- Artist / Song / Album
- Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life
- Rhonda Vincent / God Bless the Soldier / All American Bluegrass Girl
- Jim and Jesse / Purple Heart (1952) / Best of the Early Years
- French Carpenter / Camp Chase / Back Roads to Cold Mountain
- ShoreGrass / Soldier / Going Home
- Bradley Walker / Last Day at Vicksburg / God Didn't Choose Sides: Civil War stories about real people
- Mac Wiseman / Boys in Blue / Civil War Memories
- Red Mountain / Bloody War / Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence
- Jimmy Rodgers / The Soldier's Sweetheart (1927) / Bristol Sessions, Volume 1
- Kagey Parrish (Honey Dewdrops) / Interview / WNHU
- Honey Dewdrops / Don't Leave Me Here / If The Sun Will Shine
- Honey Dewdrops / Nobody In This World / These Old Roots
- Honey Dewdrops / Silver Lining / Silver Lining
- Honey Dewdrops / Bright Morning Stars / Silver Lining
- Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys / Dear Old Dixie (1952) / Foggy Mountain Jamboree
- Charlie Louvin / There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / The Battle Rages On
- Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass / Soldier's Joy / Civil War Memories
- Jim Eanes and the Shenandoah Valley Boys / Missing in Action (1951) / Jim Eanes and the Shenandoah Valley Boys: The early days of bluegrass
- Chris Brashear / Lost Soldier Son / Wanderlust
- Robin Williams / The War's Gone Bad on Us / Robin and Linda Williams: Stonewall Country
- Scott Vestal, et al. / When Johnny Comes Marching Home / More Ultimate Pickin'
- Robin and Linda Williams / Let Us Cross Over the River / Stonewall Country
- Della Mae / Pinetree / The World Oft Can Be /
- Harold Hausenfluck and Dallas Mullens / Crooked Fork / Bluegrass 78s and 45s, Volume 14
- Ernest Tubb / Don't Trade Your Old-Fashioned Sweetheart (for a Honky-Tonk) / The Singer, The Writer, The Country Pioneer
- Buzz Busby / Me and the Jukebox (Rebel single) / Bluegrass 78s and 45s, Volume 11
- The Carper Family / Old-Fashioned Gal / Old-Fashioned Gal
- The Quebe Sister Band / Shame on You / Timeless
- Critton Hollow String Band / Irina's Waltz / The Dulcimer Collection
- Marty Raybon / God Didn't Choose Sides / God Didn't Choose Sides: Civil War stories about real people
- Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life
Mondays, noon - 2:00 pm ET, Mandorichard plays bluegrass, old-time, and western swing on WNHU, broadcasting from the University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, at 88.7 FM and on the WNHU stream at www.wnhu.net. The show usually repeats online Thursdays, 10pm-midnight ET, on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net.
May 27, 2013
Playlist: 5/27/13
May 25, 2013
Top 12 Bluegrass Songs: 5/25/13
Top Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 5/25/13
Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited
This month, I'm voting for songs I like best at the top, and dropping my predictive vote for Dailey and Vincent's Steel Drivin' Man down to number 9.
There are still a ton of great songs out there.
- Sutton, Holt, & Coleman: Ready for the Times to Get Better
- Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers: She Left Me Standing on the Mountain
- Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive: John the Baptist
- Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass: I Been Walkin'
- Della Mae: Empire
- The Gibson Brothers: They Called It Music
- The Steel Drivers: Wearin' a Hole
- The Spinney Brothers: Memories
- Dailey and Vincent: Steel Drivin' Man
- The Boxcars: Coal Miner's Blues
- Flatt Lonesome: Draggin' My Heart Around
- The Hillbenders: Train Whistle
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.
May 20, 2013
Playlist: 5/20/13
- Artist / Song / Album
- Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life
- The Gibson Brothers / Sundown and Sorrow / They Called it Music
- Donna Ulisse / Shady Glen / An Easy Climb
- The Primitive Quartet / He Included Me / Single: He Included Me
- Willie Nelson and Family / Nuages / Let's Face the Music and Dance
- Evie Ladin Band / Sleepy Eyed Joe / Evie Laden Band
- Dry Branch Fire Squad / Please, Mommy, Please / Good Neighbors and Friends
- Walt Koken / Frankie and Albert / Sitting in the Catbird's Seat
- J.D. Crowe and the New South / I'm Walkin' (1974) / J.D. Crowe and the New South
- The Boxcars / The Devil Held the Gun / It's Just a Road
- Red Tail Ring / My Heart's Own Love / The Heart's Swift Foot
- The Western Swing Authority / One of us is Lying / All Dolled Up
- Red Allen / Plant some Flowers by my Graveside / Keep on Going: The Rebel and Melodeon Recordings
- Bigfoot / Chase the Squirrel / I've got a Bulldog
- Long Road Home / Headed Back to Dixieland / Headed Back to Dixieland (EP)
- Blue Moon Rising / Freight Train / One Lonely Shadow
- Frank Wakefield and Buster Turner / You're the one I see in my Dreams (1950) / Bluegrass Early Cuts: 1931-1953
- Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen / Ominous Anonymous / Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen
- Buck Owens and Rose Maddox / Mental Cruelty / The Buck Owens Story, Volume 1: 1956-1964
- Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters / Bb Polka / Phoenix
- The Special Consensus / I Can't Sit Down / 25th Anniversary
- O'Brien Party of Seven / You're My Kingdom / Reincarnation: The songs of Roger Miller
- Steve Spurgin / The Wall Came Tumbling Down / Folk Remedies
- The Hillbenders / Clutch / Can You Hear Me?
- The Infamous Stringdusters / Don't Mean Nothin' / Silver Sky
- Guy Clark / Analog Girl / Workbench Songs
- Dan Paisley and the Southern Grass / Margie / Road into Town
- Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys / The Legend of the Johnson Boys (1962) / 'Tis Sweet to be Remembered
- Tater Patch / Grubb Springs / Old Time Country Music
- Iris DeMent / Let the Mystery Be / Infamous Angel
- The Time Jumpers / Texas on a Saturday Night / The Time Jumpers
- The Buckstankle Boys / Cacklin' Hen / The New Young Fogies, Volume One
- The South Carolina Broadcasters / S-A-V-E-D / A Thousand Miles from Home
- Loafer's Glory / Crow Little Rooster / Loafer's Glory
- Dailey and Vincent / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Brothers of the Highway
- Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys / I'll Love Nobody But You / Bluegrass Class of 1990
- American Cafe Orchestra / Liquor Seller / Egyptian Dominoes