"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 12/19/2010

Hi Folks.

Though shortened 40 minutes for sports, this last Bluegrass Cafe before Christmas included our regular mix of old treasures and new releases as well as a sizable serving of Christmas bluegrass songs -- many newly released.

We played new music from Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, Travers Chandler & Avery County, and Oklahoma group Rockin Acoustic Circus.

New Christmas tracks included offerings from Billy Boone Smith, Heather Berry & Tony, the group Nu-Blu, Lizzy and Little Roy, Balsam Range, and Dr. Elmo Shropshire.

The Heritage Corner archives brought forth a track from the as-yet un-re-released LP "Boone Creek" on the Rounder label, an early recording of "Ice Covered Birches" from White Mountain Bluegrass, a track from the rare bicentennial LP "Maine Train" from Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell, & the Kennebec Valley Boys, a track from an LP of Bill Hall and Northwind Bluegrass, and a recently re-released track from a Carl Story album released in 1966 on the obscure Sims label.

There was a recent discussion on the online bluegrass community, BGRASS-L, where Gary Brewer related the fascinating story of how Bill Monroe taught Gary a Monroe-penned tune on the guitar, and Bill recorded it with Gary on one of Gary's albums and brought Josh Graves in to play dobro on the tune. I just had to play the tune, so that's how "The Old Kentucky Blues" from Gary Brewer made the playlist.

Amy has the last Bluegrass Cafe for 2010 next Sunday, so I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and to thank you for your support for this program, bluegrass music, and WHUS. We can't do what we do without you, and we love to hear from you.


Jim Beaver

Song Title / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing on The "C" String / Self-released
• Come On Boys It's Christmas / Dr. Elmo Shropshire / Bluegrass Christmas / Time Life
• Bah Humbug / Tim O'Brien / Christmas On The Mountain / Universal South
• Call Collect On Christmas / Del McCoury / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
• White House Blues / Boone Creek / Boone Creek / Rounder (LP)
• Nobody Cares For Me / Travers Chandler & Avery County / State Of Depression / Patuxent
• The Family Demon / Peter Rowan / Legacy / Compass
• Ice Covered Birches / White Mountain Bluegrass / Ice Covered Birches / Self-released
• Jesse James / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell, & The Kennebec Valley Boys / Maine Train / Interstate (LP)
• Christmas Is Near / Russell Moore / Christmas Grass Vol. 2 / Koch
• The Old Kentucky Blues / Gary Brewer / Guitar / Copper Creek
• Down By The River / Larry Gillis / Swampgrass / Tinman
• Carol Of The Bells / Darrin Vincent, Cody Kilby, Joe Caverlee / Christmas Grass / Koch
• Ebo Walker / Rodney Dillard and The Dillard Band / I Wish Life Was Like Mayberry / Rural Rhythm
• Mary's Little Lamb / Balsam Range / (single) / Mountain Home
• Just Along For The Ride / Steve Gulley, Tim Stafford / Dogwood Winter / Rural Rhythm
• The Christmas Spirit / Ralph Stanley / Christmas Time With Ralph Stanley / Freeland
• The Christmas Whittler / Lizzy and Little Roy / (single) / Good Home Grown Music
• Blame It On The Bluegrass / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / (advance single) / Bell Buckle
• Sleigh Ride / Tony Trischka / Acoustic Holidays / Rounder
• Christmas In Dixie / Nu-Blu / (single) / Pinecastle
• Christmas Is Everywhere Except In My Heart / Jimmy Martin / To Mother At Christmas / Gusto
• Washington Lee Fling (bed) / Fred Etheridge / Pickin' and Singin' / Self-released
• Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa / Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Self-released
• Our Last Goodbye / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Tribulations / Carolina Native Sons / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent
• How Come You Do Me Like You Do / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Hurricane / Rural Rhythm
• Tennessee Christmas / Rhonda Vincent / Christmas Grass Vol. 2 / Koch
• Stickleyville Stomp / Tim Martin / Bluegrass Fiddle / Patuxent
• Money In The Bank / Rockin Acoustic Circus / Lonestar Lullabye / Flying Weasel
• Time To Be Movin' On / Blue Moon Rising / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm
• Tim's Tune / Tim Smith / Straight From the Heart / TRS Records
• Give Me Jesus / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• I Know My Lord's Gonna Lead Me Out / The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Walking Through Bethlehem / Billy Boone Smith / (single) / Good Home Grown Music
• Hallelujah To His Name / Carl Story and The Rambling Mountaineers / Songs For Our Savior / Sims
• One Empty Chair / Heather Berry & Tony / (single) / Good Home Grown Music
• Chariots A-Comin' / Bill Hall & Northwind / Bluegrass In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead (LP)
• Bluegrass Christmas / Del McCoury Band feat. Ronnie McCoury / Christmas On The Mountain / Universal South
• Open Up Them Pearly Gates / Lilly Brothers And Don Stover / Live At Hillbilly Ranch / Hay Holler
• Silent Night / Mac Wiseman and Del McCoury / Christmas On The Mountain / Universal South
• The First Noel/It Came Upon The Midnight Clear/Joy To The World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/12/2010

Sunday's show featured absolutely ZERO preemptions for sports, as the UCONN campus was busy preparing for exams this week. Lucky them!

In a show airing 13 days before Christmas, you might expect to hear a good number of Christmas tunes. While the weather outside the studio wasn't making me think of Christmas things (it was about 50 degrees, very rainy, and the wind was blowing like crazy), we still managed to play a good number of tunes for the season from folks like the Country Gentlemen, Rick Lang & Friends, the Wildwood Valley Boys, Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers, Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum, the Stanley Brothers, the Stony Point Quartet, Bill Grant & Delia Bell (with some help from the Johnson Mountain Boys), Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Darrin Vincent & Jamie Dailey (recorded before the existence of "Dailey & Vincent"), and Reno & Smiley. We also included a new Christmas tune for 2010 from Balsam Range, and both sides of a single release from an eastern CT band known as the Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers. This band included brothers Fred & Earl Pike, as well as Earl's very talented daughter, then 16-year-old, Earlene. Even though the sound quality of this record wasn't the greatest for airplay, I think it's always important to listen to music made in eastern CT, and this record (probably recorded in Sterling, CT in 1969) fills that bill quite nicely. The photo below shows the Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers from the late 1960s/early 1970s, including Earl Pike on the guitar, his daughter Earlene (1953-1972), Fred Pike on the banjo in the front row, and Sam Tidwell on the electric bass, Gordon Pike with a (gasp!) drum, and Dave Papuga on the electric guitar. This photo and many more great ones can be found on Bob Denoncourt's website -- click here for more info.

Fred Pike was also an early employer of a Rhode Island musician named Jimmy Gaudreau. Bluegrass history will show that JG was the man who was hired to take the place of John Duffey in the Country Gentlemen, but he's also worked with J.D. Crowe & the New South, Spectrum, the Tony Rice Unit, and in a group called Chesapeake with Mike Auldridge and Moondi Klein through the years. The BG world first heard Jimmy Gaudreau on a recording made by Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys in 1965. While I didn't play a tune from that particular LP on Sunday, I played a couple of tracks from Jimmy Gaudreau's recently released all-instrumental recording called, "Pieces And Bits." One of the tunes on this CD is named after two of Gaudreau's mentors: "Tidwell Pike." It's a nice tribute to some great New England musicians: Sam Tidwell and Fred Pike.

It's the Christmas season, so we thought it would be nice to give away a couple of recordings on Sunday. Two lucky callers will soon be receiving copies of the last Gibson Brothers recording released on Hay Holler Records: "Another Night Of Waiting" and/or the latest gospel recording from Lou Reid & Carolina ("Sounds Like Heaven To Me") on Rural Rhythm Christian. Thanks to the labels for donating these discs for giveaways, and thanks, especially, to all of the listeners of "BG Cafe" for keeping us company on Sundays throughout the year.

You likely won't be hearing me on the air again before Christmas, so I'll take a moment to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for lots of health, happiness, and great BG music in 2011!

Join Jim on Sunday, December 19th for the next edition of the "BG Cafe." There may be a bit of sports preemption at the start, but you're encouraged to listen in for lots of top-notch music.

Have a fine week -
Amy

REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Christmas Time Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• The Season Of My Heart / Rick Lang & Friends / The Season Of My Heart / Self-Produced
• Christmas Time / Wildwood Valley Boys / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
• That White Christmas Song / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• It's You Baby You / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Hit The Road / Bartley Brothers / Hit The Road / Rural Rhythm
• Busy City / Volume Five / Down In A Cell / Mountain Fever Records
• Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• Prillaman's Switch / Tim Martin / Bluegrass Fiddle / Patuxent Music
• Plastic Heart / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• Say You'll Take Me Back / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Adam Steffey / One More For The Road / Sugar Hill
• The Blues Are Still The Blues / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel
• If We Make It Through December / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Winter's Grace / Signature Sounds
• Christmas Is Near / Stanley Brothers / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
• Oh Christmas Candle / Stony Point Quartet / Good Home Grown Music Christmas Sampler / Blue Circle
• My Little Silver Bells / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• Graves Mountain Memories / Various Artists / The All-Star Jam: Live At Graves Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Pages Of Time / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel
• Train Without A Track / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Heartaches & Dreams / Rebel
• Old Man From The Mountain / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Cryin' Heart Blues / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Trail Of The Lonesome Pine / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Another Night Of Waiting / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Missionary Good Book Man / Lou Reid & Carolina / Sounds Like Heaven To Me / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Jesse & Don / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces And Bits / Goose Creek Music
• Daddy Loved Trains / Wildfire / Crash Course In The Blues / Lonesome Day
• Virginia Bound / Josh Slone & Coaltown / Prime Cuts & Key Tracks, Volume 9 / Rural Rhythm
• Noodlin' / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces And Bits / Goose Creek Music
• Tidwell Pike / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces And Bits / Goose Creek Music
• All I Want For Christmas Is You / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / single / no label
• You Love Me Just A Little At A Time / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• Walkin' West To Memphis / Casey & Chris & the Two-Stringers / Get Along Girl / Arrandem Records
• There Ain't No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• I Feel The Christmas Spirit / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
• Mary's Little Lamb / Balsam Range / A Mountain Home Christmas / Mountain Home
• Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / single / no label
• Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem / Darrin Vincent & Jamie Dailey / Christmas Grass, Volume 2 / Koch Records
• There's A Higher Power / Kathy Kallick Band / Between The Hollow And The High-Rise / Live Oak Records
• A Beautiful Life / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• House Of Gold / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Preachin' Prayin' Singin' / Rich In Tradition / Black Mountain Special / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Let Him Lead You / Jim Eanes / Let Him Lead You / Rebel
• If You Are To Sin Inclined / Bill Carroll / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• Joy Of Revelation / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Jingle Bells / Reno & Smiley / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 12/5/2010

Hi Folks!

This show represented an eclectic brew of bluegrass sources along with some bluegrass Christmas songs.

New music included a duet from Edgar Loudermilk with help from Rhonda Vincent, a song from Bobby Osborne and the Rocky Top X-Press, a couple of tracks from the fine new CD from Travers Chandler and Avery County, an instrumental from Jimmy Gaudreau, and new
Christmas tracks from Dr. Elmo Shropshire (doing Bach on the banjo), and Chris Jones & The Night Drivers.

The Heritage Corner was working overtime because of the many classic tunes that have been brought back into my personal listening rotation by listener inquiries. Dave Shaw from New Hampshire is a major correspondent, and thanks to Dave I located classic tracks from Hack Johnson and his Tennesseans (with Allen Shelton on banjo), Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, and the only known recording of "Grand Ole Opry Song" by the man who wrote it, Hylo Brown.

Other tracks from the Heritage Corner included a re-release from The Bailes Brothers, a Bill Monroe track from the 1960s, a classic number from Ted Lundy, Bob Paisley and the Southern Mountain Boys, seasonal songs from Jimmy Martin and Reno & Smiley, and a goose-bumping old time duet from Donald Scott and the late Clarence Green recorded at home in 1985. Clarence passed away unexpectedly a year ago on December 11.

We paid tribute to Carter Stanley, who passed away 44 years ago on December 1, by playing a set of songs he wrote, performed by The Stanley Brothers, Ralph Stanley, Ralph Stanley II, and Jeanie Stanley.

Thanks for listening. Amy will make the fiddles and banjos ring December 12, so tune in.

Jim

Song / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• Darling Corey / Bill Monroe / Blue Grass 1959-1969 / Bear Family
• Can't Live Life Here Without You / Edgar Loudermilk with Rhonda Vincent / Roads Travelled / Mountain Fever
• I'm Going Home, It's Christmas Time / Ralph Stanley / Christmas Time with Ralph Stanley / Freeland
• Underneath A Harvest Moon / The Gibson Brothers / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm
• You Don't Have To Be From The Country / Hack Johnson and his Tennesseans / Single (1955) / Colonial (45RPM)
• Been All Around The World / Shady Creek / Get Your Feet Wet / Self-released
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Live at the Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder
• Lord We Sure Need Some Rainbows In December / Jimmy Martin / To Mother At Christmas / Gusto
• Let Me Fall / Laurie Lewis, Dudley Connell, Kirk Sutphin / Masters of the Banjo / Arhoolie
• Home Run Man / Emerson & Newton / A Foot In The Past, A Foot In The Future / Pinecastle
• Bluegrass Christmas / The Del McCoury Band featuring Ronnie McCoury / Christmas On The Mountain / Universal South
• Baby Girl / Ralph Stanley II, Ralph Stanley, Joe Isaacs / Baby Girl / CMH
• Mary, Merry Christmas / Ralph Stanley II / Listen To My Hammer Ring / Rebel
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / The Stanley Brothers / Classic Bluegrass Collection Vol. 3 / Time Life
  
• Two Sides To A Story / Jeanie Stanley / Baby Girl / CMH
• My Long Skinny Lanky Sarah Jane / The Stanley Brothers / An Evening Long Ago / Columbia
  
• The Unquiet Grave / Clarence Green and Donald Scott / Private Recording (c.1985) / n/a
• Bring Back Yesterday / Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press / Memories / Rural Rhythm
  
• The Reckless Side Of Me / The Steeldrivers / Reckless / Rounder
• Christmas Time Back Home / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / (single) / Mountain Home
• The Grand Ole Opry Song / Hylo Brown / Tribute To My Heroes / Atteiram (LP)
• The Train That Carried My Girl From Town / Doc Watson / Columbus Stockade Blues/Raven
  
• Almost Hear The Blues / James Reams & The Barnstormers / (pre-release of upcoming album) / Mountain Redbird
• Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa / Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Self-released
  
• It's Christmas Time / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / (single) / Mountain Home
• Christmas Reunion / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / Gusto
• If I Should Wander Back Tonight / Roland White / I Wasn't Born To Rock'n Roll / Tompkins Square
  
• Let Me Be Your Friend / The Stanley Brothers / 1949-52 / Bear Family
• Cotton Farmer / Travers Chandler & Avery County / State Of Depression / Patuxent
• Kentucky Noel / Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / (single) / Good Home Grown Music
• I've Never Been So Lonesome / Ted Lundy & The Southern Mountain Boys / Self-Titled / GHP
• East Virginia Blues / Balsam Range / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home
• Foggy Old London / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats & Ties / Rebel
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring / Dr. Elmo (Shropshire) / Bluegrass Christmas / Time Life
• Sugar Hill / The Bluegrass Brothers / So Long / Self-released
• Remington Ride [bed] / Fred Etheridge / Pickin' & Singin' / Self-released
• Yellow Roses [bed] / Fred Etheridge / Pickin' & Singin' / Self-released
  
• Adrienne's Reel / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces and Bits / Self-released
• Time To Be Moving On / Blue Moon Rising / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm
• Let It Snow / Rhonda Vincent / Beautiful Star / Rounder
• Tattoo of a Smudge / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes IV - Common Threads / Skaggs Family
• Elizabeth / Dailey & Vincent / Sing The Statler Brothers / Cracker Barrel
• Here We Go Along / Frances Mooney & Fontanna Sunset / I Didn't See It Coming / Blue Circle
• The Friendly Beasts / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Acoustic Holidays / Rounder
• Precious Moments / Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers / There's Nothing On Earth Heaven Can't Cure / Starday (LP)
• Look Over Me Lord / Larry Gillis / Swampgrass / Tinman
• Something Got A Hold Of Me / The Bailes Brothers / The Bailes Brothers / Gusto
• Bright Morning Star / Ralph Stanley / Christmas Time with Ralph Stanley / Freeland
• Leaning On The Everlasting Arms / Rodney Dillard & The Dillard Band / I Wish Life Was Like Mayberry / Rural Rhythm
• Let Me Walk Lord By Your Side / Peter Rowan / Legacy / Compass
• Mother's Prayers Were Not In Vain / Travers Chandler & Avery County / State Of Depression / Patuxent
• You'll Be Rewarded Over There / Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Silent Night / Anne & Pete Sibley / Winter On The Great Divide / Self-released
• Christmas Medley / Southern Rail / (single) / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/28/2010

It was an abbreviated "Bluegrass Cafe" this past Sunday, as the UCONN Women's Basketball game aired on WHUS from 4:30 until about 6:30PM. However, since it was a holiday weekend, Dr. B. -- the regular host of the 3-4PM show on WHUS -- was one of the basketball game broadcasters, so we played BG on the air from 3-4:30PM, and then, picked up again with a gospel set after the game ended at 6:30PM.

As it was a holiday weekend, there was another different program offering in the place of DJ Jenny & her "Trail Mix" show from 2-3PM: it was none other than our own Jim Beaver, who played an hour's worth of early stringband music from some of the earliest performers featured on the Grand Ole Opry. Those tunes were especially appropriate since WSM began broadcasting what would be known as the Grand Ole Opry on November 28, 1925. As you likely know, lots of that early stringband stuff from performers like Sam & Kirk McGee and Uncle Jimmy Thompson, and, of course, Uncle Dave Macon ("The Dixie Dewdrop") certainly influenced what would later be called Bluegrass music. By the way, Jim suggested a book title for those interested in learning more about the early history of the Grand Ole Opry. Noted country music historian, the late Charles K. Wolfe wrote a book in 1999 titled A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth Of The Grand Ole Opry. I have added this book to my reading list -- perhaps you might be interested in doing so, as well.

On Saturday night, recognized Bluegrass pioneer and New England (and perhaps, Florida?) Bluegrass legend, Sam Tidwell, performed at the local Killingly Grange hall. Sam has not been in the best of health for the last couple of years, but when he feels like playing music, he is still a treat to hear. When I was growing up, I remember my brother, Dave, playing the music of Sam and his musical partner, Fred Pike (who made his home in nearby Oneco, CT for a number of years), along with their group, the Kennebec Valley Boys, many, many times. Sam's quite a storyteller, too, and it's great to see him out playing once again (and getting some nice recognition).

Along with music from Sam and Fred, I thought it would be fun to spotlight performers from all six states that make up New England, so along with Sam (who could represent both his native Rhode Island & his adopted home of Maine) and Fred (CT & ME), we heard music from Jimmy Gaudreau (RI), Dan Tyminski (Vermont), White Mountain Bluegrass (New Hampshire), and the late Joe Val (Massachusetts). Who says that folks from north of the Mason-Dixon Line can't make some fabulous Bluegrass music?

There wasn't much time for new music on Sunday, but we did include newer tunes from Volume Five, the Boxcars, Balsam Range, Lou Reid & Carolina, Big Country Bluegrass, Rhonda Vincent, and Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa. Christmas season is upon us, too, so we included an older Christmas tune from Tony Trischka (and friends), as well as a brand-spanking new song co-written by Tom T. & Dixie Hall, along with the performer, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers.

After our two-hour preemption, we included a gospel set beginnning about 6:30PM.

Don't forget to join Jim on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM -- basketball games & weird UCONN power outages notwithstanding.

Enjoy the remainder of the week!

Amy








3:00-4:30PM

• The Mill / Laurie Lewis & Grant Street / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics / Cracker Barrel
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics / Cracker Barrel
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics / Cracker Barrel
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• Follow The Leader / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• I Ain't Taking You Back No More / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• I've Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Ginger Brandy / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• More Pretty Girls Than One / Crowe Brothers with Russell Moore, Sammy Shelor, Mike Hartgrove / The All-Star Jam: Live At Graves Mountain / Rural Rhythm
• Down In A Mine / Volume Five / Down In A Cell / Mountain Fever Records
• Quicksand / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent Music
• Look For Me / Angelica Grim / Look For Me / Patuxent Music
• I've Been Waiting / The Boxcars / The Boxcars / Mountain Home
• Precious Child / Tony Trischka / Glory Shone Around / Rounder
• Kentucky Noel / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Good Home Grown Christmas Sampler / Blue Circle
• Katy Hill / Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / A Tribute To Fiddlin' Paul Warren / Self-Produced
• The Boys In Hats And Ties / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel
• Your Love Is Like A Flower / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Your Love Is Like A Flower / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Another Day / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Next Train Smokin' / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• The Court Of Love / Rhonda Vincent / Taken / Upper Management Music
• My Old Kentucky And You / Larry Stephenson with Ricky Skaggs / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Suwannee River Hoedown / Jessie Baker / Yessir! / Patuxent Music

6:30-7PM

• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill
• For Him / Gary Waldrep Band / Road Leading Home / Blue Circle Records
• It's Just Like Heaven / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute, Volume II / Mastershield Records
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Gonna Be Movin' / Balsam Range / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home
• God's Front Porch / Lou Reid & Carolina / Sounds Like Heaven To Me / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Cabin In The Sky / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Self-Produced
• His Loving Care / Junior Sisk / Look To The Light: Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

See a bona fide "Bluegrass Pioneer" this Saturday...

Hope everyone has had a fine time with friends and family on this Thanksgiving Day. When you've recovered from all of the eating and dishwashing and what-have-you, here's an opportunity for you to see a real-life Bluegrass Pioneer in concert. Sam Tidwell, a true New England BG character and legendary figure...and one of the recognized "Pioneers of Bluegrass" at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky...is performing in eastern CT this Saturday night.

If you get an opportunity, come out and see Sam & Friends at the East Killingly Grange -- located on the corner of Dog Hill Road and Route 101 in East Killingly, CT on Saturday, November 27th. Showtime is 7PM. For GPS users, the address is 801 Hartford Pike, Killingly CT. For more information, call Nick Anderson: (860)564-1018.

Hope to see you there!

"Bluegrass Cafe" Blackout - 11/21/2010

Sometime on Sunday 11/21 around 12:45pm a transformer supplying electrical power to UCONN caught fire and put the core of the campus, including WHUS, in a blackout. The power was not restored until around 11pm, essentially eliminating all programming for the afternoon and evening.

We are sorry we were not able to bring you the usual plate of bluegrass music today, but we expect to be back next Sunday when Amy will get a little time on the air around a sports preemption. Stay tuned for a schedule update.

Jim

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/14/2010

For the first time this basketball season, the start of the Bluegrass Cafe was preempted this week. Generally, this will happen a few times between November and the Final Four -- fortunately, our preemption for today didn't last more than 3 minutes. We can only hope that ALL of our preemptions this winter will be that short...but I know that won't be the case. We'll try to alert you in advance of longer preemptions...and keep our fingers crossed that there won't be TOO many...


About 5PM today, we took a few minutes from our "regular" programming and chatted on the phone with fellow BG broadcaster, Carol Beaugard. Carol's been hosting her BG programs at WFDU (Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ) for 25+ years, and was the subject of a feature story in the April 2010 Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. In addition to being a veteran broadcaster, Carol is also a performer and bandleader, and her group known as Carol Beaugard & Blue Express will make their CT debut next Sunday at the Firebox Restaurant in Hartford. If you're so inclined, make sure you visit the Firebox on November 21st to hear Carol's band and their eclectic mix of BG music, and be sure to mention that you heard about the show on the "BG Cafe." If you're interested in hearing Carol's weekly broadcasts, you can do so online by visiting her at http://wfdu.fdu.edu/home.html or http://bluegrasscountry.org/programs/lonesome-pine.









While we didn't play a whole lot of brand-spanking-new music this week, we still included a few tunes from recordings which have been released over the last couple of months, including music from Ben Greene, Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen, Volume Five, Ashleigh Caudill, Bubba Chandler, and Joe Diffie. There were also a few requests for music from performers like the Johnson Mountain Boys, the Gibson Brothers, the Spinney Brothers, Northern Lights, and Blackstone Valley Bluegrass. All were mighty fine selections, I must say.






November is a great month, as not only does it bring us Thanksgiving, but also the yearly scramble for room reservations for the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival in February. The 2011 edition will be held February 18-20, but the popularity of the festival has caused the rooms at the Sheraton in Framingham, MA to sell out very, very quickly for the last couple of years. In fact, last year, the rooms were sold out just 7 minutes after they went on sale. That's great for BBU, but sort of frightening for folks who are trying to get a room. Yikes! If you plan on participating in the "room scramble" when the reservations can be made on Thursday, November 18th at 7PM, you may wish to make sure all of your "i's" are dotted and your "t's" are crossed now. Here's the list of reservation guidelines published on the Boston Bluegrass Union's website, and good luck to all of us on November 18th...



Make sure you join Jim on the air for next Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, won't you? And if you don't hear from me again before Thanksgiving...I hope you and yours have a most enjoyable and blessed Thanksgiving Day!



Amy




REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Radio Boogie / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• Thinking About You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1952 / JSP Records
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Reno & Smiley / Bluegrass, 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• The Silver Bugle / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Mountain High, Feeling Low / Ben Greene with Lorraine Jordan / Bluegrass Sideman / Blue Circle Records
• Together Again / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder
• Are You Missing Me / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Black Eyed Susie / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Walking With Joanna / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Baptism Of Jesse Taylor / Volume Five / Down In A Cell / Mountain Fever Records
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia FolkLife
• Born To Be With You / Blackstone Valley Bluegrass / Debut / Appleland Records
• Monroebilia / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder
• Long Way Down / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Tennessee Backroads / Mark "Brink" Brinkman / On The Brink Of A Dream / Self-Produced
• Row By Row / Ashleigh Caudill / Fruit Of The Vine / Self-Produced
• Conversation with Carol Beaugard
• Leavin' Tennessee / Van Manakas & Butch Baldassari / Leavin' Tennessee / SoundArt Recordings
• Love's Gonna Live Here / The Chapmans with Rhonda Vincent / Grown Up (A Revisionist History) / Compass Records
• Weather's Got To Change / Rich In Tradition / Black Mountain Special / Mountain Roads Recordings
• (Get Along Home) Cindy / Kathy Kallick Band / Between The Hollow And High Rise / Live Oak Records
• The Rabbit Song / Bubba Chandler / Somebody To Sing To / Mountain Fever Records
• Spin On A Red Brick Floor / Nu-Blu / Nights / Self-Produced
• Loggin' Man / Del McCoury / By Request / McCoury Music
• Working Hard Ain't Hardly Working Anymore / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Heartaches And Dreams / Rebel
• Miss Molly / Northern Lights / One Day / Fifty Fifty Music
• Maple On The Hill / Lost & Found / Down On Sawmill Road / Rebel
• Rainin' On Her Rubber Dolly / Joe Diffie with the Grascals / Homecoming / Rounder
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner with Tom Adams / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Georgia Stomp(music bed) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Sugarloaf Mountain Special (music bed) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Johnson Mountain Chimes (music bed) / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Sweetest Love / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Weathered Grey Stone / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• I Went Back Home Today / The Boxcars / The Boxcars / Mountain Home
• Ole Slew Foot / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Self-Produced
• Why Ask Why? / Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford / Dogwood Winter / Rural Rhythm
• Skip Hop Wobble / Patrick McAvinue with Audie Blaylock / Rutland's Reel / Patuxent Music
• Better Get In That Number / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Five Flat Rocks / Billy Boone Smith / Five Flat Rocks / Muddy Sunshine
• The Other Side / Balsam Range / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home
• Pray The Clouds Away / Crowe, Williams, Lawson / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• Beautiful Hall / Jeff Parker / Look To The Light: Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm Christian
• One Prayer Away / Don Rigsby & Midnight Call / The Voice Of God / Rebel
• It's Just Like Heaven / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute, Volume II / Mastershield Records
• Meet Him In The Clouds / Bear Minimum / Live At The Finnish Hall / no label
• John 3:16 / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Federal
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 11/7/2010

Hi Folks,

We set the clocks back Sunday morning (fall back!) and opened Bluegrass Cafe with Grandpa Jones performing Grandfather's Clock to help remind us. We'll let Grandpa pontificate about Daylight Savings Time next spring.

Because of a fill-in, we were able to bring four hours of bluegrass to our listeners on this day, and we took advantage of the extra hour to add more new music and explore some bluegrass roots.

We also recognized the upcoming Veterans' Day by injecting bluegrass songs throughout the show that might have a veteran's experience in mind.

New music included tracks from Blue Moon Rising, Charlie Sizemore, Big Country Bluegrass, The Boxcars, Balsam Range, Volume Five, Joe Diffie, Ashleigh Caudill, The Bartley Brothers, Rhonda Vincent, The Bluegrass Brothers, Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa, The All Star Jam at Graves Mountain, and Lou Reid and Carolina.




We also payed tribute to Don Stover who passed away November 11, 1996, by playing a couple of tracks from his masterpiece "Things In Life" album.




Special thanks go to Rural Rhythm for providing a free song download to WHUS listeners from their new Blue Moon Rising release.

Download your free song from Blue Moon Rising by going to http://ruralrhythm.com or click here, select "Redeem your free download - Find your radio station - Click here" then select "Click Here" next to Jim Beaver - WHUS. The password for WHUS listeners is 91700 (our frequency idenifier plus two zeros).

Amy will be with you next Sunday making the banjos and fiddles ring, so tune in from 4pm to 7pm ET for the Best in Bluegrass.

Jim Beaver

Song / Artist / Album / Label

• Grandfather's Clock / Grandpa Jones / An American Original / CMH
• Worried Man Blues / Tommy Brown & The County Line Grass / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• No Vacancy / Bob Paisley & The Southern Grass / No Vacancy / Brandywine
• Margie / Bob Paisley & The Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• Rockwood Deer Chase / Don Stover / Things In Life / Rounder
• Things In Life / Don Stover / Things In Life / Rounder
• Tomorrow I'll Be Gone / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Time To Be Movin' On / Blue Moon Rising / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm
• Down Where The River Bends / Ralph Stanley with Dwight Yoakam / Saturday Night, Sunday Morning / CR Freeland
• No Letter In The Mail / The Foot Hill Boys / Bluegrass In The Carolina Mountains / County
• Damn Yankee Lad / The Osborne Brothers / When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland / Pinecastle
• No Lawyers In Heaven / Charlie Sizemore / Rounder 2010 IBMA Sampler / Rounder
• The Gold Rush / Tim Smith / Straight From The Heart / TRS Records
• Black Mountain Special / Rich In Tradition / Black Mountain Special / Mountain Roads
• I'm Coming Back (But I Don't Know When) / The Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs and Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Yesterday I Didn't Know / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel
• Old Henry Hill / The Boxcars / The Boxcars / Mountain Home
• Till They Came Home / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Somehow Tonight / Joe Diffie / Homecoming / Rounder
• Like A Stone / Volume Five / Down In A Cell / Mountain Fever
• Cold & Lonesome / The Earl Brothers / The Earl Brothers / Big Hen Music
• The Forgotten Soldier Boy / The Monroe Brothers / Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bear Family
• Swampgrass / Larry Gillis / Swampgrass / Tinman
• 20:20 Vision / Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Big Jam Session / Old Homestead
• Long Hard Life / The Bartley Brothers / Hit The Road / Rural Rhythm
• Jimmy's Mule / Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Big Jam Session / Old Homestead
• The Rabbit Song / Lost & Found / Down On Sawmill / Road Rebel
• Ragin' Live For You Tonight / Rhonda Vincent / Taken / Upper Management
• True Life Blues / Bill Monroe with Carl Story / Bill Monroe and Stars of The Bluegrass Hall Of Fame / Raven
• Hard Luck Joe / Blue Moon Rising / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm
• Far Away From Home / Blue Moon Rising / On The Rise / Lonesome Day
• The Family Demon / Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band / Legacy / Compass
• Trains I Missed / Balsam Range / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home
• The Old Rugged Cross / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin' / Rural Rhythm
• Who Showed Who / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• Caroline / The Bluegrass Brothers / So Long / Self-released
• Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent / Bluegrass Number One Hits / Rounder
• Two Medals / Summertown Road / Summertown Road / Rounder
• Rotation Blues / Bill Monroe / Blue Grass 1950-1958 / Bear Family
• Toil & Shame / Ashleigh Caudill / Fruit Of The Vine / Self-released
• Southern Rail Road Line / Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa / Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Self-released
• There Goes The Neighborhood / Rodney Dillard & The Dillard Band / I Wish Life Was Like Mayberry / Rural Rhythm
• The Crooked Road / Paula Dellenback / The Crooked Road / Self-released
• Hold Whatcha Got / Lonesome River Band with Audie Blaylock / The All Star Jam-Live at Graves Mountain / Rural Rhythm
• Goin' To The Races / Old & In The Way / Breakdown / Acoustic Disc
• Saints Go Marching In / The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Lady Of Tradition / Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road / Carolina Hurricane / Rural Rhythm
• Mountain Girl / Grass Routes / Something New / Self-released
• Hit The Road / The Bartley Brothers / Hit The Road / Rural Rhythm
• Oasis / Rob Ikes / Southern Filibuster: A Tribute To Tut Taylor / E1
• Remington Ride (bed) / Fred Etheridge / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released
• Yellow Roses (bed) / Fred Etheridge / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released
• If You're Ever Gonna Love Me / LeRoy Mack & Friends / LeRoy Mack & Friends / Rebel
• Goodbye To The Blues / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Liberty / The Dillards / Live! Almost! / Elekra
• Leavin' And Sayin' Goodbye / Darren Beachley and Legends of the Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent
• Corn / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Mountain Home
• Drink Up And Go Home / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Last Song / Josh Williams / Down Home / Rounder
• Sailing On / Russell Moore & Dale Ann Bradley / Look To The Light / Rural Rhythm
• Sunshine In The Shadows / The Gillis Brothers / Best of The Gillis Brothers / Hay Holler
• Lord Have Mercy (On My Soul) / Lou Reid & Carolina / Sounds Like Heaven To Me / Rural Rhythm
• Weeds In The Wheat / Front Range / One Beautiful Day / Sugar Hill
• Old Country Chuch / Ginger Boatwright / Inside The Gate / Self-released
• Wait A Little Longer / Lewis Family / Born Of The Spirit / Starday
• Shouting In The Air / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Wrapped in the Arms of Jesus / Statement / Around The Corner / Mountain Fever
• The Gospel Way / Kristin Scott Benson / Second Season / Pinecastle
• I Am Unworthy / Brink Brinkman / On The Brink Of A Dream / Brinksongs
• Goodbye / Crowe-Lawson-Williams / Old Friends Together / Mountain Home
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

Hot Rize -- it's comforting to know some things don't change...

You may have heard and/or read about the big Hot Rize reunion tour that took place this past week. Beginning October 28th and ending today, original Hot Rize members, Pete Wernick, Nick Forster, and Tim O'Brien, along with Bryan Sutton on the guitar (to take the place of the late Charles Sawtelle, who died in 1999) have played to audiences in 9 states from coast to coast. Their stop on Wednesday, November 3rd was at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA. When the sponsors of the show, the Boston Bluegrass Union, announced this event as the kickoff for their Fall/Winter concert season back in August, there was a lot of buzz. After all, Hot Rize just doesn't play on a regular basis anymore, and they probably haven't played in New England at all since they were a full-time traveling band. Needless to say, this BBU-sponsored show sold out several weeks ago, and the New England Bluegrass listserv has been buzzing with inquiries from folks looking for tickets.

As Hot Rize became my favorite working BG band after the breakup of the Johnson Mountain Boys in 1988, I was sort of excited about seeing this reunion tour. And I'm happy to report that I was not disappointed by what I saw and heard on Wednesday night. All of these guys have been busy doing lots of music-related things since the 1990 breakup, so it would be easy to believe that the act now would be sort of rocky with plenty of cobwebs. That didn't really prove to be true, though.


Will there be more Hot Rize reunion tours? Maybe. There's even a possibility that a new Hot Rize CD will be on the market in 2011, as the band has recorded two new tunes which can be heard on their website.


And, of course, Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers made an appearance in Lexington, too, and I think they may have received an even bigger response from the audience. Does anyone not like Red & the Trailblazers? If so, I've not met that person yet...



Hot Rize won the very first Entertainer of the Year award from IBMA in 1990, and it seems that 20 years later, these guys are still extremely entertaining. It's great to know that in a world where everything changes by the second, it seems, some things just have not changed. Hooray!




BTW, there are some great shows in the BBU schedule for Fall/Winter. Check out this fabulous schedule:

• Saturday, December 4th -- Seldom Scene with Tony Watt & Southeast Expressway
• Saturday, January 15th -- The Gibson Brothers with the Spinney Brothers
• February 18-20 -- Joe Val Bluegrass Festival
• Saturday, April 16th -- Dailey & Vincent

More info on the concerts can be found here.

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/31/2010

With Sunday's show falling right on Halloween, it seemed like the proverbial "no-brainer" to populate a good portion of the playlist with tunes that featured ghosts, murders, or other strange phenomena. I wasn't willing to include only those types of tunes, though, so we sprinkled in these Halloween "treats" throughout the program.

In addition to the Halloween tunes, we had plenty of new (or newer) BG music to play. This new music comes to us from several different performers, including the Boxcars, a band called No One You Know, Ashlee Blankenship & Blades of Blue, Blue Moon Rising, the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, the Hagar's Mountain Boys, the Bartley Brothers, the SteelDrivers, Blue Moon Rising, Balsam Range, Big Country Bluegrass, and the Wilson Family Band. There is also new music from Country Music Hall of Famer, Charlie Louvin, and another performer who had roots in BG, went on to a very successful career in country music, and has now returned to BG music. This performer's name: Joe Diffie, and his "Homecoming" CD has recently been released on Rounder Records.

Be sure to join Jim on the ol' radio this coming Sunday as he presents three more hours of top-notch Bluegrass music beginning at 4PM. And don't forget that WHUS now offers a one-hour BG program on Monday afternoons -- "Bluegrass Rules" is hosted by James & Cathy Ward and airs from 3-4PM.

Amy

REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Ballad Of Sarah Malone / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• The Silver Ghost / David Parmley / Southern Heritage / Rebel
• Devil On The Stump / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Brown Mountain Light / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Carolina's Arms / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Big City / No One You Know / Calm Before The Storm / Mountain Fever Records
• Three Finger Hop / Don Reno / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• Eight More Miles / Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris, Rhonda Vincent / O Sister / Rounder
• The Ghost Of Norma Jean / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• I Could Change My Mind / Boxcars / The Boxcars / Mountain Home
• Long Black Veil / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Rounder
• Carolina Mountain Home / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Curly Seckler with Mac Wiseman / 60 Years Of Bluegrass With My Friends / Vine Street Records
• Clinch Mountain Mystery / Larry Stephenson / Clinch Mountain Mystery / Pinecastle
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Time To Be Movin' On / Blue Moon Rising / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm
• Once More / Audie Blaylock & Redline with Russell Moore & Lou Reid / The All-Star Jam--Live At Graves Mountain / Rural Rhythm
• Whoa Mule / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Poor Leroy's Almanack / Self-Produced
• Deep River / Ashlee Blankenship & Blades Of Blue / Current Singles CD Sampler / Mountain Fever Records
• Loneliness Moved In / Bartley Brothers / Hit The Road / Rural Rhythm
• Where's The Lonesome / Hagar's Mountain Boys / Current Singles CD Sampler / Mountain Fever Records
• Weapon Of Prayer / Charlie Louvin with Del McCoury / The Battles Rage On / True North Records
• Somehow Tonight / Joe Diffie / Homecoming / Rounder
• Line Drive / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Self-Produced
• Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Self-Produced
• The Nights Are So Long / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / Pickin' & Fiddlin'/Back Porch Bluegrass / Collectors' Choice Music
• The Reckless Side Of Me / The SteelDrivers / Reckless / Rounder
• Night Train To Memphis / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced
• I'm Gonna Try / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• Snowbird / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• Remembering / David Peterson / Comin' On Strong / Self-Produced
• Those Gone And Left Me Blues / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxuent Music
• Memory Of You / Balsam Range / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home
• Footsteps So Near / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Johnson Mountain Chimes / Jessie Baker / Yessir! / Patuxent Music
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings / Rebel
• I'm Gonna Walk The Streets Of Gold / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel
• Land Up In The Air / Special Consensus / 35 / Compass Records
• I'll Live Again / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Sugar Hill
• Joy Bells / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Old Daniel Prayed / Stanley Brothers / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Sugar Hill
• Lord, Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Keep Walking / Wilson Family Band / Chasing Faith / Self-Produced
• Preachin', Prayin', Singin' / Rich In Tradition / Black Mountain Special / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Sinner You'd Better Get Ready / Louvin Brothers / Songs That Tell A Story / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder