"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 9/15/2013 - More Old Vinyl

Hi Folks.

I was back in the saddle at Bluegrass Cafe after being in the saddle at Red Rooster Party with Marti for the summer.  I made it challenging by bringing in a big load of rare vinyl that I almost got half-way through.

The reach back for this show was intended not only to get grounded and focused on real bluegrass again, but also to feature some fine regional bands from outside of New England that are making some excellent music that deserves to be heard. This included music from Alex Leach -- a Tennessee DJ who is currently Ralph Stanley II's banjo picker -- and Larry Efaw from Ohio.

We also briefly celebrated the birthdays of Bill Monroe (9/13), Bill Harrell (9/15), and Roy Acuff (9/15) with related songs -- the latter covers from The Old Time Bluegrass Singers and The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band.

Amy and I will both be away for the next two Sundays, between which we will be in Raleigh for the IBMA festivities, so you can look forward to James and Cathy Ward hosting Bluegrass Cafe for the next two weeks.  Amy should be back October 6th.

Jim Beaver

Title / Artist / Album / Label

• Banjo Whiz (1958) / Buzz Busby, Bill Emerson / Going Home / Starday
• New River Girl / Alex Leach / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• Love Me Darling Just Tonight / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Bill Harrell / ... And Friends / Rebel
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell / ... And Friends / Rebel
• Sixteen Years / Lowell Varney and Landon Messer and Riverside Grass / with Ralph Stanley / Mountain Records (LP)
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Potomac Valley Boys / Bluegrass Airborne / Old Homestead (LP)
• Darling Nellie Across The Sea / The Vern Williams Band / Traditional Bluegrass / Arhoolie
• South To Old Mexico / Frank Necessary, Al Jones, and Buzz Busby / Self-titled / Old Homestead (LP)
• Nobody's Darling But Mine / Frank Necessary, Al Jones, and Buzz Busby / Self-titled / Old Homestead (LP)
• Foggy Mountain Chimes / Flatt & Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia
• Mountain Heartache / Alex Leach / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Little Sadie / Kruger Brothers / Doc - Remembering Doc Watson / Doubletime
• When You Go Walking After Midnight / Kruger Brothers / Carolina Scrapbook / Doubletime
• Sixteen Days In Georgia / The Foot Hill Boys / Bluegrass In The Carolina Mountains / Country (LP)
• West Virginia Coal Miners Blues / Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys / West Virginia Coal Miner's Blues / Old Homestead (LP)
• I've Never Been So Lonesome / Ted Lundy and the Southern Mountain Boys / Self-titled / Old Blue
• Dream Dream Dream / Fred Pike / 45 RPM Single / Boney (45)
• The Dream / Buzz Busby / 45 RPM Single / Almanac (45)
• How Long To Forget / The Twin County Boys / 45 RPM Single / Self-produced (45)
• The Mountain Doctor / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• Blues Are Close At Hand / Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / Reminiscing / Self-released
• Kickin' Mule / Walter Hensley / 45 RPM Single / Capitol (45)
• Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms / Flatt & Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia
• Walk Away / Monty McClanahan / The Road Less Traveled / Self-released
• Black Mountain Rag / Doc Watson / Doc Watson / Vanguard
• Arthel's Guitar / Jack Lawrence / Arthel's Guitar / Little King
• Something Comin' To Me / The Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass
• Boar Hog / Curly Ray Cline / Boar Hog / Old Homestead (LP)
• They Can Only Fill One Grave / The Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Down In Union County / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed
• Little Mountain Home / Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / She Left Me Standing On The Mountain / Blue Circle
• She's More To Be Pitied / Lou Reid And Carolina / Live At The Down Home / KMA
• Old Brown County Barn / Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / She Left Me Standing On The Mountain / Blue Circle
• Clinch Mountain Backstep (bed) / Sleepy Man Banjo Boys / America's Music / Self-released
• Fireball Mail (bed) / Sleepy Man Banjo Boys / America's Music / Self-released
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown (bed) / Sleepy Man Banjo Boys / America's Music / Self-released
• Are You Waiting Just For Me / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel
• Lonely River / Mickey Galyen & Cullen's Bridge / Rollin' With Tradition / Self-released
• Worries On My Mind / The Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / A Tribute To Jake Jenkins / KSBC Music
• Big Spike Hammer / Shady Creek / Volume 1 / Self-released
• Pardon Me / Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers and Don Stover / Early Recordings / Rebel
• Precious Moments / Carl Story and his Ramblin Mountaineers / There's Nothing On Earth Heaven Can't Cure / Starday (LP)
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / Ralph Stanley w. George Shuffler, James King / Reunion / Wango
• Light At The River / Phipps Family / Greatest Old Time Gospel Hymns / Pine Mountain (LP)
• Eight Steps Toward The Lord / Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / She Left Me Standing On The Mountain / Blue Circle
• Lord Don't Leave Me Here / Landon Messer, Harold Brewer / Sacred Songs / Old Homestead (LP)
• I'm Walkin' / Larry Gillis / Ringing Of The Hammer / Tinman
• Move On / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-released
• Mountain Church / Scott Brannon / Your Old Standby / Patuxent
• Lay My Body Down / Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe
• Willing To Try / Alex Leach / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Storms Are On The Ocean / Taylors Grove / Keep On The Sunny Side / Fishtraks
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge, Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/8/2013

Another school year has begun at the University of Connecticut, and with it, the WHUS schedule has changed once again.  We're happy to tell you that Bluegrass Cafe will continue in its Sunday slot from 4-7PM, and we're even happier to tell you that Jim Beaver will be returning to host the show on alternating weeks with me, with his first Sunday back happening on September 15th.  Hooray!  We're also pleased to let you know that James Ward and his mom, Cathy Ward, will continue their Bluegrass Rules program for this semester -- their show will air on Thursdays from 3-4PM.  For more information on the rest of the WHUS Fall broadcast schedule, click here.  

Happy 102nd to William Smith Monroe!

Sunday's show was a fun one to share some music from the Father of Country Music, Jimmie Rodgers, who was born on September 8, 1897.  Several of Jimmie's blue yodels have been given the Bluegrass treatment over the years, so we picked out just a couple of them to play.  This is also the week to remember and celebrate the Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe (September 13, 1911-September 9, 1996).  We did that by playing a few of the songs written in tribute to Bill Monroe since his passing, as well as devoting the entire gospel set to the gospel music of Monroe, both performed by him with the Blue Grass Boys, and by other bands, as well.  

The first Sunday in September following Labor Day has been dedicated as

Me with the only grandparent I really remember,
my paternal grandmother, Fannie Burgess.  

National Grandparents' Day in the United States.  While this is not as big of a holiday as, say, Mother's Day or Father's Day and is not really widely celebrated (if at all), it seemed appropriate to break out a few Bluegrass tunes which have been written over the last several years in celebration of grandmothers and grandfathers.  These heartfelt tributes came to us from BearTracks, the Gibson Brothers, Springfield Exit, and the Spinney Brothers.

We also kept a little time to play some newer Bluegrass music from a few different projects which have not yet been officially released, including the much-talked-about "Bluegrass Album" from country singer, Alan Jackson.  We played one song from that album, as well as a song from the new Rounder CD from the Steep Canyon Rangers, "Tell The Ones I Love."  Other newer music came to us from the Boxcars, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, the Spinney Brothers, Volume Five, Tom Neal, Donna Ulisse, Big Country Bluegrass, Peter Rowan, the Tuttles with A.J. Lee, Marty Raybon & Full Circle, the Expedition Show, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, and Jeff Parker.

Hope you have a great week -- and that you'll be certain to join Jim next Sunday for another edition of Bluegrass Cafe!  

Amy


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Monroe [Monroe's Doctrine] / Special Consensus / Special Consensus with Josh Williams & Chris Jones / Scratch Gravel Road / Compass Records
• William Smith Monroe / Niall Toner / Onwards And Upwards / Pinecastle
• Is The Grass Any Bluer / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• Summertime Is Past And Gone / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• Blue Yodel No. 4 / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• In The Jailhouse Now / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury
• Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Is It True / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• I'm Bound To Ride / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Don't Let My Love Get In The Way / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Just Like Rain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope
• Dixie Breakdown / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto 
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Marianne / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel
• Coal Miner's Blues / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• I Fall To Pieces / Too Blue / Trouble With The Grey / Self-Produced
• A Grandmother's Love / BearTracks / Rough Edges / AMT Records
• Arleigh / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Grandma's Gift / Springfield Exit / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• My Baby Came Back / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder
• Blue Blue Day / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• The Hangman's Daughter / Nightflyer / Nightflyer / Kang Records
• Fox On The Run / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• Blacktop / Alan Jackson / The Bluegrass Album / EMI Records
• Tyler's Tune / Tom Neal / Banjoland / Patuxent Music
• Come Dance / Steep Canyon Rangers / Tell The Ones I Love / Rounder
• Walk This Mountain Down / Donna Ulisse / I Am A Child Of God / Hadley Music Group
• I'm Putting On My Leaving Shoes / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Keepin' It Between The Lines (Old School) / Peter Rowan / The Old School / Compass Records
• Age / Bluegrass Gospel Project / The Blue Morpho / Vital Records
• Hickory Wind / The Tuttles with A.J. Lee / Endless Ocean / Self-Produced
• Old John Burns / Rickey Wasson & Dwight McCall / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Pike County Breakdown / Ron Stewart / Foggy Mountain Special / Rounder
• Hurt Me All The Time / Marty Raybon & Full Circle / The Back Forty / Rural Rhythm
• Stormy Horizons / The Expedition Show / Stormy Horizons / Mountain Fever Records
• If That Was Love / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lonely Comes Easy / Rebel
• How Come You Do Me Like You Do / Jeff Parker / Go Parker! / Lonesome Day Records
• Sinner You Better Get Ready / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• You're Drifting Away / The Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• Mansions For Me / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
• Boat Of Love / Lost & Found / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• I'll Meet You In Church On Sunday Morning / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• Working On A Building / Seldom Scene / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Do You Call That Religion? / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/1/2013

Happy Birthday to Roger Williams!
(Photo courtesy of Ted Lehmann)

Here's the short-and-sweet lowdown on Sunday's radio show:  We began with a few tunes related to the working man -- and woman -- in honor of Labor Day.  Other program highlights included several songs played in tribute to New England resophonic guitar master Roger Williams on his birthday, as well as newer musical selections from recent (or soon-to-be released) recordings from the likes of the Gibson Brothers, Claire Lynch, Flatt Lonesome, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, the Stetson Family, the Expedition Show, and Chris Jones & the Night Drivers.

Enjoy your week!

Amy O.

SONG TITLE / ARTIST / ALBUM TITLE / LABEL -- REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Ain't Goin' To Work Tomorrow / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• Lower On The Hog / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• Poor Boy Working Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• The Working Man / Shannon Slaughter / The Sideman Steps Out / Self-Produced
• Workin' Girl Blues / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel
• Workin' Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Crowe On The Banjo / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• In Foggy Old London / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
• Thinking About You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Harley's Breakdown / Bray Brothers & Red Cravens / Prairie Bluegrass / Rounder
• I'll Work It Out / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• I'll Be Alright Tomorrow / Claire Lynch / Dear Sister / Compass Records
• Can't Live Live / Edgar Loudermilk with Rhonda Vincent / Roads Travelled / Mountain Fever Records
• Seen It All / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• I Know Whose Tears / Mike Compton & Joe Newbery / Live / Self-Produced
• Time / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak Records
• Route 2 To Amherst / Roger Williams / A Resophonic Retrospective / Happy Appy Records
• Timber I'm Falling / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / R-Own
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records
• You're For Me / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Phoenix / Happy Appy Records
• Glastonbury Woodshed / Roger & J.D. Williams / Williams Squared / Happy Appy Records
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge
• The Letter / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / On The Edge / Compass Records
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Laurie Stevens / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Flying / Organic Records
• Every Dusty Road / Stetson Family / O Winding River / Self-Produced
• Low Down Cryin' Shame / The Expedition Show / Stormy Horizons / Mountain Fever Records
• I Can't Like Myself / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• I Ain't Goin' Down / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times / Sugar Hill
• Fare Thee Well / Duffey-Waller-Adcock-Gray / Classic Country Gents Reunion / Sugar Hill
• Deep River / Livewire / Wired! / Rounder
• Devil's Dream / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Close The Door Lightly When You Go / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume One / Rural Rhythm
• Wake Up Little Maggie / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lonely Comes Easy / Rebel
• Lonesome Road Blues / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Pray The Clouds Away / Crowe-Lawson-Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• Let The Light Shine Down / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Heartaches And Dreams / Rebel
• Where Shall I Be / Hylo Brown / Bluegrass Favorites On College And Campus / Starday
• The White Dove / Stanley Brothers / All Bluegrass All Gospel / Federal
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Hazel Dickens & Alkice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Ralph Stanley / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS
• Fill My Way With Love / Doc Watson / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder