WAMU's Bluegrass Country

Rebroadcast On: 12/06/2009, 12/07/2009, 12/08/2009, 12/09/2009, 12/10/2009, 12/11/2009, 12/12/2009, 12/13/2009, 12/14/2009, 12/15/2009, 12/16/2009, 12/17/2009, 12/18/2009

1. Jon Lohman influenced by Alan Lomax

Same Song, Same Chair: Fifty Years Later

Track: Jimmy Sutton
Artist: Spencer Moore
Album: AFC 2004/004, tape T857, tracks 3-5
Label: Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress
Release: 1959

Track: Jimmy Sutton
Artist: Spencer Moore
Album: Unpublished recording
Label: Virginia Folklife Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Release: n/a

from the series Folklife Fieldnotes

Information on the new Library of Congress Alan Lomax Fellowship

2. Wayne White influenced by George Jones

Jen Hitt on BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP

Track: Pee-wee’s Playhouse Theme (fragment)
Artist: Cyndi Lauper under the pseudonym Ellen Shaw

Track: Ragged But I’m Right (fragment)
Artist: George Jones
Album: The Definitive George Jones Collection
Label: Mercury Records

3. The Musical influence of George Jones

Gems of Bluegrass with Phil Nusbaum

Track: Dixieland for Me
Artist: George Jones & Melba Montgomery
Album: Bluegrass Hootenanny

Track: Small Time Laboring Man
Artist: George Jones
Album: Burn the Honky-Tonk Down
Label: Rounder

Track: Her name is
Artist: Lost & Found
Album: A Ride Through the Country
Label: Rebel

Track: Your Angel Steps Out of Heaven
Artist: George Jones
Album: Burn the Honky-Tonk Down
Label: Rounder

Track: Thank You for Caring
Artist: Jeanette Williams
Album: Thank You for Caring
Label: Blue Circle

Track: The Grand Tour
Artist: Steve Gulley
Album: Sounds Like Home
Label: Lonesome Day

4. Daughters of Bluegrass

Jen Hitt interviews the Daughters at IBMA 2009

All Songs from
Album: Bluegrass Bouquet
Artist: The Daughters of Bluegrass
Label: Blue Circle

1. Proud to Be a Daughter of Bluegrass
2. Leaving Here for Nashville
3. Desmoranda

5. Rogers & Johnson influenced by the Civil War

Bob Webster interviews Rogers & Johnson

All Songs from
Album: When the Bands Played
Artist: Rogers & Johnson
Label: Self-released

1. Brandy Station
2. The Tathum Boys
3. When The Bands Played
4. Angel In Gray
5. Miss Anne’s Cotillion
6. Mandy Play Your Mandolin & The Girls I Left Behind Me
7. Furlough (fragment)