"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/8/2013

For the first time in nearly a month, Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe ran for a full three hours without any preemptions for games from UCONN sports teams.  We like that -- and sure hope you do, too...

Happy Birthday, Bobby O.!

We began the show with several songs from a Bluegrass legend who celebrated a birthday on December 7th:  Bobby Osborne (who was born December 7, 1931).  Included were a couple of songs from the Osborne Brothers as well as one tune from Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press.  

The nominees in the "Best Bluegrass Album" category for the 2014 Grammy Awards were recently announced.  Selections from each of these nominees were included in Sunday's show, and the Grammy winners will be announced in ceremonies on February 10, 2014.  The nominees:  "It's Just A Road" by the Boxcars (Mountain Home); "Brothers Of The Highway" by Dailey & Vincent (Rounder); "This World Oft Can Be" by Della Mae (Rounder); "Three Chords And The Truth" by James King (Rounder); and "The Streets Of Baltimore" by the Del McCoury Band (McCoury Music).  

The debut recording from the wonderful
duo featuring Jon Swift & Mark White

Other features during the show included three songs from the classic Carnegie Hall concert album from Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys, which was recorded on December 8, 1962.  We remembered John Lennon, who was shot to death on December 8, 1980, and we played a few songs from the Ray Price song catalog, as this Country Music Hall of Famer's battle with pancreatic cancer is reportedly coming to a close.  There was also a bit of newer music, this time around from performers including Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare, the New Kentucky Colonels, Unspoken Tradition, NewTown, a Connecticut duo called BluesGrass, the Spinney Brothers, the Gibson Brothers, and a new Christmas selection from Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road.  

Not sure if next Sunday will find Jim or me behind the mic for Bluegrass Cafe, but we sure hope you'll join whichever one of us for three more hours of the best in Bluegrass!

Enjoy the week!

Amy 



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [REQUESTS ARE RED].

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Each Season Changes You / Osborne Brothers / Once More / Sugar Hill
• The Hard Times / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder
• Fourteen Carat Mind / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• If That Was Love / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lonely Comes Easy / Rebel
• Six Feet Under The Ground / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Life Goes On / Sugar Hill
• If I Were A Carpenter / Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare / One More Road / Self-Produced
• Jackson / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Old-Time Pickin' / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Bill Monroe / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
• Christmas In The Smokies / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / single / Pinecastle
• Bluegrass Christmas / McCoury Brothers / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
• That White Christmas Song / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• Your Light Leads Me On / Hot Rize / In Concert / Flying Fish
• Sad And Blue / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Follow The Leader / Reno & Smiley / Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups, 1959-1963 / Gusto
• Bully Of The Town / Jason Davis / Second Time Around / Mountain Fever Records
• The Devil's Train / James King / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• Letter From Down The Road/And Other Things / Della Mae / This World Oft Can Be / Rounder
• Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• You Took All The Ramblin' Out Of Me / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Streets Of Baltimore / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Wasted Words / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• I Can't Go Home Like This / Ray Price / Columbia Country Classics / Columbia
• I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Holland 1973 / Self-Produced
• I Can't Stand To Ramble / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'N Live / Sugar Hill
• How Long Have I Been Waiting / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sugar Hill
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Emerson with Bill Harrell / Reunion / Webco
• I've Just Seen A Face / Charles River Valley Boys / Beatle Country / Rounder
• Simple Little Town / Unspoken Tradition / Simple Little Town / Coyote Ridge
• Goodbye Mary Jane / NewTown / Time Machine / Pisgah Ridge
• Freight Train Boogie / BluesGrass / BluesGrass / Self-Produced
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Gotta Go Down / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Ol' Lonesome Won't Leave Me Alone / The Boxcars / All In / Mountain Home
• Lonely Ends Where Love Begins / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live At Red, White & Bluegrass / Mountain Home
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Jesus And Me / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Raincoe Music
• Home On The River / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Journey To My Savior's Side / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• Precious Child / Tony Trischka / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• I'm Working On A Road / John Duffey [Country Gentlemen] / The Rebel Years: 1972-1977 / Rebel
• Saints Go Marching In / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Walking In Jerusalem Just Like John / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder