"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/29/2007

We always enjoy giving things away to our listeners, and Sunday's show included a whole lot of that. We talked on the phone to two promoters of upcoming BG festivals in New England, and were able to give away passes to each festival. First up was Roger Moss of the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in East Hartford (August 2-5), and then came Rich Kendall of the Lake Champlain Bluegrass Festival in Alburg, Vermont (August 10-12). Both festivals feature top-notch entertainment, and should be a whole lot of fun. Thanks to both Roger & Rich for coming on the air with us, and for sharing some passes with our listeners.

In addition, we were able to give away a couple of full-carload passes for the upcoming Tolland County 4H Fair in Vernon, CT (August 10-12). Bluegrass from Winsted's Northernbound will be featured at the fair on Friday, August 10th. Thanks to our listeners, the Trickett Family, for providing us with these passes.

If all of these giveaways weren't enough, we were also able to squeeze in a teeny bit of new music from two outstanding students of the Ralph Stanley School of Bluegrass: Charlie Sizemore ("Good News" comes out on Rounder in August), and James Alan Shelton ("Walking Down The Line" is James's outstanding new solo CD).

Sunday's show marked our last broadcast from our "temporary" broadcast home (4+ years) on UCONN's Horsebarn Hill. Beginning this Wednesday, August 1st, we'll be moving into our brand new studios at UCONN's Student Union. Marti will be with you for the "inaugural" edition of BG Cafe from that new broadcast home next Sunday, August 5th.

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, v.2 / Rounder
• Oh Monah / Red Smiley / The Best Of Red Smiley / Rural Rhythm
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time / Vanguard
• Caribbean / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / R Own
• I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Bluegrass Melodies / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Bluegrass Melodies / Rounder
• Salt Creek / James Alan Shelton / Walking Down The Line / Sheltone Records
• Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Night / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let ‘Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Ocean Of Teardrops / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall /
  Rounder
• Lonesome Won’t Get The Best Of Me / Lonesome River Band / The Road With No End / Mountain Home
• Clementine / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / SteelTown Records
• Are You Washed In The Blood / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Church House Hymns / Self-Produced
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Roll Muddy River / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• There’s More Pretty Girls Than One / Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys / New Horizons /
  Pinecastle
• Are You Missing Me / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Unforgivable You / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• Jimmy Brown The Newsboy / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard
• Casualty Of War / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music
• Cumberland Gap / Charlie Cushman / Five String Time / Self-Produced
• Beautiful Brown Eyes / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Rhythm Of The Wheels / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• When The Blues Are Movin’ In / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Pictures Than The Wall / Rounder
• Friend Of Steel / Southern Rail / Roadwork / Turquoise
• The Barn Song / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Cold Gray Light Of Gone / Acoustic Blue / Empty House / Self-Produced
• I Don’t Know / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes II : Black And White / Skaggs Family
• Please Don’t Honey Please Don’t / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Steeped In Tradition /
  Brandywine
• Indecision / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• New Pair Of Glasses / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• Where Did Our Young Years Go / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven / Bear Family
• Where Shall I Be? / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Rank Stranger / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mt. Boys / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Hold Fast To The Right / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• I’ve Found A Hiding Place / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Preachin’ Prayin’ Singin’ / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
  

Guests & goodies for listeners this Sunday, 7/29!

Of course, we'd like to believe that you listen to the Bluegrass Cafe every Sunday from 4-7PM 'cause you think Jim, Marti, and I are charming, knowledgeable, and, of course, that we play some mighty fine Bluegrass music. That's probably not true, but we'd like to believe it, anyway. In addition to those reasons for listening, we're going to add TWO more reasons this Sunday.


If you're yearning to get to some terrific New England Bluegrass festivals before the season ends, there are a couple of events coming up very quickly. Sunday's show will include a chance for you to call in and win 4-day passes to either the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in East Hartford, CT (August 2-5) and the Lake Champlain Bluegrass Festival in Alburg, VT (August 10-12). We're expecting to have some guests come on the air and talk about these events, as well. Please join us!

Amy

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist 7/22/07

Marti and I had a lot of fun on this show. The time flew by so fast that we left about 20 songs unplayed that we really wanted to bring to you. That will give Amy a chance to keep it going next week!

Lots of new music this week along with our usual mix of classic bluegrass. Hope you heard something you liked.

Jim

requests are in blue

• Wild Turkey / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• Run Mountain / Mainer's Mountaineers / Good Ole' Mountain Music / King
• Run Mountain / Tony Trischka / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / Stanley Brothers / 1953-59 & 1959 / Bear Family
• Clementine / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / SteelTown
• Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Fork In The Road / The Infamous Stringdusters / Fork In the Road / Sugar Hill
• This Heart of Mine / Pat Flynn / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass, Volume 87 / KBC
• Run Little Fox / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass, Volume 87 / KBC
• Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die) / Tommy Brown & the County Line Grass / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• Kentucky Mountain / James Reams, Walter Hensley / Wild Card / Mountain Redbird
• Two Hands On The Wheel / Casey & Chris and the Two-Stringers / Get Along Girl / Arrandem
• Sawing on the Strings / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles or More / Rounder
• Hitchhiking Freewheelin Hobo / Charles R Humphrey III / Songs From The Road / Lucks Dumpy Toad
• Fire On The Mountain / The Osborne Brothers / Live In Germany / Pinecastle
• Walkin' The Floor Over You / The Osborne Brothers / Live In Germany / Pinecastle
• Man Of Constant Sorrow / The Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack / Lost Highway
• What Kind Of Fool / Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press / Bluegrass Melodies / Rounder
• You Don't Know What Love Is / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes II Black and White / Skaggs Family
• I Hear A Choo Choo Coming / The Bluegrass Brothers / Appalachian Memories / self
• Living It Down / Steve Gulley / Sounds Like Home / Lonesome Day
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent and the Rage / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Julia Belle / Janet Beazley / 5 South / Backcountry
• Between The Rows / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Can You Hear Me Now (Retro 1938) / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• East Virginia Blues / Bill Yates and Friends / The Country Gentlemen "Tribute" / Master Shield
• The Flood of '57 / Red Henry / Helton Creek / Arrandem
• Bluegrass Don't You Know / Curly Seckler / Bluegrass Don't You Know / Copper Creek
• Sleep With One Eye Open / Acoustic Blue / Workin' Man / self
• Whitewater / Bela Fleck / Drive / Rounder
• Banjo Whiz / Buzz Busby / Going Home / Starday
• Me And The Juke Box / Buzz Busby / Going Home / Starday
• Dreams That End Like This / The Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• Let Me Fall / Dudley Connell, Laurie Lewis, Kirk Sutphin, et al / Masters of the Banjo / Arhoolie
• Handsome Molly / NewFound Road / Life In A Song / Rounder
• The Lover's Return / Laurie Lewis and Dudley Connell / Masters of the Banjo / Arhoolie
• Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / Ralph Stanley, Laurie Lewis, Dudley Connell, etc / Masters of the Banjo / Arhoolie
• Lonesome Pine Breakdown / Steve Sparkman / Harlan County Five-String / Copper Creek
• The Moonshiner / IIIrd Tyme Out / Round III At The MAC / Chateau
• They're At Rest Together / The Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs and Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Black-Eyed Susie / The Dillards / Live!!! Almost!!! / Elektra
• Never See My Home Again / The Dillards / Live!!! Almost!!! / Elektra
• Shoutin' Time / Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / Tell Someone / Rebel
• We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder / Rose Maddox with the Vern Williams Band / Beautiful Bouquet / Arhoolie
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / Trail of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Let The Church Roll On / Flatt & Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall / Koch
• Gates Of Glory / Mickey Harris / Kneel And Pray / MJH (self)
• Peter Was A Fireball / Easter Brothers / By Request - Their Greatest Hits / Thoroughbred
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Open Up Them Pearly Gates For Me / Grandpa Jones / An American Original / CMH
• Wicked Path of Sin / Blue Highway / Wondrous Love / Rounder
• Old Country Baptizing / The Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler
• Ohoopee / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler

"Bluegrass at Buttery Brook Park" - Saturday, July 21st

For those who are NOT heading to the big Greyfox BG Festival this weekend, but who still would like to get their Bluegrass "fix," why not consider a more "traditional" alternative? Dave Helman (the long-time promoter of the "Country Corner Coffee House" October-April shows & a radio host at WTCC, 90.7FM) has put together his third (at this location) Bluegrass at Buttery Brook Park. This is a one-day festival, and will be held this Saturday, July 21st at the Buttery Brook Park, Route 33, South Hadley, MA. The park is very easy to find, and the setting is perfect for Bluegrass. Let's hope the weather cooperates a bit more this year, though. Last year's festival featured a terrific lineup, but the weather forecast of 9+ inches of rain just didn't make for a huge crowd. It will be different this year, though, and the lineup is again quite excellent:

The Carolina Rebels

White Mountain Bluegrass

The Stillhouse Jammers

Acoustic Blue

Dan Helman & Marking Time

The music starts at 10AM and ends about 8PM, and the sound is provided by Mr. Helman in the form of Country Corner Productions. Please get out there and support this event -- rain or shine. For more information or directions, click here or call Dave at (413)467-9394.

I'll be there....hope you will, too!

Amy

Playlist for "Bluegrass Cafe" - 7/15/07

Hi folks.

Marti and I have been in North Carolina for most of the past two weeks, so it was good to be back in the studio after such a prolonged absence. Many thanks go to Amy for holding both the Red Rooster Party and Bluegrass Cafe together while we were gone. We will be bringing you music and interviews from our visit in the coming weeks.

We informally featured the music of Tom T. and Dixie Hall on this program along with a good bit of new music to go with our classic bluegrass selections. Hope you enjoyed!

Jim

(requests are in blue)

• Wild Turkey / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• White House Blues / Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style / Smithsonian Folkways
• Molly and Tenbrooks / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bluegrass As Good As It Gets / Disky
• Think Of What You've Done / Abrams Brothers / Iron Sharpens Iron / MasterShield
• The Old Man Has Retired / Curly Seckler / Bluegrass Don't You Know / Copper Creek
• Swinging A Nine Pound Hammer / IIIrd Tyme Out / Round III at the MAC / CMG
• Lovin' Pretty Women / Steep Canyon Rangers / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass 87 / KBC
• Dixie Flyer / Grasstowne / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass 87 / KBC
• Stanleytone March / Steve Sparkman / Harlan County Five-String / Copper Creek
• The Shape I'm In / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Little Bessie / J. D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack / Lost Highway
• God Bless The Soldier / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Chancellorsville / David Davis and the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Long Journey / Dry Branch Fire Squad / 30th Anniversary Special / Rounder
• Rag Time Annie / Hunter Berry / Wow Baby / Upper Management
• Fox On The Run / Tony Trischka with Tom Adams / Double Bluegrass Banjo Spectacular / Rounder
• Mountain Memories / Acoustic Blue / Empty House / self
• Gonna Start a Bluegrass Band In Asheville / Charles Humphrey III / Songs From The Road / Lucks Dumpy Toad
• The Old Coal Mine / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury
• Bile Them Cabbage Down / Stover, Lilly & Anthony / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style / Smithsonian Folkways
• Back To Hancock County / Highland Grass / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass 87 / KBC
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, & the Foggy Mtn Boys / Bluegrass As Good As It Gets / Disky
• Air Mail Special / Jim & Jesse / Bluegrass As Good As It Gets / Disky
• Sugar In The Gourd / Michael Cleveland / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Branded Wherever I Go / Special Consensus / Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• 20 / 20 Vision / The Gillis Brothers / Ice Cold Stone / Hay Holler
• Cold Blue Day / NewFound Road / Life In A Song / Rounder
• Home To Carolina / The Grass Cats / Home To Carolina / New Time Records
• One More Try / The Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Rovin' Gambler / J. D. Crowe & The New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• The Year That Clayton Delaney Died / Dave Evans / Pretty Green Hills / Rebel
• Lisa's Joy / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Maple On The Hill / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Hero In Harlan / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle
• Is It Too Late Now! / Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, & the Foggy Mtn Boys / 1948-1959 / Bear Family
• Jimmy Martin's Life Story / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle
• The Philadelphia Lawyer / Bob Baker And the Pike County Boys / Mountain Music Bluegrass Style / Smithsonian Folkways
• Poverty Row / Cedar Hill / Poverty Row / Blue Circle
• Carolina Road / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Carolina Road / Blue Circle
• How's It Feel / The Daughters of Bluegrass feat. Jeanette Williams / Back To The Well / Blue Circle
• Taking The Crooked Road Home / Crooked Creek (Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor) / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Folklife
• Going Back To Old Virginia / Casey & Chris and The Two-Stringers / Get Along Girl / Arrandem Records
• Way It Always Seems To Go / Jim VanCleve / Prime Cuts of Bluegrass 87 / KBC
• Troublesome Waters / Ralph Stanley / Mountain Preacher's Child / Rebel
• The Touch of God's Hand / Monroe Crossing / Into The Fire / self
• I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning / Rose Maddox / Bluegrass As Good As It Gets / Disky
• He Suffered For My Reward / Nathan Stanley & Ralph Stanley / He Suffered For My Reward / III Generation
• Above The Line / Ron Block / Door Way / Rounder
• I Can't Sit Down / Kenny & Amanda Smith / Tell Someone / Rebel
• John In The Jordan / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Weeds In The Wheat / Front Range / One Beautiful Day / Sugar Hill
• Ohoopee / The Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler

BG & Old Time Country Music in Willimantic, CT -- Saturday, July 14th

This Saturday, July 14th, the Bristol Boys (so named for the "Birthplace of Country Music," Bristol, Tennessee & Virginia) will be performing at the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum, 55 Bridge Street, Willimantic, CT. Showtime is 4:30PM. This show is part of the museum's summer concert series known as Rhythm on the Rails. There is an alternate rain location: Fred's Brick House Cafe, Gateway Commons, Willimantic. For more information on this show or the series, call (860)228-3197.

While the members of the Bristol Boys are all veterans of various New England Bluegrass bands (including Traver Hollow, Charter Oak Bluegrass, Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters, the Bear Bridge Band, and others) , the band mainly performs old country music from the 1920s through the early 1950s. Check them out, if you're so inclined. Admission to the show is free, but a $5 donation is strongly encouraged. All proceeds benefit the museum, and really, is there anyone who DOESN'T like railroads?

And keep this in mind: if you find yourself enjoying the Bristol Boys, they'll also be appearing in Plainfield, CT on Sunday, November 18th in a show featuring David Peterson & 1946, as well as Nick Anderson & Tall Grass. That show is sponsored by the Canterbury Historical Society, and more information can be found by clicking here.

Amy

Small confession: my brother, Dave, is a member of this trio. I think you should go to the show, anyway.

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/8/2007

Sunday's show was filled with lots of (I think) great tunes -- hope you agree. In addition to something new from the forthcoming Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T., we heard three tunes from a old Rebel LP from the early 1970s featuring a family band from Oneco, Connecticut (in the "Quiet Corner" of CT near the RI border), the Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers. Although their music wasn't always 100% Bluegrass, there's no doubt that Fred Pike is a legendary character in the New England Bluegrass world, and it's always fun to listen to his recordings.

Jim & Marti will join you next Sunday, July 15th. I'll see you again sometime before the month is through....

Amy

Requests are noted in red.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rocky Grass / Blue Planet
• Polka On A Banjo / Flatt & Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia
• Why Did You Wander / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Classic Bluegrass Recordings, Vol.1 / County
• Till The End Of The World Rolls Round / Flatt & Scruggs / Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Stanley Brothers / Mercury
• Airmail Special / Jim & Jesse / Rocky Grass / Blue Planet
• Blame It On The Pain / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / SteelTown Records
• Don't Come Out Of The Hole / Blue Highway / Blue Highway / Ceili Music
• Cabin On A Mountain / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Just Wondering Why / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds: The Capitol Years / Capitol
• This Old House / Rice Brothers / The Old Home Place / Rounder
• Wow Baby / Hunter Berry / Wow Baby / Upper Management Music
• When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell & Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Pikearoo / The Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Each Season Changes You / The Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Dixie Hoedown / The Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Forever By My Side / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• I'm Country And Nothing More / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music
• Goodbye To The Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Hello Blue / Chris Cairns / Hello Blue / FireHeart Pro
• Jimmy Martin's Life Story / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. [preview] / Blue Circle
• Wrecking Ball / King Wilkie / Low Country Suite / Zoe Records
• Some Of These Days (You're Gonna Be Sad) / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• I Can't Stand To Ramble / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'N Live / Sugar Hill
• Think Of What You've Done / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• White Lightning / The Grascals / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family
• Walkin' West To Memphis / Casey & Chris & the Two-Stringers / Get Along Girl / Arrandem Records
• The Leaves That Are Green / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family
• Brown Mountain Light / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• Lost / Avery County / Me And The Jukebox / Self-Produced
• Footsteps So Near / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• I'm Gonna Love You One Time / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Prisoner's Song / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / Starday
• Harvest Time / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• I Heard The Bluebirds Sing / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / R Own
• Queen Anne's Lace / Del McCoury Band / High, Lonesome & Blue / Rounder
• The Heavenly Light Is Shining / Goins Brothers / Run Satan, Run / Hay Holler
• I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Shoutin' On The Hills Of Glory / America's Bluegrass Band / America's Favorite Hymns / Ol' Blue Records
• Get Down On Your Knees And Pray / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• I'm Rollin' Through This Unfriendly World / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Master Of The Sea / Bear Bridge Band / Bear Essentials / Open Road
• I'm Gonna Hold To His Hand / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics / Cattle
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Ralph Stanley in East Hartford 7/6/2007

All Southern New Englanders should take note of a rare appearance by Dr. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys at the East Hartford Community Cultural Center this Friday evening, 6 July 2007. The doors open at 6 pm for jamming and the good doctor begins his performance at 7:30 pm.

Ralph had his 80th birthday earlier this year and is without peer in accomplishment in the mountain style of what they call bluegrass music. He is one of the few remaining of the first generation pioneers of bluegrass music. Ralph could choose to retire at any moment and enjoy the fruits of his lifelong achievements, but he is still on the road today, and this could be your last chance to enjoy this legendary performer and pioneer.

It is quite possible you will see the Bluegrass Cafe crew at the concert.

The picture is Bluegrass Cafe DJ, Jim, with Ralph Stanley about 12 years ago.

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/1/2007

For me, Sunday's show was a lot of fun; hopefully, that's how the listeners felt, as well. We played a good number of old favorites, a few requests (marked in red), and some new music from one of the best traditional BG groups working right now in southern New England, Acoustic Blue. The second CD from this group is called "Empty House," and it's filled with a fine mix of traditional tunes and great originals. Lead singer/mandolin player Corey Zink has a killer voice -- check out this band when you get a chance.

July 4th marks 50 years since the groundbreaking Country Gentlemen first performed as a pick-up band at the Admiral Grill in Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia. To save a steady playing slot for car accident victim, Buzz Busby, his enterprising banjo man Bill Emerson called together a couple of his friends, the soon-to-be legendary John Duffey and Charlie Waller, as well as bass man Larry Leahy, and the Country Gentlemen were born. To mark this big occasion, we filled nearly an hour with the music of the early Gents, with tunes from their December 1957 sessions to about the mid-1960s. I could have easily filled up all three hours with the music of the Country Gents, but we'll save that for future shows....

Hope you all have a safe and happy 4th, and we'll see you again on July 15th.

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Don't Get Above Your Raisin' / Flatt & Scruggs / The Golden Age, v.1 / Columbia
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time-Life
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time-Life
• Molly And Tenbrooks / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Golden Age, v.1 / Columbia
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Here Rattler Here / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• Rock Bottom Blues / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Will I Be That Lucky Man? / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Hello Trouble / Acoustic Blue / Empty House / Bishop Hill Records
• Empty House / Acoustic Blue / Empty House / Bishop Hill Records
• Blue Railroad Train / Tony Rice / Manzanita / Rounder
• Big Train From Memphis / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• Menzone Drive / Dan Menzone / Menzone Drive / Self-Produced
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Folk Life
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• It's The Blues / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Little Bessie / Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs And Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Nobody's Business / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• The Sunny Side Of Life / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• High Lonesome / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Ain't Got A Home /Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• A Letter To Tom / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Silence Or Tears / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• The Bluebirds Are Singing / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I Am Weary, Let Me Rest /Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• This Morning At Nine / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Mrs. Robinson / Randy Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Keeper Of The Flame / Lendel Records
• Redwood Hill / Bill Yates & Friends / Country Gentlemen Tribute / MasterShield
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Randy Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Keeper Of The Flame / Lendel Records
• Miller's Cave / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• My Old Kentucky Home / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Sadie's Got Her New Dress On / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
• Hard Living / Hunter Berry with Rhonda Vincent / Wow Baby / Upper Management Music
• Lonesome For You / Tommy Webb / Eastern Kentucky / Kindred Records
• John 3:16 / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Federal
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• Do You Live What You Preach / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Church House Hymns / Self-Produced
• Where No One Stands Alone / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Where No One Stands Alone / Rebel
• God Must Be A Cowboy / Grass Cats / Home To Carolina / New Time Records
• Over In The Gloryland / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder