Playlist 1/2/2011

Bluegrass, Etc. Rowena Muldavin, guest host - KCSN 88.5

6:00
Crooked Jades – California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury (1:21)

Melvin Goins & Windy Mountain – Hey Good Lookin’ (Blue Circle CD) Dancin’ in the Dirt (2:40)

Dailey & Vincent – Elizabeth (Cracker Barrel CD) Sing the Statler Brothers (3:46)

Buck & Company – Rhonda Pearl (Emerald Sky C) This Old Barn (3:23)

Emmylou Harris – Angel Eyes (Warner Bros. LP) Light of the Stable (3:22)

Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press – I’ll Take a Chance (Rounder CD) Bluegrass Melodies (2:37)

Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys – I Want to Preach the Gospel (Rebel CD) 1971-1973 (1:58)

Carl Scott & Glory Bound – Farther Along (Outlet CD) You’re Not Alone (3:21)

Masters Family – I’m Not Afraid of Tomorrow (Gusto CD) Gloryland March (2:35)

Trace Family Trio – Little Country Church House on the Hill (Old Homestead CD) Early Sacred Harmony (3:00)

6:30
Sweet Potato Pie – Shout Hallelujah (Mountain Fever CD) Journey Called Life (3:08)

Cliff Carlisle – My Two Time Mama (JSP CD) Classic Country Sides [10/26/31.] (3:04)

Vernon Dalhart – Mollie Darling (Columbia 78) N/A [12/8/25.] (3:27)

Carolina Tar Heels – Who’s Gonna Kiss Your Lips, Dear Darling (JSP CD) Mountain Frolic [4/3/29.] (3:10)

Blue Sky Boys – Sweetheart Mountain Rose (Gusto CD) Are You from Dixie? (1:32)

Ernest V. Stoneman – Uncle Sam and the Kaiser (Tompkins Square CD) Bloody War [5/27/25.] (2:55)

Sam & Kirk McGee – Keep a Light in Your Window (Spring Fed CD) Live: 1955-1967 (2:42)

Wade Mainer – Julie (Old Homestead CD) From the Maple on the Hill (2:47)

Ashley Caudill – Fruit of the Vine (self produced CD) Fruit of the Vine (3:27)

Bessie Rabb – Down in the Willow Garden (Great Smoky Mountains CD) Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music [New release. 1939.] (2:26)

7:00
Triple Chicken Foot – Nobody’s Hard Up but Me (self produced CD) Meeting in the Air (2:00)

Joe Diffie – Tall Cornstalk (Rounder CD) Homecoming (2:47)

Roy Clark & Buck Trent – Black Mountain Rag (MCA LP) Banjo Bandits (2:06)

Boxcars – You Can Take Your Time (Mountain Home CD) The Boxcars (3:24)

John Cowan – Christmas Everyday (E1 Music CD) Comfort & Joy (2:58)

Grascals – Folsom Prison Blues (BluGrascal CD) & Friends [New release. With Dierks Bently.] (3:25)

Lou Reid & Carolina – It’s Hard to Stumble (Rural Rhythm Christian CD) Sounds Like Heaven to Me (2:24)

Carl Tipton – When I’m Gone (Gusto CD) Echoes of the Carl Tipton Show (2:35)

Marksmen – Don’t Give Up (Old Homestead CD) The Prodigal (3:22)

7:30
Bailes Brothers – Blessed Jesus Hold My Hand (Gusto CD) 2010 (2:40)

Stones River Ranch Boys – How Marvelous (Gusto CD) Gospel Favorites (2:19)

Frank Gerald & Howard Dixon – Bootlegger’s Story (British Archive of Country Music CD) Bluebird Label [1/25/38.] (2:35)

Charlie Bowman & His Brothers – Forky Deer (Columbia 78) N/A [2/20/29.] (3:00)

Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters – Wandering Boy (JSP CD) Gennett Old Time Music [5/27.] (2:50)

Frank Hutchison – K. C. Blues (Document CD) Old-Time Music from West Virginia [7/9/29.] (3:01)

Carter Family – School House on the Hill (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain [6/17/33.] (3:57)

Prairie Acre – Hop High (self produced CD) Who’ll Rock the Cradle? (4:46)

Red Hen – Jailbreak (Red Hen CD) Crossing (2:15)

8:00
New Mules – Walking Out One Morning (Pick Away Press CD) Pride of America (2:21)

Casey Driscoll & Jon Grisham – Banks County Hornpipe (Patuxent CD) 159 Original Georgia Fiddle Tunes (1:15)

Paul Smith & Friends – Guitar Blues (Rounder Select CD) Devil Eat the Groundhog (1:15)

George Jones & Melba Montgomery – I’d Dreamed My Baby Came Home (United Artists LP) Bluegrass Hootenanny (2:16)

Peter Feldman & the Very Lonesome Boys – Freight Train Boogie (Hen Cackle CD) Home on the Grange (4:13)

Witcher Brothers – Hear the Ice Melt (Elk Dog CD) Like a Picture (3:40)

Robin & Linda Williams – Brightest and Best (Red House CD) The First Christmas Gift (4:58)

Carrie Rodriguez & Ben Kyle – If I Needed You (Ninth Street Opus CD) We Still Love Our Country (4:14)

Southland Trio – Shout and Shine (Gusto CD) Preachin’ Prayin’ Shoutin’ & Singin’ (2:18)

8:30
Statement – Around the Corner (Mountain Fever CD) Around the Corner (4:13)

Richard D. Henry – I Had a Little Talk with Jesus (self produced CD) I Had a Little Talk with Jesus (2:46)

Bill & Maggie Anderson – Born Again (self produced CD) The Master’s Garden (2:53)

Chattahoochee Sacred Harp Singers – Bethel (self produced CD) Wilson Chapel (1:22)

Blind Joe Taggart – Pennsylvania Woman Blues test (Document CD) V. 2 [12/29. Six Cylinder Smith.] (2:42)

Eli Framer – God Didn’t Make No Monkey Man (JSP CD) A Richer Tradition [11/30/29.] (3:12)

Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers – Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down Blues (Columbia 78) N/A [7/27/25.] (2:52)

Kelly Harrell – Butcher’s Boy (JSP CD) Worried Blues [6/8/26.]3:11)

Stripling Brothers – Soft Voices (Document CD) V. 2 [3/12/36.] (2:49)

Nell Robinson – Forgotten Soldier Boy (self produced CD) Loango (3:19)

9:00
Rafe Stefanini – Fox Chase Reel (County CD) Ladies Fancy (3:23)

Bill Mansfield & the Carolina Mockingbirds – The Bald Headed End of the Broom (Yodel-Ay-Hee CD) Root Hog or Die (2:51)

Greg Brooks – Grey Eagle (self produced CD) Heroes & Friends (4:18)

John Specker – Lark in the Morning (self produced CD) Old Bunch of Keys (3:52)

Patty Loveless – Blue Memories (Saguaro Road CD) Mountain Soul II (2:48)

Elizabeth LaPrelle – Sweet Roseanne (Old 97 Wrecords CD) Lizard in the Spring (3:09)

GrooveGrass Boys – Auld Lang Syne (Universal South CD) Christmas on the Mountain (2:52)

Jawbones – Fiddler’s Blues (self produced CD) Banjoreno (2:51)

9:30
Byron Berline – Orange Blossom Special (Doublestop CD) Flat Broke Fiddler (8:50)

Gilles Apap – Hangman’s Reel (Apapaziz CD) Friends (2:43)

James Allen Shelton – Do You Hear What I Hear? (Sheltone CD) Where I’m Bound (2:25)

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin – Fine Horseman (self produced CD) Return (5:16)

Cantrells – Snowbound (Sombrero CD) The Heart Wants What It Wants (3:38)

Geoff Muldauer & the Texas Sheiks – Poor Boy (self produced CD) Texas Sheiks (3:00)

Carpenter & May – Soldiers Joy/Fishers Hornpipe (Violin Shop CD) Carpenter & May (3:33)

Playlist 12/26/2010

Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe - KCSN 88.5

6:00
Crooked Jades – California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury (1:21)

McCormick Brothers – East Bound and Down (Stonewall CD) Somewhere in Time [New release.] (2:57)

Darren Beachley & Legends of the Potomac – Tall Weeds and Rust (Patuxent CD) Take Off (3:36)

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – O Christmas Candle (Koch CD) Christmas Grass vol. 2 (2:51)

Travis Chandler & Avery County – Black Dust Fever (Patuxent CD) State of Depression [New release.] (3:53)

Bill Carroll – If You Are to Sin Inclined (Rebel CD) Christmas Time Back Home (2:45)

John Miller – I Long to See His Face (Rural Rhythm Christian CD) Look to the Light (3:19)

J. D. Jarvis – Farther On (Jewel LP) Take Your Shoes Off, Moses (2:23)

Joel Mabus – How Like the Holly (Fossil CD) How Like the Holly (3:20)

6:30
Brombies – By and By (Adina CD) From the Piney Hills of Hollywood (3:03)

John Fahey – Joy to the World (Varrick LP) Christmas Guitar Vol. 1 (1:42)

Rev. F. W. McGee – The Scarlet Thread in the Window (Document CD) Complete [6/1/28.] (3:25)

Mac O’Dell – Meet Me Jesus (Old Homestead LP) Early Radio (1:47)

Kelly Harrell – Broken Engagement (JSP CD) Worried Blues [6/9/26.] (3:22)

Connie Sides & Ernest Thompson – Underneath the Southern Moon (Columbia 78) N/A [9/11/24.] (3:27)

Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers – Johnnie, Get Your Gun (Tompkins Square CD) Bloody War [10/11/27.] (2:59)

Josh Wanstreet & Scott Phillips – Christmas Morning (self produced CD) Traditional Fiddle and Banjo Music (2:20)

Dirk Powell – The Holly and the Ivy (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas [New release.] (2:13)

Vernon Riddle – Limerock (Field Recorders’ Collective CD) Old-Time Texas Style Fiddle [New release.] (2:51)

Homer & Calvin Chastain & Don Holder – John Hardy (Jubilee CD) Pine Breeze Recordings (1:14)

7:00
Dirk Powell – We Three Kings (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas [New release.] (3:14)

Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press – Mountain Fever (Rural Rhythm CD) Memories [New release.] (2:27)

Nu-Blu – Red Haired Boy (self produced CD) Nights (3:06)

Skip Kelley & Ed Dodson – Julie (Granite CD) Hopped That Train and Gone [New release.] (2:52)

Ricky Skaggs – The Christmas Guest (Skaggs Family CD) A Skaggs Family Christmas (5:22)

Ronnie McCoury et al – Silver Bells (Koch CD) Christmas Grass (3:02)

Janet McGarry – Are You Afraid to Die (self produced CD) He Will Bring You Home (3:50)

Morris Brothers – Beautiful Star of Bethlehem (MBM CD) Bluegrass Gospel Jewels (4:11)

7:30
Louvin Brothers – Thank God for My Christian Home (Capitol CD) Capitol Country Music Classics [1963.] (3:30)

Rhonda Vincent – Twelve Days of Christmas (Rounder CD) Beautiful Star (4:16)

Butch Baldassari – O Little Town of Bethlehem (Cactus CD) Evergreen (2:48)

Vernon Dalhart – Picture That Is Turned toward the Wall (Columbia 78) N/A [5/13/25.] (2:49)

J. E. Mainer’s Mountainers – Tell I’ll Meet Her (JSP CD) The Early Years [8/5/37.] (3:00)

Byrd Moore – Careless Lover (JSP CD) Gennett Old Time Music [6/22/28.] (3:14)

Riley Puckett – Down By the Old Mill Stream (Columbia 78) N/A [9/30/25.] (3:01)

Uncle Dave Macon – I Don’t Care If I Never Wake Up (Bear Family CD) Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy [9/8/26.] (2:56)

Casey Driscoll & Jon Grisham – Glascock County Breakdown (Patuxent CD) 159 Original Georgia Fiddle Tunes (1:22)

Dirk Powell – Jingle Bells (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (2:21)

8:00
Reverend Gary Davis – I Am the True Vine (Field Recorders’ Collective CD) 1952 Wire Recordings (3:05)

Dirk Powell – Christmas Coming (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (1:28)

Crooked Still – Oh, Agamemnon (Signature Sounds CD) Still Crooked (4:03)

Kathy Kallick Band – New White House Blues (Live Oak CD) Between the Hollow and the High Rise (2:13)

Rodney Dillard & the Dillard Band – There Goes the Neighborhood (Rural Rhythm CD) I Wish Life Was Like Mayberry (2:50)

Bartley Brothers – Hit the Road (Rural Rhythm CD) Hit the Road (2:13)

Dale Jett – Blind Marie (self produced CD) With Friends at the Fold (4:49)

Norman Blake et al – Black Hawthorne (Winter Harvest CD) An Americana Christmas (4:30)

Primitive Quartet – It’s Hard to Stumble on Your Knees (Mountain Heritage CD) I’m Looking through New Eyes (2:54)

8:30
Donna Ulisse – New Day in Heaven (Hadley Music Group CD) Holy Waters (3:25)

Revonda Roberts & Harvest Wind – Draggin’ Chains (C & L CD) Stillwater (2:23)

Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers – Away in a Manger (Rebel CD) Christmas in the Hills (3:05)

Wildwood Valley Boys – When It’s Snowin’ in the Mountains (Rebel CD) Christmas in the Mountains (2:31)

Paul Miles & the Red Fox Chasers – Mountain Sweetheart (Tompkins Square CD) Complete [6/28/28.] (3:04)

Edward Thompson – Florida Bound (JSP CD) A Richer Tradition [ca. 10/23/29.] (2:53)

Norwood & Mrs. Tew – When the Cactus Blooms I’ll Be Waiting (British Archive of Country Music CD) Bluebird Label [2/15/37.] (2:23)

Cliff Carlisle – The Written Letter (JSP CD) Classic Country Sides [10/26/31.] (2:36)

Carter Family – Gold Watch and Chain (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain [6/17/33.] (3:33)

John Hannah – My Home Is in the Smoky Mountains (Great Smoky Mountains CD) Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music [New release. 1939.] (3:11)

Dirk Powell – Silver Bells (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (2:57)

Laura Boosinger & Josh Goforth – Shady Grove (Laura’s Label CD) Most of All (3:32)

9:00
Dirk Powell – Twelve Days of Christmas (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (3:46)

Harold Hausenfluck – Billy Richardson’s Last Ride (Field Recorders’ Collective CD) Vol. 1 [New release.] (1:48)

Allerton & Alton – Keep on the Sunny Side/Orange Blossom Special (Bear Family CD) Black, White and Bluegrass [New release.] (5:32)

Gaither Carlton – Sally Ann (Field Recorders’ Collective CD) 1972 [New release.] (1:33)

Jeannie Kendall – Smoky Mountain Christmas (Rounder CD) O Christmas Tree (2:51)

Pearly Snaps – Little Boy, Little Boy, Where’d You Get Your Britches? (self produced CD) The Pearly Snaps (2:07)

9:30
Vassar Clements & Tony Rice – Wayfaring Stranger (Flatt Mountain CD) And the Low Country All-Star Band (7:15)

Jason & Pharis Romero – Halifax (Lula CD) Back Up & Push [With Armin Barnett.] (3:02)

Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys – Who Is That? (Rebel CD) 1971-1973 (1:54)

Backwoods Band – Fish in the Millpond (Rounder LP) Jes’ Fine (2:48)

Charlie Sizemore – Walking Home in the Rain (Rebel CD) Back Home (3:19)

Otis Burris & Fortune – First Whippoorwill (Heritage CD) Otis Burris & Fortune (2:45)

Jimmy Martin – Old Fashion Christmas (Starday Power Pak LP) Bluegrass Country Christmas (2:50)

Jont Blevins – Cumberland Gap (Field Recorders’ Collective CD) Grayson County, Virginia (0:55)

Carpenter & May – Blue and Lonesome (Violin Shop CD) Carpenter & May (2:42)

Mary Z. Cox – Waterbound (self produced CD) Florida Banjo (2:40)

Ann & Phil Case – Leading of the Star/Snowdrop (Dry Run CD) Holiday Sampler (1:16)

Playlist 12/19/2010

Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe - KCSN 88.5

6:00
Crooked Jades – California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury (1:21)

McPeak Brothers – Oh Mama Please Don’t Cry (Major CD) Acoustic Masterpiece (3:01)

Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road – Carolina Blue (Rural Rhythm CD) Carolina Hurricane (2:52)

Blue Railroad Train – Mole in the Ground (Redstart CD) Going Back to the Riverside (4:00)

Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys – Rank Strangers (Rebel CD) 1971-1973 (2:39)

Sonya Isaacs – New Star Shining (Koch CD) Christmas Grass Vol. 3 (3:33)

Carl Scott & Glory Bound – Angel Band (Outlet CD) You’re Not Alone (4:09)

James King Band – Call Collect on Christmas (Rounder CD) O Christmas Tree (4:03)

Richard D. Henry – Old Time Preacher Man (self produced CD) I Had a Little Talk with Jesus (2:43)

6:30
Red Ellis – When Jesus Christ Was Here on Earth (Old Homestead LP) At the First Fall of Snow (1:46)

Bankester Family – Is This Not the Land of Beulah? (Covenant Hills CD) Somewhere in Between (6:02)

Happy Go Lucky Boys – Happy Go Lucky Breakdown (British Archive of Country Music CD) Bluebird Label [2/5/40.] (2:49)

Freezone – Indian Squaw Blues (JSP CD) A Richer Tradition [6/6/29.] (3:06)

Gid Tanner & His Georgia Boys – Just Gimme the Leavings (Columbia 78) N/A [10/3/25.] (2:53)

Leake County Revelers – Molly Put the Kettle On (Document CD) Vol. 1 [12/13/28.] (2:57)

Dykes Magic City Trio – Hook and Line (British Archive of Country Music CD) Complete Recordings [3/11/27.] (3:09)

Dirk Powell – O Tannenbaum (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas [New release.] (1:57)

7:00
Whitetop Mountaineers – I Can’t Sit Down (Heritage CD) Home on the Mountain (2:11)

Martin Fox & Jeff Winegar – Shove That Pig’s Foot (self produced CD) The Way It Was (3:35)

Dirk Powell – We Wish You a Merry Christmas (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas [New release.] (2:00)

Luke Abbott – I’ve Always Been a Rambler (Abbott Family CD) Take Me Home (3:51)

Reno & Smiley – Blue Christmas (Starday Power Pak LP) Bluegrass Country Christmas (2:41)

Lynwood Lunsford & the Misty Valley Boys – Legend of the Highway (Crosscut CD) It’s a Carolina Morning (1:56)

Harmans – Chinese Breakdown (Auction CD) Garden in My Life (2:57)

Paul Williams & the Victory Trio – I Can’t Go Home This Christmas (Rebel CD) Christmas in the Mountains (3:01)

Baker Boys – Polka on a Banjo (Patuxent CD) Lonesome Weary Heart (2:38)

Triple L Band – On the Sea of Life (self produced CD) Crown Him King (2:06)

Judy Hauff – Sherburne (Morning Trumpet CD) Angels on the Wing (2:14)

Little Roy Lewis – Where the Soul of Man Never Dies (Gusto CD) Gospel Train (2:18)

7:30
Crowe Lawson Williams – Give Me Your Hand (Mountain Home CD) Old Friends Get Together (2:51)

Bailes Brothers – Avenue of Prayer (Gusto CD) 2010 (2:57)

Dixon Brothers – The Old Vacant Chair (Tompkins Square CD) Bloody War [6/23/36.] (2:44)

Byrd Moore – Favourite Two Step (JSP CD) Gennett Old Time Music [4/10/29.] (3:03)

Ernest Thompson – Whistling Rufus (Columbia 78) N/A [9/11/24.] (3:19)

Carter Family – Over the Garden Wall (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain [6/17/33.] (2:50)

Delmore Brothers – Bury Me under the Weeping Willow (JSP CD) Volume 2 [1/25/38.] (2:05)

Dirk Powell – It Came upon a Midnight Clear (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (4:08)

Body Rockers – Breakin’ Up Christmas (Private CD) Body Rockers (3:32)

8:00
Fiddler Nelson – Dad’s Waltz (Missouri Valley Music CD) We Didn’t Make This Up (3:34)

Casey Joe Abair & Hunter Robertson – Sail Away Ladies (Yodel-Ay-Hee CD) If You Want to Go to Sleep, Go to Bed (4:07)

Dirk Powell – Frosty the Snowman (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (2:02)

Larry Schallert – First Christmas without You (private CD) N/A (3:29)

Trisha Gagnon – A Parent’s Prayer (Jam ‘n Music CD) A Story about You and Me [New release.] (4:06)

Newfound Road – Brand New Broken Heart (Rounder CD) Same Old Place (2:56)

Jim & Valerie Gabeheart – How’s the World Treating You (self produced CD) It’s My Turn (2:45)

Bobby Atkins – Birdland Breakdown (Thunder Bolt CD) North Carolina Banjo Picking (2:43)

Isaacs – What Child Is This (Horizon CD) Christmas Spirit (3:10)

8:30
Wilson Brothers – If You’ll Turn to Jesus (Old Homestead LP) We’ll Wait Till Jesus Comes (2:30)

Rose Maddox with the Vern Williams Band – Beautiful Bouquet (Arhoolie CD) Beautiful Bouquet (2:46)

Melvin Goins & Windy Mountain – Deck of Cards (Blue Circle CD) Dancin’ in the Dirt (3:45)

Tony Allen – Waiting for the Lord to Come (self produced CD) Steam (1:24)

Cannon’s Jug Stompers – Minglewood Blues (Document CD) Vol. 1 [1/30/28.] (3:40)

Kelly Harrell – I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again (JSP CD) Worried Blues [6/8/26.] (3:22)

Reuben Puckett & Richard Brooks – Down by the Mississippi Shore (Columbia 78) N/A [1/29/25.] (3:10)

Stripling Brothers – Forty Drops (Document CD) V. 2 [3/12/36.] (2:45)

Blue Sky Boys – We Buried Her (Bear Family CD) Sunny Side of Life [1/25/38.] (3:01)

9:00
Red Hen – Too Late for the Bacon (self produced CD) Crossing (3:16)

Dirk Powell – Away in a Manger (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (1:56)

Burl Hammons – Shanghai (Augusta Heritage CS) The Fiddling of Burl Hammons (1:16)

Albemarle Ramblers – On the Dixie Bee Line (Merriweather CD) Gentleman from Virginia (2:51)

Dirk Powell – Christmas Time's A Comin' (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (2:03)

Bob Black – Nervous Breakdown (Green Valley CD) Ladies on the Steamboat (1:23)

Dave Bing & Dwight Diller – West Fork Gals (Yew Pine CD) In England (2:19)

Jett’s Creek – Your Haunting Goodbye (self produced CD) Supposed to Be (3:18)

Hog Hollar Stringband – Ook Pik Waltz (Wisekrack/Happy Dog CD) The Great Compromise (3:13)

Michael Martin Murphey – Carolina in the Pines (Rural Rhythm CD) Buckaroo Blue Grass (4:35)

Don Pedi – Twin Sisters/A Frosty Morning (BMB CS) Mountain Dulcimer Christmas (3:17)

9:30
Larry Rice – Rainy Day People (Rebel CD) Cloudy over Carolina (2:51)

Norman Blake, et al – Country Christmas (Winter Harvest CD) An Americana Christmas (6:14)

Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers – Christmas Memories (Rebel CD) Christmas in the Hills (2:32)

Wade Mainer – Fire on the Mountain (Old Homestead CD) From the Maple on the Hill (3:10)

Joe Diffie – Lonesome and Dry as a Bone (Rounder CD) Homecoming (3:52)

Norman Blake & Tut Taylor – Train Wreck (Tut Lee CD) Flat Pickin in the Kitchen (3:17)

John Fahey – Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming (Varrick CD) Christmas Guitar v. 1 (1:55)

Bluegrass Album Band – The Old Home Town (Rounder CD) The Bluegrass Album, Volume 4 (3:00)

Notorious – Wild Rose of the Mountain (Black Socks Press CD) The Road to Damascus (2:52)

Another quote

"When the tremulous radiance of a summer night fills with twinkling stars and the moon itself is full, I am slowly drawn into a state of enhanced sensitivity made of friendship and disdain for the world and eternity." --Immanuel Kant (via Bohumel Hrabal, translated byMichael Henry Heim)

Playlist 12/12/2010

Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe - KCSN 88.5

6:00
Crooked Jades – California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury (1:21)

Infamous Stringdusters – The Deputy (Sugar Hill CD) Things That Fly (4:09)

Trey Hensley & Drivin’ Force – Drivin’ Force (self produced CD) Number 3 with a Bullet (3:37)

Country Gentlemen – South Elm Street (Sugar Hill CD) Sugar Hill Collection (2:09)

John Hanson – Road to Glencar (Wolf Tracks CD) Prairielands (2:20)

Laurie Lewis – Tell Me True (Spruce and Maple CD) Blossoms (3:42)

Anne & Pete Sibley – O Little Town of Bethlehem (self produced CD) Winter on the Great Divide (3:44)

Bill & Maggie Anderson – It’s Not What You Know (self produced CD) The Master’s Garden (2:51)

Lou Reid & Carolina – Missionary Good Book Man (Rural Rhythm Christian CD) Sounds Like Heaven to Me (2:33)

6:30
Revonda Roberts & Harvest Wind – Draggin’ Chains (C&L CD) Stillwater (2:23)

Mac O’Dell – Insured beyond the Grave (Old Homestead CD) Early Radio (2:13)

Sid Harkreader – The Old Rugged Cross (JSP CD) Paramount Old Time Recordings [6/27.] (2:51)

Fiddlin’ John Carson & His Virginia Reelers – Dixie Division (Tompkins Square CD) Bloody War [3 or 4/24.] (4:13)

Connie Sides – They Made It Twice as Nice as Paradise (Columbia 78) N/A [9/11/24.] (3:20)

J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers – Goin’ down the River of Jordan (JSP CD) The Early Years [6/15/36.] (3:10)

Paul Miles & the Red Fox Chasers – Turkey in the Straw (Tompkins Square CD) Complete [4/4/28.] (3:15)

Reed Island Rounders – Ship in the Clouds (Burning Wolf CD) Hand Me Downs (2:14)

Dirk Powell – Angels We Have Heard on High (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas [New release.] (2:31)

7:00
Elizabeth LaPrelle – Pretty Saro (Old 97 Wrecords CD) Lizard in the Spring (6:03)

Dirk Powell – Good King Wenceslas (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (1:33)

Booger Holler String Band – Texas Gals (self produced CD) Where the Pavement Ends (3:23)

Joe LaMay & Sherri Reese – The Dying Soldier (Tall Cotton CD) Cumberland Rose (3:19)

Buzz Busby – Farewell Party (Webco LP) A Pioneer of Traditional Bluegrass (3:17)

Red Ellis & the Huron Valley Boys – Christmas Is Not Far Away (Rebel CD) Christmas Time Back Home (2:47)

Curly Herdman – Rocus’s Reel (Tri-agle-far CD) Fancy Fiddle (2:01)

Skip Kelley & Ed Dodson – Dream of an Old Love Affair (Granite CD) Little Green Valley (2:49)

Brian Blaylock – What a Friend We Have in Jesus (self produced CD) Worried Man Blues (3:14)

Ralph Stanley – Beautiful Star of Bethlehem (Rebel CD) Christmas Time Back Home (3:52)

7:30
Kellie Allen & Pete Peterson – Lift Him Up, That’s All (Lutra CD) I’ll Never Forsake You (3:40)

Johnny Staats Project – What Child Is This (Giant CD) Believe (4:02)

Don Rigsby & Midnight Call – Mary Magdalene (Rebel CD) The Voice of God (3:56)

Uncle Dave Macon – Shout, Mourner, You Shall Be Free (Bear Family CD) Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy [9/8/26.] (3:00)

Vernon Dalhart – Dying Girl’s Message (Columbia 78) N/A [10/17/25.] (3:12)

Lonnie Coleman – Wild about My Loving (JSP CD) A Richer Tradition [4/12/29.] (3:07)

Cliff Carlisle – Going Back to Alabama (JSP CD) Classic Country Sides [10/26/31.] (3:01)

Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners – Freight Train Moan (JSP CD) Appalachian Stomp Down [8/3/37.] (2:39)

Greg & Jere Canote with Candy Goldman – Ice Water Blues (private CS) Stringband Class (2:22)

8:00
Dirk Powell – Silent Night (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (2:22)

New North Carolina Ramblers – Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party (Old Blue CD) Four and a Half (2:42)

Dirk Powell – Deck the Halls (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (1:38)

Benton Flippen & the Smokey Valley Boys – Cricket on the Hearth (Music Maker CD) Fiddler’s Dream (3:10)

Ashley Caudill – Toil & Shame (Airshow CD) Fruit of the Vine (2:38)

Cedar Hill – Let It Ride (Hay Holler CD) Portrait of a Song (2:29)

Earl Brothers – Thinking of You (Big Hen CD) The Earl Brothers (3:07)

Bill Monroe – Christmas Time’s a Coming (MCA CD) The Music of Bill Monroe [10/28/51.] (2:49)

Patty Loveless – Bramble and the Rose (Saguaro CD) Mountain Soul II (2:54)

Bill Carroll – Slowly Fall the Snowflakes (Rebel CD) Christmas in the Mountains (1:34)

Blue Moon Rising – I Will Come Back Again (Lonesome Day CD) One Lonely Shadow (4:16)

8:30
Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers – The Birthday of Our King (Rebel CD) Christmas in the Hills (2:22)

Tony Allen – This World Can’t Stand Long (self produced CD) Steam (2:14)

Johnson Mountain Boys – The Friendly Beasts (Rounder CD) O Christmas Tree (2:06)

Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters – I Know My Name Is There (JSP CD) Gennett Old Time Music [5/27.] (2:45)

Carolina Tar Heels – I’ll Be Washed (JSP CD) Mountain Frolic [11/14/28.] (2:58)

Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers – Where the Whippoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight (JSP CD) Charlie Poole [9/9/30.] (2:58)

Riley Puckett – Drunkard’s Dream (Columbia 78) N/A [6/15/25.] (2:49)

Carter Family – See That My Grave Is Kept Green (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain [6/17/33.] (3:13)

Triple Chicken Foot – Suzannah Gal/Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (self produced CD) Meeting in the Air (3:54)

Dirk Powell – What Child Is This (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (2:47)

9:00
Big Medicine – Lone Pilgrim (Yodel-Ay-Hee CD) Pine to Pine (1:54)

Dirk Powell – Joy to the World (self produced CD) A Fret-Free Christmas (1:34)

Freight Hoppers – I Saw a Man at the Close of Day (Bake Tone CD) Mile Marker [New release.] (3:29)

Lost & Found – A Daisy a Day (Rebel CD) Love, Lost and Found (3:49)

Bruce Molsky & Bob Carlin – Christmas Eve (Marimac CS) Take Me as I Am (2:42)

Tommy Hunter’s North Carolina String Band – Old Joe Clark (Prestige International LP) Orange Blossom Special (2:40)

Don Pedi – Star in the East (BMB CS) Mountain Dulcimer Christmas (3:29)

Dave Evans & River Bend – Call Me On Home, Too (Rebel CD) Best of the Vetco Years (2:34)

Josh Wanstreet & Scott Phillips – Walkin’ in the Parlor (self produced CD) Traditional Fiddle & Banjo Music (2:05)

Jimmy Arnold – If (Rebel CD) Ridin’ with Ol’ Mosby (1:36)

John Fahey – Joy to the World (Varrick CD) Christmas Guitar v. 1 (1:42)

Emmylou Harris – Light of the Stable (Warner Brothers LP) Light of the Stable (2:39)

9:30
Ward Jarvis – Sandy River Belles (private DAT) Field Recordings 1978-1980 (2:03)

McCormick Brothers – Coffee, Coffee, Coffee (Varese Sarabande CD) The Very Best (2:02)

Red State Ramblers – I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Old 97 Wrecords CD) Commonwealth (3:50)

Cullen Galyean – Will You Ever Love Me (Mountain Roads CD) Born into Bluegrass (2:48)

New Mules – Yellow Jacket (Pick Away Press CD) Pride of America (3:03)

Byron Berline – Maiden’s Prayer (Doublestop CD) Flat Broke Fiddler (3:53)

Wolfe Brothers – My Hunting Days (Old Virginia CD) Old Virginia Hills (2:42)

Rhonda Vincent – Christmas Time at Home (Rounder CD) Beautiful Star (2:46)

Ann & Phil Case – O Come, O Come Emmanuel/God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Dry Run CD) Holiday Sampler (2:05)

Don Reno & Red Smiley – The True Meaning of Christmas (King CD) The True Meaning of Christmas (3:42)

A quote I liked

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” –Flaubert in Madame Bovary, trans. by F. Steegmuller.

Here’s another take on it from Michael Cunningham in his latest book By Nightfall.

[We are all] “banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.”

Playlist 12/5/2010

Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe - KCSN 88.5

6:00
Crooked Jades – California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury (1:21)

Balsam Range – Callin’ Caroline (Mountain Home CD) Trains I Missed (2:51)

Darren Beachley & Legends of the Potomac – How Could I Love Her So Much (Patuxent CD) Take Off (3:40)

Chapmans – Love’s Gonna Live Here (Compass CD) Grown Up (2:58)

Vassar Clements & Tony Rice – Wheel Hoss (Flatt Mountain CD) and the Low Country All-Star Band (5:22)

Eric Uglum, Christian Ward & Austin Ward – Sidney the Pirate (Backcountry CD) The Old Road to Jerusalem (4:26)

Bob Smallwood with Charlie Moore – Now Lord What Can I Do for You (Old Homestead CD) Rebel Soldier (2:21)

Paul Williams & the Victory Trio – The Best Time of My Life (Rebel CD) Just a Little Closer Home (3:14)

6:30
Donna Ulisse – Who Will Sing for Me (Hadley Music Group CD) Holy Waters (3:12)

Joe Isaacs – Father’s Blacksmith (Mountain Home CD) Heartfelt Pickin’ & Singin’ Vol. 1 (2:41)

Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road – Jesus Is MY Rock (Rural Rhythm CD) Carolina Hurricane (2:31)

Garland Brothers & Grinstead – Just over the River (JSP CD) Mountain Gospel [10/18/28.] (2:51)

Alfred G. Karnes – To the Work (Document CD) Kentucky Gospel [7/29/27.] (2:54)

Blind Joe Taggart – Strange Things Happening in the Land (Document CD) V. 2 [ca. 12/29.] (2:58)

Hambone Willie Newbern – Way Down in Arkansas (JSP CD) A Richer Tradition [3/13/29.] (3:11)

Carter Family – This Is Like Heaven to Me (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain [6/17/33.] (2:43)

John Specker – Louisville Burglar (self produced CD) Old Bunch of Keys (3:56)

Tom & Ben Paley – Handsome Molly (Marimac CS) On a Cold Winter Night (2:07)

7:00
Hoover Uprights – Wild Hog in the Woods (5-String Producetions CD) Known for Their Reputation (2:06)

Albert Hash – Flop Eared Mule (Heritage CD) Albert Hash (2:03)

Cliff Perry & Laurel Bliss – Whispering Now (Telegrapg CD)Spirit of Love (2:46)

McPeak Brothers – Heartaches In Style (Major CD) Acoustic Masterpiece (3:37)

New River Line – My Brother Paul and Me (Kindred CD) Chasing My Dreams (3:45)

Nate Grower – Big Sciota (Patuxent CD) Nate Grower (3:04)

Heather Berry & Tony Mabe – Creecy Greens (Blue Circle CD) Before Bluegrass (1:55)

Bill Monroe – Master Builder (Bear Family CD) Bluegrass 1959-1969 [12/10/62.] (2:45)

Chattahoochee Sacred Harp Singers – Prospect (self produced CD) Wilson Chapel (3:14)

7:30
Dede Wyland – He Makes You Strong (Patuxent CD) Keep the Lights On (2:44)

Trace Family Trio – Have You Any Time for Jesus (Old Homestead CD) Early Sacred Harmony (2:09)

Lewis Family – One More River to Cross (Gusto CD) The Golden Gospel Best (1:48)

Jeni & Billy – Father Will You Meet Me in Heaven (Jewell Ridge CD) Longing for Heaven (3:25)

Jack Pickell – Old Rugged Cross (Columbia 78) N/A [9/29/25.] (3:15)

Byrd Moore – That Old Tiger Rag (JSP CD) Gennett Old Time Music [4/10/29.] (3:10)

Carolina Tar Heels – The Train’s Done Left Me (JSP CD) Mountain Frolic [4/3/29.] (3:10)

Leake County Revelers – Julia Waltz (Document CD) V. 1 [12/13/28.] (3:09)

Blue Sky Boys – When the Stars Begin to Fall (Bear Family CD) Sunny Side of Life [1/25/38.] (2:37)

Paul Smith – Guitar Blues (Rounder Select CD) Devil Eat the Groundhog (1:15)

Roan Mountain Hilltoppers – Sourwood Mountain (Cloudlands CS) Money in Both Pockets (2:48)

8:00
Rhythm Rats – Darling Nellie Gray (5-String Productions CD) Pretty Crowin’ Chicken (3:49)

Clarke Buehling – Hard Times Jig/Old Virginny Reel (self produced CD) Out of His Gourd (1:53)

Jerry Correll – The Battle of Cedar Creek (Heritage CD) Headin’ up to Elk Creek (2:47)

Mike Mitchell – EMD~Eat My Dust (Mountain Fever CD) Thirteen Hours (2:58)

Rhonda Vincent – Th eCourt of Love (Upper Management CD) Taken [New release.] (3:07)

David Grier – Bonaparte’s Retreat (Dreadnought CD) Live at the Linda (6:40)

Alvin Breeden & the Virginia Cutups – Like Old Times (Fayette County CD) Bluegrass from the Heart of Virginia (3:01)

Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys – The Orphan Girl (Rebel CD) 1971-1973 (2:56)

8:30
Emma Smith – He Was the One (Old Homestead CD) That Little White Church (3:05)

Lilimae Whitaker & the Dixie Gospelaires – My Life’s My Own (Rural Rhythm LP) Jesus Has Called Me (2:07)

Stones River Ranch Boys – Wayfaring Stranger (Gusto CD) Gospel Favorites (3:00)

Morris Brothers – Walk on Holy Ground (MSM CD) Heart to Heart (2:43)

J. D. Jarvis – Take Your Shoes Off Moses (Jewel LP) Take Your Shoes Off Moses (2:23)

Frank Hutchison – Long Way to Tipperary (Tompkins Square CD) Bloody War [1/28/27.] (3:03)

Vernon Dalhart – In the Baggage Coach Ahead (Columbia 78) N/A [3/2/25.](3:16)

Kelly Harrell – New River Train (JSP CD) Worried Blues [6/8/26.] (3:22)

Stripling Brothers – Boatman’s Delight (Document CD) V. 2 [3/12/36.] (2:39)

Williamson Brothers & Curry – Gonna Die with a Hammer in My Hand (Document CD) Old-Time Music from West Virginia [4/26/27.] (3:22)

9:00
Sweet Potato Pie – Lift Me Up (Mountain Fever CD) Journey Called Life (4:28)

Rabbit Foot Old Time String Band – Muddycreek (self produced CD) Run Around and I’ll Smack You Down (2:25)

Jason & Pharis Romero – Walk Chalk Chicken with a Necktie On (Lula CD) Back Up and Push [With Karen Celia Heil.] (3:29)

Jim & Dave – Sunny Side of Life (Honeylamb CS) Early Country Duets v. 2 (2:56)

Bovee & Heil – I Ride an Old Paint (Jawbone CD) Come Over and See Me Sometime (3:08)

Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper – Johnny, My Love (Varese Sarabande CD) The Very Best (2:15)

Stairwell Sisters – Sleep When You’re Dead (Yodel-Ay-Hee CD) Feet All Over the Floor (3:19)

Dewey Brown – Play the Lonesome Sound (Dew Bug CD) Hard Times for a Fiddler (2:48)

9:30
Matt Brown – Burn Me Down (5-String Productions CD) Falls of Richmond (3:21)

Lonesome River Band – Molly (Rural Rhythm CD) No Turning Back (3:47)

Wade Mainer – Old Joe Clark (Old Homestead CD) From the Maple on the Hill (2:56)

Tommy Webb – Who Is That Knockin’ (Kindred CD) Eastern Kentucky (3:41)

Dellie Norton – Little Mohee (Duke University CD) Sodom Laurel Album (2:19)

Mayfield Brothers – Cotton Eyed Joe (Patuxent CD) Vintage Recordings (2:06)

Bobby Taylor – Three Forks of Sandy (Vigortone CD) Ragged Shirt (2:14)

James Alan Shelton – Where I’m Bound (Sheltone CD) Where I’m Bound (3:27)

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin – Gunboat/Old Time Backstep Cindy (self produced CD) Return (2:31)

Jim Nunally – Dark as the Night (FGM CD) Gloria’s Waltz (3:18)

Red State Ramblers – Mike in the Wilderness (Old 97 Wrecords CD) Commonwealth (2:04)