"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/24/2013

This time of year, there are generally lots of sports preemptions at WHUS, as the UCONN Basketball teams are usually getting ready for tournament time, and the Baseball team's season is just beginning.  We understand that WHUS is a college radio station, and it stands to reason that the Sports Department is really keen on broadcasting as many games from as many UCONN sports as possible.  We won't lie, though:  preemptions stink.  It would be great if we could have a more consistent programming schedule, but I'm afraid that just isn't going to happen.  So...we'll make this work as best as we can, and we'll keep you as up-to-date on preemptions as we can.  Generally, the best way for you to find out about Bluegrass Cafe being preempted is by checking out our Facebook page.  If you're on Facebook, give our page a "like," and if you're not on Facebook, you can still check out our Facebook page.  Do it by visiting www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe

Today's Bluegrass Cafe got a late start (beginning at 4:58PM), as we had to wait for the conclusion of a rain-delayed baseball game that was supposed to finish at 2PM.  We tried to make the most of the time that was left, though -- hope you agree.  Our unofficial "Star of the Day" was the late Don Reno, who would have celebrated his 86th birthday on February 21st.  Not only was Reno an incredibly innovative banjo picker who made some top-notch records with partner Red Smiley (and later, Bill Harrell), but he also is credited with writing more than 450 songs.  A lot of these songs have become Bluegrass standards, and I suppose it would have been quite easy to fill up the whole show with the music performed and/or written by Don Reno, but we limited ourselves to eight selections over the course of the show.  

Don Reno isn't the only Bluegrass/banjo legend who celebrates a birthday in February.  The one and only Ralph Stanley turns 86 years old on February 25th, so we couldn't get through the show without playing a couple of Ralph Stanley-penned songs -- one instrumental and two vocals.  

As always, new music made up a large portion of our playlist -- some of it was very new.  The group called Volume Five has a brand new CD on Mountain Fever Records called "Run," and we picked out two of the songs from that fine collection.  Also from Mountain Fever was a song from a forthcoming recording by The Expedition Show called, "Stormy Horizons."  The most unique debut recording this week came from a new band called The Rosenthals, which features former Seldom Scene singer/guitar player, Phil Rosenthal on guitar and banjo, and his son, Daniel, on trumpet.  It's a very different combination, for sure, but it seems to work nicely.  The band made its "debut" last weekend on the Showcase Stage at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, and their new recording is called, "Fly Away."  Other newer music on Sunday's show came from Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show, Flatt Lonesome, Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson, Connecticut's Grass Routes, the Spinney Brothers, Nightflyer, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, and Ronnie Bowman (from the Rural Rhythm Civil War-themed collection, "God Didn't Choose Sides").

Phil & Daniel Rosenthal on the
Joe Val Showcase Stage - 2/16/2013

Hope you'll be able to join Jim on the radio next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM, and don't forget to listen to James & Cathy Ward's "Bluegrass Rules" on Thursdays now:  7-8PM.  

Have a fine week - 
Amy O.











SONGS WRITTEN OR CO-WRITTEN BY DON RENO IN RED 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Know You're Married But I Love You Still / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King 
• Maybe You Will Change Your Mind / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder 
• Tennessee Cut-Up Breakdown / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle 
• Another Night / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder 
• Julie / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• Stormy Horizons / The Expedition Show / forthcoming CD / Mountain Fever Records
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge
• Pretty Polly / The Rosenthals / Fly Away / American Melody
• Rambler / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• Another Night / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson with Russell Moore / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Ground Speed / Kenny Ingram / Foggy Mountain Special / Rounder
• I Don't Want Another You / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Looking For A Smile In A Heartache / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Helen / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Dickenson County Breakdown / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder
• Lonesome Without You / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I Worship You / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Rebels Ye Rest / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Walkin' The Country / Nightflyer / Nightflyer / Kang Records
• The Lady In Gray / Ronnie Bowman / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Another Lonely Day / Lou Reid & Carolina / Callin' Me Back Home / KMA Records
• The Hills Of Tennessee / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe
• Drifting And Dreaming / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• Dixie Breakdown / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage 
• Since I've Used My Bible For A Roadmap / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 
• Mother's Bible / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder 
• Brighter Mansion / Longview / Longview / Rounder 
• Lord Lift Me Up / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / So Much In Between / Mountain Home
• Oh Ye Must Be Born Again / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder
• Wings Of Angels / Stanley Brothers / Southern Gospel & Bluegrass / Gusto
• Open Up The Window, Noah / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 2/17/2013

Hi Folks.

What a great weekend for bluegrass in New England.  This of course was because it was Joe Val Bluegrass Festival weekend.  I drove down from the festival just in time to do this show.  Perhaps you heard it if you had your radio tuned to WHUS as you drove home from the festival.

We led the show with a 1967 live recording from The Charles River Valley Boys -- fitting because the CRVB had just received the Heritage Award at the Joe Val festival, and Joe Val himself was the mandolin picker and lead/tenor singer in the group at the time.  A couple more tracks from that performance made their way into the playlist throughout the show.

A good number of the artists represented on this show had made appearances at the Joe Val festival, including James King, Grammy award winning Steep Canyon Rangers, Audie Blaylock and Redline, Dale Ann Bradley, the Seldom Scene, and Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass who had played two blistering sets on Saturday.

A song from Dennis Cash's new Carter Family tribute CD made its debut on this show as well as a song from the new solo effort from Mike Andes.

Other newer music included songs from Lonesome River Band, The Spinney Brothers, Ray Edwards, Grasstowne, Cumberland Gap Connection, Nightflyer, Clay Hess, Missy Werner, and Rhonda Vincent.

The Heritage Corner had several gems for this show.  One was a rare recording from New England music and television personalities Judy & Whitey -- Judith Ann Reed and  Vernon Carrier -- with Bob French on the banjo and Richie Brown on bass.  Another classic piece was an instrumental from The McCormick Brothers.  We had a gospel number from a mid-60's LP by Carl Story, a track from the Country Gentlemen's first LP, and a 1961 recording from The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover.

Amy will be back next Sunday making the banjos and fiddles ring.  Be sure to tune in.

Jim Beaver

Here are some photos of bands playing the Joe Val festival this year.  The playlist follows.

The Charles River Valley Boys receiving the Heritage Award
Jim Field, Bob Siggins, Gerry Katz (BBU), John Cooke, Ethan Signer, Everett Alan Lilly

Ashley Lilly singing with the Charles River Valley Boys

Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass with Ryan Paisley on mando
"Intensely Traditional"

Dale Ann Bradley with Steve Gulley and the return of Phil Leadbetter (dobro)

The Seldom Scene
Ben Eldridge, Lou Reid, Ronnie Simpkins (hidden), Dudley Connell, Fred Travers

Song / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• New Muleskinner Blues / The Charles River Valley Boys / Live At The Y-Not / Self-released
• Gettin' Over You / Lykens Valley Bluegrass Band / Nails & Glue / Self-released
• Leavin' / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Cabin On A Mountain / Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent
• Rescue Me / Steep Canyon Rangers / Nobody Knows You / Rounder
• Stormy Horizons / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm
• Somewhere South Of Crazy / Dale Ann Bradley / Somewhere South Of Crazy / Compass
• The Shape I'm In / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Sweet Sunny South / The Osborne Brothers / Twenty Songs Of The South / Pinecastle
• Little Annie / The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots - 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Nightwalk / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent
• Long Gone / The Lonesome River Band / Chronology Volume Three / Rural Rhythm
• Katy Daley / Lonesome River Band / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill
• Walkin' The Dog / Shady Creek / Get Your Feet Wet / Self-released
• I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky / Judy & Whitey / Pioneer Valley Jamboree / Jay-Vac (LP)
• Worried Man Blues / Tommy Brown & The County Line Grass / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• Memories / The Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever
• The Leaves Mustn't Fall / Lykens Valley Bluegrass Band / Nails & Glue / Self-released
• Road Into Town / Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent
• Sad Old Train / Seldom Scene / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill
• Too Late To Cry / Ralph Stanley feat. George Shuffler and James King / Reunion / Wango
• I'll Meet You In The Morning / The Charles River Valley Boys / Live At The Y-Not / Self-released
• My Name Is Jimmy Martin (Do You Remember Me?) / Ray Edwards & Hard Rock Mountain / Portrait Of A Bluegrass Songwriter / Rural Rhythm
• This Old Guitar And Me / Grasstowne w.Ronnie Bowman / pre-release single / Mountain Fever
• Storm Of Love / Mike Andes / The Songs I Sing / Self-released
• John Dig A Hole / Cumberland Gap Connection / Another Song / Mountain Fever
• Landslide Special / The McCormick Brothers / Hot Bluegrass Rhythm / Bronco Buster
• Silver Tongue and Gold Plated Lies / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• She Left Me Standing On The Mountain / Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Gold Rush (bed) / Various feat. Mike Scott / Blue Moon of Kentucky / Rural Rhythm
• I Saw The Light (bed) / Various feat. Mike Scott / Blue Moon of Kentucky / Rural Rhythm
• Boots Of Spanish Leather / Seldom Scene / Scene It All / Sugar Hill
• Gold Watch And Chain / Taylors Grove / Keep On The Sunny Side / Fishtraks
• If I Fall / The Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-released
• Anchored In Love / Dennis Cash / Play Me A Carter Family Song / Blue Circle
• Sad Wind Sighs / Nightflyer / self-titled / Kang
• Against The Grain / Clay Hess / Rain / Kang
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / The Charles River Valley Boys / Live At The Y-Not / Self-released
• Standing In The Need Of Prayer / The Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs and Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Martha And Mary / Nu-Blu / Nail By Nail / Pinecastle
• God Needed My Mother / Ralph Stanley II / Born To Be A Drifter / Stanley Generation
• Music To My Ears / Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder / Music To My Ears / Skaggs Family
• Lord Protect My Soul / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak
• Lay My Body Down / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Day / Self-released
• His Promised Land / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' LIVE! / Upper Management
• Precious Moments / Carl Story & The Rambling Mountaineers / There's Nothing on Earth that Heaven Can't Cure / Starday (LP)
• Walking And Praying / Sweet Potato Pie / Journey Called Life / Mountain Fever
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/10/2013

On Sunday, the show was reduced to 90 minutes, as there was a UCONN Women's Basketball game on the air until 5:30PM.  The goal for the condensed show remained the same, though:  play a bunch of newer songs, as well as a set showcasing some of the performers to be featured at next weekend's Joe Val Bluegrass Festival in Framingham, MA.  Mission accomplished on both goals, I do believe.

New music from the Flatt Lonesome debut
recording made Sunday's shortened show

The new music came from some very good new projects from a Kentucky/Virginia-based band called Cumberland Gap Connection, a live recording from the duo of Mike Compton & Joe Newberry, and the recording debut of an exciting young Florida band featuring three siblings, Flatt Lonesome.  We also played a story song from a new Rural Rhythm project about the Civil War:  "God Didn't Choose Sides:  Civil War True Stories About Real People."  No doubt, we'll be hearing lots more from each of these fine projects.  Other performers with newer songs (less than a year old) which made it on to our short Sunday playlist:  Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Robert Hale, the Spinney Brothers, Ray Edwards (with Keith Pyrtle), and Connecticut band, Grass Routes.

It's a good thing the Blizzard of 2013 happened this past weekend, as the weather reports I've seen said that the Framingham, MA area received upwards of 30+ inches of snow.  Yikes.  Hopefully, the snow will be mostly cleared away by the time the 28th Annual Joe Val Bluegrass Festival takes place from February 15-17 at the Sheraton Framingham.  Hotel rooms have been sold out for a while, but single day tickets are still a possibility.  If you need more information on the festival, please visit the Boston Bluegrass Union's website or call their hotline:  (617)782-2251.  Whether you're Framingham-bound or not, we shared a bit of music from a few of the performers scheduled to play the Main Stage and/or Showcase Stage next weekend, including Audie Blaylock & Redline, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, the Seldom Scene, the Bluegrass Gospel Project, Too Blue, and Dale Ann Bradley.  (Incidentally, if you're in the Hamden, CT area this Friday evening - February 15th - you may wish to check out Dale Ann Bradley's show at the Outer Space.  More info on this GuitarTownCT show can be found by clicking here.

Sunday was the night of the Grammy Awards ceremony and broadcast in Los Angeles.  The Bluegrass Grammy category featured five nominees, and we played music from two of these nominees to kick off the slightly-abbreviated gospel set on Sunday:  Dailey & Vincent (from their Cracker Barrel release, "The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent") and the Special Consensus (their "Scratch Gravel Road" was released by Compass Records).  After the show was over, it was announced that the Bluegrass Grammy winners for 2013 were the Steep Canyon Rangers for their Rounder recording, "Nobody Knows You."  Congratulations to them, and to all of the nominees!  Look for the Steeps playing at Joe Val this Friday night, too!

Hope everyone has a calm, blizzard-less week, and be sure to join Jim next Sunday afternoon for what we hope will be a full three-hour edition of the "Bluegrass Cafe" from 4-7PM.  

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe &  His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Six Feet Of Snow / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• When The Snow Falls On My Foggy Mountain Home / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rebel
• A Picture Of Three Children / Russell Moore / God Didn't Choose Sides:  Civil War True Stories About Real People / Rural Rhythm
• Rambler's Blues / Cumberland Gap Connection / Another Song / Mountain Fever Records
• East Tennessee Blues / Mike Compton & Joe Newberry / Live / Self-Produced
• I'm Blue / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge
• Walking The Floor Over You / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio / Pinecastle [in honor of Ernest Tubb's birthday, 2/9/1914]
• Newton's Grove / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm
• I Been Walkin' / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Travel, Travel On / Bluegrass Gospel Project / Shine / Vital Records
• I Fall To Pieces / Too Blue / Trouble With The Grey / Self-Produced
• Blue And Lonesome / Seldom Scene / Scene It All / Sugar Hill
• In Despair / Dale Ann Bradley / Somewhere South Of Crazy / Compass Records
• Heartache Looking For A Home / Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• Waves Of Sorrow / Robert Hale / Pure & Simple / Lonesome Day Records
• Cabin On A Mountain / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• The Fourth Man In The Fire / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel
• On The Way To The Kingdom Land / Special Consensus / Scratch Gravel Road / Compass Records
• He Can Be Found / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Journey To My Savior's Side / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• Will I Stand On The Rock Of Ages / Keith Pyrtle & Ray Edwards / Portrait Of A Bluegrass Songwriter / Rural Rhythm
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Move On / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 2/3/2013

Hi Folks.

The scuttlebutt around the WHUS Bluegrass Cafe studio was that there was some kind of professional athletic event taking place somewhere far away from New England at the same time this show aired.  With such inspiration, we provided a great program of bluegrass for listeners with the wisdom to know they could listen to our show and get everything they needed to know about that far-flung event online in just minutes after its conclusion. :-)

Clockwise from upper left:  Bill Emerson, Cliff Waldron,
Ed Ferris, Bill Poffinberger, Mike Auldridge

Highlights included a rock-and-roll-turned-bluegrass set that included songs that saw their first light in blues and rock & roll, but tranlated to bluegrass quite well thanks to master artists Bill Emerson, Cliff Waldron, The Grass Cats, Larry Cordle, and Balsam Range.

We also heard the 2005 Song of the Year from Phil Leadbetter who will be performing with Dale Ann Bradley and Steve Gulley a couple of times in New England this month.

Marty Raybon's new single debuted on this show as well as a couple of tracks from the new CD produced by Nathan Stanley of various artists like Vince Gill, Rebecca Lynn Howard, and Ricky Skaggs performing songs in tribute to living legend Dr. Ralph Stanley.

Gary Ferguson

We heard an early version of Long Black Veil from The Country Gentlemen followed by the new sequel by Akira Otsuka.

Gary Ferguson provided a song from his Gunny Sack about a common affliction amongst traveling bluegrass bands -- Road Tired and Brain Dead.  The late Mike Auldridge provided the great pedal steel backup.

Other newer music included songs from The Grascals, Spinney Brothers, American Drive, Kathy Kallick Band, Audie Blaylock, Finnders and Youngberg, Jerry Salley, Carolina Road, David Peterson, Dailey & Vincent, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Ralph Stanley II, Mickey Boles, and Larry Gillis.

Molly O'Day

The Heritage Corner brought forth songs from Jimmy Martin and Bob Osborne, Vern & Ray, The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover, and Molly O'Day.

Next Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe will either be partially preempted by UCONN sports or possibly a snowstorm if access to the studio is limited, so my best advice is to tune in at 4pm to see what is in store.

Jim Beaver

requests in red

Song / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• Alcatraz Island Blues / Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent
• Making A Killing / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever
• I Could Change My Mind / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• Hungry Heart / Grass Cats / The Mountains My Baby And Me / New Time
• Fox On The Run / Emerson & Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• They Call Me The Breeze / Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time / Lonesome Skynyrd Time / CMH
• One Way Out / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Lay That Hammer Down / The Grascals / Life Finds A Way / Mountain Home
• California Cotton Fields / Phil Leadbetter / Slide Effects / Pinecastle
• That Janie Baker / Marty Raybon / Single / Rural Rhythm
• Keep On Walkin' / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder
• Pretty Polly / Vince Gill & Rebecca Lynn Howard / A Special Tribute to A Living Legend / Nathan Stanley
• Long Haul Trucking Man / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• Is It Too Late To Settle Down / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• Long Black Veil / The Country Gentlemen / On The Road (and More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• Long Black Jacket / Akira Otsuka / First Tear / Patuxent
• Thinkin' Of Home / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak
• On The Road / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm
• When I Miss Her Most Of All / Bill Hall & Northwind / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead
• Cabin On A Mountain / Vern & Ray / Cabin On A Mountain / Gusto
• Comin' Home To You / Jerry Salley / Showing My Age / Very Jerry
• You'll Never Be The Same / Jimmy Martin & Bob Osborne / Cabin On A Mountain / Gusto
• I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / Jerry Douglas w. Alison Krauss / Slide Rule / Sugar Hill
• Road Tired And Brain Dead / Gary Ferguson / Songs From The Gunny Sack / Gunny Sack
• Carolina In The Fall / Kruger Brothers / Best Of The Kruger Brothers / Self-release
• Sweetest Love / Ralph Stanley w.George Shuffler, James King / Reunion / Wango
• Bluefield / Ralph Stanley II / Born To Be A Drifter / Stanley Generation
• Knob Creek (bed) / Steep Canyon Rangers / Nobody Knows You / Rounder
• Valley Of Peace / Taylors Grove / Keep On The Sunny Side / Fishtraks
• Take Me Home Country Roads / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Bluegrassed / Cracker Barrel
• I Know You're Married But I Love You Still / Carolina Road / Back To My Roots / Rural Rhythm
• Red Hen Boogie / The McCormick Brothers / Hot Bluegrass Rhythm / Bronco Buster
• Dad's Old Rocky Field / The Lewis Tradition / A Special Tribute to A Living Legend / Nathan Stanley
• Fiddlin' To My Grave / Finnders and Youngberg / FY5 / Self-release
• Travelling The High Way Home / Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks / self-titled / Bear Family
• Master's Bouquet / Ricky Skaggs / A Special Tribute to A Living Legend / Nathan Stanley
• Heaven's Jubilee / Lewis Family / Wrapped With Grace And Tied With Love / Canaan
• Shouting Time In Heaven / Kenny And Amanda Smith / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Love Will Roll The Clouds Away / Mickey Boles / Let My Feet Go Runnin' / Self-release
• On The Other Side Of Jordan / David Peterson / Simplicity / Self-release
• Saints Go Marching In / The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
• Noah Found Grace In The Eyes Of The Lord / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side of... / Cracker Barrel
• Ringing Of The Hammer / Larry Gillis / Ringing Of The Hammer / Tinman
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge w. Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-release

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/27/2013

On this last Sunday of January, we started the show a bit later than usual after the conclusion of a UCONN Men's Basketball win over Rutgers University.  The temperature here in eastern Connecticut has barely reached 32 degrees this past week so it seemed quite logical to play songs of a similarly "cold," "icy," or "frozen" nature to start the show.  

New music is generally a pretty big part of our show, and this week was no exception.  In addition to playing a couple of tunes from a brand-spanking new CD by Connecticut Bluegrass band, Grass Routes ("Bailey's Deal"), we also included music from Bob Amos, American Drive, the Blue Canyon Boys, Dave Adkins & Republik Steele, the Stonemans, the Gentlemen of Blue Grass, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Richard Bennett, Nu-Blu, and Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass.  

Billy Joe Foster was the bass player with
Country Gazette in this 1986 photo.

In addition, we included a couple of songs associated with Billy Joe Foster -- the multi-instrumentalist from Oklahoma who died January 23rd at the age of 51.  Billy Joe Foster was a fine songwriter, and a member of such bands as Special Edition (with Joe Diffie), the Country Gazette, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, and, for a time, Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys. 

A housekeeping note or two:  WHUS has recently changed its online stream, and so, our Engineer advises that folks who have bookmarked the old WHUS webstream might have had difficulty listening online for the last couple of weeks.  The advice is to listen to the stream via the WHUS homepage (www.whus.org).  Also, it should be noted that our Bluegrass Cafe Facebook page is always in need of new folks to click on "like."  We post playlists there, as well as other information on shows, events, fill-ins, and other Bluegrass tidbits which might appeal to folks who "like" the page.  If you're on Facebook, but haven't yet "liked" us, you're more than welcome to do so:  to get there, visit www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe.  Thanks!

Be sure to join Jim next Sunday for another three hours of the best in Bluegrass.  He'll be looking for you...

Have a good week!

Amy 



REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Stone Cold Loneliness / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Cold Icy Fingers / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel
• Love Grown Cold / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Cold Cold River / Hagar's Mountain Boys / Where's The Lonesome / Mountain Fever Records
• Cold Chill Of Gone / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Steeltown Records
• Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Sea Of Regret / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation Bluegrass / Rebel
• Crazy Legs / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• Another Man's Arms / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel
• Some Broken Hearts Never Mend / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• In Memory / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• The Cowboy Lives Forever / The Whites / A Lifetime In The Making / Ceili Music [Cheryl White birthday, 1/27/1955]
• I'm Bringing Home Good News / Darrell Webb Band / Bloodline / Rural Rhythm
• Let Me Fall / Adam Steffey with Dan Tyminski / One For The Road / Sugar Hill
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner with Tom Adams / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Better In Days To Come / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Before You Go / Blue Canyon Boys / Next Go 'Round / Self-Produced
• That's Just The Way I Roll / Dave Adkins & Republik Steele / forthcoming CD / Rural Rhythm
• Rubber Dolly / The Stonemans / The Stoneman Tradition / Patuxent Music
• Your Old Standby / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• The Part Of Lester Flatt / Gentlemen Of Blue Grass / Lester's Flatt / Blue Circle Records
• The Working Man / Shannon Slaughter / The Sideman Steps Out / Self-Produced
• Bird / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak Records
• Roan Mountain Rag / Richard Bennett / Last Train From Poor Valley / Lonesome Day Records
• Born Ramblin' Man / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Memories / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Paddy On The Turnpike / Alan Munde / Blue Ridge Express / Rounder [Billy Joe Foster on bass & fiddle]
• Tennessee Tea / Joe Diffie / Homecoming / Rounder [co-written by Billy Joe Foster]
• Sweetest Love / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Next To Nothing / Dale Ann Bradley / Somewhere South Of Crazy / Compass Records
• I Am Weary, Let Me Rest / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Lonely Ends Where Love Begins / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live At Red, White & Bluegrass / Mountain Home
• Sparta Flash / The Expedition Show / The Expedition Show / Mountain Fever Records
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Mama Don't Allow / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• You Better Wake Up / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Martha And Mary / Nu-Blu / Nail By Nail / Pinecastle
• Welcome In / Jim Eanes / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• I Can Tell You The Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco
• It's Just Like Heaven / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute, Volume II / Mastershield Records
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Paul And Silas / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Yet another Tuesday fill-in - 1/22/2013

To me, one of the most enjoyable things about doing a fill-in program at WHUS is that I get to play music on the air that I wouldn't normally play during the Bluegrass Cafe.  Sometimes that music is from classic country music performers, but in today's case, the emphasis was on a banjo picking legend who celebrated his 75th birthday today, as well as one of the most distinctive voices ever heard in the world of BG who would have turned 78 on January 19th.  Their names:  Virginia Country Music Hall of Famer, Bill Emerson and Bluegrass Hall of Honor member, Charlie Waller.  

Those Classic Country Gents

It's no secret that I heard A LOT of Country Gentlemen music in my "formative" BG years (i.e. the mid-1970s), so it stands to reason that I became a big fan of their music, and by extension, of their lead singer and guitar player.  Charlie Waller never possessed the "high lonesome" voice that people want to associate with the great BG performers, and he was never known as a major songwriter.  Still, his contribution to Bluegrass music is truly legendary, and whenever I get a chance to play a lot of his music, I kind of jump at it.  Did I get to play all of the Country Gentlemen songs I really would have liked to play on Tuesday's show?  Not really, but I think we hit a pretty good sampling of CG music from several different groupings of Country Gents:  the Hall of Fame Classic ones (Waller, John Duffey, Eddie Adcock, Tom Gray), as well as later groupings of Waller with Jimmy Gaudreau, Bill Yates, Doyle Lawson, Bill Emerson, Ricky Skaggs, Kent Dowell, Rick Allred, Darin Aldridge, and others.  I certainly enjoyed the songs I played -- hopefully, others did, too.  

Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie

Birthday boy Bill Emerson figured prominently into Tuesday's program, too.  In addition to being one of the founding members of the Country Gentlemen (part of the group when they played their first gig on July 4, 1957), Bill Emerson has worked with some of the legends of BG.  He spent time working as a sideman with Buzz Busby, Jimmy Martin, and Red Allen, as well as wonderful pairings with Cliff Waldron, the songwriter, Pete Goble, and his Country Current bandmate, Wayne Taylor.  After returning to the Country Gentlemen for a 3-year stint beginning in 1970, Emerson joined the U.S. Navy and became a member of their country band known as Country Current.  Since his retirement from the Navy, Bill Emerson has not really slowed down, either.  His most recent project from his own band (Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie) was named a favorite of 2012 on at least one "Best of" list for the year.  Fantastic.  

Hope you enjoyed today's show, and that you'll consider joining me once again on Sunday afternoon at 4PM for the Bluegrass Cafe.  

Amy

• The Grey Ghost / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Webco
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / This World Is Not My Home / MME
• Shiloh / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Don't Wake Me / Bill Emerson with Red Allen / Reunion / Webco
• Tennessee 1949 / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics / Webco
• Ridin' The High Plain / Bill Emerson / Gold-Plated Banjo / Rebel
• Appaloosa / Bill Emerson & Wayne Taylor / Appaloosa / Webco
• Home Sweet Dixie Home / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie with Bill Evans / The Touch Of Time / Rural Rhythm
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• The Hills And Home / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / King
• Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / King
• A Letter To Tom / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• Little Bessie / Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs And Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• You Left Me Alone / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• The Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Under The Double Eagle / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Redwood Hill / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Willow Creek Dam / Country Gentlemen / The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• Honey Don't / Country Gentlemen / River Bottom / Sugar Hill
• Let Me Fly Low / Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Songs Of The American Spirit / Pinecastle
• Fare Thee Well / Duffey-Waller-Adcock-Gray / Classic Country Gents Reunion / Sugar Hill
• Two Little Boys / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Chilly Winds / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Journey To My Savior's Side / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• Don't Fall In Love With A Girl Like That / The Boxcars / All In / Mountain Home
• The Old Pueblo / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• No Lawyers In Heaven / Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• I'm Walking The Dog / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 1/20/2013

Hi Folks.

Who else but Dolly

This show occurred a day after a slew of birthdays and anniversaries which we recognized in one set of music.  January 19 was the anniversary of the birth of Dolly Parton, Charlie Waller, Jimmy Haley, and the death of John Hardy.

John Hardy hanging - Jan 19, 1894

We played songs by all of these folks except John Hardy, and we let the Lilly Brothers & Don Stover sing about him.

Doyle Lawson and the first Quicksilver
L-R: Terry Baucom, Doyle, Jimmy Haley, Lou Reid

Other great music included a previously unreleased song from the late Jake Jenkins -- banjo picker with Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show -- released on a tribute album of Jake Jenkins songs by Karl Shiflett.  Jake, who died in a plane crash in March 2011, was with Karl from 1993 to 2003.  We also heard from a KSBC album that had not previously been released on CD.

Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show - Jake Jenkins on banjo

Monroe Crossing

New music included a song from a brand new CD from Minnesota bluegrass ambassadors Monroe Crossing.  This appears to be one of the best albums ever from the group.

The Heritage Corner showcased a 1956 song from The McCormick Brothers, The A.L. Phipps Family, and a rare album from the "basement" studio of Ray Davis from 1987 that reunited Ralph Stanley with George Shuffler along with James King.

Newer music was provided by Kathy Kallick Band, Ricky Skaggs, Clay Hess, Ray Edwards, Joe Mullins, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Dewey Farmer & Derwin Hinson, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, The Grass Cats, Lonesome River Band, Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray, Nightflyer, Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, David Peterson, and Nu-Blu.

Be sure to tune in next Sunday when Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring on another great edition of "Bluegrass Cafe."

Jim Beaver 

Song / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• Coffee, Coffee, Coffee / The McCormick Brothers / Hot Bluegrass Rhythm / Bronco Buster
• Blue Monday Morning / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• Time / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak
• Chattanooga / Monroe Crossing / The Road Has No End / Self-released
• Whole Lot Of Loving On My Mind / The Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / A Tribute to Jake Jenkins / KSBC
• Monroe Medley / Byron Berline / Thanks Bill Monroe / Double Stop Music
• Loving You Too Well / Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder / Music To My Ears / Skaggs Family
• Streets Of Chicago / Tommy Brown & The County Line Grass / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• Traveling Down the Blue Road / Clay Hess / Rain / Kang
• My Name Is Jimmy Martin (Do You Remember Me?) / Ray Edwards / Portrait Of A Bluegrass Songwriter / Rural Rhythm
• Jolene / Darlene & Reflections Of Bluegrass / If It Ain't Love / Self-released
• Road Into Town / Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Road into Town / Patuxent
• Bottom Of A Mountain / Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Foggy Mountain Rock / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live at Red, White and Bluegrass! / Mountain Home
• Mighty Mississippi / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / self-titled / Sugar Hill (LP)
• I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / Dolly Parton / Little Sparrow / Sugar Hill
• Mountains And Memories / Country Gentlemen / Souvenirs / Rebel
• John Hardy / The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots - 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Handsome Molly / The Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs and Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Old Joe Clark / Dewey Farmer & Derwin Hinson / self-titled / Patuxent
• Matterhorn / Eddie & Martha Adcock w. Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / It's A Long, Long Road / Rebel
• Long Gone / Lonesome River Band / Chronology Volume Three / Rural Rhythm
• Coat Of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Live And Well / Sugar Hill
• Gentle On My Mind / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Timeless Hits From the Past Bluegrassed / Cracker Barrel
• The Mountains My Baby And Me / The Grass Cats / The Mountains My Baby And Me / New Time
• Been All Around The World / Shady Creek / Get Your Feet Wet / Self-released
• Night Flyer / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• 99 Years (and One Dark Day) / Nightflyer / self-titled / Kang
• Last Goodbye Today / The Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-released
• Ungrateful One / The Steep Canyon Rangers / Nobody Knows You / Rounder
• Bartender / The Grascals / Life Finds A Way / Mountain Home
• Walking The Floor / Sweet Potato Pie / Brand New Day / Mountain Fever
• Rebels Ye Rest / The Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever
• Sweet Dixie (bed) / Bill Emerson / True Bluegrass Banjo / Rebel
• Clinch Mountain Backstep (bed) / Ralph Stanley / True Bluegrass Banjo / Rebel
• Little Rock Getaway (bed) / Jimmy Arnold / True Bluegrass Banjo / Rebel
• Other Side Of The Mountain / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• A Light In The Window Again / Carolina Road / Back To My Roots / Rural Rhythm
• It's Never Too Late / Fred Etheridge w. Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released
• Virginia I Hear You Calling Me / Ralph Stanley II / Born To Be A Drifter / Stanley Generation
• My West Virginia Girl / The Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Collectors Series Volume One / KSBC
• My Gal Is A Highborn Lady / The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed
• Puddle Of Tears / Remington Ryde / The Ryde / Green Valley
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Lee Marcus / Grandpa's Pond / Self-released
• He Is The Troubled Water / Tw2 Of A Kind / single / Self-released
• I Feel Closer To Heaven Everyday / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management
• Let My Feet Go Runnin' / Mickey Boles / Let My Feet Go Runnin' / Self-released
• Away Over In The Promised Land / The Phipps Family / Faith, Love and Tragedy / Smithsonian Folkways
• How Deep The Father's Love For Us / Sleepy Man Banjo Boys / The Farthest Horizon / Self-released
• Are You Washed In The Blood? / David Peterson / Simplicity / Self-released
• Where Did You Get That Water / Nu-Blu / Nail By Nail / Pinecastle
• Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / Ralph Stanley w.George Shuffler, James King / Reunion / Wango
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge w. Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

Another January Tuesday fill-in, 1/15/2013

These Tuesday fill-ins are getting to be a habit -- not sure if that's a good or bad thing, exactly.  On my first Tuesday this month, I went with a Hank Williams theme, and last week, I leaned more towards the Bluegrass.  This week was a mixture, but most of the music played was related in some way to the calendar.

One of the terrific photos in the book from
photographer Jim Marshall shows when
Cash sang, "Greystone Chapel" -- a
song written by inmate Glen Sherley.

One of our highlights on Tuesday was to play several songs recorded by Johnny Cash in his concert at California's Folsom Prison 45 years ago, on January 13, 1968. While Cash had played at Folsom several times before he convinced his record label (Columbia Records) to capture the sounds of Folsom -- those sounds made by Cash, as well as members of his touring road show (June Carter, Carl Perkins, the Statler Brothers), as well as the sounds of the prison itself and the men imprisoned there.  The record was a hit, and a milestone in Cash's lengthy career.  In 2004, Da Capo Press published a fine little book with loads of wonderful pictures from the Folsom concert.  The book is titled Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison:  The Making Of A Masterpiece by Cash biographer, Michael Streissguth, and is worth a read if you've got any interest at all in the career of the Man in Black.

Two Country Music Hall of Famers celebrate birthdays around this week in the month of January:  The Cherokee Cowboy, Ray Price, celebrated his 87th birthday on January 12th, and the one-and-only Dolly Parton will mark her 67th birthday on January 19th.  For Ray Price, we put together a set of music that included him singing a few of his 1950s-era honky tonk tunes, as well as a couple of covers.  Dolly has done a lot of things -- so far -- in her life, including record several Bluegrass-flavored albums in recent years.  Like a lot of classic country singers, many of Dolly's songs that she's written and/or recorded have been covered in the Bluegrass world, so we picked out a few of those this afternoon from performers like the Seldom Scene, Dale Ann Bradley with Marty Raybon, the Gibson Brothers, and the Spinney Brothers.  In addition, it wouldn't have been right not to hear from Dolly, too -- songs she's recorded on her own, as well as a couple of her great duets with Porter Wagoner.

Finally, I got to play a couple of songs from the Rounder recording by the Time Jumpers.  This is a band that sort of defies description, but I couldn't really allow myself to play it during the Bluegrass show, so why not today?  All in all, I thought it was another fun show -- hope it was enjoyed on the other end of the radio, too.

Be sure to join Jim on Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe -- 4-7PM.  He'll be looking for you...

Amy

• Drifting With The Tide / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [recorded January 15, 1952]
• Tennessee Cut-Up Breakdown / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [recorded January 15, 1952]
• Talk To Your Heart / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price / Columbia
• Heartaches By The Number / Jim & Jesse / Our Kind Of Country / Pinecastle
• Invitation To The Blues / Ray Price & the Cherokee Cowboys / In A Honky Tonk Mood / Jasmine
• I've Got A New Heartache / Ricky Skaggs / Country Gentleman / Epic Legacy
• Curtain In The Window / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price / Columbia
• You Done Me Wrong / Willie Nelson / Country Music / Rounder
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Ray Price / Collectors Choice / Columbia
• Lost Highway / Willie Nelson & Ray Price / Last Of The Breed / Lost Highway 
• Folsom Prison Blues / Johnny Cash / Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison / Columbia Legacy
• Blue Suede Shoes / Carl Perkins / Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison / Columbia Legacy
• Flowers On The Wall / Statler Brothers / Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison / Columbia Legacy
• 25 Minutes To Go / Johnny Cash / Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison / Columbia Legacy
• Greystone Chapel / Johnny Cash with June Carter & the Statler Brothers / Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison / Columbia Legacy
• Nothing But The Blues / Time Jumpers / The Time Jumpers / Rounder
• Yodel Blues / Time Jumpers / The Time Jumpers / Rounder
• Dumb Blonde / Dolly Parton / Box Set Sampler / RCA Legacy
• The Last Thing On My Mind / Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton / Duets / Opry Music
• When Someone Wants To Leave / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Holding On To Nothing / Dale Ann Bradley & Marty Raybon / Catch Tomorrow / Compass Records
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• If Teardrops Were Pennies / Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton / All American Country / BMG
• Jolene / Dolly Parton / Opry Country Classics, Volume 1 / Opry Music
• Coat Of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Coat Of Many Colors / RCA Legacy
• On My Way Back To The Old Home / Kevin Richardson & Cuttin' Edge / Kevin Richardson & Cuttin' Edge / Mountain Fever Records
• Smokey Mountain Memories / Spinney Brothers / When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Self-Produced
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Delta Reign / Calm Before The Storm / Mountain Fever Records
• Say You'll Take Me Back / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Shame On You / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• The Old Home Place / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out  / Timeless Hits Of The Past Bluegrassed / Cracker Barrel
• 'Til The End Of The World Rolls 'Round / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records