April 25, 2011

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 4/25/11 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven CT & www.wnhu.net

Today's show has a lot of "Ida Red" in it--I hope you enjoy the variations. And take a moment to let me know your thoughts about the newer Bluegrass music we played in today's show. The survey includes links to samples of each song--so you can give me your opinion even if you missed this week's show. Your responses help me report information to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles.

If you missed today's show, you can hear it rebroadcast on Thursday night from 9-11pm EDT on www.wnhu.net -- select the WNHU2 stream on Thursday, not the "on the air" (WNHU) link. The WNHU link lets you hear what's going out over 88.7 FM--Mondays noon-2pm in our case.

Thanks for your support of Bluegrass and traditional country music--and of WNHU!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Charlie Sizemore / Going to Georgia / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel /2011
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Ida Red / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1938, 2006
• Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Texas Girl / The Oak and the Laurel / Rounder / 1994
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / In the Darkest Hour / 10 Years of European World Bluegrass / Strictly Country / 2003, 2008
• The Hoover Uprights / Wild Hog in the Woods / Known for Their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Paul & Silas / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Bill Emerson / Dickenson County Breakdown / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / Froggy Went A-Courtin’ / Keep on Going: The Rebel and Melodeon Recordings / Rebel / c. 1964, 2004
• Dan Zanes / Smile, Smile, Smile / Night Time / Festival Five / 2002
• Alecia Nugent / Hillbilly Goddess / Hillbilly Goddess / Rounder / 2009
• Foghorn Stringband / Danville Girl / Reap What You Sow / self/ 2004
• Debbie Watson / Big Hair Down in Texas / Big Hair Down in Texas EP / Big Hair / 2005
• Larry Sparks / John Deere Tractor / John Deere Tractor / Rebel / 1979
• Ralph Stanley / Black-Eyed Susie / Old-Time Pickin’, A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel / 2008
• Cahelen Morrison & Eli West / My Bloody Heart, Reprise / Holy Coming of the Storm / self/ 2011
• Larry Sparks / Momma / Almost Home/ Rounder / 2011
• Balsam Range / Trains I Missed / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home Music / 2011
• The Hillbenders / Done Wrong Love Song / Down to My Last Dollar / self / 2011
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Goin’ Up Dry Branch / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / Bonita and Bill Butler / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• Hot Club of Cowtown / Ida Red / Four Dead Batteries Soundtrack / Hightone / 2005
• Bluegrass Album Band / Hey Lonesome / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1983, 1987
• Hot Mud Family / I’m Looking for the Stone / The Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1978, 2010
• Tater Patch / Ed Haley’s Ida Red / Chester County, PA, Historical Society / unreleased / 2011
• Josiah Altschuler / I Still Miss Someone / Murder Ballads and Love Songs for Cello and Voice / self / 2008
• The VW Boys / Rag Mop / Retroactive / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
• Red Hen / Copper Run / Red Hen Crossing / self / 2009
• Sierra Hull / What do you say? / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Ida Red Likes the Boogie / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1949, 2006
• Josh Williams / Blue Railroad Train / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011 / Tony Rice on guitar.
• Wayne Henderson & Steve Kaufman / Maiden’s Prayer / Not Much Work for Saturday / Hay Holler / 1996
• Warrior River Boys / Never Get to Hold You in my Arms Anymore / Sounds Like Home / Rounder / 1992
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Take Me In Your Lifeboat / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury Nashville / 1958, 2003
• The Gibson Brothers / Singing as We Rise / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Blue Moon Rising / Barely Hangin’ On / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

April 20, 2011

Top New Bluegrass Songs Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited & Bluegrass Music Profiles (April)

Here's the information I submitted to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles this month on behalf of the Black Diamond Show. You can influence the "charting report" by voting in the surveys we post with each playlist. For the past 4 weeks, we've included links to samples of the songs in case you need a reminder of which song is which.

Thank you for your support of bluegrass and country music--and for your support of WNHU!


Top Newer Bluegrass Songs
Black Diamond Show, WNHU, 88.7 FM
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT
www.wnhu.net

1. Balsam Range / On the Run
2. The Hillbenders / Red Stains
3. Sierra Hull / Best Buy
4. Art Gomperz Band / Beg, Steal or Borrow
5. The Gibson Brothers / One Car Funeral
6. Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven
7. Kathy Kallick Band / Where is my Little Cabin Home
8. Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut
9. Josh Williams / Cherokee Shuffle
10. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Going Back to Old Virginia
11. Charlie Sizemore / Poor Rambler
12. Big Country Bluegrass / Black Mountain Special
13. Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In
14. Bill Emerson / Jesse James
15. Steeldrivers / Angel of the Night
16. Iron Horse / Oh Moses
17. Paul Williams / He Answered My Plea
18. The Gibson Brothers / I’ll Love Nobody But You
19. Larry Sparks / Somebody Touched Me
20. Balsam Range / Callin’ Caroline

Top 12 Albums (based on listener votes for tracks from the CDs)
1. The Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother
2. Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking for a Home
3. Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert
4. Balsam Range / Trains I Missed
5. Sierra Hull / Daybreak
6. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
7. Paul Williams / Just a Little Closer Home
8. Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties
9. Alison Krauss & Union Station / Paper Airplane
10. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up
11. The Hillbenders / Down to my Last Dollar (based on all the votes for “Red Stains”)
12. Kathy Kallick Band / Between the Hollow & the High Rise

April 18, 2011

Playlist for 4/18/11 Black Diamond Show (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

Today's show includes several bluegrass and country songs influenced by British folk-rocker Richard Thompson. The idea came to me as I realized Alison Krauss & Union Station had used Thompson's "Dimming of the Day" on their new CD, Paper Airplane. The show also includes the usual mix of old-time, bluegrass, and country. Hope you enjoyed it!

This week, I'm due to report my "top bluegrass" lists to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles. So, please, let me know what you think of the new bluegrass played on today's show: Survey for 4/18 show.

You can still let me know what you thought about the new bluegrass played on April 11, April 4, and March 28.

Well, on to today's playlist. Thanks for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Larry Sparks / Lines on the Highway / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
• Joe Newberry / Rocky Island / Two Hands / 5-String Productions / 2005
• Bob Will & His Texas Playboys / My Window Faces the South / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1938, 2006
• Blue Highway / Wondrous Love / Some Day: Fifteenth Anniversary / Rounder / 2003, 2010
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / Won’t Be Long / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
• Sierra Hull / Tell Me Tomorrow / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Bill Emerson / Jesse James / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011 / Tom Adams lead vocal
• Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys / John Henry / Don’t Cry to Me / Thrill Jockey / c. 1958, 2004
• Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers / Long Journey Home / Ramblin’ Bluegrass / Starday / 1972
• The Double Decker String Band / Bitter Creek / The Rest is Yet to Come / 5-String Productions / 2006
• The Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Way Down In My Soul: Best of Sugar Hill Gospel Volume 2 / Sugar Hill / 1986, 1993
• Butch Baldassari & David Schnauffer / Black Mountain Rag / Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer / Sound Art / 2006
• Dale Watson / Hello, I’m an old Country Song / Carryin’ On / E1 Music / 2010
• The Punch Brothers / Rye Whiskey / Antifogmatic / Nonesuch / 2010
• The Seldom Scene / Don’t Bother With White Satin / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill / 2007
• Sam Bush / Bringing in the Georgia Mail / Laps in Seven / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Dan Berggren & Dan Duggan / Cherokee Shuffle / Rooted in the Mountains / self / 2001
• Bluegrass Album Band / On My Way Back Home / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1981, 1986
• Dailey & Vincent / Don’t You Call My Name / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Gadaya / 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / YouTube Video, URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnFWKhULNTg / self / 2009 / A song by British guitarist Richard Thompson.
• Del McCoury Band / Dry My Tears and Move On / It’s Just the Night / McCoury Music / 2003 / A song by British guitarist Richard Thompson.
• Patty Loveless / Tear-Stained Letter / Trouble With the Truth / Epic / 1995 / A song by British guitarist Richard Thompson.
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / Dimming of the Day / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011 / A song by British guitarist Richard Thompson.
• Teddy Thompson / She Thinks I Still Care / Up Front and Down Low / Verve Forecast / 2007 / A cover of an old hit for George Jones by the son of Richard and Linda Thompson.
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / Bluegrass DJs (excerpt) / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Shaun Cromwell / The Gristmill / Folk-Worn Prose / Melon Patch Recordings / 2010
• Cherryholmes / I am Your Conscience / Cherryholmes IV, Common Threads / Skaggs Family / 2010
• Iron Horse / My Daddy’s Life / Horse and Pen / B Sharp / 2011
• Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
• Rayna Gellert & Susie Goehring / Buckin’ Dun / Starch & Iron / Heard Her Squeal / 2005
• Charlie Sizemore / Poor Rambler / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Going Back to Old Virginia / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Donna Ulisse / When I Look Back / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / When Her Smile Is Gone / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

April 11, 2011

Playlist: Black Diamond Show (WNHU): 4/11/11


Today's show featured an interview with Dailey and Vincent, coming to GuitarTown on Sunday April 17. Those guys are a hoot--and darn fine musicians, too. (Link to hi-fi MP3 of interview (19M). Link to lower-fi MP3 of interview (6.2M). Musical selections trimmed.)

Even with the interview, we still had time to play five newer bluegrass songs and the usual mix of bluegrass and traditional country music. Let me know what you think about the newer bluegrass songs we played today. You can also go back to complete the surveys for the past month or so. Today's survey--and the last two surveys--also include a link to samples so you can remind yourself which song was which.

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
• Rhonda Vincent & The Rage / Who’s Cryin’ Baby / Good Thing Going / Rounder / 2008
• Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys / Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die / Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys, The Early Days of Bluegrass / Rounder / 1958, 1978
• Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Walking in Jerusalem / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Dixie Special / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Perfect Strangers / Homeless Joe / Perfect Strangers / Rebel / 2003
• Doc Watson / Ticklin’ the Strings / Country Music & Bluegrass at Newport / Vanguard / 1963
• Sierra Hull / Chasin’ Skies / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Sugar-Coated Love / The High Lonesome Sound / MCA / 1951, 1973
• Lonesome Strangers / Billy in the Lowground / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1978, 2002
• Dailey & Vincent / Do You Know You Are My Sunshine / Dailey and Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Dailey & Vincent / Interview about appearance for Guitar Town on April 17 / Includes an excerpt from “What Would You Give in Exchange for your Soul.”
• Dailey & Vincent / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Singing From the Heart / Rounder / 2009
• Dailey & Vincent / Elizabeth / Dailey and Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Christian Davis / He Touched Me / Make It Real / self / 2006 / The bass singer with Dailey & Vincent.
• The Monroe Brothers / What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1936, 1975
• Dailey & Vincent / Poor Boy Working Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Dailey & Vincent / Class of ‘57 / Dailey and Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Chris Wuerth / Interview about Guitar Town
• Dailey & Vincent / Head Hung Down / Brothers from Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009
• Charles River Valley Boys / Help! / Beatle Country / Elektra / 1966
• Merle Travis / Cincinnati Lou / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1946, 2003
• Art Gomperz Band / Beg, Steal, or Borrow / A Different Story to Tell / All About Murray / 2010
• The Louvin Brothers / Robe of White / The Louvin Brothers / Rounder / 1952, 1978
• Donna Ulisse / Everything Has Changed / Walk This Mountain Down / Hadley Music Group / 2008
• Leon’s Lone Star Cowboys / Bugle Call Rag / Western Swing Chronicles Volume 2, Leon Chappelear / Origin Jazz Library / 1936, 2002
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Runaway Ramp / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Wolfe Brothers String Band / Clark Hill Waltz / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
• Wayne Henderson & Steve Kaufman / Indian Killed the Woodcock / Not Much Work for Saturday / Hay Holler / 1996
• The Country Gentlemen / Fox on the Run / Sound Off / Rebel / 1970
• Nora Jane Struthers / Greenbrier County /Nora Jane Struthers / Blue Pig Music / 2010
• Blue Highway / Marbletown / Some Day: Fifteenth Anniversary Collection / Rounder / 2005, 2010
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1954, 1977
• Nate Grower / Cherry River Line / Nate Grower / Patuxnet Music / 2010
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

April 4, 2011

Playlist, Black Diamond Show 4/4/11, WNHU

This show has a mixture of old and new music--here's the link to the survey for you to let me know what you think about the newer bluegrass played on today's show. Use the survey or the link to the right to make a request or give me any other feedback. Hope you enjoy the mixture of bluegrass, old-time, and western country in today's show!

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
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / Journey’s End / Keep on Going, the Rebel and Melodeon Years / Rebel / 1965, 2004
• Reed Island Rounders / Durang’s Hornpipe, Walking in the Parlor / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf / 2006
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / The Kind of Love I Can’t Forget / Legends of Country Music / Sony BMG / 1946, 2006
• Del McCoury Band / Zero to Love / It’s Just the Night / McCoury Music / 2003
• J.D. Crowe & the New South / The Old Home Place / Bluegrass Class of 1990 / Rounder / 1975, 1990
• Boone Creek / Gonna Settle Down / Boone Creek / Rounder / 1977
• Albemarle Ramblers / Black Eyed Susie / Gentlemen from Virginia / Merriwether / 2010
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Sylvie / Deep in the Shade / Rebel / 2009
• The Stanley Brothers / I’ll be True to the one I Love / Long Journey Home / County / 1964, 1973
• Ernest Tubb / Walkin’ the Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb: The Last Sessions / First Generation / 1979, 1999
• Charlie Sizemore / Walking the Floor Over Me / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
• The Morgantown Rounders / Sugar Babe / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Ron Block / Be Assured / Doorway / Rounder / 2010
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / White House Blues / The High Lonesome Sound / MCA / 1954, 1973
• David Grisman Quintet / Ricochet / David Grisman Quintet / Kaleidoscope / 1976
• Border Radio / Oklahoma Waltz / Li’l Songbook / self / 2001
• Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Lonesome for You / Saints & Strangers / Backcountry / 2003
• Mark Dvorak / The Bluebells in Kentucky / Time Ain’t Got Nothin’ on Me / Waterbug / 2011
• David Grisman / Shenandoah Breakdown / Early Dawg / Sugar Hill / c. 1968, 1980
• Josh Williams / Dream of Me / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011
• The Hot Club of Cowtown / Keeper of my Heart / What Makes Bob Holler / Proper / 2011
• The Gibson Brothers / Just Lovin’ You / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• The O’Kanes / Daddies Need to Grow Up, Too / The O’Kanes / Columbia / 1986
• The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Biggest Liars in Town / American Masters Series, Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 1993, 2007
• Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands / How Old Are You, My Pretty Little Miss? / MerleFest Live / FestivaLink / 2010
• Balsam Range / East Virginia Blues / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
• Dailey & Vincent / Your Love is Like a Flower / Brothers from Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009
• The Quebe Sisters Band / Twin Guitar Special / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007
• Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, & Del McCoury / Live and Let Live / Mac, Doc, & Del / GrooveGrass / 1998
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Sail Away Ladies, A Roof for the Rain, Snake River Reel / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers / The Love She Left Behind / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Some of These Days / Daddy of Western Swing Vol. 2, Brownie Special / Proper / 1935, 2003
• Doc Watson featuring Merle Watson / Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down / Doc Watson on Stage / Vanguard / 1971
• Donna Ulisse / Caney Creek to Canaan Land / Holy Water / Hadley Music Group / 20101
• David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / Two Dimes and a Nickel / Two Dimes and a Nickel / Rebel / 2009
• Ralph Stanley / John Henry / Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel / 2008
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme