Top New Bluegrass Songs: Reported Feb. 22, 2013

Top Newer Bluegrass Songs for the period ending 2/22/13

Reported to Bluegrass Unlimited

I hope I'm not too fickle. A new record comes out and I fall in love it immediately. Then have a hard time figuring out what I think the "hit" will be. Well, The Steeldrivers' Hammer Down is such an album. Great stuff. Love about 5 of the tracks and like all the rest. So I picked "When You Don't Come Home."

Still a lot of great music out there! Support your favorite artists by going to their shows and buying their songs!

1. The Steeldrivers, When You Don't Come Home
2. Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive, John the Baptist
3. Bob Amos, Where the Wild River Rolls
4. The Grass Cats, The Mountains My Baby and Me
5. Detour, Quarterline Road
6. Chris Brashear, Mama's Opry
7. The Spinney Brothers, Memories
8. Rhonda Vincent, Blue Sky Catherdral
9. The Steep Canyon Rangers, Nobody Knows You
10. Kenny and Amanda Smith, Catch me if I Try
11. The Hillbenders, Train Whistle
12. Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass, Road into Town

In addition to submitting top new song reports to Bluegrass Unlimited, we also report Black Diamond Show playlists and actual airplay to Bluegrass Today and the the FOLKDJ-L email list and folkradio.org.

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WNHU Black Diamond Show: Playlist January 28, 2013

• Artist / Song / Album / Label / Date(s) / Notes
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme
• Peter Rowan and Tony Rice / Walls of Time / Quartet / Rounder / 2007
• Red Steagall / The Walls of this old Honky Tonk / Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music / Circle D Western / 1976
• Yankee Ingenuity with Tony Parks (caller) / Crockett’s Honeymoon, Yellow Rose of Texas / Heating up the Hall / Varrick / 1989
• The Seldom Scene / Love of the Mountains / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill / 1996
• Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass / Gentle Annie / Civil War Memories / Wango / 2005
• Cahelen Morrison and Eli West / On God’s Rocky Shore / The Holy Coming of the Storm / self / 2011
• Hank Williams / When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels / Health and Happiness Show / MCA Nashville / 1949, 1993
• Cathy Fink / Rush in the Pepper / Old-Time Music on the Air, Volume 2 / Rounder / 1996
• Allen Shelton / Shelton Special / Rounder Banjo / Rounder / 1987
• Bob Wills / Sugar Moon / The Essential Bob Wills / Columbia Classics / 1935, 1992
• Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass Boys / I’ve Been All Around this World / Rounder Old-Time Music / Rounder / 1983, 1987
• Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice / Talk About Suffering / Skaggs and Rice / Sugar Hill / 1980
• The Wandering Ramblers / The North Country / The Marimac Anthology, Deep in Old-Time Music / Rounder / c. 1985, 1996
• Tut Taylor / Griffith Mandolin Society / Dobrolic Plectral Society / Takoma / 1976 / Butch Robins, bass; Curtis Burch, guitar; Norman Blake, mandocello; Sam Bush, mandola; Tut Taylor, mandolin Chris Brashear / Mama’s Opry / Heart of the Country / Dog Boy / 2012
• The Fly By Night String Band / Three Thin Dimes / The Fly By Night String Band / Fretless / 1980
• Larry Sparks / Smoky Mountain Memories / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel / 1988
• Merle Travis / I’ll See You in my Dreams / In Boston, 1959 / Rounder / 1959, 2003
• The Stanley Brothers / I’ll Be True to the One I Love / Long Journey Home / County / 1964, 1973
• The Louvin Brothers / My Baby’s Gone / Hand-Picked / Light in the Attic, Capitol / 1960, 2011
• The Bluegrass Martins / Don’t Laugh / World of our Own / self / 2011
• Amy Gallatin and Roger Williams / Slowly but Surely / Something About You / Happy Appy / 2007
• Dale Ann Bradley / Ghost Bound Train / Don’t Turn Your Back / Compass / 2009
• Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen / Same Old Love / Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen / Fiddlemon Music / 2010
• Mark Houser and Bluegrass Drive / River of Regret / Uneven Road / Rural Rhythm / 2012
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / See God’s Ark A-Movin’ / Blue Diamond / Rounder / 1992
• Tim O’Brien / Sinner / Chicken and Egg / Howdy Skies / 2010
• Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers / Hey Little Darlin’ / Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers / self / 2009
• The Missy Werner Band / Last Goodbye Today / Three Kinds of Lonesome / self / 2011
• April Verch / Reels Tadoussac et Lindbergh / Steal the Blue / Slab Town / 2008
• Hedy West / Lady Beauty Bright / Hedy West, Volume 2 / Vanguard / 1964
• Mike Auldridge / Almost to Tulsa / Eight String Swing / Sugar Hill / 2006
• Karl Shiflett and Big Country / Take Me Back to Tulsa / Take Me Back / Pinecastle / 2012
• Leon Mcauliffe / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Tulsa Straight Ahead / Bear Family / 1950, 2009
• Critton Hollow String Band / Oklahoma Rooster / The Young Fogies / Rounder / c. 1988, 1994
• Foghorn Stringband / Lover’s First Quarrel / Outshine the Sun / self / 2011
• Don Stover / Black Diamond / Things in Life / Rounder / 1972 / Theme