"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