"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/21/2013

Ah, July.  It seems like nearly everyone I know has either just returned from a vacation, or will soon be taking one.  One of the people I know on vacation right now is making her way across the USA on a train trip.  Inspired by this idea of trains (as well as taking a cue from another WHUS radio show host earlier in the week who'd played a lot of "road songs" during his program), we opened the show with a few "traveling" songs, and then, spent the rest of the first hour featuring music about trains.  Now, it would have been extremely easy to fill up all three hours -- plus several more, no doubt -- with Bluegrass songs about trains, but we limited ourselves to just 15 songs today.  Next week, maybe we'll consider songs about another mode of transportation...

We were all a lot younger in 1987 or 1988, weren't we?  

While there weren't a bunch of Bluegrass birthdays to celebrate this week, we did mark the 80th birthday of the great Bobby Hicks on Sunday's program, as Bobby turned 80 years old today.  He's had an amazing career both as a Blue Grass Boy (very youthful with Bill Monroe in the "Uncle Pen" clip) tenure in the 1950s, working with Porter Wagoner and in a Las Vegas show in the 1960s, as a pivotal member of the Bluegrass Album Band, and then, spending 23 years working with Ricky Skaggs during country music heyday and his return back to the Bluegrass in the mid-1990s.  These days, Bobby is touring with another Bluegrass supergroup known as the Masters Of Bluegrass, and he seems to still be going strong.  Sounds like a good way to be at 80.



We made sure to get in a good share of newer music today, too, from quite a few performers, including Sutton, Holt & Coleman, the Boxcars, the Kathy Kallick Band, Nu-Blu, Heather & Shannon Slaughter & County Clare, Claire Lynch, Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson, Big Country Bluegrass, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Sideline, and the Gibson Brothers.  

Hope you heard something in Sunday's show that you enjoyed, and that you'll plan to join me once again next Sunday afternoon at 4PM.  

Have a good week!

Amy


REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Travelin' This Lonesome Road / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia
• Travelin' Man / Sutton, Holt & Coleman / Ready For The Times / High Windy
• Traveling Down The Blue Road / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always / Sugar Hill
• Travelling Kind / Country Gentlemen / The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• Passing Of The Train / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Board That Train And Ride / Aubrey Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Lost Highways & Treasured Memories / Old Homestead
• Last Train From Poor Valley / Richard Bennett / Last Train From Poor Valley / Lonesome Day
• New River Train / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1936 / JSP Records
• I Hear A Choo Choo Coming / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• Last Train / BearTracks /  Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Wave Goodbye / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Freight Train Boogie / Bear Minimum / Live At The Finnish Hall / no label
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Old Train / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Runaway Train / Kentucky Wind / Runaway Train / Aztec Records
• East Bound Freight Train / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• The Train Song / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Coal Miner's Blues / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Dark Hollow / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak Records
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Rounder
• Train 45 (Heading South) / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music
• This Land Is Your Land / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• That Road / Nu-Blu / Ten / Rural Rhythm
• It's In My Mind To Wander / Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare / One More Road / Self-Produced
• Wheel Hoss / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder
• Cheyenne / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Faded Love / Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys / New Horizons / Pinecastle
• Fiddle Patch / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder
• Take Me Back To Tulsa / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Dear Sister / Claire Lynch / Dear Sister / Compass Records
• Walking The Floor Over Me / Charlie Sizemore / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• Mash Your Finger / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe Music
• John Deere Tractor / Larry Sparks with Alison Krauss & Dan Tyminski / 40 / Rebel
• Surfside / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• Won't You Think Of Me / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• I'm Afraid To Love You Anymore / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume One / Rural Rhythm
• Little Black Train / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Walking In Good Company / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• Heaven's Bright Shore / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• The Way, The Truth, The Light / Sideline / Session 1 / Mountain Fever Records
• Home On The River / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder