"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 10/27/2013 - Gordon Pike & Darlene Champagne

Hi Folks.

Earl Pike, Darlene Champagne, Connie Smith, Fred Pike

Gordon Pike and Darlene Champagne

The centerpiece of this show was an interview, along with relevant music, of Gordon Pike and Darlene Champagne, both of whom grew up playing and recording with The Pike Brothers or The Pike Family & The Pine Hill Ranchers in Eastern Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s.

In our usual fashion, we brought a good number of new songs to the show along with some classic and rare gems.  The new included music from NewTown, Reno & Harrell, Little Roy Lewis and Lizzy Long, WMD Bluegrass Band from Colorado, the incredible banjo picker Tim Weed, Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins, Mark Newton & Steve Thomas, Terry Baucom, and Alex Leach.

Our Heritage Corner music was supplied by Ralph Stanley from the period when Sammy Adkins was his lead singer, Carl Story, Fred Pike & Al Hawkes, The Country Pardners, The Carter Family, Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, and The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover.

Wyatt, Jon, Jackson, & Luke Weiland, and Sam Wachtler on guitar

Listeners also got a chance to hear my father tell a story that was recorded 19 years ago about a "musical" event that occurred in his youth during WW2 in North Carolina.  Let's just say when the man says "dance faster" you should probably head for the door!  My dad celebrated his 87th birthday on this day.

Amy will be back next week, so be sure to tune in!

Jim Beaver

Title / Artist / Album / Label

• Old Brown County Barn / Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / She Left Me Standing On A Mountain / Blue Circle
• A Dollar Down / Reno and Harrell / Reno Bound / John Boy & Billy
• Keep Them Cold, Icy Fingers Off Of Me / Stanley Brothers / The King Years 1961-1965 / King
• It Rained A Mist / Ted Lundy and the Southern Mountain Boys / Rounder Old Time Music / Rounder
• Ever-Ready Kisses / The Country Pardners / 45 RPM Single / RCA (45)
• Long Enough To Make Me Blue / Terry Baucom w. Larry Cordle / Never Thought Of Looking Back / John Boy & Billy
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Long Black Veil / Lou Reid & Carolina / Live at the Down Home / Kma
• Downeast Guitar Pickin' Man / Fred Pike & Al Hawkes / 45 RPM Single / Event (45)
• The Widow's Ghost / NewTown / Time Machine / Pisgah
• Long Tom / Tim Weed / Soul House / Sound Orchard
• Greenville Trestle High / Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins / Hall of Fame Bluegrass / Rebel
• Slow Down (You'll Hit A Moose) / Stan Keach & Friends / Cry Of The Loon / Ayuh Records
• Houses On The Farm / Shady Creek / Back To The Roots / Self-released
• Old McDonald / Mark Newton & Steve Thomas / Reborn / Pinecastle

Interview / Gordon Pike & Darlene Champagne

• Dream Dream Dream / Randy Hawkins, Bill Hall & The Bluegrass Travelers / 45 RPM Single / Rebel (45)
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & The Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel (LP)
• Washington And Lee Swing / Pike Family & The Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel (LP)
• Image Of A Living Doll / Pike Family & The Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel (LP)
• You Left Your Mark On Me / Darlene Marie / 45 RPM Single / Zap (45)
• Wild Side of Life (It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels) / Darlene Marie / 45 RPM Single / Zap (45)
• Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends / Gordon Pike & The Dixie Darlings / Self-titled / Self-released
• I Been Walkin' / Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent
• Pop! Goes The Banjo (bed) / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Pop! Goes The Banjo / Vine
• Old Black Joe (bed) / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Pop! Goes The Banjo / Vine
• Matterhorn / Eddie & Martha Adcock / Many A Mile / Patuxent

Interview (1994) / Jim Beaver Sr

• Jealous Hearted Me / The Carter Family / In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain / Bear Family
• His Promised Land / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management
• Wake The Town / Larry Gillis / Ringing Of The Hammer / Tinman
• Get Up Peter (And Put Your Sandals On) / The Special Consensus / Green Rolling Hills / Turquoise Records
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / WMD Bluegrass Band / Last Note / Royal
• Within Me / Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M
• I'll Answer The Call / Ralph Stanley / I'll Answer The Call / Rebel
• He'll Set Your Fields On Fire / Carl Story / The Late And Great...1916-1995 / Gusto
• Willing To Try / Alex Leach / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Oh, Hide You In The Blood / The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge, Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released