"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/25/2024

Our last Bluegrass Cafe for the month of August was spent celebrating a couple of Bluegrass Hall of Famer birthdays -- Carter Stanley (August 27, 1925 - December 1, 1966) and J.D. Crowe (August 27, 1937 - December 24, 2021).  We shared lots of music from each of these important Bluegrass legends.

We also belatedly celebrated the August 8th birthday of Country Music Hall of Famer, Webb Pierce.  Though Webb was not a Bluegrass person, lots of his music has been covered in the Bluegrass world, so we included several Bluegrass covers of Webb Pierce classics in our show.

There wasn't a whole lot of brand-new music to share this week, but we did include a song from the new recording by singer/songwriter Troy Engle.  There was also selections from 2024 recordings by the Po' Ramblin' Boys, the Grascals, Andy Statman, Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve, the Del McCoury Band, Authentic Unlimited, and Darin & Brooke Aldridge.

Thanks for joining us on Sunday!  We'll look forward to another Bluegrass Cafe this coming Sunday from 4-7PM.  See you then!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Movin' On / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Ridin' The High Iron / Bill Emerson / Gold Plated Banjo / Rebel
• Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• Feel Good Day / Continental Divide / Feel Good Day / Pinecastle
• Slowly / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• More And More / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• I Don't Care / Ricky Skaggs / Country Hits Bluegrass Style / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Honky Tonk Song / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Flying Fish [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• It's Been So Long / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Up This Hill And Down / Osborne Brothers / Country Bluegrass / MCA
• Pike County Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Comin' On Strong / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Just Lonesome Ol' Me And The Radio / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Leftover Biscuits / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• New River Train / Monroe Brothers / Bill & Charlie Monroe, 1936 / JSP Records
• Indecision / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Can't Live Life / Edgar Loudermilk with Rhonda Vincent / Roads Travelled / Mountain Fever Records
• Roll Muddy River / Osborne Brothers / Country Bluegrass / MCA
• Back Home / Troy Engle / Back Home / Pinecastle
• Lonely Pine / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Georgia Pineywoods / The Grascals / 20 / Mountain Home
• Stoney Lonesome / Andy Statman / Bluegrass Tracks / Shefa Records
• Little Black Train / Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve / Instant Lonesome And The Twinkle Brigade / Don Giovanni Records
• She's Heavenly / Del McCoury Band with Molly Tuttle / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Sugar Coated Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Let Me Be Your Friend / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Let's Part The Best Of Friends / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Cabin Of Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Crowe On The Banjo / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Blackjack / J.D. Crowe / Blackjack / Rebel [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1927 - 12/24/2021]
• Beartracks / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1927 - 12/24/2021]
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Hot Burrito Breakdown / Alan Munde / Festival Favorites Revisited / Rounder
• Just A Friend / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• Where The Old Red River Flows / King Wilkie / Broke / Rebel
• Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream) / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Next Train Smokin' / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Bring 'Em On Back / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Makin' Tracks To Macon / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• A Vision Of Mother / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / Larry Efaw & the Bluegrass Mountaineers / She Left Me Standing On A Mountain / Blue Circle Records
• You've Been A Blessing To Me / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• I Ain't Got Time / High Fidelity / High Fidelity / Self-Produced
• Jordan / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with Ricky Skaggs, Mo Pitney, & Mark Fain / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Going Up / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Prayer Bells Of Heaven / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/18/2024

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we spent a good portion of time remembering and sharing the music of the great Bobby Hicks, who died on August 16th at the age of 91.  Bobby Hicks had an incredible career, and while he could play many instruments, he was primarily known as a top-notch fiddler.  From his early days in the 1950s playing with Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys [see Bobby Hicks play the banjo with Bill Monroe circa 1955 here] to his many years working with Ricky Skaggs's band to his pairing with Mark Kuykendall in the 2010s, and, of course, to his position in the Bluegrass Album Band (watch "Cheyenne" here), we shared lots of music featuring this outstanding member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.  Rest in peace, Bobby Hicks.  

There were a couple of Bluegrass birthdays to remember, as well, so we shared songs by Steve Martin (born August 14, 1945) and the late Audie Blaylock (August 18, 1962 - January 12, 2024).

We remembered the birth anniversary of Country Music Hall of Famer Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 - March 26, 2006).  Many of Buck's classic tunes have been covered in the Bluegrass world, so we included a bunch of them.

And finally, there was a tiny bit of newer music to share, this time from new recordings by the Grascals, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland, Greg Blake & Amanda Cook, Alan Bibey, and Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers.

Hope you were able to join us last Sunday afternoon!  We'll look forward to our next visit this Sunday from 4-7PM.  Hope to see you on the radio!

Enjoy the weekend!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Request is RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Waiting For The Real Thing / Front Range / The New Frontier / Sugar Hill
• Country Side Of Heaven (Where The Bluegrass Music Flows) / White House / White House / Pinecastle
• Hound Dog Blues / Laurie Lewis / Trees / Spruce And Maple Music
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow:  New Songs For The Five-String Banjo / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Thirty Years Of Farming / James King / Thirty Years Of Farming / Rounder
• A Dime Looks Like A Wagon Wheel / Reno & Smiley / Together Again / Rebel
• Greenville Trestle High / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Wally On The Run / Steve Martin / The Crow:  New Songs For The Five-String Banjo / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Whispering Waters / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Audie Blaylock:  8/18/1962 - 1/12/2024]
• Loving You Too Well / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Time / Lou Reid & Carolina / Time / Lonesome Day Records
• Tennessee Cut-Up Breakdown / Charlie Cushman / Five String Time / Self-Produced
• Kentucky Darlin' / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Every Time You Say Goodbye / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Listen To The Lonesome Wind / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Highlander / Compass Records
• Say You Lied / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• My Walkin' Shoes / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Audie Blaylock:  8/18/1962 - 1/12/2024]
• Tennessee Hound Dog / The Grascals / 20 / Mountain Home
• Outrun The Rain / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records
• Out Of Control Raging Fire / Greg Blake & Amanda Cook / single / Turnberry Records
• Streets Of Chicago / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Time / Alan Bibey / single / Billy Blue Records
• Coal Dust Kisses / The Grascals / 20 / Mountain Home
• Some Things I Want To Sing About / The Grascals / The Grascals / Rounder
• Roanoke / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Louisville Breakdown / Kenny Baker & Bobby Hicks / Darkness On The Delta / County Records [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Boston Boy / Ricky Skaggs / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Cheyenne / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• They'll Never Take Her Love From Me / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Wheel Hoss / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / John Boy & Billy, Inc. [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• I'll Love You Forever And Ever / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• Together Again / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• There Goes My Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• I Don't Care / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• It Takes People Like You / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• Ruby (Are You Mad) / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Buck Owens' Ruby & Other Bluegrass Specials / Sundazed [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• On The Sea Of Life / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rocky My Soul / Sugar Hill [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• One Breath Away / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / single / Billy Blue Records
• The Truth, The Light, The Way / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Rank Strangers To Me / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Enter The Gates / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• A Beautiful Life / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/11/2024

What a fine weekend we had!  The Podunk Bluegrass Festival -- though a bit rainy at times -- ended in an outstanding way with a spot-on set of music from the Del McCoury Band.  At Podunk, we also enjoyed music from High Fidelity, Nick Chandler & Delivered, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, the Kevin Prater Band, Carley Arrowood, John McEuen & the Circle Band, and several others.  Outstanding!  Congratulations to the hard-working Podunk Board and volunteers on another top-notch festival!  We included music from some of the Podunk performers during our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon.  Hope you were able to join us!

As befitting Bluegrass Royalty, we also belatedly celebrated the 97th birth anniversary of the self-appointed King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin (August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005).  To celebrate, we shared lots of his music performed both by him and others throughout the program.

We also celebrated three fine Bluegrass songwriters and performers who all happened to have been born within a few days of each other in 1938:  Paul Craft (August 12, 1938 - October 18, 2014), Jake Landers (August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018), and Aubrey Holt (August 15, 1938 - October 5, 2017).  August 1938 must have been a big month for Bluegrass legends, as we also remembered banjo great, Ben Eldridge (August 15, 1938 - April 14, 2024).  

New music was part of the show, too, as we got mail!  We shared music from brand-spanking-new CDs from the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Rebecca Frazier, and Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve.  There was also a new single from Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter, and selections from 2024 recordings by Junior Sisk, Daniel Grindstaff, and the Travelin' McCourys.

Hope you enjoyed the program, and we'll be sure to look for you on Sunday for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

See you soon - 
Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Jimmy Martin's Life Story / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Night / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Tennessee / Gary Brewer / Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Stretchgrass [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• The Last Song / Bill Emerson with Jimmy Martin / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• If You Talk In Your Sleep / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Fly Trouble / John McEuen / The Newsman:  A Man Of Record / Compass Records
• The Hills And Home / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Old Devil's Dream / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Ducks On The Millpond / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' On / Mountain Home
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Bury Me Beneath The Willow / Tony Trischka with Vince Gill / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Earl Scruggs:  Classic Bluegrass Live! / Vanguard
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / The Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Outrun The Rain / Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter / single / Fiddleman Records
• Smoky Mountain Home / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Saro Jane / Rebecca Frazier / Boarding Windows In Paradise / Amtoco Records
• A Little Home To Go To / Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve / Instant Lonesome And The Twinkle Brigade / Don Gionvanni Records
• Wanderers Like Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Looking At The World Through A Windshield / Daniel Grindstaff with Trey Hensley / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Bluegrass Country / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Raised By The Railroad Line / The Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill [Remembering Paul Craft:  8/12/1938 - 10/18/2014]
• Teardrops Will Kiss The Morning Dew / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder [Remembering Paul Craft:  8/12/1938 - 10/18/2014]
• Fastest Grass Alive / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes 1 & 2 / Sugar Hill [Remembering Paul Craft:  8/12/1938 - 10/18/2014]
• You'll Never Find Another So True / Fast Track / Heartache And Trouble / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Aubrey Holt:  8/15/1938 - 10/5/2017]
• Atlanta Is Burning / The Boys From Indiana / Good Time Blues / Rebel [Remembering Aubrey Holt:  8/15/1938 - 10/5/2017]
• Sad Wind Sighs / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder [Remembering Aubrey Holt:  8/15/1938 - 10/5/2017]
• Mountain Girl / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Old Train / The Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/15/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Runaway Train / Travelin' McCourys / single / McCoury Music
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol Nashville [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• The White Dove / Ralph Stanley with Jimmy Martin / Live! At McClure / Rebel [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Country Church / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• I've Changed My Mind / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/15/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Lead Me Down The Pathway / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Hymns From Wildwood Valley / Old Heritage Records
• Church Bells A-Ringin' / Danny Paisley / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Be No Stranger There / The Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/15/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virgina Squires / Rebel
• There Was Something Missing / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/4/2024

It's nearly time for the annual Podunk Bluegrass Festival, so we made sure to highlight some of the performers during this past Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe. This event is Connecticut's only major Bluegrass festival, and the lineup is filled with top-notch bands such as High Fidelity, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, the Kevin Prater Band, Carley Arrowood, Nick Chandler & Delivered, the Del McCoury Band, and others.  The weather forecast for this weekend in Goshen, CT doesn't seem super-promising, but no matter -- the music will be great, and we hope to see you at Podunk!  For more information on the festival, visit this link.

One more fabulous performer who will be coming to Podunk this Saturday is the legendary John McEuen (along with his Circle Band).  One of the founding members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen is quite a character who has a thousand stories to tell.  At Podunk, he will be sharing selections from the iconic Dirt Band record released in 1972:  "Will The Circle Be Unbroken," as well as Dirt Band favorites, and maybe even a song or two from the record he released in April, "The Newman."  We had the privilege of talking to John McEuen on the telephone during Sunday's radio program.  Hope you were able to join us.

We'll be looking for you at Podunk!  If not, though, you'll be able to hear some Bluegrass when our next edition of Bluegrass Cafe takes the airwaves on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.

Enjoy the weekend -- and stay dry!  :)

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Will You Be Leavin' / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' On / Mountain Home
• Leslie County Blues / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Missing You Blues / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• If You Talk In Your Sleep / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Cripple Creek / John McEuen with Earl Scruggs / String Wizards / Vanguard
• Cruel Love / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• New Fool / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• Lower On The Hog / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Hard Times / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Duncan And Brady (He's Been On The Job Too Long) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• My Kentucky Dream / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Don't Tell Me Stories / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Bending Blades / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• If I Could Go Back Home Again / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder
• Breakin' New Ground / The Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Lonesome Old Home / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Milwaukee, Here I Come / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family
• San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Golden West / Nonesuch Records
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1959-1953 / JSP Records
• Sorry County Blues / Lonesome River Band / One Step Ahead / Sugar Hill
• I Built A World / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Jason Carter / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• New Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Old Rivers / John McEuen / The Newsman:  A Man Of Record / Compass Records
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Only The Lonely / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Telephone conversation with John McEuen
• The Cremation Of Sam McGee / John McEuen / The Newman:  A Man Of Record / Compass Records
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• It's Hot Down Here / James King / Gardens In The Sky:  The Bluegrass Gospel Of James King / Rounder
• Meet Me Over On The Other Side / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• The Gospel Ship / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Get On Board / Williamson Branch / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Before The Fire Comes Down / Del McCoury Band / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
• One More Time (I Must Rise) / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Drowning Sailor / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder