"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/27/2014

Short summary of Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe:  there was LOTS of music from one of the newest announced members of the Country Music Hall of Fame; a special in-studio visit with a local Bluegrass impresario; and a few songs from newer Bluegrass recordings.  Were you with us?

So nice to see folks honored while they're still around to enjoy it --
congratulations to Country Music Hall of Famer, Mac Wiseman!

On April 22nd, it was announced that "The Voice With A Heart," Mac Wiseman will be one of the 2014 inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame.  This is an amazing honor for a true Bluegrass and Country Music legend, and is richly deserved.  To honor this extremely distinctive vocalist, we played several songs that Mac recorded with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs when he was one of the original Foggy Mountain Boys in 1948, a couple of classic tracks from 1949 when Mac joined Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, a few songs from Mac as a soloist, and a couple from a record Mac made in 1998 with two other Bluegrass legends:  Del McCoury and Doc Watson.  Big congratulations to Mac!  

We welcomed an in-studio visit with a "Colonel Buff-Orpington" commanding

Quite a cast of characters getting ready to entertain
at the Firebox on May 18th!

Dick Bowden's Flying Circus.  This is a big show coming up in the Bluegrass series of Sunday afternoon shows at the Firebox Restaurant, 539 Broad Street, Hartford CT, and is sure to feature a cast of talented characters that may be familiar faces to some in the New England/New York Bluegrass community.  If you're going to be in the Hartford area on May 18th, this may be a great show for you to check out.  

And, we still had time to share a few songs from newer projects from folks like James King, Dolly Parton, Dave Adkins, Blue Highway, the Seldom Scene, Darren Nicholson, and Feller & Hill.  We even included a couple of very brand-new recordings from projects by Danny Roberts (the Grascals mandolin player has a solo CD) and Bradford Lee Folk & the Bluegrass Playboys.  

Be sure to join Jim for next Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe beginning at 4PM, won't you?

Have a good week!

Amy


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rocky Grass / Blue Planet
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Travelin' This Lonesome Road / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass, 1971 / Rural Rhythm
• I'll Sail My Ship Alone / Mac Wiseman with Del McCoury & Doc Watson / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill
• Jimmy Brown The Newsboy / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass, 1971 / Rural Rhythm
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome / CMH
• God Loves His Children / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover / David Peterson / Comin' On Strong / Self-Produced
• Blue Blue Day / James King / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• The Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Alcatraz Island Blues / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Cabin On A Mountain / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• ***Special In-Studio Guest Colonel Buff-Orpington Commanding Dick Bowden's Flying Circus***
• I've Seen It All / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• All I Was To You / Newtown / Time Machine / Pisgah Ridge
• Nightwalk / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• On That Glorious Day / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Eddie's Hoedown / Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• No Depression / Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• Back To Dixie / McPeak Brothers / Yesteryears / Rebel
• Thumbing / Charlie Cline / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• I Knew It Wasn't You (The Telephone Song) / Crowe Brothers / Bridging The Gap / Rural Rhythm
• Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven / Rickey Wasson / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• Sophronie / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder
• Banks Of The Ohio / Dolly Parton / Blue Smoke Bluegrass Sampler / Sony
• New Gil Ramble / Danny Roberts / Nighthawk / Mountain Home
• Put Some Grass In It / Dave Adkins / Nothing To Lose / Mountain Fever Records
• The Game / Blue Highway / The Game / Rounder
• The Ghost Of Eli Renfro / GrassRoutes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Something Comin' To Me / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Big Train (From Memphis) / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Sugar Creek Gap / Darren Nicholson / Things Left Undone / Self-Produced
• Foolish Game Of Love / Bradford Lee Folk & the Bluegrass Playboys / Someplace Far Away / Self-Produced
• The Government Blues / Feller & Hill / / Blue Circle Records
• Headin' South / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• I'll Be Rested / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Way Down Deep In My Soul / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• The Old Account / Mac Wiseman, Del McCoury, Doc Watson / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill
• They Can Only Fill One Grave / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hearts And Heartsongs / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 4/20/2014 - Easter

Hi Folks.

Bluegrass Cafe for Easter Day was in fact the final three hours of a seven-hour radio marathon for me because we had a full Red Rooster Party and another fill-in prior to the show.  As such, my blabbing was at a minimum and we were able to present 59 songs in our three-hours.

While the show consisted of our usual mix of classic, deep catalog, and new music; the last hour of the show was primarily gospel and inspirational music related to the Easter theme.

New music included the title track from Dolly Parton's new album which appears to be targeted towards bluegrass, music from Feller and Hill, Rhonda Vincent, Don Rigsby, Turning Ground, Jim Lauderdale, Bill Emerson, The Grascals, a new single from Becky Buller, Nitro Ride, Rich In Tradition, Alex Leach, and The Seldom Scene.

The Heritage Corner brought forth music from Bill Box and The Dixie Drifters, The Lynn Morris Band, Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys, The Hillmen, Vern Williams & Ray Park, Bill Clifton, and of course The Johnson Mountain Boys.

Hope you enjoyed what you heard!

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• The Gillis Brothers / Hell Broke Loose In Georgia / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• Feller and Hill / Government Blues / Here Come Feller and Hill...Again! / Blue Circle Records
• Travers Chandler & Avery County / Stumblin' Stones / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Margie / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Rhonda Vincent / Busy City / Only Me / Upper Management
• Don Rigsby / The Mountain Doctor / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• The Lynn Morris Band / Love Grown Cold / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Alex Leach / New River Girl / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Bill Box And The Dixie Drifters / Locked Away From Your Heart / Big Bluegrass Special / Rich-R-Tone
• Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys / Never Say Bye Bye / 45 Single / D
• The Gibson Brothers / Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm
• The Bear Bridge Band / I Got A Letter / One More Ride / Open Road
• Turning Ground / Cold Outside / March 2, 2012 / Self-released
• Alex Leach, Tom Isaacs, Larry Gillis / Too Late To Cry / The Bucket List / Tinman
• Jim Lauderdale / Old Time Angels / Old Time Angels / Sky Crunch
• Mitchell Van Dyke / Choking The Strings / Good Times, Good Friends, & Good Pickin' / Sonray Records
• Becky Buller / Nothin' To You / Single  /
• The Hillmen / Brown Mountain Light / The Hillmen / Together Records
• Vern & Ray with Herb Pedersen / Little Georgia Rose / San Francisco - 1968 / Arhoolie
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• The Grascals / When I Get My Pay / When I Get My Pay / Mountain Home
• Rhonda Vincent w. Lance Miller / O'er Yonder Hill / Performs Songs From The House With The Red Light / Upper Management
• Bill Clifton / The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee / The Bluegrass Sound of Bill Clifton and His Dixie Mountain Boys / Gusto
• Nitro Ride / Take This Train And Ride / Carrying the Tradition / Green Valley
• Jack Cooke / That's How the Cookie Crumbles / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• John Rigsby / Red Rocking Chair / Forks Of The Ivy / Hay Holler
• The Roys / Ramblin' Fever / Gypsy Runaway Train / Rural Rhythm
• Bill Emerson And Sweet Dixie / State Line Ride / Dancin’ Annie / Rural Rhythm
• Blue Highway / The Game / The Game / Rounder
• Rich In Tradition / Lonesomeville / Lonesomeville / Mountain Roads
• Constant Change / Mountain Man / Evolving / Blue Circle Records
• Seldom Scene / Through The Bottom Of The Glass / Long Time... / Smithsonian Folkways
• Matt Wallace / Old Man Winter / For A Season / Pinecastle
• Dolly Parton / Blue Smoke / Blue Smoke / Sony
• The Cumberlands / Who's Goin' Down to Town / Bridging The Gap / Copper Creek
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / Now Just Suppose / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• George Shuffler / Bury Me Beneath The Willow (bed) / Cross Picking / Freeland
• George Shuffler / The Promise (bed) / Cross Picking / Freeland
• George Shuffler / Will The Circle Be Unbroken (bed) / Cross Picking / Freeland
• George Shuffler / The Lonely Tombs (bed) / Cross Picking / Freeland
• George Shuffler / Sunny Side Of The Mountain (bed) / Cross Picking / Freeland
• Rich In Tradition / Just As The Sun Went Down / One Beautiful Morning / Self-released
• John Rigsby / Up Haste To Calvary / Forks Of The Ivy / Hay Holler
• The Chuck Wagon Gang / Kneel At The Cross / America's Popular Family Quartet / Cattle
• Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys / Back To The Cross / Back To The Cross / Freeland
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / It Took A Man Like That / Sing Me a Song About Jesus / Crossroads Records
• Dale Ann Bradley / Hammer And Nails / Songs of Praise & Glory / Pinecastle
• Dale Ann Bradley / I Pressed Through the Crowd / Songs of Praise & Glory / Pinecastle
• The Stanley Brothers / The Old Crossroads / Little Old Country Church House / Wango
• Clyde Moody / Didn't They Crucify My Lord / Little Old Country Church House / Wango
• The Wilson Brothers / They Won't Believe / Lonesome Old Home / Crosscut
• Carl Story / Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan? / Complete Atteiram Collection / Gusto
• The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Stone Was Rolled Away / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Audie Blaylock & Redline / Lord Lead Me On / I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky / Rural Rhythm
• Flatt & Scruggs / He Took Your Place / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Paul Williams And The Victory Trio / A Dusty Pair Of Sandals / Where No One Stands Alone / Rebel
• Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Lay My Body Down / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe Music
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking In A Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/13/2014

After a week's hiatus due to the broadcast of a UConn Baseball game, we hit the airwaves this week ready to go!  It was an absolutely gorgeous, early Spring weekend in eastern Connecticut -- just a fine day to listen to Bluegrass music (as if there's a bad day for that particular activity)!  Sure hope you were able to join us...

The "third Stanley brother," George Shuffler (1925-2014)

Since the last time we joined you on the air, another Bluegrass legend has left us:  on April 7th, Bluegrass Hall of Famer George Shuffler died at the age of 88 years, 361 days.  During his nearly 20 years of working with the Stanley Brothers, Shuffler was both an amazingly dynamic bass player, as well as one of the originators of the guitar style known as cross-picking.  An argument could easily be made that without Shuffler's cross-picking, the guitar might have remained more of a rhythm instrument in the Bluegrass world.  We remembered George Shuffler on Sunday with a bunch of classic Stanley songs on which he was the bass player, as well as a few guitar songs from Shuffler with the Stanleys, as well as on his own.  

A bit of new music has arrived at WHUS since the last time I was in the Bluegrass Cafe, so I couldn't help but share it.  The newest disc from the Seldom Scene is called, "Long Time...Seldom Scene" and is the first recording from the band since 2007.  It's a dandy, too, so we gladly featured it today.  

We also featured a couple of songs from the newest recording from a northern New York band known as BearTracks.  This wonderfully fun group used to include resonator guitarist Junior Barber and two of his cousins, Tom Venne and Julie Venne Hogan.  However, since their last band recording, Junior has retired from touring, and fiddler Harry Ralph and banjo picker Scott Hopkins have joined Tom and Julie.  It's a totally different sound for BearTracks -- and extremely enjoyable!  Their new recording is called, "Makin' New Tracks."

Other newer music came to us from recent recordings by Darren Nicholson, a new gospel recording from Volume Five, Tom Mindte, Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II, Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell, Special Consensus, and Rhonda Vincent.  

Hope you enjoyed something you heard at some point during today's show, and that you'll be sure to join Jim on Easter Sunday for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.



Have a good week!

Amy


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [requests are RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner with Tom Adams / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Frog On A Lily Pad / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Wild Bill Jones / BearTracks / Makin' New Tracks / Self-Produced
• Uncle Sam And Mr. Wall Street / Edgar Loudermilk with Junior Sisk / My Big Chance Tomorrow / Mountain Fever Records
• Taxes / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle
• Together 'Til The End / BearTracks / Makin' New Tracks / Self-Produced
• Sweetest Love / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• (Say) Won't You Be Mine / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• John Henry, The Steel Driving Man / Stanley Brothers / Shadows Of The Past / Copper Creek
• Nine Pound Hammer / George Shuffler / Aged To Perfection / Copper Creek
• Lonesome Road Blues / George Shuffler & Laura Boosinger / Mountain Treasures / Copper Creek
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken / George Shuffler & Laura Boosinger / Mountain Treasures / Copper Creek
• Going Like Wildfire / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / Radio Shows / Pinecastle
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• Reno Ride / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Mash Your Finger / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe Music
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• It's In My Mind To Wander / Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare / One More Road / Self-Produced
• Tennessee Blues / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
• When It Rains / Lou Reid & Carolina / Live At The Down Home / KMA Records
• I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Bluegrass Stomp / Darren Nicholson / Things Left Undone / Self-Produced
• The Hard Times / Osborne Brothers / Nashville / Pinecastle
• Daddy Played The Banjo / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers feat. Edie Brickell / Live / Rounder
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Wait A Minute / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Highway Of Sorrow / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Blacktop / Alan Jackson / The Bluegrass Album / EMI
• Battle Ax / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Side By Side / Rebel
• Red Wicked Wine / Charlie Sizemore with Ralph Stanley / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• Louisville Woman / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Flat Creek / Tom Mindte / Something I've Been Working On / Patuxent Music
• Wild Montana Skies / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Country Boy:  A Bluegrass Tribute To John Denver / Compass Records
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• What Could I Do / Volume Five / The Day I Learned To Fly / Mountain Fever Records
• It's Never Too Late / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Federal
• Joy Bells / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder