A 3-part series comparing and contrasting Bluegrass and African-American versions of the same gospel songs.
March 16-22: Uncloudy Day
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JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Uncloudy Day/Gospel Guitar (Shelton/95)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: Jesus Gave Me Water/Rock My Soul (Sugar Hill/81)
THE SOUL STIRRERS: Jesus Gave Me Water/Jesus Rocked the Jukebox (Concord/51)
B. B. KING: Take My Hand, Precious Lord/Best Gospel Blues (X5 Music Group/71)
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: Take My Hand, Precious Lord/Best of the Marshall Family (Rebel/78)
DOROTHY LOVE COATES & THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES: No Hiding Place/The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes (Specialty/55)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: No Hiding Place/To Be His Child (Rounder/85)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Every Humble Knee Must Bow/To Be His Child (Rounder/85)
THE DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS: Every Knee Surely Must Bow/The Gospel - 200 Gospel Greats (Digitalcdp/45)
THE DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS: Ezekiel Saw the Wheel/Best Of (MCA/47)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: Ezekiel Saw the Wheel/Heaven's Joy Awaits (Sugar Hill/87)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Crying Holy Unto the Lord/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Bear Family/40)
NORRIDGE MAYHAMS & THE BLUE CHIPS: Crying Holy Unto the Lord/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol. 5 (Smith & Co./36)
THE STAPLE SINGERS: Uncloudy Day/Jesus Rocked the Jukebox (Concord/56)
RALPH STANLEY: The Uncloudy Day/My All & All (Rebel/97)
THE STAPLE SINGERS: Swing Low Sweet Chariot/Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Vee-Jay/61)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS + Fiddle Ensemble (including Kenny Baker, Curly Ray Cline, Paul Warren, Gordon Terry, Howdy Forrester, Tex Logan, Tater Tate, others) & audience sing-a-long: Swing Low Sweet Chariot/Live At Bean Blossom (Bear Family/72)
KATHY KALLICK (BAND): I’ll Fly Away/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/01)
ETTA JAMES: I'll Fly Away/I’ll Fly Away: Gospel & Inspirational Favorites (Blaricum/83)
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March 23-29: Precious Memories
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SANDY ROTHMAN & STEVE POTTIER: Precious Memories/Bluegrass Guitar Duets (Tone Bar/91)
SWAN SILVERTONES: Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep/Jesus Rocked the Jukebox (Concord/59)
BLUE SKY BOYS: Oh, Sister Mary, Don't You Weep/On Radio. Vol. 2 (Copper Creek/46-7)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/04)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Precious Memories/Time (Live Oak/12)
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE & MARIE KNIGHT with THE SAM PRICE TRIO: Precious Memories/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol 5 (Smith & Co./47)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Up Above My Head/My Native Home (Rounder/85)
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE & MARIE KNIGHT with THE SAM PRICE TRIO: Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol 5 (Smith & Co./47)
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE & MARIE KNIGHT with THE SAM PRICE TRIO: Cain't No Grave Hold My Body Down/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol 5 (Smith & Co./47)
THE COOKE DUET: Ain't No Grave/Family Circle (Smitty's Tapes)67)
MAHALIA JACKSON: Keep Your Hand On The Plow/Live At Newport 1958 (Columbia/58)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Gospel Plow/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: I'll Be Rested/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
BLIND ROOSEVELT GRAVES: I'll Be Rested (When The Roll Is Called)/Blind Roosevelt Graves 1929-1936 (Document/36)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: This Little Light of Mine/Nearer My God To Thee (King/57)
SAM COOKE: This Little Light Of Mine/At the Copa (RCA/64)
ANDY HALL & ROOSEVELT COLLIER: This Little Light Of Mine/Let The Steel Play
SANDY ROTHMAN & STEVE POTTIER: Weeping Willow/Bluegrass Guitar Duets (Tone Bar/91)
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March 30 – April 5: I Am A Pilgrim
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KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Appalachian Swing! (Sierra/64)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Just A Little Talk With Jesus/1953-1958 & 1959 (Bear Family/55)
RED FOLEY & SISTER ROSETTA THARPE: Have Little Talk With Jesus/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol 1 (Smith & Co./55)
BECKY BULLER (with THE FAIRFIELD FOUR): Written In the Back Of the Book/Crepe Paper Heart (Dark Shadow/18)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND (with THE FAIRFIELD FOUR): Roll Jordan Roll/Home Of the Blues (Sugar Hill/91)
MOUND CITY JUBILEE QUARTETTE: I Am A Pilgrim/Vocal Quartets Vol 4 (Document/35)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Living In the Past (Sierra/64)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Touch the Hem Of His Garment/Memories That Bless And Burn (Rounder/99)
SOUL STIRRERS: Touch the Hem Of His Garmet/Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers (Concord/56)
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning/Dark Was the Night: 1927-1930 (Dark Was the Night/28)
HOT RIZE: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning/So Long Of A Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL: Jesus Is On the Main Line/Live 1971 (RockBeat/71)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Jesus On the Mainline/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
THE GOLDEN GATE QUARTET: It's Me, Oh Lord/The Best Of (Columbia/37?)
THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Standing In the Need of Prayer/Requests (Rounder/88)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: New Born Soul/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
THE GOSPEL WRITERS: New Born Soul/Memphis Gospel Quartet Heritage, The 1980s (Highwater/82?)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: I’ll Fly Away/Gospel Guitar (Shelton/00)
March 16-22: Uncloudy Day
theme -
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: Uncloudy Day/Gospel Guitar (Shelton/95)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: Jesus Gave Me Water/Rock My Soul (Sugar Hill/81)
THE SOUL STIRRERS: Jesus Gave Me Water/Jesus Rocked the Jukebox (Concord/51)
B. B. KING: Take My Hand, Precious Lord/Best Gospel Blues (X5 Music Group/71)
THE MARSHALL FAMILY: Take My Hand, Precious Lord/Best of the Marshall Family (Rebel/78)
DOROTHY LOVE COATES & THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES: No Hiding Place/The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes (Specialty/55)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: No Hiding Place/To Be His Child (Rounder/85)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Every Humble Knee Must Bow/To Be His Child (Rounder/85)
THE DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS: Every Knee Surely Must Bow/The Gospel - 200 Gospel Greats (Digitalcdp/45)
THE DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS: Ezekiel Saw the Wheel/Best Of (MCA/47)
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER: Ezekiel Saw the Wheel/Heaven's Joy Awaits (Sugar Hill/87)
BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Crying Holy Unto the Lord/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1936-1949 (Bear Family/40)
NORRIDGE MAYHAMS & THE BLUE CHIPS: Crying Holy Unto the Lord/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol. 5 (Smith & Co./36)
THE STAPLE SINGERS: Uncloudy Day/Jesus Rocked the Jukebox (Concord/56)
RALPH STANLEY: The Uncloudy Day/My All & All (Rebel/97)
THE STAPLE SINGERS: Swing Low Sweet Chariot/Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Vee-Jay/61)
BILL MONROE & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS + Fiddle Ensemble (including Kenny Baker, Curly Ray Cline, Paul Warren, Gordon Terry, Howdy Forrester, Tex Logan, Tater Tate, others) & audience sing-a-long: Swing Low Sweet Chariot/Live At Bean Blossom (Bear Family/72)
KATHY KALLICK (BAND): I’ll Fly Away/My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek/01)
ETTA JAMES: I'll Fly Away/I’ll Fly Away: Gospel & Inspirational Favorites (Blaricum/83)
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March 23-29: Precious Memories
theme –
SANDY ROTHMAN & STEVE POTTIER: Precious Memories/Bluegrass Guitar Duets (Tone Bar/91)
SWAN SILVERTONES: Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep/Jesus Rocked the Jukebox (Concord/59)
BLUE SKY BOYS: Oh, Sister Mary, Don't You Weep/On Radio. Vol. 2 (Copper Creek/46-7)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign/Warmer Kind Of Blue (Copper Creek/04)
KATHY KALLICK BAND: Precious Memories/Time (Live Oak/12)
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE & MARIE KNIGHT with THE SAM PRICE TRIO: Precious Memories/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol 5 (Smith & Co./47)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Up Above My Head/My Native Home (Rounder/85)
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE & MARIE KNIGHT with THE SAM PRICE TRIO: Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol 5 (Smith & Co./47)
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE & MARIE KNIGHT with THE SAM PRICE TRIO: Cain't No Grave Hold My Body Down/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol 5 (Smith & Co./47)
THE COOKE DUET: Ain't No Grave/Family Circle (Smitty's Tapes)67)
MAHALIA JACKSON: Keep Your Hand On The Plow/Live At Newport 1958 (Columbia/58)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: Gospel Plow/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: I'll Be Rested/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
BLIND ROOSEVELT GRAVES: I'll Be Rested (When The Roll Is Called)/Blind Roosevelt Graves 1929-1936 (Document/36)
LOUVIN BROTHERS: This Little Light of Mine/Nearer My God To Thee (King/57)
SAM COOKE: This Little Light Of Mine/At the Copa (RCA/64)
ANDY HALL & ROOSEVELT COLLIER: This Little Light Of Mine/Let The Steel Play
SANDY ROTHMAN & STEVE POTTIER: Weeping Willow/Bluegrass Guitar Duets (Tone Bar/91)
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March 30 – April 5: I Am A Pilgrim
theme –
KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Appalachian Swing! (Sierra/64)
THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Just A Little Talk With Jesus/1953-1958 & 1959 (Bear Family/55)
RED FOLEY & SISTER ROSETTA THARPE: Have Little Talk With Jesus/Great Black Gospel Hits, Vol 1 (Smith & Co./55)
BECKY BULLER (with THE FAIRFIELD FOUR): Written In the Back Of the Book/Crepe Paper Heart (Dark Shadow/18)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND (with THE FAIRFIELD FOUR): Roll Jordan Roll/Home Of the Blues (Sugar Hill/91)
MOUND CITY JUBILEE QUARTETTE: I Am A Pilgrim/Vocal Quartets Vol 4 (Document/35)
KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am A Pilgrim/Living In the Past (Sierra/64)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Touch the Hem Of His Garment/Memories That Bless And Burn (Rounder/99)
SOUL STIRRERS: Touch the Hem Of His Garmet/Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers (Concord/56)
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning/Dark Was the Night: 1927-1930 (Dark Was the Night/28)
HOT RIZE: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning/So Long Of A Journey (Sugar Hill/96)
MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL: Jesus Is On the Main Line/Live 1971 (RockBeat/71)
DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD: Jesus On the Mainline/Long Journey (Rounder/91)
THE GOLDEN GATE QUARTET: It's Me, Oh Lord/The Best Of (Columbia/37?)
THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Standing In the Need of Prayer/Requests (Rounder/88)
NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND: New Born Soul/To Be His Child (Rounder/87)
THE GOSPEL WRITERS: New Born Soul/Memphis Gospel Quartet Heritage, The 1980s (Highwater/82?)
JAMES ALAN SHELTON: I’ll Fly Away/Gospel Guitar (Shelton/00)