And, folks, it's getting close to time for me to submit my June report to the Bluegrass Authorities (tm). So please, give me some feedback on the newer bluegrass songs we've played recently:
- Survey for new bluegrass on 6/6 and 6/13 shows
- Survey for new bluegrass on 5/30 show
- Survey for new bluegrass on 5/23 show
- Survey for new bluegrass on 5/2, 5/9, & 5/16 shows
Thanks for your support and your feedback! And, now, on to the playlist
Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Hard Hearted / In the Tradition / Rounder / 1987
• Foghorn String Band / Wink the Other Eye / Weiser Sunrise / self / 2005
• Warrior River Boys / Be Careful of the Stones You Throw / Sounds Like Home / Rounder / 1992
• Wayne Hancock / I Don’t Care Anymore / Tulsa / Bloodshot / 2006
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Gone at Last / Drive Time / Mountain Home / 2011 / EP
• Red June / Run Boy Run / Remember Me Well / Self / 2010
• Big Country Bluegrass / Wreck on the Highway / The Boys in Hats & Ties / Rebel / 2010
• Merle Travis / Walkin’ the Strings / The Merle Travis Guitar / Capitol / 1959
• Tony Rice / Church Street Blues / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1983, 2009
• Hank Williams / Dear John (alternate) / The Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1951, 2008
• Donna Ulisse / Let it Rain / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, & The Kentuckians / Deep Elem Blues / Bluegrass / Folkways / 1964
• Spectrum / Bye Bye Love / Bluegrass Goes to Town / Rounder / 1981, 2002 / Bela Fleck banjo, Jimmy Gaudreau mandolin, Glenn Laws guitar & lead vocal, Mark Schatz bass
• Doc Watson / Banks of the Ohio / Doc Watson On Stage Featuring Merle Watson / Vanguard / 1971
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / The Old Grove / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
• Seldom Scene / Mama Tried / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill / 2007
• Sierra Hull / What do you say? / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Scott Anderson / Drivin’, Singin’, Cryin’ / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011 / Song written and sung by his daughter Amanda
• Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Clinch Mountain Backstep / Merlefest Live / Festivalink / 2010 / Steve Sparkman banjo
• The Stanley Brothers / Life’s Railway to Heaven / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1965, 2000
• Blue Moon Rising / The Crime I’m Guilty Of / On the Rise / Lonesome Days / 2005
• E.C. Ball / Pretty Polly / High Atmosphere, Balads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina / Rounder / 1965, 1994 / Collected by John Cohen
• New Lost City Ramblers / Pretty Little Miss / Country Music and Bluegrass at Newport / Vanguard / 1963
• Ronnie Bowman / You Don’t Love Me Anymore / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel / 1993
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Don’t Get Above Your Raising / Bluegrass Super Hits / Columbia Nashville / 1951, 1982
• Sam Bush & Del McCoury / Cattle in the Cane / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza / Acoustic Disc / 1999
• Norman Blake / Are You From Dixie? / Blackberry Blossom / Flying Fish / 1977
• The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to My Last Dollar / self / 2010
• Mark O’Connor with Terry Morris, Texas Shorty, and Benny Thomasson / Sally Johnson / Heroes / Warner Brothers / 1993
• Dale Ann Bradley / Rusty Old Halo / Don’t Turn Back / Compass / 2009
• Tut Taylor / Turnaround / Dobrolic Plectral Society / Takoma / 1976
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / I’m Leaving Town / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm / 2009
• Grasstowne / Kickin’ Up Dust / Kickin’ Up Dust / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• The String Fingers Band / Here and Now Blues / Don’t Forget / Railroad Crossing / 2011
• Albemarle Ramblers / Way Down the Old Plank Road / Gentlemen From Virginia / Merriwether / 2010
• Jerry Rivers & The Hank Williams Band/ Cotton-Eyed Joe / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
There were some computer issues at the station on M 6/13, so the first 37 minutes were repeated, then the remainder of the show ran in its entirety, so we ran late!
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