"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/30/2014

On the last Sunday of November, we shared a couple of Christmas songs, gave away a CD or three, paid tribute to a Country Music Hall of Famer, and listened to a few 2014 favorites and music of classic Bluegrassers.  Hope you were able to make us a part of your end-of-Thanksgiving holiday weekend...

One of my favorites of 2014...

This is the time of year when many websites and such start listing out "The BEST ______ of 2014."  While I wasn't able to find any "Top Bluegrass" listings quite yet, I still shared a few of my personal favorite releases of 2014 from performers including Crowe, Lawson & Williams, the Spinney Brothers, Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, and Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper.

Have you ever had a seemingly-random song that you don't recall hearing in forever start going through your head?  I had that very thing happen to me today when "Ribbon Of Darkness" -- the Gordon Lightfoot tune performed by Marty Robbins in 1965 -- popped into my head and wouldn't go away.  I interpreted that as a "sign," of sorts, to play Bluegrass covers of a few Marty Robbins songs, and so, we put together a set featuring Marty Robbins tunes performed by Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, the Gibson Brothers, the Johnson Mountain Boys, and Jim Hurst.

Now that Thanksgiving has passed, it's not too early to share a Christmas song or two.  To that end, we included a track from the brand-new-for-2014 Christmas recording by the Claire Lynch Band -- "Holiday!"

If you listened to the show on Sunday, you might

Something to look forward to in 2015:
a new record from the Gibsons!

have learned that the Gibson Brothers will be appearing in Connecticut this coming week -- in a trio form.  If you'd like to see Eric & Leigh Gibson along with longtime bass player (and right hand), Mike Barber, they can be found at the Spaceland Ballroom in Hamden on Friday night.  For more information on this show, click here.  Chances are pretty good that you'll hear something from the Gibsons' forthcoming Rounder recording, "Brotherhood."  

Be sure to join Jim for another edition of Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon -- and have a nice week!

Amy


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I've Never Been So Lonesome / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Weary Hobo / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Jesse James / Bill Emerson with Marshall Wilborn & Lynn Morris / Eclipse / Rural Rhythm
• Radio Boogie / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill
• I Feel The Blues Moving In / Del McCoury / High Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• Wear A Red Rose / James King / Bed By The Window / Rounder
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Dede Wyland / Keep The Light On / Patuxent Music
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems
• Loneliness And Desperation / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Fiddlin' Joe / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / On Down The Line / Compass Records
• Will You Be Satisfied That Way / Larry Sparks / Lonesome And Then Some... / Rebel
• Feeling Blue / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Someone Took My Place With You / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Lonely Violet / Peg & Ed / Lonely Violet / Self-Produced
• I Don't Know What To Do / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Wild Montana Skies / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Country Boy:  A Bluegrass Tribute To John Denver / Compass Records
• In The Wind Somewhere / Richard Bennett / In The Wind Somewhere / Lonesome Day Records
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• Crowe On The Banjo / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• My Walking Shoes / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• They're At Rest Together / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Two Feet On The Floor / Crowe Brothers / Forty Years Old / Mountain Fever Records
• I Dreamed Of An Old Love Affair / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Everything I Wanted Love To Be / Happy Appy Records
• All I Have To Offer You Is Me / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Ribbon Of Darkness / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / No One But You / Rebel
• Don't Worry / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• I Can't Quit / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Big Iron / Jim Hurst / Second Son / Pinecastle
• Home For The Holidays / Claire Lynch Band / Holiday! / Thrill Hill Records
• That White Christmas Song / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• Ring The Bell / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• The East Bound Train / Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• Gonna Catch A Train / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm A Ramblin' Rolling Stone / Phil Leadbetter with John Cowan & Sam Bush / The Next Move / Pinecastle
• Black-Eyed Susie / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce & Maple Music
• Roll On Big Mama / The Grascals / When I Get My Pay / Mountain Home
• Big Eyed Rabbit / Adam Steffey / New Primitive / Organic Records
• Lonesome Without You / Donna Ulisse / An Easy Climb / Hadley Music Group
• Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / Songs Of Flatt & Scruggs / Rounder
• Sinner You'd Better Get Ready / Louvin Brothers / Songs That Tell A Story / Rounder
• Light At The River / Steve Gulley / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm
• Rock My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• The Darkest Hour / BearTracks / Makin' New Tracks / Self-Produced
• Fill My Way With Love / Doc Watson / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill
• You Don't Love God If You Don't Love Your Neighbor / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder