"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/13/2014

After a week's hiatus due to the broadcast of a UConn Baseball game, we hit the airwaves this week ready to go!  It was an absolutely gorgeous, early Spring weekend in eastern Connecticut -- just a fine day to listen to Bluegrass music (as if there's a bad day for that particular activity)!  Sure hope you were able to join us...

The "third Stanley brother," George Shuffler (1925-2014)

Since the last time we joined you on the air, another Bluegrass legend has left us:  on April 7th, Bluegrass Hall of Famer George Shuffler died at the age of 88 years, 361 days.  During his nearly 20 years of working with the Stanley Brothers, Shuffler was both an amazingly dynamic bass player, as well as one of the originators of the guitar style known as cross-picking.  An argument could easily be made that without Shuffler's cross-picking, the guitar might have remained more of a rhythm instrument in the Bluegrass world.  We remembered George Shuffler on Sunday with a bunch of classic Stanley songs on which he was the bass player, as well as a few guitar songs from Shuffler with the Stanleys, as well as on his own.  

A bit of new music has arrived at WHUS since the last time I was in the Bluegrass Cafe, so I couldn't help but share it.  The newest disc from the Seldom Scene is called, "Long Time...Seldom Scene" and is the first recording from the band since 2007.  It's a dandy, too, so we gladly featured it today.  

We also featured a couple of songs from the newest recording from a northern New York band known as BearTracks.  This wonderfully fun group used to include resonator guitarist Junior Barber and two of his cousins, Tom Venne and Julie Venne Hogan.  However, since their last band recording, Junior has retired from touring, and fiddler Harry Ralph and banjo picker Scott Hopkins have joined Tom and Julie.  It's a totally different sound for BearTracks -- and extremely enjoyable!  Their new recording is called, "Makin' New Tracks."

Other newer music came to us from recent recordings by Darren Nicholson, a new gospel recording from Volume Five, Tom Mindte, Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II, Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell, Special Consensus, and Rhonda Vincent.  

Hope you enjoyed something you heard at some point during today's show, and that you'll be sure to join Jim on Easter Sunday for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.



Have a good week!

Amy


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [requests are RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner with Tom Adams / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Frog On A Lily Pad / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Wild Bill Jones / BearTracks / Makin' New Tracks / Self-Produced
• Uncle Sam And Mr. Wall Street / Edgar Loudermilk with Junior Sisk / My Big Chance Tomorrow / Mountain Fever Records
• Taxes / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle
• Together 'Til The End / BearTracks / Makin' New Tracks / Self-Produced
• Sweetest Love / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• (Say) Won't You Be Mine / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• John Henry, The Steel Driving Man / Stanley Brothers / Shadows Of The Past / Copper Creek
• Nine Pound Hammer / George Shuffler / Aged To Perfection / Copper Creek
• Lonesome Road Blues / George Shuffler & Laura Boosinger / Mountain Treasures / Copper Creek
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken / George Shuffler & Laura Boosinger / Mountain Treasures / Copper Creek
• Going Like Wildfire / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / Radio Shows / Pinecastle
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• Reno Ride / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Mash Your Finger / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe Music
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• It's In My Mind To Wander / Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare / One More Road / Self-Produced
• Tennessee Blues / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
• When It Rains / Lou Reid & Carolina / Live At The Down Home / KMA Records
• I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Bluegrass Stomp / Darren Nicholson / Things Left Undone / Self-Produced
• The Hard Times / Osborne Brothers / Nashville / Pinecastle
• Daddy Played The Banjo / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers feat. Edie Brickell / Live / Rounder
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Wait A Minute / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Highway Of Sorrow / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Blacktop / Alan Jackson / The Bluegrass Album / EMI
• Battle Ax / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Side By Side / Rebel
• Red Wicked Wine / Charlie Sizemore with Ralph Stanley / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• Louisville Woman / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Flat Creek / Tom Mindte / Something I've Been Working On / Patuxent Music
• Wild Montana Skies / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Country Boy:  A Bluegrass Tribute To John Denver / Compass Records
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• What Could I Do / Volume Five / The Day I Learned To Fly / Mountain Fever Records
• It's Never Too Late / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Federal
• Joy Bells / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder