"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/22/2017

It's Basketball Season at the University of Connecticut, so Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was sports-shortened by sixty minutes.  Though the show was only two hours in length on Sunday, we still managed to squeeze in quite a few tunes, classic and new.  

Per the legendary Tom Gray, this unique photo of the Classic
Country Gentlemen was taken at the Bousquet Ski Area
in Pittsfield, MA in June 1963.

The show began with four songs from the late Charlie Waller, who would have celebrated his 82nd birthday on January 19th.  Few singers in the history of Bluegrass had a more distinctive, warm voice that never exactly fit into the "high lonesome sound" category.  The Country Gentlemen have long been among my very favorites, and though the band's personnel changed often, Charlie Waller's baritone voice bonded all of these wonderful musicians together for nearly a half-century.  Amazing.  

In addition to classic music from the Country Gentlemen and other performers, we shared newer (2016 'til now) music from records by Kristin Scott Benson, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show, the Grascals, Adam Steffey, Sideline, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, the Earls Of Leicester, and a track from the Mac Wiseman autobiographical CD.  

Have a fabulous week, and we'll be looking for you next Sunday!

Amy O.



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band/ RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [Charlie Waller birthday, 1/19/1935]
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Charlie Waller birthday, 1/19/1935]
• I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [Charlie Waller birthday, 1/19/1935]
• Redwood Hill / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel [Charlie Waller birthday, 1/19/1935]
• The Cotton Farmer / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• I Cried Again / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• Great Waterton / Kristin Scott Benson / Stringworks / Mountain Home
• Wild Mountain Honey / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Brakeman's Blues / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music
• Mr. Engineer / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder
• Midnight Train / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rebel
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• No More Painting Up This Town / Rambler's Choice / Sounds Of The Mountains / Rounder
• Is The Grass Any Bluer (On The Other Side) / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One:  All The Rage / Upper Management Music
• On My Way Back Home / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1937-1938 / JSP Records
• Blue Grass Stomp / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country! / Patuxent Music
• Unwanted Love / Sideline with Dudley Connell / Colors & Crossroads / Mountain Fever Records
• Just Ain't / Earls Of Leicester / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• Who Will Sing For Me / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• I Know Better / The Grascals / And Then There's This... / Mountain Home
• The Guitar / Sierra Hull & Justin Moses with Mac Wiseman / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
• Dear John / Adam Steffey / Here To Stay / Mountain Home
• Brown County Red / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Sold Down The River / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• I'm Comin' Back, But I Don't Know When / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Count Your Blessings / Kathy Kallick & Laurie Lewis / Count Your Blessings / Live Oak Records
• I Am The Road / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Burden Bearer / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Burden Bearer / Mountain Home
• Home Of The Soul / Jimmy Gaudreau with Bill Clifton / In Good Company / CMH
• Travel, Travel On / Bluegrass Gospel Project / Shine / Vital Records
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder