"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 1/18/2009

Hi Folks,

It was a snowy day in Connecticut, and it seemed many of you were at home listening to the radio based on the large number of phone calls from folks making requests, winning tickets to local concerts, and just to talk about the music we played.

We aired several songs because of anniversaries and other events such as the songs by Lonesome Standard Time and Ross Nickerson because our recently-departed friend Butch Baldassari picked mandolin on the tracks. We played a concert recording from Flatt & Scruggs (they played at Nixon's inauguration 40 years ago), Laurie Lewis (her partner Tom Rozum has a birthday this week), Bill Emerson (birthday this week), and Art Stamper (died 23 January 2005).

We introduced some new music, too, from the Songs From The Road Band, Audie Blaylock and Redline, Whitetop Mountain Band, Gena Britt Tew, and The Infamous Stringdusters.

The Steep Canyon Rangers, ShoreGrass, and Shady Creek all have concerts in the area this week, so we played tracks from their CDs.

Speaking of concerts, we have the amazing fortune to have a large number of great bands we can hear live in this area. This will not continue forever, or even many more weeks, unless we all make it worthwhile to the promoters who put their time and money on the line to bring this music to us. Please get out and attend the concerts. You will have a great time, the music is the best, and we will be able to enjoy live bluegrass music in the future.

That's the news and soapbox for this week. Amy will be with you next week.

Jim & Marti

(Requests in blue)

SONG TITLE / PERFORMER / ALBUM TITLE / LABEL

• Back Up And Push / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent
• Gold Watch And Chain / Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / 24 Bluegrass Favorites / Rural Rhythm
• Reno Bound / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-produced
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall / Koch
• Whispering Waters / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Rural Rhythm
• The Less That I Drink / Charlie Sizemore / Good News / Rounder
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• It's A Long, Long Road / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Lower On The Hog / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Self-titled / Sugar Hill
• Bluegrass Saturday Night / Rhonda Vincent / Good Thing Going / Rounder
• Jesse James / Ross Nickerson / Blazing The West / Bullet Proof
• Back To The Mountains / The Monty McClanahan Project / The Road Less Traveled / Self-produced
• Close By / Beth Stevens & Edge / Strong Enough / Pinecastle
• Tall Pines / Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands / Live / Spuce & Maple
• You Can Run But You Can't Hide / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Webco
• Tennessee 1949 / Larry Sparks / The Best of Larry Sparks / Rebel
• I See Through You / The Stanley Brothers / The Last Show of the Stanley Brothers / Self-produced
• Never Again / The Stanley Brothers / The Last Show of the Stanley Brothers / Self-produced
• Montana Cowgirl (Coyote Song) / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Phoenix / Happy Appy
• I'm Gone, Long Gone / Don Reno & Red Smiley & The Tennesse Cut-ups / Reno & Smiley & The Tennessee Cut-ups / King
• Darlin' Nellie Gray / Don Reno and Charlie Moore / Bluegrass Legends "Together" / Wango
• Pig In A Pen / Ricky Skaggs / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family
• Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy / Whitetop Mountain Band / Loafer's Dream / Mountain Roads
• Doing All I Can / Gina Britt Tew / Doing All I Can / Self-produced
• The Old Hen Cackled / Art Stamper / The Lost Fiddler / County
• Detroit City Chill / Ernie Thacker / The Hangman / Pinecastle
• Rambler's Blues / Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Live And Learn / Rebel
• Plant Some Flowers By My Grave / Red Smiley with the Bluegrass Cut-ups / 20 Bluegrass Favorites, Volume II / Rural Rhythm
• Stop Action / Tony Trischka / Hill Country / Rounder
• Tragic Romance / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Early Recordings / Rebel
• I Ain't Goin' Down / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times / Sugar Hill
• There's A Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea / Don Stover / Live At Davis & Elkins College / White Oak
• A Hundred Years From Now / The Infamous Stringdusters / Normal 9-13-2008 / Sugar Hill
• Goodbye Bottle Of Whiskey / The Steep Canyon Rangers / The Steep Canyon Rangers / Rebel
• Don't Ease Me In / The Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin' Pretty Women / Rebel
• Hold Whatcha Got / Pam Gadd / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway
• Train Songs / Ralph Stanley II / This One Is Two / Lonesome Day
• Big Sciota [bed for calendar] / Greg Morton / Solo Guitar / Self-produced
• Wildwood Flower [bed for calendar] / Greg Morton / Solo Guitar / Self-produced
• I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-produced
• Picker's Blues / The Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / Shore Grass / Going Home / Self-produced
• Bury Me Beneath The Willow / Northern Lights / New Moon / Fifty Fifty
• Thank You For Caring / Jeanette Williams / Thank You For Caring / Blue Circle
• Down In The Willow Garden / Gary Ferguson and Friends / Live At Podunk / Patuxent
• As The Crow Flies / Songs From The Road Band / As The Crow Flies (Prime Cuts Vol 96) / Lucks Dumpy Toad (KBC)
• The Gospel Way / Kristin Scott Benson / Second Season / Pinecastle
• I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap / Reno & Smiley / Reno & Smiley and The Tennessee Cut-ups 1951 / 1959 / King
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin' / Rural Rhythm
• Give Me The Roses Now / Jimmy Martin / This World Is Not My Home / Music Mill - Universal
• Listen To My Hammer Ring / Charlie Moore / Old Homestead Gospel Collection / Old Homestead
• Baptism Of Jesse Taylor / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• Lord Let Me Walk Beside Of You / The Easter Brothers / Old Homestead Gospel Collection / Old Homestead
• Harbor Of Love / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• I Hear My Savior Calling / The Stanley Brothers / 1953-58 & 1959 / Bear Family
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Sunshine In The Shadows / Hay Holler