Bluegrass Breakdown: 1980, Part Five

We’ll be jaunting back to the bluegrassical world of 1980 when, in June of that year: the movie “The Blues Brothers, starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi premieres; the David Letterman Show debuts on NBC TV; the Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn score at the 14th Annual Music City News Country Awards; President Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for re-nomination; New York City raises its transit fare from 40 to 60 cents and Carl Jackson, Jim & Jesse, Bill Keith & Jim Rooney & the Knoxville Grass ride high on the high-lonesome airwaves.

Program Playlist

• Dan Huckabee: “Green Leaves of Summer” fromAcoustic Steel(Ridge Runner)
• Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn: “Mississippi Shore” from River of Swing(Flying Fish)
• The Humber River Valley Boys: “Between the Lines” from They Said It Couldn’t Be Done(Boot)
• Carl Jackson: “Banjo Man/Foogy Mountain Breakdown” from Banjo Man – A Tribute to Earl Scruggs(Sugar Hill)
• Jim & Jesse: “Anna” from Jesse’s Guitar Picking Showcase(Double J Productions)
• Jim & Jesse: “Rider In the Rain” from Jim & Jesse Today(CMH)
• Jim & Jesse: “Drifting and Dreaming of You” from The Jim & Jesse Story(CMH)
• Bill Keith & Jim Rooney: “Pickin’ On the Country Strings” from The Collection(Waterfront)
• Knoxville Grass: “Boogie Bluegrass Band” from Live at Buddy’s(Vasari)
• Kenny Kosek & Matt Glaser: “K Town Fling” from Hasty Lonesome(Rounder)
• Ladies Choice: “La Porte Dans Arriere (The Back Door)” from Any Old Time(Bay)
• Denis Lepage & Station Road: “My Uncle” from At the Cowboy Arms Hotel(Boot)
• The Lewis Family: “Good Time Get Together” from Good Time Get Together(Canaan)
• Wayne Lewis: “Lonesome and Blue” from Lonesome and Blue(Old Homestead)
• Kenny Kosek & Matt Glaser: “Lonesome Fiddle Blues” from Hasty Lonesome(Rounder)