A bit o' Christmas & Happy Birthday, Grand Ole Opry fill-in - 11/27/2015

The Ryman Auditorium was the full-time home of the
Grand Ole Opry for 31 years (1943-1974).

Hope you're all having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with your friends and family!  This holiday week at WHUS has provided lots of opportunities for several of us non-students to do "extra" radio programs, and I got to do one on Friday morning as Jimmy T. was away from his "Sugar Shack."  The music that formed my playlist was one small portion of

Christmas music and one large portion of music celebrating the Grand Ole Opry -- WSM's broadcast gem that officially began broadcasting on Nashville's WSM on November 28, 1925.  Many of the songs played were drawn from live recordings made during Grand Ole Opry broadcasts, spanning from the late 1940s to the decade of the 1960s.  Other songs were not live Opry recordings, but were performed by folks who were major stars of the Grand Ole Opry at one time, including Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe,  and Ernest Tubb.  It was great fun for me -- hope you enjoyed it, too!

If you're interested in learning more of the Grand Ole Opry's rich history, there are several books filled with wonderful photos and information.  Here are just a couple of recommendations:

The Grand Ole Opry:  The Making Of An American Icon by Colin Escott (Center Street, 2006)

The Grand Ole Opry History Of 
Country Music by Paul Kingsbury 
(Villard Books, 1995)














Enjoy the rest of your weekend!  Be sure to join Jim in the Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon.  Rumor has it that he may even be hosting a special in-studio guest.  Tune in to find out at 4PM, won't you?  :)

Amy





Friday's fill-in playlist for "The Sugar Shack" (8-10AM):

• Jingle Bells / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / Gusto
• That White Christmas Song / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• I'll Be Walkin' The Floor This Christmas / Ernest Tubb / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• I Never Spend A Christmas That I Don't Think Of You / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Mercury
• Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me / Ranch Romance / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• My Little Silver Bells / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• A Holly Jolly Christmas / Bob Dick / Tidings Of Comfort And Joy / Appleland
• Christmas Is Near / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Reindeer Boogie / Hank Snow / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• Christmas Shopping / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas Shopping / Rhino
• The Bargain Store / Dolly Parton / Box Set Sampler / Legacy
• Window Shopping / Hank Williams / 24 Of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits / Mercury
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Mama's Opry / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• Bring 'Em On Back / Larry Sparks / Almost Home / Rounder
• Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar / Delmore Brothers / The Delmore Brothers, 1933-1935 / JSP Records
• Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Wabash Cannonball / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia
• Great Speckle Bird / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia
• Lovesick Blues / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury
• Wedding Bells / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury
• Comedy With Hank Williams, Red Foley & Minnie Pearl / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury
• Walking The Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• I'll Be There / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price / Columbia
• It's A Lovely, Lovely World / Carl Smith / The Essential Carl Smith / Columbia
• The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight / Marty Robbins / Legends Of The Grand Ole Opry / Time Life
• Satisfied Mind / Porter Wagoner / Hall Of Famers Live / Opry Music
• You Ain't Woman Enough / Loretta Lynn / Opry Country Classics, Volume 2 / Opry Music
• Pop A Top / Jim Ed Brown / Opry By The Decades--The 1960s / Opry Music
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Bluegrass Collection / Opry Music
• Don't Touch Me / Jeannie Seely / Opry By The Decades--The 1960s / Opry Music
• Second Fiddle To An Old Guitar / Jean Shepard / Opry Country Classics, Volume 2 / Opry Music
• When I Stop Dreaming / Louvin Brothers / Duets / Opry Music
• I Know One / Jim Reeves / Live At The Opry / Country Music Foundation
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / The Bluegrass Collection / Opry Music
• Cincinnati, Ohio / Connie Smith / Opry By The Decades--The 1960s / Opry Music
• Bright Lights And Country Music / Bill Anderson / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics, Volume 1 / Opry Music

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/22/2015

On this Sunday before Thanksgiving, we opened the show with four songs with titles that were either turkey-related or eating-related.  Those seemed like logical choices to start our three hours on the ol' radio today.

While the majority of songs we played came from older recordings, we still found quite a few records from 2015 to share.  Among them were selections from the South Carolina Broadcasters, Big Country Bluegrass, Darren & Brooke Aldridge, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, the Feinberg Brothers, Nothin' Fancy, Unspoken Tradition, and Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out.  We also featured a couple of numbers from a new band from North Carolina:  Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass.

In addition, we remembered Mike Kropp -- a longtime banjo player with Northern Lights who died on November 10th. 

Best wishes to you all for a very Happy Thanksgiving! 

Amy



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Eat At The Welcome Table / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Turkey In The Straw / Vassar Clements / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder
• Have A Feast Here Tonight / Monroe Brothers / Are You From Dixie? / BMG
• Ride The Wild Turkey / Jerry Douglas / Slide Rule / Sugar Hill
• Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Your Foolish Heart / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Twinkle Little Star / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / SSK
• Counting The Miles / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Duncan & Brady (He's Been On The Job Too Long) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Log Cabin In The Lane / The Boxcars / The Boxcars / Mountain Home
• Eatin' Out Of Your Hand / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy / Whitetop Mountain Band / Loafer's Dream / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Little Darling Pal Of Mine / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records
• Backstep Cindy / South Carolina Broadcasters / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• Rocky Island / Whitetop Mountain Band / Loafer's Dream / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Till The End Of The World Rolls 'Round / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Two Hog Weeds And One Stalk Of Corn / Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / A Tribute To Fiddlin' Paul Warren / Self-Produced
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / no label
• Flat Creek / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / Self-Produced
• Factory Floor / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• I Can't Stand To Ramble / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'N Live / Sugar Hill
• Monster Truck / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up / Rounder
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Blue River / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• I Was Left On The Street / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Sweetheart Of The Mountains / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• One Mule Plow / Unspoken Tradition / Miles Between / Self-Produced
• Tennessee Flat Top Box / Darren & Brooke Aldridge / Snapshots / Mountain Home
• The Train's Ready / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• Digging Up Bones / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Country Grass / Pinecastle
• I'll Be Long Gone / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Will You Wait For Me / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Special Delivery / Northern Lights / Living In The City / Red House Records
• Walking The Floor Over Me / Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• I Don't Love You Anymore / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Don't Wake Me Up / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder
• The Drifter / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Old Man From The Mountain / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Please Search Your Heart / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder
• Looking For A Smile In A Heartache / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• I'm Leaving You And Fort Worth, Too / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Pray The Clouds Away / Jimmy Martin / This World Is Not My Home / MME
• Hymns From The Hills / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• I Touch God's Loving Hand / NorthernBound / Granddad Hank / Self-Produced
• I Am A Pilgrim / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder
• Sing Hallelujah / Nothin' Fancy / By Any Other Name / Mountain Fever Records
• The Automobile Of Life / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Happy On My Way / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• City On A Hill / Northern Lights / Can't Buy Your Way / Flying Fish
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 11/15/2015 - South Carolina Broadcasters

Hi Folks.

David, Andy, and Ivy

The centerpiece of today's show was an interview with Andy Edmonds and Ivy Sheppard who, along with David Sheppard, are The South Carolina Broadcasters.  The group made a big impression at Strawberry Park in 2014 and were invited back in 2015.  They are on the schedule for Podunk in 2016.


The Broadcasters play a type of music between old-time and bluegrass that they call "primitive bluegrass."  It draws heavily on the old-time canon while incorporating bluegrass songs and sensibilities and their unique 3-part harmony.  They have a new album that was released on CD and electronically last month, and LP very soon.

We also played new music from Alan Bibey  & Grasstowne; The Grass Cats; Bill Runkle & Smith Hollow; Bear Minimum; Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out; and David Peterson.

Heritage Corner bluegrass included The Stanley Brothers, Chief Powatan, Carl Story, Charlie Moore, Hack Johnson, Doc Watson, Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, The Renfro Family, and Vern Williams.

We gave away two pairs of tickets to lucky listeners for the Chris Thile concert at Jorgensen next Saturday evening, and fielded a bunch of phone calls. Thank you to all who called in.

Amy will be with you next Sunday to make the banjos and fiddles ring, so don't miss it.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• The Stanley Brothers / Fling Ding / 1953-1958 & 1959 / Bear Family
• The Bluegrass Brothers / Blue Ridge Mountain Man / Generations / Mountain Fever
• The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / It's You Baby You / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Bell of the Ball / Rollin' With Tradition / Galyean Family
• Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Get up John / Snapshots / Mountain Home
• Adkins & Loudermilk / Blacksmoke George / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever
• Hack Johnson and His Tennesseeans / How About You Friend / Bluegrass - Historic Cuts Selected For Quality / JSP
• Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys / True Life Blues / Live Recordings 1956-1969 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Alex Leach / Brand New Tennessee Waltz / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / Making Up Stories / Favorites / Rounder
• Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Cry, Baby Cry / Grasstowne 4 / Mountain Fever
• The Grass Cats / High in the Mountains / The Old School Road / New Time
• The Gibson Brothers / Eastbound Train / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Larry Gillis / Long Journey Home / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• Charlie Moore / Avery County / With Bill Napier and Friends / Old Homestead
• The Stanley Brothers / Handsome Molly / An Evening Long Ago / Columbia
• The Vern Williams Band / Who's Going Down to Town / Bluegrass from the Gold Country / New Rounder
• Chief Powatan & His Bluegrass Braves / Hummingbird / Mountain Laurel Bluegrass Memories / Mountain Laurel
• Carolina Native Sons / Don't Lie to Me / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent Music
• Chief Powatan & His Bluegrass Braves / Bugle Call Rag / Mountain Laurel Bluegrass Memories / Mountain Laurel
• South Carolina Broadcasters interview /  /  / 
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Tell Me Truly Little Darling / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / The Storm / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / The Ramblers Life / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• Bill Runkle & Smith Hollow / Hello Trouble / Lonely Tonight / Patuxent
• Ben and Eric Marshall feat. The Marshall Brothers and Highroad / Just as Sure as the Stars Are Above  / Grass Roots Project / Self-released
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Had It Not Been for the Train / It's About Tyme / Break A String
• Bear Minimum / Country Boy Rock 'N' Roll / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys / The Old Home Town / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent
• Buzz Busby / Cold and Windy Night / Going Home / Starday
• The Seldom Scene / Little Georgia Rose / Classic Bluegrass Collection Vol. 3 / Time Life
• The Gillis Brothers / Rock Bottom / Ice Cold Stone / Hay Holler
• The Gillis Brothers / I'll Answer The Call / Lonely Tombs / Self-released
• Mac Martin And The Dixie Travelers / This Rambler's Ramblin' / Country Roots / Rural Rhythm
• Billy Hurt, Jr. / Dance all Night With a Bottle in Your Hand / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent
• Billy Hurt, Jr. (bed) / Chinky Pin / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent
• Billy Hurt, Jr. (bed) / Richmond Polka / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent
• Billy Hurt, Jr. (bed) / Red Bird / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent
• The Hot Flashes / If I Could Only Win Your Love / Live at The Wilde Auditorium / Self-released
• Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Darling Little Joe / Side By Side / Rebel
• Jackson & Stiltner / Truck Driver's Queen / Tribute To Bill Napier / Self Released
• Jackson & Stiltner / Grundy Hoedown / Tribute To Bill Napier / Self Released
• Doc Watson / I'm Thinking Tonight of my Blue Eyes / Good Deal! Doc Watson In Nashville / Vanguard
• Dave Evans / Don't Go Out Tonight Darling / Bad Moon Shining / Rebel
• Carl Story / You Don't Love God / Complete Atteiram Collection / Gusto
• The Marshall Brothers and Highroad / When We Cross / Old Time Country Revival / Self-released
• The Stanley Brothers / Angel Band / Classic Bluegrass Collection Vol. 3 / Time Life
• David Peterson / Go Tell It On The Mountain / Old Time Power / Self-released
• Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / Backslider / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M
• Charlie Sizemore / The Church By The Side Of The Road / Old Homestead Gospel Collection / Old Homestead
• Renfro Family / Where the Soul Never Dies / Bluegrass - Historic Cuts Selected For Quality / JSP
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / We Shall Meet Someday / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/8/2015

Sunday's edition of Bluegrass Cafe arrived with more vinyl than I've played on the air in years, a few songs in honor of Veterans Day, some new music, and even a few technical difficulties!  It's all part of the "fun" of live radio, right?  You betcha!

Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups with
young Ronnie Reno on mandolin.

We started the show with several songs from the songbook of Don Reno and Arthur "Red" Smiley.  Was there a special reason for including so many Reno & Smiley tunes today?  Nope!  Do we really need an "excuse" to play this many wonderful recordings?  Nah.  In addition to original recordings from Don & Red & the Tennessee Cut-Ups, we heard covers of Reno & Smiley songs from the Seth Sawyer Band, the Johnson Mountain Boys, David Peterson & 1946, the Traditional Grass, and the Reno Brothers.  

We shared a little bit of newer music this week from Bill Runkle & Smith Hollow, Diamond Creek, Donna Ulisse, and Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass.  Other 2015 music was also included from the Gibson Brothers, the Feinberg Brothers, and Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie.

I dug a little bit into my record collection for this show, too, and pulled out a few LPs I'd not heard in a long time.  Among them:  a 1967 recording from Zap Records featuring the Country Gentlemen ("Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival"); Jimmy Gaudreau's 1989 Webco LP, "Classic J.A.G.;" the Nashville Bluegrass Band's "To Be His Child" on Rounder; and a song from a New York performer, John Rossbach & Chestnut Grove.  

In honor of the late Bill Hall -- a New England Bluegrass performer who would have turned 80 years old today -- we featured a couple of tracks from his 1984 LP on Old Homestead Records:  "In The Shadow Of The Pines."  And in the spirit of Veterans Day, we included a couple of songs in honor of those who have served.  Thanks to all veterans.

All in all, it was a full day of Bluegrass.  Hope you heard something you enjoyed somewhere along the way, and that you'll be certain to join Jim for next Sunday's edition of the Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.


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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Country Boy Rock 'n Roll / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Cruel Love / Reno Brothers / Drawing From The Well / Pinecastle
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Maybe You Will Change Your Mind / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Wall Around Your Heart / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• Banjo Riff / Reno Brothers / Drawing From The Well / Pinecastle
• It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / Traditional Grass / The Blues Are Still The Blues / Rebel
• I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Mighty Mississippi / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Riverboat Fantasy / Country Gentlemen / Sugar Hill Collection / Sugar Hill
• You're That Certain Someone / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Cheaters In The Soup / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Rounder
• I've Never Been So Lonesome / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• The Bramble And The Rose / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• I'd Rather Be Alone / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Where The City Ends / Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy Records
• No Doubt About It / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Western Skies / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Kickin' The Dog / Bill Runkle & Smith Hollow / Lonely Tonight / Patuxent Music
• Where Do I Go From Here / Diamond Creek / Where Do I Go From Here / New Time Records
• I'm Lonely Tonight / Bill Runkle & Smith Hollow / Lonely Tonight / Patuxent Music
• Black Train / Donna Ulisse / Hard Cry Moon / Hadley Music Group
• Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival / Zap Records
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Country Gentlemen / Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival / Zap Records
• Blue Bell / Country Gentlemen / Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival / Zap Records
• There You Go / Jimmy Gaudreau / Classic J.A.G. / Webco
• A Million Lonely Days / John Rossbach & Chestnut Grove / This Is Where I Came In / Chestnut Records
• Dixie Home / Bill Hall & Northwind Bluegrass / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead Records
• When I Miss Her Most Of All / Bill Hall & Northwind Bluegrass / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead Records
• The Ballad Of Stringbean And Estelle / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• Forgotten Soldier Boy / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
• God Bless The Soldier / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Military Five String / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• 20/20 Vision / Gillis Brothers / Ice Cold Stone / Hay Holler
• Eastbound Train / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• The Touch Of God's Hand / Vern & Ray / San Francisco, 1968 / Arhoolie
• A Beautiful Life / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Cabin On The Hill / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Classic Bluegrass Live, 1959-1966 / Vanguard
• Hold Fast To The Right / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• He Knows My Name / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• I Know My Lord's Gonna Leave Me Out / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Get In Line Brother / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• Lord Build Me A Cabin In Glory / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 11/1/2015

Hi Folks.

Today I just played what I wanted.  

There was some new music by Greg Blake. Greg is a member of Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, but he has a solo project out now titled Songs of Heart and Home.  A song that Greg entered to become a finalist at the 2015 Podunk Bluegrass Festival Songwriting Competition is on the new CD, and that's the one we played.

We also heard new music from a couple of groups that have a foot into both old-time and bluegrass, Spencer Branch and The South Carolina Broadcasters, both of whom have new albums out this year.

We also heard from David Peterson's newest gospel album that was recorded live in the studio.

Most of the remainder of the show was some of my favorite classic bluegrass.  I hope you enjoyed.


Amy will be with you next week making the banjos and fiddles ring.  Tune in!

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Marteka and William / Sally Ann / The Sounds Of A Tradition / Self-released
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / Too Late to Say Goodbye / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Mountain Laurel Bluegrass Memories / Mountain Laurel
• The Dillards / Liberty! / Live!!! Almost!!! / Elektra
• The Dillards / Dixie Breakdown / Live!!! Almost!!! / Elektra
• Rhonda Vincent / Passing of the Train / Back Home Again / Universal
• Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Honky-Tonked to Death / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Spencer Branch / Black Widow Lady / Ashe County Outlaws / Self-released
• Ruben & Matt and the Truffle Valley Boys / Nashville Jail / One Thing To Tell / LPB
• Larry Gillis / Little Rose / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• The Buckstankle Boys / Round Peak Home / Round Peak Home / Self-released
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Little Darlin' Pal of Mine / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• Seth Sawyer Band / Old Man in the Park / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Joe Val / I've Been All Around This World / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Earl Taylor & The Stoney Mountain Boys / White House Blues / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style / Smithsonian Folkways
• Phyllis Boyens with Hazel Dickens / The Last Old Shovel / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• Delia Bell and Bill Grant / Live And Let Live / Kiamichi Moon / Old Homestead
• David Grisman w. Ricky Skaggs / I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent) / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• The Bear Bridge Band / I'll Never See My Home Again / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Connie and Babe & The Backwoods Boys / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• The Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Six White Horses / Collectors Series Volume One / KSBC Music
• Flatt Lonesome / Mixed up Mess of a Heart / Runaway Train / Mountain Home
• Adkins & Loudermilk / Cut the Rope / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever
• Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper / Come Along Jody / On Down The Line / Compass
• The Earls Of Leicester / I Won’t Be Hanging Around / The Earls of Leicester / Rounder
• The Spinney Brothers / Regena / Tried & True / Mountain Fever
• The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Don't Make Me Go To Bed And I'll Be Good / On The Radio 1952-1953 / Rounder
• The Kentucky Colonels / You Won't Be Satisfied / Billy Ray Lathum Presents The Kentucky Coionels Live In Stereo / Double Barrel
• Don Stover / Rockwood Deer Chase / Things in Life / Rounder
• Cody Shuler / Listen to the Hammer Ring / Cody Shuler / Rural Rhythm
• Don Reno / I’m Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail / Profile / Wango
• Ralph Stanley / Haunted House / Like Father, Like Son / Copper Creek
• Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / Let Them Know I'm from Virginia / Leaving This Town / Randm
• Travers Chandler & Avery County / Whiskey / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• The Earl Brothers / Bad Man / Outlaw Hillbilly / Big Hen
• Lost & Found / The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home / My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel Records
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / Newton Grove / Private Recording / na
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Reasons Why / In Session / Mountain Home
• Red Allen, Frank Wakefield and The Kentuckians / All I Want Is You / The WDON Recordings 1963 / Patuxent
• The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / I'm my own Grandpa / Lester's Loafin' Lounge / Spring Fed
• Greg Blake / 50 Miles from Nowhere / Songs of Heart & Home / Self-released
• Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Back to Foggy Mountain / Purely Instrumental / Self-released
• Alex Leach / Mountain Heartache / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• The Vern Williams Band / Black Eyed Susie / Bluegrass from the Gold Country / New Rounder
• Rusty York & The Kentucky Mountain Boys / Roving Gambler / Early Bluegrass / Jewel
• Country Gentlemen / I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / Gusto
• J. D. Crowe / She's Just A Little Cute Thing / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• J. E. Mainer / Old And In The Way / Country Roots - 21 Old-Time Favorites / Rural Rhythm
• Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / This Rambler's Ramblin' / Country Roots - 21 Old-Time Favorites / Rural Rhythm
• Carolina Native Sons / Another Lonely Day / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent Music
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / The Storm / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• Ben and Eric Marshall / I'm On My Way to Canaan's Land / Grass Roots Project / Self-released
• Charlie Moore / Looking Through The Windows Of Heaven / Sings Again / Wango
• Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / He Knows My Name / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• David Peterson / I'll Never Go Back / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• Jackson & Stiltner / Praise God, I'm Ready To Go / Tribute To Bill Napier / Self Released
• David Peterson / Old Time Power / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• Chief Powatan & His Bluegrass Braves / Are You Washed in the Blood / Mountain Laurel Bluegrass Memories / Mountain Laurel
• Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys / I'm Working On A Building / Off The Record Volume 1 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Carl Story And His Rambling Mountaineers / My Time Will Come Someday / Mighty Close to Heaven / Starday
• The Dixie Gentlemen / Walking And Talking In The Right Way / Old Homestead Gospel Collection / Old Homestead
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released