Sunday, August 31, 2014

Playlist - 8/31/2014 - Back to Sundays

Hi Folks.

After spending the summer on Saturday afternoons, Red Rooster Party has returned to Sundays at our legacy time slot of 2-4 pm just prior to Bluegrass Cafe.  We hope you found us.  We didn't have much opportunity to give you a heads up because we thought we were sports-preempted, but it turns out we were not.  That gave Jim just a half-hour to get to the station and Marti, who was off somewhere else, didn't even know we were on the air.  She figured it out and made it to the studio after the first half-hour.

Speaking of Marti, she is becoming the Eastern Connecticut Possum Lady after raising seven tiny baby possums ("opossum" is just plum cumbersome) to semi-adulthood.  She will be releasing six of them in a couple of weeks and will keep the runt of the litter through winter and release in the spring.
Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)


The show had all of five minutes preparation, but it came out pretty good if we say so ourselves.  We brought a cross-section of older music that included early country and string band performers, and the Marti's Bunkhouse feature focused on Wilf Carter, otherwise known as "Montana Slim."  Another interesting feature was a set of songs from Bill Haley before he was the rock-and-roll pioneer.  We played a special set of music from The Andy Griffith Show along with Andy's first hit recording, "What It Was, Was Football" to recognize that time of year.
Bill Haley c.1946



We hope you enjoyed what you heard today, and hope you will tune in for our next show which will be a one-hour show starting at 2pm because of a sports preemption.

Jim & Marti

Artist / Song / Disk / Label / Year
  • Golden Gate Quartet / God's Gonna Cut 'Em Down / Complete Recorded Works Vol. 5 / Document / 1946
  • Roy Acuff / Wreck On The Highway / Night Train To Memphis / Roots of Country / 1942
  • Johnnie & Jack / Called From Potter's Field / Johnnie & Jack and The Tennessee Mountain Boys / B.A.C.M / 1952
  • Grandpa Jones / Bread and Gravy / You're Never Too Old For Love / B.A.C.M / 1953
  • Sweet Violet Boys / Jim's Windy Mule / Jim's Windy Mule / B.A.C.M / 1935
  • Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies / Brownie's Stomp / Milton Brown and The Musical Brownies / Texas Rose Records / 1934
  • Jimmie Rodgers / Dear Old Sunny South By the Sea / First Sessions / Rounder / 1928
  • Let Your Shack Burn Down / Fisher Hendley & his Aristocratic Pigs / Fisher Hendley & his Aristocratic Pigs / B.A.C.M / 1925
  • Lowe Stokes & Mike Whitten / Take Me Back To Georgia / Volume 1 1927-1930 / Document / 1929
  • Wilf Carter / The Cowboy's Airplane Ride / Selected Sides 1935-1938 / JSP / 1938
  • Wilf Carter / My Little Yoho Lady / Selected Sides 1935-1938 / JSP / 1937
  • Wilf Carter / Down The Yodelling Trail At Twilight / Selected Sides 1935-1938 / JSP / 1938
  • Bill Haley and the Four Aces of Western Swing / Too Many Parties, Too Many Pals / 1947-1951 / JSP / 1948
  • Bill Haley and the Four Aces of Western Swing / The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along / 1947-1951 / JSP / 1949
  • Bill Haley and the Saddlemen / My Sweet Little Girl From Nevada / 1947-1951 / JSP / 1950
  • The Delmore Brothers / Blues Stay Away From Me / Inducted Into The Hall Of Fame 2001 / King / 1949
  • Uncle Dave Macon / Over The Mountain / Travelin' Down The Road / County / 1935
  • Vernon Dalhart / The Pony Express / On The Lighter Side / Old Homestead / 1930
  • Briscoe Darling (Denver Pyle + Dillards) / Low and Lonely / Musical Memories of Mayberry / Private / 1964
  • Jim Lindsey (Herb Ellis) / Midnight Special / Musical Memories of Mayberry  / Private / 1961
  • Andy Griffith / What It Was, Was Football (Parts I & II) / The Wit And Wisdom of Andy Griffith / EMI-Capitol / 1955
  • The Ebony Hillbillies / Sugar In The Gourd / Sabrina's Holiday / EH Music / 2004
  • Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen / Sugar In The Gourd / Complete Recorded Works Volume 4 1929-1930 / Document / 1930
  • Earl Johnson / Earl Johnson's Arkansaw Traveler / Earl Johnson Vol. 2 1927 - 1931 / Document Records / 1927
  • A. A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly (John Dilleshaw) / Streak O' Lean - Streak O' Fat / Complete Recorded Works 1929-1930 / Document / 1930
  • Sara & Maybelle Carter / There's a Mother Always Waiting / Sara & Maybelle Carter / Bear Family / 1966
  • Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters / Be Kind To A Man When He's Down / Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters & Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (1927-1929) / Document Records / 1927
  • Blind Joe Mangum - Fred Shriber / Bacon and Cabbage / Nashville - 1928 / Document / 1928
  • Jimmie Driftwood / Arkansas Traveler / Americana / Bear Family / 1958
  • Bud Isaacs / By The Waters Of Minnetonka / Bud's Bounce / Bear Family / 1954

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Playlist - 8/23/2014 plus a Fill-in

Hi Folks.

It seems all things eventually find equilibrium, and such was the case for this show.  Marti hosted last week's show solo while Jim was emceeing a festival, and Jim hosted this show solo while Marti attended a Wildlife Rehabilitator Cookout which Jim calls a Possum Convention.  Marti took her seven baby possums for show-and-tell and ended up wearing one for most of the day. See the photo.

We also had a four-hour show because we filled-in for Lady Mystique in the two hours prior to the usual Red Rooster Party.  Because of the extra time, you might notice the playlist reflects more deep catalog material from the early string bands than we usually have time to present.

Bradley Kincaid
Featured artists on this show were Bradley Kincaid (immortalized in Hylo Brown's "Grand Ole Opry Song" made famous by Jimmy Martin and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band); Chet Atkins, Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle; Bob Wills; Uncle Dave Macon; and Andy Griffith.  We also featured a set of ever popular train songs, a set of female vocalists by request, and a set of West Virginia string bands.

This was the last Red Rooster Party on the WHUS summer schedule.  The show will be moving back to its classic time slot on Sundays 2-4pm for the fall, but there will be heavy preemptions for UCONN tiddly winks sports.  The August 31 show may be preempted the first hour as a result.

Thanks for listening and hope you tune in next week.

Jim & Marti

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Year
  • Golden Gate Quartet / Jonah In the Whale / Golden Gate Quartet Vol. 3 (1939) / Document / 1939
  • Bradley Kincaid / Cindy / A Man And His Guitar / JSP / 1930
  • Sara and Maybelle Carter / Give Me Your Love And I'll Give Mine / Sara and Maybelle Carter / Bear Family / 1966
  • Al Hopkins & His Bucklebusters / Wasn't She A Dandy / Complete Recorded Works Vol.3 1927-1928 / Document / 1927
  • Chet Atkins, Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle / No Vacancy / 1949 / Country Routes / 1949
  • Chet Atkins, Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle / Today / 1949 / Country Routes / 1949
  • Chet Atkins, Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle / 'Deed I Do / 1949 / Country Routes / 1949
  • Chet Atkins, Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle / The Deaf Woman's Courtship / 1949 / Country Routes / 1949
  • Chet Atkins, Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle / In The Pines / 1949 / Country Routes / 1949
  • George Jones & Gene Pitney / I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night / George Jones & Gene Pitney / Bear Family / 1966
  • Carolina Cotton / Tennessee Saturday Night / Yodeling Blonde Bombshell, Volume 3 / Kit Fox Records / 1946
  • Carolina Cotton / Three Miles South Of Cash (In Arkansas) / Yodeling Blonde Bombshell, Volume 3 / Kit Fox Records / 1946
  • Jerry Clower / Peaches and Possums / Peaches And Possums / MCA / 1998
  • David McCarn / Gastonia Gallop / Gastonia Gallop / Old Hat / 1930
  • David McCarn / Cotton Mill Colic / Gastonia Gallop / Old Hat / 1930
  • Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles / Cotton Mill Blues / Gastonia Gallop / Old Hat / 1929
  • Carolina Twins / Southern Jack / Gastonia Gallop / Old Hat / 1929
  • Bob Wills / Osage Stomp / The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947 / Columbia / 1935
  • Bob Wills / Steel Guitar Rag / The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947 / Columbia / 1936
  • Bob Wills / Miss Molly / The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947 / Columbia / 1942
  • Bob Wills / Roly Poly / The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947 / Columbia / 1945
  • Andy Griffith / The Discovery Of America / The Wit And Wisdom of Andy Griffith / EMI Capitol / 1960
  • Andy Griffith / The Preacher And The Bear / The Wit And Wisdom of Andy Griffith / EMI Capitol / 1960
  • Bud Isaacs / Bud's Steel Guitar Stomp / Bud's Bounce / Bear Family / 1954
  • Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians / Wish I Had Stayed In the Wagon Yard / Volume 1 1927-1930 / Document / 1929
  • Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas / My Autobiography / Settin' Flat On Ready / Bear Family / 1963
  • Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas / Three Strikes and You're Out / Settin' Flat On Ready / Bear Family / 1947
  • Uncle Dave Macon / Country Ham And Red Gravy / Classic Sides 1924-1938 / JSP / 1938
  • Uncle Dave Macon / The Gayest Old Dude That's Out / Classic Sides 1924-1938 / JSP / 1938
  • Uncle Dave Macon / Cumberland Mountain Deer Race / Classic Sides 1924-1938 / JSP / 1938
  • The Rouse Brothers / Orange Blossom Special / Lonesome Whistle / Proper / 1938
  • Leadbelly with the Golden Gate Quartet / Rock Island Line / Lonesome Whistle / Proper / 1939
  • Byron Parker And His Mountaineers / C&N W Railroad / Lonesome Whistle / Proper / 1940
  • Hank Williams / Pan American / Lonesome Whistle / Proper / 1947
  • Roy Harvey / The Brave Engineer / Lonesome Whistle / Proper / 1926
  • The Golden Gate Quartet / Ol' Man Mose / Complete Recorded Works Volume 3 - 1939 / Document / 1939
  • The Blue Sky Boys / Sunny Side Of Life / Legends of Country Music / High Fidelity / 1936
  • Bradley Kincaid / Sourwood Mountain / A Man And His Guitar / JSP / 1930
  • Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers / When the Roses Bloom Again for the Bootlegger / Earl Johnson Vol. 2 1927 - 1931 / Document / 1930
  • Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers / I Know That My Redeemer Liveth / Complete Recorded Works Vol 2 - 1927-1931 / Document / 1930
  • Patti Page / The Tennessee Waltz / The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years Vol. 1 / Mercury / 1951
  • Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky / A Dear John Letter / This Has Been Your Life / B.A.C.M / 1953
  • The Davis Sisters / I Forgot More Than You´ll Ever Know / The History of Country & Western Vol. 13 / Documents / 1953
  • Kitty Wells / Paying For That Back Street Affair / Best of Kitty Wells / X5 Music Group / 1953
  • The Carter Family / God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign / Private Recording / None / 1941
  • Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers / Little Old Log Cabin In the Lane / Nashville 1928 / Document / 1928
  • Paul Warmack & His Gully Jumpers / Tennessee Waltz / Nashville, 1928 / Document / 1928
  • Theron Hale & Daughters / Listen To The Mocking Bird / Nashville, 1928 / Document / 1928
  • Crook Brothers String Band / My Wife Died On Friday Night / Nashville, 1928 / Document / 1928
  • The Ebony Hillbillies / Bonaparte's Retreat / Sabrina's Holiday / EH Music / 2004
  • The Ebony Hillbillies / Cotton-Eyed Joe / Sabrina's Holiday / EH Music / 2004
  • Dilly & His Dill Pickles (John Dilleshaw) / Lye Soap / Complete Recorded Works 1929-1930 / Document / 1930
  • Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen / Rocky Pallet / Complete Recorded Works Volume 4 1929-1930 / Document / 1929
  • Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters / Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South / Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters & Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (1927-1929) / Document / 1929
  • Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers / The Burial Of Wild Bill / Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters & Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (1927-1929) / Document  / 1929
  • McGee Brothers / Salty Dog Blues / Complete Recorded Works 1926-1934 / Document / 1927
  • Sam McGee / Easy Rider / Complete Recorded Works 1926-1934 / Document / 1928
  • Kirk & Sam McGee / Brown's Ferry Blues / Complete Recorded Works 1926-1934 / Document / 1934
  • Jimmie Rodgers / Blue Yodel #3 / First Sessions 1927 / Rounder / 1928
  • Bradley Kincaid / The Little Shirt Me Mother Made for Me / A Man And His Guitar / JSP / 1934
  • Frank Hutchison / Train That Carried the Girl From Town / Complete Recorded Works Volume 1 1926-1929 / Document / 1926
  • Williamson Brothers & Curry / Lonesome Road Blues / Complete Recorded Works / Document / 1927
  • Dick Justice / Cocaine / Old Time Music From West Virginia / Document / 1929
  • Jarvis & Justice / Muskrat Rag / Old Time Music From West Virginia / Document / 1929
  • Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters / Green Backed Dollar Bill / Nashville, The Early String Bands Volume One / County / 1928
  • Arthur Smith Trio / Stood on the Bridge at Midnight / Nashville, The Early String Bands Volume One / County / 1938
  • Blue Sky Boys / Lightning Express / Legends of Country Music / High Fidelity / 1939


Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Playlist - 8/16/2014 - Marti Solo

Hi Folks.

Jim was at Nick Anderson's Shady Creek Homecoming bluegrass gathering, so Marti did her first solo radio show in over five years.  The music was mighty fine, and we hope you agree.

This is where Jim was:
Nick Anderson & Shady Creek at the Shady Creek Homecoming

...and this is Marti and one of her baby possums that she mentioned on the show:



Tune in next Saturday for the last Red Rooster Party on the summer schedule which will also be the last Red Rooster Party on a Saturday.  The show will move back to its historic time slot on Sundays 2-4 beginning August 31st.  Yippee!

Jim & Marti

Artist / Song / Year
  • Val and Pete / Yodel Blues / 1928
  • Jesse Thompson & Byrd Moore / Killin' Blues / 1930
  • Darby & Tarlton / Frankie Dean / 1930
  • Callahan Brothers / Brown's Ferry Blues #2 / 1935
  • Girls of the Golden West / I Want to Be a Real Cowboy Girl / 1935
  • Blue Sky Boys / I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / 1936
  • Monroe Brothers / Don't Forget Me / 1936
  • Monroe Brothers / Just A Song Of Old Kentucky / 1936
  • Morris Brothers / Let Me Be Your Salty Dog / 1938
  • Jimmy Wakely & Fiddlin' Arthur Smith / Take Me Back to Tennessee / 1943
  • Karl & Harty / Why Do Girls Wear Breeches? / 1945
  • Homer & Jethro / Poor Little Liza, Poor Girl / 1947
  • Rosalie Allen & Billy Williams / He Lived In Texas (And She Lived In Arkansas) / 1948
  • Ernest Tubb & Red Foley / Texas vs. Kentucky / 1950
  • The Louvin Brothers / I'm Changing the Words to My Love Song / 1951
  • Jimmie Davis / The Davis Limited / 1931
  • Goebel Reeves & The Texas Drifter's / Cowboy's Lullaby / 1934
  • Delmore Brothers / Blow Your Whistle Freight Train / 1935
  • J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers / The Longest Train / 1935
  • Patsy Montana / I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart / 1935
  • Crowder Brothers / Depot Blues / 1936
  • Wade Mainer / Train Carry My Girl Back Home / 1937
  • Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston / Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies / 1945
  • Curley Fox / The Wreck Of The 1256 / 1947
  • Roy Hall / Polecat Blues / 1941
  • T. Texas Tyler / You Doggone Son of a Gun / 1946
  • Merle Travis / Nine Pound Hammer / 1946
  • Judy Perkins / The Moon Still Shines On The Moonshine Still / 1949
  • Little Jimmy Dickens / Hillbilly Fever / 1949
  • Gene O'Quinn / The Pinball Millionaire / 1950
  • Arthur Smith / More Guitar Boogie / 1946
  • T. Texas Tyler / T. Texas Boogie / 1946
  • Red Foley / Tennessee Saturday Night / 1947
  • Hawkshaw Hawkins / Dog House Boogie / 1948
  • Eddie Miller / Motel Time / 1950
  • Chuck Wagon Gang / The Church In The Wildwood / 1936
  • Karl & Harty / Gospel Cannon Ball / 1941
All selections from the French compilation of American country music titled "Les Triomphes de la Country Music"


Saturday, August 2, 2014

Playlist - 8/2/2014

Hi Folks,
Moon Mullican

We had a great variety of music for you on this show that included a 1939 song from The Golden Gate Quartet with a French-language opening, early country artists from Nashville (before it was "Music City"), some train songs, part of a 1952 Hank Williams concert, a set of Moon Mullican tunes, a set of honky tonk music from the 1940s, some Cajun music (new ground for Red Rooster Party), and a couple of songs from The Carter Family that were recorded on this day at the renown "Bristol Sessions" exactly 87 years ago today.

We hope you enjoyed what you heard.

Marti & Jim

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Year
  • Golden Gate Quartet / My Walking Stick / The Golden Gate Quartet Collection / Mus/zyx / 1939
  • Arthur Smith Trio / Stood On The Bridge At Midnight / Nashville - The Early String Bands Volume One / County / 1938
  • Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters / My Wife Died On Saturday Night / Nashville - The Early String Bands Volume One / County / 1938
  • Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee / Oh- Baby You Done Me Wrong / Nashville - The Early String Bands Volume One / County / 1928
  • Lullaby Larkers (Cliff Carlisle) / True and Trembling Brakeman / Lonesome Whistle / Proper / 1930
  • Memphis Minnie / Chickasaw Train Blues / Lonesome Whistle / Proper / 1934
  • Delmore Brothers / Blow Ya Whistle, Freight Train / Lonesome Whistle / Proper / 1935
  • Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris, Steve Ledford / Ridin' On That Train 45 / Lonesome Whistle / Proper / 1937
  • Carolina Chocolate Drops / Run Mountain / Leaving Eden / Nonesuch / 2012
  • The Blue Sky Boys / Sunny Side Of Life / The Blue Sky Boys- Bill & Earl Bolick / High Fidelity Music / 1936
  • The Blue Sky Boys / Beautiful, Beautiful Brown Eyes / The Blue Sky Boys- Bill & Earl Bolick / High Fidelity Music / 1938
  • Hank Williams / Comedy with Hank and the Drifting Cowboys / Lost Concerts / Time Life / 1952
  • Hank Williams / I Can't Help It (If I Am Still in Love With You) / Lost Concerts / Time Life / 1952
  • Jerry Rivers and the Drifting Cowboys / Orange Blossom Special / Lost Concerts / Time Life / 1952
  • Hank Williams / Why Don't You Love Me / Lost Concerts / Time Life / 1952
  • Moon Mullican / Showboy Special / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1946
  • Moon Mullican / Shoot The Moon / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1946
  • Moon Mullican / Triflin' Woman Blues / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1947
  • Roy Hall / Polecat Blues / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1941
  • Al Dexter / Pistol Packin Mama / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1942
  • T. Texas Tyler / You Doggone Son Of A Gun / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1946
  • Leroy Pullins / I'm A Nut / I'm A Nut / Bear Family / 1966
  • Leroy Pullins / The Interstate Is Coming Through My Outhouse / I'm A Nut / Bear Family / 1967
  • Leroy Pullins / Swimming At The Bottom Of The Pool / I'm A Nut / Bear Family / 1967
  • Maddox Brothers & Rose / Shimmy Shakin' Daddy / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1951
  • Ernest Tubb / Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1947
  • Roy Acuff / Great Speckle Bird / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1936
  • Dennis McGee / Happy One-Step / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1929
  • Harry Choates / Jole Blonde / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1946
  • Nathan Abshire / Pine Grove Blues / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1949
  • The Carter Family / Keep On The Sunny Side / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1927
  • The Carter Family / The Wandering Boy / Les Triomphes de la Country Music / Habana / 1927