Bluegrass Breakdown: Tractors

They’re used on farms to plow, plant, disc, harrow, bush-hog, harvest and to complete a myriad of other tasks. A farmer’s love for them is second (most of the time anyway) only to the love he has for his wife. Thanks to Larry Sparks, the Country Gazette and Louisa Branscomb, we’ll see just how really close and precious that relationship between man and machine can be as we celebrate tractors.

PROGRAM PLAYLIST

• Larry Sparks: “John Deere Tractor” from John Deere Tractor(Rebel)
• The Country Gazette: “Sweet Allis Chalmers” from Hello Operator(Flying Fish)
• The Missisquoi River Band: “If My Girlfriend Was a Tractor” from Plenty of Heartaches(Missisquoi Music)
• Louisa Branscomb with Josh Williams: “Riding Double On My Old John Deere” from Gonna Love Anyway(Compass)
• Southern Rail: “Tractor Pull” from Voices In the Wind(Railway)
• Scott Beardsley & the Lost Travelers: “Daddy’s Old For Tractor and Me” from Scott Beardsley & the Lost Travelers(self-released)
• The Euphoria Stringband: “The John Deere Song” from Way Out West In Kansas(self-released)
• Feller & Hill: “What Will You Bid For My Old John Deere” from Feller & Hill and the Bluegrass Buckaroos(Blue Circle)
• Bobby Smith & the Boys From Shiloh: “Tractor For Sale” from Stop, Look, and Listen(Music City Workshop)
• The Pickin’ On Pickers (Cornbread Red): “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” from Pickin’ On Kenny Chesney(CMH)
• Korey Brodsky: “Backin Up the Tractor” from Cruizin’(self-released)
• The Lonesome River Band: “Down the Line” from Coming Back Home to You(Mountain Home)
• Cadillac Sky: “Beckett’s Back 40” from Talent Show(self-released)
• The New Lost City Ramblers: “Poor Old Dirt Farmer” from Where Do You Go?(Smithsonian/Folkways)
• Fred Eaglesmith & the Flathead Noodlers: “John Deere B” from Balin(Sweetwater Music)
• The Pickin’ On Pickers: “Man On a Tractor” from Pickin’ On Rodney Atkins(CMH)