A guitar-centric fill-in - 5/19/2015

This rainy Tuesday morning found me at WHUS filling in for the vacationing John Veseskis, who is the host of guitar-themed program known as "Red House."  John has never left me with any kind of restrictions on what kind of music he'd like me to play while he's away, but since there are so darn many wonderful guitar players in both Bluegrass and Country Music, it's always fairly easy to fill a 2-hour program.  

On Tuesday, we included a whole 30 minute set full of songs with one common element:  each had the word "guitar" in the title.  We also put a little bit of a spotlight on a couple of mighty fine guitar pickers:  Hank Snow, Tony Rice, Jerry Reed, and Don Rich.  

If you got a chance to tune in this morning, thanks!  If not, be sure to join me on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

Enjoy the week!

Amy

SONG                                 PERFORMER                        ALBUM                            LABEL

D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin)	Norman Blake & Tony Rice	Blake & Rice 2	Rounder
I Miss You Old Friend	Heather Berry & Tony Mabe	The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show	Mountain Fever Records
This Old Martin Box	Blue Moon Rising	On The Rise	Lonesome Day Records
Twelfth Street Rag	Hank Snow	Hank Snow’s Country Guitar	RCA
Rainbow Boogie	Hank Snow	Hank Snow’s Country Guitar	RCA
Music Makin’ Mama From Memphis	Hank Snow	The Essential Hank Snow	RCA
Wildwood Flower	Carter Family	Anchored In Love	Rounder
Luther Played The Boogie	Johnny Cash	American Music Legends	Cracker Barrel
Tennessee Flat Top Box	Darin & Brooke Aldridge	Snapshots	Mountain Home
Me And My Guitar	Tony Rice	Night Flyer	Sugar Hill
Dusty Miller	Bryan Sutton with Tony Rice	Not Too Far From The Tree	Sugar Hill
Greenlight On The Southern	Tony Rice	Bluegrass Class Of 1990	Rounder
Church Street Blues	Bryan Sutton with Tim O’Brien	Almost Live	Sugar Hill
Pickie, Pickie, Pickie	Jerry Reed	Lord, Mr. Ford	RCA
Swarmin’	Jerry Reed	Jerry Reed Explores Guitar Country	RCA
Lord, Mr. Ford	Jerry Reed	Lord, Mr. Ford	RCA
Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Delmore Brothers	The Delmore Brothers, 1933-1935	JSP Records
Grandpa Get Your Guitar	Seldom Scene	Like We Used To Be	Sugar Hill
Round Hole Guitar	Don Rich & the Buckaroos	Country Pickin’	Sundazed
Vern’s Guitar	Gibson Brothers	Bona Fide	Sugar Hill
Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Merle Haggard	Vintage Collections	Capitol
Amigo’s Guitar	Kitty Wells	Greatest Hits & Favorites	Golden Stars
Lefty’s Old Guitar	J.D. Crowe & the New South	Lefty’s Old Guitar	Rounder
Long-Legged Guitar Pickin’ Man	Johnny Cash & June Carter	At Folsom Prison	Columbia Legacy
Second Fiddle To An Old Guitar	Jean Shepard	Opry Country Classics, Volume 2	Opry Music
Buck’s Polka	Buck Owens & His Buckaroos	The Instrumental Hits Of Buck Owens & His Buckaroos	Sundazed
The Happy-Go-Lucky Polka	Don Rich & the Buckaroos	Country Pickin’	Sundazed
Freight Train	Chet Atkins	Guitar Country	RCA
Chet Atkins’ Hand	Statler Brothers	Years Ago	Mercury
Soldier’s Joy	Doc Watson & David Grisman	Doc & Dawg	Acoustic Disc
Flat Tops A Pickin’	Reno & Harrell	35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass	Rebel
Washington And Lee Fling	The Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers	To Warm And Comfort You	Rebel
Goin’ Up Caney	James Alan Shelton	Road To Coeburn	Copper Creek
Back Up And Push	Wyatt Rice	New Market Gap	Rounder
The Sugarfoot Rag	Hot Rize	In Concert	Flying Fish

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/10/2015

Happy Mother's Day to Eleanor Orlomoski --
and to ALL wonderful mothers!

Sunday was a day to celebrate both mothers and new college graduates at the University of Connecticut.  While there aren't any songs (that we know about) to celebrate those who fall in the latter category, we sure found bunches and bunches of songs about mother to play on the ol' radio.  Hope you enjoyed 'em -- and that you were able to enjoy your Sunday with family and friends!

In addition to mother songs on Sunday, we remembered two Country Music legends who would have celebrated their birthdays this past weekend:  Hank Snow (born May 9, 1914) and Mother Maybelle Carter (born May 10, 1909). In the case of Hank, we played the well-known medley of a few of his songs from the Country Gentlemen, as well as a couple of Bluegrass covers of songs by the Singing Ranger.  As far Maybelle, we included two songs written in tribute about her, as well as the absolutely legendary original track of "Wildwood Flower," circa 1928ish.  

We just couldn't forget the duo of Johnnie & Jack this week, either.  Johnnie

Johnnie & Jack -
looks like a Bluegrass band to me!

Wright and Jack Anglin were singing partners for many years and were, in fact, brothers-in-law.  They also happened to share a birthday:  May 13th.  Johnnie was born that day in 1914; Jack on that same day in 1916.  Again, these two may not have been considered "Bluegrass" as that term just didn't exist when they were working.  However, if Johnnie & Jack were starting out today with their Tennessee Mountain Boys, they would certainly be a Bluegrass band.  Delightful.  

The emphasis today wasn't so much on "new" Bluegrass, but we still played a little bit of it from the likes of John Curtis Goad, Springfield Exit, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, the Spinney Brothers, Volume Five, Michelle Canning, and the Gibson Brothers. 

Hope you enjoyed a relaxing Mother's Day, and that you'll be sure to join us once again next Sunday for another Bluegrass Cafe!

Enjoy the week!

Amy


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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• God Bless Her, 'Cause She Is My Mother / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Hand That Rocks The Cradle / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Mama's Rocking Chair / Southern Rail / Glory Train / Pinecastle
• Mama Don't Allow / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Hank Snow Medley / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• A Fool Such As I / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• The Golden Rocket / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• One More Ride / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Close By / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• Hard Times In Kentucky / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Oh So Many Years / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced
• Angeline The Baker / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder
• Regina / John Curtis Goad / single / Self-Produced
• I Feel The Blues Moving In / Del McCoury / High, Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• Honky-Tonked To Death / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Hello City Limits / Michael Cleveland with Jeff White / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• Follow Me Back To The Fold / Mark Newton / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel
• Sing Me A Carter Family Song / Dennis Cash / A Carter Family Song / Blue Circle Records
• Wildwood Flower / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• Sweeping Through The Gate / Johnnie & Jack / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family
• Johnny & Jack Medley / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Johnnie & Jack / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wellls At KWKH / Bear Family
• Momma's Flowers / Myrna Riquier (Justin Carbone) / Momma's Flowers / Natchaug Music
• Mother, The Queen Of My Heart / Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill
• Mama's Opry / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• Sweetest Gift / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Listen To Me Mother / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Coat Of Many Colors / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Mother Knows Best / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Mama's Hand / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• When The Bloom Is Off The Rose / Rhonda Vincent with Sally Berry & Tensel Sandker / Taken / Upper Management Music
• Sweet Hazel Moore / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Down By The River / Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• Colder And Colder / Volume Five / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do / Michelle Canning / The Serpent And The Flower / Self-Produced
• Each Season Changes You / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• My Mother's Bible / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• The Way, The Truth, The Light / Sideline / Session 1 / Mountain Fever Records
• Rank Strangers / Hot Rize / In Concert / Flying Fish
• Shake Hands With Mother Again / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Mother, Queen Of My Heart / Sugar Hill
• A Vision Of Mother / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia
• Jesus Gave Me Water / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Give Mother My Crown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Goodbye / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / This World Is Not My Home / MME
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 5/3/2015

Hi Folks,

While uconn baseball preempted most of the Red Rooster Party, we took advantage of the last half-hour left over for that show to extend Bluegrass Cafe to a 3-1/2 hour show.

Since this was my first post-Radiothon show (by the way, thank you very much for the tremendous support!), I let loose with a bucket full of rarities from my personal collection as well as a handful of newer releases.

The new included a brand new re-release of an old J. E. Mainer album -- the fourth in a series of 20 -- recorded in 1968 on the Rural Rhythm label.  We also heard a new release of some older live performances of Jimmy Martin.  In the real new category we heard music from both Christopher Henry and Laura Orshaw.  We introduced a new track from the upcoming fifth album from The South Carolina Broadcasters as well as a track from their out-of-print first album.


Other recent music included cuts from Larry Gillis, The Gibson Brothers, Becky Buller, Breaking Grass, Fiddlin' Billy Hurt, Marteka & William, Tommy Brown, Doyle Lawson, The Spinney Brothers, Mountain Faith, Johnny Williams, and Larry Sparks.


I admit to going a little crazy with our Heritage Corner on this show with a great selection of classic vinyl LPs, 45s, and classic reissues.  We reached back to hear music from The Dillards, Buzz Busby, Larry Richardson, Red Allen & Frank Wakefield, Don Stover, Bob Paisley, Earl Taylor, The Border Mountain Boys, The Mountain Ramblers, Wade Ward, Don Reno & Bill Harrell, Rusty York, The Kelleys, and electrifying gospel from Early Upchurch, Ray Baker, J. D. Jarvis, Landon Messer, Chief Powatan, Carl Story, and The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover. 


Amy will be with you next Sunday to make the banjos and fiddles ring, so join her for some great bluegrass.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Disk / Label

• The Dillards / Watermelon on the Vine / Early Recordings - 1959 / Varèse Sarabande
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Bummin' an Old Freight Train / A Thousand Miles Away from Home / Stripe Records
• J. E. Mainer / Shoo Fly / The Legendary J.E. Mainer Volume 4 / Rural Rhythm
• Jackson & Stiltner / Truck Driver's Queen / Tribute To Bill Napier / Self Released
• Don Stover / White Oak Breakdown / Things in Life / Rounder
• Buzz Busby / Lonesome Wind / Going Home / Starday
• Red Allen, Frank Wakefield & the Kentuckians / Pistol Packin' Mama / The WDON Recordings-1963 / Patuxent
• Larry Richardson & Red Barker and the Blue Ridge Boys / Let Me Fall / Larry Richardson & Red Barker and the Blue Ridge Boys / Old Blue
• Osborne Brothers / Rocky Top / Bluegrass Then & Now / CMH
• Buzz Busby / Banjo Whiz / Going Home / Starday
• Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass / Cardboard Mansions / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Sunny Side of the Mountain (Live 1969) / Live '69 & '71 / Rockbeat Records
• Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Tennessee (Live 1969) / Live '69 & '71 / Rockbeat Records
• Christopher Henry / Miss Missin' You / I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Self Released
• Larry Gillis / Swamp Leach / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / Give Me Time to Think It Over / She Left Me Standing On a Mountain / Blue Circle
• Earl Taylor & The Stony Mountain Boys / Tragic Romance / Body & Soul / Vetco
• Border Mountain Boys / Home With The Blues / Bluegrass On The Mountain / Homestead
• The Gibson Brothers / How Mountain Girls Can Love / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Stringbean / Run, Little Rabbit, Run / Hee Haw Corn Shucker / Starday Records
• Buckstankle Boys / Benton's Dream / In The Field Behind The Stage / Old Blue
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Tell Me Truly Little Darling / Pre-release single / unk
• Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, Kenny Kosek, Don Stover, et.al / Sweet Love Ain't Around / Red Allen and Friends / Red Clay
• Wade Ward / Chilly Winds / Blue Ridge Mountain Music / Atlantic
• The Mountain Ramblers / The Old Hickory Cane / Blue Ridge Mountain Music / Atlantic
• Becky Buller / Southern Flavor / 'Tween Earth And Sky / Dark Shadow
• Mountain Faith / Feelin' Blue / Blue / Mountain Fever
• Alex Leach / Bowling Green / Mountain Heartache / Self Released
• Detour / Too Blue To Have the Blues / Going Nowhere Fast / Mountain Fever
• Don Reno & Bill Harrell / Yellow Pages / 45 RPM Single / Derby Town
• Rusty York & The Kentucky Mountian Boys / Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy to Me / Early Bluegrass / Jewel
• The Kelleys / Devil's Little Angel / 45 RPM Single / Republic
• Rusty York & The Kentucky Mountain Boys / Little Rosewood Casket / Early Bluegrass / Jewel
• Laura Orshaw / The Cotton Farmer / Songs of Lost Yesterdays / Laura Orshaw
• Charlie Moore / Rebel Soldier / Charlie Moore Sings Again - Gone But Not Forgotten / Wango
• Breaking Grass / Old Willow Tree / Just As Strong / Mountain Fever
• Gillis Brothers / Theme, New River Train, Twenty-One Years / Radio Series Volume Five / Wango
• Don Stover & Friends / New Deep River Blues / My Blue Ridge Memories / White Oak
• Don Stover & Friends / Six Months Ain't Long / My Blue Ridge Memories / White Oak
• Don Reno / Freight Train Boogie / Family & Friends / Kaleidoscope
• Billy Hurt /  Jr. / Richmond Polka / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent Music
• Marteka & William / Over Yonder Stands Little Maggie / The Sounds Of A Tradition / Self-Produced
• The Spinney Brothers / Sweet Hazel Moore / Tried & True / Mountain Fever
• Buddy Merriam / Extra Special / Back Roads Mandolin / Lily Pad Records
• Buddy Merriam / Batchin' It / Back Roads Mandolin / Lily Pad Records
• Buddy Merriam / Devine Time / Back Roads Mandolin / Lily Pad Records
• Don Reno & Red Smiley / Don't Stop Now / On Stage / Copper Creek
• Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / Half Moon Bay / Leaving This Town / Randm
• White Mountain Bluegrass / Beautiful Woman / Ice Covered Birches / Fishtraks
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roll Big River / In Session / Mountain Home
• Johnny Williams / What You Gonna Do / Going My Way / Mountain Roads
• Larry Sparks / Bitterweeds / Lonesome and Then Some: A Classic 50th Celebration / Rebel
• Early Upchurch / It's Alright / 45 RPM Single / ARC
• Christopher Henry / I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Self Released
• Landon Messer & Harold Brewer with Boone Estep & The Rambling Grass / Lord Don't Leave Me Here / Sacred Songs / Old Homestead
• Carl Story And His Ramblin' Mountaineers / He Ran / There's Nothing On Earth Heaven Can't Cure / Starday
• Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Will You Meet Me Over Yonder / What Will I Leave Behind / Rebel
• Ray Baker with The Happy Travelers / Born To Die / 45 RPM Single / Alcar
• J. D. Jarvis / I'm Going To Wake Up In Glory / Thank God For Old Glory / Vetco
• The Bluegrass Band / I'm Working on a Road to Gloryland / Shine Hallelujah Shine Vol. 2 / Hay Holler Records
• Nathan Stanley / Calling My Children Home / The Legacy Continues / Self-released
• The Stanley Brothers / Jacob's Vision / The Early Starday-King Years / Highland
• Chief Powatan & His Bluegrass Braves / Are You Washed In The Blood / Mountain Laurel Bluegrass Memories / Mountain Laurel
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/26/2015

So long, Tex Logan (at the upper right corner)

As promised, for our first Bluegrass Cafe post-Radiothon fundraising, there was A LOT of music and relatively little talk.  The selections played included a bunch of CDs from our library that haven't been played much (if at all) in recent years, some newer recordings to keep things interesting, a few classic songs from super-classic performers, and a couple of songs featuring the late Benjamin F. "Tex" Logan, who died this past Friday evening.  

Tex Logan -- along with the Lilly Brothers and Don Stover -- is credited with bringing what would come to be known as Bluegrass Music to New England when they performed on the radio in Boston in the early 1950s as the Confederate Mountaineers.  If he did nothing else in the world of Bluegrass, that would be a significant-enough contribution.  However, Tex Logan will alway be remembered as the composer of THE Bluegrass Christmas standard, "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" -- a song recorded by many performers including Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Patty Loveless, and others.  After a busy, successful career as a mathematician for New Jersey's Bell Laboratories and a whole lot of great work as a fiddler over the years, Tex Logan died at the age of 87 on April 24th.  His memory will live on...

New music has arrived from Massachusetts-based
Michelle Canning...

Radiothon fundraising went pretty well for us, as over the course of two Sundays, we raised right around $2,000 for WHUS.  Your support is very much appreciated not just at Radiothon, but year-round -- THANKS!!!  

Jim will join you for another Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon starting at 4PM.  Be sure to join him!

Enjoy the week!

Amy





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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Another Day / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Foggy Mountain Chimes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Select Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Red River Valley/Back To Red River / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• When I'm Gone / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• I'd Like To Wander Back To The Old Home / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Blue Grass Style / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Sally Ann Johnson / Billy Hurt, Jr. / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent Music
• Goin' Back To My Kentucky Country Home / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• From The Hollow / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• An Angel With Blue Eyes / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Keep It In The Middle Of The Road / Nightflyer / Rail, River & Road / Kang Records
• Hillbilly Highway / Cedar Hill / Miss Dixie, Tom T. And Me / Blue Circle Records
• Ridin' The Lightnin', Ropin' The Storm / Shannon & Heather Slaughter / Never Just A Song / Self-Produced
• Rocks In The River / Missy Werner / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• Paint The Town / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Self-Produced
• Sweet Potato Rag / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Wave Goodbye / Alan Munde Gazette / Made To Last / Self-Produced
• When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Donnerville Road / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Self-Produced
• A Whole Lot Of Nothing / Lonesome River Band / Turn On A Dime / Mountain Home
• Don't Look Good Naked / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• The Legend Of Jennie Wade / Lonesome River Band / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• The Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• A Picture Of Three Children / Russell Moore / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• You, You, You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Too Late For Goodbye / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / On Down The Line / Compass Records
• The Old Grey Goose / Red Belcher & the Kentucky Ridgerunners / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP Records [feat. Tex Logan on fiddle & vocal]
• Kentucky Is Only A Drema / Red Belcher & the Kentucky Ridgerunners / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP Records [feat. Tex Logan on fiddle]
• Talkin' To The Wall / James King / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• Flat Creek / Chris Jones & the Nightdrivers / Cloud Of Dust / GSM Records
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King & The Father / MME
• Carolina Mountain Home / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• Fling Ding / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• I'm Gonna Love You One More Time / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Walking In The Early Morning Dew / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Make Him A Soldier / Whitstein Brothers / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder
• Fountain Of Love / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Gospel Plow / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Cuts, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I Am The Road / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• My Lord's Going To Set Me Free / Junior Sisk / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Radiothon 2015 wrap-up & playlist - 4/19/2015

Jim demonstrates the 50-LP
capacity and sturdiness of the WHUS
Radiothon tote

Another Radiothon has come and gone at WHUS, and we're delighted to tell you that with your wonderful support, we were able to raise right around $2,000 for WHUS during our two weeks of fundraising!  Thanks so much for your kind and generous contributions!  

As always, we need to extend our thanks to some fine record labels who gave us a whole lot of support during Radiothon.  For their top-notch contributions, we thank Mountain Fever Records, Mountain Home, Patuxent Music, Rebel Records, and Rounder Records.  An informal poll of our most popular music premium requests seems to point to the Gibson Brothers' "Brotherhood" being the most popular title.  That hardly seems too surprising to us...

While we generally limited our playlist to selections from the premiums available for Radiothon this year, we also included a whole bunch of songs form a 20-year-old-but-still-wonderful collection from Rebel Records celebrating their 30th anniversary as a record label ("Rebel Records--35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass").  In fact, we gave away a copy of that 4-CD box set, as well as a copy of Phil Zimmerman's delightful photo book called Bluegrass Time, as part of a special drawing at the end of Radiothon.  The winner's name was drawn from all of the names of folks who had made a pledge during Bluegrass Cafe for Radiothon this year.  

All three phones busy during Radiothon Week #1

Once again, we need to thank our fabulous phone operators for 2015:  Cathy Ward, Clyde Proch, Scott Farrar, and Eleanor Orlomoski.  Even our fellow long-time WHUS broadcaster, John Veseskis, was able to help us a bit -- big THANKS to all of them!

We strayed from the Radiothon selections for a few minutes on Sunday afternoon by playing songs from some recently released (or soon-to-be-released) recordings.  Among those selections came music from Big Country Bluegrass, Ronnie Reno, Cedar Hill, Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle, and Feller & Hill.  We also heard new music from two New England performers:  the first CD from a Massachusetts banjo picker, Michelle Canning, and a track from the forthcoming debut project from Bear Minimum (an offshoot of the Bear Bridge Band).  

Next Sunday's show will feature LOTS of music and very little talk.  Hope you'll consider joining us following the UConn Baseball broadcast on Sunday afternoon.

Amy


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Amelia Earhart / Country Gentlemen / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Cold Wind / Roy McMillan / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• That Was Then, This Is Now / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Gonna Catch A Train / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Paddy From The Turnpike / Don Bryant / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• Purple Creek / Casey Henry / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• Letters Have No Arms / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• Bonnie Brown / Lonesome River Band / Too / Mountain Home
• I'm Always On A Mountain When I Fall / If I Had A Boat / Rebel
• Cut The Rope / Adkins & Loudermilk / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever Records
• Dream Softly / Volume Five / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• Weep And Cry / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Tennessee Flat Top Box / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Snapshots / Mountain Home
• Poca River Blues / Billy Hurt, Jr. / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent Music
• Used To Be / Larry Rice / If You Only Knew... / Rebel
• Little Laura Mae / Hammertowne / Highways & Heartaches / Mountain Fever Records
• The Bluefield West Virginia Blues / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• Sweet Rosa Lee / Ronnie Reno / Lessons Learned / Rural Rhythm
• They Don't Make Girls Like Ruby Anymore / Cedar Hill / Miss Dixie, Tom T., And Me / Self-Produced
• Leaving Crazytown / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Rural Rhythm
• Little Community Church / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• The Blues Ain't Workin' On Me / Michelle Canning with Rhonda Vincent / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• The Automobile Of Life / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Self-Produced
• The Rock Pile / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Mandolin Twist / Buzz Busby / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Heart & Soul / Gillis Brothers / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Maple On The Hill / Ralph Stanley / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Hillbilly Fever / Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman & the Green Valley Boys / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent Music
• Treasure Of Love / Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman & the Green Valley Boys / 1950-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent Music
• I Wonder If You Feel The Way I Do / Red Allen, Frank Wakefield & the Kentuckians / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• Red Apple Rag / Red Allen, Frank Wakefield & the Kentuckians / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• The Sweetest Gift / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Roll On Big Mama / The Grascals / When I Get My Pay / Mountain Home
• Frost On The Bluegrass / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Thank God For The Highways / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Farewell Blues / Kevin Church / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Patuxent Music

One more Sunday for Radiothon -- 4/19/2015

Today is the last day of Radiothon for 2015 (that we know about, anyway), and so, that means we will have one more three hour session of Bluegrass Cafe in which we ask you for your support of both the program and all of the other broadcasts we offer at WHUS.  If you can help us out with a pledge, please do!  We've got many, many ways of saying THANKS for your gifts, and, as promised, we've got a special end-of-Radiothon GRAND PRIZE that we'll be giving away around 6:55PM this evening.

This year's GRAND PRIZE consists of two wonderful items:  the 4-CD box set celebrating Rebel Records' first 35 years of existence (1960-1995), AND a copy of Phil Zimmerman's fine book of photos, Bluegrass Time:  A Musician's Photographs Of The Early Days Of Bluegrass.  To have your name entered into the GRAND PRIZE drawing, you simply need to make a pledge of support to Bluegrass Cafe sometime between 4:00PM and 6:55PM tonight.  The amount of your pledge can be anything from $5 to $500 or any amount in between.  How do you do that?  Call our wonderful phone operators this afternoon:  1-800-599-9487.  We always love hearing from you, but we especially enjoy knowing that you're listening during Radiothon!  Help us out, if you can!  

If you made a pledge to the show and WHUS during last week's Bluegrass Cafe, your name is already in the drawing for our GRAND PRIZE. 

If you're wondering about what sort of musical premiums we have to offer this year, check out the list posted here.  Keep in mind that the individual recordings donated by Mountain Home are not listed in that link, but suffice it to say, we also have the latest recordings from the Boxcars, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Flatt Lonesome, and a couple others.  Big thanks to all of the record labels who provided recordings for us this year:  Mountain Fever Records, Mountain Home, Rebel, Rounder, and Patuxent Music.  

Jim & I will look forward to hearing from you today...and THANKS!!

Amy

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/12/2015 RADIOTHON WEEK #1

Our loyal, somewhat busy operators on Sunday:
Eleanor Orlomoski, Clyde Proch, & Scott Farrar

It's the Season of Radiothon at WHUS!  If you tuned in to Sunday's show, you KNOW that we didn't play half as much music as we might normally play during a 3-hour broadcast.  While we don't necessarily like to talk, talk, talk all the time (honestly!), Jim and I do enjoy hearing from you during Radiothon.  We don't have any station-suggested goals for fundraising this year, but Jim and I did come up with a totally unofficial goal for our 3 hours on Sunday -- we wanted to make at least $1,000.  Well, thanks to your amazing generosity, we took in nearly $1,200 during our three hours of radio time, so THANKS!!!  

We've got lots of great CDs to offer  -
and some nifty sweatshirts, too!  

Rest easy, of course -- if you didn't get a chance to call in and make a pledge on Sunday, you've still got next Sunday's show to make the commitment to support our college and community radio at WHUS!  

Special thanks to our wonderful record labels who were so generous in supporting our fundraising by donating and/or making available some fine CDs for us at WHUS:  Mountain Fever Records, Mountain Home, Patuxent Music, Rebel, and Rounder Records!  We couldn't do it without you!  Our playlist selections on Sunday were limited to the recordings we have available for premiums -- and there are lots of terrific recordings we were able to showcase there.

Sure hope you can join us for next Sunday's radio show -- Radiothon Week #2!  If you'd prefer to make a pledge during the week, you can do so by visiting this link.

Thanks again!  Enjoy the week!

Amy 




SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Dear Old Dixie / Dick Smith / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• Sawmill Shuffle / Pete Kuykendall / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• Roll Big River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Big Eight Wheeler / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Each Season Changes You / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• What A Wonderful Savior Is He / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Never Let Me Go / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• My Rose Of Old Kentucky / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Snapshots / Mountain Home
• Deep Elem Blues / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• Somebody Loves You Darling / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• You'll Always Be My Blue Eyed Darling / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• The Mirror / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Honky Tonked To Death / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Grassy Fiddle Blues / Billy Hurt, Jr. / Fiddlin' Billy Hurt / Patuxent Music
• The Old Home Town / Monroe Fields with Carol Sauceman & the Green Valley Boys / 1950s-60s Broadcasts / Patuxent Music
• You Turned Forty Years Old / Crowe Brothers / Forty Years Old / Mountain Fever Records
• I've Got The Moon On My Side / Crowe Brothers / Forty Years Old / Mountain Fever Records
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• Her Love Won't Turn On A Dime / Lonesome River Band / Turn On A Dime / Mountain Home
• Georgia Mountain Man / Adkins & Loudermilk / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever Records
• Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies / Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein / If I Had A Boat / Rebel
• I Have Found The Way / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Broken Heart Mended / Hammertowne / Highways & Heartaches / Mountain Fever Records
• Take My Ring From Your Finger / Larry Rice / If You Only Knew... / Rebel
• Cedar City Blues / Eddie Adcock / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music

Coming VERY soon to a radio near you...WHUS Radiothon 2015!

As you may have heard, the 2015 edition of Radiothon begins this coming Saturday, April 11th at WHUS.  This means that we will have two Sundays of fundraising, and we will be looking to you for some financial support from you.  In years past, we've done extremely well during Radiothon, and we've been honored to know that Bluegrass Cafe is the LARGEST fundraising music program at WHUS!  Not sure if that will prove to be true again this year, but to "entice" you a bit to support our program once more, we've been accumulating some wonderful recordings to offer you as "thank you" gifts!  While we're still gathering a few more recordings, so far we have these delightful CDs (multiple copies of a few of them):

• Adkins & Loudermilk - "Adkins & Loudermilk" (Mountain Fever Records)
• Red Allen & Frank Wakefield - "The WDON Recordings, 1963" (Patuxent Music)
• Crowe Brothers - "Forty Years Old" (Mountain Fever Records)
• Monroe Fields with the Green Valley Boys - "1950s-60s Broadcasts" (Patuxent Music)
• Victor Furtado - "Victor Furtado" (Patuxent Music)
• Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein - "If I Had A Boat" (Rebel Records)
• Gibson Brothers - "Brotherhood" (Rounder Records)
• Hammertowne - "Highways & Heartaches" (Mountain Fever Records)
• Billy Hurt, Jr. - "Fiddlin' Billy Hurt" (Patuxent Music)
• James Leva - "All Over The Map" (Patuxent Music)
  
• Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers - "Another Day From Life" (Rebel Records)
• Larry Rice - "If You Only Knew:  The Best Of Larry Rice" (Rebel Records)
• Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice - "Trouble Follows Me" (Rebel Records)
• Spinney Brothers - "Tried & True" (Mountain Fever Records)
• Springfield Exit - "That Was Then" (Patuxent Music)
• Various - "The Patuxent Banjo Project" (Patuxent Music)
• Volume Five - "Voices" (Mountain Fever Records)

Our thanks to Mountain Fever Records, Mountain Home, Patuxent Music, Rebel Records, and Rounder Records for their kind support of Radiothon!  We look forward to thanking YOU on Sunday with one of these great CDs -- or perhaps, one of our other WHUS "thank you" gifts for Radiothon.  Join Jim and I on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM, won't you?  

Thanks!  

Amy

Playlist - 4/5/2015

Hi Folks.

Just prior to the show I read a remembrance of a live Bill Monroe concert by Everett Alan Lilly who had been recruited while a teen to play bass for the October 1964 gig.  Everett had just discovered several recordings from the concert were on a disc of live Monroe recordings from Smithsonian Folkways, and was elated to be able to hear now what had been a memory for more than fifty years. After reading that story, I had to begin the show with "Raw Hide" and "Y'all Come" from that concert.

We introduced some new music on this show including songs from Steve Gulley and New Pinnacle and Ronnie Reno.

Other newer music included tracks from The Gibson Brothers, Becky Buller, Cody Shuler, Adkins & Loudermilk, Tommy Brown, Volume Five, Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman, and Mountain Faith. 

We had a vinyl set selected from our Heritage Corner archives that included gems from Benny and Vallie Cain, Nolan Faulkner and James Miller, Phyllis Boyens, The Doug Dillard Band, Bill Hall & Northwind, Don Stover, and Hylo Brown (we played Hylo's only studio recording of his Grand Ole Opry Song, recorded 1977.)

Additional Heritage Corner material included Larry Richardson & Red Barker, Red Allen & Frank Wakefield, Jimmy Martin, The Church Brothers, Dee Stone, Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, The Stanley Brothers, J. D. Jarvis, and in the week of the 56th anniversary of the first performance of a bluegrass band at Carnegie Hall, we saluted Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys.  We'll get the actual recordings of that concert on a future show as we dig them out of the Heritage Corner archives.

The closing inspirational and gospel set carried a Good Friday/Easter theme in observance of the day.

Radiothon will cover the next two Sunday shows, so listen for the whole gang as we encourage you to support WHUS -- the station that allows us to bring you this great music.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys / Raw Hide / Live Recordings 1956-1969: Off the Record Volume 1 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys / Y'all Come / Live Recordings 1956-1969: Off the Record Volume 1 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Alex Leach / Heart Specialist / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• The Gibson Brothers / Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Ben and Eric Marshall / Just as Sure as the Stars Are Above  / Grass Roots Project / Ben and Eric Marshall
• Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Walking With You In My Dreams / Side By Side / Rebel
• Becky Buller / Southern Flavor / 'Tween Earth And Sky / Dark Shadow 
• Larry Richardson & Red Barker and the Blue Ridge Boys / Happy Love / Larry Richardson & Red Barker and the Blue Ridge Boys / Old Blue
• Red Allen, Frank Wakefield and The Kentuckians / Alone And Forgotten / The WDON Recordings 1963 / Patuxent
• Lonesome River Band / Her Love Won't Turn On a Dime / Turn On a Dime / Mountain Home
• The Dillards / Never See My Home Again / Live!!! Almost!!! / Elektra
• Rhonda Vincent w. Daryle Singletary / (We Must Have Been) Out of Our Minds / Only Me / Upper Management
• Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Our Darling's Gone / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Ronnie Reno / Rosa Lee / Lessons Learned / Rural Rhythm
• Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Leaving Crazytown / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Rural Rhythm
• Windy Hill / My Little Darlin's Shoes / Lonesome Garbage Man / Self Released
• Cody Shuler / Listen to the Hammer Ring / Cody Shuler / Rural Rhythm
• Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers / Chalk Up Another One / Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 / Bear Family
• Adkins & Loudermilk / Backside of Losing / Adkins & Loudermilk / Mountain Fever
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / The Sunny Side Of Town / On Down The Line / Compass Records
• The Spinney Brothers / Thank God for the Highways / Tried & True / Mountain Fever
• Larry Gillis / Little Rose / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• The Church Brothers and Their Blue Ridge Ramblers / Way Down In Ole' Caroline / Bluegrass - Historic Cuts Selected For Quality / JSP
• Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / I Overlooked an Orchid / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys / Short Life of Trouble / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style / Smithsonian Folkways
• Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Goin' Back to My Kentucky Country Home / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Take a Look / Steve Gulley; New Pinnacle / Rural Rhythm
• Jackson & Stiltner / Roaring Creek / Tribute To Bill Napier / Self Released
• Benny and Vallie Cain / Rainbow In My Dreams / More of Benny and Vallie Cain / Rebel
• Nolan Faulkner and James Miller / Afraid To Be Afraid / Nolan Faulkner and James Miller / Old Homestead
• Phyllis Boyens / Hewed Out Of The Mountain / I Really Care / Rounder
• The Doug Dillard Band / Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms / Jackrabbit! / Flying Fish
• Bill Hall and Northwind Bluegrass / When I Miss Her Most Of All / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead
• Don Stover & Friends / Tom Dooley / My Blue Ridge Memories / White Oak
• Hylo Brown / The Grand Ole Opry Song / A Tribute to My Heroes / Atteiram
• Jimmy Martin / Fire On The Mountain / Live / RockBeat
• Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Lonesome Reuben [bed] / Purely Instrumental / Self-released
• Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Warren's Reel [bed] / Purely Instrumental / Self-released
• Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Old Dubberchase [bed] / Purely Instrumental / Self-released
• Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Leaving This Town / Randm
• Volume Five / Crazy Night / Voices / Mountain Fever
• Mountain Faith / Each Passing Day / Blue / Mountain Fever
• Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / One Kiss Away from Loneliness / She Left Me Standing On a Mountain / Blue Circle
• Rob McCoury / We Could / The 5 String Flamethrower / McCoury Music / RED
• Dee Stone And His Virginia Mountain Boys / Highway 202 / Bluegrass - Historic Cuts Selected For Quality / JSP
• The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Stone Was Rolled Away / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• J. D. Jarvis / Scarlet Purple Robe / Bluegrass Hymn Time / Jewel
• The Stanley Brothers / From The Manger To The Cross / The Early Starday-King Years 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Rhonda Vincent / Old Rugged Cross / Performs Songs From The House With The Red Light / Upper Management
• Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / I Heard the Cry from the Cross / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M
• The Bluegrass Band / This World Is Not My Home / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler
• Cody Shuler / The Day Love Was Nailed To a Tree / Cody Shuler / Rural Rhythm
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Shouting On the Hills of Glory / Diamonds In The Rough / Flaming Heart
• Jimmy Martin / Voice Of My Savior / Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released