August 14, 2011

List of Podunk Bluegrass Contest Winners AND Playlist for 8/15/11 Black Diamond Show (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

First off, congrats to the winners in the Band and Songwriter Contests at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival, held the weekend of August 6 and 7 in East Hartford:
Band Contest:
1st - Travers Chandler and Avery County
2nd - Reunion Hill Band
3rd - The Grass Pistols
4th - Grace Adele & the Grand Band
5th - Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys

Songwriter Contest:
1st - Andrea Asprelli for Remington
2nd - Mary Muncey
3rd - Peter Nesbut

This week’s show includes a couple of tracks from Avery County’s latest CD and a couple of tracks from Terry McGill’s 2001 CD—Terry was the banjo player Travers Chandler brought north with him.

Streaming issues were repaired on Monday morning—so online listeners can listen noon-2pm on Monday or catch the repeat Thursday, August 18 on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net from 10pm to midnight EDT.

Here’s this week’s playlist. Thanks for your support of bluegrass & traditional country music—and for your support of WNHU.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• The Downtown Ramblers / I Never Planned / On the Other Side of the City / DTR Music Productions / 2011
• Art Stamper / Jenny Lind / Goodbye Girls I’m Going to Boston / County / 2000
• The 23 String Band / Raleigh & Spencer / Catch 23 / self / 2011
• Toby Stroud & The Blue Mountain Boys / Jesse James / Bluegrass Early Cuts: 1931-1953 / JSP / 1953, 2004
• Katie Wilson / The Weeping Widow / Katie Wilson / self / 2010 / Podunk Bluegrass Band Winner 2010
• Terry McGill / Bright Morning Stars / Straight Drive / Cabinwood / 2001
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / The Girl I Left Behind Me / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1941, 2006
• The Freight Hoppers / Kentucky Whiskey / Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go? / Rounder / 1996 / David Bass, fiddle, Frank Lee, Banjo, duet
• Buzz Busby / Me and the Jukebox / 30 Essential Bluegrass Hits / Gusto / 1958, 2003
• Travers Chandler & Avery County / Mandolin Tango / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010 / A Buzz Busby composition from the Podunk Bluegrass Band Winner 2011
• Terry McGill / Honky-Tonk Blues / Straight Drive / Cabinwood / 2001
• Debbie Watson / Big Hair Down in Texas / Big Hair Down in Texas / Big Hair / 2005
• Charlie Sizemore Band / The Less That I Drink / Good News / Rounder / 2007
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Yonder Stands Little Maggie / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963
• Kitty Wells / It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / The Devil’s Rejects (Soundtrack) / HIP-O / 1952, 2005
• Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers / Chalk Up Another One / Early Bluegrass / RCA / 1954, 1969
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Sunday Morning Christian / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008
• Chance McCoy & the Appalachian String Band / Dance All Night / Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Appalachian Music Group / 2008
• Critton Hollow String Band / April Waltz / The Dulcimer Collection / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 1988, 2005
• Larry Sparks / The Old Coal Mine / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music / 2007
• Travers Chandler & Avery County / Black Dust Fever / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010 / Winner of the 2011 Podunk Bluegrass Band Contest
• Merle Travis / Dark As A Dungeon / In Boston / Rounder / 1959, 2003
• Valerie Smith / In Those Mines / That’s What Love Can Do / Bell Buckle / 2005
• Big Medicine / Hell Up Coal Holler / Fever In the South / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004
• Red Molly / Coal Tattoo / Never Been To Vegas / self / 2006
• The Steeldrivers / East Kentucky Home / The Steeldrivers / Rounder / 2009
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Keep Your Eyes on Jesus / Help is on the Way / Horizon / 2008
• Spring Creek / Blue Sky Blue Water / Hold on Me / self / 2011
• Wolfe Brothers / Grey Eagle / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
• The Gibson Brothers / One Car Funeral / Help My Borther / Compass / 2011
• Spring Creek / Kimono Cowboy / Hold on Me / self / 2011
• Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Going to the West / Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Rounder / 1999
• Red June / San Juan Hill / Remember Me Well / self / 2010
• Wayne Hancock / Goin’ Home Blues / Tulsa / Bloodshot / 2006
• Newfound Road / I Am the Man Thomas / Same Old Place / Rounder / 2009
• David Holt / Fisherman’s Hornpipe / Doc Watson, David Holt, & Richard Watson at the Philadelphia Folk Festival / Festivalink / 2007
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

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