"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/9/2024

Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays!  We had a whole bunch of them to celebrate during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  In addition to belatedly celebrating the birthdays of award-winning New Hampshire songwriter, Rick Lang (born June 7, 1947) Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Tony Rice (June 8, 1951 - December 25, 2020), we celebrated three Bluegrass folks born on June 9th:  Gloria Belle, Greg Blake, and Jamie Dailey.  There's no better way to celebrate folks than by sharing their music, so that's exactly what we did!  Hope you enjoyed the songs we chose to play.

There was also a healthy portion of brand-new Bluegrass music to share, as well, including tunes from Blue Highway, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Retro 78, Daniel Grindstaff, and Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road.  In addition, there were recent releases from Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Jerry Salley, Authentic Unlimited, Tony Trischka, and two selections from the Rick Lang-penned gospel recording.

Hope you were able to join us this past Sunday, but if not, we'll be sure to look for you this Sunday afternoon during our Bluegrass Cafe.    

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I've Waited As Long As I Can / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Some Old Day / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• What Was I Supposed To Do / Lynn Morris / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Fourteen Carat Mind / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Road To Columbus / Noam Pikelny / Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe / Compass Records
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent / One Step Ahead / Rounder
• I'll Go To My Grave Lovin' You / Special Consensus / Signs / Pinecastle [Don Reid birthday, 6/5/1945]
• A Daisy A Day / Lost & Found / Down On Sawmill Road / Rebel
• Big Tilda / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Women Of Sorrow / Bear Bridge Band / Bear Essentials / Open Road
• There Ain't Nothin' In It For Me / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Moon / Rebel
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• Barefoot Nellie / Jim Lauderdale & High Fidelity / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Deep River / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• Years Ago / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder [Don Reid birthday, 6/5/1945]
• Lonesome State Of Mind / Blue Highway / Lonesome State Of Mind / Down The Road Records
• Lonely Pine / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• When I Sing My Last Song / Jerry Salley / The Songwriter / Very Jerry Records
• A Man Who's Never Plowed / Retro 78 / single / Self-Produced
• I Built A World / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes feat. Jason Carter / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Blue Smoke / Wyatt Ellis feat. Marty Stuart / Happy Valley / Knee High Records
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Daniel Grindstaff feat. Jimmy Fortune / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Music Group
• Keepers Of The Flame / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / single / Pinecastle
• Just Let Me Fly / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Winding Through Life / Sugar Hill Records [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Pain Of Loving You / Mark Newton feat. Gloria Belle / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel [Remembering Gloria Belle:  6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• Hills Of My Home / Greg Blake / Songs Of Heart & Home / Self-Produced [Greg Blake birthday, 6/9/1964]
• Someone Is Looking For Someone Like You / Gloria Belle / The Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Remembering Gloria Belle:  6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• When The Blues Are Movin' In / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• I'll Be Lovin' You / Greg Blake / People, Places And Songs / Turnberry Records [Greg Blake birthday, 6/9/1964]
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records [Jerry Cole birthday, 6/8/19  ]
• Chinese Breakdown / Tony Trischka / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• The Hills And Home / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Leslie County Blues / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Wash Your Love From My Heart / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol [Recorded 6/13/1952 - First recordings by Jim & Jesse]
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Say You'll Take Me Back / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Never Been So Lonesome / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• You Don't Call Me Darling Anymore / Traver Hollow / Lonesome Without You / Self-Produced
• Queen Anne's Lace / Del McCoury Band / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• Get On Board / Williamson Branch / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• I'll Meet You In The Morning / The Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 2 / Hay Holler Records
• I Wanna Walk With Jesus / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• There Is Power In The Blood / David Peterson / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• When My Time Comes To Go / Gloria Belle / The Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Remembering Gloria Belle:  6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• Oh Ye Must Be Born Again / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different MOthers / Rounder [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Just Beyond / Barry Abernathy with John Meador, Tim Raybon & Bradley Walker / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/2/2024

Our first Bluegrass Cafe for the month of June inspired us to pull out our occasional feature Spotlight Letter of the Week.  In this case, we chose a few "J" tunes from performers like Clay Jones, Carl Jackson, Chris Jones, Lorraine Jordan, Jim & Jesse, and, of course, the Johnson Mountain Boys.  

Newer music was on the bill for Sunday's show, as well, and we had some good stuff to share!  We included selections from forthcoming or recently-released recordings by Stephen & Jana Mougin, the Vestal Brothers, Kristy Cox, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Laurie Lewis, the Larry Stephenson Band, Tina Adair, and Junior Sisk.

We look forward to our next Bluegrass Cafe visit with you this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.  Consider joining us, if you're so inclined.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Who's That Knocking At My Door? / The Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Stormy Horizons / The Expedition Show / Stormy Horizons / Mountain Fever Records
• Cincinnati Rag / Gerald Evans & Joe Mullins / Just A Five-String And A Fiddle / Rebel
• I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Past The Point Of Rescue / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Hills Of Alabam / Front Porch String Band / Front Porch String Band / Rebel
• Crazy Heart / Remington Ryde / A Storyteller's Memory / Pinecastle
• I Can, I Will, I Do Believe / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• I'm Really Leaving / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Mountains And Memories / Country Gentlemen / Souvenirs / Rebel
• Oh So Many Years / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced
• One Step Ahead Of The Blues / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Love Reunited / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Southern / Rural Rhythm
• The Eddie Swing / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Tony Ellis / Sounds Like Bluegrass To Me / Copper Creek
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• East Bound Freight Train / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• Old Swinging Bridge / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Let Those Fingers Fly / Vestal Brothers / single / True Lonesome Records
• Sally Flatt / Kristy Cox / Let It Burn / Billy Blue Records
• Scotty's Hoedown / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Just A Little Ways Down The Road / Laurie Lewis / Trees / Spruce And Maple Music
• Let It Fall / Tina Adair / single / Engelhardt Music Group
• Sonny Weather / Larry Stephenson Band / Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Whysper Dream Music
• Like I Used To Do / Stephen Mougin & Jana Mougin / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Making Up Stories / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Meet Me By The Moonlight, Alone / Carol Elizabeth Jones & Laurel Bliss / Girl From Jericho / Copper Creek
• Under The Double Eagle / Clay Jones / Mountain Tradition / Rural Rhythm
• Lonesome Dove / Carl Jackson, John Starling & the Nash Ramblers / Spring Training / Sugar Hill
• Final Farewell / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lost Souls & Free Spirits / Rebel
• Diesel Train / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / Radio Shows / Pinecastle
• Daybreak In Dixie / Jerusalem Ridge & Leroy Mack / Together / Self-Produced
• A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
• I Feel The Blues Movin' In / Del McCoury / By Request / McCoury Music
• My Smokey Mountain Rose / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• The Other Side Of Town / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Just Lonesome Ol' Me And The Radio / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• A Few Old Memories / Hazel Dickens / It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• If There's A Will There's A Way / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• You Can Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Story Of Pharisees / The Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Will A Light Be Shining Bright / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Beyond The Shadows / Sugar Hill
• Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/26/2024

On this last Sunday of May, our Bluegrass Cafe included several songs telling stories about soldiers who never came home - the true meaning of our somber Memorial Day holiday.  Over the years, some have come to consider Memorial Day as the unofficial start of the summer season or as a time for lots of BBQ and parties and store sales, but it is much more than that.  During Sunday's show, we honored the military service of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us.  

May 26th is also the birth anniversary of Iris Deen Hall, known to the world as
Miss Dixie Hall (May 26, 1934 - January 16, 2015).  Along with her songwriting husband, Tom T. Hall, Miss Dixie was elected to the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2018.  During the latter part of their lifetimes, the Halls were incredible supporters of the Bluegrass community -- sharing their home, their recording studio, their financial support, and their prodigious songwriting skills.  There was a period of time in the 1990s and into the early 21st century where you didn't find many new CDs without a song written or co-written by Tom T. or Dixie Hall.  Amazing.  Together and separately, Tom T. and Miss Dixie wrote several hundred songs, and their constant support of the Bluegrass community will never be forgotten.  To honor Miss Dixie, we shared seven of her compositions during Sunday's show, though we could have easily filled the whole three hours with no repeats.  Incredible.

While we didn't share any brand-new recordings on Sunday, we did include recent single releases from forthcoming projects, or tunes from recent recordings.  These included songs from Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Jerry Salley, the Tim Raybon Band, and Authentic Unlimited.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and I do hope you'll consider joining me once more next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• New Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Blue Yodel #4 / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Blue Yodel #3 / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• The Train Carryin' Jimmie Rodgers Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics--The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Banjo Bounce / Allen Shelton / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Stanley Brothers / Bluegrass Is Timeless--Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Starday
• Scraps From Your Table / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Moundsville Pen / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• Blue / Stevens Sisters / O Sister!  The Women's Bluegrass Collection / Rounder
• The Evening Train / Bob & Danny Paisley / Plum Pitiful / Time Life
• Texas Barbeque / Bela Fleck / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Tall Pines / Laurie Lewis / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• Something In The Wind / The Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• How Could I Love Her So Much / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• O-hio / Tom Ewing / Adventures Of A Blue Grass Boy / Patuxent Music
• Separating Hearts / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rounder
• Till Lonesome Comes Around / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / single / Pinecastle
• Blue, Blue Rain / Jerry Salley / The Songwriter / Very Jerry Records
• Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Purple Heart / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue:  The Complete County Recordings / Rebel
• Soldier's Last Letter / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio / Pinecastle
• Traveling Soldier / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• From Mother's Arms To Korea / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• A Hero In Harlan / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• I'm Putting On My Leaving Shoes / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Foundation For The Humanities [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• I Want My Dog Back / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• The Grave Robber / Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Walk Slow / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• Drink Up And Go Home / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Rodger Young / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Forgotten Men / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• Arlington / Tim Raybon Band / single / Pinecastle
• Bouquet In Heaven / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Get In The Boat / Jeanette Williams Band / Get In The Boat / Bell Buckle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Rank Strangers / Hot Rize / Hot Rize In Concert / Flying Fish
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Robe Of White / Louvin Brothers / The Family Who Prays:  26 Classic Tracks / Country Stars
• Wings Of Love / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Traveling The Highway Home / Ernie Thacker / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea Records
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
• Place On Calvary / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/19/2024

 

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated four big-name Bluegrass birthdays.  All four of these gentlemen -- Tom T. Hall, Red Smiley, Paul Warren, and Mac Wiseman -- are members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.  Two of them further happen to be members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.  All four were important members of the Bluegrass community, and impacted the music with their outstanding talents...which we showcased during Sunday's show.  

In addition, we shared a little bit of newer music, including selections from the new Rick Lang-penned gospel recording called, "Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen of Rick Lang."  There was also recent music from Rock Hearts, Bob Minner with John Cowan, the Del McCoury Band, Authentic Unlimited, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and Jerry Salley.

Hope you had a fine week, and that you'll consider joining me for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe this Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.

See you soon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Maybe You Will Change Your Mind / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Cruel Love / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Black Eyed Suzy / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• It's Lonesome Everywhere I Go / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Dirt Roads / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Raincoe Music
• Diamond Joe / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Long List Of Heartaches / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• High Country / Sally Van Meter / All In Good Time / Sugar Hill
• Gonna Paint The Town / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Going To The Races / James King / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Theme Time / Jim Mills / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch
• Roll Muddy River / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• Unfinished Bridges / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Castles In The Air / Bob Minner with John Cowan / single / Billy Blue Records
• Just Because / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Trip Around The Sun / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dierks Bentley / single / Sugar Petunia Records
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Me And Tom T. Hall / Jerry Salley / The Songwriter / Very Jerry Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• A Week In A Country Jail / Tom T. Hall / The Essential Tom T. Hall:  The Story Songs / Mercury [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Washed My Face In The Morning Dew / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Year That Clayton Delaney Died / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Ballad Of Forty Dollars / Tom T. Hall / 50 Greatest Hits / Hump Head Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Guitar / Sierra Hull & Justin Moses with Mac Wiseman / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Can't You Hear Me Calling / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Mac Wiseman with Alison Krauss / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Biscuits And Gravy / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• What Am I Doing Hangin' Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Records
• The Truth, The Light, The Way / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I'm A Stranger / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts And Better Times / Open Road
• Me And Jesus / Charlie Sizemore with the Oak Ridge Boys / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Boat Of Love / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• Church Bells A-Ringin' / Danny Paisley with Barry Abernathy, Ben James & Bradley Walker / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Lost In Sin? / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/12/2024

Hanging out with my mother at Roy Acuff's house

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we covered lots of musical ground.  As it was Mother's Day, we celebrated MOM in song with twenty-one wonderful songs about her -- whether she's still with us, or lives on only in memory.  Hope all of the mothers had a fabulous day.

We also remembered the May birthday of Country Music Hall of Famer, Hank Snow (May 9, 1914 - December 20, 1999).  Many songs originally performed and/or written by the Singing Ranger have been covered in the world of Bluegrass over the years, so we enjoyed a few of them on Sunday.

Two important members of the Bluegrass community recently passed, and we couldn't let the show go by without remembering them.  Frank Wakefield (June 26, 1934 - April 26, 2024) was an incredibly talented mandolinist with a super-unique personality.  Smiling Jim Mills (December 18, 1966 - May 3, 2024) was not only a top-notch banjo picker who worked for many years both with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver as well as Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, but he was also a noted expert on pre-war Gibson banjos.  We celebrated both of these gentlemen on Sunday afternoon.

New music was a big part of the program on Sunday, too, and we included brand-new (or recent) music from several performers, including Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland, Williamson Branch, Becky Buller, the Grascals, the Lonesome River Band, Adam McIntosh, Volume Five, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, and Junior Sisk.

Hope you enjoyed the show!  Please consider joining me once more this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• God Bless Her, 'Cause She Is My Mother / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Listen To Me Mother / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Thank God For A Mama / Lonesome River Band / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill
• From The Hollow / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• Mama's Opry / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• Mother Of A Miner's Child / Country Gentlemen / The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• Mother's Voice Is In The Wind / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Mother Knows Best / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• I'm Movin' On / Hank Snow / The Essential Hank Snow / RCA Legacy [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• The Golden Rocket / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• A Fool Such As I / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• One More Ride / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Would You Mind / Hank Snow / The Essential Hank Snow / RCA Legacy [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• The Goldrush Is Over / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Down The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Hank Snow Medley / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Music Makin' Mama From Memphis / Hank Snow / The Essential Hank Snow / RCA Legacy [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Give It Away / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records
• Hang Around For The Heartache / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Jubilee / Becky Buller with Aoife O'Donovan / Jubilee / Dark Shadow Recording
• Southern Nights / Williamson Branch with Carl Jackson / single / Pinecastle
• County Wishing Well / Volume Five / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Pull The Trigger / The Grascals / single / Mountain Home
• Johnny B. Goode / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / single / Rebel
• Peaceful Easy Feeling / Adam McIntosh / Restless / Billy Blue Records
• Tennessee Banjo Man / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Pressing On Regardless / Brentwood Music [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• The Hide Head Blues / Jim Mills / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Live At The Charleston Music Hall / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• He Came From Carolina (A Tribute To Earl) / Jim Mills / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• Careless Love / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads Music [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• New Camptown Races / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / Bluegrass / Folkways [Remembering Frank Wakefield:  6/26/1934 - 4/26/2024]
• Are You Afraid To Die / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / Bluegrass / Folkways [Remembering Frank Wakefield:  6/26/1934 - 4/26/2024]
• Echo Blues / Frank Wakefield, Taylor Baker & Friends / Frank Wakefield, Taylor Baker & Friends / Patuxent Music [Remembering Frank Wakefield:  6/26/1934 - 4/26/2024]
• Dear Mom / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Raincoe Music
• Hand That Rocks The Cradle / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Memories Of Mother / Junior Sisk with Ricky Skaggs / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Always Be Kind To Your Mother / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• When My Momma Sang To Me / Nancy Pate / When My Momma Sang To Me:  Songs Of Murphy Hicks Henry / Arrandem Records
• I Haven't Seen Mama In Years / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Mama Tried / The Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Medals For Mothers / IIIrd Tyme Out / Back To The MAC / Rounder
• Mama's Hand / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Little Mountain Church House / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads Music
• Give Mother My Crown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• My Mother's Bible / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Some Day / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rounder
• Come On In / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• Shake Hands With Mother Again / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Joy Of Revelation / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/28/2024

In honor of Sunday's beautiful (starting out, anyway) Spring weather, we adopted "S" as our Letter of the Week during the majority of this day's Bluegrass Cafe.   

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Tragic Love / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• It's A Good Day / Shelton & Williams / So Much Time, So Much Love / Grass Tank Music
• That Kind Of Lonesome / Eddie Sanders / That Kind Of Lonesome / Engelhardt Music Group
• Little Maggie / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Life To Go / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Stanley Family Records
• I'm Coming Back But I Don't Know When / South Carolina Broadcasters / Home To Stay / Patuxent Music
• Don't Let Me Cross Over / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie / Pinecastle
• Shuckin' The Corn / Sleepy Man Banjo Boys / The Farthest Horizon / Self-Produced
• You Better Hold On To Your Heart / Shannon Slaughter / Hold On To Your Heart / Self-Produced
• Gonna Catch A Train / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Big Train (From Memphis) / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Muddy Water / Sommers Rosenthal Family Band / Down The Road / American Melody
• Newton Grove / Sideline / Ups, Downs, And No Name Towns / Mountain Home
• I'm Lonesome / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• The Night Flatt & Scruggs Played Carnegie Hall / Jerry Salley / Front Porch Philosophy / Very Jerry Records
• When The Wind Comes Up / Jody Stecher with Mile 12 / Mile 77 / Don Gionvanni Records
• The Sun Also Rises / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• Long Journey Home / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Brown's Ferry Blues / Tony Trischka with Billy Strings / single / Down The Road Records
• (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Till Lonesome Comes Around / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / single / Pinecastle
• Second To None / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Good Thing Gone Wrong / Kenny & Amanda Smith / single / Farm Boy Records
• Just Because / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• The Rock Island Line / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• I'll Never Do Better Than You / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
• Goodbye Girls I'm Going To Boston / Adam Steffey / New Primitive / Organic Records
• Henry Hill / Larry Sparks / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Rebel
• The Ties That Bind / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• Alberta Bound / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Hummingbird / Shoregrass / Hummingbird (And Other Nearly True Stories) / Self-Produced
• Bluegrass Country / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Wall Around Your Heart / Jeff Scroggins & Colorado / Ramblin' Feels Good / Self-Produced
• Mule Skinner Blues / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / K-Tel Records
• I Got A New One / Kelley John Gibson / The Keeping Kind / Self-Produced
• Pray / Kelley John Gibson / The Keeping Kind / Self-Produced
• New Camptown Races / Red Allen, Frank Wakefield & the Kentuckians / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Frank Wakefield:  6/26/1934 - 4/24/2024]
• Now Just Suppose / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• I'm Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Air Mail Special / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• My Eyes Shall Be On Canaan's Land / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin' , Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Mama's Rocking Chair / Southern Rail / Glory Train / Pinecastle
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• Born Again / Larry Stephenson Band / Pull Your Savior In / Whysper Dream Music
• I John Saw / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• These Are They / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Jordan / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/21/2024

Ben Eldridge (8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024)
[Photo by Ted Lehmann]

During this day's Bluegrass Cafe, we put the main focus on the music of Ben Eldridge -- the banjo playing co-founder of The Seldom Scene -- who died one week ago at the age of 85.  Along with his Scene bandmates, Ben was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2014.  He was the last of the original members of the Scene to retire from the band after 44 years of holding down the banjo role.  By all accounts, Ben Eldridge was an incredibly nice and funny man, and we will always be grateful for his contribution to the Bluegrass lexicon.  To celebrate his life and his career, we shared several songs from the Scene, as well as a few selections from a couple of the albums Ben recorded with Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass in 1970 and 1971.  If you would like to read more about the life of Ben Eldridge, check out this fairly extensive remembrance published in Bluegrass Today or read his biography from the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.  

This week, it was also announced that a very important album in the history of Bluegrass music is being added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.  "The New South" (featuring J.D. Crowe along with Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Bobby Slone, and Jerry Douglas) was released by Rounder Records in 1975.  Better known by its catalog number (Rounder 0044) than the album title, this well-regarded work is probably on the Top 10 favorite list of albums among many, many Bluegrass fans and musicians.  How nice to know it'll be preserved forever in the Library of Congress.

There wasn't a lot of new music to share this week, but we did include new or recent selections from Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road, Bluegrass Express, the Red Camel Collective, Dave Adkins, and the Wilson Banjo Co.

Hope you have a wonderful week.  Thanks for listening to our Bluegrass Cafe!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
• I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
• Bill Monroe For Breakfast / Acoustic Blue / This Is Now / Self-Produced
• That Bluegrass Music / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar HIll Years / Sugar Hill
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Polka On A Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• Are You Missing Me? / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• The In Crowd / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Old Home Place / The New South / The New South / Rounder
• Rock, Salt & Nails / The New South / The New South / Rounder
• I'm Walkin' / The New South / The New South / Rounder
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Golden West / Nonesuch Records
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1956-1959 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Bottom Of The Ninth / Jason Barie / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Sunny Days (Are Comin' Once Again) / Michael Cleveland with Jeff White & Dan Tyminski / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• North Wind / Bluegrass Express / single / Plum River Records
• Yellow Line / Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road / Yellow Line / Pinecastle
• Roll On Mississippi / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• Bad Moon Rising / Dave Adkins / What I'm For / Billy Blue Records
• Our Last Goodbye/Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine / Wilson Banjo Co. / Memory Lane / Pinecastle
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Cross Country / Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Right On! / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Close The Door Lightly When You Go / Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Traveling Light / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Bill Cheetham / Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Traveling Light / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Raised By The Railroad Line / The Seldom Scene / Act I / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Smokin' Hickory / The Seldom Scene / Act Two / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Hail To The Redskins / The Seldom Scene / Act 3 / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round / The Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Hit Parade Of Love / The Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Biscuits And Gravy / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• I Wish You Knew / Auldridge, Reid & Coleman / High Time / Sugar Hill
• I Know You're Married (But I Love You Still) / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Leaving Crazytown / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / High Peaks And New Ground / Rural Rhythm
• Runaway Train / Travelin' McCourys / single / McCoury Music
• Help Me Climb That Mountain / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Gardens And Memories / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Take Him In / The Seldom Scene / Baptizing / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• I Need The Prayers / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• The Everlasting Arms / Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Right On! / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Will You Be Ready To Go Home / The Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• I'm Working On A Building / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder 
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• I'll Be No Stranger There / The Seldom Scene / A Change Of Scenery / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken / The Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/13/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/14/2024

Our Tax Day Eve Bluegrass Cafe broadcast on April 14th started with several songs about money (or lack of it) and, of course, taxes.  Other sets of music from Sunday's show focused on newer tracks, and there were several April birthdays to remember.  Hope you were able to join us, but if not, read on for the recap...

For April birthdays, we remembered the 60th birthday of Stuart Duncan (born April 14, 1964), as well as the 80th birthday of Doyle Lawson (born April 20, 1944).  We also celebrated the birthdays (or birth anniversaries) of Delia Bell, Bob Dick, and Hylo Brown.

There was a bit of recent music from Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Darren Beachley & Kyle Windbeck, Junior Sisk, Adam McIntosh, the Price Sisters, Authentic Unlimited, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, and Howard Parker.

And we celebrated two Pioneers of Bluegrass who were honored Sunday afternoon by the Rhode Island Bluegrass Alliance at their Hall of Fame ceremonies.  We celebrated both the late Bill Rawlings, as well as Dave Papuga, an eastern Connecticut guitarist who worked for several years with the Pike Brothers and Earlene Pike.  We'll focus more on their music over the next few weeks.

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday, but if not, we sure hope you'll consider tuning in this coming Sunday from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Lower On The Hog / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• Empty Pocket Blues / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent / David Grisman / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Taxes / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle
• Poverty Row / Cedar Hill / Poverty Row / Blue Circle Records
• Seventeen Cents / Lynn Morris Band / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Over The Hills To The Poorhouse / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• Every Time You Say Goodbye / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• I Don't Do Floors / James King / Bed By The Window / Rounder
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Georgia Five String / Gillis Brothers / Heart & Soul / Rebel
• Look For Me / Angelica Grim / Look For Me / Patuxent Music
• Best Female Actress / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Love Please Come Home / Reno & Smiley / Classic Bluegrass / King
• Leaves In The Wind / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Bluegrass Radio / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / single / Compass Records
• Where Does A Hobo Go / Darren Beachley & Kyle Windbeck / single / Turnberry Records
• Midnight / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Girl Behind The Bar / Adam McIntosh / Restless / Billy Blue Records
• A Drive At Dusk / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Down To My Last Cigarette / Howard Parker feat. Shannon Leigh Reynolds / single / Waiting For Lester Records
• Wild And Wicked World / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• The Price I Pay / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with John Jorgensen / single / Billy Blue Records
• Angeline The Baker / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder [Stuart Duncan birthday, 4/14/1964]
• Prisoner's Song / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / King [Remembering Hylo Brown:  4/20/1922 - 1/17/2003]
• Life's Highway / Bob Dick / Life's Highway / Self-Produced [Bob Dick birthday, 4/18/1969]
• Sad Situation / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / Dreaming / Rounder [Remembering Delia Bell:  4/16/1935 - 6/15/2018]
• Lovesick And Sorrow / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / King [Remembering Hylo Brown:  4/20/1922 - 1/17/2003]
• Walking Down The Line / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Blackjack / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• I'll Be Around Somewhere / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Out In The Cold World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• One Car Funeral / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• The Room Over Mine / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Steeped In Tradition / Brandywine
• No One Now / Earlene Pike / Earlene Pike / Zap
• I'll Never See My Home Again / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Pickin' On Asheville Pike / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Rock My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• When My Time Comes To Go / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• Won't It Be Wonderful / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• I Am Just A Pilgrim / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Hold Fast To The Right / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder [Stuart Duncan birthday, 4/14/1964]
• Preachin', Prayin', Singin' / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• On The Sea Of Life / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/7/2024

Our first Bluegrass Cafe for the month of April started with nearly an hour's worth of songs featuring "A" performers (requirement:  the performer's last name or band name began with the letter "A").  We also honored a New England Bluegrass pioneer who recently passed, shared a little bit of new music, remembered the great Merle Haggard's birth anniversary with lots of covers of his music, and included a telephone visit with Alex MacLeod of Rock Hearts.  It was a stuffed three hours -- hope you were able to join us!

A few weeks ago, old friend Dave Shaw asked me if I was aware that Herb Hooven (May 29, 1931 - February 22, 2024) had passed.  I recognized his name, but wasn't overly familiar with this multi-instrumentalist.  Turns out this Southern transplant to Massachusetts played music with some very influential Bluegrass musicians over the years, including Jimmy Martin, the Lilly Brothers & Don Stover, and Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys, among others.  Thanks to Dave for providing some of Herb's music for us to enjoy.  If you'd like to know more about Herb Hooven, here's a link to his obituary.

We checked in with Alex MacLeod from Rock Hearts around 5:30PM today.  This busy band is getting ready to release their second recording for 615 Hideaway Records later on this Spring.  If you would like to see this band perform, they have an upcoming show at the Suffield VFW in West Suffield, CT on April 13th.  For more information about Rock Hearts, their music, or their upcoming gigs, check out the band's website.

And we couldn't let the birth (and death) anniversary of the great Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) pass without acknowledgement, either.  Though the Hag was not a Bluegrass performer -- even though he released "The Bluegrass Sessions" in 2007 -- his music has greatly influenced many Bluegrass performers over the years.  We included three songs by Merle Haggard in our tribute set and six Bluegrass covers, though we could have played far more.

Hope you were able to join us for the show today.  We hope to be back on the air with you next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM with another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  Consider joining us, if you can.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Willow Creek Dam / American Drive / American Drive / Pinecastle
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Funky Mountain Special / Tom Adams / Adams County Banjo / Rounder
• Helen / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• The Hills That I Call Home / Bob & Sarah Amos / EverOnward / Bristlecone
• You'll Always Be My Blue Eyed Darling / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• La La Blues / Appalachian Road Show / Jubilation / Billy Blue Records
• Lucille / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Goin' Home Comin' On / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' Home / Mountain Home
• Thinking About You / Bobby Atkins & the Countrymen / Memories Of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Of The 1950s / Thunderbolt Records
• Grand Ole Circle / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Temperance Reel / Scott Anderson / Tales From The Swamp / Mato
• Silence Or Tears / Auldridge, Bennett & Gaudreau / This Old Town / Rebel
• I'm Going Back Home (Cabin Song #47) / ASH&W / ASH&W / Rebel
• Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Apple & Setser / Apple & Setser / Bell Buckle Records
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Last Train / Howard Parker feat. Dave Bitler / single / Waiting For Lester Records
• Benfield Line / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Changing The Words To My Love Song / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Rounder [Remembering Herb Hooven:  5/29/1931 - 2/22/2024]
• 'Neath That Cold Gray Tomb Of Stone / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Herb Hooven:  5/29/1931 - 2/22/2024]
• Wanderlust / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Telephone conversation with Alex MacLeod of Rock Hearts
• Let Me Be The Best Bible / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Unfinished Bridges / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Wind To The West / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers / Merle Haggard / Down Every Road, 1962-1994 / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / U.S. Navy Band Country Current / Live / Altissimo [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Mama Tried / Merle Haggard / Timeless / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Rainbow Stew / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• The Fightin' Side Of Me / Merle Haggard / Down Every Road, 1962-1994 / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Come On In / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures / Ralph Stanley with Larry Sparks / Saturday Night & Sunday Morning / Freeland Recording
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Mansion In The Grave / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road
• God Moves In A Windstorm / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• If There's A Will There's A Way / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Get In Line Brother / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Singing As We Rise / Gibson Brothers with Ricky Skaggs / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder