Bluegrass, newgrass and beyond. From Bill Monroe to Billy Strings, the Yolo County Breakdown is a journey through acoustic string music ranging from the traditional to the cutting edge.
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The Yolo County Breakdown for Jul 11, 2025Fri, 07/11/2025 - 10:00am | Rocky OutcropRocky gives you more great grass. Ralph Stanley, Andy Leftwich, Alan Bibey, Alison Krauss and lots more. Summer is in full swing! Stay Cool! |
The Yolo County Breakdown for Jul 4, 2025Fri, 07/04/2025 - 10:00am | Rocky OutcropIf Dolly Parton and Doc Watson are played on the show, then it must be a good one. Rocky spins them, plus the latest from John Cowan, the Lonesome River Band, and Mason Via. Happy listening! |
The Yolo County Breakdown for Jun 27, 2025Fri, 06/27/2025 - 10:00am | Rocky OutcropRocky brings you more great pickin' and more great singin'. Bill Monroe covers Johnny Cash, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice cover the Grateful Dead, and Country Gazette covers Lester and Earl. Rocky's got you covered! |
The Yolo County Breakdown for Jun 20, 2025Fri, 06/20/2025 - 10:00am | Rocky OutcropRocky spins bluegrass gold - old and new. Pete Wernick puts his banjo through a wah-wah pedal, David Grier does his best Clarence White imitation, and we hear the latest single from East Nash Grass - plus a whole lot more. It's the Summer solstice - Yolo County Breakdown style! |
The Yolo County Breakdown for Jun 13, 2025Fri, 06/13/2025 - 10:00am | Rocky OutcropBluegrass on the precipice of the Summer solstice! Tracks from David Grier, Sierra Hull, Larry Sparks, Norman Blake and many more. Enjoy Rocky's picks for the week! |
The Yolo County Breakdown for Jun 06, 2025Fri, 06/06/2025 - 10:00am | Rocky OutcropRocky is joined by a special guest - Queen of California Bluegrass - Laurie Lewis. For 50 years, Laurie has been creating timeless masterpieces of bluegrass music. She is appearing at the Father's Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley, CA June 12-15, and she and Rocky chat about her plans for the fest, her latest album, Trees, and much, much more! |
The Yolo County Breakdown for May 30, 2025Fri, 05/30/2025 - 10:00am | Rocky OutcropRocky kicks off another week of music with the Boxcars. Then he weaves his way through cuts from the Grascals, John Hiatt, and the Bluegrass Album Band before finally saying farewell with Sean Watkins. Enough good bluegrass to make your heart keep beating! |
The Yolo County Breakdown - May 23, 2025Fri, 05/23/2025 - 10:00am | Rocky OutcropStart the long weekend with some choice bluegrass hand picked by Rocky Outcrop. This week's selections include a classic from the Osborne Brothers, a journey through India with Jerry Douglas and V.M. Bhatt, and a brand new track from a great young songwriter named Mason Via. It will all make your toe tap and your hips wiggle. Don't injure yourself! |
The Yolo County Breakdown for 10:00am on May 16, 2025Fri, 05/16/2025 - 10:00am | Rocky OutcropRocky is joined by a virtuoso mandolin master - Sierra Hull. Sierra is the only female winner of the IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year Award in the award's history, and she has won it a whopping six times! Her new album, A Tip Toe High Wire, is out now. She joins Rocky to talk about this album and her career that launched with her first album dropping when she was ten years old! |
The Yolo County Breakdown for 10:00am on May 9th, 2025Fri, 05/09/2025 - 11:10am | Rocky Outcrop |
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