Sam Bush Celebration on the Porch

Music From the Front Porch April 12, 2008

Sam Bush turns 56 on Sunday, April 13th and we are celebrating! Its a three hour look at Bush's career... and what we play this morning is only a small taste of the incredibly immense recording career of the "King of Newgrass". The full playlist for tomorrows show is available at wkms.org or via this direct link. You know Bush's musical talents aren't his only great trait... he's a baseball fan and more importantly he is a St. Louis Cardinals fan!

..::.. Official Sam Bush website
..::.. Sam Bush on Myspace
..::.. Sam Bush Biography at All Music Guide

Here's the playlist from todays birthday celebration:

1972 - Tut Taylor - "Midnight in Beanblossom" - Friar Tut
1975 - John Hartford - "In Tall Buildings" - Nobody Knows What You Do
1975 - New Grass Revival - "Skippin in the Mississippi Dew" - Fly Through the Country
1977 - New Grass Revival - "Four Days of Rain" - When the Storm is Over
1977 - New Grass Revival - "Crooked Smile" - When the Storm is Over
1977 - New Grass Revival - "High Lonesome Sound" - Too Late to Turn Back Now
1979 - New Grass Revival - "Crazy In The Night" - Barren County
1981 - New Grass Revival - "Pack of Fools" - Commonwealth
1982 - Bela Fleck - "Applebutter" - Natural Bridge
1982 - Peter Rowan - "Roving Gambler" - The Walls of Time
1983 - Dan Crary - "Cotton Patch" - Rag Guitar
1984 - Tony Rice - "Likes of Me" - Cold on the Shoulder
1984 - Doc Watson - "Hesitation Blues" - Down South
1984 - New Grass Revival - "White Freightliner Blues" - Live
1984 - Bela Fleck - "Nuns For Nixon" - Deviation
1984 - New Grass Revival - "One More Love Song" - On the Boulevard
1985 - Peter Rowan - "Goodbye Old Pal" - The First Whippoorwill
1985 - Sam Bush - "Leather Britches" - Late As Usual
1986 - John Prine - "Lulu Walls" - German Afternoons
1986 - Jerry Douglas - "Redhill" - Under the Wire
1986 - New Grass Revival - "Sweet Release" - New Grass Revival
1987 - John Hartford - "Way Down the River Road" - Gum Tree Canoe
1987 - New Grass Revival - "I Can Talk to You" - Hold to A Dream
1988 - Maura O'Connell - "Crazy Dreams" - Just In Time
1989 - Strength in Numbers - "Macedonia" - Telluride Sessions
1989 - New Grass Revival - "Angel Eyes" - Friday Night in America
1989 - New Grass Revival - "Let Me Be Your Man" - Friday Night in America
1989 - New Grass Revival - "You Plant Your Fields" - Friday Night in America
1989 - New Grass Revival - "Friday Night in America" - Friday Night in America
1989 - New Grass Revival - "Callin' Baton Rouge" - Friday Night in America
1989 - New Grass Revival - "Big Foot Friday" - Night in America
1988 - Tony Trischka - "Crossville Breakdown" - Dust on the Needle
1988 - David Grisman - "My Little Georgia Rose" - Home is Where the Heart Is
1989 - Guy Clark - "All Through Throwing Good Love After Bad" - Old Friends
1990 - Alison Krauss - "Dark Skies" - I've Got That Old Feeling
1991 - Mark O'Connor - "A Bowl of Bula" - New Nashville Cats
1992 - Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers - "Guess Things Happen That Way" - Live at the Ryman
1992 - Stuart Duncan - "Thai Clips" - Stuart Duncan
1993 - Claire Lynch - "Friends For A Lifetime (Song For Kegan)" - Friends For a Lifetime
1993 - Tony Rice - "This Morning at Nine" - Plays and Sings Bluegrass
1992 - Stuart Duncan - "The Passing" - Stuart Duncan
1996 - Sam Bush - "Same Ol' River - Glamour and Grits
1997 - Darrell Scott - "Spelling Bee Romance" - Aloha From Nashville
1997 - Buddy Miller - "Poison Love" - Poison Love
1998 - Sam Bush - "Howlin' At The Moon" - Howlin' At The Moon
1997 - Chris Thile - "Leaves Fall" - Stealing Second
2000 - Sam Bush - "Big Mon" - Ice Caps - Peaks of Telluride
2004 - Sam Bush - "Eight More Miles to Louisville" - King of My World
2006 - Sam Bush - "The Dolphin Dance" - Laps in Seven

... and now for some Sam Bush videos...