"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/31/2014

On this last day of August of 2014, we started the show with a boatload of songs pertaining to the same subject:  work.  It's Labor Day weekend -- time to celebrate hard-working men and women...by taking a day off from work!  Sounds like a great deal, doesn't it?  Our songs of work came from a bunch of different performers including the Carter Family, Richard Bennett, Cherryholmes, Dailey & Vincent, Blue Highway, Shannon Slaughter, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, and IIIrd Tyme Out.  Happy Labor Day, everyone!

We featured a whole bunch of music from 2014 recordings, some of which were issued very recently.  This music came to us from performers including Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, Nightflyer, Larry Sparks, Breaking Grass, Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie, Shawn Lane, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, James King, the Spinney Brothers, Crowe, Lawson & Williams, the Roys, Balsam Range, and the Seldom Scene.

Our air schedule at WHUS changes three times during the year, and the changeover to the Fall schedule took place this last week.  Click here to see the Fall schedule for WHUS 91.7 FM.  New this semester, the station has also launched a second broadcast webstream, and some of the programs you've grown used to hearing on the radio have moved to that location.  For instance, if if you'd like to listen to James & Cathy Ward's "Bluegrass Rules" program, you will only find it now on WHUS2 on Tuesdays from 2-4PM.  To get to WHUS2, just visit www.WHUS.org, and click on the button that reads, "WHUS2."  

Hope everyone has a fabulous week!  Be sure to check out Jim in next Sunday's "Bluegrass Cafe," won't you?

Amy

PERFORMER / SONG / ALBUM / LABEL (REQUESTS are RED).

• Del McCoury Band / Katy Hill / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Richard Bennett / Workin' Man's Blues [sic] / Last Train To Poor Valley / Lonesome Day Records
• Cherryholmes / Workin' Girl Blues / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Carter Family / I Ain't Goin'  To Work Tomorrow / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• Dailey & Vincent / Poor Boy Workin' Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Blue Highway / Restless Working Man / Sounds Of Home / Rounder
• Shannon Slaughter / The Working Man / The Sideman Steps Out / Self-Produced
• Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Working Hard Ain't Hardly Working Anymore / Heartaches And Dreams / Rebel
• Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day, Another Dollar / Rambler's Call / Rebel
• IIIrd Tyme Out / Lower On The Hog / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• Reno & Smiley / Buggy Ride / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / I Can't Help Wondering / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Please Don't Honey Please Don't / Steeped In Tradition / Brandywine
• Johnson Mountain Boys / Weathered Gray Stone / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Dear Old Dixie / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Blue Night / Music To My Ears / Skaggs Family Records
• Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Each Season Changes You / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Del McCoury Band / Streets Of Baltimore / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Jason Carter / Daisey Mae / On The Move / Rounder
• Pete Goble / When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / FireHeart Records
• Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Cabin On A Mountain / Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce & Maple Music
• Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / State Line Road / Dancin' Annie / Rural Rhythm
• Feller & Hill & the Bluegrass Buckaroos / Wasted Words / Feller & Hill & the Bluegrass Buckaroos / Self-Produced
• Nightflyer / Lonesome Wind / Rail, River & Road / Kang Records
• Larry Sparks / Will You Be Satisfied That Way / Lonesome And Then Some... / Rebel
• Breaking Grass / Digging Up Georgia / Just As Strong / Mountain Fever Records
• Shawn Lane / Just Not Today / Mountain Songs / Self-Produced
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Too Late For Goodbyes / On Down The Line / Compass Records
• James King / The Devil's Train / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• Spinney Brothers / Gonna Catch A Train / Tried And True / Mountain Fever Records
• BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / Makin' New Tracks / Self-Produced
• Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• The Roys with Doyle Lawson / Mandolin Man / The View / Rural Rhythm
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Close By / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• Gibson Brothers / I'll Work It Out / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Traditional Grass / You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer / 10th Anniversary / Rebel
• Balsam Range / Too High A Price To Pay / Five / Mountain Home
• Seldom Scene / What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Tim Graves & Daryl Mosley / Why You Been Gone So Long / Remembering The Bacon Brothers / Pinecastle
• Tom Adams with Eddie Stubbs / Mississippi Sawyer / Right Hand Man / Rounder
• Edgar Loudermilk / Hobo's Time / My Big Chance Tomorrow / Mountain Fever Records
• Big Country Bluegrass / Headin' South / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Gibson Brothers / One More Time (I Must Rise) / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Bluegrass Patriots / Just As The Sun Went Down / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• Stanley Brothers / That Home Far Away / Best Of The Best / Federal
• Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / So Happy I'll Be / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Larry Stephenson / On The Jericho Road / What Really Matters / Compass Records
• Gopher Broke / Let Me Walk In Your Footsteps Moses / The Wayworn Traveler / Self-Produced
• Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Voice From On High / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / I Have Found The Way / What Will I Leave Behind / Rebel
• Billy & Terry Smith / Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe Tribute / K-Tel Records
• Johnson Mountain Boys / Black Mountain Blues / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 8/24/2014

Hi Folks.

This was the last Bluegrass Cafe of the WHUS summer schedule, and we are happy to report that we will continue in the fall at the same time, 4-7pm ET on Sundays.  Also, if you are into older string band and early country music, Jim & Marti's Red Rooster Party will be back in its time of 2-4pm Sundays just prior to Bluegrass Cafe when not preempted by UCONNed sports.

We celebrated the birthdays of J. D. Crowe and Carter Stanley with sets of their music and included new music from J. D.'s latest collaboration with Doyle Lawson and Paul Williams.

We also remembered banjo picker Greg Corbett who died unexpectedly the day before the show.  Greg had been a significant presence in the later Country Gentlemen with Charlie Waller, and had gone on to play and record with CG alumni in The Circuit Riders after Charlie's death.

New music included a track by Scott Walker from The Patuxent Banjo Project, a song from Al Jones & The Spruce Mountain Boys, Tom Mindte, Steve Gulley, Turning Ground, and the new album from Ohio group Nightflyer which we featured.

We also introduced the new collaboration between classic soul singer Sam Moore (Sam & Dave) and Siler City NC group Nu-Blu (who had just played the local Podunk festival a couple of weeks ago.)

The Heritage Corner produced some rarities for this show including vinyl from Everett Alan Lilly & Don Stover; old 45s from Buzz Busby & Leon Morris; Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys; The Wilson Brothers (from Georgia); and Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis.  We also played some great re-releases from Charlie Moore & Bill Napier, and Carl Story.

Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring next Sunday, so don't forget to tune in.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Scott Walker / Lori Ann / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent
• Nightflyer / Train, Train / Rail River & Road / Kang Records
• Lost & Found / Brown Hill / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Al Jones & The Spruce Mountain Boys / Calling Your Name / Hard Core Bluegrass / Patuxent
• Everett Alan Lilly & Don Stover / Workman's Creek / Down Home Guitar / Towa (LP)
• Rich In Tradition / Are You Waiting Just For Me / Lonesomeville / Mountain Roads
• Turning Ground / When a Man Can't Get a Woman Off His Mind / Cell Of Mine / Self-released
• Joe Isaacs / You Left Me Here Lonely Too Long / Dreaming of Home / Music Mill 
• Johnny Jackson & James Stiltner / Truck Driver's Romance / Tribute To Bill Napier / Self-released
• The Bear Bridge Band / I Always Lose / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Russ Carson / I Feel The Blues Movin' In / Last Chance / Patuxent Music
• Delia Bell and Bill Grant / Kiamichi Moon / Kiamichi Moon / Old Homestead
• Everett Alan Lilly & Don Stover / Shady Grove / Down Home Guitar / Towa (LP)
• Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / Don't You Call My Name / She Left Me Standing On a Mountain / Blue Circle
• Jody King / Another Day / Another Day / After 5
• Marteka and William / Shuckin' The Corn / True Grass Revival / Self-released
• Marteka and William / Salty Dog Blues / True Grass Revival / Self-released
• The Gillis Brothers / You Better Get Right / Ice Cold Stone / Hay Holler Harvest
• Crowe, Lawson & Williams / The Hills of Roane County / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• The Dillards / Never See My Home Again / There Is a Time / Vanguard
• Blue Moon Rising / That's Why Trains Are Lonesome / Blue Side of the Moon / Blue Moon Records
• Nu,Blu and Sam Moore / Jesus and Jones (feat. Sam Moore) / Jesus and Jones (feat. Sam Moore) , Single / Rural Rhythm
• The Circuit Riders / Lonesome Wind / Let the Ride Begin / Pinecastle Records
• Charlie Waller & The Country Gentlemen / One Morning In May / 45 Years of Memories / Pinecastle Records
• Country Gentlemen / Mountains And Memories / Souvenirs / Rebel
• Country Gentlemen / Souvenirs / Souvenirs / Rebel
• Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Tracks / 1954,1974 / Bear Family
• J.D. Crowe and the New South / You Can Have Her / Bluegrass Evolution / Starday
• J.D. Crowe / BlackJack / Blackjack / Rebel
• J.D. Crowe & the New South / I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• J.D. Crowe & the New South / She's Gone, Gone, Gone / My Home Ain't In the Hall of Fame / New Rounder
• The Stanley Brothers / Our Last Goodbye / 1953,58 & 1959 / Bear Family
• The Stanley Brothers / Come All You Tenderhearted / An Evening Long Ago , Live 1956 / Columbia/Legacy
• The Stanley Brothers / Little Bessie / The King Years 1961,1965 / Gusto
• The Stanley Brothers / Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / An Evening Long Ago , Live 1956 / Columbia/Legacy
• The Stanley Brothers / My Long Skinny Lanky Sarah Jane / An Evening Long Ago , Live 1956 / Columbia/Legacy
• Tom Neal / Walt's Breakdown / Banjoland / Patuxent
• Tom Neal / Charmaine / Banjoland / Patuxent
• Tom Neal / Cincinnati Rag / Banjoland / Patuxent
• Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Thinkin' Of Home / Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs of Vern & Ray / Spruce and Maple
• Nightflyer / Old River / Rail River & Road / Kang Records
• Buzz Busby and Leon Morris / Just For Awhile / 45 RPM Single / Rebel (45)
• Tom Mindte / Buzzin' with Buzz / Something I've Been Working On / Patuxent Music
• Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Lonesome Indian / 45 RPM Single / Osage (45)
• Tom Mindte / Mom And Dad's Waltz / Something I've Been Working On / Patuxent
• The Wilson Brothers / Trail Of The Lonesome Pine / 45 RPM Single / Blake Records (45)
• Carl Story / Savior's Love / Complete Atteiram Collection / Gusto
• Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / A Higher Power / 45 RPM EP / Starday (45)
• Front Range / Weeds In the Wheat / One Beautiful Day / Sugar Hill Records
• The Dillards / Somebody Touched Me / Back Porch Bluegrass / Rhino,Elektra
• Charlie Moore & Bill Napier / Springtime In Heaven / Heartwarming Gospel / Gusto Gospel
• Wayne Taylor / Forgiveness / Movin' On / Raincoe
• Charlie Waller and The Country Gentlemen / I Feel Like Traveling On / Crying In The Chapel / CRFreeland
• Rhonda Vincent / Good News / Performs Songs From The House With The Red Light / Upper Management
• Dry Branch Fire Squad / Jesus On The Mainline / Live At the Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder Records
• Steve Gulley / Stormy Waters / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking In A Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/17/2014 (plus, a semi-Bluegrass fill-in, 8/14/2014)

Sunday's radio show featured a good deal of newer Bluegrass, some classic tunes, and a whole bunch of songs inspired by one iPod on shuffle!  Programming ideas come from the strangest places sometimes, eh?

Hylo Brown working with Earl & Lester
(and Paul Warren, too)

This weekend, while I was listening to a shuffle of the 5,000+ songs loaded on my iPod, I heard Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver's version of Hylo Brown's "Your Crazy Heart."  Hearing this song made me remember how unique was the voice of Frank Brown, Jr. -- known professionally as Hylo Brown (1922-2003) -- and that, in turn, made me think that he'd written some pretty great Bluegrass songs that ought be heard this very afternoon.  And so, we included the aforementioned DLQ song, as well as Hylo Brown-penned songs by Jimmy Martin, Tony Rice, James King, and IIIrd Tyme Out, as well as several selections by Hylo, himself.  Fun!  

Since we're getting so close to IBMA's World of Bluegrass festivities, it always seems like there's a ton of new music coming out this time of year.  We played a good deal of that on Sunday's show, too, from performers including a brand new "trio" recording from J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson & Paul Williams, as well as Darren Nicholson, Danny Roberts, the Roland White Band, Chase & Melissa Johner, Dick Smith (from "The Patuxent Banjo Project"), Breaking Grass, Nightflyer, Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, Larry Sparks, Missy Werner, and Steve Gulley.

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday afternoon, and that you'll be sure to join Jim next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.



Bluegrass Cafe, 8/17/2014 - REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Whispering Waters / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm
• Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• My Old Kentucky Home / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Feel Good Day / Continental Divide / Feel Good Day / Pinecastle
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia
• Helping Hand / Johnny Williams / Last Day Of Galax / Mountain Fever Recordings
• Cherry Blossoms In The Springtime / Jeanette Williams / Cherry Blossoms In The Springtime / Doobie Shea
• Tennessee Truck Driving Man / Don Rigsby with Charlie Sizemore / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• You're Still To Blame / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Leaving You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / Down On Sawmill Road / Rebel
• No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Dancin' In The Kitchen / Darren Nicholson / Things Left Undone / Self-Produced
• Derrington Drive / Danny Roberts / Nighthawk / Mountain Home
• You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• The Last Old Shovel / Phyllis Boyens / O Sister / Rounder
• Saro Jane / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle
• Lovesick And Sorrow / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / Starday
• Thunderclouds Of Love / Tony Rice / Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Silent Partner (Called The Blues) / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Stone Wall / Hylo Brown / In Concert / Copper Creek
• I've Waited As Long As I Can / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• Your Crazy Heart / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill
• John Henry / Hylo Brown & the Timberliners with Earl Scruggs / Classic Bluegrass Live, 1959-1966 / Vanguard
• Lost To A Stranger / Hylo Brown / The Best Of Hylo Brown / Rural Rhythm
• The Prisoner's Song / Hylo Brown & the Timberliners with Earl Scruggs / Classic Bluegrass Live, 1959-1966 / Vanguard
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• My Walking Shoes / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• Highway 11 / Chase & Melissa Johner / It's Not Fair / Self-Produced
• Dear Old Dixie / Dick Smith / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• Raining In Virginia / Breaking Grass / Just As Strong / Mountain Fever Records
• Keep It In The Middle Of The Road / Nightflyer / Rail, River & Road / Kang Records
• How Many Times / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce & Maple Music
• It's Just A Road / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Don't Fall In Love With A Girl Like That / The Boxcars / All In / Mountain Home
• Glastonbury Woodshed / Roger & JD Williams / Williams Squared / Happy Appy Records
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Hot Mustard / Live At Mole Hill Theatre / Howling Cat Records
• Letter From My Darling / Larry Sparks with Bobby Osborne / Lonesome And Then Some... / Rebel
• The Heart You Break / Missy Werner / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• Dueling Banjos / Rick Spinney / Off The Cuff / Self-Produced
• Do You Live What You Preach / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• What Could I Do / Volume Five / The Day We Learn To Fly / Mountain Fever Records
• Take Me In The Lifeboat / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• I'll Never Go Back / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• We'll Still Sing On / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• I Never Shall Forget The Day / Steve Gulley / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm
• Happy I'll Be / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce & Maple Music
• One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

FILL-IN, 8/14/2014

• Waiting For A Train / Jimmie Rodgers / The Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
• Wabash Cannonball / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy
• Choo Choo Coming / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Pan American / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Gusto
• I'm Moving On / Hank Snow / RCA Country Legends / BMG
• Streamlined Cannonball / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced
• Train Whistle Blues / Merle Haggard / Same Train, A Different Time / Bear Family
• Diesel Train / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / Radio Shows / Pinecastle
• The Golden Rocket / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Old Train / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
• You Took All The Ramblin' Out Of Me / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Rebel
• Thank God I'm A Country Boy / Special Consensus / Country Boy:  A Bluegrass Tribute To John Denver / Compass Records
• The Game / Blue Highway / The Game / Rounder
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• One's On The Way / Loretta Lynn / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• I'm A One Woman Man / Johnny Horton / The Essential Johnny Horton / Columbia Legacy
• Country Girl / Faron Young / The Complete Capitol Hits Of Faron Young / Collectors' Choice Music
• Heartbreak U.S.A. / Kitty Wells / Classic Country--The Sixties:  Legends / Time Life
• Devil Woman / Marty Robbins / The Nashville Sound / Columbia
• Two Glasses, Joe / Ernest Tubb / The Definitive Collection / MCA
• Heart Over Mind / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price / Columbia
• Saw Mill / Buck Owens / On The Bandstand / Sundazed
• Mental Revenge / Waylon Jennings / The Early Years / BMG
• Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town / Statler Brothers / The World Of The Statler Brothers / Columbia
• I Ain't Never / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Mel Tillis / Your Body Is An Outlaw / Elektra
• The Cold Hard Facts Of Life / Porter Wagoner / RCA Country Legends / BMG
• Ballad Of Forty Dollars / Tom T. Hall / The Essential Story Songs / Mercury
• He Loves Me All The Way / Tammy Wynette / The Essential Tammy Wynette / Epic Legacy
• My Rambling Heart / Jim Reeves / Four Walls--The Legend Begins / BMG
• I Can't Keep You In Love With Me / Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone, 1955-1964 / Raven
• A Picture Of Me (Without You) / George Jones / The Essential George Jones / Epic Legacy
• Kiss Crazy Baby / Johnnie & Jack / For Old Times Sake / Bear Family
• Walk On By / Leroy Van Dyke / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics, Volume 2 / Opry Music

Playlist - 8/10/2014 - Podunk Recap

Hi Folks,

The Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival had just finished the night before this show, so we played all of the bands who had performed on the main stage over the three festival days.  This included new music from Blue Highway, Shawn Lane, Wayne Taylor (Appaloosa), Dave Adkins & Edgar Loudermilk, and The Bankesters.

Other recent music included songs from Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys, The Steeldrivers, Three Tall Pines, Claire Lynch (all Podunk performers), Missy Werner, Michael Cleveland, Turning Ground, Marteka and William Lake, Nu-Blu, Doyle Lawson, Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, Becky Buller, James King, Balsam Range, Seldom Scene, Roland White, and Larry Efaw.

Jimmy Martin born Aug 10, 1927

Jimmy Martin's 87th birthday was the day of this show, so we played Jimmy throughout the show.  Jimmy died of cancer May 14, 2005.

The Heritage Corner provided some interesting rarities included songs off vinyl from The Keen Brothers, The Sandy Valley Boys, and additional music from Buzz Busby, The Dillards, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, and Carl Story.


Jim Beaver

Podunk bands in red

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Bill Emerson / Theme Time / Home Of The Red Fox / Rebel
• Donna Ulisse / I Lied / Walk This Mountain Down / Hadley Music
• The Gibson Brothers / The Barn Song / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Blue Highway / Talk Is Cheap / The Game / Rounder
• Wayne Taylor / Hills of Sonora / Movin' On / Raincoe
• The Steeldrivers / When You Don't Come Home / Hammer Down / Rounder
• Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Grand Ole Opry Song / 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• Marteka and William / Six White Horses / True Grass Revival / Self-released
• Shawn Lane / Mountain Songs of Yesterday / Mountain Songs / Cat Town Records
• Jeanette Williams / Too Late To Say Goodbye / Cherry Blossoms in the Springtime / Doobie Shea
• Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys / In Some Other's Arms / Reasons That I Run / Real Life Enterprises
• Turning Ground / Echo Of The Steel / Cell Of Mine / Self-released
• Missy Werner / Rocks In the River / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• James King / Highway To Nowhere / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• Larry Stephenson / Big Train / What Really Matters / Compass
• Three Tall Pines / With Body and Soul / Taproot - EP / Three Tall Pines
• The Dillards / Old Home Place / Back Porch Bluegrass / Elektra
• Nu-Blu / Trains I Didn't Take / Ten / Rural Rhythm
• Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Dog Bite Your Hide / 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / Misery Loves Company / Working Close / Rounder
• Dave Adkins / Pretty Little Liar / Nothing To Lose / Mountain Fever
• Edgar Loudermilk / Two Hearts After One / My Big Chance Tomorrow / Mountain Fever
• Dave Adkins / Pike County Jail / Nothing To Lose / Mountain Fever
• Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper / Jack O' Diamonds / On Down The Line / Compass
• Claire Lynch / I'll Be Alright Tomorrow (with Alison Brown) / Dear Sister / Compass
• Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper / Just Call Me Crazy / On Down The Line / Compass
• The Keen Brothers / Choo Choo Coming / Grassy Mountain Sound / Old Homestead (LP)
• The Sandy Valley Boys / Big Pipe Line / Hard Road To Travel / Vetco (LP)
• The Keen Brothers / What About You / Grassy Mountain Sound / Old Homestead (LP)
• The Sandy Valley Boys / Fee's Fling / Hard Road To Travel / Vetco (LP)
• Windy Hill / A Fool and His Honey / Lonesome Garbage Man / Self Released
• Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Foggy Old London / 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• Buzz Busby / Whose Red Wagon / Going Home / Starday
• Travers Chandler & Avery County / Old Barstool / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• Balsam Range / Stacking Up The Rocks / Five / Mountain Home
• Russ Carson (bed) / Liberty Off The Corn Liquor Still/Devil In The Wood Pile / Last Chance / Patuxent Music
• Russ Carson (bed) / Shenandoah Breakdown / Last Chance / Patuxent Music
• Shady Creek / Not Loving Me / The Old Home / Self Released
• Mark Newton & Steve Thomas / Old McDonald Sold the Farm / Reborn / Pinecastle
• Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / Give Me Time to Think It Over / She Left Me Standing On a Mountain / Blue Circle
• Marteka and William / Foggy Mountain Special / True Grass Revival / Self-released
• The Bankesters / Cups (When I'm Gone) [with Sierra Hull] / Love Has Wheels / Compass Records
• Bill Monroe / Seven Year Blues / Blue Grass 1959-1969 / Bear Family
• The Roland White Band / Hot Flash On the Highway / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-released
• Becky Buller / Southern Flavor / 'Tween Earth And Sky / Dark Shadow
• Carl Story / Forty Days And Forty Nights / Complete Atteiram Collection / Gusto
• Taylors Grove / Storms Are On The Ocean / Keep On The Sunny Side / Fishtraks
• The Seldom Scene / I'll Be No Stranger There / Long Time... Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Chris Warner / When Jesus Comes Down / Back Again / Pinecastle
• Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Touch Of God's Hand / Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce and Maple
• Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Who'll Sing For Me / 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I Sailed Back / Open Carefully Message Inside / Mountain Home
• Ralph Stanley / The Old Crossroad / Poor Rambler / Starday King 
• Carl Story And His Rambling Mountaineers / Follow Him / Mighty Close to Heaven / Starday
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking In A Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/3/2014

Sunday's radio show featured a whole bunch of music -- some classic, some brand-spanking new, and some in-between.  All of it sounded pretty good to me!  Hope you thought so, too...

This Les Leverett photo captures six Grand Ole Opry
stars who traveled to NYC to play a show at Carnegie
Hall on November 21, 1961.  From the top:
Minnie Pearl, Jim Reeves, Faron Young,
Bill Monroe, Patsy Cline, Grandpa Jones.

As I've been trying to do this summer, I did a fill-in this past Thursday morning at WHUS.  During these fill-ins, I tend to play a lot of the classic country music that I really like, and this past Thursday was no exception.  When playing a song on Thursday from Jim Reeves, I realized that this year is the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that took his life -- July 31, 1964.  Jim Reeves was just one month short of celebrating his 41st birthday when he died, and while he wasn't necessarily a big songwriter, he did record a whole lot of music during his relatively brief recording career.  Some of those titles have been covered in the Bluegrass World, so we marked the anniversary of the passing of Jim Reeves with 5 Bluegrass covers of songs he'd also recorded, and even included a 1957 classic from Jim Reeves that is probably his most covered in Bluegrass music, "I've Lived A Lot In My Time."   

During Thursday's fill-in, I had a question from a Bluegrass Cafe listener asking about the origins of "Shady Grove."  I had no answer for her on Thursday morning, and even after doing a little bit of research before Sunday's show, I still didn't have much of an answer.  Since the question had been asked, though, it inspired me to find a few different versions of this old folk song that has been recorded hundreds of times over the years.  


Summer is a big season for new Bluegrass releases, and we've added bunches of them over the last few weeks.  Today's newer tunes came from Missy Werner, the Roland White Band, Rachel Burge & New Dawning, Steve Gulley, Larry Sparks, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Flatt Lonesome, Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters, the Spinney Brothers, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Balsam Range, and a track from the new banjo recording from Patuxent Music called "The Patuxent Banjo Project."  

We also shared music from some of the upcoming performers at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in nearby-to-Storrs, Hebron, CT, next week:  August 7-9.  The Podunk performers we heard from included the Steeldrivers, Donna Ulisse, and Dave Adkins (with Edgar Loudermilk).  See you at Podunk!

Have a great week - and be sure to join Jim for another Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM!

Amy


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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Hot Night In August / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Goin' To China / Stan Keach & Friends / Cry Of The Loon & Other Original Songs About Maine / Self-Produced
• The Open Road / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Gotta Travel / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• Polka On The Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia
• Two Hours Down / Rick Hayes / Fly By Night / Kang Records
• Cumberland Gap / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• Dark Hollow / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak Records
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Bluegrass Album Band / Songs Of Flatt & Scruggs / Rounder
• Little Maggie / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1947-1949 / JSP Records
• Four Walls / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• Yonder Comes A Sucker / Gary & Jim Brewer / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• The Blizzard / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / The Cat Came Back / Rebel
• A Letter To My Heart / Bear Bridge / Broken Hearts And Better Times / Open Road
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Longview / Lessons In Stone / Rebel
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Jim Reeves / RCA Country Legends / BMG Heritage
• Hey Baby / Feller & Hill & the Bluegrass Buckaroos / Here Come Feller & Hill...Again! / Blue Circle Records
• A Far Cry From Lester And Earl / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel
• Snake In The Grass / Missy Werner / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• Big Blue Raindrops / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• In Despair / Dale Ann Bradley / Somewhere South Of Crazy / Compass Records
• Baby You're Cheatin' / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Shady Grove / Hot Rize / In Concert / Flying Fish
• Shady Grove / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sugar Hill
• Shady Grove / Doc Watson / Memories / Sugar Hill
• If I Lose / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Rebels Ye Rest / Rachel Burge & Blue Dawning / Rachel Burge & Blue Dawning / Mountain Fever Records
• Victory In Jesus / Steve Gulley / Family, Friends, & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm
• Rocky The Wonder Dog / Keith Arneson / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• Dim Lights, Thick Smoke / Larry Sparks with Curly Seckler / Lonesome And Then Some... / Rebel
• Me And My Fiddle / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / On Down The Road / Compass Records
• Letters Have No Arms / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome Too / Mountain Home
• Shallow Grave / The Steeldrivers / Hammer Down / Rounder
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / Donna Ulisse / Showin' My Roots / Hadley Music Group
• Pike County Jail / Dave Adkins / Nothing To Lose / Mountain Fever Records
• I Dreamed Of An Old Love Affair / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Everything I Wanted Love To Be / Happy Appy Records
• Gonna Catch A Train / Spinney Brothers / Tried And True / Mountain Fever Records
• That's Kentucky / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Rural Rhythm
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Randy Jones / When Old Lonesome Comes Around / Self-Produced
• Bluegrass Blues / Steep Canyon Rangers / The Steep Canyon Rangers / Rebel
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Larry Sparks with Jesse McReynolds & Curly Seckler / Lonesome And Then Some... / Rebel
• In The Shadow Of The Son / Justin Carbone [Myrna Riquier] / Momma's Flowers / Self-Produced
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• I'm A Stranger / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• The Way, The Truth, The Light / Sideline / Session 1 / Mountain Fever Records
• Will You Go? / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Open Carefully, Message Inside / Mountain Home
• Stacking Up The Rocks / Balsam Range / Five / Mountain Home
• Light At The River / Steve Gulley / Family, Friends, & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm