May 30, 2011

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 5/30/11 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven CT & www.wnhu.net

Here's the playlist for the Memorial Day edition of the Black Diamond Show. It will re-stream online on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net on Thursday night from 9-11pm EDT. If you missed it today, you can catch it Thursday! And fill out this week's survey to let me know what you think of the newer bluegrass we played this week.

Thanks for your support of bluegrass music, traditional country music, and WNHU.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Comin’ Across the Sea / Vintage Unique / Corvus / 2011
• Larry Sparks / Casualty of War / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music / 2007
• The String Fingers Band / Has the Whole Darn World Gone Mad / Don’t Forget / Railroad Crossing / 2011
• Seldom Scene / Heart & Soul / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill/ 2007
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Gabriel’s Call / Vintage Unique / Corvus / 2011
• Dailey & Vincent / Do You Know You Are My Sunshine? / Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Albemarle Ramblers / Gentlemen from Virginia / Gentlemen from Virginia / Merriwether / 2010
• The Hot Club of Cowtown / Time Changes Everything / What Makes Bob Holler / Proper / 2011
• The Stanley Brothers / Train 45 / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1967, 2000
• Lefty Frizzell / Just Can’t Live that Fast Anymore / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Columbia Legacy / 1974, 1997
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Yonder Stands Little Maggie / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963
• Reed Foehl / East Jersey Cowboy / Elephant Revival and Friends, Boulder Colorado / Festivalink.net / 2010
• The Lilly Brothers / Forgotten Soldier Boy / The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover: Bluegrass at the Roots / Smithsonian Folkways / 1961, 2005
• Chris Brashear / Lost Soldier Son / Wanderlust / Copper Creek / 2000
• Earl Scruggs, John McEuen, Junior Huskey / Soldier’s Joy / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
• Donna Ulisse / Let It Rain / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• The Monroe Brothers / Goodbye Maggie / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1938, 1975
• Hank Williams / Rockin’ Chair Money / Alone with his Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000
• Scott Vestal, Ron Stewart, Mark Schatz, Randy Kohrs, Wayne Benson, Jeff Autry / When Johnny Comes Marching Home / More Ultimate Pickin’ / Pinecastle / 2009
• Scott Anderson / Can’t You Hear Me Calling / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
• Shoregrass / Goodbye My Good Old Friend / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
• Katie Wilson / Beacon / Katie Wilson / self / 2009
• Phil Rosenthal / Down the Road / A Treasury Of Bluegrass And Country Songs / American Melody / 2009
• The String Fingers Band / Running on Fire / Don’t Forget / Railroad Crossing / 2011
• Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys / Missing in Action / Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys: Early Days of Bluegrass, Volume 4 / Rounder / 1951, 1978
• Norman Blake, James Bryan, Nancy Blake / Devil Chased Me Around the Stump / The Rising Fawn String Ensemble / Rounder / 1979
• Bryan Bowers / Zen Gospel Singing / By Heart / Flying Fish / 1981
• Red Hen / Jail Break / Red Hen Crossing / self / 2009
• The Gibson Brothers / I Know Whose Tears / Ring the Bell / Compass / 2009
• Dry Branch Fire Squad / Girl at the Roadside Inn / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder / 1993
• Claire Lynch / Great Day in the Mornin’ / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder /2009
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Knee Deep in the Blues / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm / 2009
• Sierra Hull / Tell Me Tomorrow / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Emmylou Harris & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Mary Danced With Soldiers / Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2 / Geffen MCA / 1989
• Bill Emerson / Poor Rebel Soldier / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• The Dillards / I’ll Fly Away / Wheatstraw Suite / Collector’s Choice / 1968, 2002
• Jacqueline Schwab & Jesse Carr / Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier / Soundtrack to The Civil War, Ken Burns’ PBS Series / Nonesuch / 1990

May 23, 2011

Playlist for 5/23/11 Black Diamond Show, WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven CT, www.wnhu.net

Here's the playlist for the May 23 Black Diamond Show. It will re-stream online on the WNHU2 stream on Thursday night from 9-11pm EDT. If you missed it today, you can catch it Thursday!

And please give me some feedback on the newer bluegrass tracks we played this week. Your input helps me with my reports to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles.

