January 31, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 1/30 & 2/2

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • 23 String Band / Deer Tick / Catch 23 / self / 2011
  • Coty Hogue / Going to the West / To the West / Cello Room / 2009
  • Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice / Train Without a Track / Heartaches & Dreams / Rebel / 2010
  • Sarah Jarosz / Fischer Store Road / Song up in her Head / Sugar Hill / 2009
  • Carolina Road / Sharecropper’s Son / Back to my Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • The Orpheus Supertones / Going to Town / Going to Town / Mudthumper Music / 2011
  • April Verch / Guide Me Home / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
  • Hank Williams / There’ll be no Teardrops Tonight / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007
  • The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2010
  • Bluegrass Album Band / One Tear / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1982, 1986
  • Carl Smith / If Teardrops were Pennies / The Essential Carl Smith, 1950-1956 / Columbia / 1951, 1991
  • The Missy Werner Band / Blue Skies & Teardrops / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
  • The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Teardrops in my Eyes / The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Rounder / 1956, 1977
  • ShoreGrass / Glorious Day / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
  • The Freight Hoppers / Cornbread, Molasses, & Sassafras Tea / Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go? / Rounder / 1996
  • The Gibson Brothers / I Know Whose Tears / Ring the Bell / Compass / 2009
  • Lefty Frizzell / My Rough and Rowdy Ways / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony BMG (Columbia) / 1951, 1997
  • Newfound Road / Damascus Road / Newfound Road / Mountain Home Music / 2002
  • Kentucky Wild Horse / Boatin’ Up Sandy / Spirits of the Lonesome Hills / self / 2006
  • Joe Mullin & The Radio Ramblers / Fair Weather / Hymns from the Hills / Rebel / 2010
  • Chris Stuart / Elvis Stays Home / Angels of Mineral Springs / Backcountry Music / 2002 / What would have happened if Elvis had stayed home?
  • Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Dirty Dishes Blues / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP / 1950, 2004
  • Tim O’Brien / Gonna Try to Make her Stay / Chicken & Egg / Howdy Skies / 2010
  • Ronnie Bowman / Left This Country Boy (Sittin’ All Alone) / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1998, 2009
  • Laurie Lewis / You’ll be Leaving Me / True Stories / Rounder / 1992
  • Chance McCoy & the Appalachian String Band / Rocky Road to Dublin / Chance McCoy & the Appalachian String Band / Appalachian Music Group / 2008
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
  • Big Medicine / Black Jack Grove / Too Old to be Controlled / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2002
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / A Great Big Hand Reaching Down / Tell Someone / Rebel / 2005
  • Cahelen Morrison & Eli West / Since You Took Your Leave / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
  • The Hot Club of Cowtown / Time Changes Everything / What Makes Bob Holler? / Proper / 2011
  • The Stanley Brothers / Carolina Mountain Home / The Early King and Starday Years / Gusto / 1959, 2003
  • The Prairie Acre / Rock That Cradle / Jaybird and the Sparrowhawk / self / 2007
  • Larry Sparks / Momma’s Apron Strings / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
  • Red Smiley & The Bluegrass Cut-ups / Little Maggie / Classic Mountain Bluegrass / Rural Rhythm / c. 1962, 2008
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

January 24, 2012

Top 12 New Bluegrass Songs as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited (1/22/12)

Top 12 Newer Bluegrass Songs For the period ending 1/22/12
as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited by
The Black Diamond Show
WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT
  1. Blue Highway, I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down
  2. Crowe Brothers, Southern Moon
  3. Charlie Sizemore, I Don’t Remember Loving You
  4. The Missy Werner Band, I’d Rather Love a Memory
  5. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Ominous Anonymous
  6. Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
  7. Bearfoot, Come Get Your Lonesome
  8. Donna Ulisse, Let it Rain
  9. April Verch, Durang’s Hornpipe
  10. Del McCoury Band, My Rose of Old Kentucky
  11. John Reischman & The Jaybirds, Consider Me Gone
  12. Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers, Final Farewell
In addition to submitting reports to Bluegrass Unlimited, we also report the Black Diamond Show playlists to Bluegrass Today and FOLKDJ-L/folkradio.org.

January 23, 2012

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 1/23 & 1/26

If you missed the show on Monday, you can catch a repeat on the WNHU2 streat at wnhu.net on Thursday at 6pm. Here's the playlist!
  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Ralph Stanley / Shady Grove / Old-Time Pickin’, A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel / c. 1971, 2008
  • Lonesome River Band / Footprints in the Snow / Live at Bean Blossom / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Steve Spurgin / Run Away Home / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
  • Grandpa Jones Family / Autoharp Concerto / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / unknown, 2000 / If anyone knows when this was recorded, please email me at mandorichard@yahoo.com. Thanks!
  • The Privy Tippers / Accordion Crimes, Ichabod’s Last Ride / Straddling the Muffin-Biscuit Line / self / 2008
  • Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / He Loves Me / Hymns from the Hills / Rebel / 2010
  • Jim & Jesse / Paradise / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / c. 1990, 2000
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Cruel Willie / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008
  • Norman Blake / Devil Chased Me Around the Stump / The Rising Fawn String Ensemble / Rounder / 1979 / with James Bryan, fiddle, and Nancy Blake, ‘cello
  • Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers / Last Nail / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
  • Tommy Duncan / Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1949, 2009
  • The Fly By Night String Band / Boys, The Buzzards Are Flying / The Fly By Night String Band / Fretless / 1980
  • The Dillards / She Sang Hymns out of Tune / Wheatstraw Suite / Collector’s Choice / 1968, 2002
  • The Mayfield Brothers / Just a Little Talk with Jesus / Vintage Recordings, 1948-1956 / Patuxnet Music / 1950, 2006
  • Notorious / Hangman’s Reel / Road to Damascus / Black Socks Press / 2010
  • Dailey & Vincent / Poor Boy Workin’ Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
  • The Missy Werner Band / Let It Go / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
  • Bill Monroe / Time Changes Everything / Anthology / MCA / 1960, 2003
  • Bluegrass Album Band / Cheyenne / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1984, 1986
  • The Foghorn String Band / Danville Girl / Reap What You Sow / self / 2004
  • Dale Ann Bradley with Alison Krauss & Steve Gulley / I’ll Take Love / I’ll Take Love, Songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
  • Red Molly / Troubled Mind / James / self / 2010
  • J.D. Crowe & The New South / Ten Degrees / J.D. Crowe & The New South / Rounder / 1974
  • Bill Emerson / Ride It Out / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Hedy West / Pans of Biscuits / Hedy West, Volume 2 / Vanguard / 1964
  • The New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / The West Virginia Highway / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
  • New Coon Creek Girls / Palms of Victory / Everything You Do / Pinecastle / 1996
  • Larry Sparks & Rhonda Vincent / 1 800-Do-U-Care / 40 / Rebel / 2005
  • Clark Kessinger / Whistlin’ Rufus / World Champion Fiddler / Triagle Far / 1968, 2003
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Monroe’s Mandolin / Lonelye Street / Rounder / 2010
  • Red Hen Stringband / Cluck Old Hen / Birds of a Feather / Wepecket Island / 2011
  • Robin & Linda Williams / Maybelle’s Guitar & Monroe’s Mandolin / Buena Vista / Red House / 2008
  • Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Pete “Brother Oswald” Kirby, Earl Scruggs, Junior Huskey, & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Keep on the Sunny Side / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
  • Audie Blaylock & Redline / Out in the Cold World / I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky, A Bill Monroe Celebration / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Jonathan Byrd / Cackalack / Cackalack / Waterbug / 2011
  • Merle Haggard / I’ll Break Out Again Tonight / If We Make It Through December / Capital / 1974, 2010
  • Reed Island Rounders / Jenny on the Railroad / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf / 2006

