"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/4/2007

Sunday's show got a delayed start, as the UCONN Women's Basketball team defeated the Univ. of South Florida in their 1st round of Big East tournament action. We got a few nice requests to play (noted in blue on the list), and we listened to a bit of music from the new CD called "Iron Shapens Iron" by some young Canadians, the Abrams Brothers. For the next two Sundays, WHUS and BG Cafe will be "celebrating" Radiothon -- the one time during the year where we ask you for a bit of financial support for the station. In the past couple of years, we've done extremely well; in fact, generally, our show brings in the second highest amount of pledge dollars of any music show that airs on WHUS (the polka show is #1). We've been accumulating a good number of great CDs to offer you as premiums -- we'll post a list of them later in the week, I promise. Please join Jim, Marti, and I on Sunday. If you choose to pledge or not, that decision is yours.....

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Leavin' Me / Larry Sparks / The Coldest Part Of Winter / Rebel
• Rock Hearts / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mt. Boys / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• I Worship You / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Stanley Brothers / Mercury
• Hello City Limits / Michael Cleveland with Jeff White / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Long Way Back / Grass Cats / Home To Carolina / New Time Records
• New Camptown Races / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Healing Hills / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / That's What Love Can Do / Bell Buckle
• Wide Open / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Stepping On The Clouds / Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Tell Someone / Rebel
• Put Me On The Trail To Carolina / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam /Self-Produced
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky / Rounder
• Clementine / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steel Town Records
• You Can't Do Wrong And Get By / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time /Sugar Hill
• Prisoner Of The Highway / Don Rigsby & Midnight Call / Hillbilly Heartache / Rebel
• Keeper Of The Flame / Randy Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Keeper Of The Flame / Lendel Records
• Is It True / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Weary Hobo / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Ballad Of Springhill / Abrams Brothers / Iron Sharpens Iron / MasterShield Records
• The Indians Are Coming / Chris Henry / Monroe Approved / Arrandem Records
• Doin' My Job / Dappled Grays / Doin' My Job / BandRanch Records
• Soldiers Joy Medley / Abrams Brothers / Iron Sharpens Iron / MasterShield Records
• Blue Bonnet Lane / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Redwood Hill / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Brand New Heartache / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Hey, Hey, Hey / Virginia Ramblers / Virginia Ramblers / Hay Holler
• Sourwood Mountain / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self-Produced
• Coldest Day Of Winter / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Alone With You / Marty Raybon & Full Circle / The Grass I Grew Up On / Synchoro Records
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Here Today / Here Today / Rounder
• I'm Not Living Life (It's Living Me) / Bo Isaac / I'm Not Living Life (It's Living Me) / GoodTyme
• Foggy Mountain Chimes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• I Hear My Savior Calling / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Demo Recording / Self-Produced
• I Am Resolved / Roger Helton / Bare Hands / Self-Produced
• When I Receive My Crown / Big Country Bluegrass / On Fire / Hay Holler
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Get Behind Me Satan / Tim Graves / Walking On New Grass / Pinecastle
• 'Til I See You Face To Face / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / He Lives In Me / Horizon
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• A Beautfiul Life / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/25/2007

Sunday's show featured a lot of brand new BG music that has arrived at WHUS over the past couple of weeks, including tunes from projects by the Special Consensus, Casey & Chris & the Two-Stringers, Donna Hughes, Joe Ross, John Starling & Carolina Star, Ben Greene, and Pine Mountain Railroad. We also took a few minutes to play some "vintage" BG from Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys, circa 1971, as well as the Gibson Brothers' seldom-heard 1994 recording, "Underneath A Harvest Moon," and some great Dobro/resonator guitar work from New England's own Roger Williams. Hope you enjoyed something you heard somewhere along the way....

Basketball Big East tournament schedule permitting, we'll see you in the Cafe next Sunday from 4-7PM.

Amy


Requests are noted in blue:

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rocky Grass / Blue Planet
• Say You'll Take Me Back /Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Another Day / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Nobody's Business / Don Reno & Bill Harrell / Best Of Bluegrass, Vol. 1 / Rural Rhythm
• (This Weary Heart) You Stole Away / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mt. Boys / Sixteen Years /
  Copper Creek
• I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• One More Dollar / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Unleashed / Sugar Hill
• Tennessee Cut-Up Breakdown / Charlie Cushman / Five String Time / Self-Produced
• No Mother Or Dad / Flatt & Scruggs / Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• This Morning At Nine / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Red Rocking Chair / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics / Cattle Records
• Trials, Troubles, Tribulations / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Down The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Waitin' For A Train / John Starling & Carolina Star / Slidin' Home / Rebel
• Watson's Cove / Ben Greene / Watson's Cove / Self-Produced
• Awful Lonesome Train / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steel Town Records
• Walkin' West To Memphis / Casey & Chris & the Two-Stringers / Get Along Girl / Arrandem Records
• The Spirit Of St. Louis / Joe Ross / The Spirit Of St. Louis / Zephyr Records
• Bottom Of A Glass / Donna Hughes / Gaining Wisdom / Rounder
• I'm Gonna Love You One More Time / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• Keep My Love With You / Ralph Stanley II / Stanley Blues / Rebel
• Dobro Chimes / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Papa Played The Dobro / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Follow The Leader / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• Old Memory / Gibson Brothers / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm
• I Can't Like Myself / Gibson Brothers / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
• Fireball / Roger Williams / Fireball / Self-Produced
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Mississippi River Raft / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Big Country / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self-Produced
• Lonesome Road Blues / Stanley Brothers / Shadows Of The Past / Copper Creek
• Sugar Coated Love / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• One More Ride / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• My Old Kentucky Home / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Jake Satterfield / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• O'er The Road I'm Bound To Go / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Demo Recording / Self-Produced
• How Long? / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Back Up And Push / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• Little Bessie / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / Mastershield
• She's Left Me Again / Audie Blaylock with Paul Williams / Tribute To Jimmy Martin / Koch Records
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Local Flowers / Josh Crowe / Sincerely / Pinecastle
• That Home Above / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Classic Bluegrass Recordings, Vol. 2 /
  County
• Better Get In That Number / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• His Record Is On High / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Joy Of Revelation / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• You'll Be Rewarded Over There / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / Stanley Brothers / The Best Of the Stanley Brothers / Mercury
• The Wrath Of God / Seldom Scene / Scenic Roots / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Bear Bridge Band at Country Corner -- Saturday, February 24th

The Bear Bridge Band* (a/k/a "The Band Who Won't Go Away") makes another stop on their 2007 "tour" on Saturday, February 24th at the Country Corner Coffee House, 11 North Main Street, South Hadley, MA. Showtime is 8PM. For more information, call (413)467-9394 or visit Dave Helman's Country Corner website.


*While I have no financial interest in this band, I should mention that my brother, Dave, has been a member of Bear Bridge for several years. While they don't play nearly as many shows as they did in the past, they do continue to get a very good reception whenever they do emerge from "retirement." Please get out and see them, if you're so inclined.


Another show happening tomorrow night is taking place in eastern CT. For those who may not wish to travel to South Hadley, why not check out the show being presented at the Killingly Grange, located at the corner of Dog Hill Road and Route 101 in East Killingly, CT. Bands on the bill include Charter Oak and Sugar Creek. Doors open at 6PM; showtime is 7PM. For more information, call (860)564-1018.

'Tis always good to support live BG whenever you can....please get out there.

Amy

Jerry Salley in the Songwriter Chat Room - Tuesday, February 20th

For the February installment of her Songwriter Chat Room, Candi Sawyer has recruited someone who has had great success writing country, gospel, and plenty of bluegrass tunes: Jerry Salley. Jerry will be in the chat room tonight - Tuesday, February 20th - starting at 8PM to offer tips and advice to all aspiring songwriters. To visit the chat room, go to www.bluegrassguide.com, and follow the links from there. You can read Candi's email below about Jerry and the chat, but suffice it to say, Jerry Salley has written or co-written plenty of great BG tunes that have been recorded by the likes of the Seldom Scene (one of my favorites, "Breaking New Ground"), Rhonda Vincent, Alecia Nugent, the Del McCoury Band, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and many others. Jerry's got a new CD of his own called "New Songs, Old Friends" that we've been playing a bit on the BG Cafe of late. Of course, I'd be remiss not to mention that Jerry is also a co-writer of one of my favorite BG tunes from 2006: the excellent "1946" from David Peterson & 1946. If you can't make it to the chat room tonight, I'm sure Candi will be posting the chat transcript sometime in the future. Visit the BG Guide website for more information, or see Candi's note following this message.

Amy

Here's Candi's message:

Mountain High Bluegrass Associates
is proud to announce that
Jerry Salley
will be our Guest Songwriter on
Tuesday February 20, 2007 at 8PM EST.
Join us at http://www.bluegrassguide.com/.

Award winning songwriter, Jerry Salley has been writing and singing in Nashville since 1982. To date, he has had 300 songs recorded in his career, including; "I'm Gonna Take That Mountain" - Reba McEntire, "Breaking New Ground" - Wild Rose/Universal Records, "I Fell in the Water" - John Anderson/BNA Records, "How Do You Sleep at Night" - Wade Hayes/DCK/Columbia Records, and ten (10) top twenty gospel songs.

Check out his website at http://www.jerrysalley.com/.

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 2/18/2007

The entire Bluegrass Cafe crew was firmly encamped at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival this weekend and having a grand time experiencing all things bluegrass. The event won the award for IBMA event of the year in 2006, and 2007 should be no different.

Jim & Marti gave up the Sunday activities at Joe Val (although Jim did jam past 3:00 am Sunday morning) to bring you some good music to tune in on your drive back from the festival. Hope you enjoyed!

Jim & Marti

(Requests are in blue)

• Wild Turkey / Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• I Couldn't Believe It Was True / The Bluegrass Cardinals / Bluegrass Cardinals / Copper Creek
• Mountain Girl / The Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / Self
• Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Tommy Brown & County Line Grass / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• Under a Lonesome Moon / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Curly Seckler / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass #84 / KBC
• How's It Feel / Daughters of Bluegrass / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass #85 / KBC
• 99 Year Blues / Laurie Lewis / The Golden West / Hightone Records
• A Road to Anywhere / The Linville Ridge Band / A Road to Anywhere / self
• Prisoner's Lament / Lonesome River Band / The Road With No End / Mountain Home
• Where Is My Sailor Boy? / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At the Roots 1961 / Smithsonian
• You Can't Do Wrong and Get By / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & LST / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & LST / Sugar Hill
• Long Journey Home / Jim & Jesse / Long Journey Home / Rounder
• Waiting for the Sun to Shine / Larry Stephenson / Life Stories / Pinecastle
• Say, Won't You Be Mine / Ricky Skaggs / Long Journey Home / Rounder
• Man of Constant Sorrow / Tony Furtado with Tim O' Brien / Long Journey Home / Rounder
• No Hard Times Blues / Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives / Live at the Ryman / Self
• (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Holding On To Nothing / Dale Ann Bradley with Marty Raybon / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• Knocking At Your Door / Red Allen / The Folkway Years 1964-83 / Smithsonian
• Mountain Song / The Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• Church Street Blues / Tony Rice / A Retrospective / Sugar Hill
• House Of Tom Bombadil / Nickel Creek / A Retrospective / Sugar Hill
• Dixieland / Steve Earle & Del McCoury Band / The Mountain / E-Squared
• Bright Sunny South / Alison Krauss & Union Station / New Favorite / Rounder
• When I Was Young / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self
• My Blue Ridge Memories / The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Blue and Lonesome / Charter Oak Bluegrass / The Boy From the Country / Self
• Darcy Farrow / The Rice Brothers / Rice Brothers 2 / Rounder
• How Can I Lose / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• Hillbilly Hemingway / Mark Newton Band / Hillbilly Hemingway / Rebel
• Grayson County Blues / No Speed Limit / Sweet Virginia / Arhoolie
• Somebody's Missing You / Frank Solivan, II / Prime Cuts in Bluegrass #84 / KBC
• Springhill Disaster / The Abrams Brothers / Prime Cuts in Bluegrass #84 / KBC
• Wayfaring Stranger / Butch Baldassari / Prime Cuts in Bluegrass #84 / KBC
• Big Payday Blues / Shiloh Ridge / Prime Cuts in Bluegrass #84 / KBC
• Big Ball In Boston / Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / House Down the Block / Rebel
• Little Georgia Rose / Vern & Ray with Herb Pederson / San Francisco 1968 / Arhoolie
• Train 45 / Jim VanCleve / No Apologies / Rural Rhythm
• You Better Get / Blueridge / Side by Side / Sugar Hill
• Old Old House / Big Country Bluegrass / On Fire / Hay Holler
• Shoutin' Time / Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Tell Someone / Rebel
• Just As The Sun Went Down / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• Talk About Suffering / Pine Mountain Railroad / The Old Railroad / CMH
• Riding On My Savior's Train / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Early Recordings / Rebel
• The Old Fashioned Preacher / The Bluegrass Cardinals / Sunday Mornin' Singin' / CMH
• John In The Jordan / Jerry Salley with The Oak Ridge Boys / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Shine Hallelujah, Shine / Don Reno & Red Smiley / Together Again / Rebel
• Shouting on the Hills of Glory / The Spinney Brothers / Here At the Cross / Self
• Cry From the Cross / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Ohoopee / Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler

Playlist for "Bluegrass Cafe" 2/11/2007

Amy was taking a day off and Jim was on an airplane to the midwest, so Red Rooster Party co-host Marti brought the Bluegrass Music to you Sunday. A side benefit was the different songs she brought to the show. Hope you enjoyed.

Marti will be back on Sunday, 18 February, for sure. If I can be dragged away from the Joe Val Festival early, I may join her. If you are at the festival, we hope to see you there.

Jim

Requests are in blue...

• Home to Carolina / The Grass Cats / Home to Carolina / New Time Records
• Cumberland Mountain Home / Cumberland Highlanders / The Cumberland Highlanders / Rural Rhythm
• Being Me / The Grascals / Long List of Heartaches / Rounder
• Confederate Soldier / Chatham County Line / Speed of the Whipporwill / Yep Roc
• The Country Gentlemen / Carolina Sonshine / The Country Gentlemen / Mastershield
• Lonesome Pines / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Down in Caroline / Big Country Bluegrass / On Fire / Hay Holler
• No Mother or Dad / Beartracks / From the Hollow / Self
• Don't You Want to Go There / Blueridge / Getting Ready / Pinecastle
• Hobo Blues / Lonesome River Band / Carrying the Tradition / Rebel
• Life In a Song / New Found Road / Life in a Song / Rounder
• I'm Bound for the Land of Canaan / The Del McCoury Band / The Promised Land / McCoury Music
• Road to Columbus / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• A Dime Looks Like a Wagon Wheel / Reno & Smiley / Together Again / Rebel
• He Lives in Me / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / He Lives in Me / Horizon
• Mighty Lonesome / Jim Lauderdale / Bluegrass / Yep Roc
• Six Wild Roses / Shoregrass / In CT / Self
• Blue Train / Crabgrass / Crabgrass / Self
• Twilight Time / Northern Bound / Time Goes So Fast / Self
• Old Cane Press / James Reams, Walter Hensley / Wild Card / Mountain Redbird
• Mr. John Henry, The Steel Driving Man / Marty Stuart & the Superlatives / Live At The Ryman / Superlatone
• Forked Deer / Bryan Sutton / Not Too Far From The Tree / Sugar Hill
• Iron Mountain Line / Larry Stephenson / Life Stories / Pinecastle
• We'll Be Sweethearts in Heaven / Ralph Stanley II / Stanley Blues / Rebel
• The Rain / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Wash Away Your Troubles / Bell Buckle
• Texas Pretty / The Overall Brothers / The Overall Brothers / Self
• Long Black Train / Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top Xpress / Try a Little Kindness / Rounder
• Too Good to Be True / Alecia Nugent / A Little Girl… A Big Four Lane / Rounder
• Raisin' the Dickens / Country Current / Live / DoD
• Six Days on the Road / Country Current / Live / DoD
• Pass Me By / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• Blue Ridge Mountain Home / No Speed Limit / Sweet Virginia / Arhoolie
• Homefolks / The Mark Newton Band / Hillbilly Hemingway / Rebel
• Run Rufus Run / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• Old, Old House / Bo Isaacs / I'm Not Living Life / Goodtyme
• Just Loving You / J. D. Crowe & The New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Tragic Life / The Infamous Stringdusters / Fork in the Road / Sugar Hill
• Poor Old Man / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / F5 Music
• The Old Brown County Barn / Michael Cleveland / Let Er Go Boys / Rounder
• The Sad Wind Sighs / The Boys From Indiana / Good Time Blues / Rebel
• Better Get in that Number / The Spinney Brothers / Here At the Cross / Self
• Engine 143 / Ralph Stanley / A Distant Land to Roam / Columbia
• Poor Orphan Child / Ralph Stanley / A Distant Land to Roam / Columbia
• Misery & Happiness / Keith Sewell / Love is a Journey / Skaggs
• Worried Man Blues / The Carter Family / The Carter Family / Sphere
• Sweet Sunny South / The Osborne Brothers / When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland / Pinecastle
• I'm Walking the Dog / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top of the World / Pinecastle
• Highway Headed South / Marty Raybon / The Grass I Grew Up On / Self
• God Bless the Soldier / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• In the Mountaintops To Roam / David Peterson & 1946 / In the Mountaintops to Roam / Self

A note from Gerry Katz about the Joe Val Festival....

Folks -

The Joe Val Bluegrass Festival is rapidly approaching, and there have been questions as to whether or not single-day tickets are available. BBU President Gerry Katz sent out an email this AM about this very subject. I'm including his email message below, but here's a quick synopsis: weekend festival tickets are SOLD OUT, but there are a few day-only festival tickets remaining for both Friday and Sunday. In addition, it seems the Gibson Brothers have been added to the Friday night lineup. For more details on the Joe Val Festival lineup, click here. Read on for Gerry's note:

Greetings from the Boston Bluegrass Union -

Tickets for next week's Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, February 16-18 at the Sheraton Framingham are now in short supply. We are sold out of weekend tickets and have a small quantity of Friday-only and Sunday-only tickets available. Best bet would be to purchase your tickets online now as these will likely be gone by the start of the festival. Both days feature great Main Stage lineups including Chris Thile and the Gibson Brothers headlining on Friday, and Doyle Lawson and David Davis headlining on Sunday. Plus, we've added some workshops to Friday night.

Performance schedules for Main Stage, Workshop, Film Fest and Vendor Showcase are now online, too. We have some slots remaining in the Master Classes scheduled for Friday prior to the start of the festival. Check out all the details at http://www.bbu.org/

See you next week,

Gerry

WHUS Spring Schedule....

The WHUS Spring Schedule has been announced, and we're happy to tell you that both Red Rooster Party and Bluegrass Cafe will continue to be heard at their normal times:

Red Rooster Party - Sundays, 2-4PM

Bluegrass Cafe - Sundays, 4-7PM

Marti joins you in the Cafe this Sunday. Thanks for listening!

Amy

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/4/2007

On Super Bowl Sunday, we provided an alternative to all of the football hoopla. The phones were very busy -- it's always good to know that someone is listening! The requested tunes are noted below in blue. We think there may be some show preemptions with Red Rooster and BG Cafe next week -- Marti will be on the air with you for whatever portion of BG Cafe airs (assuming the station schedule doesn't change us to a new day -- we'll keep you posted).

Amy

• Fiddler's Dream / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / No Vacancy / Brandywine
• Sweethearts In Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• I Beg You Little Darling Not To Cry / Darrell Webb / Behind The Scenes / Lonesome Day
• Molly And Tenbrooks / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia
• Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• John Henry, Jr. / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Flower Blooming In The Wildwood / Michael Cleveland with Tim O'Brien / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• I Just Think I'll Go Away / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Stop In Southport Towne / Blue Circle
• Big Country / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self-Produced
• Trail Of Tears / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Roll Muddy River / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• Deep River / Buddy Merriam & Back Roads / Live At The Vail-Leavitt Music Hall / Lilypad Records
• The Undelivered Message / Larry Sparks / Special Delivery / Rebel
• I'll Go Steppin', Too / Country Current / Live / U.S. Dept. of Defense
• The Leaves That Are Green / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings / Rebel
• That's How I Got To Memphis / Charlie Sizemore Band / In My View / Rebel
• Prisoner Of The Past / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco
• In The Jailhouse Now / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother Where Art Thou / Lost Highway
• Poor Ellen Smith / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Cuttin' Loose / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Lester Flatt & Mac Wiseman / Over The Hills To The Poorhouse / RCA
• You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper / Rounder
• I Don't Want Your Nine Pound Hammer / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road
• Rose Of My Heart / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Where Did Our Young Years Go / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• I'll Pretend It's Raining / McCoury Brothers / High, Lonesome, And Blue / Rounder
• There Will Always Be A Rocking Chair / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family
• Brown Mountain Light / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• Carter Country / Jason Carter / On The Move / Rounder
• You Left Me Alone / Longview / Lessons In Stone / Rebel
• Pill Or Potion / Grass Cats / Home To Carolina / New Time Records
• Hold Whatcha Got / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Wall Around Your Heart / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• Shackles And Chains / Mac Wiseman with Osborne Brothers / Most Requested / CMH
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Lost River / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / Self-Produced
• Walking Down The Line / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield
• Let Me Let Me Love You One More Time / Infamous Stringdusters / Infamous Stringdusters / Sugar Hill
• Brand New Heartache / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• What Will Become Of Me / Special Consensus / Everything's Alright / Pinecastle
• Don't This Road Look Rough & Rocky / Bluegrass Album Band / Bluegrass Compact Disc, Vol. 2 / Rounder
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics, 1946-1950 / Cattle Records
• Just As The Sun Went Down / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Lord, Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Heaven / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield
• Take Me In Your Lifeboat / Bluegrass Gospel Project / Makes You Strong / Vital Records
• Angel Band / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Stanley Brothers / Mercury
• Who Will Go? / David Peterson / Jesus Use Me / Self-Produced
• Bring Him Your Talents / Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Get In Line Brother / Flatt & Scruggs / Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Weston (VT) Playhouse Winter Show -- Saturday, February 24th

Bluegrass and Old-Time Country Music

at the

Weston Playhouse

Weston, VT

Saturday, February 24, 2007

1 show only: 12PM

3 bands:

PINE HILL RAMBLERS

BLISTERED FINGERS

WESTERNAIRES

For more information, call (802)824-6674

A friendly reminder about Dan Paisley....

Don't forget -- Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass will be taking the stage tomorrow night at the East Hartford Community Cultural Center in East Hartford. Showtime is 7:30PM -- the doors open at 6PM. Call (860)528-1458 for details, or visit the EHCCC website. You may also read our earlier posting about this show, if you like.

Join me at BG Cafe this Sunday, too.....4-7PM at 91.7 on your FM dial or streaming online at www.whus.org.

Amy

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/28/2007

Sunday's show started a bit late, as the UCONN Women's Hockey game lasted 'til a bit past 4PM. No matter, though, as we still squeezed in plenty of great Bluegrass. The new year has brought us lots of new music so far, and we featured a good bit of it from the likes of Nashville songwriter Jerry Salley, banjo player Daniel Grindstaff, a new gospel project from the Kenny & Amanda Smith Band, something from the Greencards, a song from the forthcoming solo project by Steve Gulley, a couple of tunes from the latest edition of Prime Cuts of Bluegrass, and a new CD tribute to the Country Gentlemen from their longest-tenured bass player, Bill Yates. We also inadvertently featured at least three tunes from the country music songbook of Carl Smith, but that's not such a bad thing, is it? There were a few requests, too: those are noted below in blue. Not sure who's in the Cafe next week -- Jim or I -- but we'll keep you posted, and hopefully, entertained with some great Bluegrass music.

Have a good week -
Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• You Are The One / Jim & Jesse / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Dark As The Night / Boone Creek / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• Old Devil's Dream / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Ocean Of Diamonds / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• Cabin On A Mountain / Vern Williams Band / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Tennessee Wagoner / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• The Prisoner's Song / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• Wide Open / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Bending The Strings / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self-Produced
• His Record Is On High / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Too Old To Die Young / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self-Produced
• Where The Old Red River Flows / King Wilkie / Broke / Rebel
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Long Forgotten Dream / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain / Ralph Stanley II / Listen To My Hammer Ring / Rebel
• Don't Wake Me / Bill Emerson with Red Allen / Reunion / Webco
• Lefty's Old Guitar / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• How Will I Explain About You? / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Essential Bill Monroe…., 1945- 1949 / Columbia
• Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle
• I'd Rather Be A Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• Livin' It Down / Steve Gulley / CD single / Lonesome Day
• Redwood Hill / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield
• I'll Break Out Tonight / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield
• Young Fisherwoman / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield
• Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Rockwell's Gold / Randy Kohrs & the Lites / Prime Cuts Of Bluegrass, Vol. 85 / KBC
• Lonesome Side Of Town / The Greencards / Viridian / Dualtone
• Wow Baby / Hunter Berry / Prime Cuts Of Bluegrass, Vol. 85 / KBC
• Factory Floor / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• You'll Find Her Name Written There / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Home / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• Taking The Crooked Road Home / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Good Home Grown Music Sampler, 2006 / Blue Circle
• You Can Run / Williams & Clark Expedition / Williams & Clark Expedition / Self-Produced
• If I Were Your Brother / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Yours Forever Blue / Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band / The Mountain / E-Squared
• Shoutin' Time / Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Tell Someone / Rebel
• Little White Church / America's Bluegrass Band / America's Favorite Hymns / OBR
• You've Gotta Righten That Wrong / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• On The Jericho Road / Bass Mountain Boys / A Beautiful Life / CMH
• Talking About That Old-Time Religion / Whetstone Run / Angels Rejoiced / Strictly Country
• Stormy Waters / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mt. Boys / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Play List 1/21/2007

We played a mix of very old Bluegrass music from some obscure labels and some very new music from today's stars of Bluegrass and also from artists on smaller independent or self-produced labels. We played several local and New England artists as well. We found there was some very good music out there that is not very well-known -- all you need to do is look for it. We will do our best to keep bringing you a good cross-section of Bluegrass every Sunday, so keep us tuned in to keep abreast of the full range of Bluegrass, including some rare items you will find nowhere else. Amy will be back next Sunday, 1/28/07.

Jim

Requests are blue.

• Wild Turkey / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• Kentucky Is Only A Dream / Red Belcher and the Kentucky Ridgerunners / The Early Days of Bluegrass Vol 1 / Rounder LP
• Katy Daly / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Soldiers Joy / Flatt & Scruggs / 1959-1963 / Bear Family
• Cold Rain / Big Country Bluegrass / On Fire / Hay Holler
• Hard Times / The Grascals / Long List of Heartaches / Rounder
• Rita Mae / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• Jolene / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• If I Lose / Acoustic Blue / Workin' Man / Self
• Last Dollar Blues / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Who Am I / Cedar Hill / Portrait of a Song / Hay Holler
• That's How The Cookie Crumbles / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top of the World / Pinecastle
• Georgia Bound / Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe / Stone Fences / Santa Fe
• Rovin' Gambler / J. D. Crowe & The New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• I Will Never Marry / The Carter Family / The Carter Family / Sphere
• Chancellorsville / David Davis and the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• I Know My Lord's Gonna Help Me On / The Fritts Family / One More Mountain / Self
• Tennessee Wagoner / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent
• Cora Is Gone / Dave Evans / Pretty Green Hills / Rebel
• Dixieland / Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band / The Mountain / E Squared
• Bright Sunny South / Alison Krauss + Union Station / New Favorite / Rounder
• White Freightliner Blues / Crossover / Friends Having Fun / Self
• Oh Susannah / Gray Sky Girls / Gray Sky Girls / American Melody
• My Blue Ridge Memories / The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Let Me Love You One More Time / The Infamous Stringdusters / The Infamous Stringdusters / Sugar Hill
• God Must Be A Cowboy / The Grass Cats / Home To Carolina / New Time
• Take Me Back To Kentucky / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Stop In South Port Towne / Blue Circle Records
• Hello City Limits / Michael Cleveland / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Lizzie Lou / Hickory Ridge / Carolina Callin Me / Back Creek
• Blind Man Walking / Cadillac Sky / Blind Man Walking / Skaggs Family
• George, I Need That Rocking Chair / Cecil Hall and the Dominion Bluegrass Boys / Mother's Beautiful Rose / Weslyn
• Who's Leaving Who / Jim Lauderdale / Bluegrass / Yep Roc
• Lonesome Won't Get The Best Of Me / Lonesome River Band / The Road With No End / Mountain Home
• City On A Hill / The Bluegrass Gospel Project / Makes You Strong / Vital
• Before The Sun Goes Down / Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands / The Golden West / HighTone
• Sally Ann / Nate Leath / I've Always Been a Rambler / Patuxent
• Gonna Start a Bluegrass Band In Asheville / Charles R. Humphrey III / Songs From The Road / Lucks Dumpy Toad
• I Could Love You All The Time / Estil Stewart 7 Flat Mountain Boys / The Early Days of Bluegrass Vol 2 / Rounder LP
• Traveling The Highway Home / Francine Michaels / Remembrance of You / MTM Records
• Smoke That Cigarette / Buddy Merriam and Back Roads / Live at the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall / Lilypad
• Brown Mountain Light / Carolina Sonshine / Remembers The Country Gentlemen / MasterShield
• Blue Eyed Boston Boy / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / Self
• I'll Be Happy In My Home / The Brewster Brothers and Four Brothers Quartet / The Early Days of Bluegrass Vol 2 / Rounder LP
• If You Don't Love Your Neighbor / Shannon Grayson and his Golden Valley Boys / The Early Days of Bluegrass Vol 1 / Rounder LP
• The Key To Heaven / The Lewis Family / Flyin' High / Mountain Home
• Will You Meet Me Over Yonder / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / He Lives In Me / Horizon
• He Did Rise / Monroe Crossing / Into The Fire / Self
• Great Speckled Bird / The Morris Brothers / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass Gospel / Self
• Ohoopee / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler

Dan Paisley & The Southern Grass -- Saturday, February 3rd

Fans of traditional, hard-driving Bluegrass will be pleased to know that Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass will be returning to CT on Saturday, February 3rd. The band will be performing at the East Hartford Community Cultural Center in East Hartford. Doors open at 6PM; showtime is 7:30PM. If you've not seen this band, you owe it to yourself to get there and hear the sounds of "real" Bluegrass music. For more information, call (860)528-1458 or visit the EHCCC website.

FYI, it seems the band now has a MySpace page, as well. To get there, click here.

Shady Creek & Spirit Fiddle -- Saturday, January 27th

On Saturday, January 27th, Bluegrass and traditional music return to the Killingly Grange (located on the corner of Route 101 and Dog Hill Road in East Killingly, CT) when there will be a show featuring Connecticut mainstay, Shady Creek and a guitar and fiddle duet, Spirit Fiddle. Showtime is 7PM. For more information, call (860)564-1018.

A full three hours of BG this Sunday, 1/20...

We recently got this update from the WHUS Sports Department....

There will be NO preemption of the Bluegrass Cafe this Sunday, January 20th. Join Jim & Marti from 4-7PM ET as they play lots of great tunes! Of course, you're encouraged to tune in starting at 2PM when J & M host their own Red Rooster Party with lots of terrific old-time American music. Please join them at 91.7 on your FM dial (in southern New England) or online at www.whus.org.

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/14/2007

Sunday's show featured some brand new music from a young fiddler from Maryland, Patrick McAvinue. He has a new solo project on Patuxent Music that features, in addition to Patrick's great fiddling, some pretty high-profile guests: Marshall Wilborn, Dudley Connell, David McLaughlin, Sammy Shelor, and Patrick's boss in Redline, Audie Blaylock. Great stuff. We also included a mini-salute to one of the country music greats, Hall of Famer Ray Price, who celebrated his 81st birthday on January 12th. No, Ray Price is definitely NOT a BG performer, but some of his great songs from the 1950s have been covered many times in the BG world by various performers, so it seems only fitting to pay tribute to him on a BG show.

We think this Sunday's show may be preempted for UCONN basketball, but Jim & Marti will join you for whatever portion of the BG Cafe that airs....

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• You Better Hold On To Your Heart / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Prisoner Song / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Home To Carolina / Grass Cats / Home To Carolina / New Time Records
• I'll Go Stepping Too / R.C. Harris / Comin' Back To Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Heavy Traffic Ahead / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia
• Scatterbrain Mama / Hunger Mountain Boys / Three / Old-Fi Records
• Selfish Tears / Frank Solivan II / Selfish Tears / Self-Produced
• Road To Columbus / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• Pick Me Up On Your Way Down / Patrick McAvinue with Marshall Wilborn / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• New Five Cents / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Patrick McAvinue with Audie Blaylock / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• Shadows In My Room / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill
• I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / Blue Sky Boys / There'll Come A Time / Blue Tone Records
• Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
• Crazy Blues / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• I'm Coming Back But I Don't Know When / Curly Seckler / 60 Years Of Bluegrass With My Friends / Copper Creek
• I Worship You / Stanley Brothers / Best Of Stanley Brothers / Mercury
• Standing Room Only / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Cold Blue Day / NewFound Road / Life In A Song / Rounder
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• How Many Times / Vern & Ray / San Francisco, 1968 / Arhoolie
• Festival Time Again / Joe Ross / Festival Time Again / Zephyr
• Bury Me Beneath The Willow / Gray Sky Girls / Gray Sky Girls / Self-Produced
• The Old Home Town / Bluegrass Album Band / Bluegrass Album Band / Rounder
• Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• Bury Me In Bluegrass / Laurie Lewis & The Hired Hands / The Golden West / Hightone Records
• The Grey Ghost / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Webco
• Mighty Mississippi / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sugar Hill
• The Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• You Done Me Wrong / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Crazy Arms / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• Falling, Falling, Falling / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill
• I'll Be There / Ray Price / I'll Be There: The Legend Begins / Country Stars
• Sleep With One Eye Open / Acoustic Blue / Workin' Man / Self-Produced
• Sold Down The River / Bob Paisley & The Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Crooked Creek / Good Home Grown Music Sampler, 2006 / Blue Circle
• Flint Hill Special / Charlie Cushman / Five String Time / Self-Produced
• It's Amazing What Sunshine Can Do / Pete Goble / When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / FireHeart Pro
• I'm Waiting To Hear You Call My Name / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• When I Receive My Crown / Big Country Bluegrass / On Fire / Hay Holler
• Kneel And Pray / Mickey Harris / Kneel And Pray / Self-Produced
• You Can Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & The New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Prayin' Shoes / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• There's A Higher Power / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / Bluegrass Compact Disc, Vol. 2 / Rounder
• Lead Us Safely / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
• Cabin On The Hill / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Bubbling In My Soul / Flatt & Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Acoustic Blue -- Saturday, January 20th

The January edition of the Country Corner Coffee House series will feature a Massachusetts band, Acoustic Blue. Showtime is 8PM. The Country Corner Coffee House (a/k/a Fellowship Hall at the South Hadley Falls Congregational Church) can be found at 11 North Main Street, South Hadley, MA. Call (413) 467-9394 for more information.

Steep Canyon Rangers -- Friday, January 19th

On Friday, January 19th, the 2006 IBMA "Emerging Artists of the Year" -- the Steep Canyon Rangers -- will be performing at the Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center Street, Northampton, MA. Showtime is 10PM. For what it's worth, I saw these guys at Andy Alexander's Pickin' In The Pasture festival last August, and they were terrific. They're not ultra-traditional, but they definitely can play that "hardcore" BG, if they're so inclined. If you'd like more information on their Iron Horse show, call (413)584-0610.

Bristol Boys -- Saturday, January 13th

The Bristol Boys are a relatively new (formed within the last year) trio of veteran CT musicians who get together from time-to-time to play country and Bluegrass music dating from the 1920s through the early 1950s. If you've been around the southern New England BG scene for awhile, no doubt, these guys look a bit familiar to you, as they've had years of playing experience with bands such as Charter Oak Bluegrass, Traver Hollow, and the Bear Bridge Band. For the record, the Bristol Boys are (L-R), Dave Orlomoski on guitar, Matt Nozzolio on Dobro, and Dave Aston on bass (and yes, the first Dave is Amy's brother). If you'd like to see this trio play and sing, join them this Saturday, January 13th at 9PM at Jitters Coffee House, 1273 Queen Street (Route 10), Southington, CT. For more information, call (860)747-1100.

"Bluegrass Cafe" Play List, 7 January 2007

Our first show of the year featured a live interview with David Davis of The Warrior River Boys. David disussed his influences, what has been happening with his band in recent years, and his new CD on Rebel, "Troubled Times." We also celebrated Earl Scruggs' 83rd birthday by playing several canons of the Bluegrass genre from Lester & Earl. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed serving it up.

Amy will be with you next week.

Jim

• Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Old Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Cora Is Gone / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Sittin’ On Top Of The World / Jack Cooke / Sittin’ On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• Jealous Heart / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Old Love Letters / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites Rounder
• My Old Kentucky Home / Dan Paisley & The Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Holding On To Nothing / Dale Ann Bradley with Marty Raybon / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• Time’s A Looking Glass / Jim Lauderdale / Bluegrass / Yep Roc
• The Moonshiner / IIIrd Tyme Out / Round III At The MAC / CMG
• Two Little Boys / Nothin’ Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• Dreaming Of A Little Cabin / James Reams/Walter Hensley / Wild Card / Mountain Redbird
• Homefolks / The Mark Newton Band / Hillbilly Hemingway / Rebel
• Won’t Be Over You / Lonesome River Band / The Road With No End / Mountain Home
• City On A Hill / David Peterson / Jesus Use Me / Self
• John Henry, Jr. / David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Pretty Green Hills / Dave Evans / Pretty Green Hills / Rebel
• My Night To Howl / The Grascals / Long List of Heartaches / Rounder
• Mississippi River Raft / J. D. Crowe & The New South / Lefty’s Old Guitar / Rounder
• Born A Rambler / No Speed Limit / Sweet Virginia / Arhoolie
• Long Black Train / Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder
• Gonna Have A Time / Cedar Hill / Portrait Of A Song / Hay Holler
• The Lonesome Cry (of the Whippoorwill) / David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / Rebel
• I Heard That Lonesome River / David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Chancellorsville / Davis & The Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• The River Ran Black / David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel

Interview with David Davis

• The Ballad of Sarah Malone / David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Take Me In The Lifeboat / The Bluegrass Gospel Project / Makes You Strong / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Rag / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder
• Let Her Go, God Bless Her / Big Country Bluegrass / On Fire / Hay Holler
• Poor Old Cora / Larry Stephenson / True Stories / Pinecastle
• Are You Afraid To Die / Ralph Stanley / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Dance Around Molly / Cia Cherryholmes / Cuppa ‘Jo / Huber
• West Virginia Ground / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / F-5
• Hillbilly Heartache / Don Rigsby & Midnight Call / Hillbilly Heartache / Rebel
• Frankie & Johnny / Hunger Mountain Boys / Three / Old-Fi
• Preachin’, Prayin’, Singin’ / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 1948-1959 / Bear Family
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Ralph Stanley & Clinch Mountain Boys / 1971-1973 / Rebel
• I’ve Found A Hiding Place / Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys / 1950-1958 / Bear Family
• My Mother’s Bible / The Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• The Far Side Banks of Jordan / Monroe Crossing / Into The Fire / Self
• Victory In Jesus / David Peterson / Jesus Use Me / Self
• Ohoopee / Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler

Another year -- another guest at this Sunday's BG Cafe!

Folks -

Just wanted to let you know that David Davis (of the Warrior River Boys) will be joining Jim via telephone on this Sunday's BG Cafe. At this point, I'm not sure of what time that interview will be happening, but you'll want to tune in for the whole show, I'm sure, beginning at 4PM EST. David Davis has long been a favorite of New England's ultra-traditional BG fans, and his very excellent and successful 2006 Rebel release, "Troubled Times" does not disappoint. Folks in New England will have a couple of opportunities to see David and the WRB in person in 2007. Here are just a couple of dates:

• Sunday, February 18 -- Joe Val BG Festival, Framingham, MA
• Saturday, June 23 -- Jenny Brook Family BG Festival, Weston, VT
• Saturday, September 15 - Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park, East Wareham, MA

If you don't live in or near New England, click here for a more complete listing of WRB gigs.

Join David with Jim this Sunday, January 7th, won't you? I know I'll be listening....

Amy

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/31/2006

In the last BG Cafe for 2006, we included lots of new and/or reissued music released during the year (and a couple of tunes from projects that were received at the tail end of 2005, if you want to be technical). We've marked these "new" tunes on this list in red. We also played very brand-new music from the likes of the Bluegrass Gospel Project, Monroe Crossing, Dwight McCall, and a young guitar player named Mo Canada. In 2007, we look forward to playing lots more great BG music for you at WHUS -- thanks for supporting the show this year!

Happy New Year!
Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass /Blue Planet
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mt. Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England BG Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• My Brown Eyed Darling / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• I Beg To You / Cedar Hill / Portrait Of A Song : The Drasco Sessions / Hay Holler
• The Eighth Of January / Charlie Cushman / Five String Time / Self-Produced
• Holding On When You've Let Go / Josh Crowe / Good Home Grown Music Sampler, 2006 / Blue Circle
• John Hardy / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
• Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Curly Seckler with Larry Cordle / Prime Cuts Of Bluegrass, Vol. 84 / KBC
• Those Eyes / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Golden West / Hightone
• Amelia Earhart's Last Flight / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• Love Please Come Home / Ronnie Reno & the Reno Tradition / In Concert / Shell Point
• How's It Feel / Daughters Of Bluegrass with Jeanette Williams / Back To The Well / Blue Circle
• Old, Old House / Bo Isaac / I'm Not Living Life (It's Living Me) / GoodTyme
• Stallin' / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• I've Got That Old Feeling / Alison Krauss / I've Got That Old Feeling / Rounder
• The Touch Of God's Hand / Monroe Crossing / Into The Fire / Self-Produced
• Spring Has Sprung / Mo Canada / Grassoline /Self-Produced
• The Story Of The Pharisees / Bluegrass Gospel Project / Makes You Strong / Self-Produced
• Never Say Never Again / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / Self-Produced
• I'm A Hobo / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Trail Of The Lonesome Pine / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Leavin' You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Vol. 1 / Pinecastle
• Julia Belle /Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• That's How The Cookie Crumbles / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• Walking With Joanna / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Good Time Blues / Boys From Indiana / Good Time Blues / Rebel
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• The Hard Times / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder
• John Henry, Jr. / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• My Friend Clyde / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is…The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
• Country Boy Rock 'N Roll / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Roll Muddy River / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• City On A Hill / Bluegrass Gospel Project / Makes You Strong / Self-Produced
• Hereafter / Lonesome River Band / The Road With No End / Mountain Home
• No End To Heaven / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• Up Above My Head / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder
• I'm Bound For The Land Of Canaan / Del McCoury Band / The Promised Land / McCoury Music
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Flatt & Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• We Shall Inherit / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / He Lives In Me / Horizon
• I'm Goin' Up When He Starts Down / BlueRidge / Gettin' Ready / Pinecastle
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder