"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 12/23/2012 Christmas & Anniversary

Hi Folks,

Jim & Marti on their wedding day 1979

This was this year's Christmas version of Bluegrass Cafe, and it was also Marti's and my anniversary.  We were fortunate to have Marti on hand to provide color commentary on that and other things throughout the show.

We played some new music from Geoff Union, Stan Keach & Friends, Connor Lambert, Wayne Taylor & Friends, Sweet Potato Pie, Dale Ann Bradley & Steve Gulley, and Donna Ulisse.

Other recent releases on this show included tunes from Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, Danny Paisley, David Peterson, American Drive, Lonesome River Band, Kathy Kallick, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, and Darin & Brooke Aldridge.

We debuted a track from Darlene and Reflections of Bluegrass on Bluegrass Cafe.  Darlene is Connecticut native Darlene Champagne who now lives and plays bluegrass in South Carolina.  While the recording is not new, it was great making the connection with a former musical collaborator of the Pike Family from New England -- pioneers of New England bluegrass.  Darlene is an outstanding singer who in her youth recorded with the Pikes as "Darlene Marie."

The Heritage Corner produced a classic track from Lost & Found, and Bill Monroe's classic "Footprints In The Snow" for this show.

We hope you enjoyed the Christmas and anniversary fun on this show.  Amy will be back next week ringing in the new year with the banjos and fiddles.

Jim Beaver

Title / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• Cheer Of The Home Fires / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / The Old Home Place / Rounder
• 40 Years / Geoff Union / Cold As Steel / Shining Castle
• Christmas The Mountain Way / Dale Ann Bradley & Steve Gulley / Christmas The Mountain Way / Rural Rhythm
• The Farthest Horizon / Sleepy Man Banjo Boys / The Farthest Horizon / Self-released
• Cabin On A Mountain / Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent
• When The Snow Falls On My Foggy Mountain Home / Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Bluegrass Christmas / The Del McCoury Band feat. Ronnie McCoury / Christmas On The Mountain / Universal South
• Thinkin' Of Home / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak
• North Carolina Breakdown / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak
• Herdin' Cattle (In An Air Conditioned Cadillac) / Stringbean / Old Time Banjo Pickin' & Singin' / Gusto
• Christmas Time Back Home / The Country Gentlemen / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
• Brown Hill / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Snowbird / Darlene & Reflections of Bluegrass / If It Ain't Love / Self-released
• Cold Wind / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-released
• Dueling Jingle Bells / Wayne Taylor & Friends / Praise His Holy Name / Raincoe
• Wilder Than Her / Ralph Stanley II / Born To Be A Drifter / Stanley Generations
• Am I A Fool / Lonesome River Band / Chronology Volume Three / Rural Rhythm
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe / Columbia
• Christmas In Dixie / Sweet Potato Pie / Home Grown Christmas / Mountain Fever
• Making Plans / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live at Red, White and Bluegrass! / Mountain Home
• Long Haul Trucking Man / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• Better Days / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• The Christmas Whittler / Lizzy Long and Little Roy Lewis / Tradition With A Twist / Vine
• That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / David Peterson / Simplicity / Self-released
• Sun's Gonna Shine / Dave Evans & Riverbend / The Vetco Sessions / Vetco
• Back To My Roots / Carolina Road / Back To My Roots / Rural Rhythm
• Bah Humbug / Tim O'Brien / Christmas On The Mountain / Universal South
• Reuben Takes The D-Train / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• Ivy Vines And Green Leaves / Connor Lambert / Ivy Vines And Green Leaves / Self-released
• That Old Barn / Nightflyer / Nightflyer / Kang
• Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy / Wayne Taylor & Friends / Praise His Holy Name / Raincoe
• When I Get When I'm Goin' / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times / Sugar Hill
• You Can't Hurt Ham / Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder / Music To My Ears / Skaggs Family
• Chilly Winds / The Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever
• What Really Matters / Larry Stephenson / What Really Matters / Compass
• Joy To The World / Audie Blaylock / Christmas The Mountain Way / Rural Rhythm
• Cry Of The Loon / Stan Keach & Friends / Cry Of The Loon / Ayuh Records
• I Like The Country / The Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-released
• All The Way To Bethlehem / Donna Ulisse w. Rick Stanley / All The Way To Bethlehem / Hadley Music Group
• Back To Tennessee / Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / Self-released
• I'm Goin' Home, It's Christmas Time / Ralph Stanley / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time-Life
• Call Collect On Christmas / Del McCoury / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time-Life
• Christmas In Carolina / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Christmas In Carolina / Blue Circle
• What Would You Do / Fred Etheridge w.Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released
• Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem / John Starling / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• Go Tell It On The Mountain / Wayne Taylor & Friends / Praise His Holy Name / Raincoe
• The First Noel-It Came Upon A Midnight Clear-Joy To The World / Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver / O Christmas Tree / Rounder