BRC Top 20 Week Ending July 30

      1. "Tennessee Flat Top Box"  Johnny Cash
      2. "Away Out On The Mountain"  Jimmie Rodgers
      3. "When His Wheels Left the Road"  Alecia Nugent
      4. "A Wound Time Can't Erase"  Stonewall Jackson
      5. "Angel Band"  The Stanley Brothers
      6. "Six White Horses"  Gillian Welch
      7. "Beautiful Mess Kacey Chambers
      8. "Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger"  Charlie Pride
      9. "I've Been A Long Time Leaving"  Roger Miller
    10. "The Other Woman's Blues"  Nu Blu
    11. "Last Road"  Michelle Nixon and Drive
    12. "Sixteen Tons"  Merle Travis
    13. "Kitty Well's Dresses"  Laura Cantrell
    14. "Sideways"  Jamie Richards
    15. "Jambalaya"  Hank Williams
    16. "Summertime"  Doc and Merle Watson
    17. "Cowboy Boots"  Dave Dudley
    18. "As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone"  Conway Twitty/Loretta Lynn
    19. "Little Log Cabin By The Sea"  The Carter Family
    20. "There She Goes"  Carl Smith

    This list is why I say 85 years of Country Music and that Bluegrass is doing well. The oldest track is the Carter Family from July 1927.
    I still have the Ring of Fire album without the cover that was a Christmas present in 1963.
    Not sure what new music will be in hand this week but just got a few tracks of Ray Herndon.

BRC Playlist Adds July 26

Happy 80th birthday Fred Foster  (A Monument Tribute)
"Gotta Travel On"  Billy Grammer
"Ahab the Arab"  Ray Stevens
"Yakety Sax"  Boots Randolph
"Why Me"  Kris Kristofferson

"Beautiful Mess"  Kacey Chambers
"Tennessee Line"  Jessica Stiles
"Straight Up Country"  Joel Warren

BRC top 20 Week ending July 24

    1.  "Jubilation Day"  Steve Martin/Steep Canyon Rangers
    2.  "Let's Make Memories Tonight"  Floyd Tillman
    3.  "Last Road"  Michelle Nixon and Drive
    4.  "Route 66"  Asleep At The Wheel
    5.  "The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle"  Sam Bush
    6.  "Away Out On The Mountain"  Jimmie Rodgers
    7.  "The Home Your Tearing Down"  Kimberly Murrey
    8.  "This Bed's Not Big Enough"  Charlie Pride
    9.  "Messin With My Woman"  Gary Nicholson
  10.  "Sawing On the Strings"  The Mayfield Brothers
  11.  "Leaves Of Grass"  Brian Molnar and the Naked Hearts
  12.  "Six White Horses"  Gillian Welch
  13.  "Jambalaya"  Hank Williams Sr
  14.  "Payphone"  Eric Hisaw
  15.  "Blue Skys"  Willie Nelson
  16.  "I Care"  Tom T Hall
  17.  "Wicker Rocking Chair"  Rodney Dillard
  18.  "House of Gold"  Nothin Fancy
  19.  "Love's Voice"  Jim Lauderdale
  20.  "Big Black Dog"  Emmy Lou Harris

  No new entries but a nice batch of current music still on the chart.
  Oldest track of the week  Away Out On The Mountain

BRC Playlist adds JULY 22

Classics
Remembering the Bristol Sessions
"LITTLE LOG CABIN BY THE SEA"  THE CARTER FAMILY

"SMOKEY THE BAR"  HANK THOMPSON
"COWBOY BOOTS"  DAVE DUDLEY
"AS SOON AS I HANG UP THE PHONE"  CONWAY TWITTY/LORETTA LYNN
"WE'RE GONNA HOLD ON"  GEORGE JONES/TAMMY WYNETTE

BRC Playlist adds July 20

"The Great Divide"  Tommy Shaw
"Drinkin Whiskey Tonight"  Pokey Lafarge and the South City Three
"Country Boy"  Ricky Scaggs  (The 2011 version)

Playlist adds July 19

new releases

"This Ain't No Sad Song"  Andy Vaughn and Driveline
"Hope Shadows Fear"  Town Mountain
"C'mon Eyes"  Candy Chase

Hoping John Brown does not get released
"The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle" Sam Bush

Remembering Ginger Rogers on her 100th birthday
"The Way You Look Tonight"  The Jazzabillies

BRC top 20 Week ending July 16

     1. "THIS BED AIN'T BIG ENOUGH"  CHARLIE PRIDE
     2. "LEAVES OF GRASS"  BRIAN MOLNAR AND THE NAKED HEARTS
     3. "THE HOME YOUR TEARING DOWN"  KIM MURREY
     4. "MESSIN' WITH MY WOMAN"  GARY NICHOLSON
     5. "PAYPHONE"  ERIC HISAW
     6. "WICKER ROCKING CHAIR"  RODNEY DILLARD
     7. "JAMBALAYA"  HANK WILLIAMS
     8. "YOUR PLACE OR MINE"  GARY STEWART
     9. "BLUE SKYIES"  WILLIE NELSON
   10. "ANGEL BAND"  THE STANLEY BROTHERS
   11. "IN SOME ROOM ABOVE THE STREET"  THE WONDERING EYES
   12. "OL LONESOME GEORGE THE BASSET"  TOMMY CASH
   13. "UNCLOUDY DAY"  LARD BUCKET
   14. "TILL A TEAR BECOMES A ROSE"  KEITH WHITLEY/LORRIE MORGAN
   15. "MOCKINGBIRD HILL"  JOE ELY
   16. "TENNESSEE TENNESSEE"  HOMER AND JETHRO
   17. "CRYING IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA
   18. "JUST LEAVING"  DOLLY PARTON
   19. "MAE DAWN"  ARTY HILL
   20. "LET IT RAIN"  DONNA ULISSE

   This list is proof there is good music out there if you dig. Eleven current tracks including 2 from Sr citizens in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Also note we are anxusly awaiting the new release from Kimberly Murrey

Oldest track of the week Jambalaya.

Thanks for continued support of our Bluegrass hours.  I'm looking forward to IBMA in September.

 

More adds from July 8 and 14

"Mae Dawn"  Arty Hill
"When His Wheels Left the Road"  Alicia Nugent

RIP Kenny Baker (fiddle player with Bill Monroe)
"Big Sandy River"

To Catheleen who is seeing Dave Alvin in concert tonight
"So Long Baby Goodbye" the Blasters from 1981

Remembering Woody Guthrie born 7-14-1912

"Gypsy Davy"  Woody Guthrie  (Realized the connection to Dave Alvin")
"Philadelphia Lawyer" Rose Maddox with the Maddox Brothers
"Union Maid"  Old Crow Medicine Show

BRC Playlist adds July 13

"Payphone"  Eric Hisaw
"Small Town Saturday Night"  Hal Ketchem
"Get Right or Get Left"  The Bankesters
"Sorry For Being Me"  Yarn
"Last Road"  Michele Nixon and Drive

BRC top 20 Week Ending July 9

1.  "HOW DO YOU TALK TO A LITTLE BABY GOAT'  TOM T HALL
   2,  "I'LL KEEP MY OLD GUITAR'  ADOLPH HOFFNER
   3.  "TEE TOT PAYNE"  VOL FIVE
   4.  "OLE LONESOME GEORGE THE BASSETT HOUND"  TOMMY CASH
   5.  "JUBILATION DAY"  STEVE MARTIN/STEEP CANYON RANGERS
   6.  "THE SMOKE COMES OUT MY WINDOW JUST THE SAME"  SKEETS MCDONALD
   7.  "WAY DOWNTOWN"  JIMMY DALE GILMORE
   8.  "SHE'S SINGLE AGAIN"  JANIE FRICKIE
   9.  "YOUR PLACE OR MINE"  GARY STEWART
 10.  "I WANT TO BE YOUR MAMA AGAIN"  DOUG SAHM
 11.  "WANTED"  ALAN jACKSON
 12.   "TOM DOOLA"  CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS
 13.   "SIX WHITE HORSES"  GILLIAN WELCH
 14.   "THE HOME YOUR TEARING DOWN"  KIMBERLY MURREY
 15.   "SAWING ON THE STRINGS"  THE MAYFIELD BROTHERS
 16.   "DON'T FORGET YOURSELF"  THE STATLER BROTHERS
 17.   "SIXTEEN TON"  MERLE TRAVIS
 18.   "TENNESSEE FLATTOP BOX"  JOHNNY CASH
 19.   "BIG BLACK DOG"  EMMY LOU HARRIS
 20.   "LOVE'S VOICE"  JIM LAUDERDALE
  Thanks to a new listener from New Hampshire for votes
  Oldest track of the week  "I'll Keep My Old Guitar"  1940

BRC Playlist adds July 7

"I'll Take the Blame"  Stony Creek Bluegrass Band
"The Fish and the Bird"  Angela Easterling
"Cold and Withered Heart"  Cumberland River

BRC Playlist adds July 6

"Messin With My Woman"  Gary Nicholson
"Jambalaya"  Hank Williams Sr
"Away Out On the Mountain"  Jimmie Rodgers

BRC Midyear Top 20

   1. "Ripple"  Jessie McReynolds
   2. "He Stopped Loving Her Today"  George Jones
   3. "Gotta Get Home To My Baby"  Dale Watson
   4. "Billy The Kid"  Marty Robbins
   5. "The Rose of San Jaquin"  Tom Russell
   6. "Rose In Paradise"  Kris Kristofferson
   7. "White Lightning" The Grascals
   8. "East Bound and Down"  Jerry Reed
   9. "Can't Shake the Sands of Texas From My Shoes" Riders In the Sky
  10. "If Your Not Gone Too Long" Reba McIntire and the Time Jumpers
  11. "Brother Jukebox"  Keith Whitley
  12. "The Home Your Burning Down"  Kimberly Murrey
  13.  "Till I Kissed You"  The Everly Brothers
  14.  "Your For Me"  Tommy Collins
  15.  "Cold Coal Town"  Scott Holstein
  16.  "Hear My Cry"  Goldheart
  17.  "Call Of the Wine"  Landon Dodd
  18.  "Here Comes That Rainbow Again"  Peter Cooper/Lloyd Green
  19.  "Bonapartes Retreat"  The Nashville Swing Band
  20.  "That's Your Memory"  Aaron Wendt

BRC top 20 Week ending July 3

     1.  "Six White Horses"  Gillian Welch
     2.  "Jubilation Day"  Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
     3.  "The Home Your Tearing Down"  Kimberly Murrey
     4.  "Sawing on the Strings"  The Mayfield Brothers
     5.  "Big Black Dog"  Emmy Lou Harris
     6.  "Sixteen Tons"  Merle Travis
     7.  "Memory That Bad"  The Malpass Brothers
     8.  "Tennessee Flattop Box"  Roseanne Cash
     9/  "It's Four In The Morning"  Faron Young
    10.  "Cowboy Jim"  Dry Branch Fire Squad
    11.  "Nebraska"  Bruce Springsteen
    12.  "A Wound Time Can't Erase"  Stonewall Jackson
    13.  "Don't Forget Yourself"  The Statler Brothers
    14.  "Smoke Comes Out My Chimney Just the Same"  Skeets McDonald
    15.  "The Wheels Fell Off the Wagon"  Johnny Paycheck
    16.  "Another Place Another Time"  Jerry Lee Lewis
    17.  "Don't That Beat All"  Jake Hooker
    18.  "They'll Never Keep Us Down"  Hazel Dickins
    19.  "One Ol Red Mule"  Ashley Blankenship
    20. "The Trouble With Me"  Spade Cooley

   Happy and safe 4th of July to all.  Thanks for choosing BRC to help you through a rough 6 months. My midyear top 30 is a work in progress and the new releases that fit my format are overwelming.

Lot's of folks have been waiting for this Gillian Welch album. If your in on Monday night, Steve and the Rangers will be on A Capital Fourth on PBS.

My Guess for oldest track of the week is Spade Cooley with Merle Travis less then a year later.

BRC Playlist adds July 3

RIP Songwriter Charlie Craig
"She's Single Again" Janie Frickie
"Wanted" Alan Jackson
"Following the Feeling" Moe Bandy

"Steel Rails" The McPeek Brothers
"Have You Ever Been Lonely" Mandy Barnett
"Two Lucky Bums" Dave Alvin
"The Singer" Tracy Lawrence