Thanks for your support of 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
• Scott Brannon / Hobo Bill’s Last Ride / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / 2000
• Scott Anderson / Temperance Reel / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
• Wolfe Brothers String Band / Natural Bridge Blues / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
• Leon Mcauliffe / Rag Mop / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1950, 2009
• Anne & Pete Sibley / Wayfaring Stranger / MerleFest 2010 Live for the Bluegrass Trust Fund / FestivaLink / 2010
• The Chicken Chokers / Five Miles to Town / Chokers & Flies / Rounder / 1985
• The Claire Lynch Band / A Little Further in the Hole / 10 Years of European World Bluegrass / Strictly Country / 2007, 2008 / Recorded in Holland
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Over the Levee / Field Guide / Copper Creek / 2002
• Ellen & John Wright / Buffalo Gals / Family Album / Shoreline / 2011
• The Tompkins County Horseflies / Piney Wood Gals / Chokers & Flies / Rounder / 1985
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Call the Captain / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Bubbles in my Beer / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1947, 2006
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Together We’ll Fly / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Sierra Hull / Bombshell / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Valerie Smith / Oh Mandolin / Turtle Wings / Bell Buckle, Rebel / 2000 / With Tim O’Brien
• Larry Stephenson with Ricky Skaggs / My Old Kentucky and You / Larry Stephenson: 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle / 2010
• Chris Thile / The Eleventh Reel / How to Grow a Woman from the Ground / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Paul Williams / He Answered My Plea / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010
• Balsam Range / The Other Side / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home Music / 2011
• Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Bluegrass Boys / Little Cabin Home on the Hill / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1947, 1978
• The Gibson Brothers / Safe Passage / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Lauren Sheehan / Carroll County Blues / Rose City Ramble / Wilson River / 2011 / Greg Clarke, 2nd mandolin
• Lonesome Redwing / Harleys in Heaven / Fly, Fly, Fly / self / 2009
• Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Dollar Bill Blues / Mojave River / Backcountry / 2004
• The Hillbenders / Nancypants / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2011
• The Del McCoury Band / 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / Del and the Boys / McCoury Music / 2001
• Tony Furtado / Jeff Sturgeon, Indian Squaw / Full Circle / Rounder / 1993
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I’m the Clay in Your Hands / Help is on the Way / Horizon / 2008
• Adam Hurt / Sweet Bundy / Perspective / Ubiquitone / 2009
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• The Dust Busters / Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm / Prohibition is a Failure / self / 2010
• Kathy Kallick Band / Where is my Little Cabin Home / Between the Holler and the High Rise / Live Oak / 2010
• Hank Williams / Tennessee Border / Alone with his Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000
• Jim & Jesse / Airmail Special / The Early Years / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

May 21, 2011

Top newer bluegrass songs played on the Black Diamond Show, WNHU, as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles

Based on your survey responses, here's the information I reported this month to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles.
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Top Newer Bluegrass Songs
Black Diamond Show, WNHU, 88.7 FM
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT
Period ending 5/20/11

01. Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In
02. Charlie Sizemore / Poor Rambler
03. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Going Back to Old Virginia
04. Bill Emerson / Jesse James
05. Josh Williams / Blue Railroad Train
06. Iron Horse / My Daddy's Life
07. Kathy Kalick Band / Where is My Little Cabin Home
08. Balsam Range / Callin' Caroline
09. The Hillbenders / Red Stains
10. Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven
11. Alison Krauss & Union Station / Dimming of the Day
12. Steve Martin & Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut
13. Larry Sparks / Lines on the Highway
14. Newfound Road / Handsome Molly
15. Sierra Hull / Tell Me Tomorrow
16. The Gibson Brothers / Just Lovin' You
17. Iron Horse / Mary's Not in Kansas
18. Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band / Jailer, Jailer
19. Big Country Bluegrass / Black Mountain Special
20. Steve Martin & Steep Canyon Rangers / Jubilation Day

Top 12 Albums (based on listener votes for tracks from the CDs)
01. Alison Krauss & Union Station / Paper Airplane
02. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up
03. Balsam Range / Trains I Missed
04. The Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother
05. Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking for a Home
06. Sierra Hull / Daybreak
07. Bill Emerson / Eclipse
08. Iron Horse / Horse and Pen
09. Larry Sparks / Almost Home
10. Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties
11. Josh Williams / Down Home
12. Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Ramblers / Rare Bird Alert

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It's not too late to fill out the survey for the first three weeks in May. I include information from the last 6 weeks' worth of responses when I compile my report.

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

May 16, 2011

Newer Bluegrass Songs Played on WNHU's Black Diamond Show May 2, 9, & 16, 2011

Over the past three weeks, we've played 26 newer bluegrass songs on the Black Diamond Show. I fell down on putting a link on each week's playlist, but here is a survey for you to complete that covers the newer songs (listed in approx. order of appearance on the show) for the May 2, May 9, and May 16 shows.

Please give me some feedback to help me report your preferences to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles.

Thanks for your support of bluegrass & country music -- and your support of WNHU!

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 5/16/11 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
• Alison Krauss / Lay My Burden Down / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• The Freight Hoppers / John Hardy / Mile Marker / Bake Tone / 2010
• Moon Mullican / Sweeter than the Flowers / Super Hits / Gusto / 1948, 2009
• Acoustic Blue / I’ll Be There / This is Now / self / 2009
• The Monroe Brothers / Pearly Gates / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1938, 1975
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Rosetta / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1940, 2006
• Steeldrivers / East Kentucky Home / The Steeldrivers / Rounder / 2007
• Iron Horse / Mary’s Not in Kansas / Horse and Pen / B Sharp / 2011
• Peter Rowan / Jailer, Jailer / Legacy / Compass / 2010
• Critton Hollow String Band / Wooden Nickel / The Dulcimer Collection / Yodel-ay-hee / 1981, 2002
• Larry Sparks / The Old Coal Mine / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music / 2007 / Del McCoury on tenor vocal
• Border Radio / Cowboy’s Sweetheart / Border Radio Live / Okie Pie / 2004, 2005
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Bigger Hands Than Mine / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Reed Island Rounders / Jenny on the Railroad / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf / 2006
• Sierra Hull / The Land of the Living / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Newfound Road / Handsome Molly / Life in a Song / Rounder / 2010
• Red Clay Ramblers / Forked Deer / Stolen Love / Flying Fish / 1975
• Tony Trischka / Salt Creek / Dust on the Needle / Rounder / 1987
• The Honey Dewdrops / Goodbye & Farewell / These Old Roots / self / 2010
• Lonesome Redwing / Ook Pik Waltz / Fly, Fly, Fly / self / 2009
• Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, & Bela Fleck / Bill Cheatum / Fiddle Tunes for Banjo / Rounder / 1981, 1999
• Gibson Brothers / Just Lovin’ You / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Had a Big Time Today / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006
• The VW Boys / Death Came Creeping In My Room / Retroactive / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
• Mike Cross / Elma Turl / Child Prodigy / GHE / 1979
• Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / I Don’t Care Anymore / Southern / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• Uncle Earl / Ida Red / She Waits for Night / Rounder / 2005
• Mark Dvorak / Two Little Boys / Time Ain’t Got Nothin’ On Me / Waterbug / 2011
• The Country Gentlemen / I’ll Break Out / Sound Off / Rebel / 1970
• Tut Taylor / Courtesy of Curtis / Dobrolic Plectral Society / Takoma / 1976
• Dailey & Vincent / My Only Love / Daily & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Balsam Range / Memory of You / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home Music / 2010
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Needle Case / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• Big Country Bluegrass / I’m Gonna Walk the Streets of Gold / The Boys in Hats & Ties / Rebel / 2010
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

May 9, 2011

Playlist: 5/9/11 Black Diamond Show WNHU

Today's show started 9 minutes late. Sorry about that. But it all came out right! Survey for the 5/2 and 5/9 shows coming soon. But here's the playlist for today's show.

Thanks for your support!


Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Alecia Nugent / Cryin’ All the Way to the Bank / Hillbilly Goddess / Rounder / 2009
• Butch Baldassari & David Schnauffer / Drunken Hiccups / Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer / Sound Art / 2006
• Valerie Smith / In Those Mines / That’s What Love Can Do / Bell Buckle / 2005
• Ricky Skaggs / River of Jordan / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder / 1982, 1993
• The Quebe Sisters / Red River Valley / Texas Fiddlers / self / 2003
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / Hello City Limits / Keep on Going, The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings / Rebel / c. 1965, 2004
• Red Mountain / Last of the Mexican, Laughing Marj / Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence / Whoop It Up! / 2009
• The Green Grass Cloggers / Just Over in the Glory Land / Through the Ears / Rounder / 1986
• The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2010
• Blue Moon Rising / The Hanging Tree / One Lonely Shadow / 2008
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Untrue Blues / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Barry & Holly Tashian / Blues for Dixie / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / 1996
• Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
• Balsam Range / Heart that won’t Stop Loving You / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
• Nora Jane Struthers / Mocking Bird / Nora Jane Struthers / Blue Pig Music / 2010
• Josh Williams / Blue Railroad Train / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011 / Tony Rice on guitar
• Tony Rice / Good Woman’s Love / California Autumn / Rebel / 1974
• Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers / Baby All Night Long / Greenback Dollar, the Music of Clarence “Tom” Ashley, 1929-1933 / County / c. 1930, 2001
• Sierra Hull / Easy Come, Easy Go / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Guy Clark / Analog Girl / Workbench Songs / Dualtone Music Group / 2006
• Alison Krauss / My Love Follows You Where You Go / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• Gaither Carlton / Apple Blossom / High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina Collected by John Cohen in November of 1965 / Rounder / 1965, 1994
• Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice / A Black Hearse Following Me / Heartaches & Dreams / Rebel / 2010
• Doc Watson featuring Merle Watson / Brown’s Ferry Blues / Doc Watson on Stage / Vanguard / 1971
• Diamond W Wranglers / San Antonio Rose / Old Friends / self / 2010
• Gibson Brothers / He Can Be Found / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Lonesome Redwing / Ook Pik Waltz / Fly Fly Fly / self / 2009
• Lost & Found / The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home / Down on Sawmill Road / Rebel / 1996, 2010
• Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Who’s Sorry Now? / Daddy of Western Swing, Volume 2, Brownie Special / Proper / 1934, 2003
• The Punch Brothers / New Chance Blues / Antifogmatic / Nonesuch / 2010
• Jim & Jesse / I’ll Wash Your Love from My Heart / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

May 2, 2011

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 5/2/11 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven CT & www.wnhu.net

Here's the playlist for the 5/2/11 show. Survey coming soon.

Most of my effort went into paying tribute to Hazel Dickens, one of the pioneering women of bluegrass.

The show will be replayed on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net from 9-11pm on Thursday.


Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys with Carl Story / True Life Blues / Bill Monroe & Friends, Bluegrass Hall of Fame / Raven / 1985, 2010
• Hank Thompson & The Bravos Valley Boys / Swing Wide Your Gate of Love / Vintage Collections / Capitol / 1946, 1996
• Rayna Gellert / Goodbye Girls / Starch & Iron / Heard Her Squeal / 2005
• Dailey & Vincent / When I Reach That Home Up There / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009
• Hazel Dickens / Lonesome Pine Special / Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People / Rounder / 1979
• Nell Robinson / Scraps From Your Table / Nell Robinson in Loango / Red Level / 2009
• Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Won’t You Come and Sing for Me / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways, Volume 2 / Smithsonian Folkways / 1967, 2005
• Craig Johnson / Farewell to West Virginia / Away Down the Road / 5-String Productions / 2009, 2010
• Hazel Dickens / Busted / Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People / Rounder / 1979
• Red Hen / Old Greasy Coat / Red Hen Crossing / self / 2009
• Josh Williams / Stealin’ Away / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011
• Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press / West Virginia My Home / Try a Little Kindness / Rebel / 2006
• Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Hello Stranger / Hazel & Alice / Rounder / 1973
• Kenny Baker / Lost Indian / Master Fiddler / County / c. 1970, 1993
• Lost & Found / Leaving You and Mobile, Too / Down on Sawmill Road / Rebel / 1996, 2010
• Emmylou Harris with Nicolette Larson / Hello Stranger / Luxury Liner / Warner Bros. / 1977
• Ralph Stanley / I Am the Man, Thomas / Cry From the Cross / Rebel / 1971
• The Del McCoury Band / Two-Faced Love / It’s Just the Night / McCoury Music / 2003
• Kathy Mattea / Black Lung / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
• Kathy Mattea / Coal / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
• Hazel Dickens / Rebel Girl / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 1967, 2002
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / My Better Years / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
• The Percolators / Kansas City Reel / Alive in Prague! / Yodel-ay-hee / 2004
• Chris Stuart & Backcountry / 20 Naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac / Saints and Strangers / Backcountry / 2003
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
• John Hoffman & Mac Benford / Old Hen She Cackled / It’s About Time / 5-String Productions / 2007
• Old & In The Way / Home Is Where the Heart Is / Breakdown / Acoustic Disc / 1973, 1997
• Hank Williams / Weary Blues From Waitin’ / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1952, 1978
• Bill Emerson / Don’t Come Around / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011 / Lead vocal: Jenny Leigh Obert
• Steeldrivers / The Price / Reckless / Rounder / 2010
• Larry Sparks / Sharecropper’s Son / 40 / Rebel / 2005
• Balsam Range / Callin’ Caroline / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
• Charlie Sizemore / Crossing Over Into the Valley / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
• Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / The Sweetest Gift, A Mother’s Smile / Mama’s Hand, Bluegrass and Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder / 1973, 2002
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme