Today's show opened up with the Infamous Stringdusters, then Jim Nunnally (and my mis-speaking the name of the 2nd tune in the BG medley he played--corrected below), then moved back in time--as usual. I just can't get enough of the Louvin Brothers, the Delmore Brothers, the Monroe Brothers, Jim and Jesse, the Lilly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers--notice a trend? I also played Merchant's Lunch by the Red Clay Ramblers since a friend of mine told me such a cute story about her daughter sitting on the stage while the old RCR played that song. And learning the words right away. "Broadway Brenda" indeed.
The LPs I was particularly glad to play parts of this week were an old Jim Eanes reissue from the 50s (out as an LP on Rounder), my favorite Stanley Brothers LP, an old RCA re-issue (on LP) of the original Bluebird recordings by Charlie and Bill Monroe, and a 1983 Rebel Records LP by Jethro Burns and Red Rector, "Old Friends"--just a lot of fun for a mandolin player to hear the two of them mandoing away at each other. And probably fun for others as well! Oh, and how could I forget -- "Great Atomic Power" by the Louvin Brothers! A cold war gospel number from the same brains that wrote "You got to pray to the lord when you see those flying saucers." Ah, but the Louvins wrote a ton of great songs too--"Cash on the Barrelhead," "I Don't Believe You've Met my Baby," and many other classics.
Anything by Roland and Clarence White and the rest of the Kentucky Colonels is always fun--but the version of Bill Cheatum I played from 1964 included Roland (mando) and Billy Ray Lathum (banjo) sticking in some extra key changes.
Just before Jethro Burns and Red Rector closed down the show, I played a track by a Philadelphia area banjoist--Jamie Watson. If anyone knows if he's still playing anywhere, drop me a note.
After and during the show I heard from listeners in CT, TN, and MD. Thanks for your continued support!
And the playlist:
2/15/2010 1 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
2/15/2010 2 Infamous Stringdusters -- Letter from Prison
2/15/2010 3 Jim Nunnally -- Bluegrass Medley (Clinch Mountain Backstep/Pike County Breakdown/Turkey in the Straw)
2/15/2010 4 Red Clay Ramblers -- Merchants' Lunch
2/15/2010 5 Kentucky Colonels -- Bill Cheatum
2/15/2010 6 Jimmy Martin -- Grand Ole Opry Song
2/15/2010 7 Delmore Brothers -- She Left Me Standing on the Mountain
2/15/2010 8 Lilly Brothers & Don Stover -- Southern Skies
2/15/2010 9 Jim & Jesse -- Are you lost in sin?
2/15/2010 10 Steve Martin -- Wally on the Run
2/15/2010 11 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver -- Julie Ann Come On Home
2/15/2010 12 Critton Hollow String Band -- Bell Cow/Grumblin' Old Man, Growlin' Old Woman
2/15/2010 13 Louvin Brothers -- Great Atomic Power
2/15/2010 14 Marty Stuart & Del McCoury -- Let us travel, travel on
2/15/2010 15 Bobby Hicks -- Paddy on the Turnpike
2/15/2010 16 Monroe Brothers -- Nine-pound hammer
2/15/2010 17 Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys -- Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
2/15/2010 18 Fuzzy Mountain String Band -- Old Mother Flanagan
2/15/2010 19 Bob Wills -- Take me back to Tulsa
2/15/2010 20 The Dillards -- John Hardy
2/15/2010 21 Louvin Brothers -- I'm Changing the Words to my Love Song
2/15/2010 22 Tony Rice -- Bitter Green
2/15/2010 23 Del McCoury -- Hey, Hey Bartender
2/15/2010 24 Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers -- Skillet Licker Breakdown
2/15/2010 25 Big Medicine -- I've got no honey babe now
2/15/2010 26 Dailey & Vincent -- By the mark
2/15/2010 27 Gibson Brothers -- Jericho
2/15/2010 28 Lefty Frizzell -- Always in Love
2/15/2010 29 Jethro Burns & Red Rector -- Down Yonder
2/15/2010 30 Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys -- Foggy Mountain Breakdown
2/15/2010 31 Hank Williams -- I can't get you off of my mind
2/15/2010 32 Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder -- Little Maggie
2/15/2010 33 Stanley Brothers -- Wild and Reckless Hobo
2/15/2010 34 Adam Hurt -- Cherokee Shuffle
2/15/2010 35 Jim Eanes -- Missing in Action
2/15/2010 36 John Reischman & The Jaybirds -- Prairie Girl
2/15/2010 37 Jim & Jesse -- Virginia Waltz
2/15/2010 38 Jamie Watson -- Weep Anymore
2/15/2010 39 Jethro Burns & Red Rector -- Arkansas Traveller
2/15/2010 40 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
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