February 27, 2011

Playlist for 2/28/11 Black Diamond Show (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

WNHU is in the middle of its annual fund drive. WNHU is one of a disappearing breed--a college radio station that tries to serve its college or university community AND the surrounding community. WNHU is not "corporate public radio"; it is true community radio, with student and community volunteers providing the programming. If you like the music we play on the Black Diamond Show, please consider making a donation to support WNHU. You can also call the station at 1-203-479-8807 during the show (Monday 2/28 noon - 2pm EST) to make your contribution or pledge.

Thanks very much for your support of the Black Diamond Show and WNHU, CT's number 1 college radio station, and community radio in general. Here's this week's playlist.


Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Driftin’ Apart / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• The Freight Hoppers / Kentucky Whiskey / Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go / Rounder / 1996
• Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / He Answered My Plea / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010
• Kenny Baker & Bobby Hicks / Panhandle Country / Darkness on the Delta / County / 1980
• The Maddox Brothers & Rose / There’s a Rainbow in Every Teardrop / The Maddox Brothers & Rose Live on the Radio / Arhoolie / 1953, 1998
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Carolina in the Pines / Once and for Always / Sugar Hill / 1983
• Brittany Haas / John Brown’s Dream / Brittany Haas / Ook Records/ 2004 / Her sister Natalie Haas plays the ‘cello on this cut.
• Boone Creek / White House Blues / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1977, 1987 / If you listen carefully, you’ll hear Ricky Skaggs change the words to match 1977 current events.
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Heartbreak is Real / Deep in the Shade / Rebel / 2009
• Here Today / Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Here Today / Rounder / 1982
• Ridge Runner Rag / The Sadies / Tremendous Efforts / Bloodshot / 2001
• Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / At the end of a Long Lonely Day / The Room Over Mine / Rounder / 2008
• Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson / Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys / Waylon & Willie (Remastered) / Buddha / 1978, 2001
• Sally Van Meter, Tammy Fassaert & Their Band / Montana Cowboy / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / 1995, 1996
• The Lonesome River Band / How I Long to be in the Mountains / Window of Time / Mountain Home Music / 2006
• ShoreGrass / Back in the Days / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
• Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals / Cluck Old Hen / Collector’s Special / Grassound / 1971, 1975
• Mac Wiseman & The Country Boys / Little Footsteps in the Snow / Country Music & Bluegrass at Newport / Vanguard / 1963
• Lonesome Redwing / Little Rabbit / Fly, Fly, Fly / self / 2009
• James King / Crazy Heart / Blue Trail of Sorrow / Rounder / 1995, 2000
• James King & David Davis / I’m Blue & Lonesome, Too / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / 2000
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / The Love She Left Behind / Could of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Jimmy Gaudreau’s Bluegrass Unit / Drifting Too Far From The Shore / 25 Years of Strictly Country Music / Strictly Country / 1987, 1996
• Leon Mcauliffe / Blacksmith Blues / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1952, 2009
• Benny Thomasson / Salt River / 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.
• Merle Travis & Doc Watson / San Antonio Rose / Folk Duets / Vanguard / c. 1976, 1998
• Sarah Jarosz / Can’t Hide / Song Up In Her Head / Sugar Hill / 2009
• Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Don’t Get Above Your Raising / Bluegrass Super Hits / Columbia Nashville / 1951, 1996
• Hot Mud Family / Walkin’ In Jerusalem / The Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1974, 2010
• Michael Cleveland / Durham’s Reel / Let ‘Er Go Boys / Rounder / 2006
• Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Lonesome for You / Saints and Strangers / Backcountry / 2003
• Leon’s Lone Star Cowboys / Mr. & Mrs. Is the Name / Western Swing Chronicles, Volume 2 Leon Chappelear / Origin Jazz Library / 1936, 2002
• Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Lulu Loves Them Young / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Matt Brown / Folding Down the Sheets / My Native Home / 5-String Productions / 2010
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / I Don’t Believe You’d Do Me Wrong / Keep on Going, the Rebel and Melodeon Years / Rebel / c. 1965, 2004
• Donna Ulisse / My Prayer / When I look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Wolfe Brothers String Band / If I Lose / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
• The Country Gentlemen / Sea of Heartbreak / Sound Off / Rebel / 1970
• The Morgantown Rounders / Sadie at the Back Door / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

February 21, 2011

Playlist for Black Diamond Show, WNHU, 2/21/11

Hope you enjoyed today's show! Edd Mayfield's singing of "Poison Love" is probably a new one on most of us. . . . And "I'm Startin' Sweetheartin' Again" is going on my list of songs to learn!

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
• White Brothers & Alan Munde / Soldier’s Joy, Black Mountain Rag / New Kentucky Colonels Live in Sweden / Rounder / 1973, 1976
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Calm the Storm / Quicksilver Rides Again / Sugar Hill / 1982
• Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Gospel Plow / Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Appalachian Music Group / 2008
• Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys / Sugar Moon / The Essential Bob Wills (1935-1947) / Sony (Columbia Classic) / c. 1940, 1992
• The Fly By Night Stringband / Cowboy’s Dream / The Fly By Night Stringband / Fretless / 1980
• Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
• Aubrey Haynie / Dark Hollow / Doin’ My Time / Sugar Hill / 1997
• The O’Kanes / Can’t Stop My Heart From Loving You / The O’Kanes / Columbia / 1986
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / The Note that Said Goodbye / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Lonesome John / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• New Pilot Mountaineers / Richmond / Down the Road / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2001
• The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tell Me Your Love Is Still True / Twenty Year Blues / Sugar Hill / 2004
• The Mayfield Brothers / Poison Love / Vintage Recordings, 1948-1956 /Patuxnet Music / 1956, 2006
• Jane Rothfield / Pike’s Peak / iFiddle, They Banjo / iFiddle / 2008 / with Hilarie Burhans, banjo
• Dailey & Vincent / When I Reach That Home Up There / Brothers from Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009
• The Mayfield Brothers / Bill Cheatham / Vintage Recordings, 1948-1956 /Patuxnet Music / c. 1950, 2006
• Leon Mcauliffe / Hard-Hearted Girl / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1955, 2009
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / Keep On Going / Keep On Going, The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings / c. 1965, 2004
• Hank Williams / Wedding Bells / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999
• Blue Highway / Lonesome Hearted Blues / Blue Highway / Skaggs Family / 1999
• Foghorn Duo / Old Love Letters / Lonesome Song / self / 2008
• Sierra Hull / If You Can Tame My Heart / Secrets / Rounder / 2007
• Rhonda Vincent & The Rage / Heartbreakin’ Old Achin’ Blues / Ragin’ Live / Rounder / 2005 / Mickey Harris singing lead
• Dailey & Vincent / By the Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Heartbreak Express / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008
• Lefty Frizzell / Forbidden Lovers / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony (Columbia Legacy) / 1963, 1997
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / Cold Lonesome Night / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys with Ricky Skaggs / My Sweet Darlin’ / Bill Monroe & Friends, The Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame / Raven / 1983, 2010
• Charles River Valley Boys / I Saw Her Standing There / Beatle Country / Elektra / 1966
• Donna Ulisse / Heartbreak River / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Lonesome River Band / Carolyn the Teenage Queen / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, & Edgar Meyer / Monkey Bay / Skip, Hop, and Wobble / Sugar Hill / 1993
• Al Dexter & His Troopers / I’m Startin’ Sweetheartin’ Again / Pistol Packin’ Mama / Living Era / c. 1948, 1999 / Originally a 33 RPM single for Columbia
• Red Mountain / Johnson Gal / Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence / Whoop It Up! / 2009
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury Nashville / 1958, 2003
• Hank Thompson / How Cold-Hearted Can You Get / Vintage Collections / Capitol / 1955, 2003
• Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / No Curb Service / Early Bluegrass / RCA / 1954, 1969
• The Osborne Brothers / Georgia Piney Woods / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / 1969, 2000
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

February 13, 2011

Playlist: Black Diamond Show Valentine's Day Special 2/14/11, WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net

OK, kids. How could I resist? Valentine's Day falls on a Monday this year--and it won't do so again until 2022! So I had to pull out all the stops! The show has some old favorites, some new songs, some you'd expect, and some that I hope surprise you. A mixture of true love songs and heartbreak songs. There were literally dozens and dozens of other songs I could have shared, but this show was a lot of fun to put together.

How can you resist lines like "I thought my heart was fireproof/but you burned your way inside" (Flatt & Scruggs), or "I've got a humpty dumpty heart you dropped it and broke it apart" (Hank Thompson)??

I sure hope you like the show. Below are the details on these songs so you can find them, and a handful of notes. Thanks, as always, for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Head Over Heels in Love With You / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1950, 1977 / What valentine's day is all about!
• Guy Clark / If I Needed You / Somedays the Song Writes You / Dualtone Music Group / 2009 / A great cover of the Townes Van Zandt song. Clark makes it a cowboy love song.
• Jim & Jesse & The Virgina Boys / When My Blue Moon Turns Gold / Bluegrass Classics / Epic (Columbia) / 1963
• The Blue Sky Boys / Sweetheart Mountain Rose / In Concert / Rounder / 1964, 1988
• Hot Mud Family / Ashes of Love / Buckeyes in the Briar Patch / Vetco / 1975 / A classic Johnny & Jack song of heartbreak if ever there was one.
• Hank Thompson / (I’ve Got a) Humpty-Dumpty Heart / Vintage Collections / Nashville Catalog / 1947, 1996 / I'm a sucker for this kind of song. Sentimental as all get out, I know, but. . . .
• Lynn Miles / Fearless Heart / Fall for Beauty / True North / 2010 / There's something especially haunting about the way she phrases this song. One of the best songs of last year, IMHO.
• Hank Williams / Your Cheatin’ Heart / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1952, 1978
• Bluegrass Album Band / Hey Lonesome / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Vol. 2 / Rounder / 1983, 1987
• Lefty Frizzell / All of Me Loves All of You / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony (Columbia Legacy) / c. 1953, 1997
• Louvin Brothers / I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby / Live at New River Ranch / Copper Creek / 1956, 1988 / It took me about a decade to NOT get choked up every time I'd hear this song. As soon as the stranger says "My sister wants to marry," all is right with the world. Cue the hankies.
• The Country Gentlemen / Tomorrow’s My Wedding Day / Country Songs Old and New / Folkways / 1960 / Not something you'd think of on valentine's day ordinarily. But heck, if he's not working today or tomorrow because he's getting married, there may be hope that things will turn out as well as they do in the next song.
• David Silva / September Bride / Moorpark Oasis / self / 2010 / No oboes in bluegrass. I know, I know. But on valentine's day, how could I resist playing a song about the love between a married couple, even as he notes the gray in her hair.
• Red Knuckles & The Trail Blazers / I Know My Baby Loves Me / Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Flying Fish / 1982 / Ernest Tubb had a hit with this old Shepard and Canton song. Hot Rize made it popular with boomers like me!
• Charlie Feathers / The Man in Love / Essential Sun Rockabillies : Vol. 3 / Charly UK / 1958, 1999 / "I don't know why they say you're just a flirt, Maybe you like to see me hurt." Need I say more?
• Jamie Watson / Weep Anymore / Tell the Truth / self / 1992 / One of my favorite heartbreak songs since I first heard it about 20 years ago. Just banjo and vocals and a very sad tale.
• The Monroe Brothers / On the Banks of the Ohio / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1936, 1975 / One of the first true love murder ballads a lot of us boomers learned.
• Lonesome River Band / Tune of a Twenty Dollar Bill / Window of Time / Mountain Home Music / 2006 / My new favorite song about true love. Definitely cue the hankies on this one.
• Jerry Reed / A Good Woman’s Love / The Essential Jerry Reed / RCA Nashville / 1974, 1995 / We all know this as a bluegrass standard. Here's the commercial country version.
• ShoreGrass / A Waltz for You / In Connecticut / Shaw Family / 2001
• New Pilot Mountaineers / Yellow Rose of Texas / Down the Road / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2001
• Ralph Blizzard & The New Southern Ramblers / Girl I Love Don’t Pay Me No Mind / The American Fogies, Vol. 2 / Rounder / 1996
• Caleb Klauder / In My Heart I Love You Yet / Western Country / Padre / 2010
• Mason Williams / You Done Stompt on My Heart / The Listening Matter (Digitally Remastered) / Essential Media Group / 1964, 2009 / Yeah, he wrote this song as a joke, but if your heart is broken, you're better off laughing.
• Bill Keith / Pain in My Heart / Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass / Rounder / 1975
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Always Never Enough / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
• Grandpa Jones / Eight More Miles to Louisville / Bluegrass Then & Now / CMH / 1966, 2000 / Single recorded for Monument in 1966.
• Tony Rice / A Good Woman’s Love / California Autumn / Rebel / 1974, 1975 / That’s not a typo. California Autumn was recorded for Rebel in 1974, released in 1975.
• The Honey Dewdrops / Test of Time / These Old Roots / self / 2010 / True love as sung about by a pair of Virginians, Laura Wortman & Kagey Parrish, married, and traveling the USofA on their music career.
• David Grisman / My Little Georgia Rose / Home is Where the Heart Is / Rounder / 1987
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Til the End of the World Rolls Round / 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered: The Essential Flatt & Scruggs / Sony (Columbia Legacy) / 1954, 1997 / A classic. One of my favorite bluegrass songs of all time.
• Blueridge / Rock Hearts / Come Along with Me / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / I’ll Wash Your Love From My Heart / The Best of the Early Years / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• Big Country Bluegrass / If You Don’t Have the Heart / Twenty Years of Grass / Hay Holler / 2007
• Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / My Lover, Adorned / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011 / A cowboy in love from this dynamite duo from way out west.
• Phil Rosenthal / Beautiful Brown Eyes / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009 / A nice version of the Delmore Brothers' love song.
• Michael Cleveland / Hopelessly In Love / Let ‘Er Go, Boys! / Rounder / 2006 / Pre-Flamekeeper. A lovely sentimental love song (instrumental).
• Ronnie Bowman / Always a Lady / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel /1993 /True love, even on a cold Virginia night!
• The Stanley Brothers / I’ll Be True to the One I Love / Long Journey Home: The Stanley Bros. of Virginia, Vol. 2 / County / 1964, 1973 / Another classic.
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

February 5, 2011

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 2/7/11; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

Since I was slow about posting last week's playlist, what the heck, here's an ADVANCE COPY of the playlist for the show planned for Monday, Feb 7. Thanks, as always, for your support.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Is it True / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• The Lone Star Cowboys / Just Because / East Virginia Blues / RCA Bluebird / 1935, 2004
• Donna Ulisse / The Walls Cry / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Charlie Louvin / Down by the Riverside / The Battles Rage On / True North / 2010
• Claire Lynch Band / Face to Face / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder / 2009
• Yonder Mountain String Band / Too Late Now / Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Thirty Years / Rounder / 2005
• Joe Herrmann / Izzy’s Polka / Gather ‘Round / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Durham’s Reel / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963 / From first bluegrass concert ever held at Carnegie Hall, December 8, 1962.
• Bobby Hicks / East Tennessee Blues / Texas Crapshooter / County / 1978
• Red Hen / Too Late for the Bacon / Red Hen Crossing / Red Hen / 2009
• Kathy Louvin & Pamela Brown Hayes / I Wish You Knew / Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’, Songs of the Louvin Brothers / Universal South / 2003
• The Freight Hoppers / Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm / Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go / Rounder / 1996
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Old Timers’ Waltz / Once and for Always / Sugar Hill / 1985
• Darrell Scott / You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1997, 2009
• Wayne Henderson & Steve Kaufman / Lonesome Moonlight Waltz / Not Much Work for Saturday / Hay Holler / 1996
• Hank Williams / Alone and Forsaken / Alone with his Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000
• Phil Rosenthal / Sail Away Ladies / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009
• Randy Burns / Every Time We Say Goodbye / Hobos & Kings / self / 2010
• Roger Sprung & Doc Watson / The World is Waiting for the Sunrise / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1970, 2002
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Uncle Pen / Anthology / MCA / c. 1970, 2003
• David Grisman & Sam Bush / Hartford’s Reel / Hold on, We’re Strumming / Acoustic Disc / 2003
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / What You Do / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Nashville Mandolin Trio / Seneca Square Dance / American Portraits / SoundArt Recordings / 1998
• Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Dance All Night / Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Appalachian Music Group / 2008
• Reed Island Rounders / Ways of the World / Goin’ Back / Burnin’ Wolf / 2002
• The Stanley Brothers / Sunny Side of the Mountain / The Best of the Stanley Brothers / Starday / c. 1960, 1975
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Snow Drop / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• Hard Ryde / Warm Day in June / North to Ontario 2010 / Coot Music / 2010
• Big Medicine / Dunbar / Pine to Pine / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
• Al Dexter / Sundown Polka / Pistol Packin’ Mama / Harmony / 1961
• Morgantown Rounders / Sugar Babe / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Dailey & Vincent / Poor Boy Workin’ Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist for Black Diamond Show 1/31/11 (WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net)

It took me a few days to get my notes typed up from Monday's show. The show had two "bullet points."
  • First, a tribute to Charlie Louvin, who passed away on Wed., Jan. 26 (Obituary at theboot.com). As regular listeners know, I am a big fan of Charlie & Ira Louvin's songs. You've heard me play "Great Atomic Power," "My Baby's Gone," "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby," "Cash on the Barrelhead," and other songs they've contributed to American Country Music. Charlie's last CD, "The Battles Rage On," was released on Veteran's Day 2010 on True North Records.
  • Being thoroughly sick of the cruddy icy sleety snowy and cold winter, I played a lot of dance tunes to keep myself warm. Winter is Contra Dance season to my way of thinking. If you're in CT, check out the Contra Dance link over on the right hand side of this blog.

    Thanks for your email messages and support! Here's the playlist for the 1/31/11 show:


    Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
    • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
    • Cadillac Sky / Can’t Trust the Weatherman / Blind Man Walking / Skaggs Family / 2006
    • Foghorn Stringband / Icy Mountain / Boombox Squaredance / self / 2007
    • Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / I Wish You Knew / Bluegrass Special / Epic (Columbia) / 1963
    • Charlie Louvin & Charles Whitstein / Make Him a Soldier / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / 1993, 1996
    • Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys / Oklahoma Hills / Vintage Collections / Capitol / 1961, 2003
    • Beverly Cotton / Miss Liza Poor Gal / Clog-In / Flying Fish / 1981
    • Donna Ulisse / Doin’ Time / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
    • The Louvin Brothers / My Baby’s Gone / Crazy Heart, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / New West / 1958, 2010
    • The Byrds / The Christian Life / Sweetheart of the Rodeo / Columbia / 1968
    • Doc & Merle Watson / Guitar Polka / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder / 1971, 2006
    • David Peterson / The Waltz You Saved For Me / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009
    • Carolina Chocolate Drops / Cornbread & Butterbeans / Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch / 2009
    • Marty Stuart & Del McCoury / Let us Travel, Travel On / Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’, Songs of the Louvin Brothers / Universal South / 2003
    • Blue Highway / Sycamore Hollow / Through the Windows of a Train / Rounder / 2007
    • The Morgantown Rounders / Dance All Night with a Bottle in your Hand / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
    • Riders in the Sky / Clarinet Polka / A Pair of Kings / Oh Boy / 2002
    • Charlie Louvin / Hickory Wind / Hickory Wind, Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull, Waycross Georgia / Tompkins Square / 2009, 2010
    • Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / McMichen’s Reel / Canyoneers / Dog Boy / 2003
    • Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / If Only I Could Win Your Love / At Edwards Barn / Rounder / 2010
    • The Percolators / Kansas City Reel / Alive in Prague / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004
    • Bluegrass Album Band / One Tear / The Blue Grass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1982, 1986
    • Berline, Crary & Hickman / Henry’s Hornpipe / BCH / Sugar Hill / 1986
    • Notorious / Hangman’s Reel / The Road to Damascus / Black Socks Press / 2010
    • Hoover Uprights / Texas Quickstep / Known for their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006
    • Merle Travis / I like my Chicken Fryin’ Size / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1947, 2003
    • The Montville Project / Arkansas Traveler, Soldier’s Joy / 53 Essential New England Dance Tunes / Great Meadow / 2008
    • Scott Vestal, Adam Steffey, Clay Jones, Aubrey Haynie, Wayne Benson, & Barry Bales / Temperance Reel / More Ultimate Pickin’ / Pinecastle / 2009
    • Merle Travis / The Waltz You Saved For Me / The Merle Travis Guitar/ Capitol / 1959
    • Ronnie Bowman / Lead Us Safely / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel / 1993
    • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Why you do what you do / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
    • Carolina Chocolate Drops / Sandy Boys / Genuine Negro Jig/ Nonesuch / 2009
    • Yankee Ingenuity with Tony Parkes, caller / Crockett’s Honeymoon, Yellow Rose of Texas / Heatin’ Up the Hall / Varrick / 1989
    • The Louvin Brothers / I’m Changing the Words to my Love Song / The Louvin Brothers / Rounder / 1952, 1978
    • Earl Scruggs, Hylo Brown, & the Timberliners / Love and Wealth / Earl Scruggs – Bluegrass Live / Vanguard / 1959, 2000
    • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme