"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/1/2007

For me, Sunday's show was a lot of fun; hopefully, that's how the listeners felt, as well. We played a good number of old favorites, a few requests (marked in red), and some new music from one of the best traditional BG groups working right now in southern New England, Acoustic Blue. The second CD from this group is called "Empty House," and it's filled with a fine mix of traditional tunes and great originals. Lead singer/mandolin player Corey Zink has a killer voice -- check out this band when you get a chance.

July 4th marks 50 years since the groundbreaking Country Gentlemen first performed as a pick-up band at the Admiral Grill in Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia. To save a steady playing slot for car accident victim, Buzz Busby, his enterprising banjo man Bill Emerson called together a couple of his friends, the soon-to-be legendary John Duffey and Charlie Waller, as well as bass man Larry Leahy, and the Country Gentlemen were born. To mark this big occasion, we filled nearly an hour with the music of the early Gents, with tunes from their December 1957 sessions to about the mid-1960s. I could have easily filled up all three hours with the music of the Country Gents, but we'll save that for future shows....

Hope you all have a safe and happy 4th, and we'll see you again on July 15th.

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Don't Get Above Your Raisin' / Flatt & Scruggs / The Golden Age, v.1 / Columbia
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time-Life
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time-Life
• Molly And Tenbrooks / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Golden Age, v.1 / Columbia
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Here Rattler Here / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• Rock Bottom Blues / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Will I Be That Lucky Man? / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Hello Trouble / Acoustic Blue / Empty House / Bishop Hill Records
• Empty House / Acoustic Blue / Empty House / Bishop Hill Records
• Blue Railroad Train / Tony Rice / Manzanita / Rounder
• Big Train From Memphis / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• Menzone Drive / Dan Menzone / Menzone Drive / Self-Produced
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Folk Life
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• It's The Blues / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Little Bessie / Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs And Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Nobody's Business / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• The Sunny Side Of Life / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• High Lonesome / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Ain't Got A Home /Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• A Letter To Tom / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Silence Or Tears / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• The Bluebirds Are Singing / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I Am Weary, Let Me Rest /Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• This Morning At Nine / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Mrs. Robinson / Randy Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Keeper Of The Flame / Lendel Records
• Redwood Hill / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Randy Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Keeper Of The Flame / Lendel Records
• Miller's Cave / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• My Old Kentucky Home / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Sadie's Got Her New Dress On / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Hard Living / Hunter Berry with Rhonda Vincent / Wow Baby / Upper Management Music
• Lonesome For You / Tommy Webb / Eastern Kentucky / Kindred Records
• John 3:16 / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Federal
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• Do You Live What You Preach / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Church House Hymns / Self-Produced
• Where No One Stands Alone / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Where No One Stands Alone / Rebel
• God Must Be A Cowboy / Grass Cats / Home To Carolina / New Time Records
• Over In The Gloryland / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder