"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/24/2016

My favorite kind of Snow...

With all of the snow covering the East coast this weekend, it seemed only appropriate to start Sunday's show with a few snow-related songs.  Our definition of "snow" was sort of broadly interpreted, as not only did we include songs about "snow" as frozen precipitation, but also "snow" as a proper name.  In addition, we shared a few Bluegrass versions of songs from the catalog of my favorite "snow":  Hank Snow. 

In addition -- and for no particular reason -- we included a whole bunch of songs about trains.  One of these days, we could probably put together a whole series of shows devoted to the subject of trains, but for now, we stuck with just a set.  Stay tuned for more...

Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands have a brand new recording done in tribute to Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard called "The Hazel And Alice Sessions."  A couple of the songs from that collection were featured on Sunday, and no doubt, many more from the collection will be on the program in future weeks.  Other newer music in Sunday's show came from the Blue Canyon Boys, the Grascals, the Kathy Kallick Band, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Charm City Junction, the Hot Flashes, and Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out.

I'll be back once again with you next Sunday afternoon, so sure hope you can join me for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

Enjoy your week!

Amy



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Snow Woman / Crowe Brothers / Bridging The Gap / Rural Rhythm
• Snowflake Breakdown / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• Six Feet Of Snow / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• When Snow Falls On The Bluegrass / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Steeltown Records
• Rain And Snow / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Snow White Grave / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• Snow Covered Mound / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• When The Snow Falls On My Foggy Mountain Home / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Pretty Dinah Snow / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• The Golden Rocket / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Miller's Cave / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Music Makin' Mama From Memphis / Charlie Waller & Randall Hylton / The Singer & The Songster / Rebel
• Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics, 1946-1950 / Cattle
• Big Black Train / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Eastbound Train / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Blue Train / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Last Train From Poor Valley / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
• Midnight Train / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Joe's Last Train / Bill Yates & the Country Gentlemen Reunion Band / Country Gentlemen Tribute, Volume 2 / Self-Produced
• Wabash Cannonball / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced
• Cowboy Jim / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Hazel And Alice Sessions / Spruce And Maple Music
• Roll Muddy River / Blue Canyon Boys / Blue Canyon Boys / Self-Produced
• So Danged Lonesome / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• I Like Trains / The Grascals / And Then There's This... / Mountain Home
• Let The Liar Alone / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Hazel And Alice Sessions / Spruce And Maple Music
• Please Don't Honey Please / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary Heart / Patuxent Music
• I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder
• Frog On A Lily Pad / Charm City Junction / Charm City Junction / Patuxent Music
• Last Chance [bed] / Charm City Junction / Charm City Junction / Patuxent Music
• Train On The Island [bed] / Charm City Junction / Charm City Junction / Patuxent Music
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Those Memories Of You / Hot Flashes / forthcoming CD / no label
• This Weary Heart You Stole Away / Dan Tyminski / The Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea
• Newton Grove / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Molly And Tenbrooks / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton with Lou Reid / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records
• Had It Not Been For The Train / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / King
• I'll Live Again / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• You'll Meet Him In The Clouds / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• You Better Wake Up / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• When I Reach That Home Up There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• God Has Been So Good To Me / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Home / Rounder
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler Harvest 
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Jordan / Stanley Brothers / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Federal
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/17/2016

It was back to three hours of our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon, so we made sure to fill it with lots of  fine music -- some new, some classic, but we hope you enjoyed all of it!

Ben Eldridge at the far left playing banjo with present and past
members of the Seldom Scene during the Original Scene's induction into
the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, October 2, 2014.  Ben's son, Chris, is standing
with his guitar to the immediate left of his father.

To start the program, we heard three songs from the Seldom Scene, as it was announced late last week that Ben Eldridge -- the Scene's banjo picker and the only original member of the band that was formed in 1971 -- was retiring.  It's always good to see Bluegrass (and really, ANY type of music) performers be able to retire when they are ready to retire.  Best wishes to this Bluegrass Hall of Famer, and thanks for the wonderful years of music!  It was also announced that Rickie Simpkins would be joining the Scene full-time.  If you've followed Bluegrass for a while, you may remember Rickie from his work with both the Tony Rice Unit and the Virginia Squires.  

Sunday's show was a good one to introduce some new Bluegrass, too.  We included songs from two recordings that will be released later this year (from Edgar Loudermilk, as well as Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice), as well as newer music from projects by the Grascals, Charm City Junction, John Bowman, the Kathy Kallick Band, and Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass.

Other "special" selections from Sunday included several tracks from an LP on Rounder featuring recordings made by the Osborne Brothers & Red Allen in 1956 and 1957, as well as several songs played in celebration of Dolly Parton, as she will celebrate her 69th birthday on January 19th.  

And for fun, we got to give away a couple of pairs of tickets to the upcoming January 22nd show at the lovely Infinity Music Hall in Norfolk, CT featuring the always-entertaining Gibson Brothers.  If you'd like more information on the show, find it by clicking here.  

I'll be back with you next Sunday at 4PM, and don't forget to look for Jim and his Red Rooster Party moves to 7-9AM on Sunday mornings beginning January 24th.

Enjoy the week!

Amy






SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Haven't Got The Right To Love You / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Old Train / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
• Paradise / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Chilly Winds / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Where The Old Red River Flows / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Love You In Van / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Shuckin' The Corn / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Only A Memory Away / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Sunshine Special / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Rocks In The River / Missy Werner Band / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• Come Hither To Go Yonder / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Trouble Keeps Hanging Around My Door / Bluestone / What Goes On / Patuxent Music
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Once More / Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Rounder
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Gone...But Not Forgotten / Wango Records
• Carry Me Back To Carolina / Terry Baucom with Buddy Melton / Never Thought Of Looking Back / John Boy & Billy, Inc.
• Teardrops In My Eyes / Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Rounder
• The Bluefield West Virginia Blues / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• Til The End Of The World Rolls Round / New Kentucky Colonels / The All Night Gang / Rebel
• Who Done It / Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Rounder
• Sweet Little Mountain Girl / The Grascals / And Then There's This... / Mountain Home
• My Kentucky Home / Edgar Loudermilk / Georgia Maple / Pinecastle 
• Two O'Clock In The Morning / Charm City Junction / Charm City Junction / Patuxent Music
• Longneck Blues / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice with Ronnie Bowman / Poor Boy's Pleasure / Mountain Fever Records
• Jimmy Brown The Newsboy / Mac Wiseman & Merle Haggard / Timeless / Cracker Barrel/Hag Records
• Freight Train Boogie / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• I'm Not Your Honey-Baby Now / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• Coat Of Many Colors / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Jolene / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• AppleJack / Pam Gadd with Dolly Parton / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Without You / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise Records
• That's What Country Folks Do / Lost & Found / Love, Lost & Found / Rebel
• Streets Of Baltimore / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Row Number 2, Seat Number 3 / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• I'll Answer The Call / Ralph Stanley / I'll Answer The Call / Rebel
• Kneel At The Cross / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• Me And Jesus / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is... The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
• A Valley Of Peace / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics, 1946-1950 / Cattle
• They're Holding Up The Ladder / John Bowman / Beautiful Ashes / Mountain Home
• One Is Taken, One Is Left / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Better Get In That Number / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 1/10/2016

Hi Folks.

We had just an hour and twenty minutes because of a sports preemption, but we made the best of it. 

Kathy Kallick Band

Tune in again next week when Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• The Johnson Mountain Boys / Five Speed / Working Close / New Rounder
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / The Waves on the Sea / Working Close / New Rounder
• Kathy Kallick Band / I'm Not Your Honey-Baby Now / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• Ruben & Matt and the Truffle Valley Boys / Teardrops Mixed With Rain / One Thing To Tell / LPB
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Tell Me Truly Little Darling / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• The Feinberg Brothers / Kentucky Is Only a Dream / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Grass Routes / Longing For The Old Days / Twentieth Anniversary / Self-released (request)
• Charlie Monroe / Down In The Willow Garden / The Starday Sessions: 24 Songs / Starday Records
• The Gibson Brothers / How Mountain Girls Can Love / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Larry Gillis / Three Sheets in the Wind / Swamp Folk / Tin Man
• Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Dirty Black Coal / Side By Side / Rebel
• Connie and Babe & The Backwoods Boys / Home is Where the Heart is / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• Phyllis Boyens with Hazel Dickens & the Johnson Mountain Boys / The Last Old Shovel / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• The Grascals / Hello Mr. Lonesome / Life Finds a Way / Crossroads (request)
• Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Betty Jean's Last Ride / Rollin' With Tradition / Galyean Family
• Nashville Bluegrass Band / Every Humble Knee Must Bow / To Be His Child / Rounder
• David Peterson / I Dreamed I Searched Heaven for You / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• Alex Leach, Tom Isaacs, Larry Gillis / Have You Someone (In Heaven Awaiting) / The Bucket List Vol. 1 / Tinman
• Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / Flint Hill Special / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / My Old Kentucky Home / Laurie & Kathy Sing Songs of Vern & Ray / Spruce and Maple
• Jim & Jesse / Air Mail Special / 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Jimmy Martin / Ocean of Diamonds / Songs of a Free Born Man / CMH Records
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Heavy Traffic Ahead / The Essential Bill Monroe (1945-1949) / LegacyColumbia
• Reno & Smiley & Tennessee Cut-Ups / Bringing In The Georgia Mail / 1959-1963 / Gusto
• Reno & Smiley & Tennessee Cut-Ups / Tennessee Stomp / 1959-1963 / Gusto
• Reno & Smiley & Tennessee Cut-Ups / Pick and Hold / 1959-1963 / Gusto

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/3/2016

Happy New Year, everyone!  Our first Bluegrass Cafe broadcast of 2016 focused a tiny bit on some of our favorite recordings of 2015 from several performers including Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, David Peterson, the Seth Sawyer Band, the Gibson Brothers, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, the Kathy Kallick Band, Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, Flatt Lonesome, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, the Feinberg Brothers, and Feller & Hill.  Should you care to review our list of favorite Bluegrass recordings of 2015, you can click on this link.    

Mac Wiseman with his book and one of his former
employees, Eddie Adcock.

In addition to playing songs from some of our 2015 favorites, we also shared a bit of music from two Bluegrass legends who celebrated some big birthdays last year:  Mac Wiseman turned 90 last May, and Curly Seckler marked his 96th birthday on Christmas Day.  Amazing.  

We couldn't let the show pass without remembering a few Bluegrass folks who died in 2015.  While we weren't able to play music from each of these performers and/or songwriters, we always want to remember Dixie Hall, Bill Yates, Benjamin "Tex" Logan, Paul Harvey (of Connecticut band, Traver Hollow), Mike Kropp (of Northern Lights), and a 2015 inductee into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, Bill Keith.  

Hope you can make plans to join us every Sunday afternoon!  Jim will join you next Sunday at 4PM.  Be sure to be with him, too, won't you?

Enjoy the week!

Amy




SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Darling Nellie Across The Sea / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• I'll Never Go Back / David Peterson / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• Long Forgotten Dream / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Each Season Changes You / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Big Eight Wheeler / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Foxhounds / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• My Lonely Heart / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• Old Hen / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / 4 / Mountain Fever RecordsHapp
• You'll Pay / Flatt Lonesome / Runaway Train / Mountain Home
• Are You Tired Of Me My Darling / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• I Never Met A One Like You / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Too Blue To Have The Blues / Detour / Going Nowhere Fast / Mountain Fever Records
• Now Just Suppose / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Hot Flash On The Highway / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Blue Memories / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• Lonesome Road Blues / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music
• The Angels Will Be Taking Care Of You / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I've Been All Around This World / Hot Rize / In Concert / Flying Fish
• A Far Cry From Lester And Earl / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel
• The Last Thing On My Mind / Richard Bennett / In The Wind Somewhere / Lonesome Day Records
• Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Curly Seckler with Larry Cordle / Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Copper Creek
• I'll Sail My Ship Alone / Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson & Del McCoury / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• I'm Travelin' This Lonesome Road / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Get In Line Buddy / Country Gentlemen / The Award-Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel
• Devil's Dream / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• I Once Believed In Love / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Special Delivery / Northern Lights / Living In The City / Red House Records
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Cold Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Settin' The Woods On Fire / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky:  Songs Of Laurie Lewis / Rounder
• Wave Goodbye / Alan Munde Gazette / Made To Last / Munde's Child Records
• Train 45 / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• I'll Get Along Somehow / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio / Pinecastle
• Hard Times, Sometimes / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Swamp Folk / Larry Gillis / Swamp Folk / Swamp Country Productions
• Drinking At The Waterhole / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• We Three Kings / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• There's A Highway To Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• In The Garden / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• Get In The Boat / Jeanette Williams Band / Get In The Boat / BellBuckle Records
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / Stanley Brothers / All Bluegrass, All Gospel / Federal
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• The Family Who Prays / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Larry Sparks with Jesse McReynolds & Curly Seckler / Lonesome And Then Some / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder