzo, just in case you think we’re not classy. Set the dial to 101.5 FM or stream it via 1015tvmp.com.

1. Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds – Make It Rain – Pound of Dirt
2. The Young Sinclairs – Hurt My Pride – Hurt My Pride (7-inch single)
3. Loudon Wainwright III – The Here And The Now – Older Than My Old Man Now
4. Stephanie Rooker – What If – The Only Way Out Is In
5. Branford Marsalis and Joey Caldarazzo – Face On The Barroom Floor – Songs Of Mirth And Melancholy
6. White Laces – Spirituals – EP
7. Sarah Siskind – How Hard To Be True – In The Mountains
8. Paleface – You Will Get What You Want – OneBigParty
9. Heevahava – Cuban – Woopty Schwooty
10. Dumpstaphunk – Raise The House

Shemekia Copeland | Courtesy Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg

9 p.m. tonight. Terrestrial at 101.5 FM The Valley’s Music Place or streaming at 1015tvmp.com.

1. Southern Culture on the Skids – Viva Del Santo! – Santo Swings
2. Paul Thorn – Snake Farm – What the Hell Is Goin’ On
3. Shemekia Copeland – A Woman – 33 and a third
4. Tim Reynolds – Chatterbox – Stream
5. Caravan of Thieves – Raise The Dead – The Funhouse
6. Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice – The Story of the Day That I Died – The Story of the Day That I Died
7. Stephanie Rooker  – Fire – Tellin’ You Right Now
8. Snarky Puppy – 34 Klezma – Bring Us the Bright
9. That1Guy — Infinite Depths at the Bottom of the Sea
10. Big Daddy Love – Circle Around The Sun – Let It Grow

Bastards of Fate | Courtesy Kent Moore/MK Moore Photography

This is how it looks now. Depending on how well I did timing this thing, I might have to pull a song from the list. I hope not. Go terrestrial at 101.5 on your FM dial, or stream the show at 1015tvmp.com

1. The Bastards of Fate – Digging Up Dinosaurs – Who’s a Fuzzy Buddy
2. Moreland & Arbuckle – White Lightnin’ – Just A Dream
3. Sam Lewis – The Cross I Wear – Sam Lewis
4. Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice – The Story of the Day That I Died – The Story of the Day That I Died
5. Larry Keel & Natural Bridge – B-Funk – Classic
6. Snarky Puppy – Bent Nails – groundUP
7. Lucy Woodward – I Wan’na Be Like You (Monkey Song) – Hooked
8. Megan Jean & The Klay Family Band – Dead Woman Walkin’ – Dead Woman Walkin’
9. That 1 Guy – How’s ‘Bout Them Holes in the Moon (Butter Side Down) – The Moon Is Disgusting
10. The Bar Flys – Barflys
11. Moreland & Arbuckle – Heartattack & Vine – Just A Dream