"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/9/2026

 

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

"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