"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/27/2016

Happy Easter!  With all of the UConn Basketball playoffs and Baseball games in recent weeks, this turned out to be our first full three-hour Bluegrass Cafe in just about a month.  Hope you enjoyed your holiday...and some Bluegrass, too!

Coming soon...and is that a mostly-covered WHUS bumper
sticker I see on the banjo case?  

We put a little bit of an emphasis on recordings that have been released late in 2015 or early in 2016.  In some cases, the records haven't yet been released, but will be soon -- and there was even one song that won't see the full record released until 2017!  This music came to us from the Grascals, Circa Blue, Charm City Junction, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, the Boxcars, the Lonesome River Band, the Wyatt Rice & Dan Menzone Alliance, Sister Sadie, Flashback, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, and the Spinney Brothers.  

Happy Birthday, Paul Williams (on the left).
Photo taken at IBMA 2010.

We also celebrated the upcoming 81st birthday of Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Paul Williams (born March 30, 1935).  Paul Williams is responsible for writing a whole bunch of songs that are considered Bluegrass standards in a musical career that spans 60+ years, plus his tenor singing has only improved over the course of his career.  Amazing.  

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday with your family and friends.  We hope to have another three-hour Bluegrass Cafe edition next Sunday afternoon, but if not, we'll certainly let you know.

Have a good week!

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Choo Choo Coming / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• If I Lose / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Somehow Tonight / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Get In Line Brother / Everett Lilly / Everett Lilly & Everybody & Their Brother / Swift River Music
• Cry From The Cross / Charlie Sizemore / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea
• Now Just Suppose / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• So Danged Lonesome / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• The Drifter / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Take Your Shoes Off, Moses / Dan Tyminski / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea
• Cry Of The Loon / Stan Keach & Friends / Cry Of The Loon & Other Original Songs About Maine / Ayuh Records
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• Slow Down (You'll Hit A Moose) / Stan Keach & Friends / Cry Of The Loon & Other Original Songs About Maine / Ayuh Records
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• Sweet Little Mountain Girl / The Grascals / And Then There's This... / Mountain Home
• Once Upon A Time / Circa Blue / Once Upon A Time / Orange Blossom Records
• Two'O'Clock In The Morning / Charm City Junction / Charm City Junction / Patuxent Music
• Cowboy Jim / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Hazel And Alice Sessions / Spruce And Maple Music
• Lungs / The Boxcars / Familiar With The Ground / Mountain Home
• Anything To Make Her Mine / Lonesome River Band / Bridging The Tradition / Mountain Home
• Living The Dream / Spinney Brothers / Living The Dream / Mountain Fever Records
• Unholy Water / Sister Sadie / single / Pinecastle
• Longneck Blues / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice with Ronnie Bowman / Poor Boy's Pleasure / Mountain Fever Records
• Foxhounds And Fiddles / Flashback / single / Pinecastle
• Waiting For You / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder
• My Brown Eyed Darling / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• Home To Stay / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Old Ways & Old Paths / Rebel [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin--The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• My Walking Shoes / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• Sweet Mountain Rose / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Uncle Ned / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Mixed Up Mess Of A Heart / Flatt Lonesome / Runaway Train / Mountain Home
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Straight Drive / Terry McGill / Straight Drive / Cabinwood Music
• Poets And Fools / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Blue Blue Day / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Wake Up Call / Wyatt Rice & Dan Menzone Alliance / Something Out Of The Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• Broken Stone / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• Were You There / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Born Again / Larry Stephenson Band / Pull Your Savior In / Whysper Dream Music
• Rise Up / The Bankesters / Love Has Wheels / Compass Records
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea
• I'll Live Again / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• Search Inside An Empty Tomb / Rarely Herd / What About Him / Pinecastle
• The Empty Grave / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 3/6/2016

Hi Folks.

Sunday was not a good day for music, but if you liked listening to a quasi-professional college basketball team pound some other college team more interested in academics by 50 points, then you would have really enjoyed the programming.

For me, I enjoyed what time remained after the game to put something really good on the airwaves. 

We introduced new music from The Rice Menzone Alliance.  That's Wyatt Rice and New England's own Dan Menzone on a new record released by the Mountain Fever folks.  You can expect much more from this fine album in the coming months.



We also introduced new music from Circa Blue, and a new gospel recording from Kentucky group Turning Ground. We interviewed banjo picker Mike Daniels with Turning Ground a while back, and their new album is excellent.

The sports preemptions are heavy this time of year, and we are not real sure we will have a show next week, but if we do, Amy will bring it to you.  Check out our page on Facebook for more up-to-date information.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Mac Wiseman / My Little Home in Tennessee / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
• Ralph Stanley w. Patty Mitchell / Little Willie / Clinch Mountain Sweethearts / Rebel
• The Tuttles & AJ Lee / My Window Faces the South  / Endless Ocean / Back Studio
• The Tuttles & AJ Lee / Alabam / Endless Ocean / Back Studio
• Donna Ulisse / Showin' my Roots / Showin' My Roots / Hadley Music Group
• Donna Ulisse / One Way Rider / Showin' My Roots / Hadley Music Group
• Donna Ulisse / Take This Hammer (feat. Sam Bush) / Showin' My Roots / Hadley Music Group
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / The Nights Are So Long / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• The Rice Menzone Alliance / Cutting the Chords / Something Out of the Blue / Mountain Fever 
• Circa Blue / Carolina Dust / Once Upon A Time / Orange Blossom 
• Kathy Kallick Band / I'll Forgive You / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• Turning Ground / Lay Your Burdens Down / It Is Finished / Self-released
• Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Happy I’ll Be / Laurie & Kathy Sing Songs of Vern & Ray / Spruce and Maple 
• The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Will I Meet My Mother in Heaven / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys / I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / The Essential Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys / Columbia
• Jimmy Martin / What Would You Give In Exchange? / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• David Peterson / There is Power in the Blood / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• Paul Williams And The Victory Trio / You've Got To Keep Walking / Going To Stay In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• Flatt & Scruggs / Let the Church Roll On / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• Turning Ground / John The Revelator / It Is Finished / Self-released
• The Johnson Mountain Boys / I Want To Live Like Christ My Saviour / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released