May 27, 2013

Playlist: 5/27/13

  • 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

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.

  1. Sutton, Holt, & Coleman: Ready for the Times to Get Better
  2. Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers: She Left Me Standing on the Mountain
  3. Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive: John the Baptist
  4. Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass: I Been Walkin'
  5. Della Mae: Empire
  6. The Gibson Brothers: They Called It Music
  7. The Steel Drivers: Wearin' a Hole
  8. The Spinney Brothers: Memories
  9. Dailey and Vincent: Steel Drivin' Man
  10. The Boxcars: Coal Miner's Blues
  11. Flatt Lonesome: Draggin' My Heart Around
  12. 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