Memorial Day Weekend

Here are a few songs to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving our country. Also included are a few songs about remembering those who have gone before us.

  • 640 Battlefield Drive
    • Nu-Blu “Vagabonds” (Voxhall)
  • A Folded Flag
    • Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers “For the Record” (Billy Blue)
  • A Hero in Harlan
    • Tom T. Hall “Sings Miss Dixie and Tom T.” (Blue Circle)
  • Annie’s Boy
    • Larry Sparks “New Moon Over My Shoulder” (Rebel)
  • Another Soldier
    • Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road “True Grass” (Pinecastle)
  • Arlington
    • Tim Raybon (single/Pinecastle)
  • A Soldier’s Prayer
    • Mountain Heart “Force of Nature” (Skaggs Family Records)
  • A Soldier’s Last Request
    • Rick Lang featuring Trey Hensley “A Tale to Tell” (Dark Shadow)
  • Between the Devil and the Deep
    • Band of Ruhks “Band of Ruhks” (101 Ranch)
  • Blood Red Roses
    • Joe Ross “Festival Time Again” (no label)
  • Bouquet in Heaven (When It’s Decoration Day Up in Heaven)
    • Flatt and Scruggs “1948-1959, Disk 1” (Bear Family)
    • J.D. Crowe and the New South “Flashback” (Rounder)
  • Casualty of War
    • Larry Sparks “The Last Suit You Wear” (McCoury Music)
  • Decoration Day
    • Sandy Shortridge “The End” (no label)
  • Down Where the River Bends
    • Ralph Stanley & Dwight Yoakum “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning” (Rebel)
    • Old & In the Way “Breakdown: Live Recordings 1973” (Acoustic Disk)
    • Red Allen, David Grisman, Herb Pederson, etc. “Bluegrass Reunion” (Acoustic Disk)
    • The Osborne Brothers “Detroit to Wheeling” (Pinecastle)
    • J. D. Crowe “Bluegrass Holiday” (Rebel)
  • Faded Coat of Blue
    • Dry Branch Fire Squad “Tried and True” (Rounder)
    • Suzanne Thomas “Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts” (Rounder)
  • Folded Up Flag
    • Eddie Sanders “Walking in Those Shoes” (Engelhardt)
  • Forgotten Men
    • Don Reno, Red Smiley and the Tennessee Cutups “1951-1959” (King)
  • Forgotten Soldier Boy
    • The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover “Bluegrass at the Roots” (Smithsonian/Folkways)
  • God Bless the Soldier
    • Rhonda Vincent “All American Bluegrass Girl” (Rounder)
  • Gold Star Mother
    • Aaron Bibelhouser “Wyoming Child” (no label)
  • Hawk
    • Chatham County Line “Tightrope” (Yep Roc)
  • Heroes
    • The Bressler Brothers “Heroes” (Shan Co-Mo Records, Prime Cuts Volume 51)
  • Home “The Soldiers Song”
    • New River Line “I’m Movin’ On” (Kindred Records)
  • Home to You
    • Chris Luquette “The Way I View the World” (no label)
  • Jericho
    • Mile Twelve “City on a Hill” (Delores the Taurus)
  • Journey of a Soldier
    • Shawn Lane ” I Met the Man” (Cat Town)
  • Lost Soldier Son
    • Chris Brashears “Wanderlust” (Copper Creek)
  • Luckiest Man Alive
    • The Nashville Bluegrass Band “Twenty Year Blues” (Sugar Hill)
  • Me and John and Paul
    • The Grascals (Rounder)
  • More Than a Name on the Wall
    • Dailey & Vincent “Dailey & Vincent” (Rounder)
  • Prayer from Home
    • Brand New Strings “No Strings Attached” (Rural Rhythm)
  • Promise to a Soldier
    • Honi Deaton & Dream “Promise to a Soldier” (Chateau Music Group)
  • Purple Heart
    • Red Allen & The Kentuckians “Bluegrass Country” (County)
    • Curly Seckler “Bluegrass, Don’t You Know” (Copper Creek)
    • Jim & Jesse “1952-1955” (Bear Family)
  • Remembering
    • The Grascals “Keep on Walkin'” (Rounder)
  • Reveille Time in Heaven
    • Mac Wiseman “Bluegrass Hits and Heartaches” (Rebel)
  • Riding with Private Malone
    • James King “Three Chords and the Truth” (Rounder)
  • Searching For a Soldier’s Grave
    • The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “Toil, Tears, Trouble” (Rounder)
  • Soldier Song
    • Mountain Fever “Blue” (Mountain Fever)
  • Something About a Soldier
    • Leona Williams, Ron Williams and the Bluegrass Martins “Travel Down This Road with Me” (Loveshine)
  • Summer’s Last Dance
    • Valerie Smith “Patchwork Heart” (Bell Buckle)
  • The Last Parade
    • Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers “Another Day from Life” (Rebel)
  • The Rocket
    • Blue Moon Rising “After All This Time” (Mountain Fever)
  • There’s Something About a Soldier
    • Leona Williams, Ron Williams and the Bluegrass Martins “Travel Down This Road With Me” (Loveshine)
  • This is My Son
    • Cherryholmes “Cherryhomes III: Don’t Believe” (Skaggs Family)
  • Those Boots
    • The Roys “Those Boots” (Rural Rhythm)
  • Til They Come Home
    • Rhonda Vincent “All American Bluegrass Girl” (Rounder)
  • Twentieth Century Drifter (for the Indy 500, which is always on Memorial Day weekend.)
    • Marty Robbins “Good and Country” (MCA)
  • Two Soldiers
    • Blue Highway “Through the Window of a Train” (Rounder)
  • Walking Up This Hill on Decoration Day
    • Don Rigsby “Doctor’s Orders” (Rebel)
  • Welcome Home
    • Dailey & Vincent “The Gospel Side of Dailey and Vincent” (Cracker Barrel)
  • When the Roses Bloom Again
    • Mac Wiseman “Bluegrass Hits and Heartaches” (Rebel)
  • Where Good Daddies Go
    • Donna Hughes “From the Heart” (Running Dog)
  • Will You Fold My Flag for Me
    • Flashback “Blues Around My Cabin” (Pinecastle)
  • With Love from Normandy
    • Marshall “Brink” Brinkman “On the Brink of a Dream” (no label)
  • Wrap My Body in Old Glory When I Die
    • The Osborne Brothers “Dayton to Knoxville” (Pinecastle)