December 24, 2010

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 12/27/10 Hank Williams Special; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

Here's an advance (!) posting of the playlist for the 12/27 show. Since Hank Williams passed away in the back seat of a car New Year's Eve 1952/New Year's Day 1953, I'll try to do a Hank Williams show each year on the show prior to New Year's. I freely admit I stole the idea for a Hank Williams show from John Lupton, a DJ at WVUD, Newark DE. John's show happens every year about 10am on New Year's Day morning. Check it out.

It is amazing what an impact Hank has had on American music. Over 125 compositions. Sales that helped bring country music more and more into the mainstream. I hope you enjoy the show: a selection of Hank songs, covers, and tribute songs. The second half hour opens with a complete episode of one of the Health & Happiness Shows Hank and his band recorded. Obviously, when Hank said it was time for the announcer to deliver a message, I put in a WNHU Black Diamond Show promo. There are so many great songs in Hank's repertoire, this show does NOT come close to covering them all.

If the show piques your interest in Hank Williams, here are some links to more information.


Thanks, as always, for your support.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Hank Williams / Lovesick Blues / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1949, 1978

The Maddox Brothers & Rose / Honky Tonkin’ / Live on the Radio / Arhoolie / 1953, 1998

Hank Williams / Dear John / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999

Seldom Scene / Pan American / Old Train / Rebel / 1974

Hank Williams / Honky Tonkin’ / Turn Back the Years / Mercury Nashville / 1948, 2005

Hank Williams / Pan American / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007

Charley Pride / Kaw-Liga / The Essential Charley Pride / RCA / 1969, 1997

Hank Williams / Honky Tonk Blues / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Hank Williams / Move It On Over / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1947, 1978

Hank Williams / Happy Roving Cowboy / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Hank Williams / I Can’t Get You Off of My Mind / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Hank Williams / I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Jerry Rivers with the Hank Williams Band / Fisherman’s Hornpipe / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Everyone else calls it Fisher’s Hornpipe. Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Hank Williams / Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Jerry Rivers with the Hank Williams Band / Sally Goodin’ / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Moe Bandy / Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life / Columbia Country Classics, Volume 5 A New Tradition / Columbia / 1975, 1991

Hank Williams / Your Cheatin’ Heart / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1952, 1978

Chris Wall / Hank Williams’ Cadillac / Just Another Place / Cold Spring / 1996, 2002

Hank Williams / They’ll Never Take Her Love From Me / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999

Hank Williams / You Caused it all by Telling Lies / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Hank Williams / Baby, We’re Really In Love / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999

Hank Williams / Kaw-Liga / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1952, 1978 / Recorded Sept. 1952, released 1953, one of Hank's posthumous hits.

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry / Anthology / MCA Nashville / c. 1967, 2003

Hank Williams / Wedding Bells / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007

Hank Williams / Why Don’t You Love Me Like You Used to Do / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1950, 1978

Waylon Jennings / I Won’t Be Home No More / Waylon Sings Hank Williams / YMC / 1985, 2006

Hank Williams III / I’m a Long Gone Daddy / Hank Williams Timeless / Lost Highway / 2001

Don Reno & The Tennessee Cut-Ups / Mansion on the Hill / Live on Stage / CMH / 1979

Hank Williams / Alone and Forsaken / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Jerry Rivers with the Hank Williams Band / Bill Cheatham / Hank Williams / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007

Hank Williams / A House of Gold / The Complete Hank Williams / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1998

Hank Williams / Mind Your Own Business / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1949, 1978

Larry Sparks / Waltz of the Wind / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel / 1988

Hank Williams / I’ll Be a Bachelor ‘Til I Die / The Complete Hank Williams / Mercury Nashville / 1948, 1998

Debbie Durant & Mandorichard / A House of Gold / Mandocast 9 / self / 2006

Hank Williams / On the Banks of the Old Pontchantrain / Turn Back the Years / Mercury Nashville / 1947, 2005

Hank & Audrey Williams / Where the Soul of Man Never Dies / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007

Hank Williams / They’ll Never Take Her Love From Me / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1950, 1978

Hank Williams / I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive / Country Masters Volume 1 / MBOP Distribution / 1952, 2008 / Another of Hank’s posthumous hits.

Hank Williams / I Saw The Light / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1948, 1978

December 20, 2010

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 12/20/10; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

Here's the full playlist information for the 12/20/10 show. Tune in on M 12/27 for our Hank Williams Extravaganza!

Thanks, as always, for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Banjo Dan & The Mid-Nite Plowboys / Cold Wind / Some Rust Runs Good / self / 2000

Rhonda Vincent / Jingle Bells / Beautiful Star, A Christmas Collection / Rounder / 2006

Riders in the Sky / I’ll Be Home For Christmas / Christmas the Cowboy Way / Rounder / 1999

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Footprints in the Snow / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963

Tim & Mollie O’Brien / Pilgrim of Sorrow / Way Down in my Soul, Best of Sugar Hill Gospel, Volume 2 / Sugar Hill / 1993

Darrin Vincent with Jamie Daley / Beautiful Star of Bethlehem / Christmas Grass Too - A Continuing Celebration Of Christmas Bluegrass Style / Koch / 2007

Sonny Isaacs / Mary Did You Know / Christmas Grass Too - A Continuing Celebration Of Christmas Bluegrass Style / Koch / 2007

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Teardrops Falling in the Snow / The Oak and the Laurel / Rounder / 1994

Matt Brown / The Hog Went Through the Fence / Lone Prairie / 5-String Productions / 2006

Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / Blue Christmas Lights / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

James King / Call Collect on Christmas / O Christmas Tree, A Bluegrass Collection for the Holidays / Rounder / 2002

James Bryan / Kicking Up the Devil on a Holiday, De. Hecock’s Jig / Old-time Music on the Air, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1996

ShoreGrass / December Waltz / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007

John McCutcheon / Christmas in the Trenches / Water From Another Time / Rounder / 1988

Leon Chappelear & The Lone Star Cowboys / Hang Out the Front Door Key / Western Swing Chronicles Volume 2 / Origin Jazz Library / c. 1935, 2002

Leftwich & Higginbotham / Breakin’ Up Christmas / No One to Bring Home Tonight / County / 1984

Nashville Bluegrass Band / Christmas Story / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

Dirk Powell / Joy to the World / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010

Jesse Lee Campbell / Frosty the Snowman / Mountain Top Bluegrass Christmas / Madacy Christian / 2006

Hubie King & Diane Jones & Friends / Cold Frosty Morning / There Are No Rules! / self / 1995

Riders in the Sky / Let It Snow, The Last Christmas Medley You’ll Ever Need to Hear / Christmas the Cowboy Way / Rounder / 1999

Lonesome River Band / All I Want is Mary for Christmas / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

Craig Duncan / Christmas Time’s A-Coming / Bluegrass Christmas / Green Hill Productions / 2003

Doc Watson / Christmas Lullaby / Sugar Plums - Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 1993

Alison Brown & Joe Craven / Christmas Don’t Be Late / Evergreen / Compass / 2008

Joe Newberry / On This Christmas Day / Two Hands / 5-String Productions / 2005

David West & Joe Craven / My Favorite Things / A Spectacular Bluegrass Christmas / CMH / 2001

Hank Williams / Cold, Cold Heart / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1950, 1978

Sam Bush / Let It Snow / A Very Special Acoustic Christmas / Lost Highway / 2003

The Skaggs Family / Do You Hear What I Hear? / A Skaggs Family Christmas / Skaggs Family / 2005

Bryan Sutton / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Christmas Grass Too - A Continuing Celebration Of Christmas Bluegrass Style / Koch / 2007

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Sleigh Ride / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds / 1999

December 19, 2010

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 12/13/10; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

Yes, folks, it's beginning to sound a lot more like the holidays. . . . Thanks so much to all of you listeners for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

The Hoover Uprights / Lazy Kate / Known for Their Reputations / 5-String Productions / 2006

Jim Nunally / Hold Watcha Got / Gloria’s Waltz / FGM / 2006

Sam Bush / Sleigh Ride / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Lulu Loves Them Young / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006

The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Little Annie / The Early Recordings / County / 1957, 1970

Larry Sparks / Blue Christmas / Christmas in the Mountains / Rebel / 2003

The Honey Dewdrops / Bluest Blue Eyes / If the Sun Will Shine / Honey Dewdrops / 2009

Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / Blue Christmas Lights / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / When the Sun of My Life Goes Down / Once and for Always / Sugar Hill / 1983

Dirk Powell / King Wenceslas / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010

Craig Duncan / Christmas Time’s A-Coming / Bluegrass Christmas / Green Hill Productions / 2003

Longview / At the First Fall of Snow / Deep in the Mountains / Rounder / 2008

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Footprints in the Snow / Anthology / MCA Nashville / c. 1963, 2003

Benton Flippen & The Smokey Valley Boys / Sugar Tree Stomp / An Evening at WPAQ / 5-String Productions / 1984, 2008

Karl Shiflett & The Big Country Show/ Cold, Cold Love / In Full Color / Rebel / 2001

Grandpa Jones Family / Autoharp Concerto / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / unknown, 2000 / If someone knows the date of this recording, please let me know!

Hot Club of Cowtown / Bonaparte’s Retreat / Tall Tales / Hightone / 1999

Mike Seeger / Bonaparte’s Retreat / Classic Old-Time Fiddle from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 1962, 2007

The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Loving You Too Well / Best of Bluegrass / Mercury / 1957, 1994

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Hot Buttered Rum / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds / 1999

Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / At the End of a Long Lonely Day / The Room Over Mine / Rounder / 2008

Nashville Mandolin Trio / Honky Grass Stomp / American Portraits / SoundArt Recordings / 1998

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Let the Church Roll On / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963 / I love this old LP. This recording was made at Flatt and Scruggs December 8, 1962, concert, the first bluegrass concert at Carnegie Hall. Columbia released the LP the next year.

Earl Scruggs / Jingle Bells / A Very Special Acoustic Christmas / Lost Highway / 2003

Russel Moore / Christmas is Near / Christmas Grass Too, A Continuing Celebration Of Christmas Bluegrass Style / Koch / 2007

Foghorn Stringband / Kicking Up the Devil on a Holiday / Weiser Sunrise / Foghorn Stringband / 2005

Delia Bell & Bill Grant / The Cheer of the Home Fires / The Cheer of the Home Fires / Rounder 1984

Cherryholmes / Munsker Spree, O’Coughlin’s Reel / Cherryholmes III, Don’t Believe / Skaggs Family / 2008

Merle Travis / Sioux City Sue / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1947, 2003

Dirk Powell / What Child is This / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010

Art Stamper / Barndance Polka / Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston / County / 2000

Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / One More Chance, Lord / Tell Someone / Rebel / 2005

Don Reno & Charlie Moore / Keep on the Firing Line / Bluegrass Legends Together / Wango / 1998

The Skaggs Family / Deck The Halls / A Skaggs Family Christmas / Skaggs Family / 2005

Patty Loveless / Bluegrass, White Snow / Bluegrass & White Snow, A Mountain Christmas / Epic / 2002

Vassar Clements / Snowflake Breakdown / Bluegrass in the Smokies / Rural Rhythm / unknown, 2007

Charlie Louvin / I Wonder if They Ever Think of Me / The Battles Rage On / True North / 2010

Asleep at the Wheel / Xmas in Jail / Merry Texas Christmas, Y’All / Windham Hill / 1997

Dailey & Vincent / Head Hung Down / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009

Jethro Burns & Red Rector / Fisher’s Hornpipe / Old Friends / Rebel / 1983

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 12/6/10; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

Better late than never! This show was a lot of fun for me. Any time Mandorichard can sneak in a Greystone Ramblers track and a Jethro Burns track, he's happy!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Big Country Bluegrass / You Don’t Have Far to Go / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010

Claire Lynch / Barbed Wire Boys / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder / 2009

Austin Lounge Lizards / Xmas Time for Visa / The Drugs I Need / Blue Corn Music / 2007

Matan Ariel & Friends/ Maoz Zur / Hanukkah Songs - Songs in Hebrew for Children & Toddlers / Matan Ariel / 2003

Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / The Cowboy Way / At Edwards Barn / Rounder / 2010

Charles River Valley Boys / Crazy Creek / Bluegrass and Old-Timey Music / Prestige Fantasy / c. 1963, 2003

Half and Half / Fourteen-Carat Mind / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways, Volume 2 / Smithsonian Folkways / 1985, 2005

Wayne Hancock / Throwin’ My Money / Viper of Melody / Bloodshot / 2009

Lonesome River Band / Honey I’m Ramblin’ Away / Window of Time / Mountain Home Music / 2002

Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / A Few Broken Pieces of Route 66 / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy / 2007, 2008

Here Today / Foggy Mountain Chimes / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1982, 1987

Quebe Sisters Band / Roly Poly / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007

Mark Graham / Lost Indian / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / Mark Graham / c. 1988, 2000

Bad Livers / Lumpy, Beanpole, and Dirt / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1988, 2009

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down / ‘Tis Sweet to be Remembered / Columbia Legacy / c. 1958, 1997

Joe Newberry / Breaking Up Christmas / Two Hands / 5-String Productions / 2005

The Johnson Mountain Boys / I Want to Live Like Christ My Savior / Walls of Time / Rounder / 1982

The Honey Dewdrops / 1918 / If the Sun Will Shine / Honey Dewdrops / 2009

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Walls of Time / Anthology / MCA Nashville / c. 1968, 2003

Ronnie Bowman / Left This Country Boy / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1998, 2009

Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris / Down in the Willow Garden / East Virginia Blues, When the Sun Goes Down Series / RCA Bluebird / 1937, 2004 / They played this song at the White House for Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt in 1942.

David Peterson / The Waltz You Saved For Me / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009

Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Two Arms to Hold Me / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009

Lefty Frizzell / Honey, Baby, Honey, Bring Your Sweet Self Back To Me / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Columbia Legacy / 1953, 1997

The Country Gentlemen / Roving Gambler / Country Songs Old & New / Folkways / 1960

Joe Herrmann / Izzy’s Polka / Gather ‘Round / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009

Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / Living the Right Life Now / Just A Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010

John McCutcheon / Loggerman’s Breakdown & Dulcimer Reel / Water From Another Time / Rounder / 1988

Greystone Ramblers / Christmas Island / A Midwinter’s Ramble / Greystone Ramblers / 2008 / A band I used to play in!

Yankee Ingenuity / Hunter’s House, Providence Reel, & Congress Reel / Heating Up The Hall / Varrick / 1989

Critton Hollow String Band / Wooden Nickel / The Dulcimer Collection / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 1981, 2002

Reed Island Rounders / Cranberry Rock / Goin’ Back / Burning Wolf / 2002

Hank Williams / Rockin’ Chair Money / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Earl Taylor, Jim McCall & The Stoney Mountain Boys / Lonesome Road Blues / Bluegrass in the Smokies / Rural Rhythm / c. 1970, 2008

Jethro Burns / Avalon / Jethro Burns Live / Flying Fish / 1980

The Kentucky Colonels / Flat Fork / Long Journey Home / Vanguard / 1964, 2006

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

November 28, 2010

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 11/29/10 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven, CT (University of New Haven) and www.wnhu.net

The November 29 show features the entire broadcast of the 2010 IBMA Awards show, recorded 9/30/10 in the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN.

Here's the "official looking" playlist. Thanks, as always, for your support.

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Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Various Artists / 21st Annual IBMA Awards, Parts 1-3 / The 21st International Bluegrass Music Awards, September 30, 2010, The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA / IBMA / 2010

Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, & The Bluegrass Boys / Toy Heart / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1948, 1978

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Leavin’ Town / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008

Michael Cleveland & Lloyd Douglas / Dixie / Civil War Memories / Wango / 2004, 2005

Various Artists / 21st Annual IBMA Awards, Parts 4-7 / The 21st International Bluegrass Music Awards, September 30, 2010, The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA / IBMA / 2010

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

November 26, 2010

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 11/22/10; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Vassar Clements / Turkey in the Straw / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder / 1992
Buck Owens / Hello Trouble / Crazy Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / New West / c. 1960, 2010
Art Stamper / Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston / Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston / County / 2000
Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / A Thousand Miles / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
The Country Gentlemen / Turkey Knob / Country Songs Old and New, Charlie Waller, John Duffy and the Country Gentlemen / Folkways / 1960 / An Eddie Adcock banjo song.
Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder / 1992
Hank Snow / I’ve Been Everywhere / The Essential Hank Snow / RCA Nashville / c. 1961, 1997
The Freight Hoppers / The Train the Carried My Girl From Town / Mile Marker / BakeTown / 2010
Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee / Way Down the Old Plank Road / My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Volume 1 / Yazoo / 1926, 1998
Bob Walters / Turkey in the Straw in A / The Champion, Classic Missouri Valley Fiddling from Dwight Lamb’s Collection / Missouri Valley Music / c. 1955, 2009
Jim Silver / Goodbye California, Hello Illinois / You gotta let all the girls know you’re a cowboy / CMH / 1978
Hugh Moore / Hello City Limits / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 1986, 2002
The Monroe Brothers / Have a Feast Here Tonight / Feast Here Tonight / RCA / 1938, 1978
Paul Brown / Buck Eyed Rabbits / Red Clay Country / 5-String Productions / 2006
Rabbit in a Log / The Old Home / The Marimac Anthology, Deep in Old-Time Music / Rounder / c. 1986, 1996 / Rich Starkey, guitar, and Skip Gorman, mando & fiddle, lived in CT when they recorded this for Marimac.
Red Clay Ramblers / Rabbit in the Pea Patch / Merchant’s Lunch / Flying Fish / 1977
Jethro Burns & Red Rector / Arkansas Traveler / Old Friends / Rebel / 1983
The Seldom Scene / Traveling On and On / Old Train / Rebel / 1974
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Let Us Travel On / Americana Master Series, Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 1987, 2007
Reeltime Travelers / Elzic’s Farewell / Livin’ Reeltime, Thinkin’ Old-Time / SCI Fidelity / 2001, 2004
Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / I’m Leaving Detroit / The Room Over Mine / Rounder / 2008
Foghorn Duo / New Orleans, Rock Andy / Lonesome Song / Foghorn Duo / 2008 / I bet the 2nd tune is really Rock Candy.
Faron Young / Leavin’ and Sayin’ Goodbye / The Millennium Collection, Best of Faron Young / Mercury Nashville / 1971, 2001
Doc & Merle Watson / When the Work’s All Done This Fall / On Stage / Vanguard / 1972
Alecia Nugent / The Last Greyhound / Hillbilly Goddess / Rounder / 2009
Sam McGee / Chevrolet Car / Good for what ails you (Volume 2), Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 / Old Hat / c. 1930, 2005
Mary McCaslin & Jim Ringer / Geronimo’s Cadillac / The Bramble and the Rose / Philo / 1978
Roy Clark / Thank God and Greyhound / Live at Billy Bob’s Texas / Smith Music Group / 1999
Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, & The Bluegrass Boys / Bluegrass Breakdown / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1948, 1978
Big Country Bluegrass / Top Hat Ramble / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010
The Quebe Sisters Band / So Long to the Red River Valley / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers / He Rambled / Man of Constant Sorrow and other timeless mountain ballads / Yazoo / 1929, 2002
The Dreadful Snakes / Travelin’ Down this Lonesome Road / Snakes Alive / Rounder / 1983
The Foghorn Stringband / Turkey Tracks / Reap What You Sow / Foghorn Stringband / 2004
Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Do the Hula Lou / Daddy of Western Swing, Volume 1, Brownies Stomp / Proper / 1934, 2003
The McCoury Brothers / I’ll Pretend it’s Raining / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder / 1987
Bobby Hicks / Goodbye Liza Jane / Texas Crapshooter / County / 1978
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / In my mind to ramble / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 /Theme

November 19, 2010

Black Diamond Show Playlist, 11/15/10, WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM, www.wnhu.net

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

The Stanley Brothers / Long Journey Home / Long Journey Home: The Stanley Brothers of Virginia, Volume 2 / County / 1964, 1973

The Hot Club of Cowtown / Draggin’ the Bow / Tall Tales / Hightone, Shout! / 1999

Big Medicine / Pleasures of a Single Life / Fever in the South / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004

Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / Come in Stranger / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy / 2007

Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cone on Little Children / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009

Doc Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists/ 1972 / Doc Watson, Vassar Clements, Junior Huskey, & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Randall Collins / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008

Phil Rosenthal / Beautiful Brown Eyes / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009

The Blue Sky Boys / Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky / The Blue Sky Boys / Rounder / 1975

Boone Creek / White House Blues / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1977, 1987

Banjo Dan & the Mid-Nite Plowboys / Cold Wind / Some Rust, Runs Good / Banjo Dan / 2000

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys / I had Someone Else Before I had You / Tiffany Transcriptions, Volume 5 / Kaleidoscope / 1946, 1982

Wolfe Brothers / Headin’ up Elk Creek / Old Road, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004

Mark Graham / No Democracy in Heaven / Inner Life / Mark Graham / 1998, 2006

Browns Ferry Four / Over in the Glory Land / Merle Travis: Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1946, 2003

Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Once More / The Osborne Brothers and Red Allen / Rounder / 1956, 1977

Matt Brown / Three Forks of Reedy / Lone Prairie / 5-String Productions / 2006 / Matt Brown, Paul Brown, & Beverly Smith

The Country Gentlemen / Johhny & Jack Medley (Poison Love, Ashes of Love) / Sound Off / Rebel / 1970

The Honey Dewdrops / Test of Time / These Old Roads / Honey Dewdrops / 2010

Fred Price with Clint Howard / Richmond Blues / Classic Old-Time Fiddle for Smithsonian Folkways / Folkways / c. 1961, 2007

Bluegrass Album Band / Come Back Darlin’ / Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1983, 1987

Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / When the Saints Go Marchin’ In / Earl Scruggs, Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard / 1966, 2002

Chris Stuart & Backcountry / I Remember Memphis / Crooked Man / Backcountry / 2008

The Freight Hoppers / Sharp’s Hornpipe / Mile Marker / BakeTown / 2010

Mac Wiseman / Wreck of the Old 97 / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1978, 2000

Dale Watson / Heart of Stone / Carryin’ On / E1 Music / 2010

Allen Shelton / Shelton Special / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / c. 1968, 1987

Ivan Rosenberg / I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You / Back to the Pasture / Slosh Tone / 2002

Beverly Cotten / Colored Aristocracy / Clog-In (Clogging Lessons, Beverly Cotton on Duty) / Flying Fish / 1981 / Beverly Cotten banjo, Clay Buckner fiddle

Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tear My Stillhouse Down / Americana Master Series: Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 1993, 2007

Jim & Jesse & The Viginia Boys / Airmail Special / Rockygrass / Blue Planet Music / 1995

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Toy Heart / Anthology / MCA Nashville / 1962, 2003

Art Stamper / Don’t Come Home Drunk, Johnny / The Lost Fiddler / County / 1982

Blue Highway / Sycamore Hollow / Through the Window of a Train / Rounder / 2007

Red Molly / Darlin’ Corey / Red Molly EP / Red Molly / 2005

The Delmore Brothers / The Frozen Girl / Sand Mountain Blues / County / 1947, 1995

New Found Road / I am the Man / Same Old Place / Rounder / 2009

Alison Krause & Union Station / Momma Cried / New Favorite / Rounder / 2001

Seldom Scene / This Morning at Nine / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill 2007

The New Pilot Mountaineers / Yellow Rose of Texas / Down the Road / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2001

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist, 11/8/10, West Haven, CT, WNHU 88.7 FM www.wnhu.net

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Carpenter & May / Blue and Lonesome / Carpenter & May / Violin Shop / 2010

Mark Graham / Curly-Headed Woman / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / Mark Graham / c. 1988, 2000

Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys / Blue Yodel #1 / Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys: The Early Days of Bluegrass, Volume 4 / Rounder / 1951, 1978

The Honey Dewdrops / Sweet Heaven / These Old Roots / Honey Dewdrops / 2010

Roger Sprung / Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter / Grassy Licks/ Folkways / 1973

Naomi Summers / Sea of Heartbreak / Gentles as the Sun / American Melody / 2008

Phil Rosenthal / Banjo in C / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009

Seldom Scene / Heart and Soul / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill / 2007

The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Blue Moon of Kentucky / Best of Bluegrass, Volume 1 / Mercury, Island Def Jam / 1963, 1994

The Louvin Brothers / I’m Changing the Words to my Love Song / The Louvin Brothers / Rounder / 1952, c. 1978

Charlie Louvin / Searching for a Soldier’s Grave / The Battles Rage On / True North / 2010

Chris Brashear / Lost Soldier Son / Wanderlust / Dog Boy / 2000, 2002

Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Ricky Skaggs / Soldier’s Joy / The Three Pickers / Rounder / 2003

Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / The Cheer of the Home Fires / Rounder / 1984

Benny Thomasson / Billy in the Lowground / The Weiser Reunion / Voyager / 1972, 1998 / Recorded in the parking lot at the Weiser Fiddle Contest with sons Jerry and Dale as his rhythm section

Moon Mullican / Ragged but Right / Super Hits / Gusto / 1961, 2009

The Monroe Brothers / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / East Virginia Blues (When the Sun Goes Down Series) / RCA Bluebird / 1936, 2004

Donna Ulisse / He Ain’t That / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2007

Dailey & Vincent / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Singing from the Heart / Rounder / 2009

Jerry Rivers & The Hank Williams Band / Wagner / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993 / The title to this tune sometimes spelled “Wagoner”

The Steel Drivers / Good Corn Liquor / Reckless / Rounder / 2010

The Hoover Uprights / Rip van Winkle / Known for their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006

Hank Williams / We Live in Two Different Worlds / Alone with his Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Saro Jane / ‘Tis Sweet to be Remembered / Columbia Legacy / 1964, 1997

Cherryholmes / Weaver of Lies / Cherryholmes IV: Common Threads / Skaggs Family / 2010

Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Take It Slow and Easy / Daddy of Western Swing, Volume 1: Brownies Stomp / Proper / 1934, 2003

Cindy Cashdollar / Little Green Pill / Southern Filibuster: A Tribute to Tut Taylor / E1 Entertainment / 2010

Fred Carpenter & Mark O’Connor / Jerusalem Ridge / Cutting Loose / Grass Mountain / 1980

Banjo Dan & the Mid-Nite Plowboys / C’est La Vie / Some Rust, Runs Good / Banjo Dan / 2000

Foghorn String Band / Rabbit up a Gum Stump / Weiser Sunrise / Nettwerk / 2005

Caleb Klauder / Deep River / Western Country / Padre / 2010

Don Stover / White Oak Breakdown / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1973, 1987

Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Buttermilk Pie / Mojave River / Backcountry / 2004

Red State Ramblers / Five Miles to Town / Commonwealth / Old 97 / 2009

Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys with Barbara Mandrell / My Rose of Old Kentucky / Bill Monroe & friends, Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, 2 for 1 / Raven / 1983, 2010

April Verch / Fork Creek River / Steal the Blue / Slab Town / 2008

Jacqueline Schwab / Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier / The Civil War Soundtrack / Nonesuch /1990

November 1, 2010

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 11/1/10 on WNHU, 88.7 FM West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net

Incredibly, I've managed to have an undisturbed lunch hour and have typed in the playlist in this new format. 'Tis a bit of a pain, I admit, but it's all about the music. And if it gives you more info to use your Google Fu to find a song you like, awesome! Note the unusual history of the Waylon Jennings track below. And if you listened carefully to Earl Scruggs play Foggy Mountain Chimes, you heard him break a string and Paul Warren, the fiddler, step in to finish the song. The thrills of live music! The show must go on!

Don't forget to support the music you love. Visit the links to the folks who have supported the show. And visit the CT Bluegrass links to find a jam or a concert! If anyone has a reliable link to Square Dances and Contra Dances in CT, please send me the info and I'll add it to that section of the blog.

Been great to hear from listeners in MI, CT, PA, and DE this week! Thanks, as always for your support.

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys with Ralph Stanley / Can’t You Hear Me Callin’ / Bill Monroe & friends, Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, 2 for 1 / Raven / 1985, 2010
Nate Grower / Kansas City Kitty / Nate Grower / Patuxent Music / 2009
Ronnie Bowman / Perfect Love / It’s Getting Better All the Time / Koch Records / 2005
Matt Brown / Folding Down the Sheets / My Native Home / 5 String Productions / 2010
Reed Island Rounders / Ways of the World / Goin’ Back / Burning Wolf / 2002
David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / The Brambles, Briars and Me / Two Dimes and a Nickel / Rebel / 2009
Merle Travis / I’m Sick and Tired of You, Little Darlin’ / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1947, 2003
Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers / A Life of Sorrow / Ramblin’ Bluegrass / Starday / 1972
The Fuzzy Mountain String Band / Barlow Knife / The Fuzzy Mountain String Band / Rounder / 1973, 1995
Big Country Bluegrass / I’m Gonna Walk those Streets of Gold / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez / Keep Your Hat on Jenny / The New Bye & Bye / Trainwreck / 2003, 2010
The Boiled Buzzards / Grey-Haired Dancing Girls / Old-Time Music on the Air, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1996
Notorious / Hanged Man’s Reel / The Road to Damascus / Black Socks Press / 2010
The Nashville Bluegrass Band / When I Get Where I’m Goin’ / Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 1993, 2007
Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Fan It / Essential Western Swing / Goldenlane / c. 1935, 2009
Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / Foggy Mountain Chimes / Earl Scruggs, Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard / 1966, 2002
Albemarle Ramblers / Way Down the Old Plank Road / Gentlemen from Virginia / Merriweather / 2010
Cathy Fink / Rush in the Pepper / Old-Time Music on the Air, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1996
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Two Arms to Hold Me / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
The Steeldrivers / Hear the Willow Cry / The Steeldrivers / Rounder / 2007
The Freight Hoppers / Been to the East, Been to the West / Mile Marker / Baketone / 2010
The Stanley Brothers / The White Dove / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Legacy Columbia / 1949, 1996
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Northern White Clouds / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008
Waylon Jennings / I Won’t Be Home No More / Waylon sings Hank Williams / YMC / 1985, 2006 / Recorded in '85, but Waylon didn't release it until '92 on his own WJ label.
The Osborne Brothers / Rocky Top / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / c. 1967, 2000
The Infamous Stringdusters / Magic #9 / Things That Fly / Sugar Hill / 2010
David Peterson & 1946 / The Blackbirds are Singing for Me / In the Mountaintops to Roam / David Peterson / 2005
Newfound Road / Handsome Molly / Life in a Song / Rounder / 2006
Adam Hurt / Molly Put the Kettle On / Perspective / Ubiquitone / 2009
David Peterson / You’re the Only One for Me / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009
Crooked Still / Angeline the Baker / Hop High / Footprint / 2004
Cadillac Sky / Neighborhood Bully’s Long Look in the Mirror / Blind Man Walking / Skaggs Family / 2006
The Monroe Brothers / On Some Foggy Mountain Top / Feast Here Tonight / RCA / 1936, c. 1978
The Green Grass Cloggers with Phil Jamison, banjo / Ladies’ Routine danced to Rachel’s Rent / Through the Ears / Rounder / 1986
Jerry Rivers with the Hank Williams Band / Sally Goodin’ / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme


October 25, 2010

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 10/25/10. WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net

OK, this week we're trying out a new format for the playlist. If I use a format like this, our playlists can be submitted to FOLKDJ-L for counting in the charts on folkradio.org. Let me know if you like the new format. And, as always, thanks for your support!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different)
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury / More Pretty Girls than One / Mac, Doc, & Del / Sugar Hill / 1998
Big Country Bluegrass / Rollin' On / Twenty Years of Grass / Rebel / 2007
Red State Ramblers / Yellow Barber / Commonwealth / Old 97 / 2009
Wayne Hancock / Viper of Melody / Viper of Melody / Bloodshot / 2009
Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Bluegrass Boys / Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1947, 1978
Fred Carpenter & Tim May / Cherokee Shuffle / Carpenter & May / Violin Shop / 2010
David Peterson / Crazy Blues / Comin' On Strong / Necktie / 2009
Half & Half / 14-Carat Mind / Classic Bluegrass Vol. 2 from Smithsonian, Folkways / Folkways / 1985, 2005
Bluegrass Album Band / Preaching, Praying, Singing / Bluegrass Class of 1990 / Rounder / 1990
Stanley Brothers / Cripple Creek, Going to Georgia, Big Tilda / Radio Series Volume 4 / Wango / c. 1964, 2000
The Quebe Sisters Band / So Long to the Red River Valley / Timeless / Fiddletone / 2007
Charlie Sizemore Band / Hey Moon / Good News / Rounder / 2010
Leftwich & Higginbotham / John Lover's Gone / No One To Bring Home Tonight / County / 1984
Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / Sin City / At Edward's Barn / Rounder / 2010
Mark Graham / Mississippi Sawyer / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / digital download / c. 1985, 2000
Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Silver Quarter / Saints & Strangers / Backcountry / 2003
Hank Williams / First Year Blues / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000
Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / Bluegrass DJs / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band / The Family Demon / Legacy / Compass / 2010
The Lonesome River Band / Carolyn the Teenage Queen / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill / 2006
Charlie Louvin / Weapon of Prayer / The Battles Rage On / True North / 2010
Earl Scruggs, Hylo Brown & The Timberliners / Love and Wealth / Bluegrass - Earl Scruggs - Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard / 1959, 2000
The Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone / Crazy Heart (Soundtrack) / New West / c. 1958, 2010
Donna Ulisse / In My Wildest Dreams / Walk This Mountain Down / Hadley Music Group / 2008
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Cotton Mill Man / The Best of Bluegrass - 80 Years of American Music / Sony / 1964, 2004
The Fly By Night String Band / Boys, the Buzzards Are Flying / The Fly By NIght String Band / Fretless / 1980
Red Molly / Coal Tattoo / Never Been to Vegas – Red Molly / 2006
Newfound Road / Damascus Road / Newfound Road / Mountain Home / 2002
Curtis Burch / Black Ridge Ramble / Southern FIlibuster: A Tribute to Tut Taylor / E1 Entertainment / 2010
Gillis Brothers / New River Train / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1992, 2000
The Honey Dewdrops / Can't Get a Letter From Home / These Old Roots / Honey Dewdrops / 2010
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez / Your Name is On My Lips / The New Bye & Bye / Trainwreck / 2010
Wolfe Brothers / On the Other Side of the Mountain / Old Roads New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
Limehouse Blues / Jethro Burns & Red Rector / Old Friends / Rebel / 1983
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

October 18, 2010

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 10/18/10 WNHU 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT www.wnhu.net

Today's show includes a lot of new material. We played tracks from new CDs from the Steeldrivers (2010), Wayne Hancock (2009), Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen (2010), Charlie Louvin (coming out 11/9/10 on True North Records), Red Molly (2010) and founding member Carolann Solebello (2009), Infamous String Dusters (2010), John Hartford String Band (2010), and the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band (2010). We also played a track from the CD that came out this year that features over a dozen Dobro players paying tribute to Tut Taylor.

Thanks to the folks at True North for sending us the Charlie Louvin CD; my credit card hopes you enjoy the rest of the new music!

One request for you, listeners. I've been trusting in your own Google Fu to look up any song or band I list on the playlist. In this day and age of digital downloads from amazon.com, iTunes, CD Baby, and other legal sites--to say nothing of the number of YouTube and MySpace pages that have information on music and artists, I've not been listing "album" titles and "labels." To be honest about it, the "label" is hard for me to track down since I've been digitizing my CDs & LPs. Please let me know whether the simple song/artist listings are sufficient for you. Thanks.

Herewith this week's playlist--including 3 Louvin Brothers' songs performed by 3 different artists!

1 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
2 The Steeldrivers -- Reckless Side of Me
3 Wayne Hancock -- Driving My Young Life Away
4 Bradley Kincaid -- Liza Up in the 'Simmon Tree
5 Chris Hillman & Herb Pederson -- If I Could Only Win Your Love
6 Charlie Louvin -- Robe of White
7 David Peterson & 1946 -- Prayin' Shoes
8 Cadillac Sky -- I Hate How Happy She Is
9 Red Molly -- Troubled Mind
10 Newfound Road -- Weapon of Prayer
11 Infamous Stringdusters -- Taking a Chance on the Truth
12 Quebe Sisters Band -- Twin Guitar Special
13 Southern Schoolhouse Rascals -- Sunny Home in Dixie
14 Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys -- Take Me In Your Lifeboat
15 Kenny Baker & Joe Greene -- Live & Let Live
16 Foghorn Duo -- Little Black Train
17 The Dillards -- Old Man at the Mill
18 The Company Store -- Old Cane Press
19 Carolann Solebello -- Papa's Mandolin
20 John Hartford String Band -- Half Past Four
21 Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band -- Jailer, Jailer
22 Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys -- Border Ride
23 The Freight Hoppers -- Trouble
24 Hank Thompson -- Cryin' in the Deep Blue Sea
25 Tut Taylor -- Turnaround
26 Jerry Douglas -- Southern Filibuster
27 Don Reno & Charlie Moore -- It's Mighty Dark to Travel
28 Hank Williams -- Baby, We're Really In Love
29 Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys -- Gotta Travel On
30 Kathy Mattea -- Green Rolling Hills (of West Virginia)/Wildwood Flower
31 Merle Travis -- Black Diamond Blues
32 David Peterson & 1946 -- I'll Claim the Blame
33 Cadillac Sky -- Can't Trust the Weatherman
34 Red Molly -- Darlin' Corey
35 Newfound Road -- Life in a Song
36 Kenny & Amanda Smith Band -- Drive That Fast
37 Greg Hooven -- Won't Come Home Until Morning
38 Don Stover -- Black Diamond

October 11, 2010

Playlist for Black Diamond Show (WNHU 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net): M 10/11/10

Here's today's playlist! Enjoyed hearing from folks in AZ, CT, MI, MD, PA, & DE about last week's show. Thanks for your support!

1 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
2 The Hoover Uprights -- Paddy on the Turnpike
3 Ronnie Bowman -- Old Flames
4 Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper -- Sunday Morning Christian
5 The Bluegrass Cardinals -- Riding the L&N
6 The Freight Hoppers -- Cotton-Eyed Joe
7 Hank Snow -- I'm Movin' On
8 The Stanley Brothers -- Life's Railway to Heaven
9 John Reischman & The Jaybirds -- Plum Tree
10 Rhonda Vincent -- World's Biggest Fool
11 Foghorn Duo -- Old Love Letters
12 Kenny & Amanda Smith Band -- Pacific Time
13 Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys -- Pain In My Heart
14 Danny Paisley -- Leaving Detroit
15 Blue Sky Boys -- In the Hills of Roane County
16 Chubby Wise -- The Wabash Cannonball
17 Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys -- Sugar Moon
18 Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, & The Kentuckians -- New Camptown Races
19 The Quebe Sisters Band -- Georgia On My Mind
20 Benton Flippen & The Smokey Valley Boys -- Let Me Fall
21 Chris Jones & the Night Drivers -- Cloud of Dust
22 Nickel Creek -- The Smoothie Song
23 The Louvin Brothers -- You'll Be Rewarded Over There
24 Wayne Hancock -- I Don't Love You Anymore
25 Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys -- Paradise
26 Hank Williams -- Wedding Bells
27 The Dillards -- Buckin' Mule
28 Doc & Merle Watson -- Red Rocking Chair
29 Red State Ramblers -- Roll On Buddy
30 Butch Robins -- Kansas City Railroad Blues
31 David Peterson -- Comin' On Strong
32 April Verch Band -- Lost Boy
33 Chris Stuart & Backcountry -- The Jealous Crow
34 Cadillac Sky -- Never Been So Blue
35 April Verch Band -- He's Holding Onto Me
36 Don Stover -- Black Diamond

October 4, 2010

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 10/4/10 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven CT www.wnhu.net

Was great hearing from folks in PA, MD, DE. CT, and MI last week. Thanks, as always, for your support.

Hope you enjoy today's show!

1 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
2 Dave Grant, the L-7s, Mike Seeger -- Shaking off the Acorns
3 Del McCoury -- Roll me in my Sweet Baby's Arms
4 Hot Rize -- Your Light Leads Me On
5 Scott Brannon -- Old Shep
6 Rhonda Vincent & The Rage -- Good Thing Going
7 J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers -- New Curly-Headed Baby
8 Sam Bush w/ John Cowan -- Sailing Shoes
9 Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger -- Flatwoods
10 Danny Paisley -- A Memory of You
11 Hank Williams -- Alone and Forsaken
12 Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, Edgar Meyer -- The Hymn of Ordinary Motion
13 The Hoover Uprights -- Sally Ann
14 Chris Stuart & Back Country -- Brunswick Stew
15 Brent Truitt -- Paint it Black
16 John Reischman & The Jaybirds -- Prairie Girl
17 Leon Chappellear & The Lone Star Cowboys -- Hang out the Front Door Key
18 The Monroe Brothers -- Rollin' On
19 Blue Moon Rising -- The Next Big Thing
20 Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin -- Powell's Journey
21 Nashville Bluegrass Band -- Red Clay Halo
22 Merle Travis -- Dry Bread
23 Nickel Creek -- You Don't Have to Move That Mountain
24 Red Mountain -- Serves 'Em Fine
25 Merle Travis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Eddie Kirk -- Blues Stay Away From Me
26 Jim & Jesse -- Two Arms to Hold Me
27 Jim Silvers -- Katie Daly
28 Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers -- Mama Don't 'Low No Music
29 Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys -- Country Waltz
30 Caroline Mountain Band -- Ashokan Farewell
31 Blue Highway -- Lonely Old Town
32 Wolfe Brothers String Band -- Grey Eagle
33 Caleb Klauder -- In the Beginning
34 Doc Watson -- The Wreck of 1262
35 Big Country Bluegrass -- Now I'm Going Home
36 The Kentucky Colonels -- Over in the Glory Land
37 Don Stover -- Black Diamond


September 27, 2010

Playlist for Black Diamond Show 9/27/10 WNHU 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net

Monroe Brothers (1937) oldest recording today. Lots of 2010 recordings: Willie Nelson, Albemarle Ramblers, Matt Brown, Cherryholmes, & Blue Highway. And plenty of good stuff in between!

1 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
2 Warrior River Boys -- Midnight Train
3 Big Medicine -- Tennessee Breakdown
4 Banjo Dan & The Mid Nite Plowboys -- Stagolee
5 Monroe Brothers -- He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
6 Jerry Douglas -- We Hide and Seek
7 Lefty Frizzell -- Don't Let Her See Me Crying
8 Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper -- Farewell for a Little While
9 Nashville Bluegrass Band -- Angeline the Baker
10 Blue Highway -- Live on Down the Line
11 Bluegrass Album Band -- The Old Home Town
12 Albemarle Ramblers -- Reuben's Train
13 Tim O'Brien -- Foggy, Foggy Dew
14 Bryan Sutton -- Decision at Glady Fork
15 Hank Williams -- I'm a Long Gone Daddy
16 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver -- I Know, I Know
17 Willie Nelson -- You Done Me Wrong
18 Cherryholmes -- The Harder I Fall
19 Wolfe Brothers String Band -- Gal in the Galax Jail
20 Merle Travis -- Sweet Temptation
21 Kenny Baker -- Lost Indian
22 Matt Brown -- Time Has Made a Change
23 Del McCoury & His Dixie Pals -- In My Mind to Ramble
24 Chris Stuart -- The Last Yellow Rose
25 The Freight Hoppers -- Kentucky Whiskey
26 Benny Thomasson -- Jack of Diamonds
27 Mark Graham -- John Henry
28 Quebe Sisters Band -- Home in San Antone
29 Red State Ramblers -- Groundhog
30 Critton Hollow String Band -- St. Basil's Hymn
31 The Country Gentlemen -- Drifting Too Far From the Shore
32 Ronnie Bowman -- Four Wheel Drive
33 Hubie King & Diane Jones -- Baby O/Stillhouse
34 John Reischman & The Jaybirds -- Over the Levee
35 Perfect Strangers -- Evening Shade
36 Don Stover -- Black Diamond

September 22, 2010

Playlist for Black Diamond Show9/20/10 (WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net)

The second year of the Black Diamond Show got off to a great start: Train Songs, Banjo Songs, Songs by Ladies, a Cowboy Set, and a set of Jimmie Rodgers songs! Thanks for all you support. Was thrilled to hear from Maggie from Michigan, Fred from PA, and Greg from DE this week!

Here's the playlist--Bluegrass and Beyond!!

1 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
2 Lonesome River Band -- Tomahawk
3 Wolfe Brothers -- I'm Too Young to Marry
4 Delmore Brothers -- She Left Me Standing on the Mountain
5 Alison Krauss & Union Station -- Bright Sunny South
6 Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys -- Molly & Tenbrooks
7 Foghorn Duo -- My Horses Ain't Hungry
8 Austin Lounge Lizards -- Banjo Players in Heaven
9 Big Medicine -- The Old Gray Mare
10 Snuffy Jenkins -- House of David Blues
11 Wade Ward -- Shady Grove
12 Bluegrass Album Band -- The Old Home Town
13 Chris Stuart & Backcountry -- Paul & Peter Walked
14 Dailey & Vincent -- By the Mark
15 Doc Watson -- Preacher's Bicycle Story
16 Doc & Mere Watson -- Jimmy's Texas Blues
17 Jimmie Rodgers -- Waiting for a Train
18 Tim O'Brien -- California Blues
19 Jimmie Rodgers -- In the Jailhouse Now
20 Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys -- When the Cactus is in Bloom
21 Joe Newberry -- The Train that Carried My Girl From Town
22 Stanley Brothers -- Train 45
23 Bob & Danny Paisley -- The Evening Train
24 The Dixie Travelers -- Blue Railroad Train
25 Hank Thompson -- This Train
26 Ricky Skaggs -- Branded Whereever I Go
27 Dirk Powell -- Wake Robin/Little Cowboy
28 Chris Jones & The Night Drivers -- Cowboys Ain't Supposed to Cry
29 Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers -- The Windswept Desert
30 Earl Scruggs, Hylo Brown & The Timberliners -- Earl's Breakdown
31 Red State Ramblers -- Indian Ate the Woodchuck
32 Kenny & Amanda Smith Band -- I'd Jump the Mississippi
33 Critton Hollow -- Irina's Waltz
34 Luke & Jenny Anne Bulla -- Talahassee
35 Dolly Parton -- I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open
36 Alecia Nugent -- The Last Greyhound
37 Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet -- Santa Anna's Retreat/Kitchen Gal
38 April Verch -- He's Holding On To Me
39 Quebe Sisters Band -- Every Whichaway
40 Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper -- Troubles 'Round My Door
41 Don Stover -- Black Diamond

September 13, 2010

Black Diamond Show Playlist: First Anniversary Edition: 9/13/10 WNHU 88.7 West Haven CT & www.wnhu.net

It's hard to believe that Bryan and his staff have let us on WNHU's airwaves for a year now! I'm enjoying bringing you the music--and I hope you've been enjoying it, too!


This week, the show is a mixture of old favorites, new material, and material new to the show. Before I post the playlist, I want to mention a band that I heard for the first time at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival.


Quebe Sisters Band Sweeping the country from their home base in Fort Worth, TX, are the Quebe Sisters Band. Grace, Sophie, and Hulda Quebe are all extremely talented fiddlers and singers, and play and sing with brilliant harmonies. In short, they are the musical offspring of the Andrews Sisters and The Wills Brothers (Bob Wills, and his brothers Johnnie Lee, Billy Jack, and Luke). I'd never heard them before--but listeners will hear them on the Black Diamond Show in the coming weeks! Joey McKenzie and his wife Sherry have been their teachers and mentors for years. Joey himself is an award-winning fiddler and now he arranges the Quebe sisters' material and provides an extremely strong rhythm guitar base. And Drew Phelps is one of the most versatile bassists I've seen in a long time--he and Joey provide a spare yet driving rhythm section for the three sisters. Search YouTube for some of their performances. If they make it up to the Northeast, you should pack up the old station wagon and take the kids out to hear them play. Very talented and very entertaining!


And now, on to the playlist! Thanks, for your support!

1 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
2 Hank Williams -- Hey Good Looking
3 Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys -- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
4 Horseflies -- Benson's Dream
5 Big Country Bluegrass -- The Boys in Hats and Ties
6 Michael Cleveland & Jesse Brock -- Jerusalem Ridge
7 Kenny & Amanda Smith Band -- Do The Best You Can
8 Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys -- Cabin on the Hill
9 Kathy Mattea -- Sally in the Garden
10 Red Clay Ramblers -- Rabbit in the Pea Patch
11 Kathy Mattea -- Dark as a Dungeon
12 Stanley Brothers & George Shuffler -- Nine Pound Hammer
13 Caleb Klauder -- My Baby Came Back
14 Fly By Night String Band -- Waldorf Reel
15 Delia Bell & Bill Grant -- The Wall
16 Brown's Ferry Four -- Over in the Gloryland
17 Merle Travis -- Cane Bottom Chair
18 Paul Williams & the Victory Trio -- I'm Looking for Home
19 Benny Thommasson -- Grey Eagle
20 Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys -- Sunny Side of the Mountain
21 Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys -- Time Changes Everything
22 Bluegrass Album Band -- Chalk Up Another One
23 Freight Hoppers -- Dark Hollow Blues
24 Sophie Quebe -- Sally Johnson
25 Quebe Sisters Band -- You Don't Care What Happens to Me
26 Blue Moon Rising -- Freight Train
27 Steve Martin -- Wally on the Run
28 Big Medicine -- Dunbar
29 Doc & Merle Watson -- Greenville Trestle High
30 Adam Hurt w/Chance McCoy -- Sweet Bundy
31 Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass -- Drowning Sailor
32 Matt Brown, Paul Brown, & Beverly Smith -- Old Joe Clark
33 Cadillac Sky -- Can't Trust the Weatherman
34 Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin -- These Old Prison Bars
35 Reed Island Rounders -- George Booker
36 Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper -- I'm Ridin' This Train
37 Don Stover -- Black Diamond