I was supposed to be out of the country this weekend on business, but my plans changed at the very last minute. This allowed me not only to attend the excellent Joe Val Festival, but to take my turn at Bluegrass Cafe and save Amy from having to cut Joe Val short and fill-in for me.
There were several mini-features on this show including a tribute to two of the outstanding brother duos in bluegrass today, The Gibson Brothers and The Spinney Brothers. We played a song or two from the older catalog as well as songs from the most recent recordings. 
We also were delighted to play a track from each of seven recent CD reissues of complete Rural Rhythm albums from their 1960s catalog. The artists included J.E. Mainer, Lee Moore, Red Smiley, Curly Fox, Hylo Brown, and Jim Greer.
Classic and relatively rare vinyl is a favorite on Bluegrass Cafe, and the Heritage Corner provided part of a live performance of The Stanley Brothers at the Ash Grove in 1962, tracks from LPs of Mac Martin and The Potomac Valley Boys capped by a 45 single from Hubert Davis and The Season Travelers. Other Heritage Corner selections came from The Johnson Mountain Boys,
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I own the majority of recordings of Delia Bell and Bill Grant and brought some of them out of the Heritage Corner archives to play several of their songs throughout the show.
New music was provided by Noam Pikelny, Larry Efaw & The Bluegrass Mountaineers, Don Rigsby, Doyle Lawson, Jim Lauderdale, Little Roy & Lizzy, Rhonda Vincent, Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins, Scott Brannon, Alex Leach, and Blue Highway.
Regional music was provided by Bear Bridge Band and Nick Anderson & Shady Creek.
WHUS Radiothon will start next Saturday and Bluegrass Cafe will be involved the next two Sundays, Feb. 23 and Mar.2. Radiothon is the only time of the year when both Amy and I will be in the studio at the same time, and we are usually joined by James & Cathy Ward, my wife Marti who also co-hosts Red Rooster Party with me, and many of our friends and family on the phones. We hope you will consider joining us for Radiothon. You never know what is going to happen!
Jim Beaver
requests in bold italic
Title / Artist / Album / Label
- Ryestrow / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
- Good Woman Blues / Delia Bell and Bill Grant / Good Woman Blues / Old Homestead
- Church Bell Wedding Blues / Blue Highway / The Game / Rounder
- Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
- Six More Miles / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
- The Evening Train / Bob & Danny Paisley / Freight Train Special Volume Two / Wango
- Bill Monroe For Breakfast / Tom T. Hall / Home Grown / Mercury
- Weep And Cry / John Rigsby / Forks Of The Ivy / Hay Holler
- I Just Got Wise / The Bluegrass Mountaineers / Clinch Mountain Tradition / Self-released
- Don't Tax The Gals / J.E. Mainer / The Legendary, Vol. 3 / Rural Rhythm
- Brown's Ferry Blues / Jim Greer & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Boys / Stars Of The WWVA Jamboree / Rural Rhythm
- Automobile Of Life / Lee Moore / Everybody's Favorite / Rural Rhythm
- Short Life Of Trouble / Red Smiley and The Blue Grass Cutups / Self-titled / Rural Rhythm
- Left My Gal In The Mountains / Hylo Brown / Self-titled / Rural Rhythm
- Long Lost John / Curly Fox / Champion Fiddler Volume One / Rural Rhythm
- Old Spinning Wheel / Lee Moore / Self-titled / Rural Rhythm
- Going Up Caney / Bill Monroe / American Traveler / County
- Dobro Joe / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roads Well Traveled / Mountain Home
- Too Deep In Heartaches / Travers Chandler & Avery County / State Of Depression / Patuxent
- I Might Seem Like A Loser (But I'm Really Not) / Jim Lauderdale / Old Time Angels / Sky Crunch
- Your Tears are Just Interest on the Loan / Scott Brannon / Your Old Standby / Patuxent
- My Friend Clyde / The Spinny Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-released
- On That Road Leadin' Home / The Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever
- Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / The Gibson Brothers / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm
- Red Letter Day / The Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
- I'll Work It Out / The Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass
- Locked Away From Your Heart / Alex Leach / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
- I've Lived A Lot In My Time / The Potomac Valley Boys / Bluegrass From Virginia / GHP (LP)
- Kentucky Fox Race / Curly Ray Cline / Lonesome Pine Fiddle / Old Homestead
- Gonna Paint The Town / The Stanley Brothers / Banjo In The Mountains / Country Roads
- Sea Of Regret / Larry Efaw & The Bluegrass Mountaineers / She Left Me Standing On A Mountain / Blue Circle
- Ode To The Little Brown Shack / Vern & Ray w. Herb Pedersen / San Francisco - 1968 / Arhoolie
- Wheel Hoss / Noam Pikelny / Plays Kenny Baker / Plays Bill Monroe / Compass
- I Can't Be Happy Dear This Way / Hubert Davis & The Season Travelers / 45 RPM single / Music City (45)
- Wild Bill Jones / Shady Creek / Back To The Roots / Self-released
- Along About Daybreak / Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / Travelin' On / Revonah (LP)
- Stacey Lynn / Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / Travelin' On / Revonah (LP)
- Is She Praying There / Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / Travelin' On / Revonah (LP)
- Rawhide (bed) / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Pop! Goes The Banjo / Vine
- Lincoln County Gap (bed) / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Pop! Goes The Banjo / Vine
- The Five String Waltz (bed) / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Pop! Goes The Banjo / Vine
- Goodbye Mississippi / Delia Bell and Bill Grant / We're Not The Jet Set / Old Homestead
- How Mountain Girls Can Love / The Stanley Brothers / Stanley Series Issue 10, Vol. 3, Number 2 / Copper Creek (LP)
- The Coupon Song / The Stanley Brothers / Stanley Series Issue 10, Vol. 3, Number 2 / Copper Creek (LP)
- Clinch Mountain Backstep / The Stanley Brothers / Stanley Series Issue 10, Vol. 3, Number 2 / Copper Creek (LP)
- Let Me Love You One More Time / The Stanley Brothers / Stanley Series Issue 10, Vol. 3, Number 2 / Copper Creek (LP)
- O'er Yonder Hill / Rhonda Vincent / Performs Songs From The House With The Red Light / Upper Management
- Somebody Touched Me / The Dillards / Back Porch Bluegrass / Elektra
- I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / The Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
- I Can Hear The Joy Bells Ringing / Delia Bell and Bill Grant / Sacred Favorites Through The Years / Old Homestead
- On The Jericho Road / Larry Stephenson / What Really Matters / Compass
- I'm So Happy / Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins / Hall of Fame Bluegrass / Rebel
- Shoutin' On The Hills Of Glory / The Johnny Jackson Band / Old Country Church / Self-released
- Lay My Body Down / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day / Raincoe
- God's Not Dead / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
- Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge, Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released
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