National Grandparents Day

National Grandparents Day

National Grandparents Day (in the U.S.A.) is observed on the first Sunday of September following Labor Day. Here are some song suggestions:

• Grandma’s Feather Bed
  • Williamson Branch “Branchin’ Out” (no label)
• Grandma’s Garden
  • New Tradition “Stand and Be Counted” (Mountain Home)
• Grandma’s Gift
  • Dale Ann Bradley “East Kentucky Morning” (Pinecastle)
• Grandma’s Hands
  • Tim O’Brien “Where the River Meets the Road” (Howdy Skies)
• Grandma’s Knee
  • Heidi and Ryan “Heidi and Ryan” (no label)
• Grandma’s Piano
  • The Family Sowell “Same Kind of Different” (no label)
• Grandpa
  • Highstrung “Now or Never” (Pinecastle)
  • The Farm Hands “Memories of Home” (Pinecastle)
• Grandpa John
  • The Osborne Brothers “1968-1974, Disk 4” (Bear Family)
• Grandpa’s Mandolin
  • IIIrd Tyme Out “Grandpa’s Mandolin” (Rebel)
• Grandpa Was a Carpenter
  • John Prine & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2” (Rounder)
  • Wayne Taylor “Dear Mom” (no label)
  • Lonesome Standard Time “Lonesome As It Gets” (Sugar Hill)
• I’m My Own Grandpa
  • David Grisman “Home is Where the Heart Is” (Rounder)
  • Lonzo and Oscar “Stars of the Grand Ole Opry” (no label)
  • Grandpa Jones “28 Greatest Hits” (Gusto)
• Lena Mae
  • Randy Kohrs “Old Photograph” (Rural Rhythm)
• Long Way from The Wildwood Flower
  • Sideline “Ups, Down and No Name Towns” (Mountain Home)
• My Grandparents’ House
  • Trisha Gagnon (Jam N’ Music)
• Satan and Grandma
  • The Grascals “The Famous Lefty Flynn’s” (Rounder)
• Tell It To Your Old Grandma
  • The Osborne Brothers “From Rocky Top to Muddy Bottom” (CMH)
• The Grandpa That I Know
  • Volume Five “Children of the Mountain” (Mountain Fever)
  • David Parmley & Continental Divide “On the Divide” (Pinecastle)
• The Kindest Man
  • Merle Monroe “Back to the Country” (Pinecastle)
• There’s More That Holds the Picture
  • Larry Sparks “Almost Home” (Rebel)

Or, play anything by GRANDPA JONES!