February 13, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist: Feb 13 & Feb 16

Valentine's Day week! Songs of true love and songs of heartbreak! If you miss it Monday lunchtime, you can enjoy these tasty songs with your dinner on Thursday!
  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / I’ll Love Nobody But You / In The Tradition / Rounder / 1986
  • Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Two Kindred Hearts / It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Day / Raincoe Music / 2011
  • The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tell Me Your Love Is Still True / Twenty Year Blues / Sugar Hill / 2004
  • Leon’s Lone Star Cowboys / You’re in my Heart to Stay / Western Swing Chronicles, Volume 2, Leon Chappelear / Origin Jazz Library / c. 1935, 2002
  • Nell Robinson / Turn Your Radio On / On the Brooklyn Road / Red Level / 2011
  • The Blue Sky Boys / Sweetheart Mountain Rose / In Concert, 1964 / Rounder / 1964, 1988
  • Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Toy Heart / Anthology / MCA / 1962, 2003
  • The Charlie Sizemore Band / Hard Rock Bottom of your Heart / Good News / Rounder / 2007
  • Hank Williams / Cold, Cold Heart / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1950, 1978
  • Frank Wakefield & Buster Turner / You’re the one I see in my Dreams / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP / 1950, 2004
  • Rhonda Vincent & The Rage / Heartbreakin’ Old Achin’ Blues / Ragin’ Live / Rounder / 2005
  • Red Molly / Does My Ring Burn Your Finger? / Light in the Sky / self / 2012
  • Bill Clifton / Dixie Darling / The Early Years / Rounder / 1957, 2011
  • Better Halves / My Internet Date / Tete a Tete / Hillabeanz Music / 2012
  • Robbie Fulks / I Told Her Lies / Lonely Hearts Valentine’s Day Sampler / Bloodshot, Amazon.com / 1995, 2011
  • TriBoro / Good Enough For Now / TriBoro / self / 2004 /
  • Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / Jubilation Day / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
  • Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury / 1958, 2003
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Why Do You Do What You Do? / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
  • The Gibson Brothers / I’ll Love Nobody But You / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Speak Softly You’re Talking to My Heart / Once & For Always / Sugar Hill / 1983
  • Steep Canyon Rangers / Heartbreak Is Real / Deep in the Shade / Rebel / 2009
  • Ricky Skaggs / I Wouldn’t Change you if I Could / Highways & Heartaches / Epic / 1982
  • Lonesome River Band / Tune of a Twenty Dollar Bill / Window of Time / Mountain Home Music / 2006
  • The Louvin Brothers / I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby / Live at the New River Ranch / Copper Creek / 1956, 1988
  • Frank Solivan / Love in my Heart / Selfish Tears / Fiddlemon Music / 2006
  • The Johnson Mountain Boys / Mend This Heart of Mine / Walls of Time / Rounder / 1982
  • Kathy Mattea with Don Williams / Love at the Five and Dime / Walk the Way the Wind Blows / Mercury / 1985
  • Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again / Prime Tyme / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Hot Club of Cowtown / Keeper of My Heart / What Makes Bob Holler? / Proper / 2011
  • The Missy Werner Band / My First Mistake / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
  • Carolina Road / I Know You’re Married, But I Love You Still / Back to My Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Claire Lynch with Jim Hurst / I’m Gonna Love You / I’ll Take Love, Songs from the pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
  • Big Country Bluegrass / I Just Want to Grow Old Lovin’ You / Twenty Years of Grass / Hay Holler / 2007
  • Red Allen, Frank Wakefield & The Kentuckians / Somebody Loves You Darling / Bluegrass / Folkways / 1964
  • The Stanley Brothers / Sweetest Love / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Sony SBME / 1952, 1996
  • Larry Sparks / Those Blue Eyes Don’t Sparkle Anymore / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music / 2007 / Del McCoury, tenor vocal
  • Hank Williams / Baby We’re Really In Love / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

February 12, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist Feb. 6 & Feb. 9

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • David Peterson & 1946 / Some of These Days (You’re Gonna Be Sad) / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
  • Gene & Gayla Mills / Talking to a Stone / If Stones Could Talk / Heart Pine / 2011
  • Johnnie Lee Wills / Rag Mop / Country & Western Classics/ Music & Melody / 1949, 2009
  • The Morgantown Rounders / Big Scioty / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos For Peace / 2006
  • The Traditional Grass / Rest for His Workers / 10th Anniversary Edition / Rebel / c. 1988, 1993
  • Rayna Gellert & Susie Goehring / Edward in the Treetop / Starch & Iron / Heard Her Squeal / 2005
  • Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys / Bound to Ride / Bound to Ride / Rounder / 1979
  • The Manic Mountain Boys / Without any Heart / The Manics Pick on Monahan / CCALS / 2011
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Heartbreak Express / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Pacific Time / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / I Can’t Sit Down / Tell Someone / Rebel / 2006
  • Kenny Smith / Billy in the Lowground / Return / GAT3 / 2011 / with Aubrey Haynie, fiddle, and Adam Hurt, banjo
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Cruel Willie / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008
  • The Orpheus Supertones / Jonah in the Windstorm / Going to Town / Mud Thumper Music / 2011
  • Larry Sparks / Gunfighter’s Revenge / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
  • Katie Wilson / Feels so far Away / Katie Wilson / self / 2009
  • The Kathy Kallick Band / Where is my Little Cabin Home / Between the Holler and the High Rise / Live Oak / 2010
  • Merle Travis / Cane Bottom Chair / Hot Pickin’ /Proper / 1950, 2003
  • Adam Hurt / Josie-O / Earth Tones / Ubiquitone / 2010
  • The Johnson Mountain Boys / Too Late to Say Goodbye / Walls of Time / Rounder / 1982
  • Dailey & Vincent / Cast Aside / The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2012
  • Joe Diffie / Rainin’ on her Rubber Dolly / Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album / Rounder / 2010
  • April Verch / Lost Boy / Verchuosity / Rounder / 2001
  • Hot Mud Family / No School Bus in Heaven / The Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1975, 2010 / The true story of a 1958 school bus wreck. Was a popular Stanley Brothers song about 1959-1960.
  • Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / My Life’s Been A Pleasure / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1941, 2006
  • Red Allen / I Don’t Know Why / Keep on Goin’: The Rebel and the Melodeon Recordings / Rebel / 1965, 2004
  • David Holt / Wildwood Flower / Grandfather’s Greatest Hits / High Windy Audio / 1990
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / One of These Days / Help is on the Way / Horizon / 2008
  • Travers Chandler & Avery County / Let Me Fall / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
  • The Stanley Brothers / Next Sunday Darling is my Birthday / The Early King & Starday Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1959, 2003
  • Blue Moon Rising / Barely Hangin’ On / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm / 2010
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

January 31, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 1/30 & 2/2

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • 23 String Band / Deer Tick / Catch 23 / self / 2011
  • Coty Hogue / Going to the West / To the West / Cello Room / 2009
  • Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice / Train Without a Track / Heartaches & Dreams / Rebel / 2010
  • Sarah Jarosz / Fischer Store Road / Song up in her Head / Sugar Hill / 2009
  • Carolina Road / Sharecropper’s Son / Back to my Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • The Orpheus Supertones / Going to Town / Going to Town / Mudthumper Music / 2011
  • April Verch / Guide Me Home / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
  • Hank Williams / There’ll be no Teardrops Tonight / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007
  • The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2010
  • Bluegrass Album Band / One Tear / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1982, 1986
  • Carl Smith / If Teardrops were Pennies / The Essential Carl Smith, 1950-1956 / Columbia / 1951, 1991
  • The Missy Werner Band / Blue Skies & Teardrops / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
  • The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Teardrops in my Eyes / The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Rounder / 1956, 1977
  • ShoreGrass / Glorious Day / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
  • The Freight Hoppers / Cornbread, Molasses, & Sassafras Tea / Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go? / Rounder / 1996
  • The Gibson Brothers / I Know Whose Tears / Ring the Bell / Compass / 2009
  • Lefty Frizzell / My Rough and Rowdy Ways / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony BMG (Columbia) / 1951, 1997
  • Newfound Road / Damascus Road / Newfound Road / Mountain Home Music / 2002
  • Kentucky Wild Horse / Boatin’ Up Sandy / Spirits of the Lonesome Hills / self / 2006
  • Joe Mullin & The Radio Ramblers / Fair Weather / Hymns from the Hills / Rebel / 2010
  • Chris Stuart / Elvis Stays Home / Angels of Mineral Springs / Backcountry Music / 2002 / What would have happened if Elvis had stayed home?
  • Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Dirty Dishes Blues / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP / 1950, 2004
  • Tim O’Brien / Gonna Try to Make her Stay / Chicken & Egg / Howdy Skies / 2010
  • Ronnie Bowman / Left This Country Boy (Sittin’ All Alone) / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1998, 2009
  • Laurie Lewis / You’ll be Leaving Me / True Stories / Rounder / 1992
  • Chance McCoy & the Appalachian String Band / Rocky Road to Dublin / Chance McCoy & the Appalachian String Band / Appalachian Music Group / 2008
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
  • Big Medicine / Black Jack Grove / Too Old to be Controlled / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2002
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / A Great Big Hand Reaching Down / Tell Someone / Rebel / 2005
  • Cahelen Morrison & Eli West / Since You Took Your Leave / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
  • The Hot Club of Cowtown / Time Changes Everything / What Makes Bob Holler? / Proper / 2011
  • The Stanley Brothers / Carolina Mountain Home / The Early King and Starday Years / Gusto / 1959, 2003
  • The Prairie Acre / Rock That Cradle / Jaybird and the Sparrowhawk / self / 2007
  • Larry Sparks / Momma’s Apron Strings / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
  • Red Smiley & The Bluegrass Cut-ups / Little Maggie / Classic Mountain Bluegrass / Rural Rhythm / c. 1962, 2008
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme