Today's show was a lot of fun for me to put together. It starts out with Big Medicine doing a song that you know you'll hear again on Mother's Day, goes back to my favorite cassette tape of "driving music"--used to have it blasting as I'd cruise I-70 between Columbia, MO and St. Louis way back last millenium. . . .
I love all the music I picked out for today's show, but there were a couple highlights for me: Dunbar--a great "C" tune played so well by Big Medicine, two "spelling songs" (after I picked out the Blue Sky Boys S-A-V-E-D -- how could I resist playing the C-H-I-C-K-E-N song?), Larry Sparks' "John Deere Tractor," a lot of "old friends"--songs that, as Doyle Lawson sings, prove that nothing's as "sweet as yesterday's songs." But the tracks by Banjo Dan, Big Medicine, Perfect Strangers, Adam Hurt, Rayna Gellert, Doyle Lawson, and Dailey & Vincent show that there are plenty of folks out there right now playing great versions of the old music we like so well.
Two hidden treasures I'd forgotten about until this week (both from CDs): Red Allen's son Harley singing "Carolina in the Pines." I used to think that Doyle Lawson's version from the late 70s was my favorite, but this one's mighty fine. . . . What do you think? The other one: Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys "C'est la vie." I just cracked up over that one. A very good bluegrass tune--but singing half of it in French? Guess if you're based in Vermont, you have to be ready to cross over the border into Quebec and connect with the crowd up in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle or Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel. . . . :-)
I've fallen behind on digitizing LPs, but will try to have some "new old stuff" ready to go next week. Thanks so much for all your support over the past few months. Notice that I've added a "Make a request" link over on the side of this blog. Drop me a note. Make a request!
Without any further ado, here's the playlist for today.
3/22/2010 1 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
3/22/2010 2 Big Medicine -- I know whose tears
3/22/2010 3 David Grisman Quintet -- E.M.D.
3/22/2010 4 Dailey & Vincent -- Head Hung Down
3/22/2010 5 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver -- Yesterday's Songs
3/22/2010 6 Flatt & Scruggs & Foggy Mountain Boys -- I'm head over heels in love with you
3/22/2010 7 Red Clay Ramblers -- When bacon was scarce/Ryestraw
3/22/2010 8 Ernest Tubb -- Walkin' the floor over you
3/22/2010 9 Here Today -- Green Pastures
3/22/2010 10 Bill Stepp & Walter Williams -- Wild Horse
3/22/2010 11 Bluegrass Album Band -- Take me in your lifeboat
3/22/2010 12 Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, & Bluegrass Boys -- I'm going back to old Kentucky
3/22/2010 13 Blue Sky Boys -- I'm S-A-V-E-D
3/22/2010 14 Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys -- Cotton Mill Man
3/22/2010 15 Osborne Brothers & Red Allen -- Wild Mountain Honey
3/22/2010 16 Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet -- C-H-I-C-K-E-N
3/22/2010 17 Perfect Strangers -- Bluegrass in the backwoods
3/22/2010 18 Harley Allen -- Carolina in the pines
3/22/2010 19 Brown's Ferry Four (Merle Travis, Grandpa Jones, & the Delmore Brothers) -- Over in the Gloryland
3/22/2010 20 Larry Sparks -- John Deere Tractor
3/22/2010 21 Del McCoury -- You're a flower in the wildwood
3/22/2010 22 Rayna Gellert & Susie Goehring -- Sweet as the flowers in May time
3/22/2010 23 Stanley Brothers -- Gathering flowers from the Master's bouquet
3/22/2010 24 Adam Hurt -- Flowers of Edinburgh
3/22/2010 25 Dailey & Vincent -- Your love is like a flower
3/22/2010 26 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band w/ "Brother Oswald" -- You are my flower
3/22/2010 27 David Holt -- Wildwood Flower
3/22/2010 28 Critton Hollow String Band -- Possum on a gum stump
3/22/2010 29 Banjo Dan & the Mid-Nite Plowboys -- C'est la vie
3/22/2010 30 Peter Rowan, Tony Rice, Sharon Gilchrist, & Bryn Bright -- Shady Grove
3/22/2010 31 Al Dexter & His Troopers -- Love lanes of yesterday
3/22/2010 32 Big Medicine -- Dunbar
3/22/2010 33 Alison Krause & James Taylor -- How's the world treating you?
3/22/2010 34 Hank Williams -- Dear John
3/22/2010 35 Jimmy Martin -- Save it, save it
3/22/2010 36 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
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