"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

"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