Playlist - 10/16/2016 - New Music

Hi Folks.

I made a rare fall appearance on Bluegrass Cafe to share some of the music I picked up at the IBMA event in Raleigh a couple of weeks ago.


Some of the best new music I have heard in a while can be found by searching through the large number of new releases, therefore, the majority of the program was new music, or music still within the new music reporting period of 18 months since release.

Highlights included:

1.  Michael Cleveland and a blistering two-fiddle rendering of "Tall Timber" with Jason Carter
2.  Wonderful new CD from Larry Stephenson -- one of the best he has ever done in my opinion
3.  Balsam Range, powerful contemporary bluegrass from their new CD Mountain Voodoo
4.  David Parmley and Cardinal Tradition - first recordings from this newest configuration in the Bluegrass Cardinal tradition
5.  The Gibson Brothers - a new track showed up on the Rounder Sampler given out at IBMA and it made its first appearance here
6.  The Zolla Boys - a new EP from the Torrington CT-based family includes the banjo of Richard Underwood and the boys' maturing vocals - a great introduction to this fine up-and-coming group
7.  Doyle Lawson and some great a cappella gospel from his most recent CD
8.  Nefesh Mountain -- a group that bills themselves as overtly jewish bluegrass -- doing a 1946 J.E. Mainer song
9.  Much much more.

With all the new music we didn't have much time for the classic bluegrass I usually play, but we got some in by The Sloas Brothers, Rusty York, Red Smiley, J. D. Jarvis, Charlie Monroe, Carl Story, Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, and Joe Val.

We had a great number of requests and a great number of phone calls during the show.  It makes us happy that the music we play makes you happy.

Tune in next Sunday when Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring.

Jim Beaver

red = released within the last 18 months
green = requested

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Michael Cleveland / Tall Timber / Fiddler's Dream / Compass
• Balsam Range / Chain Gang Blues / Mountain Voodoo / Mountain Home
• Larry Stephenson Band / Free Me from This Old Chain Gang / Weep Little Willow / Whysper Dream
• Ralph Stanley with Keith Whitley / Sharecropper's Son / Great High Mountain / Rebel  
• The Earls Of Leicester / Branded Wherever I Go / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Sweetheart of the Mountains / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Nefesh Mountain / Run Mountain / Nefesh Mountain / Nefesh Mountain
• Mary Beth Cross / Threshing Time / Feels Like Home - EP / Mbc Productions
• Greg Moore & Greg Donlan (feat. Ron Spears, Danny Paisley, Clay Hess, Ernie Evans & Danny Stewart Jr) / Today Has Been a Lonesome Day  / Hollow Box Rhythm / Self-released
• The Zolla Boys / Philadelphia Lawyer / The Zolla Boys / Self-released
• David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / Lifetime Of Sorrow / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD 
• Sam Bush / Bowling Green / Storyman / Rounder
• Blue Highway / Don't Weep for Me / Original Traditional / Rounder
• Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Something About a Train / Small Town Heroes / Bell Buckle
• Rhonda Vincent / Don't Act / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• The Basement Band (James King, Danny Paisley, et. al) / I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home, Lonesome Old Home, Billy In The Low Ground / Radio Series Volume One / Wango 
• Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / It's a Cold, Cold World / My Daddy's Grass / Rebel 
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Backstep Cindy / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• The Feinberg Brothers / Drifting and Dreaming of You / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Alex Leach / Sophia, West Virginia / New Traditional / Self-released 
• Bear Minimum / Will You Wait for Me / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• The Bear Bridge Band / I Got a Letter / One More Ride / Open Road 
• Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road featuring John Anderson / Seminole Wind / CD single / Pinecastle
• The Gibson Brothers / Highway / Rounder IBMA Sampler / Rounder
• David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Lovesick and Sorrow (Live) / Retrospective: Live 1984-2014 / Davis Music
• Travers Chandler / Ramblin' Fever / Archaic / Patuxent Music
• The Po' Ramblin' Boys / Messing with My Mind / Back to the Mountains / Randm Records
• Larry Efaw & the Bluegrass Mountaineers / Living A City Life / Living A City Life / Bell Buckle
• Lori King & Junction 63 / Send My Baby Home / Grandpa's Old Guitar / JLK Records
• Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / On the Evening Train / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• The Sloas Brothers / I'm Going Home Again / I'm Going Home Again / REM  
• The Zolla Boys / Are You Tired of Me My Darling / The Zolla Boys / Self-released
• Tommy Brown & The County Line Grass / Pardon Me / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• The Buckstankle Boys / You'll Never Find Another (That'll Love You Like I Do) / Round Peak Home / Self-released
• Larry Gillis / Swamp Folk / Swamp Folk / Tinman
• Clarence White / John Henry Blues [bed] / Flatpick (Collector's Deluxe Edition) / Sierra Records 
• Larry Gillis / Sad Swamp Man / Swamp Folk / Tinman 
• Larry Stephenson Band / Nail My Shoes to the Floor / Weep Little Willow / Whysper Dream
• The Dreadful Snakes / Blue Yodel #4 / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Rusty York & The Kentucky Mountain Boys / Where Could I Go / Early Bluegrass / Jewel 
• The Kroppdusters / Wampanoag Run / The Kroppdusters / Self-released 
• Lou Reid & Carolina / Hobo on a Train / Rollin' On / KMA Records 
• The Louvin Brothers / If I Could Only Win Your Love / Country Love Ballads / Capitol (LP) 
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Brown County Red / It's About Tyme / Break A String
• The Cooke Duet / Ain't No Grave / Early Cooke Duet / CRFRC 
• Turning Ground / Great High Mountain / It Is Finished / Self-released
• David Peterson / Are You Washed In the Blood ? / Simplicity / Self-released 
• J. D. Jarvis / Get in Line Brother / Bluegrass Gospel Power Picks / Rural Rhythm 
• Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / I've Won My Crown / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M 
• Red Smiley & The Blue Grass Cut-Ups / Livin' The Right Life Now / Bluegrass Gospel Power Picks / Rural Rhythm 
• The Marshall Brothers and Highroad / When We Cross / Old Time Country Revival / Self-released 
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rejoicing All the Way / Burden Bearer / Mountain Home
• Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / God Loves His Children / Diamond Joe / Rounder 
• Carl Story & The Rambling Mountaineers / Old Gospel Ship / A Life In Rural Music 1942-1959 / Bear Family
• Charlie Monroe / My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race / I'm Old Kentucky Bound / Bear Family
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released