"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/18/2018

In short, Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included songs of Spring (as well as some residual Irish-themed tunes), newer music from the likes of Volume Five, Becky Buller, and Edgar Loudermilk, and Bluegrass tributes to two more Country Music Hall of Famers born in mid-March:  Carl Smith (born March 15, 1927) and Charley Pride (born March 18, 1934).  

Hope you enjoyed the show, and that you'll consider joining Cathy Day during our Bluegrass Cafe on March 25th, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Ah Spring / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• When The Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• Irish Medley (The Traveler/Green Gates) / Special Consensus / Our Little Town / Pinecastle
• Blue Skies And Teardrops / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• The Children Are Crying / Spinney Brothers / Living The Dream / Mountain Fever Records
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• The Night Flatt And Scruggs Played Carnegie Hall / Jerry Salley / Front Porch Philosophy / Very Jerry Records
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!  The Complete Concert / Koch Records
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!  The Complete Concert / Koch Records
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!  The Complete Concert / Koch Records
• The Train That Carried My Girl From Town / Earls Of Leicester / Rattle & Roar / Rounder
• Now There's A Song / Volume Five / Milestones / Mountain Fever Records
• Bright Lights And Country Music / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• Still Pickin' / Still Pickin' / Reuben's Train / Self-Produced
• Train 45 / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Little Bessie / Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs And Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Nights Are So Long / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up / Rounder
• I'll Never Grow Tired Of You / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Amandalyn / Merl Johnson / Better Man / Patuxent Music
• It's A Way Of Life That Stands The Test Of Time / Edgar Loudermilk / forthcoming CD / Mountain Fever Records
• Duncan And Brady / Feller & Hill with Junior Sisk / Brothers And Heroes / Rural Rhythm
• Loneliness And Desperation / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Air Mail Special / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Kiss An Angel Good Morning / Nothin' Fancy / It's A Good Feeling / Mountain Fever Records [Charley Pride birthday, 3/18/1934]
• I'd Rather Love You / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / GSM [Charley Pride birthday, 3/18/1934]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine [Carl Smith birthday, 3/15/1927]
• Loose Talk / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler [Carl Smith birthday, 3/15/1927]
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Carl Smith birthday, 3/15/1927]
• Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle [Carl Smith birthday, 3/15/1927]
• (When You Feel Like You're In Love) Don't Just Stand There / Carl Smith / The Essential Carl Smith / Sony [Carl Smith birthday, 3/15/1927]
• Hard Rock Mountain Prison ('Til I Die) / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Cotton Eyed Joe / Chubby Wise / An American Original / Pinecastle
• I Don't Have The Want To Anymore / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• Cotton Dice / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Snow Deer / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country! / Patuxent Music
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Dear John / Adam Steffey / Here To Stay / Mountain Home
• What A Way To Go / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Mountains Are Calling Me Home / Mountain Fever Records
• Rain And Snow / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Money In The Bank / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume 3 / Rural Rhythm
• If You're Ever Gonna Love Me / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Holland 1973 / Roland White Music
• Written In The Back Of The Book / Becky Buller with the Fairfield Four / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• He Took Your Place / The Grascals / Before Breakfast / Mountain Home
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Good Night, The Lord's Coming / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Wonderful, Beautiful Place / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The News Is Out / Sugar Hill
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/11/2018

Sunday's radio program featured music from several Bluegrass mid-March birthday celebrants, and also included selections from classic performers, as well as a bit of newer music.

Birthday Boy Marshall Wilborn
(photo by Ted Lehmann)

The Bluegrass Birthday celebrants included one performer born on March 11th (David Peterson), three folks born on March 14th (Bob Paisley, Kristin Scott Benson, Terry McGill) and two who were born on March 16th (Tim O'Brien and Ronnie McCoury).  Four-time IBMA Bass Player of the Year, Marshall Wilborn, also celebrates a birthday this week (born March 12, 1952), so we put together a set of seven tunes penned by Marshall and recorded by several bands including the Lynn Morris Band, the Johnson Mountain Boys, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Springfield Exit, Rhonda Vincent, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.  Happy Birthday to all!

Since this week happens to be my birthday, too, I took the liberty of playing a few selections from Country Music Hall of Fame members, the Statler Brothers.  Both original tenor Lew DeWitt and his replacement, Jimmy Fortune, were born in the same month (Lew on March 12, 1938, and Jimmy on March 11, 1955).  Although I have been a fan of the Statlers' music for almost four decades, I know darn well that playing their music on a show devoted to Bluegrass Music doesn't normally work so well.  Still, I could find a couple of Statler tunes recorded by two more huge Statler fans (Dailey & Vincent) to share, and even a little semi-Bluegrass-flavored tune the Statlers themselves recorded in 1972.  

Thanks for joining us for this week's program!  We will look for you once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.


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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Daylight Savings Time / Grandpa Jones / An American Original / CMH
• Proud Mary / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco
• Lonely Violet / Peg & Ed / Lonely Violet / Self-Produced
• Drinkin' At The Waterhole / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Stepaway / Mark Delaney / Sidecar / Patuxent Music
• You Are What I Am / Rickey Wasson with Mo Pitney / Croweology / Truegrass Entertainment
• Wear A Red Rose / Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs And Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Randy Lynn Rag / Bluegrass 45 / Once Again From Kobe, Japan / Matrix Records
• Waves Of Sorrow / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Rebel
• Slidin' Delta / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Poverty Row / Springfield Exit / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel
• Old John Burns / Rickey Wasson & Dwight McCall / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• Got No Reason Now For Goin' Home / Terry Eldredge / Your Own Set Of Rules / Pinecastle
• Sweetest Gift / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Big Rock Candy Mountain / Harry McClintock / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• The Howling Blue Winds / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced 
• Windy Mountain / Tim O'Brien / Where The River Meets The Road / Howdy Skies Music [Tim O'Brien born, 3/16/1954]
• No Vacancy / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / No Vacancy / Brandywine [Bob Paisley born, 3/14/1931]
• Great Waterton / Kristin Scott Benson / Stringworks / Mountain Home [Kristin Scott Benson born, 3/14/1976]
• Margie / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country [Bob Paisley born, 3/14/1931]
• Baltimore Jonny / Del McCoury Band / The Cold Hard Facts / Rounder [Ronnie McCoury born, 3/16/1967]
• Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill [Tim O'Brien born, 3/16/1954]
• Where is My Little Cabin Home / Kathy Kallick Band / Between The Hollow And The High-Rise / Live Oak Records
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Tell Me How To Mend A Broken Heart / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn born, 3/12/1952]
• Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Marshall Wilborn born, 3/12/1952]
• Goodbye To The Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn born, 3/12/1952]
• Bigger Hands Than Mine / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn born, 3/12/1952]
• Wishing Well Blues / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel [Marshall Wilborn born, 3/12/1952]
• That Was Then And This Is Now / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music [Marshall Wilborn born, 3/12/1952]
• Traveling Down The Blue Road / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always / Sugar Hill [Marshall Wilborn born, 3/12/1952]
• Foxhounds And Fiddles / Flashback / Foxhounds And Fiddles / Pinecastle
• Farewell Blues / Garrett Newton Band / Young Heart, Old Soul / Pinecastle
• Flowers On The Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers / Cracker Barrel [Lew DeWitt born, 3/12/1938]
• I Want To Carry Your Sweet Memories / Statler Brothers / Sing Country Symphonies In E Major / Mercury [Lew DeWitt born, 3/12/1938]
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder [Jimmy Fortune born, 3/11/1955]
• Singing My Troubles Away / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Raining In My Heart / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Stanley Family Records
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music 
• Get Down On Your Knees And Pray / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• God Loves His Children / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Money (Will Not Save You) / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Mountains Are Calling Me Home / Mountain Fever Records
• Standing In The Need Of Prayer / Country Gentlemen / Folk Songs And Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Get Up In Jesus' Name / Marty Raybon / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS
• He's Coming Back To Earth Again / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / King
• Hold To God's Unchanging Hand / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / Universal Music
• I'm Bound For The Land Of Canaan / Del McCoury Band / The Promised Land / McCoury Music

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/4/2018

Jake Landers
(August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018)

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we remembered a top-notch Bluegrass performer and songwriter, belatedly celebrated birthdays of two Country Music Hall of Famers, and included a few selections from 2018 recordings.  Hope you were able to join us!

On February 13, 2018, Bluegrass performer and songwriter, Jake Landers, died at the age of 79.  To that end, we shared eleven songs either written or co-written by Jake Landers -- all of them fine tunes which will, no doubt, continue to be heard and sung for years and years to come.

In 1932, two Country Music legends were born one day apart -- Faron Young on February 25th and Johnny Cash on February 26th.  Songs from the songbooks of each of these performers have been recorded in the Bluegrass style, and so, we shared a few of each on Sunday afternoon.  We also couldn't forget to share a few songs in memory of a true Bluegrass character/Hall of Famer:  John Duffey, born on March 4, 1934.

It was a fun show -- hope you liked it!  Also hope you will consider joining us once again next Sunday, 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.





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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Here Rattler / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
• Love Me Darling Just Tonight / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• I'll Wash Your Love From My Heart / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• My Walking Shoes / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• Teardrops In My Eyes / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Snowflake Breakdown / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• Roust-A-Bout / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Say You Lied / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• The Girl I Love / Shannon Slaughter / Never Standing Still / Elite Circuit Records [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• Fiddlin' Bill / Nashville Bluegrass Band / American Beauty / Sugar Hill [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• She's Gone Too Far / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• The Hard Times / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• Your Heart Now Tells The Truth / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• Don't Wake Me / Bill Emerson with Red Allen / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• Mountain Girl / Sideline / Session 2 / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• The Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• Walk Softly On My Heart / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• Lighthouse / Rick Lang with Rick Schleckser / The Undertow / Rick Lang Music
• A Heart Never Knows / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Give My Love To Rose / Dudley Connell & Sally Love Connell / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm [Johnny Cash birthday, 2/26/1932]
• Alone With You / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced [Faron Young birthday, 2/25/1932]
• Hey Porter / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Johnny Cash birthday, 2/26/1932]
• Go Back You Fool / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Faron Young birthday, 2/25/1932]
• I Still Miss Someone / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Worries On My Mind / Rebel [Johnny Cash birthday, 2/26/1932]
• Goin' Steady / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Shades Of The Past / Sugar Hill [Faron Young birthday, 2/25/1932]
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [John Duffey birthday, 3/4/1934]
• Onwards / Mile Twelve / Onwards / Delores The Taurus Records
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mind / Rounder
• I'll Go To My Grave Lovin' You / Special Consensus / Signs / Pinecastle
• Blame It On The Pain / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Steeltown Records
• Nobody's Business / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / King [John Duffey birthday, 3/4/1934]
• Small Exception Of Me / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [John Duffey birthday, 3/4/1934]
• Get In Line Brother / Marty Stuart with Johnny Cash / Busy Bee Cafe / Sugar Hill [Johnny Cash birthday, 2/26/1932]
• I'll Follow Jesus / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018]
• I Know My Name Will Be Called Up There / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Over In The Glory Land / Gillis Brothers / Sunshine In The Shadows / Hay Holler Harvest Records 
• There Is A God / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / There's A Light Guiding Me / Sugar Hill
• Little Community Church / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill
• Take Me To Heaven / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise
• Heaven's Joy Awaits / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder