"Bluegrass Cafe" - 8/25/2013

Sunday's show was our first sports-shortened broadcast in a while, as the WHUS Sports Department is back to work broadcasting a whole lot of the various sports activities that take place at the University of Connecticut.  On Sunday night, a Women's Soccer game took place, so Bluegrass Cafe was a 2-hour show instead of a 3-hour show.  Still, we did our best to cram in as much music as possible, and included birthday tributes to two Bluegrass legends, both of whom were born on August 27th.

The Stanley Brothers with Carter on the guitar.

The first birthday celebrant was the late Carter Stanley, who was born on August 27, 1925.  Though Carter died on December 1, 1966, his legend continues to live on through all of the songs he wrote and his soulful singing voice.  We featured quite a few tunes from the Stanley Brothers most of which were either written or co-written by Carter.  In addition, there were a couple of songs from Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys when Carter was briefly a member of that group in the early 1950s.  We also included a couple of tribute songs from the pen of Tom T. and Dixie Hall about Carter and the Stanley Brothers' impact on the Bluegrass World.

The second birthday celebrant is the one and only J.D. Crowe, who was born on

J.D. Crowe played the 2012 Jenny Brook BG Festival
with the New South (Rickey Wasson in this photo).

August 27, 1937.  Crowe may have retired from his own band (J.D. Crowe & the New South), but even at age 76, J.D. has not totally retired from Bluegrass.  This year, alone, he's been out working several "special appearance" shows with a reunion of the Bluegrass Album Band, as well as in a special group of Bluegrass all-stars known as the Masters Of Bluegrass.  He's been a tremendous influence on many a banjo picker, and will no doubt, continue to be one for years and years to come.  

As we always do, we tried to squeeze in a healthy portion of newer music, too.  This time around, those selections came from the Gibson Brothers, the Spinney Brothers, Balsam Range, Dailey & Vincent, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, the Boxcars, the Expedition Show, Jason Davis, Big Country Bluegrass, Don Rigsby, and Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder.

Be sure to join me once again this coming Sunday for another, full-length Bluegrass Cafe!

Amy




SONG TITLE / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL   --   Requests are RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Roll Muddy River / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• The Train Song / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Down By The River / Larry Gillis & His Hard Driving Bluegrass Band / Swampgrass / Swamp Country Productions
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Deep River Blues / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• I'd Rather Love A Memory / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• At The End Of A Long, Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Sockeye / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Satan's Jeweled Crown / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country
• The Stanley Brothers / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me / Mountain Fever Records
• Sugar Coated Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Let's Part The Best Of Friends / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia
• A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia
• I Wish That I Could Have Met Carter / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Blackjack / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Train 45 / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• Other Side Of The Mountain / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• High In The Mountains / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• You Took All The Ramblin' Out Of Me / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Cheating Game Of The Blues / The Expedition Show / Stormy Horizons / Mountain Fever Records
• Where The Wild River Rolls / Jason Davis with Darrell Webb / Second Time Around / Mountain Fever Records
• Baby, You're Cheatin' / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• The Mountain Doctor / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel
• Who Will Sing For Me / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Shouting Time In Heaven / Kenny & Amanda Smith / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Things In Life / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Music To My Ears / Skaggs Family
• Get Down On Your Knees And Pray / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• Lord Have Mercy On My Soul / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/18/2013

Sunday's radio show was another full one with a few IBMA nominees, Bluegrass birthday tributes to two Country Music Hall of Famers, and some brand spanking-new music, too.  

To start things off, we played several tunes featuring the wonderful Paul Warren, who was announced this week as one of two soon-to-be-inducted members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.  As Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs had broken up the Foggy Mountain Boys long before I ever came to truly appreciate Bluegrass music, it was through Warren disciples such as the Johnson Mountain Boys' Eddie Stubbs where I first heard the name of Paul Warren.  Since the old Flatt & Scruggs TV shows mostly from the early 1960s have been issued on DVD in recent years, I've come to fully appreciate the fiddle work of Paul Warren, and I've been able to realize what an incredible spark he provided for the Foggy Mountain Boys.  What an amazing life he lived, and what an incredible legacy of recordings we can still share!  

The other Hall of Fame inductee for 2013 is the well-revered Tony Rice, and we played a bit of music from him, too.

As the final nominees for IBMA Awards were announced this past week, we also featured a little bit of music from a few of the nominees for awards this year, including the Spinney Brothers, Balsam Range, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, and the Gibson Brothers.  

In addition to short sets of Bluegrass covers of songs originally recorded by

Country Music Hall of Famers Buck Owens (born August 12, 1929) and Porter Wagoner (born August 12, 1927), we also included a good dosage of brand new Bluegrass music.  The newest of the new came from projects by Terry Baucom, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, and Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, but there was also newer music from the likes of the Tuttles with A.J. Lee, Big Country Bluegrass, Hammertowne, and Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers.  We also took a few moments to share a few Bluegrass gospel songs of the Country Gentlemen, as we remembered the one and only Charlie Waller who died on August 18, 2004.  

It was a full show, and an enjoyable one from my end of the microphone.  Hope you agree with this assessment.  

Have a good week!

Amy 


Requests are RED.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Old Leather Britches / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs feat. Paul Warren / Recorded Live At Vanderbilt University / Columbia
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs feat. Paul Warren / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Listen To The Mockingbird / Lester Flatt / Lester Raymond Flatt / Flying Fish
• Fiddle And Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs feat. Paul Warren / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Old Leather Britches / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs feat. Paul Warren / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Goldrush / Tony Rice / The Bill Monroe Collection / Rounder
• Louisville Woman / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Good To See The Home Place Once Again / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• Gentle On My Mind / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Country Hits Of The Past Bluegrassed / Cracker Barrel
• Something Comin' To Me / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Day In The Life Of A Railroad Spike / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Road Into Town / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• My Window Faces The South / The Tuttles with A.J. Lee / Endless Ocean / Self-Produced
• Headin' South / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Sourwood Mountain / Hammertowne / Hammertowne / Mountain Fever Records
• Tennessee Tea / Joe Diffie / Homecoming / Rounder
• There's No Room In My Heart For The Blues / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Goodbye Old Pal / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• No One But My Darlin' / Terry Baucom with John Cowan / Never Thought Of Looking Back / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc.
• That's Kentucky / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Pinecastle
• Barn Burner / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lonely Comes Easy / Rebel
• Tiger By The Tail / The Grascals with Brad Paisley / The Grascals & Friends / Cracker Barrel
• There Goes My Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Sweethearts In Heaven / Reno & Smiley / On The Air / Copper Creek
• Gonna Have Love / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• If Teardrops Were Pennies / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Carroll County Accident / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• Holding On To Nothing / Dale Ann Bradley with Marty Raybon / Catch Tomorrow / Compass Records
• Farewell Wagon Master / Pam Gadd / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions
• Age / Bluegrass Gospel Project / The Blue Morpho / Vital Records
• Sorry County Blues / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume Three / Rural Rhythm
• Is It Too Late To Settle Down / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• If I Lose / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Lovin' On Backstreets / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• Katy Daley / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Daisey Mae / Jason Carter / On The Move / Rounder
• Buck Creek Gal / Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman with Earl Scruggs / A Tribute To Fiddlin' Paul Warren / Self-Produced
• Trainwreck Of Emotion / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
• Waiting For The Boys To Come Home / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Eternal Vacation / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel
• Paul And Silas / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Count Your Blessings / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope
• Calm The Storm / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Land Up In The Air / Special Consensus / 35 / Compass Records
• Meet Me Over On The Other Side / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Get In Line Brother / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems 
• Joy Bells / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/11/2013

While I'm a bit delayed in getting the show playlist for Sunday posted, I'm hoping the old adage of, "Better late than never" will apply here.  It was a big show with birthday celebrations for country and Bluegrass music legends, as well as a Bluegrass tribute to the late Cowboy Jack Clement.

It seemed only fitting to start and end the show in a similar fashion -- with music from the "King Of Bluegrass," Jimmy Martin, who would have celebrated his 86th birthday on August 10th.  Included was music recorded by Jimmy Martin when he worked as a Blue Grass Boy, as well as music he made with his own Sunny Mountain Boys.  We also included a couple of Martin songs recorded by other performers, and two songs written in tribute to Jimmy Martin.  

Sam getting some BBU recognition - February 2011
(photo courtesy Ted Lehmann)

Our other Bluegrass birthday to celebrate was that of New England Bluegrass legend -- and International Bluegrass Music Museum-recognized "Bluegrass Pioneer" -- Sam Tidwell.  Sam's birthday was August 11th, and while he's been gone since the Spring of 2012, he lives on in the hearts of a lot of folks who continue to play Bluegrass music in New England.  We played a couple of songs Sam wrote and recorded with the Kennebec Valley Boys, as well as some of his earliest music he made with his brother, Bob (the Tidwell Brothers & the Cedar Mountain Boys), and a couple of Sam's familiar stories.  

We couldn't let the show pass without remembering a country music songwriting legend who died this past week:  Cowboy Jack Clement.  One of the first bands Cowboy Jack played music with was Washington D.C. Bluegrass legend, Buzz Busby & the Bayou Boys, so he wasn't a completely unfamiliar figure in the Bluegrass world.  We featured a couple of Bluegrass covers of Cowboy Jack songs, and threw in an amusing Johnny Cash song written by Clement.

August is a big month for birthdays of country music legends, too, and while we didn't get to play a whole lot of music from two Country Music Hall of Famers born on August 12th -- Porter Wagoner in 1927 and Buck Owens in 1929 -- we did play a couple of Bluegrass covers of music originally recorded by each of these gentlemen.  We'll play a bit more from their respective catalogs during next week's show.

Lou Reid & Carolina - celebrating
20 years with a new live CD!

If all of the birthday celebrating and such wasn't enough, we still found a little bit of time to squeeze in some newer music, some of it brand-new from projects that have not yet been released.  Among the new this week:  music from Jason Davis, Mark Newton & Steve Thomas, the Spinney Brothers, Peter Rowan, the Expedition Show, Big Country Bluegrass, Don Rigsby, Flatt Lonesome, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, the Rosenthals, Reno & Harrell, and Lou Reid & Carolina.  

Hope you'll be sure to join us next Sunday for another packed edition of Bluegrass Cafe!  

Amy


SONG / TITLE / ALBUM / LABEL (request is RED)

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Mary Ann / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Memories Of Mother And Dad / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• I Cried Again / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin / Koch Records
• Blue-Eyed Darlin' / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• Hold Whatcha Got / Hot Mustard / Live At The Mole Hill Theatre / Howling Cat Records
• Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Gary Brewer / Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Stretchgrass Productions
• My Name Is Jimmy Martin (Do You Remember Me?) / Ray Edwards & Hard Rock Mountain / Portrait Of A Bluegrass Songwriter / Rural Rhythm
• My Walking Shoes Don't Fit Me Anymore / Tidwell Brothers & the Cedar Mountain Boys / single / no label
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• Horse story / Sam Tidwell / Down On The Farm / Self-Produced
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• Show and tell / Sam Tidwell / Down On The Farm / Self-Produced
• Tidwell Pike / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces & Bits / Goose Creek Music
• The Game I Can't Win / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume 2 / Rural Rhythm
• I'd Worship You / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Shamrock / Jason Davis / Second Time Around / Mountain Fever Records
• Everybody's Somebody's Fool / Sierra Hull / Secrets / Rounder
• Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky / Allerton & Alton / Black, White & Bluegrass / Bear Family
• Old McDonald / Mark Newton & Steve Thomas / Reborn / Pinecastle
• Someone I Used To Know / Patty Loveless with Jon Randall / Mountain Soul / Epic
• Got Leavin' On Her Mind / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel 
• I Know One / Barry & Holly Tashian / Straw Into Gold / Rounder
• Spell Of A Freight Train / Ricochet / Ricochet / Rebel
• Miller's Cave / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• The One On The Right Is On The Left / Johnny Cash / The Essential Johnny Cash / Columbia
• Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl / Lou Reid & Carolina / Live At The Down Home / KMA Records
• A Dollar Down / Reno & Harrell / single / John-Boy & Billy, Inc.
• Your Love Is Dying / Reno & Smiley / On Stage / Copper Creek
• Big Marshall / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Keepin' It Between The Lines (Old School) / Peter Rowan / The Old School / Compass Records
• Stormy Horizons / The Expedition Show / Stormy Horizons / Mountain Fever Records
• If Teardrops Were Pennies / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• Howdy Neighbor Howdy / The Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / John-Boy & Billy, Inc.
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Home From The Mills / Northern Lights / Living In The City / Red House Records
• Six More Miles / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• So Blue / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• You're In My Heart / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / This World Is Not My Home / MME
• I'll Fly Away / The Rosenthals / Fly Away / American Melody
• I'm Rollin' Through This Unfriendly World / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• On The Right Side / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge 
• Walking In Good Company / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco
• Pray The Clouds Away / Jimmy Martin / This World Is Not My Home / MME
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/4/2013

Sunday's show included several birthday tributes to country music stars of the past as well as a to a pair of Canadian brothers who currently doing pretty well for themselves on the various Bluegrass charts.  In the former category, we remembered the birthdays of the late Vern Gosdin (a/k/a "The Voice") who was born August 5, 1934.  Though he died in April 2009 at the age of 74, Gosdin is still regarded as one of the greatest country singers of all time, even though he started his musical life as a Bluegrass singer.  In tribute to Vern Gosdin, we played two Bluegrass songs on which he was featured, plus a tribute song written about him and recorded in recent years.

Another country singer who was born this week in the month of August was the Hall of Famer, Webb Pierce.  Pierce was born on August 8, 1921 (or, 1926, depending on your source), and with his tremendously big personality, keen business sense, flashy Nudie suits, and nasal-ish twang, he had a whole bunch of hit records in the 1950s and very early into the 1960s.  Many of Pierce's songs have been interpreted in the Bluegrass World, too, and we featured several of them on Sunday's show from several performers, including the Gibson Brothers, Rhonda Vincent, the Seldom Scene, Ricky Skaggs, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, the Johnson Mountain Boys, Crowe & McLaughlin, the Sidemen, and Webb Pierce himself.  

If you've listened to the Bluegrass Cafe over the last several years, you probably know we've grown very fond of Nova Scotia's Spinney Brothers.  Brothers Allan and Rick have been traveling extensively throughout Canada and the United States since deciding to pursue music full time a couple of years ago.  Their two Mountain Fever Records releases in 2012 and 2013 have produced songs that have reached the top position on both the Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Today song charts.  While the Spinneys have shared a lot of great musical experiences over the last couple of years, they also share a birthday, as they born one year to the day apart from each other:  Allan on August 5, 1965 and Rick on August 5, 1966.  To celebrate their joint birthdays, we heard a few songs from a couple of different records by the Spinneys.

Matt Nozzolio on Dobro played with the Bristol Boys
at Buttery Brook BG Festival, July 2005

It wasn't all about birthdays, though.  Five years ago this week, Matt Nozzolio, a fine Connecticut Bluegrass musician and veteran of several bands, died suddenly.  We remembered Matt with a few musical selections from his last band, the old country trio known as the Bristol Boys.  

As usual, there was a small portion of new-ish music to share on Sunday, too, from performers including Mountain Faith, Volume Five, Big Country Bluegrass, Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge, Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare, Don Rigsby, Sideline, and the Gibson Brothers.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and that you'll consider joining me on the air very soon...

Enjoy the week!

Amy


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL    --    REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Heavy Traffic Ahead / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• Molly And Tenbrooks / Stanley Brothers / Select Songs, 1947-1949 / JSP Records
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Each Season Changes You / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes I & II / Sugar Hill
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• Poor Ellen Smith / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• Blue Yodel #4 / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Sweet Thang And Cisco / Lost & Found / A Ride In The Country / Rebel
• Foggy Mountain Chimes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Walking The Dog / Seldom Scene / Scene It All / Sugar Hill
• Pathway Of Teardrops / Rhonda Vincent / One Step Ahead / Rounder
• I Don't Care / Ricky Skaggs / Country Hits Bluegrass Style / Cracker Barrel
• Slowly / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up / Rounder
• Don't Throw Your Life Away / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Why Baby Why / The Sidemen / Almost Live At The Station Inn / Red Clay Records
• More And More / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• It's Been So Long / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• Fare Thee Well / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Way Down Deep / Ralph Stanley with Vern Gosdin / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Blame It On Vern / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Blind Man / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• I'm On The Battlefield / Mountain Faith / Battlefield / Pisgah Ridge
• See The Big Man Cry / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake / Big Country Bluegrass with Don Rigsby / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Bell Of The Ball / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Rollin' With Tradition / Self-Produced
• The Big Burnsville Jail / Marty Raybon & Full Circle / The Back Forty / Rural Rhythm
• Even Cowgirls Get The Blues / Heather & Shannon Slaughter & County Clare / One More Road / Self-Produced
• Medicine Springs / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• Don't Let My Love Get In The Way / Sideline / Session 1 / Mountain Fever Records
• Silvertown Rag / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced
• Railroad Boomer / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced
• Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• Hot Night In August / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Wild Rose Of The Mountain / Cathy Fink, Laurie Lewis, Marcy Marxer, Molly Mason, Sally Van Meter / Blue Rose / Sugar Hill
• Summer When You First Loved Me / Lonesome River Band / Head On Into Heartache / Mountain Home
• Sadie's Got Her New Dress On / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Old Roman Soldier / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• My Eyes Shall Be On Canaan's Land / Terry Baucom with Doyle Lawson, Jimmy Haley, Lou Reid / In A Groove / John Boy & Billy
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Live At The Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Drifting Too Far From The Shore / BearTracks / BearTracks / AMT Records
• Oh What A Day / Barry Scott & Second Wind / In God's Time / Rebel
• Home On The River / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Filling in for "Bluegrass Rules" - 7/30/2013

