"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/12/2014

For the second week in a row, our Bluegrass Cafe program was a full three-hour presentation.  That doesn't always happen during basketball season at the University of Connecticut, so we hope you enjoyed the show today...

Phil Everly (at left)
1/19/1939-1/3/2014

Highlights from Sunday's show included the wonderful, crystalline harmonies of the Everly Brothers, as we paid tribute to the late Phil Everly, who died of complications from COPD on January 3rd.  The Everlys were definitely NOT Bluegrass performers -- or even really country music performers -- but you cannot say that their brother-duet harmonies were not any less pure and true than harmonies from earlier brother duet acts like the Delmore Brothers and Louvin Brothers before them, and the Gibson Brothers and Spinney Brothers in today's Bluegrass world.  In tribute to Phil and the Everlys, proper, we shared two songs from the Everlys' 1958 well-loved LP, "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us," as well as four Bluegrass covers of Everly Brothers songs.  

We also played music today from one of the most-underrated acts in all of Bluegrass:  Blue Highway.  This band has been together for nearly twenty years, and the members now are the exact same members who started the band.  That's nearly unheard of in any genre of music, but especially Bluegrass!  The newest Blue Highway record -- "The Game" on Rounder Records -- will be released to the public on January 21st, and we shared three songs from it on the air today.  Nice!

Be sure to join Jim for next week's radio show -- maybe even another full 3-hour edition!  

Have a good week!

Amy


REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Did You Ever Go Sailing / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• I Hope You Have Learned / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Three Ways Of Knowing / Allerton & Alton / Black, White & Bluegrass / Bear Family
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister! / Rounder
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• With Body And Soul / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass, 1971 / Rural Rhythm
• Living In These Troubled Times / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Lightning Express / Everly Brothers / 36 All-Time Favorites! / GSC Music
• Bye Bye Love / Spectrum / Bluegrass Goes To Town / Rounder
• I Wonder If I Care As Much / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill
• Brand New Heartache Comin' On / Larry Stephenson with Dudley Connell / Wash My Blues Away / Webco
• All I Have To Do Is Dream / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Kentucky / Everly Brothers / 36 All-Time Favorites / GSC Music
• Lonely Me, Lonely You / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Man In The Hole / Edgar Loudermilk / My Big Chance Tomorrow / Mountain Fever Records
• Frog On A Lily Pad / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Never Can Forgive 'Til I Can Forget / Daughters Of Bluegrass with Michelle Nixon / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
• Hello Love / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway
• The Less That I Drink / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / Laurie Lewis / Skippin' & Flyin' / Spruce And Maple Music
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / A Long Time Ago / Varese Sarabande
• Old McDonald / Mark Newton & Steve Thomas / Reborn / Pinecastle
• The Game / Blue Highway / The Game / Rounder
• All I Was To You / NewTown / Time Machine / Pisgah Ridge
• Talk Is Cheap / Blue Highway / The Game / Rounder
• Funny Farm / Blue Highway / The Game / Rounder
• When Scruggs Made Me A Star / Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare / One More Road / Self-Produced
• In A Town This Size / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Love Reunited / Chris Hillman & Herb Pederson / At Edwards Barn / Rounder
• On That Glorious Day / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Good To See The Home Place Once Again / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• Loneliness And Desperation / Sideline / Session 1 / Mountain Fever Records
• Kentucky Sweetheart / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel
• Road Into Town / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Dixie Special / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up / Rounder
• Going Up Home / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Paul And Silas / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• My Lord What A Morning / Sweet Potato Pie / Journey Called Life / Mountain Fever Records
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Home On The River / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Lord Have Mercy (On My Soul) / Lou Reid & Carolina / Live At The Down Home / KMA Records
• The Boat Of Love / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Fever
• Wings Of Angels / Jay Armsworthy / I Couldn't Make It Without Him / Blue Circle Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder