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