Black Diamond Show on WNHU

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 1/30 & 2/2

2012-01-31T09:34:00.000-05:00

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
23 String Band / Deer Tick / Catch 23 / self / 2011
Coty Hogue / Going to the West / To the West / Cello Room / 2009
Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice / Train Without a Track / Heartaches & Dreams / Rebel / 2010
Sarah Jarosz / Fischer Store Road / Song up in her Head / Sugar Hill / 2009
Carolina Road / Sharecropper’s Son / Back to my Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
The Orpheus Supertones / Going to Town / Going to Town / Mudthumper Music / 2011
April Verch / Guide Me Home / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
Hank Williams / There’ll be no Teardrops Tonight / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007
The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2010
Bluegrass Album Band / One Tear / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1982, 1986
Carl Smith / If Teardrops were Pennies / The Essential Carl Smith, 1950-1956 / Columbia / 1951, 1991
The Missy Werner Band / Blue Skies & Teardrops / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Teardrops in my Eyes / The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Rounder / 1956, 1977
ShoreGrass / Glorious Day / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
The Freight Hoppers / Cornbread, Molasses, & Sassafras Tea / Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go? / Rounder / 1996
The Gibson Brothers / I Know Whose Tears / Ring the Bell / Compass / 2009
Lefty Frizzell / My Rough and Rowdy Ways / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony BMG (Columbia) / 1951, 1997
Newfound Road / Damascus Road / Newfound Road / Mountain Home Music / 2002
Kentucky Wild Horse / Boatin’ Up Sandy / Spirits of the Lonesome Hills / self / 2006
Joe Mullin & The Radio Ramblers / Fair Weather / Hymns from the Hills / Rebel / 2010
Chris Stuart / Elvis Stays Home / Angels of Mineral Springs / Backcountry Music / 2002 / What would have happened if Elvis had stayed home?
Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Dirty Dishes Blues / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP / 1950, 2004
Tim O’Brien / Gonna Try to Make her Stay / Chicken & Egg / Howdy Skies / 2010
Ronnie Bowman / Left This Country Boy (Sittin’ All Alone) / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1998, 2009
Laurie Lewis / You’ll be Leaving Me / True Stories / Rounder / 1992
Chance McCoy & the Appalachian String Band / Rocky Road to Dublin / Chance McCoy & the Appalachian String Band / Appalachian Music Group / 2008
Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
Big Medicine / Black Jack Grove / Too Old to be Controlled / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2002
Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / A Great Big Hand Reaching Down / Tell Someone / Rebel / 2005
Cahelen Morrison & Eli West / Since You Took Your Leave / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
The Hot Club of Cowtown / Time Changes Everything / What Makes Bob Holler? / Proper / 2011
The Stanley Brothers / Carolina Mountain Home / The Early King and Starday Years / Gusto / 1959, 2003
The Prairie Acre / Rock That Cradle / Jaybird and the Sparrowhawk / self / 2007
Larry Sparks / Momma’s Apron Strings / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
Red Smiley & The Bluegrass Cut-ups / Little Maggie / Classic Mountain Bluegrass / Rural Rhythm / c. 1962, 2008
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Top 12 New Bluegrass Songs as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited (1/22/12)

2012-01-24T18:19:00.002-05:00

Top 12 Newer Bluegrass SongsFor the period ending 1/22/12
as reported to BluegrassUnlimited by
The Black Diamond Show
WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT

Blue Highway, I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down
Crowe Brothers, Southern Moon
Charlie Sizemore, I Don’t Remember Loving You
The Missy Werner Band, I’d Rather Love a Memory
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Ominous Anonymous
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
Bearfoot, Come Get Your Lonesome
Donna Ulisse, Let it Rain
April Verch, Durang’s Hornpipe
Del McCoury Band, My Rose of Old Kentucky
John Reischman & The Jaybirds, Consider Me Gone
Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers, Final Farewell

In addition to submitting reports to Bluegrass Unlimited, wealso report the Black Diamond Show playlists to Bluegrass Today and FOLKDJ-L/folkradio.org.

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 1/23 & 1/26

2012-01-23T12:02:00.000-05:00

If you missed the show on Monday, you can catch a repeat on the WNHU2 streat at wnhu.net on Thursday at 6pm. Here's the playlist!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Ralph Stanley / Shady Grove / Old-Time Pickin’, A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel / c. 1971, 2008
Lonesome River Band / Footprints in the Snow / Live at Bean Blossom / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Steve Spurgin / Run Away Home / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
Grandpa Jones Family / Autoharp Concerto / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / unknown, 2000 / If anyone knows when this was recorded, please email me at mandorichard@yahoo.com. Thanks!
The Privy Tippers / Accordion Crimes, Ichabod’s Last Ride / Straddling the Muffin-Biscuit Line / self / 2008
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / He Loves Me / Hymns from the Hills / Rebel / 2010
Jim & Jesse / Paradise / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / c. 1990, 2000
Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Cruel Willie / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008
Norman Blake / Devil Chased Me Around the Stump / The Rising Fawn String Ensemble / Rounder / 1979 / with James Bryan, fiddle, and Nancy Blake, ‘cello
Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers / Last Nail / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
Tommy Duncan / Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1949, 2009
The Fly By Night String Band / Boys, The Buzzards Are Flying / The Fly By Night String Band / Fretless / 1980
The Dillards / She Sang Hymns out of Tune / Wheatstraw Suite / Collector’s Choice / 1968, 2002
The Mayfield Brothers / Just a Little Talk with Jesus / Vintage Recordings, 1948-1956 / Patuxnet Music / 1950, 2006
Notorious / Hangman’s Reel / Road to Damascus / Black Socks Press / 2010
Dailey & Vincent / Poor Boy Workin’ Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
The Missy Werner Band / Let It Go / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
Bill Monroe / Time Changes Everything / Anthology / MCA / 1960, 2003
Bluegrass Album Band / Cheyenne / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1984, 1986
The Foghorn String Band / Danville Girl / Reap What You Sow / self / 2004
Dale Ann Bradley with Alison Krauss & Steve Gulley / I’ll Take Love / I’ll Take Love, Songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
Red Molly / Troubled Mind / James / self / 2010
J.D. Crowe & The New South / Ten Degrees / J.D. Crowe & The New South / Rounder / 1974
Bill Emerson / Ride It Out / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Hedy West / Pans of Biscuits / Hedy West, Volume 2 / Vanguard / 1964
The New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / The West Virginia Highway / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
New Coon Creek Girls / Palms of Victory / Everything You Do / Pinecastle / 1996
Larry Sparks & Rhonda Vincent / 1 800-Do-U-Care / 40 / Rebel / 2005
Clark Kessinger / Whistlin’ Rufus / World Champion Fiddler / Triagle Far / 1968, 2003
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Monroe’s Mandolin / Lonelye Street / Rounder / 2010
Red Hen Stringband / Cluck Old Hen / Birds of a Feather / Wepecket Island / 2011
Robin & Linda Williams / Maybelle’s Guitar & Monroe’s Mandolin / Buena Vista / Red House / 2008
Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Pete “Brother Oswald” Kirby, Earl Scruggs, Junior Huskey, & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Keep on the Sunny Side / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
Audie Blaylock & Redline / Out in the Cold World / I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky, A Bill Monroe Celebration / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Jonathan Byrd / Cackalack / Cackalack / Waterbug / 2011
Merle Haggard / I’ll Break Out Again Tonight / If We Make It Through December / Capital / 1974, 2010
Reed Island Rounders / Jenny on the Railroad / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf / 2006

Playlist for 1/16 & 1/19

2012-01-23T07:35:00.002-05:00

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice / A Far Cry from Lester & Earl / The Heart of a Song / Rebel / 2011
The Stanley Brothers / Highway of Regret / The Early King & Starday Years / Gusto / 1959, 2003
Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / A Pain in My Heart / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury / 1958, 2003
Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010
Jack Rivers / Dear Oakie / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1948, 2009
Claire Milliner & Walt Koken / Old Billy Hell / Just Tunes / Mudthumper Music / 2003
The Traditional Grass / Broken Hearts Keep Beatin’ / Songs of Love and Life / Rebel / 1995
Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / Satisfied / Satisfied / Rebel / 2011
Robin & Linda Williams / Southern Shores / Buena Vista / Red House / 2008
Lonesome River Band / I’m Still Learning / Still Learning / Rural Rhythm / 2010
Brandon Rickman / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2012
Brandon Rickman / Dime Store Rings / Young Man, Old Soul / Rebel / 2009
Brandon Rickman / Rest for His Workers / Young Man, Old Soul / Rebel / 2009
Brandon Rickman / Always Have Always Will / Young Man, Old Soul / Rebel / 2009
Todd Grebe & Cold Country / Must Be Hard Being You / Until Tomorrow / self / 2011
The Bluegrass Martins / Happy on the Mississippi Shore / World of our Own / self / 2011
Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers / Final Farewell / single / Rebel / 2011
David Grisman Quintet / E.M.D. / David Grisman Quintet / Kaleidoscope / 1976
Carolina Road / This World is not my Home / Live at Bean Blossom / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Yankee Ingenuity / Been to the East, 17 Days in Georgia / Heating Up the Hall / Varrick / 1989
The Grass Cats / I Shot the Sheriff / A Good Way to Get the Blues / New Time / 2009
The Grascals / Dooley / Dance Til Your Stockings Are Hot and Ravelin’ / Saguaro / 2011
Art Stamper / Newlywed’s Reel / Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston / County / 2000
The Wilders with Jim Lauderdale / Cotton Eyed Joe / MerleFest Live / FestivaLink / 2010
Gene and Gayla Mills / Bright Blue Eyes / If Stones Could Talk / Heart Pine / 2011
Charlie Waller & The Country Gentlemen / Catfish John / 45 Years of Memories / Pinecastle / 1973, 2009
Del McCoury Band / My Rose of Old Kentucky / Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music / 2011
Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Letter From My Darlin’ / The High Lonesome Sound of Bill Monroe / MCA / 1951, 1973
The Percolators / Cowboy’s Dream / Alive in Prague! / Yodel-Ay-Hee/ 2004
Border Radio / Playin’ Cowboys / Americana Brand / Okie Pie / 2002
Claire Lynch / If Wishes Were Horses / Bluegrass Hits, Twenty Timeless Favorites from Yesterday and Today / Rounder / 1997, 2005
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist; 1/9 & 1/12

2012-01-12T21:22:00.000-05:00

Don't forget to check our listing of CT concerts and events.

If you miss hearing the show at Monday lunch time, it will repeat on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net on Thursday 6-8pm.

Here's this week's playlist!Thanks for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Charlie Sizemore / Going to Georgia / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
Coty Hogue / Sugar Moon / To the West / Cello Room Productions / 2009
Joel Mabus / Ebenezer / American Anonymous / Fossil / 2011
The Stanley Brothers / Four Books in the Bible / The Early King and Starday Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1959, 2003
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Still Water Runs the Deepest / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1947, 2006
Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
Bearfoot / Eyes Cast Down / American Story / Compass / 2011
Reed Island Rounders / Sally in the Garden / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf / 2006
Carolina Road / The Hills of Home / Back to My Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Blue Highway / Only Seventeen / Sounds of Home / Rounder / 2011
April Verch / Reels Talousse et Lindbergh / Steal the Blue / Slab Town / 2008
Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Cry Lonesome Dove / It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Day / Raincoe Music / 2011
The Bluegrass Martins / Don’t Laugh / World of Our Own / self / 2011
The Louvin Brothers / Let Us Travel On / Rounder Old Time Music / Rounder / c. 1964, 1987
Brad Leftwich & The Hogwire String Band / Rabbit in the Lowland / Rascal Fair / Dark Train / 2011
The Hillbenders / Blueridge Cutoff / Down to My Last Dollar / self /2010
The Stanley Brothers / Drunken Driver / The Early King & Starday Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto / 1961, 2003
Todd Grebe & Cold Country / No Whiskey For Me / Until Tomorrow / self /2011
The Georgia Mudcats / Barefoot in the Hen House / Barefoot in the Hen House and Other Southern Delights / self / 2011
Jim Lauderdale / Cruel Wind and Rain / Reason and Rhyme: Bluegrass Songs by Robert Hunter & Jim Lauderdale / Sugar Hill / 2011
Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Over There / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren / self / 2009
Donna Ulisse / Black Snake / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
Hank Williams / I Just Don’t Like This Kind of Living / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1950, 2009
Del McCoury Band / Used To Be / Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music / 2011
Audie Blaylock & Redline / Mighty Dark to Travel / I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky / Rural Rhythm / 2011
The Monroe Brothers / God Holds the Future in His Hands / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1936, 1975
Bill Clifton / Paddy on the Tunrpike / The Early Years / Rounder / 1957, 2011
Scott Anderson / Sorry Song Number 47 / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Tall Pines / Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Rounder / 1999
Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / She’s On My Mind / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / We’ll Go Home Together (On the Cloud) / Satisfied / Rebel / 2011
Ronnie Bowman / The Story in Your Eyes / Moody Bluegrass Two… Much Love / Bunny Rae / 2011
Ricky Skaggs / I Wouldn’t Change You if I Could / Highways & Heartaches / Epic / 1982
Jim Eanes & His Shenandoah Valley Boys / Florida Blues / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP / 1951, 2004
Frank Solivan / Salad Bowl / I am a Rambler / Fiddlemon Music / 2005
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

First Playlist of 2012! New repeat broadcast time

2012-01-02T12:30:00.000-05:00

Welcome to 2012! Remember that starting this week, the repeat playing of the Black Diamond Show is Thursday 6-8pm ET. So if you missed this show at lunch time on Monday, you can enjoy it with your dinner on Thursday!

Current air times:
Mondays noon-2pm ET on WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT, and on the WNHU stream at www.wnhu.net
Thursdays 6-8pm on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net.

Here's this week's playlist. Thanks for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Crowe Brothers / Southern Moon / Bridging the Gap / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Blue Sky Boys / Sunny Side of Life / The Very Best of The Blue Sky Boys / Master Classics / c. 1950, 2009
The Gibson Brothers / I’ll Love Nobody But You / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
The Delmore Brothers / She Left Me Standing on the Mountain / Sand Mountain Blues / County / 1946, 1995
Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / My Aching Heart / The Best of Bluegrass, Volume 1 / Mercury Nashville / 1956, 1994
The Louvin Brothers / I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby / All-Time Country Hits / K-Tel / 1955, 1963
The Gillis Brothers / New River Train / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1992, 2000
The Quebe Sisters / Shame on You / Timeless / Fiddletone / 2007
The Hatton Brothers / Wish I Had My Time Again / Kentucky Mountain Music, Part 3 / Yazoo / 1933, 2003
The O’Kanes / Can’t Stop My Heart From Loving You / The O’Kanes / Columbia / 1986
Red Hen Stringband / Cluck Old Hen / Birds of a Feather / Wepecket Island / 2011
Steve Martin / Daddy Played the Banjo / The Crow: New Songs for Five-String Banjo / Rounder / 2009 / co-written with Gary Scruggs, performed with Gary Scruggs (guitar), Earl Scruggs, (banjo) Tim O’Brien (vocal), Stuart Duncan & Craig Eastman (fiddle), Jerry Douglas (dobro), John McEuen (mandolin), Skip Ward (bass)
Leon Mcauliffe / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1950, 2009
The Missy Werner Band / I’d Rather Love a Memory / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
Mountain Heart / Ramblin’ Heart / No Other Way / Skaggs Family / 2007
The Morgantown Rounders / Sugar Babe / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
Donna Ulisse / Caney Creek to Canaan Land / Holy Water / Hadley Music Group / 2010
The Johnson Mountain Boys / Mend This Heart of Mine / Walls of Time / Rounder / 1982
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Country Waltz / Bill Monroe / unknown European import / 1951, c. 1974
Dailey & Vincent / By the Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
Mark Tamsula & Richard Withers / Black Eyed Susie / Up in the Batten House / Snappin’ Bug / 2011
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Take Me Back to Tulsa / The Essential Bob Wills, 1935-1947 / Bairele / 1935, 2007
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / I’ll Love Nobody But You / In The Tradition / Rounder / 1986
Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / These Old Prison Bars / Canyoneers / Dog Boy / 2003
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Ominous Anonymous / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
The Stanley Brothers / East Virginia Blues / Long Journey Home: The Stanley Brothers of Virginia, Volume 2 / County / 1964, 1973
Kenny Baker & Joe Greene / Live & Let Live / High Country / County / 1967, 1968
Scott Anderson / Drivin’, Singin’, Cryin’ / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
John Reischman & The Jaybirds / The First Whippoorwill / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
Brandon Rickman / I Bought Her a Dog / Young Man, Old Soul / Rural Rhythm / 2009
Vishten / Reel du Perdu / Vishten Live / Sandbar Music / 2008
Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Foggy Mountain Breakdown / The Complete Mercury Sessions / Mercury / 1958, 2003
Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers / Just Loving You / Ramblin’ Bluegrass / Starday / 1972
Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals / High on a Mountain / High on a Mountain / Rounder / 1972
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / One of These Days / Help Is On The Way / Horizon / 2008
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 12/26/11 - Hank Williams and more

2011-12-26T09:10:00.000-05:00

Since Hank Williams passed away in the back seat of a car New Year's Eve 1952/New Year's Day 1953, I'll try to do a Hank Williams show each year on the show prior to New Year's. I freely admit I stole the idea for a Hank Williams show from John Lupton, a DJ at WVUD, Newark DE. John's show happens every year about 9am on New Year's Day morning. Check it out.

It is amazing what an impact Hank has had on American music. Over 125 compositions. Sales that helped bring country music more and more into the mainstream. Today's show feature some of Hank's music in every half-hour--but other music, too!

If the show piques your interest in Hank Williams, here are some links to more information.

Notes from PBS's 2005 Hank Williams Biography.
The Wikipedia article about Hank Williams.
The Encylopedia of Alabama article about Hank Williams. A little sanitized. . . .
The hagiography of Hank at the Hank Williams Museum's Web site.

This is the last week (Th 12/29) that the Thursday repeat of the Black Diamond Show will air at 10pm EST on the WNHU2 stream at wnhu.net. Starting in January, the repeat broadcast will be 6-8pm on Thursdays. Yup, starting next week: Monday lunch time or Thursday dinner time.

On to the playlist!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Hank Williams / I’ll be a Bachelor ‘Til I Die / The Complete Hank Williams / Mercury Nashville / 1948, 1998
Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rockin’ Chair Money / Twenty Year Blues / Sugar Hill / 2004
Waylon Jennings / I Won’t Be Home No More / Waylon Sings Hank Williams / YMC / 1985, 2006
Dierks Bentley / A House of Gold / How Great Thou Art, Gospel Favorites Live from the Grand Ole Opry / RCA Nashville / 2008
The Improbabillies / Yew Piney Mountain / The Improbabillies / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2007
Blue Highway / I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down / Sounds of Home / Rounder / 2011
April Verch / Five Miles from Town / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
Hank Williams / I Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
The Brown’s Ferry Four / Over in Gloryland / Merle Travis: Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1946, 2003
Mountain Heart / Little Sadie / That Just Happened / MH Music / 2010
Hank Williams / On the Banks of the Old Pontchartain / Turn Back the Years / Mercury Nashville / 1947, 2005
Katie Wilson / Beacon / Katie Wilson / self / 2009
Josh Williams / Blue Railroad Train / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011
Paul Williams & His Victory Trio / I’m Longing for Home / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010
Cahelen Morrison & Eli West / Fleeting Like the Days / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
Scott Anderson / Minor Swing / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
Hank Williams / The Log Train / The Original Singles Collection. . . Plus / Mercury Nashville / 1952, 1990
Travers Chandler & Avery County / Black Dust Fever / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
Hank Williams / Dear John / Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1951, 2008 / A fun alternate take!
Randy Morrison & The Flatt River Band / Good Ole Bluegrass for Fun / North to Ontario / Coot Music / 2010
The Honey Dewdrops / That Good Old Way / These Old Roots / self / 2010
Wayne Hancock / Brother Music, Sister Rhythm / Tulsa / Bloodshot / 2006
The Monroe Brothers / My Long Journey Home / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1936, 1975
The Stanley Brothers / It’s Raining Here This Morning / The Best of the Stanley Brothers / Starday / c. 1960, 1975
Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1955, 1977
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / She Left Me Standing on the Mountain / Y’all Come, the Essential Jim & Jesse / Sony BMG / 1963, 1998
Hank Williams III / I’m a Long Gone Daddy / Hank Williams: Timeless / Lost Highway / 2001
Brandon Rickman / Dime Store Rings / Young Man, Old Soul / Rural Rhythm / 2009
Kathy Mattea / Love at the Five and Dime / Walk the Way the Wind Blows / Mercury / 1985 / Singing with Don Williams
Hank Williams / Move it on Over / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1947, 1978
Charlie Sizemore / I Don’t Remember Loving You / Heartache Looking For a Home / Rebel / 2011
Vishten / Reel du Perdu / Vishten Live / Sandbar Music / 2008
Bearfoot / Come Get Your Lonesome / American Story / Compass / 2011
Jerry Rivers & The Hank Williams Band / Sally Goodin’ / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for December 19 & 22

2011-12-18T22:25:00.000-05:00

This week's show is, as you'd expect, a holiday-themed show. And I've updated the concert listing (in the right hand column) with info deep into 2012. Email me to have other events added to the list.

Reminder: Starting in January 2012, the repeat time will change to Thursdays at 6pm.

Here's the playlist!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Comment
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Terry Lawrence / All Wrapped Up in Christmas / All Wrapped Up in Christmas / Lawrence Music Group / 2011
Rhonda Vincent / Winter Wonderland / Beautiful Star / Rounder / 2005
James King / Call Collect on Christmas / O Christmas Tree, A Bluegrass Collection for the Holidays / Rounder / 2002
Frank & Barbara Shaw / Every Day is Christmas / Playing With Friends / Shaw Family / 2012 (upcoming)
Earl Scruggs / Jingle Bells / A Very Special Acoustic Christmas / Lost Highway / 2003
Lonesome River Band / All I Want is Mary for Christmas / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill / 2007
Joe Newberry / On this Christmas Day / Two Hands / 5-String Productions / 2005
Sonny Isaacs / Mary, Did You Know? / Christmas Grass Too / Koch / 2007
Bryan Sutton / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Christmas Grass Too / Koch / 2007
Jessie Lee Campbell / Frosty the Snowman / Mountain Top Bluegrass Christmas / Madacy Christian / 2006
Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Snowy Road / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds / 1999
John McCutcheon / Christmas in the Trenches / Water from Another Time / Rounder / 1988
Matan Ariel & Friends / Maoz Zur / Hanukkah Songs - Songs in Hebrew for Children & Toddlers / self / 2003
Critton Hollow String Band / Going Back to Israel / The Dulcimer Collection / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 1983, 2002
Bill Clifton /You Go To Your Church / The Early Years 1957-58 / Rounder / 1957, 2011
Poppa’s Kitchen / Burning Flame / A Rockin' Hanukkah / self / 2006
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Christmas in Carolina / Christmas in Carolina / Blue Circle / 2008
Dirk Powell / King Wenceslaus / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010
Asleep at the Wheel / Xmas in Jail / Merry Texas Christmas Y' All / High, Windham Hill / 1997
Riley Puckett / Santa Fe Folks Festival / Country Music Pioneer / JSP / 1936, 2011
Russell Moore / Christmas is Near / Christmas Grass Too / Koch / 2007
Tim & Mollie O’Brien / Christ was born in Bethlehem / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill / 1993
Austin Lounge Lizards / Xmas Time for Visa / The Drugs I Need / Blue Corn Music / 2006
Fiddlin’ John Carson / Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over / Back Roads to Cold Mountain / Smithsonian Folkways / 1927, 2004
Tracy Lawrence / Cold Beer / All Wrapped Up in Christmas / Lawrence Music Group / 2011
Steve Spurgin / Song for a Winter’s Night / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
Woody Guthrie / Hanukkah Dance / The Asch Recordings, Volumes 1-4 / Smithsonian Flokways / c. 1945 , 1999
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Left Out In The Cold / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
Patty Loveless / Bluegrass, White Snow / Bluegrass & White Snow, A Mountain Christmas / SBME / 2010
Donna Ulisse / You Cannot Stay Here / Holiday Single / Hadley Music Group / 2011
Darrin Vincent with Jamie Daley / Beautiful Star of Bethlehem / Christmas Grass Too / Koch / 2007
The Brother Boys / I’ll Be Home for Christmas / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill / 2007
The Greystone Ramblers / The First Noel / A Winter Night’s Ramble / self / 2008
Josh Graves & Kenny Baker / Snowbird / The Puritan Sessions / Rebel / 1972, 1989
The Johnson Mountain Boys / The Friendly Beasts / O Christmas Tree - A Bluegrass Collection for the Holidays / Rounder / c. 1990 , 2002
Doc Watson / Christmas Lullaby / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill / 1993
Tom Rozum / Sleigh Ride / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds / 1999

Top 12 Newer Bluegrass Songs as Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited 12/18/11

2011-12-18T11:58:00.001-05:00

Top 12 Newer Bluegrass SongsFor the period ending 12/18/11
as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited by
The Black Diamond Show
WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT

Charlie Sizemore, I Don’t Remember Loving You
Bearfoot, Come Get Your Lonesome
The Missy Werner Band, I’d Rather Love a Memory
Larry Sparks, Almost Home
Blue Highway, I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down
Donna Ulisse, Let it Rain
April Verch, Durang’s Hornpipe
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Ominous Anonymous
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
John Reischman & The Jaybirds, Consider Me Gone
Carolina Road, Cold Carolina Snow
Charlie Sizemore, No Lawyers In Heaven

In addition to submitting reports to Bluegrass Unlimited, we also report the Black Diamond Show playlists to Bluegrass Today and FOLKDJ-L/folkradio.org.

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 12/12/11 (and 12/15/11)

2011-12-12T11:30:00.000-05:00

On this week's show, we continue what we started last week: Playing a mixture of holiday or winter-themed songs, new material, and some of my favorite songs from the past year. I tried to mix unusual holiday songs with some of many people's favorites.

I sent email out to several listeners about finding a Hanukkah song or two that would be close to the genres you're used to hearing on the Black Diamond Show. Debbie from Maryland (an Internet listener) reminded me that Woody Guthrie had written a lot of Hanukkah songs; and so, the second half hour of this week's show concludes with Woody singing "The Hanukkah Dance." I"m guessing it was recorded in 1945 or 1946. By then Woody had been living across the street from his Jewish in-laws in Coney Island for several years. Apparently he and his mother-in-law got along famously.... The Woody Guthrie Foundation has a nice article about Woody and The Yiddish Connection that you might enjoy.

We also spend some time with Taylor Armerding from The Bluegrass Gospel Project. They'll be appearing in East Hartford on Saturday 12/17. As with most of the BDS interviews, I had fun talking with him and I think you'll enjoy hearing from him, too.

If you miss hearing the show on Monday, remember it will repeat at 10pm EST on Thursday night on the WNHU2 stream at wnhu.net. (The Thursday night repeat will switch to 6pm beginning in 2012. Still 10pm for the rest of 2011.)

Thanks for your support of WNHU, bluegrass music, country music, and my occasional forays into other kinds of music.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Peter Rowan / Christmas Time’s A-Coming / Sugar Plums, Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 1993
April Verch / Durang’s Hornpipe / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
The Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers In Heaven / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rebel /2011
Rose Maddox & The Vern Williams Band / Philadelphia Lawyer / This is Rose Maddox / Arhoolie / 1981
The Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Way Down Deep In My Soul, Best of Sugar Hill Gospel, Volume 2 / Sugar Hill / 1986, 1993
Tracy Lawrence / White Christmas / All Wrapped Up In Christmas / Lawrence Music Group / 2011
Donna Ulisse / You Will Be Delivered / Holiday Single / Hadley Music Group / 2011
Brad Leftwich & Linda Higginbotham / Breaking Up Christmas / No One to Bring Home Tonight / County / 1984
Bluegrass Gospel Group / Cherokee Shuffle / Wander On / Vital / 2006
Taylor Armerding / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
Bluegrass Gospel Project / All Prayed Up / The Bluegrass Gospel Project / Vital / 2002
Bluegrass Gospel Project / Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven / The Blue Morpho / Vital / 2009
Bluebilly Grit / Ready for a Change / Ready for a Change / Rogue / 2011
Travers Chandler & Avery County / Mandolin Tango / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
Woody Guthrie / The Hanukkah Dance / The Asch Recordings, Volumes 1-4 / Smithsonian Flokways / c. 1945 , 1999
Carolina Road / Cold Carolina Snow / Back to my Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Lonesome River Band / Footprints in the Snow / Live at Bean Blossom / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Ken & Brad Kolodner / Snow Drop / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
Townes Van Zandt / Snowin’ On Raton / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1992, 2009
Hank Snow / I’ve Been Everywhere / The Essential Hank Snow / RCA Nashville / c. 1961, 1997
The Bluegrass Martins / Happy on the Mississippi Shore / World of our Own / self / 2011
The Greystone Ramblers / Christmas Island / A Winter’s Night Ramble / self / 2008
Riders in the Sky / Let It Snow, The Last Christmas Medley You’ll Ever Need to Hear / Christmas the Cowboy Way / Rounder / 1999
Dirk Powell / Joy to the World / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010
Ray Stevens / The Little Drummer Boy Next Door / Through a Different Window / MCA Nashville / 1997
Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / Atheists Don’t Have No Songs / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers / That White Christmas Song / Sugar Plums, Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 1993
David West & Joe Craven / My Favorite Things / A Spectacular Bluegrass Christmas / CMH / 2001
Poppa’s Kitchen / Burning Flame / A Rockin’ Hanukkah / self / 2006
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / Boston Jail / Rambler’s Call / Rebel / 2009
The Missy Werner Band / I’d Rather Love a Memory / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 12/5/11

2011-12-11T18:58:00.001-05:00

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Goin’ Up Dry Branch / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
Steve Spurgin / The Lights of Reno / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Silver Quarter / Saints & Stranger / Backcountry / 2003
Poppa’s Kitchen / Hanukkah is Right Around the Bend / A Rockin’ Hanukkah / self / 2006
Larry Sparks / Blue Christmas / Christmas in the Mountains / Rebel / 2003
Longview / At the First Fall of Snow / Deep in the Mountains / Rounder / 2008
April Verch / Five Miles From Town / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
New Coon Creek Girls / My Lord Will Send a Moses / Everything You Do / Pinecastle / 1996
Dirk Powell / Deck the Halls / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour /2010
Sierra Hull / Best Buy / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
Chris Thile & Michael Daves / Billy in the Lowground / Sleep with one eye Open / Nonesuch / 2011
Dailey & Vincent / Elizabeth / Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
Bearfoot / Come Get Your Lonesome / American Story / Compass / 2011
The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to My Last Dollar / self / 2010
The Hot Club of Cowtown / Oklahoma Hills / What Makes Bob Holler? / Proper / 2011
The New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / Buckeyed Rabbit / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
Paul Williams / Give Me Just a Little More Time / Satisfied / Rebel / 2011
Homer & Jethro / Broadway / It Ain’t Necessarily Square / Miller International / 1967, ND
Brand New Strings / Southern Flavor / Live at Bean Blossom / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Cheryl, Sharon, & Buck White / That’s What Texas Was For / I’ll Take Love, Songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Runaway Ramp / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
Willie Nelson / Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down / Country Music / Rounder / 2010
Spring Creek / Mocking Bird / Hold on Me / self / 2011
Bluegrass Gospel Project / Darkness, Darkness / The Blue Morpho / Vital / 2009
Bluegrass Gospel Project / Make Up My Dyin’ Bed / The Blue Morpho / Vital / 2009
The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Dirty Dishes Blues / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP / 1950, 2004
Donna Ulisse / Lonesome Without You / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
Sam Bush / Sleigh Ride / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007
ShoreGrass / December Waltz / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
Brad Leftwich & The Hogwire String Band / Say Darling Say / Rascal Fair / Dark Train / 2011
Ray Stevens / Guilt for Christmas / Through a Different Window / MCA Nashville / 1997
Travers Chandler & Avery County / Cotton Farm / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist for 11/28/11 Black Diamond Show

2011-11-29T13:05:00.001-05:00

This week's show is a repeat of our 10/17 show.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Dates / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Various Artists / 22nd Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards / 22nd Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards, Recorded Live at the Ryman / IBMA / September 29, 2011
Johnson Mountain Boys / It Don't Bring You Back to Me / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
Dan Crary & Thunderation / Tumbleweed Town / Perfect Storm / Blue Night / 2011
Kathy Mattea / Sally in the Garden / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Top New Bluegrass Songs Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited: November 21, 2011

2011-11-21T21:00:00.001-05:00

Top 10 Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 11/21/11
As reported to Bluegrass Unlimited
by The Black Diamond Show WNHU 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT

Blue Highway, I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down
Bearfoot, Come Get Your Lonesome
John Reischman & The Jaybirds, Consider Me Gone
Grasstowne, Anchor in the Storm
Donna Ulisse, Let it Rain
Alison Krauss & Union Station, On the Outside Looking In
April Verch, Durang’s Hornpipe (if she counts for BU)
Charlie Sizemore, I Don’t Remember Loving You
Larry Sparks, Almost Home
The Missy Werner Band, I’d Rather Love a Memory
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Gone at Last (In case April Verch doesn’t count for BU charting purposes)

We also report actual airplay on the Black Diamond Show to www.folkradio.org and Bluegrass Today.

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 11/21/11 WNHU

2011-11-21T20:13:00.001-05:00

Here's this week's playlist. If you missed it today, it's scheduled to be repeated on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net on Thanksgiving night from 10pm-midnight EST.Thanks, as always, for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Longview / The Lost Cave / Lessons in Stone / Rebel / 2002
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar / Prime Tyme / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Time Was / Mojave River / Backcountry / 2004
Dailey & Vincent / Near the Cross / Singing from the Heart / Rounder / 2009
Big Medicine / Ida Red / Too Old to be Controlled / Yodel-Ay-Hee/ 2002
Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers / Long Journey Home / Rambling Bluegrass / Starday / 1972
The Dixie Bee Liners / The Bugs in the Basement / Ripe / Pinecastle / 2008
Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Pretty Polly Ann / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren, Volume 2 / self / 2011
Nancy Griffith with Jerry Douglas, Ally Bain, et al. / Simple Life / Celtic Connections, Scotland / YouTube / 2009
Steep Canyon Rangers / Cumberland Moon / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2007
Doc Watson, David Holt, Richard Watson / Little Log Cabin in the Lane / Philadelphia Folk Festival, Aug. 17, 2007 / Festivalink / 2007
Tim O’Brien / Dear Diary / Moody Bluegrass Two. . . Much Love / Bunny Rae / 2011
Any Old Time String Band / Falls of Richmond, Camp Chase / I Bid You Good Night / Arhoolie / 1980, 2011
Cherryholmes / Tattoo of a Smudge / Cherryholmes IV, Common Threads / Skaggs Family / 2010
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Paul & Silas / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
Jim and Kim Lansford / Cowboy Sings to his Herd / The American Fogies, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1996
Teddy Thompson / Walking the Floor Over You / Up Front and Down Low / Verve / 2007
Bela Fleck & Jerry Douglas / Another Morning / Rounder Records 40th Anniversary Concert / Rounder / 2010
Blue Moon Rising / Old Time Preacher Man / On the Rise / Lonesome Day / 2005
Donna Ulisse / Flat Broke in Arkansas / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
John Cowan / Nights in White Satin / Moody Bluegrass / Rounder / 2004
Lefty Frizzell / It Gets Late So Early / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony / 1968, 1997
The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy to Me / The Early Recordings of the Lilly Brothers / County / 1956, 1970
Spring Creek / I’ll Bet it All / Hold on Me / self / 2011
The Lonesome Strangers / Billy in the Lowground / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1978, 2002
Downtown Ramblers / I’ll Go / On the Other Side of the City / DTR Music Productions / 2011 / Swedish Bluegrass
Warrior River Boys / Lovin’ Lies / Sounds Like Home / Rounder / 1993
John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Lonesome Dove / Field Guide / Copper Creek / 2002
Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Doin’ My Time / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury / 1958, 2003
Mark Graham & Orville Johnson / Oedipus Rex / The Kings of Mongrel Folk / self / 2001, 2005
Tasty Licks / (Now and then there’s) A Fool Such as I / Bluegrass Goes to Town, Pop Songs Bluegrass Style / Rounder / 1979, 2002
The Charles River Valley Boys / I Feel Fine / Beatle Country / Elektra / 1966
The Country Gentlemen / Teach Your Children / Sound Off / Rebel / 1970
The Missy Werner Band / Journey to My Savior’s Side / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
Jerry Rivers & The Hank Williams Band / Cotton-Eyed Joe / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show 11/14/11: David Peterson, Nora Jane Struthers (Bearfoot), and lots of good music!

2011-11-14T11:30:00.000-05:00

We manage to squeeze in two interviews this week: David Peterson (performing in Hamden, CT, for Guitar Town on Th 11/17) and Nora Jane Struthers of Bearfoot (performing in Madison, CT, for Fire in the Kitchen on Sa 11/19) and a pretty good mix of music, if I do say so myself. As usual, Chris Brashear's "Lost Soldier Son" anchored our Veterans' Day tribute. If you miss the Monday broadcast, remember the show will be repeated on the WNHU2 stream at wnhu.net on Thursday from 10pm-midnight.

Thanks for your support of WNHU and of bluegrass and traditional country music!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
The Improbabillies / Sandy Boys / The Improbabillies / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2007
Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys / Just Wondering Why / Bound to Ride / Rounder / 1979
Steve Spurgin / Getting’ Outta Here Alive / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
Sonny Osborne / I’m on my way to the old home / Bluegrass Early Cuts: 1931-1953 / JSP / 1950, 2004
Ralph Stanley / The Man in the Middle / Mountain Preacher’s Child / Rebel / c. 1980, 2007 / Charlie Sizemore, lead vocal
Scott Prouty / Nancy Dalton / Puncheon Floor / self / 2010
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / We Missed You / Hymns from the Hills / Rebel / 2010
Riders in the Sky / Never Go to Church on Sunday / A Pair of Kings / Oh Boy / 2002
David Peterson / You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009
David Peterson / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
David Peterson / The Crazy Blues / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009
David Peterson / Loving Lies / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009
Joel Mabus / Henhouse Door / Old-Time Music On the Air, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1996
Missy Werner Band / Last Goodbye Today / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Blue Moon of Kentucky / Folk Music at Newport, Part 1 / Vanguard / 1965, 1995
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Ominous Anonymous / Frak Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
Bearfoot / Eyes Cast Down / American Story / Compass / 2011
Nora Jane Struthers / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
Bearfoot / Come Get Your Lonesome / American Story / Compass / 2011
Bearfoot / The Dust / American Story / Compass / 2011
Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rock Bottom Blues / Americana Master Series: Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 2006, 2007
Leon Payne / I Love You Because / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1949, 2009
Red Hen Stringband / Off the Griddle / Birds of a Feather / WePecket Island / 2011
Chris Brashear / Lost Soldier Son / Wanderlust / Copper Creek / 2000 / In honor of Veteran’s Day 11-11-11
The Blue Sky Boys / Searching for a Soldier’s Grave / The Blue Sky Boys / Rounder / 1975 / In honor of Veteran’s Day 11-11-11
Norman Blake & Tony Rice / The Two Soldiers / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder / 1990 / In honor of Veteran’s Day 11-11-11
Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Soldier’s Joy / Civil War Memories / Wango / 2005 / In honor of Veteran’s Day 11-11-11
Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rockin’ Chair Money / Twenty Year Blues / Sugar Hill / 2004 / In honor of Veteran’s Day 11-11-11
Bluegrass Album Band / River of Beath / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1981, 1987
Kenny Baker / Gold Rush / Master Fiddler / County / 1970, 1993
Steep Canyon Rangers / There Ain’t No Easy Street / Deep in the Shade / Rebel / 2009
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 11/7/11 WNHU

2011-11-12T13:35:00.001-05:00

Finally, here's the playlist for the show that aired on 11/7 and that was repeated on 11/10. Again, thanks to Dan Crary for spending so long with us. I was thrilled to be able to digitize and play some tracks from that 1969 Bluegrass Alliance LP.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / ‘Til the end of the World Rolls Round / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1954, 1977
Dan Crary & Thunderation / Thunderation / Perfect Storm / Blue Night / 2011
Dan Crary / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
Byron Berline, Dan Crary, & John Hickman / Northern Slope / BCH / Sugar Hill / 1986
Dan Crary & Thunderation / Sail Away Ladies, Sally Ann / Perfect Storm / Blue Night / 2011
Byron Berline, Dan Crary, & John Hickman / East Tennessee Blues / BCH / Sugar Hill / 1986
The Bluegrass Alliance / Sweet Sunny South / The Bluegrass Alliance / American Heritage Music Corp. / 1969
The Bluegrass Alliance / East Virginia Blues / The Bluegrass Alliance / American Heritage Music Corp. / 1969
Dan Crary & Thunderation / Suite 222 / Perfect Storm / Blue Night / 2011
The Bluegrass Alliance / Beaumont Rag / The Bluegrass Alliance / American Heritage Music Corp. / 1969
Dan Crary & Thunderation / Long Journey Home, Reuben’s Train / Perfect Storm / Blue Night / 2011
The Stanley Brothers / It’s Raining Here This Morning / The Best of the Stanley Brothers / Starday / c. 1960, 1975
John Reischman & The Jaybirds / The First Whippoorwill / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
Lonesome River Band / Forty Days in the Desert / Still Learning / Rural Rhythm / 2010
April Verch / Jim Shank, T-Jacques Jarret / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
Wayne Taylor & Apaloosa / Mash Your Finger / It’s Gonna be a Beautiful Day / Raincoe Music / 2011
Bearfoot / Come Get Your Lonesome / American Story / Compass / 2011
David Peterson & 1946 / 1946 / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
Bill Monroe, Peter Rowan, & Tex Logan / Shady Grove / Folk Music at Newport, Part 1 / Vanguard / 1965, 1995
Alison Krauss & Union Station / Dust Bowl Children / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Ship in the Clouds / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006
Leon Mcauliffe / Run ‘ Em Off / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1953, 2009
Larry Sparks / Somebody Touched Me / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
Doc Watson & Junior Husky / Cannonball Rag / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
Missy Werner Band / My First Mistake / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Dan Crary Interview & Black Diamond Show Playlist for 11/7/11

2011-11-10T12:19:00.001-05:00

I'll get the playlist for this week's show up as soon as I can.The highlight for me was the hour-long interview we had with Dan Crary. Some great stories from one of my early guitar heroes. If you didn't hear the show on Monday, tune into the WNHU2 stream on wnhu.net on Thursday 11/10 from 10pm-midnight EST. The Crary interview begins right after an opening track from Flatt &Scruggs.Thanks for your support

Belated Playlist: 10/24/11 Black Diamond Show WNHU

2011-10-31T18:12:00.002-04:00

Sorry to post playlists out of order. Scroll down or follow this link to see the Halloween Playlist. Thanks for your support of WNHU and of all the artists whose music we play on the Black Diamond Show!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Spring Creek / It’s a Bnajo Playin’ / Hold on Me / Self / 2011
Steve Spurgin / Fire on the Kettle / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / Let Me Dream On / Satisfied / Rebel / 2011
John Hoffman & Mac Benford / Mike in the Wilderness / It’s About Time / 5-String Productions / 2007
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / New San Antonio Rose / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1941, 2006
Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Fort Smith / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren / self / 2009
The Delmore Brothers / Blues Stay Away From Me / single / King / 1949
Blue Highway / I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down / Sounds of Home / Rounder / 2011
Dead Fiddler’s Society / Sandy River Belle / Livin’ It Up / self / 2010
Donna Ulisse / I Lied / Walk This Mountain Down / Hadley Music Group / 2008
Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / I’ll Just Pretend / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury / 1958, 2003
John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Consider Me Gone / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
Dale Ann Bradley / Anybody Else’s Heart / Don’t Turn Your Back / Compass / 2009
Hank Williams / At the First Fall of Snow / The Original Singles Collection Plus… / Mercury Nashville / c. 1951, 1955, 1990 / Originally recorded in 1951 or 1952, this was released posthumously in 1955.
Bill Evans / Cory’s Slide / Bill Evans Plays Banjo / Mighty Fine / 2001
The Stairwell Sisters / Little Moses / The Stairwell Sisters / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2003
Carolina Road / A Light in the Window, Again / Back to My Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Merle Travis / Saturday Night Shuffle / In Boston / Rounder / 1959, 2003
Charlie Sizemore / Turn it on, Turn it on, Turn it on / The Story Is… The Songs of Tom T. Hall / Rebel / 2002
Unplugged Demos & Myrna D. Riquier / Too Many Bars / Momma’s Flowers, The Songs of Myrna D. Riquier / self / 2011 / Myrna had her songs recorded mostly by a group of Nashville session players who call themselves “Unplugged Demos” for projects like this one.
The Infamous Stringdusters / The Deputy / Things That Fly / Sugar Hill / 2010
Laurie Lewis / My Dixie Darlin’ / The Oak and the Laurel / Rounder / 1994 / with Tom Rozum
Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / Round Up Time in Heaven / Canyoneers / Dog Boy / 2003
The Rhythm Billies / You Ain’t Talkin’ to Me / North of North Carolina / self / 2004
Border Radio / Lucky Roll / Golden State / Okie Pie Records / 2005
Nate Leath / Cherokee Shuffle / I’ve Always Been a Rambler / Patuxnet Music / 2005
Moon Mullican / Cherokee Boogie / Super Hits / Gusto / 1951, 2009
Bobby Hicks / Cherokee Swing / Texas Crapshoother / County / 1978
Bobby Osborne & Ronnie McCoury (gtr) / Cherokee Lady / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza / Acoustic Disc / 1999
The Missy Werner Band / I’d Rather Love a Memory / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Moses / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Crossroads / 2010
April Verch / Ducks on the Millpond / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
Steep Canyon Rangers / Ain’t No Way of Knowing / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Halloween Playlist: Black Diamond Show WNHU 10/31/11

2011-10-31T13:05:00.001-04:00

Here's the Halloween playlist. Lots of fun stuff here!Thanks for your support of the music--and of WNHU!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
The Country Gentlemen / Bringing Mary Home / Can’t You Hear Me Calling / Rebel / 1964
John Hartford / Pumpkin Ridge / The Speed of the Old Long Bow / Rounder / 1998
Tommy Gardner & The Uncle Brothers / Halloween Parade / Mooseltoe / Blackwater / 2009
Emily Hay / Hank & Patsy’s Ghosts / Outtakes & Demos / WHP / 2010
Hank Williams / Let the Spirit Descend / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999
Dale Ann Bradley / Ghost Bound Train / Don’t Turn Your Back / Compass / 2009
Frank Sinatra / Ghost Riders in the Sky / Hit Parade Shows / Jazz Hour / 1949, 2006
The Halloween Freaks / Someone Gave me Health Food on Halloween / Experience Halloween / Tunecore / 2010
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Devil’s Dream / Anthology / MCA / 1963, 2003
Cherryholmes / Devil in Disguise / Cherryholmes III, Don’t Believe / Skaggs Family / 2008
The Hoover Uprights / Devil Ate the Groundhog / Known for their Reuputarion / 5-String Productions / 2006
Hot Club of Cowtown / The Devil Ain’t Lazy / What Makes Bob Holler? / Proper / 2011
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Satan’s Got to Get Along Without Me / The Devil’s Rejects (Soundtrack) / Hip-O / 1996, 2005
Rick Pearl / Halloween / single / self / 2010
Bill Emerson / The Grey Ghost / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011
The Crowe Brothers / Southern Moon / Bridging the Gap / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Maine Line / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
Mike Stevens / Ghost Riders in the Sky / Blowin’ Up a Storm / Pinecastle / 2011
Steve Spurgin / Collar to the Wind / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Gone Long Gone / Drive Time / Mountain Home / 2011
Red Hen Stringband / Walnut Gap / Birds of a Feather / Wepecket Island / 2011
Finders & Youngberg / I’ll Never Be Free / FY5 / self / 2011
J. Raleigh Jones / Ballad of John Baylis / J. Raleigh Jones / Cashbox / 2010
Chris Stuart & Backcountry / From Now On / Saints & Strangers /Backcountry / 2003
The Stairwell Sisters / Cinderella / Get Off Your Money / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2008
Mac Wiseman / Bringing Mary Home / Bluegrass Then & Now / CMH / 1976, 2000
Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys / Long Journey Home / Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys: The Early Days of Bluegrass / Rounder / 1958, 1978
The C-Denny Band / Devil’s Train / North to Ontario / Coot Music / 2010
The Steep Canyon Rangers / Call the Captain / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
Clark Kessinger / Red Bird / Classic Old-Time Fiddle for Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 1966, 2006
Larry Sparks / New Highway / 40 / Rebel / 2005
Terry McGill / Dine-E-O / Straight Drive / Cabinwood / 2001
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Stormy Horizons / Y’all Come: The Essential Jim & Jesse / Epic / 1976, 1998
Audie Blaylock & Redline / I Was Left on the Street / I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Top 10 Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 10/23/11

2011-10-24T09:07:00.001-04:00

Top 10 Newer Bluegrass Songs
for the period ending 10/23/11
as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited by
The Black Diamond Show
WNHU 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT
1) Blue Highway, I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down
2) Alison Krauss & Union Station, On the Outside Looking In
3) The Gibson Brothers, Love Nobody But You
4) John Reischman & The Jaybirds, Consider Me Gone
5) Grasstowne, Anchor in the Storm
6) Donna Ulisse, Let it Rain
7) Charlie Sizemore, I Don’t Remember Loving You
8) Balsam Range, East Virginia Blues
9) April Verch, Durang’s Hornpipe (if she counts for BU)
10) Paul Williams & His Victory Trio, Satisfied
11) Charlie Sizemore, No Lawyers in Heaven (In case April Verch doesn’t count for BU charting purposes)

We also report our actual airplay to FolkRadio.org and Bluegrass Today.

Playlist for 10/17/11 Black Diamond Show

2011-10-17T22:29:00.000-04:00

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Dates / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Various Artists / 22nd Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards / 22nd Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards, Recorded Live at the Ryman / IBMA / September 29, 2011
Johnson Mountain Boys / It Don't Bring You Back to Me / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
Dan Crary & Thunderation / Tumbleweed Town / Perfect Storm / Blue Night / 2011
Kathy Mattea / Sally in the Garden / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 10/10/11

2011-10-10T12:36:00.001-04:00

Here's the playlist for today's Black Diamond Show that will repeat on the WNHU2 stream on Th 10/13/11 from 10pm - midnight. Don't forget to check out the concert listings on the right hand side of this web page!Thanks for your support of WNHU and of bluegrass and old-time country music.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Tony Rice / Church Street Blues / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1983, 2009 / with Wyatt Rice
The Rhythm Billies / Raggedy Ann / North of North Carolina / self / 2004
Johnny Bond / Birmingham Jail / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1948, 2009
Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / A Great Big Hand (Reaching Down) / Tell Someone / Rebel / 2005
The Bluegrass Album Band / Chalk Up Another One / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder / 1981, 1993
Donna Ulisse / Let It Rain / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / The Legend of the Johnson Mountain Boys / ‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Columbia / 1961, 1997
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / Charlotte Breakdown / Rambler’s Call / Rebel / 2009
Mark Tamsula & Richard Withers / Black-Eyed Susie / Up In the Batten House / Snappin’ Bug / 2011
Ivan Rosenberg & The Foggy Hogtown Boys / Up This Hill and Down / The Hogtown Sessions / Vole-o-Tone / 2011
Larry Sparks / Smoky Mountain Memories / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel / 1988
The Morris Brothers / Salty Dog Blues / Early Bluegrass / RCA / 1945, 1969
Ronnie McCoury, David Grisman, & Del McCoury / B Natural / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza / Acoustic Disc / 1999
Red Foley / Tennessee Saturday Night / Country & Western Classics / Music & Melody / 1948, 2009
Dirk Powell / Moonshiner / Hand Me Down / Rounder / 1999
April Verch / Moonshine Mac / That’s How We Run / Slab Town /2011
Mark Graham / Kentucky Whiskey, Give the Fiddler a Dram / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / self / 2000
New Southern Ramblers / Moonshine in the North Carolina Hills / Green Grass Cloggers: Through the Ears / Rounder / 1986
The SteelDrivers / Drinkin’ Dark Whiskey / The SteelDrivers / Rounder / 2010
Charlie Sizemore / I Don’t Remember Loving You / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rounder / 2011
Blue Moon Rising / Barely Hangin’ On / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm / 2010
Charlie Monroe & His Kentucky Pardners / Down In the Willow Garden / Bluegrass for Collectors / RCA / 1947, 1969
Eddie Pennington & Warren Williams / Hey Bartender, There’s a Big Bug in My Beer / Down Home! Saturday Night / Smithsonian Folkways / 2004, 2007
Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / Somebody Loves Me / Satisfied / Rebel / 2011
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys with Carl Story / True Life Blues / Bill Monroe & Friends; Bill Monroe & the Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame / Raven / 1985, 2010
Jerry K. Green / Naggin’ Women and Braggin’ Men / Now and Then, Volume 1 / JKG / 1952, 2011
Randy Morrison & The Flatt River Band / Good Ole Bluegrass For Fun / North to Ontario 2010 / Coot Music / 2010
Acoustic Blue / Where the Dim Lights are the Dimmest / This is Now / self / 2009
Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys / Whoa, Sailor! / Vintage Collections / Capitol / 1949, 1996
The Steep Canyon Rangers / Pick Up the Blues / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
Clark Kessinger / Dill Pickle Rag / World Champion Fiddler, Live April 1968, Union Grove, North Carolina / Triagle Far / 1968, 2002
Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Cattle in the Cane / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren, Volume 2 / self / 2011
Carolina Road / I Know What it Means to be Lonesome / Back to My Roots / Rural Rhythm / 2011
Joe Wilson & Drew Howard / Where the Streetlights Fade / Steels Heal the World / Earthwork Music / 2008
Big Medicine / Sit Down / Too Old to be Controlled / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2002
Here Today / Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Here Today / Rounder / 1982
Kentucky Colonels with Bill Keith / Old Hickory / Long Journey Home / Vanguard / 1964, 2006
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 10/3/11

2011-10-08T11:40:00.000-04:00

Lots of good tunes this week! Don't forget to check the concert listing on the right hand side of this blog!Thanks for your support of WNHU and of bluegrass & traditional country music.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury / More Pretty Girls Than One / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill / 1998
Spring Creek / Mocking Bird / Hold on Me / self / 2011
Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman / Pretty Girl Goin’ To Milk the Cow / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren / self / 2009
The Dreadful Snakes / Story of the Pharisees / Snakes Alive / Rounder / 1983
The Piro Family / Louisville Breakdown / The Piro’s / self / 2010 / myspace.com/thepiros
Border Radio / Oklahoma Waltz / L’il Songbook / self / 2001
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / Another Day, Another Dollar / Rambler’s Call / Rebel / 2009
Dan Crary & Thunderation / Tumbleweed Town / Perfect Storm / Blue Night / 2011
The Prairie Acre / Rye Straw / Jaybird and the Sparrow-Hawk / self / 2007
John Cowan with Jim Hurst / Stormy Night / I’ll Take Love, Songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
Steve Spurgin / The Last Armadillo Waltz / Past Perfect / Blue Night / 2011
Big Medicine / Dunbar / Pine to Pine / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
Blackstone Valley Bluegrass / The Farmer / Momma’s Flowers, Songs by Myrna D. Riquier / self / 2011
Mark Tamsula & Richard Withers / Daddy Killed the Brown Bull / Up in the Batten House / Snappin’ Bug / 2011
Mark Graham / No Democracy in Heaven / Inner Life / self / 1998, 2006
Mark Thornton / Thank God I’m a Country Boy / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / 2000
Dailey & Vincent / By the Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2009
Ralph Stanley / Pretty Girls, City Lights / Old-Time Pickin’, A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel / c. 1999, 2008 / Charlie Sizemore singing lead.
Downtown Ramblers / After We’re Gone / On the Other Side of the City / DTR Music Productions / 2011 / Bluegrass from Sweden!
Steep Canyon Rangers / The Ghost of Norma Jean / One Dime at a Time / Rebel / 2005
The Hot Club of Cowtown / Smith’s Reel / What Makes Bob Holler? / Proper / 2011
Clark Kessinger / Turkey in the Straw / World Champion Fiddler, Live April 1968, Union Grove, North Carolina / Triagle Far / 1968, 2002
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Big City Blues / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm / 2009
Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys with Flatt & Scruggs / Sweetheart, You Done Me Wrong / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1946, 1978
Merle Haggard / This Cold War / If We Make It Through December / Capitol / 1974, 2010
The Louvin Brothers / The Great Atomic Power / The Louvin Brothers / Rounder / 1952, 1978
Katie Wilson / Seashells on the Shore / Katie Wilson / self / 2009
Peter Rowan & Tony Rice (with Sharon Gilchrist & Bryn Davies) / Shady Grove / Quartet / Rounder / 2010
Pharis & Jason Romero / Hillbilly Blues / A Passing Glimpse / Lula / 2011
The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / You Broke Your Promise / Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953 / JSP / 1953, 2004
The Improbabillies / Cotton-Eyed Joe / The Improbabillies / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2007
Robin & Linda Williams & Their Fine Group / Let Us Cross Over the River / Stonewall Country / Red House / 2011
April Verch / Five Miles From Town / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011 / Cody Walters on the banjo, April on the Fiddle
Ivan Rosenberg & The Foggy Hogtown Boys / Busted / The Hogtown Sessions / Vole-o-Tone / 2011
Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / Satisfied / Satisfied / Rebel / 2011
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Two Concert Reminders: Randy Burns 10/7; Jeremy Kittel 10/8

2011-09-30T17:38:00.005-04:00

Randy Burns, a singer and guitarist from New Haven--now living in NYC, will be back in the area on Friday, October 7:
Randy Burns
Never Ending Books
810 State Street, New Haven, Connecticut
7:30pm - 10:00pm, $15.00 Reservations 203-641-5370
We've played some of his material on The Black Diamond Show in the past. In particular, we're really big fans of his version of Hobo's Lullaby!

And don't forget the concert by multi-genre fiddler Jeremy Kittel for Fire in the Kitchen on Saturday October 8:
Jeremy Kittel
Fire in the Kitchen
North Madison Congregational Church
1271 Durham Rd., Madison, CT
7pm, $20 for adults, $5 for kids
His band includes Josh Pinkham, mandolin; Nathaniel Smith, 'cello; Simon Chrisman, hammered dulcimer. Amazing how he can go from old-time to bluegrass to Scottish to Canadian to Jazz!!

Support all the different kinds of traditional and folk music in southern Connecticut! Bluegrass, folk, Celtic, old-time, western swing--it's all on the same continuum!

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 9/26/11

2011-09-26T12:47:00.001-04:00

Here's the playlist for today's show on WNHU! It will repeat on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net on Thursday, Sept. 29, from 10pm-midnight. And don't forget to check out the listing of selected concerts we're now maintaining.

Thanks for your support of WNHU and bluegrass & traditional country music.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
The Stanley Brothers / Riding That Midnight Train / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1964, 2000
Jim Nunally / Big Train From Memphis / Gloria’s Waltz / FGM / 2006
Hylo Brown / This Train / Roots Music of Rural America / Rural Rhythm / c. 1965, 2007
Hank Williams / The Log Train / The Original Singles Collection. . . Plus / Mercury Nashville / 1952, 1990 / One of the last songs Hank recorded.
The Bluegrass Cardinals / Riding on the L&N / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1975, 2000
Kathy Mattea / The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
Travers Chandler & Avery County / Black Dust Fever / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
Valerie Smith / In Those Mines / That’s What Love Can Do / Bell Buckle / 2005
Doc Watson / The Preacher and the Bicycle (story) / Doc Watson on Stage / Vanguard / 1971
Red Hen Stringband / Martin Said to His Man / Birds of a Feather / Wepecket Island / 2011
Doc Watson, featuring Merle Watson / I am a Pilgrim / Doc Watson on Stage / Vanguard / 1971
Dailey & Vincent / ‘Til I See You Face to Face / Singing from the Heart / Rounder / 2009
Adam Hurt / Black Jack Grove / Earth Tones / Ubiquitone / 2010 / Played on a gourd banjo!
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant / This is Southland / Wizards of the Country Guitar / JSP / 1953, 2011
Mary Stuart & Del McCoury / Let Us Travel, Travel On / Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’: Songs of the Louvin Brothers / Universal South / 2003
Bob Dunn & His Vagabonds / Little White Lies / Wizards of Country Music / JSP / 1939, 2011
Hot Rize / Blue Night / So Long a Journey: Live at the Border Theater / Sugar Hill / 1996, 2002
The Stanley Brothers / How Far to Little Rock / The Best of the Stanley Brothers / Starday / c. 1960, 1975
The New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / Nine Pound Hammer / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
Larry Sparks with Andy Griggs / Georgia Peaches / 40 / Rebel / 2005
Donna Ulisse / Shady Glen / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
ShoreGrass / Following the Drinking Gourd / Songs of the Civil War Era / Shaw Family / 2005
Hedy West / Farther Along / Hedy West, Volume 2 / Vanguard / 1964
The Fly By Night String Band / Boys the Buzzards Are Flying / The Fly By Night String Band / Fretless / 1980
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / My Little Honeysuckle Rose / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Ten Years / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1942, 2006
Mark Graham & Orville Johnson / Oedipus Rex / The Kings of Mongrel Folk / self / 2001, 2005
The Warrior River Boys / Never Get to Hold You In My Arms Anymore / Sounds Like Home / Rounder / 1992
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys including Flatt & Scruggs / Molly & Tenbrooks / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1946, 1978
Blue Highway / Lonesome Hearted Blues / Blue Highway / Skaggs Family / 1999
Balsam Range / East Virginia Blues / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home Music / 2011
Aubrey Haynie / Cherokee Shuffle / Doin’ My Time / Sugar Hill / 1997, 2006
Big Country Bluegrass / You’d Better Get Right Little Darlin’ / Twenty Years of Grass / Hay Holler / 2007
Dale Ann Bradley / I Won’t Back Down / Don’t Turn Your Back / Compass / 2009 / Tom Petty hit bluegrass style! It works!
The Hoover Uprights / Wild Hog in the Woods / Known for Their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006
Merle Travis / I Like My Chicken Frying Size / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1947, 2003
Big Medicine / Pretty Little Shoes / Too Old to be Controlled / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2002
The Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News When I Die / Good News / Rebel / 2007
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 9/19/11 on WNHU

2011-09-24T04:34:00.000-04:00

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Sugar-Coated Love / The High Lonesome Sound / MCA / 1951, 1973
Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
Wayne Hancock / Your Love and his Blood / Viper of Melody / Bloodshot / 2009
The Freight Hoppers / Hound Chase / Mile Marker / Bake Tone / 2010
Country Gazette / Hound Dogs Never Die / Bluegrass Tonight! / Flying Fish / 1986
Paul Warren & The Osborne Brothers / Old Joe / A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren, Vol. 2 / self / c.1960, 2011 / Self=Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A Lover of the Lord / Once and for Always / Sugar Hill / 1983
Homer & Jethro / I’ve Found a New Baby / Playing It Straight / RCA, Miller International / 1962, ND
Hank Williams / Kaw-Liga / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000
Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Eight More Mile to Louisville / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder / 1990
Josh Graves & Kenny Baker / Carroll County Blues / The Puritan Sessions / Rebel / 1973, 1989
Spring Creek / Hold On Me / Hold On Me / self / 2011
April Verch / Old Sport / That’s How We Run / Slab Tone / 2011
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / Fallen Leaves / Hymns from the Hills / Rebel / 2010
Leon Mcauliffe / Somebody Else Is Beatin’ My Time / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1949, 2009
Josh Williams / We’ll Burn That Bridge / Down Home / Rounder / 2009, 2011
Dolly Parton / I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 2006, 2009
Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music) / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1952, 1977
The Privy Tippers / Hobart’s Transformation, Shenandoah Falls / Straddling the Muffin-Biscuit Line / self / 2008
Pharis & Jason Romero / Hillbilly Blues / A Passing Glimpse / Lula / 2011
Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
Charlie Sizemore Band / Alison’s Band / Good News / Rebel / 2007
Wade Mainer & The Sons of the Mountaineers / Poor Drunkard’s Dream / Bluegrass Early Cuts: 1931-1953 / JSP / c. 1940, 2004
Tim O’Brien / Mother Mary / Chicken & Egg / WOMON / 2010
The Morgantown Rounders / Uncle Ned / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
Nadine Landry & Stephen “Sammy” Lind / Tippy Toeing / Granddad’s Favorite / self / 2010
Ricky Skaggs / This World Is Not My Home / Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family / 2009
Butch Baldassari & David Schnaufer / Tater Patch / Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer / Sound Art / 2006
Lonesome River Band / Goodbye Wheeling / Still Learning / Rural Rhythm / 2010
Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / A Few Words / 10 Years of European World Bluegrass / Strictly Country / 2006, 2008
Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Pacific Time / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
Delia Bell & Bill Grant / It’ll Be Me / The Cheer of the Home Fires / Rounder / 1984
Jeremy Kittell / Blackberry Blossom; Sing, Sing, Sing / Roaming / Fiddlesticks / 2003
Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Dixie Hoedown / Best of the Best / Gusto / c. 1961, 2005
Paul Williams / Living the Right Life Now / Just a Little Closer / Rebel / 2010
Dixie Bee Liners / Albion Road / Susanville / Pinecastle / 2009
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Top 10 Newer Bluegrass Songs as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited

2011-09-22T10:56:00.000-04:00

Top Ten Bluegrass Songs
as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited by
The Black Diamond Show
WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT
Period Ending 9/20/11

1) Grasstowne, Anchor in the Storm
2) The Gibson Brothers, Love Nobody But You
3) Alison Krauss & Union Station, On the Outside Looking In
4) John Reischman & The Jaybirds, Consider Me Gone
5) The Hillbenders, Red Stains
6) Donna Ulisse, Let it Rain
7) Travis Chandler & Avery County, Black Dust Fever
8) April Verch, Durang's Hornpipe (If I'm allowed to list her!)
9) Scott Anderson, Can't you Hear me Calling
10) Audie Blaylock & Redline, Cry Cry Darlin'
11) 23 String Band, Raleigh & Spencer (in case April Verch doesn't count for BU charting purposes!)

The Black Diamond Show also reports actual airplay to folkradio.org and the new Bluegrass Today chart. (Launching soon. This will be a rebranding of the site known as The Bluegrass Blog.)

Black Diamond Show on WNHU: 2nd Anniversary Playlist!

2011-09-12T13:00:00.000-04:00

This week's show marks the 2nd anniversary of the Black Diamond Show on WNHU! Thanks to Bryan Lane, station manager, the University of New Haven, and all the student staff for helping make this show possible!

This week's show contains a mixture of old favorites and new favorites. April Verch's new CD is pretty darn good! We play her version of Durang's Hornpipe, a combination of an American and a Canadian version. Great stuff.

Thanks, as always, for your support of bluegrass, old-time, and other traditional country music--and of WNHU!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers / Dark Hollow / Ramblin’ Bluegrass / Starday / 1972
• The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to My Last Dollar / self / 2010
• Tater Patch / Indian Ate the Woodchuck / Courthouse Blues Remanded / Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., Dover, DE / 2007
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Saro Jane / ‘Tis Sweet to be Remembered / Columbia Legacy / 1964, 1997
• Fly By Night String Band / Cowboy’s Dream / Fly By Night String Band / Fretless / 1980
• Hot Rize / The Man in the Middle / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish / 1980
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Take Me Back to Tulsa / The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947 / Bairele / 1935, 2007
• The White Brothers & Alan Munde / Soldier’s Joy, Black Mountain Rag / New Kentucky Colonels Live in Sweden / Rounder / 1973, 1976
• The Stanley Brothers / Pig in a Pen / Long Journey Home: The Stanley Brothers of Virginia, Volume 2 / County / 1964, 1973 / That LP is my favorite Stanley Brothers recording of all time. Recorded by Ray Davis for his Wango label, then licensed to County.
• Bluegrass Album Band / One Tear / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1982, 1986
• Robin & Linda Williams / Maybelle’s Guitar and Monroe’s Mandolin / Buena Vista / Red House / 2008
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / I’ll Love Nobody But You / Best of the Best / Gusto / c. 1962, 2005
• Brad Leftwich & Linda Higginbotham / No One To Bring Home Tonight / County / 1984
• The Gibson Brothers / I’ll Love Nobody But You / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Wayne Hancock / Brother Music, Sister Rhythm / Tulsa / Bloodshot / 2006
• Bryan Bowers / Zen Gospel Singing / By Heart / Flying Fish / 1981
• The Honey Dewdrops / 1918 / If the Sun Will Shine / self / 2009
• Debbie Durant & Mandorichard / House of Gold / Mandocast 09 / self / 2006
• The Percolators / Kansas City Reel / Alive in Prague! / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004
• Doc Watson, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Vassar Clements, Junior Huskey, et al. / Tennessee Stud / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
• Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Sam Bush, Butch Robins, Vassar Clements, David Holland, Jethro Burns / Oconee / Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Sam Bush, Butch Robins, Vassar Clements, David Holland, Jethro Burns / Flying Fish / 1975
• Donna Ulisse / The Trouble With You / Walk This Mountain Down / Hadley Music Group / 2008
• Merle Travis / Sixteen Tons / In Boston / Rounder / 1959, 2003
• The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / No Curb Service / Early Bluegrass / RCA / 1954, 1969
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Uncle Pen / American Roots Music / Palin Pictures / 1950, 2001
• Hot Mud Family / No School Bus in Heaven / Buckeyes in the Briar Patch / Vetco / 1975
• David Grisman / Opus 38 / Early Dawg / Sugar Hill / c. 1972, 1980
• Del McCoury Band / Zero to Love / It’s Just the Night / McCoury Music / 2003
• Travers Chandler & Avery County / Let Me Fall / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
• Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Matt Glaser, Evan Stover, Russ Barenburg / Ashokan Farewell / The Civil War - Traditional American Songs And Instrumental Music Featured In The Film By Ken Burns: Original Soundtrack Recording / Nonesuch / 1990
• Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / Weathervane Waltz / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / ‘Til the End of the World Rolls Round / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1954, 1977
• Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / These Old Prison Bars / Canyoneers / Dog Boy / 2003
• Rose Maddox with the Vern Williams Band / Rusty Old Halo / This is Rose Maddox / Arhoolie / 1981
• April Verch / Durang’s Hornpipe / That’s How We Run / Slab Town / 2011
• Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers / Save It, Save It / Early Bluegrass / RCA / 1954, 1969
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show: Labor Day Playlist 9/5/11 WNHU

2011-09-07T17:37:00.001-04:00

Good to be back on the air. The 2nd half hour featured a lot of the artists I saw last weekend at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival. But tracks snuck in at other times too..... For example, it was fun to play a track from the Stairwell Sisters right next to a track from an old LP the Green Grass Cloggers put out in 1986--Evie, the banjoist for the Sisters, said that if I look closely at the cover from that old LP, I'd see her as a little girl at that show! I love that old-time dance music!

On another note, effective this week, I'll start reporting our music to a newer bluegrass charting project, one based on actual airplay. It will be launching soon at http://www.bluegrasstoday.com -- I'm excited about this project -- I much prefer a charting project based on airplay than one in which I try to guess what the show's audience likes!

We are still reporting our playlists to the FolkDJ-L email list and its Web site: http://folkradio.org/

But enough chit-chat. Here's the playlist for the show that aired on M 9/5 and that will restream on the WNHU2 stream at http://www.wnhu.net at 10pm EDT on Th 9/8.

Thanks, as always, for your support of WNHU and of bluegrass & traditional country music.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Consider Me Gone / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
The Johnson Mountain Boys / Roll On Blues / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
Travers Chandler & Avery County / Stoned at the Jukebox / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010
Nate Grower / Fire on the Mountain / Nate Grower / Patuxnet Music / 2010
Mark Graham & Orville Johnson / The Last Words / The Kings of Mongrel Folk / self / 2005
Mark Tamsula & Richard Withers / The Horse Called Rover / Up in the Batten House / Snappin' Bug / 2011
Donna Ulisse / High in the Sky for Me / Holy Water / Hadley Music Group / 2010
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant / Midnight Ramble / Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming guitars Of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant / Razor & Tie / c. 1955, 1995
Bill Keith / Pain in My Heart / Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass / Rounder / 1975
Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Lonesome Pine Breakdown / Bluegrass Early Cuts 1931-1953 / JSP / 1951, 2004
Ralph Stanley / Clinch Mountain Backstep / Great High Mountain / Rebel / 2004
David Peterson & 1946 / I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
Foghorn Stringband / Pretty Little Dog / Rattlesnake Tidal Wave / self / 2002
Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top Xpress / West Virginia My Home / Try a Little Kindness / Rounder / 2006
The Stairwell Sisters / Chased Old Satan / The Stairwell Sisters / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2003 / Song AKA Starry Crown
Claire Lynch Band / A Little Further in the Hole / 10 Years of European World Bluegrass / Strictly Country / 2007, 2008 / Recorded in Holland
April Verch / Fork Creek River / Steal the Blue / Slab Town / 2008
Waylon Jennings / Are you sure Hank Done it this way? / Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / New West / 1975, 2010
Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Country Waltz / Bill Monroe / unlicensed European bootleg / 1951, c. 1974
Chris Stuart / Saro / Angels of Mineral Springs / Backcountry / 2002
Country Gazette / Saro Jane / Hello Operator / Flying Fish / 1990
John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Bitterroot Waltz / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
Coty Hogue / A Few Old Memories / To the West / Cello Room Productions / 2009
Finders & Youngberg / Tomorrow Night / FY5 / self / 2011
Double Decker String Band / Salty Dog / Ther Marimac Anthology: Deep in Old-Time Music / Rounder / c. 1988, 1996
Chris Hillman &, Herb Peterson / Sin City / At Edward's Barn / Rounder / 2010
Hank Thompson / Wake Up Irene / Vintage Collections: Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys / Capitol Nashville / 1953,1996
The Lee Boys & The Travelin' McCourys / Walking in Jerusalem Just Like John / Merlefest 2010 Live for the Bluegrass Trust, Volume 2 / Festivalink / 2010
Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, & Matt Glaser / Marching Through Georgia / The Civil War - Traditional American Songs And Instrumental Music Featured In The Film By Ken Burns: Original Soundtrack Recording / Nonesuch / 1990
Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Goodbye Old Pal / Anthology / MCA / c. 1965, 2003 / Couldn't find the recording date or session information for this recording. 1965 is a guess based on what it sounds like. Monroe first recorded the song in 1946, after he purchased the rights from Cliff Carlisle.
Scott Anderson / Can't You Hear Me Calling? / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011 / One of my favorite new versions of this Monroe song!
Wayne Hancock / Thunderstorms & Neon Signs / Thunderstorms & Neon Signs / Deja Disc / 1995
The New Pilot Mountaineers / Yellow Rose of Texas / Down the Road / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2001
The Green Grass Cloggers with Phil Jamison, banjo / Ladies' Routine danced to Rachel's Rent / Through the Ears / Rounder / 1986
The Stairwell Sisters / Crockett's Honeymoon & Waldorf Reel / The Stairwell Sisters / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2003
Darin & Brooke Aldridge / I Thought I'd Seen It All / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Mountain Home / 2010
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Irene knocks Black Diamond Show off the air today (8/29)

2011-08-29T10:17:00.003-04:00

WNHU and most of the University of New Haven campus are still without electricity today. The Black Diamond Show will not air today. But please do check out our list of Labor Day Festivals. We expect to be back on the air with a new show on Labor Day!
Thanks for your support.

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 8/22/11

2011-08-28T22:38:00.001-04:00

Don't forget to consult our list of Labor Day festivals!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Country Gazette / Right Before My Eyes / Bluegrass Tonight / Flying Fish / 1986
• David Peterson & 1946 / Cold Wind / David Peterson & 1946 / self / 2008
• The Boiled Buzzards / Grey-Haired Dancing Girls / Old-Time Music on the Air / Rounder /1996
• Charlie Sizemore Band / Hey Moon / Good News / Rounder / 2007
• Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1946, 1978
• Sons of the West / Panhandle Shuffle / Wizards of the Country Guitar / JSP / 1941, 2011
• Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / So Happy I’ll Be / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury / 1958, 2003
• Guy Clark / Homegrown Tomatoes / Better Days / Warner Brothers / 1983, 2005
• Three Ring Circle / B Funky / Brothership / Reso Revolution / 2011
• Sam Bush, David Grisman, Ronnie McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, Buck White, Bobby Osborne, & Frank Wakefield with Del McCoury (gtr) / Dusty Miller / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza / Acoustic Disc / 1999
• The String Fingers Band / Has the Whole Darn World Gone Mad? / Don’t Forget / Railroad Crossing / 2011
• Katie Wilson / Seashells on the Shore / Katie Wilson / self / 2009
• Phil Rosenthal / All the Good Times Are Past & Gone / A Treasury of Bluegrass & Country Songs / American Melody / 2009
• Mark Tamsula & Richard Withers / The Corn-Huskers / Up in the Batten House / Snappin' Bug / 2011
• Lonesome River Band / She’s No Lady / The Road With No End / Mountain Home Music / 2006
• Mark Dvorak / Reuben You Can Play Your Banjo / Time Ain’t Got Nothing on Me / Waterbug / 2011
• Hot Mud Family / Cabri Waltz / Buckeyes in the Brian Patch / Vetco / 1975
• Kathy Mattea / Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia, Wildwood Flower / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
• Audie Blaylock & Redline / Cry Cry Darlin’ / I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / One Door Man / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• The Leake County Revelers / Leather Britches / The Cornshcuckers’ Frolic / Yazoo / 1927, 1999
• Brown’s Ferry Four / If We Never Meet Again / Merle Travis: Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1946 / 2003
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Snow Drop / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• Rhonda Vincent / Tonight My Baby’s Coming Home / Taken / Upper Management / 2010
• Willie Nelson / Seaman’s Blues / Country Music / Rounder / 2010
• Blue Flam String Band / Crowly Waltz / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / 1996
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / I Like Trains / Y’all Come: The Essential Jim & Jesse / Sony BMG / 1969, 1998
• The Stanley Brothers / Life’s Railway to Heaven / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1965, 2000
• Reed Island Rounders / Jenny on the Railroad / Hand Me Downs / Burning Wolf / 2006
• Red June / Home Is A Railroad / Remember Me Well / self / 2010
• Josh Graves & Kenny Baker / High Country / The Puritan Sessions / Rebel / 1973, 1989
• The Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Dig a Little Deeper / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
• Johnson Mountain Boys / It Don’t Bring You Back to Me / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Blue Bonnet Lane / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1973, 2006
• Toby Stroud & The Blue Mountain Boys / Tragic Romance / Early Bluegrass Cuts 1931-1953 / JSP / 1953, 2004
• Sarah Jarosz / Fischer Store Road / Song Up In Her Head / Sugar Hill / 2009
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Selected Labor Day Bluegrass Festivals in the Northeastern United States

2011-08-22T12:27:00.007-04:00

To some, Labor Day weekend means "last chance for vacation." For others, it means "another soccer tournament." But it also means "lots of great bluegrass (and other) festivals." Here are links to information about 6 festivals I've mentioned on the Black Diamond Show. OK, strictly speaking, 2 of them are not quite bluegrass festivals, but these are all great places to go for Labor Day! All of these festivals are a day's drive or less from the greater New Haven area. Check out a festival! Support the music live!

County Bluegrass Festival, Fort Fairfield, ME. National and regional acts about as far north as you can go and still be in the USofA!

Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, Woodstown, NJ. An amazing lineup of national acts to celebrate their 40th Anniversary.

Fiddlin' Bear Labor Day Musicians' Gathering, Lake Genero, Hamlin, PA. Old-time musicians love this gathering. Very little is organized--just people playing and playing and playing--and listening to each other and having a great time.

North Branch Bluegrass Festival, Bridgewater, VT. This looks like a fun little "regional" festival--spaghetti dinners, jamming, song-writer's contest, and lots of regional bands from New England.

Rhythm & Roots Festival, Charlestown, RI. This used to be a cajun AND bluegrass festival. Now cajun, creole, old-time, zydeco--if it's "folk" and it's danceable, you'll hear it there and get to dance to it, too.

Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Special, Brunswick, ME. A great line-up of national acts "where the music meets the sea."

List of Podunk Bluegrass Contest Winners AND Playlist for 8/15/11 Black Diamond Show (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

2011-08-14T22:54:00.004-04:00

First off, congrats to the winners in the Band and Songwriter Contests at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival, held the weekend of August 6 and 7 in East Hartford:
Band Contest:
1st - Travers Chandler and Avery County
2nd - Reunion Hill Band
3rd - The Grass Pistols
4th - Grace Adele & the Grand Band
5th - Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys

Songwriter Contest:
1st - Andrea Asprelli for Remington
2nd - Mary Muncey
3rd - Peter Nesbut

This week’s show includes a couple of tracks from Avery County’s latest CD and a couple of tracks from Terry McGill’s 2001 CD—Terry was the banjo player Travers Chandler brought north with him.

Streaming issues were repaired on Monday morning—so online listeners can listen noon-2pm on Monday or catch the repeat Thursday, August 18 on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net from 10pm to midnight EDT.

Here’s this week’s playlist. Thanks for your support of bluegrass & traditional country music—and for your support of WNHU.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• The Downtown Ramblers / I Never Planned / On the Other Side of the City / DTR Music Productions / 2011
• Art Stamper / Jenny Lind / Goodbye Girls I’m Going to Boston / County / 2000
• The 23 String Band / Raleigh & Spencer / Catch 23 / self / 2011
• Toby Stroud & The Blue Mountain Boys / Jesse James / Bluegrass Early Cuts: 1931-1953 / JSP / 1953, 2004
• Katie Wilson / The Weeping Widow / Katie Wilson / self / 2010 / Podunk Bluegrass Band Winner 2010
• Terry McGill / Bright Morning Stars / Straight Drive / Cabinwood / 2001
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / The Girl I Left Behind Me / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1941, 2006
• The Freight Hoppers / Kentucky Whiskey / Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go? / Rounder / 1996 / David Bass, fiddle, Frank Lee, Banjo, duet
• Buzz Busby / Me and the Jukebox / 30 Essential Bluegrass Hits / Gusto / 1958, 2003
• Travers Chandler & Avery County / Mandolin Tango / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010 / A Buzz Busby composition from the Podunk Bluegrass Band Winner 2011
• Terry McGill / Honky-Tonk Blues / Straight Drive / Cabinwood / 2001
• Debbie Watson / Big Hair Down in Texas / Big Hair Down in Texas / Big Hair / 2005
• Charlie Sizemore Band / The Less That I Drink / Good News / Rounder / 2007
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Yonder Stands Little Maggie / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963
• Kitty Wells / It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / The Devil’s Rejects (Soundtrack) / HIP-O / 1952, 2005
• Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers / Chalk Up Another One / Early Bluegrass / RCA / 1954, 1969
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Sunday Morning Christian / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008
• Chance McCoy & the Appalachian String Band / Dance All Night / Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Appalachian Music Group / 2008
• Critton Hollow String Band / April Waltz / The Dulcimer Collection / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 1988, 2005
• Larry Sparks / The Old Coal Mine / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music / 2007
• Travers Chandler & Avery County / Black Dust Fever / State of Depression / Patuxnet Music / 2010 / Winner of the 2011 Podunk Bluegrass Band Contest
• Merle Travis / Dark As A Dungeon / In Boston / Rounder / 1959, 2003
• Valerie Smith / In Those Mines / That’s What Love Can Do / Bell Buckle / 2005
• Big Medicine / Hell Up Coal Holler / Fever In the South / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004
• Red Molly / Coal Tattoo / Never Been To Vegas / self / 2006
• The Steeldrivers / East Kentucky Home / The Steeldrivers / Rounder / 2009
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Keep Your Eyes on Jesus / Help is on the Way / Horizon / 2008
• Spring Creek / Blue Sky Blue Water / Hold on Me / self / 2011
• Wolfe Brothers / Grey Eagle / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
• The Gibson Brothers / One Car Funeral / Help My Borther / Compass / 2011
• Spring Creek / Kimono Cowboy / Hold on Me / self / 2011
• Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Going to the West / Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Rounder / 1999
• Red June / San Juan Hill / Remember Me Well / self / 2010
• Wayne Hancock / Goin’ Home Blues / Tulsa / Bloodshot / 2006
• Newfound Road / I Am the Man Thomas / Same Old Place / Rounder / 2009
• David Holt / Fisherman’s Hornpipe / Doc Watson, David Holt, & Richard Watson at the Philadelphia Folk Festival / Festivalink / 2007
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist for 8/8/11 Black Diamond Show (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

2011-08-11T23:51:00.001-04:00

It's late, but here's this week's playlist! Thanks for your support.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• The Steeldrivers / Can You Run / Reckless / Rounder / 2010
• The Morgantown Rounders / Going Across the Sea / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Dailey & Vincent / Class of ’57 /Dailey and Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Hot Club of Cowtown / Joe-Bob Rag / Tall Tales / Hightone, Shout! / 1999
• Nashville Bluegrass Band / No Hiding Place / Bluegrass Class of 1990 / Rounder / 1987, 1990
• Jane Rothfield with Jimmy McCowan / Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho / iFiddle, they Banjo / iFiddle / 2008
• The Gibson Brothers / Jericho / Ring the Bell / Compass / 2009
• Lonesome Redwing / Harleys in Heaven / Fly, Fly, Fly / self / 2009
• Lonesome Redwing / Ook-Pik Waltz / Fly, Fly, Fly / self / 2009
• The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to My Last Dollar / self / 2011
• Matt Brown & Beverly Smith / Barbara Allen / Lone Prairie / 5-String Productions / 2006
• The Stanley Brothers / Sunny Side of the Mountain / The Best of the Stanley Brothers / Starday / 1960, 1975
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / She Left Me Standing on the Mountain / Bluegrass Special / Columbia (Epic) / 1963
• Big Medicine / I Know Whose Tears / Fever In the South / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004
• Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers / I’ve Got Those Oklahoma Blues / Wizards of Country Guitar: Selected Sides 1935-1955 / JSP / 1936, 2011
• Jimmy Martin & various artists / Sunny Side of the Mountain / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
• Newfound Road / I Am the Man, Thomas / Same Old Place / Rounder / 2009
• Hot Mud Family / Two Wide Nickels / The Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1978, 2010
• David Peterson & 1946 / The Butcher Boy / David Peterson & 1946 / self / 2008
• The Georgia Mudcats / Willow Garden / Barefoot In The Hen House And Other Southern Delights / self / 2007
• The Kentucky Colonels / Chicken Reel / Long Journey Home / Vanguard / 1964
• Riley Puckett / Careless Love / Riley Puckett: Country Music Pioneer / JSP / 1934, 2011
• Roland White / Marathon: Love Come Home, 9 Pound Hammer, Shackles & Chains, Live & Let Live, Doin’ My Time, Sittin’ on top of the World / I Wasn't Born to Rock'n'Roll (But I Love to Cook) / Ridgerunner / 1976
• Red State Ramblers / Yellow Barber / Commonwealth / Old 97 / 2009
• Red Clay Ramblers / The Golden Vanity / Stolen Love / Flying Fish / 1975
• Acoustic Blue / I’ll Break Out Again Tonight / This is Now / self / 2009
• Old & In the Way / Kissimee Kid / Breakdown / Acoustic Disc / 1973, 1997
• Bill Emerson / Coast to Coast / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / You’ll Find Her Name / The Road West / Corvus / 2005
• David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / I’ve Been All Around This World / Two Dimes and a Nickel / Rebel / 2009
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Red Hot Gal of Mine / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1938, 2006
• Merle Travis / Saturday Night Shuffle / In Boston / Rounder / 1959, 2003
• Grasstowne / Anchor in the Storm / Kickin’ Up Dust / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• The Dillards / I’ll Fly Away / Wheatstraw Suite / Collector’s Choice / 1968, 2002
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist for 8/1/11 Black Diamond Show: Podunk Preview (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

2011-07-31T22:12:00.004-04:00

This week's show features artists who will be appearing at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in East Hartford Th 8/4 - Su 8/7. Yours truly is planning to make the trek to the festival on Sunday Aug. 7. I'll be the grey-bearded fellow in a dirty AC Milan baseball hat trying not to spend $300 on CDs and other merchandise. It should be fun all four days!

The show will air on WNHU on Mon Aug 1, noon-2pm EDT (88.7 FM in West Haven, CT and on the WNHU stream on www.wnhu.net), and is scheduled to re-stream Thu Aug 4, 10pm-midnight on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net.

Thanks for your support of bluegrass & traditional country music -- and of WNHU!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Midnight Train / Southern / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• Border Radio / When I Get My Rewards / Americana Brand / Okie Pie / 2002
• Del McCoury Band / Goldbrickin’ / Del and the Boys / McCoury Music / 2001
• The Dixie Bee-Liners / Yellow-Haired Girl / The Dixie Bee-Liners at Merlefest / Festivalink / 2009
• The Double Decker String Band / Cotton-Eyed Joe / The Rest Is Yet to Come / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Mac McHale & The Radio Gang / Remember Me / Joe Val Bluegrass Festival / YouTube / 2011
• The Fitzmaurice Band / California / The Fitzmaurice Band (EP) / Infidel / 2009
• Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / My Old Kentucky Home / Civil War Memories / Wango / 2005
• The Dixie Bee-Liners / Albion Road / Susanville / Pinecastle / 2009
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Waiting to Hear You Call My Name / One Dime at a Time / Rebel / 2005
• Mountain Heart / Little Sadie / That Just Happened / MH Music / 2010
• Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Backstep Sally Ann / The Room Over Mine / Rounder / 2008
• Katie Wilson / More than Love / Katie Wilson / self / 2010
• The Steep Canyon Rangers / Pickin’ on Josh / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2007
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / Cowboys Ain’t Supposed to Cry / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2000, 2009
• Mountain Heart / Ramblin’ Heart / No Other Way / Skaggs Family / 2007
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Goin’ Up Dry Branch / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / My Dying Bed / The High Lonesome Sound of Bill Monroe / MCA / 1952, 1973
• Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Wayfaring Stranger / I’ll Go With You / Pinecastle / 2009
• The Kruger Brothers / Jack of the Wood / Merlefest 2010 / Festivalink / 2010
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Gone at Last / Drive Time / Mountain Home / 2011
• Katie Wilson / Beacon / Katie Wilson / self / 2010
• Michael Cleveland & Jesse Brock / Jerusalem Ridge / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008
• John Cowan & Jim Hurst / Starry Night / I’ll Take Love: Songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
• Donna Ulisse / Let it Rain / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Corn / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Mountain Home / 2010
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / Draw for 5 / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Donna Ulisse / Faith is a Journey / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• Louisa Branscomb & Joe Zauner / This Side of Heaven (excerpt) / The Bluegrass Blog / YouTube / 2011
• The Whites / This Side of Heaven / I’ll Take Love: Songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / One of These Days / Help is on the Way / Horizon / 2008
• Darin & Brooke Aldridge / I Thought I’d Seen it All / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Mountain Home / 2010
• Hank Williams / Why Don’t You Love Me? / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1950, 1978
• Jimmy Martin / You Don’t Know My Mind / Don’t Cry to Me / Thrill Jockey / 2000, 2004 / Recorded live at Bean Blossom in 2000.
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show: 7/25/11 Meet the Quebe Sisters

2011-07-25T08:30:00.005-04:00

This week's show features the usual mix of bluegrass--old & new, old-time, western swing, and traditional country music--with a bit more emphasis on the cowboy/cowgirl side of the family than usual.

The second half hour kicks off with a Bob Wills number, then rolls on into an interview with the Quebe Sisters as they get ready to foray deep into New England. This coming weekend: they'll be at the Lowell Folk Festival, Fr 7/29, Sa 7/30, and Su 7/31 (http://www.lowellfolkfestival.org/ for more info)--one of the best free folk festivals in the USofA. If you can make a trip to Lowell, MA, to see them, I'd urge you to do so--and there will be a lot of other great musicians there as well!

Who are the Quebe Sisters? Hulda, Sophia, and Grace play trip fiddle harmonies the ol' Texas way, and sing sweet three-part harmonies as if they were the Andrews Sisters. If you're not familiar with them, tune in today at about 12:33pm EDT (or Thursday at about 10:33pm EDT during the 10pm-midnight replay on the WNHU2 stream on www.wnhu.net) to hear some of their music and to meet them on the air.

Here's this week's playlist. Thanks for your support of bluegrass and traditional country music--and of WNHU!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• The Bluegrass Album Band / I’d Rather Be Alone / The Bluegrass CD, col. 2 / Rounder / 1983, 1987
• Merle Travis / Start Even / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1949, 2003
• New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / The Belles of Lexington / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
• Audie Blaylock & Redline / Out in the Cold World / I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• David Peterson / A Passion for Souls / Jesus Use Me / Zion Mountain Music / 1996
• Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant / Arkansas Traveler / Wizards of Country Guitar / JSP / 1953, 2011
• Charlie Sizemore / Alison’s Band / Good News / Rebel / 2007
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / Miles to Go / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• The Rice Brothers / Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right / Bluegrass Goes to Town / Rounder / 1992, 2002
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Stay a Little Longer / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1945, 2006
• The Quebe Sisters Band / Shame on You / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007
• Grace, Sophia, and Hulda Quebe / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
• The Quebe Sisters Band / Every Whichaway / QuebeSistersBand Channel / YouTube / 2009
• The Quebe Sisters Band / Red Wing / Texas Fiddlers / self / 2003
• The Quebe Sisters Band / Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007
• The Sons of the West / My Prairie Queen / Wizards of Country Guitar / JSP / 1941, 2011
• Perfect Strangers / Canned by the Best / Perfect Strangers / Rebel / 2003
• Kenny Baker / Make a Little Boat / Master Fiddler / County / 1977, 1993
• David Peterson & 1946 / Wall Around Your Heart / The Howling Blue Winds / Zion Mountain Music / 2003
• Hot Mud Family / Blue Night / The Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1978, 2010
• Mark Tamsula & Richard Withers / Black-Eyed Susie / Up in the Batten House / Snappin’ Bug / 2011
• Dale Ann Bradley / 50 Miles of Elbow Room / Don’t Turn Your Back / Compass / 2009
• Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen / Paddy, Won’t You Drink Some Cider? / Riley Puckett: Country Music Pioneer / JSP / 1928, 2011
• Seldom Scene / Please Be With Me / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill / 2007
• New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / Chapel Hill Serenade / Welcome to Galax / Heritage / 2011
• Doc Watson / The Cat Came Back / Doc Watson, David Holt, & Richard Watson at the Philadelphia Folk Festival / Festivalink / 2007
• Karl Shiflett & the Big Country Show / Another Day / In Full Color / Rebel / 2001
• Dailey & Vincent / Don’t You Call My Name / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Boone Creek / Walkin’ In Jerusalem / Boone Creek / Rounder / 1977
• Rayna Gellert & Susie Goehring / Katie Bar the Door / Starch & Iron / Heard her Squeal / 2005
• Blue Moon Rising / Freight Train / One Lonely Shadow / Lonesome Day / 2008
• The Stanley Brothers / Rabbit in a Log / Long Journey Home / County / 1964, 1973
• Lonesome River Band / Red Bandana / Still Learning / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / No Curb Service / Early Bluegrass / RCA / 1954, 1969
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist and Notes for July 18 Black Diamond Show on WNHU

2011-07-17T20:53:00.006-04:00

Each half hour of the July 18 show has a distinct character. The first half hour is given over to a tribute to Kenny Baker, the bluegrass fiddler who passed away on July 8. For more information see his Wikipedia entry or the obituaries listed in last week’s post.

In the second half hour, we’re joined by John Reischman to talk about the new CD from his band, “John Reischman & the Jaybirds: Vintage & Unique.”

In the third half hour, David Peterson joins us to talk about his visit to Guitar Town up in Hamden, CT, on July 26.

Then in the last half hour, we return to our tribute to Kenny Baker.

When I briefly go over a few concert and festival listings, I mention the 25th annual Lowell Folk Festival. It’s FREE. July 29-31 in Lowell, MA. Of interest to Black Diamond Show fans are scheduled performances by Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper and by the Quebe Sisters Band.

The show is scheduled to re-stream on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net on Thursday, July 21, from 10pm-midnight EDT.
Hope you get a chance to hear this show! Reischman and Peterson both give fascinating interviews—and you can’t go wrong with Kenny Baker on the fiddle!

Thanks for your support of bluegrass and traditional country music and of WNHU.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Uncle Pen / Bean Blossom / Geffen / 1973 / First song in our tribute to Kenny Baker, long-time fiddler with Monroe. Kenny Baker 1926-2011.
• Kenny Baker / Jerusalem Ridge / Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe / County / 1977
• Russell Moore, Dale Ann Bradley, John Miller, Dale Perry, Jesse Brock, Ron Stewart, & Michael Cleveland / Sailing On / Look to the Light: Songs of Faith / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• Kenny Baker & Joe Greene / High Country / High Country / County / 1967, 1968
• Josh Graves & Kenny Baker / Carroll County Blues / The Puritan Sessions / Rebel / 1973, 1989
• Becky Schlegel & Jim Hurst / Extra Blue / I’ll Take Love: Songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
• Kenny Baker / Daley’s Reel / Master Fiddler / County / 1970, 1993
• The Nashville Bluegrass Band / When I Get Where I’m Going / Nashville Bluegrass Band: Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 1993, 2007
• Josh Graves & Kenny Baker / Snowbird / The Puritan Sessions / Rebel / 1973, 1989
• John Reischman / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / The First Whippoorwill / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
• Butch Baldassari, Robin Bullock, & John Reischman / Little Jacky Wilson / Travellers / Sound Art / 1999
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Gabriel’s Call / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / The Cypress Hills / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
• David Peterson & 1946 / I’ll Still Write Your Name in the Sand / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
• David Peterson / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
• David Peterson / Brush Arbor Meeting / Jesus Use Me / Zion Mountain Music / 1996
• David Peterson & 1946 / 1946 / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
• David Peterson / Comin’ On Strong / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009
• The Mayfield Brothers / Pardon My Whiskers While I Kiss You Goodnight / Vintage Recordings 1948-1956 / Patuxnet Music / 1956, 2006
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys with Jim and Jesse / I Wonder Where You Are Tonight / Bean Blossom / Geffen / 1973
• Kenny Baker / Gold Rush / Master Fiddler / County / 1970, 1993
• Phil Rosenthal / Down The Road / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009
• Kenny Baker & Bobby Hicks / Panhandle Country / Darkness on the Delta / County / 1980
• Kenny Baker & Joe Green / Callahan / High Country / County / 1967, 1968
• Josh Graves & Kenny Baker / Deep Elem Blues / Puritan Sessions / Rebel / 1973, 1989
• Kenny Baker / On the Road to Columbus / Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe / County / 1977
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Uncle Pen / Anthology / MCA / 1972, 2003
• Kenny Baker / First Day In Town / Master Fiddler / County / c. 1972, 1993
• Mark O’Connor with Kenny Baker / Jerusalem Ridge / Heroes / Warner Brothers / 1993 / Ended today’s show with this tune that we all associate with Kenny Baker. This version with Mark O’Connor shows that Baker’s fiddle legacy will continue to live on in future generations.

Playlist for the Black Diamond Show: July 11, 2011

2011-07-11T10:16:00.005-04:00

Next week's show will include a feature in tribute to Kenny Baker, the great bluegrass fiddler, who just passed away: Post-Gazette obituary; Tennesean obituary. Some of my favorite records--not just by Bill Monroe--included Kenny Baker on the fiddle.

Back to this week's show.....

The feature in today's show is a great interview with Donna Ulisse--she's about to depart on a brief tour of Russia, then she'll be back in the US in time to appear at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in East Hartford.

Thanks for your support of bluegrass and traditional country music--and of WNHU.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• David Peterson / Red Rocking Chair / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
• Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch / I’ll Fly Away / O, Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack / Mercury Nashville / 2000
• Longview / Cotton-eyed Joe / Deep in the Mountains / Rounder / 2008
• Hank Williams / Mind Your Own Business / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
• Foghorn Stringband / Nobody’s Darling / Reap What You Sow / self / 2004
• Larry Sparks with Vince Gill / Blues Stay Away From Me / 40 / Rebel / 2005
• Ralph Stanley / Shout Little Lulie / Old-Time Pickin’: A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel / c. 1971, 2008
• Mark Graham / Mississippi Sawyer / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / self / c. 1988, 2000.
• Donna Ulisse / Lonesome Without You / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• Donna Ulisse / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
• Donna Ulisse / He Ain’t That / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Donna Ulisse / Black Snake / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• Donna Ulisse / Caney Creek to Canaan Land / Holy Water / Hadley Music Group / 2010
• Donna Ulisse / Let it Rain / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• Big Medicine / Texas Gales, Blackberry Rag / Pine to Pine / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
• Donna Ulisse / When was the Last Time? / Trouble at the Door / Atlantic / 1991
• Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / Desert Trails / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy / 2007
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Two of Us / The Road Home – A Tribute to Butch Baldassari / Sound Art / 2009
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Scotland / The Very Best of Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys / MCA Nashville / c. 1968, 2002
• Any Old Time String Band / Hello Stranger / I Bid You Goodnight / Arhoolie / 1980, 1996
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Foggy Mountain Breakdown / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury Nashville / 1958, 2003
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Cherokee Maiden / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1941, 2006
• Simple Gifts / Little Moses / Time and Again / Purple Finch / 1999
• Bill Evans / Lonesome Polka / Bill Evans Plays Banjo / Mighty Fine / 2001
• Dale Ann Bradley / Blue Eyes Boy / Don’t Turn Your Back / Compass / 2009
• Joel Mabus / Sally Gal / American Anonymous / Fossil / 2011
• Tim O’Brien / Stealin’ / The Road Home – A Tribute to Butch Baldassari / Sound Art / 2009
• Norman Blake & Tony Rice / It’s Raining Here This Morning / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder / 1990
• Steve Kaufman / Cold Frosty Medley / The Road Home – A Tribute to Butch Baldassari / Sound Art / 2009
• J.D. Crowe & The New South / I’m Walkin’ / J.D. Crowe & The New South / Rounder / 1974
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Roustabout / The Road West / Corvus / 2005
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

July 4th Edition of the Black Diamond Show on WNHU

2011-07-04T11:12:00.006-04:00

Here's the playlist for the July 4th Black Diamond Show on WNHU. It's not all patriotic music -- but it's all good stuff! Perhaps more old-time than you'd expect, but I really like some of those old fiddle tunes.

Thanks to Scott Anderson and his daughter Amanda for being such gracious guests during the 2nd half-hour of the show. Not often you can get hot banjo tunes out of your neighborhood pharmacist! :-)

One of these days, I'll get around to archiving these interviews we've been doing.... And as long as I'm typing an administrative comment.... I'm going to discontinue my attempts to get you to complete a survey each week about the newer bluegrass music. Most weeks, I'd get 0-1 responses.... Instead, just drop me an email to let me know if there's anything you've heard that you really liked!

Thanks for your support of WNHU and Bluegrass and traditional country music!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Joe Diffie / Tall Cornstalk / Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album / Rounder / 2010
• The Piros / Louisville Breakdown / The Piros / self / 2010 / available from myspace.com/thepiros
• Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Tall Pines / Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Rounder / 1999
• Homer & Jethro / The Sweetest Sounds / It Ain’t Necessarily Square / RCA, Miller International / 1967, ND
• Donna Ulisse / Faith is a Journey / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / When the Saints Go Marching In / The Early Recordings of the Lilly Brothers / County / 1956, 1970
• Leon McAuliffe / Jelly Bean Rag / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1950, 2009
• Red Hen / Sittin’ Alone in the Moonlight / Red Hen Crossing / self / 2009
• “Basement All-Stars” / Battle Hymn of the Republic / Civil War Memories / Wango / 2005
• Scott Anderson / Sorry Song Number Forty-Seven / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
• Scott and Amanda Anderson / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU /2011
• Scott Anderson / Drivin’, Singin’, Cryin’ / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011 / Lead vocal by Amanada Anderson, the song’s composer
• Scott Anderson / Can’t You Hear Me Calling / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
• The Honey Dewdrops / Fly Away Free / If the Sun Will Shine / self / 2009
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / God Loves His Children / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury Nashville / 1958, 2005
• The Warrior River Boys / Fireball Mail / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / 2000
• The Quebe Sisters Band / The Star Spangled Banner / Dallas Mavericks Pregame / YouTube / 2010 / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2rNyz_SAM0
• The Country Gentlemen / Under the Double Eagle / Country Songs Old and New / Folkways / 1960
• Finders & Youngberg / Fiddlin’ to my Grave / FY5 / self / 2011
• Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Two Little Boys / Civil War Memories / Wango / 2005
• Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Guitar Pickin’ President / Sunny Side of the Mountain / Decca / 1965
• The Fuzzy Mountain String Band / Green Willis / The Fuzzy Mountain String Band / Rounder / 1971, 1994
• Johnny Horton / The Battle of New Orleans / Live Recordings from the Louisiana Hayride / Scena / 1959, 2004
• Dry Branch Fire Squad / Faded Coat of Blue / Good Neighbors & Friends / Rounder / 1985
• Happy Johnny and Family / Soldier’s Joy / Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland / Fonotone / 1963, 2005
• David Holt / Soldier’s Joy / Grandfather’s Greatest Hits / High Windy Audio / 1990
• Doc Watson & Clarence White / Soldier’s Joy / Kentucky Colonels: Long Journey Home / Vanguard / 1964, 2006
• Iron Horse / American Joe / Horse and Pen / B Sharp / 2011
• Faron Young / Unmitigated Gall / Golden Hits – American Essentials / Mercury Nashville / 1967, 2001
• Alan Jabbour & Ken Perlman / Washington’s March / Southern Summits / self / 2005
• ShoreGrass / Battle Cry of Freedom / Songs of the Civil War Era / Shaw Family / 2001, 2005
• Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Sunny Home in Dixie / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Wild Asparagus / Congress Reel / Call of the Wild / Great Meadow Music / 1988, 1990
• The Sun Harbor’s Chorus / God Bless America / Documentary Recordings Sampler: Patriotic Music / Documentary Recordings, Amazon.com / 2009
• Johnson Mountain Boys / See God’s Ark A-Movin’ / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
• Larry Sparks with Chris Jones and Don Rigsby / It’s too Late to Walk the Floor / 40 / Rebel / 2005
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show for June 27, 2011 -- WNHU and wnhu.net

2011-06-27T12:46:00.004-04:00

Here's the playlist and program for today's show, featuring an interview with Louisa Branscomb. Survey and more notes coming soon.....

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972
• Donna Ulisse / Lonesome Without You / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• Roland White / Rose City Waltz / The Road Home, A tribute to Butch Baldassari / Sound Art / 2009
• Chris Thile & Mike Daves / 20-20 Vision / Sleep With One Eye Open / Nonesuch / 2011
• Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers / 20-20 Vision / Early Bluegrass / RCA / 1954, 1969
• Brad Leftwich & The Hogwire String Band / Lost Indian / Rascal Fair / Dark Train / 2011
• Sam Bush / East Virgina Blues / The Road Home, A tribute to Butch Baldassari / Sound Art / 2009
• Joel Mabus / Betsy from Pike / American Anonymous / Fossil / 2011
• Charles River Valley Boys / I Saw Her Standing There / Beatle Country / Elektra / 1966
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / Steel Rails / I’ve Got That Old Feeling / Rounder / 1989
• Louisa Branscomb / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
• Dale Ann Bradley with Alison Krauss & Steve Gulley / I’ll Take Love / I’ll Take Love, songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
• Claire Lynch with Jim Hurst / I’m Gonna Love You / I’ll Take Love, songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
• Cheryl White, Sharon White, & Buck White / That’s What Texas Was For / I’ll Take Love, songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
• Dale Ann Bradley and Steve Gulley with Claire Lynch / Surrender / I’ll Take Love, songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
• Josh Williams with Dave Peterson / Wearin’ the Blues / I’ll Take Love, songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
• Dave Peterson with John Cowan / State Line / I’ll Take Love, songs from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb / Compass / 2011
• Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Sweet Potato Rag / The Room Over Mine / Rounder / 2008
• Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers / Come on Little Children / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Greenbrier Hop / Drive Time / Crossroads / 2011
• Dan Crary & Thunderation / Long Journey Home, Reuben’s Train / Perfect Storm / Blue Night / 2011
• Fiddlers ReStrung / Deadwood / Roads Well Travelled / self / 2008
• David Peterson & 1946 / Reno Bound / The Howling Blue Winds / Zion Mountain Music / 2003
• The Montville Project / Waltz: Amelia / The Montville Project: 53 Essential New England Dance Tunes / Montville / 2008
• Steeldrivers / Midnight on the Mountain / Reckless / Rounder / 2010
• Herschel Sizemore / Rebecca / Back in Business / Hay Holler / 1993
• Paul Williams / The Best Time of My Life / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010
• ShoreGrass / A Waltz for You / In Connecticut / Shaw Family / 2001
• Balsam Range / The Other Side / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home Music / 2011
• The Hoover Uprights / Devil Ate the Groundhog / Known for their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Jim & Jesse / Memphis, Tennessee / Y’All Come, The Essential Jim & Jesse / Sony / 1967, 1998
• Jerry Rivers & The Hank Williams Band / Arkansas Traveller / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs: June 23, 2011, as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles

2011-06-23T17:37:00.003-04:00

Below is the report I just submitted, with input from your survey responses, to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles.

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs
Black Diamond Show, WNHU, 88.7 FM
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT
Period ending 6/23/11

01. The Gibson Brothers / Just Lovin' You
02. Balsam Range / Callin' Caroline
03. The Hillbenders / Red Stains
04. Newfound Road / Handsome Molly
05. The Steeldrivers / Reckless Side of Me
06. Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven
07. Kathy Kalick Band / Where is My Little Cabin Home
08. Grasstowne / Kickin' Up Dust
09. John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Goin' Across the Sea
10. Bill Emerson / Don't Come Around
11. Josh Williams / Blue Railroad Train
12. Iron Horse / Mary's Not in Kansas
13. Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking in
14. Lauren Sheehan / Carroll County Blues
15. Big Country Bluegrass / I'm Gonna Walk the Streets of Gold
16. Sierra Hull / Tell Me Tomorrow
17. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Untrue Blues
18. Donna Ulisse / Let it Rain
19. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Together We'll Fly
20. Sierra Hull / The Land of Living

Top 12 Albums (based on listener votes for tracks from the CDs)
01. Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother
02. Balsam Range / Trains I Missed
03. Sierra Hull / Daybreak
04. Alison Krauss & Union Station / Paper Airplane
05. Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking for a Home
06. John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Vintage & Unique
07. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up
08. The Steeldrivers / Reckless
09. (tie) Scott Anderson / Tales from the Swamp
09. (tie) Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties
09. (tie) Bill Emerson / Eclipse
09. (tie) The Hillbenders / Down to My Last Dollar

Thanks for your continued support of bluegrass, traditional country music, and WNHU!

Playlist for 6/20 Black Diamond Show on WNHU

2011-06-20T11:26:00.005-04:00

On today's show, we played a lot more old-time music than usual: two versions of Dunbar, an old version of Wink the Other Eye (played a newer version last week), a track from the new Brad Leftwich CD, and so on. But there was plenty of good Bluegrass, too.

Don't forget to give me feedback on the newer bluegrass heard on today's show. The surveys all include links to samples, where they were available on the day of the show, so that you can remind yourself which song is which. Since it's getting close to time for me to submit my June report to the Bluegrass Authorities (tm), please consider filling in surveys for some of the recent shows, too:

Survey for new bluegrass on 6/6 and 6/13 shows
Survey for new bluegrass on 5/30 show
Survey for new bluegrass on 5/23 show
Survey for new bluegrass on 5/2, 5/9, & 5/16 shows

Today's Black Diamond Show will be repeated on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net on Th, 6/23, from 9-11pm EDT.

Thanks for your support of bluegrass and traditional country music and for WNHU!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972
• Bill Evans / New Black-Eyed Susie / Bill Evans Plays Banjo / Mighty Fine / 2001
• Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / White House Blues / The High Lonesome Sound / 1954, 1973 / fiddle, Charlie Cline; banjo, Rudy Lyle; guitar, Jimmy Martin; bass, Ernie Newton
• Mark Graham & Orville Johnson / Highlander’s Farewell, The Old Shoemaker, Dunbar / The Kings of Mongrel Folk / self / 2005
• The Morgantown Rounders / Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Dale Ann Bradley / Heaven / Don’t Turn Your Back / Compass / 2009
• Scott Anderson / Folsom Prison Blues / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
• Big Medicine / Dunbar / Pine to Pine / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
• Tony Rice Unit / Birdland Breakdown / Still Inside / Rounder / 1981 / with John Reischman, mandolin & composer; Fred Carpenter, fiddle; Todd Phillips, bass
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Troubles / The Road West / Corvus / 2005
• Carpenter & May / Blue and Lonesome / Capenter & May / Violin Shop / 2010
• Lefty Frizzell / You Want Everything But Me / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony / c. 1952, 1997
• Country Gazette / Poison Love / Bluegrass Tonight! / Flying Fish / 1986
• Hack String Band / Wink the Other Eye / Kentucky Music, Part 4 / Yazoo / c. 1930, 2003
• Wayne Hancock / Brother Music, Sister Rhythm / Tulsa / Bloodshot / 2006
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / You Done Me Wrong / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
• Michael Cleveland / Bright and Early / Let ‘Er Go Boys / Rounder / 2006
• Larry Sparks with Dan Tyminski & Alison Krauss / John Deere Tractor / 40 / Rebel / 2005
• Laurie Lewis & Grant Street Stringband / Overdrive / Blue Ribbon Fiddle / Rounder / 1989, 1996
• Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys / Brush and Vines / Some Rust… Runs Good / self / 2000
• Rose Maddox / This Old House / Rose of the West Coast Country / Arhoolie / 1981 / with the Vern Williams Band
• Hank Williams / A House of Gold / The Complete Hank Williams / Mercury Nashville / 1948, 1998 / Due to unclear record-keeping, it’s not clear if this demo was made in late 1948 or early 1949. But a version was released posthumously in 1954.
• Bill Emerson / The Grey Ghost / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• Rabbit in a Log / The Old Home / The Marimac Anthology, Deep In Old-Time Music / Rounder / 1991, 1996
• Ricky Skaggs / Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die / Highways and Heartaches / Epic / 1982
• The Lonesome Strangers / Billy in the Lowground / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1962, 2002
• Benton Flippen & The Smokey Valley Boys / Sail Away Ladies / An Evening at WPAQ / 5-String Productions / 1984, 2008
• Del McCoury & His Dixie Pals / Take Me in Chains / High on a Mountain / Rounder / 1972
• Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree / Daddy of Western Swing, Volume 2, Brownie Special / Proper / 1935, 2003
• Fiddlers ReStrung / Appalachian Joy / Roads Well Travelled / self / 2008
• Fiddlers Restrung / Gator Strut / Heroes! / self / 2010
• Brad Leftwich & The Hogwire String Band / Rabbit in the Lowland / Rascal Fair / Dark Train / 2011
• Tony Rice & Norman Blake / Eight More Miles to Louisville / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder / 1990
• Three Ring Circle / Up and At It / Brothership / Reso Revolution / 2011 / Rob Ickes, Andy Leftwich, Dave Pomeroy
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Why You Do What You Do / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 6/13/11; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

2011-06-12T22:49:00.002-04:00

Here's the playlist for this week's Black Diamond Show. If you missed it airing on Monday 6/13, it will be streamed again on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net Thursday at 9pm EDT.

And, folks, it's getting close to time for me to submit my June report to the Bluegrass Authorities (tm). So please, give me some feedback on the newer bluegrass songs we've played recently:

Survey for new bluegrass on 6/6 and 6/13 shows
Survey for new bluegrass on 5/30 show
Survey for new bluegrass on 5/23 show
Survey for new bluegrass on 5/2, 5/9, & 5/16 shows

Thanks for your support and your feedback! And, now, on to the playlist

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Hard Hearted / In the Tradition / Rounder / 1987
• Foghorn String Band / Wink the Other Eye / Weiser Sunrise / self / 2005
• Warrior River Boys / Be Careful of the Stones You Throw / Sounds Like Home / Rounder / 1992
• Wayne Hancock / I Don’t Care Anymore / Tulsa / Bloodshot / 2006
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Gone at Last / Drive Time / Mountain Home / 2011 / EP
• Red June / Run Boy Run / Remember Me Well / Self / 2010
• Big Country Bluegrass / Wreck on the Highway / The Boys in Hats & Ties / Rebel / 2010
• Merle Travis / Walkin’ the Strings / The Merle Travis Guitar / Capitol / 1959
• Tony Rice / Church Street Blues / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1983, 2009
• Hank Williams / Dear John (alternate) / The Unreleased Recordings / Time-Life / 1951, 2008
• Donna Ulisse / Let it Rain / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, & The Kentuckians / Deep Elem Blues / Bluegrass / Folkways / 1964
• Spectrum / Bye Bye Love / Bluegrass Goes to Town / Rounder / 1981, 2002 / Bela Fleck banjo, Jimmy Gaudreau mandolin, Glenn Laws guitar & lead vocal, Mark Schatz bass
• Doc Watson / Banks of the Ohio / Doc Watson On Stage Featuring Merle Watson / Vanguard / 1971
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / The Old Grove / Vintage & Unique / Corvus / 2011
• Seldom Scene / Mama Tried / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill / 2007
• Sierra Hull / What do you say? / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Scott Anderson / Drivin’, Singin’, Cryin’ / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011 / Song written and sung by his daughter Amanda
• Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Clinch Mountain Backstep / Merlefest Live / Festivalink / 2010 / Steve Sparkman banjo
• The Stanley Brothers / Life’s Railway to Heaven / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1965, 2000
• Blue Moon Rising / The Crime I’m Guilty Of / On the Rise / Lonesome Days / 2005
• E.C. Ball / Pretty Polly / High Atmosphere, Balads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina / Rounder / 1965, 1994 / Collected by John Cohen
• New Lost City Ramblers / Pretty Little Miss / Country Music and Bluegrass at Newport / Vanguard / 1963
• Ronnie Bowman / You Don’t Love Me Anymore / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel / 1993
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Don’t Get Above Your Raising / Bluegrass Super Hits / Columbia Nashville / 1951, 1982
• Sam Bush & Del McCoury / Cattle in the Cane / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza / Acoustic Disc / 1999
• Norman Blake / Are You From Dixie? / Blackberry Blossom / Flying Fish / 1977
• The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to My Last Dollar / self / 2010
• Mark O’Connor with Terry Morris, Texas Shorty, and Benny Thomasson / Sally Johnson / Heroes / Warner Brothers / 1993
• Dale Ann Bradley / Rusty Old Halo / Don’t Turn Back / Compass / 2009
• Tut Taylor / Turnaround / Dobrolic Plectral Society / Takoma / 1976
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / I’m Leaving Town / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm / 2009
• Grasstowne / Kickin’ Up Dust / Kickin’ Up Dust / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• The String Fingers Band / Here and Now Blues / Don’t Forget / Railroad Crossing / 2011
• Albemarle Ramblers / Way Down the Old Plank Road / Gentlemen From Virginia / Merriwether / 2010
• Jerry Rivers & The Hank Williams Band/ Cotton-Eyed Joe / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist: Black Diamond Show, WNHU, University of New Haven, June 6, 2011

2011-06-06T11:49:00.003-04:00

Enjoy today's show! Including an interview with Sierra Hull!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972
• Alecia Nugent / Wreckin’ the Train / Hillbilly Goddess / Rounder / 2009
• Urban Monroes / Secret Agent Man / Pavements & Pathways / Mountain Sky Media / 2011
• Big Medicine / The Love of Polly and Jack Monroe / Fever in the South / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004
• Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Satan’s Got to Get Along Without Me / The Devil’s Rejects (Soundtrack) / Hip-O / 1966, 2005
• Clayton McMichen & Riley Puckett / Old Molly Hare / The Story the Crow Told Me, Volume 1 / Yazoo / 1928, 2000
• David Peterson & 1946 / In Despair / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
• Wayne Henderson & Steve Kaufman / Dill Pickle Rag / Not Much Work for a Saturday / Hay Holler / 1996
• Buck White & Del McCoury / One-Legged Man / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza / Acoustic Disc / 1999
• Sierra Hull / Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool / Secrets / Rounder / 2007
• Sierra Hull / Interview / Black Diamond Show / WNHU / 2011
• Sierra Hull / Tell Me Tomorrow / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Sierra Hull / The Land of Living / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Sierra Hull / Best Buy / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Sierra Hull / Salt Creek / Angel Mountain / self / 2002
• Sierra Hull / Bombshell / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Lost & Found / Wreck of the Old 97 / It’s About Time / Rebel / 2001
• Ralph Stanley / The Keys to the Kingdom / Mountain Preacher’s Child / Rebel / 1979, 2007 / Charlie Sizemore singing the lead
• Charlie Sizemore / Slow Goin’ / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
• Merle Travis / Lawdy What a Gal / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1947, 2003
• Kathy Mattea / Dark as a Dungeon / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
• Dirk Powell / Sixteen and One / If I Go Ten Thousand Miles / Rounder /1996
• Chris Hillman / Turn Your Radio On / Way Down in My Soul / Sugar Hill / 1981, 1993
• Steeldrivers / Reckless Side of Me / Reckless / Rounder / 2010
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Shady Grove / Vintage Unique / Corvus / 2011
• Lauren Sheehan / Honey Baby Blues / Rose City Ramble / Wilson River / 2011
• Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / Jubilation Day / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Liza Jane, Sandy Boys, Hangman’s / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Steel Guitar Stomp / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1937, 2006
• Balsam Range / East Virginia Blues / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home Music / 2011
• Border Radio / Oklahoma Waltz / Li’l Songbook / self / 2001
• Jim & Jesse / Are You Lost In Sin / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• Flatt & Scruggs / Shuckin’ the Corn / ‘Tis Sweet to be Remembered / Columbia Legacy / 1952, 1997
• Hank Williams / They’ll Never Take Her Love From Me / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 5/30/11 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven CT & www.wnhu.net

2011-05-30T12:42:00.004-04:00

Here's the playlist for the Memorial Day edition of the Black Diamond Show. It will re-stream online on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net on Thursday night from 9-11pm EDT. If you missed it today, you can catch it Thursday! And fill out this week's survey to let me know what you think of the newer bluegrass we played this week.

Thanks for your support of bluegrass music, traditional country music, and WNHU.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Comin’ Across the Sea / Vintage Unique / Corvus / 2011
• Larry Sparks / Casualty of War / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music / 2007
• The String Fingers Band / Has the Whole Darn World Gone Mad / Don’t Forget / Railroad Crossing / 2011
• Seldom Scene / Heart & Soul / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill/ 2007
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Gabriel’s Call / Vintage Unique / Corvus / 2011
• Dailey & Vincent / Do You Know You Are My Sunshine? / Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Albemarle Ramblers / Gentlemen from Virginia / Gentlemen from Virginia / Merriwether / 2010
• The Hot Club of Cowtown / Time Changes Everything / What Makes Bob Holler / Proper / 2011
• The Stanley Brothers / Train 45 / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1967, 2000
• Lefty Frizzell / Just Can’t Live that Fast Anymore / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Columbia Legacy / 1974, 1997
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Yonder Stands Little Maggie / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963
• Reed Foehl / East Jersey Cowboy / Elephant Revival and Friends, Boulder Colorado / Festivalink.net / 2010
• The Lilly Brothers / Forgotten Soldier Boy / The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover: Bluegrass at the Roots / Smithsonian Folkways / 1961, 2005
• Chris Brashear / Lost Soldier Son / Wanderlust / Copper Creek / 2000
• Earl Scruggs, John McEuen, Junior Huskey / Soldier’s Joy / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists / 1972
• Donna Ulisse / Let It Rain / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group / 2011
• The Monroe Brothers / Goodbye Maggie / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1938, 1975
• Hank Williams / Rockin’ Chair Money / Alone with his Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000
• Scott Vestal, Ron Stewart, Mark Schatz, Randy Kohrs, Wayne Benson, Jeff Autry / When Johnny Comes Marching Home / More Ultimate Pickin’ / Pinecastle / 2009
• Scott Anderson / Can’t You Hear Me Calling / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
• Shoregrass / Goodbye My Good Old Friend / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
• Katie Wilson / Beacon / Katie Wilson / self / 2009
• Phil Rosenthal / Down the Road / A Treasury Of Bluegrass And Country Songs / American Melody / 2009
• The String Fingers Band / Running on Fire / Don’t Forget / Railroad Crossing / 2011
• Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys / Missing in Action / Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys: Early Days of Bluegrass, Volume 4 / Rounder / 1951, 1978
• Norman Blake, James Bryan, Nancy Blake / Devil Chased Me Around the Stump / The Rising Fawn String Ensemble / Rounder / 1979
• Bryan Bowers / Zen Gospel Singing / By Heart / Flying Fish / 1981
• Red Hen / Jail Break / Red Hen Crossing / self / 2009
• The Gibson Brothers / I Know Whose Tears / Ring the Bell / Compass / 2009
• Dry Branch Fire Squad / Girl at the Roadside Inn / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder / 1993
• Claire Lynch / Great Day in the Mornin’ / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder /2009
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Knee Deep in the Blues / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm / 2009
• Sierra Hull / Tell Me Tomorrow / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Emmylou Harris & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Mary Danced With Soldiers / Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2 / Geffen MCA / 1989
• Bill Emerson / Poor Rebel Soldier / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• The Dillards / I’ll Fly Away / Wheatstraw Suite / Collector’s Choice / 1968, 2002
• Jacqueline Schwab & Jesse Carr / Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier / Soundtrack to The Civil War, Ken Burns’ PBS Series / Nonesuch / 1990

Playlist for 5/23/11 Black Diamond Show, WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven CT, www.wnhu.net

2011-05-23T17:13:00.004-04:00

Here's the playlist for the May 23 Black Diamond Show. It will re-stream online on the WNHU2 stream on Thursday night from 9-11pm EDT. If you missed it today, you can catch it Thursday!

And please give me some feedback on the newer bluegrass tracks we played this week. Your input helps me with my reports to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles.

Thanks for your support of country music, and of WNHU!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Scott Brannon / Hobo Bill’s Last Ride / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / 2000
• Scott Anderson / Temperance Reel / Tales from the Swamp / Mato / 2011
• Wolfe Brothers String Band / Natural Bridge Blues / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
• Leon Mcauliffe / Rag Mop / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1950, 2009
• Anne & Pete Sibley / Wayfaring Stranger / MerleFest 2010 Live for the Bluegrass Trust Fund / FestivaLink / 2010
• The Chicken Chokers / Five Miles to Town / Chokers & Flies / Rounder / 1985
• The Claire Lynch Band / A Little Further in the Hole / 10 Years of European World Bluegrass / Strictly Country / 2007, 2008 / Recorded in Holland
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Over the Levee / Field Guide / Copper Creek / 2002
• Ellen & John Wright / Buffalo Gals / Family Album / Shoreline / 2011
• The Tompkins County Horseflies / Piney Wood Gals / Chokers & Flies / Rounder / 1985
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Call the Captain / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Bubbles in my Beer / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1947, 2006
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Together We’ll Fly / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Sierra Hull / Bombshell / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Valerie Smith / Oh Mandolin / Turtle Wings / Bell Buckle, Rebel / 2000 / With Tim O’Brien
• Larry Stephenson with Ricky Skaggs / My Old Kentucky and You / Larry Stephenson: 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle / 2010
• Chris Thile / The Eleventh Reel / How to Grow a Woman from the Ground / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Paul Williams / He Answered My Plea / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010
• Balsam Range / The Other Side / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home Music / 2011
• Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Bluegrass Boys / Little Cabin Home on the Hill / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1947, 1978
• The Gibson Brothers / Safe Passage / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Lauren Sheehan / Carroll County Blues / Rose City Ramble / Wilson River / 2011 / Greg Clarke, 2nd mandolin
• Lonesome Redwing / Harleys in Heaven / Fly, Fly, Fly / self / 2009
• Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Dollar Bill Blues / Mojave River / Backcountry / 2004
• The Hillbenders / Nancypants / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2011
• The Del McCoury Band / 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / Del and the Boys / McCoury Music / 2001
• Tony Furtado / Jeff Sturgeon, Indian Squaw / Full Circle / Rounder / 1993
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I’m the Clay in Your Hands / Help is on the Way / Horizon / 2008
• Adam Hurt / Sweet Bundy / Perspective / Ubiquitone / 2009
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• The Dust Busters / Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm / Prohibition is a Failure / self / 2010
• Kathy Kallick Band / Where is my Little Cabin Home / Between the Holler and the High Rise / Live Oak / 2010
• Hank Williams / Tennessee Border / Alone with his Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000
• Jim & Jesse / Airmail Special / The Early Years / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Top newer bluegrass songs played on the Black Diamond Show, WNHU, as reported to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles

2011-05-21T09:02:00.003-04:00

Based on your survey responses, here's the information I reported this month to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles.
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Top Newer Bluegrass Songs
Black Diamond Show, WNHU, 88.7 FM
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT
Period ending 5/20/11

01. Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In
02. Charlie Sizemore / Poor Rambler
03. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Going Back to Old Virginia
04. Bill Emerson / Jesse James
05. Josh Williams / Blue Railroad Train
06. Iron Horse / My Daddy's Life
07. Kathy Kalick Band / Where is My Little Cabin Home
08. Balsam Range / Callin' Caroline
09. The Hillbenders / Red Stains
10. Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven
11. Alison Krauss & Union Station / Dimming of the Day
12. Steve Martin & Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut
13. Larry Sparks / Lines on the Highway
14. Newfound Road / Handsome Molly
15. Sierra Hull / Tell Me Tomorrow
16. The Gibson Brothers / Just Lovin' You
17. Iron Horse / Mary's Not in Kansas
18. Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band / Jailer, Jailer
19. Big Country Bluegrass / Black Mountain Special
20. Steve Martin & Steep Canyon Rangers / Jubilation Day

Top 12 Albums (based on listener votes for tracks from the CDs)
01. Alison Krauss & Union Station / Paper Airplane
02. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up
03. Balsam Range / Trains I Missed
04. The Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother
05. Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking for a Home
06. Sierra Hull / Daybreak
07. Bill Emerson / Eclipse
08. Iron Horse / Horse and Pen
09. Larry Sparks / Almost Home
10. Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties
11. Josh Williams / Down Home
12. Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Ramblers / Rare Bird Alert

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It's not too late to fill out the survey for the first three weeks in May. I include information from the last 6 weeks' worth of responses when I compile my report.

Thanks for your support of Bluegrass and traditional country music -- and for your support of WNHU!

Newer Bluegrass Songs Played on WNHU's Black Diamond Show May 2, 9, & 16, 2011

2011-05-16T13:52:00.002-04:00

Over the past three weeks, we've played 26 newer bluegrass songs on the Black Diamond Show. I fell down on putting a link on each week's playlist, but here is a survey for you to complete that covers the newer songs (listed in approx. order of appearance on the show) for the May 2, May 9, and May 16 shows.

Please give me some feedback to help me report your preferences to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles.

Thanks for your support of bluegrass & country music -- and your support of WNHU!

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 5/16/11 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven CT & www.wnhu.net

2011-05-16T12:55:00.002-04:00

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Alison Krauss / Lay My Burden Down / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• The Freight Hoppers / John Hardy / Mile Marker / Bake Tone / 2010
• Moon Mullican / Sweeter than the Flowers / Super Hits / Gusto / 1948, 2009
• Acoustic Blue / I’ll Be There / This is Now / self / 2009
• The Monroe Brothers / Pearly Gates / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1938, 1975
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Rosetta / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1940, 2006
• Steeldrivers / East Kentucky Home / The Steeldrivers / Rounder / 2007
• Iron Horse / Mary’s Not in Kansas / Horse and Pen / B Sharp / 2011
• Peter Rowan / Jailer, Jailer / Legacy / Compass / 2010
• Critton Hollow String Band / Wooden Nickel / The Dulcimer Collection / Yodel-ay-hee / 1981, 2002
• Larry Sparks / The Old Coal Mine / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music / 2007 / Del McCoury on tenor vocal
• Border Radio / Cowboy’s Sweetheart / Border Radio Live / Okie Pie / 2004, 2005
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Bigger Hands Than Mine / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Reed Island Rounders / Jenny on the Railroad / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf / 2006
• Sierra Hull / The Land of the Living / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Newfound Road / Handsome Molly / Life in a Song / Rounder / 2010
• Red Clay Ramblers / Forked Deer / Stolen Love / Flying Fish / 1975
• Tony Trischka / Salt Creek / Dust on the Needle / Rounder / 1987
• The Honey Dewdrops / Goodbye & Farewell / These Old Roots / self / 2010
• Lonesome Redwing / Ook Pik Waltz / Fly, Fly, Fly / self / 2009
• Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, & Bela Fleck / Bill Cheatum / Fiddle Tunes for Banjo / Rounder / 1981, 1999
• Gibson Brothers / Just Lovin’ You / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Had a Big Time Today / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006
• The VW Boys / Death Came Creeping In My Room / Retroactive / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
• Mike Cross / Elma Turl / Child Prodigy / GHE / 1979
• Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / I Don’t Care Anymore / Southern / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• Uncle Earl / Ida Red / She Waits for Night / Rounder / 2005
• Mark Dvorak / Two Little Boys / Time Ain’t Got Nothin’ On Me / Waterbug / 2011
• The Country Gentlemen / I’ll Break Out / Sound Off / Rebel / 1970
• Tut Taylor / Courtesy of Curtis / Dobrolic Plectral Society / Takoma / 1976
• Dailey & Vincent / My Only Love / Daily & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Balsam Range / Memory of You / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home Music / 2010
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Needle Case / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• Big Country Bluegrass / I’m Gonna Walk the Streets of Gold / The Boys in Hats & Ties / Rebel / 2010
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist: 5/9/11 Black Diamond Show WNHU

2011-05-09T08:59:00.003-04:00

Today's show started 9 minutes late. Sorry about that. But it all came out right! Survey for the 5/2 and 5/9 shows coming soon. But here's the playlist for today's show.

Thanks for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Alecia Nugent / Cryin’ All the Way to the Bank / Hillbilly Goddess / Rounder / 2009
• Butch Baldassari & David Schnauffer / Drunken Hiccups / Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer / Sound Art / 2006
• Valerie Smith / In Those Mines / That’s What Love Can Do / Bell Buckle / 2005
• Ricky Skaggs / River of Jordan / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder / 1982, 1993
• The Quebe Sisters / Red River Valley / Texas Fiddlers / self / 2003
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / Hello City Limits / Keep on Going, The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings / Rebel / c. 1965, 2004
• Red Mountain / Last of the Mexican, Laughing Marj / Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence / Whoop It Up! / 2009
• The Green Grass Cloggers / Just Over in the Glory Land / Through the Ears / Rounder / 1986
• The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2010
• Blue Moon Rising / The Hanging Tree / One Lonely Shadow / 2008
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Untrue Blues / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Barry & Holly Tashian / Blues for Dixie / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / 1996
• Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
• Balsam Range / Heart that won’t Stop Loving You / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
• Nora Jane Struthers / Mocking Bird / Nora Jane Struthers / Blue Pig Music / 2010
• Josh Williams / Blue Railroad Train / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011 / Tony Rice on guitar
• Tony Rice / Good Woman’s Love / California Autumn / Rebel / 1974
• Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers / Baby All Night Long / Greenback Dollar, the Music of Clarence “Tom” Ashley, 1929-1933 / County / c. 1930, 2001
• Sierra Hull / Easy Come, Easy Go / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Guy Clark / Analog Girl / Workbench Songs / Dualtone Music Group / 2006
• Alison Krauss / My Love Follows You Where You Go / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• Gaither Carlton / Apple Blossom / High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina Collected by John Cohen in November of 1965 / Rounder / 1965, 1994
• Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice / A Black Hearse Following Me / Heartaches & Dreams / Rebel / 2010
• Doc Watson featuring Merle Watson / Brown’s Ferry Blues / Doc Watson on Stage / Vanguard / 1971
• Diamond W Wranglers / San Antonio Rose / Old Friends / self / 2010
• Gibson Brothers / He Can Be Found / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Lonesome Redwing / Ook Pik Waltz / Fly Fly Fly / self / 2009
• Lost & Found / The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home / Down on Sawmill Road / Rebel / 1996, 2010
• Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Who’s Sorry Now? / Daddy of Western Swing, Volume 2, Brownie Special / Proper / 1934, 2003
• The Punch Brothers / New Chance Blues / Antifogmatic / Nonesuch / 2010
• Jim & Jesse / I’ll Wash Your Love from My Heart / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 5/2/11 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven CT & www.wnhu.net

2011-05-02T08:42:00.007-04:00

Here's the playlist for the 5/2/11 show. Survey coming soon.

Most of my effort went into paying tribute to Hazel Dickens, one of the pioneering women of bluegrass.

The show will be replayed on the WNHU2 stream at www.wnhu.net from 9-11pm on Thursday.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys with Carl Story / True Life Blues / Bill Monroe & Friends, Bluegrass Hall of Fame / Raven / 1985, 2010
• Hank Thompson & The Bravos Valley Boys / Swing Wide Your Gate of Love / Vintage Collections / Capitol / 1946, 1996
• Rayna Gellert / Goodbye Girls / Starch & Iron / Heard Her Squeal / 2005
• Dailey & Vincent / When I Reach That Home Up There / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009
• Hazel Dickens / Lonesome Pine Special / Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People / Rounder / 1979
• Nell Robinson / Scraps From Your Table / Nell Robinson in Loango / Red Level / 2009
• Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Won’t You Come and Sing for Me / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways, Volume 2 / Smithsonian Folkways / 1967, 2005
• Craig Johnson / Farewell to West Virginia / Away Down the Road / 5-String Productions / 2009, 2010
• Hazel Dickens / Busted / Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People / Rounder / 1979
• Red Hen / Old Greasy Coat / Red Hen Crossing / self / 2009
• Josh Williams / Stealin’ Away / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011
• Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press / West Virginia My Home / Try a Little Kindness / Rebel / 2006
• Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Hello Stranger / Hazel & Alice / Rounder / 1973
• Kenny Baker / Lost Indian / Master Fiddler / County / c. 1970, 1993
• Lost & Found / Leaving You and Mobile, Too / Down on Sawmill Road / Rebel / 1996, 2010
• Emmylou Harris with Nicolette Larson / Hello Stranger / Luxury Liner / Warner Bros. / 1977
• Ralph Stanley / I Am the Man, Thomas / Cry From the Cross / Rebel / 1971
• The Del McCoury Band / Two-Faced Love / It’s Just the Night / McCoury Music / 2003
• Kathy Mattea / Black Lung / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
• Kathy Mattea / Coal / Coal / Captain Potato / 2008
• Hazel Dickens / Rebel Girl / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 1967, 2002
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / My Better Years / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
• The Percolators / Kansas City Reel / Alive in Prague! / Yodel-ay-hee / 2004
• Chris Stuart & Backcountry / 20 Naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac / Saints and Strangers / Backcountry / 2003
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
• John Hoffman & Mac Benford / Old Hen She Cackled / It’s About Time / 5-String Productions / 2007
• Old & In The Way / Home Is Where the Heart Is / Breakdown / Acoustic Disc / 1973, 1997
• Hank Williams / Weary Blues From Waitin’ / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1952, 1978
• Bill Emerson / Don’t Come Around / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011 / Lead vocal: Jenny Leigh Obert
• Steeldrivers / The Price / Reckless / Rounder / 2010
• Larry Sparks / Sharecropper’s Son / 40 / Rebel / 2005
• Balsam Range / Callin’ Caroline / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
• Charlie Sizemore / Crossing Over Into the Valley / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
• Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / The Sweetest Gift, A Mother’s Smile / Mama’s Hand, Bluegrass and Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder / 1973, 2002
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 4/25/11 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven CT & www.wnhu.net

2011-04-25T12:19:00.006-04:00

Today's show has a lot of "Ida Red" in it--I hope you enjoy the variations. And take a moment to let me know your thoughts about the newer Bluegrass music we played in today's show. The survey includes links to samples of each song--so you can give me your opinion even if you missed this week's show. Your responses help me report information to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles.

If you missed today's show, you can hear it rebroadcast on Thursday night from 9-11pm EDT on www.wnhu.net -- select the WNHU2 stream on Thursday, not the "on the air" (WNHU) link. The WNHU link lets you hear what's going out over 88.7 FM--Mondays noon-2pm in our case.

Thanks for your support of Bluegrass and traditional country music--and of WNHU!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Charlie Sizemore / Going to Georgia / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel /2011
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Ida Red / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1938, 2006
• Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Texas Girl / The Oak and the Laurel / Rounder / 1994
• John Reischman & The Jaybirds / In the Darkest Hour / 10 Years of European World Bluegrass / Strictly Country / 2003, 2008
• The Hoover Uprights / Wild Hog in the Woods / Known for Their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Paul & Silas / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Bill Emerson / Dickenson County Breakdown / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / Froggy Went A-Courtin’ / Keep on Going: The Rebel and Melodeon Recordings / Rebel / c. 1964, 2004
• Dan Zanes / Smile, Smile, Smile / Night Time / Festival Five / 2002
• Alecia Nugent / Hillbilly Goddess / Hillbilly Goddess / Rounder / 2009
• Foghorn Stringband / Danville Girl / Reap What You Sow / self/ 2004
• Debbie Watson / Big Hair Down in Texas / Big Hair Down in Texas EP / Big Hair / 2005
• Larry Sparks / John Deere Tractor / John Deere Tractor / Rebel / 1979
• Ralph Stanley / Black-Eyed Susie / Old-Time Pickin’, A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel / 2008
• Cahelen Morrison & Eli West / My Bloody Heart, Reprise / Holy Coming of the Storm / self/ 2011
• Larry Sparks / Momma / Almost Home/ Rounder / 2011
• Balsam Range / Trains I Missed / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home Music / 2011
• The Hillbenders / Done Wrong Love Song / Down to My Last Dollar / self / 2011
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Goin’ Up Dry Branch / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / Bonita and Bill Butler / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• Hot Club of Cowtown / Ida Red / Four Dead Batteries Soundtrack / Hightone / 2005
• Bluegrass Album Band / Hey Lonesome / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1983, 1987
• Hot Mud Family / I’m Looking for the Stone / The Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1978, 2010
• Tater Patch / Ed Haley’s Ida Red / Chester County, PA, Historical Society / unreleased / 2011
• Josiah Altschuler / I Still Miss Someone / Murder Ballads and Love Songs for Cello and Voice / self / 2008
• The VW Boys / Rag Mop / Retroactive / Mountain Roads Recordings / 2011
• Red Hen / Copper Run / Red Hen Crossing / self / 2009
• Sierra Hull / What do you say? / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Ida Red Likes the Boogie / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1949, 2006
• Josh Williams / Blue Railroad Train / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011 / Tony Rice on guitar.
• Wayne Henderson & Steve Kaufman / Maiden’s Prayer / Not Much Work for Saturday / Hay Holler / 1996
• Warrior River Boys / Never Get to Hold You in my Arms Anymore / Sounds Like Home / Rounder / 1992
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Take Me In Your Lifeboat / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury Nashville / 1958, 2003
• The Gibson Brothers / Singing as We Rise / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Blue Moon Rising / Barely Hangin’ On / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Top New Bluegrass Songs Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited & Bluegrass Music Profiles (April)

2011-04-20T11:08:00.008-04:00

Here's the information I submitted to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles this month on behalf of the Black Diamond Show. You can influence the "charting report" by voting in the surveys we post with each playlist. For the past 4 weeks, we've included links to samples of the songs in case you need a reminder of which song is which.

Thank you for your support of bluegrass and country music--and for your support of WNHU!

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs
Black Diamond Show, WNHU, 88.7 FM
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT
www.wnhu.net

1. Balsam Range / On the Run
2. The Hillbenders / Red Stains
3. Sierra Hull / Best Buy
4. Art Gomperz Band / Beg, Steal or Borrow
5. The Gibson Brothers / One Car Funeral
6. Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven
7. Kathy Kallick Band / Where is my Little Cabin Home
8. Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut
9. Josh Williams / Cherokee Shuffle
10. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Going Back to Old Virginia
11. Charlie Sizemore / Poor Rambler
12. Big Country Bluegrass / Black Mountain Special
13. Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In
14. Bill Emerson / Jesse James
15. Steeldrivers / Angel of the Night
16. Iron Horse / Oh Moses
17. Paul Williams / He Answered My Plea
18. The Gibson Brothers / I’ll Love Nobody But You
19. Larry Sparks / Somebody Touched Me
20. Balsam Range / Callin’ Caroline

Top 12 Albums (based on listener votes for tracks from the CDs)
1. The Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother
2. Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking for a Home
3. Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert
4. Balsam Range / Trains I Missed
5. Sierra Hull / Daybreak
6. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
7. Paul Williams / Just a Little Closer Home
8. Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties
9. Alison Krauss & Union Station / Paper Airplane
10. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up
11. The Hillbenders / Down to my Last Dollar (based on all the votes for “Red Stains”)
12. Kathy Kallick Band / Between the Hollow & the High Rise

Playlist for 4/18/11 Black Diamond Show (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

2011-04-18T12:50:00.006-04:00

Today's show includes several bluegrass and country songs influenced by British folk-rocker Richard Thompson. The idea came to me as I realized Alison Krauss & Union Station had used Thompson's "Dimming of the Day" on their new CD, Paper Airplane. The show also includes the usual mix of old-time, bluegrass, and country. Hope you enjoyed it!

This week, I'm due to report my "top bluegrass" lists to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles. So, please, let me know what you think of the new bluegrass played on today's show: Survey for 4/18 show.

You can still let me know what you thought about the new bluegrass played on April 11, April 4, and March 28.

Well, on to today's playlist. Thanks for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Larry Sparks / Lines on the Highway / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
• Joe Newberry / Rocky Island / Two Hands / 5-String Productions / 2005
• Bob Will & His Texas Playboys / My Window Faces the South / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1938, 2006
• Blue Highway / Wondrous Love / Some Day: Fifteenth Anniversary / Rounder / 2003, 2010
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / On the Outside Looking In / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011
• Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / Won’t Be Long / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
• Sierra Hull / Tell Me Tomorrow / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Bill Emerson / Jesse James / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm / 2011 / Tom Adams lead vocal
• Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys / John Henry / Don’t Cry to Me / Thrill Jockey / c. 1958, 2004
• Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers / Long Journey Home / Ramblin’ Bluegrass / Starday / 1972
• The Double Decker String Band / Bitter Creek / The Rest is Yet to Come / 5-String Productions / 2006
• The Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Way Down In My Soul: Best of Sugar Hill Gospel Volume 2 / Sugar Hill / 1986, 1993
• Butch Baldassari & David Schnauffer / Black Mountain Rag / Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer / Sound Art / 2006
• Dale Watson / Hello, I’m an old Country Song / Carryin’ On / E1 Music / 2010
• The Punch Brothers / Rye Whiskey / Antifogmatic / Nonesuch / 2010
• The Seldom Scene / Don’t Bother With White Satin / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill / 2007
• Sam Bush / Bringing in the Georgia Mail / Laps in Seven / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Dan Berggren & Dan Duggan / Cherokee Shuffle / Rooted in the Mountains / self / 2001
• Bluegrass Album Band / On My Way Back Home / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1981, 1986
• Dailey & Vincent / Don’t You Call My Name / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Gadaya / 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / YouTube Video, URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnFWKhULNTg / self / 2009 / A song by British guitarist Richard Thompson.
• Del McCoury Band / Dry My Tears and Move On / It’s Just the Night / McCoury Music / 2003 / A song by British guitarist Richard Thompson.
• Patty Loveless / Tear-Stained Letter / Trouble With the Truth / Epic / 1995 / A song by British guitarist Richard Thompson.
• Alison Krauss & Union Station / Dimming of the Day / Paper Airplane / Rounder / 2011 / A song by British guitarist Richard Thompson.
• Teddy Thompson / She Thinks I Still Care / Up Front and Down Low / Verve Forecast / 2007 / A cover of an old hit for George Jones by the son of Richard and Linda Thompson.
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / Bluegrass DJs (excerpt) / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Shaun Cromwell / The Gristmill / Folk-Worn Prose / Melon Patch Recordings / 2010
• Cherryholmes / I am Your Conscience / Cherryholmes IV, Common Threads / Skaggs Family / 2010
• Iron Horse / My Daddy’s Life / Horse and Pen / B Sharp / 2011
• Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
• Rayna Gellert & Susie Goehring / Buckin’ Dun / Starch & Iron / Heard Her Squeal / 2005
• Charlie Sizemore / Poor Rambler / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Going Back to Old Virginia / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Donna Ulisse / When I Look Back / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / When Her Smile Is Gone / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist: Black Diamond Show (WNHU): 4/11/11

2011-04-11T10:41:00.009-04:00

Today's show featured an interview with Dailey and Vincent, coming to GuitarTown on Sunday April 17. Those guys are a hoot--and darn fine musicians, too. (Link to hi-fi MP3 of interview (19M). Link to lower-fi MP3 of interview (6.2M). Musical selections trimmed.)

Even with the interview, we still had time to play five newer bluegrass songs and the usual mix of bluegrass and traditional country music. Let me know what you think about the newer bluegrass songs we played today. You can also go back to complete the surveys for the past month or so. Today's survey--and the last two surveys--also include a link to samples so you can remind yourself which song was which.

Thanks, as always, for your support.

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Rhonda Vincent & The Rage / Who’s Cryin’ Baby / Good Thing Going / Rounder / 2008
• Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys / Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die / Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys, The Early Days of Bluegrass / Rounder / 1958, 1978
• Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Walking in Jerusalem / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Dixie Special / Fired Up / Rounder / 2011
• Perfect Strangers / Homeless Joe / Perfect Strangers / Rebel / 2003
• Doc Watson / Ticklin’ the Strings / Country Music & Bluegrass at Newport / Vanguard / 1963
• Sierra Hull / Chasin’ Skies / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Sugar-Coated Love / The High Lonesome Sound / MCA / 1951, 1973
• Lonesome Strangers / Billy in the Lowground / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1978, 2002
• Dailey & Vincent / Do You Know You Are My Sunshine / Dailey and Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Dailey & Vincent / Interview about appearance for Guitar Town on April 17 / Includes an excerpt from “What Would You Give in Exchange for your Soul.”
• Dailey & Vincent / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Singing From the Heart / Rounder / 2009
• Dailey & Vincent / Elizabeth / Dailey and Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Christian Davis / He Touched Me / Make It Real / self / 2006 / The bass singer with Dailey & Vincent.
• The Monroe Brothers / What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1936, 1975
• Dailey & Vincent / Poor Boy Working Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Dailey & Vincent / Class of ‘57 / Dailey and Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers / Rounder, Cracker Barrel / 2010
• Chris Wuerth / Interview about Guitar Town
• Dailey & Vincent / Head Hung Down / Brothers from Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009
• Charles River Valley Boys / Help! / Beatle Country / Elektra / 1966
• Merle Travis / Cincinnati Lou / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1946, 2003
• Art Gomperz Band / Beg, Steal, or Borrow / A Different Story to Tell / All About Murray / 2010
• The Louvin Brothers / Robe of White / The Louvin Brothers / Rounder / 1952, 1978
• Donna Ulisse / Everything Has Changed / Walk This Mountain Down / Hadley Music Group / 2008
• Leon’s Lone Star Cowboys / Bugle Call Rag / Western Swing Chronicles Volume 2, Leon Chappelear / Origin Jazz Library / 1936, 2002
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Runaway Ramp / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Wolfe Brothers String Band / Clark Hill Waltz / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
• Wayne Henderson & Steve Kaufman / Indian Killed the Woodcock / Not Much Work for Saturday / Hay Holler / 1996
• The Country Gentlemen / Fox on the Run / Sound Off / Rebel / 1970
• Nora Jane Struthers / Greenbrier County /Nora Jane Struthers / Blue Pig Music / 2010
• Blue Highway / Marbletown / Some Day: Fifteenth Anniversary Collection / Rounder / 2005, 2010
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1954, 1977
• Nate Grower / Cherry River Line / Nate Grower / Patuxnet Music / 2010
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist, Black Diamond Show 4/4/11, WNHU

2011-04-04T08:12:00.004-04:00

This show has a mixture of old and new music--here's the link to the survey for you to let me know what you think about the newer bluegrass played on today's show. Use the survey or the link to the right to make a request or give me any other feedback. Hope you enjoy the mixture of bluegrass, old-time, and western country in today's show!

Thanks, as always for your support.

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / Journey’s End / Keep on Going, the Rebel and Melodeon Years / Rebel / 1965, 2004
• Reed Island Rounders / Durang’s Hornpipe, Walking in the Parlor / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf / 2006
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / The Kind of Love I Can’t Forget / Legends of Country Music / Sony BMG / 1946, 2006
• Del McCoury Band / Zero to Love / It’s Just the Night / McCoury Music / 2003
• J.D. Crowe & the New South / The Old Home Place / Bluegrass Class of 1990 / Rounder / 1975, 1990
• Boone Creek / Gonna Settle Down / Boone Creek / Rounder / 1977
• Albemarle Ramblers / Black Eyed Susie / Gentlemen from Virginia / Merriwether / 2010
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Sylvie / Deep in the Shade / Rebel / 2009
• The Stanley Brothers / I’ll be True to the one I Love / Long Journey Home / County / 1964, 1973
• Ernest Tubb / Walkin’ the Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb: The Last Sessions / First Generation / 1979, 1999
• Charlie Sizemore / Walking the Floor Over Me / Heartache Looking for a Home / Rebel / 2011
• The Morgantown Rounders / Sugar Babe / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Ron Block / Be Assured / Doorway / Rounder / 2010
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / White House Blues / The High Lonesome Sound / MCA / 1954, 1973
• David Grisman Quintet / Ricochet / David Grisman Quintet / Kaleidoscope / 1976
• Border Radio / Oklahoma Waltz / Li’l Songbook / self / 2001
• Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Lonesome for You / Saints & Strangers / Backcountry / 2003
• Mark Dvorak / The Bluebells in Kentucky / Time Ain’t Got Nothin’ on Me / Waterbug / 2011
• David Grisman / Shenandoah Breakdown / Early Dawg / Sugar Hill / c. 1968, 1980
• Josh Williams / Dream of Me / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011
• The Hot Club of Cowtown / Keeper of my Heart / What Makes Bob Holler / Proper / 2011
• The Gibson Brothers / Just Lovin’ You / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• The O’Kanes / Daddies Need to Grow Up, Too / The O’Kanes / Columbia / 1986
• The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Biggest Liars in Town / American Masters Series, Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 1993, 2007
• Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands / How Old Are You, My Pretty Little Miss? / MerleFest Live / FestivaLink / 2010
• Balsam Range / East Virginia Blues / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
• Dailey & Vincent / Your Love is Like a Flower / Brothers from Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009
• The Quebe Sisters Band / Twin Guitar Special / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007
• Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, & Del McCoury / Live and Let Live / Mac, Doc, & Del / GrooveGrass / 1998
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Sail Away Ladies, A Roof for the Rain, Snake River Reel / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers / The Love She Left Behind / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Some of These Days / Daddy of Western Swing Vol. 2, Brownie Special / Proper / 1935, 2003
• Doc Watson featuring Merle Watson / Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down / Doc Watson on Stage / Vanguard / 1971
• Donna Ulisse / Caney Creek to Canaan Land / Holy Water / Hadley Music Group / 20101
• David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / Two Dimes and a Nickel / Two Dimes and a Nickel / Rebel / 2009
• Ralph Stanley / John Henry / Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel / 2008
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Top 20 Newer Bluegrass Songs as Reported to Bluegrass Music Profiles on 3/31/11

2011-03-31T19:00:00.004-04:00

Top 20 Newer Bluegrass Songs for period ending 3/31/11
As reported by Mandorichard, host of the Black Diamond Show
Mondays, noon-2pm on WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven CT and www.wnhu.net
Reported to Bluegrass Music Profiles (www.bluegrassmusicprofiles.com)

01. The Hillbenders / Red Stains
02. Balsam Range / Callin' Caroline
03. The Kathy Kallick Band / Where is my Little Cabin Home
04. The Gibson Brothers / One Car Funeral
05. Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven
06. Josh Williams / Cherokee Shuffle
07. Paul Williams / What A Meeting in the Air
08. The Gibson Brothers / I'll Love Nobody But You
09. Balsam Range / On the Run
10. Steeldrivers / The Reckless Side of Me
11. Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties
12. The Gibson Brothers / Just Lovin' You
13. Peter Rowan / Jailer Jailer
14. Sierra Hull / Best Buy
15. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / The Note That Said Goodbye
16. Infamous Stringdusters / Taking a Chance on the Truth
17. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light on my Feet, Ready to Fly
18. Charlie Sizemore with Ralph Stanley / Red Wicked Wine
19. Donna Ulisse / Caney Creek to Canaan Land
20. Lonesome River Band / Jack up the Jail

Sources: Airplay on the Black Diamond Show, audience requests, and audience feedback.

Comments: I appreciate your feedback on the new songs we play. Note that this list is a little different than what we turned in about 2 weeks ago--as a result of YOUR feedback!

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 3/28/11 WNHU, 88.7 FM & wnhu.net

2011-03-28T11:05:00.003-04:00

I must have smiled about a dozen times listening to the songs I put in today's show. I hope you do, too.

Slowly but surely, I'm getting the handle on building polls for you to let me know what you think. By popular request, this week's poll includes a link to a sample for each newer bluegrass song (via amazon.com or cdbaby.com) so you can remember which title went with which new song. I'd love some feedback!

Thanks, as always, for your support.

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Mark Graham / Lost Indian / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / self / c. 1988, 2000
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome / The High Lonesome Sound of Bill Monroe / MCA / 1950, 1973
• Roy Rogers / Dangerous Ground / Country Masters Vol. 1 / MBop Direct / c. 1946, 2008
• Larry Sparks / Somebody Touched Me / Almost Home / Rounder / 2011
• John Hoffman & Mac Benford / Clinton / It’s About Time / 5-String Productions / 2007
• Sierra Hull / Best Buy / Daybreak / Rounder / 2011
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Mis’ry River / Quicksilver Rides Again / Sugar Hill / 1982
• The Lovell Sisters, Bearfoot, Sierra Hull, New Generation Jam / Gospel Plow / MerleFest Live / FestivaLink / 2010
• Big Country Bluegrass / Black Mountain Special / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010
• Notorious / Wild Rose of the Mountain / Road to Damascus / Black Socks Press / 2010
• Si Kahn with Kathy Mattea and Jens Krüger / On This Old Farm / Courage / Strictly Country / 2010
• Wayne Hancock / Goin’ Home Blues / Tulsa / Bloodshot / 2006
• Josh Williams / Cherokee Shuffle / Down Home / Rounder / 2008, 2011
• Big Medicine / Looking Toward Heaven / Fever in the South / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004
• Hank Williams / Window Shopping / Live at the Grand Ol’ Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999
• Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / Hide Behind a Rock / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011 / Nicky Sanders, fiddle, Steve Martin, banjo
• Red June / San Juan Hill / Remember Me Well / self / 2010
• The Monroe Brothers / On that Old Gospel Ship / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1937, 1975
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / July You’re a Woman / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Darol Anger / A Little Help from my Friends / Diary of a Fiddler / Compass / 1999
• The Kathy Kallick Band / Where is my Little Cabin Home / Between the Hollow & the High Rise / Live Oak / 2010
• Fort Worth Dough Boys / Nancy Jane / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1932, 2006
• Peter Rowan & Tony Rice / Shady Grove / Quartet / Rounder / 2006 / Bryn Davies, bass, and Sharon Gilchrist, mandolin
• Balsam Range / On the Run / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
• Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Dark Town Strutters’ Ball / Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 2, Brownie Special / Proper / 1935, 2003
• Lost & Found / The Rabbit Song / Down on Sawmill Road / Rebel / 1985, 2010
• David Grisman & Tony Rice / I am a Pilgrim / Tone Poems / Acoustic Disc / 1994
• Steeldrivers / Angel of the Night / Reckless / Rounder / 2010
• The Rhythm Rats / Yellin’ in the Shoats / Pretty Crowin’ Chicken / 5-String Productions / 1992, 2006 / Kenny Jackson, solo fiddle
• Asleep at the Wheel / Dance with who Brung Ya / The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel / Bismeaux / 1991, 2007
• Border Radio / Oklahoma Waltz / Li’l Songbook / self / 2001
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / Those Gone and Left Me Blues / Keep on Going, the Rebel and Melodeon Recordings / Rebel / c. 1965, 2004
• The Hot Club of Cowtown / Faded Love / What Makes Bob Holler / Proper / 2011
• Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Lee Highway Blues / MerleFest Live / FestivaLink / 2010
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 3/21/11 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven CT & www.wnhu.net

2011-03-21T12:37:00.003-04:00

This show was a lot of fun to put together--a lot of new music--my favorite newer CD is What Makes Bob Holler by the Hot Club of Cowtown--but there's a lot of good stuff on today's play list--some old, some new, some gospel, some secular.

Beginning this week, you can let me know what your think of the newer Bluegrass songs we played this week. You can also use the "Make a request link" to send me email or post a comment on any of the posts here.

As always, thanks so much for your support!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Charlie Sizemore / Red Wicked Wine / Heartache Looking For a Home / Rebel / 2011 /Ralph Stanley singing tenor!
• Hot Club of Cowtown / Smith’s Reel / What Makes Bob Holler / Proper / 2011
• Uncle Earl, Infamous Stringdusters, The Duhks, Crooked Still, & The New Generation Jam / Starry Crown / MerleFest 2010 Live / FestivaLink / 2010
• The Stanley Brothers / Ramshackle Shack on the Hill / Long Journey Home / County / 1964, 1973
• Trisha Gagnon / A Parent’s Prayer / A Story About You and Me / Jam ‘n Music / 2010
• Cahelen Morrison & Eli West / Weathervane Waltz / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
• Fort Worth Dough Boys / Sunbonnet Sue / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1934, 2006
• Balsam Range / Callin’ Caroline / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home, Crossroads / 2010
• Steve Martin / Wally on the Run / The Crow / Rounder / 2009
• The Hillbenders / Red Stains / Down to my Last Dollar / self / 2010
• The Freight Hoppers / Sharp’s Hornpipe / Mile Marker / BakeTown / 2010
• Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010
• Wayne Hancock / Working at Working / Viper of Melody / Bloodshot / 2009
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Just When I Needed You / Bluegrass Classics / Epic, Columbia / 1963
• Red State Ramblers / Five Miles to Town / Commonwealth / Old 97 / 2009
• Paul Williams / Anywhere is Home / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010
• Rick Lang / His Loving Care / Look to the Light / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• Blue Moon Rising / Barely Hangin’ On / Strange New World / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• David Grisman / Opus 38 / Early Dawg / Sugar Hill / c. 1971, 1980
• Hot Mud Family / Going That Way / The Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1974, 2010
• Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / Atheists Don’t Have No Songs / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
• Riders in the Sky / Never Go to Church on Sunday / A Pair of Kings / Oh Boy / 2002
• The Louvin Brothers / The Great Atomic Power / The Louvin Brothers / Rounder / 1952, 1978
• Art Gomperz Band / Beg Steal or Borrow / A Different Story to Tell / All About Murray / 2010
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Crippled Turkey / Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills / Sony BMG / 1936, 2006
• Red Molly / Troubled in Mind / James / self / 2010
• Larry Sparks / Tennessee 1949 / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel / 1988
• Steeldrivers / Guitars, Whiskey, Guns, & Knives / Reckless / Rounder / 2010
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Martha White Theme / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963
• Newfound Road / My Shoes Sure Know How to Get Around / Same Old Place / Rounder / 2009
• Willie Nelson / Pistol-Packin’ Mama / Country Music / Rounder / 2010
• Craig Johnson / The Rolling Mills / Away Down the Road / 5-String Productions / 2009, 2010
• Billy Cardine / Swampwater / Southern Filibuster: A Tribute to Tut Taylor / E1 Music / 2010
• The Gibson Brothers / Walkin’ West to Memphis / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• The Honey Dewdrops / That Good Old Way / These Old Roots / self / 2010
• The Krüger Brothers / Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right / Merlefest 2010 Live for the Bluegrass Trust Fund / FestivaLink / 2010
• The Hot Club of Cowtown / It’s All Your Fault / What Makes Bob Holler / Proper / 2011
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Top 20 New Bluegrass Songs as Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited (3/16/11)

2011-03-16T01:09:00.005-04:00

Top 20 "New" Bluegrass Songs on the Black Diamond Show
As reported to Bluegrass Unlimited on 3/16/11
WNHU 88.7 FM, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT

01. The Hillbenders / Red Stains
02. The Gibson Brothers / One Car Funeral
03. Balsam Range / Callin' Caroline
04. Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven
05. Paul Williams / What A Meeting in the Air
06. The Gibson Brothers / I'll Love Nobody But You
07. Iron Horse / Oh Moses
08. Steeldrivers / The Reckless Side of Me
09. Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Ramblers / Jubilation Day
10. Peter Rowan / Jailer Jailer
11. Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys in Hats and Ties
12. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / The Note That Said Goodbye
13. Blue Moon Rising / Barely Hangin' On
14. Infamous Stringdusters / Taking a Chance on the Truth
15. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light on my Feet, Ready to Fly
16. Charlie Sizemore / Red Wicked Wine
17. Charlie Louvin / Down by the Riverside
18. Lonesome River Band / Jack up the Jail
19. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Driftin' Apart
20. Big Country Bluegrass / I'm Gonna Walk the Streets of Gold

Sources: Airplay on the Black Diamond Show, audience requests, and audience feedback.

Comments: The two tracks listed at the top got strong audience reaction from listeners in CT, MD, MI, and DE. The tracks listed at #03 and #16 are in queue for airplay on March 21. All the other tracks have been played on air in the last several weeks. The audience seems to appreciate a good mix of Bluegrass Gospel.

Playlist for 3/14/11 Black Diamond Show (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

2011-03-13T22:07:00.001-04:00

We've been reporting our playlists to folkradio.org since October. Starting this month, we're going to start reporting feedback to Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Music Profiles. I'd love to hear what you think of the new bluegrass we've played in the past month.
Tell me what new Bluegrass have you liked? Deadline: March 20. And don't be shy about using the "Make a request" link on the right hand side of this blog.

Thanks, as always for your support.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Red Clay Ramblers / Rabbit in the Pea Patch / Merchants Lunch / Flying Fish / 1977, 1992
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Light on my Feet, Ready to Fly / Light on my Feet, Ready to Fly / Crossroads / 2010
• Quebe Sisters Band / Shame on You / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007
• Warrior River Boys / The Gold Rush is Over / Sounds Like Home / Rounder / 1992
• Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / Jubilation Day / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
• Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / Jealous Sea / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
• Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys / Elizabeth / Some Rust…Runs Good / self / 2000
• Bad Livers / Corn Liquor Made a Fool out of Me / Hogs on the Highway / Sugar Hill / 1997
• Steep Canyon Rangers / I Can’t Sit Down / One Dime at a Time / Rebel / 2005
• Red Hen / Red Hen / Red Hen Crossing / self / 2009
• Jonathan Byrd / Cackalack / Cackalack / Waterbug / 2011
• Dailey & Vincent / Don’t You Call My Name / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Take Your Shoes Off Moses / Cry From the Cross / Rebel / 1971, 2000
• Reed Island Rounders / Ship in the Clouds / Hand Me Downs / Burnin’ Wolf/ 2006
• Robbie Fulks / I Told Her Lies / Lonely Hearts Valentine’s Day Sampler / Bloodshot, Amazon / 1995, 2011
• The Gibson Brothers / Frozen in Time / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Time for Three / Ragtime Annie / Time for Three / self / 2002
• Ralph Stanley / Shady Grove / Old-Time Pickin’, A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel / c. 1971, 2008
• The Wilders / Broken Down Gambler / MerleFest Live / FestivaLink / 2010
• Seldom Scene / The Tie That Binds / Old Train / Rebel / 1974
• The Hot Club of Cowtown / The Devil Ain’t Lazy / What Makes Bob Holler / Proper / 2011
• Rhonda Vincent & The Rage / Cheatin’ Kind of Love / Ragin’ Live / Rounder / 2005 / Josh Williams, lead vocal
• Big Medicine / Red Rocking Chair / Pine to Pine / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
• Tony Furtado / The Hoedown Polka / Full Circle / Rounder / 1993
• Caleb Klauder / My Baby Came Back / Western Country / Padre / 2010
• Red Mules / Ida Red / The Marimac Anthology, Deep in Old Time Music / Rounder / c. 1988, 1996
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Cora Is Gone / Best of Bluegrass, Vol. 1 / Mercury / 1950, 1991
• The Critton Hollow String Band / Oklahoma Rooster / The Young Fogies / Rounder / 1994
• Al Dexter / Maybe, Baby, It’s Me / Pistol-Packin’ Mama / Living Era / 1949, 1999
• Lonesome River Band / Jack Up the Jail / Still Learning / Rural Rhythm / 2010
• Randy Burns / Hobo’s Lullaby / Hobos and Kings / self/ 2010
• Kenny Baker / Denver Belle / Master Fiddler / County / c. 1978, 2003
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Sunday Morning Christian / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008
• Katie Wilson / More Than Love / Katie Wilson / self / 2009
• Notorious / Boatman / The Road to Damascus / Black Socks Press/ 2010
• Riders in the Sky / Blue Bonnet Lady / Silver Jubilee / Acoustic Disc / 2003
• ShoreGrass / I’m On My Way Back to the Old Home / Going Home/ Shaw Family / 2007
• Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Tennessee Blues / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill / 1980
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist for 3/7/11 Black Diamond Show (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

2011-03-05T11:49:00.006-05:00

I'm posting the playlist for Monday's show early, since I expect a busy day at work that day. I really enjoyed putting this show together, even if it stretched my credit card a bit at cdbaby.com and amazon.com. Some great new music makes its BDS Debut! The HillBenders "Red Stains" is perhaps the most gruesome tragic wedding day song I've ever heard. And the Gibson Brothers "One Car Funeral" is so sad. And I really like a lot of the tracks on Iron Horse's new CD, "Horse and Pen." Played "Oh Moses" from that CD--and that got me playing other "Moses" songs--with some more to come next week! Charlie Sizemore's new CD is very good, too. How could we not play "No Lawyers in Heaven"?

Plenty of good old music, in this show, too: By request, there's even an Old & In The Way song on the docket!

Even though the WNHU fundraiser will be done by the time the show airs, you can still support WNHU, a great college radio station (University of New Haven) whose programming includes both the student and the off-campus communities, by following this link.

Thanks for your support of the Black Diamond Show, Bluegrass Music, Old-Time Country Music, and WNHU.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Ronnie Bowman / Drifting with the Tide / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel / 1993
• Reed Island Rounders / Over the Waves / Goin’ Back / Burnin’ Wolf / 2002
• Roland White / The Storms are on the Ocean / I Wasn’t Born to Rock’n’Roll (But I Love to Cook) / Ridgerunner / 1976
• Old & In the Way / ‘Til the End of the World Rolls ‘Round / Breakdown / Acoustic Disc / 1973, 1997
• Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers / Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures / Rockygrass / Blue Planet Music / 1994, 1995
• Leon Mcauliffe / Panhandle Rag / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1949, 2009
• The HillBenders / Red Stains / Down to My Last Dollar / self / 2010
• The Gibson Brothers / I’ll Love Nobody But You / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Grave in the Valley / Bluegrass Special / Epic (Columbia) / 1963
• Lonesome Redwing / Devil’s Dream, June Apple / Fly, Fly, Fly / self / 2009
• Merle Travis / When My Baby Double Talks to Me / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1948, 2003
• The Gibson Brothers / One Car Funeral / Help My Brother / Compass / 2011
• Butch Baldassari & David Schnaufer / Tater Patch / Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer / Sound Art / 2006
• Charlie Sizemore / No Lawyers in Heaven / Heartaches Looking For a Home / Rounder / 2010
• The Hot Club of Cowtown / Little Liza Jane / Four Dead Batteries (Soundtrack) / Hightone / 2005
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Cabin of Love / Bluegrass Special, 1950-1954 / unknown import / 1951, c. 1971
• Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / Desert Trails / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy / 2007
• Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band / Carrie Brown / The Mountain / E Squared, New West / 1998, 1999
• Matt Brown, Paul Brown, & Beverly Smith / Horses in the Canebreak / Lone Prairie / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Charlie Sizemore / Pamela Brown / The Story Is… Songs of Tom T Hall /Rebel / 2002
• Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / What a Meeting in the Air / Just A Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010
• The Quebe Sisters / Mansions on the Hill / Texas Fiddlers / self / 2003
• Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys / Bound to Ride / Rounder / 1979
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Be Still Moses / Lovin’ Pretty Women / Rebel / 2006
• The Steel Drivers / If You Can’t Be Good, Be Gone / The Steel Drivers / Rounder / 2008
• Katie Wilson / Beacon / Katie Wilson / self / 2009
• The New Pilot Mountaineers / Chinese Breakdown / Down the Road / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2001
• Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp / Chicken Ridge / MerleFest 2010 / festivalink.net / 2010
• Jethro Burns & Red Rector / Lara’s Theme / Old Friends / Rebel / 1983
• Big Country Bluegrass / I’m Gonna Walk the Streets of Gold / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010
• John Hartford, Mark Howard, & The Hartford String Band / Alaska Hornpipe / Cadillac Rag / Small Dog Abarkin / 1992
• Iron Horse / Oh Moses / Horse and Pen / B Sharp / 2011
• Lefty Frizzell / Cigarettes and Coffee Blues / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Columbia Legacy / 1958, 1997 / A Marty Robbins song!
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / When Her Smile Is Gone / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
• The Mayfield Brothers / Midnight Ramble / Vintage Recordings, 1948-1956 /Patuxnet Music / 1956, 2006
• Delia Bell & Bill Grant / It’ll Be Me / The Cheer of the Home Fires / Rounder / 1984
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist for 2/28/11 Black Diamond Show (WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM & www.wnhu.net)

2011-02-27T10:27:00.004-05:00

WNHU is in the middle of its annual fund drive. WNHU is one of a disappearing breed--a college radio station that tries to serve its college or university community AND the surrounding community. WNHU is not "corporate public radio"; it is true community radio, with student and community volunteers providing the programming. If you like the music we play on the Black Diamond Show, please consider making a donation to support WNHU. You can also call the station at 1-203-479-8807 during the show (Monday 2/28 noon - 2pm EST) to make your contribution or pledge.

Thanks very much for your support of the Black Diamond Show and WNHU, CT's number 1 college radio station, and community radio in general. Here's this week's playlist.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Driftin’ Apart / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• The Freight Hoppers / Kentucky Whiskey / Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go / Rounder / 1996
• Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / He Answered My Plea / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010
• Kenny Baker & Bobby Hicks / Panhandle Country / Darkness on the Delta / County / 1980
• The Maddox Brothers & Rose / There’s a Rainbow in Every Teardrop / The Maddox Brothers & Rose Live on the Radio / Arhoolie / 1953, 1998
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Carolina in the Pines / Once and for Always / Sugar Hill / 1983
• Brittany Haas / John Brown’s Dream / Brittany Haas / Ook Records/ 2004 / Her sister Natalie Haas plays the ‘cello on this cut.
• Boone Creek / White House Blues / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1977, 1987 / If you listen carefully, you’ll hear Ricky Skaggs change the words to match 1977 current events.
• Steep Canyon Rangers / Heartbreak is Real / Deep in the Shade / Rebel / 2009
• Here Today / Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Here Today / Rounder / 1982
• Ridge Runner Rag / The Sadies / Tremendous Efforts / Bloodshot / 2001
• Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / At the end of a Long Lonely Day / The Room Over Mine / Rounder / 2008
• Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson / Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys / Waylon & Willie (Remastered) / Buddha / 1978, 2001
• Sally Van Meter, Tammy Fassaert & Their Band / Montana Cowboy / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / 1995, 1996
• The Lonesome River Band / How I Long to be in the Mountains / Window of Time / Mountain Home Music / 2006
• ShoreGrass / Back in the Days / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
• Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals / Cluck Old Hen / Collector’s Special / Grassound / 1971, 1975
• Mac Wiseman & The Country Boys / Little Footsteps in the Snow / Country Music & Bluegrass at Newport / Vanguard / 1963
• Lonesome Redwing / Little Rabbit / Fly, Fly, Fly / self / 2009
• James King / Crazy Heart / Blue Trail of Sorrow / Rounder / 1995, 2000
• James King & David Davis / I’m Blue & Lonesome, Too / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / 2000
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / The Love She Left Behind / Could of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Jimmy Gaudreau’s Bluegrass Unit / Drifting Too Far From The Shore / 25 Years of Strictly Country Music / Strictly Country / 1987, 1996
• Leon Mcauliffe / Blacksmith Blues / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1952, 2009
• Benny Thomasson / Salt River / The Weiser Reunion / Voyager / 1972, 1998 / Recorded in the parking lot at the Weiser Fiddle Contest with sons Jerry and Dale as his rhythm section.
• Merle Travis & Doc Watson / San Antonio Rose / Folk Duets / Vanguard / c. 1976, 1998
• Sarah Jarosz / Can’t Hide / Song Up In Her Head / Sugar Hill / 2009
• Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Don’t Get Above Your Raising / Bluegrass Super Hits / Columbia Nashville / 1951, 1996
• Hot Mud Family / Walkin’ In Jerusalem / The Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1974, 2010
• Michael Cleveland / Durham’s Reel / Let ‘Er Go Boys / Rounder / 2006
• Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Lonesome for You / Saints and Strangers / Backcountry / 2003
• Leon’s Lone Star Cowboys / Mr. & Mrs. Is the Name / Western Swing Chronicles, Volume 2 Leon Chappelear / Origin Jazz Library / 1936, 2002
• Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Lulu Loves Them Young / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Matt Brown / Folding Down the Sheets / My Native Home / 5-String Productions / 2010
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / I Don’t Believe You’d Do Me Wrong / Keep on Going, the Rebel and Melodeon Years / Rebel / c. 1965, 2004
• Donna Ulisse / My Prayer / When I look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Wolfe Brothers String Band / If I Lose / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004
• The Country Gentlemen / Sea of Heartbreak / Sound Off / Rebel / 1970
• The Morgantown Rounders / Sadie at the Back Door / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist for Black Diamond Show, WNHU, 2/21/11

2011-02-21T12:38:00.004-05:00

Hope you enjoyed today's show! Edd Mayfield's singing of "Poison Love" is probably a new one on most of us. . . . And "I'm Startin' Sweetheartin' Again" is going on my list of songs to learn!

Thanks, as always, for your support!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• White Brothers & Alan Munde / Soldier’s Joy, Black Mountain Rag / New Kentucky Colonels Live in Sweden / Rounder / 1973, 1976
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Calm the Storm / Quicksilver Rides Again / Sugar Hill / 1982
• Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Gospel Plow / Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Appalachian Music Group / 2008
• Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys / Sugar Moon / The Essential Bob Wills (1935-1947) / Sony (Columbia Classic) / c. 1940, 1992
• The Fly By Night Stringband / Cowboy’s Dream / The Fly By Night Stringband / Fretless / 1980
• Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers / King Tut / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder / 2011
• Aubrey Haynie / Dark Hollow / Doin’ My Time / Sugar Hill / 1997
• The O’Kanes / Can’t Stop My Heart From Loving You / The O’Kanes / Columbia / 1986
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / The Note that Said Goodbye / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Lonesome John / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• New Pilot Mountaineers / Richmond / Down the Road / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2001
• The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tell Me Your Love Is Still True / Twenty Year Blues / Sugar Hill / 2004
• The Mayfield Brothers / Poison Love / Vintage Recordings, 1948-1956 /Patuxnet Music / 1956, 2006
• Jane Rothfield / Pike’s Peak / iFiddle, They Banjo / iFiddle / 2008 / with Hilarie Burhans, banjo
• Dailey & Vincent / When I Reach That Home Up There / Brothers from Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009
• The Mayfield Brothers / Bill Cheatham / Vintage Recordings, 1948-1956 /Patuxnet Music / c. 1950, 2006
• Leon Mcauliffe / Hard-Hearted Girl / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1955, 2009
• Red Allen & The Kentuckians / Keep On Going / Keep On Going, The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings / c. 1965, 2004
• Hank Williams / Wedding Bells / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999
• Blue Highway / Lonesome Hearted Blues / Blue Highway / Skaggs Family / 1999
• Foghorn Duo / Old Love Letters / Lonesome Song / self / 2008
• Sierra Hull / If You Can Tame My Heart / Secrets / Rounder / 2007
• Rhonda Vincent & The Rage / Heartbreakin’ Old Achin’ Blues / Ragin’ Live / Rounder / 2005 / Mickey Harris singing lead
• Dailey & Vincent / By the Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Heartbreak Express / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008
• Lefty Frizzell / Forbidden Lovers / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony (Columbia Legacy) / 1963, 1997
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / Cold Lonesome Night / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys with Ricky Skaggs / My Sweet Darlin’ / Bill Monroe & Friends, The Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame / Raven / 1983, 2010
• Charles River Valley Boys / I Saw Her Standing There / Beatle Country / Elektra / 1966
• Donna Ulisse / Heartbreak River / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Lonesome River Band / Carolyn the Teenage Queen / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, & Edgar Meyer / Monkey Bay / Skip, Hop, and Wobble / Sugar Hill / 1993
• Al Dexter & His Troopers / I’m Startin’ Sweetheartin’ Again / Pistol Packin’ Mama / Living Era / c. 1948, 1999 / Originally a 33 RPM single for Columbia
• Red Mountain / Johnson Gal / Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence / Whoop It Up! / 2009
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury Nashville / 1958, 2003
• Hank Thompson / How Cold-Hearted Can You Get / Vintage Collections / Capitol / 1955, 2003
• Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / No Curb Service / Early Bluegrass / RCA / 1954, 1969
• The Osborne Brothers / Georgia Piney Woods / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / 1969, 2000
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist: Black Diamond Show Valentine's Day Special 2/14/11, WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net

2011-02-13T17:38:00.007-05:00

OK, kids. How could I resist? Valentine's Day falls on a Monday this year--and it won't do so again until 2022! So I had to pull out all the stops! The show has some old favorites, some new songs, some you'd expect, and some that I hope surprise you. A mixture of true love songs and heartbreak songs. There were literally dozens and dozens of other songs I could have shared, but this show was a lot of fun to put together.

How can you resist lines like "I thought my heart was fireproof/but you burned your way inside" (Flatt & Scruggs), or "I've got a humpty dumpty heart you dropped it and broke it apart" (Hank Thompson)??

I sure hope you like the show. Below are the details on these songs so you can find them, and a handful of notes. Thanks, as always, for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Head Over Heels in Love With You / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1950, 1977 / What valentine's day is all about!
• Guy Clark / If I Needed You / Somedays the Song Writes You / Dualtone Music Group / 2009 / A great cover of the Townes Van Zandt song. Clark makes it a cowboy love song.
• Jim & Jesse & The Virgina Boys / When My Blue Moon Turns Gold / Bluegrass Classics / Epic (Columbia) / 1963
• The Blue Sky Boys / Sweetheart Mountain Rose / In Concert / Rounder / 1964, 1988
• Hot Mud Family / Ashes of Love / Buckeyes in the Briar Patch / Vetco / 1975 / A classic Johnny & Jack song of heartbreak if ever there was one.
• Hank Thompson / (I’ve Got a) Humpty-Dumpty Heart / Vintage Collections / Nashville Catalog / 1947, 1996 / I'm a sucker for this kind of song. Sentimental as all get out, I know, but. . . .
• Lynn Miles / Fearless Heart / Fall for Beauty / True North / 2010 / There's something especially haunting about the way she phrases this song. One of the best songs of last year, IMHO.
• Hank Williams / Your Cheatin’ Heart / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1952, 1978
• Bluegrass Album Band / Hey Lonesome / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Vol. 2 / Rounder / 1983, 1987
• Lefty Frizzell / All of Me Loves All of You / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Sony (Columbia Legacy) / c. 1953, 1997
• Louvin Brothers / I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby / Live at New River Ranch / Copper Creek / 1956, 1988 / It took me about a decade to NOT get choked up every time I'd hear this song. As soon as the stranger says "My sister wants to marry," all is right with the world. Cue the hankies.
• The Country Gentlemen / Tomorrow’s My Wedding Day / Country Songs Old and New / Folkways / 1960 / Not something you'd think of on valentine's day ordinarily. But heck, if he's not working today or tomorrow because he's getting married, there may be hope that things will turn out as well as they do in the next song.
• David Silva / September Bride / Moorpark Oasis / self / 2010 / No oboes in bluegrass. I know, I know. But on valentine's day, how could I resist playing a song about the love between a married couple, even as he notes the gray in her hair.
• Red Knuckles & The Trail Blazers / I Know My Baby Loves Me / Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Flying Fish / 1982 / Ernest Tubb had a hit with this old Shepard and Canton song. Hot Rize made it popular with boomers like me!
• Charlie Feathers / The Man in Love / Essential Sun Rockabillies : Vol. 3 / Charly UK / 1958, 1999 / "I don't know why they say you're just a flirt, Maybe you like to see me hurt." Need I say more?
• Jamie Watson / Weep Anymore / Tell the Truth / self / 1992 / One of my favorite heartbreak songs since I first heard it about 20 years ago. Just banjo and vocals and a very sad tale.
• The Monroe Brothers / On the Banks of the Ohio / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1936, 1975 / One of the first true love murder ballads a lot of us boomers learned.
• Lonesome River Band / Tune of a Twenty Dollar Bill / Window of Time / Mountain Home Music / 2006 / My new favorite song about true love. Definitely cue the hankies on this one.
• Jerry Reed / A Good Woman’s Love / The Essential Jerry Reed / RCA Nashville / 1974, 1995 / We all know this as a bluegrass standard. Here's the commercial country version.
• ShoreGrass / A Waltz for You / In Connecticut / Shaw Family / 2001
• New Pilot Mountaineers / Yellow Rose of Texas / Down the Road / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2001
• Ralph Blizzard & The New Southern Ramblers / Girl I Love Don’t Pay Me No Mind / The American Fogies, Vol. 2 / Rounder / 1996
• Caleb Klauder / In My Heart I Love You Yet / Western Country / Padre / 2010
• Mason Williams / You Done Stompt on My Heart / The Listening Matter (Digitally Remastered) / Essential Media Group / 1964, 2009 / Yeah, he wrote this song as a joke, but if your heart is broken, you're better off laughing.
• Bill Keith / Pain in My Heart / Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass / Rounder / 1975
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Always Never Enough / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
• Grandpa Jones / Eight More Miles to Louisville / Bluegrass Then & Now / CMH / 1966, 2000 / Single recorded for Monument in 1966.
• Tony Rice / A Good Woman’s Love / California Autumn / Rebel / 1974, 1975 / That’s not a typo. California Autumn was recorded for Rebel in 1974, released in 1975.
• The Honey Dewdrops / Test of Time / These Old Roots / self / 2010 / True love as sung about by a pair of Virginians, Laura Wortman & Kagey Parrish, married, and traveling the USofA on their music career.
• David Grisman / My Little Georgia Rose / Home is Where the Heart Is / Rounder / 1987
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Til the End of the World Rolls Round / 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered: The Essential Flatt & Scruggs / Sony (Columbia Legacy) / 1954, 1997 / A classic. One of my favorite bluegrass songs of all time.
• Blueridge / Rock Hearts / Come Along with Me / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / I’ll Wash Your Love From My Heart / The Best of the Early Years / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• Big Country Bluegrass / If You Don’t Have the Heart / Twenty Years of Grass / Hay Holler / 2007
• Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / My Lover, Adorned / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011 / A cowboy in love from this dynamite duo from way out west.
• Phil Rosenthal / Beautiful Brown Eyes / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009 / A nice version of the Delmore Brothers' love song.
• Michael Cleveland / Hopelessly In Love / Let ‘Er Go, Boys! / Rounder / 2006 / Pre-Flamekeeper. A lovely sentimental love song (instrumental).
• Ronnie Bowman / Always a Lady / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel /1993 /True love, even on a cold Virginia night!
• The Stanley Brothers / I’ll Be True to the One I Love / Long Journey Home: The Stanley Bros. of Virginia, Vol. 2 / County / 1964, 1973 / Another classic.
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 2/7/11; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

2011-02-05T11:46:00.002-05:00

Since I was slow about posting last week's playlist, what the heck, here's an ADVANCE COPY of the playlist for the show planned for Monday, Feb 7. Thanks, as always, for your support.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Is it True / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• The Lone Star Cowboys / Just Because / East Virginia Blues / RCA Bluebird / 1935, 2004
• Donna Ulisse / The Walls Cry / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• Charlie Louvin / Down by the Riverside / The Battles Rage On / True North / 2010
• Claire Lynch Band / Face to Face / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder / 2009
• Yonder Mountain String Band / Too Late Now / Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Thirty Years / Rounder / 2005
• Joe Herrmann / Izzy’s Polka / Gather ‘Round / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Durham’s Reel / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963 / From first bluegrass concert ever held at Carnegie Hall, December 8, 1962.
• Bobby Hicks / East Tennessee Blues / Texas Crapshooter / County / 1978
• Red Hen / Too Late for the Bacon / Red Hen Crossing / Red Hen / 2009
• Kathy Louvin & Pamela Brown Hayes / I Wish You Knew / Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’, Songs of the Louvin Brothers / Universal South / 2003
• The Freight Hoppers / Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm / Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go / Rounder / 1996
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Old Timers’ Waltz / Once and for Always / Sugar Hill / 1985
• Darrell Scott / You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1997, 2009
• Wayne Henderson & Steve Kaufman / Lonesome Moonlight Waltz / Not Much Work for Saturday / Hay Holler / 1996
• Hank Williams / Alone and Forsaken / Alone with his Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000
• Phil Rosenthal / Sail Away Ladies / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009
• Randy Burns / Every Time We Say Goodbye / Hobos & Kings / self / 2010
• Roger Sprung & Doc Watson / The World is Waiting for the Sunrise / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / c. 1970, 2002
• Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Uncle Pen / Anthology / MCA / c. 1970, 2003
• David Grisman & Sam Bush / Hartford’s Reel / Hold on, We’re Strumming / Acoustic Disc / 2003
• Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / What You Do / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009
• Nashville Mandolin Trio / Seneca Square Dance / American Portraits / SoundArt Recordings / 1998
• Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Dance All Night / Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band / Appalachian Music Group / 2008
• Reed Island Rounders / Ways of the World / Goin’ Back / Burnin’ Wolf / 2002
• The Stanley Brothers / Sunny Side of the Mountain / The Best of the Stanley Brothers / Starday / c. 1960, 1975
• Ken Kolodner & Brad Kolodner / Snow Drop / Otter Creek / Fenchurch Music / 2010
• Hard Ryde / Warm Day in June / North to Ontario 2010 / Coot Music / 2010
• Big Medicine / Dunbar / Pine to Pine / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009
• Al Dexter / Sundown Polka / Pistol Packin’ Mama / Harmony / 1961
• Morgantown Rounders / Sugar Babe / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Dailey & Vincent / Poor Boy Workin’ Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder / 2008
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist for Black Diamond Show 1/31/11 (WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net)

2011-02-05T10:23:00.003-05:00

It took me a few days to get my notes typed up from Monday's show. The show had two "bullet points."

First, a tribute to Charlie Louvin, who passed away on Wed., Jan. 26 (Obituary at theboot.com). As regular listeners know, I am a big fan of Charlie & Ira Louvin's songs. You've heard me play "Great Atomic Power," "My Baby's Gone," "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby," "Cash on the Barrelhead," and other songs they've contributed to American Country Music. Charlie's last CD, "The Battles Rage On," was released on Veteran's Day 2010 on True North Records.

Being thoroughly sick of the cruddy icy sleety snowy and cold winter, I played a lot of dance tunes to keep myself warm. Winter is Contra Dance season to my way of thinking. If you're in CT, check out the Contra Dance link over on the right hand side of this blog.

Thanks for your email messages and support! Here's the playlist for the 1/31/11 show:

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Cadillac Sky / Can’t Trust the Weatherman / Blind Man Walking / Skaggs Family / 2006
• Foghorn Stringband / Icy Mountain / Boombox Squaredance / self / 2007
• Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / I Wish You Knew / Bluegrass Special / Epic (Columbia) / 1963
• Charlie Louvin & Charles Whitstein / Make Him a Soldier / 25 Years of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country / 1993, 1996
• Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys / Oklahoma Hills / Vintage Collections / Capitol / 1961, 2003
• Beverly Cotton / Miss Liza Poor Gal / Clog-In / Flying Fish / 1981
• Donna Ulisse / Doin’ Time / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2006
• The Louvin Brothers / My Baby’s Gone / Crazy Heart, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / New West / 1958, 2010
• The Byrds / The Christian Life / Sweetheart of the Rodeo / Columbia / 1968
• Doc & Merle Watson / Guitar Polka / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder / 1971, 2006
• David Peterson / The Waltz You Saved For Me / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009
• Carolina Chocolate Drops / Cornbread & Butterbeans / Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch / 2009
• Marty Stuart & Del McCoury / Let us Travel, Travel On / Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’, Songs of the Louvin Brothers / Universal South / 2003
• Blue Highway / Sycamore Hollow / Through the Windows of a Train / Rounder / 2007
• The Morgantown Rounders / Dance All Night with a Bottle in your Hand / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Riders in the Sky / Clarinet Polka / A Pair of Kings / Oh Boy / 2002
• Charlie Louvin / Hickory Wind / Hickory Wind, Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull, Waycross Georgia / Tompkins Square / 2009, 2010
• Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / McMichen’s Reel / Canyoneers / Dog Boy / 2003
• Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / If Only I Could Win Your Love / At Edwards Barn / Rounder / 2010
• The Percolators / Kansas City Reel / Alive in Prague / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004
• Bluegrass Album Band / One Tear / The Blue Grass Compact Disc / Rounder / 1982, 1986
• Berline, Crary & Hickman / Henry’s Hornpipe / BCH / Sugar Hill / 1986
• Notorious / Hangman’s Reel / The Road to Damascus / Black Socks Press / 2010
• Hoover Uprights / Texas Quickstep / Known for their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006
• Merle Travis / I like my Chicken Fryin’ Size / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1947, 2003
• The Montville Project / Arkansas Traveler, Soldier’s Joy / 53 Essential New England Dance Tunes / Great Meadow / 2008
• Scott Vestal, Adam Steffey, Clay Jones, Aubrey Haynie, Wayne Benson, & Barry Bales / Temperance Reel / More Ultimate Pickin’ / Pinecastle / 2009
• Merle Travis / The Waltz You Saved For Me / The Merle Travis Guitar/ Capitol / 1959
• Ronnie Bowman / Lead Us Safely / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel / 1993
• Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Why you do what you do / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
• Carolina Chocolate Drops / Sandy Boys / Genuine Negro Jig/ Nonesuch / 2009
• Yankee Ingenuity with Tony Parkes, caller / Crockett’s Honeymoon, Yellow Rose of Texas / Heatin’ Up the Hall / Varrick / 1989
• The Louvin Brothers / I’m Changing the Words to my Love Song / The Louvin Brothers / Rounder / 1952, 1978
• Earl Scruggs, Hylo Brown, & the Timberliners / Love and Wealth / Earl Scruggs – Bluegrass Live / Vanguard / 1959, 2000
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 1/24/11

2011-01-27T15:47:00.003-05:00

As I looked over my notes, I realized that I'd played a lot of title tracks to albums today. Not sure that that means anything. Bryan added a good tune by 3 Fox Drive (formerly the Fox Family) at the 1pm break today. Good choice! Here's the playlist.

Thanks, as always, for your support!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Longview / Old Log Cabin / Deep in the Mountains / Rounder / 2008
• The Freight Hoppers / Hound Chase / Mile Marker / Baketown / 2010
• Leon Mcauliffe / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1950, 2009
• Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Just a Little Closer Home / Just a Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010
• Randy Morrison & the Flatt River Band / Good Old Bluegrass For Fun / North to Ontario 2010 / Coot Music / 2010
• Patsy Montana / I Want to be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart / Country Volume 3 / Baiele / 1935, 2007
• The Virginia Mountain Boomers / Say Darlin’ Say / The Story the Crow Told Me, Volume 1 / Yazoo / c. 1933, 2000
• Blueridge / Appalachian Queen / Common Ground / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger / You Done Me Wrong / Bowling Green / 5-String Productions / 1971, 2008
• David Peterson & 1946 / Prayin’ Shoes / In the Mountaintops to Roam / self / 2005
• Jim Vancleve, Jim Hurst, Micky Harris, Wayne Benson, & Kristin Scott Benson / The Woodchopper’s Reel / More Ultimate Pickin’ / Pinecastle / 2009
• Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Jimmy Brown the Newsboy / Earl Scruggs Classic Bluegrass / Vanguard / 1960, 2002
• David Grisman Quintet / Minor Swing / The David Grisman Quintet / Kaleidoscope / 1976
• Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Jimmie Brown Revisited / Saints and Strangers / Backcountry / 2003
• Ricky Skaggs / God Holds the Future in His Hands / Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family / 2009
• Shoregrass / Glorious Day / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007
• Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, & Peter Amidon / Marching Through Georgia / The Civil War / Nonesuch / 1990
• 3 Fox Drive / It Always Rains When I’m Lonesome / Listen to the Music / Koch / 2005 / The station manager picked this one out to play in lieu of promos and PSAs.
• The Hot Mud Family / John Lover’s Gone / Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1974, 2010
• Dry Branch Fire Squad / Good Neighbors and Friends / Good Neighbors and Friends / Rounder / 1985
• Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / Over There / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
• Merle Travis / Spoonin’ Moon / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1950, 2003 / with the Whippoorwills, Judy Hayden in the vocal duet with Travis.
• Jim & Jesse / Is it True? / The Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009
• Joe Newberry / Rambling Hobo / Two Hands / 5-String Productions / 2005
• Rodney Miller / Contrazz, Old Joe / Airplang / Rounder / 1985
• Jiri Kralik & The Rowdy Rascals / Ida Red / 10 Years of European World Bluegrass / Strictly Country / 2007, 2008 / A Czech bluegrass band.
• Newfound Road / Damascus Road / Newfound Road / Mountain Home / 2002
• Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet / C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken / Good for What Ails You / Old Hat / c. 1932, 2005
• The Monroe Brothers / Rollin’ On / Feast Here Tonight / RCA Bluebird / 1938, 1978
• Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / Sockdolager / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy / 2007
• Mark Graham / Jonah and the Whale / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / self / c. 1988, 2000
• The Morgantown Rounders / Big Scioty / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006
• Dolly Parton / Steady as the Rain / The Grass is Blue / Sugar Hill / 1999, 2006
• The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Our Last Goodbye / Best of Bluegrass Volume 1 / Mercury / 1953, 1991
• Arthur Smith Trio / Pig at Home in the Pen / The Story the Crow Told Me, Volume 2 / Yazoo / c. 1935, 2000
• The Warrior River Boys / Never Again / Sounds Like Home / Rounder / 1992
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Carolina Chocolate Drops in Norfolk, CT on Th 2/3

2011-01-21T13:48:00.006-05:00

The Carolina Chocolate Drops will be appearing at Infinity Hall in Norfolk on Thursday, February 3. Great old-time music--with an emphasis on material derived from old African-American string bands. If you get a chance to hear them, do so. I'll play some of their music on the Jan 31 edition of the Black Diamond Show so you can hear 'em. Or visit their web site! Or check out one of their YouTube videos!

Carolina Chocolate Drops web site

Infinity Hall web site

Carolina Chocolate Drops on YouTube

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 1/17/11, WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net

2011-01-17T12:09:00.006-05:00

Today's show features an interview with the Honey Dewdrops, appearing in New Haven at the Public Library on Wed 1/19. (See a previous blog posting for more information. Full interview [51.5 Mb mp3 file])

But there's plenty of other good music in today's show, too. I always crack up when the Stanley Brothers do their "turn the cow" routine. . . . And, yes, in the last half-hour, you indeed hear what bluegrass sounds like in Dutch. The show also includes a track from Randy Burns who used to sing all over Southern CT but now plies his trade in New York. As I was digitizing old records a couple of weeks ago, I ran across a Wild Aspargus LP--and yes, they are still playing for contra dances in Western MA and occasionally across the US. And the show closes down with one of my favorite Louvin Brothers' Songs. So I hope it has a little something for everyone!

Thanks, as always, for your support.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys / The Prisoner’s Song / 25 Years of Strictly Country Music / Strictly Country / 1981, 1996 / Recorded in Holland.

Red June / Callahan / Remember Me Well / self / 2010

Tex Ritter / The Old Chisholm Trail / Country Masters, Volume 1 / Mbop Direct / 1942, 2008

Blue Moon Rising / The Old Time Preacher / On The Rise / Lonesome Day / 2005

The Stanley Brothers / How Far to Little Rock? / The Best of the Stanley Brothers / Starday / c. 1960, 1975

The Hot Mud Family / Somewhere Down Below the Dixon Line / The Complete Vetco Recordings / self / 1978, 2010 / Best as I can tell, the former bandmates have the rights to these tracks and have issued this collection themselves.

Wild Asparagus / Congress Reel, Fisherman’s Island, Return to Milltown / Call of the Wild / Great Meadow Music / 1983, 1990

The Johnson Mountain Boys / Darlin’ I’m Coming Home / Walls of Time / Rounder / 1982

The Honey Dewdrops / Bluest Blue Eyes / The Sun Will Shine / self / 2009 / Aired as part of an interview with the Honey Dewdrops.

The Honey Dewdrops / Can’t You Hear Me Calling / YouTube Video / self / 2008 / Aired as part of an interview with the Honey Dewdrops.

The Honey Dewdrops / Amaranth / These Old Roots / self / 2010 / Aired as part of an interview with the Honey Dewdrops.

The Honey Dewdrops / Can’t Take a Letter Home / These Old Roots / self / 2010 / Aired as part of an interview with the Honey Dewdrops.

The Honey Dewdrops / Test of Time / These Old Roots / self / 2010 / Aired as part of an interview with the Honey Dewdrops.

The Honey Dewdrops / Nobody in This World / These Old Roots / self / 2010 / Aired as part of an interview with the Honey Dewdrops.

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Highway of Sorrow / High Lonesome Sound / MCA / 1964, 1973

Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwartz / Little Willie / Draw Closer / Rounder / 2004

The Morgantown Rounders / Ducks on the Mill Pond / The Morgantown Rounders / Banjos for Peace / 2006

The Wolfe Brothers String Band / Natural Bridge Blues / Old Roads, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004

Sam Bush / Out on the Ocean / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill / 2009

Randy Burns / Hobo’s Lullaby / Hobos and Kings / self / 2010

The Sadies / Ridge Runner Rag / Tremendous Efforts / Bloodshot / 2001

Del McCoury / Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die / Collector’s Special / Grassound / 1971, 1975

Kenny Baker & Joe Greene / Goldenrod Waltz / High Country / County / 1967

David Grisman / Little Cabin Home on the Hill / Home is Where the Heart Is / Rounder / 1987 / Tony Rice and Curly Seckler on vocal

Dierks Bentley / A House of Gold / How Great Thou Art, Gospel Favorites Live from the Grand Ole Opry / RCA Nashville / 2008

De Stroatklinkers / Zoltkamp / 10 Years of European World Bluegrass / Strictly Country / 2000, 2008

Paul Brown / Lazy John / Red Clay Country / 5-String Productions / 2006

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / When You Were Mine / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008

The Louvin Brothers / Cash on the Barrelhead / Louvin Brothers Encore / Capitol Nashville / 1956, 2007

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Two upcoming concerts in CT: Honey Dewdrops; Carolina Chocolate Drops

2011-01-09T21:09:00.012-05:00

Usually on the Black Diamond Show, I refer you to the list of Selected Bluegrass and Old-Time Music links to the right hand side of this blog to find what's going on. As of 1/9/11, the CTBMA concert listing was missing two concerts that I think BDS listeners would enjoy.

First, The Honey Dewdrops will be touring in New England this month. The CTBMA lists their stop in Hartford at the Firebox on Sunday 1/16, but doesn't list their stop in New Haven on Wednesday, January 19, at the New Haven Public Library, 133 Elm Street, at 6:30 pm. An interview with Laura and Kagey will appear on the 1/17 Black Diamond Show. Here's the info from the Library's Calendar: Jan 19, 2011, 6:30 PM, Ives Library (Main). "The Honey Dewdrops (husband and wife team of Kagey Parrish and Laura Wortman) in concert! Winners of the 2008 Prairie Home Companion Talent Show. Focusing on vocal harmonies and tight instrumentation."

Second, the Carolina Chocolate Drops will be appearing at Infinity Hall in Norfolk on Thursday, February 3. Great old-time music--with a lot of material derived from old African-American string bands.

Both acts are superb performers. Highly recommended.

Playlist for Black Diamond Show 1/10/11 (WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net)

2011-01-09T21:01:00.003-05:00

Heard from a lot of people this past week: CT, PA, DE, MI, TN, and MA were represented. Thanks for all your support! Here's the playlist for the 1/10/11 show. At one point, the mining songs just kept a-coming. . . . Enjoy!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Cheer of the Home Fires / Rounder / 1984

The Hoover Uprights / Devil Ate the Groundhog / Known for their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006

Merle Travis / That’s All / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1946, 2003

Ricky Skaggs / Can’t You Hear Me Callin’ / Highways and Heartaches / Epic / 1982

Kathy Mattea / Dark as a Dungeon / Coal / Captain Potato Records, RED Distribution / 2008

Bill Harrell / The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / 2000

Big Medicine / Hell Up Coal Holler / Fever In the South / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004

Red Molly / Coal Tattoo / Never Been to Vegas / self / 2006

Hubie King / Coal Creek March / There are no Rules! / self / 1995

Phyllis Boyens / Dream of a Miner’s Child / Mama’s Hand / Rounder / c. 1980, 2002

Perfect Strangers / The Hermit Miner / The Perfect Strangers / Rebel / 2000, 2003

Kenny Baker / The Gold Rush / Master Fiddler / County / c. 1973, 1993

Phyllis Boyens / Blue Diamond Mines / Coal Mining Women / Rounder / c. 1978, 1997

Quebe Sisters Band / Red Wing / Texas Fiddlers / self / 2003

Don Stover / Things in Life / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972

Seldom Scene / Life is Like a Mountain Railway / Way Down In My Soul, Best of Sugar Hill Gospel, Volume 2 / 1979, 1993

Chris Jones & The Nightdrivers / Come on Little Children / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009

Blueridge / Sugar-Coated Love / Come Along With Me / Sugar Hill / 2006

D.L. Menard / Wedding Bells / Cajun Saturday Night / Rounder / 1984

Norman Blake / Over the Waterfall, Opera Reel, Cherokee Shuffle / The Rising Fawn String Ensemble / Rounder / 1979 / Nancy Blake, cello & James Bryan, fiddle

Wayne Hancock / Your Love and His Blood / Viper of Melody / Bloodshot / 2009

Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Just Tell a Lie / Saints and Strangers / Backcountry / 2003

Matt Brown, Paul Brown, & Beverly Smith / Grub Springs / Lone Prairie / 5-String Productions / 2006

Red June / Biscuits & Honey / Remember Me Well / self / 2010

Phil Rosenthal / Three Mandolins / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009

Jim Nunally / Across the Great Divide / Gloria’s Waltz / FGM / 2006

John Reischman & The Jaybirds / Say Darlin’ Say / Field Guide / Copper Creek / 2002

The Honey Dewdrops / Nobody in This World / These Old Roots / self / 2010

Country Cooking / Huckling the Berries / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1987

Country Gazette / Hound Dogs Never Die / Bluegrass Tonight! / Flying Fish / 1986

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / The Golden West / Bill Monroe & Friends, The Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame / Raven / 1985, 2010 / Bobby Hicks & Glen Duncan are the twin fiddlers.

The Stanley Brothers / Your Saddle is Empty Old Pal / Long Journey Home, The Stanley Brothers of Virginia, Volume 2 / County / 1964, 1973

David Davis & The Warrior River Boys / Where Were You? / Two Dimes and a Nickel / Rebel / 2009

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Playlist: Black Diamond Show 1/3/11, WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net

2011-01-03T12:39:00.004-05:00

Here's the playlist for the first show of 2011. Thanks for your support!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Sugar-Coated Love / The High Lonesome Sound of Bill Monroe / MCA / 1951, 1973

The Stanley Brothers / It’s Raining Here This Morning / The Best of the Stanley Brothers / Starday / c. 1960, 1975

Nate Grower / Cattle in the Cane / Nate Grower / Patuxent Music / 2010

Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Little Betty Brown / Daddy of Western Swing, Volume 2, Brownie Special / Proper / 1935, 2003

Ricky Skaggs / Heartbroke / Highways & Heartbreaks / Epic / 1982

Blueridge / Rock Hearts / Come Along With Me / Sugar Hill / 2006

Naomi Sommers / Sea of Heartbreak / Gentle As the Sun / American Melody / 2008

Caleb Klauder / Hole in My Heart / Western Country / Padre / 2010

Banjo Dan & The Mid-Nite Plowboys / Back When the Old Folks Were Young / Some Rust, Runs Good / self / 2000

Winterline / Two Times Too Many / North to Ontario 2010 / Coot Music / 2010

The Maddox Brothers & Rose / Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music / Live On the Radio / Arhoolie / 1953, 1998

Red Mountain / Last of the Mexican, Laughing Marj / Throw the Old Cow Over the Fence / Whoop It Up! / 2009

Peter McLaughlin / Cole Younger / Cliffs of Vermilion / Dog Boy / 1996

Here Today / Green Pastures / Here Today / Rounder / 1982

The Louvin Brothers / The Great Atomic Power / The Louvin Brothers, Rounder Special Series / Rounder / 1952, 1978 / One of the many reissues of Capitol’s 1956 LP, Tragic Songs of Life.

Bill Keith / Sugarfoot Rag / Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass / Rounder / 1975

Alison Krauss / Foolish Heart / Bluegrass Class of 1990 / Rounder / 1990

Donna Ulisse / Child of the Great Depression / Walk This Mountain Down / Hadley Music Group / 2008

Sierra Hull / If You Can Tame My Heart / Secrets / Rounder / 2007

The Quebe Sisters Band / Shame on You / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / The Golden Era / Rounder / 1955, 1977

Phil Rosenthal / Rye Whiskey / A Treasury of Bluegrass & Country Songs / American Melody / 2009

Lefty Frizzell / All of me Loves All of You / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Columbia Legacy / c. 1953, 1997

Hoover Uprights / Rye Straw / Known for Their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006

The Bluegrass Cardinals / Ridin’ on the L&N / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango /2000

Big Medicine / Sharp’s Three-Way Hornpipe / Fever in the South / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2002

Hank Williams / My Son Calls Another Man Daddy / The Complete Hank Williams / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1998

Emmylou Harris / Alone and Forsaken / Hank Williams Timeless / Lost Highway / 2001

The Honey Dewdrops / When was the War? / If the Sun Will Shine / self / 2009

Matt Brown / Billy in the Lowground / My Native Home / 5-String Productions / 2010

Country Gazette / Poison Love / Bluegrass Tonight! / Flying Fish / 1986

Del McCoury / Golden Slippers / Collector’s Special / Grassound / 1971, 1975 / Buddy Spicher & Jimmy Buchanan on twin fiddles.

Merle Travis / No Vacancy / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1946, 2003

Ill-Mo Boys / Valley Forge / The Marimac Anthology, Deep in Old-Time Music / Rounder / c. 1987, 1996

Del McCoury Band / Katy Hill / RockyGrass / Blue Planet Music / 1994, 1995

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 12/27/10 Hank Williams Special; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

2010-12-24T11:13:00.008-05:00

Here's an advance (!) posting of the playlist for the 12/27 show. Since Hank Williams passed away in the back seat of a car New Year's Eve 1952/New Year's Day 1953, I'll try to do a Hank Williams show each year on the show prior to New Year's. I freely admit I stole the idea for a Hank Williams show from John Lupton, a DJ at WVUD, Newark DE. John's show happens every year about 10am on New Year's Day morning. Check it out.

It is amazing what an impact Hank has had on American music. Over 125 compositions. Sales that helped bring country music more and more into the mainstream. I hope you enjoy the show: a selection of Hank songs, covers, and tribute songs. The second half hour opens with a complete episode of one of the Health & Happiness Shows Hank and his band recorded. Obviously, when Hank said it was time for the announcer to deliver a message, I put in a WNHU Black Diamond Show promo. There are so many great songs in Hank's repertoire, this show does NOT come close to covering them all.

If the show piques your interest in Hank Williams, here are some links to more information.

Notes from PBS's 2005 Hank Williams Biography.
The Wikipedia article about Hank Williams.
The Encylopedia of Alabama article about Hank Williams. A little sanitized. . . .
The hagiography of Hank at the Hank Williams Museum's Web site.

Thanks, as always, for your support.

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Hank Williams / Lovesick Blues / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1949, 1978

The Maddox Brothers & Rose / Honky Tonkin’ / Live on the Radio / Arhoolie / 1953, 1998

Hank Williams / Dear John / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999

Seldom Scene / Pan American / Old Train / Rebel / 1974

Hank Williams / Honky Tonkin’ / Turn Back the Years / Mercury Nashville / 1948, 2005

Hank Williams / Pan American / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007

Charley Pride / Kaw-Liga / The Essential Charley Pride / RCA / 1969, 1997

Hank Williams / Honky Tonk Blues / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Hank Williams / Move It On Over / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1947, 1978

Hank Williams / Happy Roving Cowboy / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Hank Williams / I Can’t Get You Off of My Mind / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Hank Williams / I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Jerry Rivers with the Hank Williams Band / Fisherman’s Hornpipe / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Everyone else calls it Fisher’s Hornpipe. Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Hank Williams / Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Jerry Rivers with the Hank Williams Band / Sally Goodin’ / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007 / Part of the 8th Health & Happiness show Hank recorded in October 1949 at WSM, Nashville, for syndication.

Moe Bandy / Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life / Columbia Country Classics, Volume 5 A New Tradition / Columbia / 1975, 1991

Hank Williams / Your Cheatin’ Heart / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1952, 1978

Chris Wall / Hank Williams’ Cadillac / Just Another Place / Cold Spring / 1996, 2002

Hank Williams / They’ll Never Take Her Love From Me / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999

Hank Williams / You Caused it all by Telling Lies / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Hank Williams / Baby, We’re Really In Love / Live at the Grand Ole Opry / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1999

Hank Williams / Kaw-Liga / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1952, 1978 / Recorded Sept. 1952, released 1953, one of Hank's posthumous hits.

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry / Anthology / MCA Nashville / c. 1967, 2003

Hank Williams / Wedding Bells / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007

Hank Williams / Why Don’t You Love Me Like You Used to Do / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1950, 1978

Waylon Jennings / I Won’t Be Home No More / Waylon Sings Hank Williams / YMC / 1985, 2006

Hank Williams III / I’m a Long Gone Daddy / Hank Williams Timeless / Lost Highway / 2001

Don Reno & The Tennessee Cut-Ups / Mansion on the Hill / Live on Stage / CMH / 1979

Hank Williams / Alone and Forsaken / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Jerry Rivers with the Hank Williams Band / Bill Cheatham / Hank Williams / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007

Hank Williams / A House of Gold / The Complete Hank Williams / Mercury Nashville / 1950, 1998

Hank Williams / Mind Your Own Business / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1949, 1978

Larry Sparks / Waltz of the Wind / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel / 1988

Hank Williams / I’ll Be a Bachelor ‘Til I Die / The Complete Hank Williams / Mercury Nashville / 1948, 1998

Debbie Durant & Mandorichard / A House of Gold / Mandocast 9 / self / 2006

Hank Williams / On the Banks of the Old Pontchantrain / Turn Back the Years / Mercury Nashville / 1947, 2005

Hank & Audrey Williams / Where the Soul of Man Never Dies / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2007

Hank Williams / They’ll Never Take Her Love From Me / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1950, 1978

Hank Williams / I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive / Country Masters Volume 1 / MBOP Distribution / 1952, 2008 / Another of Hank’s posthumous hits.

Hank Williams / I Saw The Light / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1948, 1978

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 12/20/10; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

2010-12-20T12:14:00.003-05:00

Here's the full playlist information for the 12/20/10 show. Tune in on M 12/27 for our Hank Williams Extravaganza!

Thanks, as always, for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Banjo Dan & The Mid-Nite Plowboys / Cold Wind / Some Rust Runs Good / self / 2000

Rhonda Vincent / Jingle Bells / Beautiful Star, A Christmas Collection / Rounder / 2006

Riders in the Sky / I’ll Be Home For Christmas / Christmas the Cowboy Way / Rounder / 1999

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Footprints in the Snow / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963

Tim & Mollie O’Brien / Pilgrim of Sorrow / Way Down in my Soul, Best of Sugar Hill Gospel, Volume 2 / Sugar Hill / 1993

Darrin Vincent with Jamie Daley / Beautiful Star of Bethlehem / Christmas Grass Too - A Continuing Celebration Of Christmas Bluegrass Style / Koch / 2007

Sonny Isaacs / Mary Did You Know / Christmas Grass Too - A Continuing Celebration Of Christmas Bluegrass Style / Koch / 2007

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Teardrops Falling in the Snow / The Oak and the Laurel / Rounder / 1994

Matt Brown / The Hog Went Through the Fence / Lone Prairie / 5-String Productions / 2006

Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / Blue Christmas Lights / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

James King / Call Collect on Christmas / O Christmas Tree, A Bluegrass Collection for the Holidays / Rounder / 2002

James Bryan / Kicking Up the Devil on a Holiday, De. Hecock’s Jig / Old-time Music on the Air, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1996

ShoreGrass / December Waltz / Going Home / Shaw Family / 2007

John McCutcheon / Christmas in the Trenches / Water From Another Time / Rounder / 1988

Leon Chappelear & The Lone Star Cowboys / Hang Out the Front Door Key / Western Swing Chronicles Volume 2 / Origin Jazz Library / c. 1935, 2002

Leftwich & Higginbotham / Breakin’ Up Christmas / No One to Bring Home Tonight / County / 1984

Nashville Bluegrass Band / Christmas Story / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

Dirk Powell / Joy to the World / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010

Jesse Lee Campbell / Frosty the Snowman / Mountain Top Bluegrass Christmas / Madacy Christian / 2006

Hubie King & Diane Jones & Friends / Cold Frosty Morning / There Are No Rules! / self / 1995

Riders in the Sky / Let It Snow, The Last Christmas Medley You’ll Ever Need to Hear / Christmas the Cowboy Way / Rounder / 1999

Lonesome River Band / All I Want is Mary for Christmas / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats from Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

Craig Duncan / Christmas Time’s A-Coming / Bluegrass Christmas / Green Hill Productions / 2003

Doc Watson / Christmas Lullaby / Sugar Plums - Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 1993

Alison Brown & Joe Craven / Christmas Don’t Be Late / Evergreen / Compass / 2008

Joe Newberry / On This Christmas Day / Two Hands / 5-String Productions / 2005

David West & Joe Craven / My Favorite Things / A Spectacular Bluegrass Christmas / CMH / 2001

Hank Williams / Cold, Cold Heart / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor / 1950, 1978

Sam Bush / Let It Snow / A Very Special Acoustic Christmas / Lost Highway / 2003

The Skaggs Family / Do You Hear What I Hear? / A Skaggs Family Christmas / Skaggs Family / 2005

Bryan Sutton / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Christmas Grass Too - A Continuing Celebration Of Christmas Bluegrass Style / Koch / 2007

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Sleigh Ride / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds / 1999

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 12/13/10; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

2010-12-19T19:37:00.002-05:00

Yes, folks, it's beginning to sound a lot more like the holidays. . . . Thanks so much to all of you listeners for your support!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

The Hoover Uprights / Lazy Kate / Known for Their Reputations / 5-String Productions / 2006

Jim Nunally / Hold Watcha Got / Gloria’s Waltz / FGM / 2006

Sam Bush / Sleigh Ride / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

Southern Schoolhouse Rascals / Lulu Loves Them Young / Old School, Mountain Style / 5-String Productions / 2006

The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Little Annie / The Early Recordings / County / 1957, 1970

Larry Sparks / Blue Christmas / Christmas in the Mountains / Rebel / 2003

The Honey Dewdrops / Bluest Blue Eyes / If the Sun Will Shine / Honey Dewdrops / 2009

Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / Blue Christmas Lights / Tinsel Tunes, More Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill / Sugar Hill / 2007

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / When the Sun of My Life Goes Down / Once and for Always / Sugar Hill / 1983

Dirk Powell / King Wenceslas / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010

Craig Duncan / Christmas Time’s A-Coming / Bluegrass Christmas / Green Hill Productions / 2003

Longview / At the First Fall of Snow / Deep in the Mountains / Rounder / 2008

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Footprints in the Snow / Anthology / MCA Nashville / c. 1963, 2003

Benton Flippen & The Smokey Valley Boys / Sugar Tree Stomp / An Evening at WPAQ / 5-String Productions / 1984, 2008

Karl Shiflett & The Big Country Show/ Cold, Cold Love / In Full Color / Rebel / 2001

Grandpa Jones Family / Autoharp Concerto / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / unknown, 2000 / If someone knows the date of this recording, please let me know!

Hot Club of Cowtown / Bonaparte’s Retreat / Tall Tales / Hightone / 1999

Mike Seeger / Bonaparte’s Retreat / Classic Old-Time Fiddle from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 1962, 2007

The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Loving You Too Well / Best of Bluegrass / Mercury / 1957, 1994

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Hot Buttered Rum / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds / 1999

Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / At the End of a Long Lonely Day / The Room Over Mine / Rounder / 2008

Nashville Mandolin Trio / Honky Grass Stomp / American Portraits / SoundArt Recordings / 1998

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Let the Church Roll On / Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall / Columbia / 1962, 1963 / I love this old LP. This recording was made at Flatt and Scruggs December 8, 1962, concert, the first bluegrass concert at Carnegie Hall. Columbia released the LP the next year.

Earl Scruggs / Jingle Bells / A Very Special Acoustic Christmas / Lost Highway / 2003

Russel Moore / Christmas is Near / Christmas Grass Too, A Continuing Celebration Of Christmas Bluegrass Style / Koch / 2007

Foghorn Stringband / Kicking Up the Devil on a Holiday / Weiser Sunrise / Foghorn Stringband / 2005

Delia Bell & Bill Grant / The Cheer of the Home Fires / The Cheer of the Home Fires / Rounder 1984

Cherryholmes / Munsker Spree, O’Coughlin’s Reel / Cherryholmes III, Don’t Believe / Skaggs Family / 2008

Merle Travis / Sioux City Sue / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1947, 2003

Dirk Powell / What Child is This / A Fret-Free Christmas / Valcour / 2010

Art Stamper / Barndance Polka / Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston / County / 2000

Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / One More Chance, Lord / Tell Someone / Rebel / 2005

Don Reno & Charlie Moore / Keep on the Firing Line / Bluegrass Legends Together / Wango / 1998

The Skaggs Family / Deck The Halls / A Skaggs Family Christmas / Skaggs Family / 2005

Patty Loveless / Bluegrass, White Snow / Bluegrass & White Snow, A Mountain Christmas / Epic / 2002

Vassar Clements / Snowflake Breakdown / Bluegrass in the Smokies / Rural Rhythm / unknown, 2007

Charlie Louvin / I Wonder if They Ever Think of Me / The Battles Rage On / True North / 2010

Asleep at the Wheel / Xmas in Jail / Merry Texas Christmas, Y’All / Windham Hill / 1997

Dailey & Vincent / Head Hung Down / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder / 2009

Jethro Burns & Red Rector / Fisher’s Hornpipe / Old Friends / Rebel / 1983

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 12/6/10; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

2010-12-19T12:02:00.002-05:00

Better late than never! This show was a lot of fun for me. Any time Mandorichard can sneak in a Greystone Ramblers track and a Jethro Burns track, he's happy!

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Big Country Bluegrass / You Don’t Have Far to Go / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010

Claire Lynch / Barbed Wire Boys / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder / 2009

Austin Lounge Lizards / Xmas Time for Visa / The Drugs I Need / Blue Corn Music / 2007

Matan Ariel & Friends/ Maoz Zur / Hanukkah Songs - Songs in Hebrew for Children & Toddlers / Matan Ariel / 2003

Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / The Cowboy Way / At Edwards Barn / Rounder / 2010

Charles River Valley Boys / Crazy Creek / Bluegrass and Old-Timey Music / Prestige Fantasy / c. 1963, 2003

Half and Half / Fourteen-Carat Mind / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways, Volume 2 / Smithsonian Folkways / 1985, 2005

Wayne Hancock / Throwin’ My Money / Viper of Melody / Bloodshot / 2009

Lonesome River Band / Honey I’m Ramblin’ Away / Window of Time / Mountain Home Music / 2002

Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / A Few Broken Pieces of Route 66 / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy / 2007, 2008

Here Today / Foggy Mountain Chimes / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1982, 1987

Quebe Sisters Band / Roly Poly / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007

Mark Graham / Lost Indian / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / Mark Graham / c. 1988, 2000

Bad Livers / Lumpy, Beanpole, and Dirt / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1988, 2009

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down / ‘Tis Sweet to be Remembered / Columbia Legacy / c. 1958, 1997

Joe Newberry / Breaking Up Christmas / Two Hands / 5-String Productions / 2005

The Johnson Mountain Boys / I Want to Live Like Christ My Savior / Walls of Time / Rounder / 1982

The Honey Dewdrops / 1918 / If the Sun Will Shine / Honey Dewdrops / 2009

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Walls of Time / Anthology / MCA Nashville / c. 1968, 2003

Ronnie Bowman / Left This Country Boy / Sugar Hill 50 / Sugar Hill / 1998, 2009

Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris / Down in the Willow Garden / East Virginia Blues, When the Sun Goes Down Series / RCA Bluebird / 1937, 2004 / They played this song at the White House for Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt in 1942.

David Peterson / The Waltz You Saved For Me / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009

Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Two Arms to Hold Me / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009

Lefty Frizzell / Honey, Baby, Honey, Bring Your Sweet Self Back To Me / Look What Thoughts Will Do / Columbia Legacy / 1953, 1997

The Country Gentlemen / Roving Gambler / Country Songs Old & New / Folkways / 1960

Joe Herrmann / Izzy’s Polka / Gather ‘Round / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2009

Paul Williams & The Victory Trio / Living the Right Life Now / Just A Little Closer Home / Rebel / 2010

John McCutcheon / Loggerman’s Breakdown & Dulcimer Reel / Water From Another Time / Rounder / 1988

Greystone Ramblers / Christmas Island / A Midwinter’s Ramble / Greystone Ramblers / 2008 / A band I used to play in!

Yankee Ingenuity / Hunter’s House, Providence Reel, & Congress Reel / Heating Up The Hall / Varrick / 1989

Critton Hollow String Band / Wooden Nickel / The Dulcimer Collection / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 1981, 2002

Reed Island Rounders / Cranberry Rock / Goin’ Back / Burning Wolf / 2002

Hank Williams / Rockin’ Chair Money / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Earl Taylor, Jim McCall & The Stoney Mountain Boys / Lonesome Road Blues / Bluegrass in the Smokies / Rural Rhythm / c. 1970, 2008

Jethro Burns / Avalon / Jethro Burns Live / Flying Fish / 1980

The Kentucky Colonels / Flat Fork / Long Journey Home / Vanguard / 1964, 2006

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist: 11/29/10 WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven, CT (University of New Haven) and www.wnhu.net

2010-11-28T21:03:00.004-05:00

The November 29 show features the entire broadcast of the 2010 IBMA Awards show, recorded 9/30/10 in the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN.

Here's the "official looking" playlist. Thanks, as always, for your support.

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Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Various Artists / 21st Annual IBMA Awards, Parts 1-3 / The 21st International Bluegrass Music Awards, September 30, 2010, The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA / IBMA / 2010

Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, & The Bluegrass Boys / Toy Heart / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1948, 1978

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Leavin’ Town / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008

Michael Cleveland & Lloyd Douglas / Dixie / Civil War Memories / Wango / 2004, 2005

Various Artists / 21st Annual IBMA Awards, Parts 4-7 / The 21st International Bluegrass Music Awards, September 30, 2010, The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA / IBMA / 2010

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist for 11/22/10; WNHU, 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT & www.wnhu.net

2010-11-26T20:52:00.002-05:00

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date / Notes
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
Vassar Clements / Turkey in the Straw / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder / 1992
Buck Owens / Hello Trouble / Crazy Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / New West / c. 1960, 2010
Art Stamper / Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston / Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston / County / 2000
Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / A Thousand Miles / Always Never Enough / Rebel / 2005
The Country Gentlemen / Turkey Knob / Country Songs Old and New, Charlie Waller, John Duffy and the Country Gentlemen / Folkways / 1960 / An Eddie Adcock banjo song.
Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder / 1992
Hank Snow / I’ve Been Everywhere / The Essential Hank Snow / RCA Nashville / c. 1961, 1997
The Freight Hoppers / The Train the Carried My Girl From Town / Mile Marker / BakeTown / 2010
Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee / Way Down the Old Plank Road / My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Volume 1 / Yazoo / 1926, 1998
Bob Walters / Turkey in the Straw in A / The Champion, Classic Missouri Valley Fiddling from Dwight Lamb’s Collection / Missouri Valley Music / c. 1955, 2009
Jim Silver / Goodbye California, Hello Illinois / You gotta let all the girls know you’re a cowboy / CMH / 1978
Hugh Moore / Hello City Limits / Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 1986, 2002
The Monroe Brothers / Have a Feast Here Tonight / Feast Here Tonight / RCA / 1938, 1978
Paul Brown / Buck Eyed Rabbits / Red Clay Country / 5-String Productions / 2006
Rabbit in a Log / The Old Home / The Marimac Anthology, Deep in Old-Time Music / Rounder / c. 1986, 1996 / Rich Starkey, guitar, and Skip Gorman, mando & fiddle, lived in CT when they recorded this for Marimac.
Red Clay Ramblers / Rabbit in the Pea Patch / Merchant’s Lunch / Flying Fish / 1977
Jethro Burns & Red Rector / Arkansas Traveler / Old Friends / Rebel / 1983
The Seldom Scene / Traveling On and On / Old Train / Rebel / 1974
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Let Us Travel On / Americana Master Series, Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 1987, 2007
Reeltime Travelers / Elzic’s Farewell / Livin’ Reeltime, Thinkin’ Old-Time / SCI Fidelity / 2001, 2004
Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / I’m Leaving Detroit / The Room Over Mine / Rounder / 2008
Foghorn Duo / New Orleans, Rock Andy / Lonesome Song / Foghorn Duo / 2008 / I bet the 2nd tune is really Rock Candy.
Faron Young / Leavin’ and Sayin’ Goodbye / The Millennium Collection, Best of Faron Young / Mercury Nashville / 1971, 2001
Doc & Merle Watson / When the Work’s All Done This Fall / On Stage / Vanguard / 1972
Alecia Nugent / The Last Greyhound / Hillbilly Goddess / Rounder / 2009
Sam McGee / Chevrolet Car / Good for what ails you (Volume 2), Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 / Old Hat / c. 1930, 2005
Mary McCaslin & Jim Ringer / Geronimo’s Cadillac / The Bramble and the Rose / Philo / 1978
Roy Clark / Thank God and Greyhound / Live at Billy Bob’s Texas / Smith Music Group / 1999
Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, & The Bluegrass Boys / Bluegrass Breakdown / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1948, 1978
Big Country Bluegrass / Top Hat Ramble / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010
The Quebe Sisters Band / So Long to the Red River Valley / Timeless / FiddleTone / 2007
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers / He Rambled / Man of Constant Sorrow and other timeless mountain ballads / Yazoo / 1929, 2002
The Dreadful Snakes / Travelin’ Down this Lonesome Road / Snakes Alive / Rounder / 1983
The Foghorn Stringband / Turkey Tracks / Reap What You Sow / Foghorn Stringband / 2004
Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Do the Hula Lou / Daddy of Western Swing, Volume 1, Brownies Stomp / Proper / 1934, 2003
The McCoury Brothers / I’ll Pretend it’s Raining / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder / 1987
Bobby Hicks / Goodbye Liza Jane / Texas Crapshooter / County / 1978
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / In my mind to ramble / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008
Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 /Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist, 11/15/10, WNHU, West Haven, CT, 88.7 FM, www.wnhu.net

2010-11-19T09:16:00.004-05:00

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

The Stanley Brothers / Long Journey Home / Long Journey Home: The Stanley Brothers of Virginia, Volume 2 / County / 1964, 1973

The Hot Club of Cowtown / Draggin’ the Bow / Tall Tales / Hightone, Shout! / 1999

Big Medicine / Pleasures of a Single Life / Fever in the South / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2004

Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / Come in Stranger / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy / 2007

Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cone on Little Children / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009

Doc Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists/ 1972 / Doc Watson, Vassar Clements, Junior Huskey, & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Randall Collins / Live and Learn / Rebel / 2008

Phil Rosenthal / Beautiful Brown Eyes / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009

The Blue Sky Boys / Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky / The Blue Sky Boys / Rounder / 1975

Boone Creek / White House Blues / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1977, 1987

Banjo Dan & the Mid-Nite Plowboys / Cold Wind / Some Rust, Runs Good / Banjo Dan / 2000

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys / I had Someone Else Before I had You / Tiffany Transcriptions, Volume 5 / Kaleidoscope / 1946, 1982

Wolfe Brothers / Headin’ up Elk Creek / Old Road, New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004

Mark Graham / No Democracy in Heaven / Inner Life / Mark Graham / 1998, 2006

Browns Ferry Four / Over in the Glory Land / Merle Travis: Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1946, 2003

Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Once More / The Osborne Brothers and Red Allen / Rounder / 1956, 1977

Matt Brown / Three Forks of Reedy / Lone Prairie / 5-String Productions / 2006 / Matt Brown, Paul Brown, & Beverly Smith

The Country Gentlemen / Johhny & Jack Medley (Poison Love, Ashes of Love) / Sound Off / Rebel / 1970

The Honey Dewdrops / Test of Time / These Old Roads / Honey Dewdrops / 2010

Fred Price with Clint Howard / Richmond Blues / Classic Old-Time Fiddle for Smithsonian Folkways / Folkways / c. 1961, 2007

Bluegrass Album Band / Come Back Darlin’ / Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1983, 1987

Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / When the Saints Go Marchin’ In / Earl Scruggs, Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard / 1966, 2002

Chris Stuart & Backcountry / I Remember Memphis / Crooked Man / Backcountry / 2008

The Freight Hoppers / Sharp’s Hornpipe / Mile Marker / BakeTown / 2010

Mac Wiseman / Wreck of the Old 97 / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1978, 2000

Dale Watson / Heart of Stone / Carryin’ On / E1 Music / 2010

Allen Shelton / Shelton Special / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / c. 1968, 1987

Ivan Rosenberg / I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You / Back to the Pasture / Slosh Tone / 2002

Beverly Cotten / Colored Aristocracy / Clog-In (Clogging Lessons, Beverly Cotton on Duty) / Flying Fish / 1981 / Beverly Cotten banjo, Clay Buckner fiddle

Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tear My Stillhouse Down / Americana Master Series: Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 1993, 2007

Jim & Jesse & The Viginia Boys / Airmail Special / Rockygrass / Blue Planet Music / 1995

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys / Toy Heart / Anthology / MCA Nashville / 1962, 2003

Art Stamper / Don’t Come Home Drunk, Johnny / The Lost Fiddler / County / 1982

Blue Highway / Sycamore Hollow / Through the Window of a Train / Rounder / 2007

Red Molly / Darlin’ Corey / Red Molly EP / Red Molly / 2005

The Delmore Brothers / The Frozen Girl / Sand Mountain Blues / County / 1947, 1995

New Found Road / I am the Man / Same Old Place / Rounder / 2009

Alison Krause & Union Station / Momma Cried / New Favorite / Rounder / 2001

Seldom Scene / This Morning at Nine / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill 2007

The New Pilot Mountaineers / Yellow Rose of Texas / Down the Road / Yodel-Ay-Hee / 2001

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show Playlist, 11/8/10, West Haven, CT, WNHU 88.7 FM www.wnhu.net

2010-11-19T08:25:00.003-05:00

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Carpenter & May / Blue and Lonesome / Carpenter & May / Violin Shop / 2010

Mark Graham / Curly-Headed Woman / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / Mark Graham / c. 1988, 2000

Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys / Blue Yodel #1 / Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys: The Early Days of Bluegrass, Volume 4 / Rounder / 1951, 1978

The Honey Dewdrops / Sweet Heaven / These Old Roots / Honey Dewdrops / 2010

Roger Sprung / Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter / Grassy Licks/ Folkways / 1973

Naomi Summers / Sea of Heartbreak / Gentles as the Sun / American Melody / 2008

Phil Rosenthal / Banjo in C / A Treasury of Bluegrass and Country Songs / American Melody / 2009

Seldom Scene / Heart and Soul / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill / 2007

The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Blue Moon of Kentucky / Best of Bluegrass, Volume 1 / Mercury, Island Def Jam / 1963, 1994

The Louvin Brothers / I’m Changing the Words to my Love Song / The Louvin Brothers / Rounder / 1952, c. 1978

Charlie Louvin / Searching for a Soldier’s Grave / The Battles Rage On / True North / 2010

Chris Brashear / Lost Soldier Son / Wanderlust / Dog Boy / 2000, 2002

Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Ricky Skaggs / Soldier’s Joy / The Three Pickers / Rounder / 2003

Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / The Cheer of the Home Fires / Rounder / 1984

Benny Thomasson / Billy in the Lowground / The Weiser Reunion / Voyager / 1972, 1998 / Recorded in the parking lot at the Weiser Fiddle Contest with sons Jerry and Dale as his rhythm section

Moon Mullican / Ragged but Right / Super Hits / Gusto / 1961, 2009

The Monroe Brothers / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / East Virginia Blues (When the Sun Goes Down Series) / RCA Bluebird / 1936, 2004

Donna Ulisse / He Ain’t That / When I Look Back / Hadley Music Group / 2007

Dailey & Vincent / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Singing from the Heart / Rounder / 2009

Jerry Rivers & The Hank Williams Band / Wagner / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993 / The title to this tune sometimes spelled “Wagoner”

The Steel Drivers / Good Corn Liquor / Reckless / Rounder / 2010

The Hoover Uprights / Rip van Winkle / Known for their Reputation / 5-String Productions / 2006

Hank Williams / We Live in Two Different Worlds / Alone with his Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Saro Jane / ‘Tis Sweet to be Remembered / Columbia Legacy / 1964, 1997

Cherryholmes / Weaver of Lies / Cherryholmes IV: Common Threads / Skaggs Family / 2010

Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Take It Slow and Easy / Daddy of Western Swing, Volume 1: Brownies Stomp / Proper / 1934, 2003

Cindy Cashdollar / Little Green Pill / Southern Filibuster: A Tribute to Tut Taylor / E1 Entertainment / 2010

Fred Carpenter & Mark O’Connor / Jerusalem Ridge / Cutting Loose / Grass Mountain / 1980

Banjo Dan & the Mid-Nite Plowboys / C’est La Vie / Some Rust, Runs Good / Banjo Dan / 2000

Foghorn String Band / Rabbit up a Gum Stump / Weiser Sunrise / Nettwerk / 2005

Caleb Klauder / Deep River / Western Country / Padre / 2010

Don Stover / White Oak Breakdown / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1973, 1987

Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Buttermilk Pie / Mojave River / Backcountry / 2004

Red State Ramblers / Five Miles to Town / Commonwealth / Old 97 / 2009

Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys with Barbara Mandrell / My Rose of Old Kentucky / Bill Monroe & friends, Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, 2 for 1 / Raven / 1983, 2010

April Verch / Fork Creek River / Steal the Blue / Slab Town / 2008

Jacqueline Schwab / Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier / The Civil War Soundtrack / Nonesuch /1990

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 11/1/10 on WNHU, 88.7 FM West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net

2010-11-01T12:47:00.004-04:00

Incredibly, I've managed to have an undisturbed lunch hour and have typed in the playlist in this new format. 'Tis a bit of a pain, I admit, but it's all about the music. And if it gives you more info to use your Google Fu to find a song you like, awesome! Note the unusual history of the Waylon Jennings track below. And if you listened carefully to Earl Scruggs play Foggy Mountain Chimes, you heard him break a string and Paul Warren, the fiddler, step in to finish the song. The thrills of live music! The show must go on!

Don't forget to support the music you love. Visit the links to the folks who have supported the show. And visit the CT Bluegrass links to find a jam or a concert! If anyone has a reliable link to Square Dances and Contra Dances in CT, please send me the info and I'll add it to that section of the blog.

Been great to hear from listeners in MI, CT, PA, and DE this week! Thanks, as always for your support.

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different) / Notes

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys with Ralph Stanley / Can’t You Hear Me Callin’ / Bill Monroe & friends, Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, 2 for 1 / Raven / 1985, 2010

Nate Grower / Kansas City Kitty / Nate Grower / Patuxent Music / 2009

Ronnie Bowman / Perfect Love / It’s Getting Better All the Time / Koch Records / 2005

Matt Brown / Folding Down the Sheets / My Native Home / 5 String Productions / 2010

Reed Island Rounders / Ways of the World / Goin’ Back / Burning Wolf / 2002

David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / The Brambles, Briars and Me / Two Dimes and a Nickel / Rebel / 2009

Merle Travis / I’m Sick and Tired of You, Little Darlin’ / Hot Pickin’ / Proper / 1947, 2003

Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers / A Life of Sorrow / Ramblin’ Bluegrass / Starday / 1972

The Fuzzy Mountain String Band / Barlow Knife / The Fuzzy Mountain String Band / Rounder / 1973, 1995

Big Country Bluegrass / I’m Gonna Walk those Streets of Gold / The Boys in Hats and Ties / Rebel / 2010

Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez / Keep Your Hat on Jenny / The New Bye & Bye / Trainwreck / 2003, 2010

The Boiled Buzzards / Grey-Haired Dancing Girls / Old-Time Music on the Air, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1996

Notorious / Hanged Man’s Reel / The Road to Damascus / Black Socks Press / 2010

The Nashville Bluegrass Band / When I Get Where I’m Goin’ / Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill / 1993, 2007

Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Fan It / Essential Western Swing / Goldenlane / c. 1935, 2009

Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / Foggy Mountain Chimes / Earl Scruggs, Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard / 1966, 2002

Albemarle Ramblers / Way Down the Old Plank Road / Gentlemen from Virginia / Merriweather / 2010

Cathy Fink / Rush in the Pepper / Old-Time Music on the Air, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1996

Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Two Arms to Hold Me / Best of the Early Years / Master Classics / 1952, 2009

The Steeldrivers / Hear the Willow Cry / The Steeldrivers / Rounder / 2007

The Freight Hoppers / Been to the East, Been to the West / Mile Marker / Baketone / 2010

The Stanley Brothers / The White Dove / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Legacy Columbia / 1949, 1996

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Northern White Clouds / Leavin’ Town / Rounder / 2008

Waylon Jennings / I Won’t Be Home No More / Waylon sings Hank Williams / YMC / 1985, 2006 / Recorded in '85, but Waylon didn't release it until '92 on his own WJ label.

The Osborne Brothers / Rocky Top / Bluegrass Then and Now / CMH / c. 1967, 2000

The Infamous Stringdusters / Magic #9 / Things That Fly / Sugar Hill / 2010

David Peterson & 1946 / The Blackbirds are Singing for Me / In the Mountaintops to Roam / David Peterson / 2005

Newfound Road / Handsome Molly / Life in a Song / Rounder / 2006

Adam Hurt / Molly Put the Kettle On / Perspective / Ubiquitone / 2009

David Peterson / You’re the Only One for Me / Comin’ On Strong / Necktie / 2009

Crooked Still / Angeline the Baker / Hop High / Footprint / 2004

Cadillac Sky / Neighborhood Bully’s Long Look in the Mirror / Blind Man Walking / Skaggs Family / 2006

The Monroe Brothers / On Some Foggy Mountain Top / Feast Here Tonight / RCA / 1936, c. 1978

The Green Grass Cloggers with Phil Jamison, banjo / Ladies’ Routine danced to Rachel’s Rent / Through the Ears / Rounder / 1986

Jerry Rivers with the Hank Williams Band / Sally Goodin’ / Health & Happiness Shows / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 1993

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Black Diamond Show: Playlist for 10/25/10. WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven, CT, and www.wnhu.net

2010-10-25T22:41:00.003-04:00

OK, this week we're trying out a new format for the playlist. If I use a format like this, our playlists can be submitted to FOLKDJ-L for counting in the charts on folkradio.org. Let me know if you like the new format. And, as always, thanks for your support!

Artist / Track / Album / Label / Year (Recorded, Released if different)

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme

Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury / More Pretty Girls than One / Mac, Doc, & Del / Sugar Hill / 1998

Big Country Bluegrass / Rollin' On / Twenty Years of Grass / Rebel / 2007

Red State Ramblers / Yellow Barber / Commonwealth / Old 97 / 2009

Wayne Hancock / Viper of Melody / Viper of Melody / Bloodshot / 2009

Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Bluegrass Boys / Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / The Original Bluegrass Band / Rounder / 1947, 1978

Fred Carpenter & Tim May / Cherokee Shuffle / Carpenter & May / Violin Shop / 2010

David Peterson / Crazy Blues / Comin' On Strong / Necktie / 2009

Half & Half / 14-Carat Mind / Classic Bluegrass Vol. 2 from Smithsonian, Folkways / Folkways / 1985, 2005

Bluegrass Album Band / Preaching, Praying, Singing / Bluegrass Class of 1990 / Rounder / 1990

Stanley Brothers / Cripple Creek, Going to Georgia, Big Tilda / Radio Series Volume 4 / Wango / c. 1964, 2000

The Quebe Sisters Band / So Long to the Red River Valley / Timeless / Fiddletone / 2007

Charlie Sizemore Band / Hey Moon / Good News / Rounder / 2010

Leftwich & Higginbotham / John Lover's Gone / No One To Bring Home Tonight / County / 1984

Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / Sin City / At Edward's Barn / Rounder / 2010

Mark Graham / Mississippi Sawyer / Southern Old-Time Harmonica / digital download / c. 1985, 2000

Chris Stuart & Backcountry / Silver Quarter / Saints & Strangers / Backcountry / 2003

Hank Williams / First Year Blues / Alone With His Guitar / Mercury Nashville / 1949, 2000

Chris Jones & The Night Drivers / Bluegrass DJs / Cloud of Dust / GSM / 2009

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band / The Family Demon / Legacy / Compass / 2010

The Lonesome River Band / Carolyn the Teenage Queen / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill / 2006

Charlie Louvin / Weapon of Prayer / The Battles Rage On / True North / 2010

Earl Scruggs, Hylo Brown & The Timberliners / Love and Wealth / Bluegrass - Earl Scruggs - Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard / 1959, 2000

The Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone / Crazy Heart (Soundtrack) / New West / c. 1958, 2010

Donna Ulisse / In My Wildest Dreams / Walk This Mountain Down / Hadley Music Group / 2008

Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys / Cotton Mill Man / The Best of Bluegrass - 80 Years of American Music / Sony / 1964, 2004

The Fly By Night String Band / Boys, the Buzzards Are Flying / The Fly By NIght String Band / Fretless / 1980

Red Molly / Coal Tattoo / Never Been to Vegas – Red Molly / 2006

Newfound Road / Damascus Road / Newfound Road / Mountain Home / 2002

Curtis Burch / Black Ridge Ramble / Southern FIlibuster: A Tribute to Tut Taylor / E1 Entertainment / 2010

Gillis Brothers / New River Train / Freight Trains Ride Again / Wango / c. 1992, 2000

The Honey Dewdrops / Can't Get a Letter From Home / These Old Roots / Honey Dewdrops / 2010

Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez / Your Name is On My Lips / The New Bye & Bye / Trainwreck / 2010

Wolfe Brothers / On the Other Side of the Mountain / Old Roads New Journeys / Copper Creek / 2004

Limehouse Blues / Jethro Burns & Red Rector / Old Friends / Rebel / 1983

Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme