Traditional Ties, 01/03/10, Playlist

This week's Traditional Ties is the Last of our holiday specials. Hour one will be selections from the top five Bluegrass releases as submitted to WYEP's Year in Review. The second hour will be our annual presentation of "The Breaking Up Christmas Story."

Air Time
Artist Name
Song Title
Album Name
Label
Duration
10:00 PM
Kenny Baker
Jerusalem Ridge (Theme)
Plays Bill Monroe
County
2:00
10:02 PM
Dailey & Vincent
Head Hung Down
Brothers From Different Mothers
Rounder
2:57
10:05 PM
Audie Blaylock
Whispering Waters
Audie Blaylock and Redline
Rural Rythm
2:50
10:08 PM
Tommy Webb
Teardrop Inn
Heartland
Rural Rhythm
3:30
10:11 PM
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1;00
10:12 PM
Dailey & Vincent
Years Ago
Brothers From Different Mothers
Rounder
2;45
10:15 PM
Audie Blaylock
Send Me Your Address from Heaven
Audie Blaylock and Redline
Rural Rythm
2:20
10:18 PM
Tommy Webb
Heartland
Heartland
Rural Rhythm
2;53
10:22 PM
Dailey & Vincent
Girl In the Valley
Brohers from Different Mothers
Rounder
2:45
10:25 PM
Audie Blaylock
Roll On Blues
Audie Blaylock and Red Line
Rural Rhythm
2:20
10:26 PM
Tommy Webb
If It Weren't For Bluegrass Music
Heartland
Rural Rythm
2:55
10:32 PM
Paul Williams
What a Journey
What a Journey
Rebel
2:36
10:35 PM
Nothin' Fancy
Let Your Light Shine Down
Lord Bless This House
Pinecastle
2:31
10:37 PM
Paul Williams
There's a Miracle Everywhere You Go
What a Journey
Rebel
3:45
10:42 PM
Nothin' Fancy
Soul of Man Never Dies
Lord Bless This House
Pinecastle
2:42
10:45 PM
Paul Williams
I'll Be Young Again
What a Journey
Rebel
3;38
10:49 PM
Nothin' Fancy
Peace In the Valley
Lord Bless This House
Pinecastle
3:43
10:52 PM
Paul Williams
Hid Away with God
What a Journey
Rebel
2;19
11:00 PM
True Bluegrass
With Care from Someone (Theme)
True Bluegrass 1979
True Bluegrass
2::00
11:02 PM
Various
The Breaking Up Christmas Story
Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday
County
57:32

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December 29, 2009
New Year's Bluegrass Festival
By Bill DeYoung

More by Bill DeYoung


There's probably not too many indoor bluegrass festivals in the United States. Part of the charm of the old-style fests is sitting in your lawn chair, seeing and hearing the various acts come and go on the stage, and sampling whatever wafts by the on the breeze - your neighbor's barbeque, the odd conversation, pickin' around the campfire. Holding a bluegrass festival inside a big concrete building, it could be argued, defeats the purpose. Indoors, you kind of have to pay attention.
Don't tell that to Adams and Anderson, LLC, the company that's putting on this week's New Year's Bluegrass Festival inside the Jekyll Island Convention Center. These folks have been doing it this way for 34 years now, so they must be doing something right.

More.

National banjo champion Charles Wood keeps it real in Seneca - and all over

The first thing Charles Wood will tell you is that Old Crow Medicine Show, the Avett Brothers, the newer bluegrass bands springing up in recent years. … They’re all good, but they’re not bluegrass.
Bluegrass is Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley. Their music is pure, clean and devoid of amps and synthesizers. Theirs is the music, he sighs, that made him fall in love with the banjo as a 13-year-old in a family full of classical pianists.
When he was teenager, the banjo was his love. Now, as an adult, he finds the instrument has become an extension of himself.
“The only time I’m ever really happy is when I’m playing,” Wood says, more matter of fact than dramatic. “I think as a musician it’s something you have to do; it’s not something you have a choice with.”
The 44-year-old Wood fell in love with the instrument the moment he heard a Flatt and Scruggs album at age 13. He couldn’t have known then that three decades later he would share the stage with Earl Scruggs at an arts festival in New York, or that the banjo would put him in touch with comedian Steve Martin (an avid banjo player), or that it would lead him to a spot on “Late Night with David Letterman” where he would play with Martin and Scruggs.
Full story.

Concerts bring Cumberland Caverns publicity, cash flow

A tie-in with bluegrass music has breathed new life into one of Tennessee's oldest private tourist attractions, helping pull Cumberland Caverns — about 90 miles southeast of Nashville — through a recession that has taken its toll on many less-fortunate roadside attractions.

In July 2008, the caverns near McMinnville became the venue for the Bluegrass Underground, a continuing series of live Saturday afternoon concerts by established and up-and-coming artists in a giant natural concert hall 333 feet under the Earth's surface.

The brainchild of Nashville marketing executive Todd Mayo, the Bluegrass Underground not only attracts a capacity crowd of 300-plus visitors to its monthly concerts, but also provides the programming for a weekly hourlong broadcast on WSM radio leading into the regular Saturday night Grand Ole Opry performance.

Read on.

Museum has a sound past

Visitors to Owensboro can hear the melodic sounds of bluegrass music drifting down the Ohio River from one the city's key tourist attractions, the International Bluegrass Music Museum, just a two-hour drive from Louisville.
Founded in 1991 and located in the city's RiverPark Complex, the museum houses such artifacts as a Pete Seeger banjo and exhibits of historic instruments; the Bluegrass Hall of Fame recognizes industry notables; and a special section is dedicated to Bill Monroe, the legendary father of bluegrass music.
The International Bluegrass Music Museum is at 1117 Daviess St., Owensboro, Ky., and is open Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. (central time) and Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
More.

Alert: New York-based Steam Powered Hour to Host "Battle of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Bands," January 10

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 23, 2009 -- Matt Diffee, New Yorker magazine cartoonist and host of the Steam Powered Hour has announced that Bluegrassy bands will battle it out for cash and prizes, during a special Steam Powered Hour event, January 10.


Judges will be Norm Parenteau of Slipshod Management in Nashville, who represents The Felice Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show, Dawn Holliday of The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Rita Houston, music director of WFUV, and Dave Godowsky, Director of A&R at Rounder Records. The winning band gets a slot in next year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and other prizes.


http://www.steampoweredhour.com/



Bands interested in entering must meet the following requirements:
"First off, you must be at least two people to be considered a band. One man bands are wonderful, but this isn’t the place. Maybe we’ll do that another time. To be in the realm of “bluegrassy,” you must have either a banjo or a fiddle (no violins), and the only electrified instruments allowed are bass, if you must. But all you electric bassists will have to use the amp we provide. And it will be sucky. Kidding. If you have percussion, that’s fine, but you have to be able to carry it on and off with you with no set up time. Be warned, if you get too “world musicy” we might make fun of you. Along those same lines, no vests or hammer pants. You really shouldn’t have any horns or keyboards. Things should be mostly string-based. If you have questionable instrumentation, just get in touch with us and we’ll use our human abilities to reason and make the call."

The battle will take place January 10 from 8 - 11 pm at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, 236 East 3rd Street, New York, NY. Tickets are available online at http://www.nuyorican.org/
The Steam Powered Hour is a monthly variety show in New York’s East Village featuring the best in acoustic music and comedy. Past performers have included Gillian Welch, Tony Trischka, Michael Daves,, Pork Chop Willie, The Steep Canyon Rangers, Demetri Martin, Steve Martin, Jessi Klein, Patrick Borelli, James Braly, Jeff Sumerel, Adam Wade, Val Kappa, DJ Hazard, Stuckey & Murray and many, many more.

Traditional Ties, 12/27/09, Playlist‏

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Chris Warner - http://www.pxrec.com/

Air Time
Artist Name
Song Title
Album Name
Label
Duration

10:00 PM
Kenny Baker
Jerusalem Ridge (Theme)
Plays Bill Monroe
County
2:00
10:02 PM
Chris Warner
Goin' to the Dance
Goin' to the Dance
Patuxent
3:17
10:07 PM
David Parmley
Christmas In the Mountains
Christmas Gatherin'
Pinecastle
3:14
10:10 PM
Dede Wyland
Long White Cadillac
Keep the Light On
Patuxent
2:09
10:11 PM
Johnny Williams
Country Living's Changing Every Day
Last Day of Galax
Mountain Roads
3:17
10:17 PM
Darren Beachley & LOP
Love You Don't Know Cannot Hurt You
Singlr Advance
Patuxent
4:08
10:20 PM
Kenny & Amanda Smith
Changing
Live and Learn
Rebel
3:31
10:24 PM
Audie Blaylock
Lonely River
Audie Blaylock and Redline
Rural Rythm
2:28
10:27 PM
Chris Warner
Lickity Split
Goin' to the Dance
Patuxent
2:33
10:31 PM
Billy Boone Smith
A Step Away
Five Flat Rocks
Muddy Sunshine
3:05
10:36 PM
Billy Boone Smith
Drink from the Well
Five Flat Rocks
Muddy Sunshine
4:09
10:40 PM
Billy Boone Smith
Justified
Five Flat Rocks
Muddy Sunshine
2:49
10:43 PM
Billy Boone Smith
Give the Devil an Inch
Five Flat Rocks
Muddy Snushine
2:32
10:46 PM
Chis Warner
Turn your Heart to Jesus
Going to the Dance
Patuxent
2:38
10:49 PM
Bass Mountain Boys
A Cradle in Bethlehem
Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas
Pinecastle
3;29
10:52 PM
Sawmill Road
Heaven's Key
Fire on the Kettle
SMR
2:59
10:55 PM
Wheeler
All He Wants to Do
Bluegrass Gospel
Mountain Roads
3:19
11:00 PM
True Bluegrass
With Care from Someone (Theme)
True Bluegrass 1979
True Bluegrass
2:00
11:02 PM
Chris Warner
Heartbreak
Goin' to the Dance
Patuxent
3:49
11:05 PM
Chris Warner
Bonaparte's Retreat
Goin' to the Dance
Patuxent
3:34
11:10 PM
Chris Warner
Taxes, Troubles and Heartaches
Goin' to the Dance
Patuxent
2:28
11:14 PM
Chris Warner
Brennie's Dream
Goin' to the Dance
Patuxent
2:57
11:18 PM
Frances Mooney
Here We Go A-Going
I Didn't See It Coming
Blue Circle
2:34
11:20 PM
Grascals
Keep On Walkin'
Keeo On Walkin'
Rounder
3:22
11:23 PM
Steep Canyon Rangers
Have Mercy
Deep in the shade
Rebel
3:12
11:27 PM
Pathway
What Must I Do
Somewhere Tonight
Mountain Roads
3:20
11:32 PM
Constant Change
Christmas Time Back Home
Christmas in Carolina
Blue Circle
3:06
11:35 PM
Constant Change
Roses and Carnations
Hills of Home
Papa Leo
2:24
11:37 PM
Third Tyme Out
Hard Rock Mountain Prison
Russell Moore & Third Tyme Out
Rural Rythm
2:27
11:39 PM
Kristen Scott Benson
Don't Tread on Me
Second Season
Pinecastle
2:25
11:44 PM
Grasstowne
Hard Workin' Man
The Other Side of Towne
Pinecastle
2:57
11:47 PM
Gibson Brothers
What Can I Do
Ring the Bell
Compass
3:55
11:51 PM
Del McCoury
I Remember You
Family Circle
McMcoury Music
2:27
11:53 PM
Junior Sisk
You Let the Dog Off the Chain
Blue side of the Blue Ridge
Rebel
2:48
11:57 PM
Groove Grass Boyz
Auld Lang Syne
Christmas On the Mountains
Universal South
2:52