An older photo of the Wards in action
taken by Jim in June 2008.

As you probably know, from time to time, I get to do a fill-in radio show for a DJ who's away for the week.  Most of the time, the shows for which I'm filling in normally play some other kind of music.  Today, though, James Ward and his mom, Cathy Ward, were away, so I actually got to play Bluegrass music on a show that normally programs Bluegrass music (they call their Tuesday afternoon show Bluegrass Rules.)  That's kind of a rare treat for me, so the three hours of radio time was devoted to a bunch of different songs, most of which I'd not heard in a while.  There were not really any "special features," but it sure was a fun time.  James and Cathy will be back with you next Tuesday afternoon, 1-4PM.  Join them!  

I'll see you on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM with another edition of Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• I'll Wash Your Love From My Heart / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / JSP Records
• I Don't Care Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Where Is My Sailor Boy? / Lily Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
• Why Do You Treat Me The Way You Do / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Bluegrass Collection / Gusto
• Earl's Breakdown / Reno & Adcock / Rebel Records 35th Anniversary Sampler / Rebel
• Harvest Time / Lost & Found / Rebel Records 35th Anniversary Sampler / Rebel
• Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Live In Japan / Copper Creek
• Timeless And True Love / Rhonda Vincent / Timeless And True Love / Rebel
• Somewhere Between / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Prisoner's Song / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / 25 Years Of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country
• It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe Music
• My Better Years / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Old Slew Foot / BearTracks / Makin' Tracks / AMT Records
• How Could I Explain / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• I'm Not Crying 'Cause You're Leaving / Breaking Grass / Running With The Moon / Self-Produced
• The Lonely Years Belong To Me / James King / Bed By The Window / Rounder
• Giant Squid / Nu-Blu / Ten / Rural Rhythm
• I Can't Like Myself / Gibson Brothers Bluegrass Band / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Something In The Wind / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• True Life Blues / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / O Sister! / Rounder
• Jubilation Day / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder
• Seventeen Cents / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Remembrance Is A Golden Chain / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records
• Home From The Mills / Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein / Home From The Mills / Rebel
• I'll Be Over You / Carolina Road / Ray Edwards:  Portrait Of A Bluegrass Songwriter / Rural Rhythm
• Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• A Carter Family Song / Dennis Cash / Sing Me A Carter Family Song / Blue Circle Records
• Baby You're Cheatin' / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• On That Glorious Day / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Gypsy, Joe And Me / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• North Woods Cabin / Stan Keach / Cry Of The Loon / Ayuh Records
• Cry Of The Loon / Stan Keach / Cry Of The Loon / Ayuh Records
• Slow Down (You'll Hit A Moose) / Stan Keach / Cry Of The Loon / Ayuh Records
• Goin' To China / Stan Keach / Cry Of The Loon / Ayuh Records
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• One Step Ahead Of The Rain / Dawn Kenney / Sing Me Home / Self-Produced
• Your Old Standby / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Tiny Broken Heart / Peg & Ed [Ed Vande Voorde & Dave Shaw] / Lonely Violet / Self-Produced
• Banjo Am The Instrument For Me / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Waiting For The King / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/28/2013

On this last Sunday of July, we didn't really have any notable birthdays to celebrate nor a whole bunch of new music to share.  Instead, we stuck with our usual mix of new and not-quite-as-new music from performers from New England and from outside of New England.  Kind of a vague description, eh?  Hope you enjoyed something you heard at some point, though...assuming you were able to listen to the show this week...

Last week, we featured a lot of music with the subject of traveling and trains, but this week, we put the focus on songs of "home."  Now, this is a pretty common theme in the Bluegrass World, so finding songs for this set was not a hard thing to do.  On Sunday, we played ten songs of home -- nine that were chosen before the show, and one request during the show.  

We didn't really have a "spotlight" record this week, but hearing a song from the 1987 Rounder LP, "The McCoury Brothers" come up on my iPod on Sunday morning was enough inspiration for me to play a couple of tracks from this great record on the air during the show.  If it's not awesome enough to hear Del & Jerry McCoury singing together, their backup band on this record was none other than Johnson Mountain Boys!  You just can't go wrong with that combination, as far as I'm concerned.  Hope you liked it, too.

Among the newer music we heard this week:  a song from a forthcoming CD by Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, as well as CT band GrassRoutes, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Big Country Bluegrass, the Gibson Brothers, Hammertowne, Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome, Don Rigsby, the Daughters Of Bluegrass, and Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice.

Hope everyone has a great week, and if you're so inclined, join me again on Tuesday afternoon at WHUS (1-4PM), as I do a fill-in for James & Cathy Ward's "Bluegrass Rules" program.  Barring that, we'd love you join us for another edition of "Bluegrass Cafe" next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  See you then!

Amy O.


REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Mama Don't Allow / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / In Full Color / Rebel
• Frog On A Lily Pad / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• I Was Left On The Street / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Stone Cold West Virginia / Dave Evans / High Waters / Rebel
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Lonely Ends Where Love Begins / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live At Red, White & Bluegrass / Mountain Home
• Last Chance / Russ Carson / Last Chance / Patuxent Music
• A Heart Never Knows / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Carolina Mountain Home / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• Almost Home / Larry Sparks / Almost Home / Rounder
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky / Rounder
• Home Sweet Home / Rick Spinney with Machaela Taylor / Off The Cuff / Self-Produced
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• My Native Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder
• Anywhere Is Home Again / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Is My Home Still Up There / Special Consensus / Roads & Rails / Shy Town Records
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Going On Home / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sing Me A Song About Jesus / Mountain Home
• Hello Mr. Lonesome / The Grascals / Life Finds A Way / Mountain Home
• Lonely Violet / Peg & Ed / Lonely Violet / Self-Produced
• Comin' On Strong / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Casey Jones / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Better In Days To Come / GrassRoutes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / single / Pinecastle
• Katy Daley / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Something Comin' To Me / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Right Here / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• I'm Longing For My Old Virginia Home / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• This Old Martin Box / Hammertowne / Hammertowne / Mountain Fever Records
• Golden Hair / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Raincoe Music
• Big Spike Hammer / Shady Creek / Volume One / Self-Produced
• Who Will Watch The Home Place / Laurie Lewis / True Stories / Rounder
• The Rambler's Blues / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1947-1949 / JSP Records
• Rambler's Blues / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Rambler's Blues / Sugar Hill
• Rambler's Blues / Cumberland Gap Connection / Another Song / Mountain Fever Records
• Lonesome Fugitive / Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome / Blue Side Of Me / Mountain Fever Records
• Tennessee Truck Driving Man / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• Walk Your Way To Heaven / Southern Rail / Glory Road / Pinecastle
• I Hear My Savior Calling / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Get In The Boat / Daughters Of Bluegrass feat. Jeanette Williams / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
• The Weapon Of Prayer / Louvin Brothers / Songs That Tell A Story / Rounder
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / K-Tel
• Prayers Go Up / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Daniel Prayed / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/21/2013

Ah, July.  It seems like nearly everyone I know has either just returned from a vacation, or will soon be taking one.  One of the people I know on vacation right now is making her way across the USA on a train trip.  Inspired by this idea of trains (as well as taking a cue from another WHUS radio show host earlier in the week who'd played a lot of "road songs" during his program), we opened the show with a few "traveling" songs, and then, spent the rest of the first hour featuring music about trains.  Now, it would have been extremely easy to fill up all three hours -- plus several more, no doubt -- with Bluegrass songs about trains, but we limited ourselves to just 15 songs today.  Next week, maybe we'll consider songs about another mode of transportation...

We were all a lot younger in 1987 or 1988, weren't we?  

While there weren't a bunch of Bluegrass birthdays to celebrate this week, we did mark the 80th birthday of the great Bobby Hicks on Sunday's program, as Bobby turned 80 years old today.  He's had an amazing career both as a Blue Grass Boy (very youthful with Bill Monroe in the "Uncle Pen" clip) tenure in the 1950s, working with Porter Wagoner and in a Las Vegas show in the 1960s, as a pivotal member of the Bluegrass Album Band, and then, spending 23 years working with Ricky Skaggs during country music heyday and his return back to the Bluegrass in the mid-1990s.  These days, Bobby is touring with another Bluegrass supergroup known as the Masters Of Bluegrass, and he seems to still be going strong.  Sounds like a good way to be at 80.



We made sure to get in a good share of newer music today, too, from quite a few performers, including Sutton, Holt & Coleman, the Boxcars, the Kathy Kallick Band, Nu-Blu, Heather & Shannon Slaughter & County Clare, Claire Lynch, Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson, Big Country Bluegrass, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Sideline, and the Gibson Brothers.  

Hope you heard something in Sunday's show that you enjoyed, and that you'll plan to join me once again next Sunday afternoon at 4PM.  

Have a good week!

Amy


REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Travelin' This Lonesome Road / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia
• Travelin' Man / Sutton, Holt & Coleman / Ready For The Times / High Windy
• Traveling Down The Blue Road / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always / Sugar Hill
• Travelling Kind / Country Gentlemen / The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• Passing Of The Train / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Board That Train And Ride / Aubrey Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Lost Highways & Treasured Memories / Old Homestead
• Last Train From Poor Valley / Richard Bennett / Last Train From Poor Valley / Lonesome Day
• New River Train / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1936 / JSP Records
• I Hear A Choo Choo Coming / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• Last Train / BearTracks /  Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Wave Goodbye / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Freight Train Boogie / Bear Minimum / Live At The Finnish Hall / no label
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Old Train / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Runaway Train / Kentucky Wind / Runaway Train / Aztec Records
• East Bound Freight Train / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• The Train Song / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Coal Miner's Blues / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Dark Hollow / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak Records
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Rounder
• Train 45 (Heading South) / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music
• This Land Is Your Land / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• That Road / Nu-Blu / Ten / Rural Rhythm
• It's In My Mind To Wander / Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare / One More Road / Self-Produced
• Wheel Hoss / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder
• Cheyenne / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Faded Love / Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys / New Horizons / Pinecastle
• Fiddle Patch / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder
• Take Me Back To Tulsa / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Dear Sister / Claire Lynch / Dear Sister / Compass Records
• Walking The Floor Over Me / Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• Mash Your Finger / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe Music
• John Deere Tractor / Larry Sparks with Alison Krauss & Dan Tyminski / 40 / Rebel
• Surfside / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• Won't You Think Of Me / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• I'm Afraid To Love You Anymore / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume One / Rural Rhythm
• Little Black Train / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Walking In Good Company / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• Heaven's Bright Shore / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• The Way, The Truth, The Light / Sideline / Session 1 / Mountain Fever Records
• Home On The River / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/14/2013

Today's show was an interesting one, at least from my side of the microphone.  This week, WHUS acquired three shiny new CD players, and while the players are very nice and seem to work well...well, adjusting to new equipment is never quite as smooth of a transition as we might like.  We tried to keep the dead air to an absolute minimum, so hope you heard something you really enjoyed during the show...

Happy Birthday on July 14th to banjo-picking
Richard Underwood!

Beyond making a transition to new equipment, Sunday's show was a big one to celebrate birthdays.  Of course our absolute favorite way to celebrate the birthday of a performer is to play their music, whether it's a little bit or a whole lot.  Birthday celebrants this week included both Rhonda Vincent and the Gibson Brothers' underrated bass player, Mike Barber on July 13th; one of the great banjo pickers for the Johnson Mountain Boys, Richard Underwood (celebrating a birthday today, July 14th), and coming up on July 18th, Wayne Taylor (of Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa and Country Current fame).  

Another birthday boy this coming week is Ricky Skaggs, who will turn 59 on July 18th.  Ricky's been making his mark in the music, whether it was as a 8-year-old guest on the "Flatt & Scruggs Grand Ole Opry Show" back in 1961, working with Keith Whitley for Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys in the early 1970s, winning the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award in 1985 (when country music actually sounded like country music), or making his return to the Bluegrass music after the death of Bill Monroe in 1994.  Ricky has done A LOT in his not-quite-60-years, and come August, you'll be able to read his autobiography:  Kentucky Traveler:  My Life In Music (written with Eddie Dean).  For today, we just listened to a bit of Ricky's music from his time spent with Keith Whitley, J.D. Crowe & the New South, the Country Gentlemen, and with his own Kentucky Thunder band.  

During Ricky's big country career, I got a chance to
see him in concert a few times.  This show as at
Indian Ranch in 1988.

While the emphasis wasn't quite on as much newer music today, we still managed to play a little bit of it.  This time around, it came from several performers, including Chris Davis, Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge, Bob Amos, the Boxcars, Sideline, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, the Snyder Family Band, Balsam Range, the Gibson Brothers, Big Country Bluegrass, the Spinney Brothers, and Dailey & Vincent.  

Hope you enjoyed the show!  Don't forget to email Susan Forbes Hansen of the WHUS "Sunday Night Folk Festival" this week if you want to be part of her drawing for one of five copies of a CD/DVD tribute to Woody Guthrie:  "Woody Guthrie At 100!  Live At The Kennedy Center!"  Send Susan your name and mailing address this week to whusfolk@gmail.com.  There are no strings attached here -- Susan's going to give away five copies of this CD/DVD next Sunday, July 21st, so get your name in to Susan soon...

Have a good week, and if you're in eastern Connecticut, try to stay cool!

Amy


REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'm Walking The Dog / Charles Sawtelle & the Whippets / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Rock Hearts / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Lights On The Hill / Del McCoury Band / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
• Hartfordtown 1944 / Laurie Lewis / Skippin' & Flyin' / Spruce & Maple Music [Hartford Circus Fire anniversary -- July 6, 1944]
• Iron & Diamonds / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Shuckin' The Acorns / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak Records
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Folk Life
• Just Another Broken Heart / Chris Davis / Second Time Around / Mountain Fever Records
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Larry Stephenson with Sam Bush / What Really Matters / Compass Records
• Ridin' The L&N / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Rollin' With Tradition / Self-Produced
• Like The Boys On Music Row / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Backwards And Forwards / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Self-Produced
• Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door) / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• If That Was Love / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / forthcoming CD / Rebel
• The Working Man / Shannon Slaughter / The Sideman Steps Out / Self-Produced
• The Blues Are Still The Blues / Sideline / Session One / Mountain Fever Records
• Blockade Runner / Snyder Family Band / Building Bridges / Mountain Roads Recordings
• The Young Fisherwoman / John Duffey [Country Gentlemen] / The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel
• When The Bloom Is Off The Rose / Rhonda Vincent with Sally Berry & Tensel Sandker / Taken / Upper Management Music
• The Open Road / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Wishing Well Blues / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Sea Of Regret / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• You Are What I Am / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Cracker Barrel
• Irish Spring / Country Gentlemen / The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• Highway 40 Blues / Ricky Skaggs / The High Notes / Cracker Barrel
• You Can't Hurt Ham / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Music To My Ears / Skaggs Family Records
• Five Speed / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Newton Grove / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Raincoe Music
• Over The Hills To The Poor House / Earl Taylor & Jim McCall with the Stoney Mountain Boys / The Best Of Mountain Bluegrass / Rural Rhythm
• You've Got A Lover / Ricky Skaggs / The High Notes / Cracker Barrel
• When I'm Gone / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• Lazy John / April Verch / That's How We Run / Self-Produced
• Loggers In The Short Grass / April Verch / Take Me Back / Rounder
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• God Has Been So Good To Me / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Bad News For The Devil / John Miller / Look To The Light:  Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Row By Row / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• It Won't Be Long / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Jim & Jesse / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• On The Sea Of Life / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder