"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/2/2017

Sports preemptions are a common thing at WHUS in the springtime.  This week, both Red Rooster Party and the Bluegrass Cafe were expected to be preempted, at least partially.  It turned out that there was a full-three hour broadcast of Bluegrass Cafe, plus we added twenty minutes before 4PM when the UConn Baseball game ended early.  Go figure.

Merle Haggard (4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016)

We used that extra twenty minutes to share songs from the music catalog of the legendary Merle Haggard, who would have turned 80 years old on April 6th.  The Hag left us with an incredible legacy of music, and so many of his songs have been given a Bluegrass treatment down through the years.  Including the songs we played in the first twenty minutes pre-BGC, we shared thirteen Haggard songs from performers as varied as the Osborne Brothers, the Grascals, the Spinney Brothers, Flatt Lonesome, the Gibson Brothers, the Seldom Scene, and, of course, the Hag, himself.  

Newer music was shared on Sunday, too, as we included selections from new and/or recent projects from Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Flashback, Jeff White, the Earls of Leicester, Rickey Wasson, Dailey & Vincent, the Garrett Newton Band, the Gibson Brothers, Doyle Lawson & Paul Williams, Michael Cleveland, Big Country Bluegrass, Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show, Larry Cordle, and Becky Buller.  

Hope you enjoyed the show, and that you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon at 4PM for a sports-less edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.



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

• Okie From Muskogee / Merle Haggard / I Love Dixie Blues...So I Recorded Live In New Orleans / Capitol [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Today I Started Loving You Again / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Mama Tried / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Red Bandana / Lonesome River Band / Still Learning / Rural Rhythm [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• If We Make It Through December / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Winter's Grace / Signature Sounds [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Ah Spring / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• Home Run Man / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC
• Skip Hop And Wobble / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Streets Of Baltimore / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Just Ain't / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• If We Would Just Pray / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One - All The Rage / Upper Management Music
• Flint Hill Special / Earls Of Leicester / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• Blue Trail Of Sorrow / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced
• Leavin' / Tasty Licks / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• Buck's Run / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced
• Montana Cowboy / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• Little Joe / Jeff White / The White Album / Rounder
• I'm Leaving Detroit / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• Three Ways Of Knowing / Allerton & Alton / Black, White And Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Silence Or Tears / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Mountains Are Calling Me Home / Mountain Fever Records
• Foxhounds And Fiddles / Flashback / Foxhounds And Fiddles / Pinecastle
• For Lovin' Me / Rickey Wasson / Croweology:  J.D. Crowe's Musical Legacy / Truegrass
• Gimme All The Love You Got / Dailey & Vincent / Patriots & Poets / BFD
• Young Heart Old Soul / Garrett Newton Band / Young Heart Old Soul / Pinecastle
• Talk To Me Old Lonesome Heart / Doyle Lawson & Paul Williams / Chapter 3 / Mountain Home
• Eddie To The Rescue / Eddie Adcock / forthcoming CD / Patuxent Music
• What A Way To Go / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Mountains Are Calling Me Home / Mountain Fever Records
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Fighting Side Of Me / Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Songs Of The American Spirit / Pinecastle [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Silver Wings / Merle Haggard / Side By Side / Mastertone [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Mixed Up Mess Of A Heart / Flatt Lonesome / Runaway Train / Mountain Home [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Swinging Doors / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• California Cotton Fields / Phil Leadbetter with Marty Raybon / Slide Effects / Pinecastle [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Merle Haggard birthday, 4/6/1937]
• The Old Home / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• If You're Ever Gonna Love Me / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Sweden 1973 / Roland White Music
• Detroit Blues / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
• Steamboat Whistle Blues / Michael Cleveland with Sam Bush / Fiddler's Dream / Compass Records
• Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics:  The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Why Baby Why / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country! / Patuxent Music
• Dixon County Blues / Curly Ray Cline / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Fox On The Run / Tony Trischka with Tom Adams / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Green Pastures / Emmylou Harris / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records [Emmylou Harris born, 4/2/1947]
• The First Step To Heaven / Larry Cordle / Give Me Jesus / Mighty Cord Records
• They Know / Larry Sparks / I Don't Regret A Mile / Sparks Music
• Speakin' To That Mountain / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Highway To Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• One Is Taken, One Is Left / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Case Brothers
• It Won't Be Long / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill
• The Church At The Foot At The Hill / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon MIll / Strictly Country
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder