"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/6/2015

On this first Sunday of December, Bluegrass Christmas music was on the playlist agenda.  The whole playlist was not not Christmas, but we included some new Bluegrass Christmas recordings for 2015 from Rhonda Vincent, Becky Buller, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.  We also shared a few older Christmas songs from Reno & Smiley, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum, and Tony Trischka.  In addition, to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah, we shared a version of "In The Window" from the Claire Lynch Band's "Holiday!" recording from 2014.  

The show began with approximately 30 minutes' worth of Bluegrass with New England ties, including songs from Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys, the Lilly Brothers & Don Stover (not New Englanders by birth, but certainly a HUGE impact on the world of Bluegrass in New England), the Old Time Bluegrass Singers, the Tidwell Brothers & the Cedar Mountain Boys, White Mountain Bluegrass, Stonewall Bluegrass, the Bear Bridge Band, and Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys.


We always try to make new music a big part of our show, and Sunday's was no exception.  In addition to newer Christmas music, we received a fine new recording from the Kathy Kallick Band ("Foxhounds" on Kathy's own Live Oak Records) that we shared on the radio.  Other 2015 releases found some airplay, too; those selections came from Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass, the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, the Feinberg Brothers, Sideline, Volume Five, and the Gibson Brothers.

Hope you heard something you enjoyed on the airwaves on Sunday!  Be sure to join Jim for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon -- 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
• Meet Me By My Old Kentucky Home / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Kentucky Chimes / Tidwell Brothers & the Cedar Mountain Boys / single / no label
• I Heard The Bluebirds Sing / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / R Own
• Slidin' Delta / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Where Shall I Be? / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• The Last Old Shovel / Phyllis Boyens / O Sister / Rounder
• Mastertone March / Steve Sparkman / Smith Ridge / Copper Creek
• Is It Wrong (To Love Somebody New) / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Papa's Wagon / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Tennessee 1949 / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• Kentucky Thunder / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Dreaming Of Christmas / Rhonda Vincent / Christmas Time / Upper Management Music
• Our Gingerbread House / Becky Buller / The Christmas 45 / Dark Shadow Recording
• It's Christmas Time / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Christmas Sampler / Mountain Home
• Milk & Cookies / Rhonda Vincent / Christmas Time / Upper Management Music
• Christmas Doll / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / Gusto
• If We Make It Through December / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Winter's Grace / Signature Sounds
• In The Window / Claire Lynch Band / Holiday! / Thrill Hill Records
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Pike County Breakdown / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• I'd Like To Wander Back (To The Old Home) / Ron Spears / My Time Has Come / Copper Creek
• Darby's Castle / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / 4 / Mountain Fever Records
• Let's / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Cedar City Blues / Eddie Adcock / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• What About Me / Jimmy Gaudreau / Classic J.A.G. / Webco
• Foxhounds / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• Sweetheart Of The Mountains / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Banjo Pickin' Girl / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• Lester's Loafin' Lounge / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Acoustic Rainbow Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Sampler / Acoustic Rainbow
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [originally recorded 12/11/1949]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [Bobby Osborne birthday, 12/7/1931]
• If That Was Love / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lonely Comes Easy / Rebel [Chris Jones birthday, 12/7/1959]
• Row Number Two, Seat Number Three / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Bluegrass Swing / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Self-Produced
• Nobody's Darlin' But Mine / Hylo Brown / In Concert / Copper Creek
• Thank God For The Highways / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Mountain Girl / Sideline / Session 2 / Mountain Fever Records
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [recorded live at Carnegie Hall, 12/8/1962]
• Good News When I Die / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• It's Just Like Heaven / Forbes Family / A Forbes Family Treasury, Volume 1 / Rebel
• Daddy Was An Ole Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• Precious Child / Tony Trischka with Dudley Connell & James King / Glory Shone Around:  A Christmas Collection / Rounder
• What A Wonderful Savior Is He / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Row By Row / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Christmas Story / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder