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"Close Up The Honky Tonks" with mark (archive)

(bluegrassy oldtimey episode)
Saturday, April 4, 2015 | 12:00 to 14:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Marc Pruett Band Cacklin' Hen (VA) Unbroken Tradition: Music from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area NC Arts Council
Hazel & Alice Tomorrow I'll Be Gone Hazel & Alice Rounder Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard - 1973
Hazel & Alice Don't Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There Hazel & Alice Rounder great old LP from the glory days of Rounder
Hazel & Alice Gallop To Kansas Hazel & Alice Rounder
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Ridin' That Midnight Train Bluegrass Rules! Rounder 1997
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Get Up John Bluegrass Rules! Rounder
Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys I'll Got Steppin' Too (VA) Can't You Hear Me Callin' - Bluegrass: 80 Years of American Music Legacy
Adcock Family Hoppin' The Frets (VA) Fonotone Records, Frederick Maryland Dust-To-Digital talkset music
* Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman & the Green Valley Boys On My Mind 1950s-60s Broadcasts Patuxent MF played w/ everyone from Monroe to Flat & Scruggs to Jimmy Martin and Charlie Louvin. But he got his start w/ Carl Sauceman
Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman & the Green Valley Boys Hillbilly Fever 1950s-60s Broadcasts Patuxent
Bill Monroe Sugar Coated Love The Music of Bill Monroe from 1936-1994 MCA
Bill Monroe Big Mon The Music of Bill Monroe from 1936-1994 MCA
Bill Monroe I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome The Music of Bill Monroe from 1936-1994 MCA
Curly Seckler Why Did You Wander Bluegrass, Don't You Know Copper Creek native of China Grove, NC http://www.curlyseckler.net
Dailey & Vincent Sweet Carrie (VA) Bluegrass Number One Hits Rounder 2008 turbo pickin'. awesome.
Black Twig Pickers & Steve Gunn Sweet Little Julie Lonesome Valley 7" Thrill Jockey talkset music
James Roberts John Henry (VA) Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina & Virginia Smithsonian Folkways crucial comp
Tennessee Ramblers The Preacher Got Drunk and Laid Down His Bible (VA) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music, 1923-1936 Tompkins Square y'all listeners who like old music gotta check out http://www.tompkinssquare.com
Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks Poor Ellen Smith (VA) Can't You Hear Me Callin' - Bluegrass: 80 Years of American Music Legacy
Jimmy Martin Losing You Don't Cry To Me Thrill Jockey Big kudos to Thrill Jockey for putting out this career retrospective
Jimmy Martin Sophronie Don't Cry To Me Thrill Jockey live recording of one of my favorite bluegrass songs, 1960
Bill Monroe Pike County Breakdown The Music of Bill Monroe from 1936-1994 MCA talkset music
Bob Larkin & Family McLeod's Reel (VA) Arkansas at 78RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Dust-to-Digital y'all listeners who like old music gotta check out https://www.dust-digital.com
L.O. Birkhead & R.M. Lane Robinson County (VA) Arkansas at 78RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Dust-to-Digital
Sam McGee Chevrolet Car (VA) Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows Old Hat y'all listeners who like old music gotta check out http://www.oldhatrecords.com
Chris Bouchillon Born In Hard Luck (VA) Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows Old Hat
Lonnie Glosson Arkansas Hard Luck Blues (VA) Arkansas at 78RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Dust-to-Digital
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West Weathervane Waltz The Holy Coming Of The Storm self-released talkset
J.D. Crowe & The New South Cryin' Holy (VA) Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs of the Century New Haven
Stanley Brothers Angel Band (VA) Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs of the Century New Haven
Lena Hughes Pearly Dew Queen of the Flat Top Guitar Tompkins Square
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West Green Pastures I'll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands self-released
Guitar Rascals Short String Strut (VA) Fonotone Records, Frederick Maryland Dust-to-Digital
The New Lost City Ramblers When First Unto This Country Where Did You Come From? Where Did You Go? Smithsonian Folkways originally on their 2nd LP, 1960. This is a CD set celebrating 50 years of NLCR. It's excellent.
The New Lost City Ramblers Bowling Green Where Did You Come From? Where Did You Go? Smithsonian Folkways recorded live at The Ash Grove (R.I.P.) in Hollywood, 1967. Cynthia May "Cousin Emmy" Carver guests on banjo and vocal
J.D. Crowe Black Jack Bluegrass Holiday Rebel talkset music
Maddox Brothers & Rose New Mule Skinner Blues (VA) 2010 Oxford American Southern Music CD Oxford American
Bill Bailey & Frank Stuart Cripple Creek (VA) Fonotone Records, Frederick Maryland Dust-to-Digital
The Louvin Brothers I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of The Louvin Brothers Razor & Tie
Chris Thile & Michael Daves If I Should Wander Back Tonight Sleep With One Eye Open Nonesuch Thile on mandolin, Daves on guitar - both virtuoso! And great harmony vocals.
Chris Thile & Michael Daves Billy In The Lowground Sleep With One Eye Open Nonesuch talkset music
Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers 20/20 Vision (VA) Can't You Hear Me Callin' - Bluegrass: 80 Years of American Music Legacy
Del McCoury Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms I Wonder Where You Are Tonight? Arhoolie