"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

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/25/2015

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was one in which we remembered a bona fide Bluegrass innovator, shared a few new recordings, and included a whole bunch of ghost-type songs in anticipation of Halloween.  Hope you were able to join us...

Jim Rooney & Alan Munde inducted Bill Keith
into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame at IBMA, 10/1/2015.

Young "Brad" Keith as a BGB

Over the past few days, we have learned of the passing of William Bradford Keith -- an innovator who made listeners realize that there was another way to play the banjo.  When Bill Keith joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in early 1963, Monroe changed his name to "Brad" Keith, and his chromatic style of playing the banjo was introduced to a whole new audience.  Though Keith's tenure as a Blue Grass Boy only lasted about 9 months, he would go on to work with lots more performers, both Bluegrass and not.  Just a bit more than three weeks ago, Bill Keith was in Raleigh, NC to accept his induction into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.  It was a true, well-deserved "give me the roses while I live" kind of moment.  That Keith style of banjo picking lives on...as it should.

Halloween will be celebrated at the tail end of this week, so it was time to dust off a few of the ghostly songs we enjoy playing on the radio this time every year.  While we didn't have time to play all of the Halloween songs on my list, we still covered a lot of ground with songs from Hot Rize, Front Range, Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals, Bob Amos, David Parmley, the Larry Stephenson Band, Springfield Exit, and, of course, the Country Gentlemen.

Finally, Sunday was a day to share a little bit of newer music from three acts with new Mountain Fever Records -- Mountain Faith, Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, and Nothin' Fancy -- as well as a new act on Rebel Records:  Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass.  Other 2015 recordings were played, too -- music from Cody Shuler, Bear Minimum, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, the South Carolina Broadcasters, and the Gibson Brothers.

Have yourself a great week, and be sure to join Jim behind the mic for next Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy



PERFORMER / SONG/ ALBUM / LABEL [Request is RED]

• Del McCoury Band / Katy Hill / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Devil's Dream / Anthology / MCA
• Bill Keith / Crazy Creek / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• Bill Keith / Bay State Bounce / Beating Around The Bush / Green Linnet
• Country Gentlemen / Redwood Hill / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Traditional Grass / It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / The Blues Are Still The Blues / Rebel
• Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Durham's Reel / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!  The Complete Concert / Koch Records
• Dede Wyland / The Memory Of Your Smile / Keep The Light On / Patuxent Music
• Case Brothers / Dixie Darling / Keep The Light On / Patuxent Music
• J.D. Crowe & the New South / The Leaves That Are Green / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family
• Country Gentlemen / The Young Fisherwoman / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Cherryholmes / How Long? / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Mac Wiseman with Lester Flatt / Blue Birds Are Singing For Me / Bluegrass 1971 / Rural Rhythm
• Joe Val / Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Johnson Mountain Boys / No Depression / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Tony Trischka with Tom Adams / Fox On The Run / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Cody Shuler / My Home Is On This Ole Boxcar / Cody Shuler / Rural Rhythm
• Michelle Canning with Rhonda Vincent / The Blues Ain't Working On Me / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Crowe & McLaughlin / Standing Room Only / Going Back / Rounder
• Paul Williams / Steppin' Stones / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin--The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Bear Minimum / Virginia Special / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Buzz Busby / Cold And Windy Night / Going Home / Starday
• Bob Amos / Cry Of The Catamount / Sunrise Blues / Self-Produced
• Hot Rize / Footsteps So Near / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Larry Stephenson Band / Clinch Mountain Mystery / Clinch Mountain Mystery / Pinecastle
• David Parmley / The Silver Ghost / Southern Heritage / Rebel
• Springfield Exit / George Cunningham / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Eli Renfro / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Front Range / The Lantern / Ramblin' On My Mind / Sugar Hill
• The Hillmen / Brown Mountain Light / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Panhandle Country / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / On And On / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Devil's Dream / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• Mountain Faith / Been There Done That / That Which Matters / Mountain Fever Records
• Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / End Of Memory Lane / Sweetheart Of The Mountain / Rebel
• Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Cry Baby Cry / 4 / Mountain Fever Records
• Lorraine Jordan & Carolina / Boogie Grass Band / Country Grass / Pinecastle
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Brown County Red / It's About Tyme / Break A String Records
• Nothin' Fancy / Wanna-Be Farmer / By Any Other Name / Mountain Fever Records
• Country Gentlemen / Bringing Mary Home / Can't You Hear Me Calling / Rebel
• Larry Sparks with Jesse McReynolds & Curly Seckler / I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Lonesome And Then Some... / Rebel
• Spinney Brothers / Old Roman Soldier / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore, Jamie Dailey, Josh Swift / Beyond The Sunset / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Nashville Bluegrass Band / Get A Transfer / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• South Carolina Broadcasters / We Shall Meet Someday / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy, Inc.
• Gibson Brothers / I Have Found The Way / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys with B Lilly / What Would You Give In Exchange / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• Louvin Brothers / Just Rehearsing / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• Johnson Mountain Boys / Black Mountain Blues / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 10/18/2015 - Joe Bussard's 2nd WHUS Show

Hi Folks.

Joe Bussard

It was not our intention to have Joe Bussard on Bluegrass Cafe, but the unexpected change in time for the sports broadcast completely preempted Red Rooster Party where his show is scheduled to appear, and his show slipped into Bluegrass Cafe which started a half-hour late for the same preemption.  We were delighted to share the time with Joe, though.  Joe's show will typically air during Red Rooster Party on most Sundays between 2pm and 4pm.

The remaining two hours was great bluegrass music that included new material from Jerry Salley, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, and The South Carolina Broadcasters. You can check out the playlist below.

Amy will be with you next Sunday.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Allen Shelton / Sourwood Mountain / Hand-Picked: Twenty-Five Years of Rounder Bluegrass / Rounder

Joe Bussard's Country Classics #2

• The Happy-Go-Lucky Boys (Clyde, Steve & Hugh) / What-Cha Gonna To Do with The Baby / 78 RPM Single / Bluebird
• Jimmie Rodgers / Blue Yodel No. II (My Lovin' Gal, Lucille) / 78 RPM Single / Victor
• Furry Lewis / Big Chief Blues / 78 RPM Single / Vocalion
• Memphis Jug Band / The Memphis Shakedown / 78 RPM Single / Okeh
• Roy Acuff and the Crazy Tennesseans / Gonna Have A Big Time Tonight / 78 RPM Single / ARC
• Smilin' Jim Eanes and his Shennandoah Valley Boys / Long Journey Home / 78 RPM Single / Blue Ridge
• The Carter Family / Little Poplar Log House On The Hill / 78 RPM Single / Okeh

Bluegrass Cafe

• Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / Leaves Musn't Fall / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• J.D. Crowe and the New South / Leaves That Are Green / Bluegrass Evolution / Starday
• The Misty Valley Boys / Ice Covered Birches / Bluegrass Piedmont Style / Master Shield
• Christopher Henry / Miss Missin' You / I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Self-Produced
• Bear Minimum / Freight Train Boogie / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / The Nights Are So Long / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / The Ramblers Life / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• Adkins & Loudermilk / Georgia Mountain Man / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever 
• Seth Sawyer Band / Long Forgotten Dream / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Alex Leach / New River Girl / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Don Stover, B. Lilly, and Chubby Anthony / Katy Cline / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style / Smithsonian Folkways 
• Larry Gillis / Crazy Russian / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• Earl Taylor & The Stoney Mountain Boys / All The Good Times Have Past and Gone / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Hard Times / 1953-1958 & 1959 / Bear Family
• Robert Lester & James Stiltner / Honky Tonk Downstairs / Grass Country / Self-released
• Ruben & Matt and the Truffle Valley Boys / I Don't Mind / One Thing To Tell / LPB
• The Vern Williams Band / When Springtime Comes Again / Bluegrass from the Gold Country / New Rounder
• Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• The Buckstankle Boys / Swing On The Golden Gate / Round Peak Home / Self-released
• Buzz Busby / Cold and Windy Night / Going Home / Starday
• Buzz Busby / Banjo Whiz / Going Home / Starday
• Bill Emerson / You Can Run But You Can Hide / Banjo Man / Webco
• Bill Emerson / Little France / Banjo Man / Webco
• Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and the Green Valley Boys / On My Mind / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent
• King Wilkie / Goodbye Old Pal / True Songs / Self-released
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Are You Tired of Me My Darling / It's About Tyme / Break A String
• Windy Hill / The Game of Love Is a Gamble / Lonesome Garbage Man / Self-released
• Bill Clifton with the Pick Of The Crop / My Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Where The Rainbow Finds Its End / Elf
• Lost & Found / Brown Hill / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Charlie Moore / John Henry / Charlie Moore Sings Again - Gone But Not Forgotten / Wango
• Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Tennessee Flat Top Box / Snapshots / Mountain Home
• Doc Watson / Step It up and Go / Good Deal! / Vanguard
• Christopher Henry / I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Self-Produced
• Jerry Salley / Just Drink The Water / Gospel From My Grassroots / Very Jerry
• The Marshall Brothers and Highroad / No Burdens Pass Through / Old Time Country Revival / Self-released
• The Cooke Duet and Son / Satisfied / The Cooke Duet and Son / CRFRC
• Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / My Bible Tells Me / Leaving This Town / Randm
• Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys / When He Reached Down His Hand for Me / Live Recordings 1956-1969 / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Will He Wait a Little Longer / 1953-1958 & 1959 / Bear Family
• Carl Story / I've Got A Lot To Tell My Jesus / Complete Atteiram Collection / Gusto
• The Bluegrass Band / Way Down Deep in My Soul / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Vol. 1 / Hay Holler 
• 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 - 10/11/2015

Sunday afternoon was a picture-perfect October day in Storrs, Connecticut.  What better way to spend it than with a bunch of fine Bluegrass music on the radio, right?  

Traver Hollow's 1986 LP, "Another Sleepless Night."  

As usual, the show featured a good bit of "local" Bluegrass music, but remember, "local" to us is any band or performer living in southern New England or nearby New York State.  To that end, we included music from the Feinberg Brothers (NY), Laura Orshaw (MA), the Seth Sawyer Band (VT), White Mountain Bluegrass (NH), Traver Hollow (CT), and Bear Minimum (CT & NH).  

Happy Birthday, Leigh Gibson!

We celebrated the birthday of a few performers born on October 11th:  Blaine Sprouse (10/11/1956), Josh Crowe (10/11/1957), and Leigh Gibson (10/11/1971).  In addition to birthdays, we also remembered the legendary Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, who were inducted as members of the Country Music Hall of Fame on October 14, 1985.

Hope you had an opportunity to join us for at least part of your Sunday.  Please make plans to join Jim next Sunday for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Enjoy your week!

Amy 



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Feel The Blues Moving In / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
• Sawmill Road / Lost & Found / Down On Sawmill Road / Rebel
• Something In The Wind / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Lights On the Hill / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Self-Produced
• The Cotton Farmer / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• November Rose / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Timber I'm Falling / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / R Own
• Train 45 / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Self-Produced
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• Too Many Tears / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• Salt River / Billy Hurt, Jr. / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent Music
• Birmingham Turnaround / Rhonda Vincent / Timeless And True Love / Rebel
• Today I Had You On My Mind / Traver Hollow / Another Sleepless Night / Self-Produced
• Memories That We Shared / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Wild Mountain Honey / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Rose Of My Heart / Whitstein Brothers / Rose Of My Heart / Rounder
• When The Moon Shines Over The Mountain / Traver Hollow / Another Sleepless Night / Self-Produced
• Roll Big River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Sawing On The Strings / Don Reno & Red Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• Leaves In The Wind / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• Rovin' Gambler / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Sourwood Mountain / James Alan Shelton / Clinch Mountain Guitar / Self-Produced
• An Old Log Cabin For Sale / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Hemlocks And Primroses / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Let's Part The Best Of Friends / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Leigh Gibson birthday, 10/11/1971]
• Brown County Breakdown / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder [Blaine Sprouse birthday, 10/11/1956]
• Baby Blue Eyes / Josh Crowe / Sincerely / Pinecastle [Josh Crowe birthday, 10/11/1957]
• Help My Brother / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Hot Corn, Cold Corn / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Flatt & Scruggs inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame, 10/14/1985]
• Tennessee Flat Top Box / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Snapshots / Mountain Home
• Stacking Up The Rocks / Balsam Range / Five / Mountain Home
• Silence Or Tears / South Carolina Broadcasters / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy, Inc.
• Heart And Soul / Gillis Brothers / Heart And Soul / Rebel
• Ta Ta, The Brushoff / BearTracks / Makin' New Tracks / Self-Produced
• The Bluefield, West Virginia Blues / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• Where No One Stands Alone / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• What A Day / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• Lord Don't Leave Me Here / Sideline / Session 2 / Mountain Fever Records
• Move To The Top Of The Mountain / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• I'm Working On A Building / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• My Lord's Been A Walkin' / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• I Am The Road / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/4/2015

Fresh from spending the week in Raleigh at a somewhat soggy edition of the International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass conference, on Sunday afternoon, I tried with music to recap a few highlights of the week.  Three hours probably wasn't a long enough time period to do that, but since that's the length of our Bluegrass Cafe, I had to figure out how to make it work for today...

The Earls Of Leicester accepting one of their many IBMA Awards in 2015.

The highlight of the IBMA week is always designed to be the IBMA Awards -- who will win??  This year, the name most often called as award recipient was the Earls Of Leicester.  How can a cover band of one of the most famous bands in Bluegrass history be so darn popular?  It's easy:  they are VERY talented.  The Earls were recognized as Instrumental Group of the Year, as well as recipients of the award for Gospel Song of the Year ("Who Will Song For Me"), Album of the Year (for their eponymous Earls Of Leicester recording on Rounder), and the top prize--Entertainer of the Year.  In addition, individual members of the Earls:  Shawn Camp as Male Vocalist and Jerry Douglas as Dobro Player of the Year were recognized.  Whoa.  Rumor has it that there will be another Earls' recording coming along, and the group plans to continue recording -- and educating -- for a bit longer.

Larry Sparks performing with Alison Krauss after his
Hall of Fame acceptance speech.

Music from other award winners we shared on Sunday included tunes from Michael Cleveland (Fiddle Player of the Year), Jesse Brock (Mandolin Player of the Year), Rhonda Vincent (Female Vocalist of the Year), and Becky Buller (Emerging Act of the Year; Recorded Event of the Year for "Southern Flavor").  We also heard from one of the newest inductees into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame:  Larry Sparks.

Hope you were able to hear something you enjoyed on Sunday's radio show.  Be sure to tune in again next Sunday from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Have a good week!

Amy 


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Request is RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time / Vanguard
• Wild Geese Cry Again / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Leaves Musn't Fall / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• On My Mind / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• On My Mind / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Rocks In The River / Missy Werner / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• Born To Be With You / Blue Mafia / Pray For Rain / Pinecastle
• I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Christopher Henry / I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Self-Produced
• Kentucky Country Home / Sideline / Session 2 / Mountain Fever Records
• Going To The West / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Row Number 2, Seat Number 3 / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Memories Of My Childhood / Bluegrass Brothers / Generations / Mountain Fever Records
• Leavin' You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• It Don't Bring You Back To Me / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Come Along Jody / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / On Down The Line / Compass Records
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / The Blues Are Still The Blues / Rebel
• It's Raining Here This Morning / Red Smiley & the Blue Grass Cutups / Red Smiley & the Blue Grass Cutups / Rural Rhythm
• Under The Double Eagle / Don Reno & Bill Harrell with the Tennessee Cut-Ups / Don Reno & Bill Harrell with the Tennessee Cut-Ups / Rural Rhythm
• Over The Hill To The Poor House / Earl Taylor & Jim McCall with the Stoney Mountain Boys / Earl Taylor & Jim McCall with the Stoney Mountain Boys / Rural Rhythm
• Kisses Don't Lie / Carl Butler & the Webster Brothers / I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Bear Family
• Cripple Creek / Earl Taylor & Jim McCall with the Stoney Mountain Boys / Earl Taylor & Jim McCall with the Stoney Mountain Boys / Rural Rhythm
• Nobody's Business / Don Reno & Bill Harrell with the Tennessee Cut-Ups / Don Reno & Bill Harrell with the Tennessee Cut-Ups / Rural Rhythm
• The Cotton Farmer / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango Records
• God Bless Her 'Cause She Is My Mother / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Laurie / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Run Away Tonight / Mountain Home
• How Many Times / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Flower Blooming In The Wildwood / Michael Cleveland with Tim O'Brien / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Kickin' Grass / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• AppleJack / Pam Gadd with Dolly Parton / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions
• My Lord's Going To Set Me Free / Bluegrass Gospel Project / Shine / Vital Records
• Tennessee 1949 / Larry Sparks / The Best Of Larry Sparks / Rebel
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• The Hound Dog From Harlan / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• Dim Lights Thick Smoke / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• Had It Not Been For The Train / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• You'll Meet Him In The Clouds / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• There Is Power In The Blood / David Peterson / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• One Is Taken, One Is Left / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Fishers Of Men / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• I Wanna Walk With Jesus / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• I Have Found The Way / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Make Us To Shine / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Paul And Silas / Hylo Brown / Hylo Brown Sings Country Gospel Songs / Rural Rhythm
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 9/20/2015 - South Carolina Broadcasters

Hi Folks.

This show saw the debut of some new music from Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Bill Emerson and Sweet Dixie, and The South Carolina Broadcasters. We focused a bit on the Broadcasters because of their recent appearance at the Strawberry Park festival, and their upcoming appearance at the 2016 Podunk festival.  Ivy Sheppard, David Sheppard, and Andy Edmonds make up the group that plays their own cross between old time and pre-bluegrass music with unique three-part harmonies more closely related to bluegrass. They are a rising force to be reckoned with having just signed with John Boy & Billy Records for their fifth album.  Their new CD, also available on vinyl LP, is scheduled for release October 13th and can be pre-ordered here.

Other notable recent recordings on this show featured Ruben & Matt and the Truffle Valley Boys (from Italy!), The Earls of Leicester, Becky Buller, Larry Gillis, The Buckstankle Boys, and Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters.



Otherwise, this show was so full of Heritage Corner material that it would take too long to mention them all. We'll just refer you to the playlist, but single out Cecil Surratt, Carl Sauceman, and some very early Lilly Brothers & Don Stover.

We encourage you to attend the Spinney Brothers concert in Canterbury CT next Sunday that will open with Bear Minimum at 2:00pm.  If you can't make it, we will have James & Cathy Ward filling in at Bluegrass Cafe.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Michael Cleveland / Fire on the Mountain / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• The Buckstankle Boys / Let Me Fall / Round Peak Home / Self-released
• The Spinney Brothers / Sweet Hazel Moore / Tried & True / Mountain Fever
• Windy Hill / My Little Darling's Shoes / Lonesome Garbage Man / Self-released
• Paul Adkins and the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Darlene & Reflections Of Bluegrass / If It Ain't Love / If It Ain't Love / Self-released
• Bill Price / Pretty Polly / Blue Grass Hill With Bill Price / Folkways
• Frank Necessary / Highway Of Love / 45 RPM Single / Jalyn
• Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass / The Old Chain Gang / An Old Love Affair / Self-released
• Alex Leach / Brand New Tennessee Waltz / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Carolina Native Sons / Willie Moore / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent
• Charlie Moore / Flying South / Charlie Moore Rides Again - Gone... But Not Forgotten / Wango
• Ruben & Matt and the Truffle Valley Boys / Cabin on a Mountain / One Thing To Tell / LPB
• Lost & Found / Ida Red / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Becky Buller / Southern Flavor / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow
• The Earls Of Leicester / I'll Go Stepping Too / The Earls of Leicester / Rounder
• Larry Gillis / Two More Years / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / A Dark Road Is a Hard Road to Travel / Leaving This Town / Randm
• Dave Evans / Only One Was True / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• The Traditional Grass / The Blues Are Still The Blues / The Blues Are Still The Blues / Rebel
• The Traditional Grass / You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer / The Blues Are Still The Blues / Rebel
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Days Of Grey And Black / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Haystack Blues / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• The Larry Fuller Band / I'd Like To Go Back / My Juke Box Hero / Old Homestead
• Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Gotta Get Away / Kiamichi Moon / Old Homestead
• The Campbell Trio / Lonesome Day / We're Hooked On Bluegrass / Woodrich
• Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Sparkling Brown Eyes / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Flatt Lonesome / Mixed up Mess of a Heart / Runaway Train / Mountain Home
• Ben and Eric Marshall / A Better Day  / Grass Roots Project / Self-released
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / Now Just Suppose / Private Recording / na
• Bill Emerson And Sweet Dixie / Fifty Miles of Elbow Room / The Gospel Side of Bill Emerson and Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair / Everything I Wanted Love to Be / Happy Appy
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / I'm Leaving You and Ft Worth Too / It's About Tyme / Break A String
• The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / The Old Man's Story / On The Radio 1952-1953 / Rounder
• Carroll Best / Liberty / Say Old Man, Can You Play the Banjo? / Copper Creek
• Carroll Best / Cripple Creek / Say Old Man. Can You Play the Banjo? / Copper Creek
• Carroll Best / Bile Them Cabbage Down / Say Old Man, Can You Play the Banjo? / Copper Creek
• Carroll Best / Martha Campbell / Say Old Man, Can You Play the Banjo? / Copper Creek
• Don Reno / Salty Dog Blues / Profile / Wango
• Don Reno / Grey Eagle Hornpipe / Profile / Wango
• Bill Clifton with the Pick Of The Crop / Southern Moon / Where The Rainbow Finds Its End / Elf
• Missy Werner / Rocks in the River / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• Rusty York & The Kentucky Mountain Boys / Over the Hill to the Poorhouse / Early Bluegrass / Jewel
• The Bluegrass Mountaineers / The Wandering Boy / Clinch Mountain Tradition / Maggard
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / The Storm / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down / Classic Bluegrass / B.A.C.M
• The Chestnut Grove Quartet / Just Over Yonder / The Great Beyond / Self-released
• The Buckstankle Boys / There's a Light At the River / Round Peak Home / Self-released
• The Lewis Family / I'm Bound For Gloryland / Wrapped With Grace & Tied With Love / Canaan
• Carl Story & His Rambling Mountaineers / Camping In Canaan's Land / Mighty Close To Heaven / Starday
• Carl Sauceman and His Green Valley Boys / I'll Be An Angel Too / Bluegrass - Historic Cuts Selected For Quality / JSP
• Cecil Surratt / The Bright Crystal Sea / 78 RPM Single / Rich-R-Tone
• Nashville Bluegrass Band / You're Drifting Away / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / What A Day / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• 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 - 9/13/2015

As one would expect on the 104th birthday of Bill Monroe -- the Father of Bluegrass -- Sunday's radio program was pretty much Monroe-centric.  Bill Monroe's influence continues to be felt nearly twenty years after his passing, and there probably doesn't exist a Bluegrass band who hasn't either recorded or performed a Monroe song at some point during their existence.  Amazing...and as it should be.  

Traver Hollow at Winterhawk 1983 (Paul Harvey is on the far right)

Between the Bill Monroe songs, we remembered a wonderful New England Bluegrass musician and songwriter who recently passed away:  Paul Harvey of the Connecticut band, Traver Hollow.  When I first started attending Bluegrass festivals and shows in the early 1980s, Traver Hollow was one of the bands who appeared on just about every show.  They were neatly-dressed, talented, and performed a good combination of Bluegrass standards and original numbers, most of them penned by Paul Harvey.  For those who enjoy trivia, Traver Hollow also happened to be the first very Bluegrass band who appeared on primetime television in Denmark.  How's that for a distinction?  If you remember Traver Hollow from their heyday, or if you just would like to hear a fine, traditional young band, watch this broadcast from the Denmark show from 1987:

There were also a few new songs from recordings recently received at WHUS, including selections from Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie, and Flatt Lonesome.  We also observed National Grandparents Day with songs about Grandpa and Grandma from BearTracks, the Seldom Scene, Springfield Exit, and the Gibson Brothers.

Be sure to join Jim for next Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, won't you?  Have a good week!

Amy


PERFORMER / SONG / ALBUM / LABEL [Request is RED; Bill Monroe songs are BLUE]

• Del McCoury Band / Katy Hill / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Uncle Pen / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / I Hope You Have Learned / The King And The Father / MME
• Rhonda Vincent / Is The Grass Any Bluer / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• Spinney Brothers / My Music Comes From Bill / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Come Back To Me In My Dreams / Once And For Always/The News Is Out / Sugar Hill
• Frank Wakefield / Bluegrass Breakdown / A Tribute To Bill Monroe / Patuxent Music
• Tony Rice / On And On / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Warrior River Boys / Farewell To Long Hollow / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Becky Buller / Southern Flavor / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Traver Hollow / Where Is The Love / By Request / Self-Produced
• Traver Hollow / Teardrops Are Falling In The Snow / 25 Years Of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country
• Traver Hollow / Rose Of My Heart / By Request / Self-Produced
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Brown County Red / It's About Tyme / Break A String
• Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• Flatt Lonesome / You'll Pay / Runaway Train / Mountain Home
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / River Bottom / It's About Tyme / Break A String
• Country Gentlemen / Riverboat Fantasy / The Sugar Hill Collection / Sugar Hill
• Melvin Goins & Windy Mountain / Windy Mountain / Bluegrass Blues / Hay Holler
• Hazel Dickens / You'll Get No More Of Me / It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song / Rounder
• Gibson Brothers / Each Season Changes You / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Gibson Brothers / I Have Found The Way / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Muleskinner / Roanoke / A Potpourri Of Bluegrass Jam / Sierra Records
• Johnson Mountain Boys / With Body And Soul / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / In Despair / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• BearTracks / A Grandmother's Love / Rough Edges / AMT Records
• Seldom Scene / Grandpa Get Your Guitar / Like We Used To Be / Sugar Hill
• Springfield Exit / Grandma's Gift / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel
• Gibson Brothers / Arleigh / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Big Country Bluegrass / My Lonely Heart / Country Livin' / Rebel
• Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Miss Molly / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• Reno & Smiley / Love, O' Love Please Come Home / Bluegrass, 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• Earls Of Leicester / I'll Go Stepping Too / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Earls Of Leicester / Shuckin' The Corn / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Feinberg Brothers / I Do / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• The Sidemen / Thinkin' About You / The All Night Gang / Rebel
• Roland White Band / I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Spinney Brothers / What A Wonderful Life / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Bear Minimum / Will You Wait For Me / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road 
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / That Home Above / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia
• Traver Hollow / Give Me The Roses / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country
• The Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler Harvest
• Lou Reid & Carolina / Lord Have Mercy (On My Soul) / 20th Anniversary Concert / Self-Produced [Lou Reid birthday, 9/13/1954]
• Stanley Brothers / Mother's Only Sleeping / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Do You Live What You Preach / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• Jim & Jesse McReynolds with Bill Monroe / Wicked Path Of Sin / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• Lost & Found / Boat Of Love / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Let The Light Shine Down / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Grass Twist / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 9/6/2015 - Rick Spinney

Hi Folks.

Sunday's show was mostly classic bluegrass with several more recent numbers included.  The centerpiece of the show was a telephone visit from Rick Spinney of The Spinney Brothers.  

The Spinney Brothers will be making an appearance at a concert in Canterbury CT September 27th. We took this opportunity to find out what is going on with the Spinney Brothers, learned a bit about their most recent album which has had a track hit number one on one of the charts, and what it is like to be a traveling musician in the US while living in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Come out and support great live bluegrass music in Eastern Connecticut on the 27th!


From the Heritage Corner, pretty much most of the show applied, but we did have some special rarities in the form of both sides of two 45s -- one of The Brewster Brothers and the other from a daughter of J. E. Mainer, Mary Mainer.

Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring next week, so be sure to tune in!

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Michael Cleveland / Fire on the Mountain / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Tell Me Truly Little Darling / Pre-release single / John Boy & Billy
• The Bear Bridge Band / I Don't Want Your Nine Pound Hammer / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road
• Delia Bell and Bill Grant / Kiamichi Moon / Kiamichi Moon / Old Homestead
• Carolina Native Sons / Tribulations / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / 2012 Patuxent Music
• Lester Flatt / Drink That Mash and Talk That Trash / The One And Only Lester Flatt / King
• Mary Mainer / Philadelphia Lawyer / 45 RPM Single / J.E. Mainer Productions
• Earl Taylor & Jim McCall / Long Journey Home / Country Roots - 21 Old-Time Favorites / Rural Rhythm
• Buck Ryan / Goodbye Liza Jane / Country Roots - 21 Old-Time Favorites / Rural Rhythm
• The Buckstankle Boys / Swing On The Golden Gate / Round Peak Home / Self-released
• Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / I Still Love You Yet / Mountain Laurel Bluegrass Memories / Mountain Laurel
• Lost & Found / Brown Hill / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Ruben & Matt and the Truffle Valley Boys / Lost To A Stranger / One Thing To Tell / LPB
• Charlie Moore / Convict & The Rose / Charlie Moore Sings Again - Gone But Not Forgotten / Wango
• Mary Mainer / Traveling Around / 45 RPM Single / J.E. Mainer Productions
• Alex Leach / Somebody Loves You Darling / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• The Spinney Brothers / My Friend Clyde / Live at WHUS 8 May 2010 / na
• The Bear Bridge Band / I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Don Stover / Things in Life / Live At Davis & Elkins College / White Oak
• The Spinney Brothers / Thank God for the Highways / Tried & True / Mountain Fever
• Rick Spinney Interview /  /  / 
• The Spinney Brothers / My Music Comes From Bill / Tried & True / Mountain Fever
• The Spinney Brothers / Proud To Be Your Dad / Tried & True / Mountain Fever
• The Brewster Brothers / Gotta Travel On / 45 RPM Single / Acme
• Roy Lee Centers / Little Birdie / The Early Years, Volume One / Crosscut
• Darlene & Reflections Of Bluegrass / Love Someone Like Me / If It Ain't Love / Self-released
• Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / That's Kentucky / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Rural Rhythm
• The Brewster Brothers / Little Maggie / 45 RPM Single / Acme
• Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / Let Them Know I'm from Virginia / Leaving This Town / Randm
• Dave Evans / When the Snow Falls on My Foggy Mountain Home / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel Records Llc
• Travers Chandler & Avery County / Stumblin Stones / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• The Earls Of Leicester / Big Black Train / The Earls of Leicester / Rounder
• Larry Gillis / Three Sheets in the Wind / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• Marteka and William / Rambling Gambler / The Sounds Of A Tradition / Self-released
• Carroll Best / Lonesome Road Blues [bed] / Say Old Man, Can You Play the Banjo? / Copper Creek
• Carroll Best / Daley's Reel [bed] / Say Old Man, Can You Play the Banjo? / Copper Creek
• Carroll Best / Tom and Jerry [bed] / Say Old Man, Can You Play the Banjo? / Copper Creek
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / White House Blues / Off The Record Volume 1 / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Gillis Brothers / Rock Bottom / Ice Cold Stone / Hay Holler Harvest
• Eddie & Martha Adcock / Something To Be Finding / TwoGrass / Pinecastle
• Nashville Bluegrass Band / Fiddlin' Bill / American Beauty / Sugar Hill
• Harley Allen & Mike Lilly / Moonshiner / Suzanne / Smithsonian Folkways
• Hylo Brown / Blue Tail Fly / Roots Music of Rural America / Rural Rhythm
• The Stanley Brothers / Jordan / Radio Series Volume Six / Wango
• Early Upchurch / It's Alright / 45 RPM Single / ARC
• The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover / Hide Ye In The Blood / Live At Hillbilly Ranch / Hay Holler
• Keepin' Tradition / Wings Of Angels / Keepin' Tradition / Self-released
• The Marshall Brothers and Highroad / Singing Praises / Old Time Country Revival / Self-released
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Take Me in Your Lifeboat / A Thousand Miles Away from Home / Stripe Records
• J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers / Shake My Mother's Hand For Me / Run Mountain / Arhoolie
• The Cooke Duet and Son / I'm Moving Up Home Someday / The Cooke Duet and Son / CRFRC
• Danny Lee Davis / He Took Your Place / The Long Goodbye / Self-released
• Carl Story And His Ramblin' Mountaineers / Just One Rose Will Do / 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