Playlist - 10/30/2016 - with Cathy and Keegan Day

Hi Folks.

Cathy Bumgarner Day

 We had a special show today as we had a WHUS bluegrass DJ from a couple decades ago return to the microphone along with her son.  Cathy Bumgarner Day and Keegan Day were guest DJs, and did a great job.  My intent is to have Cathy and Keegan assume my duties on Bluegrass Cafe when I move away sometime next year.

Jim and Keegan

Most of the selections were picked by Cathy and Keegan, but I was able to slip a few things into the show such as a new disc from Shad Cobb and Charlie Cushman, and a tribute to the late Bob Mavian -- a New England bluegrass stalwart who would have had his 80th birthday 10/29/16.

Cathy and Keegan remembered Sonny Osborne who had his 79th birthday also on 10/29/16 by playing a couple of Osborne Brothers classics.

Be sure to tune in next Sunday when Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring.

Jim Beaver

requests in red

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Earl's Breakdown / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia Legacy
• The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys / Nobody's Love is Like Mine / 1953-1958 & 1959 / Bear Family
• Gold Heart / Ain't That Crazy / Places I've Been / Mountain Fever
• Spinney Brothers / Gotta Go Down / No Borders / Mountain Fever
• Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Worried Man Blues / Grasstowne 4 / Mountain Fever
• The Zolla Boys / Are You Tired of Me My Darling / The Zolla Boys / Self-released
• Osborne Brothers / Sweet Sunny South / When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland / Pinecastle
• Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Blue Highway / Dogtown / dogtown / Rounder
• Osborne Brothers / Rocky Top / Classic Bluegrass Collection / Time Life
• Michael Cleveland / Fiddler's Dream / Fiddler's Dream / Compass
• Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Wall street / Small Town Heroes / Bell Buckle
• Blue Highway / Top of the Ridge / Original Traditional / Rounder
• Larry Stephenson Band / Ruby's Purse / Weep Little Willow / Whysper Dream
• Hylo Brown / The Grand Ole Opry Song / A Tribute to my Heros / Atteiram (LP)
• Russ Carson / Heartbreak Hall of Fame / Avenue Of The Giants / Patuxent
• Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Will You Wait for Me / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• The Earls Of Leicester / The Train that Carried My Girl from Town / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• The Price Sisters / Silver Tongue and Gold Plated Lies / The Price Sisters / Rebel
• Russ Carson / Stone Cold / Avenue Of The Giants / Patuxent
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Sugarfoot Rag / Prime Tyme / Rural Rhythm
• Rhonda Vincent / Heartbreaker's Alibi / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Newtown / Trouble & Pain / Newtown / NewTown
• Mountain Faith / Peace In The Valley / Save me / Crossroads
• Lou Reid & Carolina / Mama / My own set of rules / Rural Rhythm
• Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Fall Branch / Weary River / Pawtuxent
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Days of Grey and Black / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• The Gillis Bros Live / There is a Trap / Live / Self Released
• Hot Rize / Clary Mae / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand
• Rhonda Vincent / Is the Grass Any Bluer / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• Flatt Lonesome / You're the One / Runaway Train / Mountain Home
• Terry Baucom / Martha White, Lester and Earl (feat. Marty Raybon) / Never Thought of Looking Back / John Boy & Billy
• Band Of Ruhks / Lost Highway / Band Of Ruhks / 101 Ranch
• The Feinberg Brothers / Casey Jones [bed] / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood
• Balsam Range / Papertown / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Feinberg Brothers / Bergold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood
• Kenny & Amanda Smith / You Know That I Would / Unbound / Farm Boy
• Shad Cobb & Charlie Cushman / Pretty Polly / Out of These Mountains / Self-released
• Balsam Range / Any Old Road (Will Take You There) / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Del McCoury / Highway of Pain / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
• Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Jolene / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• The Case Brothers / Just Because / Old Time Country Duets / Case Brothers
• High Fidelity / I Ain't Got Time / High Fidelity / Self-released
• The Cooke Duet and Son / Satisfied / The Cooke Duet and Son / CRFRC
• Alex Leach / Willing to Try / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / Will He Wait a Little Longer / She Left Me Standing On a Mountain / Blue Circle
• Taylors Grove / Hold Fast to the Right / Keep On The Sunny Side / Fishtraks
• The Earls Of Leicester / Pray for the Boys / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• The Clinch Mountain Boys & The Stanley Brothers / Calling From Heaven / 1953-58 & 1959 / Bear Family
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin and Singin / Self-released

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/23/2016

Sunday's edition of Bluegrass Cafe included a few newer songs from new and some not-as-new performers, songs played in celebration of several Bluegrass birthdays, and even a few songs that were suggested by the "shuffle" function on my iPod.  

Happy Birthday to Eric Gibson!

There are lots of fine birthday celebrants in the World of Bluegrass during this week, including Eric Gibson (October 23rd), Larry Stephenson and Bob Amos (October 24th), Fred Pike and Joe Mullins (October 27th), and Martha Adcock and Sonny Osborne (October 29th).  Happy Birthday to all of them!

College students, perhaps, but they sure have the Somber
Bluegrass Look down pretty well, don't you think?

Among the new for this week were a couple of new songs from performers we've heard from in recent weeks (Balsam Range, Michael Cleveland, the Gibson Brothers), as well as newer music from recordings we haven't previously heard at WHUS.  Some of those songs came to us from Kenny & Amanda Smith, the Del McCoury Band, and the debut single from the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass Pride Band.  Hope you enjoyed the new this week!

Sure hope you're able to join us once again for next Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe ~ we'll be looking for you!  

Amy O.



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Hard Pressed / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• I Ain't Goin' Down / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Sugar Hill
• I'm Still To Blame / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Goodbye Old Pal / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Bill Monroe Bicentennial Celebration / Rounder
• Harvest Time / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Country Latin Special / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Ocean Of Diamonds / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• The Drifter / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• The Yodelling Muleskinner Blues / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Too Often Left Alone / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• The First Whippoorwill / Peter Rowan / The First Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill
• Farewell To Long Hollow / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Linda Lou / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Tell All My Pickin' Friends Goodbye / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Marianne / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel
• The Call Of The Wild / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC REcords
• I Fell In Love / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• Did You Hear Me Say Goodbye / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Now And Then Records
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / forthcoming CD / Rounder
• Unbound / Kenny & Amanda Smith / Unbound / Farm Boy Records
• Unwanted Love / Michael Cleveland / Fiddler's Dream / Compass Records
• Blue Collar Dreams / Balsam Range / Mountain Voodoo / Mountain Home
• Blue Trail Of Sorrow / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced
• Brown County Red / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Eric Gibson birthday, 10/23/1970]
• Sweet Little Darling (Don't You Cry) / Larry Stephenson Band / Weep Little Willow / Whysper Dream [Larry Stephenson born, 10/24/1956]
• Many A Mile / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music [Martha Adcock birthday, 10/29/1949]
• Big Spike Hammer / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes 1 & 2 / Sugar Hill [Sonny Osborne birthday, 10/29/1937]
• Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Genuine Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage [Fred Pike birthday, 10/27/1932]
• I Seen It All / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone [Bob Amos birthday, 10/24/1957]
• Boston Jail / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel [Joe Mullins birthday, 10/27/1965]
• Rose Of Old Kentucky / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records
• Is The Grass Any Bluer / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• All I Want Is You / Earls Of Leicester / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• I'll Never Love Another / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Lonesome Moon / Lou Reid & Carolina / Rollin' On / KMA Records
• Get Up John / Price Sisters / The Price Sisters / Rebel
• I Been Walkin' / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Angel At Your Side / Barry Scott / Look To The Light:  Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm
• Press On O'Pilgrim / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• Jesus Rescued My Soul / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Wrastlin' Jacob / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Burden Bearer / Mountain Home
• When I Wake Up To Sleep No More / Soul Pickers / Beautiful River Of Life / Blue Circle Records
• Angel Band / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Open Up Your Heart (And Let Jesus In) / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Playlist - 10/16/2016 - New Music

Hi Folks.

I made a rare fall appearance on Bluegrass Cafe to share some of the music I picked up at the IBMA event in Raleigh a couple of weeks ago.


Some of the best new music I have heard in a while can be found by searching through the large number of new releases, therefore, the majority of the program was new music, or music still within the new music reporting period of 18 months since release.

Highlights included:

1.  Michael Cleveland and a blistering two-fiddle rendering of "Tall Timber" with Jason Carter
2.  Wonderful new CD from Larry Stephenson -- one of the best he has ever done in my opinion
3.  Balsam Range, powerful contemporary bluegrass from their new CD Mountain Voodoo
4.  David Parmley and Cardinal Tradition - first recordings from this newest configuration in the Bluegrass Cardinal tradition
5.  The Gibson Brothers - a new track showed up on the Rounder Sampler given out at IBMA and it made its first appearance here
6.  The Zolla Boys - a new EP from the Torrington CT-based family includes the banjo of Richard Underwood and the boys' maturing vocals - a great introduction to this fine up-and-coming group
7.  Doyle Lawson and some great a cappella gospel from his most recent CD
8.  Nefesh Mountain -- a group that bills themselves as overtly jewish bluegrass -- doing a 1946 J.E. Mainer song
9.  Much much more.

With all the new music we didn't have much time for the classic bluegrass I usually play, but we got some in by The Sloas Brothers, Rusty York, Red Smiley, J. D. Jarvis, Charlie Monroe, Carl Story, Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, and Joe Val.

We had a great number of requests and a great number of phone calls during the show.  It makes us happy that the music we play makes you happy.

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

Jim Beaver

red = released within the last 18 months
green = requested

Artist / Song / Album / Label

• Michael Cleveland / Tall Timber / Fiddler's Dream / Compass
• Balsam Range / Chain Gang Blues / Mountain Voodoo / Mountain Home
• Larry Stephenson Band / Free Me from This Old Chain Gang / Weep Little Willow / Whysper Dream
• Ralph Stanley with Keith Whitley / Sharecropper's Son / Great High Mountain / Rebel  
• The Earls Of Leicester / Branded Wherever I Go / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Sweetheart of the Mountains / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Nefesh Mountain / Run Mountain / Nefesh Mountain / Nefesh Mountain
• Mary Beth Cross / Threshing Time / Feels Like Home - EP / Mbc Productions
• Greg Moore & Greg Donlan (feat. Ron Spears, Danny Paisley, Clay Hess, Ernie Evans & Danny Stewart Jr) / Today Has Been a Lonesome Day  / Hollow Box Rhythm / Self-released
• The Zolla Boys / Philadelphia Lawyer / The Zolla Boys / Self-released
• David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / Lifetime Of Sorrow / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD 
• Sam Bush / Bowling Green / Storyman / Rounder
• Blue Highway / Don't Weep for Me / Original Traditional / Rounder
• Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Something About a Train / Small Town Heroes / Bell Buckle
• Rhonda Vincent / Don't Act / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• The Basement Band (James King, Danny Paisley, et. al) / I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home, Lonesome Old Home, Billy In The Low Ground / Radio Series Volume One / Wango 
• Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / It's a Cold, Cold World / My Daddy's Grass / Rebel 