Playlist for 1/16 & 1/19

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
  • Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice / A Far Cry from Lester & Earl / The Heart of a Song / Rebel / 2011
  • The Stanley Brothers / Highway of Regret / The Early King & Starday Years / Gusto / 1959, 2003
  • Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / A Pain in My Heart / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury / 1958, 2003
  • Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010
  • Jack Rivers / Dear Oakie / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1948, 2009
  • Claire Milliner & Walt Koken / Old Billy Hell / Just Tunes / Mudthumper Music / 2003
  • The Traditional Grass / Broken Hearts Keep Beatin’ / Songs of Love and Life / Rebel / 1995
  • Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / Satisfied / Satisfied / Rebel / 2011
  • Robin & Linda Williams / Southern Shores / Buena Vista / Red House / 2008
  • Lonesome River Band / I’m Still Learning / Still Learning / Rural Rhythm / 2010
  • Brandon Rickman / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
  • Brandon Rickman / Dime Store Rings / Young Man, Old Soul / Rebel / 2009
  • Brandon Rickman / Rest for His Workers / Young Man, Old Soul / Rebel / 2009
  • Brandon Rickman / Always Have Always Will / Young Man, Old Soul / Rebel / 2009
  • Todd Grebe & Cold Country / Must Be Hard Being You / Until Tomorrow / self / 2011
  • The Bluegrass Martins / Happy on the Mississippi Shore / World of our Own / self / 2011
  • Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers / Final Farewell / single / Rebel / 2011
  • David Grisman Quintet / E.M.D. / David Grisman Quintet / Kaleidoscope / 1976
  • Carolina Road / This World is not my Home / Live at Bean Blossom / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Yankee Ingenuity / Been to the East, 17 Days in Georgia / Heating Up the Hall / Varrick / 1989
  • The Grass Cats / I Shot the Sheriff / A Good Way to Get the Blues / New Time / 2009
  • The Grascals / Dooley / Dance Til Your Stockings Are Hot and Ravelin’ / Saguaro / 2011
  • Art Stamper / Newlywed’s Reel / Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston / County / 2000
  • The Wilders with Jim Lauderdale / Cotton Eyed Joe / MerleFest Live / FestivaLink / 2010
  • Gene and Gayla Mills / Bright Blue Eyes / If Stones Could Talk / Heart Pine / 2011
  • Charlie Waller & The Country Gentlemen / Catfish John / 45 Years of Memories / Pinecastle / 1973, 2009
  • Del McCoury Band / My Rose of Old Kentucky / Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music / 2011
  • Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Letter From My Darlin’ / The High Lonesome Sound of Bill Monroe / MCA / 1951, 1973
  • The Percolators / Cowboy’s Dream / Alive in Prague! / Yodel-Ay-Hee/ 2004
  • Border Radio / Playin’ Cowboys / Americana Brand / Okie Pie / 2002
  • Claire Lynch / If Wishes Were Horses / Bluegrass Hits, Twenty Timeless Favorites from Yesterday and Today / Rounder / 1997, 2005
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

January 12, 2012

Black Diamond Show Playlist; 1/9 & 1/12

Don't forget to check our listing of CT concerts and events.

If you miss hearing the show at Monday lunch time, it will repeat on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net on Thursday 6-8pm.

Here's this week's playlist! Thanks for your support!

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Charlie Sizemore / Going to Georgia / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
  • Coty Hogue / Sugar Moon / To the West / Cello Room Productions / 2009
  • Joel Mabus / Ebenezer / American Anonymous / Fossil / 2011
  • The Stanley Brothers / Four Books in the Bible / The Early King and Starday Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1959, 2003
  • Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Still Water Runs the Deepest / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1947, 2006
  • Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
  • Bearfoot / Eyes Cast Down / American Story / Compass / 2011
  • Reed Island Rounders / Sally in the Garden / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf / 2006
  • Carolina Road / The Hills of Home / Back to My Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Blue Highway / Only Seventeen / Sounds of Home / Rounder / 2011
  • April Verch / Reels Talousse et Lindbergh / Steal the Blue / Slab Town / 2008
  • Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Cry Lonesome Dove / It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Day / Raincoe Music / 2011
  • The Bluegrass Martins / Don’t Laugh / World of Our Own / self / 2011
  • The Louvin Brothers / Let Us Travel On / Rounder Old Time Music / Rounder / c. 1964, 1987
  • Brad Leftwich & The Hogwire String Band / Rabbit in the Lowland / Rascal Fair / Dark Train / 2011
  • The Hillbenders / Blueridge Cutoff / Down to My Last Dollar / self /2010
  • The Stanley Brothers / Drunken Driver / The Early King & Starday Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1961, 2003
  • Todd Grebe & Cold Country / No Whiskey For Me / Until Tomorrow / self /2011
  • The Georgia Mudcats / Barefoot in the Hen House / Barefoot in the Hen House and Other Southern Delights / self / 2011
  • Jim Lauderdale / Cruel Wind and Rain / Reason and Rhyme: Bluegrass Songs by Robert Hunter & Jim Lauderdale / Sugar Hill / 2011
  • Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Over There / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren / self / 2009
  • Donna Ulisse / Black Snake / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
  • Hank Williams / I Just Don’t Like This Kind of Living / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1950, 2009
  • Del McCoury Band / Used To Be / Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music / 2011
  • Audie Blaylock & Redline / Mighty Dark to Travel / I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • The Monroe Brothers / God Holds the Future in His Hands / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1936, 1975
  • Bill Clifton / Paddy on the Tunrpike / The Early Years / Rounder / 1957, 2011
  • Scott Anderson / Sorry Song Number 47 / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
  • Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Tall Pines / Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Rounder / 1999
  • Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / She’s On My Mind / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
  • Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / We’ll Go Home Together (On the Cloud) / Satisfied / Rebel / 2011
  • Ronnie Bowman / The Story in Your Eyes / Moody Bluegrass Two… Much Love / Bunny Rae / 2011
  • Ricky Skaggs / I Wouldn’t Change You if I Could / Highways & Heartaches / Epic / 1982
  • Jim Eanes & His Shenandoah Valley Boys / Florida Blues / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP / 1951, 2004
  • Frank Solivan / Salad Bowl / I am a Rambler / Fiddlemon Music / 2005
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

January 2, 2012

First Playlist of 2012! New repeat broadcast time

Welcome to 2012! Remember that starting this week, the repeat playing of the Black Diamond Show is Thursday 6-8pm ET. So if you missed this show at lunch time on Monday, you can enjoy it with your dinner on Thursday!

Current air times:
Mondays noon-2pm ET on WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT, and on the WNHU stream at www.wnhu.net
Thursdays 6-8pm on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net.

Here's this week's playlist. Thanks for your support!

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Crowe Brothers / Southern Moon / Bridging the Gap / Rural Rhythm / 2011
  • Blue Sky Boys / Sunny Side of Life / The Very Best of The Blue Sky Boys / Master Classics / c. 1950, 2009
  • The Gibson Brothers / I’ll Love Nobody But You / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
  • The Delmore Brothers / She Left Me Standing on the Mountain / Sand Mountain Blues / County / 1946, 1995
  • Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / My Aching Heart / The Best of Bluegrass, Volume 1 / Mercury Nashville / 1956, 1994
  • The Louvin Brothers / I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby / All-Time Country Hits / K-Tel / 1955, 1963
  • The Gillis Brothers / New River Train / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1992, 2000
  • The Quebe Sisters / Shame on You / Timeless / Fiddletone / 2007
  • The Hatton Brothers / Wish I Had My Time Again / Kentucky Mountain Music, Part 3 / Yazoo / 1933, 2003
  • The O’Kanes / Can’t Stop My Heart From Loving You / The O’Kanes / Columbia / 1986
  • Red Hen Stringband / Cluck Old Hen / Birds of a Feather / Wepecket Island / 2011
  • Steve Martin / Daddy Played the Banjo / The Crow: New Songs for Five-String Banjo / Rounder / 2009 / co-written with Gary Scruggs, performed with Gary Scruggs (guitar), Earl Scruggs, (banjo) Tim O’Brien (vocal), Stuart Duncan & Craig Eastman (fiddle), Jerry Douglas (dobro), John McEuen (mandolin), Skip Ward (bass)
  • Leon Mcauliffe / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1950, 2009
  • The Missy Werner Band / I’d Rather Love a Memory / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
  • Mountain Heart / Ramblin’ Heart / No Other Way / Skaggs Family / 2007
  • The Morgantown Rounders / Sugar Babe / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
  • Donna Ulisse / Caney Creek to Canaan Land / Holy Water / Hadley Music Group / 2010
  • The Johnson Mountain Boys / Mend This Heart of Mine / Walls of Time / Rounder / 1982
  • Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Country Waltz / Bill Monroe / unknown European import / 1951, c. 1974
  • Dailey & Vincent / By the Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
  • Mark Tamsula & Richard Withers / Black Eyed Susie / Up in the Batten House / Snappin’ Bug / 2011
  • Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Take Me Back to Tulsa / The Essential Bob Wills, 1935-1947 / Bairele / 1935, 2007
  • Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / I’ll Love Nobody But You / In The Tradition / Rounder / 1986
  • Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / These Old Prison Bars / Canyoneers / Dog Boy / 2003
  • Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Ominous Anonymous / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
  • The Stanley Brothers / East Virginia Blues / Long Journey Home: The Stanley Brothers of Virginia, Volume 2 / County / 1964, 1973
  • Kenny Baker & Joe Greene / Live & Let Live / High Country / County / 1967, 1968
  • Scott Anderson / Drivin’, Singin’, Cryin’ / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
  • John Reischman & The Jaybirds / The First Whippoorwill / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
  • Brandon Rickman / I Bought Her a Dog / Young Man, Old Soul / Rural Rhythm / 2009
  • Vishten / Reel du Perdu / Vishten Live / Sandbar Music / 2008
  • Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Foggy Mountain Breakdown / The Complete Mercury Sessions / Mercury / 1958, 2003
  • Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers / Just Loving You / Ramblin’ Bluegrass / Starday / 1972
  • Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals / High on a Mountain / High on a Mountain / Rounder / 1972
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / One of These Days / Help Is On The Way / Horizon / 2008
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme