After a week away from the radio (and Connecticut), I returned to our Bluegrass Cafe this week with a whole lot of fine new music, as well as several ghost-themed songs appropriate for Halloween. For good measure, we also threw in a tune or two in honor of country singer Freddie Hart (who died on October 27th at the age of 91). Hope you were able to join us!
The newer music for this particular week included a song from a forthcoming Seldom Scene recording on Rounder, as well as tunes from Gregg Welty, the Appalachian Road Show, Bill & The Belles, Dan Boner, and a new record featuring songs written by New Hampshire songwriter, Rick Lang. We also shared 2018 music from the Price Sisters, the Feinberg Brothers, the John Duffey tribute record, the Kathy Kallick Band, Hot Rize, the Earls Of Leicester, and the King James Boys.
Big thanks to James & Cathy Ward for filling in as hosts of our Bluegrass Cafe on October 21st. Consider joining them every Tuesday afternoon from 2-4PM for their "Bluegrass Rules" program on WHUS2.
Enjoy the week, and thanks for listening!
Amy O.
SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Requests are RED]
- Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
- In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King & The Father / MME
- The Grey Ghost / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Pinecastle
- The Ballad Of Sarah Malone / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
- Sam Jocelyn's Ghost / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Now & Then Records
- Final Farewell / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lost Souls & Free Spirits / Rebel
- Take Me Home / Tom Ewing / Adventures Of A Blue Grass Boy / Patuxent Music
- Blew Monday / Lou Reid & Carolina / Callin' Me Back Home / KMA Records
- The Country Girl Blues / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
- Wind To The West / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
- I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
- I Worship You / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
- Snow Deer / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country! / Patuxent Music
- Love Me Or Leave Me Alone / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
- It Takes People Like You / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
- Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
- No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
- My Kentucky Home / Edgar Loudermilk / Georgia Maple / Pinecastle
- I'm Feeling For You (But I Can't Reach You) / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
- Everybody's Talking / Seldom Scene / Rounder IBMA Sampler 2018 / Rounder
- Don't Cross The River / Gregg Welty with Josh Shilling / Community / Self-Produced
- Georgia Buck / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
- Finger Pointing Mama / Bill & the Belles / Dreamsongs, Etc. / Jalopy Records
- West Of West Virginia / Dan Boner / single / Self-Produced
- Loose Talk / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler [Remembering Freddie Hart, 1926-2018)
- Drink Up And Go Home / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Freddie Hart, 1926-2018]
- Brown Mountain Light / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
- The Lantern / Front Range / Ramblin' On My Mind / Sugar Hill
- The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Rick Pardue & Timmy Massey / The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Lizard Records
- Footsteps So Near / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
- Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
- George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
- The Ghost Of Norma Jean / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
- Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
- Sunrise / Sam Bush & Bela Fleck / Epilogue: A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
- Mary Jane, Won't You Be Mine / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
- I'm Gonna Settle Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
- My Honey Lou / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
- Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash / Ten In Hand Records
- Leavin' / Remington Ryde / A Storyteller's Memory / Pinecastle
- Unwanted Love / Sideline feat. Dudley Connell / Colors & Crossroads / Mountain Fever Records
- Snakes Alive / The Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
- I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
- Thinkin' Outside The Box / Rick Lang feat. Dave Adkins / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout! / Billy Blue Records
- Take Me To Heaven / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise
- What Could I Do / Volume Five / The Day We Learn To Fly / Mountain Fever Records
- Wrastlin' Jacob / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Burden Bearer / Mountain Home
- The Master Standing By / King James Boys / Time To Go Home / Pinecastle
- Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
- Daniel Prayed / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
- God Moves In A Windstorm / Wind To The West / Rebel
- I Can't Sit Down / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
- Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
During Sunday's show, we put the spotlight on banjo legend Alan Munde, with whom we had a nice phone chat around 5PM. Our main topic of discussion was Munde's new record with Texas mandolinist, Billy Bright: "Es Mi Suerte." Several selections from this recording were featured throughout the program ~ hope you enjoyed 'em!
The record of Alan Munde & Billy Bright wasn't the only 2018 recording we played today, either. Other 2018 selections included records by Nothin' Fancy, the Earls Of Leicester, Larry Cordle, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, the Kathy Kallick Band, Sister Sadie, David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Becky Buller, the Feinberg Brothers, and the tribute record to the late John Duffey.
Next Sunday, I will be away, but our Bluegrass Cafe will be hosted by James Ward and his mom, Cathy Ward. Tune in for their presentation, won't you?
Have a good week!
Amy O.
SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Request is RED]
- Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
- Colder And Colder / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
- I Fell In Love / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music
- Air Mail Special / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
- Brown Mountain Light / Country Gentlemen / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways
- Hot Burrito Breakdown / Alan Munde / Festival Favorites Revisited / Rounder
- Dapple Patti / Alan Munde & Billy Bright / Es Mi Suerte / Munde's Child Records
- The Mountains, My Baby, And Me / Grass Cats / The Mountains My Baby And Me / New Time Records
- A Couple Beers More / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
- Milwaukee Here I Come / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
- Traditional Family Breakdown / Alan Munde Gazette / Made To Last / Munde's Child Records
- John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
- Your Love Is Like A Flower / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
- Your Love Is Like A Flower / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
- Don't Throw Your Life Away / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
- Wave Goodbye / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
- Looking For A Smile In A Heartache / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
- Going Bodmin / Alan Munde & Billy Bright / Es Mi Suerte / Munde's Child Records
- Conversation with Alan Munde
- Oklahoma Bound / Alan Munde & Billy Bright / Es Mi Suerte / Munde's Child Records
- Going To The Races / James King / Epilogue: A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
- Unwanted Love / Michael Cleveland with Jeff White / Fiddler's Dream / Compass Records
- Ten Miles From The Truth / Aaron Foster / Opening Doors / Self-Produced
- Keep A Memory / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years / Gusto
- The Dillards with Byron Berline / Hamilton County Breakdown / Pickin' & Fiddlin' / Collectors' Choice Music
- Milwaukee Blues / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble: Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
- I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle
- Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Some Day: Fifteenth Anniversary Collection / Rebel
- Talk To Your Heart / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
- Ain't Nothing Wrong With That / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
- Blowing Bubbles / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
- Seeing Nellie Home / Reno & Smiley / Reno & Smiley & The Tennessee Cut-Ups, 1959-1963 / Gusto
- Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
- Ride Away / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
- Poor Monroe / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / True Grass Again / Pinecastle
- A Large Detroit American Automobile / Larry Cordle / Tales From East Kentucky / Mighty Cord Records
- Fishers Of Men / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
- You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
- By The Side Of The Road / Alan Munde & Billy Bright / Es Mi Suerte / Munde's Child Records
- When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
- When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
- That Home Far Away / Nothin' Fancy / Time Changes Everything / Mountain Fever Records
- God Moves In A Windstorm / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
- Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
Sunday's show included a "bonus" hour of programming, as Steve Herzog, the host of the show preceding Bluegrass Cafe, was away, so we spent an hour (3-4PM) playing songs written and/or performed by two of the newest members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame: Tom T. Hall and his wife, Miss Dixie Hall. The Halls were and are incredible supporters of the Bluegrass community, and for the past 20 or so years, just about every Bluegrass performer who has made a record has sung a song written or co-written by Tom T. or Miss Dixie. I had pulled too many songs written by the Halls to play during the "bonus" hour, so I had lots of extras ready to go during the Bluegrass Cafe, proper.
There was a little bit of new music to share on Sunday, too, with brand-new selections from Rhonda Vincent & the Rage (and legendary friends), as well as Mile Twelve, and Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge. Other 2018 music came to us from the Price Sisters, Jerry Wicentowski, the tribute to John Duffey, Roland White, the Appalachian Road Show, Hot Rize, Five Mile Mountain Road, the Kathy Kallick Band, the Earls Of Leicester, the Feinberg Brothers, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Flashback, and Becky Buller. We also included a song from "Es Mi Suerte" -- the new album from next show's guest, Alan Munde (and well as musical partner, Billy Bright).
Hope you enjoyed this week's extended program, and hope you'll be able to join us once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.
Enjoy the week!
Amy O.
SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Requests are RED]Second hour fill-in for of "Words & Music" -- featuring the music of 2018 Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame inductees, Tom T. & Miss Dixie Hall
- The Year That Clayton Delaney Died / Tom T. Hall / The Essential Tom T. Hall: The Story Songs / Mercury
- That's How I Got To Memphis / NewFound Road / Somewhere Between / Mountain Home
- Country Is / Tom T. Hall / Greatest Hits, Volume 2 / Mercury
- Billy Christian / Statler Brothers / Flowers On The Wall / Columbia
- Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn / Bobby Bare / The Essential Bobby Bare / BMG
- Follow Me Back To The Fold / Mark Newton & Friends / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel
- Lessons In Stone / Longview / Lessons In Stone / Rebel
- Bill Monroe For Breakfast / Acoustic Blue / This Is Now / Self-Produced
- Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Gary Brewer / Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Stretchgrass
- The Stanley Brothers / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever Records
- The Boys In Hats And Ties / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel
- Don't Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
- Walk Slow / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records
- Old Dogs, Children, And Watermelon Wine / Tom T. Hall / The Essential Tom T. Hall: The Story Songs / Mercury
"Bluegrass Cafe"
- Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
- I'm Not Living Life (It's Living Me) / Bo Isaac / I'm Not Living Life (It's Living Me) / Self-Produced
- Killer On The Loose / Josh Williams / Lonesome Highway / Pinecastle
- Nothin' About Trains / The Daughters Of Bluegrass feat. Lorraine Jordan & Jeanette Williams / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
- The Grave Robber / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel
- Clinch Mountain Mystery / Larry Stephenson Band / Clinch Mountain Mystery / Pinecastle
- Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
- You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
- It'll Get You Where You're Going / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel
- Fox On The Run / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
- Jimmy Brown The Newsboy / Merle Haggard & Mac Wiseman / Timeless / Cracker Barrel
- We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
- I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / Eight Classic Albums / Real Gone
- Six More Miles / Jerry Wicentowski / Thanks, Mac!: Songs Of Mac Wiseman / Wiz Grass
- Reason For Being / Fred Travers / Epilogue: A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
- Dark And Stormy Weather / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
- Trust Each Other / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
- Downtown Boogie / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
- Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
- Hit Parade Of Love / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Bluegrass Legends: Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
- Rocket Man / Mile Twelve / single / Delores The Taurus Records
- Pain In My Heart / Rhonda Vincent with Bobby Osborne / Bluegrass Legends: Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
- Little White Washed Chimney / Roland White / Roland White & Friends / Mountain Home
- Dance Dance Dance / Appalachian Road Show / single / Billy Blue Records
- Oklahoma Bound / Alan Munde & Billy Bright / Es Mi Suerte / Munde's Child Records
- Too Late To Say Goodbye / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
- Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Rhonda Vincent with Mac Wiseman, Bobby Osborne, Jesse McReynolds / Bluegrass Legends: Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
- With Body And Soul / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
- Western Skies / Hot Rize / Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash / Ten In Hand Records
- Rocky Pallet / Five Mile Mountain Road / Five Mile Mountain Road / Patuxent Music
- Nothin' So Bad (It Can't Get Worse) / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
- A Far Cry From Lester And Earl / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel
- Flint Hill Special / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
- Room At The Top Of The Stairs / Gillis Brothers / Ice Cold Stone / Hay Holler Harvest
- Party For One / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
- True Grass / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road with Junior Sisk & Danny Paisley / True Grass Again / Pinecastle
- Just Wondering Why / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
- Stormy Horizons / Jim & Jesse / Ya'll Come: The Essential Jim & Jesse / Epic Legacy
- He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble: Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
- The Girl I Denied / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Back To The Mountains / Randm Records
- Remembrance Is A Golden Chain / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe with Darrin Vincent / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records
- Cowboys And Indians / Flashback / Denver Snow / Pinecastle
- Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
- I'm On My Way To The Old Home / Bill Monroe / High Lonesome / CMH
- He Loves To Hear You Shout / Don Rigsby & Midnight Call / Hillbilly Heartache / Rebel
- He's The One / The Daughters Of Bluegrass feat. Kelsi Harrigill & Charli Robertson / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
- Shadow Of The Son / Still Pickin' / Reuben's Train / Self-Produced
- When I've Traveled My Last Mile / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
- He Loves To Hear You Shout / The Daughters Of Bluegrass feat. April Stevens / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
- Bring Him Your Talents / Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
- Drowning Sailor / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
- God's Coloring Book Country Gentlemen / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
- Gonna Rise And Shine / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / single / Mountain Fever Records
- Hallelujah I'm Ready / Ricky Skaggs & the Whites / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
- Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
