Close Kin (and playlist for 3/26 & 3/29)

Before we get to this week's playlist, I want to highlight a CD that I learned about recently and from which we played a track last week. In fact, we got an Internet request to play another track this week! So, of course we did. The CD is called Close Kin, and was released late last year on Mountain Roads Recordings.

I love the project because it consists of bluegrass and old-time musicians collaborating on a great set of tunes and songs, proving that indeed the styles of traditional country music work well together. Here's an excerpt of the Mountain Roads Recordings' description of the project:

The Appalachian Highlands region of Northeast Tennessee, Northwestern North Carolina, Southwestern Virginia and Eastern Kentucky is home to the origins of both bluegrass and old-time string band music. This music has been enjoyed for generations in kitchens and back porches, school auditoriums and music festivals and venues. Many times bluegrass and old-time artists can be heard jamming off stage at festivals before or after shows or even late into the night after the crowds have gone home. Amazing sounds are created when these styles are blended together as their heritage intended and rarely heard by the fans. Close Kin brings these sounds to the fans. Close Kin, produced by award winning songwriter/singer Johnny Williams, features superb arrangements and vocal and instrumental combinations of 16 songs performed by such great artists as

• Adam & Tina Steffey (The Boxcars & The Grayson Highlands String Band)
• Johnny & Jeanette Williams (Freeman & Williams; The Jeanette Williams Band)
• Scott & Mark Freeman (Freeman & Williams, Siamese Cousins, Pathway)
• Mickey Galyean, Brad Hiatt & Jordon Blevins (Mickey Galyean & Cullen’s Bridge)
• Greg Jones & Jay Adams (Rich In Tradition)
• Bud, Zeb, Samantha & Laine Snyder (The Snyder Family Band)
• Dale Morris & Jerry Correll (Wolfe Bros String Band)
• Edwin Lacy (Skeeter and the Skidmarks; Siamese Cousins)
• Eddie Bond (The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters)
• Jim Lloyd & Trevor McKenzie (Jim Lloyd and the Skyliners)
• Brian Grimm (The Konnarock Kritters)
• Trish Kilby Fore (Fox Creek Ramblers)
• Tiffany (Hurt) Lowery (Wheeler)
• Tim White, Dave Vaught & “Fat Albert” Blackburn (The VW Boys)
• Wesley Easter (Eastwood Studio)
• Rebecca Jones (Travis Frye & Blue Mountain)

It's a great project. Check it out. On to the playlist. Thanks for your support of WNHU and of the entire spectrum of traditional country music.

• Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Lonely Street / Lonely Street / Rounder / 2009
• Darrin & Brooke Aldridge / Lonely Ends Where Love Begins / So Much In Between / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2011
• Robin & Linda Williams / Going, Going, Gone / Buena Vista / Red House / 2008
• The Grascals / Eleven Eleven / Life Finds a Way / Crossroads / 2012
• Chris Brashear / Put My Little Shoes Away / Wanderlust / self / 1999
• April Verch / Guide Me Home / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
• Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / On My Mind / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Sony BMG / 1955, 2005
• Mariel Vandersteel / Flannery’s Dream / Hickory / self / 2012
• David Peterson & 1946 / A Good Woman’s Love / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
• John McCutcheon / Forked Deer / Barefoot Boy With Boots On / Rounder / 1980
• Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys / The New Green Light / Vintage Collections / Capitol Nashville / 1954, 1996
• The Stanley Brothers / I Saw the Light / The Early King & Starday Years / Gusto / 1960, 2003
• The Missy Werner Band / Snowbird / Drifting and Dreaming / self / 2009
• Moon Mullican / Ragged But Right / Super Hits / Gusto / 1961, 2005
• Freeman & Williams / Wrong Road Again / Freeman & Williams / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2012
• Riley Puckett / Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Music Pioneer / JSP / 1935, 2011 / 2nd version Puckett recorded (1934, released 1935). He had also recorded it in 1924.
• Don Stover / White Oak Breakdown / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1971, 1987
• Shoregrass / Soldier / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
• Audie Blaylock & Redline / You’ll Find Her Name Written There / I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky A Bill Monroe Celebration / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls of Time / Walls of Time / Rounder / 1981, 1982
• Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / My Little Georgia Rose / Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 1954-1957 / JSP / 1954, 2009
• Donna Ulisse / I’m Calling Heaven Down / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Wayne Hancock / Sands of Time / A-Town Blues / Bloodshot / 2001
• The Gibson Brothers (with Ricky Skaggs) / Singing As We Rise / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• The Delmore Brothers / I Let the Freight Train Carry Me On / Crazy Heart (Original Soundtrack) / New West / 1950, 2010
• The Freight Hoppers / Hell Bound for Alabama / Mile Marker / Bake Tone / 2010
• The Grass Cats / Detour / A Good Way to Get the Blues / New Time / 2009
• Hot Mustard / Let Me Walk Lord By Your Side / Live at the Mole Hill Theater, Alstead, NH / unreleased / 2011
• Jerry Correll et al. / Old Horse & Buggy / Close Kin / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
• The Wolfe Bros. / Honey I’m Rambling Away / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
• Big Country Bluegrass / Yesterday I Didn’t Know / The Boys in Hats & Ties / Rebel / 2010
• Jimmy Martin et al. / My Walking Shoes / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
• Phil Rosenthal / Arkansas Traveler / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009
• Leon’s Lone Star Cowboys / Angry / Western Swing Chronicles Volume 2, Leon Chappelear / Origin Jazz Library / c. 1935, 2002
• Charlie Sizemore Band / Mama Turn Aloosa My Soul / Good News / Rounder / 2007
• Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands / How Old Are You, My Pretty Little Miss? / MerleFest Live / FestivaLink / 2010
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme