December 31, 2012

WNHU Black Diamond Show Playlist, December 31, 2012

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Hank Williams / Wedding Bells / Health and Happiness Shows / MCA Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • Bill Evans / A Hard Day’s Night / In Good Company / Native and Fine / 2012
  • Doc Watson / Ready for the Times to Get Better / Legacy / High Windy Audio / 2002
  • Kenny and Amanda Smith / Winter’s Come and Gone / Slowly but Surely / Farm Boy / 2002
  • Hank Williams / A House of Gold / The Complete Hank Williams / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1998
  • The Haints Old Time String Band / Milwaukee Blues / Shout Monah / self / 2009
  • The Western Swing Authority / All Dolled Up / All Dolled Up / self / 2012
  • Tater Patch / Grubb Springs / Old Time Country Music / self / 2012
  • Hank Williams / Where the Soul Never Dies / The Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1950, 2008
  • Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive with Joanne Williams / When Standin’ Up Stood for Something / Uneven Road / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Coty Hogue / Blue and Lonesome / When We Get to Shore / Perpetual Hoedown Music / 2012
  • Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys / You’re Drifting Away / Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys 1951-1954 / JSP / 1952, 2009
  • Hot Mustard / The Banks of the Ohio / Live at the Mole Hill Theater / self / 2012
  • Hank Williams / Dear John / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999
  • The Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band / A Rovin’ on a Winter’s Night / A Fiddler’s Holiday / Rounder / 2012
  • Wayne Taylor and Friends / Winter Wonderland / Praise His Holy Name: A Christmas Collection / Raincoe Music / 2012
  • Cahelen Morrison and Eli West / All I Can Do / Our Lady of the Tall Trees / self / 2012
  • Hank Williams / Happy Roving Cowboy / Health and Happiness Shows / MCA Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • Hank Williams / I’m a Long Gone Daddy / Health and Happiness Shows / MCA Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • Jerry Rivers, Hank Williams, and the Drifting Cowboys / Bill Cheatum / Health and Happiness Shows / MCA Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • Hank Williams / When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels / Health and Happiness Shows / MCA Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • Jerry Rivers, Hank Williams, and the Drifting Cowboys / Sally Goodin / Health and Happiness Shows / MCA Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • Bob Amos / Where the Wild River Rolls / Borrowed Time / self / 2012
  • Shel Sandler / Chinquapin Pie / Tater Patch: Old Time Country Music / self (Tater Patch) / 2012
  • Akira Otsuka / Long Black Jacket / First Tear / Patuxnet Music / 2012
  • Mariel Vandersteel / Three Forks of the Cumberland / Hickory / self / 2012
  • Red Molly / By the Mark / Light in the Sky / self / 2012
  • Merle Haggard and the Strangers / If We Make It Through December / If We Make It Through December / Capitol / 1974, 2010
  • Chris Jones and the Night Drivers / If That Was Love / Single / Rebel / 2012
  • Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers / If I Can’t Trust You With a Quarter (How can I trust you with my heart?) / Starlight Hotel / Signature Sounds / 2011
  • Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out / If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again / Prime Tyme / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Hank Williams / I Can’t Help It (If I’m still in love with you) / The Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1951, 2008
  • The Boxcars / Crawford County / All In / Compass / 2012
  • Chris Brashear / The Old Pueblo / Heart of the Country / Dog Boy / 2012
  • Rhonda Vincent / Blue Sky Cathedral / Sunday Mornin’ Singing / Upper Management Music / 2012
  • Jerry Rivers, Hank Williams, and the Drifting Cowboys / Fire on the Mountain / Health and Happiness Shows / MCA Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

December 24, 2012

Top New Bluegrass Songs: Period ending 12/23/12

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 12/23/12

Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited

It's Christmas Season. There were a bunch of good holiday songs this year--my two favorite holiday projects were Donna Ulisse's All the Way to Bethlehem and Wayne Taylor's Praise His Holy Name, A Christmas Celebration. Donna's project is an all original telling of the Christmas story; Wayne's is a mixture of sacred and secular holiday songs done up with great cheer by Wayne and a bunch of his musical friends. I particularly like Keith Arneson's banjo work.

I'm picking tracks from both projects at the top of this month's list, with the nod going to.... Donna Ulisse's "You Cannot Stay Here," one of four tracks we played from her project during the holiday season.

  1. Donna Ulisse, You Cannot Stay Here
  2. Wayne Taylor and Friends, Go Tell It on the Mountain
  3. The Boxcars, Crawford County
  4. Bob Amos, Where the Wild River Rolls
  5. The Spinney Brothers, Makin' a Killin'
  6. Chris Brashear, Mama's Opry
  7. Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive, John the Baptist
  8. Rhonda Vincent, Blue Sky Cathedral
  9. The Grass Cats, The Mountains, My Baby, and Me
  10. Detour, Quarterline Road
  11. Steep Canyon Rangers, Natural Disaster
  12. Akira Otsuka, Line Drive
    Holiday Honorable Mention: Wayne Taylor and Friends, Dueling Jingle Bells
    Holiday Honorable Mention: The Cockman Family, Maker of the Stars
    Holiday Honorable Mention: Donna Ulisse, All the Way to Bethlehem

In addition to submitting top new song reports to Bluegrass Unlimited, we also report Black Diamond Show playlists and actual airplay to Bluegrass Today and the the FOLKDJ-L email list and folkradio.org.

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

WNHU's Black Diamond Show Holiday Special (Part 2): Playlist 12/24/12

  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Alan Jackson / I Only Want You for Christmas / Honky Tonk Christmas / Sony BMG / 1993
  • Big Medicine / Christmas Eve / Too Old to be Controlled / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2002
  • Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys / Christmas Time’s a Coming / Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys: 1951-1954 / JSP / 1951, 2009
  • Doyle Lawson / Oh Christmas Candle / Christmas Grass Too: A Continuing Celebration of Christmas / Koch / 2007
  • The Greystone Ramblers / Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake / A Winter Night’s Ramble / self / 2008
  • John Denver / Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas) / Rocky Mountain Christmas / MCA / 1970, 1975
  • Tracy Lawrence / Cold Beer / All Wrapped Up in Christmas / Lawrence Music Group / 2011
  • Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen / Blue Christmas Lights / Tinsel Tunes: More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007
  • Hal Willis / The Christmas Polka / Santa’s Clones / Western Hat Productions / 2004
  • The Cockman Family / Maker of the Stars / A Cockman Family Christmas / Heartwarming / 2012
  • Doc Watson / Christmas Lullaby / Sugar Plums: Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 1993
  • The Johnson Mountain Boys / The Friendly Beasts / O Christmas Tree: A Bluegrass Collection for the Holidays / Rounder / c. 1985, 2002
  • Donna Ulisse / You Cannot Stay Here / All the Way to Bethlehem / Hadley Music Group / 2011, 2012
  • Randy Travis / Pretty Paper / An Old Time Christmas / Warner Brothers / 1989
  • Willie Nelson / Blue Christmas / Pretty Paper / Columbia / 1979
  • The Champion Sisters / Heart of Texas-The Texas Christmas Song / Christmas with the Champion Sisters / I S Records / 2007
  • Chris Jones and the Night Drivers / Kentucky Noel / single / GSM / 2010 / Co-written by Jones and Tom T. and Dixie Hall
  • Dirk Powell / Deck the Halls / A Fret Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010
  • Ann and Phil Case / O Come O Come Emmanuel. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Old-Time Christmas Duets / Dry Run Recordings / 1995, 2006
  • Wayne Taylor and Friends / Go Tell It On the Mountain / Praise His Holy Name: A Christmas Collection / Raincoe Music / 2012
  • Ranch Romance / Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me / Sugar Plums: Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 1993
  • Tim O’Brien / Making Plans / Sugar Plums: Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 1993
  • Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Messenger / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds / 1999
  • Amy Grant / O Come All Ye Faithful / iTunes Holiday Sampler / Apple / 2009
  • John Denver / Christmas for Cowboys / Rocky Mountain Christmas / MCA / 1970, 1975
  • Shoregrass / December Waltz / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
  • Alan Jackson / If We Make it Through December / Honky Tonk Christmas / Sony BMG / 1993
  • The Missy Werner Band / Snowbird / Drifting and Dreaming / self / 2009
  • The Knuckle Knockers / Christmas Time in the Morning / The Knuckle Knockers / self / 2010
  • The Little River Band / We Three Kings / A Little River Band Christmas / Wurld and WBA / 2011
  • Donna Ulisse / All the Way to Bethlehem / All the Way to Bethlehem / Hadley Music Group / 2012 / Vocal duet with her husband Rick Stanley
  • Chris Thile / Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella / Tinsel Tunes: More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007
  • Randy Travis / Oh, What a Silent Night / An Old Time Christmas / Warner Brothers / 1989
  • Raymond Fairchild / Joy to the World / Smoky Mountain Christmas - A Bluegrass Holiday / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

December 17, 2012

WNHU's Black Diamond Show Holiday Special (Part 1): Playlist 12/17/12

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band / The Solstice Set / A Fiddler’s Holiday / Rounder / 2012
  • Peter Rowan and Tony Rice / Cold Rain and Snow / Quartet / Rounder / 2007
  • Carolina Road / Cold Carolina Snow / Back to my Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Lizard Thom Case / What Christmas is About / Single / Old Oblivion / 2012
  • Asleep at the Wheel / Xmas in Jail / Merry Texas Christmas, Y’All / Windham Hill / 1997
  • Woody Guthrie / Hanukkah Dance / The Asch Recordings / Smithsonian Folkways / 1944, 1999
  • The Klezmatics / Honeyky Hanuka / Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah / Jewish Music Group / 2006
  • Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Hot Buttered Rum / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds / 1999
  • Donna Ulisse / I’m Gonna Shine / All the Way to Bethlehem / Hadley Music Group / 2012
  • Dirk Powell / Joy to the World / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010
  • Alison Brown Quartet with Joe Craven / Carol and the Kings / Evergreen / Compass / 2008
  • John McCutcheon / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • John McCutcheon / Christmas in the Trenches / Water from Another Time / Rounder / 1984, 1988
  • Frank and Barbara Shaw / Every Day is Christmas / Playing with Friends / Shaw Family / 2012
  • Wayne Taylor and Friends / Dueling Jingle Bells / Praise His Holy Name – A Christmas Collection / Raincoe Music / 2012
  • Tracy Lawrence / All Wrapped up in Christmas / All Wrapped up in Christmas / Lawrence Music Group / 2011
  • Larry Sparks / Blue Christmas / Christmas in the Mountains / Rebel / 2003
  • Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements / Mama, I Know you Ain’t Santa / A Place in the Sun / self / 2012
  • Annie Lou / Winter Song / Grandma’s Rules for Drinking / self / 2012
  • Bryan Sutton / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Christmas Grass Too / Koch / 2004
  • The Greystone Ramblers / Christmas Island / A Winter’s Night Ramble / self / 2008
  • Maddy Rodriguez / Mama Made Christmas / single / self / 2012
  • Donna Ulisse / Elisabeth / All the Way to Bethlehem / Hadley Music Group / 2012
  • Dolly Parton / Christmas Time’s A-Comin’ / Christmas Grass Too / Koch / 2004
  • Riders in the Sky / I’ll be home for Christmas / Christmas the Cowboy Way / Rounder / 1999
  • Rhonda Vincent / Christmas Time at Home / Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection / Rounder / 2005
  • The Austin Lounge Lizards / Xmas Time for Visa / The Drugs I Need / Blue Corn Music / 2006
  • James King / Call Collect for Christmas / Oh Christmas Tree: A Bluegrass Collections for the Holidays / Rounder / 2002
  • Ray Stevens / Guilt for Christmas / Through a Different Window / MCA Nashville / 1997
  • Riders in the Sky / Let it Snow: The last Christmas medley you’ll ever need to hear / Christmas the Cowboy Way / Rounder / 1999
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

December 10, 2012

WNHU Black Diamond Show Playlist: December 10, 2012

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Junior Brown / Sugarfoot Rag / Guit With It / Curb / 1993
  • Lonesome River Band / Tune of a Twenty Dollar Bill / Window of Time / Mountain Home Music / 2002
  • Pharis and Jason Romero / Cimberland Gap / Old Time Gathering, Portland, OR, 1-14-11 / YouTube / 2011
  • Chris Brashear / Mam’s Opry / Heart of the Country / Dog Boy / 2012
  • Scott Anderson / Drivin’, Singin’, Cryin’ / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
  • Too Blue / Yesterday’s Eyes / Trouble with the Grey / self / 2011
  • Shenandoah Valley Trio / Let Me Rest (At the end of my Journey) / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP / 1953, 2004
  • Clark Kessinger / Whistlin’ Rufus / World Champion Fiddler, Live April 1968, Union Grove, North Carolina / Triagle Far / 1968, 2002
  • Steve Spurgin / The Children of the Sea / Folk Remedies / Blue Night / 2012
  • David Peterson and 1946 / Wall Around Your Heart / Howling Blue Winds / self / 2003
  • David Peterson / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • David Peterson and 1946 / 1946 / In the Mountain Tops to Roam / self / 2005
  • David Peterson / Lovin’ Lies / Comin’ on Strong / self / 2009
  • Hank Williams / Lost Highway / Health and Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • Todd Grebe and Cold Country / The Last of the Late Night Wine / Until Tomorrow / self / 2011
  • Tim O’Brien / Sinner / Chicken and Egg / Howdy Skies / 2010
  • Hedy West / Moonshiner’s Lament / Hedy West, Volume 2 / Vanguard / 1964
  • Art Stamper / Don’t Come Home Drunk, Johnny / The Lost Fiddler / County / 1982, 1994
  • Larry Sparks / For Your Love / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music / 2007
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford / Anticipation Blues / Country and Western Classics / Music and Melody / 1949, 2009
  • Audie Blaylock and Redline / 14 Days / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Rayna Gellert and Susie Goehring / Fish upon the Hook / Heard Her Squeal / 2005
  • Ronnie Bowman / Walkin’ the Dog / It’s Getting Better al the Time / Koch / 2005
  • John Cowan / Nights in White Satin / Moody Bluegrass / Rounder / 2004
  • The Steep Canyon Rangers / A Ramblin’ Man is a Ramblin’ Man / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2007
  • Longview / Where the Dim Lights are the Dimmest / High Lonesome / Rounder / 1999
  • Craver, Hicks, Watson, and Newberry / Sally Ann / You’ve Been a Friend to Me / Barker / 2012
  • The Time Jumpers / Someone Had to Teach You / The Time Jumpers / Rounder / 2012
  • Special Consensus / Sea of Heartbreak / Scratch Gravel Road / Compass / 2012
  • Audie Blaylock and Redline / Newton’s Grove / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm /2012
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

December 3, 2012

WNHU Black Diamond Show Playlist: December 3, 2012

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • The Country Gazette / Sweet Allis Chalmers / Hello Operator / Flying Fish /1983, 1991
  • Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys / A Big Ball in Cowtown / Best of Bob Wills: Legends of Country Music / Sony / 1966, 2006
  • Blue Highway / Storm / Sounds of Home / Rounder / 2011
  • The Delmore Brothers / The Storms are on the Ocean / The Delmore Brothers: Classic Cuts / JSP / 1940, 2004
  • David Peterson and 1946 / Praying Shoes / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
  • Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers / Right Foot, Left Foot / Up in the Batten House / Snappin' Bug / 2011
  • Kenny and Amanda Smith / Catch Me if I Try / Catch Me if I Try / Farm Boy / 2012
  • Cahelen Morrison and Eli West / The Poor Cowboy / Our Lady of the Tall Trees / self / 2012
  • The Kickin’ Grass Band / Roanoke / Walk With Me / SuperFan / 2012
  • Frank Solivan / This Old River / I am a Rambler / Fiddle Mon Music / 2005
  • Jethro Burns and Red Rector / Arkansas Traveller / Old Friends / Rebel / 1983
  • Frank Wakefield and Buster Turner / You’re the one I see in my Dreams / Bluegrass Early Cuts: 1931-1953 / JSP / 1950, 2004
  • Akira Otsuka / Time for New Green / First Tear / Patuxnet Music / 2012
  • John Reischman and the Jaybirds / Lancaster Sound / Vintage and Unique / Corvus / 2011
  • Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys / Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys 1950-1952 / JSP / 1950, 2002
  • Jesse McReynolds, Sam Bush, David Grisman, Ronnie McCoury, Bobby Osborne, Ricky Skaggs, Frank Wakefield, Buck White (all on mandolin), Del McCoury (guitar) / Dixie Hoedown / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza / Acoustic Disc / 1999
  • Ernest Tubb / Half My Heart’s In Texas / Last Sessions / First Generation / ND, 1979
  • The Grass Cats / All of Tennessee / A Good Way to Get the Blues / New Time / 2009
  • The Western Swing Authority / Yearning / All Dolled Up / self / 2012
  • Detour / I’ve Just Seen the Rock of Ages / A Better Place / Bluegrass Ahead / 2012
  • The Improbabillies / Piney Ridge / The Improbabillies / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2007
  • The Honey Dewdrops / One Kind Word / Silver Lining / self / 2012
  • Mike Compton / Jenny Lynn / Rotten Taters / Tater Bug Music / 2011
  • Chris Brashear / Hills of Arkansas / Heart of the Country / Dog Boy / 2012
  • Norman Blake and Tony Rice / It’s Raining Here This Morning / Blake and Rice 2 / Rounder / 1990
  • The Johnson Mountain Boys / Teardrops Fell Like Raindrops / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
  • The Reed Island Rounders / I get the Blues When it Rains / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf / 2006
  • The Stanley Brothers / It’s Raining Here This Morning / The Early King and Starday Years / Gusto / 1959, 2003
  • The Lonesome River Band with Audie Blaylock / Hold Whatcha Got / Graves Mountain All Star Jam / Rural Rhythm / 2010
  • Merle Haggard / The Sermon on the Mount / The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams / Columbia / 2011
  • The Walker Brothers / Lock, Stock, and Barrel / The Walker Brothers / self / 2012 Rhonda Vincent / Crazy Love / Destination Life / Rounder / 2009
  • The Steep Canyon Rangers / Call the Captain / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
  • The Mayfield Brothers / I Have Found the Way / Vintage Recordings, 1948-1956 / Patuxnet Music / 1950, 2006
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

November 28, 2012

Playlist 11/26/12: Black Diamond Show, WNHU

Repeating the broadcast of this year's IBMA show. Hope all had a safe and healthy Thanksgiving.
  • Various Artists / 23rd Annual IBMA Show / The 23rd International Bluegrass Music Awards, September 27, 2012, The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA / IBMA / 2012
  • Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys / No One But My Darlin' / Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys Anthology / JSP /1957, 2009
  • Special Consensus / Sea of Heartbreak / Scratch Gravel Road / Compass / 2012

November 23, 2012

Top New Bluegrass Songs Report: WNHU 11/23/12

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 11/23/12

Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited (top 12) and Bluegrass Music Profiles (top 20)

For the second month in a row, I've voted for Mark Houser's "John the Baptist" as the top Bluegrass song this month. Love the new album from him and his band Bluegrass Drive: lot of good tracks on it--"Hard Rain" and "Delilah" are two other favorites. Lots of good music out there!

  1. Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive, John the Baptist
  2. The Boxcars, Crawford County
  3. Bob Amos, Where the Wild River Rolls
  4. Rhonda Vincent, Blue Sky Cathedral
  5. The Grass Cats, The Mountains, My Baby, and Me
  6. Chris Brashear, Mama's Opry
  7. The Spinney Brothers, Makin' a Killin'
  8. Detour, Quarterline Road
  9. Loafer's Glory, Milwaukee Blues
  10. Audie Blaylock & Redline, A Real Good Way to Lose
  11. Lou Reid & Carolina, Carolina Moonshine Man
  12. Akira Otsuka, Line Drive
  13. Steep Canyon Rangers, Natural Disaster
  14. Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers, Bottom of a Mountain
  15. Special Consensus, Monroe's Doctrine
  16. Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show, Brand New Silent Partner
  17. Freeman & Williams, Wrong Road Again
  18. Dailey & Vincent, Living in the Kingdon of God
  19. The Boxcars, Don't Fall In Love with a Girl Like That
  20. Joe Diffie, Rainin' on Her Rubber Dolly

In addition to submitting top new song reports to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles, we also report the Black Diamond Show playlists and actual airplay to Bluegrass Today and the the FOLKDJ-L email list and folkradio.org.

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

November 19, 2012

Playlist for Nov. 19 Black Diamond Show on WNHU

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • The Grass Cats / The Mountains, My Baby, and Me / The Mountains, My Baby, and Me / New Time / 2012
  • Keith Whitley / I Never Go Around Mirrors / The Rounder Records Story / Rounder / 1990, 2010 / A remake of a great Lefty Frizzell song.
  • Mariel Vandersteel / Sitting on the Ridge / Hickory / self / 2012
  • The Missy Werner Band / Gypsy, Joe, and Me / Drifting and Dreaming / self / 2009
  • The 23 String Band / Deer Tick / Catch 23 / self / 2011
  • The Delmore Brothers / Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar / Delmore Brothers Anthology / JSP / 1993, 2004
  • Hank Williams / Where the Soul Never Dies / Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1950, 2008
  • Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein / I’d Rather Live by the Side of the Road / Home from the Mills / Rebel / 2012
  • Kenny and Amanda Smith / I’d Jump the Mississippi / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008
  • Big Medicine /Wild Bill Jones / Too Old to be Controlled / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2002
  • Ernest Tubb / A Month of Sundays / Last Sessions / First Generation / c. 1979, 1999
  • The Morgantown Rounders / Dance All Night With a Bottle in Your Hand / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
  • Charlie Sizemore / Red Wicked Wine / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rounder / 2011 / Ralph Stanley singing tenor on the choruses.
  • The Steeldrivers / Guitars, Whiskey, Guns, and Knives / Reckless / Rounder / 2010
  • Red Steagall / The Walls of this old Honky Tonk / Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music / Circle D Western / 1976
  • Myrna Riquier / Too Many Bars / Momma’s Flowers / self / 2011
  • Karl and Harty / Don’t Mix Whiskey With Women / Pioneers of Country, Early Western Music / Vintage Masters / 1947, 2011 / Karl Davis and Hartford Connecticut Taylor were a pair of musicians from Kentucky who were one of the earliest guitar and mandolin duos to hit the big time. They were early stars of the WLS Barn Dance (Chicago).
  • Big Country Bluegrass / Wreck on the Highway / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010
  • Junior Brown / My Baby Won’t Dance to Nothing but Ernest Tubb / 12 Shades of Brown / Curb / 1990, 1993
  • David Peterson and 1946 / The Drunkard’s Hell / The Howling Blue Winds / self / 2003
  • Faron Young / Wine Me Up / Golden Hits / Mercury Nashville / 1969, 1995
  • Larry Sparks / Girl at the Crossroads Bar / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel / 1978, 1988
  • Kitty Wells / It wasn’t God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels / The Devil’s Rejects (movie soundtrack) / Hip-O / 1952, 2005
  • The Seldom Scene / Bottom of the Glass / Old Train / Rebel / 1974
  • Scott Vestal, Adam Steffey, Aubrie Haynie, et al. / Temperance Reel / More Ultimate Pickin’ / Pinecastle / 2009
  • Annie Lou / Grandma’s Rules for Drinking / Grandma’s Rules for Drinking / self / 2012
  • Wayne Scott / It’s the Whiskey that Eases the Pain / This Weary Way / Full Light / 2005
  • Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys / Honky Tonk Girl / Vintage Collections / Capitol / 1954, 2003
  • Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard / Don’t Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There / The Rounder Records Story / Rounder / 1973, 2010
  • Ann and Phil Case / Rocky Mountain Goat / When Shadows Fall / Dry Run Recordings / 2012
  • Sierra Hull / I’ll Always be Waiting for You / Secrets / Rounder / 2011
  • Joel Mabus / Grieve My Lord No More / American Anonymous / self / 2011
  • Kenny Baker / Ragtime Annie / A Baker’s Dozen / County / 1971
  • Akira Otsuka / Long Black Jacket / First Tear / Patuxnet Music / 2012
  • The Bluegrass Martins / Just Lovin’ You / World of Their Own / self / 2011
  • The Traditional Grass / You Can Keep Your Nine-Pound Hammer / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel / 1993, 1994
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

November 17, 2012

Playlist for Nov. 12 Black Diamond Show

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover / Forgotten Soldier Boy / The Lilly Bros & Don Stover: Bluegrass at the Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways / 2005
  • Earl Scruggs, family, and friends / Soldier’s Joy / Ultimate Collection: Live at the Ryman / Rounder / 2008
  • Red Mountain / Bloody War / Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence / Whoop It Up! / 2009
  • Chris Brashear / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Chris Brashear / Lost Soldier Son / Wanderlust / Dog Boy / 1999
  • Charlie Louvin / There’s a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / The Battle Rages On / True North / 2010
  • Special Consensus / On my way to the Kingdom Land / Scratch Gravel Road / Compass / 2012
  • The Montville Project / Marches: Road to Boston, Jamie Allen, Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine / The Montville Project: 53 Essential New England Dance Tunes / self / 2008
  • Jim Eanes and the Shenandoah Valley Boys / Missing in Action / Bluegrass Early Cuts: 1931-1953 / JSP / 1951, 2004
  • John Gorka / Temporary Road / Fast Folk Volume 5, No. 8, Detours / Fast Folk / 1991
  • The Honey Dewdrops / When was the War / If the Sun will Shine / self / 2009
  • Pete Seeger / Tenting Tonight / Songs of the Civil War / self / ND, 1991
  • Kenny Baker and Jack Hicks / Brandywine / Master Fiddler / County / 1972, 1993
  • Rhonda Vincent / God Bless the Soldier / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder / 2006
  • Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out / Prayer for Peace / Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm / 2009
  • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Emmylou Harris / Mary Danced with Soldiers / Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2 / Geffen, MCA / 1989
  • The Stanley Brothers / Mastertone March / The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1958, 2003
  • Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys / Lord Build Me a Cabin in Gloryland / Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP / 1958, 2009
  • Valerie Smith / Rocky Island. Sally Goodin / That’s What Love Can Do / Bell Buckle / 2005
  • Kenny and Amanda Smith / Without a Trace / House Down the Block / Farm Boy / 2003
  • Red Hen / Copper Run / Crossing / self / 2009
  • Bill Boyd and his Cowboy Ramblers / I’ve Got Those Oklahoma Blues / Wizards of Country Guitar / JSP / c. 1935, 2011
  • Lou Reid and Carolina / Carolina Moonshine Man / Callin’ Me Back Home / KMA / 2012
  • Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive / Hard Rain / Uneven Road / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Merle Haggard / This Cold War / If We Make It Through December / Capitol / 1974, 2010
  • Dawn Kenney / Reach High / Sing Me Mome / Heart Roots / 2012
  • Bob Amos / Backwards and Forwards / Borrowed Time / self / 2012
  • Audie Blaylock and Redline / A Real Good Way to Lose / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Brandon Rickman / Let Me Walk Lord / Young Man, Old Soul / Rural Rhythm / 2009
  • Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers / Harvest Moon Blues / Starlight Hotel / Signature Sounds / 2011
  • Eric Uglum / Shenandoah Wind / Shenandoah Wind / Backcountry Music / 2004
  • The Country Gentlemen / Two Little Boys / Bluegrass: The World’s Greatest Show / Sugar Hill / 1987, 1993
  • Larry Sparks / Gunfighter’s Revenge / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 11/5/12

This show was scheduled for 10/29. Small matter of Sandy the Frank N. Storm interfering. So we played the show on 11/5/12, even if it made our Halloween set play after the real Halloween--but on the day that NJ Gov. Christie asked NJ residents to celebrate Halloween!
  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Del McCoury Band / Gold Brickin’ / Del and the Boys / McCoury Music/ 2001
  • The Western Swing Authority / Roly Poly / All Dolled Up / self / 2012
  • Shoregrass / I’m on my way back to the old home / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
  • Darin and Brooke Aldridge / I’m Building on the Rock of Ages / Darin and Brook Aldridge / Crossroads / 2010
  • Gary Nicholson, Darrell Scott, and Tim O’Brien / Texas Cookin’ / This one’s for him: A tribute to Guy Clark / Icehouse Music / 2011
  • Dawn Kenney / Out the Door / Sing Me Home / Hearts Root / 2012
  • Craver, Hicks, Watson, and Newberry / Uncle Charlie’s Revenge / You’ve Been a Friend to Me / Barker / 2012
  • Chris Brashear / The Old Pueblo / Heart of the Country / Dog Boy / 2012
  • Kathy Mattea / Gone, Gonna Rise Again / Calling Me Home / Sugar Hill / 2012
  • Samantha Casey and the Bluegrass Jam / Walk the Way the Wind Blows / Casey’s Fair / Sweet Acoustic Music / 2012
  • O’Brien Party of Seven / In the Summertime / Reincarnation / Howdy Skies / 2012
  • Roger Miller / Kansas City Star / All Time Greatest Hits / Mercury / 1965, 2003
  • The Stanley Brothers / I’m Ready to Go / The Early King and Starday Years / Gusto / 1960, 2003
  • Emily Miller and Jesse Milnes / Bully of the Town / The New Young Fogies, Volume 1 / Roberts-Gevalt and DeJarnette / 2012
  • Walt Koken / Peas and Taters / Sittin’ in the Catbird’s Seat / Mudthumper Music / 2012
  • Bill Clifton / Just Another Broken Heart / The Early Years / Rounder / 1958, 2011
  • The Louvin Brothers / I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby / Live at the New River Ranch / Copper Creek / 1956, 1988
  • Carolina Road / What it Means to be Lonesome / Back to my Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • The Spinney Brothers / Making a Killing / Memories / Mountain Fever / 2012
  • Ernest Tubb / Sometimes I Do / Last Sessions / First Generation / c. 1979, 1999
  • Rhonda Vincent / Blue Sky Cathedral / Sunday Morning Singing / Upper Management Music / 2012
  • Audie Blaylock and Redline / Newton’s Grove / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive / John the Baptist / Uneven Road / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Akira Otsuka / Line Drive / First Tear / Patuxnet Music / 2012
  • Freeman and Williams / Wrong Road Again / Freeman and Williams / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
  • Loafer’s Glory / Milwaukee Blues / Loafer’s Glory / Arhoolie / 2012
  • Bob Amos / Jenny and Jimmy / Borrowed Time / self / 2012
  • Rick Paul / Halloween / single / self / 2010
  • John Hartford / Pumpkin Ridge / The Speed of the Old Long Bow / Rounder / 1998
  • The Country Gentlemen / Bringing Mary Home / Can’t You Hear Me Callin’ /Rebel / 1964, 2005
  • Orville Johnson / The Ghost Picker / Southern Filibuster: A Tribute to Tut Taylor / E1 Music / 2010
  • Marty Robbins / Ghost Riders in the Sky / The Essential Marty Robbins 1951-1982 / Columbia / c. 1967, 1991
  • Ashley & Foster / Haunted Road Blues / Greenback Dollar – The Music of Clarence Ashley / County / c. 1930, 2002
  • Detour / Quarterline Road / A Better Place / Bluegrass Ahead / 2012
  • The South Carolina Broadcasters / I’m Leaving You this Lonesome Song / A Thousand Miles Away From Here / self / 2011
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

October 23, 2012

Top 20 New Bluegrass Songs reported by WNHU's Black Diamond Show

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 10/23/12

Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited (top 12) and Bluegrass Music Profiles (top 20)

This month's top song honors go to Mark Houser. Love the new album from him and his band Bluegrass Drive.

  1. Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive, John the Baptist
  2. Bob Amos, Where the Wild River Rolls
  3. The Boxcars, Crawford County
  4. The Spinney Brothers, Makin' a Killin'
  5. The Grass Cats, The Mountains, My Baby, and Me
  6. Chris Brashear, Mama's Opry
  7. Rhonda Vincent, Blue Sky Cathedral
  8. Special Consensus, Monroe's Doctrine
  9. Detour, Quarterline Road
  10. Joe Diffie, Rainin' on Her Rubber Dolly
  11. Freeman & Williams, Wrong Road Again
  12. Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show, Brand New Silent Partner
  13. Dailey & Vincent, Living in the Kingdon of God
  14. Lou Reid & Carolina, Carolina Moonshine Man
  15. Audie Blaylock & Redline, Newton's Grove
  16. Akira Otsuka, Line Drive
  17. Steep Canyon Rangers, Natural Disaster
  18. Loafer's Glory, Milwaukee Blues
  19. Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive, Delilah
  20. The Boxcars, Don't Fall In Love with a Girl Like That

In addition to submitting top new song reports to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles, we also report the Black Diamond Show playlists and actual airplay to Bluegrass Today and the the FOLKDJ-L email list and folkradio.org.

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

WNHU's Black Diamond Show Playlist: 10/22/12

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • The Dillards / Old Cane Press / The Dillards vs. The Incredible LA Time Machine / Flying Fish / 1977
  • Don Gibson / Sea of Heartbreak / Greatest Hits / Sony / 1971, 2006 / re-recorded version of his 1961 hit.
  • Larry Sparks and Rhonda Vincent / 1-800-Do-U-Care / 40 / Rebel / 2005
  • Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper / Wicked Path of Sin / Bluegrass Early Cuts 1931-1953 / JSP / 1946, 2004
  • The New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / The Richmond Cotillion / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
  • Ann and Phil Case / I’ve Loved and Lost Again / When Shadows Fall / Dry Run Records / 2012
  • Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers / Another Day, Another Dollar / Rambler’s Call / Rebel / 2009
  • The Orpheus Supertones / Polly Put the Kettle On / Going to Town / Mud Thumper Music / 2011
  • Gold Heart / Lonely Rain / Never Let Go / Gold Heart / 2008
  • Donna Ulisse / An Easy Climb / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
  • Steve Spurgin / Song for a Winter’s Night / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
  • Zoe Muth and The Lost High Rollers / If I Can’t Trust You With a Quarter (How can I trust you with my heart?) / Starlight Hotel / Signature Sounds Recordings / 2011
  • O’Brien Party of 7 / You’re My Kingdom / Reincarnation / Howdy Skies / 2012
  • The Piros / Running Bear / The Piro’s / self / 2010
  • Steep Canyon Rangers / Natural Disaster / Nobody Knows You / Rounder / 2012
  • J.D. Crowe and the New South / Sin City / Black Jack / Rebel / 1978, 2005
  • Carolina Chocolate Drops / I Truly Understand that You Love Another Man / Leaving Eden / Nonesuch / 2012
  • Bob Amos / Where the Wild River Rolls / Borrowed Time / self / 2012
  • Foghorn Stringband / Gospel Ship / Outshine the Sun / self / 2011
  • Ernie Ashworth / She Don’t Drink, She Don’t Smoke, But She Lies / Grand Ole Opry 35th Anniversary Collection / WHP / 1999
  • Chris Brashear / Tell All My Pickin’ Friends Goodbye / Heart of the Country / Dog Boy / 2012
  • Rob Ickes and Tim O’Brien / Can’t Find My Way Home / Bluegrass Goes to Town / Rounder / 2002
  • Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive / Delilah / Uneven Road / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Woody Pines / Red Rockin’ Chair / You Gotta Roll EP / self / 2012
  • Andrew and Noah Van Norstrand / Jetstream / All the Good Summers / Great Bear / 2010
  • Craver, Hicks, Watson, and Newberry / Texas Gals / You’ve Been a Friend to Me / Barker / 2012
  • The Time Jumpers / Ridin’ on the Rio / The Time Jumpers / Rounder / 2012
  • Frank Solivan / I’ll Go Steppin’ Too / Selfish Tears / Fiddlemon Music / 2006
  • Zeb Snyder et alia / Tennessee Grey Eagle / Close Kin / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
  • Jim and Jessee / Waiting for a Message / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2002
  • Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Bluegrass Boys / Wicked Path of Sin / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1946, 1978
  • David Peterson and 1946 / Cold Wind / David Peterson and 1946 / self / 2008
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

October 21, 2012

Playlist: 10/15/12

  • Various Artists / 23rd Annual IBMA Show / The 23rd International Bluegrass Music Awards, September 27, 2012, The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA / IBMA / 2012
  • Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys / No One But My Darlin' / Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys 1957-1958 / JSP /1957, 2009
  • Special Consensus / Sea of Heartbreak / Scratch Gravel Road / Compass / 2012

September 20, 2012

Apologies.... Playlists and reports resuming soon

I will start adding playlists and reporting airplay again very soon. Just been a very busy beginning of the semester for me! Thanks for your support of WNHU, Bluegrass, and Traditional Country Music!

And, in the meantime, follow the links on the right hand side of this blog to find an event nearby!

August 13, 2012

Playlist 8/13/12 Black Diamond Show WNHU

Here's the probable playlist for this week's show. Will post the actual playlist later this week. Thanks for your support of WNHU and of Bluegrass and traditional country music.
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Theme
  • Cadillac Sky / Can't Trust the Weatherman / Blind Man Walking
  • Alan Jackson / You've Been Lonesome Too / Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
  • Carolina Chocolate Drops / Country Girl / Leaving Eden
  • Flatt & Scruggs / Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Foggy Mountain Jamboree
  • Merle Haggard & Carl Jackson / Must You Throw Dirt in My Face / Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers
  • Myrna Riquier / The Farmer / Momma's Flowers
  • Tony Rice / Bitter Green / Bluegrass Class of 1990
  • Stairwell Sisters / Cinderella / Get Off Your Money
  • Adam Hurt / Jack Wilson / Earth Tones
  • Bob Wills / Time Changes Everything / Golden Age of Country Music
  • Kenny Smith / Billy in the Lowground / Return
  • Stanley Brothers / Little Glass of Wine / Original Rich-R-Tone Recordings (1947)
  • The Prairie Acre / Sandy Boys / Jaybird and the Sparrow Hawk
  • Bill Evans / A Hard Day's Night / In Good Company
  • Mild Drive / Dear Prudence / Waves
  • Shoregrass / Waltz For You / In Connecticut
  • Mariel Vandersteel / Hickory / Hickory
  • Jane Rothfield & Hilarie Burhans / Valley Forge / iFiddle They Banjo
  • Faron Young / Unmitigated Gall / Golden Hits
  • Blue Highway / I Ain't Gonna Lay My Hammer Down / Sounds of Home
  • The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters / Julianne Johnson / Welcome to Galax
  • Bob Amos / Last Fair Deal Done Gone / Borrowed Time
  • Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / No Longer An Orphan / Rambler's Call
  • Cindy Cashdollar / Little Green Pill / Southern Filibuster
  • Dailey & Vincent / Class of 57 / Dailey and Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
  • Sierra Hull / The Land of Living / Daybreak
  • Privy Tippers / Hobart's Transformation, Shenandoah Falls / Straddling the Muffin-Biscuit Line
  • Moors and McCumber / Quick as I Can / Gravity
  • Hot Mustard / Foggy Mountain Top / unreleased
  • Pharis & Jason Romero / I'm Just Here to Get My Baby out of Jail / A Passing Glimpse
  • Chris Brashear / Mama's Opry / Heart of the Country
  • Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / House of Gold / Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, 1957-1958
  • Hank Williams / Lost Highway (1949) / 40 Greatest Hits
  • Gillian Welch / Red Clay Halo / Time (The Revelator)
  • Lonesome River Band / The Game I Can't Win / Chronology Volume Two
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Theme

August 12, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist 8/6/12

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • The Grascals / Eleven Eleven / Life Finds a Way / Crossroads / 2012
  • Dailey and Vincent / More Than a Name on a Wall / The Rounder Records Story / Rounder / 2008, 2010
  • Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers / Shortnin' Bread , Chicken Foot and Sparrow Grass / Up in the Batten House / Snappin' Bug / 2011
  • The Delmore Brothers / Alabama Lullaby / Chicago 1933, New Orleans 1935 / JSP / 1935, 2004
  • Audie Blaylock & Redline / The Chair / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Walt Koken / Silk and Velvet Waltz / Sittin' in the Catbird's Seat / Mudthumper Music / 2012
  • Newtown / The Stone Was Rolled Away / Newtown / self / 2011
  • Johnny Cash / Long Black Veil / Live from Austin, TX / New West / 1987, 2007
  • The Grass Cats / Let My Love Open the Door / Home to Carolina / self / 2006
  • The Stairwell Sisters / Crockett's Honeymoon, Waldorf's Reel / The Stairwell Sisters / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2005
  • John Reischman and the Jaybirds / Goin' Across the Sea / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
  • Hank Williams / Mind Your Own Business / The Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1949, 2008
  • Scott Anderson / Cuttin' Melons / Rivers / Mato / 2001
  • Larry Sparks / Picture Me There / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
  • Guy Clark / Texas 1947 / The Essential Guy Clark / RCA Nashville / 1975, 1997
  • April Verch / This Flower / That's How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
  • The Cox Family / Will There Be Any Stars / O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection / Rounder / 1994, 2001
  • Michael Cleveland / Northern White Clouds / Leavin' Town / Rounder / 2008
  • Steve Spurgin / The Walkin' Boss / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
  • Donna Ulisse / Who You Need to Know / Holy Water / Hadley Music Group / 2010
  • Donna Ulisse / Fall Apart With You / Trouble at the Door / Atlantic / 1991
  • David Grisman & Tony Rice / Good Ol' Mountain Dew / Tone Poems / Acoustic Disc / 1994
  • High Country / Send Me Your Address From Heaven / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / c. 1985, 1996
  • Jimmy Bryant / Old Joe Clark / Wizards Of Country Guitar: Selected Sides 1935-1955 / JSP / 1953, 2011
  • The Wilders with Jim Lauderdale / Cotton Eyed Joe / Merlefest Live / FestivaLink / 2010
  • Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Lonesome Road Blues / Two Days at Newport / And More Bears / 1963, 2003
  • Terry McGill / Bright Morning Stars / Straight Drive / Cabinwood Music / 2001
  • Woody Pines / Ham and Eggs / You Gotta Roll EP / self / 2012
  • Ronnie Bowman / Playhouse / It's Getting Better All the Time / Koch / 2005
  • Chris Thile & Michael Daves / Billy In The Lowground / Sleep With One Eye Open / Nonesuch / 2011
  • Downtown Ramblers / That Ain't The Case / On The Other Side Of The City / DTR Music Productions / 2011
  • The Seldom Scene / Tennessee Blues / Act Four / Sugar Hill / 1979
  • Nell Robinson / Red Clay Creek / On the Brooklyn Road / Red Level / 2011
  • Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys / Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1954, 1977
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

July 30, 2012

Podunk, Top Songs, & Old-time Faves: On this week's Black Diamond Show on WNHU

Here's this week's playlist. This week's show features tracks from artists appearing at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival, some of the songs I voted for in recent Top Bluegrass Songs polls, and some of my favorite tracks from recent old-time releases.
  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Rhonda Vincent / Blue Sky Cathedral / Sunday Mornin' Singin' / Upper Management / 2012
  • The Roys / Still Standing / New Day Dawning / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Laura Orshaw / Quince Dillon's High D / Grandad's Flying Squirrels / self / 2005
  • Too Blue / Yesterday's Eyes / Touch of Grey / self / 2011
  • The Spinney Brothers / Rebels Ye Rest / Memories / Mountain Fever / 2011
  • Newtown / Flora, The Lily of the West / Newtown / self / 2011
  • Travers Chandler & Avery County / Stumblin' Stones / Pardon Me / Mountain Fever / 2012
  • The Lonesome River Band / Sweet Sally Brown / Chronology, Volume 2 / Rural Rhythm / 2006, 2012
  • Acoustic Blue / Your Love is Like A Flower / Bein' Country / Bishop Hill / 2012
  • Kathy Mattea / The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
  • Mark Graham / Curly Headed Woman /Southern Old-Time Harmonica / self / c. 1988, 2000
  • Dailey and Vincent / Until At Last I'm Home / The Gospel Side of Dailey and Vincent / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2012
  • Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Montana Cowgirl / Phoenix / Happy Appy / 2008
  • The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2010
  • Hank Williams / Pins and Needles in My Heart / Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1950, 2008
  • The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters / Roscoe (Kyle Creed) / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
  • Dawn Kenney et al. / A Podunk Family Reunion / single / Podunk Bluegrass Festival / 2012
  • Special Consensus / I'd Like to Wander Back to the Old Home / Trail of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle / 2012
  • The Grascals / Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer) / Dance Til Your Stockings Are Hot And Ravelin' / Saguaro Road / 2011
  • Dale Ann Bradley / Rusty Old Halo / Don't Turn Your Back / Compass / 2009
  • April Verch / Guide Me Home / That's How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
  • Bob Amos / Where the Wild River Rolls / Borrowed Time / self / 2012
  • The Albemarle Ramblers / Black Eyed Susie / Gentlemen from Virginia / Merriwether / 2010
  • Alan Jackson / You've Been Lonesome Too / The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams / Columbia / 2011
  • Newtown / Love the Way I Do / Newtown / self / 2011
  • The Spinney Brothers / Making a Million / Memories / Mountain Fever / 2011
  • The New Coon Creek Girls / My Lord Will Send a Moses / Everything You Do / Pinecastle / 1996
  • The Special Consensus / I Can't Sit Down / 25th Anniversary / Pinecastle / 2000, 2012
  • Travers Chandler & Avery County / Reuben Takes the D Train / Pardon Me / Mountain Fever / 2012
  • Laura Orshaw / North Carolina Breakdown / Grandad's Flying Squirrels / self / 2005
  • Tony and Marge Sume of Tater Patch / Prodigal Son / Tater Patch / unreleased / 2012
  • Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Pretty Little Girl From Galax / Prime Tyme / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Joel Mabus / Sally Gal / American Anonymous / self / 2011
  • Detour / Quarterline Road / A Better Place / Bluegrass Ahead / 2012
  • The Morgantown Rounders / Big Scioty / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
  • Johnny Williams et al. / Say Darlin' Say / Close Kin / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

July 23, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 7/23 & 7/26

Here's the annotated playlist....
  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Bluegrass Martins / Home / World of our Own / self / 2011
  • Steve Spurgin / The Big Payoff / Folk Remedies / Blue Night / 2012
  • Kenny Smith / Forked Deer / Return / GAT3 / 2011
  • John Reischman and the Jaybirds / Consider Me Gone / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
  • The Traditional Grass / Rest For His Workers / 10th Anniversary Edition / Rebel / c. 1988, 1993
  • Jerry Correll et. al / Old Horse and Buggy / Close Kin / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
  • Del McCoury Band / I'm Blue I'm Lonesome / Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music / 2011
  • Dailey and Vincent / Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord / The Gospel Side of Dailey and Vincent / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2011
  • Carolina Chocolate Drops / Briggs' Corn Shucking Jig / Leaving Eden / Nonesuch / 2012
  • The Bluegrass Album Band / When You Are Lonely / Tony Rice: The Bill Monroe Collection / Rounder / 1984, 2012
  • Brandon Rickman / Always Have, Always Will / Young Man, Old Soul / Rural Rhythm / 2009
  • Sons of the West / Following You Around / Wizards Of Country Guitar: Selected Sides 1935-1955 / JSP / 1938, 2011
  • Stuart Duncan / Overbellow Reel / Appalachian Picking Society / Wyndham Hill / 2004
  • Wade Mainer and the Sons of the Mountain Pioneers / Don't Leave Me Alone / Bluegrass Early Cuts: 1931-1953 / JSP / 1940, 2004
  • Red Molly / Walk Beside Me / Light in the Sky / self / 2012
  • Donna Ulisse / This Crazy World / Holy Water / Hadley Music Group / 2010
  • Russ Barenburg and Jesse Carr / Angel Band / The Civil War (Soundtrack) / Nonesuch / 1990
  • Travers Chandler and Avery County / Blue Monday Morning / Pardon Me / Mountain Fever / 2012
  • Walt Koken / Chinquapin Pie / Sitting in the Catbird Seat / Mudthumper Music / 1967, 2012
  • Border Radio / Oklahoma Waltz / L'il Songbook / self / 2001
  • The Carrborators / Eden / Caffeinated Heart / self / 2011
  • The Grascals / Hello Mr. Lonesome / Life Finds a Way / Crossroads / 2012
  • Joe Herrmann / Izzy's Polka / Gather 'Round / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
  • The Twangtown Paramours / Walks like a Duck / The Promise of Friday Night / Inside Edge / 2012
  • Jackstraw / May the Twain Ne'er Meet / Sunday Never Comes / self / 2011
  • Jim and Jesse / I'll Love Nobody But You / In the Tradition / Rounder / 1987
  • Clark Kessinger / Golden Slippers / World Champion Fiddler / Triagle Far / 1968, 2002
  • Bearfoot / Tell Me a Story / American Story / Compass / 2011
  • Chris Jones / Final Farewell / Lost Souls & Free Spirits: The Rebel Collection Old & New / Rebel / 2011
  • Barefoot Movement / Circles / Footwork / Lonesome Records / 2011
  • Lou Reid and Carolina / Carolina Moonshine Man / Callin’ Me Back Home / KMA / 2012
  • The Stanley Brothers / The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn / The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1960, 2003
  • Simple Gifts / Little Moses, Grand Picnic / Time and Again / Purple Finch / 1999
  • Longview / Windy Mountain / High Lonesome / Rounder / 1999
  • The Delmore Brothers / Go Easy Mabel / Charlotte, NC 1937-38, Rocky Hill, SC 1938-39 / JSP / 1939, 2004
  • Bob Amos / Crazy Legs / Borrowed Time / self / 2012
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

July 22, 2012

Top 20 New Bluegrass Songs: Report from WNHU Black Diamond Show 7/22/12

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 7/22/12

Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited (top 12) and Bluegrass Music Profiles (top 20)

I love summer--so many great new CDs come out as artists go on the festival circuit. In particular, two new CDs caught my attention this month: Rhonda Vincent's Sunday Mornin' Singin' and Bob Amos's Borrowed Time. Because when I heard Bob Amos's "Where the Wild River Rolls" I immediately bought the entire CD on line, that song gets my vote as number one this month. Rhonda Vincent's "Blue Sky Cathedral" is a great Gospel song that I've been telling people about all month. Two great songs: getting my vote for number one and number two.

  1. Bob Amos, Where the Wild River Rolls
  2. Rhonda Vincent, Blue Sky Cathedral
  3. Lou Reid & Carolina, Carolina Moonshine Man
  4. Dailey and Vincent, Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord
  5. Darrin & Brooke Aldridge, Lonely Ends Where Love Begins
  6. April Verch, Guide Me Home
  7. Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Moon Magic
  8. Freeman & Williams, When Halley Came to Jackson
  9. Steep Canyon Rangers, Reputation
  10. Mike Scott, Aubrey Haynie, Mike Compton, Bryan Sutton & BenIsaacs, Road to Columbus
  11. Donna Ulisse, Let it Rain
  12. The Missy Werner Band, I’d Rather Love a Memory
  13. Ronnie Bowman, The Story in your Eyes
  14. Johnny Williams, Jeanette Williams, Adam Steffey, TinaSteffey, SamanthaSnyder, Zeb Snyder, Scott Freeman & Bud Snyder, Chilly Winds(Close Kin)
  15. Jim Lauderdale, Cruel Wind and Rain
  16. The Boxcars, Don't Fall In Love With a Girl Like That
  17. Steep Canyon Rangers, Nobody Knows You
  18. Chris Brashear, Mama’s Opry
  19. (tie) The Bluegrass Martins, Don’t Laugh
    (tie) Detour, I’ve Just Seen the Rock of Ages
    (tie) Dailey & Vincent, Living in the Kingdom of God

In addition to submitting top new song reports to Bluegrass Unlimitedand Bluegrass Music Profiles, we also report the Black Diamond Show playlists and actual airplay to Bluegrass Today, the FOLKDJ-L email list and folkradio.org, and Roots Music Report.

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

July 16, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 7/16/12 and 7/19/12

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • The Honey Dewdrops / Catawba / Silver Lining / self / 2012
  • Guy Clark / Homegrown Tomatoes / Better Days / Warner / 1983
  • Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Moon Magic / Prime Tyme / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • The Boxcars / Don't Fall In Love With a Girl Like That / All In / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2012
  • John Reischman and the Jaybirds / Gabriel's Call / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
  • Bill Monroe / Rawhide / Two Days at Newport / And More Bears / 1963, 2003 / Monroe mnd, Del McCoury gtr, Billy Baker fid, Bill Keith bjo, Bessie Lee Maudlin, ba
  • David Peterson / Lovin' Lies / Comin' On Strong / Necktie / 2009
  • Darin and Brooke Aldridge / Lonely Ends Where Love Begins / So Much In Between / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2011
  • Walt Koken / Sittin' in the Catbird's Seat / Sittin' in the Catbird's Seat / Mudthumper Music / 2012
  • Bill Evans / Lonesome Polka / Bill Evans Plays Banjo / Mighty Fine / 2001
  • Chris Brashear / Put My Little Shoes Away / Wanderlust / Dog Boy / 1999
  • Johnny Williams, et al. / Chilly Winds / Close Kin / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
  • Josh Williams / Kodak 1955 / Down Home / Pinecastle, Rounder / 2008, 2011
  • Detour / I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages / A Better Place / Bluegrass Ahead / 2012
  • Steve Spurgin / Gettin' Outta Here Alive / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
  • The Hi-Flyers / You're The One I Care For / Wizards Of Country Guitar: Selected Sides 1935-1955 / JSP / 1937, 2011
  • Dead Fiddlers Society / Hobb Dye / Livin' It Up / self / 2010
  • David Peterson & 1946 / I'll Claim the Blame / David Peterson & 1946 / self / 2008
  • The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters / Hop Light Ladies / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
  • Charlie Sizemore / I Don't Remember Loving You / Heartache Looking For a Home / Rounder / 2011
  • Steep Canyon Rangers / Reputation / Nobody Knows You / Rounder / 2012
  • The Stanley Brothers / Rank Stranger / The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1960, 2003
  • Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / My Little Girl in Tennessee / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury / 1958, 2003
  • Jim and Jesse / I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / Y'all Come: The Essential Jim & Jesse / Sony / 1969, 1998
  • Brandon Rickman / Dime Store Rings / Young Man, Old Soul / Rural Rhythm / 2009
  • Bob Amos / Jenny and Jimmy / Borrowed Time / self / 2012
  • Caleb Klauder / My Baby Came Back / Western Country / Padre / 2010
  • The Infamous Stringdusters / Don't Mean Nothing / Silver Sky / High Country Recordings / 2012
  • Red Hen Stringband / Free Little Bird / Birds of a Feather / Wepecket Island / 2011
  • The Country Gazette / Don't Let Nobody Tie You Down / Bluegrass Tonight! / Flying Fish / 1986
  • Tim O'Brien / Sinner / Chicken & Egg / Howdy Skies / 2010
  • Rafe and Clelia Stefanini / I Never Will Marry / Lady on the Green / Old Willow Tree / 2012
  • Patsy Montana / Swing Time Cowgirl / Cowgirl's Best / Golden Lane / 1940, 2008
  • Tommy Webb / Julie Ann / Eastern Kentucky / Kindred / 2007
  • 23 String Band / Long Hot Summer Days / Catch 23 / self / 2011
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

July 9, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 7/9 & 7/12

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • The Walker Brothers / Molly / The Walker Brothers / 2011
  • Floyd Tillman / Slippin’ Round / Country & Western Classics / Music and Melody / 1949, 2009
  • The Grascals / Lay that Hammer Down / Life Finds a Way / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2012
  • The Sun Harbor Chorus / God Bless America / Documentary Recordings Presents Patriotic Music / Documentary Recordings, amazon.com / 2009
  • Dale Ann Bradley / I’ll Take Love / I’ll Take Love: Songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
  • Brad Letwich and the Hogwire String Band / The Last of Callahan / Rascal Fair / Dark Train / 2011
  • Steep Canyon Rangers / Knob Creek / Nobody Knows You / Rounder / 2012
  • Claire Lynch / If Wishes Were Horses / Bluegrass Hits, Twenty Timeless Tunes from Yesterday and Today / Rounder / 1997, 2005
  • Sierra Hull / Best Buy / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
  • Jimmy Gaudreau and Moondi Klein / Whiskey Before Breakfast, Red-Haired Boy / Home from the Mills / Rebel / 2012
  • Joe Diffie / Rainin’ on her Rubber Dolly / Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album / Rounder / 2010
  • Hank Williams / The Blind Child’s Prayer / Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1951, 2008
  • The Boxcars / Crawford County / All In / Crossroads / 2011
  • The Twangtown Paramours / Widow of the Mountain / The Promise of Friday Night / Inside Edge / 2012
  • Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers / Hogs in the Cornfield, Hang On / Up in the Batten House / Snappin’ Bug / 2011
  • Todd Grebe and Cold Country / Must Be Hard Being You / Until Tomorrow / self / 2011
  • Bill Monroe and Doc Watson / Turkey in the Straw / Off the Record, Volume 2, Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 / Smithsonian Folkways / 1963, 1993
  • Kenny and Amanda Smith Band / Big Ball in Boston / House Down the Block / Rebel / 2003
  • Sons of the Pioneers / Song of the Bandit / Sons of the Pioneers / Columbia, Sony BMG / 1937, 1987
  • Steve Spurgin / Whiskey Town / Folk Remedies / Blue Night / 2012
  • The Traditional Grass / No Return / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel / 1992, 1993
  • Bluegrass Album Band / When You Are Lonely / Tony Rice: The Bill Monroe Collection / Rounder / 1984, 2012
  • Katie Wilson / Seashells on the Shore / Katie Wilson / Prime Number / 2009
  • Mike Compton / I’ll Tell You About the Women / Rotten Taters / Tater Bug Music / 2011
  • Bob Amos / Where the Wild River Rolls / Borrowed Time / self / 2012
  • Bill Clifton / Are You Alone? / The Early Years 1957-1958 / Rounder / 1957, 2011
  • The Lundy Brothers / Liberty / Civil War Memories / Wango / 2004
  • Kathy Mattea / Green Rolling Hills, Wildwood Flower / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
  • The Hillbenders / Highway Gambler / Down to my last Dollar / self / 2010
  • Dailey & Vincent / Living in the Kingdom of God / The Gospel Side of Dailey and Vincent / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2012
  • David Peterson / You’re Too Easy to Remember / Comin’ on Strong / Necktie / 2009
  • Travis Chandler and Avery County / Black Dust Fever / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
  • Lonesome River Band / Telling me you Love me Again / Still Learning / Rural Rhythm / 2010
  • The Spinney Brothers / Memories / Memories / Mountain Fever / 2012
  • Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys / Old Salty Dog Blues / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury / 1958, 2003
  • The Lonesome Strangers / Billy in the Lowground / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1978, 2002
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

July 2, 2012

Playlist July 2 and July 5

What a concept. Getting this week's playlist up promptly! Thanks for your support of WNHU, bluegrass, and traditional country music!


  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • The Boxcars / Don’t Fall In Love With a Girl Like That / All In / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2012
  • The Prairie Acre / Rye Straw / Jaybird and the Sparrow Hawk / self / 2007
  • Travers Chandler & Avery County / Stoned at the Jukebox / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
  • Emmylou Harris / Long Time Girl Gone By / Kin: Songs of Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell / Vanguard / 2012
  • Dale Ann Bradley / Rusty Old Halo / Don’t Turn Your Back / Compass / 2009
  • Bill Evans / A Hard Day’s Night / In Good Company / Native and Fine / 2012
  • The Charles River Valley Boys / Help! / Beatle Country / Elektra / 1966
  • Darrell Scott / You’re Everything I Wanted Love to Be / Long Ride Home / Full Light / 2011
  • Larry Sparks with Paul Williams / Listening to the Wind / 40 / Rebel / 2005
  • Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / Old Blue Tomorrow / Rambler’s Call / Rebel / 2009
  • Robin and Linda Williams / Buena Vista / Buena Vista / Red House / 2008
  • Balsam Range / Caney Fork River / Last Train to Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2009
  • The Grass Cats / Lonesome and Crying / Home to Carolina / self / 2006
  • Jimmy Gaudreau and Moondi Klein / It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie / Home from the Mills / Rebel / 2012
  • The Missy Werner Band / Blue Skies and Teardrops / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
  • Rhonda Vincent / Blue Sky Cathedral / Sunday Mornin’ Singin’ / Upper Management Music / 2012 (upcoming)
  • Lost and Found / The Sun’s Gonna Shine in my Back Door Someday / Down on Sawmill Road / Rebel / 1997, 2010
  • Frank Solivan / Screened In / Selfish Tears / Fiddle Mon Music / 2006
  • The Stairwell Sisters / Could it be Him? / Feet All Over the Floor / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2005
  • Merle Travis / I’ll see you in my Dreams / In Boston / Rounder / 1959, 2003
  • Jim and Jesse / I’ll Wear the Banner / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics /1952, 2002
  • Jerry Correll et al. / Holly Ding / Close Kin / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
  • Freeman and Williams / When Halley Came to Jackson / Freeman and Williams / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
  • Red June / Callahan / Remember Me Well / self / 2010
  • Ian Tyson / Saddle Bronc Girl / Raven Singer / Stony Plain / 2012
  • Darin and Brooke Aldridge / Things in Life / So Much in Between / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2011
  • Joe Diffie / I Know how it Feels / Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album / Rounder / 2010
  • Lou Reid and Carolina / Amanda Lynn / My Own Set of Rules / Rural Rhythm / 2009
  • Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys / I’m Waiting to Hear You Call Me Darling / The Golder Era / Rounder / 1950, 1977
  • Joel Mabus / Drunken Hiccups / American Anonymous / Fossil / 2011
  • Detour / Lovin’ Liza Jane / A Better Place / Bluegrass Ahead / 2012
  • Valerie Smith / Second Fiddle to an old Guitar / Patchwork Heart / Bell Buckle / 1998
  • Norman Blake and Tony Rice / D-18 Song / Blake and Rice 2 / Rounder / 1990
  • Ivan Rosenberg and the Foggy Hogtown Boys / Cold Creek / The Hogtown Sessions / Vole-O-Tone / 2011
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

July 1, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist 6/25 & 6/28

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Audie Blaylock and Red Line / Philadelphia Lawyer / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Eric and Suzy Thompson / Old Greasy Coat / Dream Shadows / Herringbone Disc / 2008
  • The Walker Brothers featuring Amanda Anderson / Wishing Well Blues / The Walker Brothers / self / 2011
  • Dailey and Vincent / Cast Aside / The Gospel Side of Dailey and Vincent / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2012
  • Dawn Kenney et al. / A Podunk Family Reunion / single / Podunk Bluegrass Festival / 2012
  • The Hillbenders / Train Whistle / Can You Hear Me / self / 2012 (upcoming)
  • Lou Reid and Carolina / Carolina Moonshine Man / Callin’ Me Back Home / KMA / 2012
  • Sons of the Pioneers / You Must Come in at the Door / Sons of the Pioneers / Columbia, Sony BMG / 1937, 1987
  • Acoustic Blue / Struttin to Ferrum / Bein’ Country / Bishop Hill / 2012
  • Kenny and Amanda Smith Band /Why Don’t You Just Say Goodbye / House Down the Block / Rebel / 2003
  • Patty Loveless / You’re Through Fooling Me / The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams / Columbia / 2011
  • Pharis and Jason Romero / Where is the Gamblin’ Man? / A Passing Glimpse / self / 2011
  • Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show / Take Me Back to Tulsa / Take Me Back / Pinecastle / 2012
  • Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys / Cotton Mill Man / The Best of Bluegrass – 80 Years of American Music / Columbia, Sony BMG / 1964, 2004
  • Mariel Vandersteel / Hickory / Hickory / self /2012
  • Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys / I’m Working on a Building / Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys 1954-1957 / JSP /1954, 2009
  • Doc Watson / Ready for the Times to Get Better / Legacy / High Windy Audio / 2002
  • Donna Ulisse / Let It Rain / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
  • Bill Clifton / Walking In My Sleep / The Early Years / Rounder / 1957, 2011
  • The Mammals / Haircut Money / Evolver / Humble Abode / 2002
  • Ray Wylie Hubbard / Home Grown Tomatoes / This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark / Ice House Music / 2011
  • Steep Canyon Rangers / Long Shot / Nobody Knows You / Rounder / 2012
  • The Stanley Brothers / Come All You Tender-Hearted / An Evening Long Ago / Sony BMG / 1956, 2004
  • Travers Chandler and Avery County / The Stanley Brothers / Pardon Me / Mountain Fever / 2012
  • The Seldom Scene / This Weary Heart You Stole Away / Act Four / Sugar Hill / 1979
  • Woody Pines / Red Rockin’ Chair / You Gotta Roll EP / self / 2012
  • Rafe and Clelia Stefanini / Blues Stay Away From Me / Lady on the Green / Old Willow Tree / 2012
  • Special Consensus / Chahill Special / Bluegrass Bands Helping Hands, Volume 3: Big Leagues / Bluegrass Bands Helping Hands, LLC / 2011
  • Tony Rice / Stony Lonesome / The Bill Monroe Collection / Rounder / 2003, 2012
  • John Reischman and the Jaybirds / The Train that Carried My Girl From Town / Field Guide / Corvus / 2002
  • The Baile Brothers / Bull Frog Boogie / 2010 / Gusto / 1953, 2010
  • Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys / Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Sony BMG / 1955, 2005
  • Chris Brashear / Mama’ Opry / Heart of the Country / self / 2012 (upcoming)
  • Dead Fiddler’s Society / Backstep Cindy / Livin’ It Up / self / 2010
  • Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers / No Longer and Orphan / Rambler’s Call / Rebel / 2009
  • Mickey Galyean et al. / Seven-Cent Cotton, Forty-Cent Meat / Close Kin / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
  • Bill Monroe and Doc Watson / Chicken Reel / Off the Record Volume 2: Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 / Smithsonian Folkways / 1963, 1993
  • Jerry Rivers and the Hank Williams Band / Arkansas Traveller / Health and Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

June 23, 2012

Top New Bluegrass Songs: 6/23/12 (WNHU Black Diamond Show)

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 6/23/12

Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited (top 12) and Bluegrass Music Profiles (top 20)

  1. Lou Reid & Carolina, Carolina Moonshine Man
  2. Darrin & Brooke Aldridge, Lonely Ends Where Love Begins
  3. Detour, I’ve Just Seen the Rock of Ages
  4. Donna Ulisse, Let it Rain
  5. The Bluegrass Martins, Don’t Laugh
  6. Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Moon Magic
  7. Johnny Williams, Jeanette Williams, Adam Steffey, Tina Steffey, Samantha Snyder, Zeb Snyder, Scott Freeman & Bud Snyder, Chilly Winds (Close Kin)
  8. April Verch, Guide Me Home
  9. Dailey and Vincent, Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord
  10. Freeman & Williams, When Halley Came to Jackson
  11. Steep Canyon Rangers, Reputation
  12. Chris Brashear, Mama’s Opry
  13. The Missy Werner Band, I’d Rather Love a Memory
  14. Jim Lauderdale, Cruel Wind and Rain
  15. Ronnie Bowman, The Story in your Eyes
  16. Crowe Brothers, Southern Moon
  17. Steep Canyon Rangers, Nobody Knows You
  18. Mike Scott, Aubrey Haynie, Mike Compton, Bryan Sutton & Ben Isaacs, Road to Columbus
  19. Dailey & Vincent, Living in the Kingdom of God
  20. (tie) Charlie Sizemore, I Don’t Remember Loving You
    (tie) Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Ominous Anonymous

In addition to submitting top new song reports to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles, we also report the Black Diamond Show playlists and actual airplay to Bluegrass Today, the FOLKDJ-L email list & folkradio.org, and Roots Music Report.

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

June 19, 2012

Playlist for 6/18 and 6/21

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Balsam Range / East Virginia Blues / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
  • Evie Ladin Band / Sleepy Eyed Joe / Evie Ladin Band / Evil Diane / 2012
  • Wayne Scott / Sunday With My Son / This Weary Way / Full Light / 2005
  • Jim Watson / Daddy and Home / This World Would Be All Sunshine / Barker / 2008
  • Steve Martin / Daddy Played the Banjo / The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo / Rounder / 2009
  • David Davis and Scott Brannon / Silver Haired Daddy of Mine / Plum Pitiful / Wango, Time-Life / 2004
  • Mike Cross / Elma Turl / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1979, 2009
  • The Piros / Louisville Breakdown / The Piro’s / self / 2010
  • Crowe, Lawson, and Williams / Prayer Bells of Heaven / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
  • Detour / I’ve Just Seen the Rock of Ages / A Better Place / Bluegrass Ahead / 2012
  • The Improbabillies / Salt River / The Improbabillies / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2007
  • Doc Watson and David Holt / The Train that Carried My Girl from Town / Legacy / High Wind Audio / 2002
  • Dailey and Vincent / Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2012
  • Lionel Cartwright / I Watched It All on My Radio / Geffen MCA Music Video Soundtrack / Geffen / 1990
  • Mariel Vandersteel / Flannery’s Dream / Hickory / Self / 2012
  • The Bluegrass Martins / Don’t Laugh / World of our Own / self / 2011
  • Jesse McReynolds and Bobby Osborne with Del McCoury (guitar) / Westphalia Waltz / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza / Acoustic Disc / 1999
  • The Johnson Mountain Boys / Only a Hobo / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
  • Rhythm Billies / Little Stream of Whiskey / North of North Carolina / self / 2004
  • James King and David Davis / Hobo’s Meditation / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / 2000
  • Tex Ritter / Big Rock Candy Mountain / Waltz Across Texas / Four Matt Music / 1952, 2010
  • Tim O’Brien / Busted / Cornbread Nation / Sugar Hill / 2005
  • The Perfect Strangers / Homeless Joe / The Perfect Strangers / Rebel / 2003
  • Hank Williams / A Tramp on the Street / Health and Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
  • The Bartley Brothers / Big Mon / Live at Bean Blossom / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Dale Ann Bradley / Run Rufus Run / Catch Tomorrow / Compass / 2006
  • The Prairie Acre / Little Rabbit / Jaybird and the Sparrow Hawk / self / 2007
  • The Honey Dewdrops / Bright Morning Stars / Silver Lining / self / 2012
  • Samantha Snyder et al. / With Tears in My Eyes / Close Kin / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
  • Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Moon Magic / Prime Tyme / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Del McCoury Band / Lonesome Road Blues / Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music / 2011
  • Bill Monroe and Doc Watson / Have a Feast Here Tonight / Off the Record, Volume 2, Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1965, 1993
  • Blue Moon Rising / Freight Train / One Lonely Shadow / Lonesome Day / 2008
  • Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys / Little Maggie / Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963
  • The Stanley Brothers / Handsome Molly / An Evening Long Ago: Live 1956 / Columbia, Sony BMG / 1956, 2004
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

June 11, 2012

Pharis and Jason Romero Interview: June 11 and 14

There are certain artists that when you interview them, you have such a comfortable experience that you just smile from ear to ear. Well, that's my experience. This week's show includes an interview with two folks who enter that category for me: Pharis & Jason Romero.

Nestled up in Horsefly, BC, Canada, this husband and wife team make amazing custom banjos--mostly open-back--and terrific traditional country music. If you missed the interview on Monday, catch the repeat on Thursday evening. You can find information about their banjos at romerobanjos.com and find info about their music at www.jasonandpharis.com. Check out the detailed pics of their banjos.

You can also find a great video interview on their property up in Horsefly at the Fretboard Journal website.

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

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Bill Monroe & Doc Watson / Where is my Sailor Boy? / Off the Record, Volume 2, Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1968, 1993
  • Rafe & Clelia Stfanini / Shove the Pig Foot a Little Bit Further into the Fire / Lady on the Green / Old Willow Tree / 2012
  • Hank Williams / Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain / Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1949, 2008
  • Larry Stephenson with Ricky Skaggs / My Old Kentucky and You / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle / 2010
  • Akira Otsuka / Line Drive / First Tear / Patuxnet Music / 2012
  • Rhonda Vincent / Silent Partner / Sunday Mornin’ Singin’ / Upper Management Music / 2012 (upcoming)
  • Hank Thompson / Too in Love / Vintage Collections / EMI / 1963, 1996
  • Acoustic Blue / Heel Toe the Mark / Bein’ Country / Bishop Hill / 2012
  • Pharis & Jason Romero / Hillbilly Blues / A Passing Glimpse / self / 2011
  • Pharis & Jason Romero / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Pharis & Jason Romero / Wild Bill Jones / Soundtrack from video at romerobanjos.com / Fretless Journal / 2011
  • Ivan Rosenberg / Soda Springs / Back to the Pasture / Slosh Tone / 2002
  • Pharis & Jason Romero / My Flowers, My Companion, and Me (Reprise) / A Passing Glimpse / self / 2011
  • The Haints / Tupelo Blues / Shout Monah / self / 2009
  • Pharis & Jason Romero / A Passing Glimpse / A Passing Glimpse / self / 2011
  • Pharis & Jason Romero / My Flowers, My Companions, and Me / A Passing Glimpse / self / 2011
  • April Verch / Guide Me Home / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
  • The Delmore Brothers / You Can’t Do Wrong and Get By / Sand Mountain Blues / County / 1947, 1995
  • Terry McGill / Bunker Hill / Straight Drive / Cabinwood Music / 2001
  • Darrin & Brooke Aldridge / Lonely Ends Where Love Begins / So Much In Between / Mountina Home, Crossroads / 2011
  • Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / Over There / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
  • Detour / I’ll Go Stepping, Too / A Better Place / Bluegrass Ahead / 2012
  • Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / ‘Til the End of the World Rolls Round / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1954, 1977
  • Larry Sparks / Just Lovin’ You / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel / 1972, 1988
  • The O’Kanes / Daddies Need to Grow Up, Too / The O’Kanes / Columbia / 1986
  • Joe Newberry / I Know Whose Tears / Two Hands / 5-String Productions / 2005
  • Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press / New Bluegrass and Old Heartaches / Heartache Looking For a Home / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2010
  • Warrior River Boys / Fireball Mail / Freight Trains Ride Again/ Wango / 2000
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

June 8, 2012

Playlist for Doc Watson Tribute (6/4 & 6/7)

Doc Watson was one of everybody's heroes when I was growing up playing guitar. He will be missed, but my heavens he left us a lot of great music.

Thanks to Phil Rosenthal of Guilford, CT, and Joe Newberry of Raleigh, NC, for being willing to share their insights about Doc with us. Appreciate it a lot.

We did take a couple of breaks from playing Doc's music; we played some related music; we played some music from some other stars who have passed away lately; and we played one set of happy tunes not related to anything--just 'cause I was getting morose.

Thanks for all the great music, Doc.

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Doc Watson / Tennessee Stud / Southbound / Vanguard / 1966
  • Doc Watson & David Holt / I played like the rest of the boys (Interview) / Legacy / High Windy Audio / 2002
  • Doc & Merle Watson / Summertime / Elementary Doctor Watson / EGGE / 1972, 2002
  • Phil Rosenthal / Interview (pt. 1) / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Doc Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Country Music and Bluegrass at Newport / Vanguard / 1963
  • Byron Berline, Dan Crary, John Hickman / East Tennessee Blues / B C H /Sugar Hill / 1986
  • Phil Rosenthal / Interview (pt. 2) / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Doc Watson / Talk about Suffering / Doc Watson / Vanguard / 1964
  • Flatt & Scruggs, Doc Watson, & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Careless Love / Strictly Instrumental / Columbia / 1967
  • Doc & Richard Watson / Moody River / Third Generation Blues / Sugar Hill / 1999
  • Doc Watson & Junior Huskey / Cannonball Rag / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
  • Joe Newberry / Interview (pt. 1) / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Doc Watson featuring Merle Watson / Roll On Buddy / Doc Watson On Stage / Vanguard / 1970, 1971
  • Joe Newberry / Interview (pt. 2) / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Merle Travis / Cane Bottom Chair / Merle Travis: Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1950, 2003
  • Doc Watson & Merle Travis / First meeting of Doc Watson & Merle Travis / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
  • Doc Watson & Merle Travis / San Antonio Rose / Folk Duets / Vanguard / c. 1976, 1998
  • Hazel Dickens / Busted / Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People / Rounder / 1979
  • Phil Rosenthal / Interview (pt. 3) / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Clarence “Tom” Ashley, Doc Watson, Fred Price, & Clint Howard / Way Downtown / Country Music and Bluegrass at Newport / Vanguard / 1963
  • Phil Rosenthal / Interview (pt. 4) / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Doc Watson featuring Merle Watson / Doc’s Guitar / Doc Watson On Stage / Vanguard / 1970, 1971
  • Doc & Merle Watson / Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette / Blackberry Rag / Rounder / c. 1983, 2006
  • Kenny Baker / Done Gone / High Country / County / 1967
  • The Lilly Brothers / Sinner, You Better Get Ready / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways, Volume 2 / Smithsonian Folkways / 1961, 2005
  • Josh Graves & Kenny Baker / Deep Elm Blues / The Puritan Sessions / Rebel / 1973, 2005
  • The Bluegrass Martins / Happy on the Mississippi Shore / World of our Own / self/ 2011
  • Homer & Jethro / I Want to be Happy / Playing it Straight / Miller International / 1962, ND
  • The Hot Club of Cowtown / I Laugh when I Think I Cried over You / Tall Tales / Shout / 1999
  • Chet Atkins & Doc Watson / Black and White Rag, Ragtime Annie / Reflections / Legacy Recordings / 1980, 2011
  • Joe Newberry / Interview (pt. 3) / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Doc Watson / The Train that Carried My Girl from Town / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 1963, 2002
  • Doc Watson / Ready for the Times to Get Better / Legacy / High Windy Audio / 2002
  • Doc Watson / The Intoxicated Rat / Doc Watson / Vanguard / 1964
  • Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Pete Kirby, Junior Huskey, Randy Scruggs, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Keep on the Sunny Side / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972 Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Father’s Hall / Blake and Rice 2 / Rounder / 1990
  • Joe Newberry / Interview (pt. 4) / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Bill Monroe & Doc Watson / Banks of the Ohio / Off the Record, Volume 2, Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1970, 1993
  • Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury / Live and Let Live / Mac, Doc, & Del / Sugar Hill / 1998
  • Joe Newberry / Interview (pt. 5) / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Doc & Rosa Lee Watson / Your Long Journey / The Doc Watson Family / Smithsonian Folkways / 1963, 1990
  • Doc & Merle Watson / Below Freezing / Red Rocking Chair / Flying Fish / 1980
  • Doc Watson featuring Merle Watson / Salt River, Bill Cheatam / Doc Watson On Stage / Vanguard / 1970, 1971
  • Doc Watson / Alberta / Southbound / Vanguard / 1966
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

May 28, 2012

Memorial Day Playlist

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • The Dillards / Old Train / Best of the Darlin’ Boys / Vanguard / 1997
  • The Doug Dillard Band / Heartbreak Hotel / Flying Fish / 1988
  • The Company Store / Old Cane Press / Grand Opening / self / 2008
  • Rhonda Vincent / God Bless the Soldier / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder / 2006
  • Hank Thompson / Whoa Sailor / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1949, 2009
  • ShoreGrass / Soldier / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
  • Red June / San Juan Hill / Remember Me Well / Red June / 2010
  • The Dillards / Little Maggie / A Long Time Ago / Varese Sarabande / 1962, 1999
  • The Stairwell Sisters / Old-Time Roscoe’s Gone / The Stairwell Sisters / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2005
  • David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / I Can Hear Daddy Play the Fiddle / Two Dimes and a Nickel / Rebel / 2009
  • Robin & Linda Williams / Hardtack’s All We Eat / Stonewall Country / Red House / 2011
  • Norman Blake / Graycoat Soldiers / The Fields of November / Flying Fish / 1974
  • The Basement All-Stars / Battle Hymn of the Republic / Civil War Memories / Wango / 2005
  • The Privy Tippers / Ways of the World / Straddling the Muffin-Biscuit Line / self / 2008
  • Hank Williams / Rockin’ Chair Money / Alone with his Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000
  • Chris Brashear / Interview about Lost Soldier Son / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Chris Brashear / Lost Soldier Son / Wanderlust / Copper Creek, Dog Boy / 1999
  • Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger / Private John Q / Bowling Green / 5-String Productions / c. 1970, 2008
  • Coty Hogue / Up the Waterfall / To the West / Cello Room Productions / 2009
  • John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Goin’ Across the Sea / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
  • Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys / Missing In Action / Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley
  • Boys, The Early Days of Bluegrass, Volume 4 / Rounder / 1951, 1978
  • Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / House of Gold / Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 1957-1958 / JSP / 1958, 2009
  • The Mayfield Brothers / Pardon My Whiskers While I Kiss You Goodnight / Vintage Recordings 1948-1956/ Patuxnet Music / 1955, 2006
  • Larry Sparks / Casualty of War / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music / 2007
  • Del McCoury Band / Lonesome Truck Driver’s Blues / Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music / 2011
  • Jim Greer & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks / My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains /
  • Bluegrass In the Smokies / Rural Rhythm / c. 1966, 2008
  • Red Mountain / Bloody War / Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence / Whoop It Up! / 2009
  • Charlie Louvin & Charlie Whitstein / Make Him a Soldier / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / c.1985, 1996
  • The Knuckle Knockers / Soldier Girl / The Knuckle Knockers / self / 2010
  • Donna Ulisse / Lonesome Without You / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
  • Steve Kahn / Nothing But the Wind / Riding Out the Storm / self / 2012
  • The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Emmylou Harris / Mary Danced with Soldiers / Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2 / Geffen, MCA / 1989
  • The Country Gentlemen / Two Little Boys / Bluegrass: The World’s Greatest Show / Sugar Hill / 1987
  • The Louvin Brothers / Weapon of Prayer / The Louvin Brothers / Rounder / 1952, 1978
  • Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / North Carolina Breakdown / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren, Volume 2 / self / 2011
  • Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Prayer for Peace / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm / 2009
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

May 25, 2012

Top New Bluegrass Songs: 5/24/12 (WNHU Black Diamond Show)

In addition to submitting top new song reports to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles, we also report the Black Diamond Show playlists and actual airplay to Bluegrass Today, the FOLKDJ-L email list & folkradio.org, and Roots Music Report.

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 5/24/12

Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited (top 12) and Bluegrass Music Profiles (top 20)

  1. Darrin & Brooke Aldridge, Lonely Ends Where Love Begins
  2. April Verch, Guide Me Home
  3. Crowe Brothers, Southern Moon
  4. Jim Lauderdale, Cruel Wind and Rain
  5. The Missy Werner Band, I’d Rather Love a Memory
  6. Freeman & Williams, When Halley Came to Jackson
  7. Donna Ulisse, Let it Rain
  8. Lou Reid & Carolina, Carolina Moonshine Man
  9. Steep Canyon Rangers, Reputation
  10. Chris Brashear, Mama’s Opry
  11. Mike Scott, Aubrey Haynie, Mike Compton, Bryan Sutton & Ben Isaacs, Road to Columbus
  12. Dailey & Vincent, Living in the Kingdom of God
  13. Blue Highway, I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down
  14. Charlie Sizemore, I Don’t Remember Loving You
  15. Ronnie Bowman, The Story in your Eyes
  16. Bearfoot, Come Get Your Lonesome
  17. Dailey & Vincent, Cast Aside
  18. Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
  19. Jeanette Williams, Adam Steffey, Tina Steffey, Samantha Snyder, Zeb Snyder, Scott Freeman & Bud Snyder, Little Bird of Heaven
  20. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Ominous Anonymous

Thanks for your continued support of WNHU and traditional country music.

May 21, 2012

Playlist: 5/21 & 5/24

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Bringing in the Georgia Mail / In the Tradition / Rounder / 1987
  • Charley Pride / Kaw-Liga / The Essential Charley Pride / RCA / 1969, 1997
  • Lou Reid & Carolina / Can’t You Hear Me Calling / Live at Bean Blossom / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Wayne Hancock / Freight Train Boogie / Viper of Melody / Bloodshot / 2009
  • The Fly By Night String Band / Waldorf Reel / The Fly By Night String Band / Fretless / 1980
  • The Cockman Family / Joy Unspeakable / It Was All About Love / CF / 2009
  • Donna Ulisse / He Ain’t That / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
  • Alan Jackson / You’ve Been Lonesome, Too / The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams / Columbia / 2011
  • The Traditional Grass / Rough Edges / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel / c. 1985, 1993
  • Mike Scott et al. / Jerusalem Ridge / Instrumental Tribute to Bill Monroe / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Randall Collins / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008
  • Skaggs & Rice / Bury Me Beneath the Willow / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill / 1980
  • The Hillbenders / Another Day, Another Dollar / Down to My Last Dollar / self / 2010
  • Rayna Gellert & Friends / Willow on the Lake / Ways of the World / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2000
  • Dolly Parton and Sonya Isaacs / The Angels Rejoiced / Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’: Songs of the Louvin Brothers / Universal South / 2003
  • The Louvin Brothers / Cash on the Barrel Head / Louvin Brothers Encores / Capitol Nashville / 1956, 2007
  • John McKuen, Vassar Clements, Pete Kirby, et al / Togary Mountain / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
  • Blake, Taylor, Bush, Robins, Clements, Holland, Burns / McKinley’s Blues / Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Butch Robins, Vassar Clements, Dave Holland, Jethro Burns / Flying Fish / 1975
  • Johnny Warren & Charley Cushman / Wild Horses / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren, Volume 2 / self / 2011
  • Todd Grebe & Cold Country / Let Me Fall / Until Tomorrow / self/ 2011
  • The Morgantown Rounders / Sugar Babe / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
  • Chris Jones / Waltz of Regret / Too Far Down the Road / Little Dog / 2006
  • Rhonda Vincent / What a Woman Wants to Hear / Destination Life / Rounder / 2009
  • Hank Williams / California Zephyr / The Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1950, 2008
  • Run of the Mill String Band / Annadeene’s Waltz / Steal Aboard / Stylograph / 2005
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station / Mama Cried / Mama’s Hand, Bluegrass & Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder / 2001, 2002
  • The Bluegrass Gospel Project / Give Me Just a Little More Time / The Blue Morpho / self / 2009
  • Hot Mustard / Foggy Mountain Top / Live at Mole Hill Theater / unreleased / 2011
  • Banjo Dan & The Midnite Plowboys / Back When the Old Folks Were Young / Some Rust, Runs Good / self / 2000
  • Chris Brashear / Mama’s Opry / Heart of the Country / self / 2012 (forthcoming)
  • ShoreGrass / Back in the Days /Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
  • Phil Rosenthal / Chord Song / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009
  • String Fingers Band / Here and Now Blues / Don’t Forget / self / 2011
  • Gold Heart / Lead Me Up to Glory / Never Let Go / Gold Heart / 2008
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

May 14, 2012

Playlist for 5/14: Zach's wedding, Mother's Day, and Everett Lilly

This week's show includes tributes to my son's marriage to the lovely Ariele, tributes to Mother's Day and my mom, and a number of songs in tribute to Everett Lilly, who with his brother B, Tex Logan (fiddle), and Don Stover (banjo) really brought serious bluegrass to New England in the 1950s. (NY Times obituary). Lots of good music, including two new tracks from Amherst, MA's Chris Brashear.
  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Your Love is Like a Flower / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Sony BMG (Columbia) / 1953, 2005
  • Border Radio / Wedding Day / American Brand / Okie Pie / 2002
  • Art Stamper / Newlywed’s Rag / Goodbye Girls I’m Going to Boston / County / 2000
  • Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rounder / 2011
  • Lilly Brothers / Bring Back my Blue Eyed Boy to Me / The Early Recordings of the Lilly Brothers / County / 1956, 1970
  • Chris Brashear / Listen to Me, Mother / Heart of the Country / self / 2012 (upcoming)
  • Seldom Scene / Daddy Was a Railroad Man / Act Four / Sugar Hill / 1979
  • Larry Sparks with Alison Krauss & Dan Tyminski / John Deere Tractor / 40 / Rebel / 2005
  • Hylo Brown & The Timberliners / If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again / Classic Mountain Bluegrass / Rural Rhythm / c. 1965, 2008
  • The Orpheus Supertones / Jonah in the Windstorm / Going to Town / Mud Thumper Music / 2011
  • Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Don’t Throw Mama’s Flowers Away / The Room Over Mine / Rounder / 2008
  • The Lilly Brothers / Long Journey Home / The Early Recordings of the Lilly Brothers / County / 1956, 1970
  • Brandon Rickman / Dime Store Rings / Young Man, Old Soul / Rebel / 2009
  • Mark “Brink” Brinkman / Mama Loved the Redbirds / Bluegrass Bands Helping Hands Volume 3: Big League / Bluegrass Bands Helping Hands / 2011
  • Lefty Frizzell / Mom and Dad’s Waltz / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony / 1951, 1997
  • Akira Otsuka / Touch of Time / First Tear / Patuxnet Music / 2012
  • Jethro Burns / Kelly Boy Rag / Jethro Burns Live / Flying Fish / 1980
  • Nashville Super Pickers / Stairway to Heaven / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / 2000
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Call me up and I’ll Come Calling on You / Lonely Street / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2009
  • Berline, Crary, & Hickman / Lonesome Whistle / B C H / Sugar Hill / 1986
  • Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Lonesome Truck Driver’s Blues / Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 1951-1954 / JSP / 1951, 2009
  • Jane Rothman with Jimmy McCowan / Julianne Johnson / iFiddle, They Banjo / iFiddle / 2008
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / I Know Where Love Lives / House Down the Block / Rebel / 2003
  • Longview / I’ll Love Nobody But You / Deep in the Mountains / Rounder / 2008
  • LaTresa Smtih & the Signal / Promise You’ll Be There / Love, Babies, Jesus, and Sweet Potato Pie / Boondog / 2012
  • Donna Ulisse / Walk this Mountain Down / Walk this Mountain Down / Hadley Music Group / 2008
  • Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein /Fisher’s Hornpipe / Home from the Mills / Rebel / 2012
  • Chris Brashear / Mama’s Opry / Heart of the Country / self / 2012 (upcoming)
  • Scott Anderson / Can’t You Hear Me Calling / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
  • Crowe, Lawson, & Williams / Shake Hands with Mother Again / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
  • Eric & Suzy Thompson / Yearlings in the Canebreak, Burt Anderson / Dream Shadows / self / 2008
  • The Grass Cats / God Must Be a Cowboy / Home to Carolina / New Time / 2006
  • The Stanley Brothers / Carolina Mountain Home / The Early King & Starday Years 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1959, 2003
  • Hot Club of Cowtown / Emily / Tall Tales / HIghtone, Shout / 1999
  • The Country Gentlemen / Tomorrow’s My Wedding Day / Country Songs Old and New / Folkways / 1960, 1963
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

May 7, 2012

Playlist for 5/7 and 5/10

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • The Seldom Scene / Mama Tried / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill / 2007
  • The String Fingers Band / Has the Whole Darn World Gone Mad? / Don’t Forget / self / 2011
  • The Haints / Tupelo Blues / Shout Monah / self / 2009
  • The Hillbenders / Train Whistle / Can You Hear Me? / Mountain Fever /2012
  • The Bluegrass Martins / Don’t Laugh / World of our Own / self / 2011
  • Open Range & the Stampede Swing Band / Wild Western Plains / Swingtime in the Rockies / self / 2005
  • The Stanley Brothers / Mother Left Me Her Bible / The Early King & Starday Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1959, 2003
  • Freeman & Williams / When Halley Came to Jackson / Freeman & Williams / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2012
  • Lou Reid & Carolina / Carolina Moonshine Man / Callin’ Me Back Home / CMA / 2012
  • Honey Dewdrops / That Good Old Way / These Old Roots / self / 2010
  • Patty Loveless / You’re Through Fooling Me / The Last Notebooks of Hank Williams / Columbia / 2011
  • Del McCoury & His Dixie Pals / A Good Man Like Me / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / c. 1986, 1996
  • Mike Compton / Jimmy Fell Off the Wagon / Rotten Taters / Tater Bug Music / 2011
  • Dailey & Vincent / Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord / The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2012
  • Strung / Sin City / Band of Gypsies / Slab Town / 2009
  • Dry Branch Fire Squad / Please Mommy Please / Good Neighbors & Friends / Rounder / 1985
  • Paul Haslem / The Log Driver’s Waltz / Dulcimer Traditions / self / 1993
  • Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / I’ve Got the Railroad Blues / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
  • The Piros / Bob Walter’s Hornpipe / The Piro’s / self / 2010
  • Darin & Brooke Aldridge / I Want to be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart / So Much In Between / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2011
  • The Delmore Brothers / Peach Steel Boogie / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1948, 2009
  • Bob Walters / Woodchopper’s Breakdown / The Champion, Classic Missouri Fiddling from Dwight Lamb’s Collection / Missouri Valley Music / c. 1955, 2009
  • Patsy Montana / Little Sweetheart of the Ozarks / Cowgirl’s Best / Golden Lane / 1938, 2008
  • Steep Canyon Rangers / Ungrateful One / Nobody Knows You / Rounder / 2012
  • Jim Watson / A Vision of Mother / This World Would be all Sunshine / Barker / 2008
  • Travers Chandler & Avery County / Mother’s Prayers Were not in Vain / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
  • Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Florida Blues / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren, Volume 2/ self / 2011
  • Scott Anderson / Folsom Prison Blues / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
  • The Grascals / Hello Mr. Lonesome / Life Finds a Way / Crossroads / 2012
  • Hank Williams / Tennessee Border / The Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1950, 2008
  • Honey Dewdrops / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
  • Honey Dewdrops / Can’t You Hear Me Calling / Victor Hall, Scottsville, VA / unreleased / 2008
  • Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 1950-1951 / JSP / 1950, 2009
  • The Stairwell Sisters / Get Off Your Money / Get Off Your Money / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2008
  • Acoustic Blue / Don’t Tell Mama / This is Now / self / 2009
  • Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Sony BMG (Columbia) / 1955, 2005
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme