Airplay on Radio Bluegrass International!!!

Tom Hanway and Bill Monroe backstage in Zanesville, Ohio, 1988 (photo: George Quinn)
Tom Hanway reports:
I am very pleased to announce that Bob Mitchell and Radio Bluegrass International are giving rotation to tracks from my Bucket of bees recording (Joyous Gard Records). This week it's 'Nashville blues', which I recorded with Vassar Clements and Bob Harris in New York City. For Bucket of bees I also recorded tracks in Nashville with my old pal Bil VornDick ('Elephant hop', 'Bucket of bees'). Mr Mitchell informs me that he will be playing two songs that I composed: 'Elephant hop' and 'Morgaine's hornpipe'. He also has selected 'You can't stop me from dreaming' for airplay, a song that Vassar learned from his mother when he was a boy, and he sings it and plays it on fiddle on Bucket of bees. Thank you Bob Mitchell, and thank you Richard Hawkins and the Bluegrass Ireland Blog for making all this possible. I'm back on the air in America, and I look forward to doing some touring back home in the not too distant future! Here is the full play list for 8 June 2008:
Radio Bluegrass International Program: 'Best of Bluegrass' Host: Bob Mitchell Play List 014 Recorded at WFPK-FM 91.9, Louisville KY, 12 April 2008 Broadcast Date: 8 June 2008
1) Red White & the Dixie Bluegrass Band: 'I want to be loved but only by you' / Track #22 / Rural Rhythm / Grassroots bluegrass 2) Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver: 'Just loving you' / Track #8 / Rounder / More behind the picture than the wall 3) J. D. Crowe: 'Mississippi River raft' / Track #1 / Rounder / Lefty’s old guitar 4) Claire Lynch: 'Train long gone' / Track #1 / Rounder / Crowd favorites 5) Charlie Sizemore: 'Hard rock bottom of your heart' / Track #3 / Rounder / Good news 6) Marty Raybon: 'The fuss' / Track #11 / Independent Release / The grass I grew up on 7) Dailey and Vincent: 'Cumberland River' / Track #3 / Rounder / Dailey and Vincent 8) The Daughters of Bluegrass: 'Pocket knives and fiddle tunes' / Track #11 / Blue Circle Records / Back to the well 9) Ricky Wassen; 'Paul and Silas' / Track #22 / Copper Creek Records / Goin’ up Copper Creek 10) Laurie Lewis: 'Tall pines' / Track #1 / Rounder / Laurie Lewis and her Bluegrass Pals 11) Benny Martin and Josh Graves: 'Salty Dog blues' / Track #6 / CMH Records / 50 years of bluegrass hits 12) Blue Highway: 'Through the window Of a train' / Track #2 / Rounder / Through the window of a train 13) Tom Hanway: 'Nashville blues' / Track #9 / Joyous Gard / Bucket of bees (Ireland) 14) Larry Sparks: 'For your love' / Track #3 / McCoury Music, Inc / The last suit you will wear 15) Wayne Taylor: 'Grandpa was a carpenter' / Track #10 / Independent Release / Dear Mom 16) The Dixie Bee Liners: 'Yellow haired girl' / Track #3 / Pinecastle / Ripe 17) Tommy Webb: 'Eastern Kentucky' / Track #2 / Kindred Records / Eastern Kentucky 18) Big Country Bluegrass: 'Quarry Road' / Track #6 / Hay Holler Records / 20 years of grass [end of hour 1] 19) IIIrd Tyme Out: 'A light at the river' / Track #6 / Chateau Music Group / Singing on streets of gold 20) Osborne Brothers: 'Driftwood on the river' / Track #2 / Pinecastle / Ernest Tubb song folio vol. 1 21) Allison Krauss: 'Gentle river' / Track #8 / Rounder / Too late to cry 22) Bill Monroe with Jimmy Martin: 'I’m on my way back to the old home' / Track #5 / Universal Music / The Father and the King 23) Rhonda Vincent: 'Is the grass any bluer' / Track #2 / Rounder / The storm still rages 24) Mike Bentley: 'Oh, Kentucky (Give me rest)' / Track #4 / Independent / [not yet released] 25) Audie Blaylock and Redline: 'Lonesome weary heart' / Track #3 / KBC Music / Prime cuts of bluegrass vol. 92> 26) James Reams & Walter Hensley: 'We’re the kind of people that make the jukebox play' / Track #6 / Mountain Redbird Music / Wild card 27) Clay Jones: 'The road to Columbus' / Track #4 / Rural Rhythm / Mountain traditional 28) Lighthouse: 'Those old memories' / Track #12 / Independent Release / Lighthouse: a California bluegrass band 29) Red Smiley & the Bluegrass Cut-ups: 'Big Sandy' / Track #10 / Rural Rhythm / Appalachian mountain bluegrass 30) Nashville Bluegrass Band: 'You’re driftin’ away'/ Track #4 / Rounder / To be His child 31) Riverbottom Bluegrass: 'Fifty cents worth of regular' / Track #3 / Independent Copy / [not released] 32) Pete Goble: 'Lovin’ ain’t been easy on my mind' / Track #9 / Independent Release / When I’m knee deep in bluegrass 33) The New Coon Creek Girls: 'The L&N don’t stop here anymore' / Track #3 / Pinecastle / The L&N don’t stop here anymore 34) Merle Haggard: 'Jimmie Rodgers blues' / Track #4 / McCoury Music, Inc. / The bluegrass sessions 35) Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe: 'Her memories bound to ride' / Track #1 / Copper Creek Records / The chain gang
BIB editor's note: As mentioned in our original post, Bob will be glad to receive CDs for possible airplay on 'Best of bluegrass'; send them to Bob Mitchell 5800 Coach Gate Wynde (309D) Louisville KY 40207 +1-502-897-0256