"Bluegrass Cafe" Play List 9/17/06

We survived another sports preemption with an hour and 44 minutes to bring you not only the best in Bluegrass Music, but also an interview with "Uncle" Phil Leadbetter, the current IBMA Dobro Player of the Year and founding member of the band Wildfire. Wildfire will be headlining Big Sunday Bluegrass at the East Hartford Community Cultural Center 8 October 2006, so we were able to get a first-hand look at the band from one of its founding members. Phil was a pleasure to interview.

Musically, we played a good bit from Phil's two solo CDs and Wildfire's three CDs, and there was a lot of good music to choose from! We also played several other new releases from folks like The Grascals (that George Jones track was something!), and a couple of tracks from Dale Ann Bradley's new CD. The station doesn't have it yet, so that was the copy I got from Dale Ann herself at Podunk you heard! This same CD had its world premiere on Bluegrass Cafe 6 August, so keep it on WHUS for more of these exclusives.

The WHUS fall schedule will be announced Monday, 9/18/06, so check back here around Tuesday to confirm our program day/time.

Jim

• Wild Turkey / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• Rita Mae / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• Just As The Sun Went Down / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• Can't Have One Without The Other / Wildfire / Rattle of the Chains / Pinecastle

Phil Leadbetter Interview

• House of the Rising Sun / Phil Leadbetter / Philibuster / Mid-Knight

Phil Leadbetter Interview (continued)

• California Cotton Fields / Phil Leadbetter / Slide Effects / Pinecastle
• My Saro Jane / The Grascals / The Grascals / Rounder
• Don't Tell Mama / The Grascals w/George Jones / Long List of Heartaches / Rounder
• Moanin' The Blues / Wildfire / Uncontained / Pinecastle
• (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle / Dave Evans / Pretty Green Hills / Rebel
• Julia Belle / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• Forever Ain't That Long Anymore / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Engine 143 / Ralph Stanley / A Distant Land To Roam / Columbia DMZ
• Heartbreaker's Alibi / Rhonda Vincent w/Dolly Parton / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Brother To The Blues / Lonesome River Band / The Road With No End / Mountain Home
• All Because of Me / Wildfire / Where Roads Divide / Pinecastle
• I'll Fly Away / The Dillards / There Is A Time / Vanguard
• Get In Line Brother / The Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler
• The Key To Heaven / The Lewis Family / Flyin' High / Mountain Home
• You Don't Love God (If You Don't Love Your Neighbor) / Carl Story / Mightly Close To Heaven / Starday
• I Saw The Light / Stanley Brothers / The Early Years 1958-1961 / King
• Ohoopee / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler