Bluegrass Master Class
August 2, 2009
Rebroadcast On: 08/09/2009
Banks of the Ohio #74 - Treasures of the ‘60s are highlighted, including the music of Red Allen, Benny & Vallie Cain, the Charles River Valley Boys, the Country Gentlemen, Fats Domino, the Greenbriar Boys, Jimi Hendrix, the Kentucky Colonels, the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Sam & Kirk McGee, Jimmy Martin, Bill & James Monroe, Moore & Napier, the Osborne Brothers, Smokey Robinson, the Stanley Brothers, the Texas Troubadours, Doc Watson, and Mac Wiseman. A production of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, hosted by Fred Bartenstein.
Program: Bluegrass Master Class
Description
The Walls Of Time: Sources Of Songs And Styles
| Artist | Title | Label | Date | Comment | Time | |
| 1 | Cash, Johnny
(not in radio version) |
Banks of the Ohio
(from “Unearthed”) |
American | 2003 | fragment | |
| 2 | New Deal String Band | Prisoner’s Song | Sire | 1970 | LSavage, GKnight, FGreathouse, BWhite AMcCanless, BPeacock, | 2:02 |
| 3 | Dalhart, Vernon (MSlaughter, Jef TX) | The Prisoner’s Song | King (Victor) | 1924 | (GMassey’25) b/w Wreck of the Old ‘97 – million+ | fragment |
| 4 | McGee, Sam & Kirk | Coming from the Ball (Don’t Get Weary) | Folkways | 1964 | (1876 Welch&Rich, minstrel) rec UDMacon ‘34 | fragment |
| 5 | Charles River Valley Boys | Comin’ From the Ball
(ded to BDylan) |
Prestige | 1964 | JVal, TLogan, JnCooke BSiggins(lv), FRichmond, | 2:15 |
| 6 | Callahan Brothers | They’re At Rest Together | Cattle (Decca) | 1941 | (WCallahan) BG: Stanley, Lilly, Osborne/Allen, Taylor | fragment |
| 7 | Country Gentlemen | They’re At Rest Together | Folkways | 1961 | CWaller, EAdcock, JDuffey, TGray | 2:56 |
| 8 | Delmore Brothers | Wrath of God | King | 1950 | (Raney) WR(h) | fragment |
| 9 | Reid, Lou & Carolina | Wrath of God | loureidandcarolina.com | 2003 | (WRaney) LR(lv), CAllen, KRichardson, JCox, JHannabach | 3:22 |
| 10 | Tubb, Ernest | Panhandle Rag | Bear (Decca) | 1963 | st (LMcAuliffe) BCharlton | fragment |
| 11 | Ever Call Ready | Panhandle Rag | Maranatha | 1985 | d CHillman, BLeadon, APerkins | 2:33 |
| 12 | Winchester, Jesse | Brand New Tennessee Waltz | Blue Plate | 2001 | (JW) Mountain Stage | fragment |
| 13 | Blue Ridge | Brand New Tennessee Waltz | Sugar Hill | 2004 | ABibey, JSisk(lv), JCox, EBiggerstaff, AJohnson | 2:51 |
| 14 | Hendrix, Jimi | Hey Joe | Reprise | 1967 | (JH) b.Seattle 1942-1970 | fragment |
| 15 | O’Brien, Tim & Jerry Douglas | Hey Joe | etown | 1995 | (live, Boulder Theater) | 3:36 |
Dawn of the Bluegrass Era: 1936-1954
| Artist | Title | Label | Date | Comment | Time | |
| 1 | Monroe Brothers | Rollin’ On | Bear (Bluebird) | 1938 | (Charlotte Hotel) | 1:55 |
| 2 | Monroe, Bill | Lord Protect My Soul | Bear (Decca) | 1950 | (BM) qt, g&m. JMartin, RLyle, JPrice | 2:43 |
| 3 | Flatt & Scruggs | ‘Tis Sweet to be Remembered (10/51) | Bear (Columbia | 1951 | (Wiseman, 5/51) ELilly, HForrester JRainwater | 2:58 |
| 4 | Wiseman, Mac | Dreaming of a Little Cabin | Bear (Dot) | 1952 | (ABrumley) DAkemn RSul-livan ENewton TJackson | 1:49 |
| 5 | Maddox Brothers & Rose | Philadelphia Lawyer (Reno Blues) | Arhoolie (Columbia | 1951 | (WGuthrie’37) gold record | 3:15 |
| 6 | Reno & Smiley | Hen Scratchin’ Stomp | King | 1954 | b SHobbs, MMagaha, JPalmer, JLunsford | 2:30 |
| 7 | Eanes, Jim | The Beginning of the End | Bear (Decca) | 1952 | (AInman) AI, GMartin, BFoster ENewton JRivers | 2:37 |
| 8 | Story, Carl | Follow Him | CC(Merc) | 1953 | qt w gm. RRector, CBoone | |
| 9 | Butler, Carl | You Can’t Insure a House of Dreams | Bear (Columbia | 1952 | (CB) JShook, SJackson, ENewton, TJackson, | 2:32 |
| 10 | Osborne, Sonny | Letter From My Darling (not Bill Monroe’s song) | Gateway | 1953 | EJohnson, CBrock, BThomas | 2:24 |
Starving Out: 1955-1964
| Artist | Title | Label | Date | Comment | Time | |
| 1 | Cain, Benny & Vallie | New River Train | Rebel | 1963 | (duet) JWhisnant | 3:33 |
| 2 | Busby, Buzz | I’ll Cry Tomorrow (unreleased) | Starday | 1959 | BHarrell(lv), SStoneman, BEmerson, RSelf | 2:59 |
| 3 | Lonesome Pine Fiddlers | Pretty Little Indian | Starday | 1961 | f (CRCline) M&RGoins, CR&ChCline | |
| 4 | Jim & Jesse | I’ll Love Nobody but You | Starday | 1959 | (Jacksonville) (J&JMcRey-nolds) VClements, BThompson, DMcHan | 2:09 |
| 5 | Stanley Brothers | Dying a Sinner’s Death | King | 1961 | (Acuff-Bailes?) CLambert (mbav), Derrick, CStripling | 2:37 |
| 6 | Moore & Napier | Springtime in Heaven | King | 1964 | (DReno) | 2:28 |
| 7 | Martin, Jimmy | Sunny Side of the Mountain | Bear (Decca) | 1964 | (HMcAuliffe+) MMiller, VDerrick, GMartin, JrHuskey, BHarman | 2:31 |
| 8 | Watson, Doc | The Roving Gambler | Sugar Hill | 1962 | (Gerde’s, NYC) gtr & harmonica | 2:29 |
| 9 | Greenbriar Boys | At the End of a Long, Lonely Day | Vanguard | 1964 | (MRobbins) JHerald(lv)
RRinzler EWeissberg BYellin |
3:41 |
| 10 | Kentucky Colonels | Barefoot Nellie | Sierra | 1964 | (Cabale, Berkeley) (DReno) RBush, RWhite(lv), CWhite, BRay | 1:34 |
The Festival Era: 1965-1982
| Artist | Title | Label | Date | Comment | Time | |
| 1 | Sparks, Larry | These Old Blues | Old Homestd | 1974 | (LS) MLilly, WMiller | 2:25 |
| 2 | Osborne Brothers | In the Pines | Bear (Decca) | 1965 | DSledd REdenton LChance WAckerman PRobbins | 3:00 |
| 3 | Boys From Indiana | I’ll Be A Friend To Jesus | Jewel | 1973 | (PD) PMullins(lv), AHolt, NCrase, JHolt, HGabbard | 2:10 |
| 4 | Allen, Red | Have You Come To Say Goodbye | Rebel (County) | 1966 | PChurch, CWingfield, DGrisman, JMcCoury | 1:55 |
| 5 | McPeak Brothers | Good Hearted Woman | County | 1977 | De, La, Mk, JBuchanan, RSkaggs, JDouglas | |
| 6 | Monroe, Bill | Tall Pines | Bear (Decca) | 1969 | JMonroe RYarbrough JZinkan KBaker BWilliams | 2:49 |
| 7 | Stuart, Marty (Flatt, Lester) | I Don’t Love Nobody | CMH | 1977 | g KIngram TTate CSeckler CNixon PCorum | 2:14 |
| 8 | Wiseman, Mac | My Nova Scotia Home | Wise | 1966 | (MW) (band from Stittsville, Ont) RMcMunn, LGrant, DO’Neil, JBrown, WAllen | 2:16 |
| 9 | Bowers, Bryan | Grandfather’s Clock | Flying Fish | 1980 | BB(ah), SBush(m) | 2:06 |
| 10 | Crowe, J.D. | I’m Walking | Towa | 1975 | (live, Japan) (ADomino) T Rice(v), RSkaggs, BSlone, JDouglas | 2:12 |
1983-Now: Modern Roots
| Artist | Title | Label | Date | Comment | Time | |
| 1 | Lost & Found | Baby’s Gone | Rebel | 1989 | (DLinde) RBowman(lv) | 2:58 |
| 2 | Simpkins, Rickie | He Rode All the Way to Texas | Pinecastle | 1997 | (JStarling) TRice(lv), WRice, DTyminski, RnSimpkins | 3:32 |
| 3 | Mills, Jim | He Came from Carolina (Sally Goodin, Sally Ann, Cumberland Gap) | Sugar Hill | 1998 | b SDuncan, TStafford,
ASteffey, BBales |
3:25 |
| 4 | Sullivan, Jerry & Tammy | Steer Me on the Righteous Pathway | New Haven | 1995 | Jerry (hv), Tammy(lv), MStuart(m,prod) | 4:46 |
| 5 | Lewis, Laurie & Rozum, Tom | Willie Poor Boy | High Tone | 2004 | (LL-WGuthrie) CSmith, SHuffman | 4:19 |
| 6 | Old & in the Gray | Victim To the Tomb | ACD | 2002 | (JDuffey) PRowan, DGrisman, VClements, HPedersen, BBright | 4:24 |
| 7 | Longview | Hills and Home | Rebel | 2002 | (JDuffey) | 2:21 |
| 8 | Bluegrass 97 | Katy Hill | Pinecastle | 1997 | f AHaynie, RIckes, MSchatz, RkSimpkins, JAutry, WBenson, SVestal | 2:40 |
The Walls Of Time To Come: Modern Branches
| Artist | Title | Label | Date | Comment | Time | |
| 1 | Lonesome Standard Time | Gimme Three Steps (from “Lonesome Skynyrd Time”) | CMH | 2004 | (ACollins-RVanZant) LCordle, BBeach, KGardner, DTalbot, ALeftwich, DPomeroy, JKeener, MHoward | 4:31 |
| 2 | New Grass Revival | Saw You Runnin’ | Liberty (Capitol) | 1986 | (TMoore) JCowan(lv), SBush, BFleck, PFlynn | 3:11 |
| 3 | Dick, Bethany | The Beat Of My Heart | Bethany | 2000 | (BD, 19, Bozeman, MT) PtMcGrath, BSutton, CThile, BHouse, JMills, EDarken, CDavis | 3:07 |
| 4 | Cloud Valley | Molly and Tenbrooks | Outlet | 1982 | (SGillette) BEvans, CRancke, SSmith, MRaines(19) | 4:54 |
| 5 | Greek Tune | source: Simon Parr, Sao Paolo | 1:49 | |||
| 6 | Bell, Joshua and Edgar Meyer | Bp | Sony Classical | 1999 | (EM) JB(v), EM(bs), SBush(m), MMarshall(g) | 3:26 |
| 7 | Parton, Dolly | The Camel’s Heart | Decca | 1998 | (DP) R&DVincent, ROwens, GDavis, APerkins, MBrooks, BGrundner | 3:15 |
| 8 | Run C&W | I Second That Emotion | MCA | 1994 | (SRobinson) BLeadon, VMelamed, JPhotoglo, RSmith | 3:24 |
