"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/8/2015

Another Sunday afternoon found us waiting on another Sunday-into-Monday snow event here in eastern Connecticut, but we tried to warm things up right out of the chute with four "sunshine" songs.  It's a pity these songs didn't zoom us right into Spring, but that will happen in due time...

The "Award-Winning" Country Gentlemen, circa 1971ish.
(Bill Emerson, Doyle Lawson, Bill Yates, Charlie Waller)

Other "features" on Sunday's show included the sharing of a few more songs from the Bill Yates repertoire:  a couple each from Country Gentlemen and the Country Gentlemen Reunion Band, as well as one song from Bill's tenure with Red Allen & the Kentuckians.  We also shared a bit of newer music from 2015 recordings by Shannon & Heather Slaughter, Volume Five, Blue Mafia, the Farm Hands, and the Gibson Brothers.

As we were getting ready to close the show, the news arrived that the 2015

Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album had been awarded to the Earls of Leicester for their self-titled Rounder recording.  This group of Bluegrass all-stars (Jerry Douglas, Tim O'Brien, Shawn Camp, Barry Bales, Charlie Cushman, Johnny Warren) exists to play the music of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys.  Does this group perform the songs of Lester & Earl better than the originals?  Nope!  Still, if this recording leads one listener to want to go back and explore the original music of Lester & Earl & the FMBs, so much the better!  

Coming up next weekend is the 30th annual Joe Val Bluegrass Festival in Framingham, MA.  Jim and I will both be attending, so we sure hope to see some of you there, too.  Whether you can get there or not, though, I sure hope you'll join me on the radio next Sunday afternoon for another edition of Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy 



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Requests are RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Sunshine Special / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Do You Know You Are My Sunshine / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers / Cracker Barrel
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury
• Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door) / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Wichita / Tim & Mollie O'Brien / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Crow / Tony Trischka with Steve Martin / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister / Rounder
• Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• I've Got The Moon On My Side / Crowe Brothers / Forty Years Old / Mountain Fever Records
• Crescent City Blues / Eddie Adcock / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• Rocks In The River / Missy Werner / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner with Tom Adams / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• I Got A Date / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Unleashed / Sugar Hill
• Foggy Mountain Chimes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• Banjo Boy Chimes / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Honky-Tonked To Death / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Thank God For The Highways / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Country Life Looks Better (To Me Now) / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• Uphill Climb / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Virginia Waltz / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds / Capitol
• Her Love Won't Turn On A Dime / Lonesome River Band / Turn On A Dime / Mountain Home
• Mama Don't Allow / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• You're In My Heart / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• You'll Always Be My Blue Eyed Darling / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• Ridin' The Lightnin', Ropin' The Storm / Shannon & Heather Slaughter / Never Just A Song / Self-Produced
• Consider It Goodbye / Blue Mafia / Pray For Rain / Pinecastle
• Colder And Colder / Volume Five / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• I'll Break Out Tonight / Bill Yates & Friends / The Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield Records
• Keep On Going / Red Allen & the Kentuckians / Keep On Going:  The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings / Rebel
• Get In Line Buddy / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Saro Jane / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• Each Season Changes You / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Sad And Blue / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin / Koch Records
• Black-Eyed Susie / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• I'll Go Stepping Too / The Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Meet Me Over On The Other Side / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute, Volume 2 / Self-Produced
• Light At The River / Steve Gulley with Rickey Wasson / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm
• Pray For The Boys / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / K-Tel Records
• Shouting Time In Heaven / Kenny & Amanda Smith / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• He's Coming Back To Earth Again / Feller & Hill / Here Come Feller & Hill...Again! / Blue Circle Records
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / Stanley Brothers / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Federal
• Lord Don't Leave Me Here / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Over In The Gloryland / The Farm Hands / Better Than I Deserve / Pinecastle
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder