Black Diamond Show Playlist for 3/29/10 (www.wnhu.net, WNHU 88.7 FM West Haven, CT)

A lot of tunes I like on today's show. Only one crazy song: Ted Gossett's "Fox Chase"--the baying of the dogs and the fox come through loud and clear in his fiddle part. And of course, I screw up a band name or two--e.g., calling the Steep Canyon Rangers by the wrong name. . . .

But the music's a lot of fun. I played two tracks from the original copy (1972) I have of Larry Sparks' 2nd LP--been released and re-released with different names as his catalog has been issued at different times. To me, the picture of the young Larry Sparks, with young Mike Lilly posturing with his banjo, and Wendy Miller holding his mandolin like the goofball he was in concert, and old Art Wydner with his bass--oh and with the three sidemen in matching white polyester pants and belts--with bright red shirts--brings back memories of seeing them in October 1972. Still good stuff--even without my sentimental memories. . . .

In the 2nd half hour, I did play a set of all "old-time" music--the set that begins with Fox Chase. I tried to keep it a varied set--artists from KY, PA, NC, and WVa--and recordings from 1930-1990. But other than that, I just tried to keep a fun mix of music.

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Playlist for 3/29 Black Diamond Show:

3/29/2010 1 Don Stover  --  Black Diamond
3/29/2010 2 Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys  --  Baby Blue Eyes
3/29/2010 3 Chance McCoy & the Appalachian String Band  --  Lazy John
3/29/2010 4 Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys  --  Right or Wrong
3/29/2010 5 Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys  --  Blue Moon of Kentucky
3/29/2010 6 Monroe Brothers  --  On that Old Gospel Ship
3/29/2010 7 Brittany Haas  --  Ora Lee
3/29/2010 8 Steep Canyon Rangers  --  I Can't Sit Down
3/29/2010 9 Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys  --  There's Better Times A-Comin'
3/29/2010 10 Walter Williams  --  Pass around the bottle
3/29/2010 11 Rhonda Vincent   --  Hit Parade of Love
3/29/2010 12 "Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers" (Hot Rize)  --  Dixie Cannonball
3/29/2010 13 Ted Gossett's String Band  --  Fox Chase
3/29/2010 14 Jamie Watson  --  Big Cash Giveaway
3/29/2010 15 Green Grass Cloggers & Friends  --  Moonshine in the North Carolina Hills
3/29/2010 16 Clark Kessinger  --  Red Bird
3/29/2010 17 Kenny Baker  --  Gold Rush
3/29/2010 18 Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers  --  Just Lovin' You
3/29/2010 19 Lefty Frizzell  --  Cigarettes and Coffee
3/29/2010 20 Johhny Warren (fiddle) & Kenny Ingram (banjo)  --  Old Joe
3/29/2010 21 Rose Maddox w/ Vern Williams Band  --  Single Girl
3/29/2010 22 Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys  --  We Shall Rise
3/29/2010 23 Paul Williams and the Victory Trio  --  Someone made the sandals Jesus wore
3/29/2010 24 Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys (including JD Crowe & Paul Williams)  --  Sophronie
3/29/2010 25 Brown's Ferry Four  --  If We Never Meet Again
3/29/2010 26 Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys  --  I'll Never Shed Another Tear
3/29/2010 27 Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, & the Kentuckians  --  New Camptown Races
3/29/2010 28 Big Medicine  --  What does the lonesome dove say?
3/29/2010 29 Bob Walters  --  Five Miles out of Town
3/29/2010 30 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver  --  Big Wind
3/29/2010 31 Jim & Jesse  --  Tears of Regret
3/29/2010 32 Red Clay Ramblers  --  Will You Miss Me?
3/29/2010 33 Claire Lynch  --  My Florida Sunshine
3/29/2010 34 Adam Hurt  --  Cabin Creek
3/29/2010 35 Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers (Mike Lilly, Banjo)  --  Kentucky Banjo
3/29/2010 36 Monroe Brothers  --  Katie Cline
3/29/2010 37 Stanley Brothers  --  I'll be true to the one I love
3/29/2010 38 Blue Sky Boys  --  What does the deep sea say?
3/29/2010 39 Don Stover  --  Black Diamond