We did spend a bit of time on Sunday, though, remembering Charlie Waller (who died August 18, 2004) and playing a few tunes from some different configurations of the Country Gentlemen. Some of the first BG records I ever heard were by the Country Gents (the Waller-Gaudreau-Emerson-Yates era), and it's never difficult for me to find a good reason to play lots of Gentlemen music.
We also paid tribute to the Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers, who was born on September 8, 1897. No one could ever accuse Jimmie Rodgers of being a BG singer, certainly, as "Bluegrass music" didn't even exist during Rodgers' time. However, you just can't say that Bill Monroe wasn't deeply influenced by Jimmie's music -- the obvious prime example here is the "Muleskinner Blues." And we know that whoever influenced Bill also likely influenced a whole lot more BG singers who followed. We put together a set featuring a few BG renditions of Jimmie Rodgers tunes, and we sure could have played a bunch more, too. (There was a Jimmie Rodgers set in my 8/28 fill-in stint, too).
(By the way, I'm reading a very good biography of Jimmie Rodgers published just this year. It's called Meeting Jimmie Rodgers : How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed The Pop Sounds Of A Century by Barry Mazor, and was published by Oxford University Press in April. Sometimes, scholarly biographies can be pretty dry, but this one is very readable. Visit your local library to inquire about borrowing this book).
There was plenty of new music to share on Sunday, too, with great new projects from the North Carolina band, the Grass Cats ("A Good Way To Get The Blues" on New Time Records), songwriter & Sirius Satellite Radio BG host Chris Jones & the Night Drivers ("Cloud Of Dust" on DSM Records), Minnesota's Monroe Crossing ("Heartache & Stone" on their own label), and New England's Southern Rail (their self-released "On The Road From Appomattox"). In addition, we played another tune from the fine new Adam Steffey project on Sugar Hill Records ("One More For The Road").
In addition to the BG Cafe playlist for September 6th, I'm including a playlist from a 3-hour Classic Country/BG fill-in I did at WHUS on August 28th.
Be sure to join Jim & Marti for the next two Sundays of BG Cafe, and I'll be with you again on September 27th & October 4th.
Amy
REQUESTS ARE RED.
- Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rocky Grass / Blue Planet
- Poor Boy Workin’ Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
- Another Day, Another Dollar / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler’s Call / Self-Produced
- Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
- Workin’ Man Blues / Acoustic Blue / Workin’ Man / Self-Produced
- Lower On The Hog / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin’ New Roots Down / Rebel
- Fire On The Kettle / Sawmill Road / Fire On The Kettle / Self-Produced
- Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
- Don’t Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
- Love Please Come Home / Bill Harrell with the Reno Brothers / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
- No More The Moon Shines On Lorena / Everett Lilly / Everett Lilly & Everybody & Their Brother / Swift River Music
- I’ll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952- 1953 / Rounder
- Branded Wherever I Go / Ricky Skaggs / Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
- Twenty One Miles / Adcock, Gaudreau, Waller & Gray / Country Gentlemen Reunion Band / RadioTherapy Records
- Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
- Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
- Don’t Hold Your Breath / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
- Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
- Let’s / Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
- The Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan /Rebel
- Riverboat Fantasy / Country Gentlemen / Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
- Cowboys Dig Them High-Heeled Shoes / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort
- With Body And Soul / Patrick McAvinue with Audie Blaylock / Rutland’s Reel / Patuxent Music
- Blue Lonesome Wind / Liz Meyer / The Storm / Strictly Country
- There’s Another Baby Waiting For Me Down The Line / Reno & Smiley / Country Boy Rock ‘N’ Roll / King
- Nowhere, Caroline / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steeltown Records
- Ride Of Your Life / Gold Heart / My Sisters And Me / Rural Rhythm
- Flat Creek / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / DMA Records
- Heartache And Stone / Monroe Crossing / Heartache And Stone / Self-Produced
- A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin’ / Adam Steffey / One More For The Road / Sugar Hill
- Saturday Night Company / Grass Cats / A Good Way To Get The Blues / New Time Records
- I Know The Way To You By Heart / Southern Rail / On The Road From Appomattox / Self-Produced
- Hard Workin’ Man / GrassTowne / The Other Side Of Towne / Pinecastle
- Whispering Waters / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm
- Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
- Mother, The Queen Of My Heart / Lonesome Standard Time / Lonesome As It Gets / Sugar Hill
- Blue Yodel No. 3 / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
- When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
- Muleskinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
- Lost / Avery County / Me And The Jukebox / Self-Produced
- Drowning Sailor / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
- John In The Jordan / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
- I Am The Man, Thomas / NewFound Road / Same Old Place / Rounder
- Lord Don’t Leave Me Here / Country Gentlemen / Joe’s Last Train / Rounder
- River Of Jordan / Tommy Webb / Heartland / Rural Rhythm
- Meet Him In The Clouds / Bear Minimum /
/ Self-Produced - The Eastern Gate / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
- Come On Little Children / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / DMA Records
- Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don’t Know My Mind / Rounder
- Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
CLASSIC COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS FILL-IN, 8/28/2009
- I’m Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Carter Family / My Clinch Mountain Home / Rounder
- Great Speckle Bird / Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans / Essential Roy Acuff / Legacy
- The Wild Side Of Life / Hank Thompson / Your Cheatin’ Heart / Dynamic
- It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / Kitty Wells / 20th Century Masters / MCA
- Can You Hear Me Now / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / Before Bluegrass / Blue Circle
- The Homestead On The Farm / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Songs Of The Famous Carter Family / Columbia
- My Little Home In Tennessee / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
- Pickin’ In The Wildwood / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Songs Of The Famous Carter Family / Columbia
- Foggy Mountain Top / Carter Family / My Clinch Mountain Home / Rounder
- Waiting For A Train / Jimmie Rodgers / Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
- Mean Mama Blues / Ernest Tubb / The Definitive Collection / MCA
- Ben Dewberry’s Final Run / Hank Snow / A Proper Introduction To Hank Snow / Proper
- When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Laurie Lewis & Grant Street / Singin’ My Troubles Away / Flying Fish
- Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas) / Jimmie Rodgers / Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
- Blue Yodel No. 3 / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin’ New Roots Down / Rebel
- Startin’ Over Blues / Joe Diffie / Regular Joe / Epic
- In The Jailhouse Now / Tim Blake Nelson / O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack / Mercury
- TB Blues / Jimmie Rodgers / Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
- The Train Carryin’ Jimmie Rodgers Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder
- New Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
- A Memory Of You / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds / Capitol
- Sold Down The River / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Leavin’ Town / Rounder
- I Know You’re Married But I Love You Still / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
- Ocean Of Diamonds / Jimmy Martin / You Don’t Know My Mind / Rounder
- Lonesome Weary Heart / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm
- Chasing Lightning Bugs / Gold Heart / My Sisters And Me / Rural Rhythm
- An Old Log Cabin For Sale / Porter Wagoner / An Old Log Cabin For Sale / RCA
- A Dear John Letter / Jean Shepard & Ferlin Huskey / Your Cheatin’ Heart / Dynamic
- The Automobile Of Life / Bear Minimum /
/ Self-Produced - There’s A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Elton Britt / Ridin’ With Elton / Soundies
- Sister / Gold Heart / My Sisters And Me / Rural Rhythm
- Years Ago / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
- To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
- Walk Through This World With Me / George Jones / Golden Hits / Gusto
- You Ain’t Woman Enough / Loretta Lynn / Country Music Hall Of Fame / MCA
- Fishin’ On The Mississippi / Don Rich & the Buckaroos / In Japan! / Sundazed
- Years Ago / Statler Brothers / Gold / Mercury
- Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
- Three Ways Of Knowing / Johnnie & Jack / For Old Times Sake / Bear Family
- What’s Gonna Become Of Me / Wilburn Brothers / Folk Songs / Decca
- Long Time Gone / Everly Brothers / Everly Brothers / GSC Records
- My Baby’s Gone / Louvin Brothers / When I Stop Dreaming / Razor & Tie
- My Baby Came Back / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder
- Lichen Covered Stone / Anna Mae Mitchell & Rising Tide / Driving Through A Ghost Town / Self-Produced
- Sea Of Heartbreak / Don Gibson / RCA Country Legends / RCA
- Baptism Of Jesse Taylor / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
- Where The City Ends / Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy Records
- The Crow / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder
- The Memory Of Your Smile / Dede Wyland / Keep The Light On / Patuxent Music
- Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life / Bill Emerson & the Sweet Dixie Band / Bill Emerson & the Sweet Dixie Band / Rebel
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