How’s the Weather?

Here are some songs that might be appropriate when the weather turns bad … or good!

General Weather Songs:

• Angry Weather
  • Sarah Chapman “Winnegago” (no label)
• Bad Weather
  • Claybank “No Escape” (Mountain Fever)
• Breaking on the Jimmy Ridge
  • Larry Cordle (Mighty Cord Records)
• Can’t Trust the Weatherman
  • Cadillac Sky “Blind Man Walking” (Skaggs Family Records)
• Earth, Water, Wind and Fire
  • New Grass Revival “On the Boulevard” (Sugar Hill)
• Fair Weather
  • Alison Brown (with Vince Gill) “Fair Weather” (Compass)
• More Bad Weather on the Way
  • Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers “Rare Bird Alert” (Rounder)
• New November (a song about climate change)
  • Thomas Cassell (Voyager)
• Pretty Little Weather Girl
  • Mitch McCollum “Just a Workin’ Fool” (Mitchikambo)
• The Weatherman
  • Jeff Parker & Company (single/615 Hideaway)
• Weather’s Gonna Change
  • Rich in Tradition “Black Mountain Special” (Mountain Roads)

Rain:

• Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’
  • The Osborne Brothers “1956-1968, Disc 2” (Bear Family)
• And the Rain Came Down
  • Fireside Collective “Across the Divide” (Mountain Home)
• April Showers
  • Dalton Harper (Skyline/single)
• Between the Lightning and the Rain
  • Justin Moses “Fall Like Rain” (Mounain Fever)
• Big Blue Raindrops
  • Del McCoury Band “Streets of Baltimore” (McCoury Music)
  • Josh Slone and Coal Town (Rural Rhythm)
• Blue Blue Rain
  • Jerry Salley “The Songwriter” (Very Jerry)
• Cold Old Rainy Day
  • The Grass Cats “A Good Way to Get the Blues” (New Time)
• Cold Sheets of Rain
  • The Virginia Squires “The Best of …” (Rebel)
  • Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band (Rebel)
• Early Morning Rain
  • Tony Rice “Me and My Guitar” (Rounder)
• Help Pour Out the Rain
  • Buddy Jewell “Bluebonnet Hightway” (no label)
• Five More Days of Rain
  • Blue Moon Rising “One Lonely Shadow” (Lonesome Day)
• Here Comes the Flood
  • Dailey & Vincent “Patriots & Poets” (BFD)
• It Rains Everywhere I Go
  • Lynn Morris “Mama’s Hand” (Rounder)
• It’s Raining in L.A.
  • Third Tyme Out “Letter to Home” (Rounder)
• It’s Raining Here This Morning
  • The Dillards “Backporch Bluegrass” (Elektra)
  • Ralph Stanley II “Pretty Girls, City Lights” (Rebel)
• January Rain
  • The Lost & Found “January Rain” (Rebel)
• Just a Little Rain
  • Ray Cardwell “Rising Sun” (Bonfire)
• Let It Rain
  • Donna Ulisse “An Easy Climb” (Hadley Music Group)
• Listening to the Rain
  • The Osborne Brothers “Once More” (Sugar Hill)
  • Mike Mitchell “Small Town” (no label)
• Little Rain
  • Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band (Rebel)
• Looks Like Rain
  • The Front Porch String Band “Lines and Traces” (Rebel)
• On This Rainy Day
  • Wayne Taylor on the Jimmy Gaudreau album “In Good Company” (CMH)
• Pockets Full of Rain
  • Kathy Kallick Band “Horrible World” (Live Oak)
• Pray for Rain
  • Indigo Roots Band/self-titled album (no label)
• Rain
  • Clay Hess “Rain” (Kang)
  • The Lost and Found “Across the Blue Ridge Mountains” (Rebel)
  • Valerie Smith “Wash Away Your Troubles” (Bell Buckle)
  • Tim Stafford “Endless Time” (FGM)
• Rain Please Go Away
  • Alison Krauss and Union Station “Lonely Runs Both Ways” (Rounder)
  • Larry Stephenson “Everytime I Sing a Love Song” (Webco)
• Rainin’ on Her Rubber Dolly
  • Joe Diffie “Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album” (Rounder)
• Raining in Roanoke
  • Carolina Blue “Take Me Back” (Billy Blue)
• Rainmaker
  • Peter Rowan “Dust Bowl Children” (Sugar Hill)
  • Northern Lights “Can’t Buy Your Way” (Flying Fish)
• Rain Won’t Quit
  • Billy Droze “To Whom It May Concern” (Rural Rhythm)
• Rainy Nights and Memories
  • Brand New Strings “No Strings Attached” (Rural Rhythm)
• Ready for Bluer Skies
  • Amanda Cook “Changes” (Mountain Fever)
• Rythm of the Rain
  • Larry Stephenson “Every Time I Sing a Love Song” (Webco)
• Sad Rainy Day
  • Janet Beazley “5 South” (Backcountry)
• Saint Vrain
  • Finders and Youngberg (FY5) “Eat the Moon” (Swingfingers)
• So Many Rainy Days
  • Kristi Cox “No Headlights” (Mountain Home)
• The World Needs a Washin (so Why Shouldn’t It Rain?)
  • The Little Roy and Lizzy Show (Mountain Home)
• Too Wet to Plow
  • Carolina Blue “Take Me Back” (Billy Blue)
• Walk Out in the Rain
  • Ronnie and Rob McCoury (Rounder)
• When It Rains
  • Lou Reid “When It Rains” (Sugar Hill)
• and of course, play anything by Carrie Hassler and HARD RAIN

Wind:

• As Long As The Wind Blows
  • Jim & Jesse “The Jim and Jesse Show” (Old Dominion)
• Big Wind
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver “Lonely Street” (Rounder)
  • Bass Mountain Boys “Love of a Woman” (Rebel)
• Blue Lonesome Wind
  • Auldridge, Bennett & Gaudreau “Blue Lonesome Wind” (Rebel)
• Bring On the Wind
  • Billy Droze “Waiting Out the Storm” (RBR Entertainment)
• Chilly Winds
  • The Spinney Brothers “Memories” (Mountain Fever)
• Cold Wind
  • Joe Val “Diamond Joe” (Rounder)
  • David Peterson & 1946 “David Peterson & 1946” (no label)
  • The Circuit Riders “Let the Ride Begin” (Pinecastle)
  • Mile Twelve & Billy Strings (single/Delores the Taurus)
• Cold and Windy Night
  • Johnson Mountain Boys “Requests” (Rounder)
• Cruel Wind and Rain
  • Jim Lauderdale “Reason and Rhyme” (Sugar Hill)
• The Devil is a Mighty Wind
  • Robin and Linda Williams “The Rhythm of Love” (Sugar Hill)
• Dreadful Wind and Rain
  • Jerry Garcia “Shady Grove” (Acoustic Disc)
• Four Strong Winds
  • Tony Rice “Me and My Guitar” (Rounder)
• Hear the Wind Blow
  • Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs “1959-1963, Disc 1” (Bear Family)
• In The Pines
  • Bill Monroe (complete with wind sound effects) “Bluegrass 1950-1958 Disc 2” (Bear Family)
  • Many other artists have recorded this song as well, including the Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, The Seldom Scene, etc.
• Lonesome Wind Blows
  • The Bluegrass Album Band “The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2” (Rounder)
• Lonesome Wind Blues
  • Reno & Smiley “Bluegrass 1959-1969, Disk 1” (Starday)
• Something in the Wind
  • The Seldom Scene “Act Four” (Rebel)
• Windy Mountain
  • Tim O’Brien “Where the River Meets the Road” (Virtual Label Group)
  • Doug Dillard Band “Heartbreak Hotel” (Flying Fish)
  • Longview “High Lonesome” (Rebel)
• There a Cold Wind Blowin’
  • Country Gentlemen “The Early Rebel Recordings 1962-1971” (Rebel)
  • Ronnie Bowman “Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey” (Smithsonian)
• They Call the Wind Maria
  • Bobby Osborne “Original” (Compass)

Flood:

• Don’t Wash Away Our Home
  • Appalachian Smoke (single/Mountain Fever)
• Here Comes the Flood
  • Dailey & Vincent “Patriots & Poets” (BFD)
• Muddy Water
  • Seldom Scene “Act Three” (Rebel) and “Scene 20” (Sugar Hill)
  • Osborne Brothers “Nashville” (Pinecastle)
  • David Davis and the Warrior River Boys “Troubled Times” (Rebel)
• The Flood
  • Highland Grass on Prime Cuts Vol. 88
• The Flood of 2010
  • Thomm Jutz (Mountain Home)
• Saint Vrain (about the 2013 flood in Lyons, CO)
  • Finders and Youngberg (FY5) “Eat the Moon” (Swingfingers)
• River of Death
  • Bill Monroe “Bluegrass 1950-1958 Disc 1” (Bear Family)
  • The Bluegrass Album Band “The Bluegrass Compact Disc Vol. 2” (Rounder)
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver “Rock My Soul” (Sugar Hill)
• Stormy Waters
  • Jimmy Martin “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” (Gusto)
  • The Special Consensus “25th Anniversary” (Pinecastle)
  • Joe Val “Diamond Joe” (Rounder)
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver “School of Bluegrass” (Sugar Hill)
• Drifting With The Tide
  • Don Reno & Red Smiley “Early Years 1951-1959 Disc 1” (Starday)
  • Ronnie Reno “In Concert” (Shell Point)
  • Ronnie Bowman “Cold Virginia Night” (Rebel)
• Roll Muddy River
  • Osborne Brothers “1956-1968, Disc 4” (Bear Family)
  • The Grascals “Long List of Heartaches” (Rounder)
  • Paul Brewster “Everybody’s Talkin'” (Ceili)
• Roll On Muddy River
  • Chris Hillman and the Hillmen “The Hillmen” (Sugar Hill)
• The Flood on Stoney Creek
  • Mickey Harris “Find My Way” (no label)
• The Lonesome River
  • Stanley Brothers “The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys 1949-1952” (Bear Family)
  • This song has been recorded by Ralph Stanley, Bob Dylan, Doyle Lawson and many others.
• Buffalo Creek Flood
  • James Reams (based on a 2/26/72 disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. 125 people died) “Barnstormin'” (no label)
• Nelson County Flood
  • Fall Line Bluegrass Band “New Day Dawning” (no label)

Hurricanes, Tornados, Storms:

• Camille
  • Caleb Bailey (single/no label) Song is about Hurricane Camille (1969) which hit Nelson County Virginia killing more than 100 people.
• Carolina Hurricane
  • Carolina Road “Carolina Hurricane” (Rural Rhythm)
• Coast of Carolina
  • Thomm Jutz “Crazy If You Let It” (Mountain Fever)
• Hurricane
  • Phil Rosenthal “A Matter of Time” (Sierra)
• Hurricane Elena
  • Larry Rice “Hurricanes and Daydreams” and “If You Only Knew: The Best of Larry Rice” (Rebel)
• It’s Hard to Run Away from the Storm
  • Larry Rice “Hurricanes and Daydreams” (Rebel)
• Like A Hurricane
  • Chris Hillman “Like a Hurricane” (Sugar Hill)
• March 2, 2012 (date of a devastating Kentucky tornado)
  • Turning Ground “March 2, 2012” (no label).
• Midnight on the Stormy Deep
  • Bill Monroe “Country Music Hall of Fame” (MCA)
  • Tony Rice “Manzanita” (Rounder)
  • Dry Branch Fire Squad “Just for the Record” (Rounder)
• Storm
  • Blue Highway “Sounds of Home” (Rounder)
• Stormy Night
  • John Cowan on “I’ll Take Love: from the pen of Louisa Branscomb” (Compass)
• Storm Over Oklahoma
  • Byron Berline and Sundance “Byron Berline and Sundance” (MCA)
  • BCH “Chambergrass” (Sugar Hill)
• Stormy Weather Once Again
  • Joe Diffie “Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album” (Rounder)
• The Storms Are On The Ocean
  • Carter Family “Anchored in Love: The Complete Victor Recordings” (Rounder)
  • Flatt & Scruggs “1959-1963 Disc 2” (Bear Family)
  • Alison Krauss w/ Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs & Ricky Skaggs “The Three Pickers” (Rounder)
  • Bryan Sutton “Bluegrass Guitar” (Sugar Hill)
  • Front Country “Other Love Songs” (Organic)
• Tennessee Twister
  • Dave Adkins “Nothing to Lose” (Mountain Fever)
• Thunder Clouds of Love
  • Hylo Brown & his Timberliners “1954-1960” (Bear Family)
  • Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike “That’s What Love Can Do” (Bell Buckle)
• Topeka Twister
  • Rick Faris “Uncommon Sky” (Dark Shadow)
• Twister
  • Mountain Heart “Force of Nature” (Skaggs Family)
  • Sideline “Breaks to the Edge” (Mountain Home)
• Twister (instrumental)
  • Lynn Morris Band “You’ll Never Be the Sun” (Rounder)
• Waiting Out the Storm
  • Billy Droze “Waiting Out the Storm” (RBR Entertainment)
• When the Storm is Over
  • New Grass Revival “When the Storm is Over” (Flying Fish)

Cold:

• Colder and Colder
  • Volume Five “Voices” (Mountain Fever)
• Colder December
  • Blue Moon Rising “Blue Side of the Moon” (no label)
• Cold Spell
  • Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen “Cold Spell” (Compass)
• Cold Frosty Morn
  • Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum “Winter’s Grace” (Dog Boy)
• Cold in Carolina
  • Junior Sisk and Rambler’s Choice “Poor Boy’s Pleasure” (Mountain Fever)
• Cold and Lonely
  • Clay Hess Band (Pinecastle)
  • The Chapmans “Simple Man” (Pinecastle)
• Cold Old Rainy Day
  • The Grass Cats “A Good Way to Get the Blues” (New Time)
• Ice Covered Birches
  • Cliff Waldron and the New Shades of Grass “Traveling Light” (Rebel)
• Ice on the Timber
  • Cedar Hill “Write Bill a Letter” (Nickeltown)
• It Sure Gets Cold This Time of Year
  • Ralph Stanley II “Pretty Girls City Lights” (Rebel)
• Keep Your Memory Warm
  • Carrie Hassler “The Distance” (Rural Rhythm)
• Long Cold Winter
  • David Crow “As the Crow Flies” (Pinecastle)

Hot:

• 100 Degrees in the Shade
  • Breaking Grass “Somewhere Beyone” (Mountain Fever)
• A Hundred and Ten in the Shade
  • The Seldom Scene “Scenechronized” (Sugar Hill)
• Hot Day in August
  • Gary Ferguson “I’m Really Leaving” (Webco)
• It’s Just Too Hot for Words
  • Spectrum “Too Hot for Words” (Rounder)

Drought:

• Pray for Rain
  • Blue Mafia “Pray for Rain” (Pinecastle)
• We Need Rain
  • Brush Arbor “2” (Capitol)

Fire:

• Pray for Rain
  • Blue Mafia “Pray for Rain” (Pinecastle)
• Fire on the Mountain
  • Various Artists
• The Devil’s Broom
  • Shannon Slaughter “Hold On to Your Heart” (Elite Circuit)

Snow:

• April Snow
  • Northern Lights “Take You to the Sky” (Flying Fish)
• At the First Fall of Snow
  • Longview “Deep in the Mountains” (Rounder)
• Cold and Lonely
  • The Chapmans “Simple Man” (Pinecastle)
• Footprints in the Snow
  • Bill Monroe (Various albums)
• Half an Inch of Snow
  • Damian Muller “You’ve Still Got It” (Thornbriar Music)
• Snow
  • Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford “Dogwood Winter” (Rural Rhythm)
• Snowflakes
  • Kathy Kallick Band “Foxhounds” (Live Oak)
• The Snow
  • Kathy Kallick “Between the Hollow and the High Rise” (Live Oak)
• When the Bluegrass is Covered with Snow
  • The Boxcars “Familiar with the Ground” (Mountain Home)
• When the Snow Falls on my Foggy Mountain Home
  • Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers “They’re Playing My Song” (Rebel)
  • Dave Evans “Bluegrass Memories” (Rebel)
• When Snow Falls on the Bluegrass
  • Cody Shuler and Pine Mountain Railroad (Steeltown)
• The Fallen Snow
  • David Parmley and Continental Divide

Earthquake:

• California Earthquake
  • The Seldom Scene “The New Seldom Scene Album” (Rebel)
• California Earthquake (Hartford)
  • John Hartford “Catalogue” (Flying Fish)
  • Sam Bush “Radio John” (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sunshine:

• Fair Weather
  • Alison Brown (Vince Gill, vocal) “Fair Weather” (Compass)
• Hello Sunshine
  • Merle Monroe (single/Pinecastle)
• Out Comes the Sun
  • The Grascals “The Famous Lefty Flynn’s” (Rounder)
• Sun’s Gonna Shine on My Back Door Some Day
  • Flatt and Scruggs (Various Albums)
  • Lost and Found “Sun’s Gonna Shine” (Rebel)
• Sunny Side of the Mountain
  • Jimmy Martin and his “Sunny” Mountain Boys (Various Albums)
• Sunshine
  • Jonathan Edwards and the Seldom Scene “Blue Ridge” (Sugar Hill)
• The Sunshine Song
  • Lindley Creek “Freedom, Love and the Open Road” (Pinecastel)

Moonshine (not the liquid kind):

• Bad Moon Rising
  • The Seldom Scene “Dream Scene” (Sugar Hil)
• Blue Moon of Kentucky
  • Bill Monroe (Various Albums) and many other artists as well.
• Cajun Moon
  • Ricky Skaggs “Country Hits, Bluegrass Style” (Skaggs Family/Cracker Barrel)
• Carolina Moon
  • Lou Reid & Terry Baucom “Carolina Moon” (Rebel
• Footprints in the Snow (ie. “I went out to see her, There was a big round moon”)
  • Bill Monroe (Various Albums)
• Fool’s Moon
  • David Peterson & 1946 “In the Mountaintops to Roam” (no label)
• Howlin’ at the Moon
  • Sam Bush “Howlin’ at the Moon” (Sugar Hill)
• I Saw Your Face In the Moon
  • Mac Wiseman “24 Greatest Hits” (Tee Vee)
  • Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass “Road Into Town” (Patuxent)
• Is the Blue Moon Still Shining?
  • Bill Monroe “Bluegrass 1959-1969, Disc 4” (Bear Family)
  • Kathy Kallick & Laurie Lewis “Together” (Rounder)
• Lonely Moon
  • Stuart Duncan “Stuart Duncan” (Rounder)
• Midnight Moonlight
  • Old and in the Way “Old and In the Way” (Round)
  • Northern Lights “Three August Nights” (1-800-Prime CD)
• Mister Man in the Moon
  • Becky Schlegel “This Lonesome Song” (no label)
• Moon Man
  • The Infamous Stringdusters “Fork in the Road” (Sugar Hill)
• Mr. Moon
  • Lost & Found “Sun’s Gonna Shine” (Rebel)
• Quarter Moon
  • Blue Highway “Marbletown” (Rounder)
• Sitting Alone in the Moonlight
  • Bill Monroe “Live at the Opry” (MCA)
  • The Bluegrass Album Band “The Bluegrass Compact Disc” (Rounder)
  • Muleskinner “Live” (Sierra)
• Southern Moon
  • Longview “Longview” (Rebel)
• Super Moon
  • Molly Tuttle “Rise” (Compass)
• That Moon Is No Stopping Place for Me
  • Reno and Smiley “Variety Show” (King)
• Tennessee Moon
  • Ray Cardwell “Tennessee Moon” (Pinecastle)
• When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold
  • Lester Flatt & Mac Wiseman “Flatt on Victor” (RCA Victor)
  • Bill Monroe “Bluegrass 1959-1969, Disc 3” (Bear Family)
  • Osborne Brothers “Class of ’96” (Pinecastle)
  • Jim and Jesse “Bluegrass and More, Disc 2” (Bear Family)