"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