Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Playlist 2/7/2019


Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe 88.5fm HD-2 Bluegrass Country Radio

Crooked Jades ~ California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury  (1:21)
Mark Kuykendall & Bobby Hicks ~ Journey’s End (Rebel CD) Forever and a Day (2:56)
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road ~ Poor Monroe (Pinecastle CD) True Grass Again (2:37)
Hammertowne ~ Lights and Sirens (Mountain Fever CD) Hillbilly Heroes (3:08)
High Fidelity ~ He’s Passing This Way (Rebel CD) Hills and Home (3:09)
The Baker Family ~ Rise Up Lazarus (self-produced CD) Walking a Straight Path (2:20)

Shenandoah Valley Quartet ~ Are You Washed in the Blood (County LP) With Jim Eanes (2:11)
Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers ~ Happy in Prison (JSP CD) The Bristol Sessions C [Victor. 7/26/27.] (3:19)
Cartwright Brothers ~ Get Along Little Dogies (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 37 [Dallas, TX. 12/6/28.] (3:01)
Crockett’s Kentucky Mountaineers ~ Bile Dem Cabbage Down (Yazoo CD) Kentucky Mountain Music 6 [NY. Champion. 1-2/31.] (2:54)
New North Carolina Ramblers ~ May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister (Old Blue CD) A Tribute to Charlie Poole (3:26)

Empty Bottle String Band ~ Mississippi Sawyer (self-produced CD) Travellin’ Man (2:57)
Shad Cobb & Charlie Cushman ~ Susanna Gal (A Simple Life CD) Out of These Mountains (2:42)
Turning Ground ~ Barbed Wire and Roses (Bonfire CD) Old Country Store (2:05)
Joe Mullins ~ The Fiddle Man’s Delight (Rebel CD) The Story We Tell (3:17)
Bill Monroe ~ Last Old Dollar (Bear Family CD) Bluegrass 1959 1969 3 [1970.] (2:21)
Earls of Leicester ~ My Mother Prays So Loud in Her Sleep (Rounder CD) Live at the CMA Theater (3:37)

Brandon Rickman ~ By His Hands (Voxhall CD) Things Kids and Dogs Know (2:36)
The Bice Family ~ Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Jubilee CD) The Pine Breeze Recordings (1:42)
Riley Puckett ~ Nine Hundred Miles from Home (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 50 [Atlanta. 4/16/30.] (3:13)
Uncle Eck Dunford ~ What Will I Do When My Money Is All Gone (JSP CD) Serenade in the Mts. [Bristol. Victor. 7/27/27.] (3:21)
Dykes’ Magic City Trio ~ Shortening Bread (County CD) Old Time Music from SW Virginia [NY. Brunswick. 3/10/27.] (2:54)

Mark Tamsula & Richard Withers ~ Down the River (Snappin’ Bug CD) Behind the Door (2:31)
Galax Bogtrotters ~ Lovers Return (Dittyville CD) Old Time Jubilations (3:13)
Carlton Rawlings ~ Soldier’s Joy (FRC CD) Bath County, KY Fiddler (1:38)
Ray Edwards ~ The Life of a Mountain Man (CD) A Golden Anniversary Celebration (3:01)
Rudi Ekstein ~ All Night in Kentucky (Foxfire CD) Carolina Chimes (2:48)

Benny & Vallie Cain ~ Mary Dear (Rebel LP) More of Benny & Vallie Cain [12/74.] (4:44)
Dede Wyland ~ Things in Life (Patuxent CD) Urge for Going (2:50)
Forbes Family ~ When I’m Sleeping in the Grave (Rebel CD) Treasury v. 2 (4:13)
Louvin Brothers ~ They’ve Got the Church Outnumbered (Modern Harmonic LP) Love and Wealth (2:12)

Uncle Dave Macon ~ The Girl I Left behind Me (Bear Family CD) Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy [NY. Vocalion. 4/15/25.] (3:05)
Nelstone’s Hawaiians ~ You’ll Never Find a Daddy Like Me (JSP CD) Mountain Frolic [Memphis. Victor. 9/21/28.] (2:49)
Fruit Jar Guzzlers ~ Old Joe Clark (JSP CD) Paramount Old Time Recordings [Chicago. 3/28.] (3:01)
Alan Jabbour, Ken Perlman & Jim Watson ~ Casey Jones (self-produced CD) You Can’t Beat the Classics (3:42)
New Southern Ramblers ~ Chased Old Satan through the Door (Yodel-Ay-Hee CD) Old Time Mountain Music (2:19)

Mark Olitsky & Cary Moskovitz ~ Dull Chisel (self-produced CD) Duets (2:09)
Billy Droze ~ Lead Me (Rural Rhythm CD) To Whom It May Concern (4:38)
Paul Kovacs ~ Twenty-One Years (Yodel-Ay-Hee CD) Ohio Bluegrass (2:55)
Dave Evans ~ One Loaf of Bread (Rebel CD) Best in Bluegrass 3 [1981.] (4:50)

Norman Blake & Tony Rice ~ I’m Coming Back but I Can’t Say When (Rounder CD) Blake & Rice (2:43)
Ray & Ina Patterson ~ When the Light Has Gone Out in Your Soul (County LP) OT Ballads & Hymns v. 1 [1966.] (2:33)
Carol Elizabeth Jones & James Leva ~ Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah (June Appal CD) The Very Day I’m Gone (1:24)
Carter Family ~ You’ve Been Fooling Me Baby (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain 5 [Camden, NJ. Victor. 5/8/34.] (3:01)
Gene Clardy & Stan Clements ~ Sleeping Time Waltz (Document CD) Mississippi String Bands [Memphis. Vocalion. 2/18/30.] (3:01)

Grady Family ~ Carolina’s Best (Old Hat CD) In the Pines [Atlanta. Columbia. 12/6/30. Unknown.] (3:12)
John Hartford ~ Over the Road to Maysville (Rounder CD) Wild Hog in the Red Brush (4:13)
Reed Island Rounders ~ Durang’s Hornpipe/Walking in the Parlor (Burning Wolf CD) Hand Me Downs (3:00)
Foghorn Stringband ~ Lonesome Homesick Blues (self-produced CD) Rock Island Grange (2:33)

Costa Campbell Lloyd & Cline ~ Don’t Let the Blues Get You Down (Campbell Industries CD) Still Live Too (3:17)
Curtis McPeak & Andy May ~ Steel Drivin’ Man (Swift River CD) The Good Things Outweigh the Bad (3:33)
Cameron Knowler ~ Hog Island Cemetery (Bluehole CD) New & Old (3:29)
Ted Lundy ~ Blackberry Blossom (Old Blue CD) & the Southern Mountain Boys (2:12)
Jimmy Triplett ~ Untitled Tune from Lee Hammons (self-produced CD) Natural History (2:28)

Playlist 1/31/2019


Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe 88.5fm HD-2 Bluegrass Country Radio

Crooked Jades ~ California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury  (1:21)
Eddie Sanders ~ Oh Darlin’ (Englehart CD) Fast Train to Lonesome (2:59)
Blue Highway ~ She Ain’t Worth It (Rounder CD) Original Traditional (3:27)
Curly Seckler ~ What’s the Matter with You Darlin’ (Copper Creek CD) Bluegrass, Don’t You Know (2:13)
Kevin Prater Band ~ The Revelation (Patuxent CD) All I Ever Wanted (3:09)
Johnny & Jeanette Williams ~ Father’s Hand (self-produced CD) Thirty Years Later (3:41)

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver ~ There’s Fire down Yonder (Sugar Hill CD) There’s a Light Guiding Me (2:04)
Alfred G. Carnes ~ To the Work (JSP CD) Mountain Gospel [Bristol, TN. Victor. 7/29/27.] (2:57)
Burnett & Rutherford ~ Billy in the Low Ground (Yazoo CD) Kentucky Mountain Music 3 [Atlanta. Columbia. 11/3/27.] (3:14)
Uncle Dave Macon ~ Over the Road I’m Bond to Go (County CD) Nashville v. 2 [Chicago. Brunswick. 7/25/28.] (3:02)
Trish Kilby Fore ~ June Apple (self-produced CD) Clawhammer Banjo Blue Ridge Style (2:46)

Mike Bryant & Paul Brown ~ Brushy Fork of John’s Creek (Tiki Parlour CD) With Marcia Bryant & Terri McMurray (2:50)
Old-Time Snake Milkers & Hoot and Holler ~ John Hardy (self-produced CD) Milkers and Hollers (3:27)
Mickey Galyean & Cullen’s Bridge ~ No Candy in My Bluegrass (Rebel CD) Songs from the Blue Ridge (2:42)
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen ~ Lena (Compass CD) If You Can’t Stand the Heat (2:36)
Lonesome Pine Fiddlers ~ Lonesome Pine (Gusto CD) Bluegrass Collection (3:05)

Charlie Moore ~ Listen to My Hammer Ring (Old Homestead LP) The Fiddler [1973.] (3:30)
Lilly Brothers ~ I’ll Live On (County LP) What Will I Leave Behind (2:14)
Early Upchurch ~ I Know My Lord (FRC CD) Gospel Voice of Mt. Airy, NC (2:11)
Billy Vest ~ Message from Home (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 53 [“Strolling Yodeler.” NY. 9/19/30.] (3:18)
Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris ~ Starting Life Anew with You (Bluebird 78) N/A [Charlotte, NC. Bluebird. 2/16/37.] (2:31)

Reed Children ~ I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight (Bear Family CD) Johnson City Sessions 2 [Columbia. 10/17/28. Bill & Belle ?] (2:59)
Bob Holt ~ Step Up Susie (FRC CD) Dance Fiddling from the Missouri Ozarks [1993. Jim Nelson.] (3:13)
Sky Island Stringband ~ Other Side of Beaver (Bemlar CD) Adventures in Old Cranberry (2:14)
Victor Furtado ~ Branches and Vines (Patuxent CD) Dellorto Island (4:35)

Lonely Heartstring Band ~ Only Fallen Down (Rounder CD) Smoke & Ashes (3:49)
Jeff White ~ Wise County Jail (self-produced CD) Right beside You (2:55)
Brad Hudson ~ Trucker’s Blues (Pinecastle CD) Next New Heartbreak (2:14)
Chuck Wagon Gang ~ In the Garden (Bear Family CD) Complete Recordings [Dallas, TX. Columbia. 4/16/54.] (2:28)
Blue Ridge Quartet ~ Hold On Brother (Krazy Kat LP) White Gospel (2:59)

Frank Newsome ~ Far Away There Is a Land (Free Dirt CD) Gone Away with a Friend (3:52)
Carter Family ~ Lonesome Valley (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow 7 [NY. ARC. 5/8/35.] (2:59)
Jack Jackson ~ In Our Little Home Sweet Home (Bear Family CD) Johnson City Sessions 3 [Columbia. 10/21/29.] (3:15)
Walter Family ~ That’s My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It (Yazoo CD) Kentucky Mountain Music 1 [Richmond, IN. Champion. 3/29/33.] (3:38)

Walt Koken ~ Down South Blues (Mudthumper CD) Sittin’ in the Catbird’s Seat (3:02)
The Monks ~ Brandywine (Yodel-Ay-Hee CD) Let Us Play (3:30)
Bobby Taylor ~ Arkansas Traveler (Heritage CD) Pickin’ in the Parlor (3:02)
Roland White Band ~ Powder Creek (self-produced CD) Straight Ahead Bluegrass (3:08)
Hank, Pattie & the Current ~ If You Knew My Story (self-produced CD) Live (3:46)

Sideline ~ Memories that We Shared (Mountain Fever CD) Front and Center (3:28)
Balsam Range ~ Help Me to Hold On (Mountain Home CD) Aeonic (3:20)
Stanley Brothers ~ Amazing Grace (Rimrock LP) A Beautiful Life (2:27)
Washington Phillips ~ Lift Him Up That’s All (Yazoo CD) I Am Born to Preach the Gospel [Dallas. Columbia. 12/2/27.] (3:30)
Phil Reeve & Ernest Moody ~ Rock All Our Babies to Sleep (Document CD) Vol. 2 Bill Wishes… [Charlotte, NC. Victor. 8/10/27.] (2:56)

Byrd Moore & His Hot Shots ~ Frankie Silvers (Bear Family CD) Johnson City Sessions 4 [Columbia. 10/23/29.] (3:19)
Luther Strong ~ The Hog Went through the Fence Yoke and All (Yazoo CD) Music of Kentucky 2 [Alan & E. Lomax. 1937.] (1:40)
Fred McBride ~ Johnson Boys (FRC CD) North Carolina Fiddle & Banjo (2:19)
Benton Flippen & the Smokey Valley Boys ~ Let Me Fall (5-String Production CD) An Evening at WPAQ, 1984 (3:18)
Rafe Stefanini & David Bragger ~ Shipping Port (Tiki Parlour CD) Holy Smoke! (3:09)

Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson ~ Wilkes County Breakdown (Pinecastle CD) The Mandolin Chronicles (3:11)
Tessa Dillon ~ Forked Deer (self-produced CD) It’s Hard to Love (3:18)
Mountain Faith ~ Don’t Get above Your Raisin’ (Mountain Fever CD) Blue (2:21)
Red Allen & Frank Wakefield ~ Little Birdie (Rebel CD) Best in Bluegrass 1 [1963.] (2:33)

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Playlist 1/24/2019


Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe 88.5fm HD-2 Bluegrass Country Radio

Crooked Jades ~ California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury  (1:21)
Windy Hill ~ You’ll Never Know (self-produced CD) Live from the Ratz Nest (2:03)
Amanda Cook ~ Til I’m Too Old (Mountain Fever CD) Deep Water (3:16)
Barrier Brothers ~ My Little Georgia Rose (BACM CD) Bluegrass Classics (2:26)
Hot Rize ~ I Am the Road (Ten in Hand CD) 40th Anniversary Bash (3:26)
Allegheny Drifters ~ Life’s Lessons Learned (self-produced CD) Rolling On (2:49)

Calabogie Road ~ Cryin’ Holy unto the Lord (Patchwork CD) On the Gospel Trail (3:12)
Dalhart’s Texas Panhandlers ~ Death of Floyd Collins (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 6 [NY. 2/16/26.] (3:19)
Jimmy Johnson’s String Band ~ Old Blind Dog (Yazoo CD) Kentucky Mountain Music 4 [Richmond, In. Champion. 8/22/32.] (2:53)
Ken Maynard ~ Fannie Moore (Yazoo CD) Times Ain’t Like They Used to Be 1 [Hollywood, CA. Columbia. 4/14/30. Unissued.] (3:34)
Double Decker Stringband ~ Boatin’ up the Sandy (Marimac CS) For an Old Time Call… [1990.] (2:22)

The Barn Owls ~ Horses in the Canebreak (self-produced CD) Horses in the Canbreak (2:26)
Steam Machine ~ Kitty Puss (self-produced CD) Steam Machine (2:11)
Big Country Bluegrass ~ Blue River (Rebel CD) Country Livin’ (3:06)
Mile Twelve ~ Wickwire (Delores the Taurus CD) Onwards (3:29)
Monroe Fields ~ Poor Me (Patuxent CD) 1950s 60s Broadcasts [With Carl Sauceman & the Green Valley Boys.] (2:47)
Borrowed Tyme Band ~ Sara (Bonfire CD) Borrowed Time (3:16)

Three 4 Hymn ~ Jesus Take a Hold (Copper Moon CD) Jesus Take a Hold (2:00)
Carl Story ~ Reunion in Heaven (Bear Family CD) Lonesome Hearted Blues [Nashville. Columbia. 3/11/55.] (2:48)
Bush Brothers ~ Called Home (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 33 [New Orleans. 10/27/27.] (3:00)
Allen Sisson ~ Sally Brown Jig (Document CD) Country Music Pioneers on Edison [East Orange, NJ. Edison. 2/26/25.]3:39)

Carter Brothers & Son ~ Leather Breeches (Document CD) Mississippi String Bands 1 [Memphis, TN. Vocalion. 11/22/28.] (2:39)
Gerry & Jesse Milnes with Emily Miller ~ Cherry River Rag (self-produced CD) Cherry River Rag (1:42)
The Traynham Family ~ Merry Mountain Hoedown (Southern Mountain Melodies CD) Merry Mountain Hoedown (2:47)
Norman Blake ~ Grady Forester’s Store and Cotton Gin (Plectrafone CD) Wood, Wire & Words (5:00)
Chris Roberts ~ Boeing Boeing 707 (E-Pro CD) Boeing Boeing 707 (3:41)

Blue Mafia ~ I Didn’t See It Coming (Pinecastle CD) Pray for Rain (3:14)
Huey Priest ~ Freight Train (MTR CD) Thanks for the Guitar (1:50)
By Grace ~ Let Me Tell You about Jesus (Eastwood CD) Let Me Tell You about Jesus (2:53)
Chris Coole ~ A Beautiful Life (Northern CD) The Tumbling River (3:13)
The Christian Quartet ~ Sunday Morning Singing (Heritage LP) Sing a Song for Jesus (3:34)

Fa So La Singers ~ Happy on the Way (County CD) Religion Is a Fortune [Atlanta. Columbia.  10/23/31.] (3:04)
Gid Tanner, Clayton McMichen, Riley Puckett, Lowe Stokes & Fate Norris ~ Possum Hunt on Stump House Mountain (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 27 [Atlanta. 4/13/28.] (6:07)
Howard & Peak ~ Three Black Sheep (Yazoo CD) Kentucky Mountain Music 5 [Bristol, TN. Victor. 10/30/28.] (3:28)
Cyril Stinnett ~ Dick Sand’s Hornpipe (MSOTFA CS) Grey Eagle in C (1:55)

Booger Holler String Band ~ Duck River (self-produced CD) Where the Pavement Ends (2:48)
The Whitetop Mountaineers ~ Home Is Where the Fiddle Rings (High Country CD) Go Away with Me (3:03)
The Boxcars ~ Old Hollow Tree (Mountain Home CD) All In (2:38)
Dave Adkins ~ Roll Little River (Mountain Fever CD) Right or Wrong (2:00)
Herschel Sizemore ~ Someday when You’re Lonely (Hay Holler CD) Back in Business (2:53)

Cumberland River ~ Miner’s Prayer (Rural Rhythm CD) The Life We Live (3:30)
Tom Mindte & Mason Via ~ Looking for the Stone (Patuxent CD) Tom Mindte & Mason Via (2:38)
Kristy Cox ~ I Still Pray (Mountain Fever CD) Ricochet (3:32)
The Carter Family ~ There’s Someone Awaiting for Me (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow of Clinch Mt [Memphis. Victor. 5/24/30.] (3:11)
Wonder State Harmonists ~ My Castle on the Nile (Dust to Digital CD) Arkansas at 78 RPM [Memphis. Vocalion. 11/23/28.] (2:26)

Narmour & Smith ~ Heel and Toe (Document CD) v. 1 [Memphis. Okeh. 2/15/28.] (2:54)
W. L. Gregory & Clyde Davenport ~ Are You Happy or Lonesome (Davis Unlimited LP) Monticello: Tough Mountain Music (1:27)
Sutton, Holt & Coleman ~ Cindy (High Windy CD) Ready for the Times (2:33)
Five Mile Mountain Road ~ Miss McLeod’s Reel (Patuxent CD) Five Mile Mountain Road (3:17)
Ron Block ~ You Are My Sunshine (self-produced CD) Hogan’s House of Music (3:28)

Pharis & Jason Romero ~ Old September (Lula CD) A Wanderer I’ll Stay (3:47)
Wood Belly ~ Solid Ground (self-produced CD) Solid Ground (4:03)
Nathan Salsburg ~ Impossible Air (No Quarter CD) Third (4:48)

Friday, January 18, 2019

Playlist 1/17/2019


Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe 88.5fm HD-2 Bluegrass Country Radio

Crooked Jades ~ California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury (1:21)
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen ~ Crooked Eye John (Compass CD) If You Can’t Stand the Heat (4:19)
Turning Ground ~ The Lonesome River (Bonfire CD) Old Country Store (3:43)
Tony Rice ~ Dark as a Dungeon (Rebel CD) Best in Bluegrass 2 [1974.] (3:59)
Louvin Brothers ~ I Love God’s Way of Living (Bear Family CD) Close Harmony [Capitol. 3/23/53.] (2:56)

The Chuck Wagon Gang ~ Kneel at the Cross (Bear Family CD) Complete Recordings [San Antonio, TX. Columbia. 11/25/36.] (2:38)
The Blue Sky Boys ~ Songbook Pitch/Turn Your Radio On (Patuxent CD) Radio Broadcasts [NY. WGST. 12/18/47.] (3:48)
McVay & Johnson ~ Ain’t Going to Lay My Armor Down (Yazoo CD) Kentucky Mountain Music 3 [Johnson City, TN. Columbia. 10/17/28.] (3:10)
Reaves White County Ramblers ~ Ten Cent Piece (County CD) Echoes of the Ozarks 2 [Chicago. Vocalion. 4/27/28.] (3:02)
Leo Boswell ~ Two Little Girls in Blue (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 26 [Atlanta. 4/14/28.] (2:37)

Lyman Enloe ~ Rugged Road (MSOTFA CS) Rugged Road (2:06)
Spencer & Rains ~ I Truly Understand (Tiki Parlour CD) The Skeleton Keys (4:17)
The Crooked Jades ~ Featherbed (Jade Note CD) Empathy Moves the Water (2:35)
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road ~ Run Little Fox (Pinecastle CD) True Grass Again (2:42)
Sideline ~ Their Hands Made the Music (Mountain Home CD) Come See about Me (4:07)

Jeff White ~ Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow (self-produced CD) Right beside You (2:42)
Bradley Walker ~ Henry Clayton Parker (Billy Blue CD) Gonna Sing Gonna Shout (2:48)
The Baker Family ~ Preachin’ Prayin’ Singin’ (self-produced CD) Walking a Straight Path (2:23)
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver ~ Since Jesus Came into My Heart (Sugar Hill CD) There’s a Light Guiding Me (2:05)
Roy Harper & Earl Shirkey ~ The Cowboy’s Lullaby (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 42 [ NY. 3/26/29.] (3:07)

Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles ~ Sleepy Desert (Yazoo CD) Times Ain’t Like They Used to Be 3 [NY. Paramount. c. 10/29.] (3:00)
J. W. Day ~ Little Boy Working on the Road (Yazoo CD) Kentucky Mountain Music 7 [NY. Victor. 2/27/28. (3:10)
Lonesome Ace Stringband ~ Cherry River Line/Gauley Junction (self-produced CD) Old-Time (4:32)
Buckhannon Brothers ~ Shamus O’Brian (self-produced CD) Little River Stomp (2:35)

Evie Ladin ~ Polly Put the Kettle On (Evil Diane CD) Riding the Rooster [With David Bass.] (2:47)
Dreamcatcher ~ Girl with the Sparkling Eyes (Hat Creek CD) Dreamcatcher (2:54)
Brandon Lee Adams ~ Yesterday Is Gone (Tritium CD) Time That I Was Leavin’ (2:40)
Jeff Autry ~ Round the Horn (Pinecastle CD) Foothills (3:41)
Mike Mitchell ~ The Plan (FMS CD) Small Town (3:40)

Daniel Crabtree ~ Where Jesus Is (self-produced CD) In the Shadow of His Wings (3:22)
Early Upchurch ~ Deliverance Will Come (FRC CD) Gospel Voice of Mt. Airy, NC (3:24)
Carter Family ~ The Lover’s Farewell (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow 2 [Memphis. Victor. 11/25/29.] (3:26)
Vernon Dalhart ~ An Old Fashioned Picture (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 9 [NY. 9/23/26.] (3:07)
Cecil “Rowdy” Rowdy Wright ~ I’m a Jolly Cowboy (Yazoo CD) When I Was a Cowboy 2 [Hot Springs, AR. Conqueror. 3/9/37.] (2:43)

Frank Reed ~ Knoxville Rag (self-produced LP) Old Tyme Fiddlin’ [1976.] (1:56)
Kevin Fore ~ Susannah Gal (Round Peak Banjos CD) Frolic in Round Peak (2:11)
Stuart Brothers ~ New Five Cents (Tiki Parlour CD) The Stuart Brothers (2:40)
Eddie Sanders ~ A Train Can Run Two Ways (Englehart Music CD) Fast Train to Lonesome (3:18)
Dede Wyland ~ Could You Love Me One More Time (Patuxent CD) Urge for Going (3:06)

John Cowan ~ Some Old Day (Smithsonian Folkways CD) Epilogue (2:43)
The King James Boys ~ Was Nots (Pinecastle CD) Time to Go Home (2:23)
The Family Sowell ~ Speak Love (self-produced CD) From Texas to Tennessee (2:56)
The Morris Brothers ~ Heaven at Journey’s End (self-produced CD) Ridin’ the Gospel Rail (3:02)
Cal Davenport & His Gang ~ Broken Hearted Lover (BACM CD) The Vocalion Label [Knoxville, TN. 8/31/29.] (2:41)

Charlie Parker ~ Rabbit Chase (Columbia CD) Columbia 15000 v. 14 [Atlanta. 4/6/27.] (3:04)
Lewis Brothers ~ Caliope (JSP CD) Texas Hillbillies C [El Paso, TX. Victor. 7/11/29.] (2:45)
Dan Gellert ~ Reuben (Tiki Parlour CD) Old Time Tiki Parlour Presents Dan Gellert (2:30)
Jason Cade & Rob McMaken ~ Cumberland Gap (Tiki Parlour CD) Hog-Eyed Man (2:17)
Bill Martin ~ Cannonball Blues (self-produced CD) Gathered (3:32)

Blue Highway ~ A Long Row to Hoe (Rounder CD) Original Traditional (3:07)
Canote Brothers ~ Old Mimosa Split (Clone Tone CD) Uke Snack (1:53)
Hammertowne ~ A Day in the Life of the One I Left Behind (Mountain Fever CD) Hillbilly Heroes (3:27)
The Ale Raisers ~ Bonaparte’s Retreat (self-produced CD) Ale Broke Loose in Georgia (2:39)

Friday, January 4, 2019

Playlist 1/10/2019


Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe 88.5fm HD-2 Bluegrass Country Radio

Crooked Jades ~ California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury  (1:21)
Chad Darou ~ Heaven (Bell Buckle CD) Raising the Bar (4:10)
Breaking Grass ~ All Part of Loving You (Mountain Fever CD) Just as Strong (2:37)
Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys ~ Ryestraw (Old Blue CD) Ted Lundy (2:48)
Brandon Rickman ~ It’s Easy as Sin (Voxhall CD) Things Kids & Dogs Know (2:17)
High Fidelity ~ My Mother’s White Rose (Rebel CD) Hills and Home (2:20)

Bailes Brothers ~ I’ll Have a New Life (Old Homestead LP) Family Reunion (2:40)
Classic City Quartet ~ Hold Thou to Me (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 50 [Atlanta. 11/6/29.] (2:57)
Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers ~ Cincinnati Breakdown (JSP CD) Clarence Ashley A [NY. Banner. 12/1/31.] (2:46)
Red Brush Rowdies ~ Harbor of Home Sweet Home (JSP CD) Paramount Old Time Recordings [Chicago. c. 8-9/28.] (2:56)
Major Contay & the Canebrake Rattlers ~ Nine O’Clock Breakdown (Marimac CS) When the Yankees Came Down [Newton Co. H. (4:13)

New North Carolina Ramblers ~ Bill Mason (Old Blue CD) A Tribute to Charlie Poole (2:45)
Sky Island Stringband ~ The Green Fields of America (Bemlar CD) Adventures in Old Cranberry (2:42)
Curtis McPeake & Andy May ~ Grampa’s Mule (Swift River CD) The Good Things Outweigh the Bad (2:38)
Danny Barnes ~ Eight More Miles to Louisville (Wendell World CD) Stove Up (2:40)
Mike Mitchell ~ Footprints in the Snow (self-produced CD) Dead Center (3:00)

The Farm Hands ~ Still the Solid Rock (Pinecastle CD) Good Things (2:41)
Ray & Ina Patterson ~ Take Me in the Lifeboat (County LP) Old Time Ballads & Hymns v. 1 (2:11)
Washington Phillips ~ Denomination Blues (Yazoo CD) I Am Born to Preach the Gospel [Dallas. Columbia. 12/5/27.] (5:37)
Leake County Revelers ~ I’m Gwine back to Dixie (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 37 [Atlanta. 4/16/29.] (2:55)
Buell Kazee ~ Short Life of Trouble (Yazoo CD) Kentucky Mountain Music 6 [NY. Brunswick. 1/17/28. Unissued.] (2:53)

Moatsville String Ticklers ~ Moatsville Blues (Bear Family CD) Johnson City Sessions 3 [10/22/29.] (2:54)
Galax Bogtrotters ~ Pretty Little Widder (Dittyville CD) Old Time Jubilations (2:07)
Aarun Carter & Johnathan Trawick ~ Arcandsaw Traveler (Deep End Sessions CD) Volume 1 (1:44)
Mark Olitsky & Cary Moskovitz ~ Hand Me Down My Walking Cane (self-produced CD) Duets (3:58)
Feinberg Brothers ~ The Angry Wife (Cabinwood CD) Party for One (2:30)

Grascals ~ Pathway of Teardrops (Mountain Home CD) After Breakfast (3:14)
Sister Sadie ~ I’m Not a Candle in the Wind (Pinecastle CD) Sister Sadie II (3:41)
Billy Droze ~ Home in Hell (Rural Rhythm CD) To Whom It May Concern (3:47)
Bluestone ~ We Shall Meet Someday (Patuxent CD) What Goes On (2:44)

Lilly Brothers ~ Will You Meet Me over Yonder (County LP) What Will I Leave Behind [3/73.] (2:30)
Fred Richards ~ My Katie (Bear Family CD) Johnson City Sessions 4 [10/23/29.] (2:53)
Charlie Poole & the NC Ramblers ~ Look before You Leap (Columbia 78) Columbia 15000 v. 53 [NY. 9/9/30.] (2:46)
Nelstone’s Hawaiians ~ North Bound Train (JSP CD) Mountain Frolic A [Memphis. Victor. 9/21/28.] (3:14)
John Morgan Salyer ~ Gilda Roy (Home Recording) 1941-1942 v. 1 (2:45)

Bing Brothers Band ~ Waynesboro (self-produced CD) Live from Pocahantas Co., WV (2:29)
Tessa Dillon ~ Wagoner One Step (self-produced CD) It’s Hard to Love (3:27)
Boxcars ~ Brown Hill (Mountain Home CD) Familiar with the Ground (2:23)
Michael & Jennifer McLain ~ Restless (Big Pick CD) Hit the Road and Go (3:14)

Jakob’s Ferry Stragglers ~ White Lightening Road (self-produced CD) White Lightning Road (4:54)
Mickey Galyean & Cullen’s Bridge ~ You Can Go to Heaven (Rebel CD) Songs from the Blue Ridge (2:44)
Frank Newsome ~ City that Lies Four Square (Free Dirt CD) Gone Away with a Friend (4:27)
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard ~ No Telephone in Heaven (Free Dirt CD) Sing Me Back Home (2:39)

Carter Family ~ Diamonds in the Rough (Sphere CD) The Carter Family (4:02)
Emry Arthur ~ Reuben Oh Reuben (County CD) Old-Time Music from Southwest Virginia [Grafton, WI. Paramount. C. 10-11/29. (2:59)
Georgia Yellow Hammers ~ My Carolina Girl (Document CD) Vol. 2 Bill Wishes He Was Single Again [Charlotte, NC. Victor. 8/10/27.] (2:57)
Charlie Bowman & His Brothers ~ Roll On Buddy (Bear Family CD) Johnson City Sessions 2 [10/16/28.] (3:17)
Reed Island Rounders ~ William Riley (Whoop It Up! CD) Hand Me Downs (2:11)

Rafe Stefanini & David Bragger ~ Nitches over the Hill (Tiki Parlour CD) Holy Smoke! (3:15)
Down Hill Strugglers ~ Come over and See Me Sometime (Jalopy CD) Lone Prairie (2:50)
Mark Houser & Bluegrass Drive ~ Reasons Why (Rural Rhythm CD) Uneven Road (2:32)
Foghorn Stringband ~ The Violet and the Rose (self-produced CD) Rock Island Grange (3:15)
Earls of Leicester ~ Flint Hill Special (Rounder CD) Live at the CMA Theater (2:47)

Playlist 1/3/2019


Bluegrass, Etc. Frank Hoppe 88.5fm HD-2 Bluegrass Country Radio

Crooked Jades ~ California Blues (Copper Creek CD) The Unfortunate Rake v. 2 Yellow Mercury  (1:21)
Terry Baucom’s Dukes of Drive ~ The Girl I Left behind Me (JohnBoy & Billy CD) Catch Another Dream (2:56)
Johnny Williams ~ Dust in the Wind (Mountain Roads CD) Going My Way (2:53)
Roland White Band ~ Sally Ann (self-produced CD) Straight Ahead Bluegrass (2:35)
Forbes Family ~ Things I Used to Do (Rebel CD) A Forbes Family Treasury 2 [Previously unreleased.] (2:37)
Shenandoah Valley Quartet ~ I’ll Fly Away (County LP) With Jim Eanes [NY. 3/70.] (2:23)

Chuck Wagon Gang ~ In My New Home (Bear Family CD) Complete 5 [Dallas, TX. Columbia. 4/16/54.] (2:17)
Alfred G. Karnes ~ When They Ring the Golden Bells (JSP CD) Mountain Gospel [Bristol, TN. Victor. 7/29/27.] (3:03)
John Hammond ~ My Mama Always Talked to Me (Yazoo CD) The Music of Kentucky 2 [Richmond, IN. Gennett. 9/17/27.] (2:31)
Uncle Dave Macon ~ I Tickled Nancy (Bear Family CD) Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy [NY. Vocalion. 4/14/25.] (3:05)
Benton Flippen & the Smokey Valley Boys ~ Sail Away Ladies (5 String Productions CD) An Evening at WPAQ, 1984 (2:11)

New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters ~ Hop Light Ladies (Heritage CD) New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters (2:15)
Mark Tamsula & Richard Withers ~ Jim Harbst’s Tune/The Soap Fat Man (Snappin’ Bug CD) Behind the Door (3:06)
Deeper Shade of Blue ~ Most of All (Mountain Fever CD) Steam (2:45)
Kevin Prater Band ~ I’m Always Walking in the Rain (Patuxent CD) All I Ever Wanted (2:20)
Rudi Ekstein ~ Indian Rain (Foxfire CD) Carolina Chimes (3:21)
ClayBank ~ I’ll Wear a White Robe (Mountain Fever CD) No Escape (2:39)

Country Gentlemen ~ Where Could I Go (Rebel LP) Calling My Children Home (3:48)
Carl Story ~ Don’t You Hear Jerusalem Mourn (Bear Family CD) Lonesome Hearted Blues [Nashville. Columbia. 3/11/55.] (2:08)
Paul Miles & the Red Fox Chasers ~ Twinkle Little Star (Tompkins Square CD) I’m Going Down [Richmond, IN. Gennett. 6/28/28.] (2:58)
Mumford Bean & His Itawambians ~ Slow Time Waltz (Document CD) Mississippi String Bands 2 [Memphis. Okeh. 2/17/28.] (2:57)
Pipers Gap Ramblers ~ Yankee Doodle (JSP CD) Serenade in the Mountains [Winston-Salem, NC. Okeh. 9/26/27.] (3:01)

Paul Brown ~ Old Corn Liquor (Tiki Parlour CD) Paul Brown (2:07)
Jimmy Triplett ~ Cranberry Rock (self-produced CD) Natural History (3:35)
Victor Furtado ~ Elzic’s Farewell (Patuxent CD) Dellorto Island (5:14)
Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers ~ If I’d Have Wrote That Song (Rebel CD) The Story We Tell (3:16)

Becky Buller ~ The Rebel and the Rose (Dark Shadow CD) Crepe Paper Heart (3:55)
Shannon Slaughter ~ Find Your Own Highway (Elite Circuit CD) Never Standing Still (3:05)
Larry Cordle ~ Anything Worth Doing (MightyCord CD) Tales from East Kentucky (3:04)
Stanley Brothers ~ Farther Along (Rimrock LP) A Beautiful Life [1960.] (3:06)
Charley Bailey & The Happy Valley Boys ~ Where the Soul Never Dies (Old Homestead LP) Everlasting Joy (1:17)

Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers ~ Jesus Is Getting Us Ready for That Great Day (JSP CD) The Bristol Sessions C [7/26/28.] (3:16)
Blankenship Family ~ Working on the Railroad (Old Hat CD) In the Pines [Charlotte, NC. Victor. 5/29/31.] (2:41)
Crook Brothers String Band ~ Going across the Sea (County CD) Nashville String Bands 2 [Nashville. Victor. 10/5/28.] (2:53)
Trish Kilby Fore ~ June Apple (self-produced CD) Clawhammer Banjo Blue Ridge Style (2:46)
Dave Bing & Ben Townsend ~ All Young (Questionable CD) The Tri State Duets (2:20)

Bucking Mules ~ Altamont (Free Dirt CD) Smoke behind the Clouds [From Ben Townsend & Oscar Overturf.] (2:28)
Aaron Williams ~ Buffalo Gals (Farm Boy CD) Inside (2:58)
Daughters of Bluegrass ~ Your Memory Followed Me Home (Blue Circle CD) Bluegrass Bouquet [Mindy Rakestraw.] (2:45)
Russell Johnson ~ When Love Comes to Town (New Time CD) Anytime Anyplace but Only You (3:24)
Casey Campbell ~ Cedar Hill (self-produced CD) Mandolin Duets v. 1 [With David Grisman.] (3:02)

Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb ~ I Am Just a Pilgrim (Billy Blue CD) Appalachian Road Show (3:17)
Blue Sky Boys ~ Where Shall I Be (Patuxent CD) Radio Broadcasts 2 [WGST, Atlanta.] (2:00)
Carter Family ~ There’s No One Like Mother to Me (Bear Family CD) In the Shadow 8 [NY. Decca. 6/8/36.] (2:55)
Jimmy Johnson’s String Band ~ Shipping Port (Yazoo CD) Kentucky Mountain Music 1 [Richmond, IN. Champion. 8/22/32.] (2:48)
Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers ~ Laughing Rufus (JSP CD) Country Fiddle A [Atlanta. Okeh. 8/9/28.] (2:56)

Alan Jabbour, Ken Perlman & Jim Watson ~ Newcastle (self-produced CD) You Can’t Beat the Classics (2:56)
Empty Bottle String Band ~ Duck River (self-produced CD) Travelin’ Man (3:08)
David Davis & the Warrior River Boys ~ Goodbye Mary Dear (Rounder CD) Didn’t He Ramble (3:19)
Back Step Cindy ~ Shelvin’ Rock (Red Bird CD) Don’t You Remember the Time (2:22)
Mike Barnett ~ Mom & Dad’s Waltz (Compass CD) Portraits in Fiddles [With Stuart Duncan.] (4:16)

Christian Wig ~ Old Skeddadelink (self-produced CD) Constancy (2:23)
Lyman Enloe ~ Tom and Jerry (County CD) Fiddle Tunes I Recall (1:55)
Flying Jenny ~ What’ll I Do with the Baby-O (Whoop It Up! CD) I Ain’t Gonna Grieve My Mind Anymore (2:43)
Lonesome Pine Fiddlers ~ Lost Girl (Gusto CD) Starday Collection (1:48)