"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/23/2026

It has been a sad week in Bluegrass music with the passing of two 2026 inductees into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame on the very same day:  Allen Mills (November 4, 1937-August 18, 2026) and Pat Enright (April 22, 1945-August 18, 2026).  Each of these gentlemen were founding members of their best-known respective bands (Lost & Found and the Nashville Bluegrass Band), and have left behind important legacies in the World of Bluegrass.  We remembered each of them with lots of fine music during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  

If you would like to learn more about Allen Mills and Pat Enright, a good place to start would be the posts found this week on the Bluegrass Today website.  Here they are for Allen Mills (https://bluegrasstoday.com/allen-mills-passes/) and Pat Enright (https://bluegrasstoday.com/pat-enright-passes/).  Since the announcement of Lost & Found and NBB being inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, we've been sharing music from each of these acts every week during our program.  We'll continue to do that as we get closer to their induction date in October, but during today's show, we included many songs from each performer...as we should have. 

There was a bit of brand-new music to add to the mix on Sunday, as well, with "hot off the presses" tunes from High Fidelity, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, and Nick Chandler & Delivered.

Next Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe will be an COVID-era repeat, so just listen to the music and ignore the talk!  I will be away for the week, but will join you once again on September 6th.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill /  Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Back To The Mountains / Lost & Found / Second Time Around / Outlet Records [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• No One But My Darlin' / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• Linda Lou / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• Sweet Rosie By The River / Lost & Found / Down On Sawmill Road / Rebel [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• Farmer's Blues / The Grascals with Marty Stuart / Not That Gone / Billy Blue Records
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Raw Hide / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Uncle Billy Play Your Fiddle For Me / Dailey & Vincent / A Beautiful Life / Pillar Stone Records
• That Girl Made A Wreck Of Me / The Grascals / Not That Gone / Billy Blue Records
• Mountain Folks / Lost & Found / Final Chapter / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• Just One Time / Lost & Found / Second Time Around / Outlet Records [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• Johnston's Grocery Store / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• Medley:  The Wild Side Of Life-Take These Chains From My Heart-They'll Never Take Her Love From Me-Don't Be Angry-Wedding Bells-The Wild Side Of Life / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• If Today Was The Last Day / Lost & Found / Down On Sawmill Road / Rebel [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• Red Ball Rocket Train / High Fidelity / single / Rebel
• Deeper Call / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Chalk Lines And Dust / Mountain Home
• Look For Me And I'll Be There / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Look For Me / Pinecastle
• Coachella Moon / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Turnberry Records
• Hold On Heart / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / Hold On Heart / Billy Blue Records
• Waiting For You Waltz / Butch Waller / The Ninth Of July / Big Chicken Records
• Hit Parade Of Love / The Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel 
• Blue Days, Black Nights / Tasty Licks / Hand-Picked:  25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records / Rounder [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die / The Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• The Train Carryin' Jimmie Rodgers Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• I Got A Date / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Unleashed / Sugar Hill [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• Big River / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• In The Jailhouse Now / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• Travelin' Railroad Man Blues / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Twenty Year Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• Cajun Medley / Byron Berline / Fiddle & A Song / Sugar Hill
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Garfield's Blackberry Blossom / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Twenty Year Blues / Sugar Hill
• I've Been A Long Time Leaving (But I'll Be A Long Time Gone) / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / From The Heart--Homespun II / Happy Appy Records
• Anywhere The Wind Blows / Missy Raines & Allegheny with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• (They Call The Wind) Maria / Country Gentlemen / single / Rome Records
• Honey In The Rock / Lewis Family / Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS 
• I Can Hear The Savior / King James Boys / I Can Hear The Savior / Pinecastle
• Peace In The Valley / Lost & Found / Hymn Time / Rebel [Remembering Allen Mills:  11/4/1937 - 8/18/2026]
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Jim & Jesse McReynolds with Bill Monroe / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• It's Gonna Rain / Kathy Kallick [Good Ol' Persons] / Count Your Blessings:  A Bluegrass Gospel Collection / Live Oak Records
• Every Humble Knee Must Bow / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder [Remembering Pat Enright:  4/22/1945 - 8/18/2026]
• Free Salvation / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Give The Devil An Inch / Lonesome River Band / Window Of Time / Doobie Shea Records
• Will You Be Ready To Go Home? / The Seldom Scene / Baptizing / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/16/2026

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Good Time Blues / Boys From Indiana / Good Time Blues / Rebel
• Just Like Rain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope Records
• New Pair Of Glasses / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• It's Goodbye And So Long To You / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Seeing The Best Of You / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Rockwood / Frank Wakefield, Taylor Baker & Friends / Frank Wakefield, Taylor Baker & Friends / Patuxent Music
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• I Can't Settle Down / Laura Orshaw / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• One Dime At A Time / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Diamond Joe / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• On The Old Kentucky Shore / Bluegrass Album Band / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• East Bound Freight Train / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Starday King Records
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Dede Wyland / Keep The Light On / Patuxent Music
• Red Dirt, White House, Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / Nolichucky / Self-Produced
• Say You'll Take Me Back / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Brown Sugar Hills / Butch Waller / The Ninth Of July / Big Chicken Records
• The Signs / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / single / Turnberry Records
• Good Ol' USA / Kody Norris Show / Spirit Of America / Rebel
• That Girl Made A Wreck Of Me / The Grascals / Not That Gone / Billy Blue Records
• The NInth Of July / Butch Waller / The Ninth Of July / Big Chicken Records
• 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / Del McCoury Band / Del And The Boys / McCoury Music
• Road Into Town / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• It's Just A Road / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Rich Man's Daughter / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Blue / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge Records
• Bottom Of A Mountain / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Time / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Mountain Fever Records
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• The Story Of The Day That I Died / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• Harvest Time / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Hill Country Highway / East Nash Grass / All God's Children / Moutain Fever Records
• Fist City / Donna Ulisse / Showin' My Roots / Hadley Music Group
• On And On / Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• Some Old Day / John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Juxtaposed / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Almost / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Unleashed / Sugar Hill
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• I'll Be No Stranger There / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• It's A Grand And A Glorious Feeling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• Stormy Waters / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Press On O' Pilgrim / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• I Serve A God (Who Can Raise The Dead) / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself / Malpass Brothers / Satisfied:  Country Gospel Classics Live / Gaither Music
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/9/2026

A full week has passed since our August 9th Bluegrass Cafe!  This show contained lots of music from fine performers who'd appeared at the 29th Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen last weekend.  We also included a little bit of newer music, including a brand-new single from the revived Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, as well as newer music from Bronwyn, Bob Minner, the Kody Norris Show, and Red Camel Collective.

And we couldn't not celebrate the early August birthdays of both the King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin (August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005) and Country Music Hall of Famer, Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006).  

Hope you enjoyed the show!  Be sure to join us for another Bluegrass Cafe on August 16th!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• There's A Song In There Somewhere / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• If The Kansas River Can / Rick Faris / Breaking In Lonesome / Dark Shadow Recording
• No. 444 / Wood Box Heroes / Wood Box Heroes / Self-Produced
• Road Back To You / Songs From The Road Band / Just Hanging On / Lucks Dumpy Toad Records
• Ride On By / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Are You Picking Flowers Now / Donna Ulisse / single / Turnberry Records
• Too Late To Say Goodbye / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Smokey Mountain Memories / Larry Sparks / The Time-Life Treasury Of Bluegrass:  High On A Mountain / Time Life
• I'd Rather Be A Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU!:  A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• Matterhorn / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• Puddle Jumper / Ray Legere & Roger Williams / River Of No Return / Strictly Country Records
• Walking Down The Line / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Down The Road Records
• Crying My Heart Out Over You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / SME
• Bill From Isonville / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• Rockwood Deer Chase / Izaak Atlas Schwartz / Black Oak Ridge / Patuxent Music
• Walk Out In The Rain / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• The Signs / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / single / Turnberry Records
• Dancin' Girl / The Grascals / Not That Gone / Billy Blue Records
• I Am Bluegrass / Bob Minner / I Am Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• Declaration Of Independence / The Kody Norris Show / Spirit Of America / Rebel
• Sticks And Stones / Bronwyn / Rattlin' Bones / Sugar Petunia Records
• Windy Mountain / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Sweet Rosie Jones / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill Records [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Together Again / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• I'll Love You Forever And Ever / Darren Beachley & the Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• It Takes People Like You / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• You're For Me / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Phoenix / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Sweethearts In Heaven / Reno & Smiley / On The Air / Copper Creek [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / Our Kind Of Country / Pinecastle [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache) / Buck Owens / The Capitol Singles & Albums, 1957-62 / Acrobat Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Come On Back / DownRiver Collective / Come On Back / Self-Produced
• Columbus Stockade Blues / Tony Trischka with Del McCoury / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Goodbye / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm 
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Little Eyes / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Born Again / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Hold Me Closer, Jesus / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian 
• Eternal Vacation / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Daniel Prayed / Stanley Brothers / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Federal 
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/2/2026

During this past Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we (somewhat) belatedly celebrated the 99th anniversary of the very first recordings of the Carter Family made beginning August 1, 1927.  This historic event took place in Bristol, Tennessee (right across the line from Bristol, Virginia) and was recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company.  Who would have imagined in 1927 that the music of the Carter Family (and others) recorded during the Bristol Sessions would have such a long-lasting impact?  We shared some of those first recordings made by A.P., Sarah, and Maybelle Carter, and we also included several Bluegrass covers of Carter Family classics.

The show also featured lots of music from several performers on the schedule for the 2026 Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT.  Among them:  the Wood Box Heroes, Becky Buller, the Gibson Brothers, the Price Sisters, Rick Faris, and JigJam.  In addition, we gave away two single-day passes for the festival, thanks to the Podunk folks.  

New music, as always, was included, too.  This week, there was brand-new music from the forthcoming record release by Bronwyn (formerly, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes), as well as recent music from Daniel Grindstaff & the Uptown Troubadours, the Travelin' McCourys, Dalton Harper (from a Rick Lang-penned recording), the Chris Davis Band, and Alan Bibey with Sierra Hull and Ronnie McCoury.

Hope you were able to enjoy our program on the first Sunday of August.  Please be sure to join us this Sunday from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow / Carter Family / Anchored In Love:  Their Complete Victor Recordings, 1927-1928 / Rounder [First Carter Family recordings, 8/1/1927]
• Little Log Cabin By The Sea / Carter Family / Anchored In Love:  Their Complete Victor Recordings, 1927-1928 / Rounder [First Carter Family recordings, 8/1/1927]
• The Poor Orphan Child / Carter Family / Anchored In Love:  Their Complete Victor Recordings, 1927-1928 / Rounder [First Carter Family recordings, 8/1/1927]
• The Storms Are On The Ocean / Larry Perkins with Alison Krauss & Bobby Osborne / A Touch Of The Past / Pinecastle
• Meet Me By The Moonlight / Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby / Meet Me By The Moonlight / Sugar Hill
• Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Little Darling Pal Of Mine / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome:  The Story Of Bluegrass Music / CMH Records
• Old Rattler / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Gusto
• Burn The Barn / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome:  The Story Of Bluegrass Music / CMH Records
• Ruby / Dailey & Vincent / A Beautiful Life / Pillar Stone Records
• John Deere Tractor / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Big Tiger Roars Again / Larry Perkins with Benny Martin / A Touch Of The Past / Pinecastle
• She's More To Be Pitied / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Are You From Dixie? / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Gusto
• This Is Why / Rock Hearts with Rhonda Vincent / single / Oakway Music House
• Gallatin Road / Bronwyn / single / Self-Produced
• Denver / Daniel Grindstaff & the Uptown Troubadours / Daniel Grindstaff & the Uptown Troubadours / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Gas And Oil / Travelin' McCourys / single / McCoury Music
• Hard, Hard Work / Dalton Harper / single / Billy Blue Records
• Jenna Lea / Chris Davis Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Uncle Herschel / Alan Bibey with Sierra Hull & Ronnie McCoury / single / Billy Blue Records [Remembering Herschel Sizemore:  8/6/1935 - 9/9/2022]
• Rebecca / Herschel Sizemore / Back In Business / Hay Holler Records [Remembering Herschel Sizemore:  8/6/1935 - 9/9/2022]
• If I Were Your Brother / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced [Allan Spinney birthday, 8/5/1965 & Rick Spinney birthday, 8/5/1966]
• Memories / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records [Allan Spinney birthday, 8/5/1965 & Rick Spinney birthday, 8/5/1966]
• Walking The Dog / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Color Of The Blues / Strictly Country Records
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics:  The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Tennessee Hound Dog / The Grascals / 20 / Mountain Home
• I Want My Dog Back / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Made Up My Mind / Wood Box Heroes / single / Self-Produced
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Millworker / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Don't Hold Back / Rick Faris / Don't Hold Back / Dark Shadow Recording
• Sail Away / JigJam / Phoenix / JigJam Records
• Weary Lonesome Blues / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Kneel At The Cross / Jim & Jesse / Y'all Come:  The Essential Jim & Jesse / Epic Legacy
• You Can Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• God's Not Dead / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The Old Crossroads / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
• Heaven's Joy Awaits / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Heaven's Joy Awaits / Sugar Hill
• It's Too Late (When You're At The Gate) / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / Gotta Lotta Lonesome / Billy Blue Records
• You Better Wake Up / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/26/2026

Our Bluegrass Cafe on the last Sunday of July featured more music from three of the four newest inductees into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame -- Byron Berline, the Lost & Found, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band.  We also welcomed a couple of requests, and included a good bit of newer music, with selections from Junior Sisk, the Larry Stephenson Band, Alex Leach, Unspoken Tradition, Donna Ulisse, David Parmley (with a song written by eastern Connecticut's own Gary Davis!), and Buddy Melton.  

Hope you were able to join us on the radio, but if you missed the broadcast, you have one more week to listen to the archived show on the WHUS website.  Find it here:
Bluegrass Cafe Sun Jul 26 with Amy Orlomoski on WHUS Radio

We'll look for you tomorrow afternoon -- Sunday, August 2nd -- from 4-7PM.  We've got two one-day passes for the Podunk Bluegrass Festival to give away, so be sure to listen!

See you then - 
Amy O.


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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Sitting On Top Of The World / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• Baby Blue Eyes / Josh Crowe / Sincerely / Pinecastle
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Never Get To Hold You In My Arms Anymore / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• I'll Have To Make Some Changes / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle
• Wear A Red Rose / James King / Bed By The Window / Rounder
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Wow Baby / Hunter Berry / Wow Baby / Upper Management Music
• I Don't Do Floors Anymore / James King / Bed By The Window / Rounder
• Fiddle Faddle / Byron Berline / Fiddle And A Song / Sugar Hill
• Tear My Stillhouse Down / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Unleashed / Sugar Hill
• Leaving You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Doghouse Blues / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder
• Sally Goodin / Byron Berline / Fiddle And A Song / Sugar Hill
• Steamboat Whistle Blues / John Hartford / Aereo-Plain / Rounder
• With A Vamp In The Middle / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / Carter & Cleveland / Fiddleman Records
• Gentle On My Mind / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Bluegrassed / Cracker Barrel
• Here I Am In Love Again / John Hartford / Down On The River / Flying Fish
• The Dreams I Dream / Junior Sisk / single / Turnberry Records
• Lizzie Lou / Larry Stephenson Band / single / Turnberry Records
• Morning Green / Alex Leach / single / Self-Produced
• All The Gold In California / Unspoken Tradition / Heartwood / Mountain Home
• Where Will I Be / On The Trail / Where Do We Go From Here / Self-Produced
• White House Blues / Bill Monroe / The Music Of Bill Monroe From 1936 To 1994 / MCA
• 20/20 Vision / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Let The Whole World Talk / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Barefoot Nellie / Jim Lauderdale with High Fidelity / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Charlie Cotton / Osborne Brothers / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics:  The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Mountain Dew / Grandpa Jones / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life
• It's Raining Here This Morning / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced
• Are You Picking Flowers Now / Donna Ulisse / single / Turnberry Records
• Love Me Or Leave Me Alone / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• I'm Longing For A Love I'll Never Know / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• The Battle Of New Orleans / The Kody Norris Show / Spirit Of America / Rebel
• You're Gonna Wonder About Me / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Riverboat Fantasy / Country Gentlemen / Sugar Hill Collection / Sugar Hill
• Never Been So Lonesome / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Old Blind Gentlemen / David Parmley / Cardinal Tradition (Now & Then) / 615 Hideaway Records
• Satan's Jewelled Crown / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Sugar Hill
• The Ninety And The Nine / Buddy Melton / single / Melton & Miller Music
• Heaven's Joy Awaits / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Heaven's Joy Awaits / Sugar Hill
• Talk It All Over With Him / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / Praises From The Mountain / Self-Produced
• I'm Gonna Walk The Streets Of Heaven / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel
• You Don't Knock / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with John Cowan / Soul Condition / Blue Circle
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/19/2026

Our Bluegrass Cafe broadcast last Sunday was a whole lot of fun, as we were able to share music from three of the newest inductees into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame:  the Lost & Found, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, and the late fiddler, Byron Berline.  (The fourth Inductee for 2026 is the late Barry Poss, founder of Sugar Hill Records).  All four of these inductees will be honored in ceremonies at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards Show in Chattanooga on October 22nd.  Congratulations to all!

We also took about 30 minutes to have a telephone chat with the fun and talented Becky Buller, as she will be bringing her band to play as part of the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT on Saturday, August 8th.  We shared lots of music from Becky -- both songs she wrote for other performers and herself, as well as selections from her IBMA nominated Album of the Year, "Songs That Sing Me."  Hope you've got plans to join me at the delightful Podunk Bluegrass Festival at the Goshen Fairgrounds.  The full schedule of performers can be found here.  See you there!

Join me again on the radio tomorrow afternoon, won't you?  We'll be there with another edition of Bluegrass Cafe from 4-7PM.  

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Music To My Ears / Ricky Skaggs / Music To My Ears / Skaggs Family Records
• My Virginia Mama / The Grascals / Straighten The Curves / Mountain Home
• She Took The Tennessee River / Special Consensus / Rivers And Roads / Compass Records
• Little Bird / Becky Buller / Little Bird / Self-Produced
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [2026 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee]
• Rocker Arm Reel / California / Traveler / Sugar Hill [2026 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee (Byron Berline)]
• My Native Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / My Native Home / Rounder [2026 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee]
• Sally Goodin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [2026 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee (Byron Berline)]
• Ida Red / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [2026 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee]
• Give It Away / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / Carter & Cleveland / Rebel 
• The Wandering Boy / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Hold To A Dream / Laurie Lewis / Restless Rambling Heart / Flying Fish
• The Nights Are So Long / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Another Day / High Fidelity / High Fidelity / Self-Produced
• Red River Valley / Tony Trischka with Molly Tuttle / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• Stoney Lonesome / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / Carter & Cleveland / Rebel
• A Hazy Shade Of Winter / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Telephone conversation with Becky Buller
• The Outlaw / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• The Boys Are Back In Town / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill [2026 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee]
• I Ain't Goin' Down / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Sugar Hill [2026 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee]
• I'd Rather Be A Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU! A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• A Cold July / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH Records
• Somehow Tonight / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• You Don't Know What You're Missing / Rick Faris / Life's Parade / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Rollin' On Rubber Wheels / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Live At The Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Count Me Out / Del McCoury Band / Del And The Boys / McCoury Music
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• Little Community Church / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill
• Camel Train / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Come On Down / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [2026 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee]
• When They Ring Those Golden Bells / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Jesus Walked Upon The Water / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• I'll Be Rested / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder [2026 Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee]
• A Beautiful Life / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Sinners, You Better Get Ready / Ricky Skaggs / Ricky Skaggs Solo:  Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/12/2026

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured a whole lot of music and talk about a very important figure in the world of Washington, D.C. Bluegrass:  Buzz Busby (September 6, 1933 - January 5, 2003).  We were delighted to have a telephone chat with two authors who spent 5+ years working on a newly-published book called Buzz Busby:  Father Of Washington, D.C. Bluegrass (University of Illinois Press, 2026).  Kip Lornell and Tom Mindte told us a bit about the writing and research process that went behind this book, as well as the reasons why Buzz Busby will always be so important in the history of Bluegrass music.  If you are all interested in learning to know more about the history of Bluegrass Music, you need to find a copy of this book to read.  Seek it out, if you can.  And, of course, thank you to both Kip and Tom who joined us from different states for this telephone conversation.  

We had a tiny bit of new (or semi-new) music to share today with a tune from the newly-reissued 25th anniversary edition of "Del And The Boys" by the Del McCoury Band, and brand-new selections from the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Alan Bibey with Ronnie McCoury & Sierra Hull, Bronwyn, and Greg Blake.  

Hope you have a nice week!  We'll look forward to having you join us once again for next Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cotton Dice / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Lost / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Me And The Juke Box / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Buzz's Ramble / Buzz Busby / Going Home / Gusto
• Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Mercury
• Hurtin' Inside / The Boxcars / The Boxcars / Mountain Home
• Listen To The Lonesome Train / Chris Henry / Monroe Approved / Arrandem Records
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Mercury
• Roll On Mississippi / Red Camel Collective / Red Camel Collective / Pinecastle
• I'll Just Pretend / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Cotton, Corn And Hay / Grasstime / single / Self-Produced
• Declaration Of Independence / Kody Norris Show / Spirit Of America / Rebel
• I Wish We Had Our Time Again / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Where Will This End / Buzz Busby / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Mandolin Twist / Buzz Busby / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Telephone interview with Kip Lornell & Tom Mindte about their book, Buzz Busby:  Father Of Washington, D.C. Bluegrass (University Of Illinois Press, 2026)
• Talking Banjo / Buzz Busby / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Whose Red Wagon / Buzz Busby / Going Home / Gusto
• Me And The Juke Box / Buzz Busby / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury Band / Del And The Boys / McCoury Music
• Long Enough / Del McCoury Band with Lee Ann Womack / Del And The Boys / McCoury Music
• Uncle Herschel / Alan Bibey with Ronnie McCoury & Sierra Hull / single / Billy Blue Records
• Johnny Ray / Bronwyn / single / Sugar Petunia Records
• Let's Sing Our Song / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records
• Wheels / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Victim Of The Game / Greg Blake / single / Turnberry Records
• Ice Covered Birches / Cliff Waldron / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Bottom Of A Glass / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Turnberry Records
• There's A Higher Power / Malpass Brothers / Satisfied:  Country Gospel Classics Live / Gaither Music Group
• I'll Be Singing Up There / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute To The Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• I'm Going Up When He Starts Down / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Soul Condition / Billy Blue Records
• A Little More Faith In Jesus / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Ring The Bell / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Mansions For Me / Jeremy Stephens & Tom Mindte / Old Time Duets / Patuxent Music
• Lord Don't Leave Me Here / Country Gentlemen / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Traveling The Highway Home / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder