Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull. The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week
This week focuses on the winners for this year's IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Awards last week in Raleigh, NC. Here's what we could squeeze in:
(Intro - Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - Watermelon Hanging On The Vine / Roanoke - Off The Record, Vol. 1: Live Recordings, 1956-1969 - Smithsonian Folkways)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS (with Buddy Spicher, Michael Cleveland, Alison Brown) - Thank God I'm A Country Boy - Country Boy: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Denver - Compass
(break)
BALSAM RANGE - You Light it You Fight It - Five - Mountain Home
(Flatt Lonesome ID for Music for the Mountain)
FLATT LONESOME - So Far - Too - Mountain Home
NOAM PIKELNY - Road To Columbus - Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe - Compass
(break)
ADAM STEFFEY - Goodbye Girls I'm Going To Boston - New Primitive - Organic
(Phil Leadbetter promo for Jon Colcord)
PHIL LEADBETTER - Sweet Georgia Brown - The Next Move - Pinecastle
BRYAN SUTTON - Watson's Blues - Into My Own - Sugar Hill
(break)
THE EARLS OF LEICESTER - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke - The Earls Of Leicester - Rounder
KELLER WILLIAMS with the TRAVELIN' MCCOURYS - What A Waste Of Good Corn Liquor - Pick - Sci-Fidelity
FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN - M80 - On The Edge - Compass
(break)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS (with Claire Lynch & Rob Ickes) - Wild Montana Skies - Country Boy: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Denver - Compass
(Kenny Smith ID for Music for the Mountain)
THE KENNY & AMANDA SMITH BAND - Run Away Boys - Catch Me If I Try - Farmboy
(Buddy Melton, Balsam Range ID for Music for the Mountain)
BALSAM RANGE - Moon Over Memphis - Five - Mountain Home
(Outro - Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - Y'all Come - Off The Record, Vol. 1: Live Recordings, 1956-1969 - Smithsonian Folkways)