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