"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 8/26/2012 - Bluegrass Birthdays

Hi Folks.

This is what we did on this show:

Mr. Alton Orlomoski

Celebrated Mr. Alton Orlomoski's birthday (8/29) with a couple of songs (Alton is Amy's dad)

Remembered Neil Armstrong's first walk on the moon with a couple of obscure bluegrass 45s (see below) from the period with moon themes (Neil died 8/25)

Neil Armstrong

Celebrated J.D. Crowe's birthday (8/27) with a half-hour or more of music spanning his career

James Dee Crowe

Carter Stanley at the microphone

Celebrated Carter Stanley's birthday (8/27) with a half-hour or more of his music with the Stanley Brothers

Bear Minimum
"Tex" Orlomoski, Dave Shaw, Dave Aston

Pine Creek
Jim Beaver, Nanette Addesso
Joe Mellet, Fred Etheridge

Highlighted some recordings from a recent live performance of local favorites, Bear Minimum

Celebrated my birthday (8/27) with an unreleased recording from Pine Creek (I was the banjo picker)

Evacuated the WHUS studio for a fire alarm








Came back from the evacuation (four songs worth -- all from Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers) and finished with a strong set of bluegrass gospel

Also, since Amy subbed for me last week, I'll sub for her right back next week, so "see" you then.

Jim Beaver

requests in blue

Title / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• Song On The Jukebox / The Karl Shifflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• A Good Day For The Blues / Delia Bell and Bill Grant / Classic Bluegrass Today And Yesterday / Old Homestead
• Roots Of The Tree / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• You Are My Sunshine / Jimmie Davis / You Are My Sunshine / Bear Family
• Wildwood Flower / The Carter Family / In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain / Bear Family
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / 30th Anniversary Special / Rounder
• Journey To The Moon / Eddie Dee & The Sputniks / 45 Single / Dixie (45)
• Bluegrass On The Moon / Poteet Brothers / 45 Single / Blue Grass (45)
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Jimmy Martin / 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• My Walking Shoes / Jimmy Martin / 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• Bear Tracks / Jimmy Martin / 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• Train 45 / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• Little Girl In Tennessee / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• Blackjack / J.D. Crowe / Blackjack / Rebel
• I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder 0044
• She's Gone, Gone, Gone / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder
• Showboat Gambler / J.D. Crowe & the New South / My Home Ain't In The Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Mr. Engineer / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder
• Mississippi River Raft / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Little Maggie / The Stanley Brothers / Earliest Recordings: The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s / Rounder
• Little Glass Of Wine / The Stanley Brothers / The Definitive Collection / Time Life
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / The Stanley Brothers / The Definitive Collection / Time Life
• Our Last Goodbye / The Stanley Brothers / 1953-1958 & 1959 / Bear Family
• Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / The Stanley Brothers / 1953-1958 & 1959 / Bear Family
• Think Of What You've Done / The Stanley Brothers / The Definitive Collection / Time Life
• The Girl Behind The Bar / The Stanley Brothers / Earliest Recordings: The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s / Rounder
• Lonesome Night / The Stanley Brothers / The King Years 1961-1965 / King
• Georgia Bound / Bear Minimum / Live Recording Aug 18, 2012
• Don't Laugh / Bear Minimum / Live Recording Aug 18, 2012
• Streamlined Cannonball / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Larry Stephenson w. Sam Bush / What Really Matters / Compass
• Lonesome Road Blues / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories / McCoury Music
• How Come You Do Me Like You Do / Jeff Parker / Go Parker! / Lonesome Day
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / Pine Creek / Live in WHUS Studio 2008
• Emmaline / Lou Reid and Carolina / Callin' Me Back Home / KMA Records
• Ragged Man / The Gibson Brothers / Life Goes On (comp) / Rural Rhythm
• Forty Years Ago / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Life Goes On (comp) / Rural Rhythm
• Smashville / Sierra Hull / Life Goes On (comp) / Rural Rhythm
• Rare Bird Alert / Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder
• Yellow-Backed Fly / Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder
• Best Love / Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder
• Northern Island / Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder
• Back To Cumberland Gap / Nightflyer / Nightflyer / Kang
• Who'll Sing For Me / Crowe-Lawson-Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• Storms Are On The Ocean / Taylors Grove / Keep On The Sunny Side / Fishtraks
• Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die) / Tommy Brown & The County Line Grass / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• Wake The Town / Larry Gillis and the Hard Driving Swampgrass Band / Ringing Of The Hammer / Tinman
• Let My Feet Go Runnin' / Mickey Boles / Let My Feet Go Runnin' / Self-released
• Where The Soul Never Dies / Josh Williams, Don Rigsby / Life Goes On (comp) / Rural Rhythm
• The Little White Church / Shady Creek / Get Your Feet Wet / Self-released
• River Of Jordan / Bear Minimum / Live at Shady Creek Homecoming 8-18-12
• Angel Band / The Stanley Brothers / 1953-1958 & 1959 / Bear Family
• Cabin In Gloryland / Carl Story / The Late And Great 1916-1995 / Gusto
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge w. Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

A (mostly) non-Bluegrass fill-in, 8/24/2012

As I'm writing this, Jim is playing all sorts of great BG music on the radio from some BG performers who are celebrating birthdays this week, including folks like the late Carter Stanley as well as banjo legend J.D. Crowe.  He'll be posting today's playlist later on this evening, no doubt, so keep your eyes open to find it...

This past Friday morning, I got to do what turns out to be my final fill-in show for the Summer at WHUS.  It was a fun, fast two hours, and since it was the first filler program I'd done since the death of Kitty Wells in July, I thought it would be quite fitting to play a bit of music from the Queen of Country Music.  As you most likely know, Kitty's biggest hit was 1952's "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels."  That song was an "answer song" to Hank Thompson's hit from the same year, "The Wild Side Of Life."  Answer songs were very popular in country music throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, and it seems that Kitty Wells recorded at least two others others after having such great chart success with "...Angels."  We included those other answer songs from 1953 on Friday's show, as well as the two tunes they "answered" -- hits from Webb Pierce and Carl Smith.  Neither of those songs quite reached the popularity that "...Angels" hit, but they were -- and still are -- worth a listen from time to time.

Early Jim Reeves

August is a busy birthday month for quite a few of the classic country performers I like to spotlight in these fill-in shows, so I also made sure to play songs from a few of them:  Webb Pierce (born 8/8/1926), Porter Wagoner (8/12/1927), Buck Owens (8/12/1929), Jim Reeves (8/20/1924), Carter Stanley (8/27/1927), Kitty Wells (8/30/1919), and two of the Statler Brothers (baritone Phil Balsley born 8/8/1939 and bass Harold Reid on 8/21/1939).  

Early 70s Statlers with Phil & Harold in front

Throw in a bit from the song catalog of the one and only Hank Williams -- a couple of songs sung by Hank, as well as a cover or three from others -- and you've got the kind of WHUS fill-in show that I really enjoy putting together a couple of times a year.  

Hope you'll join us each and every Sunday at the BG Cafe on Sundays, 4-7PM, and we'll be sure to let you know when/if you'll find us on the air at other times throughout the year.  That info is generally found on our BG Cafe Facebook page, which can be looked at by anyone, regardless of whether or not they are Facebook members.  Find the show here:  www.facebook.com/WHUS.Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy

REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Late For School / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder
• Foggy Mountain Chimes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia
• New Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• After The Sunrise / Chuck Wagon Gang / The Golden Age / Columbia
• Dust On The Bible / Bailes Brothers / Bailes Brothers 2010 / Gusto
• Are You Walking And A-Talking For The Lord / Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper & the Clinch Mountain Clan / The Golden Age / Columbia
• Broadminded / Louvin Brothers / When I Stop Dreaming:  The Best Of The Louvin Brothers / Razor & Tie
• River Of Jordan / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Hank Williams / 24 Of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits / Mercury
• Take These Chains From My Heart / Merle Haggard / Roots, Volume 1 / Anti
• You Win Again / Wanda Jackson / Wanda Jackson Salutes The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Capitol
• I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Honky Tonk Blues / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury
• Long, Lonesome Highway Blues / Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band / The Mountain / E-Squared
• The Other Side Of Town / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Curtain In The Window / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price / Columbia
• Walking The Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• Release Me / Kitty Wells / Makin' Believe / Country Stars
• The Wild Side Of Life / Hank Thompson / Your Cheatin' Heart:  Classic Country Hits / Dynamic
• It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / Kitty Wells / Makin' Believe / Country Stars
• Back Street Affair / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• Paying For That Back Street Affair / Kitty Wells / Makin' Believe / Country Stars
• Hey Joe / Carl Smith / The Essential Carl Smith / Columbia
• Hey Joe / Kitty Wells / Makin' Believe / Country Stars
• Yonder Comes A Sucker / Jim Reeves / Four Walls:  The Legend Begins / BMG
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• A Satisfied Mind / Porter Wagoner / RCA Country Legends / BMG
• Fallin' For You / Buck Owens / I've Got A Tiger By The Tail / Sundazed
• Pictures / Statler Brothers / The Legendary Statler Brothers / Reader's Digest
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Grass Routes / Something New / Self-Produced
• Many A Mile / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Music Makin' Mama From Memphis / Hank Snow / I'm Movin' On / Proper Records
• Dang Me / Roger Miller / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Roan Mountain Rag / Richard Bennett / Last Train From Poor Valley / Lonesome Day Records

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/19/2012

Howdy - 

This was my second week in a row joining you at the BG Cafe, as Jim had another commitment this afternoon.  Even if we didn't receive any new recordings this week to play on the radio, we still had plenty of great music and information to share, so I'm hopeful you heard something you enjoyed somewhere along the way...

The big news in the BG world this week is that the final nominees for the 2012 International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards were announced on Wednesday.  The awards will be handed out on Thursday, September 27th in ceremonies at the Ryman Auditorium during IBMA's annual World Of Bluegrass week.  Most of the nominees come as no surprise, but there are a couple of relatively (to me, anyway) notable absences.  The biggest nominee for 2012?  Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, with 9 overall nominations for band members individually and as a group.  On the show today, we played music from some of the actual nominees, as well as a couple of songs from performers we thought should have been remembered in this final round of nominations.  Better luck next year!  If you'd like to see the full list of 2012 nominees, click here.  

In 2011, Doyle Lawson won a couple of IBMA Awards
with old pals, Paul Williams & J.D. Crowe.  In 2012, he's
going into the Hall of Fame!

Another big bit of news announced this week is that Doyle Lawson is going into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.  Is there a bigger honor in the BG world?  I can't really think of one.  Doyle Lawson has been an incredible bandleader, talent finder, musician, and singer in a professional career that spans 50+ years.  We shared just a little bit of Doyle's music today in his own band (Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver), as well as a track from his Country Gentlemen days, and a song from the Bluegrass Album Band.  Great stuff!  




After last Sunday's show, I realized that I had somehow missed the fact last week that August 12th was the birthdate of one Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr.  Even though Buck Owens recorded a "Bluegrass" album in 1971 ("Ruby") and sometimes had a banjo-playing Buckaroo, the fact is that Buck was not a BG singer.  That fact, though, certainly hasn't stopped numerous BG performers from covering Buck Owens material over the years, so we always like to try to remember some of the country singers whose material is so BG-friendly.  Throughout Sunday's program, we included 10 Buck Owens songs recorded by some mighty fine BG performers (Buck songs in RED in the list that follows), including Lost & Found, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers, the Virginia Squires, Dailey & Vincent...even a live tune from Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys which featured Bill's daughter, Melissa, on the lead vocal.  No doubt, Buck's fun songs will continue to be covered in the BG world for years and years to come, and that is just fine with me.

While there wasn't any real "new" music to share on the show, there were still several songs from 2012 recording projects, including material by Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show, Bob Amos, the Boxcars, Lonesome River Band, the Spinney Brothers, Special Consensus, Audie Blaylock & Redline, and Kevin Richardson & Cuttin' Edge.  

Be sure to join Jim in the BG Cafe for the next two Sundays, as I'm sure he'll have plenty of terrific music -- old and new -- to share.

Amy 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Meet Me By My Old Kentucky Home / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• The Lonesome River / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• Washington And Lee Fling / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Buckaroo / Lost & Found / Just Pickin' / Copper Creek
• I Don't Care / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / John Boy & Billy, Inc.
• Forever And Ever / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Together Again / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder
• Love's Gonna Live Here / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys with Melissa Monroe / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• Sweethearts In Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• Gonna Have Love / Lynn Morris Band with Junior Brown / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• Tiger By The Tail / The Grascals with Brad Paisley / The Grascals & Friends / Cracker Barrel
• Tall Dark Stranger / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• The Greatest Creator / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sing Me A Song About Jesus / Mountain Home
• Please Search Your Heart / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder
• Walkin' Down The Line / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Blue Blue Day / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Backwards And Forwards / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• Old Man From The Mountain / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Rockwood Deer Chase / Jim Mills / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill
• Polka On A Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Greatest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• Pretty Little Girl From Galax / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Prime Tyme / Rural Rhythm
• Ol' Lonesome Won't Leave Me Alone / The Boxcars / All In / Mountain Home
• Rebels Ye Rest / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Walkin' The Floor Over Me / Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• Laura Jean (2012) / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume One / Rural Rhythm
• Laura Jean (1989) / Lonesome River Band / Looking For Yourself / Rebel
• Life Finds A Way / The Grascals / Life Finds A Way / Mountain Home
• Old New Straitsville Moonshine Run / Special Consensus / Scratch Gravel Road / Compass Records
• Gypsy, Joe And Me / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• I Haven't Got The Right To Love You / John Duffey [Seldom Scene] / The Rebel Years:  1962-1977 / Rebel
• Anywhere Is Home Again / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Row By Row / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Newton's Grove / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm
• Didn't It Rain / Lizzy Long & Little Roy Lewis / Straight From The Heart Of Dixie / Vine Records
• Eternal Vacation / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel
• Rock And Roll / Lonesome River Band / Looking For Yourself / Rebel
• Steal Away And Pray / Kevin Richardson & Cuttin' Edge / Kevin Richardson & Cuttin' Edge / Mountain Fever Records
• It's Gonna Rain / Kathy Kallick [Good Ol' Persons] / Count Your Blessings / Live Oak Records
• Jesus Is Whispering Now / Louvin Brothers / Songs That Tell A Story / Rounder
• My Mother's Bible / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Singing As We Rise / Gibson Brothers with Ricky Skaggs / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/12/2012

The Spinney Brothers at Podunk -- 8/4/2012

Surprise!  It was another busy week at the BG Cafe, with most of the "busy-ness" happening behind the scenes.  If you listen to the show online, or have visited our WHUS website (www.whus.org), you probably know that we input our playlists into a computer as the show progresses, allowing the listener to see on their own computers what's playing.  It can be a bit challenging to engineer a radio show while simultaneously updating the computer with playlist info, finding music to play, and answering the phone, as necessary.  This week, there was an additional challenge, as we also had to do a periodical BMI tracking report, and that one was actually handwritten.  Yikes!

BG Hall of Famers Eddie Adcock & Tom Gray recount
stories of BG life "in the day," while Martha Adcock looks on

As Jim did last week in his post-Podunk program last Sunday, we featured a bit of music from some of the performers who entertained at the 17th annual Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Norwich.  It was a great festival (even if the August humidity might have been a bit over-the-top).  If you missed the festival...well, next year you just need to be at Dodd Stadium in Norwich for Podunk.  We played tunes on Sunday from a few Podunk performers, including the Special Consensus, Travers Chandler & Avery County, the Lonesome River Band, Eddie Adcock & Tom Gray, and the Spinney Brothers, as well as a song from the winners of the 2012 Podunk Band Competition:  Three Tall Pines.  

Other music from newer releases that we played on Sunday's show came from projects by LRB's Randy Jones, Dailey & Vincent's Jeff Parker, Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein, Bob Amos, Nightflyer, Balsam Range, Town Mountain, Chris Brashear, Paul Williams & the Victory Trio, Mickey Boles, and the Boxcars.  There was also a brand-spanking new recording on Mountain Fever Records from Kevin Richardson & Cuttin' Edge, and a song from a forthcoming project by a band that will be called American Drive (currently, 4/5 of the band are known as "The New South," as they'll continue to work with J.D. Crowe until his retirement comes at the end of 2012).  

Earlene Pike with dad Earl (left) and uncle Fred, with
Sam Tidwell on bass, brother Gordon Pike with a drum,
and guitar picker, Dave Papuga -- early 1970s

We also took a few minutes today to remember a couple of folks with southern New England ties who are no longer with us.  Bluegrass Pioneer Sam Tidwell would have celebrated his 76th birthday on August 11th, so it seemed only proper to remember Sam with a song or two today.  Another singer no longer with us is Earlene Pike -- a young lady from northeastern CT who died on August 11, 1972, a couple of months before reaching her 19th birthday.  Earlene worked with her family band -- the Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers -- and the family released at least three albums for Rebel Records in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  

Hope you enjoyed something you heard on the radio today, and that you'll be able to join me once again next Sunday for another edition of the BG Cafe.  

Have a good week!

Amy O.


REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Monroe / Special Consensus with Chris Jones & Josh Williams / Scratch Gravel Road / Compass Records
• This Old Barstool / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever Records
• One Day Late And A Dollar Short / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Grandfather's Clock / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gnetlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• I Got A Letter / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• I'd Rather Love A Memory / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• Loser's Hand / Edgar Loudermilk / Roads Travelled / Mountain Fever Records
• Amandalyn / Merl Johnson / Better Man / Patuxent Music
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Back To Cumberland Gap / Nightflyer / Nightflyer / Kang Records
• Wearin' The Blues / Josh Williams with David Peterson / I'll Take Love:  From The Pen Of Louisa Branscomb / Compass Records
• Cotton Dice / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• What A Way To Go / Acoustic Blue / Workin' Man / Self-Produced
• Barely Beat The Daylight In / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume II / Rural Rhythm
• Ground Speed / Kenny Ingram / Foggy Mountain Special:  A Bluegrass Tribute To Earl Scruggs / Rounder
• Face The Music / Too Blue / Trouble With The Grey / Self-Produced
• Amazing Grace / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• Walking With Joanna / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Listen To Me, Mother / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Self-Produced
• If I Needed You / Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein / Home From The Mills / Rebel
• Tidwell Pike / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces And Bits / Goose Creek Music
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Kentucky Chimes / Tidwell Brothers & the Cedar Mountain Boys / single / no label
• Feeling Blue / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Second Hand Heart / Randy Jones / When Old Lonesome Comes Around / Southfork Recording Company
• What Kind Of Love / Kevin Richardson & Cuttin' Edge / Kevin Richardson & Cuttin' Edge / Mountain Fever Records
• You Weighed Heavy On My Heart / Town Mountain / Leave The Bottle / Rebel
• Seen It All / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• Let's Be Sweethearts Again / Jeff Parker with Dailey & Vincent / Go Parker! / Lonesome Day Records
• Long Haul Trucking Man / American Drive / single / Rural Rhythm
• Hard Rain / Three Tall Pines / All That's Left / Self-Produced
• Help My Brother / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Tears On My Tracks / Billy Boone Smith / Live From The Moose Lodge / Muddy Sunshine
• Remembrance Is A Golden Chain / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe with Darren Vincent / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records
• Caroline / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe Music
• Day In The Life Of A Railroad Spike / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Memories That We Shared / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• What It Means To Be Lonesome / Carolina Road / Back To My Roots / Rural Rhythm
• The Beans Should Be Blossomed / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• Stormy Waters / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME
• In The Shadow Of The Son / Justin Carbone / Momma's Flowers / Self-Produced
• That Mountain Is Me / Mickey Boles / Let My Feet Go Runnin' / Self-Produced
• Do Lord / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Prayer Bells Of Heaven / Marty Raybon / Southern Roots & Branches / Rural Rhythm
• Kept And Protected / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Going To Stay In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• Prison / The Boxcars / All In / Mountain Home
• Good News When I Die / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Goodbye / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / This World Is Not My Home / MME
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 8/5/2012 - Podunk!

Hi Folks!

This was an action-packed week of fun, starting with the Podunk Bluegrass Festival at their new location at Dodd Stadium in Norwich CT.  Everyone was wondering how the new venue would work out, and a sampling of comments seemed to confirm the soundness of the move.  Camping space was plentiful, and concessions were more than adequate.  Dodd Stadium is reportedly the only ball park in the nation with a Ben & Jerry's ice cream vendor.  See more Podunk photos further down.

Dailey & Vincent at Podunk 8/3/2012

I worked the main stage at Podunk, so with the last act on the stage (The Spinney Brothers!), I hot-footed to the WHUS studio to present this program, and the timing was such that folks leaving the festival could tune in.  Of course I included many of the artists who performed at Podunk like Travers Chandler & Avery County, Jeff Parker, Lonesome River Band, The Grascals, Dale Ann Bradley, NewTown, Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray, Randy Jones, Brandon Godman, and Merl Johnson.

Also on the program was a track from an old Earl Taylor LP given to me at Podunk by a listener.  We heard an early bluegrass version of Jim Reeves' "I've Lived A Lot In My Time."

New music was represented by the new Larry Gillis recording, "Ringing Of The Hammer," an all-gospel collection.  Larry was scheduled to play in Hartford at the Firebox on Sunday August 12th, but had to cancel for bus problems up north.  We hope to have Larry back soon.  He is always a big hit at the Firebox.

Amy will bring you the Bluegrass Cafe for the next two Sundays, so be sure to tune in to 91.7 FM in Eastern Connecticut, or http://whus.org everywhere else, for more great bluegrass.

Jim

Travers Chandler, Tom Isaacs, Adam Poindexter

Spinney Brothers

NewTown

Special Consensus

The Grascals

Tom Isaacs, Bobby Lundy, Travers Chandler

The Original New Coon Creek Girls

Vicki Simmons and Kati Penn Williams

Pam Gadd

Pam Perry Combs, Roger Moss, Vicki Simmons

The Grascals

Kathy Mattea

Saturday Podunk Crowd

Martha & Eddie Adcock, Tom Gray

Dale Ann Bradley

Podunk 2012

Requests in blue

Song/Artist/Album/Label

• Newton Grove / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• Lord I Hate To See My Darlin' Go / Jeff Parker / Go Parker! / Lonesome Day
• Dog Gone Shame / Lonesome River Band / Chronology Volume Two / Rural Rhythm
• Somewhere South Of Crazy / Dale Ann Bradley / Somewhere South Of Crazy / Compass
• Angel Wings / Larry Gillis & The Hard Driving Swampgrass Band / Ringing Of The Hammer / Tinman
• Train Ride To Gloryland / Larry Gillis / Ringing Of The Hammer / Tinman
• Lost / Avery County / Avery County / Self-released
• Angelita / NewTown / NewTown / Self-released
• More Bad Weather On The Way / Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder
• It's Never Too Late / Fred Etheridge w. Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' and Singin' / Self-released
• Little John I Am / IIIrd Tyme Out Life Goes On (Comp) / Rural Rhythm
• Amelia Earhart's Last Flight / Eddie & Martha Adcock w. Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed
• Rabbit In A Log / Taylors Grove / Keep on The Sunny Side / Fishtraks
• My Heart Is On The Mend / Larry Stephenson / What Really Matters / Compass
• Ungrateful One / Steep Canyon Rangers / Nobody Knows You / Rounder
• Black Dust Fever / Travers Chandler & Avery County / State of Depression / Patuxent
• Shade Tree Mechanic / Larry Cordle / Pud Marcum's Hangin' / Mighty Cord
• I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome / Randy Jones / When Old Lonesome Comes Around / Southfork
• You'll Find Monroe Written There / Merl Johnson / Better Man / Patuxent
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Earl Taylor and His Bluegrass Mountaineers / Blue Grass Taylor-Made / Capitol (LP)
• Goodbye To The Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Life Goes On (Comp) / Rural Rhythm
• I've Got A Woman / Pine Mountain Railroad / Life Goes On (Comp) / Rural Rhythm
• It Rains Everywhere I Go / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• I've Been All Around The World / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Roads Travelled / Edgar Loudermilk / Roads Travelled / Mountain Fever
• Home Run Man / Marty Raybon / Southern Roots & Branches / Rural Rhythm
• City Folks Call Us Poor / Acoustic Blue / Bein' Country / Self-released
• When The Love We Have Is Gone / Lou Reid and Carolina / Callin' Me Back Home / KMA
• Close The Door Lightly When You Go / Lonesome River Band / Chronology Volume One / Rural Rhythm
• Helen / Eddie & Martha Adcock w. Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent
• Slew Foot / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Raincoe
• It's Gonna Take A Miracle / Jeff Parker / Go Parker! / Lonesome Day
• Blood And Sweat / Lee Marcus / Grandpa's Pond / Self-released
• Down By The River / Larry Gillis and the Hard Driving Bluegrass Band / Swampgrass / Tinman
• Jerusalem's Ridge (bed) / Brandon Godman / To Fiddle Or Not To Fiddle / Self-released
• Keith's Waltz (bed) / Brandon Godman / To Fiddle Or Not To Fiddle / self-released
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Lynn Morris / 25 Years of Rounder / Rounder
• I'd Rather Be Alone / Delia Bell And Bill Grant / Classic Bluegrass Today And Yesterday / Old Homestead
• Down By The Rambling Waters / Maranacook String Band / Bear In The Barn / Self-released
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Allerton & Alton / Black, White & Bluegrass / Bear Family
• Three Ways of Knowing / Allerton & Alton / Black, White & Bluegrass / Bear Family
• Rocky Top / The Osborne Brothers / Appalachian Stomp / Rhino
• I'm Walking / Larry Gillis and the Hard Driving Swampgrass Band / Ringing Of The Hammer / Tinman
• Where We'll Never Say Farewell / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management
• Silent Partner / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management
• Road To Surrender / The Grascals / Life Finds A Way / Mountain Home
• Singing As We Rise / The Gibson Brothers w. Ricky Skaggs / Help My Brother / Compass
• My Lord Keeps A Record / Carl Story / Heaven Bound 2 / Time Life
• Lonesome Old Home / The Wilson Brothers / Heaven Bound 2 / Time Life
• Center Of The World / Kathy Kallick / Count Your Blessings / Live Oak
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge w. Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' and Singin' / Self-released