"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.  

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

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

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/7/2026

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

Thanks for listening!

Amy O.

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

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

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/31/2026

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

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

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

We'll chat with you again tomorrow!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Blue Night / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• Blue Virginia Blues / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• A Brand New Shade Of Blue / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Traveling Down The Blue Road / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always / Sugar Hill
• Blue Blue Day / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Del McCoury / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder
• So Blue / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Blue Train / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Blue / Beth & April Stevens / Sisters / Rounder
• Dry Run Creek / The Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• O California / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / O California! / Spruce And Maple Music
• New Sweet Home / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• The Fields Of Gettysburg / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• The Boatman / The Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Bill From Isonville / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• Waiting For The Robert E. Lee / Izaak Atlas Schwartz / Black Oak Ridge / Patuxent Music
• I'm Putting You Out Of My Misery / Jaelee Roberts / single / Mountain Home
• Pardon Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Turnberry Records
• Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU!:  A 30-Year Retrospective / Down The Road Records
• Making Plans / Dale Ann Bradley with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / single / Pinecastle
• Let's Sing Our Song / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records
• Troublesome Waters / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• The Windowsill Song / Becky Buller / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Holdin' On When You've Let Go / Crowe Brothers / Brothers-n-Harmony / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Can You Hear Me Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• I Wish That I Could Have Met Carter / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• I'm Putting On My Leaving Shoes / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Forever And Ever / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• My Old Kentucky Home / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• I Wish You Knew / Jim & Jesse / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Long Way Around / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• Deep River / Livewire / Wired! / Rounder
• Hills Of Home / Hazel Dickens / It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Walls Of Time / Rounder
• I Am Just A Pilgrim / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
• I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• I'm Going Up When He Starts Down / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Soul Condition / Billy Blue Records
• Get In The Boat / Jeanette Williams / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Get On The Main Highway / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/24/2026

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

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

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

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.





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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Washed My Face In The Morning Dew / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Don't Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Year The Clayton Delaney Died / Tom T. Hall / The Essential Tom T. Hall:  The Story Songs / Mercury [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• One Of Those Days (When I Miss Lester Flatt) / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Leaving Baker County / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Guitar Picking President / Jimmy Martin / The Essential Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1963-1965 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Boys In Hats And Ties / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• I Won't Take Less Than Your Love / Don Schlitz with Del McCoury & Ricky Skaggs / Mountaintop / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Don Schlitz: 8/29/1952 - 4/16/2026]
• Bottom Of The Ninth / Jason Barie / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records 
• She'll Change / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• A Hundred Years From Now / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• All God's Children / East Nash Grass / All God's Children / Mountain Fever Records
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• The Gambler / Don Schlitz / Mountaintop / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Don Schlitz:  8/29/1952 - 4/16/2026]
• Walk Out In The Rain / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• Maria / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Making Plans / Dale Ann Bradley with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / single / Pinecastle
• The Power And Glory / The Kody Norris Show / American Spirit / Rebel
• The Boys Who Left Prince Station / Jim Hurst / Travels & Time / Pinecastle
• Seeing The Best In You / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• At The End Of A Long Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• A Hero In Harlan / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lost Souls & Free Spirits / Rebel
• Searching For A Soldier's Grave / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Field Of Flags / Rick Lang with Dave Adkins / single / Self-Produced
• Traveling Soldier / Bear Tracks / Together Till The End / AMT Records
• A Purple Heart / Curly Seckler / Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Copper Creek
• Last Letter Home / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Jimmie Brown The Newsboy / Mac Wiseman / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Can't You Hear Me Calling / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys:  1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Everything I Used To Do / Livewire / Livewire / Rounder
• Forever By My Side / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• Memories Cover Everything I Own / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Georgia Girl / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Little White Church / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Where We'll Never Grow Old / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / Nolichucky / Flagpond Records
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• God Loves His Children / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Robe Of White / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road 
• You Can Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Voice Of My Savior / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/17/2026

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

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

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

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

Until then, 
Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• There Is A Time / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Rodney Dillard birthday, 5/17/1942]
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Fiddle And Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Never See My Home Again / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Rodney Dillard birthday, 5/17/1942]
• Old Train / The Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
• Scraps From Your Table / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Tradition:  Tribute To A Bluegrass Legacy / Doobie Shea Records
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Mama's Hand:  Bluegrass And Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder
• The Guitar Song / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers with Del McCoury / For The Record / Billy Blue Records
• Thunderclouds Of Love / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Sweeter Than The Flowers / James King / Mama's Hand:  Bluegrass And Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder
• Nightwalk / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? / Special Consensus feat. Chris Jones & Dallas Wayne / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Medals For Mothers / Rhonda Vincent / Mama's Hand:  Bluegrass And Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder
• Me And The Juke Box / Buzz Busby / Second Generation Bluegrass / Blaricum 
• Hard, Hard Work / Dalton Harper / single / Billy Blue Records
• Declaration Of Independence / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• The World To You / Newfound Road / single / Billy Blue Records
• Back When / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Goin' Like Wildfire / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams feat. Tony Rice / Down Home / Rounder
• I'm Leaving You And Fort Worth, Too / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Country Livin' / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• It Could Have Been The Mandolin / Donna Ulisse / Hard Cry Moon / Hadley Music Group
• Foxhounds / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• Sweetheart Of The Mountains / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Weary River / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Mountain Girl / Sideline / Session 2 / Mountain Fever Records
• When The Bluegrass Is Covered With Snow / The Boxcars / Familiar With The Ground / Mountain Home
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Stickleyville Stomp / Tim Martin / Bluegrass Fiddle / Patuxent Music
• Millworker / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Unwanted Love / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Rodney Dillard birthday, 5/17/1942]
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Angels Watching Me / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Send The Angels Down / Kristy Cox with Jerry Salley / Learning To Walk With Him / Billy Blue Records
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Calm The Storm / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• On The Wings Of Angels / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• God's Record Book Of Life / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/10/2026

On Sunday, we celebrated two wonderful events at our Bluegrass Cafe:  Commencement Day at UConn and, of course, Mother's Day!  While we could only wish all UConn graduates a heartfelt congratulations, we did a bit more celebrating of Mothers on Sunday afternoon.  Hope you were able to celebrate the day in a special way, either being honored by your children, celebrating your mother in person, or remembering her with many fond memories.  

As you likely know, there are MANY songs celebrating mothers in the World of Bluegrass.  We included many of those during our broadcast on Sunday from performers as varied as the Gibson Brothers, Reno & Smiley, Kathy Kallick, Lou Reid, the Louvin Brothers, High Fidelity, Lynn Morris, the Lonesome River Band, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, and many others.  

Appropriately, Mother's Day also happened to be the birth anniversary of Maybelle Carter (May 10, 1909 - November 23, 1978) -- who became known as "Mother Maybelle" for many years after the breakup of the original Carter Family.  

A tiny bit of new music also made it onto our playlist for this week, including another new single from the Kody Norris Show, as well as Bryan Sutton with Tommy Emmanuel, Darren Nicholson, and Jaelee Roberts.

Finally, we briefly remembered Evelyn Cox Hobbs - a Grammy Award-winning member of the Cox Family who died on May 6th at the age of 66.  

Hope you had a wonderful day!  Please consider joining me once again this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe, won't you?

See you then!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Know Whose Tears / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Every Day Is Mother's Day To Me / Allerton & Alton / Black, White, And Bluegrass / Bear Family Records
• Mother, The Queen Of My Heart / Lonesome Standard Time / Lonesome As It Gets / Sugar Hill
• God Bless Her ('Cause She Is My Mother) / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom) / Kathy Kallick / Mother, Queen Of My Heart:  A Collection Of Songs Inspired By Mom / Sugar Hill
• Thank God For Mama / Lonesome River Band / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill
• Mama Tried / The Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Mama's Hand / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Memories Of Mother / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Hand That Rocks The Cradle / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Mama's Opry / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• Dear Old Mother / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• How I Miss My Darling Mother / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Listen To Me Mother / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Mom's Old Picture Book / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• Mother Knows Best / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Good Ol' USA / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Bryan Sutton with Tommy Emmanuel / single / Mountain Home
• I'm Putting You Out Of My Misery / Jaelee Roberts / single / Mountain Home
• Get Me Down The Line / Darren Nicholson / single / Mountain Home
• Marbletown / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU! A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• Look Down That Lonesome Road / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / O California! / Spruce And Maple Music
• Red River Valley / Tony Trischka with Molly Tuttle / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Maybelle Carter / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Legacy [Remembering Maybelle Carter:  5/10/1909 - 10/23/1978]
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs feat. Mother Maybelle Carter / Songs Of The Famous Carter Family / Columbia [Remembering Maybelle Carter:  5/10/1909 - 10/23/1978]
• Wildwood Flower / Carter Family / Anchored In Love:  Their Complete Victor Recordings, 1927-1928 / Rounder [Remembering Maybelle Carter:  5/10/1909 - 10/23/1978]
• Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder [Remembering Evelyn Cox Hobbs:  6/20/1959 - 5/6/2026]
• Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven / Allison Krauss & the Cox Family / I Know Who Holds Tomorrow / Rounder [Remembering Evelyn Cox Hobbs:  6/20/1959 - 5/6/2026]
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Mama's Rocking Chair / Southern Rail / Glory Train / Pinecastle
• Mama's Apron Strings / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Sweetest Gift / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• From The Hollow / Beartracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• My Mother's White Rose / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Dear Mom / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Self-Produced
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Live At The Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder
• Don't You Want To Go There / BlueRidge / Gettin' Ready / Pinecastle
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• I'll Wear A White Robe / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Soul Condition / Billy Blue Records
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• My Mother Prays So Loud In Her Sleep / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• My Mother's Bible / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Mother Sweet Mother / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / 
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/26/2026

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe had us wandering through many decades of fine Bluegrass selections from the early 1950s through brand-new music.  

In the latter category of "brand-new" or "recent" Bluegrass, we heard from Caroline Owens, Izaak Atlas Schwartz, Doug Rorrer, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Appalachian Road Show, and the new live recording from Blue Highway.

And we revisited some more now-classic tunes that were featured in the Top 30 of the National Bluegrass Survey according to Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine in February 1996. 

This coming Sunday, I will away from the microphone enjoying some live music from the talented Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, so the Bluegrass Cafe you hear will be one from the COVID-era archives.  

As always, thanks for listening, and have a wonderful week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'm Bound To Ride / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Leavin' You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• The Wandering Boy / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia
• Tall Stands Of Timber / Rock Hearts / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• Daughter Of The Stars / Red Camel Collective / Daughter Of The Stars / Pinecastle
• Scotty's Hoedown / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Old Rusty Gate / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Old Rusty Gate / Rebel
• Where The Old Red River Flows / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Wing And A Prayer / David Parmley, Scott Vestal & Continental Divide / David Parmley, Scott Vestal & Continental Divide / Pinecastle 
• Walk Out In The Rain / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Rounder
• Cowboy's Dream / Cox Family / Beyond The City / Rounder
• Tear My Stillhouse Down / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Unleashed / Sugar Hill
• A Few Old Memories / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• Mountains And Memories / Country Gentlemen / Souvenirs / Rebel
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / The Blues Are Still The Blues / Rebel
• Dark Wind Of Missouri / Chris Jones / Blinded By The Rose / Strictly Country Records
• Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
• Evangeline / Caroline Owens / single / Billy Blue Records
• Rockwood Deer Chase / Izaak Atlas Schwartz / Black Oak Ridge / Patuxent Music
• George Collins / Doug Rorrer / Songs I Learned At My Mother's Knee / Patuxent Music
• In The Gravel Yard / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU! A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• Cedar City Blues / Eddie Adcock / The Patuxent Banjo Project / Patuxent Music
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / 25 Years Of Strictly Country Magazine / Strictly Country Records
• Flame In My Heart / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / Dreaming / Rounder
• Going And Gone / Trey Hensley with Molly Tuttle / Can't Outrun The Blues / Pinecastle
• Little Joe / Jeff White / The White Album / Rounder
• In Memory / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• Thinking About You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Weathered Gray Stone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• That's Just Lonesome / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Let's Get Out Of Here / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / Safe, Sensible, And Sane / Compass Records
• Whole Lot More Living / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• The HIlls That I Call Home / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Self-Produced
• Rosalee McFall / Appalachian Road Show / Della Jane's Heart / Billy Blue Records
• Old Liberty / Bass Mountain Boys with Chubby Wise / Fiddlin' With Tradition / BMM Records
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Calamity Jane / Becky Buller with Rhonda Vincent / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Red, Red Robin / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• I Know His Voice / Del McCoury / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder
• Where Could I Go But To The Lord / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Soul Condition / Billy Blue Records
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Three Rusty Nails / Ronnie Bowman / The Man I'm Tryin' To Be / Sugar Hill
• A Brighter Mansion Over There / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Standing In The Need Of Prayer / Jim Mills with Dan Tyminski / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• Heaven's Joy Awaits / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Heaven's Joy Awaits / Sugar Hill
• I'm Getting Ready To Leave This World / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder