Bluegrass Breakdown: Cheap Things

On its good side, it’s a word that means something that’s worth more than its cost.. On its bad side, it can mean something of inferior quality or someone who is stingy or deserving of contempt. With the able assistance of the Gibson Brothers, Blue Highway and Bill Monroe, we’ll be looking, of course, at that bad side and exploring the cheap underbelly of BluegrassLand.

PROGRAM PLAYLIST

• Springfield Exit: “The Cheapest Kind” from Cracker Barrel Presents Springfield Exit(Cracker Barrel)
• Blue Highway: “Talk Is Cheap” from The Game(Rounder)
• The Gibson Brothers: “Talk Is Cheap” from Long Forgotten Dream(Hay Holler)
• Nathan Blake Lynn: “Cheap Country Fur Sale” from Who Said the World’s Fair?(PH Balanced Recordings)
• The Pickin’ On Pickers: “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” from Back In Bluegrass – The Bluegrass Tribute to AC/DC(CMH)
• Bill Monroe: “Cheap Love Affair” from 1959-1969(Bear Family)
• One Riot One Ranger: “Cheap and On the Fly” from Flat City Nights(Hayden’s Ferry)
• Hot Rize: “I Long for the Hills” from Radio Boogie(Flying Fish)
• Flatt & Scruggs: “Bummin’ an Old Freight Train” from 1964-1969(Bear Family)
• Dawn Kenney: “Broken Dreams Sell Cheap” from Sing Me Home(Heart Roots Music)
• The Pickin’ On Pickers: “Cheap Sunglasses” from Pickin’ On ZZ Top(CMH)
• Hayseed Dixie: “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” from Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC(DTR)
• The Seldom Scene: “Cheap Whiskey” from Like We Used to Be(Sugar Hill)
• The Del McCoury Band: “Cheap Mike” from Del and Woody(McCoury Music)
• Jimmy Martin: “The Last Song” from Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys(Bear Family)
• The Dixie Flyers: “Cheaper to Lease” from Cheaper to Lease(Boot)