"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/2/2016

2016 IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year,
Danny Paisley!
(Photo by Ted Lehmann)

This past week, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) held their annual conference and awards show in Raleigh, NC.  This was the first year in quite a few that I haven't attended IBMA, but with a whole lot of attendees posting updates and videos on Facebook and YouTube for a good portion of the week, I didn't feel like I missed too, too much.  While I'm sorry to have missed hearing lots of bands perform who might never make it to New England for a concert, on Sunday's show, I still tried to share music from some of the great performers who took home IBMA Awards on Thursday night.  Among these:  Special Consensus, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice (with Ronnie Bowman), the Earls of Leicester, Flatt Lonesome, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and newly-minted Male Vocalist of the Year, Danny Paisley.  Congratulations to all of the winners!

Mr. Teardrop
(September 26, 1925 - December 8, 1982)

Continuing with my usual trend of celebrating the birthday of a famous country music singer -- generally, a classic one who is also a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame -- we shared a full half-hour's worth of music from the songbook of the one and only Marty Robbins (born September 26, 1925).  Of the eight covers we played, six of them were written by Marty Robbins, and the ninth song shared in that was a Bluegrass and Country Music classic performed by Robbins, himself, "I Heard The Bluebirds Sing."  

Recordings released in 2016 were plentiful on Sunday's show.  In addition to music from the aforementioned Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, the Earls of Leicester, and Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, we also heard from Audie Blaylock & Redline, Jeff White, Michael Cleveland, Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, ClayBank, Travers Chandler, David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition, Blue Highway, Edgar Loudermilk, and the Boxcars.  There was even a sneak preview of a track from the new 2017 Rounder recording by the Gibson Brothers.  You just never know what you're going to hear on our Bluegrass Cafe, so be sure to tune in whenever you can!

In the IBMA absence of Jim (as well as a UConn Soccer game preemption during the Red Rooster Party), there was no Joe Bussard "Country Classics" program to be heard, so we shared nearly a full hour of music in the classic country/Bluegrass bend.  Our featured LP was one from legendary Connecticut Country Music performer, Slim Coxx and his family band, who performed every summer at Bristol's Lake Compounce from the early 1950s to the mid-1980s.  While I couldn't locate an exact recording date or more specific information for "Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Country Caravan," I am guessing the record was released in the mid-to-late 1970s.  If anyone has any other information from this record, I'd sure love to hear it.  Thanks for sharing!

Hope you have yourself a fabulous week, and we'll be looking for you once more next Sunday afternoon for another Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.





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

Red Rooster Party:  3-4PM

• You Are My Sunshine / Ron Block / Hogan's House Of Music / Self-Produced
• Bring 'Em On Back / Larry Sparks / Almost Home / Rounder
• No Letter In The Mail Today / Johnnie & Jack / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family
• It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / Kitty Wells / Your Cheatin' Heart / Dynamic
• Wake Up, Susan / Paul Warren / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family
• The Wild Side Of Life / Hank Thompson / Your Cheatin' Heart / Dynamic
• Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky / Allerton & Alton / Black, White And Bluegrass / Bear Family
• I Love You A Thousand Ways / Lefty Frizzell / Your Cheatin' Heart / Dynamic
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Elton Britt / Your Cheatin' Heart / Dynamic
• Raw Hide / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Waiting For A Train / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records
• Playboy / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records
• Borrowed Angel / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records
• Oh Golly, Gosh, Oh Gee / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records
• Come All You Tenderhearted / Stanley Brothers / An Evening Long Ago / Columbia
• John Henry / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again--Gone But Not Forgotten / Wango
• Orange Blossom Special / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records

Bluegrass Cafe:  4-7PM

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Fireball / Special Consensus with Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley / Long I Ride / Compass Records
• Longneck Blues / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice with Ronnie Bowman / Poor Boy's Pleasure / Mountain Fever Records
• Uncle Ned / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• The Train That Carried My Girl From Town / Earls Of Leicester / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• Kentucky Girl / Thunder Mountain Bluegrass / Another Season / Self-Produced
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder
• In The Heat Of The Fire / Flatt Lonesome / Runaway Train / Mountain Home
• Nine Pound Hammer / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder
• The Road That Winds / Audie Blaylock & Redline / The Road That Winds / Patuxent Music
• Regina / John Curtis Goad / single / Self-Produced
• Nobody's Business / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine / Reno & Smiley / Country Ballads / Highland Music
• Truck Driving Man / Jimmy Martin / 20 Greatest Hits / Highland Music
• Pretty Polly / Stanley Brothers / The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1949-1952 / Bear Family
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH
• I Heard The Bluebirds Sing / Marty Robbins / Good 'N Country / MCA
• Big Iron / Jim Hurst / Second Son / Pinecastle
• Ribbon Of Darkness / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / No One But You / Rebel
• At The End Of A Long Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Beggin' To You / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreamin' / Rounder
• I Can't Quit / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Mother Knows Best / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Don't Worry / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• The Cold Hard Facts / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced
• Tall Timber / Michael Cleveland / Fiddler's Dream / Compass Records
• Love Please Come Home / Jeff Scroggins & Colorado / Ramblin' Feels Good / Self-Produced
• How I Love You / ClayBank / Playing Hard To Forget / Rural Rhythm
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / 2017 CD / Rounder
• Cotton Dice / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• The Cotton Farmer / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Trains Can't Turn Around / Edgar Loudermilk / Georgia Maple / Pinecastle
• (This Weary Heart) You Stole Away / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Sixteen Years / Copper Creek
• High Society / Travers Chandler / Archaic / Patuxent Music
• Country Poor, Country Proud / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records
• When The Bluegrass Is Covered With Snow / The Boxcars / Familiar With The Ground / Mountain Home
• Monday Blues / Balsam Range / Five / Mountain Home
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel
• The Story Of My Life / Blue Highway / Original Traditional / Rounder
• All Dressed Up / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• Is There Room For Me / Loafers' Glory / Loafers' Glory / Arhoolie
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• Heaven / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• Camping In Canaan's Land / Dailey & Vincent / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS
• I Wanna Walk With Jesus / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Mansion In The Grave / Bear Bridge Band / A Bear Bridge Sampler / Open Road
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder