"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/28/2025

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was a bit different than our usual program for a couple of reasons:  for one, with the exception of songs from the newest members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame and music from Bluegrass musicians who died during this past year, we played only music that had been released during the year of 2025.  The second reason this show differed was that it didn't run for a full 180 minutes, but instead, we cut the show short at about 130 minutes.  Why?  Well, the threat of freezing rain in the area didn't sound too appealing, so I will confess that I decided to close up shop a bit early.  Still, we shared A LOT of fine music, so I hope you were able to join us!

If you missed the show, but still might like to listen, here's a link to the archived broadcast:  Bluegrass Cafe Sun Dec 28 with Amy Orlomoski on WHUS Radio

We'll hope to join you for three full hours this coming Sunday afternoon for our first Bluegrass Cafe broadcast of 2026.  Thanks so much for listening to our program this year, and may you enjoy much health and happiness in the new year!  

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Uncle Joe / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Bye Bye Blues / Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / Sensational Twin Banjos / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Let's / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• The Auctioneer / Kody Norris Show / Highfalutin' Hillbilly / Rebel
• Molly Rose / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / single / Pinecastle
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• New Cluck Old Hen / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / Safe, Sensible And Sane / Compass Records
• Seeing The Best Of You / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Nolichucky / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Flagpond Records
• Rose Of My Heart / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / From The Heart--Homespun II / Happy Appy Records
• Heartbreak Express / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Coming On Strong / Rebel
• I've Always Been A Rambler / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Sound Biscuit 
• The Veil Has Been Lifted / Rrinaco / Little Songs / Rebel
• Time Adds Up (If You're Lucky) / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Time Adds Up (If You're Lucky) / Billy Blue Records
• Millworker / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Yanceyville Jail / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Golden Leaves / Acoustic Blue / This Is Now / Bishop Hill Records [Remembering Alton "Bear" Acker:  1/23/1942 - 10/16/2025]
• Hummingbird / ShoreGrass / Hummingbird (And Other Nearly True Stories) / Self-Produced [Remembering Frank Shaw:  12/15/1947 - 9/21/2025]
• Keep On The Sunny Side / The Whites / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury [Remembering Buck White:  12/13/1930 - 1/13/2025]
• Name On Your Heart / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Alton "Bear" Acker:  1/23/1942 - 10/16/2025]
• Rest Easy Darlin' / ShoreGrass / Hummingbird (And Other Nearly True Stories) / Self-Produced [Remembering Frank Shaw:  12/15/1947 - 9/21/2025]
• 32 Acres / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals:  The Definitive Collection / CMH [2025 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee]
• Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish [2025 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee]
• Outrun The Rain / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / Carter & Cleveland / Fiddleman Records
• Big Train / Don Rigsby with Ronnie Reno / Kentucky Troubadour / Rebel
• Richmond On The James / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Arcadia / Down The Road Records
• Honey Will You Be Mine / Henhouse Prowlers / Unravel / Dark Shadow Recording
• So Black And White / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• Way Back When / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• Lonesome Is Your Name / Rick Faris / Life's Parade / Dark Shadow Recording
• The Devil's Train / Junior Sisk / It's All Fun And Games ('Til Someone Gets Hurt) / Turnberry Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/21/2025

As has been our tradition for the last 20+ years of Bluegrass Cafe, on the Sunday before Christmas, we devote our three hours of broadcast time to Christmas music.  And, of course, this past Sunday's show was no exception.  Hope you enjoyed our (fully tongue-in-cheek) "Country & Bluegrass Christmas Extravaganza!"

In addition to including traditional Bluegrass Christmas favorites from Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, and the Country Gentlemen, we also enjoyed brand-new recordings for 2025 from High Fidelity and the Kody Norris Show.  

And we couldn't have our Christmas show without including several country music favorites, too. 

Hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas, and we'll look forward to visiting with you once again for our last Bluegrass Cafe of 2025 this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.

Amy O.

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

• Jingle Bells / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• My Little Silver Bells / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• O Christmas Candle / Stony Point Quartet / Christmas Time Back Home / Cracker Barrel
• Christmas Swing / Chesapeake / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Rhonda Vincent / Beautiful Star:  A Christmas Collection / Rounder
• Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Christmas Time's A-Comin':  The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection / Time Life
• Christmas Doll / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / Gusto
• Old Fashioned Christmas / Jimmy Martin / Christmas Time's A-Comin':  The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection / Time Life
• That's Christmas Time To Me / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Christmas Time's A-Comin':  The Essential Bluegrass Collection / Time Life
• Sleigh Ride / Bob Dick / Tidings Of Comfort And Joy / Appleland Records
• Mister Santa / Amy Gallatin / 'Tis The Season / Happy Appy Records
• Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree / Williamson Branch with Jimmy Fortune / Very Merry Christmas / Pinecastle
• Santa Claus Is Coming To Town / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Deck The Halls / Skaggs Family / A Skaggs Family Christmas / Skaggs Family Records
• Christmas Lullaby / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
• Christmas Time Back Home / High Fidelity / single / Rebel
• Frosty The Snowman / Jeff Parker / It's Christmas Time / Lonesome Day Records
• Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer / Lynn Morris / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• Because It's Christmas Time / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens / Curb
• An Old Christmas Card / Jim Reeves / Twelve Songs Of Christmas / RCA
• Silver Bells / Riders In The Sky with Kathy Mattea / Merry Christmas From Harmony Ranch / Columbia
• To Heck With Ole Santa Claus / Loretta Lynn / The Best Of Loretta Lynn:  The Christmas Collection / MCA
• He's A Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus / Tennessee Ernie Ford / A Country Christmas / Capitol
• Po Folks Christmas / Bill Anderson / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• Santa's On His Way / Kitty Wells / Come On Baby It's Christmas / Atomicat Records
• The Carols Those Kids Used To Sing / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Mercury
• I'll Be Walking The Floor This Christmas / Ernest Tubb / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• One Of Everything You Got / Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Merry Christmas From Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Capitol
• Reindeer Boogie / Hank Snow / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• Christmas Time Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• Bluegrass, White Snow / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass & White Snow:  A Mountain Christmas / SME
• Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow / Authentic Unlimited / Christmas Time Is Here / Billy Blue Records
• Oh, It's Christmas / Sage Palser with Danny Paisley / single / Huckleberry Records
• Our Gingerbread House / Becky Buller / The Christmas 45 / Dark Shadow Recording
• Kentucky Noel / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Blue Circle Records
• I'm Going Home, It's Christmas Time / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Sound Biscuit Records
• Christmas Is Near / Ralph Stanley / Christmas Time With Ralph Stanley / Freeland Records
• Merry Christmas Everybody / Spinney Brothers / single / Mountain Fever Records
• White House Christmas / WhiteHouse / A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' / Pinecastle
• Christmas Is Not Far Away / Red Ellis & the Huron Valley Boys / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• Joy To The World / Larry Sparks / Christmas In The Hills / Rebel
• Fiddle For Christmas / Glen Duncan / A Very Merry Bluegrass Christmas / Engelhardt Music Group
• Christmas At The Old Home Place / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Because It's Christmas Time / Billy Blue Records
• The Christmas Cookies / Greg Blake / People, Places And Songs / Turnberry Records
• Christmas In My Hometown / Charley Pride / Christmas In My Hometown / RCA
• The Christmas Yodel / Riders In The Sky / Christmas The Cowboy Way / Rounder
• Christmas Story / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• I Feel The Christmas Spirit / The Isaacs / Christmas Time's A-Comin':  The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection / Time Life
• Precious Child / Tony Trischka / Glory Shone Around / Rounder
• Christmas Lullaby / Doc Watson / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• O Little Town Of Bethlehem / Louvin Brothers / Christmas With The Louvin Brothers / Gusto
• Lift Up Your Hearts / Rick Lang / The Season Of My Heart / Haley Anna Music
• The First Noel/It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/Joy To The World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• Sleigh Ride / Sam Bush / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/14/2025

After a week's absence due to illness, we took advantage of Sunday's snowy weather and played several Bluegrass Christmas selections, including a couple of brand-new-for-2025 songs.   

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• A Very Merry Christmas / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
• Snow Day / Claire Lynch Band / Holiday! / Thrill Hill Records
• Slowly Fall The Snowflakes / Bill Carroll / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
• Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow / Skaggs Family / A Skaggs Family Christmas / Skaggs Family Records
• Frosty The Snowman / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / Gusto
• Dreaming Of Christmas / Rhonda Vincent / Christmas Time / Upper Management Music
• When It's Snowin' In The Mountains / Wildwood Valley Boys / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
• Reindeer Boogie / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Because It's Christmas Time / Billy Blue Records
• Bluegrass Christmas / McCoury Brothers / Christmas Time's A-Comin':  The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection / Time Life
• That White Christmas Song / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• Dixie In My Eye / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• Wall Around Your Heart / Becky Buller with Jim Lauderdale / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Scotty's Hoedown / Brownwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico / Jeff Brown & Wayne Taylor / single / Huckleberry Records
• Something In The Wind / The Seldom Scene / Act Four / Sugar Hill
• Making Up Stories / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Never Did No Wanderin' / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Molly Rose / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / single / Pinecastle
• Lonesome Feeling / C.J. Lewandowski with Vince Gill & A.J. Lee / Keep On Keepin' On / Turnberry Records
• Blue Skies / Buddy Melton / single / Melton & Miller Music
• Would You Believe / Michelle Canning / Hey! Have You Heard? / Self-Produced
• Christmas Without You / Kristy Cox / single / Billy Blue Records
• Christmas Eve Again / J.M. Clifford / single / Brooklyn Basement Records
• In The Window / Claire Lynch Band / Holiday! / Thrill Hill Records
• I Was Left On The Street / Peter Rowan / The Last Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill
• Matterhorn / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• 5 Days Out, 2 Days Back / Alison Brown & Steve Martin with Tim O'Brien / Safe, Sensible And Sane / Compass Records
• Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Curly Seckler with Larry Cordle / Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Copper Creek
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Bowling Green / Laurie Lewis / Restless Rambling Heart / Flying Fish
• Blue Days, Black Nights / Tasty Licks / Hand-PIcked:  25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records / Rounder
• She's More To Be Pitied / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Another Day / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Won't You Think Of Me / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• A Holly Jolly Christmas / Bob Dick / Tidings Of Comfort And Joy / Appleland Records
• Christmas For Cowboys / Amy Gallatin / 'Tis The Season / Happy Appy Records
• Christmas Time Back Home / High Fidelity / single / Rebel
• Pretty Paper / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Walking With Joanna / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Anywhere The Wind Blows / Missy Raines & Allegheny with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Just Wondering Why / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• Who Do You Think? / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Hometown Holiday / Billy Blue Records
• By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The LIght Shine Down / Rebel
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Mary's Christmas / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• The Carpenter Shop / Bluegrass Cardinals / Every Time I Feel The Spriit / Sugar Hill
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• My Lord's Been A Walkin' / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Lord Protect My Soul / Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/30/2025

 

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Christmas Is Near / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• If We Make It Through December / Heather Berry / Have A Merry Berry Christmas / Mountain Fever Records
• The Season Of My Heart / Rick Lang / The Season Of My Heart / Haley Anna Music
• Making Plans / Tim O'Brien / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• Christmas Time Back Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Old Home Place / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Candlewood / Mark Delaney / SideCar / Patuxent Music
• Nobody's Darlin' But Mine / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Cowboy Sweetheart / Honi Deaton & Dream / Promise To A Soldier / CMG
• Travelin' Down This Lonesome Road / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Raising The Bar / Chad Darou / Raising the Bar / Bell Buckle Records
• Head Hung Down / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Hazel Dickens / It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song / Rounder
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• How's It Feel / Daughters Of Bluegrass [Jeanette Williams] / Back To The Well / Blue Circle Records
• Milwaukee Blues / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Let 'Em Know I'm From Virginia / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Sound Biscuit 
• Honey Babe Blues / Jason Burleson / single / Self-Produced
• Appalachian Cry / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• Christmas Time Back Home / High Fidelity / single / Rebel
• Santa Claus Is Coming To Town / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Sis Draper / Shawn Camp / The Ghost Of Sis Draper / Truly Handmade Records
• Hold To A Dream / Laurie Lewis / Restless Rambling Heart / Flying Fish
• Whistlin' Rufus / Stuart Duncan / Stuart Duncan / Rounder
• Hot Corn, Cold Corn / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall / Koch Records
• Way Back When / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• Where Love Goes To Die / Junior Sisk / It's All Fun And Games / Turnberry Records
• Color Of The Blues / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Color Of The Blues / Strictly Country Records
• Fourteen Carat Mind / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel
• Bluegrass Radio / Alsion Brown & Steve Martin / Safe, Sensible And Sane / Compass Records
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Two Step 'Round The Christmas Tree / Amy Gallatin / 'Tis The Season / Happy Appy Records
• Stranger In My Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Picture In The Moonlight / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Iron Curtain / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• O Christmas Tree / Rhonda Vincent / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• Angels From The Realms Of Glory / Rrinaco / single / Rebel
• I'm Building A Mansion In Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• One Is Taken, One Is Left / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Lord, Build Me A Cabin In Glory / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• So Many Years, So Many Blessings / Lewis Family / Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / Spring House
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler
• Welcome In / Jim Eanes / In His Arms / Rebel
• Giving My Soul Back To Him / IIIrd Tyme Out / Living On The Other Side / Rounder
• A Place On Calvary / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/23/2025

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was abbreviated on both ends, as the show was bookended by two UConn Basketball broadcasts.  Though the show lasted a grand total of 97 minutes, we still managed to share some fine music during our "Bluegrass Interlude."  Hope you were able to join us for our quick visit.

Looks like our next Sunday visit will be a full-length, three hour show.  Hope so!

Hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving, and we'll invite you to finish up your holiday weekend in the Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.

Thanks for listening!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / A Foggy Mountain Special / Masterpieces
• Tears Of Regret / Jim & Jesse / Best Of The Early Years / Master Classics Records
• It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Big Tilda / Stanley Brothers / I Saw The Light / Golden Bridge Records
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH Records
• Breakin' New Ground / The Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing / Claire Lynch & the Front Porch String Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Eddie's Hoedown / Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• My Kentucky Dream / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Tidwell Pike / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces And Bits / Goose Creek Music
• Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Poor Old Cora / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Feast Here Tonight / David Grisman with Doc Watson & Ricky Skaggs / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Turkey In The Straw / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Sallie / Williamson Branch / Unitied We Stand / Pinecastle
• Wild Geese Cry Again / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel
• The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Millworker / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Let's Get Out Of Here / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / Safe, Sensible And Sane / Compass Records
• A Couple Beers More / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Leaning On A Travelin' Song / Billy Strings / Highway Prayers / Reprise
• Lord I've Been A Hard Working Pilgrim / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Heaven's Joy Awaits / Sugar Hill
• I'm A Pilgrim / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Eat At The Welcome Table / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• I'm A Weary Pilgrim / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / There's A Light Guiding Me / Sugar Hill
• Count Your Blessings / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope
• Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH Records
• Every Humble Knee Must Bow / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• No Depression / Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/16/2025

"Come along and ride this train..."

That's how we spent a good portion of our Bluegrass Cafe on November 16th.  Many of the songs were all about trains, which remain popular in books, in collectibles, in memory, and, of course, in song.  All aboard!

In addition to our 22 train songs, we also shared some newer Bluegrass selections from several bands, including a duet experience between the Po' Ramblin' Boys and Sister Sadie, and newer music from Mike Mitchell, Pitney Meyer, Appalachian Road Show, Larry Sparks, and more.

Birthdays this week included those of Tom Adams and Larry Cordle, too.

Thanks, as always, for listening!  

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Had It Not Been For The Train / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Ridin' That Midnight Train / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Through The Window Of A Train / Rounder
• Blue Train (Of The Heartbreak Line) / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Hard Game Of Love / Sugar Hill
• Freight Train / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Passing Of The Train / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Gonna Catch A Train / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Midnight Train / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Blue Train / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Home Of The Blues / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Don't Tell Me Your Troubles / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Cold November Rain / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Soppin' The Gravy / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent MusicMike 
• Down In A Cell / Volume Five / Down In A Cell / Mountain Fever Records
• Midnight On The Highway / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• Are You Missing Me / Dailey & Vincent / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways
• Ramblin' Boy / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass Sings Paxton / Mountain Home
• Me And The Jukebox / Buzz Busby / Thirty Years Of Bluegrass / Supreme Media
• Just A Holler Over / Sister Sadie with Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Mountain Home
• Della Jane's Heart / Appalachian Road Show / single / Billy Blue Records
• Little Mountain Home / Mike Mitchell / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Square Dance Friday Night / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Ride On By / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bobby Osborne & C.J. Lewandowski with Molly Tuttle / single / Turnberry Records
• Orange Blossom Special / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel
• Big Black Train / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts / JSP Records
• Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Freight Train Boogie / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Diesel Train / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Pinecastle
• East Bound Freight Train / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Poor Ellen Smith / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• In The Mexican Sun / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• Banjo Picker (In A Bluegrass Band) / Pitney Meyer / Cherokee Pioneer / Curb Records
• Adams County Breakdown / Johnson Mountain Boys / Son Of Rounder Banjo / Rounder [Tom Adams birthday, 11/17/1958]
• Oh So Many Years / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / From The Heart--Homespun II / Happy Appy Records
• Rainbow Stew / Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home
• Murder On Music Row / Lonesome Standard Time / Murder On Music Row / Shellpoint Records [Larry Cordle birthday, 11/16/1948]
• Highway 40 Blues / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill [Larry Cordle birthday, 11/16/1948]
• My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Mother Prayed Loud In Her Sleep / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live / Upper Management Music
• Little Black Train / IIITyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• God Told Nicodemus / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue REcords
• How Can You Refuse Him Now / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• The Devil's Train / James King / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• Get A Transfer / Nashville Bluegrass Boys / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/2/2025

Our first Bluegrass Cafe for the month of November started with a few leftover songs of Bluegrass ghosts and murders, as Halloween was only two days before our show aired.  We didn't hold that ghostly "theme" for too long, though, as we had plenty more ground to cover during Sunday's radio visit.

Late October and early November Bluegrass birthdays were celebrated, including those of the late Sonny Osborne, as well as another Bluegrass Hall of Fame/banjo picker Alan Munde, and a couple of other fine folks:  Martha Adcock, Allen Mills, and Junior Sisk.  

As we do around November 1st every year, we remembered the 87th birthday of ol' Whisperin' Bill Anderson, whose wonderful songwriting has been enjoyed since the great Ray Price recorded Bill's tune, "City Lights" in 1958.  What an amazing career this Grand Ole Opry legend has had, and we shared eight fine Bluegrass covers of some of his classic tunes, as well as some more-recent selections.  

There was just a small portion of newer music to share during Sunday's show, most notably a couple of selections from the newest Bluegrass(ish) endeavor of Steve Martin -- a fine duet record he has made with the great Alison Brown called, "Safe, Sensible and Sane"  There was also newer music from Echo Valley, Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Edgar Loudermilk, and Grasstime.

UConn Women's Basketball will be heard during our normal 4-7PM timeslot this coming Sunday, November 9th.  We hope to return with a brand-new Bluegrass Cafe on November 16th.  See you then!

Thanks for listening!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• The Ghost Of Cecil Martin / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• Clinch Mountain Mystery / Larry Stephenson / Clinch Mountain Mystery / Pinecastle
• Widow Janie / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Sierra Records
• Ballad Of Maudie Dawson / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Brown Mountain Light / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Time Changes Everything / Reno Brothers / Swing West / Pinecastle
• My Dying Day / Lou Reid & Carolina / Time / Lonesome Day Records
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Dickson County Breakdown / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone) / Michelle Nixon / What More Should I Say? / Pinecastle
• You're Gonna Wonder About Me / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Willow Creek Dam / American Drive / American Drive / Pinecastle
• Every Time You Say Goodbye / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder
• Leaving Cleveland / Tim Raybon Band / I Could Get Used To This / Pinecastle
• Heartaches / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Let's Get Out Of Here / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / Safe, Sensible And Sane / Compass Records
• Don't Bring Me Down / Echo Valley / Leave You Behind / Self-Produced
• Polly's Revenge / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Rollin' On Rubber Wheels / Stanley Family Records
• Cotton, Corn And Hay / Grasstime / single / Self-Produced
• Yes We're Sailing / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Pinecastle
• New Cluck Old Hen / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / Safe, Sensible And Sane / Compass Records
• Caney Fork River / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Bright Lights And Country Music / Bill Anderson / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics, Volume One / Opry Music [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Lost Highways And Treasured Memories / Old Heritage Records [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Once A Day / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• I Don't Love You Anymore / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• The Guitar Song / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Slippin' Away / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Amnesia / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Cincinnati, Ohio / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH Records [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/27/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Many A Mile / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music [Martha Adcock birthday, 10/27/1949]
• Blue Ridge Express / Alan Munde / Blue Ridge Express / Rounder [Alan Munde birthday, 11/4/1946]
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Allen Mills birthday, 11/4/1937]
• Sweeter Than Tupelo Honey / Junior Sisk / It's All Fun And Games / Turnberry Records [Junior Sisk birthday, 11/6/1964]
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Allen Mills birthday, 11/4/1937]
• Gold Watch And Chain / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle [Martha Adcock birthday, 10/27/1949]
• Hot Burrito Breakdown / Alan Munde / Festival Favorites Revisited / Rounder [Alan Munde birthday, 11/4/1946]
• Fastest Grass Alive / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes One & Two / Sugar Hill [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/27/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Send The Angels Down / Kristy Cox with Jerry Salley / Learning To Walk With Him / Billy Blue Records
• The Family Who Prays Together / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• The Gospel Ship / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• So Happy I'll Be / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• It's A Lonesome Road / IIIrd Tyme Out / Live At The MAC / Rounder
• The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• The Devil's Train / Junior Sisk / It's All Fun And Games / Rounder [Junior Sisk birthday, 11/6/1964]
• Free Salvation / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/26/2025

As Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was the closest one to air before Halloween, we populated the broadcast with lots of songs about Bluegrass ghosts, murders, graveyards, and unexplained happenings.  Happy Halloween! 

Our show also included several selections from a brand-new record by Larry Sparks called "Way Back When."  And there was also some new music from Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, Ashby Frank, and Unspoken Tradition.

And, since I got to see the Del McCoury Band live in concert on October 25th in Groton, MA, I couldn't NOT share several songs from this amazing legend in the World of Bluegrass Music.  

If you missed the show, you're welcome to check out the archived broadcast for another week or so.  Find the link here:  Bluegrass Cafe Sun Oct 26 with Amy Orlomoski on WHUS Radio

And please don't forget to join me on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

Thanks for listening!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• The Ghost Of Eli Renfro / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Footsteps So Near / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Nashville Cats / Del McCoury Band / The Family / McCoury Music
• Queen Anne's Lace / Del McCoury Band / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• So Black And White / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• The Ghost Of Norma Jean / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Burying Ground / Kathy Kallick / Call Me A Taxi / Sugar Hill
• Down In The Cold Ground / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• The Grave Robber / Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel
• George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• The Ballad Of Sarah Malone / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Pretty Polly / Ralph Stanley with Patty Loveless / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Mr. Engineer / Ashby Frank / single / Mountain Home
• Tennessee Border / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• Under Over / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Mountain Home
• Sleepin' Lula / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• Refugee / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• The Fields Of Gettysburg / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / New South / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Old Train / The Seldom Scene / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• The Ghost Of Sis Draper / Shawn Camp / The Ghost Of Sis Draper / Truly Handmade Records
• Brown Mountain Light / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• The Silver Ghost / David Parmley / Southern Heritage / Rebel
• Sam Jocelyn's Ghost / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Now And Then Records
• Cold, Icy Fingers / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel
• Ghost Stories / Lost Highway / Bluegrass The Way You Like It / Hay Holler
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• I've Come To Take You Home / The Seldom Scene / Like We Used To Be / Sugar Hill
• Won't You Think Of Me / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• I'll Never Grow Tired Of You / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Bright Lights & Country Music / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• Weathered Gray Stone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• The Lantern / Front Range / Ramblin' On My Mind / Sugar Hill
• Get Down On Your Knees And Pray / Del McCoury Band / The Family / McCoury Music
• Journey To My Savior's Side / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• Lord, Show Me The Righteous Pathway / Special Consensus / Everything's Alright / Pinecastle
• Heaven / Dale Ann Bradley / Don't Turn Your Back / Compass Records
• Echoes From The Burning Bush / Reno & Smiley / Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups, 1959-1963 / Starday King
• The Sons And Daughters Of God / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• I Have Found The Way / Larry Stephenson / Close My Eyes To Heaven / Pinecastle
• My Lord's Going To Set Me Free / Junior Sisk / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea Records
• Beyond The Sunset For Me / Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore, Jamie Dailey, Josh Swift / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm 
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/19/2025

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated several October birthdays, the 50th anniversary of a Chicago-based Bluegrass band, and remembered a New England Bluegrass fixture.  Hope you were able to join us for our weekly radio visit.

The October birthdays we celebrated this week included those of Bob Amos, Larry Stephenson, the late Don Parmley, and Eric Gibson.  We also took a few minutes to remember the entertaining Lewis Marshall Jones - better known as "Everybody's Favorite Grandpa," Grandpa Jones.  

The Special Consensus is celebrating 50 years as a band, and formally celebrated with a big concert this past Saturday evening, wherein several Special C alumni performed with the current members.  Congratulations to Special C founder Greg Cahill for keeping this band vital and performing for half a century!

Photo borrowed from the Facebook page of
Dave Helman.

We also remembered a fine musician and human being who passed on October 16th:  Alton "Bear" Acker.  Bear led a band in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts for many years that was known as Billings Gap.  During his later performing years, he was a sideman with such bands as Thunder Mountain Bluegrass and Acoustic Blue.  Bear will be missed, but was fondly remembered during our broadcast.  And, as always, big thank you to Dave Shaw for helping provide some of the music we played during this tribute set.

Reminder:  if you would like to go back and listen to the archival broadcast of our Bluegrass Cafe, you have two weeks from the date of the original show's airing.  In the case of Sunday's show, here's the direct link to an archived version of the show:  Bluegrass Cafe Sun Oct 19 with Amy Orlomoski on WHUS Radio

Enjoy the weekend, and we'll look forward visiting you once again on the radio this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

See you then - 
Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Get In Line Buddy / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• True Life Blues / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Harvest Time / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel 
• Bring 'Em On Back / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Poverty Row / Springfield Exit / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Each Season Changes You / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Millworker / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Way Downtown / Billy Strings / Me / And / Dad / Rounder
• Reno Ride / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Scraps From Your Table / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Shadows In My Room / Hot Rize / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Hard Travelin' / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• In The Mexican Sun / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• Coal Tattoo / Billings Gap / single / Pioneer Records [Remembering Alton "Bear" Acker:  1/23/1942 - 10/16/2025]
• Midnight Flyer / Billings Gap / single / Pioneer Records [Remembering Alton "Bear" Acker:  1/23/1942 - 10/16/2025]
• Mr. Engineer / Billings Gap / 2nd Pioneer Valley Jamboree / Pioneer Records [Remembering Alton "Bear" Acker:  1/23/1942 - 10/16/2025]
• Written On Your Heart / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Alton "Bear" Acker:  1/23/1942 - 10/16/2025]
• Back To The Barrooms Again / Acoustic Blue / Empty House / Self-Produced [Remembering Alton "Bear" Acker:  1/23/1942 - 10/16/2025]
• Golden Leaves / Thunder Mountain Bluegrass / Another Season / Leeland Records [Remembering Alton "Bear" Acker:  1/23/1942 - 10/16/2025]
• Carolina In The Pines / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records [Celebrating 50 Years Of Special Consensus]
• 32 Acres / Special Consensus / 25th Anniversary / Pinecastle [Celebrating 50 Years Of Special Consensus]
• Wild Turkey Tracks / Special Consensus / Hey Y'all / Turquoise Records [Celebrating 50 Years Of Special Consensus]
• What Will Become Of Me / Special Consensus / Everything's Alright / Pinecastle [Celebrating 50 Years Of Special Consensus]
• I'll Go To My Grave Lovin' You / Special Consensus / Signs / Pinecastle [Celebrating 50 Years Of Special Consensus]
• Snowbird / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Pinecastle [Celebrating 50 Years Of Special Consensus]
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Eric Gibson birthday, 10/23/1970]
• Seen It All / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone [Bob Amos birthday, 10/24/1957]
• Blue Grass Chopper / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill [Remembering Don Parmley:  10/19/1933 - 7/30/2016]
• I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records [Larry Stephenson birthday, 10/24/1956]
• Hessletine Hill / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler [Eric Gibson birthday, 10/23/1970]
• Mountain Dew / Grandpa Jones / Time Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• It's Raining Here This Morning / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Banjo Am The Instrument For Me / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' / Upper Management Music
• Gone Home / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill [Eric Gibson birthday, 10/23/1970]
• Bouquet In Heaven / Curly Seckler / Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Copper Creek Records
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Carolyn Eyerly / The Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• I Can't Sit Down / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records [Celebrating 50 Years Of Special Consensus]
• I'm Justified / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• You Better Wake Up / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Goin' Up / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill [Remembering Don Parmley:  10/19/1933 - 7/30/2016]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/12/2025

Sunday afternoon (October 12th) was a rainy and windy day in eastern Connecticut, and our Bluegrass Cafe reflected the conditions just a little bit.  While the "theme" of the show was mostly just "good music," we pulled out the "Letter of the Week" occasional feature and put a small spotlight on performers whose name (last name or band name) started with the letter "R."  These performers included everyone from Reno & Smiley and Tony Rice and Lou Reid to newer performers like Rrinaco, Red Camel Collective, and Rock Hearts, just to name a few.  It's good to emphasize a letter every now and then, as it sort of forces me to share CDs on our shelves that may get overlooked a bit.  Hope you enjoyed the selections.

There wasn't too much in the way of brand-new music to share, but we did include a couple of selections from three new recordings we received this week, including music from the Burnett Sisters Band, Tidalwave Road, and Pitney Meyer.  There were also recent selections from Shawn Camp, Junior Sisk, Laura Orshaw, Missy Raines & Allegheny, and the Kody Norris Show.

Hope you were able to join us for the program yesterday, but if not, you still have a week or two to listen to the archival broadcast, if you like.  Find it at this link.  

Have a great week, and please be sure to join us once again next Sunday afternoon for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Love Me Or Leave Me Alone / Hazel Dickens / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• You're In My Heart / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Have You Come You Say Goodbye / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / Radio Gems
• Talk To Me Lonesome Heart / Larry Stephenson feat. Connie Smith & Marty Stuart / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Are You Missing Me / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family Records
• Me And My Old Banjo / Larry Stephenson feat. Bobby Osborne & Ronnie Reno / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• San Antonio Stroll / The Kody Norris Show with Sister Sadie / Highfalutin Hillbilly / Rebel
• Give This Message To Your Heart / Larry Stephenson feat. Dailey & Vincent / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Montana Cowboy / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Leavin' You And Mobile, Too / Red Camel Collective / Red Camel Collective / Pinecastle
• Wheel Hoss / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Nobody Cares (Not Even You) / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family Records
• Fraulein / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• How Many Times / Vern & Ray with Herb Pedersen / San Francisco - 1968 / Arhoolie
• Footprints In The Snow / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• I Know It's Wrong To Love You / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals:  The Definitive Collection / CMH Records
• Lovesick Blues / Burnett Sisters Band / Easy Come, Easy Go / Pinecastle
• Banjo Picker (In A Bluegrass Band) / Pitney Meyer / Cherokee Pioneer / Curb Records
• The Fiddlin' Preacher / Shawn Camp / The Ghost Of Sis Draper / Truly Handmade Records
• Old Friend / Pitney Meyer / Cherokee Pioneer / Curb Records
• Low Down & Lonesome / Tidalwave Road / Skin & Bone / Pinecastle
• Easy Come, Easy Go / Burnett Sisters Band / Easy Come, Easy Go / Pinecastle
• Take Me Home, Country Roads / Special Consensus with John Cowan & Jason Carter / Country Boy:  A Bluegrass Tribute To John Denver / Compass Records [Remembering John Denver:  12/31/1943 - 10/12/1997]
• Lonesome Man In A Lonesome Town / Rock Hearts / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• Whispering Waters / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm 
• Thunderclouds Of Love / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays & Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Introvert Me / Rrinaco / Little Songs / Rebel
• Greenville Trestle High / Ric-O-Chet / Raised By The Railroad Line / Rebel
• Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Reno & Smiley / Bluegrass 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• Crazy Heart / Remington Ryde / A Storyteller's Memory / Pinecastle
• Headin' West / Deanie Richardson & Second Fiddle / In The Mood / Pinecastle
• Enough On My Mind / Rambler's Choice / Sounds Of The Mountains / Rounder
• Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• How Wrong A Man Can Be / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Worries On My Mind / Rebel
• Yanceyville Jail / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Leaving London / Greg Blake / Bluegrass Sings Paxton / Mountain Home
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Seeing The Best Of You / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Go Back You Fool / Junior Sisk / It's All Fun And Games / Turnberry Records
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill / Rhonda Vincent / One Step Ahead / Rounder
• Waiting For The King / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• The Hand Of The Higher Power / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• He Took Your Place / The Radio Gang / Two Different Roads / Fishtraks
• He Loves To Hear You Shout / Don Rigsby / Hillbilly Heartache / Rebel
• Get Up In Jesus Name / Marty Raybon / Southern Roots And Branches / Rural Rhythm
• I've Found A Hiding Place / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Goodbye / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/5/2025

Before we open up our Bluegrass Cafe for another session on October 12th, here's a quick review of the October 5th show:

We spent a good amount of time celebrating early-to-mid-October birthdays of a good number of Bluegrass folks, including those of Billy Strings, Johnny Williams, Terry Baucom, Ray Deaton, Josh Crowe, Lynn Morris, Barry Berrier, Sammy Shelor, Kent Dowell, and Leigh Gibson.  Songs were shared from all of those performers.

The late Robert Fraker was a wonderful musician and great friend whose birth anniversary was celebrated during the October 5th show.  Though Robert died in May 2017, we remembered him and his October 1st birthday with lots of his songs recorded by his band (the Bear Bridge Band), as well as performed by others, including Valerie Smith & Becky Buller, Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin, and the Feinberg Brothers.  

And, as we often like to do, we remembered the centennial birth anniversary of a true music legend (and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame):  Marty Robbins (September 26, 1925 - December 8, 1982).  Many songs from the vast catalog of Marty Robbins have been covered over the years in the world of Bluegrass, and we shared several of them that have been recorded by the Gibson Brothers, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, the Special Consensus, Jim Hurst, the Johnson Mountain Boys, and the Spinney Brothers.  

Hope you'll consider joining me once again on the radio on October 12th!  We'll be there starting at 4PM with another Bluegrass Cafe...

Until then - 
Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Lonesome Truck Driver's Blues / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music
• Tennessee Truck Driving Man / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel
• Truck Driving Man / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Worries On My Mind / Rebel
• Diesel On My Tail / Jim & Jesse / The Jim & Jesse Story / CMH
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again--Gone But Not Forgotten / Wango
• Cold Wind / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Like The Rain Does / Woody Platt / Far Away With You / Compass Records
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH
• Randy Lynn Rag / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia Legacy
• Like A Bird In A Cage / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• I Got A Letter / Valerie Smith & Becky Buller / Here's A Little Song / Bell Buckle Records [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Louisville Suite / Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy Records [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Afraid For What's Ahead / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• No Other Man / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Shelbyville Turnaround / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Love At Last / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Leigh Gibson birthday, 10/11/1971]
• Last Day Of Galax / Johnny Williams / Last Day Of Galax / Mountain Roads Recordings [Johnny Williams birthday, 10/6/1951]
• Prisoner Of The Past / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco [Remembering Terry Baucom:  10/6/1952 - 10/7/2023]
• She's Holding These Lonely Hands Of Mine / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle [Barry Berrier birthday, 10/10/1960]
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Lynn Morris birthday, 10/8/1948]
• Ernest T. Grass / Sammy Shelor / Leading Roll / Sugar Hill [Sammy Shelor birthday, 10/8/1962]
• The In Crowd / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Kent Dowell birthday, 10/10/1955]
• Climbing Up The Mountain / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Heaven's Joy Awaits / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ray Deaton:  10/6/1952 - 6/4/2019]
• Help My Brother / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Leigh Gibson birthday, 10/11/1971]
• I'll Go On Alone / Marty Robbins / The Story Of My Life:  The Best Of Marty Robbins, 1952-1965 / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• At The End Of A Long Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Devil Woman / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Big Iron / Jim Hurst / Second Son / Pinecastle [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Don't Worry / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Ribbon Of Darkness / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / No One But You / Rebel [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• El Paso / Marty Robbins / Legends Of The Grand Ole Opry / Time Life [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Diamond Joe / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• So Black And White / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• Last Time I Saw Him / Red Camel Collective / Red Camel Collective / Pinecastle
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel 
• Brown's Ferry Blues / Tony Trischka with Billy Strings / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records [Billy Strings birthday, 10/3/1992]
• Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Stone Walls And Steel Bars / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder [Billy Strings birthday, 10/3/1992]
• God Has Been So Good To Me / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Josh Crowe birthday, 10/11/1957]
• Ezekiel Saw The Wheel / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Heaven's Joy Awaits / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ray Deaton:  10/6/1952 - 6/4/2019]
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Long Journey / Rounder
• Go Rest High On That Mountain / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Old Ways & Old Paths / Rebel
• Get In The Boat / Jeanette Williams Band / Get In The Boat / Bell Buckle Records
• Talking About That Old Time Religion / Whetstone Run / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country Records [Lynn Morris birthday, 10/8/1948]
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Cardinals / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• Traveling The Highway Home / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel
• A Lover Of The Lord / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom:  10/6/1952 - 10/7/2023]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder