Playlist - 2/22/2015 - Don Reno, Ralph Stanley, Monroe Fields

Hi Folks,

Monroe Fields on the left

The UCONN spurts department nearly wiped us out on this day, preempting everything from 1pm to 6pm.  With the one hour remaining, we celebrated and remembered Don Reno whose birthday was 2/21/1927, Ralph Stanley whose birthday was 2/25/1927, and Monroe Fields who just passed away the day before this broadcast.

A new CD of some of Monroe Fields' broadcasts with Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys had been released by the Patuxent label just weeks before Monroe's passing, so we focused on that release to remember him.

Also, Ralph Stanley just released a new CD on the Cracker Barrel label from which we drew a couple songs to celebrate his 88th birthday along with a song from a relatively unknown album he recorded in the late 1980s on cassette-only.

And of course we dug into but a fraction of the material recorded by Don Reno, focusing mostly on his classic recordings from the early 1950s with Red Smiley, but also the last recording session with Red Smiley on Ray Davis' Wango label.


If you had a chance to catch our one-hour broadcast, we hope you enjoyed our celebrations and tribute. 

Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring next Sunday if the spurts department gives us some time.

Jim Beaver

Artist/Song/Album/Label

• Don Reno & Red Smiley and The Tennessee Cut-Ups / Charlotte Breakdown / 1951-1959 / King
• Don Reno & Red Smiley and The Tennessee Cut-Ups / I'm The Talk Of The Town / 1951-1959 / King
• Don Reno & Red Smiley and The Tennessee Cut-Ups / Tally Ho / 1951-1959 / King
• Don Reno & Red Smiley and The Tennessee Cut-Ups / Barefoot Nellie / 1951-1959 / King
• Don Reno & Red Smiley and The Tennessee Cut-Ups / I'm the Biggest Liar In Town / 1951-1959 / King
• Don Reno & Red Smiley and The Tennessee Cut-Ups / Dixie Breakdown / 1951-1959 / King
• Don Reno / I'm Troubled in Mind / Profile / Wango
• Ralph Stanley / I Only Exist (feat. Dierks Bentley) / Man of Constant Sorrow / Cracker Barrel
• Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Dirty Black Coal / Like Father, Like Son / Copper Creek
• Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys / Poor Me / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent
• Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys / You Gotta Be My Baby / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent
• Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys / Silver Threads and Golden Needles / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent
• Don Reno & Red Smiley / I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map / 1951-1959 / King
• Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys / There's Only One Way To Heaven / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent
• Ralph Stanley / We Shall Rise (feat. Josh Turner) / Man of Constant Sorrow / Cracker Barrel
• Larry Gillis / That Beautiful Picture / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• Gibson Brothers / What A Wonderful Savior Is He / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released