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Backstep Cindy / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy
• The Feinberg Brothers / Drifting and Dreaming of You / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Alex Leach / Sophia, West Virginia / New Traditional / Self-released 
• Bear Minimum / Will You Wait for Me / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• The Bear Bridge Band / I Got a Letter / One More Ride / Open Road 
• Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road featuring John Anderson / Seminole Wind / CD single / Pinecastle
• The Gibson Brothers / Highway / Rounder IBMA Sampler / Rounder
• David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Lovesick and Sorrow (Live) / Retrospective: Live 1984-2014 / Davis Music
• Travers Chandler / Ramblin' Fever / Archaic / Patuxent Music
• The Po' Ramblin' Boys / Messing with My Mind / Back to the Mountains / Randm Records
• Larry Efaw & the Bluegrass Mountaineers / Living A City Life / Living A City Life / Bell Buckle
• Lori King & Junction 63 / Send My Baby Home / Grandpa's Old Guitar / JLK Records
• Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / On the Evening Train / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• The Sloas Brothers / I'm Going Home Again / I'm Going Home Again / REM  
• The Zolla Boys / Are You Tired of Me My Darling / The Zolla Boys / Self-released
• Tommy Brown & The County Line Grass / Pardon Me / Hard Drivin' / Lavenir
• The Buckstankle Boys / You'll Never Find Another (That'll Love You Like I Do) / Round Peak Home / Self-released
• Larry Gillis / Swamp Folk / Swamp Folk / Tinman
• Clarence White / John Henry Blues [bed] / Flatpick (Collector's Deluxe Edition) / Sierra Records 
• Larry Gillis / Sad Swamp Man / Swamp Folk / Tinman 
• Larry Stephenson Band / Nail My Shoes to the Floor / Weep Little Willow / Whysper Dream
• The Dreadful Snakes / Blue Yodel #4 / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Rusty York & The Kentucky Mountain Boys / Where Could I Go / Early Bluegrass / Jewel 
• The Kroppdusters / Wampanoag Run / The Kroppdusters / Self-released 
• Lou Reid & Carolina / Hobo on a Train / Rollin' On / KMA Records 
• The Louvin Brothers / If I Could Only Win Your Love / Country Love Ballads / Capitol (LP) 
• Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Brown County Red / It's About Tyme / Break A String
• The Cooke Duet / Ain't No Grave / Early Cooke Duet / CRFRC 
• Turning Ground / Great High Mountain / It Is Finished / Self-released
• David Peterson / Are You Washed In the Blood ? / Simplicity / Self-released 
• J. D. Jarvis / Get in Line Brother / Bluegrass Gospel Power Picks / Rural Rhythm 
• Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / I've Won My Crown / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M 
• Red Smiley & The Blue Grass Cut-Ups / Livin' The Right Life Now / Bluegrass Gospel Power Picks / Rural Rhythm 
• The Marshall Brothers and Highroad / When We Cross / Old Time Country Revival / Self-released 
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rejoicing All the Way / Burden Bearer / Mountain Home
• Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / God Loves His Children / Diamond Joe / Rounder 
• Carl Story & The Rambling Mountaineers / Old Gospel Ship / A Life In Rural Music 1942-1959 / Bear Family
• Charlie Monroe / My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race / I'm Old Kentucky Bound / Bear Family
• Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Walking in a Dream / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released 

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/9/2016

In brief, on this Columbus Day weekend, we shared a bit of music by folks celebrating birthdays (including Lynn Morris, Leigh Gibson, Sammy Shelor, Blake Williams, and the late John Lennon), as well as a couple of newer Bluegrass recordings we received this week from the Larry Stephenson Band, Nothin' Fancy, Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, and a Baltimore-area band called Northern Connection.  

Hope everyone has a great week!  

Amy




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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Columbus Stockade Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• My Brown Eyed Darling / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin--The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Road To Columbus / Patrick McAvinue / Grave Run / Patuxent Music
• Blue Eyed Darlin' / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• Trying To Get To You / Roland White / Trying To Get To You / Sugar Hill
• Big Tilda / Terry McGill / Straight Drive / Cabinwood Music
• We'll Be Sweethearts In Heaven / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / My Daddy's Grass / Rebel
• Margie / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• That High Lonesome Sound / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / Top Of The Bluegrass / Sugar Hill
• Rough Edges / Missy Werner / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• The Sun's Gonna Shine / Earl Taylor & Jim McCall / Blue Grass Favorites / Rural Rhythm
• Fraulein / Lost & Found / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• I Was Left On The Street / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Missile Ride / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Listen To Me Mother / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• I'll Have To Make Some Changes / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle [Barry Berrier birthday, 10/10/1960]
• Rock Bottom / Lonesome River Band / Bridging The Tradition / Mountain Home [Sammy Shelor birthday, 10/10/1962]
• Local Flowers / Josh Crowe / Sincerely / Pinecastle [Josh Crowe birthday, 10/11/1957]
• Sparta Flash / Expedition Show / The Expedition Show / Mountain Fever Records [Blake Williams birthday, 10/8/1956]
• Something Comin' To Me / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records [Leigh Gibson birthday, 10/11/1971]
• The Bramble And The Rose / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Lynn Morris birthday, 10/8/1948]
• Help! / Charles River Valley Boys / Beatle Country / Rounder [John Lennon birthday, 10/9/1940]
• It Almost Feels Like Love / Larry Stephenson Band / Weep Little Willow / Whysper Dream Music
• Where I Came From / Nothin' Fancy / Where I Came From / Mountain Fever Records
• I Took Mama To The Opry / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Small Town Heroes / Bell Buckle Records
• Pain In My Heart / Northern Connection / Northern Connection / Patuxent Music
• Yesterday's Gone / Larry Stephenson Band / Weep Little Willow / Whysper Dream Music
• Banjo Pickin' Girl / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• I Like Trains / The Grascals / And Then There's This... / Mountain Home
• Just Ain't / Earls Of Leicester / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• Don't Weep For Me / Blue Highway / Original Traditional / Rounder
• Bergold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Where The Old Red River Flows / King Wilkie / Broke / Rounder
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Thank You / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth And Sky / Dark Shadow Recording 
• Blame It On The Pain / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steeltown Records
• The Hills Of Tennessee / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe Music
• Hang A Wreath / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Poor Boy's Pleasure / Mountain Fever Records
• When The Sun Of Life Goes Down / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• The Old Cross Road / Northern Connection / Northern Connection / Patuxent Music
• Walk In The Sunshine / Spinney Brothers / Living The Dream / Mountain Fever Records
• Wrastlin' Jacob / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Burden Bearer / Mountain Home
• Do You Live What You Preach? / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Way Down Deep In My Soul / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• I Saw Mother With God Last Night / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• Shouting On The Hills Of Glory / Stanley Brothers / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Federal
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/2/2016

2016 IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year,
Danny Paisley!
(Photo by Ted Lehmann)

This past week, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) held their annual conference and awards show in Raleigh, NC.  This was the first year in quite a few that I haven't attended IBMA, but with a whole lot of attendees posting updates and videos on Facebook and YouTube for a good portion of the week, I didn't feel like I missed too, too much.  While I'm sorry to have missed hearing lots of bands perform who might never make it to New England for a concert, on Sunday's show, I still tried to share music from some of the great performers who took home IBMA Awards on Thursday night.  Among these:  Special Consensus, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice (with Ronnie Bowman), the Earls of Leicester, Flatt Lonesome, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and newly-minted Male Vocalist of the Year, Danny Paisley.  Congratulations to all of the winners!

Mr. Teardrop
(September 26, 1925 - December 8, 1982)

Continuing with my usual trend of celebrating the birthday of a famous country music singer -- generally, a classic one who is also a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame -- we shared a full half-hour's worth of music from the songbook of the one and only Marty Robbins (born September 26, 1925).  Of the eight covers we played, six of them were written by Marty Robbins, and the ninth song shared in that was a Bluegrass and Country Music classic performed by Robbins, himself, "I Heard The Bluebirds Sing."  

Recordings released in 2016 were plentiful on Sunday's show.  In addition to music from the aforementioned Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, the Earls of Leicester, and Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, we also heard from Audie Blaylock & Redline, Jeff White, Michael Cleveland, Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, ClayBank, Travers Chandler, David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition, Blue Highway, Edgar Loudermilk, and the Boxcars.  There was even a sneak preview of a track from the new 2017 Rounder recording by the Gibson Brothers.  You just never know what you're going to hear on our Bluegrass Cafe, so be sure to tune in whenever you can!

In the IBMA absence of Jim (as well as a UConn Soccer game preemption during the Red Rooster Party), there was no Joe Bussard "Country Classics" program to be heard, so we shared nearly a full hour of music in the classic country/Bluegrass bend.  Our featured LP was one from legendary Connecticut Country Music performer, Slim Coxx and his family band, who performed every summer at Bristol's Lake Compounce from the early 1950s to the mid-1980s.  While I couldn't locate an exact recording date or more specific information for "Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Country Caravan," I am guessing the record was released in the mid-to-late 1970s.  If anyone has any other information from this record, I'd sure love to hear it.  Thanks for sharing!

Hope you have yourself a fabulous week, and we'll be looking for you once more next Sunday afternoon for another Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.





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

Red Rooster Party:  3-4PM

• You Are My Sunshine / Ron Block / Hogan's House Of Music / Self-Produced
• Bring 'Em On Back / Larry Sparks / Almost Home / Rounder
• No Letter In The Mail Today / Johnnie & Jack / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family
• It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / Kitty Wells / Your Cheatin' Heart / Dynamic
• Wake Up, Susan / Paul Warren / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family
• The Wild Side Of Life / Hank Thompson / Your Cheatin' Heart / Dynamic
• Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky / Allerton & Alton / Black, White And Bluegrass / Bear Family
• I Love You A Thousand Ways / Lefty Frizzell / Your Cheatin' Heart / Dynamic
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Elton Britt / Your Cheatin' Heart / Dynamic
• Raw Hide / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Waiting For A Train / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records
• Playboy / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records
• Borrowed Angel / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records
• Oh Golly, Gosh, Oh Gee / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records
• Come All You Tenderhearted / Stanley Brothers / An Evening Long Ago / Columbia
• John Henry / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again--Gone But Not Forgotten / Wango
• Orange Blossom Special / Coxx Family / Lake Compounce Proudly Presents Slim Coxx & the Cowboy Caravan / Coxx Records

Bluegrass Cafe:  4-7PM

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Fireball / Special Consensus with Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley / Long I Ride / Compass Records
• Longneck Blues / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice with Ronnie Bowman / Poor Boy's Pleasure / Mountain Fever Records
• Uncle Ned / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• The Train That Carried My Girl From Town / Earls Of Leicester / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• Kentucky Girl / Thunder Mountain Bluegrass / Another Season / Self-Produced
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder
• In The Heat Of The Fire / Flatt Lonesome / Runaway Train / Mountain Home
• Nine Pound Hammer / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder
• The Road That Winds / Audie Blaylock & Redline / The Road That Winds / Patuxent Music
• Regina / John Curtis Goad / single / Self-Produced
• Nobody's Business / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine / Reno & Smiley / Country Ballads / Highland Music
• Truck Driving Man / Jimmy Martin / 20 Greatest Hits / Highland Music
• Pretty Polly / Stanley Brothers / The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1949-1952 / Bear Family
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH
• I Heard The Bluebirds Sing / Marty Robbins / Good 'N Country / MCA
• Big Iron / Jim Hurst / Second Son / Pinecastle
• Ribbon Of Darkness / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / No One But You / Rebel
• At The End Of A Long Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Beggin' To You / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreamin' / Rounder
• I Can't Quit / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Mother Knows Best / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Don't Worry / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• The Cold Hard Facts / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced
• Tall Timber / Michael Cleveland / Fiddler's Dream / Compass Records
• Love Please Come Home / Jeff Scroggins & Colorado / Ramblin' Feels Good / Self-Produced
• How I Love You / ClayBank / Playing Hard To Forget / Rural Rhythm
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / 2017 CD / Rounder
• Cotton Dice / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• The Cotton Farmer / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Trains Can't Turn Around / Edgar Loudermilk / Georgia Maple / Pinecastle
• (This Weary Heart) You Stole Away / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Sixteen Years / Copper Creek
• High Society / Travers Chandler / Archaic / Patuxent Music
• Country Poor, Country Proud / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records
• When The Bluegrass Is Covered With Snow / The Boxcars / Familiar With The Ground / Mountain Home
• Monday Blues / Balsam Range / Five / Mountain Home
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel
• The Story Of My Life / Blue Highway / Original Traditional / Rounder
• All Dressed Up / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• Is There Room For Me / Loafers' Glory / Loafers' Glory / Arhoolie
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• Heaven / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• Camping In Canaan's Land / Dailey & Vincent / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS
• I Wanna Walk With Jesus / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Mansion In The Grave / Bear Bridge Band / A Bear Bridge Sampler / Open Road
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder