"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/4/2010

Easter Sunday was an absolutely gorgeous day in eastern Connecticut: the sun was shining, the temperature was in the 70s, and to cap off a day of church activities and/or family events, we offered you 5 hours of Bluegrass on the ol' radio. UCONN student Joe Dempsey went home to MA for his Easter dinner, so the BG Cafe took the airwaves beginning at 2PM. Hope you enjoyed what you heard!

Last week, Jim said his unofficial "theme" was to feature some of the new music we've received over the past few weeks. As there is so much great new music now, I sort of piggy-backed on to that idea, and included lots of new music from the likes of Audie Blaylock & Redline, the Chapmans, Summertown Road, the Grascals, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Mark Johnson & Emory Lester, Don Rigsby & Midnight Call, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. There's also a new recording from Mac Wiseman from a 1971 festival, as well as newer music (released within the last couple of months) from Dewey Brown, the Patuxent Partners, Larry Stephenson, Brand New Strings, and Josh Williams. Doubtless, you'll be hearing plenty more from all of these projects in future weeks of the BG Cafe.

From time to time, especially during these shows which include the "bonus" hours from 2-4PM, I like to feature some of the classic country music performers and their various connections to the BG world. Since Merle Haggard celebrates a birthday on April 6th (born that date in 1937), it seemed only fitting to make him our feature performer. The man they call "The Hag" (would they call him by that nickname if he was a female?) has influenced many a great country AND BG singer down through the years, and there is absolutely no shortage of BG covers of some of Haggard's great tunes he's written. Why, in 2007 this Country Music Hall of Famer even branched out a bit and made a record he called "The Bluegrass Sessions." It was no stretch at all to play a set of Haggard covers, and then intersperse a few more Hag tunes throughout the rest of the show.

And, of course, it was Easter, and there were plenty of great Easter-themed BG songs to put on the airwaves. Hope you enjoyed something you heard along the way...

Thanks once again for supporting our fundraising efforts during Radiothon last month. We know that some of the premiums haven't yet been mailed out, so we hope you'll continue to be patient if you've not yet received one of our "thank-you gifts."

Finally, Sunday also marked the beginning of the baseball season for 2010. The Red Sox and Yankees opened up at Fenway last night in very un-April-like weather, but who was complaining? It came to my attention that I may have "inadvertently" offended some of the Yankee fans within our BG audience. If so...well, I guess I should apologize. I may not be crazy about the Bronx Bombers themselves, but they deserved their World Series win in 2009, I guess. No matter which side of the aisle you may sit on in this Sox/Yanks debate, we're always happy to welcome you into the BG Cafe. We hope you'll be sure to join us whenever you can.

Jim will be with you next Sunday on the air, and I'm sure you'll hear nothing but great BG music. Join him (and maybe even Marti, too)!

Have a great week!

Amy



REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Angeline The Baker / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder
• The Girl Behind The Bar / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides / JSP Records
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Flatt & Scruggs / Selected Sides / JSP Records
• Ruby / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Virginia Waltz / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds: The Capitol Years / Capitol
• I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Living In These Troubled Times / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• Irish Spring / Patrick McAvinue / Rutland's Reel / Patuxuent Music
• Eatin' Out Of Your Hand / Bill Harrell / 20 Bluegrass Greats / Gusto
• Love You Don't Know Cannot Hurt You / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / / Patuxent Music
• Money In The Bank / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Sally Ann / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• High Lonesome / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Peter Rowan / The First Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill
• If Lonely Was The Wind / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• That High Lonesome Sound / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Let's Not Go There / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Mountain Home
• Crazy Finger Blues / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• He's Still Hurting Inside / Bluegrass Diamonds / After All These Years / Self-Produced
• When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• She's More To Be Pitied / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
• Slidin' Delta / Stonewall Bluegrass / Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Hard Times Are Here / Dewey Brown with Ralph Stanley / Hard Times For A Fiddler / DewBug Records
• You Left Me Alone / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Branded Man / Merle Haggard / Vintage Collections / Capitol
• Huntsville / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• Sing Me Back Home / Ernie Thacker-Junior Blankenship Band / Tennessee Blues / Copper Creek
• Big City / Merle Haggard / The Bluegrass Sessions / McCoury Music
• Mama Tried / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Swinging Doors / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder
• The Fightin' Side Of Me / Merle Haggard / Vintage Collections / Capitol
• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Larry Stephenson with Del McCoury / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Pinecastle
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Live And Let Live / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Old Rugged Cross / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Self-Produced
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder
• You're Gonna Wonder About Me / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Son Of A Sawmill Man / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• Love's Gonna Live Here / The Chapmans with Rhonda Vincent / Grown Up (A Revisionist History) / Compass Records
• Browntown Road / Mark Johnson & Emory Lester / Acoustic Vision: Blockade Runner / Bangtown Records
• Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Mac Wiseman with Lester Flatt / Bluegrass, 1971 / Rural Rhythm
• Train Without A Track / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Good Home Grown Music Sampler, 2010 / Blue Circle
• Up The Hill And Down / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• Look For Me / Angelica Grim / Look For Me / Patuxent Music
• The Empty Grave / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise Records
• Stone Cold Loneliness / Blue Moon Rising / One Lonely Shadow / Lonesome Day Records
• Somewhere Between / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• The Room Over Mine / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Carolina's Arms / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Remington Ryde / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Blues Are Still The Blues / Mickey Harris / Dog House Blues / MJH Records
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Cheshire Tragedy / Bear Minimum / / no label
• Mother's Voice Is In The Wind / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• All I Can Do Is Pretend / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• The Gospel According To Luke / Don Rigsby & Midnight Call / The Voice Of God / Rebel
• Carolina Hurricane / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Hurricane / Rural Rhythm
• My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light On My Feet, Ready To Fly / Horizon
• Fiddlin' John / Summertown Road / Summertown Road / Rounder
• You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• I Thought That She Loved Me / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Merry Go Round / Brand New Strings / No Strings Attached / Rural Rhythm
• Sugar Coated Love / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Holding Things Together / Southern Rail / On The Road From Appomattox / Railway Records
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Search Inside An Empty Tomb / Rarely Herd / What About Him / Pinecastle
• Blood Stains On The Cross / Larry Sparks / New Highway / Mountain Home
• Just As The Sun Went Down / James King / Gardens In The Sky / Rounder
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Ralph Stanley / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• I'm Justified / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• Here At The Cross / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Cry From The Cross / Charlie Sizemore / The Stanley Gospel Tradition: Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea
• Broken Stone / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 3/28/2010

Hi Folks,

We had a delightful day on the radio before the rains came, so it was a good time to be listening to bluegrass. Marti and I enjoyed bringing it to you. Marti has been kind of scarce around the studio lately, so it was a pleasure sharing the microphone with her this week.

New music was the unofficial focus of this show, and we had plenty. Some of the artists making that new music were The Grascals, Darrell Webb, Ken Scoggins & Millers Creek, Carolina Native Sons, Patuxent Partners, Thomas Wywrot, Taylor Baker, Audie Blaylock and Redline, The Chapmans, Chris Warner, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, The Earl Brothers, Herman McGee, Summertown Road, and Larry Stephenson. Whew! 2010 is turning out to be a good year for new releases.

The Heritage Corner pulled a few tasty treats from the vaults, including numbers from Flatt & Scruggs, The Johnson Mountain Boys before Rounder, and the earliest Brandywine recording from 1981 (on vinyl) of Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass. We also featured a segment of bluegrass comedy or novelty tunes that included numbers from Homer & Jethro (not bluegrass, but good picking anyway), The Stanley Brothers, Reno & Smiley, and The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover.

Thanks for listening, and be sure to tune in Sunday at 4pm ET when Amy will bring you three hours of the best in bluegrass.

Jim Beaver

requests in blue

Song Title / Performer / Album Title / Label

• Sugarloaf Mountain Special / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• No Depression / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• Poor Ramblin' Boy / Darrell Webb Band / Fresh Cuts & Key Tracks #7 / Rural Rhythm
• The Bean Blossom Bird / Ken Scoggins & Miller's Creek / Once In A Lifetime Thing / Old Homestead
• Last Train To Clarksville / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• Where Will This End? / Patuxent Partners / Seven or Eleven / Patuxent
• Coat of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Live And Well / Sugar Hill
• Tribulations / Carolina Native Sons / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent
• Whitewater / Bela Fleck / Drive / Rounder
• Lost And Lonesome / Billy Boone Smith / Live From The Moose Lodge / Muddy Sunshine
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss and Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• 95 Years / Thomas Wywrot / Every Time I Walk This Road / Right Good Rocords
• Whistlin' Rufus/Ragtime Annie / Dan Crary with Doc Watson / Jammed If I Do / Sugar Hill
• Taxes, Troubles, and Heartaches / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent
• I've Never Been So Lonesome / Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass / An Old Love Affair / Brandywine (LP)
• Blue Grass Special / Taylor Baker / Taylor Baker / Patuxent
• Yesterday I Didn't Know / Donnie Dobro Scott / Generations / Patuxent
• Tennessee, Tennessee / Homer & Jethro / The Weird World of... / BMG
• My Long Skinny Lanky Sarah Jane / The Stanley Brothers / An Evening Long Ago / Columbia Legacy
• Barefoot Nellie / Reno & Smiley / 1951- 1959 / King
• Billboard Song / The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover / Live At Hillbilly Ranch / Hay Holler
• Heartbreak Express / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Greenville Trestle High / Ricochet / Raised By The Railroad Line / Rebel
• Passing Of The Train / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Raised By The Railroad Line / Seldom Scene / Raised By The Railroad Line / Rebel
• Cryin' Heart Blues / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Love's Gonna Live Here / The Chapmans with Rhonda Vincent / Grown Up (A Revisionist History) / Compass
• Carolina Hurricane / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Hurricane / Rural Rhythm
• I'll Go To My Grave Lovin' You / Dailey & Vincent / Sing The Statler Brothers / Cracker Barrel
• Cold & Lonesome / The Earl Brothers / The Earl Brothers / Big Hen Music
• Are You Teasing Me / Herman McGee / Family and Friends / Self-released
• Grandpa Emory's Banjo / Bill Emerson and Sweet Dixie / Southern / Rural Rhythm
• Black Jack / Dan Menzone / Frostbite / LC Productions
• Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast / Norman Blake / Old Ties / Rounder
• Saga Of The Old West / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder
• Cotton Eyed Joe [bed] / Chubby Wise / An American Original - The '94 Sessions / Pinecastle
• Green Valley Waltz / Chubby Wise / An American Original - The '94 Sessions / Pinecastle
• If I Win / Summertown Road / Summertown Road / Rounder
• I Thought That She Loved Me / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Six More Miles / The Basement Band / Plum Pitiful / Time-Life
• Everytime / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / Flatt & Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs and Stanley Brothers / JSP
• I've Got Your Number / Ray Legere and Roger Williams / River Of No Return / Self-released
• What Would You Do? / Fred Etheridge & Nick Anderson / Unreleased Demo
• Armor Of God / Billy Boone Smith / Five Flat Rocks / Muddy Sunshine
• Palms Of Victory / Dale Ann Bradley / Essential Bluegrass - Bluegrass Gospel [comp.] / Pinecastle
• You'll See Jesus / Larry Stephenson / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine / Iron Horse / The Gospel According To Hank Williams - The Bluegrass Gospel Tribute / CMH
• Gospel Train / Mountain Heart / Bluegrass Express [comp.] / Rounder
• Get In Line Brother / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• He Said If I Be Lifted Up / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Gloryland / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Feel Like My Time Ain't Long / Rebel
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Best Of The Gillis Brothers / Hay Holler

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/21/2010 Radiothon Week #2

Well...it's over. Hooray! Thanks so much to all of you who made a pledge to BG Cafe (and, of course to WHUS) over the course of the two weeks of Radiothon! It's always great to hear from listeners, and there's no other time of year where we really can get some sort of "snapshot" of where our listeners might be. This year, we heard from 60+ listeners who called from 7 states -- thanks! Our two-week show goal set by WHUS was $3,000 -- a pretty ambitious amount in what is still a pretty lousy economy. I'm delighted to tell you, though, that through your generosity, we not only MET that $3,000 goal but we even SURPASSED it by a little bit. Wow!

Jim and I thought we'd add a little more "fun" to Radiothon this year by offering a drawing at the end of our two weekends. The "Bluegrass Bonus Book Bonanza" allowed each person who made a pledge during the two weeks an equal chance in a drawing for a brand-new copy of the Ralph Stanley autobiography called Man Of Constant Sorrow, as well as an autographed copy of the Tom T. Hall novel, What A Book! When it was all over, the winner turned out to be one of the biggest Stanley fans we know of in Connecticut -- none other than musician and promoter of the Firebox Sunday night Bluegrass shows, Nick Novia. Congratulations to him, and thanks again to all of you for your support!

Thanks, too, to all of the record labels and performers who donated CDs for us to use as premiums (or, "thank you gifts") during Radiothon. And thanks as well to our fine phone operators and helpers during Radiothon, including Clyde Proch & Scott Farrar, Jim's wife, Marti, my mother, Eleanor and niece, Caitlyn, and Cathy & James Ward.

Jim will join you on the air next Sunday. It wouldn't surprise me if you hear LOTS of music and a lot less yapping. Join him!

Thanks again!

Amy


ALL OF THE TUNES PLAYED ON THIS SHOW WERE TAKEN FROM CDs THAT WERE AVAILABLE AS RADIOTHON PREMIUMS.

• The Riverhead Polka / Buddy Merriam / Back Roads Mandolin / Lily Pad Records
• Rutland's Reel / Patrick McAvinue / Rutland's Reel / Patuxent Music
• The Game (I Can't Win) / Lonesome River Band / Old Country Town / Sugar Hill
• Them Blues / Lonesome River Band / No Turning Back / Rural Rhythm
• Roll On Buddy, Roll On / Sam Bush with Del McCoury / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• Hard Rock Mountain Prison ('Til I Die) / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Banjo Riff / Jessie Baker / Yessir! / Patuxent Music
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die / Lost & Found / Love, Lost & Found / Rebel
• Pass Me By / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• Amanda Lynn / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
• Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Picture In The Moonlight / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• God Bless Her, 'Cause She Is My Mother / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Maybe You Will Change Your Mind / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Road / Blue Circle
• Lickity Split / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Ain'ta Bump In The Road / James Reams & the Barnstormers / Troubled Times / Mountain Redbird
• I'm Lonesome Without You / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• I've Lost You / Big Country Bluegrass / Open For Business / Mountain Roads Recordings
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Adam Steffey / One More For The Road / Sugar Hill
• Helping Hand / Johnny Williams / Last Day At Galax / Mountain Roads Recordings
• What Will You Say / Snyder Family Band / Comin' On Strong / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Take A Moment And Live / Barry Scott & Second Wind / In God's Time / Rebel
• Carry It Back To The Cross / Mickey Galyean / Born Into Bluegrass : The Songs Of Cullen Galyean / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Light On My Feet And Ready To Fly / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light On My Feet, Ready To Fly / Horizon
• Wabash Cannonball / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced
• House Down The Block / Kenny & Amanda Smith / House Down The Block / Rebel
• Living Water / Brand New Strings / No Strings Attached / Rural Rhythm
• John In The Jordan / Jerry Salley with the Oak Ridge Boys / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home

Radiothon & the "Bluegrass Bonus Book Bonanza"...

As we mentioned more than once during yesterday's Radiothon activities, each person who makes a pledge to support WHUS during the "Bluegrass Cafe" will have his or her name entered into a drawing to win copies of the books shown above. Dr. Ralph's autobiography, Man Of Constant Sorrow: My Life And Times, is a must-read for all fans of "old-time mountain music," as he gives an interesting account of his life in the music business. The multi-talented Country Music Hall of Famer, Tom T. Hall, published his novel called What A Book! in 1996, and we have an autographed copy to offer in our Bluegrass Bonus Book Bonanza.

Our drawing will be held at the end of next Sunday's "Bluegrass Cafe" Radiothon activities. We hope to be with you from our "usual" 4-7PM, but will have to let you know, as there's always a possibility of preemption of some part of the show for UCONN Women's Basketball in the NCAA tournament.

We'll keep you posted...

UPDATE: The Women's Basketball game on Sunday has a tip-off time of 12:16PM, so the BG Cafe WILL NOT be preempted from 4-7PM. We hope you'll consider joining us and making a pledge...

Radiothon -- Week #1

Hey everybody -

Thanks to everyone who made a pledge today during our first week of Radiothon at the BG Cafe. We had a pretty successful day -- in our five hours on the air today, 38 listeners picked up the phone and brought us a bit more than halfway to our station-set, two-week show "goal." Many thanks!!!

We still have LOTS of great CDs and other WHUS goodies to offer as premiums next Sunday...assuming the program isn't preempted by the UCONN Women's Basketball team playing in the NCAA tourney. We won't know if there's a preemption next Sunday 'til after tomorrow night's Selection Show, but we'll let you know as soon as we find out, I promise.

In the meantime, THANKS again to all of you who supported WHUS today! The show wouldn't be nearly as fun without your support...

Amy & Jim


All of the music featured on today's show was from CDs available as premiums.

• Johnson Mountain Chimes / Jessie Baker / Yessir! / Patuxent Music
• Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Head Of The Holler / James Reams & the Barnstormers / Troubled Times / Mountain Redbird
• You Left Me Alone / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• Picture Me There / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
• Heartbreaker's Alibi / Rhonda Vincent with Dolly Parton / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Oh What A Day / Barry Scott & Second Wind / In God's Time / Rebel
• Merry Go Round / Brand New Strings / No Strings Attached / Rural Rhythm
• I Had To Move / Wheeler / Wheeler / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Running Gun / Michael Martin Murphey with Audie Blaylock / Buckaroo Blue Grass II / Rural Rhythm
• Faded Love / Snyder Family Band / Comin' On Strong / Patuxent Music
• Knee Deep In The Blues / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Don't Lie To Me / Adam Steffey / One More For The Road / Sugar Hill
• A Daisy A Day / Lost & Found / Love, Lost & Found / Rebel
• Fly By Night / Rick Hayes / Fly By Night / Kang Records
• Nine Pounder Hammer / Reno & Smiley with the Stanley Brothers / Bluegrass 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• Head Hung Down / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Bluegrass 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• Nashville Jail / Big Country Bluegrass / Open For Business / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Long Forgotten Dream / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Ring The Bell / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• The Room Over Mine / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• I'd Worship You / Lonesome River Band / No Turning Back / Rural Rhythm
• The Black Fox / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Southern / Rural Rhythm
• There Ain't No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Light On My Feet And Ready To Fly / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light On My Feet, Ready To Fly / Horizon
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Elkville String Band / Over The Mountain / Mountain Roads Recordings
• The Preacher And The Bear / Jim Lloyd & the Skyliners / Songs From My Attic / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Cotton Dice / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• With Body And Soul / Patrick McAvinue with Audie Blaylock / Rutland's Reel / Patuxent Music
• How's It Feel / Daughters Of Bluegrass with Jeanette Williams / Back To The Well / Blue Circle
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Wide Open / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Devil Of The Trail / Randy Kohrs / Quicksand / Rural Rhythm
• Blue Ridge Mountains / Junior Sisk / Born Into Bluegrass : The Songs Of Cullen Galyean / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Slowly Getting You Out Of The Way / Johnny Williams / Last Day At Galax / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Angry Man / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• When I've Traveled My Last Mile / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Down In Caroline / Balsam Range / Last Train At Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Follow The Leader / Jessie Baker / Yessir! / Patuxent Music
• Last Letter Home / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Diamond Joe / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• Take A Moment And Live / Barry Scott & Second Wind / In God's Time / Rebel
  

Radiothon! Pledge Your Support for Bluegrass Cafe and WHUS

Amy on the mic!

This is one of the thank you gifts you can get by pledging your support to WHUS -- the station that brings you Bluegrass Cafe every Sunday 4-7pm ET. Call 1-800-599-9487

So many great ways to say THANKS!

You've probably heard by now that our annual WHUS fundraising campaign known as Radiothon begins this weekend. That means we'll be asking for your financial support, and we'll be doing it for 2 extra hours, as we'll open up the BG Cafe beginning at 2PM on March 14th.

In addition to offering you lots of great WHUS goodies as "thank you" gifts, we also have a whole lot of mighty fine BG CDs. Here's a partial list:

• Jessie Baker - "Yessir!" (Patuxent Music)
• Big Country Bluegrass - "Open For Business" (Mountain Roads Recordings)
• Sam Bush - "Circles Around Me" (Sugar Hill Records)
  
• Gibson Brothers - "Ring The Bell" (Compass Records)
• Gold Heart - "My Sisters And Me" (Rural Rhythm Records)
• Lost & Found - "Love, Lost & Found" (Rebel Records)
• Patrick McAvinue - "Rutland's Reel" (Rural Rhythm Records)
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out - "Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out" (Rural Rhythm Records)
• Patuxent Partners - "Seven Or Eleven" (Patuxent Music)
• James Reams & the Barnstormers - "Troubled Times" (Mountain Redbird Records)
• Barry Scott & Second Wind - "In God's Time" (Rebel Records)
• Steep Canyon Rangers - "Deep In The Shade" (Rebel Records)
• Adam Steffey - "One More For The Road" (Sugar Hill Records)
• Johnny Williams - "Last Day At Galax" (Mountain Roads Recordings)
  

We'll have some more surprises in store for you, too. Please join Jim and I beginning at 2PM -- and, as always, thanks for listening!

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/7/2010

Sunday was one busy day for the WHUS Sports Department. In the afternoon, there were preemptions of our regular WHUS programming for both UCONN Women's Hockey, as well as UCONN Women's Basketball Big East tournament action. Craziness! Beginning about 4:30, though, we got on the air with the BG Cafe. Hope you were able to join us for a bit...

While we didn't include a whole lot of brand new music during this week's show, we were able to play what I think is the title tune from a forthcoming CD on Mountain Roads Recordings by Big Country Bluegrass --"The Boys In Hats And Ties" seems to be another tribute tune to Lester & Earl from the pen of Tom T. and Miss Dixie Hall, as well as Don Rigsby. We look forward to hearing the whole new CD from Big Country BG. The great duo of Reno & Smiley also have a "new" recording out on Rural Rhythm called "Bluegrass 1963." This CD contains a lot of the audio tracks from a TV show/pilot that Don & Red did for Kroger in 1963, and even includes a duet or two with the Stanley Brothers. Great stuff!

For the next two Sundays, we'll be asking for your support during our Radiothon campaign. As usual, there will be lots of great items we can offer to you as "thank you gifts" for your support of WHUS (and, of course, BG Cafe). In addition to new TV shirts offered by WHUS (with a choice of 4 different colors, I believe), we have accumulated over 100 great BG CDs to offer you as premiums. I'll be posting a list of those on this blog later in the week. Please note that the BG Cafe will begin on March 14th at 2PM, as Joe the Student DJ will still be on his Spring Break, so we'll be covering his timeslot. Please join Jim & I starting at 2PM, and we hope you'll consider making a pledge to WHUS. Thanks!

Have a great week!

Amy

REQUESTS ARE RED; CDs AVAILABLE AS RADIOTHON PREMIUMS ARE BLUE

Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet

Sun's Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel

Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home

Hard Rock Mountain Prison ('Til I Die) / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm

Yessir! / Jessie Baker / Yessir! / Patuxent Music

Cry Baby Cry / Cox Family / RockyGrass / Blue Planet

That's How I Can Count On You / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel

Come In Stranger / Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy Records

Where The City Ends / Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy Records

Cold And Lowdown Lonesome Blues / Blue Highway / Some Day: The Fifteenth Anniversary Collection / Rebel

Montana Cowgirl (Coyote Song) / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Phoenix / Happy Appy Records

The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah

Maple Sugar / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage

The Boys In Hats And Ties / Big Country Bluegrass / Good Home Grown Music 2010 Sampler / Blue Circle

Randy Lynn Rag / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia

One Of Those Days (When I Miss Lester Flatt) / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle

The Day That Lester Died / Claire Lynch / Crowd Favorites / Rounder

Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems /

Love Please Come Home / Reno & Smiley / Bluegrass 1963 / Rural Rhythm

Miles / Gold Heart / My Sisters And Me / Rural Rhythm [also available as a Radiothon premium]

A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Adam Steffey / One More For The Road / Sugar Hill

Don't Wake Me Up / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder

Turkey Buzzard / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music

The Nights Are So Long / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder

Holdin' On When You've Let Go / Crowe Brothers / Brothers-n-Harmony / Rural Rhythm

Me And My Old Banjo / Larry Stephenson with Sonny Osborne & Ronnie Reno / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle

I'm The Talk Of The Town / Reno & Smiley / Bluegrass 1963 / Rural Rhythm

I'm Longing For A Love I'll Never Know / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine

I Thought That She Loved Me / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel

Darby's Castle / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute, Volume II / MasterShield Records

One Door Away / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / GSM Records

Winter's Come And Gone / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder

Light On My Feet, Ready To Fly / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light On My Feet, Ready To Fly / Horizon

This World Is Not My Home / Ricky Skaggs / Ricky Skaggs Solo: Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family

The Church At The Foot Of The Hill / White Mountain Bluegrass / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country

Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia

Oh What A Day / Barry Scott & Second Wind / In God's Time / Rebel

Jesus Is Whispering Now / Whetstone Run / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country

Let Him Lead You / Jim Eanes / Welcome In / Rebel

Gone Home / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill

Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 2/28/2010

Hi Folks!

Last Sunday was my only show for February (just in under the wire) because Amy graciously did the show on Valentines Day to give me the opportunity to experience the whole day at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival. I hope you all have an opportunity to share work duties with someone as nice as Amy.

New music on this show included songs from Patuxent Partners, Jim Lloyd and the Skyliners, Josh Williams, Michael Martin Murphey, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Larry Stephenson, Chris Warner, Thomas Wywrot, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Dailey & Vincent, Brand New Strings, and The Earl Brothers.

I was inspired by a great interview of Dudley Connell discussing the history of the Johnson Mountain Boys I heard on Bluegrass Country dot org earlier in the month, so besides playing a track from the JMB's first Rounder LP (not yet released on CD), I also put on a special set of other artists' songs using the JMB or JMB band members. This included songs from Hazel Dickens, Phyllis Boyens, Delia Bell & Bill Grant, Bob Paisley, and James King.

WHUS will be having the annual Radiothon soon which will give Bluegrass Cafe two Sundays, March 14 & 21, to entice you to support what we do to bring bluegrass music to the airwaves in Southern New England. Thanks to your excellent support, Bluegrass Cafe has led the station's fund raising effort for the past two years. We hope you keep bluegrass on top again this year!

Regards,

Jim Beaver

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Song Title / Performer / Album Title / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawin' On The "C" String / Self-released
• Don't Wake Me Up / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder
• There Ain't No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Taxman / Songs From The Road Band / As The Crow Flies / Lucks Dumpy Toad
• Cotton Dice / Patuxent Partners / Seven or Eleven / Patuxent
• Little Jimmy / Larry Gillis / Old Man Dreaming / Tinman
• Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / The Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder (LP)
• Drifting Farther From You / Jim Lloyd and the Skyliners / Songs From My Attic / Mountain Roads
• Rocky Top / The Osborne Brothers / Classic Bluegrass / Time-Life
• Old And In The Way / Hazel Dickens / A Few Old Memories / Rounder
• Hewed Out Of The Mountain / Phyllis Boyens / I Really Care / Rounder (LP)
• Dreaming / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Alcatraz Blues / Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass / Steeped In Tradition / Brandywine
• Lonely River / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Judy Lou / Various Artists / Born Into Bluegrass - The Songs of Cullen Galyean / Mountain Roads
• Helen / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / WMB
• Ice Covered Birches / White Mountain Bluegrass / Ice Covered Birches / Self-released
• When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Joe Singleton / Joe Sings Joe / Self-released
• We'll Burn That Bridge / Josh Williams / Down Home / Pinecastle
• Running Blood / Michael Martin Murphey / Buckaroo Blue Grass II - Riding Song / Rural Rhythm
• Shortnin' Bread / Charlie Cushman / Five String Time / Self-released
• East Kentucky Home / Steeldrivers / Steeldrivers / Rounder
• Rock That Cradle, Lucy / J. E. Mainer & His Mountaineers / Old Time Mountain Music / Rural Rhythm
• Trouble In Your Mind / Carolina Chocolate Drops / Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch
• Cherokee Shuffle / Josh Williams / Down Home / Pinecastle
• Amanda Lynn / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
• My Old Kentucky And You / Larry Stephenson feat. Ricky Skaggs & Aubrey Haynie / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Carry Me Across The Mountain / Billy Boone Smith / Live From The Moose Lodge / Muddy Sunshine
• I'm All Alone / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Bluegrass Collection / Gusto
• Don't Let Her Get Away / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent
• Two Different Roads / The Radio Gang / Two Different Roads / Fishtraks
• 95 Years / Thomas Wywrot / Every Time I Walk This Road / Right Good
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Live At The Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder
• Joe's Last Train / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribue (Volume II) / Self-released
• Trombolin / Jack Across the Way [bed] / Skip Gorman / Monroesque - The Old Style Mandolin - Volume Two / Old West
• Chilly Winds of Shannon [bed] / Skip Gorman / Monroesque - The Old Style Mandolin - Volume Two / Old West
• Kansas City Railroad Blues [bed] / Skip Gorman / Monroesque - The Old Style Mandolin - Volume Two / Old West
• John Wilkes Booth / Tony Rice / Night Flyer / Rounder
• Do You Know You Are My Sunshine / Dailey & Vincent / Sing The Statler Brothers / Cracker Barrel
• Corn / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Mountain Home
• Wheels / Brand New Strings / No Strings Attached / Rural Rhythm
• I Can't Find Your Love Anymore / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Southern / Rural Rhythm
• Red Top Rumble / The Earl Brothers / The Earl Brothers / Big Hen
• My Eyes Shall Be On Canaan's Land / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin' / Rural Rhythm
• I'll Trade My Cross For A Crown / Reno & Smiley / Early Years 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold This Body Down / Jim Lloyd And The Skyliners / Songs From My Attic / Mountain Roads
• River Jordan / J. E. Mainer & The Mountaineers with Morris Herbert / 18 Gospel Favorites / Rural Rhythm
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / J.D. Crowe, Rickey Wasson, Don Rigsby / The America's Bluegrass Gospel Show, Vol. 1 Live / Self-released
• Lord You're The Best Thing / New Coon Creek Girls / Essential Bluegrass - Bluegrass Gospel / Pinecastle
• What Would You Give In Exchange / Charlie & Bill Monroe / The Music Of Bill Monroe from 1936 to 1994 / MCA
• Where Will You Go / Nathan Stanley & Ralph Stanley / Where Will You Go / III Generation
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Best of The Gillis Brothers / Hay Holler