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