"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 2/1/2009

This show featured a live telephone interview with Del McCoury on his birthday. The Del McCoury Band will be performing at The Little Theatre in New Haven on Sunday, 8 February, so we thought it would be a good idea to talk to Del. The discussion was delightful. Del recalled the 1950s and 1960s days of the Baltimore bluegrass hot bed, and related how his most popular recording in recent history, "1952 Vincent Black Lightning", was pitched to him by Connecticut resident Dick Bowden. If you missed the interview, you can hear it again here.

We also celebrated other bluegrass birthdays: David Parmley, Tom Gray, and Del's bandmate and fiddler - Jason Carter, by playing some of their recordings.

The songs were mostly vintage for this show, but we did slip in a few new recordings from Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Special Consensus, Balsam Range, Mac Wiseman, Dry Branch Fire Squad, New England band Crossover, Audie Blaylock and Redline, and Pam Gadd.

Tune in next week when Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring.

Jim & Marti

SONG TITLE / PERFORMER / ALBUM TITLE / LABEL

• Back Up And Push / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent
• Opening Theme: Wake Up Susan / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms / Del McCoury / I Wonder Where you Are Tonight / Arhoolie
• I Wonder Where You Are Tonight / Everett Lilly & Everybody and Their Brother / Everett Lilly & Everybody and Their Brother / Swift River
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys / The Essential / Columbia
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Down In Caroline / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Signs / Special Consensus / Signs / Pinecastle
• Heart Wrenching Love Sick Memories / Rhonda Vincent & The Rage / Destination Life (Prime Cuts Vol. 97) / Rounder (KBC)
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent & The Rage / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• I'll Be All Smiles Tonight / Mac Wiseman / 1st Recorded Live Concert / Wise
• Tall Pines / Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands / Live / Spruce & Maple
• The Bluebirds Are Singing / The Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings / Rebel
• Little Joe / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Echoes of the Mountains / Rounder
• Beautiful Brown Eyes / The Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• As Long As I Live / Don Reno And Charlie Moore / Bluegrass Legends "Together" / Wango
• Maybe You Will Change Your Mind / Don Reno & Red Smiley / 1951 / 1959 / King
• Lonesome Road Blues / Hylo Brown / Essential Original Masters / Rural Rhythm
• Pardon Me / Tommy Brown & The County Line Grass / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• I Feel The Blues Movin' In / Del McCoury / The Best Of The GrooveGrass Years / GrooveGrass

Interview with Del McCoury

• 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / The Del McCoury Band / Del And The Boys / Ceili Music
• Girl From The North Country / Tony Rice / Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Cora Is Gone / Jack Lawrence / About Time / G-Run
• Ten Miles To Deep Gap / Jack Lawrence / About Time / G-Run
• Room At The Top Of The Stairs / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / At Merlefest April 25 2008 / FestivaLink
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Bill Clifton / Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Gusto
• I Don't Mind / Buzz Busby / Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Gusto
• Three Silver Dollars / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Three Silver Dollars / Pinecastle
• I Could Love You All The Time / Flat Mountain Boys / Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Gusto
• Blue Virginia Blue / Ken Orrick / Pictures and Stories / Hay Holler
• Some Old Day / Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Hazel Dickens / A Few Old Memories / Rounder
• Dark Hollow / Crossover / Friends Having Fun / Self
• Put My Little Shoes Away / Lynwood Lunsford / Pick Along / Hay Holler
• Are You Tired Of Me My Darling / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Early Recordings / Rebel
• My Darling's Last Goodbye / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Rural Rhythm
• Lost / Avery County / Me & The Jukebox / Self
• Hold Whatcha Got / Pam Gadd / Benefit of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway
• Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine / Iron Horse / The Gospel According to Hank Williams / CMH
• What Would You Give In Exchange / Cody Schuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin' / Rural Rhythm
• The Candle Song / Jim Eanes / In His Arms / Rebel
• Cabin In Glory / Carl Story / The Best Of Starday Bluegrass / King
• Back To The Cross / Flatt & Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Sessions / Mercury
• They're At Rest Together / Earl Taylor & The Stoney Mountain Boys / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style / Smithsonian Folkways
• Mountain Preacher's Child / Ralph Stanley / Mountain Preacher's Child / Rebel
• How High Is That Mountain / Larry Stephenson / Thankful / Pinecastle
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Sunshine In The Shadows / Hay Holler