"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist 8/26/2007

Jim and Marti took at turn at the microphones after spending most of the previous two weeks enjoying Canyon Country in Northern Arizona and a bit of Las Vegas.

We were mentoring future WHUS DJ, Justin, for part of the show, and he did a great job on the occasion of his first time at the controls.

The phone was out during the show, so we couldn't get your calls for requests. In spite of that, we hope you enjoyed our music selection which included new releases from Charlie Sizemore, Tom T. Hall, Doyle Lawson, and The Steep Canyon Rangers.

See you next Sunday.

Jim & Marti

• Wild Turkey / Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• Pickin’ On Josh / Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel
• Hills Of Georgia / Hylo Brown / Lovesick and Sorrow / Starday
• Stone Walls & Steel Bars / Stanley Brothers / All-Time Greatest Hits / King
• Southern Flavor / Bill Monroe / Southern Flavor / MCA
• Hillbilly Hemingway / Mark Newton / Hillbilly Hemingway / Rebel
• Home / Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• Philadelphia Lawyer / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• Rita Mae / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass
• Mountain Song / Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• Let It Ride / Cedar Hill / Portrait Of A Song / Hay Holler
• Our Last Goodbye / Carrie Hassler / Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain / Rural Rhythm
• Wish I Could Say I Was Drinkin’ / Cadillac Sky / Blind Man Walking / Skaggs Family
• Saints Go Marching In / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
• Leaves Musn’t Fall / Dan Paisley & The Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• How Can I Lose / Nothin’ Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• Brother, I’m Getting Ready To Go / Curly Seckler / Bluegrass, Don’t You Know / Copper Creek
• The Old Coal Mine / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury
• Red Rocking Chair / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder
• Live And Let Live / Tony Trischka with Tom Adams / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Old Green Chevrolet / Don Rigsby & Midnight Call / Hillbilly Heartache / Rebel
• Life Or Love / Bradley Walker / Highway Of Dreams / Rounder
• Jimmy Martin’s Life Story / Tom T. Hall / Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle
• Turned Me Down / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes II: Black & White / Skaggs Family
• Let The Whole World Talk / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Home Run Man / Parmley & McCoury / Parmley & McCoury / Self
• I’m Just Here To Ride The Train / Mountain Heart / Wide Open / Skaggs Family
• Can You Hear Me Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Carry Me Across The Mountain / Dan Tyminski / Doobie Shea Records Essential Sampler / Doobie Shea
• Cherry Blossoms In The Springtime / Jeanette Williams / Doobie Shea Records Essential Sampler / Doobie Shea
• Old Railroad Track / Scottie Sparks / Scottie Sparks / Doobie Shea
• Pig In A Pen / Ricky Skaggs / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family
• A Ramblin’ Man Is A Ramblin’ Man / Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel
• Dooley / The Dillards / Appalachian Stomp / Rhino
• Wow Baby / Hunter Berry / Wow Baby / Upper Management
• In The Pines / Hunter Berry with Keith Williams / Wow Baby / Upper Management
• Leftover Biscuits / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Heartbroke, Lonesome, & Blue / Adirondack Rail (Miller’s Crossing) / Adirondack Rail / Self
• Alison’s Band / The Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Whippoorwill / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / SteelTown
• Another Saturday Night / Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby / Another Saturday Night / Sugar Hill
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Be Still Moses / Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel
• Forty Days And Forty Nights / Carl Story / Complete Atteiram Collection / Gusto
• You Don’t Love Your Neighbor / Carl Story / Complete Atteiram Collection / Gusto
• Will You Meet Me Over Yonder / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Church House Hymns / Self
• It Won’t Be Long / Blue Highway / Wondrous Love / Rounder
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / The Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler
• Don’t Act / Rhonda Vincent / All-American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• They Called It A Church / Mickey Harris / Kneel And Pray / MTH Records
• He Took Your Place / Jimmy Cameron and High Lonesome / Jimmy Cameron and High Lonesome / Self
• Ohoopee / Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/19/2007

As usual, Sunday's show went by in a whirlwind, and was a whole lot of fun (for me, anyway). We paid tribute to yet another country legend whose material has been covered numerous times in the Bluegrass world, Buck Owens (born August 12, 1929). We even included a track from Buck's 1971 Bluegrass album, Ruby & Other Bluegrass Specials. Granted, Buck's version of Bluegrass sounded nothing like Bill Monroe, but the effort seemed sincere enough, and the record was another #1 for Buck & the Buckaroos.

We also included a couple of tunes from some legendary characters from the New England Bluegrass world, Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell, & the Kennebec Valley Boys. Sam celebrated a birthday last week, as well.

Jim & Marti should be back in the Cafe with you next Sunday, and I'll be seeing you again in a couple of weeks.

Amy


Requests are red.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Stanley Brothers / Golden Age, v.1 / Columbia
• Bootleg John / Don Rigsby / Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea
• If I Lose / David Grisman with Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone / Scottie Sparks / Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Stanley Brothers / Mercury
• I Won't Be Far From Here / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Mary Ann / Jimmy Martin / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Dear Old Dixie / Charlie Cushman / Five String Time / Self-Produced
• Tomorrow I'll Be Gone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Lefty's Old Guitar / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• I've Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Fool's Moon / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• What Kind Of Fool / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Bluegrass Melodies / Rounder
• Livin' It Down / Steve Gulley / Sounds Like Home / Lonesome Day
• Ain't No Way Of Knowin' / Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin' Pretty Women / Rebel
• That's How I Can Count On You / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel
• New Moon Rising / Peter Rowan & Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Leather Britches / Hunter Berry / Wow Baby / Upper Management Music
• Back To Sugar Hill / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Best Of Emerson & Goble / Pinecastle
• Don't Ease Me In / Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin' Pretty Women / Rebel
• Hello City Limits / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & Kennebec Valley Boys / The Pride Of Maine / Self-Produced
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive /
  Revonah
• Sweet Rosie Jones / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill
• Buckaroo / Lost & Found / Just Pickin' / Copper Creek
• There Goes My Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Where Does The Good Times Go? / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Arms Full Of Empty / Jim Nunally / Gloria's Waltz / FGM Records
• Hello Trouble / Acoustic Blue / Empty House / Self-Produced
• Sweethearts In Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• I Know You're Married But I Love You Still / Buck Owens & the Buckaroos / Ruby And Other Bluegrass Specials / Sundazed
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes II : Black And White / Skaggs Family
• Heart Of Glass / Lou Reid & Carolina / Time / Lonesome Day
• She's No Angel / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Rambler's Blues / Sugar Hill
• Footprints In The Snow / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / Starday
• Dreams About The Hills And Home / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Clementine / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steeltown Records
• It's A Long, Long Road / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• God Loves His Children / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Voice Of My Savior / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• A Beautiful Life / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel / New Haven Records
• Move To The Top Of The Mountain / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• It's Just Like Heaven / Country Gentlemen / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill
• You Don't Love God If You Don't Love Your Neighbor / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• Good News When I Die / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/12/2007

While Marti was behind the board last week (and did a top-notch job) for the "inaugural" BG Cafe from our new studios at WHUS, yesterday, it was my turn. It was fun trying to make sure we left only a teensy bit of dead air. There's still a lot to learn about our new equipment, but I think we'll all manage just fine....

In addition to listening to a couple of cuts each from two fabulous brand new recordings -- "Lovin' Pretty Women" by the Steep Canyon Rangers and "Good News" by the Charlie Sizemore Band -- we paid tribute to the King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin, who would have celebrated his 80th birthday on August 10th. Jimmy may no longer be with us, but his music and his influence will certainly go on forever.

Hope you heard something you enjoyed on Sunday. I'll be back with you again next week.

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Flatt & Scruggs / Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Are You Waiting Just For Me? / Stanley Brothers / Earliest Recordings / Rounder
• Is It True / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• Ocean Of Teardrops / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Fox On The Run / Tony Trischka with Dudley Connell / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Fireball Mail / James Alan Shelton / Walking Down The Line / Sheltone Records
• Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl / Ron Spears / My Time Has Come / Copper Creek
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Boogie Grass Band / Ronnie Reno & the Reno Tradition / Portfolio / Self-Produced
• Another Day / Reno & Smiley / Classic Bluegrass / King
• Baby Girl / Chris Cairns / Hello Blue / FireHeart Records
• Banjo Boy Chimes / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• I'm Leavin' / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Prime Cuts Of Bluegrass, v.88 / KBC
• Dead Man's Hollow / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia FolkLife
• Trail Of Tears / Peter Rowan & Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• A Ramblin' Man Is A Ramblin' Man / Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin' Pretty Women / Rebel
• If I Ever Get Back To Old Kentucky / Bluegrass Brothers / Appalachian Memories / Self-Produced
• Arleigh / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Twenty One Years / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Pickin' On Josh / Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin' Pretty Women / Rebel
• Alison's Band / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Sawin' On The Strings / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles Or More / Rounder
• Hey Moon / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Jimmy Martin's Life Story / Tom T. Hall with Jimmy Martin / Tom T. Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle
• Mr. Engineer / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder
• Home Run Man / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams with Audie Blaylock / Tribute To Jimmy Martin / Koch
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• Night / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Monrosine / Mark Newton & Bill Emerson / A Foot In The Past, A Foot In The Future / Pinecastle
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Curly Seckler with Dudley Connell / Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Copper Creek
• Some Of These Days (You're Gonna Be Sad) / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Uptown Blues / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• Gonna Have Love / Acoustic Blue / Empty House / Self-Produced
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Will You Meet Me Over There / Josh Williams / Lonesome Highway / Pinecastle
• Just Over In The Gloryland / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self-Produced
• Just As The Sun Went Down / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Stormy Waters / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mt. Boys / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME
• When I Wake Up (To Sleep No More) / Soul Pickers / The Beautiful River Of Life / Blue Circle
• Heaven / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Church House Hymns /
  Self-Produced
• No End To Heaven / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down /Rebel
• Prayer Bells Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist 8/5/2007

The first show in the new WHUS studios came on the heels of the excellent Podunk Bluegrass Festival in East Hartford. I got to the new Student Union studio just minutes after Marti kicked it off, and Marti pretty much carried the day by selecting and playing most of the music. The playlist was heavily influenced by artists who appeared at Podunk. Hope you enjoyed!

Jim

requests in red

• Mississippi River Let Your Water Flow / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind the Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Johnston's Grocery Store / Lost and Found / It's About Time / Rebel
• Body and Soul / Jimmy Cameron and High Lonesome / Jimmy Cameron and High Lonesome / Self
• Smoke Along the Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families of Tradition / BGC
• Mamma's Cry / Marjorie Kelting & Ronnie Feinberg (Miller's Crossing) / Adirondack Rail / Self
• Old Railroad Track / Scottie Sparks / Scottie Sparks / Doobie Shea
• Take This Hammer / Mickey Harris / Long Lonesome Highways / Self
• Pike County Breakdown / Mickey Harris / Long Lonesome Highways / Self
• Beyond the Rain / Pine Mountain Railroad / Heartache & Hope / TrakTone
• Possum Hollow Road / The VW Boys with Jim & Jesse / The Possum Tapes / Fat Dog
• There Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / The Kentucky Colonels / Long Journey Home / Vanguard
• Stop, Look and Listen / The New Coon Creek Girls / The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore / Pinecastle
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / 20 Bluegrass Originals / Deluxe
• Mountain Dew / Ralph Stanley II / Carrying On / Rebel
• Pretty Girls / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music
• Heartbreaker's Alibi / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• I Don't Know / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes II Black and White / Skaggs
• Shouting In the Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let the Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Beneath the Old Southern Skies / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let the Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Traveler's Prayer / Mountain Heart / Wide Open / Skaggs
• Wow Baby / Hunter Berry / Wow Baby / Upper Management
• The Whiskey Ain't Worth It Anymore / Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives / Live at the Ryman / Superlatone
• Fireball Mail / James Alan Shelton / Walking Down the Line / Sheltone
• Devil On a Plow / The Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• John in the Jordan / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Nowhere, Caroline / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / SteelTown
• Music Makin' Man / Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-press / Bluegrass Melodies / Rounder
• All the Good Times Are Past and Gone / Roy Lewis, Earl Scruggs, and Lizzy Long / Lifetimes / Mountain Home
• Going Back to Old Virginia / Linda Lay and Sammy Shelor / Taking the Crooked Road Home / Virginia Foundation
• More Behind the Picture than the Wall / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind the Picture than the Wall / Rounder
• Dark Hollow / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• Carolina Road / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Road / Blue Circle
• Crazy Daisy / King Wilkie / Low Country Suite / Zoe
• You're Just a Country Boy / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles or More, A Collection / Rounder
• Bending the Strings / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self
• Two Boys From Kentucky / Randy Kohrs / Old Photograph / Rural Rhythm
• Way It Always seems To Go / Jim VanCleve / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass v. 87 / KBC
• How's It Feel / Daughters of Bluegrass / Blue Circle Sampler / Blue Circle
• Family Reunion Amen / Joe Isaacs Family / Blue Circle Sampler / Blue Circle
• Lovin' Pretty Women / Steep Canyon Rangers / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass v. 87 / KBC
• Dixie Flyer / Grasstowne / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass v. 87 / KBC
• Run Little Fox / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass v. 87 / KBC
• Taken All My Blues Away / Shiloh Ridge / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass v. 87 / KBC
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / Appalachian Stomp / Rhino
• Wild Mountain Flowers for Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Beyond the Rain / Pine Mountain Railroad / Heartache & Hope / TrakTone
• Kneel and Pray / Mickey Harris / Kneel and Pray / MJH
• Take Your Shoes Off Moses / Various / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / David Parmley and Continental Divide / Church House Hymns / Self