"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/15/2009

After two weeks away from the radio, I got to present Sunday's BG Cafe with absolutely no sports preemptions. Hooray! While we didn't have any featured guests or lots of new music to share, we still pulled together a good number of tunes that we hope you found enjoyable...

As I had a fabulous time at the Boston Bluegrass Union-sponsored show last night featuring both Audie Blaylock & Redline and Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac, naturally, I just had to include music from them. While Darren's CD with his new band hasn't been released yet -- we look forward to hearing it in 2010 -- we still heard from him with his most recent band, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Audie's self-titled recording from Rural Rhythm has been out for about a year, and while we've played music from the CD plenty of times, I tried to include a couple of tunes on Sunday's show that we hadn't played quite as much. Both bands were fabulous, by the way, and I would hope to see them both playing again in New England in the not-too-distant future.

There was just a tiny bit of new music to share on Sunday. Several months back, I read on the Bluegrass Blog about a "new" retro-Bluegrass band from northern California who had released a 78 RPM single. This band -- Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys -- sent their 78 to WHUS this summer, but we were unable to play it on our equipment. Eventually, we were able to transfer the 78 to CD, and we finally got a chance to play one half of the record on Sunday's show. These folks appear to take their "vintage" style pretty seriously, and the record is very enjoyable.

In addition, we played music from soon-to-be-released projects by Michael Martin Murphey and Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie. Both of these projects are due in early 2010 and will be released on the Rural Rhythm label. We look forward to hearing them...

Jim & Marti will join you next Sunday -- I think possibly an hour earlier (barring sports preemptions, of course). Do be sure to join them!

As I won't be on the air again (with BG Cafe, anyway) until November 29th, I'll take a moment now to send best wishes to you all for a very Happy and blessed Thanksgiving!

Amy


Requests are RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rocky Grass / Blue Planet
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / Connie & Babe & the Backwoods Boys / True Bluegrass /
  Rounder
• It’s Raining Here This Morning / Red Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups / Best Of Red Smiley / Rural Rhythm
• No Mother Or Dad / Curley Seckler / That Old Book Of Mine / County
• True Life Blues / David Grisman with Del McCoury / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Two Lonely Hearts / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky / Rounder
• Beauty Of My Dreams / Blackjack / 10 Years Of European World Of Bluegrass / Strictly Country
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Dirt Roads / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Self-Produced
• Don’t Act / Rhonda Vincent / All-American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Home With The Blues / Junior Sisk / Born To Bluegrass : The Songs Of Cullen Galyean /
  Mountain Roads Recordings
• I’m Gonna Love You Now / Daughters Of Bluegrass with Frances Mooney / Bluegrass Bouquet / Blue Circle
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother Where Art Thou? / Mercury
• There’s A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Songs Of The American Spirit / Pinecastle
• My Blue Tears / Dolly Parton / Box Set Sampler / Legacy
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco
• I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Quicksilver Rides Again! / Sugar Hill
• Black Diamond / Mark Delaney / Sidecar / Patuxent Music
• Think Of What You’ve Done / Stanley Brothers / Stanley Brothers / King
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother Where Art Thou / Mercury
• Old Joe Clark / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
• I’ve Been All Around This World / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Two Dimes And A Nickel / Rebel
• Don’t Tell Me Stories / Lynn Morris Band / Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Two Little Boys / Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Heavy Traffic Ahead / Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys / <78> / Pleasant Valley Music
• Running Gun / Michael Martin Murphey with Audie Blaylock / Class Of 2009 Sampler / Rural Rhythm
• Lead Foot / Dixie Bee-Liners / Susanville / Pinecastle
• I Don’t Care Anymore / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Class Of 2009 Sampler / Rural Rhythm
• Don’t Lie To Me / Adam Steffey / One More For The Road / Sugar Hill
• I’ll Go Steppin’ Too / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart / Spinney Brothers / When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall /
  Self-Produced
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Love Me As Hard As You Hurt Me / Grass Cats / A Good Way To Get The Blues / New Time Records
• At The End Of A Long Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• There Ain’t No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Untamed / Del McCoury Band / The Company We Keep / McCoury Music
• No Blues Is Good News / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Goodbye / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm
• The River Of Jordan / Louvin Brothers / When I Stop Dreaming / Razor & Tie
• When The Last Of Our Days Shall Come / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Lonely Street / Rounder
• Justified / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• So Happy I’ll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin’ Live / Rounder
• Will You Be Ready? / Southern Rail / Drive By Night / Turquoise
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Legacy
• What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul? / Jimmy Martin / This World Is Not My Home / MME
• I’m Getting Ready To Leave This World / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin’, Praisin’, & Singin’ : Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm
  

No shortage of great live music this Saturday....

Wow! Looking at the BG calendar, it appears that there are no fewer than three great BG or BG-related shows in the area this Saturday, 11/14. Hopefully, you'll be able to get out there and support at least one of them, as all are great options, and obviously, supporting live Bluegrass music is a mighty fine thing to do. Check it out:

• The Infamous Stringdusters at the East Hartford Community Cultural Center. Showtime is 8PM. EHCCC is located at 50 Chapman Street in East Hartford. More info: (860)291-7160 or click here.
  
• Anne & Pete Sibley at the Sounding Board Coffeehouse in West Hartford. Showtime is 8PM. The Sounding Board is located at 433 Fern Street, West Hartford. More info: (203)272-8404 or click here.
  
• Audie Blaylock & Redline along with Darren Beachley & Legends of the Potomac at the National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA. This is a Boston Bluegrass Union production, and showtime is 7:30PM. More info: hotline number is (617)782-2251 or click here.
  

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 11/8/2009 Veteran's Day

Hi Folks,

I like to remember our veteran's every year near Veteran's Day by playing songs related to military service, so I devoted a little more than an hour of this show to bluegrass and string band music about soldiers from at least the mid-19th century all the way to today.

Newer music was featured from Southern Rail, Bear Minimum, O'Reilly/Miller/Lester from the North To Ontario 2009 CD, The Steep Canyon Rangers, Grasstowne, The Anita Fisher Band with Ray Deaton, The Dixie Bee-Liners, The Del McCoury Band, Sam Bush, Adam Steffey, Ricky Skaggs, and Larry Sparks.

From the Heritage Corner vaults I featured a couple of really interesting tracks from Cullen Galyean, one of which was on a Folkways LP from 1983 with Bobby Harrison, and the other Cullen's winning banjo performance at the world's first multi-day bluegrass festival in Fincastle, VA, in 1965 that is on the new CD "Born Into Bluegrass - The Songs of Cullen Galyean." We also featured historic cuts from The Lilly Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, and Charlie Monroe.

We were surprised and delighted to get a call from Mr. Bud Godreau -- the former WHUS DJ who started bluegrass programming at WHUS over 27 years ago! Bud lives in North Carolina these days (how fitting!) and was visiting friends in the Northeast when he checked in with us, so we put Bud on the air to say hello to our listeners, all of whom owe Bud thanks for getting this great music started on radio in our neck of the Southern New England woods. You can read more about Bud's role in bluegrass at WHUS here and see a photo here.

Be sure to tune in next Sunday when Amy Orlomoski will make the banjos and fiddles ring.

Jim Beaver

requests in blue

SONG TITLE / PERFORMER / ALBUM TITLE / LABEL

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Flatt & Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Sessions / Mercury
• Down Where The River Bends / Ralph Stanley & Dwight Yoakam / Saturday Night & Sunday Morning / Freeland
• You'll Be Loving Another Man / David Parmley, Larry Stephenson, Ricky & Ronnie Simpkins, Bill Emerson / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records
• I'm Comin' Back But I Don't Know When / Charlie Monroe / I'm Old Kentucky Bound / Bear Family
• God Bless The Soldier / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Soldiers Return / Dave Evans & Riverbend / The Vetco Sessions / Vetco
• Forgotten Soldier Boy / The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots - 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Soldier's Joy / John McKuen, Earl Scruggs, Junior Huskey / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Two Little Boys / Bob Paisley & The Southern Grass / Who Will Calm The Storm - Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• On The Road From Appomattox / Southern Rail / On The Road From Appomattox / Railway Records
• Coat of Southern Gray / David Davis and the Warrior River Boys / David Davis and the Warrior River Boys / Rebel
• Poor Rebel Soldier / Dave Evans & Riverbend / The Vetco Sessions / Vetco
• Caleb / O'Reilly-Miller-Lester / North To Ontario 2009 / Self-released
• My Southern Soldier Boy / Larry Gillis / Today Marks The Day / Self-released
• Who Will Calm The Storm / Liz Meyer / Who Will Calm The Storm - Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• Soldier / ShoreGrass / Going Home / Self-released
• Marching Home / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• A Little Boy Called Joe / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Have Mercy / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Dancin' In The Dirt / Melvin Goins & Windy Mountain / Dancin' In The Dirt / Blue Circle
• Have I Stayed Away Too Long / The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Big, Big Heartaches / Grasstowne / The Other Side Of Towne / Pinecastle
• Your Horses Ain't Hungry (Wagoner's Lad) / Cullen Galyean and Bobby Harrison / Let Me Fall / Smithsonian Folkways
• Midnight Ramble / Cullen Galyean / Born Into Bluegrass - The Songs of Cullen Galyean / Mountain Roads
• Let Me Fall / Adam Steffey / One More For The Road / Sugar Hill
• Truck Stop Baby / The Dixie Bee-Liners / Susanville / Pinecastle
• White Pass Railroad / The Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• Rebecca / Herschel Sizemore / Back In Business / Hay Holler
• Roll On Buddy, Roll On / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• My Tennessee Mountain Home / Dolly Parton / Box Set Sampler / RCA Nashville / Legacy
• Years Ago / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Smoke Along The Track / Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Self-released
• Gonna Settle Down / Crowe, Douglas, Hicks, Lawson, Phillips, Rice / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Vol. 2 / Rounder
• Sixteen Years / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Live at The Birchmere / Rounder
• Shackles And Chains / Charlie Moore / Plum Pitiful Vol. 2 / Wango
• Cheshire Tragedy / Bear Minimum / Different Brothers With The Same Sister / Self-released
• Little Bessie / Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family
• Peter Was A Fireball / Easter Brothers / By Request - Their Greatest Hits / Thoroughbred
• I'll Live Again / Anita Fisher Band With Ray Deaton / It's Amazing What A Prayer Can Do / C and L Entertainment
• Take Your Shoes Off Moses / Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys / Cry From The Cross / Rebel
• City That Lies Foursquare / Ricky Skaggs / Solo - Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
• Better Farther On / Larry Sparks / I Just Want To Thank You Lord / Rural Rhythm Christian
• My Lord Had Mercy On Me / Larry Gillis / Today Marks The Day / Self-released
• Church In The Wildwood / Bill Clifton & Jimmy Gaudreau / River Of Memories / Elf Records
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Sunshine In The Shadows / Hay Holler

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 11/1/2009 - Ricky Skaggs

Sunday was a great day to be listening to Bluegrass Cafe because we brought you a 35 minute interview with one of the best known performers of bluegrass music today: Ricky Skaggs. Ricky and his band Kentucky Thunder will be performing in Hartford this coming Friday, Nov. 6.

We devoted most of the first hour of the show to various groups over the past forty years that have featured Ricky Skaggs as a performer. Besides Ricky's numerous projects, we also featured Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, David Grisman, and the group Boone Creek -- all of which featured Ricky either picking or singing, or both.

Ricky then joined us by phone for a delightful half-hour of a very candid discussion. Some of the interesting things discussed were the large quantity of home tapes that Ricky's dad Hobert made over the years (which still exist), the relationship between Ricky and his father, and the personal discussions Ricky had with his father about the direction of Ricky's career. He called his return to bluegrass in 1997 "the greatest decision I've ever made musically." It's not hard to see why Ricky's latest CD is titled "Songs My Dad Loved." Ricky also emphasized the importance of his Christian faith, and hoped he would be remembered for that before his music.

I hope to get an audio version of the interview posted in the near future.

We also had Deb Noble and Joe Mellet in the studio during the last hour promoting a concert this coming Saturday, Nov. 7, in Willimantic that features Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers, and bluegrass band Pine Creek opening. All the members of Pine Creek (including me) live in the listening area of WHUS and Bluegrass Cafe. I even got to pick a tune with Joe during his visit.

While our discussions with our on-air guests reduced the size of the playlist, we did manage to play some newer music from Billy Boone Smith, Jeff & Vida, Canucky Bluegrass Boys, Darin Aldridge & Brooke Justice, The Del McCoury Band, and Dailey & Vincent.

Marti and I will be back next week, and looking at the calendar it might be time to feature some songs for Veterans Day, so I'll see what I can do.

Jim Beaver

requests in blue

SONG TITLE / PERFORMER / ALBUM TITLE / LABEL

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent) / David Grisman with Ricky Skaggs / Hand Picked: 25 Years of Rounder Bluegrass / Rounder
• Country Boy / Ricky Skaggs / The High Notes / Cracker Barrel
• It's Mighty Dark To Travel / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass / Skaggs Family
• Cry, Cry Darlin' / Ricky Skaggs featuring Dolly Parton / Ricky Skaggs & Friends / Lyric Street
• I'll Go With You / Darin Aldridge and Brooke Justice / I'll Go With You / Pinecastle
• Cold Wind / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-released
• Keep My Love With You / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Echoes Of The Stanley Brothers / Varese Sarabande
• Almost Right / Billy Boone Smith / Live From The Moose Lodge / Muddy Sunshine
• One Way Track / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill
• Head Over Heels / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
• My Little Georgia Rose / Ricky Skaggs featuring Travis Tritt / Ricky Skaggs & Friends Songs of Bill Monroe / Lyric Street
• Boxcar Blues (Hello Sunshine) / Jeff & Vida / Selma Chalk / Rosebank
• Standin' Up / Canucky Bluegrass Boys / North To Ontario 2009 / Self-released
• Roses In The Snow / Emmylou Harris / Roses In The Snow / Warner Bros
• Pig In A Pen / Ricky Skaggs / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family
• Get Up John / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Live At The Charleston Music Hall / Skaggs Family

Ricky Skaggs Interview

• Sinners, You Better Get Ready / Ricky Skaggs / Solo - Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
• City That Lies Foresquare / Ricky Skaggs / Solo - Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
• Take This Train And Ride / The Gillis Brothers / Live / Self-released
• Days of Grey and Black / Various Artists / Born Into Bluegrass - The Songs of Cullen Galyean / Mountain Roads
• When The Sheriff Comes To Town / Sean Kershaw / Coney Island Cowboy / Self-released
• Orphan Girl / Pine Creek / Live 2008 recording / Private
• The Golden Streets Of Glory / Dolly Parton / Box Set Sampler / RCA Nashville/Legacy
• Hello Lonely / The Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• Prayer Bells Of Heaven / Frosty Mountain Boys / Get In Line Brother / Rural Rhythm
• God's Not Dead / J. D. Jarvis / Get In Line Brother / Rural Rhythm
• Man In The Middle / Tony Trischka and Skyline / Angels Rejoiced / Strictly Country
• I've Found A Hiding Place / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• This World Is Not My Home / Ricky Skaggs / Solo - Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
• Who'll Sing For Me? / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Rural Rhythm
• Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho / Dailey & Vincent / Singing From The Heart / Rounder
• Angels Rejoiced / Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys / Angels Rejoiced / Strictly Country
• Take Your Shoes Off, Moses / Dan Tyminski, Dwight McCall / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Sunshine In The Shadows / Hay Holler

Ricky Skaggs on Bluegrass Cafe, Sunday 11/1/2009

Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder will be performing at the Bushnell in Hartford on Friday, November 6th. We are taking this opportunity to have Ricky join us by telephone on Bluegrass Cafe this Sunday, November 1, at 5:00pm ET, when we will get to ask Ricky all kinds of questions about his music. Don't miss it. You can hear it on WHUS 91.7 FM in eastern Connecticut, or you can hear it simulcast over the Web at WHUS.ORG


Also, around 6:00pm we will have a visit from Deb Noble, promoter of what promises to be a fine evening of honky tonk and bluegrass music in Willimantic on Saturday, November 7th as part of the Windham Arts Collaborative. Performing will be Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers from New York, and Pine Creek Bluegrass Band from Connecticut. (Full disclosure: Bluegrass Cafe host Jim Beaver is banjo picker with Pine Creek.) Perhaps Jim and Joe Mellet, Pine Creek mandolin player, will pick a little during Deb's visit. We may even have Sean Kershaw join us by phone. Don't miss it!

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/25/2009

Jim was called away on business this week, so I got to spend my second Sunday in a row with you at the BG Cafe. I certainly enjoyed myself, and hope you were able to do the same...

We included a teeny bit of brand-new-received-this-very-week music from Canada's Spinney Brothers ("When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall" on their own label), as well as the Del McCoury Band ("Family Circle" on McCoury Music). Several of the other tunes played were taken from projects that were released within the last few months. There is a bumper crop of great music out there right now -- it's very, very challenging to get to all of the things we might want to play in only 3 hours a week! We'll keep on keeping on, though...

A few requests rounded out the playlist for this Sunday, too. Keep those requests coming in -- we love to know what you folks want to hear, so don't be shy. Call us during showtime at (860)486-9487 or send email anytime: bgcafe@gmail.com.

Jim's got lots of great things in store for you for the next week or two in the BG Cafe -- be sure to join him (and maybe even Marti, too). I believe Jim may even be speaking to Ricky Skaggs on the phone next Sunday, in anticipation of Ricky's show at the Bushnell in Hartford on November 6th. Good stuff! I'll be listening...and I hope you will, too!

Have a great week, and a happy Halloween...

Amy


Requests are RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rocky Grass / Blue Planet
• I Was Left On The Street / McCoury Brothers / McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• We Live In Two Different Worlds / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• I’ll Pretend It’s Raining / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• AppleJack / Pam Gadd with Dolly Parton / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Harmony Productions
• Riverhead Polka / Buddy Merriam / Back Roads Mandolin / Lily Pad Records
• Whole Lot More Living / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• Look For Me / Angelica Grim / Look For Me / Patuxent Music
• After The Fire Is Gone / Pam Gadd with Marty Raybon / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Harmony Productions
• Stranger In My Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• What A Ways We’ve Come / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Mama Tried / Herman McGee / Family And Friends / Self-Produced
• Prisoner Of The Highway / Southern Rail / On The Road From Appomattox / Railway Records
• You’re For Me / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Phoenix / Happy Appy Records
• How Many Times / Spinney Brothers / When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Self-Produced
• I Remember You / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• Home With The Blues / Junior Sisk / Born Into Bluegrass : The Songs Of Cullen Galyean /
  Mountain Roads Recordings
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin’ / Adam Steffey / One More For The Road / Sugar Hill
• Lost And Lonesome / Billy Boone Smith / Live From The Moose Lodge / Self-Produced
• Somebody’s Gonna Let You Down / Grasstowne / The Other Side Of Towne / Pinecastle
• Flat Creek / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / GSM Records
• Carolina Blue / Grass Cats / A Good Way To Get The Blues / New Time Records
• You Left Me Alone / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• Georgia Bound / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• Past The Point Of Rescue / Gary Ferguson / I’m Really Leaving / Webco
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch
• I’ll Go Stepping Too / Osborne Brothers / Yesterday, Today, & the Osborne Brothers / Decca
• No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Keep A Memory / Stanley Brothers / Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mt. Boys / Gusto
• Roanoke / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder
• Give This Message To Your Heart / Larry Stephenson with Dailey & Vincent / Prime Cuts Of Bluegrass, v.100 / KBC
• Something In My Heart / Tommy Webb / Heartland / Rural Rhythm
• As The Crow Flies / Songs From The Road Band / As The Crow Flies / Lucks Dumpy Toad Records
• Red Rockin’ Chair / Darren Beachley / Sad Songs And Sunday Mornings / MasterShield Records
• Like A Train Needs A Track / Lonesome River Band / No Turning Back / Rural Rhythm
• Skip Hop And Wobble / Patrick McAvinue with Audie Blaylock / Rutland’s Reel / Patuxent Music
• There Ain’t No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• This Weary Heart You Stole Away / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mt. Boys / Can’t You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder
• I Want To Be Wanted / Lost & Found / Love, Lost & Found / Rebel
• The Angels Rejoiced / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country
• The Boat Of Love / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• It’s Hard To Stumble (When You’re Down On Your Knees) / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
• This World Is Not My Home / Ricky Skaggs / Ricky Skaggs Solo : Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
• Meet Me Over On The Other Side / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute, v.2 /
  MasterShield Records
• Working On A Building / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Let The Light Shine Down / Spinney Brothers / When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Self-Produced
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin’, Praisin’ & Singin’ : Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm
• The Church By The Side Of The Road / Charlie Sizemore / Old Homestead Gospel Collection / Old Homestead
• Throne Of Grace / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
  

Sam Tidwell Tribute Day - Sunday, June 14th -- The Videos

If you attended Sam Tidwell Tribute Day on June 14th , you know you were treated to a lot of fine music performed by some good folks in honor of a true New England Bluegrass original, Sam Tidwell. You may also recall that there were several television cameras at the event from Charter Television in North Windham, CT. All of the music performed that day was recorded for future broadcast on Charter's Community Access Channel, CTV 14. To this point, none of the shows have made it on the air, but two of these shows are in the pipeline for broadcast later this month:

Sunday, October 25th - 7PM: a program featuring the Massachusetts band, Spare Parts

Saturday, October 31st - 8PM: a program featuring Rhode Island native (and Sam Tidwell prodigee) Jimmy Gaudreau along with his duet partner, Moondi Klein

Please note that you will only be able to view these programs if you live in one of the 16 towns in eastern CT serviced by Charter Television (and, of course, you are a Charter subscriber). If you live in Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Columbia, Coventry, Eastford, Hampton, Lebanon, Mansfield, Pomfret, Scotland, Thompson, Willington, Windham, or Woodstock, be sure to tune into these programs on Channel 14 this month. We'll let you know when the other installments are ready to be broadcast.

Don't forget, too, that if you subscribe to Charter and live in one of the 16 towns they service, you should be able to hear former "Bluegrass Cafe" producer, Myrna Riquier, every Friday AM as she hosts her own Bluegrass program called, "New England Bluegrass Showcase." For just about 50 minutes every Friday morning (starting about 10:10AM), Myrna plays music performed (mostly) by New England performers. The audio is broadcast only on CTV 14.