"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/21/2013 RADIOTHON WEEK #2

The gang's all in for Radiothon 2013...

Well, it's over for another year.  Hooray!  What makes the fact that Radiothon for Bluegrass Cafe is complete for 2013 even better is that once again, our listeners have proved to be THE BEST listeners of WHUS, hands down.  With your help, not only were we able to reach our two-week station-appointed goal of $2,000, but thanks to calls of support from 45 listeners, Bluegrass Cafe raised an additional $356 for WHUS.  We always say you folks are wonderful, but really, it can't be said enough.  Thanks so much to each of you!!!  

As is our "standard" (of sorts) during Radiothon, we mostly played music featured on recordings that were available as Radiothon premiums this year.  The record labels were very kind to us to supply so much wonderful music this year -- thanks again to Compass Records, Crossroads (Mountain Home/Pisgah Ridge), Mountain Fever Records, Patuxent Music, and Rebel Records.  Your generous support makes pledging so much more enticing for our listeners.  

A few quiet moments for our dedicated phone operators:
Scott, Clyde, Eleanor, Cathy Ward in back.

Thanks, too, to our faithful phone answerers:  my mother, Eleanor Orlomoski, as well as great BG supporters, Clyde Proch and Scott Farrar.  James Ward, and his mom, Cathy Ward, were also present for both weeks of fundraising.  Be sure to join the Wards every Thursday evening for their "Bluegrass Rules" program at WHUS -- it's on the air from 7-8PM -- so we hope you'll check it out.  Kudos, too, to our own Jim Beaver, as he had one doozy of a cold today, but he toughed it out, and hung around for the full three hours of Radiothon today.  Amazing.

The Case Brothers played a
reunion show at Hartford's Firebox
in July 2011.  

Radiothon wasn't all about fundraising today, though, as we paused for several moments to remember and pay tribute to a wonderful Bluegrass musician from New York who died on Saturday.  Bob Mavian was a tremendous mandolin picker who shared the stage with several BG greats over the years, but he was also a well-regarded veterinarian who played music with a few different bands, including Big Apple'achia.  Perhaps best noted, with his musical partner, Dick Bowden, Bob delighted audiences for several years as "Gibson Case," the mandolin-playing, slightly-dimwitted younger brother in the Case Brothers.  These two played many, many BG festivals and shows in the 1990s, and made at least one really fine recording:  "Radio 
Album" (1995).  Bob will be greatly missed by his many friends -- sincerest condolences to all of his family and friends.  The festival season won't be quite the same without you, Bob...

Next Sunday, expect to hear Jim playing LOTS of terrific music during his 3-hour session of Bluegrass Cafe, and once again, THANK YOU for your wonderful support of Bluegrass music on the airwaves at WHUS!!

Amy

• Panhandle Country / Frank Wakefield / A Tribute To Bill Monroe / Patuxent Music
• I'm Over You / The Boxcars / All In / Mountain Home
• I Am Weary, Let Me Rest / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• See The Big Man Cry / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• The Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Banana Boat Song / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Yesterday / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Dusty Old World / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• I'll Work It Out / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• That's Just Me Loving You / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live At Red, White & Bluegrass / Mountain Home
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge
• It's Hard To Be Forgotten / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roads Well Traveled / Mountain Home
• By The Waters Of The Clinch / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roads Well Traveled / Mountain Home
• That Star Belongs To Me / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Nobody's Child / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• (Dear) Sweet Evalina / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• One Is Taken, One Is Left / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• It's Good Bye And So Long To You / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Walking In Good Company / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• Drinking At The Water Hole / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• Another Song / Cumberland Gap Connection / Another Song / Mountain Fever Records
• Heartaches / Akira Otsuka / First Tear / Patuxent Music
• Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Gonna Paint The Town / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mt. Boys / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Your Worries And Troubles Are Mine / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mt. Boys / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Rank Stranger / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mt. Boys / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Julie / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• Helen / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music