"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/26/2015

So long, Tex Logan (at the upper right corner)

As promised, for our first Bluegrass Cafe post-Radiothon fundraising, there was A LOT of music and relatively little talk.  The selections played included a bunch of CDs from our library that haven't been played much (if at all) in recent years, some newer recordings to keep things interesting, a few classic songs from super-classic performers, and a couple of songs featuring the late Benjamin F. "Tex" Logan, who died this past Friday evening.  

Tex Logan -- along with the Lilly Brothers and Don Stover -- is credited with bringing what would come to be known as Bluegrass Music to New England when they performed on the radio in Boston in the early 1950s as the Confederate Mountaineers.  If he did nothing else in the world of Bluegrass, that would be a significant-enough contribution.  However, Tex Logan will alway be remembered as the composer of THE Bluegrass Christmas standard, "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" -- a song recorded by many performers including Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Patty Loveless, and others.  After a busy, successful career as a mathematician for New Jersey's Bell Laboratories and a whole lot of great work as a fiddler over the years, Tex Logan died at the age of 87 on April 24th.  His memory will live on...

New music has arrived from Massachusetts-based
Michelle Canning...

Radiothon fundraising went pretty well for us, as over the course of two Sundays, we raised right around $2,000 for WHUS.  Your support is very much appreciated not just at Radiothon, but year-round -- THANKS!!!  

Jim will join you for another Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon starting at 4PM.  Be sure to join him!

Enjoy the week!

Amy





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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Another Day / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Foggy Mountain Chimes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Select Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Red River Valley/Back To Red River / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• When I'm Gone / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• I'd Like To Wander Back To The Old Home / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Blue Grass Style / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Sally Ann Johnson / Billy Hurt, Jr. / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent Music
• Goin' Back To My Kentucky Country Home / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• From The Hollow / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• An Angel With Blue Eyes / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Keep It In The Middle Of The Road / Nightflyer / Rail, River & Road / Kang Records
• Hillbilly Highway / Cedar Hill / Miss Dixie, Tom T. And Me / Blue Circle Records
• Ridin' The Lightnin', Ropin' The Storm / Shannon & Heather Slaughter / Never Just A Song / Self-Produced
• Rocks In The River / Missy Werner / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• Paint The Town / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Self-Produced
• Sweet Potato Rag / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Wave Goodbye / Alan Munde Gazette / Made To Last / Self-Produced
• When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Donnerville Road / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Self-Produced
• A Whole Lot Of Nothing / Lonesome River Band / Turn On A Dime / Mountain Home
• Don't Look Good Naked / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• The Legend Of Jennie Wade / Lonesome River Band / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• The Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• A Picture Of Three Children / Russell Moore / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• You, You, You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Too Late For Goodbye / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / On Down The Line / Compass Records
• The Old Grey Goose / Red Belcher & the Kentucky Ridgerunners / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP Records [feat. Tex Logan on fiddle & vocal]
• Kentucky Is Only A Drema / Red Belcher & the Kentucky Ridgerunners / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP Records [feat. Tex Logan on fiddle]
• Talkin' To The Wall / James King / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• Flat Creek / Chris Jones & the Nightdrivers / Cloud Of Dust / GSM Records
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King & The Father / MME
• Carolina Mountain Home / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• Fling Ding / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• I'm Gonna Love You One More Time / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Walking In The Early Morning Dew / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Make Him A Soldier / Whitstein Brothers / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder
• Fountain Of Love / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Gospel Plow / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Cuts, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I Am The Road / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• My Lord's Going To Set Me Free / Junior Sisk / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder