Bluegrass Breakdown: Gravel, Part One

They’re small fragments of rock used for the beds of roads and railroads. While they can be an irritant when some gets in your shoe, or worse, sheer misery when you have to make them out of big rocks with a sledgehammer, living on a road made of the same is sheer heaven. With the able assistance of the Lost & Found, Farm Hands, Norman Blake & Tony Rice, and Doyle Lawson we’ll be scratching gravel.

PROGRAM PLAYLIST

• The Charlie Sizemore Band: “Gravel Road” from Gravel Road(Rutabaga)
• Blake & Rice: “Ridge Road Gravel” from Blake & Rice(Rounder)
• The Farm Hands: “This Old Gravel Road” from Better Than I Deserve(Pinecastle)
• Lost & Found: “Travelin’ Down a Gravel Road” from It’s About Time(Rebel)
• Mike Havens & Blue Mountain Grass: “Cabin Up an Old Gravel Road” from Songs of Hooten Holler(self-released)
• The Piper Road String Band: “Gravel Chub Polka” from Sparks Fly(Fiends Club)
• Willie Wells & Blue Ridge Mountain Express: “Gravel In My Shoe” from Gravel In My Shoe(self-released)
• New Dominion Bluegrass: “Gravel in Your Shoe” from I Just Close My Eyes(Hay Holler)
• Doyle Lawson: “In the Gravel Yard” from Never Walk Away(Sugar Hill)
• The Backwoods String Band: “Rocks and Gravel” from Jes Fine(Rounder)
• Darol Anger: “The Gravel Shore” from E and A(Adventure Music America)
• Armando Zuppa: “Gravel and Gravity” from Zupperman(self-released)
• Cumberland Gap Connection: “Gravel Springs” from Grandpa’s Swing(self-released)
• Bill Clifton: “Blue Ridge Mountain Blues” from The Early Years(Rounder)
• Gravel Road Acoustic Trio: “Old Joe Clark” from Where We Belong(self-released)
• The Gravel Yard Bluegrass Band: “Train 45” from The Gravel Yard Bluegrass Band(self-released)
• Armando Zuppa: “Gravel and Gravity” from Zupperman(self-released)