One more Sunday for Radiothon -- 4/19/2015

Today is the last day of Radiothon for 2015 (that we know about, anyway), and so, that means we will have one more three hour session of Bluegrass Cafe in which we ask you for your support of both the program and all of the other broadcasts we offer at WHUS.  If you can help us out with a pledge, please do!  We've got many, many ways of saying THANKS for your gifts, and, as promised, we've got a special end-of-Radiothon GRAND PRIZE that we'll be giving away around 6:55PM this evening.

This year's GRAND PRIZE consists of two wonderful items:  the 4-CD box set celebrating Rebel Records' first 35 years of existence (1960-1995), AND a copy of Phil Zimmerman's fine book of photos, Bluegrass Time:  A Musician's Photographs Of The Early Days Of Bluegrass.  To have your name entered into the GRAND PRIZE drawing, you simply need to make a pledge of support to Bluegrass Cafe sometime between 4:00PM and 6:55PM tonight.  The amount of your pledge can be anything from $5 to $500 or any amount in between.  How do you do that?  Call our wonderful phone operators this afternoon:  1-800-599-9487.  We always love hearing from you, but we especially enjoy knowing that you're listening during Radiothon!  Help us out, if you can!  

If you made a pledge to the show and WHUS during last week's Bluegrass Cafe, your name is already in the drawing for our GRAND PRIZE. 

If you're wondering about what sort of musical premiums we have to offer this year, check out the list posted here.  Keep in mind that the individual recordings donated by Mountain Home are not listed in that link, but suffice it to say, we also have the latest recordings from the Boxcars, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Flatt Lonesome, and a couple others.  Big thanks to all of the record labels who provided recordings for us this year:  Mountain Fever Records, Mountain Home, Rebel, Rounder, and Patuxent Music.  

Jim & I will look forward to hearing from you today...and THANKS!!

Amy

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/12/2015 RADIOTHON WEEK #1

Our loyal, somewhat busy operators on Sunday:
Eleanor Orlomoski, Clyde Proch, & Scott Farrar

It's the Season of Radiothon at WHUS!  If you tuned in to Sunday's show, you KNOW that we didn't play half as much music as we might normally play during a 3-hour broadcast.  While we don't necessarily like to talk, talk, talk all the time (honestly!), Jim and I do enjoy hearing from you during Radiothon.  We don't have any station-suggested goals for fundraising this year, but Jim and I did come up with a totally unofficial goal for our 3 hours on Sunday -- we wanted to make at least $1,000.  Well, thanks to your amazing generosity, we took in nearly $1,200 during our three hours of radio time, so THANKS!!!  

We've got lots of great CDs to offer  -
and some nifty sweatshirts, too!  

Rest easy, of course -- if you didn't get a chance to call in and make a pledge on Sunday, you've still got next Sunday's show to make the commitment to support our college and community radio at WHUS!  

Special thanks to our wonderful record labels who were so generous in supporting our fundraising by donating and/or making available some fine CDs for us at WHUS:  Mountain Fever Records, Mountain Home, Patuxent Music, Rebel, and Rounder Records!  We couldn't do it without you!  Our playlist selections on Sunday were limited to the recordings we have available for premiums -- and there are lots of terrific recordings we were able to showcase there.

Sure hope you can join us for next Sunday's radio show -- Radiothon Week #2!  If you'd prefer to make a pledge during the week, you can do so by visiting this link.

Thanks again!  Enjoy the week!

Amy 




SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Dear Old Dixie / Dick Smith / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• Sawmill Shuffle / Pete Kuykendall / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• Roll Big River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Big Eight Wheeler / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Each Season Changes You / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• What A Wonderful Savior Is He / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Never Let Me Go / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• My Rose Of Old Kentucky / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Snapshots / Mountain Home
• Deep Elem Blues / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• Somebody Loves You Darling / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• You'll Always Be My Blue Eyed Darling / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• The Mirror / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Honky Tonked To Death / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Grassy Fiddle Blues / Billy Hurt, Jr. / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent Music
• The Old Home Town / Monroe Fields with Carol Sauceman & the Green Valley Boys / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent Music
• You Turned Forty Years Old / Crowe Brothers / Forty Years Old / Mountain Fever Records
• I've Got The Moon On My Side / Crowe Brothers / Forty Years Old / Mountain Fever Records
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• Her Love Won't Turn On A Dime / Lonesome River Band / Turn On A Dime / Mountain Home
• Georgia Mountain Man / Adkins & Loudermilk / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever Records
• Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies / Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein / If I Had A Boat / Rebel
• I Have Found The Way / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Broken Heart Mended / Hammertowne / Highways & Heartaches / Mountain Fever Records
• Take My Ring From Your Finger / Larry Rice / If You Only Knew... / Rebel
• Cedar City Blues / Eddie Adcock / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music

Coming VERY soon to a radio near you...WHUS Radiothon 2015!

As you may have heard, the 2015 edition of Radiothon begins this coming Saturday, April 11th at WHUS.  This means that we will have two Sundays of fundraising, and we will be looking to you for some financial support from you.  In years past, we've done extremely well during Radiothon, and we've been honored to know that Bluegrass Cafe is the LARGEST fundraising music program at WHUS!  Not sure if that will prove to be true again this year, but to "entice" you a bit to support our program once more, we've been accumulating some wonderful recordings to offer you as "thank you" gifts!  While we're still gathering a few more recordings, so far we have these delightful CDs (multiple copies of a few of them):

• Adkins & Loudermilk - "Adkins & Loudermilk" (Mountain Fever Records)
• Red Allen & Frank Wakefield - "The WDON Recordings, 1963" (Patuxent Music)
• Crowe Brothers - "Forty Years Old" (Mountain Fever Records)
• Monroe Fields with the Green Valley Boys - "1950s-60s Broadcasts" (Patuxent Music)
• Victor Furtado - "Victor Furtado" (Patuxent Music)
• Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein - "If I Had A Boat" (Rebel Records)
• Gibson Brothers - "Brotherhood" (Rounder Records)
• Hammertowne - "Highways & Heartaches" (Mountain Fever Records)
• Billy Hurt, Jr. - "Fiddlin' Billy Hurt" (Patuxent Music)
• James Leva - "All Over The Map" (Patuxent Music)
  
• Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers - "Another Day From Life" (Rebel Records)
• Larry Rice - "If You Only Knew:  The Best Of Larry Rice" (Rebel Records)
• Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice - "Trouble Follows Me" (Rebel Records)
• Spinney Brothers - "Tried & True" (Mountain Fever Records)
• Springfield Exit - "That Was Then" (Patuxent Music)
• Various - "The Patuxent Banjo Project" (Patuxent Music)
• Volume Five - "Voices" (Mountain Fever Records)

Our thanks to Mountain Fever Records, Mountain Home, Patuxent Music, Rebel Records, and Rounder Records for their kind support of Radiothon!  We look forward to thanking YOU on Sunday with one of these great CDs -- or perhaps, one of our other WHUS "thank you" gifts for Radiothon.  Join Jim and I on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM, won't you?  

Thanks!  

Amy

Playlist - 4/5/2015

Hi Folks.

Just prior to the show I read a remembrance of a live Bill Monroe concert by Everett Alan Lilly who had been recruited while a teen to play bass for the October 1964 gig.  Everett had just discovered several recordings from the concert were on a disc of live Monroe recordings from Smithsonian Folkways, and was elated to be able to hear now what had been a memory for more than fifty years. After reading that story, I had to begin the show with "Raw Hide" and "Y'all Come" from that concert.

We introduced some new music on this show including songs from Steve Gulley and New Pinnacle and Ronnie Reno.

Other newer music included tracks from The Gibson Brothers, Becky Buller, Cody Shuler, Adkins & Loudermilk, Tommy Brown, Volume Five, Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman, and Mountain Faith. 

We had a vinyl set selected from our Heritage Corner archives that included gems from Benny and Vallie Cain, Nolan Faulkner and James Miller, Phyllis Boyens, The Doug Dillard Band, Bill Hall & Northwind, Don Stover, and Hylo Brown (we played Hylo's only studio recording of his Grand Ole Opry Song, recorded 1977.)

Additional Heritage Corner material included Larry Richardson & Red Barker, Red Allen & Frank Wakefield, Jimmy Martin, The Church Brothers, Dee Stone, Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, The Stanley Brothers, J. D. Jarvis, and in the week of the 56th anniversary of the first performance of a bluegrass band at Carnegie Hall, we saluted Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys.  We'll get the actual recordings of that concert on a future show as we dig them out of the Heritage Corner archives.

The closing inspirational and gospel set carried a Good Friday/Easter theme in observance of the day.

Radiothon will cover the next two Sunday shows, so listen for the whole gang as we encourage you to support WHUS -- the station that allows us to bring you this great music.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys / Raw Hide / Live Recordings 1956-1969: Off the Record Volume 1 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys / Y'all Come / Live Recordings 1956-1969: Off the Record Volume 1 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Alex Leach / Heart Specialist / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• The Gibson Brothers / Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Ben and Eric Marshall / Just as Sure as the Stars Are Above  / Grass Roots Project / Ben and Eric Marshall
• Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Walking With You In My Dreams / Side By Side / Rebel
• Becky Buller / Southern Flavor / 'Tween Earth And Sky / Dark Shadow 
• Larry Richardson & Red Barker and the Blue Ridge Boys / Happy Love / Larry Richardson & Red Barker and the Blue Ridge Boys / Old Blue
• Red Allen, Frank Wakefield and The Kentuckians / Alone And Forgotten / The WDON Recordings 1963 / Patuxent
• Lonesome River Band / Her Love Won't Turn On a Dime / Turn On a Dime / Mountain Home
• The Dillards / Never See My Home Again / Live!!! Almost!!! / Elektra
• Rhonda Vincent w. Daryle Singletary / (We Must Have Been) Out of Our Minds / Only Me / Upper Management
• Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Our Darling's Gone / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Ronnie Reno / Rosa Lee / Lessons Learned / Rural Rhythm
• Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Leaving Crazytown / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Rural Rhythm
• Windy Hill / My Little Darlin's Shoes / Lonesome Garbage Man / Self Released
• Cody Shuler / Listen to the Hammer Ring / Cody Shuler / Rural Rhythm
• Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers / Chalk Up Another One / Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• Adkins & Loudermilk / Backside of Losing / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / The Sunny Side Of Town / On Down The Line / Compass Records
• The Spinney Brothers / Thank God for the Highways / Tried & True / Mountain Fever
• Larry Gillis / Little Rose / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• The Church Brothers and Their Blue Ridge Ramblers / Way Down In Ole' Caroline / Bluegrass - Historic Cuts Selected For Quality / JSP
• Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / I Overlooked an Orchid / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys / Short Life of Trouble / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style / Smithsonian Folkways
• Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Goin' Back to My Kentucky Country Home / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Take a Look / Steve Gulley; New Pinnacle / Rural Rhythm
• Jackson & Stiltner / Roaring Creek / Tribute To Bill Napier / Self Released
• Benny and Vallie Cain / Rainbow In My Dreams / More of Benny and Vallie Cain / Rebel
• Nolan Faulkner and James Miller / Afraid To Be Afraid / Nolan Faulkner and James Miller / Old Homestead
• Phyllis Boyens / Hewed Out Of The Mountain / I Really Care / Rounder
• The Doug Dillard Band / Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms / Jackrabbit! / Flying Fish
• Bill Hall and Northwind Bluegrass / When I Miss Her Most Of All / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead
• Don Stover & Friends / Tom Dooley / My Blue Ridge Memories / White Oak
• Hylo Brown / The Grand Ole Opry Song / A Tribute to My Heroes / Atteiram
• Jimmy Martin / Fire On The Mountain / Live / RockBeat
• Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Lonesome Reuben [bed] / Purely Instrumental / Self-released
• Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Warren's Reel [bed] / Purely Instrumental / Self-released
• Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Old Dubberchase [bed] / Purely Instrumental / Self-released
• Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Leaving This Town / Randm
• Volume Five / Crazy Night / Voices / Mountain Fever
• Mountain Faith / Each Passing Day / Blue / Mountain Fever
• Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / One Kiss Away from Loneliness / She Left Me Standing On a Mountain / Blue Circle
• Rob McCoury / We Could / The 5 String Flamethrower / McCoury Music / RED
• Dee Stone And His Virginia Mountain Boys / Highway 202 / Bluegrass - Historic Cuts Selected For Quality / JSP
• The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Stone Was Rolled Away / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• J. D. Jarvis / Scarlet Purple Robe / Bluegrass Hymn Time / Jewel
• The Stanley Brothers / From The Manger To The Cross / The Early Starday-King Years 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Rhonda Vincent / Old Rugged Cross / Performs Songs From The House With The Red Light / Upper Management
• Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / I Heard the Cry from the Cross / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M
• The Bluegrass Band / This World Is Not My Home / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler
• Cody Shuler / The Day Love Was Nailed To a Tree / Cody Shuler / Rural Rhythm
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Shouting On the Hills of Glory / Diamonds In The Rough / Flaming Heart
• Jimmy Martin / Voice Of My Savior / Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/29/2015

We had a nearly three-hour long session in the Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon, and revisited several recordings we (or, at least, I) hadn't heard in quite a long, long time.  Plus, we shared some newer music, and still managed to pay tribute to some of the newest soon-to-be-members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, as well as a Bluegrass birthday celebration of a bona fide Country Music legend.  

This week, the Browns -- Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed Brown -- were announced as members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.  The Browns had some very smooth sibling harmonies, and could never be considered Bluegrass performers by any stretch of the imagination.  However, a little bit of their music has been covered by Bluegrass performers, and we just couldn't pass up the opportunity to share some great Browns music during the program on Sunday.

Not a Bluegrass singer, but a huge influence on
a bunch of 'em -- and his guitar was the subject of
a great J.D. Crowe & the New South song.

To celebrate the birthday of one William Orville Frizzell -- immortalized by the childhood nickname of "Lefty" -- we shared quite a few songs from his great catalog of honky tonk tunes.  Lefty Frizzell was born on March 31, 1928, and like a whole bunch of other Country Music Hall of Famers, a whole bunch of Lefty's records have been covered by Bluegrass performers through the years.  We shared a half-dozen of those songs from Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers, BearTracks, the Country Gentlemen, Tim & Mollie O'Brien, J.D. Crowe & the New South, and the Del McCoury Band.  

There were a couple of Bluegrass performers

Happy Birthday,
Uncle Phil!  

who will celebrate birthdays this week, and we took a few minutes to celebrate them, including Phil Leadbetter (born March 31, 1962) and Cliff Waldron (born April 4, 1941).  Best birthday wishes to them!  

Jim will join you for the Easter Sunday edition of Bluegrass Cafe -- even though we don't yet know if it'll be a sports-shortened show or not.  Either way, sure hope you have a very Happy Easter!

Amy



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky / Rounder
• Western Skies / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Long Haul Truckin' / Big Country Bluegrass / My Old Virginia Home / Hay Holler
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico / Bluegrass Etc. / Bluegrass Etc. / Sierra Records
• Diesel Train / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• Tennessee Truck Driving Man / Don Rigsby with Charlie Sizemore / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• I Take The Chance / The Browns / The Complete Hits / Collectors' Choice Music
• Just For Old Times Sake / Rhonda Vincent with Jim Ed Brown / A Dream Come True / Rebel
• Here Today And Gone Tomorrow / Hazel Dickens with the Johnson Mountain Boys / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder
• An Angel With Blue Eyes / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• New Camptown Races / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Letters Have No Arms / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / Tony Rice / The Bill Monroe Collection / Rounder
• Mama's Opry / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• 20/20 Vision / Monroe Crossing / Live From Silver Dollar City / Self-Produced
• That Was Then And This Is Now / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• The Big Burnsville Jail / Marty Raybon & Full Circle / The Back Forty / Rural Rhythm
• No More The Moon Shines On Lorena / Everett Lilly / Everett Lilly & Everybody & Their Brother / Swift River Music
• Just Joshin' / Phil Leadbetter with Jerry Douglas & Rob Ickes / The Next Move / Pinecastle
• Ice Covered Birches / Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Cliff Waldron / Rebel
• Waiting For You / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder
• There's No Room In My Heart For The Blues / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Always Late / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Flying Fish
• She's Gone, Gone, Gone / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder
• I Never Go Around Mirrors / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• I Love You A Thousand Ways / Tim & Mollie O'Brien / Take Me Back / Sugar Hill
• The Long Black Veil / Country Gentlemen / Country Songs, Old And New / Smithsonian Folkways
• If You've Got The Money Honey / Del McCoury Band / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder
• The Court Of Love / Rhonda Vincent / Taken / Upper Management Music
• Miss Molly / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• Fraulein / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• Next To Nothing / Bluegrass Diamonds / After All These Years / Self-Produced
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• How I Explain About You / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Top Of The World / Michelle Nixon & Drive / A Place I Belong / Mountain Fever Records
• In Foggy Old London / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• The Lord's Last Supper / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Angel At Your Side / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Everything I Wanted Love To Be / Happy Appy Records
• Do You Live What You Preach / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Rounder
• The Boat Of Love / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Cry From The Cross / Charlie Sizemore / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea

Playlist - 3/22/2015

Hi Folks.

There were no preemptions on this show, so we celebrated by playing three hours of what we wanted to hear, and sampled some new music as well.

Monroe Crossing (MN)

We had three big ticket giveaways for upcoming concerts in the area, so we played music from Monroe Crossing (concert 3/27 in South Windsor CT), Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (concert 3/29 in Hartford), and Rhonda Vincent (concert 4/11 in Hamden CT) as we gave away tickets for those shows.  There will be more ticket giveaways coming, so stay tuned.

New music was represented by Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman; The Gibson Brothers; Randall Hibbitts; Adkins & Loudermilk; Larry Gillis; Rachel Burge & Blue Dawning; Breaking Grass; Mountain Faith; Volume Five; The Spinney Brothers; and Cody Shuler.  

Other goodies not yet off our recent-music list included songs from Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers; Alex Leach; The South Carolina Broadcasters; Michael Cleveland; Ben and Eric Marshall; Jackson & Stiltner; Junior Sisk; Windy Hill; Marteka and William; Windy Hill; and Tommy Edwards.

We loaded up the Heritage Corner and brought forth some legacy delights from Jimmy Martin; Bill Clifton; The Dillards; Bob Paisley; Don Stover; Tony Rice; early Karl Shiflett; Red Allen & Frank Wakefield; Monroe Fields, Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis; and The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover.

The delightful center of the Heritage Corner was filled by a complete "Basement Tape" segment of The Gillis Brothers recorded by Ray Davis in 1993.

We finished with a special treat.  Since October 2010 I have closed my shows with "Walking In A Dream" performed by the late Fred Etheridge with Mark Doyle and Nick Anderson.  For this show we played a solo piano version of the song performed by Mark Doyle just for Bluegrass Cafe.

Tune in next Sunday when Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring, and give away more concert tickets.


Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Larry Gillis / Crazy Russian / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Dog Bite Your Hide / 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder / You Can't Hurt Ham / Music to My Ears / Skaggs Family
• Bill Clifton And His Dixie Mountain Boys / A Flower Blooming In The Wildwood / Bluegrass Historic Cuts Selected For Quality / JSP
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fiddlin' Joe / On Down The Line / Compass Records
• Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / Lonesome Without You / Leaving This Town / Randm
• The Dillards / Banjo In The Hollow / Early Recordings - 1959 / Varèse Sarabande
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Little Birdie / Short Time To Stay Here / Flaming Heart
• Monroe Crossing / Rocky Road Blues / Live From Silver Dollar City / Self-released
• Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass / Uncle Ned / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• The Gillis Brothers / Instrumental, Nobody's Business, Standing Room Only, Your Worries & Troubles Are Mine, Pass Me Not / Radio Series Volume Seven / Wango
• Windy Hill / Just to See Who's in My Place / Lonesome Garbage Man / Self Released
• Ben and Eric Marshall / Just My Memory of You (feat. The Marshall Brothers and Highroad) / Grass Roots Project / Ben and Eric Marshall
• Adkins & Loudermilk / Georgia Mountain Man / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever
• Rhonda Vincent / Only Me (featuring Willie Nelson) / Only Me / Upper Management
• Don Stover / Old Coon Dog / Live At Davis & Elkins College / White Oak
• Foggy Mountain Hilton / You're Gonna be Sorry Some Of These Days / Show Me the Way to Go Home / Patuxent
• Alex Leach / Mountain Heartache / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Jackson & Stiltner / Pinball Blues / Tribute To Bill Napier / Self Released
• The Gibson Brothers / I'm Troubled I'm Troubled / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Tony Rice / Church Street Blues / Church Street Blues / Rounder
• Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / Our Darling's Gone / She Left Me Standing On a Mountain / Blue Circle
• Randall Hibbitts / Can't Take It Anymore / Traveler / Randall Hibbitts
• Marteka and William / Reuben / The Sounds Of A Tradition / Self-released
• Red Allen, Frank Wakefield and The Kentuckians / Sweet Sunny South / The WDON Recordings 1963 / Patuxent
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Walkin' in the Sunshine / Welcome to Woody Creek / Dualtone
• Rachel Burge & Blue Dawning / Sisters of the Mountain / Rachel Burge & Blue Dawning / Mountain Fever
• Tommy Edwards / Devil's Tramping Ground / North Carolina History, Mystery, Lore & More / Salisbury Street
• The Spinney Brothers / My Music Comes From Bill / Tried & True / Mountain Fever
• Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Back To Foggy Mountain / Purely Instrumental / Self-released
• Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Peelin' Taters / Purely Instrumental / Self-released
• Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Six White Horses / Collectors Series Vol. 1 / Self-released
• Monroe Crossing / Nail That Catfish to a Tree / Live at Silver Dollar City / Self-released
• Breaking Grass / Raining In Virginia / Just As Strong / Mountain Fever
• Mountain Faith / Feelin' Blue / Blue / Mountain Fever
• Volume Five / King of California / Voices / Mountain Fever
• Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / I've Won My Crown / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M
• Cody Shuler / Sea of Galilee / Cody Shuler / Rural Rhythm
• Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys / There's Only One Way To Heaven / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent
• The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / I'll Live On / What Will I Leave Behind / Rebel
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / River of Jordan / Can You Hear Me Now / Flaming Heart
• Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Jesus Walked Upon the Water / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Rhonda Vincent / Good News / Performs Songs From The House With The Red Light / Upper Management
• Mountain Heart / The Gospel Train / Road That Never Ends - The Live Album / Rural Rhythm
• Monroe Crossing / I Saw The Light / Joy Joy Joy / Self-released
• Mark Doyle / Walking In A Dream / private single / no label

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/15/2015

It's March, and that generally means tournament time for various UCONN Sports activities.  Sunday's radio show was no exception to that rule, as we were left with about 80 minutes (of 180) of our broadcast time after the Men's Basketball loss in their tournament.  

In the time remaining, we managed to squeeze in birthday music for folks like Raymond Fairchild, Bob Paisley, Tim O'Brien, and Ronnie McCoury, as well as a whole set of music celebrating St. Patrick's Day this week.  In addition, there was newer music from Adkins & Loudermilk, the Grass Cats, Billy Hurt, the Spinney Brothers, and the Gibson Brothers.  

Not sure if the sports schedule will include preemptions of our Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday, but we shall see...

In the meantime, have a good week!  

Amy



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Miller's Cave / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• I'll Be On That Good Road Someday / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Whoa Mule / Raymond Fairchild / Little Zane / Copper Creek [Raymond Fairchild birthday:  3/15/1939]
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country [Bob Paisley birthday:  3/14/1931]
• How Many Times / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Steeped In Tradition / Brandywine
• Fell In Love (And I Can't Get Out) / Tim O'Brien / Odd Man In / Sugar Hill [Tim O'Brien birthday:  3/16/1954]
• Noppet Hill Breakdown / Ronnie McCoury / Heartbreak Town / Rounder [Ronnie McCoury birthday:  3/16/1967]
• Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• A Walk In The Irish Rain / California / Traveler / Sugar Hill
• Irish Spring / Country Gentlemen / The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• My Wild Irish Rose / Larry Stephenson Band / On Fire / Pinecastle
• Georgia Mountain Man / Adkins & Loudermilk / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever Records
• Can It Get More Lonesome Than This / The Grass Cats / The Old School Road / New Time Records
• Grassy Fiddle Blues / Billy Hurt, Jr. / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent Music
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Adkins & Loudermilk / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever Records
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• I Wanna Walk With Jesus / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Touch Of God's Hand / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• They Can Only Fill One Grave / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• What A Wonderful Savior Is He / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• God Loves His Children / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Amy's almost-birthday, not at all Bluegrass fill-in - 3/13/2015

I had an opportunity this morning to do a 3-hour fill-in for Jimmy T.'s "Sugar Shack" radio program at WHUS.  Jimmy T.'s show is pretty eclectic, so when I fill in for him, it's fun to play whatever strikes my fancy.  Today, my choice was fairly classic country, and my country selections spanned from the late 1920s to the early 1990s.  Of course, as always, I brought in many more CDs than I was able to play during the show, but it was an enjoyable block of time spent for me -- and hopefully for whoever might have listened, too.

My "spotlight" Country Music Hall of Famer today turned out to be the Southern Gentleman -- Sonny James.  Why Sonny James?  While preparing for this fill-in, I knew it was going to air on the day before my birthday, and I wondered what the #1 Billboard Country chart topper was during the week I was born.  It turns out that it was Sonny James with his version of a song previously recorded by Roy Orbison:  "Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)."  Figuring I'd play that song during today's fill-in, I also tracked down a couple other well-known Sonny James hits, including his mega-hit crossover record from 1957, "Young Love."  Sonny James had an incredible string of hit records from the 1950s to the 1980s, and even did a little bit of Bluegrass fiddling with Jim & Jesse in his early performing days.  

Today's show also included a 1963 recording which might have been one of the

No Statler credit on this 1963
single, but you can definitely
hear 'em on the record

very first-ever for the Statler Brothers.  Before they went to work with Johnny Cash in March 1964 (and finally found chart success with "Flowers On The Wall" in early 1965), the Statlers were just a vocal group trying to find their way to success while living in their Shenandoah Valley hometown of Staunton, Virginia.  In 1963, the Statlers went into a tiny recording studio in Salem, Virginia and recorded a song with local singer, Shirlee Hunter.  The song they recorded was "Billy Christian" -- a tune that had been written by a local DJ named Thomas Hall.  The song was not a hit, but the Statlers liked it so well that they re-recorded it as their third single a year later for Columbia Records.   While that Columbia version wasn't very popular, either, it turned out that the "Billy Christian" WAS still a success, but only as the flip side of "Flowers On The Wall."  And by the way, Thomas Hall found some success later on -- as Tom T. Hall.  

Looks like our Bluegrass Cafe might have a bit of a late start due to another UCONN sports preemption on Sunday afternoon, but we hope you'll join us, anyway...whenever the show might air between 4PM and 7PM.  

Enjoy the weekend!

Amy


TITLE / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• The Foggy Mountain Top / Carter Family / RCA Country Legends / BMG
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Carter Family / Opry Country Classics, Volume 2 / Opry Music
• There You Go / Johnny Cash / The Essential Johnny Cash / Columbia
• Ballad Of A Teenage Queen / Johnny Cash / The Essential Johnny Cash / Columbia
• Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues) / Jimmie Rodgers / The Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
• T.B. Blues / Jimmie Rodgers / The Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
• Blue Yodel No. 4 / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• Southern Cannonball / Hank Snow / The Goldrush Is Over / Bear Family
• Wreck On The Highway / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy
• Why Baby Why / George Jones / The Essential George Jones / Epic Legacy
• Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello / Ernest Tubb / The Definitive Collection / MCA
• Blue Kentucky Girl / Loretta Lynn / Country Music Hall Of Fame / MCA
• Wondering / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / Decca
• I'm Movin' On / Hank Snow / RCA Country Legends / RCA
• Ain't Had No Lovin' / Connie Smith / The Essential Connie Smith / BMG
• Lovesick Blues / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury
• You And Me / Kitty Wells & Red Foley / The Complete Country Hits / Acrobat
• I'm A Stranger In My Home / Kitty Wells & Red Foley / Makin' Believe / Country Stars
• Oh So Many Years / Webb Pierce with Kitty Wells / The Collection, '52-'60 / Acrobat
• A Satisfied Mind / Porter Wagoner / The Essential Porter Wagoner / RCA
• Home / Joe Diffie / A Thousand Winding Roads / Epic
• Chiseled In Stone / Vern Gosdon / Super Hits / Sony BMG
• I'm No Stranger To The Rain / Keith Whitley / Super Hits / BMG
• Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Ricky Skaggs / Country Gentleman:  The Best Of Ricky Skaggs / Sony
• Chug-A-Lug / Roger Miller / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Two Cigarettes In An Ashtray / Patsy Cline / The Birth Of A Star / Razor & Tie
• Pistol Packin' Mama / Al Dexter & His Troopers / Columbia Country Classics / Columbia
• After The Sunrise / Chuck Wagon Gang / Columbia Country Classics / Columbia
• I'll Live With God (To Die No More) / Louvin Brothers / The Family Who Prays / Country Stars
• They'll Never Take Her Love From Me / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury
• The Wild Side Of Life / Hank Thompson / Your Cheatin' Heart / Dynamic
• Take These Chains From My Heart / Ray Price / Sing Me A Hank Williams Song / Time Life
• You Done Me Wrong / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price / Legacy
• Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel) / Sonny James / The Capitol Top Ten Hits, Volume 2 / Capitol
• Take Good Care Of Her / Sonny James / Billboard Top Country Hits, 1966 / Rhino
• Are You Missing Me / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear FAmily
• Young Love / Sonny James / Lipstick On Your Collar / Ideal Music
• Wake Up Little Susie / Everly Brothers / 36 All-Time Favorites / Cema
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Nine Pound Hammer / Tommy Emmanuel / Center Stage / Favored Nations Acoustic
• Apartment #9 / Tammy Wynette / The Essential Tammy Wynette / Epic Legacy
• Billy Christian / Shirlee Hunter with the Statler Brothers / single / Salem Records
• Do You Remember These / Statler Brothers / Innerview / Mercury
• Call Me Up And I'll Come Calling On You / Marty Robbins / Live Classics / Sony
• It's A Lovely Lovely World / Carl Smith / Let's Live A Little / Living Era
• Hello Darlin' / Conway Twitty / The #1 Hits Collection / MCA
• Hey Porter / Johnny Cash / The Essential Johnny Cash / Columbia
• I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me) / Buck Owens / 21 #1 Hits Collection / Rhino

Playlist - 3/8/2015 - Don Stover

Hi Folks.

With all the spurts preemptions going on at UCONN lately, it is a wonder we have a show at all. This week we managed to salvage an hour and 49 minutes out of the five hours we normally program along with Red Rooster Party.

It being the start of Daylight Savings Time, we played our perennial favorite about the day by Grandpa Jones after we kicked off the show with Doug Dillard's blazing "Hickory Hollow" -- a tune he dreamed!  Doug, who died in 2012, was born March 6, 1937.  That birthday was shared with Carl Sauceman (b.1922-d.1984) and Don Stover (b.1928-d.1996). 

Don Stover

We carried on a significant musical tribute to Don Stover by including music Don performed for the field recorded Mountain Music Bluegrass Style (1959), a couple songs from his classic album Things In Life, several numbers from a solo performance Don did in 1985, and a requested number from The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover.

New music included fiddle instrumentals from Billy Hurt, Jr., a selection from Robert Earl Keen's new bluegrass album, The Gibson Brothers doing a York Brothers duet back-to-back with The York Brothers' own original version.  (The Gibsons came out good on this.)

Other newer music on this show included songs from Larry Gillis, Ben and Eric Marshall (whom we may have introduced here to New England), The South Carolina Broadcasters, Windy Hill, Larry Sparks, Crowe-Lawson-Williams, The Easter Brothers, and Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice.





We hope you were able to navigate the preemptions and find us when we were on the air.  Amy will try again next Sunday to make the banjos and fiddles ring.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• The Dillards / Hickory Hollow / Back Porch Bluegrass / Rhino / Elektra
• Grandpa Jones / Daylight Savings Time / An American Original / CMH Records
• Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys / The Old Home Town / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent
• Ben and Eric Marshall / Just as Sure as the Stars Are Above (feat. The Marshall Brothers and Highroad) / Grass Roots Project / Self-released
• Larry Gillis / Three Sheets in the Wind / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• Billy Hurt, Jr. / Sally Ann Johnson / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent
• Don Reno & Red Smiley / Big Ball In Brooklyn / On Stage / Copper Creek
• Don Stover, Everett Lilly, Chubby Anthony / Bile 'em Cabbage Down / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style! / Smithsonian Folkways
• Don Stover / Valley of Peace / Things in Life / Rounder
• Don Stover / Old Rueben No. 1 / Things in Life / Rounder
• Don Stover / John Hardy  / Live At Davis & Elkins College / White Oak
• Don Stover / Poor Ellen Smith / Live At Davis & Elkins College / White Oak
• Don Stover / You're Bound To Look Like A Monkey When You Grow Old / Live At Davis & Elkins College / White Oak
• Don Stover / Things In Life / Live At Davis & Elkins College / White Oak
• The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / The Waves on the Sea / Bluegrass At the Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways 
• The York Brothers / Long Gone / Long Time Gone / Ace
• The Gibson Brothers / Long Gone / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Billy Hurt, Jr. / Poca River Blues / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent 
• Billy Hurt, Jr. / Old Jake Gillie / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent 
• Billy Hurt, Jr. / Dance all Night With a Bottle in Your Hand / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent 
• Larry Sparks with Bobby Osborne / Letter from My Darling / Lonesome And Then Some... / Rebel
• Windy Hill / Pinecone Banjo / Lonesome Garbage Man / Self Released
• Crowe, Lawson & Williams / My Walking Shoes / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Honky-Tonked to Death / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Going up Home to Live in Green Pastures / Diamonds In The Rough / Flaming Heart
• Rhonda Vincent / When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Performs Songs From The House With The Red Light / Upper Management
• Robert Earl Keen / This World is Not My Home / Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions / Dualtone
• The Easter Brothers / Let the Hallelujahs Roll / I'd Do It All Over Again / Pisgah Ridge
• Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / Sweeping Through the Gates / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Ralph Stanley / Two Coats (feat. Robert Plant) / Man of Constant Sorrow / Cracker Barrel
• Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / A Place Upon a Mountain / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M
• The Misty Mountain Boys / The Family Who Prays / Bluegrass Piedmont Style / Master Shield
• Chief Powatan & His Bluegrass Braves / Take Me In Your Lifeboat / Mountain Laurel Bluegrass Memories / Mountain Laurel
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released