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