Kyle Cantrell, host of XM Satellite Radio’s Bluegrass Junction (track 14), passed along news about a few special programs and features coming up this week on XM.
The current edition of Studio Special, XM’s live-in-the studio bluegrass show, airs tonight (11/5) at 8:00 p.m. Cherryholmes is the featured guest, offering both live performance and some chit chat with Kyle during the program. It re-airs on Wednesday (11/7) at midnight (technically 11/8), and again on Thursday afternoon (11/8) at 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. finds Kyle with Frank Ray of Cedar Hill for a track-by-track run through of their latest release, Poverty Row. That show will re-air on Sunday (11/11) at noon, on 11/14 at 9:00 a.m. and on 11/16 at 3:00 a.m.
On Wednesday (11/7), bluegrass legend Curley Seckler will join Kyle in the studio for a live interview.
Then on Friday (11/9), Studio Special is rebroadcasting a live studio appearance from the US Navy bluegrass band Country Current in honor of Veterans Day. That show will also air on Saturday (11/10) at 6:00 p.m., on 11/12 at 8:00 p.m., 11/13 at midnight and on 11/15 at 3:00 p.m. All times for all shows are EST.
Kyle also passed along Bluegrass Junction‘s Top 40 chart for November ’07, based on October listener requests and how often individual albums were featured.
The top 5 albums for October were:
| #1 | Cherryholmes II | Cherryholmes |
| #2 | Scenechronized | Seldom Scene |
| #3 | More Behind The Picture Than The Wall | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| #4 | Lovin’ Pretty Women | Steep Canyon Rangers |
| #5 | Good News | Charlie Sizemore |
You can see the full Top 40 chart on the Bluegrass Junction web site. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and you’ll see a link to download the chart as a PDF file.
