Knee-Deep PLAYLIST-Dailey & Vincent, Guests

I love what I do! It is especially fun to get to sit down with good friends to talk about another milestone. That is the case this week on the show as Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent join me to talk about the brand new Cracker Barrel/Rounder release, "The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent". You will also get to enjoy 7 of the songs during hour two of the show.

In addition to the Knee-Deep Artist Spotlight, we have a new feature, sponsored by the Mast Farm Inn. Each week, I will profile a North Carolina Artist. This week it is Marc Pruett, banjo player with Balsam Range. Hopefully you will learn a thing or two about Marc that you didn't know before. And, of course, I will have some great tunes by Balsam Range.

Here is the Playlist:

(Hour One)

Doin' It On My Own-Jim Lauderdale
Old Joe Clark-Tom Adams
God's Front Porch-Lou Reid & Carolina

The Mast Farm Inn North Carolina Artist Profile: MARC PRUETT
Heart That Won't Stop Loving You-Balsam Range
The Train's Ready-Balsam Range
Marching Home-Balsam Range

Always Have, Always Will-Brandon Rickman
Leaving You and Mobile, Too-Lost & Found
The Boys Are Back In Town-Nashville Bluegrass Band
Snowflake Breakdown-Eric Ellis with Bobby Hicks

(Vintage Vault) BILL MONROE
Walk Softly On This Heart of Mine
Uncle Pen

(Hour Two)

Dailey & Vincent Feature

Living In The Kingdom of God
Family Bible
Eternal Vacation
Noah Found Grace In The Eyes of the Lord
Cast Aside
Until At Last I'm Home
Cross Over To The Other Side of Jordan

(Concert Segment) ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION
Everytime You Say Goodbye
Baby, Now That I've Found You

I Could Change My Mind-Boxcars

And, as always, THANK YOU for listening to the show!~CB

The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent

Jamie Dailey & Darrin Vincent are my special guests this week on "Knee-Deep In Bluegrass". Tune-in to a network affiliate near you or on the web to enjoy the conversation and selected songs from the new CD, available at all Cracker Barrel locations or from the Cracker Barrel website. I asked the guys to give us an informal sampling of one of the songs...and here they are...from the bus, exclusively for Knee-Deep In Bluegrass. (Want a FREE 'Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent' CD??? I have a limited supply I will send out until they are gone. Lucky you...if you are reading this and want to try for one, just send your name and address to cindy@kneedeepinbluegrass.com) Thanks. ~Cindy

Knee-Deep PLAYLIST, Jamie and Suzanne Johnson and Jenee Fleenor, Special Guests

The writers of "I Am Strong" Jamie Johnson, Suzanne Mumpower-Johnson and Jenee Fleenor, are my guests this week in the Knee-Deep Artist Spotlight to talk about the inspiration for the song and their gratitude for the IBMA nominations. The Grascals recorded this song and their friend, Dolly Parton, joined them. I hope you enjoy getting to hear the background to the song, "I Am Strong".

(Hour One)

Close By---Dailey & Vincent
Dream of Me---Josh Williams
Just As Soon As I Get Over You---Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice

(Bluegrass News)

Sounds of Home---Blue Highway
I Went Back Home Today---Boxcars
Almost Home---Larry Sparks
I'm Still Learning---Lonesome River Band

The Other Side---Balsam Range
Heartache Looking For A Home---Charlie Sizemore
I'll Never Go Back---Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers
Another Way To Get To You---Nedski & Mojo

(Vintage Vault) McPEAK BROTHERS
Back To Dixie / Lost River

(Hour Two)

Bonita and Bill Butler---Alison Krauss & Union Station
I Cried Myself Awake---Special Consensus

(Knee-Deep Artist Spotlight)
Jamie Johnson, Suzanne Mumpower-Johnson and Jenee Fleenor
I Am Strong - The Grascals with Dolly Parton

I Don't Care---Ricky Skaggs
The Sentence---Terry Baucom with Adam Steffey
Just Along For The Ride---Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford
Heart Trouble---Darrell Webb Band

Return To The Fire---Laurie Lewis
Goin' Home---Russell Johnson
Driftin' Apart---Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
We're In This Love Together---Darin & Brooke Aldridge

Paint This Town---WildFire

THANKS for listening!~CB

Knee-Deep PLAYLIST, Sam Bush, Special Guest

I talk with Sam Bush on this week's "Knee-Deep In Bluegrass". Sam will be the host for this year's IBMA Awards Show at the historic Ryman Auditorium on Thursday, September 29th. He is nominated for Mandolin Player of the Year and his band is nominated for Instrumental Group of the Year. I hope you enjoy the conversation.

(Hour One)

I Ain't Gonna Lay My Hammer Down---Blue Highway
Just As Soon As I Get Over You---Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice
Close By---Dailey & Vincent

(Bluegrass News)

Lonesome Feeling---Josh Williams
I've Heard These Words Before---Kati Penn & Newtown
Anytime Anyplace But Only You---Russell Johnson
The Sea of Galilee---John Bowman

God's Front Porch---Lou Reid & Carolina
Julie---Shannon Slaughter
The Sentence---Terry Baucom w/Adam Steffey
Mean Greene---Ben Greene

(Vintage Vault) FRONT PORCH STRING BAND
If You're Ever In Oklahoma
Go My Way

(Hour Two)

Where Is My Little Cabin Home---Kathy Kallick Band
Lone Cowboy---Michael Martin Murphy

(SPOTLIGHT) SAM BUSH
Circles Around Me
The Ballad of Stringbean & Estelle

Just Along For The Ride---Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford
'Til My Dying Day---JD Crowe & The New South
Kentucky Borderline---Rhonda Vincent
Highway 40 Blues---Ricky Skaggs

(Feature) O Brother 10th Anniversary Release
In The Jailhouse Now---Harley Allen
In The Highways and Hedges---Cox Family

In Despair---Dale Ann Bradley

THANKS for listening!~CB

Knee-Deep PLAYLIST, Jim Lauderdale, Special Guest

My buddy, Jim Lauderdale is my special guest on this week's show... the same week his brand new CD, "Reason and Rhyme" is released on Sugar Hill Records, Bluegrass Songs by Robert Hunter & Jim Lauderdale. It is a great new project. Check it out!

(Hour One)

Sis Draper---Ricky Skaggs
Sounds of the Mountains---Ramblers Choice
Daniel Prayed---Boone Creek

(Bluegrass News)

I'm A Little Bit Lonely---Special Consensus
Don't You Call My Name---Dailey & Vincent
Sinner---Tim O'Brien
Flint Hill Special---David Talbot

Riding The Danville Pike---Blue Highway
I Feel Like Traveling On---Tony Rice
My Saro Jane---David Parmley & Continental Divide
One Of These Trains---New Grass Revival

(Vintage Vault): DEL MCCOURY-1967
Prisoner's Song / I'm Coming Back But I Don't Know When

(Hour Two)

Little Sadie---Mountain Heart
Sugar Tree Stomp---Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman w/Curly Seckler

(Knee-Deep Artist Spotlight) - JIM LAUDERDALE
Fields of the Lord / Cruel Wind & Rain

I'll Love Nobody But You---Gibson Brothers
Stepping Stones---Terry Baucom w/Paul Williams
Stay All Night---Grascals
Paper Airplane---Alison Krauss & Union Station

(Concert Segment) - OLD & IN THE WAY
Hobo Song

Not Let You Go---Jim Lauderdale

THANKS for listening!~CB

Knee-Deep PLAYLIST, Tim Shelton, Special Guest

Tim Shelton of Newfound Road joins me this week in the Knee-Deep Artist Spotlight. We focus on the live recording on Rounder Records at the Down Home in Johnson City, Tennessee. We also have new music by the Grascals, the Roys, the Gibson Brothers, Alison Krauss & Union Station and more. Thank you for tuning in!

(Hour One)

Dooley-Grascals
The Boys In Hats and Ties-Big Country Bluegrass
The Next Last Time-Terry Baucom w/Ronnie Bowman & John Cowan

(Bluegrass News)

Coal Minin' Man-The Roys
The Class of '57-Dailey & Vincent
I'd Jump The Mississippi-Kenny & Amanda Smith
Your Eyes-Laurie Lewis

I'll Love Nobody But You-Gibson Brothers
Miles To Go-Alison Krauss & Union Station
Things In Life-Country Gentlemen
Stormy Night-John Cowan & Jim Hurst

(Vintage Vault) TARHEEL TRAVELERS
My Dad, Jim Brooks on Banjo - My Father's Day Tribute...
Lonesome Road Blues / Dueling Banjos

(Hour Two)

The Rabbit Song-Lost & Found
Paul & Peter Walked-Claire Lynch

(Knee-Deep Artist Spotlight) TIM SHELTON (Newfound Road)
Those Days
Room At The Top Of The Stairs

Long Time Gone-Darrell Scott & Tim O'Brien
Rock of Ages Keep My Soul-Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers
Young Lillie's Dreams-Terry Baucom w/Don Rigsby & Buddy Melton
Look For Me, I'll Be There-John Bowman

(Concert Segment) TOM ADAMS & MICHAEL CLEVELAND
Dear Old Dixie/Dance Around Molly

Uncle Pen-Bill Monroe

"Don't Turn Your Back"

Dale Ann Bradley, two-time and current International Bluegrass Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year, to release new album, Don't Turn Your Back, on May 19th   Special guests include Dailey and Vincent, Claire Lynch, and Steve Gulley   Nashville CD Release Party at The Station Inn Sat, May 16 @ 9pm / $10  **Featuring new band member Terry Baucom on banjo**   Click here to listen to the title track   Click here to sample more cuts from Don't Turn Your Back

"I think Dale Ann Bradley is an awesome singer. It's heart and soul with her." - Ricky Skaggs   "Ms. Bradley is a soulful, stunning, full-voiced vocalist..." - Barry Mazor, The Wall Street Journal

It's 9 a.m. on a rainy January day in Nashville, five days into 2009.  Dale Ann Bradley is coming up the studio steps without a raincoat, carrying a guitar and a folder full of lyrics.  She's been on the road for 14 straight days, it's 25 degrees and pouring, but never mind all that.  She's been shaping the concept of her new project, the follow-up to her Compass Records debut Catch Tomorrow, for months, and she can't wait to kick off the first song. She's let her heart guide her way through stacks of songs, looking for those that capture something beyond great music, something that gives voice to what she's been living and breathing in her own life for the last year.  So take a seat around the coffee table at the Compass Sound Studio--where Dale Ann Bradley sits with an old D-28 and producer and banjoist Alison Brown puts her gentle mark of genius on arrangements--and let Dale Ann tell you about Don't Turn Your Back in her own words: "It needs to be more than a record," she's says. "This is my dream album. I want it to inspire people to hang in with whatever they're facing--to find the hope and inspiration to keep going. I want to share the music that's touched me and I want to put everything into it that has been given to me over the past year." This is Dale Ann Bradley. She's the 2007 & 2008 IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year and has been hailed by Alison Krauss and Ricky Skaggs as one of the greatest vocalists in country and bluegrass music. A former Coon Creek Girl and mainstay at Kentucky's Renfro Valley Barn Dance, Bradley commands a list of awards as long as Highway 40, yet a few minutes with her tells you she is something even more than extraordinarily gifted--she's extraordinarily human. A Primitive Baptist preacher's daughter out of the hills of Kentucky where no musical instruments were allowed, Bradley grew up in a self-described "backwoods holler" down a rural road where electricity and running water weren't available until she was in high school--something she has more in common with the first generation of bluegrass than her contemporaries in today's scene.  Dale Ann Bradley is nothing if not a great storyteller, but her ability to step into someone else's shoes and make their story her own for a few minutes, that is what allows every note sung and played on Don't Turn Your Back to be believable. In the company of some of best bluegrass pickers and singers including Stuart Duncan (fiddle/banjo), Deanie Richardson (fiddle), Alison Brown (banjo), Gena Britt (banjo), Steve Gulley (vocals), and Mike Bub (bass), Bradley explores Don't Turn Your Back's undeniable themes of bravery and hope through the eyes of mothers, lovers, trains, and one shiny, soon-to-be-lucky penny.  Staying true to her daughter-of-a-preacher roots, Don't Turn Your Back includes three bluegrass gospel numbers: the humorous "Rusty Old Halo", The Carter Family's "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room",  and the traditional "Heaven", which features reigning IBMA Entertainers of the Year Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent. Sharing her love of classic rock and its influence on her music and voice, Bradley includes bluegrass versions of Fleetwood Mac's "Over My Head"and Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down", yet stays close to tradition with the Kentucky mountain ballad "Blue Eyed Boy". Courage is the silver thread running through all twelve tracks of Don't Turn Your Back, and it is in these songs that Bradley lays out all she's got: "Anybody Else's Heart But Mine" teaches us how to push through a broken heart, "Will I Be Good Enough" (Branscomb, Claire Lynch on guest vocals) whispers hope to uncertain parents, and "Music City Queen" (Bradley/Branscomb) documents the dauntlessness of those who come to Nashville seeking stardom. The title track calls for giving life's highway one more chance. Dale Ann Bradley's mountain soprano has been called "shimmering" (The Washington Post), "angelic" (Billboard), and "exceptional" (Bluegrass Unlimited). An acclaimed musician and currently living in Nashville, TN, Bradley fills every stage and studio with humor, grace, and integrity. Don't Turn Your Back will be available on Compass Records May 19, 2009.

This Week's Playlist

L.A County-Ralph Stanley II
Somebody’s Missing You-Lonesome River Band

Dark Shadows-Melonie Cannon
Ridin’ Out The Storm-Tim Hensley
This World Is Not My Home-Pine Mountain Railroad
Choo Choo Coming-Cody Kilby

Don’t Give Up On Me-Songs From The Road Band
Rainbow Ride-Jimmy Arnold
Angeline-Missy Raines & The New Hip
Show ‘Em Your Sermon-Marty Raybon

Vintage Vault: JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS
Are You Missing Me
Remember Me

DAILEY & VINCENT IN THE STUDIO:
Head Hung Down-Dailey & Vincent

DAILEY & VINCENT IN THE STUDIO
When I’ve Traveled My Last Mile-Dailey & Vincent

Good Thing Going-Rhonda Vincent
He’s Holding On To Me-Ron Block
I Can Go Back Anytime-Carrie Hassler

Concert-Doc Watson/Earl Scruggs/Ricky Skaggs-Winston-Salem, NC
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
Pick Along

Wichita-Red Wine

Thanks for listening!~CB

RenoFest Was Great Fun

Terry and I spent Easter weekend in Hartsville, South Carolina for the 11th Annual RenoFest. This is a great festival in the wonderful downtown area of Hartsville. We got to spend the day with our friends Dailey and Vincent, The Grascals, Ronnie Reno and The Reno Tradition and Wayne Henderson. Terry played the new Sullivan Baucom Model Banjo that was given away as the Grand Prize of the Banjo Contest. There is a clip on You Tube of that. Jamie Dailey invited him out to perform "Knee-Deep In Bluegrass" (yes-the theme song to my radio show that Terry composed) that they used to perform together with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Jamie, Darrin and I worked up a great old Osborne Brothers song-"Pathway of Teardrops". ~CB