"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

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/19/2026

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we shared new music, looked back at some popular songs of 30 years ago, and celebrated both Earth Day and the birthday of a Bluegrass Hall of Famer.  It was a certainly a full three-hour program, so hope you were able to join us.

New music came from a young banjo player named Izaak Atlas Schwartz and the trio of Shelton & Williams.  We also included newer music from the Po' Ramblin' Boys and Southern Legacy.

We shared several tunes from the great Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Doyle Lawson, who celebrated his 82nd birthday on April 20th.

And, for something different, we put a small spotlight on nine songs from the Top 30 songs featured in the National Bluegrass Survey as published in the February 1996 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited.  Among the performers who were on the charts that month was a very new band who had three songs on the chart, including the top song and top album, Blue Highway.  Other songs we featured were performed by the Laurel Canyon Ramblers, Gary Ferguson, Lynn Morris, Claire Lynch, Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum, Byron Berline with Vince Gill, IIIrd Tyme Out, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.  We'll plan to feature a look back at other National Bluegrass Survey songs in future editions of our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Hope you are having a good week, and that you'll consider tuning in once again to our Bluegrass Cafe this coming Sunday from 4-7PM.

See you then - 

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Old Devil's Dream / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys / JSP Records
• Another Day / Reno & Smiley / Classic Bluegrass / King
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Richmond On The James / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Arcadia / Down The Road Records
• Walk The Way The Wind Blows / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Say You'll Take Me Back / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Another Town / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
• Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• Straight Drive / Terry McGill / Straight Drive / Cabinwood Music
• Trail Of Tears / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Honky Tonk Blues / Terry McGill with Jen Larson / Straight Drive / Cabinwood Music
• Early Morning Rain / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Take My Ring From Your Finger / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Grandfather's Clock / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Bright Sherman Valley / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• Down Where The River Bends / NorthernBound / Grandad Hank / Self-Produced
• Red River Valley / Tony Trischka with Molly Tuttle / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• Black Oak Ridge / Izaak Atlas Schwartz / Black Oak Ridge / Patuxent Music
• Shifting Sand / Shelton & Williams / single / Huckleberry Records
• Pardon Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Turnberry Records
• Bill From Isonville / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Collection / Sugar Hill
• Clear Cut / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• Paradise / Jim & Jesse / The Jim & Jesse Story / CMH
• It's A Long, Long Road / Blue Highway / It's A Long, Long Road / Rebel
• Rambler's Blues / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Rambler's Blues / Sugar Hill
• Past The Point Of Rescue / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Sleepy-Eyed John/Tom And Jerry / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder
• Rose Of Old Kentucky / Byron Berline with Vince Gill / Fiddle And A Song / Sugar Hill
• Can't Say Goodbye / IIIrd Tyme Out / Letter To Home / Rounder
• Pee Wee And Fern / Claire Lynch / Moonlighter / Rounder
• Walking The Blues / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Sweet Rosie Jones / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill
• My Friend Clyde / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Cabin Song / Billy Strings / Highway Prayers / Reprise
• Are You Wasting My Time / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Walking Down The Line / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/22/1944]
• Pretending I Don't Care / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/22/1944]
• Rock My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/22/1944]
• You Can Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Just As The Sun Went Down / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• A Little More Faith In Jesus / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/22/1944]
• So Happy I'll Be / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• I'm Going Up When He Starts Down / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Soul Condition / Billy Blue Records
• I Can't Sit Down / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Goodbye / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/22/1944]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/12/2026

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe began with two sets of cover songs in honor of the great Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) -- a man who is probably the favorite male country singer of many Bluegrass performers, as loads of his songs have been covered over the years.  Merle even recorded his own Bluegrass(ish) record, so how can we not celebrate his life and music during our Bluegrass show?  (Answer:  we can't).  

Several newer songs made their way onto our program on Sunday, as well, with selections from Dailey & Vincent, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Blue Highway, Anthony Howell, and the Grammy Award-winning duo of Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland.  

Hope you'll consider joining us once again this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  It'll be fun, so don't miss it, okay?

See you then - 

Amy O. 

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• The Fightin' Side Of Me / Merle Haggard / Vintage Collections / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / U.S. Navy Band Country Current / Live / Altissimo [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Swinging Doors / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Hobo Blues / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Seven Year Blues / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Bright Lights & Country Music / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Pardon Me / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Handsome Molly / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Lonesome Pine Breakdown / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family Records
• Stone Cold Loneliness / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Moon Shines On The Still / Dailey & Vincent / A Beautiful Life / Pillar Stone Records
• Big Daddy Rabbit / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / single / Yeah Man Records
• I'd Rather Be A Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU!  A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• Ground Speed / Anthony Howell / single / Noxubee Hills Music Group
• Let's Sing Our Song / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland with John Cowan / single / Fiddleman Records
• Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU!  A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• Feeling Blue / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Follow The Leader / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH Records
• Cowboys Dig Them High-Heeled Shoes / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Heading Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Just Wondering Why / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Pikearoo / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• That's All Right / Tony Trischka with Dudley Connell / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• Rock Hearts / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder
• Trouble Keeps Hanging 'Round My Door / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Pressing On Regardless / Brentwood Music
• Come On Back / DownRiver Collective / single / Self-Produced
• I Got Wise / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle
• How Could I Love Her So Much / The Travelers / Ridin' The Lines / Hay Holler
• Sweetest Love / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Bend, Don't Break / Rick Faris / Life's Parade / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Never Was Too Much / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Dreams About The Hills Of Home / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather Records
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• God Loves His Children / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Heaven's Bright Shore / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Live At The Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder
• Working On A Building / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• The Eastern Gate / Traditional Grass / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• I Want To Be A Christian Soldier / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• He Will Roll You Over The Tide / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Walkin', Runnin', Flyin' / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder