The Grammy Awards launched the Best Bluegrass Album category in 1989. Bill Monroe won for Southern Flavor. A young banjo player named Bela Fleck was nominated for his album Drive. More than three decades later, Mr. Fleck won in 2022 for his epic My Bluegrass Heart instrumental masterwork. Just before we put together this show, the nominees were announced for the February 5, 2023 awards and the nominees included artists we love and albums we’ve been playing: the Infamous Stringdusters, Molly Tuttle, Peter Rowan, Del McCoury and Yonder Mountain String Band. We’ve sprinkled music from those nominees, not necessarily from the new recordings, in to shows #36 and 37. Yonder launches us this week with “I Just Can’t” from their 2022 album Get Yourself Outside, which is not hard advice to those from their Colorado mountain home base. Also in the hour, new music from Colorado’s Jake Leg and Breakin’ Strings from Maine. And we remember what it sounded like when Chris Stapleton was a
the phone. i told her before she went make sure you eat, make sure you don t drink too much. you don t need to get a dui and get in trouble like that. she promised to call him back later. if i m sleeping, don t worry about it. it s okay. wake me up. after all, thought marty, they were a couple again. it was his business to worry about her. and when she didn t call then i called her at 12:30 because i hadn t heard from her. i thought i d make sure everything is okay. if you don t won t call me back by 1:00 i didn t know whether she had gotten arrested or what was going on. okay. and then i thought i m going to go up there and see if she s okay, make sure she got home, make sure everything s okay. what time did you leave billings, do you recall? about 1:30-ish. time stamps said 1:39 a.m., so he drove, he said, calling and leaving voice messages for susie during the entire 220-mile trip.
he would authorize the use and the calling up of the national guard. then it becomes a chain of c command goes to the governor ora the mayor of a particular state or city and every single time almost even on january six , he approved twenty thousand troops, up to twenty thousand troops on january 4th and nancy pelosi didn t call him up and muriel bowser didn t call him up. to ask whywants didn t they ? because people vote have been kept safe the capital and safe that day. and i don t understand why there s reluctance to installation what s they didn t because it wouldn t work for their narrative if you could loot courthouses. i was told that that sd an insurrection when it went on for a year prior. but if they could show a divided america while donald trump was president, w w they cd actually blame that on him. yet all the perpetrators of those crimes, all of the cities that were that those things happenedth in all of the legislators that were in charge were all democratsts.
so that a foster child isn t doing it solo. you just have to stand up for a kid who isn t fluent in bureaucracy, or maybe not in their own emotions. so show up, however you can, misha katsurin, who owns a for the foster kids who need it most at helpfosterchildren.com restaurant in kyiv, was surprised that his father didn t call after the war started in the ukraine to make sure that he is okay. misha katsurin closed his restaurant, his wife and two children safely to hungry. then he relocated to a safer city west of give, after some time went by, still, his father had not called to check on him. and so, he called thought other, who lives in russia, and he discovered that his father had no idea that vladimir putin was waging war on ukraine.
civilians are not going to be affected. putin was very clear. this is a very limited military operation being conducted by the local militias of these two break away republics. it s clear the majority of russians don t know the extent of what s happening here, and certainly some of them don t want to know. that s always my question. i talked to a composer yesterday who has a cousin who didn t even call him or his mother to see how they were doing after the invasion, in fact didn t call for three days. and when he did call, the invasion was not on his mind. he was just calling and doesn t believe what is going on here. well, i mean, putin and the russian government have been preparing the ground for this for such a long time. they ve been preparing the ground for media control and media domination that was more or less completely almost completely achieved last friday when the last remaining independent media were taken off the air, the websites taken down, banned, and those that