"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/28/2013

On this last Sunday of July, we didn't really have any notable birthdays to celebrate nor a whole bunch of new music to share.  Instead, we stuck with our usual mix of new and not-quite-as-new music from performers from New England and from outside of New England.  Kind of a vague description, eh?  Hope you enjoyed something you heard at some point, though...assuming you were able to listen to the show this week...

Last week, we featured a lot of music with the subject of traveling and trains, but this week, we put the focus on songs of "home."  Now, this is a pretty common theme in the Bluegrass World, so finding songs for this set was not a hard thing to do.  On Sunday, we played ten songs of home -- nine that were chosen before the show, and one request during the show.  

We didn't really have a "spotlight" record this week, but hearing a song from the 1987 Rounder LP, "The McCoury Brothers" come up on my iPod on Sunday morning was enough inspiration for me to play a couple of tracks from this great record on the air during the show.  If it's not awesome enough to hear Del & Jerry McCoury singing together, their backup band on this record was none other than Johnson Mountain Boys!  You just can't go wrong with that combination, as far as I'm concerned.  Hope you liked it, too.

Among the newer music we heard this week:  a song from a forthcoming CD by Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, as well as CT band GrassRoutes, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Big Country Bluegrass, the Gibson Brothers, Hammertowne, Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome, Don Rigsby, the Daughters Of Bluegrass, and Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice.

Hope everyone has a great week, and if you're so inclined, join me again on Tuesday afternoon at WHUS (1-4PM), as I do a fill-in for James & Cathy Ward's "Bluegrass Rules" program.  Barring that, we'd love you join us for another edition of "Bluegrass Cafe" next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  See you then!

Amy O.


REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Mama Don't Allow / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / In Full Color / Rebel
• Frog On A Lily Pad / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• I Was Left On The Street / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Stone Cold West Virginia / Dave Evans / High Waters / Rebel
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Lonely Ends Where Love Begins / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live At Red, White & Bluegrass / Mountain Home
• Last Chance / Russ Carson / Last Chance / Patuxent Music
• A Heart Never Knows / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Carolina Mountain Home / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• Almost Home / Larry Sparks / Almost Home / Rounder
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky / Rounder
• Home Sweet Home / Rick Spinney with Machaela Taylor / Off The Cuff / Self-Produced
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• My Native Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder
• Anywhere Is Home Again / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Is My Home Still Up There / Special Consensus / Roads & Rails / Shy Town Records
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Going On Home / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sing Me A Song About Jesus / Mountain Home
• Hello Mr. Lonesome / The Grascals / Life Finds A Way / Mountain Home
• Lonely Violet / Peg & Ed / Lonely Violet / Self-Produced
• Comin' On Strong / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Casey Jones / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Better In Days To Come / GrassRoutes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / single / Pinecastle
• Katy Daley / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Something Comin' To Me / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Right Here / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• I'm Longing For My Old Virginia Home / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• This Old Martin Box / Hammertowne / Hammertowne / Mountain Fever Records
• Golden Hair / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Raincoe Music
• Big Spike Hammer / Shady Creek / Volume One / Self-Produced
• Who Will Watch The Home Place / Laurie Lewis / True Stories / Rounder
• The Rambler's Blues / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1947-1949 / JSP Records
• Rambler's Blues / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Rambler's Blues / Sugar Hill
• Rambler's Blues / Cumberland Gap Connection / Another Song / Mountain Fever Records
• Lonesome Fugitive / Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome / Blue Side Of Me / Mountain Fever Records
• Tennessee Truck Driving Man / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• Walk Your Way To Heaven / Southern Rail / Glory Road / Pinecastle
• I Hear My Savior Calling / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Get In The Boat / Daughters Of Bluegrass feat. Jeanette Williams / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
• The Weapon Of Prayer / Louvin Brothers / Songs That Tell A Story / Rounder
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / K-Tel
• Prayers Go Up / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Daniel Prayed / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder