BRC Playlist adds January 24

"April Rain"  Breaking Glass
"Heartaches"  Akira Otsuka
"Not Fade Away"  Gypsy Alibi
"Catch Em Young, Treat Em Rough, Tell Em Nothing"  Hank Penny
"I'm Gonna Be the Boss From Now On"  Tom Morrell and the Time Warp Tophands
"Skillet Blues"  Carolyn Martin


From the latest Bluegrass to Buddy Holly to Western Swing

BRC Top 20 Week Ending January 21

     1.  "WILLIE THE WONDERING GYPSY AND ME"  WAYLON JENNINGS
     2.  "DOWN ALONG THE DIXIE LINE"  GILLIAN WELCH
     3.  "THE GIRL IN THE BLUE VELVET BAND"  DEL MCCOURY BAND
     4.  "THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME" CAROLINA ROAD WITH TOMMY LONG
     5.  "BIG HARLIN TAYLOR"  GEORGE JONES
     6.  "THIS WEARY HEART YOU STOLE AWAY"  KEITH WHITLEY/RICKY SKAGGS
     7.  "WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE"  JOHN PRINE/TRISHA YEARWOOD
     8.  "WHEN WILL I BE LOVED"  THE EVERLY BROTHERS
     9.  "TEXAS ME"  THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET
   10.  "THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING"  GLEN CAMPBELL/TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD
   11.  "THE FIRST DAY OF THE YEAR"  JOE NEWBERRY
   12.  "DREAMING WITH TEARS IN MY EYES"  JIMMIE RODGERS
   13.  "WICHITA LINEMAN"  GLEN CAMPBELL
   14.  "LOWDOWN BROKEDOWN"  GARY ROADARMEL
   15.  "THE MYSTERIOUS FOX OF FOX HOLLOW"  ERIC BRACE AND LAST TRAIN HOME
   16.  "UNTIL AT LAST I'M HOME"  DAILEY AND VINCENT
   17.  "STEEL GUITAR RAG"  BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS
   18.  "GIVE EM HELL HARRY"  TOMMY SHAW
   19.  "TALKIN TEXAN"  GARY NICHOLSON
   20.  "THE RIGHT PLACE"  THE DERAILERS

  Feb 13 will be 10 years since Waylon died. I still remember waking up Valentines Day and turning on KVET in Austin.

  Props of the week to Gary Roadarmel who recently relocated to a better life in New Orleans. I've known Gary since the days of the Real Country Music boards.

  Oldest track of the week  "Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes"

  Waiting for the recent album from Moot Davis and lots of Bluegrass albums trying to make the IBMA cutoff.

BRC Playlist adds for January 19

A few birthday adds

"Too Lonely Too Long"  Dolly Parton
"Walk Right Back"  The Everly Brothers   with a shout out to my Sonny Curtis fan Teri Joyce
"Me and Bobby McGee"  Kris Kristofferson

Also I just ordered the Charlie Louvin bio and we are coming up on the first anniversary of his passing.
"What Is Home Without Love"  The Louvin Brothers

My extended family that included Patsi Bale Cox

When I first got online to AOL in 1995 I found a Country Music chat room. After a few months I got to message boards and found a group of folks talking about music being overlooked by shorter playlist. Patsi was our charter member from Nashville.  While her position a few years earlier was working with Garth Brooks as times changed she shared with us stories of writers etc including Gretchen Peters. In exchange other folks in that folder were talking about some great bands who were based in Austin.  I mostly soaked it in and gave my thoughts based on what I had in my country classic collection.

These were the folks I shared the excitement of my first solo musical roadtrip to Las Vegas in 1996 and my early trips to Texas. We also shared the passing of many country legends from Bill Monroe through the rough year of 1998.

Patsi was one of the few folks I got back with over the last few years on Facebook. I was in Nashville a couple weeks before her passing and we wanted her at the party but I did not know the extet of her condition.

No Bus of Real Country does not play Garth Brooks music but we have and will continue to support the lesser heard acts of more genuine country and bluegrass.


With kudos to my buddy Cornell Hurd who sometimes .introduced his band as Garth Brooks Worst Nightmare.
www.live365.com/stations/busgaljan

BRC Playlist adds January 18

For all you fans of Justified
"Antietams Hill"  Cumberland River

"Till Death Do Us Part"  Bob Livingston
"My Woman My Woman My Wife"  Marty Robbins
"Forever Is Ending Today"  Ernest Tubb
www.live365.com/stations/busgaljan

BRC Playlist adds January 16

Condolences to The Gibson Brothers on the passing of their dad
"Safe Passage"  The Gibson Brothers
For Jay McDowell who is adding pictures etc to the scrapbook for BR549
"Marie"  Don Walser

"Whispering"  Amanda Shires
"Bright"  7 Horses Bright

BRC Top 20 Week Ending January 14

     1.  "THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME"  LEIGHAN CORTES
     2.  "THE RIGHT PLACE"  THE DERAILERS
     3,  "THAT'S WHY I SING THIS WAY"  DARYLE SINGLETARY
     4.  "PAPER AIRPLANE"  ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION
     5.  "PLEASE HELP ME I'M FALLING JANIE FRICKE
     6.  "UNTIL AT LAST I'M HOME"  DAILEY AND VINCENT
     7.  "WILL THERE BE ANY YODELING IN HEAVEN"  BOB WILLS AND THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS/THE MCKINNEY SISTERS
     8.  "OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER"  WADE HAYES
     9.  "DO-WACKA-DO"  ROGER MILLER
   10.  "ANOTHER MAN'S ARMS"  JUNIOR SISK AND RAMBLERS CHOICE
   11.  "TALKIN' TEXAN"  GARY NICHOLSON
   12.  "EASY LOVIN"  FREDDIE HART
   13.  "KANSAS CITY KITTY"  DAVE STUCKEY
   14.  "BLANKET ON THE GROUND"  BILLIE JOE SPEERS
   15.  "GIVE EM HELL HARRY"  TOMMY SHAW
   16.  "REASON AND RHYME"  JIM LAUDERDALE
   17.  "THE STANLEY BROTHERS"  TRAVERS CHANDLER AND AVERY COUNTY
   18.  "WORKING IN TENNESSEE"  MERLE HAGGARD
   19.  "SO HELP ME HANK"  ANDY VAUGHN AND DRIVELINE
   20.  "LOVESICK BLUES"  HANK WILLIAMS SR

   Dedicating Nr 1 this week to Eric and Leigh the Gibson Brothers who lost their dad January 14.  Also continued prayers to Wade Hayes.
  
  Thanks for the huge boost this past Friday and may the trend continue. I can say I have seen or met folks  on 50 percent  of this list. 

  Oldest track of the week  "Will There Be Any Yodeling In Heaven"  1946/1947