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
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