"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/30/2017

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was not planned at all.  That is, I always figured on hosting the radio show today, but this week, I didn't prepare for even one second of it.  Pretty dopey, I know.  Still, every once in a while, programming on the fly can be an enjoyable method of show prep.  I didn't think the show turned out too badly -- hope you agree!

The final nominees for 2017 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards were announced this week, and we shared a few songs from several nominees, including Balsam Range, Rickey Wasson, Shawn Camp, Molly Tuttle, Michael Cleveland, the Gibson Brothers, and the Earls Of Leicester.  Congratulations to all of the nominees -- and good luck!

In addition to the IBMA Awards for 2017, there will be three inducted acts (total of four people) into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.  This time around, we included several songs from 2017 inductee Roland White, as well as one song each from Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard and Bobby Hicks.

For new music, we played a couple of songs from the very brand-new recording from Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers:  "The Story We Tell," as well as a song from the forthcoming Rural Rhythm recording from Feller & Hill.

And we didn't forget our Letter of the Week, either.  This time around, the letter was "C."  We missed a whole bunch of "C" performers this time around, but perhaps we will have another session of "C"s on another day.  The "C" performers included acts as varied as California, J.D. Crowe, the Carter Family, Russ Carson, the Case Brothers, Michelle Canning, Cherryholmes, and, of course, the Country Gentlemen.  

Hope you have a fabulous week!  We'll see you once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM!  

Amy O.



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Bluebirds Are Singing / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Grave On The Rolling Hillside / Connie & Babe & the Backwoods Boys / Down The Road To Home / Rounder
• New York Chimes / Russ Carson / Avenue Of The Giants / Patuxent Music
• The Foggy Mountain Top / Carter Family / My Clinch Mountain Home / Rounder
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• Johnnycake / Charlie Cline / Return Of A Legend / Hay Holler Harvest
• Meet Me By The Moonlight / Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby / Meet Me By The Moonlight / Sugar Hill
• Sugar Coated Love / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Blue Collar Dreams / Balsam Range / Mountain Voodoo / Mountain Home
• East Virginia Blues / Rickey Wasson with Dan Tyminski / Croweology / Truegrass Entertainment
• Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
• My Window Faces The South / The Tuttles with A.J. Lee / Endless Ocean / Self-Produced
• Fiddler's Dream / Michael Cleveland / Fiddler's Dream / Compass Records
• Friend Of Mine / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• The Train That Carried My Girl From Town / Earls Of Leicester / Rattle & roar / Rounder
• Songs That Will Get 'Em / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / The Story We Tell / Rebel
• Virginia Bluebell / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• The Bugler / Feller & hill / Brothers And Heroes / Rural Rhythm
• Five Speed / Cane Mill Road / Five Speed / Self-Produced
• I Beg To You / Cedar Hill / By Request / Self-Produced
• I'm Nowhere Bound / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / The Story We Tell / Rebel
• Head Hung Down / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Midnight Angel / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One--All The Rage / Upper Management Music
• Trying To Get To You / Roland White / Trying To Get To You / Sugar Hill
• Rawhide / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Sweden, 1973 / Roland White Music
• I Ain't Goin' Down / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Sugar Hill
• Hot Flash On The Highway / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Roland White Music
• Cowboy Jim / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• I Don't Have The Want To Anymore / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• Still Pickin' / Still Pickin' Trio / Reuben's Train / Self-Produced
• Mountains And Memories / Country Gentlemen / Souvenirs / Rebel
• Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel
• Blackjack / J.D. Crowe / Blackjack / Rebel
• How Long? / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family
• Nobody's Child / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Golden Hair / Country Current / Live / U.S. Department of the Navy
• Uncle Pen / California / Traveler / Sugar Hill
• Goodbye Old Pal / Charles River Valley Boys / Bluegrass And Old Timey Music / Prestige
• The Old Fashioned Preacher / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• (We're Goin') Just Over In The Gloryland / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• Just A Little Talk With Jesus / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Rock My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Hold To God's Unchanging Hand / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live 1984-2014 / Davis Music
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Take Me In Your Lifeboat / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/23/2017

Our primary objectives for Sunday afternoon's Bluegrass Cafe:  give away a couple of one-day passes to and chat a bit about the upcoming Podunk Bluegrass Festival and to have an on-air visit with one of the fine main stage performers, Becky Buller.  Mission accomplished.

Becky Buller is the reigning International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Female Vocalist of the Year and Fiddle Performer of the Year.  She will also be making her first trip to the Podunk Bluegrass Festival with her own very active band, the Becky Buller Band.  We enjoyed visiting with her this afternoon, and hope you will enjoy seeing her band perform at Podunk on Saturday, August 12th.  Other Podunk performers whose music was included on Sunday's show included the Gibson Brothers, Rhonda Vincent, and David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition.

For new music, we shared a couple of cuts from the fine new project on Rebel Records from Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers -- "The Story We Tell."  The gospel set included four songs from an album that is a personal favorite:  "We'll Still Sing On" by the Johnson Mountain Boys (Rounder, 1985).  

Hope you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon for another visit to our Bluegrass Cafe!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.




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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cottontown / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Music To My Ears / Ricky Skaggs / Music To My Ears / Skaggs Family
• Nothin' To You / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'll Never Change My Mind / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Me And The Jukebox / Louie Setzer / Jukebox Bluegrass / Patuxent Music
• Flat Creek / Tom Mindte / Something I've Been Working On / Patuxent Music
• Don't Let My Love Get In The Way / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Honky Tonk Blues / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass (Disc 3) / Rebel
• Today's The Day I Get My Gold Watch And Chain / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live 1984-2014 / Davis Music
• Ain't It Funny / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• Warm And Windy / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Homesick / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Going Home / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Stranger In My Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Don't Tell Me Stories / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Queen Of The Mountain Bootleggers / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Conversation with Becky Buller
• Speakin' To That Mountain / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• You Gotta Climb Over The Cross / Kristin Scott Benson with Shawn Lane / Stringworks / Mountain Home
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Homemade Wine / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• If I Could Only Win Your Love / The Hot Flashes / Eponymous / Happy Appy Records
• Life To Go / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Stanley Family Records
• Cannonball Blues / Larry Sparks / Lonesome And Blue:  More Favorites / Rebel
• You're Still On My Mind / Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys / Blue Grass Style / Pleasant Valley Records
• Fiddle Man's Delight / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / The Story We Tell / Rebel
• Going To The West / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• The Last Old Shovel / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / The Story We Tell / Rebel
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records
• Busy City / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• Blame It On The Pain / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steeltown Records
• Pikearoo / PIke Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Scofield Mine Disaster / Perfect Strangers / Perfect Strangers / Rebel
• Old Swinging Bridge / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Some Of These Days (You're Gonna Be Sad) / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• You Must Be Born Again / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Crimora Church Of The Brethren / Junior Sisk & Ronnie Bowman / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Let Me Rest / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• You've Gotta Righten That Wrong / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven / Alison Krauss & the Cox Family / I Know Who Holds Tomorrow / Rounder [Alison Krauss born, 7/23/1971]
• When I Safely Reach The Other Shore / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/16/2017

Instead of just playing random records during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, I thought it might be fun to pick a letter from the alphabet and try to make the majority of the music on the playlist come from performers whose first, last, or band name began with that letter.  Granted, this isn't the world's most original idea; in fact, "Sesame Street" has been "sponsoring" episodes by individual letters for years.  For this week, it seemed like the proverbial "no brainer" to focus on the letter B.  After all, B is Bluegrass, B is for Banjo, and B is even for Bill Monroe (at least by my "first or last name" rules, that is, even if "Bill" was a nickname for William Smith Monroe).  In Sunday's playlist, 30+ songs were performed by "B" performers as varied as Blue Highway, the Boys From Indiana, Big Country Bluegrass, Jesse Brock, the Blue Sky Boys, the Boxcars, Junior Barber, Balsam Range, and the Bray Brothers, just to name a few.  What letter is next?  We'll have to wait and see...

We also remembered the upcoming birthday of a wonderful Bluegrass fiddler

Bobby Hicks with musical partner, Mark Kuykendall

who will turn 84 on July 21st, but who continues to perform and make records with his most recent band.  Bobby Hicks worked was a Blue Grass Boy on-and-off for several years in the 1950s, was an important part of Ricky Skaggs's band during his country music heyday in the 1980s and 1990s, and this month, released a second recording on Rebel Records with his latest band, Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass.  Happy Birthday, Bobby Hicks!  

Hope you'll consider joining me next Sunday for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!  On the agenda:  an on-air chat with Becky Buller who will be performing with her band at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival coming up August 10-13 in Hebron, CT.  We'll also some Podunk day passes to give away, so we'll be looking for you next Sunday...

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Rag Time Annie / Hunter Berry / Wow Baby / Upper Management Music
• I'll Have To Make Some Changes / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle
• My Night To Howl / Boys From Indiana / Good Time Blues / Rebel
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Together Til The End / BearTracks / Makin' New Tracks / Self-Produced
• Sad Prison Song / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / Starday
• The Cheshire Tragedy / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• Georgia Stomp / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Whistles On The Trains / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill
• Riding On That Midnight Train / Don Reno & Charlie Moore / Bluegrass Legends "Together" / Wango
• Clinch Mountain Blues / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• High Lonesome / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Goodbye To The Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Ten Miles From The Truth / Aaron "Frosty" Foster / Opening Doors / Self-Produced
• I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• You Left Me Alone / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• I'll Never Take No For An Answer / Tommy Brown & the County Line Grass / Leaving This Town / Randm Records
• Julia Belle / Janet Beazley / 5 South / Backcountry
• Road To Columbus / Junior Barber / Stone Bottom Boogie / Hay Holler
• Burn The Barn / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
• Harley's Breakdown / Bray Brothers with Red Cravens / Prairie Bluegrass / Rounder
• Lilacs, Lilies, And Roses / Bear Bridge Band / / no label
• Blowing Bubbles / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• The Love I Have For You / Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys / Blue Grass Style / Pleasant Valley Records
• Corinna Corinna / Still Pickin' Trio / Reuben's Train / Self-Produced
• Only You / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country! / Patuxent Music
• What A Way To Go / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Mountains Are Calling Me Home / Mountain Fever Records
• Roanoke / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Cheyenne / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Zuma Swing / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks, & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
• Dreams About The Hills Of Home / Bluegrass Patriots / Through The Years...Favorite Songs And Requests / Red Feather
• Train 45 / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Please Come Back, Little Pal / Tom Ewing / Adventures Of A Blue Grass Boy / Patuxent Music
• Rocky Mountain Sweetheart / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live 1984-2014 / Davis Music
• Always On A Mountain / Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country
• Southern Flavor / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Kisses Don't Lie / Carl Butler & the Webster Brothers / I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Bear Family
• I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Blue Sky Boys / Farm & Fun Time Favorites, Volume One / Copper Creek
• The Boat Of Love / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• I'm Going Up When He Starts Down / BlueRidge / Gettin' Ready / Pinecastle
• Get Behind Me Satan / Bass Mountain Boys / A Beautiful Life / CMH
• I Pressed Through The Crowd / Dale Ann Bradley / Songs Of Praise And Glory / Pinecastle
• Sing Sing Sing / Scott Brannon / Your Old Standby / Patuxent Music
• Some Day / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Stormy Waters / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler
• A Beautiful Life / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/9/2017

Happy 88th birthday, Jesse McReynolds -- mandolin
cross-picking innovator and Bluegrass Hall of Famer!

Sunday, July 9th is the 88th birthday of bona fide Bluegrass legend -- and Bluegrass Hall of Fame member -- Jesse Lester McReynolds.  To that end, we made sure to share several songs from his songbook, although we quite easily could have filled up all three hours with Jesse McReynolds music.  Maybe next time...

In addition, there were birthdays songs for three other July birthday celebrants:  Rhonda Vincent, Richard Underwood, and Mike Barber.  

Eddie Adcock's old "new" album! 

Among the birthday songs, too, was a small amount of newer Bluegrass music -- some from a record that won't be released until later this year (from Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers), and one "new" record that was actually recorded by Bluegrass Hall of Famer Eddie Adcock in 1963.  Several other 2017 recordings were heard, too, from Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys, Ned Luberecki, the Still Pickin' Trio, Big Country Bluegrass, and Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass.

Hope you enjoyed the show today, and that you'll be sure to join me or Cathy Day next Sunday afternoon for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.



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

• Molly And Tenbrooks / Alan O'Bryant / True Life Blues / Sugar Hill
• True Life Blues / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / True Life Blues / Sugar Hill
• I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / Del McCoury / True Life Blues / Sugar Hill
• Highway Of Sorrow / Tim O'Brien / True Life Blues / Sugar Hill
• Old Ebenezer Scrooge / David Grier with Todd Phillips / True Life Blues / Sugar Hill
  
• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Summer When You First Loved Me / Lonesome River Band / Head On Into Heartache / Mountain Home
• Dry Run Creek / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Travelin' This Lonesome Road / Peter Rowan / True Life Blues / Sugar Hill
• Big Mon / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Till The End Of The World Rolls Round / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Amandalyn / Merl Johnson / Better Man / Patuxent Music
• Ocean Of Diamonds / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Universal
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Universal
• Till The End Of The World Rolls Round / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• My Love For You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Falling In Love / Bluegrass Patriots / Through The Years...Favorite Songs And Requests / Red Feather
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• I'll Wash Your Love From My Heart / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family [Jesse McReynolds birthday, 7/9/1929]
• Thanks For The Trip To Paradise / Jim & Jesse / Music Among Friends / Rounder [Jesse McReynolds birthday, 7/9/1929]
• Paradise / Jim & Jesse / The Old Dominion Masters, DJ Sampler / Pinecastle [Jesse McReynolds birthday, 7/9/1929]
• Air Mail Special / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet [Jesse McReynolds birthday, 7/9/1929]
• Are You Missing Me / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 /  Bear Family [Jesse McReynolds birthday, 7/9/1929]
• Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One--All the Rage / Upper Management Music [Rhonda Vincent birthday, 7/13/1962]
• Five Speed / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [Richard Underwood birthday, 7/14/1956]
• The Open Road / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Mike Barber birthday, 7/13/1970]
• Long Gone Out West Blues / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / The Story We Tell / Rebel
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Because I'm The Man / Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys / Blue Grass Style / Pleasant Valley Records
• Before You Go/Let The World Keep On Turning / Ned Luberecki / Take Five / Self-Produced
• The River / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Do You Remember? / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• It'll Be Me / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Why Baby Why / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country! / Patuxent Music
• Four Walls Around Me / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
• 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Mac Wiseman with Alison Krauss / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
• Bending The Rules / Jesse McReynolds / Bending The Rules / OMS Records [Jesse McReynolds born, 7/9/1929]
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys / New Horizons / Pinecastle [Jesse McReynolds born, 7/9/1929]
• Country Gentleman / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Drifting And Dreaming Of You / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Unwanted Love / Michael Cleveland with Jeff White / Fiddler's Dream / Compass Records
• Virginia Waltz / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Winsborough Cotton Mill Blues / The HIllmen / The HIllmen / Sugar Hill
• Old Folks At Home / Still Pickin' Trio / Reuben's Train / Self-Produced
• Monday Blues / Balsam Range / Five / Mountain Home
• Roll Big River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / In Session / Mountain Home
• Press On O'Pilgrim / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Pinecastle [Jesse McReynolds born, 7/9/1929]
• Yes, I See God / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
• The Little White Church / Jim & Jesse with Mac Wiseman & Buck White / Music Among Friends / Rounder [Jesse McReynolds born, 7/9/1929]
• We Shall Rise / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live 1984-2014 / Davis Music
• In His Arms I'm Not Afraid / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• Cry From The Cross / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• God Moves In A Windstorm / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• Are You Lost In Sin / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds / Capitol [Jesse McReynolds born, 7/9/1929]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/2/2017

Happy July 3rd Birthday to RI native, Jimmy Gaudreau
(seen here c. 1969ish)

On the Sunday before Independence Day, we had a bunch of things to celebrate!  In addition to sharing several songs with a patriotic theme, we also remembered birthday celebrants Jimmy Gaudreau (born July 3, 1946), Charlie Monroe (born July 4, 1903), and Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1942); the Battle of Gettysburg (fought in Gettysburg, PA from July 1 through July 3, 1865); and the disappearance of Amelia Earhart (whose plane disappeared in the South Pacific on July 2, 1937).  That's a lot of music to play in a commemorative nature -- even before we got around to playing any other music.  

Dave Evans (July 24, 1950 - June 26, 2017)

The Bluegrass World lost another original voice this past week when Dave Evans, a fine banjo picker and powerful vocalist, died on June 26th, less than one month before celebrating his sixty-sixth birthday.  In tribute, we featured a couple of songs:  one showcasing Dave Evans's vocals, and the second an instrumental number featuring his banjo.  

A small portion of new Bluegrass for 2017 made it on to our WHUS airwaves on Sunday, too.  Among those newest recordings was music from the Garrett Newton Band, Big Country Bluegrass,

Traditional Bluegrass from the Golden West

Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass, Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys, the Gibson Brothers, the Lonesome River Band, Still Pickin', and Matt And George & their Pleasant Valley Boys.  

Have a safe and happy 4th, and we'll be looking for you on Sunday afternoon at 4PM!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet 
• Star Spangled Banner / Lynwood Lunsford / Pick Along / Hay Holler
• God Bless America / IIIrd Tyme Out / Round III At The MAC / Chateau Music Group
• Double Eagle / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Stars And Stripes Forever / John McEuen / String Wizards / Vanguard
• The Drifter / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Dim Lights, Thick Smoke / Larry Sparks with Curly Seckler / Lonesome And Then Some:  A Classic 50th Celebration / Rebel
• On Boot Hill / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Stanley Family Records
• Here Rattler Here / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• Great Waterton / Kristin Scott Benson / Stringworks / Mountain Home
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm
• Less And Less / GrassRoutes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Amelia Earhart's Last Flight / Country Gentlemen /  Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• Flowers On Daddy's Grave / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
• Shadows In My Room / Hot Rize / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Farewell Blues / Garrett Newton Band / Young Heart Old Soul / Pinecastle
• She's Gone Gone Gone / Rickey Wasson / Croweology / Truegrass Entertainment
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Talk To Your Heart / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• I Don't Have The Want To Anymore / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• I Got A Gal Waitin' For Me / Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners / Early Country Radio / JSP Records
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners / Early Country Radio / JSP Records
• Who's Calling You Sweetheart Tonight / Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners / Early Country Radio / JSP Records
• Sunny Side Of Life / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Genuine Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Doin' My Time / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1963-1971 / Rebel
• Tidwell Pike / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces & Bits / Self-Produced
• Keepin' It Between The Lines (Old School) / Peter Rowan / The Old School / Compass Records
• I Was Left On The Street / Peter Rowan / The First Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill
• Me And Paul Revere / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / single / Rounder
• Liberty / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• New Freedom Bell / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday King
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Old John Burns / Rickey Wasson & Dwight McCall / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• Last Day At Gettysburg / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• 99 Years Is Almost For Life / Dave Evans & River Bend / The Best Of The Vetco Years / Rebel
• Buffalo Chips / Dave Evans / Look At Me Now / Rebel
• Friend Of Mine / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Ida Red / Lonesome River Band / Mayhaley's House / Mountain Home
• Plenty Of Everything But You / Matt And George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys / Blue Grass Style / Pleasant Valley Records
• I Don't Know What To Do / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  1984-2014 / Davis Music
• Ohoopee / Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler Harvest
• What Does The Deep Sea Say / Price Sisters / The Price Sisters / Rebel
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• What A Wonderful Savior Is He / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I'll Wander Back Someday / Sugar Hill
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / King
• Rank Strangers To Me / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Get In Line Brother / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy
• Let Me Rest / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Shadow Of The Son / Still Pickin' Trio / Reuben's Train / Self-Produced
• A Valley Of Peace / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics / Cattle
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder