"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/6/2007

When I was an intern at a local country station many, many years ago, the DJ I "shadowed" often would say -- sometimes jokingly -- that in radio, there was "never a dull moment." In the waning seconds of yesterday's BG Cafe, we experienced a moment that definitely wasn't dull, and had the potential of being downright inconvenient. I keep track of my playlist by using a simple Excel worksheet that I save on a thumb drive. Moments before the last gospel song ended yesterday, the computer on which the playlist was residing DIED. By that, I mean, there was no power source, no signal, no Internet, nothing. Quite fun. Our mentee, Maiga, was back for week #2 of her training, so it was good she got to see what kinds of "excitement" can really occur in radio. Fortunately, our long-time WHUS Training Director (and newly-elected Program Director) stopped by the station a few minutes after the computer died and was able to get it going again. My playlist only "lost" the gospel set, so the list that follows here is not in perfect order towards the end. Requests are noted in red. Maiga, by the way, did a very fine job on the air once again, and is set to host (or co-host) her own show beginning later on this week.

Jim & Marti join you in the Cafe for the next couple of Sundays. I'll be with you again on Memorial Day weekend.

Have a lovely May!

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Timber I'm Falling / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / R Own
• My Cabin In Caroline / Flatt & Scruggs / Complete Mercury Sessions / Mercury
• Send Me Your Address In Heaven / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• You Didn't Say Goodbye / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• J's Tune / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder
• Don't Let Your Wounded Heart Come Between Us / Randy Kohrs with Rhonda Vincent / Old Photograph/ Rural Rhythm
• Lovesick And Sorrow / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Long Journey / Rounder
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• Alone With You / Marty Raybon & Full Circle / The Grass I Grew Up On / Synchoro Records
• Don't Make Go To Bed And I'll Be Good / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• Tennessee Cut-Up Breakdown / Charlie Cushman / Five String Time / Self-Produced
• We Could / Terry Eldredge & Andrea Zonn / Making The Rounds / Pinecastle
• Bluegrass Blues / Steep Canyon Rangers / Steep Canyon Rangers / Rebel
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• I'd Like To Wander Back To The Old Home / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Ocean Of Teardrops / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Wind To The West / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• Is It True / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Blame It On The Pain / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / SteelTown Records
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Linda Lay and Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Folk Life
• Cold Blue Day / NewFound Road / Life In A Song / Rounder
• Close By / Vern Williams Band / Traditional Bluegrass / Arhoolie
• The Crow / Tony Trischka & Steve Martin / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Another Tear / Cedar Hill / Portrait Of A Song / Hay Holler
• Weary Hobo / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Old Old House / Big Country Bluegrass / On Fire / Hay Holler
• Walkin' West To Memphis / Casey & Chris & the Two-Stringers / Get Along Girl / Arrandem
• Red Letter Day / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Poor Ellen Smith / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Orange Blossom Special / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Classic Bluegrass / King
• Reno Bound / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Wrecking Ball / King Wilkie / Fresh Cut Bluegrass / Rounder
• Waiting For The Real Thing / Front Range / The New Frontier / Sugar Hill
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• Sourwood Mountain / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self-Produced
• You'll Find Her Name Written There / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Lost River / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / Rural Rhythm
• Gonna Paint The Town / James King / Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea
• I'm Goin' Up When He Starts Down / BlueRidge / Gettin' Ready / Pinecastle
• Lazarus And The Rich Man / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music
• Will You Meet Me Over There / Josh Williams / Lonesome Highway / Pinecastle
• Living On The Hallelujah Side / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Living On The Hallelujah Side / Rebel
• Shining Path / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• Climb The Ladder / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Church House Hymns / Self-Produced
• Have Mercy On My Soul / Seldom Scene / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• That Home Far Away / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Federal
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
  

Introducing the umpteenth member of Quicksilver....

In the "Is anybody really surprised by this?" BG news category, I read this week that Ron Spears (currently playing the mandolin and singing a lot of lead and tenor vocals with the Special Consensus) is going to be the new bass player/high tenor vocalist with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. It was announced a few months back that Jamie Dailey -- Doyle's current guitar player/high tenor guy, and a former guest at the Cafe -- would be leaving Doyle at the end of 2007 to form a new band with Darrin Vincent (Rhonda's brother, and a guitar player/harmony singer with Ricky Skaggs' Kentucky Thunder). Apparently, Doyle's been audtioning some singers to fill Jamie's part, and the decision to hire Ron Spears was revealed this week. Since I'm one of those people who've thought for a while now that Ron Spears sounds an awful lot like one of the members of the original Quicksilver band, Lou Reid, this seems like a fabulous addition to Quicksilver. This band is always terrific, and I will look forward to hearing the "new" group.

There's been no official word of when, exactly, Ron will be making his Quicksilver debut, but don't forget...you'll be able to see Doyle & Quicksilver at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in East Hartford this August. The festival dates are August 2-5, and Quicksilver will be appearing on Saturday, August 4th. For more information, visit the Podunk website.

If you want to read more about Ron joining Quicksilver, check out the Bluegrass Blog entry on this subject. The BG Blog is always a great source of daily info on all things Bluegrass --- check it out, if you're so inclined....

Amy

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/29/2007

"Back to basics" seems an apt description for the content of Sunday's show. We made a slight break from the "normal" (if such a thing exists), as Jim and I were in the studio together -- and we weren't asking you for money! Instead, we were working with a member of the current WHUS training class, Maiga, who got to make her debut on the airwaves. Maiga doesn't plan to play Bluegrass when she has her own show at WHUS, but she didn't seem to mind the tunes we asked her to play. There were a couple requests thrown in the mix -- those are in blue. Maiga will be back with us next week -- hope you'll be there, too.

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / Bluegrass Album, Volume 4 / Rounder
• Some Old Day / Lester Flatt / Lester Raymond Flatt / Flying Fish
• Helen / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Pretty Girls / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music
• Josie's Reel / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• My Brother Paul And Me / New River Line / Chasing My Dreams / Kindred Records
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Hand In Hand / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music
• Gotta Travel On / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• Night / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• My Native Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Old Home Place / Rounder
• I'm A Fool / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch
• Blue Train / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Julia Belle / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• Foggy Mountain Special / Circuit Riders / Let The Ride Begin / Pinecastle
• What A Ways We've Come / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Soldiers Joy Medley / Abrams Brothers / Iron Sharpens Iron / MasterShield
• Chancellorsville / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Fox On The Run / Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings / Rebel
• Sawing On The Strings / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles Or More / Rounder
• Cut Your Wheels / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• Awful Lonesome Train / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steeltown Records
• Red Rockin' Chair / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Live And Let Live / Tony Trischka with Tom Adams / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Makin' Time / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• When You Go Walking After Midnight / Ralph Stanley / Sixteen Years / Copper Creek
• A Dime Looks Like A Wagon Wheel / Reno & Smiley / Together Again / Rebel
• Sugar Coated Love / Bradley Walker / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family
• Don't Wake Me Up / Ralph Stanley / Sixteen Years / Copper Creek
• Country Boy / Lost & Found / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family
• This Old Martin Box / Blue Moon Rising / On The Rise / Lonesome Day
• One Dime At A Time / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Room Over Mine / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Steeped In Tradition / Brandywine
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder
• Workin' Man Blues / Acoustic Blue / Workin' Man / Self-Produced
• Redwood Hill / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / Mastershield
• I Am Weary, Let Me Rest / Virginia Ramblers / Virginia Ramblers / Hay Holler
• Raised By The Railroad Line / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Hylo Brown / In Concert / Copper Creek
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• It's Raining Here This Morning / Red Smiley / The Best Of Red Smiley / Rural Rhythm
• Coal Tattoo / Acoustic Blue / Workin' Man / Self-Produced
• Get Behind Me Satan / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / Sony
• Just Over In Heaven / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Vol. 1 / GGS
• There Is A Fountain / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Church House Hymns / Self-Produced
• Shouting On The Hills Of Glory / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Federal
• Better Get In That Number / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Standing In The Need Of Prayer / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Kneel And Pray / Mickey Harris / Kneel And Pray / MJH
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

RIBGMA 2nd Annual Mini-Fest THIS Sunday, 4/29....

If you're looking for something to do this weekend, and you're located anywhere near Pascoag, RI, do yourself a favor and check out the 2nd Annual Mini-Fest sponsored by the Rhode Island Bluegrass Music Association (or, RIBGMA). It all happens on Sunday, April 29th from noon-6PM at the Columbus Club, 100 Roosevelt Ave., Pascoag, RI.

This festival has sort of slipped in under the radar, but the band line-up looks pretty good. Taking the stage will be not one, but TWO Rhode Island-based bands: Southern Rhode and Rocky Hollow, as well as a band from neighboring Connecticut, Second Circle.

Tickets are available at the door only. Click here to see a flyer for this event.

If you need more information or directions, call RIBGMA President, Rich Guilbault: (401)568-8238. Help him make this event (and the organization) a terrific success!

James Ward at the Cafe, 4/22/2007

Here are a couple of pictures of James doing the ol' radio show this past Sunday. His mom, Cathy, also got to sit in on the festivities.

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/22/2007

The middle hour of Sunday's show featured a long-time friend of Bluegrass Cafe as a Guest DJ. James Ward had pledged $50 during our recent Radiothon campaign, and in return, he received one hour of time on the radio at Bluegrass Cafe to play all songs of his own choosing. For the past several years, James has made this pledge, and we really enjoy having in the studio and seeing what he's going to play. For something a bit different this year, the songs he chose to play were pretty much from all female BG singers -- James's picks are noted on this list in red. Later on this week, I'll post a picture of James behind the mic.

We also included a teeny bit of new music from the new projects of Larry Sparks ("The Last Suit You Wear" on McCoury Music) and David Parmley & Continental Divide ("Church House Hymns" released on the band's own label). We didn't get to play quite as many tunes from these new projects as we'd have liked, but you'll be hearing a whole lot more from them in future editions of Bluegrass Cafe. Jim & Marti join you on the air next week, I do believe.....

Thanks for listening -
Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Duncan & Brady (He's Been On The Job Too Long) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Polka On A Banjo / Flatt & Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia
• Tupelo County Jail / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Stop In South Port Towne / Blue Circle
• Another Day / McCoury Brothers / McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• John Henry, Jr. / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Captain / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steel Town Records
• You Are My Sunshine / Tom Adams / Right Hand Man / Rounder
• Forever By My Side / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• Are You Missing Me / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Live And Let Live / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• I Want To Be Loved / Abrams Brothers / Iron Sharpens Iron / MasterShield
• This Weary Heart You Stole Away / Dan Tyminski / Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea
• I'm Gonna Love You One More Time / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Crazy Blues / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Genuine Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• The Barn Song / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day /Sugar Hill
• Walkin' Shoes / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Genuine Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Old Hickory Cane / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Back To The Well / Daughters Of Bluegrass / Back To The Well / Blue Circle
• We Can't Go Wrong / Mark Newton with Rhonda Vincent / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel
• When Forever Rolls Around / Lovell Sisters / When Forever Rolls Around / Self-Produced
• Jolene / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Sally Ann / Schankman Twins / Duality / City West
• Tall Pines / Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Rounder
• AppleJack / Schankman Twins / Duality / City West
• Coat Of Many Colors / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• My Tennessee Mountain Home / Dolly Parton / Live And Well / Sugar Hill
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Blossoms On The Almond Tree / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Wash Away Your Troubles / Bell Buckle
• Angels Calling At My Door / Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Tell Someone / Rebel
• Holding On To Nothing / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• Marry Me / Dolly Parton / Live And Well / Sugar Hill
• The Day That Lester Died / Mark Newton with Claire Lynch / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel
• Make Him A Soldier / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Wash Away Your Troubles / Bell Buckle
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• How Many Times / Vern & Ray / San Francisco, 1968 / Arhoolie
• I've Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• I'll Never See My Home Again / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• The Old Coal Mine / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music
• Young Fisherwoman / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield
• This Morning At Nine / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Angeline The Baker / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virgnia Folk Arts
• Will You Meet Me Over Yonder / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Church House Hymns / Self-Produced
• Every Humble Knee Must Bow / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Prayin' Shoes / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Stormy Waters / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mt. Boys / Singing All Day And Dinner At The Ground /
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• Old Daniel Prayed / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Federal
• What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul / Bill & Charlie Monroe / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel /
  New Haven Records
• The Old Gospel Ship / Red Smiley / Best Of Red Smiley / Rural Rhythm
• You Can Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder

Bluegrass Cafe Playlist 4/15/07

The Sunday weather was rainy and cold, but the airwaves were cooking in Southern New England with an eclectic program of old, new, traditional, and not-so-traditional Bluegrass music on WHUS. We had a good number of requests and played most of them (the requests are in blue below).

Amy will be with you next Sunday, 22 April.

Jim

• Wild Turkey / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• Highway Paved With Pain / Lonesome River Band / Old Country Town / Sugar Hill
• Cold Wind / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self
• Water In The Sky / Brent Truitt, Rob Ikes, Richard Bailey, Byron House, Tim Crouch / Gone Phishin' / CMH
• Be Proud Of The Gray In Your Hair / Dave Evans / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Katy Cline / The Dillards / Early Recordings - 1959 / Varese Sarabande
• Wheels / Emerson & Newton / A Foot In The Past, A Foot In The Future / Pinecastle
• Whoa Mule / Clint Howard - Doc Watson / Favorites of Clint Howard - Doc Watson / Old Homestead
• The Storms Are On The Ocean / Larry Perkins & Friends / A Touch Of The Past / Pinecastle
• Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Red Satin Dress / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• T Model Ford / Tony Ellis / Farewell My Home / Flying Fish
• John In The Jordan / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Sally Goodin / Byron Berline / Fiddle & A Song / Sugar Hill
• Are You Waiting Just For Me / Mike Auldridge / Treasures Untold / Sugar Hill
• All I Ever Loved Was You / Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Bury Me Beneath The Weeping Willow / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
• Old Cane Pole / Tony Trischka w/ Bill Emerson / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Live and Let Live / Tony Trischka w/ Tom Adams / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Make Him A Soldier / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Wash Away Your Troubles / Bell Buckle Records
• Cold Rain and Snow / Peter Rowan and Tony Rice / Quartet / Rounder
• Born With a Hammer In My Hand / The Abrams Brothers / Iron Sharpens Iron / MasterShield
• Going Back To Old Virginia / Linda Lay and Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• Gold Watch And Chain / Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / 24 Bluegrass Favorites / Rural Rhythm
• Poor Boy's Delight / The Infamous Stringdusters / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass, Volume 85 / KBC Music
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Blue Grass 1950 - 1958 / Bear Family
• Boots of Spanish Leather / Seldom Scene / Scene It All / Sugar Hill
• Watson Blues / Bill Monroe and Doc Watson / Live Duet Recordings 1963 - 1980 / Smithsonian Folkways
• My Dying Bed / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Rounder
• Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Charlie Moore / The Vetco Sessions / Vetco
• Bury Me In Bluegrass / Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands / The Golden West / Hightone Records
• Freight Train Boogie / Bill Harrell & The Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Tennessee 1949 / Larry Sparks / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• She's No Angel / The Shaw Brothers & Pete Milano Bluegrass Band / Margie "She's No Angel" / Rhinestone Rooster
• Liberty / Carroll Best / Say Old Man, Can You Play the Banjo? / Copper Creek
• Wild Mountain Honey / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Tried & True / Rounder
• My Dixie Home / David Davis and the Warrior River Boys / My Dixie Home / Wango
• Alone And Broken Hearted / Herschel Sizemore / Back In Business / Hay Holler
• Rebecca / Herschel Sizemore / Back In Business / Hay Holler
• Whispering Hope / Blue Sky Boys / Farm & Fun Time Favorites Vol. Two / Copper Creek
• Mighty Close To Heaven / Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers / Mighty Close To Heaven / Starday
• Weeds In The Wheat / Front Range / One Beautiful Day / Sugar Hill
• When I Receive My Crown / Big Country Bluegrass / On Fire / Hay Holler
• Train That's Comin" / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / SteelTown Records
• How Far Is Heaven / Scott Brannon / Faded Love And Winter Roses / Wango
• Take Me In The Lifeboat / Rose Maddox with the Vern Williams Band / Beautiful Bouquet / Arhoolie
• I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap / The Reno Brothers / Drawing From The Well / Webco
• Ohoopee / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/8/2007

Sunday's Easter edition of the BG Cafe featured (as one might expect) a host of Easter-themed tunes. We also took a few minutes to pay tribute to a Country Music Hall of Famer who celebrated his 80th birthday on March 15th - Carl Smith. No, Carl isn't a BG performer, by any means, but like a good many of his country compadres from the 1950s, his tunes have been covered in the bluegrass world plenty of times. Why not celebrate his birthday? We've marked his tribute tunes in orange. And since I've been watching those recently released DVDs from the old "Flatt & Scruggs Grand Ole Opry Show" quite a bit, we just had to listen to some of their classic bluegrass. (By the way, if you've not yet seen these DVDs, you really must). While the phone lines were relatively quiet -- folks must have been busy visiting the relatives or eating those great hams and jelly beans and all -- we did receive a few requests (noted in blue). Jim and Marti have Cafe duties next Sunday, 4/15 -- do join them. Hope you all had a most joyous Easter.

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rockygrass / Blue Planet
• Here Comes The Train / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Watson's Cove / Ben Greene / On Watson's Cove / Self-Produced
• A Heart Never Knows / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Roll On Buddy / Red Smiley & the Bluegrass Cut-Ups / Best Of Bluegrass, Volume 1 / Rural Rhythm
• The Lonely Years Belong To Me / Connie & Babe / Early Days Of Bluegrass, Volume 10 / Rounder
• Sadie's Got Her New Dress On / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Old, Old House / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics / Cracker Barrel
• Harvest Time / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Roll On Blues / Connie & Babe / Early Days Of Bluegrass, Volume 10 / Rounder
• Cannonball Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Recorded Live At Vanderbilt University / Columbia
• You Are My Flower / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Recorded Live At Vanderbilt University / Columbia
• Old Leather Britches / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Recorded Live At Vanderbilt University / Columbia
• Moonlight On My Cabin / Curly Seckler / 60 Years Of Bluegrass With My Friends / Vine Street Records
• Some Old Day / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / Radio Gems
• Long Haul Truckin' / Chris Warner with Audie Blaylock / Chris Warner & Friends / Webco
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time / Vanguard
• Thinking About You / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
• Taking The Crooked Road Home / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Folklife
• Ballad Of Springhill / Abrams Brothers / Iron Sharpens Iron / Mastershield
• Pages Of Time / Chris Warner with Dudley Connell / Chris Warner & Friends / Webco
• The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Back Up And Push / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• A Crown He Wore / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Never Say Never Again / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / Self-Produced
• Paper Heart / Eric Uglam, Christian Ward & Austin Ward / The Old Road To Jerusalem / Backcountry
• You Are The One / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Are You Teasing Me / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle
• It's A Lovely Lovely World / Carl Smith / Essential Carl Smith, 1950-1956 / Columbia
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• A Living Prayer / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Lonely Runs Both Ways / Rounder
• Lonesome Side Of Town / Greencards / Viridian / Dualtone
• Dreams About The Hills And Home / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Milwaukee Blues / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Old New Hampshire Home / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle
• Moonlight On Kentucky / Misty Valley Boys / Bluegrass Piedmont Style / Mastershield
• The Bluebirds Are Singing / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• If Wishes Were Horses / Claire Lynch / Silver And Gold / Rounder
• Cry From The Cross / Charlie Sizemore / Stanley Tradition: Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea
• Just As The Sun Went Down / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill / Rhonda Vincent / One Step Ahead / Rounder
• Blood Stains On The Cross / Larry Sparks / New Highway / Mountain Home
• Search Inside An Empty Tomb / Rarely Herd / What About Him / Pinecastle
• The Man In The Middle / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• Broken Stone / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Ralph Stanley / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/1/2007

After two weeks of Radiothon non-stop talking (or so it seemed to me), the promise when I returned to the air was to play as much music as possible. I think I did okay on that score -- just over 50 tunes in 3 hours isn't too shabby. We even included new music from the excellent Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor project for Virginia Folklife, as well as Randy Kohrs' latest, "Old Photograph." There are also some great "new" compilations or reissues of older projects from the Seldom Scene, Ralph Stanley, J.D. Crowe, and an all-gospel collection from Rose Maddox with the Vern Williams Band. Some requests were thrown into the mix, as well -- those are noted in blue. Thanks for listening -- join us again on Easter Sunday, if you can.

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rockygrass / Blue Planet
• Pain In My Heart / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Big Wheels Turnin' / Blue Moon Rising / On The Rise / Lonesome Day
• Windy Mountain / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Blue Yodel #4 / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia
• Carolina Mountain Home / Johnson Mountain Boys / Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England BG Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• North To Alaska / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• Angeline The Baker / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self-Produced
• Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / Johnson Mountain Boys / Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• Lonesome Day, Lonesome Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• Coat Of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Live And Well / Sugar Hill
• It's Amazing What Sunshine Can Do / Pete Goble / When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / FireHeart Pro
• Trail Of Tears / Peter Rowan & Nashville BG Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Ralph Stanley / While The Ages Roll On / Rebel
• Slowly Getting You Out Of The Way / Bluegrass Cardinals / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Sugar Hill
• Honky-Tonk Blues / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Little Maggie / Stanley Brothers / Earliest Recordings / Rounder
• Head Of The Holler / James Reams & the Barnstormers / Troubled Times / Mountain Redbird
• Little Joe / Jeff White / The White Album / Rounder
• Ol' Joe Clark / Sam Bush / Glamour & Grits / Sugar Hill
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Jim & Jesse McReynolds / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Home Run Man / Audie Blaylock / Tribute To Jimmy Martin / Koch Records
• Brambles, Briars, And Me / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home /
  VA Foundation for Humanities
• The Trouble With The Truth / Randy Kohrs / Old Photograph / Rural Rhythm
• Carolina Road / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Prime Cuts Of Bluegrass, Volume 86 / KBC
• Helen / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder / Rose Maddox with Vern Williams Band / Beautiful Bouquet / Arhoolie
• Livin' It Down / Steve Gulley / Prime Cuts Of Bluegrass, Volume 86 / KBC
• Old Train / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / VA Foundation for Humanities
• More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Clementine / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steeltown Records
• Foggy Mountain Special / Flatt & Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Legacy
• I'd Like To Wander Back To The Old Home / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• One Teardrop And One Step Away / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• Lefty's Old Guitar / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Walls Of Time / Ricky Skaggs / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family
• Makin' Time / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Lord, Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• My Lord's Been A Walkin' / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• I'll Wear A White Robe / Ralph Stanley / Mountain Preacher's Child / Rebel
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Walls Of Time / Rounder
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Bluegrass at Weston (VT) Playhouse -- Saturday, April 28th

Bluegrass at the Weston (VT) Playhouse

Saturday, April 28, 2007

2 shows: noon-4PM AND 6-10PM (separate admissions)

BEAR BRIDGE

SETH SAWYER BAND

ACOUSTIC BLUE

Call (802)824-6674 for information.

Tickets or reservations are strongly suggested, especially for the early show.

Another Killingly Grange show this Saturday, 3/31....

For those who enjoy listening to Bluegrass gospel, there will be a show this Saturday, March 31st at the Killingly Grange. On the bill is the Right Path Trio, as well as Nick Anderson & the Gospel Friends. Also on the bill is a presentation of "Kids On Stage: The Next Generation Of Bluegrass." Showtime is 7PM, doors open at 6PM. The Killingly Grange is located at corner of Dog Hill Road and Route 101 in East Killingly, CT. For more information, call (860)564-1018.

Bluegrass Cafe Playlist 3/25/2007 with Guest DJ William Trickett

Sunday was our first Bluegrass Cafe following two Sundays of WHUS Radiothon. Bluegrass Cafe listeners - YOU! - came through with wonderful support and helped us make our goal. Thank you very much. Bluegrass is alive and well in Southern New England!

We had Guest DJ, William Trickett, programming the second hour of the show with a little help from brother Benjamin. William's selections were well-received as evidenced by your phone calls. William's selections are indicated in Bold Red below. (William is the banjo player to the far right of Greg Cahill of Special Consensus in the first photo. Benjamin is the guitar player on the far left next to Justin Carbone in the second photo.)

The Kruger Brothers and Cherryholmes played UCONN's Jorgensen Center the previous Friday and Saturday, so we played several tunes from both.

Also, Marti and I had just returned from a week in North Carolina where we visited Mount Airy -- not only a music Mecca, but the home of Andy Griffith. It is also home to the Easter Brothers -- a legendary Bluegrass Gospel group -- so we played a couple of songs from their most recent recordings.

Thanks for listening.

Jim

Requests are in blue.

• Wild Turkey / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• Please Don't Say It / Cherryholmes / Bluegrass Vagabonds / Spirit High Ridge
• How Long? / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Little Maggie / The Kruger Brothers / Carolina Scrapbook / Double Time
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Sam Bush / Laps In Seven / Sugar Hill
• Carrying On / Ralph Stanley II / Carrying On / Rebel
• That's How The Cookie Crumbles / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• Holding On To Nothing / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• 20/20 Vision / The Gillis Brothers / Ice Cold Stone / Hay Holler
• Tolland Deserted / The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Run Mountain / Tony Trischka / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• I Cried All The Way To Kentucky / Alecia Nugent / A Little Girl, A Big Four Lane / Rounder
• Another Tear / Cedar Hill / Portrait of a Song / Hay Holler
• Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Tommy Brown & The County Line Grass / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• Sweet Allalee / Art Stevenson & High Water / John Deere / Wolf Tracks
• Wow Baby / Hunter Berry / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass Vol 85
• Machine Gun Kelly / Rob Ikes / Big Time / Rounder
• Menzone Drive / Dan Menzone / Menzone Drive / LC Productions
• Papa Played The Dobro / Roger Williams / Fireball / RW Productions
• Walls Of Time / Bill Monroe / Bluegrass 1960-1969 / Bear Family
• Still Climbing Mountains / Blue Highway / Still Climbing Mountains / Rounder
• Fork In The Road / The Infamous Stringdusters / The Infamous Stringdusters / Sugar Hill
• Remington Ride / Phil Leadbetter / Slide Effects / Pinecastle
• Unspoken Things / New Tradition / Stand and Be Counted / Mountain Home
• Lazarus / Blue Highway / Marbletown / Rounder
• This World Is Not My Home / Blue Highway / Wondrous Love / Rounder
• I'm On Fire / The New Tradition / Seed Of Love / Brentwood Music
• John The Revelator / The New Tradition / Daddy On His Knees / Pinecastle
• Nobody's Business / The Stanley Brothers / Brown County Jamboree in Person / Ralph Stanley
• In The Gravel Yard / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Salt Creek / Clay Jones / Mountain Tradition / Rural Rhythm
• Cold Harbor / Tim Stafford / Endless Line / FGM Records
• Cold Frosty Morn / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• I'm Just Here To Ride The Train / Mountain Heart / Wide Open / Skaggs Family
• Roll On Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• East Bound Train / Blue Sky Boys / On Radio - Volume Four / Copper Creek
• Red Satin Dress / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Liberty / The Dillards / Live! Almost / Elektra
• Appaloosa / Emerson & Taylor / Appaloosa / Webco
• You Can Run But You Can't Hide / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Pinecastle
• Mississippi River Raft / J. D. Crowe & The New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Bill Emerson & Tony Rice / Bill Emerson Reunion / Webco
• Home Run Man / Emerson & Newton / A Foot In The Past, A Foot In The Future / Pinecastle
• Lord I'll Sing / Easter Brothers / Heart & Soul / Thoroughbred
• Peter Was A Fireball / Easter Brothers / By Request: Their Greatest Hits / Thoroughbred
• Prayer Bell of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Standing In The Need of Prayer / Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs And Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Living On The Hallelujah Side / Carolina Road / The Road That Took You There / CMH
• Ohoopee / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler

Tater Tate needs your help.....

As you may have heard or read elsewhere, longtime Blue Grass Boy, Clarence "Tater" Tate is undergoing chemotherapy treatments for lung cancer. Tater started as a fiddle player with Bill Monroe in the late 1950s, left for a while, and then returned to the Blue Grass Boys in the mid-1980s and stayed on until Monroe's last performance in 1996. In addition to being a Blue Grass Boy, Tater also worked with Red Smiley & the Shenandoah Cut-ups, as well as Hylo Brown and with Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass.

There will be a benefit concert to raise money for Tater's treatment on Sunday, April 15th in Bristol, VA. This should be a great show, as one of the features will be a Blue Grass Boys reunion, tentatively including former BGB's Bobby Hicks, Butch Robins, Wayne Lewis, Tom Ewing, Blake Williams, and others. For those of us who can't attend the benefit, there is still a way to contribute to the effort. If you'd like to help, send a check (payable to "Clarence Tate") to:

Raymond McLain

Bluegrass, Oldtime & Country Music Program

East Tennessee State Univ.

PO Box 70435

Johnson City, TN 37614-1704

Every little bit helps, and I'm sure will be much appreciated. If you can help Tater, or even if you just want to send a note with good wishes, please do.

Amy

Cherryholmes & Kruger Brothers at UCONN this weekend!

Big-time Bluegrass comes to UCONN this weekend with

2005 IBMA Entertainers of the Year

CHERRYHOLMES

and the fabuously-talented

KRUGER BROTHERS

Both bands will be performing in a Bluegrass Cabaret at the

Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts

Hillside Road

Storrs, CT

tonight, March 23rd &

tomorrow night, March 24th.

Showtime is 8PM both evenings; doors open at 7PM.

For more information, call (860)486-4226 or click here.

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/18/2007 & THANKS!!!

Well, I'm still a little in a state of disbelief, but thanks to all of our fabulous listeners, WE MADE IT!!! Last week, we told you that our two-week Radiothon show goal was $2,500, but after the first week, we had raised only $940. The confidence level was not high at the beginning of yesterday's show, I must confess. However, thanks to the eternal optimism (and enthusiasm!) of Marti, and some terrific last-minute callers, we ended up with a two-week show total of $2,530. Our listeners are definitely THE BEST, and we can't thank you enough. As we did last week, everything played on Sunday's show was available as a show premium (except the three songs marked in blue, which were requests). Jim & Marti are doing the show (with a special guest DJ during one hour) this Sunday, March 25th. Expect to hear plenty of requests and a whole lot less talk. On April 1st, I'll join you again, and as promised, I will be taking a vow of (almost) silence and playing plenty of music. We appreciate your patience with us over the last two weeks, and thanks again to everyone who helped us reach the big goal!!!!

Amy, Jim, & Marti

• Waiting To Hear You Call My Name / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Sugar In The Gourd / Blinky Moon Boys / Moonlite Theatre / Hay Holler
• Sadie's Got Her New Dress On / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Can You Hear Me Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Red Rockin' Chair / Darren Beachley / I Love You To The Moon And Back / Blue Circle
• Down In Caroline / Doug Bartlett / Mama Will You Call My Daddy / MasterShield
• The Touch Of Your Hand / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• Think Of What You've Done / IIIrd Tyme Out / Round III At The MAC / CMG
• Down By The River / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Roll Muddy River / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• Fox On The Run / Tony Trischka with Dudley Connell / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• The Crow / Tony Trischka with Steve Martin / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• How Long? / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Heartbreaker's Alibi / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Marry Me / Dolly Parton / Little Sparrow / Sugar Hill
• Look Down That Lonesome Road / Tim O'Brien / Fiddler's Green / Sugar Hill
• Runnin' Out Of Memory / Tim O'Brien / Cornbread Nation / Sugar Hill
• The Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Peter Rowan & Tony Rice / Quartet / Rounder
• Montana Slim / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Instrumentals / Skaggs Family
• The Walls Of Time / Peter Rowan & Tony Rice / Quartet / Rounder
• Shoulda Took That Train / Bradley Walker / Highway Of Dreams / Rounder
• Scotland / Abrams Brothers / Carrying On / MasterShield
• Your Eyes / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Golden West / Hightone Records
• Come On Down The Mountain / Daughters Of Bluegrass / Back To The Well / Skaggs Family
• Goodbye Old Pal / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Classic Recordings, Vol. 1 / County
• Dixieland / Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band / The Mountain / Legacy
• Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Yodellin' Crazy / Delta Music
• Train 45 / Ben Greene / On Watson's Cove / Self-Produced
• Big Mon / Clay Jones / Mountain Tradition / Rural Rhythm
• I Just Think I'll Go Away / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Stop In Southport Towne / Blue Circle

Good news, bad news...

The good news: Radiothon will continue for the 3 hours of BG Cafe this week.
The bad news: Same thing.

For those of you who made a pledge last week to support WHUS during this year's Radiothon, thanks!! To those who haven't yet pledged, you've still got 3 more hours to call on Sunday from 4-7PM, and let us know you appreciate the music we play at BG Cafe.

To entice you a bit to make that call on Sunday -- toll free: 1-800-599-9487 -- we've secured a couple new CDs this week that may be quite appealing to you. At least one of these CDs hasn't even been released to the public yet, nor have we played it on the air at WHUS. You're going to like it, I assure you.....

Also, we'll have a couple pair of tickets to an upcoming show at UCONN featuring Cherryholmes and the Kruger Brothers. This show will be happening on Friday, March 23rd at 8PM at UCONN's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

And here's one more reason for you to make a pledge this Sunday....we're going to offer our "Pledge for 1, Get 2" promotion for every pledge made (at least up to the first 50 calls we get, that is). The second CD you receive will be our choice, but it will be of the Bluegrass variety.

As mentioned earlier, the WHUS higher-ups set an ambitious show goal for us in 2007 of $2,500. We've got quite a long way to go on Sunday to reach that goal, but with your help......we might just get there (or, at least get a whole lot closer).....

THANKS!

Amy

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/11/2007

Well, we survived the first week of Radiothon at WHUS. Many thanks to each of you who took the time to call in and make a pledge (and get your choice of some pretty terrific BG CDs). We know it's not particularly enjoyable to tune in to listen to a show that's supposed to play music for 3 hours, and find that the radio folks are looking to you for some funds. The truth is that at WHUS, our engineers and operations board are always looking for ways to upgrade our equipment and our sound, and our studios are moving this summer into our new home in the Student Union at UCONN. All of this costs money, and we hope you value our BG programming enough to call in and make a pledge of support. For the past several years, the BG Cafe has been able to bring in a lot of money during Radiothon -- hence, our station-set "show goal" is pretty high this year. We have been asked to bring in $2,500 for 2 weeks of Radiothon. Our hope was to hit the halfway mark yesterday, but that just didn't happen. Did we come close? Yes, as I believe we nearly made it to $1,000. That is an awesome amount of money -- THANK YOU to everyone who pledged! Obviously, we'd like to get a bit closer to our ambitious goal of $2,500 next Sunday, but at this writing, there's still a chance that the show will be preempted for Women's NCAA Basketball action. We'll keep you posted. We appreciate your patience during Radiothon, and, of course, say thanks once again for supporting us in whatever way you can!

Our playlist for Sunday's show was drawn mostly from CDs available as premiums for Radiothon. The exception was the Stanley tune (a request promised to a loyal listener) and the opening "Katy Hill."

Amy, Jim, & Marti

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rockygrass / Blue Planet
• Old Swinging Bridge / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• John Henry, Jr. / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Hillbilly Heartache / Don Rigsby & Midnight Call / Hillbilly Heartache / Rebel
• Long List Of Heartaches / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• Tupelo County Jail / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Stop In Southport Towne / Blue Circle
• How's It Feel / Daughters Of Bluegrass / Back To The Well / Blue Circle
• Slippin' Away / Michelle Nixon & Drive / What More Should I Say? / Pinecastle
• Mississippi River Raft / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Miller's Cave / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Red Rockin' Chair / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• You're My Darling / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Under A Lonesome Moon / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Swinging A Nine Pound Hammer / IIIrd Tyme Out / Round III At The MAC / CMG
• I Cried All The Way To Kentucky / Alecia Nugent / A Little Girl…A Big Four-Lane / Rounder
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Clay Jones / Mountain Tradition / Rural Rhythm
• I've Lived A Lot / Blinky Moon Boys / Moonlite Theatre / Hay Holler
• He Lives In Me / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / He Lives In Me / Horizon
• Rank Stranger / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Golden West / Hightone Records
• I Can't Sit Down / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• How Long? / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Midnight Angel / Rhonda Vincent with Bobby Osborne / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Wall Around Your Heart / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• Jake Satterfield / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Shoutin' Time / Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Tell Someone / Rebel
• I Wish You Knew / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• The Old Brown County Barn / Michael Cleveland / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Sea Of Regret / Dave Evans / Pretty Green Hills / Rebel
• John 3:16 / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Federal
• Listenin' To The Rain / Osborne Brothers / Cool, Blue & Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• I'll Go Stepping, Too / Frank Solivan II / Selfish Tears / Self-Produced
• Grapes On The Vine / Wildfire / Rattle Of The Chains / Pinecastle
• Be Good To My Little Baby Girl / Aaron McDaris / First Time Around / Pinecastle
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Jim VanCleve / No Apologies / Rural Rhythm
• Close By / Alan Bibey with Dan Tyminski / Cool, Blue & Lonesome / Sugar Hill

Our CD "thank you gifts" for Radiothon....

As we've mentioned on the air for the last couple of weeks, Radiothon begins at WHUS this Saturday, March 10th at 5AM and runs through Sunday, March 18th at 10PM. That means that for two Sundays -- any sports preemptions, notwithstanding -- we'll be conducting our own portion of Radiothon at Bluegrass Cafe. When we sent the word out to the various record labels and performers, we received many, many excellent CDs to offer you as "thank you gifts" when you make your pledge to Bluegrass Cafe. At this point, I'm not 100% sure of the pledge amount you will need to make to pick up one of the CD premiums, but as soon as I can confirm it, I'll let you know. Many thanks to all of our supporters!

To give you a clue about what we have to offer, here are a few titles:

• 3 Fox Drive - "Listen To The Music" (Koch)
• IIIrd Tyme Out - "Round III At The MAC" (CMG)
• The Abrams Brothers - "Carrying On" (MasterShield)
• Darren Beachley [of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver] - "I Love You To The Moon And Back" (Blue Circle)
• The Blinky Moon Boys - "Moonlite Theatre" (Hay Holler)
• Justin Carbone [of Special Consensus] - "Take Some Time" (Pinecastle)
• Carolina Road - "The Road That Took You There" (CMH)
• Cherryholmes - "Cherryholmes" (Skaggs Family)
• Michael Cleveland - "Let 'Er Go, Boys!" (Rounder)
• J.D. Crowe & the New South - "Lefty's Old Guitar" (Rounder)
• Daughters Of Bluegrass - "Back To The Well" (Blue Circle)
• David Davis & the Warrior River Boys - "Troubled Times" (Rebel)
• Jerry Douglas - "The Best Kept Secret (Koch)
• Dave Evans - "Pretty Green Hills" (Rebel)
• The Gibson Brothers - "Red Letter Day" (Sugar Hill)
• The Grascals - "Long List Of Heartaches" (Rounder)
• Jim & Jesse - "Our Kind Of Country" (Pinecastle)
• Mark Johnson & Emory Lester - "Acoustic Rising" (Mountain Home)
• Clay Jones [of Mountain Heart] - "Mountain Tradition" (Rural Rhythm)
• Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road - "A Stop In Southport Towne" (Blue Circle)
• Jim Lauderdale - "Bluegrass" (Yep Roc)
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - "He Lives In Me" (Horizon)
• Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands - "The Golden West" (Hightone)
• Lonesome River Band - "The Road With No End" (Mountain Home)
• Claire Lynch - "New Day" (Rounder)
• Aaron McDaris [of the Grascals] - "First Time Around" (Pinecastle)
• Monroe Crossing - "Into The Fire" (Self-Produced)
• NewFound Road - "Life In A Song" (Rounder)
• Michelle Nixon - "What More Should I Say?" (Pinecastle)
• Nothin' Fancy - "Album #7" (Pinecastle)
• Alecia Nugent - "A Little Girl...A Big Four-Lane" (Rounder)
• Tim O'Brien - "Cornbread Nation" (Sugar Hill)
• Tim O'Brien - "Fiddler's Green" (Sugar Hill)
• The Old Time Bluegrass Singers - "Threads" (Open Road)
• Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass - "Back To The Blue Ridge" (Brandywine)
• Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass - "The Tradition Continues" (Brandywine)
• David Peterson & 1946 - "In The Mountaintops To Roam" (Self-Produced)
• Gary Pomerleau [of White Mountain Bluegrass] - "Eye To Eye" (Self-Produced)
• Ronnie Reno & the Reno Tradition - "Portfolio" (Shell Point)
• Don Rigsby & Midnight Call - "Hillbilly Heartache" (Rebel)
• Jerry Salley - "New Songs, Old Friends" (Mountain Home)
• Chris Sexton [of Nothin' Fancy] - "Coffee At Midnight" (Pinecastle)
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band - "Always Never Enough" (Rebel)
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band - "Tell Someone" (Rebel)
• Frank Solivan II - "I Am A Rambler" (Self-Produced)
• Frank Solivan II - "Selfish Tears" (Self-Produced)
• Spinney Brothers - "Here At The Cross" (Self-Produced)
• Steep Canyon Rangers - "One Dime At A Time" (Rebel)
• Uncle Earl - "She Waits For Night" (Rounder)
• Jim VanCleve [of Mountain Heart] - "No Apologies" (Rural Rhythm)

This is not a complete list of the CDs we'll have to offer, and you should know that we do have multiple copies of some of the above titles. If you see something in the list that's a "must have," please call early in the show to make your pledge this Sunday. While we really don't like "begging" our listeners for money, in another way, we do enjoy Radiothon, as it allows us to prove to WHUS that there are folks out there who faithfully listen to (and, we hope, appreciate) the Bluegrass Cafe. Thanks!!

Amy