Playlist - 5/29/2016 - Memorial Day

Hi Folks.

The show that precedes Bluegrass Cafe -- Red Rooster Party -- was completely preempted by sports, so the beginning of Bluegrass Cafe hosted the great half-hour program of Joe Bussard's Country Classics which normally airs on Red Rooster Party.  Joe had prepared a Memorial Day show that complemented the bluegrass that followed quite well.


We included songs all through the show related to the Memorial Day with notables by The South Carolina Broadcasters, The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover, Charlie Moore, The Stanley Brothers, Dry Branch Fire Squad, J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Larry Sparks, Tom T. Hall, Reno & Smiley, and The Gibson Brothers.

We introduced new music from Bryan Sutton who will be appearing in Hamden and at Strawberry Park this coming week.  We also heard new music from The Lonely Heartstring Band which will also be appearing at Strawberry Park.

Be sure to tune in next Sunday when Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring.  I'll see you at Strawberry Park.  For more information about Strawberry Park, click here.

Jim Beaver

Joe Bussard's show is in red.

Artist / Song / Disk / Label / Year

• Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / Cotton Eyed Joe / Goin’ Down the Country / Rural Rhythm

Joe Bussard's Country Classics

• The Stripling Brothers / The Lost Child / 78 RPM Single / Melotone / 1928
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers / Bucking Mule / 78 rpm single / Brunswick / 1929
• Jimmie Osborne / A Million People Have Died / 78 RPM single / King / 1951
• The Carter Family / The Faded Coat Of Blue / 78 RPM Single / Bluebird / 1934
• The Blue Sky Boys / The Cross On The Hill / 78 RPM Single / Bluebird / 1947
• The Bailes Brothers / Searchin' for a Soldier's Grave / 78 RPM single / Columbia / 1945
• The Sauceman Brothers / Wrap My Body In Old Glory / 78 Single / Capitol / 1952
• Mac Wiseman / Reveille Time In Heaven / 45 RPM single / Dot / 1953

• Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Bootleg John / Great High Mountain / Rebel (request)
• The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / That Star Belongs to Me / The Prestige - Folklore Years / Prestige Folklore
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / The Dying Soldier / Private recording / None
• Charlie Moore / The Rebel Soldier / Plum Pitiful Volume Two / Wango
• Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / Francis Lee / Goin’ Down the Country / Rural Rhythm
• The Jackson Brothers & Edd Wolford / Goin' To Georgia / Voice of Time: The Ed May Tapes / Self-released
• Hylo Brown / Brown Eyes / Hylo Brown / Rural Rhythm
• Curly Seckler / A Purple Heart / Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Copper Creek
• Stanley Brothers / The Vacant Chair / Plum Pitiful Volume Two / Wango
• Mac Wiseman / A Hero's Death / Plum Pitiful Volume Two / Wango
• Spencer Branch / Black Widow Lady / Ashe County Outlaws / Self-released
• Alex Leach / Somebody Loves You Darling / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Don Reno & Red Smiley / Stonewall Brigade / 1959-1963 / King
• David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Chancellorsville / Troubled Times / Rebel
• The Buckstankle Boys / Round Peak Home / Round Peak Home / Self-released
• Dry Branch Fire Squad / Atlanta Is Burning / Hand Hewn / Rounder Select
• Big Country Bluegrass / The Cotton Mill Song / Country Livin' / Rebel
• Wade Mainer & Sons of the Mountaineers / Not a Word of That Be Said / Bloody War Songs 1924-1939 / Tompkins Square
• Larry Sparks / Last Day At Gettysburg / Last Day at Gettysburg - Songs About The American Civil War / Rebel
• The Gibson Brothers / Last Letter Home / Another Night of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Tom T. Hall / Hero From Harlan / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle
• Bryan Sutton / Arkansas Traveller / The More I Learn / Compass 
• The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Distant Drums / Live At Hillbilly Ranch / Hay Holler
• James King / A Few Old Memories / Lonesome and Then Some / Rounder (request)
• James King / Whispering Waters / Lonesome and Then Some / Rounder (request)
• James King / Roy Lee / Thirty Years of Farming / Rounder
• Bryan Sutton / Virginia Creeper / The More I Learn / Compass / bed
• The Stanley Brothers / Soldier's Grave / The King Years 1961-1965 / King
• The Lonely Heartstring Band / Deep Waters / Deep Waters / Decca (UMO)
• J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers / He's Coming To Us Dead / Run Mountain / Arhoolie
• The Po' Ramblin' Boys / Late Last Night / Back to the Mountains / Randm Records
• The Feinberg Brothers / Casey Jones / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• The Boxcars / Lungs / Familiar With The Ground / Mountain Home
• Larry Gillis / Pass Me Not / Old Man Dreaming / Tinman
• Rusty York & The Kentucky Mountain Boys / Shake Hands With Mother Again / Early Bluegrass / Jewel
• Taylor's Grove / When Heaven Comes Down / Keep On The Sunny Side / Fishtraks
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Over in the Gloryland / A Thousand Miles Away from Home / Stripe Records
• Bear Minimum / You'll Meet Him In the Clouds / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• David Peterson / Trials, Troubles, Tribulations / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• Flatt Lonesome / Casting All Your Care on Him / Runaway Train / Mountain Home 
• Norman & Nancy Blake / I'd Rather Be An Old Time Christian / Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To / Shanachie
• Turning Ground / Prodigal Son / It Is Finished / Self-released
• The Bluegrass Band / Crying Holy Unto My Lord / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Vol. 2 / Hay Holler
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released