"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/5/2026

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we did a whole lot of celebrating and remembering. 

We remembered:  some of the Bluegrass contributions of James Monroe (March 15, 1941 - June 24, 2026) and Bluegrass Hall of Fame member Donna Stoneman (February 7, 1934 - June 28, 2026), as well as the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in song (battle was fought July 1-3, 1865).

We celebrated:  the 250th birthday of the United States of America; birthdays of the "Uncle of Bluegrass," Charlie Monroe (July 4, 1903 - September 27, 1975)

and Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1943).  We also celebrated the 80th birthday of the great Jimmy Gaudreau (born July 3, 1946), easily the most important contributor to Bluegrass Music from the State of Rhode Island...and so much more than just that! 

Sure hope you were able to join us for this week's radio visit.

Don't forget to join us for our Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday, as we're going to be visiting with the authors of a top-notch new book all about Buzz Busby.  Join us on July 12th for our telephone chat with Kip Lornell and Tom Mindte who'll tell us about their book called Buzz Busby:  Father Of Washington DC Bluegrass.  It should be fun, so mark your calendars and join us.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Star Spangled Banner / Lynwood Lunsford / Pick Along / Hay Holler
• New Freedom Bell / Eddie & Martha Adcock / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• God Bless America / IIIrd Tyme Out / Round III At The MAC / Chateau Music Group
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Country Gentlemen / single / Rome
• Spirit Of America / Kody Norris Show / Spirit Of America / Rebel
• Stars And Stripes Forever / John McEuen / String Wizards / Vanguard
• Me And Paul Revere / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / single / Rounder
• Washington And Lee Fling / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Americana / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Old John Burns / Rickey Wasson & Dwight McCall / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• The Fields Of Gettysburg / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• The Legend Of Jennie Wade / Lonesome River Band / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• Last Day At Gettysburg / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Battle Hymn Of The Republic / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• When It's Time For The Whippoorwill To Sing / Doyle Lawson & Jerry Salley / single / Billy Blue Records
• Davy Crockett / Kody Norris Show / Spirit Of America / Rebel
• Donna-Mite / The Stonemans / The Stoneman Tradition / Patuxent Music [Remembering Donna Stoneman:  2/7/1934 - 6/28/2026]
• Classical Vibrations / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music [Remembering Donna Stoneman:  2/7/1934 - 6/28/2026]
• Girl Of My Dreams / James Monroe / His First Solo Album / Gusto [Remembering James Monroe:  3/15/1941 - 6/24/2026]
• Sweet Lucy / James Monroe / His First Solo Album / Gusto [Remembering James Monroe:  3/15/1941 - 6/24/2026]
• Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1936 / JSP Records [Remembering Charlie Monroe:  7/4/1903 - 9/27/1975]
• Roll On Buddy / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1937 / JSP Records [Remembering Charlie Monroe:  7/4/1903 - 9/27/1975]
• Memories Of You / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill [Peter Rowan birthday, 7/4/1942]
• I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / Peter Rowan / The First Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill [Peter Rowan birthday, 7/4/1942]
• Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Sticks And Stones / Bronwyn / single / Sugar Petunia Records
• Golden Slippers / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• Gentlemen's Concerto / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau [Tony Rice Unit] / In Good Company / CMH [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• Memphis Mandolin / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• Sundown And Sorrow / Adcock, Gaudreau, Waller & Gray / The Country Gentlemen Reunion Band / RadioTherapy Records [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• Sea Of Heartbreak / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Church By The Road / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• Jesus Made The Wine / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill [Peter Rowan birthday, 7/4/1942]
• I Feel Closer To Heaven Everyday / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• A Valley Of Peace / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics, 1946-1950 / Cattle [Remembering Charlie Monroe:  7/4/1903 - 9/27/1975]
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Don Reno & Red Smiley / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Home Of The Soul / Jimmy Gaudreau & Bill Clifton / In Good Company / CMH [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/21/2026

Never quite finished my write-up for our Father's Day edition of Bluegrass Cafe on June 21st!  Oops!  Here were a couple of highlights:  sharing lots of music from the great Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Eddie Adcock (June 21, 1938 - March 20, 2025), who would have celebrated his 88th birthday on June 21st; listening to lots of tunes performed by the Bluegrass fathers along with their musical children, including folks with last names like Amos, Armistead, Cox, Harrell, McCoury, McGee, Mullins, Paisley, Parmley, Pike, White, and, of course, Monroe; listening to a few songs with themes of fathers and children; and, we belatedly remembered the June 19th birth anniversary of the great Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 - May 11, 1979).

Hope you were able to join us for the show, and that if you were a celebrant for Father's Day, you sure enjoyed your day!

We'll look forward to joining you for another Bluegrass Cafe very soon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Mrs. Robinson / Eddie Adcock / Renaissance Man / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Let's / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Bye Bye Blues / Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / Sensational Twin Banjos / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Rodger Young / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• (They Call The Wind) Maria / Country Gentlemen / single / Rome [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Darling Little Joe / Eddie & Martha Adcock / Many A Mile / Patuxent [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Draggin' The Cow / The Masters / Laid Back / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Roll On Buddy / Bill & James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• 32 Acres / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals:  The Definitive Collection / CMH
• Little Whitewashed Chimney / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Sunshine Special / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• On The Sunny Side Of Life / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Self-Produced
• It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Keep On The Sunny Side / The Whites / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• I've Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Nashville Cats / Del McCoury Band / The Family / McCoury Music
• My Deceitful Heart / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Forever And Ever / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• The Hard Game Of Love / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Hard Game Of Love / Sugar Hill
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Who Showed Who / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• Crazy Creek / Sally Van Meter / All In Good Time / Sugar Hill
• Wrong Road Again / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• How Many Times / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• Auction At The Home Place / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Little John, I Am / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Devil On A Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Proud To Be Your Dad / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Bill From Isonville / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself / Malpass Brothers / Satisfied:  Country Gospel Classics Live / Gaither Music Group
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• My Father's Son / Ricky Skaggs / My Father's Son / Sony Epic
• He Will Roll You Over The Tide / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Let The Light Shine Down / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Tell Me What You Think Of My Lord / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Beyond The Shadows / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/14/2026

Here's the quick recap to our June 14th edition of Bluegrass Cafe:  in short, it was packed!  We enjoyed music from Wood Box Heroes - a band who is anchoring the Saturday night activities at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT.  They'll be performing on Saturday, August 8th, so be sure to join them.  As WBH is a relatively new band that most of us know next-to-nothing about, we were able to have a telephone chat with Josh Martin -- the guitar playing songwriter for Wood Box Heroes.  We also shared several tunes from the band, so it'll be fun to see them in person in August.  

There was quite a bit of brand-new music to share with selections from Bronwyn, Dailey & Vincent, Justin Hiltner & Jon Weisberger, the Chris Davis Band, and the Del McCoury Band.

Thanks for listening!  Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Bowling Green / Laurie Lewis / Restless Rambling Heart / Flying Fish
• River Bottom / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• My Little Georgia Rose / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
  
• Don't Get Above Your Raising / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• I Wave / Family Sowell / United We Stand / Pinecastle
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• I Don't Know What To Do / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Made Up My Mind / Wood Box Heroes / 444 / Self-Produced
• Money In The Bank / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass with Ronnie Stewart / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH Records
• Yanceyville Jail / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Ocean Of Diamonds / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Cross The Line / Wood Box Heroes / 444 / Self-Produced
• Little White Washed Chimney / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Country Boy Rock And Roll / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• This Train / Wood Box Heroes / 444 / Self-Produced
• Telephone conversation with Josh Martin of the Wood Box Heroes
• Cannonball / Wood Box Heroes / 444 / Self-Produced
• I Am Strong / Jenee Fleenor / Listen To The Woman / Self-Produced
• Sticks And Stones / Bronwyn / Rattlin' Bones / Self-Produced
• Uncle Bill Play Your Fiddle For Me / Dailey & Vincent / A Beautiful Life / Pillar Stone Records
• Marinda / Justin Hiltner & Jon Weisberger / single / Mountain Home
• Jenna Lea / Chris Davis Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• They Just Don't Make The Blues Like They Used To / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• Last Day At Gettysburg / Larry Sparks / Last Day At Gettysburg / Rebel
• Weathered Gray Stone / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• You Can't Roll A Seven Every Time / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• The Story Of My Life / Rick Faris / Life's Parade / Dark Shadow Recording
• The Story Of My Life / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Big Train / Don Rigsby with Ronnie Reno / Kentucky Troubadour:  The Rebel Collection / Rebel
• The Grey Ghost / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Webco
• Dirt Roads / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Raincoe Music
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Long Journey / Rounder
• I'm Going There / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• When He Reached Down His Hand For Me / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• My Lord Keeps A Record / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• God Told Nicodemus / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• The Arm Of God / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / There's A Light Guiding Me / Sugar Hill
• Don't Tune Him Out / The Whites / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• (I'd Rather Live) By The Side Of The Road / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/7/2026

The first Sunday of June featured a lot of fine things at our Bluegrass Cafe:  birthday tributes to Tony Rice, Jamie Dailey, Rick Lang, Corrina Rose Logston Stephens, and Clarence White, and also, a first-time-in-a-long-time telephone conversation with Eric Gibson of the Gibson Brothers.  The Gibsons will appear at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT on Friday, August 7th.  Hope you were able to join us for this episode.

Thanks for listening!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Walking With Joanna / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Down In The Willow Garden / Tony Trischka with the Gibson Brothers / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• Hessletine Hill / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• The Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Blue Kentucky Girl / Young Acoustic All Stars / Somewhere Down The Road / New Haven Records
• See Rock City / Bela Fleck / Son Of Rounder Banjo / Rounder
• One Step Ahead Of The Blues / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Don't Let My Love Get In The Way / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Give This Message To Your Heart / Larry Stephenson with Dailey & Vincent / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Till The End Of The World Rolls 'Round / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• There Ain't No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• On Her Own / Laura Orshaw with Trey Hensley / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Wild Mountain Honey / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Telephone conversation with Eric Gibson of the Gibson Brothers
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Fool's Hill / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Another Long Sleepless Night / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Poor Boy Like Me / Henhouse Prowlers / Unravel / Dark Shadow Recording [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Honeycat Hornpipe / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music [Corrina Rose Logston Stephens, 6/7]
• Introvert Me / Rrinaco / Little Songs / Rebel [Corrina Rose Logston Stephens birthday, 6/7]
• Can't Let Go / Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time / Songs From The Workbench / Ripchord Records
• Memories I Ain't Missing / The Grascals / single / Billy Blue Records
• When It Comes To Loving You / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Nine Pound Hammer / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder [Remembering Clarence White:  6/7/1944 - 7/15/1973]
• Bitter Green / Tony Rice / Cold On The Shoulder / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Bright Lights And Country Music / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Angel At Your Side / Barry Scott / Look To The Light:  Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm Christian [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 2 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel [Corrina Rose Logston Stephens birthday, 6/7]
• The Truth, The Light, The Way / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Just Let Me Fly / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Winding Through Life / Sugar Hill [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/31/2026

During our last Bluegrass Cafe program on May 31st, we started off in a "blue" frame of mind, but as the show progressed, we also found time to share newer music AND celebrate the birth anniversaries of two female members of the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, songwriter and Bluegrass champion, Dixie Hall (May 26, 1934 - January 16, 2015) and songwriter and performer Hazel Dickens (June 1, 1925 - April 22, 2011).  It is always a pleasure to feature dynamic females in the World of Bluegrass Music.

While we didn't have any brand-new music to share during our program, we still included recent recordings from several performers, including Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Southern Legacy, Isaak Atlas Schwartz, Jaelee Roberts, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Dale Ann Bradley, Blue Highway, Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland, and Darin & Brooke Aldridge.  

Don't forget to join us for our first radio show of June, as we're planning to have a telephone chat with Eric Gibson of the Gibson Brothers.  As you've probably heard, the Gibsons will be returning to perform at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT in early August.  Our Bluegrass Cafe airs from 4-7PM, and we're planning to get Eric on the phone at 5PM, so don't miss it!

We'll chat with you again tomorrow!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Blue Night / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• Blue Virginia Blues / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• A Brand New Shade Of Blue / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Traveling Down The Blue Road / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always / Sugar Hill
• Blue Blue Day / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Del McCoury / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder
• So Blue / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Blue Train / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Blue / Beth & April Stevens / Sisters / Rounder
• Dry Run Creek / The Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• O California / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / O California! / Spruce And Maple Music
• New Sweet Home / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• The Fields Of Gettysburg / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• The Boatman / The Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Bill From Isonville / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• Waiting For The Robert E. Lee / Izaak Atlas Schwartz / Black Oak Ridge / Patuxent Music
• I'm Putting You Out Of My Misery / Jaelee Roberts / single / Mountain Home
• Pardon Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Turnberry Records
• Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU!:  A 30-Year Retrospective / Down The Road Records
• Making Plans / Dale Ann Bradley with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / single / Pinecastle
• Let's Sing Our Song / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records
• Troublesome Waters / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• The Windowsill Song / Becky Buller / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Holdin' On When You've Let Go / Crowe Brothers / Brothers-n-Harmony / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Can You Hear Me Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• I Wish That I Could Have Met Carter / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever 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]
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Forever And Ever / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• My Old Kentucky Home / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• I Wish You Knew / Jim & Jesse / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Long Way Around / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• Deep River / Livewire / Wired! / Rounder
• Hills Of Home / 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 / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Walls Of Time / Rounder
• I Am Just A Pilgrim / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
• I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• I'm Going Up When He Starts Down / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Soul Condition / Billy Blue Records
• Get In The Boat / Jeanette Williams / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Get On The Main Highway / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/24/2026

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe came together nicely, as we had lots of songs with stories about soldiers who never came home to share in honor of Memorial Day.  Plus, we celebrated in song two important members of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame:  Mac Wiseman (May 23, 1925 - February 24, 2019) and Tom T. Hall (May 24, 1936 - August 20, 2021).  In addition, we shared a couple of songs from a Bluegrass-flavored CD I had forgotten existed that was released in 2021 by the Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter, Don Schlitz, who died on April 16, 2026.  And, if all of that wasn't enough, there was brand-new or recent music from several performers including East Nash Grass, Red Camel Collective, Nick Chandler & Delivered, Dale Ann Bradley with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, Rick Lang with Dave Adkins, the Kody Norris Show, Jim Hurst, and the Tennessee Bluegrass Band.

It was a very full show, so hope you were able to join us for all -- or even part -- of it.  If you'd like to listen (or listen again) to the program, you can find it online in our WHUS archives for another two weeks.  Here's the link:  
https://spinitron.com/WHUS/pl/22477180/Bluegrass-Cafe

Hope you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another visit in our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.





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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Washed My Face In The Morning Dew / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Don't Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Year The Clayton Delaney Died / Tom T. Hall / The Essential Tom T. Hall:  The Story Songs / Mercury [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• One Of Those Days (When I Miss Lester Flatt) / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Leaving Baker County / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Guitar Picking President / Jimmy Martin / The Essential Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1963-1965 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Boys In Hats And Ties / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• I Won't Take Less Than Your Love / Don Schlitz with Del McCoury & Ricky Skaggs / Mountaintop / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Don Schlitz: 8/29/1952 - 4/16/2026]
• Bottom Of The Ninth / Jason Barie / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records 
• She'll Change / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• A Hundred Years From Now / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• All God's Children / East Nash Grass / All God's Children / Mountain Fever Records
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• The Gambler / Don Schlitz / Mountaintop / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Don Schlitz:  8/29/1952 - 4/16/2026]
• Walk Out In The Rain / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• Maria / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Making Plans / Dale Ann Bradley with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / single / Pinecastle
• The Power And Glory / The Kody Norris Show / American Spirit / Rebel
• The Boys Who Left Prince Station / Jim Hurst / Travels & Time / Pinecastle
• Seeing The Best In You / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• At The End Of A Long Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• A Hero In Harlan / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lost Souls & Free Spirits / Rebel
• Searching For A Soldier's Grave / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Field Of Flags / Rick Lang with Dave Adkins / single / Self-Produced
• Traveling Soldier / Bear Tracks / Together Till The End / AMT Records
• A Purple Heart / Curly Seckler / Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Copper Creek
• Last Letter Home / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Jimmie Brown The Newsboy / Mac Wiseman / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel [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]
• Everything I Used To Do / Livewire / Livewire / Rounder
• Forever By My Side / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• Memories Cover Everything I Own / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Georgia Girl / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Little White Church / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Where We'll Never Grow Old / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / Nolichucky / Flagpond Records
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• God Loves His Children / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Robe Of White / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road 
• You Can Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Voice Of My Savior / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/17/2026

During our May 17th Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated the music and contributions of three important members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame who were all born on May 17th:  the great fiddler Paul Warren (May 17, 1918 - January 12, 1978), the smooth-singing Red Smiley (May 17, 1925 - January 2, 1972), and the delightful Dillards' guitar picker/lead singer, Rodney Dillard (born May 17, 1942).  With relative ease, we could have limited ourselves to ONLY sharing music from these these three on Sunday, but we definitely hit on some of their "hits" in the World of Bluegrass.  Fabulous music from all three -- and there is always more to enjoy.

There was a bit of new music to share from a couple of different performers, including the Kody Norris Show, Newfound Road, the Lonesome River Band, and Dalton Harper (featured on the new CD of songs written by Rick Lang).

And we took another look at some songs featured in the National Bluegrass Survey, this time from the chart of May 2016.  Ten years ago, Bluegrass radio was really loving Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Donna Ulisse, the Kathy Kallick Band, Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass, the Boxcars, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Big Country Bluegrass, and Sideline.  

Hope you can join us for tomorrow's Bluegrass Cafe, as we'll join you for three big hours starting at 4PM.

Until then, 
Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• There Is A Time / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Rodney Dillard birthday, 5/17/1942]
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Fiddle And Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Never See My Home Again / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Rodney Dillard birthday, 5/17/1942]
• Old Train / The Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
• Scraps From Your Table / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Tradition:  Tribute To A Bluegrass Legacy / Doobie Shea Records
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Mama's Hand:  Bluegrass And Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder
• The Guitar Song / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers with Del McCoury / For The Record / Billy Blue Records
• Thunderclouds Of Love / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Sweeter Than The Flowers / James King / Mama's Hand:  Bluegrass And Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder
• Nightwalk / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? / Special Consensus feat. Chris Jones & Dallas Wayne / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Medals For Mothers / Rhonda Vincent / Mama's Hand:  Bluegrass And Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder
• Me And The Juke Box / Buzz Busby / Second Generation Bluegrass / Blaricum 
• Hard, Hard Work / Dalton Harper / single / Billy Blue Records
• Declaration Of Independence / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• The World To You / Newfound Road / single / Billy Blue Records
• Back When / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Goin' Like Wildfire / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams feat. Tony Rice / Down Home / Rounder
• I'm Leaving You And Fort Worth, Too / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Country Livin' / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• It Could Have Been The Mandolin / Donna Ulisse / Hard Cry Moon / Hadley Music Group
• Foxhounds / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• Sweetheart Of The Mountains / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Weary River / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Mountain Girl / Sideline / Session 2 / Mountain Fever Records
• When The Bluegrass Is Covered With Snow / The Boxcars / Familiar With The Ground / Mountain Home
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Stickleyville Stomp / Tim Martin / Bluegrass Fiddle / Patuxent Music
• Millworker / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• 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]
• Unwanted Love / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Rodney Dillard birthday, 5/17/1942]
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Angels Watching Me / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Send The Angels Down / Kristy Cox with Jerry Salley / Learning To Walk With Him / Billy Blue Records
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Calm The Storm / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• On The Wings Of Angels / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• God's Record Book Of Life / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder