Bluegrass Breakdown: Veils And Curtains, Part Two

They’re hanging movable screens usually made out of cloth that serve as to veil what’s behind them. But in BluegrassLand, they’re usually used in a metaphorical sense. Thanks to the contributions of Special Consensus, the Dry Branch Fire Squad, Free Range Pickin’ and Ralph Stanley, we’ll be pulling back the curtains of sorrow, the curtains of night, curtains of iron and curtains of time.

PROGRAM PLAYLIST

• Widow Maker: “Long Black Veil” from live Bluegrass Breakdown session
• Lizzy Long: “Final Curtain” from Dreaming Again(Vine)
• Jim Eanes & His Shenandoah Valley Boys: “Curtains of Sorrow” from Bluegrass Early Cuts, 1931-1953(JSP)
• The Dry Branch Fire Squad: “Bill Monroe Through the Crack In the Curtains” / “Shine Hallelujah Shine” from Live at the Newburyport Firehouse(Rounder)
• Special Consensus: “Purple Curtains” from A Hole In My Heart(Turquoise)
• Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin: “Curtains of Night” from Our Town(Rounder)
• Ralph Stanley: “I’ll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers” from 1971-1973(Rebel)
• Virgil Hardin: “The Curtain” from Essence of Love(self-released)
• Amanda Cook: “Curtains” from Narrowing the Gap(Mountain Fever)
• Section House: “Veil of Questions” from Section House(Mountain Fever)
• The Johnson Mountain Boys: “Iron Curtain” from Favorites(Rounder)
• Jim Eanes: “They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain” from Jim Eanes & His Shenandoah Valley Boys(Bear Family)
• The Primitive Quartet: “Curtain of Time” from Live At Hominy Valley II(Dawn)
• Jeff Parker: “When the Last Curtain Falls” from Jeff Parker & Company(Lonesome Day)
• Tut Taylor: “Long Black Veil” from 12 String Dobro(World Pacific)