March 26, 2013

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 3/25/13

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Dailey and Vincent / Steel Drivin' Man / Brothers of the Highway / Rounder / 2013 (Forthcoming)
  • Lauren Sheehan / The Memory of Your Smile / Rose City Ramble / self / 2011
  • Johnny Cash / The Long Black Veil / Live from Austin, TX / New West / 1987, 2007
  • Akira Otsuka / Long Black Jacket / First Tear / Patuxnet Music / 2012
  • The Stanley Brothers / The Memory of Your Smile / The Early King and Starday Years / Gusto / 1958, 2003
  • Curtis Burch / Black Ridge Ramble / Southern Filibuster: A Tribute to Tut Taylor / E1 Music / 2010
  • Pharis and Jason Romero / Out on the Western Plains / A Passing Glimpse / Lula / 2011
  • Kathy Mattea / A Far Cry / Calling Me Home / Sugar Hill / 2012
  • The Steeldrivers / Wearin' a Hole / Hammer Down / Rounder / 2013
  • Junior Brown / My Wife Thinks You're Dead / Guit With It / Curb / 1993
  • Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys / Poison Love / Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys: 1950-1951 / JSP / 1951, 2009
  • Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers / A Blue Million Tears / They're Playing My Song / Rebel / 2012
  • Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers / Come On / Hymns from the Hills / Rebel / 2010
  • Mike Compton / Hallie's Hornpipe / Rotten Taters / Tater Bug Music / 2011
  • Kenny and Amanda Smith / Never Win Again / House Down the Block / Rebel / 2003
  • Della Mae / Empire / This World Oft Can Be / Rounder / 2013 (forthcoming)
  • The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters / Roscoe / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
  • Jack White / You Know that I Know / The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams / Columbia / 2011
  • Teddy Thompson / Touching Home / Up Front and Down Low / Verve / 2007
  • The Delmore Brothers / Brown's Ferry Blues / The Delmore Brothers: Chicago 1933, New Orleans, 1935 / JSP / 1933, 2004
  • The Delmore Brothers / Brown's Ferry Blues Part 2 / The Delmore Brothers: Chicago 1933, New Orleans, 1935 / JSP / 1935, 2004
  • Mariel Vandersteel / Flannery's Dream / Hickory / self / 2012
  • The Bluegrass Album Band / Cheyenne / Tony Rice: The Bill Monroe Collection / Rounder / 1984, 2012
  • Jane Rothfield with Dan Rublee, banjo, and Joe Dejarnette, bass / Boys Them Buzzards are Flying / iFiddle They Banjo / iFiddle Recordings / 2008
  • Johnny Warren and Charlie Cushman / Smith's Rag / A Tribute to Fiddlin' Paul Warren, Volume 2 / Warren-Cushman / 2011
  • Blackstone Valley Bluegrass / The Farmer / Momma's Flowers: My Bluegrass Collection By Myrna D. Riquier / Natchaug Music / 2011
  • Bob Amos / Seen It All / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone / 2012
  • The South Carolina Broadcasters / Can You Hear Me Now? / Can You Hear Me Now? / Flaming Heart / 2012
  • Robin and Linda Williams / Let Us Cross Over the River / Stonewall Country / Red House / 2011
  • Scott Anderson / The One / Rivers / Mato / 2001
  • The Morgantown Rounders / Policeman / The Morgantown Ramblers / Banjos for Peace / 2006
  • Donna Ulisse / He Ain't That / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2007
  • John Reischman and the Jaybirds / Holy Jump Up / Field Guide / Corvus / 2002
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

March 24, 2013

Top New Bluegrass Songs: Reported March 24, 2013

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 3/24/13

Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited

This month, I'm making a predictive vote: The single from the upcoming Dailey and Vincent album due out in May is gonna be a big hit. Like, if I drop my pen it will fall. I'm not claiming that Dailey and Vincent are a force of nature like unto gravity, but their new album, Brothers of the Highway, is likely to be one of the biggest sellers during the 2013 festival season.

There are still a ton of great songs out there. This month, I started off with about 35 songs on my list of nominees. It took me quite a time to listen and juggle things to get it whittled down to a top 12. The more I listen to the Danny Paisley, Steeldrivers, Mark Houser, Kenny and Amanda Smith, and Joe Mullins records, the harder it is for me to pick out a favorite track! And I obviously liked the new song from Rhonda Vincent. And there's more great music coming this spring and summer!

  1. Dailey & Vincent, Steel Drivin' Man
  2. Rhonda Vincent, I'd Rather Hear I Don't Love You (Than Nothing At All)
  3. Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive, John the Baptist
  4. The Steeldrivers, Wearin' a Hole
  5. Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass, I Been Walkin'
  6. Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers, She Left Me Standing on the Mountain
  7. Bob Amos, Where the Wild River Rolls
  8. The Hillbenders, Train Whistle
  9. Chris Brashear, Mama's Opry
  10. The Steep Canyon Rangers, Nobody Knows You
  11. Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers, A Blue Million Tears
  12. Kenny and Amanda Smith, Catch me if I Try

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.

March 18, 2013

Black Diamond Show Playlist 3/18/13 WNHU

  • Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
  • Ricky Wasson / Old John Burns / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm / 2013
  • Big Medicine / Dunbar / Pine to Pine / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
  • Hank Williams / Cold, Cold Heart / Hank Williams: Lost Concerts / Time-Life / 1952, 2012
  • Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers / Moses, Set My People Free / They're Playing My Song / Rebel / 2012
  • The Stanley Brothers / The Jealous Lover / Earliest Recordings: The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s / Rounder / 1948, 2004
  • Kentucky Wild Horse / Richmond Blues / Spirits of the Lonesome Hills / self / 2006
  • Troublesome Creek / Gypsy Davy / Fast as Time Can Take Me / County / 2006
  • Alison Krauss and Union Station / Dimming of the Day / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
  • Wayne Hancock / Ride / Ride / Bloodshot / 2013
  • Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass / My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You / Road Into Town / Patuxnet Music / 2012
  • Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers / Harvest Moon Blues / Starlight Hotel / Signature Sounds / 2011
  • The Louvin Brothers / Are You Afraid to Die? / Satan is Real, Handpicked Songs / Light in the Attic, Capitol / 1958, 2011
  • Audie Blaylock and Redline / Newton's Grove / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm / 2012
  • Kathy Mattea / Gone, Gonna Rise Again / Calling Me Home / Sugar Hill / 2012
  • Pharis and Jason Romero / Lost Lula / Long Gone Out West Blues / Lula / 2013
  • Wendy Crowe / Muddy River / The Way I Am / Ante Flow / 2012
  • Bob Black / Little Black Moustache / Ladies on the Steamboat / Green Valley / 1979, 2005
  • The Honey Dewdrops / One Kind Word / Silver Lining / self / 2012
  • Cecil Surratt and His West Virginia Ramblers / The Bright Crystal Sea / Bluegrass Early Cuts: 1931-1953 / JSP / 1951, 2004
  • Crowe, Lawson, and Williams / Give Me Your Hand / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home / 2010
  • The Time Jumpers / Someone Had to Teach You / The Time Jumpers / Rounder / 2012
  • The Steeldrivers / Hell on Wheels / Hammer Down / Rounder / 2013
  • Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys / I Hope You Have Learned / Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys 1951-1954 / JSP / 1953, 2009
  • Jussi Syren and the Groundbreakers / Some old side Road / Sea of Changes / Bluelight / 2004
  • Detour / Wind in the Willows / A Better Place / Bluegrass Ahead / 2012
  • Jerry Douglas with Alison Krause / I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / Now That I've Found You: A Collection / Rounder / 1992, 1995
  • Chris Brashear / How Could I Explain / Heart of the Country / Dog Boy / 2012
  • The Foghorn Stringband / Fine Time at Our House / Rattlesnake Tidal Wave / self / 2002
  • Steve Spurgin / Long Gone / Folk Remedies / Blue Night / 2012
  • Dubl Handi / C'mon Buddy / Up like the Clouds / self / 2012
  • Kickin' Grass Band / Sugar / Walk With Me / Superfan / 2012
  • Blue Highway / I Ain't Gonna Lay My Hammer Down / Sounds of Home / Rounder / 2011
  • Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme