We’ll be careening back to 1982 when, among other things: “Family Ties,” starring Michael J. Fox and “Cheers,” starring Ted Danson, premiere on NBC TV; the first issue of USA Today is published; Epcot Center opens in Florida; Willie Nelson & Ricky Skaggs score CMA awards; George Thorogood and the Destroyers’ single “Bad to the Bone” climbs the charts; the world’s first commercially available CD player is released in Japan; and new projects by Ray Park, the Poetown Ramblers, and the Primitive Quartet take the bluegrass world by storm.
PROGRAM PLAYLIST
- Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass: “Darlin’ Nellie Across the Sea” from Pickin’ In Holland(Strictly Country)
- Patent Pending: “Everyday” from Straight From the Heart(Outlet)
- Ray Park: “Old Dick Potter” from Fiddletown(Sierra)
- The Poetown Ramblers: “The Grundy Flood of ‘77” from The Grundy Flood of ’77(Transworld)
- The Primitive Quartet: “Talking About That Old Time Religion” fromBecause He Loved Me(Wind Chime)
- The Pee Wee Pickers: “Jerusalem Ridge” from Gettin’ Goin’(self-released)
- The Marc Pruett Band: “Battle of New Orleans” from Center Stage Live(Marandee)
- Red Murphy & Co.: “Sweet Sweet Dixie” from Sweet Sweet Dixie(Arrandem)
- The Roustabouts: “Bluegrass Alive” from Bluegrass Alive(Lamon)
- Peter Rowan: “The Walls of Time’ from The Walls of Time(Sugar Hill)
- The Sally Mountain Gang: “Sun’s Coming Up In the Morning” from The Sun’s Coming Up(Stardust)
- Jean-Marie Redon: “Banjo 82” from Banjo 82(Paris Album)
- Earl Scruggs & Tom T. Hall: “The Engineers Don’t Wave From Trains Anymore” from The Storyteller and the Banjo Man(Columbia)
- Signal Mountain: “You Think You’ve Got Me” from Volume One(Grass Country)
- Emma Smith: “Hazard” from Hazard(Old Homestead)
- Smoketown Strut: “Hadicol Boogie” from Bluegrass Hangover(Racoon)
- Earl Snead & His Bionic 5: “Swanee River” from Switched-On Banjo(Alshire)
- Paul Smith: “Missouri” from Mysterious Barricades – The Banjo Redefined(Flying Fish)
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