Sunday, December 25, 2011

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 12/25/2011 Christmas Day

Hi Folks, and Merry Christmas.

At the start of this show Marti and I knew we would be playing a good number of Christmas-themed bluegrassy songs with our usual mix, but as the show progressed we found that it was easy to make the whole show Christmas-themed because of all the great Christmas bluegrass music available.  In a nod to our old roots music show, Red Rooster Party, we started with the theme song from that show titled "Breaking Up Christmas" by Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham.


Probably the song I'm most proud of playing is a rare single recorded in the early 1970s by Doc Watson called "New Born King."  I first heard this song played on the radio nearly 20 years ago when I lived under the radio umbrella of WAMU in Washington DC.  That was one of those pull-off-the-road-and-listen moments that comes along once in a rare while.

Other newer songs include singles from Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Valerie Smith, Donna Ulisse, and Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa.

Be sure to tune in next Sunday when Amy will ring in the New Year with the banjos and fiddles.

Jim Beaver


Title / Artist / Album / Label
  • Breaking Up Chrismas / Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham / Tommy & Fred / County
  • Bluegrass, White Snow / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass, White Snow / Epic
  • The Friendly Beasts / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Christmas Time's A-Comin' (collection) / Time-Life
  • Christmas Time Back Home / The Country Gentlemen / Christmas Time's A-Comin' (collection) / Time-Life
  • Christmas In Dixie / Nu-Blu with Greg Luck / Christmas In Carolina (collection) / Blue Circle
  • Home Is Where The Heart Is / Pine Creek / Recorded Live at WHUS 8/20/2008
  • New Born King / Doc Watson / Lonesome Road/Look Away / EMI
  • Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Rhonda Vincent / Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection / Rounder
  • Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over / Fiddlin' John Carson / Complete Recorded Works Volume 5 / Document
  • On Christmas Eve / John Hartford / Me Oh My, How The Time Does Fly / Flying Fish
  • Corn, Water and Wood / Riders In The Sky / Christmas The Cowboy Way / Rounder
  • Pretty Paper / Willie Nelson / Pretty Paper / Sony
  • The Reindeer Boogie / Hank Snow / Country's Best Christmas (collection) / Vintage Masters
  • Christmas Time On Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / Christmas On The Mountain (collection) / Universal South
  • When It's Snowin' In The Mountains / Wildwood Valley Boys / Christmas In The Mountains (collection) / Rebel
  • Mary's Little Lamb / Balsam Range / A Mountain Home Christmas (collection) / Crossroads
  • Send Yourself Home For Christmas / Valerie Smith / Single / Bell Buckle
  • My Little Silver Bells / Bill Grant and Delia Bell / O Christmas Tree (collection) / Rounder
  • All I Want Is Mary For Christmas / The Lonesome River Band / Tinsel Tunes (collection) / Sugar Hill
  • Christmas Time Back Home / Darin & Brook Aldridge / Single / Crossroads
  • Mary, Merry Christmas / Ralph Stanley II / Listen To My Hammer Ring / Rebel
  • Christmas In The Mountains / Larry Sparks / Christmas In The Hills (collection) / Rebel
  • Your Christmas Gift / Steve Ivey / Mountain Top Bluegrass Christmas (coll.) / Madacy Christian
  • You Cannot Stay Here / Donna Ulisse / Single / Hadley Music Group
  • The Christmas Letter / Tommy Edwards / Christmas In The Mountains (collection) / Rebel
  • The Carpenter Shop / The Bluegrass Cardinals / Sugar Plums (collection) / Sugar Hill
  • Grandpa In The Santa Suit Show / Dr Elmo Shropshire / Dr. Elmo Bluegrass Christmas / Time-Life
  • Christmas In the Hills / Hylo Brown / Christmas Jamboree (collection) / Hollywood
  • It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day / Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day / Raincoe
  • It Won't Seem Like Christmas / Jim Eanes / Christmas Jamboree (collection) / Hollywood
  • Ring The Bells At Midnight / Kathy Kallick & the Little Big Band / Tinsel Tunes (Collection) / Sugar Hill
  • Christmas On The Line / Michael Martin Murphey / Cowboy Christmas / Warner Brothers
  • Old Fashioned Christmas / Jimmy Martin / Christmas Jamboree (collection) / Hollywood
  • Up On The House Top / Raymond Fairchild / Smoky Mountain Christmas / Rural Rhythm
  • Santa Claus Is From The South / Benny Martin / Christmas Jamboree (collection) / Hollywood
  • The Christmas Guest / Andy Griffith / The Christmas Guest / Sparrow Records
  • It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (bed) / Various Artists / Christmas Grass vol. 2 (collection) / Koch
  • Bluegrass Christmas / The Del McCoury Band feat. Ronnie McCoury / Christmas On The Mountain (collection) / Universal South
  • Riding Home On Christmas Eve / Riders In The Sky / Acoustic Holidays (collection) / Rounder
  • Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem / The Stanley Brothers / Christmas Jamboree (collection) / Hollywood
  • When The Time Had Fully Come / Northern Lights / Acoustic Holidays (collection) / Rounder
  • Christmas Reunion / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / Gusto
  • That's Christmas Time To Me / Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys / Christmas Time's A-Comin' (collection) / Time-Life
  • Don't Make Us Cry On Christmas Day / Ralph Stanley / Christmas Time with Ralph Stanley / CR Freeland
  • Cherry Tree Carol / Emmylou Harris / Light Of The Stable / Warner Brothers
  • Something You Can't Buy / The Statler Brothers / The Statler Brothers Christmas Collection / Mercury
  • Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring / Dr Elmo Shropshire / Dr. Elmo Bluegrass Christmas / Time-Life
  • Christ Was Born In Bethlehem / Tim & Mollie O'Brien / Sugar Plums (collection) / Sugar Hill
  • Children Go / Ricky Skaggs / A Skaggs Family Christmas Vol. Two / Skaggs Family
  • Will We Have Room For Jesus / Jimmy Martin / To Mother At Christmas / Gusto
  • Silent Night / Raymond Fairchild / Smoky Mountain Christmas / Rural Rhythm
  • I Can Hear The Angels Singing / Reno & Smiley / Christmas Jamboree (collection) / Hollywood
  • Mary, Did You Know / Sonya Issacs / Christmas Grass vol. 2 (collection) / Koch
  • What Child Is This / David Grisman / The Rounder Christmas Album (collection) / Rounder
  • The First Noel/It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/Joy To The World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / O Christmas Tree (collection) / Rounder
  • Auld Lang Syne / Bill Keith / O Christmas Tree (collection) / Rounder

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