"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/27/2024

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated Halloween a few days early.  Around this time each year, it always seems appropriate to play several ghost story-type songs, and so we did.  We included a couple of different versions of some of these songs, so sure hope you enjoyed 'em.  Of course, the quintessential ghost story is that one that was co-written by the late John Duffey and first released on record by the Country Gentlemen in 1966.  Click here to see a clip of the Classic Country Gentlemen performing this tune at a reunion show in 1992.  And, of course, Happy Halloween!

There was a bit of newer music to share during this day's show, as well.  We heard brand-new music from Bob Minner featuring Jesse Smathers and Stephen & Jana Mougin.  There was also recent music from Laurie Lewis, Adam McIntosh, the Grascals, Dan Tyminski, and Tony Trischka.

And there were a few birthdays to celebrate, too, including those of Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Sonny Osborne (October 29, 1937 - October 21, 2021), as well as Martha Adcock (born October 29, 1949), Joe Mullins (born October 27, 1965), and New England Bluegrass legend, the late Fred Pike (October 27, 1932 - March 5, 1997).  

Hope you'll consider joining us for this Sunday's edition of our program.  We'll hope to see you at 4PM for another Bluegrass Cafe.

Until then, enjoy the rest of the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• Brown Mountain Light / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays & Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• The Ghost Of Eli Renfro / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Bringing Mary Home / John Starling / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Colder And Colder / Lost & Found / My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch 
• The Angry Wife / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Big City / J.D. Crowe & Rickey Wasson / Hats Off To Haggard / Truegrass Entertainment
• I'm Longing For A Love I'll Never Know / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Ode To Jimmy / Dan Tyminski / Live From The Ryman / 8 Track Entertainment
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• The Blind Man / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Devil's Dream / Alan Munde / Festival Favorites Revisited / Rounder
• Long Gone / Laurie Lewis / Trees / Spruce And Maple Music
• Mountains And Memories / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Ruby Jean / Bob Minner feat. Jesse Smathers / single / Billy Blue Records
• Frozen In Time / Stephen & Jana Mougin / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Fences / Adam McIntosh / Restless / Billy Blue Records
• Tennessee Hound Dog / The Grascals / 20 / Mountain Home
• You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Roll On Buddy / Tony Trischka feat. Del McCoury / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Remember Who You Are / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• I've Come To Take You Home / The Seldom Scene / Like We Used To Be / Sugar Hill
• The Silver Ghost / David Parmley / Southern Heritage / Rebel
• Sam Jocelyn's Ghost / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Now And Then Records
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• The Lantern / Front Range / Ramblin' On My Mind / Sugar Hill
• George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Brown Mountain Light / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Footsteps So Near / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Pikearoo / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Remembering Fred Pike:  10/27/1932 - 3/5/1997]
• Bacon In My Beans / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records [Joe Mullins birthday, 10/27/1965]
• Gold Watch And Chain / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle [Martha Adcock birthday, 10/29/1949]
• Up This Hill And Down / Osborne Brothers / Country Bluegrass / MCA [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Leslie County Blues / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• This Morning At Nine / Eddie & Martha Adcock / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music [Martha Adcock birthday, 10/29/1949]
• Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage [Remembering Fred Pike:  10/27/1932 - 3/5/1997]
• I Want To Know More About My Lord / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records [Joe Mullins birthday, 10/27/1965]
• Kneel At The Cross / High Fidelity / High Fidelity / Self-Produced
• I Can't Sit Down / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• God's Not Dead / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Fill My Way With Love / Doc Watson / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill
• Get On Board / Williamson Branch / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Intro/Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/20/2024

We sure had a fun Bluegrass Cafe today!  In addition to having a nice telephone visit with Mark Newton - learn more about his health journey here -- we also had a surprise in-studio guest in the form of our radio pal, Jim Beaver.  What a day!  Thanks to Mark for visiting with us, and thanks to Jim for popping by the studio (and putting away my CDs).  😁

There was a 4-song tribute to "Everybody's Grandpa" today, as well, as today is the 111th birth anniversary of the great Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones (10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998).

Thanks for listening!  Hope you'll consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe!

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Painted Lady / Knoxville Grass / Painted Lady / Newton Records
• Pain Of Loving You / Mark Newton feat. Gloria Belle / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel
• Down In The Cold Ground / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• I Built A World / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes feat. Jason Carter / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Just Because / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Too Lonely, Way Too Long / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Deep River Blues / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• Something You Didn't Count On / Jaelee Roberts / Something You Didn't Count On / Mountain Home
• Baby Blue Eyes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me / Bluegrass Express / A Tribute To Jim & Jesse / Plum River Records
• Barefoot Nellie / Jim Lauderdale & High Fidelity / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Redwood Hill / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Square One / Mark Newton / single / Self-Produced
• Telephone conversation with Mark Newton
• Late Night Cry Of The Whippoorwill / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Home Run Man / Bill Emerson & Mark Newton / A Foot In The Past, A Foot In The Future / Pinecastle
• Mountain Dew / Grandpa Jones / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [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]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Let The Whole World Talk / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Johnson Island Prison / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• The Convict And The Rose / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• The Year That Clayton Delaney Died / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
• Cold Wind A-Blowin' / Ronnie Bowman & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Town Hall Clock / Rock Hearts / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records [Eric Gibson birthday, 10/23/1970]
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• A Beautiful Life / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• We'll Still Sing On / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Cry From The Cross / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/13/2024

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, for the second time in two shows, we featured not just one but two Letters of the Week.  Those letters were "M" and "N," and so, we played music from Jimmy Martin to Bill Monroe and the Nashville Bluegrass Band to Nu-Blu.  Selecting these letters is a very good way to put more emphasis on performers we don't get to hear every week, and we can really concentrate on the recordings we own in very specific range.  In truth, this week we were inspired to choose the letter "N," as I wanted to play music from Northern Lights.  I'm probably one of the few folks in Connecticut who didn't actually see the northern lights this past week, so figured it would be fun to play them if I hadn't actually seen them.  :)

There was a little bit of new music to share this week, too -- most notably a brand new recording from Rock Hearts called "Unfinished Bridges."  Other newer music we heard came from Avery Welter, Woody Platt, Amanda Cook, Daryl Moseley, and Route 3.

Hope you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Northern Rail / Northern Lights / Take You To The Sky / Flying Fish
• Pain In My Heart / Northern Connection / Northern Connection / Patuxent Music
• Hillbilly Goddess / Alecia Nugent / Hillbilly Goddess / Rounder
• Mountain Rosalie / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Why You Been Gone So Long / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Sweden 1973 / Roland White Music
• I Won't Be Around / Nu-Blu / Nights / Pinecastle
• Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Sugar Hill
• Ain't Love A Good Thing / New Cook Creek Girls / Ain't Love A Good Thing / Pinecastle
• Next To Nothing / New Vintage / Changing Times / Pinecastle
• Six Feet Of Snow / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Charlotte Breakdown / Garrett Newton Band / Bluegrass Barn / Pinecastle
• Bailey's Ridge / Nothin' Fancy / Undeniable / Mountain Fever Records
• Before The Next Teardrop Falls / Newfound Road / Life In A Song / Rounder
• Walkin' The Country / Nightflyer / Nightflyer / Kang Records
• If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone) / Michelle Nixon / What More Should I Say? / Pinecastle
• Twilight Time / NorthernBound / Time Goes So Fast / Self-Produced
• Sugar Creek Gap / Darren Nicholson / Things Left Undone / Self-Produced
• Charlie Lawson's Still / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• Lonesome Man In A Lonesome Town / Rock Hearts feat. Danny Paisley / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Avery Welter feat. Shawn Lane & Aynsley Porchak / single / Sound Biscuit
• Last Road Going Home / Amanda Cook / Restless Soul / Mountain Fever Records
• Everything That's Right / Daryl Moseley / Long Days & Short Stories / Pinecastle
• One Last Goodbye / Woody Platt / Far Away With You / Compass Records
• Don't Know What I'll Do / Route 3 / Just Believe / Pinecastle
• Tall Stands Of Timber / Rock Hearts / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / Radio Gems
• Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Stanley Brothers / Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Starday King Records
• It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Lonesome, Sad, And Blue / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family Records
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [Recorded 10/15/1950]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Had It Not Been For The Train / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions 
• Another Day / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Kansas Cornfields / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Not Loving Me / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• Wickware / Mile Twelve / Onwards / Delores The Taurus Records
• Uncommon Man / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• Buzzin' With Buzz / Tom Mindte / Something I've Been Working On / Patuxent Music
• My, My, My / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / In Dreams I Go Back / Mountain Fever Records
• She's Heavenly / Del McCoury Band feat. Molly Tuttle / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Jubilation Day / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder
• Can't Buy Your Way / Northern Lights / Can't Buy Your Way / Flying Fish
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• The First Step To Heaven / NorthernBound / Time Goes So Fast / Self-Produced
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Jim & Jesse McReynolds with Bill Monroe & Tater Tate / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• Harbor Of Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/6/2024

 

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Emerson with Bill Harrell / Reunion / Webco
• Diamond Joe / Laurie Lewis & Grant Street / Singin' My Troubles Away / Flying Fish
• Everything I Used To Do / Livewire / Wired / Rounder
• There's A Song In There Somewhere / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Holler Up A Possum / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / single / Osage
• Roll On Blues / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm
• Comin' On Strong / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Longfellow's Excelsior Hornpipe / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• Bootleg John / Don Rigsby / The Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea
• Big River / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Ramble / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Toe The Line / Woody Platt with Tim O'Brien / Far Away With You / Compass Records
• Loving Her Was Easier Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Kris Kristofferson:  6/22/1936 - 9/28/2024]
• Me And Bobby McGee / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass Records [Remembering Kris Kristofferson:  6/22/1936 - 9/28/2024]
• Darby's Castle / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Kris Kristofferson:  6/22/1936 - 9/28/2024]
• Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down / Johnny Cash / Columbia Records, 1958-1986 / Columbia [Remembering Kris Kristofferson:  6/22/1936 - 9/28/2024]
• Broke Down Engine / Woody Platt feat. Del McCoury / Far Away With You / Compass Records
• The Baptism Of Jesse Taylor / Goodwin Brothers feat. Dale Ann Bradley / single / Pinecastle
• Old Brown County Barn / Rhonda Vincent & Adam Haynes / Destinations And Fun Places / Upper Management Music
• Square One / Mark Newton / single / Self-Produced
• I Built A World / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes feat. Jason Carter / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Till Lonesome Comes Around / Danny Paisley / single / Pinecastle
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• Roll Muddy River / Osborne Brothers / Country Bluegrass / MCA
• The Fiddle And The Banjo / Tom Adams / Right Hand Man / Rounder
• In A Town This Size / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• I Can't Settle Down / Laura Orshaw feat. Jenee Fleenor & Brittany Haas / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• To Love Somebody / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Where The River Meets The Road / Tim O'Brien Band / Where The River Meets The Road / Howdy Skies Music
• Don't Sweetheart Me / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH
• (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Birmingham Jail / Barry Abernathy feat. Vince Gill / Barry Abernathy & Friends / Billy Blue Records
• That How I Can Count On You / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue:  The Complete County Recordings / Rebel
• Benfield Line / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• I Know It's Wrong To Love You / Rock Hearts / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• I Won't Be Hanging Around / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Georgia Girl / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• The Eddie Swing / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Jimmie Rodgers Rode A Train / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Dooley / Tony Trischka feat. Molly Tuttle & Sam Bush / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• This Sad Song / Dan Tyminski / Live From The Ryman / 8 Track Entertainment
• I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Starday King Records
• One Breath Away / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / single / Billy Blue Records
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Just Beyond / Barry Abernathy with John Meador, Tim Raybon & Bradley Walker / Blue Collar Gospel:  Songs From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• He Put A Rainbow In The Clouds For Me / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Take Him In / The Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/29/2024

Two 2024 Bluegrass Hall of Famers --
Katy Daley & Alan Munde --
with one of their many fans.

As you might expect, Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured a whole lot of music from several newly-minted IBMA Award winners for 2024.  I had the pleasure of travelling to Raleigh, North Carolina for four days last week and was able to take in a good portion of the World of Bluegrass festivities.  Fun times.  This was the very last WoB event that will be held in Raleigh, and I was delighted to be there.  While there, I attended some useful workshops, heard lots of great music from lots of fine bands, visited a bit with our old WHUS pal, Jim Beaver, and witnessed my broadcasting friend, Katy Daley, being inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.  It was an outstanding week.

If you missed the IBMA Awards Show from last Thursday evening, the YouTube link of the show can be found here.  Check it out.

In addition to sharing some music from CDs we brought back from Raleigh, we also belatedly celebrated the birth anniversary of the great Marty Robbins (September 26, 1925 - December 8, 1982).  Though this Country Music Hall of Fame member performed lots of styles of music, Bluegrass wasn't really one of them.  Still, many of his songs have been covered by Bluegrass performers, so we shared a whole bunch of them from performers including the Gibson Brothers, the Spinney Brothers, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, Jim Hurst, the Johnson Mountain Boys, and Special Consensus.

Hope you'll consider joining me once again this coming Sunday for another fun three-hour edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  We'll see you at 4PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Date With An Angel / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle [IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, 2024]
• Something You Didn't Count On / Jaelee Roberts / Something You Didn't Count On / Pinecastle [IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, 2024]
• Fall In Tennessee / Authentic Unlimited with Jerry Douglas / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records [IBMA Song of the Year, 2024]
• San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Golden West / Nonesuch Records [IBMA Album of the Year, 2024]
• Alberta Bound / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records [IBMA Music Video of the Year, 2024 (tie)]
• Brown's Ferry Blues / Tony Trischka with Billy Strings / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records [IBMA Collaborative Recording of the Year, 2024]
• Love Slippin' Away / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records [IBMA New Artist of the Year, 2024]
• If You Talk In Your Sleep / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music [IBMA Entertainer of the Year, 2024]
• Just A Little Ways Down The Road / Laurie Lewis / Trees / Spruce And Maple Music
• A Lonesome Feeling / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Montana Cowboy / Vern Williams Band / Traditional Bluegrass / Arhoolie
• Winsborough Cotton Mill Blues / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Flat Fork / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky:  Songs Of Laurie Lewis / Rounder
• Trees / Laurie Lewis / Trees / Spruce And Maple Music
• Sincerity / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• I Can't Help But Wonder (Where I'm Bound) / Tom Paxton & Della Mae / Bluegrass Sings Paxton / Mountain Home
• If Something Should Happen / Wildfire / single / Pinecastle
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• I'm In A Hurry (And Don't Know Why) / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• Ramblin' Boy / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass Sings Paxton / Mountain Home
• Old Devil's Dream / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Blues Of The Night / Lonesome River Band / The Winning Hand / Mountain Home
• Tennessee Hound Dog / The Grascals / 20 / Mountain Home
• El Paso / Marty Robbins / The Story Of My Life:  The Best Of Marty Robbins / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• I Can't Quit / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [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]
• Don't Worry / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder [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]
• 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]
• Ribbon Of Darkness / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / No One But You / Rebel [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Ghost Of A Love / Missy Raines with Dudley Connell / Highlander / Compass Records
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Lost Indian / Deanie Richardson / Love Hard, Work Hard, Play Hard / Pinecastle [IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year, 2024]
• Over The Hills To The Poorhouse / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel 
• A Lonesome Night / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Home For / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• Cedar City Blues / Eddie Adcock / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You / Full Cord / Cambium / Dark Shadow Recording
• Wanderers Like Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• God Walks The Dark Hills / Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Just A Little Ways Down The Road / Rebel
• Goin' Up / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• God Already Has / Dale Ann Bradley / Kentucky For Me / Pinecastle [IBMA Gospel Recording of the Year, 2024]
• Brighter Mansion Over There / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• We Shall Rise / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live 1984-2014 / Davis Music
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/22/2024

Happy Fall!  Our first Bluegrass Cafe of the season started with several songs sort of related to Fall.  The bulk of the show was devoted to paying tribute to two Country Music Hall of Fame members born in mid-September, and we also took some time to remember a favorite traditional mandolin master who has left us too soon. 

David Davis (2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024)

David Davis was a first-class entertainer and bandleader of the Warrior River Boys since 1984, and he will be greatly missed.  Though the Warrior River Boys were based in Alabama, for many years, it seemed like they were a local band, as WRB played all sorts of festivals and shows throughout New England constantly, it seemed.  It was during that time that the band made many fans and friends throughout New England.  David Davis was a throwback type of entertainer, and he will be greatly missed.  To honor him, we shared lots of music from recordings made by David Davis & the Warrior River Boys between 1990 and 2018.  If you would like to read more about the remarkable life of David Davis, please read this wonderful eulogy published recently in Bluegrass Today.  Rest in peace, David Davis.  Thanks for the music.

Both Roy Acuff (September 15, 1903 - November 23, 1992) and Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953) may be members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, but we'll always remember them during our Bluegrass Cafe as their music has been often covered by all sorts of Bluegrass performers.  

This coming week, the International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass event happens in Raleigh, North Carolina.  I'll be heading down there on Tuesday, so will have a full report for you about all of the happenings during next Sunday's show.  Hope you can join me then.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Leaves That Are Green / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records
• Autumn Fell / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• When Fall Comes To New England / Kristin Scott Benson with Claire Lynch / Stringworks / Mountain Home
• Leaves Musn't Fall / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• Smokey Mountain Memories / Spinney Brothers / When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Self-Produced
• (It Was) Late Last Night / Stanley Brothers / Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Starday King
• Leavin' You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Bright Sherman Valley / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Today's The Day I Get My Gold Watch And Chain / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Rebel [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Farewell To Long Hollow / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / Scott Brannon & David Davis / Plum Pitiful / Time Life [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Never Looking Back / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Two Dimes And A Nickel / Rebel [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Rocky Mountain Sweetheart / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live, 1984-2014 / Davis Music [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Milwaukee Blues / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• I Don't Know What To Do / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Fall In Tennessee / Authentic Unlimited feat. Jerry Douglas / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Kentucky Gold / Dale Ann Bradley with Sam Bush / Kentucky For Me / Pinecastle
• Forever Young / Daniel Grindstaff feat. Paul Brewster & Dolly Parton / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Too Lonely, Way Too Long / Rick Faris with Del McCoury / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Listen To The Lonesome Wind / Missy Raines / Highlander / Compass Records
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Wreck On The Highway / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Barnyard Frolic / RME Records [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Night Train To Memphis / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Write Me Sweetheart / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• The Precious Jewel / Roy Acuff / The Prodigal Son / Country Stars [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Dear John / Adam Steffey / Here To Stay / Mountain Home [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Why Don't You Love Me / Gene Wooten / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Wa/ Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Jim Mills with Alan O'Bryant / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Move It On Over / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Wanderers Like Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Roll On Buddy / Tony Trischka with Del McCoury / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Scotty's Hoedown / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• I Saw The Light / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Lay My Burdens Down / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder 
• Come On, Dear Lord, And Get Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The Truth, The Light, The Way / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• It's Just An Old Body / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Rebel [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• I'm A Pilgrim / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• On The Jericho Road / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live, 1984-2014 / Davis Music [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/15/2024

 SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• What Is Home Without Love? / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1936 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Big Mon / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Get Up John / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Is The Grass Any Bluer / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• GOAT / Dan Tyminski / Live From The Ryman / 8 Track Entertainment
• John Deere Tractor / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Another Day / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Won't Be Crying Over You / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• Echo Canyon / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• Follow The Leader / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• Rude And Rambling Man / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Ode To Jimmy / Dan Tyminski / Live From The Ryman / 8 Track Entertainment
• Front Porch Of Paradise / Kristy Cox / Let It Burn / Billy Blue Records
• I Know It's Wrong To Love You / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• The Auctioneer / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Me And Mr. Howard - Daryl Mosely / single / Pinecastle
• Tennessee Lonesome Blues / Jesse McReynolds / Glory Of True Love / OMS Records
• What I've Got Right Here / Valerie Smith / single / Bell Buckle Records
• Up For Losing Sleep / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Molly Tuttle / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• She's Heavenly / Del McCoury Band with Molly Tuttle / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Hope Valley / Still Pickin' / On With The Show / Self-Produced [1st Place - Podunk Songwriting Contest, 2024 - Dennis Sheridan]
• A Complicated Man / J.M. Clifford / Self-Produced [2nd Place - Podunk Songwriting Contest, 2024 - J.M. Clifford & Ron Pope]
• Last Farm Left In Hardin County / Mary Beth Stone / Self-Produced [3rd Place - Podunk Songwriting Contest, 2024 - Mary Beth Stone & Rob Taube]
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Marianne / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel [Paul Adkins birthday, 9/9/1952]
• Leavin' / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder [Remembering James King:  9/9/1959 - 5/19/2016]
• Ain't It Funny / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill [Lou Reid birthday, 9/13/1954]
• Do You Remember? / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Bill Harrell:  9/14/1934 - 6/24/2009]
• Blue Love (In My Heart) / Hot Flashes / Eponymous / Happy Appy Records
• Price I Pay / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with John Jorgenson / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass:  A Tribute To 1946 & 1947 / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Shine, Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Little Eyes / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Working On A Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1961-1971 / Rebel
• We Missed You In Church Last Sunday / Sally Berry / God Is In Control / Upper Management Music
• You're Drifting Away / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & Jimmy Martin / High Lonesome / MCA'
• Just Any Day Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• River Of Death / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Blue Highway / Wondrous Love / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• The Old Cross Road / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe, 9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder