A bluegrass and country radio show just cannot let Mother's Day pass unnoticed. So about half of the songs and tunes in today's show are either momma songs or dedications to moms that may be out there in the listening audience--well, perhaps cosmically, in one case!
I had fun putting this show together--it just had to start with Larry Sparks singing "Hey Momma, here's a letter from your son"--the start to "John Deere Tractor." And Dry Branch Fire Squad's "Please Mommy Please" had to sneak in there.
I'm sure there are Mother's Day songs I left out--feel free to add a comment about the momma song you want me to play--there's always next year.
Herewith the playlist:
1 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
2 Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers -- John Deere Tractor
3 Big Medicine -- What does the lonesome dove say?
4 Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers -- Wah Hoo
5 Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys -- Mama Blues
6 Blue Highway -- Some Day
7 Merle Travis -- Kinfolks in Carolina
8 Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys -- Little Georgia Rose
9 Hot Club of Cowtown -- Emily
10 Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys -- Martha White Theme
11 Gibson Brothers -- I know whose tears
12 Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys -- Dear Old Mother
13 Michael Hurwitz & The Aimless Drifters -- The Badger Dance
14 Lefty Frizzell -- Mom and Dad's Waltz
15 Stanley Brothers -- A Vision of Mother
16 Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerard -- The sweetest gift, a mother's smile
17 Matt Brown, Beverly Smith, & Paul Brown -- Big Hoedown
18 Kenny Baker & Joe Greene -- Live and Let Live
19 Pete Kirby, Jimmie Fadden, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, & Junior Huskey -- Wabash Cannonball
20 Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice -- Memories of Mother and Dad
21 Seldom Scene -- Mama Tried
22 Fuzzy Mountain Stringband -- Old Mother Flanagan
23 Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys -- Shake My Mother's Hand for Me
24 Longview -- I heard my mother weeping
25 Bob Walters -- Mother's Reel
26 Johnson Mountain Boys -- Mother's voice is in the wind
27 Willie Nelson -- Pistol Packin' Mama
28 Boone Creek -- Gonna Settle Down
29 Dry Branch Fire Squad -- Please Mommy Please
30 Alison Krauss & Union Station -- Momma Cried
31 Sierra Hull & Highway 111 -- Hullarious
32 Alan Jabbour & Ken Perlman -- Boatman
33 Bill Monroe & Doc Watson -- What would you give in exchange for your soul?
34 Dolly Parton -- I'm gonna sleep with one eye open
35 Art Stamper -- Chinqi Pin Hunting
36 Diane Jones & Hubie King -- Singing Birds
37 Perfect Strangers -- Evening Shade
38 Don Stover -- Black Diamond
It's gauche to comment on my own post, but, I know there are songs I left out. . . . Mac Wiseman's "New Black Suit" and Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home" to name two. . . . What else did I not get on the air this week?
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