"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 4/25/2010 - Bill Hall & Wade Mainer

A remembrance and a tribute were the order of the day on Bluegrass Cafe.

First, a remembrance of Bill Hall, the pioneering bluegrass band leader and banjo picker from Rhode Island who passed away April 20th following a mishap at his home. Bill first began playing in the 1950s, and over the years worked with The Lilly Brothers, Joe Val, and several of his own bands including The Bluegrass Travelers and Bill Hall and Northwind Bluegrass. Bill remained active in bluegrass right up to the time he left us. He was known for his weekly jams and an annual bluegrass Campa-Jamma-Ramma at his home. I played selections from his Northwind album titled "In The Shadow of the Pines" and both sides of a Rebel single of The Bluegrass Travelers. Most of the songs were written or co-written by Bill.

Later we celebrated the 103rd birthday of Wade Mainer, sometimes called "The Grandfather of Bluegrass" because the music he produced with his brother J.E. and many others in the 1930s and 1940s is considered an essential bridge between old time string band music and what became known as bluegrass music. Wade's two-finger banjo style is also a bridge between the old clawhammer style of picking and the now-standard three-finger bluegrass style. I played a series of recordings ranging from Wade's 1950s King sides to live performances from the early 1990s.

The remainder of the show included much new music, perhaps the newest being selections from Cherryholmes IV, and a new single from The Lonesome River Band.

Be sure to tune in next week when Amy will continue the tradition of making the banjos and fiddles ring.

Jim Beaver
requests in blue

Song Title / Performer / Album Title / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• Ridin' On That Train 45 / Wade Mainer with Steve Ledford / The Golden Age of J. E. Mainer / Cattle
• Up This Hill And Down / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• Don't Worry About Me / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• The Day Has Passed / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Find Me Out On A Mountain Top / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• The Waves On The Sea / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• One Foot In The Mill / Last Road Bluegrass / Highway 81 / Self-released
• Tall Weeds and Rust / Darren Beachley & Legends of the Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent
• Where Will This End? / Patuxent Partners / Seven or Eleven / Patuxent
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent
• When I'm Gone / Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa / Self-titled / Self-released
• Record Time Machine / Lonesome River Band / single / Rural Rhythm
• Leave Me The Way I Am / Sawmill Road / 2 - Fire On The Kettle / SMR Records
• The Harder I Fall / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes IV: Common Threads / Skaggs Family
• Memory Of A Woman / Acoustic Blue / This Is Now / Self-released
• Play The Lonesome Sound / Dewey Brown with Del McCoury / Hard Times for a Fiddler / Dew Bug
• Freight Train Boogie / Blues Grass / Self-titled / Self-released
• Dixie Home / Bill Hall and Northwind Bluegrass / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead (LP)
• When I Miss Her Most of All / Bill Hall and Northwind Bluegrass / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead (LP)
• Dream, Dream, Dream / The Bluegrass Travelers / 45 RPM Single / Rebel
• The Prisoner's Last Wish / Bill Hall and Northwind Bluegrass / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead (LP)
• Heaven / The Bluegrass Travelers / 45 RPM Single / Rebel
• Chariots A-Comin' / Bill Hall and Northwind Bluegrass / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead (LP)
• Flowers On The Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Sing The Statler Brothers / Cracker Barrel
• 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / Del McCoury / By Request / McCoury Music
• She's Walking Through My Memories / The Bluegrass Brothers / As Time Goes By / Self-released
• Merry Go Round / Brand New Strings / No Strings Attached / Rural Rhythm
• Randy Lynn Rag / Dan Menzone / Frostbite / Self-released
• Tribulations / Carolina Native Sons / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent
• Cabin In Caroline / Bill Hall and Northwind Bluegrass / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead (LP)
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin / Classic Bluegrass vol. 4 / Time-Life
• Cryin' Heart Blues / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• I Can't Like Myself / The Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass
• Golden West [bed] / Skip Gorman / Monroesque / Old West
• Frog On A Lilypad [bed] / Skip Gorman / Monroesque / Old West
• The Lloyd Loar [bed] / Skip Gorman / Monroesque / Old West
• Up Front, Out Back / Skip Gorman / Monroesque / Old West
• Courtin' In The Rain / Wade Mainer / From The Maple On The Hill / Old Homestead
• Ramshackle Shack / Wade & Julia Mainer / In The Land of Melody / June Appal
• Trickling Water / Wade & Julia Mainer / In The Land of Melody / June Appal
• I Can't Sit Down / Wade & Julia Mainer / In The Land of Melody / June Appal
• Little Birdie / Wade Mainer / I'm Not Looking Backward / Gusto
• I'm Not Looking Backward / Wade Mainer / I'm Not Looking Backward / Gusto
• Man In The Middle / Jim Lloyd and the Skyliners / Songs From My Attic / Mountain Roads
• Heaven's Bright Shore / Snyder Family Band / Comin' On Strong / Mountain Roads
• Jesus Savior Pilot Me / Jesse Baker / Yessir! / Patuxent
• Heavenly Home / Gold Heart / My Sisters And Me / Rural Rhythm
• They Called It A Church / Billy Boone Smith / Five Flat Rocks / Muddy Sunshine
• Jesus Is My Rock / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Hurricane / Rural Rhythm
• This World Is Not My Home / Ricky Skaggs / Solo - Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Best of the Gillis Brothers / Hay Holler

RIP, Bill Hall

New England Bluegrass pioneer Bill Hall died Tuesday, April 20th at his home in North Scituate, RI. Known as a banjo picker and band leader of Bill Hall & Northwind for many years, Bill has also been recognized as one of the "Pioneers of Bluegrass" by the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY.

You may view his obituary from the Providence Journal by clicking here.

This photo shows Bill in the studio at WHUS in 1993 back when Marcel Huguenin (aka the "Bluegrass Coyote") was hosting the program which was then known as The Magic Of Bluegrass. Obviously, Bill was the banjo player, and was joined by Harry Cook on bass and Earl Oliver on the guitar.

Condolences to the Hall Family from Bluegrass Cafe.

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/18/2010

Sunday's BG Cafe featured a flurry of requests early on, and then, sort of slowed down to a more-relaxed pace. As Jim has mentioned in recent weeks, we have received LOTS of great new recordings from various labels and performers lately, and so, we try to squeeze in a good mixture of newer BG along with some of the classics of yesteryear that we always like to hear. Going for that exact balance of new and old can be challenging at times, but we hope you enjoy what we're playing on the ol' airwaves.

By the way, if you're keeping track of some of the newer stuff (released and/or received at WHUS within the past month or two) on this week's playlist, here's a quick snapshot: Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac, Audie Blaylock & Redline, Summertown Road, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Sweet Potato Pie, the Grascals, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and Connecticut musician Nathan Day.

As you may have heard, the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a posthumous citation last week to the legendary Hank Williams. During his short lifetime, Hank was pretty much recognized as a performer and writer of country music, but his many great songs have lived on to touch and influence so many more genres of music. In awarding the citation, the Pulitzer Board praised Hank Williams for "his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life." Several months ago, we paid tribute to Hank by playing a set of his tunes which have been covered by various BG performers. However, with this new Pulitzer recognition, it seemed appropriate to string together a few more of Hank's many great tunes -- some covers by BG performers and even a couple from Hank himself. Even 57 years after his death, the music of Hank Williams lives on...and will likely continue to do so for many, many years to come.

Jim will join you in the studio for this coming Sunday's BG Cafe. Be sure to tune in, as I'm sure you're going to hear something you'll like a whole lot...

Enjoy the rest of the week -
Amy




REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Bluegrass Blues / Steep Canyon Rangers / Steep Canyon Rangers / Rebel
• Lonesome Pine / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Bluegrass Collection / Gusto
• Just Ain't / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia/Legacy
• Turn Up The Bottle / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Bluegrass : The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Waiting For The Real Thing / Front Range / The New Frontier / Sugar Hill
• Humdinger / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• The Old Man From The Mountain / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• I Might Take You Back Again / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 4 / Rounder
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• East Kentucky Home / The Steeldrivers / The Steeldrivers / Rounder
• All I Ever Loved Was You / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Follow The Leader / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH Records
• You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics / Pinecastle
• Foggy River / Del McCoury / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Foolish Heart / Alison Krauss / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Old Hickory Cane / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Some Of These Days (You're Gonna Be Sad) / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Country Church / Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• How Could I Love Her So Much / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent Music
• Cryin' Heart Blues / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Almost Gone / Nathan Day / The Bluegrass Album / Self-Produced
• To Warm And Comfort You / Gail & Gordon Pike / Hard Words / Self-Produced
• Hey Good Lookin' / Hank Williams / The Unreleased Recordings / Time Life
• Why Don't You Love Me? / Whitstein Brothers / Sweet Harmony / Rounder
• Heaven Holds All My Treasures / Bear Bridge Band / Bear Essentials / Open Road
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / The Grascals with Hank Williams, Jr. / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• Cold, Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• The Singing Waterfall / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• It's In My Mind To Wander / Michelle Nixon / It's My Turn / Pinecastle
• I Wish You Knew / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• The Wishing Well / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Left-Handed Dreamer / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
• The Silver Bugle / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Born To Be With You / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Hurricane / Rural Rhythm
• Do You Know You Are My Sunshine / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers / Cracker Barrel
• I'm Leavin' You / Summertown Road / Summertown Road / Rounder
• Golden Hair / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Self-Produced
• I'm Gonna Sing / Hank Williams / The Unreleased Recordings / Time Life
• It's A Mighty Hard Road To Travel / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light On My Feet, Ready To Fly / Horizon
• My Mother's Bible / Bear Minimum / Live At The Finnish Hall / Self-Produced
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• River Of Jordan / Sweet Potato Pie / Journey Called Life / Mountain Fever Recordings
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Justified / Billy Boone Smith / Five Flat Rocks / Muddy Sunshine
• I Saw The Light / Tom Adams / Right Hand Man / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 4/11/2010

Hi Folks,

This was another fun day of mostly new or newer music. It is interesting that many of the requests lately have been for the newer releases. There is a savvy bunch of listeners out there.

It is also interesting that I haven't had to raid the Heritage Corner archives much lately because many of the heritage tunes have been newly released by labels such as Rural Rhythm and Gusto making them accessible to everyone, and making it easy to find great foundations to put on the air.

Some of the heritage tunes we played came from two new releases from Rural Rhythm: Mac Wiseman - Bluegrass 1971, and Reno & Smiley - Bluegrass 1963. The Wiseman release is mostly a live festival performance that included Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass along with the Shenandoah Valley Cut-Ups. The Reno & Smiley release is a transcription of a television show that included a visit by the Stanley Brothers. While the sound quality is not up to current standards, this is priceless history that has been preserved for us.

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More new music came from Wildfire, Audie Blaylock and Redline, The Grascals, The Hagar's Mountain Boys, Nu-Blu, Darrell Webb, Summertown Road, Sawmill Road, Darren Beachley & Legends of the Potomac, The Chapmans, The Cana Ramblers, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Sweet Potato Pie, Don Rigsby & Midnight Call, and The Isaacs.

There are so many new releases that Amy and I could make a series of shows consisting of traditional bluegrass music never played on Bluegrass Cafe before. That's a great situation for bluegrass lovers everywhere, but because our show is only three hours long, we don't get everything we would like to play on the air each week. That's a good reason to tune in every week!

Amy will be with you next week, so tune in from 4 to 7 pm ET when she will make the banjos and fiddles ring.

Jim Beaver


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Song Title / Performer / Album Title / Label

• Cotton Eyed Joe / DeWayne Wear / Appalachian Fiddle Breakdown Rural Rhythm
• Banjo Whiz / Bill Harrell & Bill Emerson/ 20 Bluegrass Greats / Gusto
• Love Is A Stranger / Bill Harrell with Don Reno / 20 Bluegrass Greats / Gusto
• It's The Blues / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome - Complete Starday Recordings / Gusto
• Love, O' Love Please Come Home / Reno & Smiley / Bluegrass 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• She Burnt The Little Roadside Tavern Down / Wildfire / Lonesome Day Records Presents / Lonesome Day
• Warm Kentucky Sunshine / Adam Steffey / One More For The Road / Sugar Hill
• Don't Let Her Get Away / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent
• Lilly Green / Thomas Wywrot / Every Time I Walk This Road / Right Good
• Troubles Round My Door / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Satan and Grandma / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• Man Of Constant Sorrow / The Soggy Bottom Boys / Soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou / Mercury
• Shot Man Blues / The Hagar's Mountain Boys / Forever Yours / Self-released
• Lonesome Mountain / Nu-Blu / Nights / Self-released
• If I Win / Summertown Road / Summertown Road / Rounder
• Leave Me The Way I Am / Sawmill Road / Fire On The Kettle / Self-released
• Poor Ramblin' Boy / Darrell Webb / [single] / Rural Rhythm
• I Don't Care Anymore / Bill Emerson / Southern / Rural Rhythm
• Duncan & Brady (He's Been On The Job Too Long) / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Two Little Boys / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome - Complete Starday Recordings / Gusto
• Here Today and Gone Tomorrow / Hazel Dickens with The Johnson Mountain Boys / Songs of the Louvin Brothers / Rounder
• Mountains Of Memories / Gail & Gordon Pike and Mainly Grass / Hard Words / Self-released
• The Mary Ellen Carter / Sawmill Road / Fire On The Kettle / Self-released
• Hard Rock Mountain Prison ('Till I Die) / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Self-titled / Rural Rhythm
• Tall Weeds and Rust / Darren Beachley & Legends of the Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent
• Wheels / Brand New Strings / No Strings Attached / Rural Rhythm
• The Bluebirds Singing For Me / Larry Stephenson / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• 40 Years / Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa / Self-titled / Self-released
• Susan When She Tried / Dailey & Vincent / Sing The Statler Brothers / Cracker Barrel
• Left Handed Dreamer / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
• I Still Miss Someone / Dolly Parton with Alison Krauss / The Grass Is Blue / Sugar Hill
• Why Did You Lie / The Chapmans / Grown Up (A Revisionist History) / Compass
• Blue Ridge Mountains / Junior Sisk, Johnny Williams, Cullen Galyean, Terry Baucom, Billy Hawks, Mickey Galyean / Born Into Bluegrass - The Songs of Cullen Galyean / Mountain Roads
• Four Walls Around Me / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass 1971 / Rural Rhythm
• Dark As A Dungeon / Merle Travis / Folk Songs From The Hills / Bear Family
• Daddy Played The Banjo / Steve Martin with Tim O'Brien / The Crow / Rounder
• The Old North Woods / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• A Couple A Dozen / Carolina Native Sons / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent
• Graybar Hotel / The Cana Ramblers / No Expectations / Self-released
• It's A Mighty Hard Road To Travel / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light On My Feet, Ready To Fly / Horizon
• Light From Heaven / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Mountain Home
• Are You Afraid To Die? / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Songs of the Louvin Brothers / Rounder
• Over In The Gloryland / Reno & Smiley with The Stanley Brothers / Bluegrass 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• Shout Hallelujah / Sweet Potato Pie / Journey Called Life / Mountain Fever
• Then Y'Ain't / Don Rigsby & Midnight Call / The Voice Of God / Rebel
• He Can Be Found / The Isaacs / Naturally / Gaither
• Make Him A Soldier / Whitstein Brothers / Songs of the Louvin Brothers / Rounder
• He Is Near / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Sugarloaf Mountain Special / Jesse Baker / Yessir! / Patuxent

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/4/2010

Easter Sunday was an absolutely gorgeous day in eastern Connecticut: the sun was shining, the temperature was in the 70s, and to cap off a day of church activities and/or family events, we offered you 5 hours of Bluegrass on the ol' radio. UCONN student Joe Dempsey went home to MA for his Easter dinner, so the BG Cafe took the airwaves beginning at 2PM. Hope you enjoyed what you heard!

Last week, Jim said his unofficial "theme" was to feature some of the new music we've received over the past few weeks. As there is so much great new music now, I sort of piggy-backed on to that idea, and included lots of new music from the likes of Audie Blaylock & Redline, the Chapmans, Summertown Road, the Grascals, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Mark Johnson & Emory Lester, Don Rigsby & Midnight Call, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. There's also a new recording from Mac Wiseman from a 1971 festival, as well as newer music (released within the last couple of months) from Dewey Brown, the Patuxent Partners, Larry Stephenson, Brand New Strings, and Josh Williams. Doubtless, you'll be hearing plenty more from all of these projects in future weeks of the BG Cafe.

From time to time, especially during these shows which include the "bonus" hours from 2-4PM, I like to feature some of the classic country music performers and their various connections to the BG world. Since Merle Haggard celebrates a birthday on April 6th (born that date in 1937), it seemed only fitting to make him our feature performer. The man they call "The Hag" (would they call him by that nickname if he was a female?) has influenced many a great country AND BG singer down through the years, and there is absolutely no shortage of BG covers of some of Haggard's great tunes he's written. Why, in 2007 this Country Music Hall of Famer even branched out a bit and made a record he called "The Bluegrass Sessions." It was no stretch at all to play a set of Haggard covers, and then intersperse a few more Hag tunes throughout the rest of the show.

And, of course, it was Easter, and there were plenty of great Easter-themed BG songs to put on the airwaves. Hope you enjoyed something you heard along the way...

Thanks once again for supporting our fundraising efforts during Radiothon last month. We know that some of the premiums haven't yet been mailed out, so we hope you'll continue to be patient if you've not yet received one of our "thank-you gifts."

Finally, Sunday also marked the beginning of the baseball season for 2010. The Red Sox and Yankees opened up at Fenway last night in very un-April-like weather, but who was complaining? It came to my attention that I may have "inadvertently" offended some of the Yankee fans within our BG audience. If so...well, I guess I should apologize. I may not be crazy about the Bronx Bombers themselves, but they deserved their World Series win in 2009, I guess. No matter which side of the aisle you may sit on in this Sox/Yanks debate, we're always happy to welcome you into the BG Cafe. We hope you'll be sure to join us whenever you can.

Jim will be with you next Sunday on the air, and I'm sure you'll hear nothing but great BG music. Join him (and maybe even Marti, too)!

Have a great week!

Amy



REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Angeline The Baker / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder
• The Girl Behind The Bar / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides / JSP Records
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Flatt & Scruggs / Selected Sides / JSP Records
• Ruby / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Virginia Waltz / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds: The Capitol Years / Capitol
• I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Living In These Troubled Times / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• Irish Spring / Patrick McAvinue / Rutland's Reel / Patuxuent Music
• Eatin' Out Of Your Hand / Bill Harrell / 20 Bluegrass Greats / Gusto
• Love You Don't Know Cannot Hurt You / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / / Patuxent Music
• Money In The Bank / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Sally Ann / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• High Lonesome / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Peter Rowan / The First Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill
• If Lonely Was The Wind / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• That High Lonesome Sound / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Let's Not Go There / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Mountain Home
• Crazy Finger Blues / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• He's Still Hurting Inside / Bluegrass Diamonds / After All These Years / Self-Produced
• When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• She's More To Be Pitied / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
• Slidin' Delta / Stonewall Bluegrass / Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Hard Times Are Here / Dewey Brown with Ralph Stanley / Hard Times For A Fiddler / DewBug Records
• You Left Me Alone / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Branded Man / Merle Haggard / Vintage Collections / Capitol
• Huntsville / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• Sing Me Back Home / Ernie Thacker-Junior Blankenship Band / Tennessee Blues / Copper Creek
• Big City / Merle Haggard / The Bluegrass Sessions / McCoury Music
• Mama Tried / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Swinging Doors / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder
• The Fightin' Side Of Me / Merle Haggard / Vintage Collections / Capitol
• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Larry Stephenson with Del McCoury / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Pinecastle
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Live And Let Live / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Old Rugged Cross / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Self-Produced
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder
• You're Gonna Wonder About Me / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Son Of A Sawmill Man / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• Love's Gonna Live Here / The Chapmans with Rhonda Vincent / Grown Up (A Revisionist History) / Compass Records
• Browntown Road / Mark Johnson & Emory Lester / Acoustic Vision: Blockade Runner / Bangtown Records
• Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Mac Wiseman with Lester Flatt / Bluegrass, 1971 / Rural Rhythm
• Train Without A Track / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Good Home Grown Music Sampler, 2010 / Blue Circle
• Up The Hill And Down / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• Look For Me / Angelica Grim / Look For Me / Patuxent Music
• The Empty Grave / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise Records
• Stone Cold Loneliness / Blue Moon Rising / One Lonely Shadow / Lonesome Day Records
• Somewhere Between / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• The Room Over Mine / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Carolina's Arms / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Remington Ryde / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Blues Are Still The Blues / Mickey Harris / Dog House Blues / MJH Records
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Cheshire Tragedy / Bear Minimum / / no label
• Mother's Voice Is In The Wind / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• All I Can Do Is Pretend / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• The Gospel According To Luke / Don Rigsby & Midnight Call / The Voice Of God / Rebel
• Carolina Hurricane / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Hurricane / Rural Rhythm
• My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light On My Feet, Ready To Fly / Horizon
• Fiddlin' John / Summertown Road / Summertown Road / Rounder
• You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• I Thought That She Loved Me / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Merry Go Round / Brand New Strings / No Strings Attached / Rural Rhythm
• Sugar Coated Love / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Holding Things Together / Southern Rail / On The Road From Appomattox / Railway Records
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Search Inside An Empty Tomb / Rarely Herd / What About Him / Pinecastle
• Blood Stains On The Cross / Larry Sparks / New Highway / Mountain Home
• Just As The Sun Went Down / James King / Gardens In The Sky / Rounder
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Ralph Stanley / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• I'm Justified / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• Here At The Cross / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Cry From The Cross / Charlie Sizemore / The Stanley Gospel Tradition: Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea
• Broken Stone / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 3/28/2010

Hi Folks,

We had a delightful day on the radio before the rains came, so it was a good time to be listening to bluegrass. Marti and I enjoyed bringing it to you. Marti has been kind of scarce around the studio lately, so it was a pleasure sharing the microphone with her this week.

New music was the unofficial focus of this show, and we had plenty. Some of the artists making that new music were The Grascals, Darrell Webb, Ken Scoggins & Millers Creek, Carolina Native Sons, Patuxent Partners, Thomas Wywrot, Taylor Baker, Audie Blaylock and Redline, The Chapmans, Chris Warner, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, The Earl Brothers, Herman McGee, Summertown Road, and Larry Stephenson. Whew! 2010 is turning out to be a good year for new releases.

The Heritage Corner pulled a few tasty treats from the vaults, including numbers from Flatt & Scruggs, The Johnson Mountain Boys before Rounder, and the earliest Brandywine recording from 1981 (on vinyl) of Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass. We also featured a segment of bluegrass comedy or novelty tunes that included numbers from Homer & Jethro (not bluegrass, but good picking anyway), The Stanley Brothers, Reno & Smiley, and The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover.

Thanks for listening, and be sure to tune in Sunday at 4pm ET when Amy will bring you three hours of the best in bluegrass.

Jim Beaver

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Song Title / Performer / Album Title / Label

• Sugarloaf Mountain Special / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• No Depression / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• Poor Ramblin' Boy / Darrell Webb Band / Fresh Cuts & Key Tracks #7 / Rural Rhythm
• The Bean Blossom Bird / Ken Scoggins & Miller's Creek / Once In A Lifetime Thing / Old Homestead
• Last Train To Clarksville / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• Where Will This End? / Patuxent Partners / Seven or Eleven / Patuxent
• Coat of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Live And Well / Sugar Hill
• Tribulations / Carolina Native Sons / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent
• Whitewater / Bela Fleck / Drive / Rounder
• Lost And Lonesome / Billy Boone Smith / Live From The Moose Lodge / Muddy Sunshine
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss and Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• 95 Years / Thomas Wywrot / Every Time I Walk This Road / Right Good Rocords
• Whistlin' Rufus/Ragtime Annie / Dan Crary with Doc Watson / Jammed If I Do / Sugar Hill
• Taxes, Troubles, and Heartaches / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent
• I've Never Been So Lonesome / Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass / An Old Love Affair / Brandywine (LP)
• Blue Grass Special / Taylor Baker / Taylor Baker / Patuxent
• Yesterday I Didn't Know / Donnie Dobro Scott / Generations / Patuxent
• Tennessee, Tennessee / Homer & Jethro / The Weird World of... / BMG
• My Long Skinny Lanky Sarah Jane / The Stanley Brothers / An Evening Long Ago / Columbia Legacy
• Barefoot Nellie / Reno & Smiley / 1951- 1959 / King
• Billboard Song / The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover / Live At Hillbilly Ranch / Hay Holler
• Heartbreak Express / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Greenville Trestle High / Ricochet / Raised By The Railroad Line / Rebel
• Passing Of The Train / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Raised By The Railroad Line / Seldom Scene / Raised By The Railroad Line / Rebel
• Cryin' Heart Blues / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Love's Gonna Live Here / The Chapmans with Rhonda Vincent / Grown Up (A Revisionist History) / Compass
• Carolina Hurricane / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Hurricane / Rural Rhythm
• I'll Go To My Grave Lovin' You / Dailey & Vincent / Sing The Statler Brothers / Cracker Barrel
• Cold & Lonesome / The Earl Brothers / The Earl Brothers / Big Hen Music
• Are You Teasing Me / Herman McGee / Family and Friends / Self-released
• Grandpa Emory's Banjo / Bill Emerson and Sweet Dixie / Southern / Rural Rhythm
• Black Jack / Dan Menzone / Frostbite / LC Productions
• Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast / Norman Blake / Old Ties / Rounder
• Saga Of The Old West / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder
• Cotton Eyed Joe [bed] / Chubby Wise / An American Original - The '94 Sessions / Pinecastle
• Green Valley Waltz / Chubby Wise / An American Original - The '94 Sessions / Pinecastle
• If I Win / Summertown Road / Summertown Road / Rounder
• I Thought That She Loved Me / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Six More Miles / The Basement Band / Plum Pitiful / Time-Life
• Everytime / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / Flatt & Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs and Stanley Brothers / JSP
• I've Got Your Number / Ray Legere and Roger Williams / River Of No Return / Self-released
• What Would You Do? / Fred Etheridge & Nick Anderson / Unreleased Demo
• Armor Of God / Billy Boone Smith / Five Flat Rocks / Muddy Sunshine
• Palms Of Victory / Dale Ann Bradley / Essential Bluegrass - Bluegrass Gospel [comp.] / Pinecastle
• You'll See Jesus / Larry Stephenson / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine / Iron Horse / The Gospel According To Hank Williams - The Bluegrass Gospel Tribute / CMH
• Gospel Train / Mountain Heart / Bluegrass Express [comp.] / Rounder
• Get In Line Brother / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• He Said If I Be Lifted Up / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Gloryland / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Feel Like My Time Ain't Long / Rebel
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Best Of The Gillis Brothers / Hay Holler