"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/24/2019

Sunday afternoon at WHUS was chock-full of sports programming with a UConn Baseball game that ended at 4:06PM, as well as 2nd Round NCAA Basketball Tournament time for the UConn Women's Basketball team at 7PM.  In between those times, though, we filled the the airwaves with the sounds of our Bluegrass Cafe.  Hope you were able to join us!

Mainline Express at Joe Val 2019.

The music that made up Sunday's playlist started with songs celebrating Spring, but also included a little bit of new music for 2019, including selections from Mainline Express, Dale Ann Bradley, Unspoken Tradition, and Nightflyer.  

With so much sports activity at UConn in the Spring, we hope to join you for a full program next Sunday afternoon, but preeemptions are always possible this time of year.  We'll keep you posted.

Thanks for listening, and have a good week!

Amy O.


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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Ah Spring / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Through The Years...Favorite Songs And Requests / Red Feather
• Sad And Blue / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Rebels Ye Rest / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• Washington & Lee Fling / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• In The Gravel Yard / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Danger! Heartbreak Ahead / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1953-1955 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Waiting For The Real Thing / Front Range / The New Frontier / Sugar Hill
• Pardon Me / Cox Family / O Sister! / Rounder
• I'm Gonna Love You One More Time / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Stay Away From Me / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Feeling Blue / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Pass Me By / Mainline Express / single / Sound Biscuit Productions
• Hard Way Every Time / Dale Ann Bradley / The Hard Way / Pinecastle
• Haggard / The Grascals / single / Mountain Home
• Nothing But Sky / Unspoken Tradition / Myths We Tell Our Young / Mountain Home
• Send My Body Home On A Freight Train / Nightflyer / Flight / Pinecastle
• How Could I Love Her So Much / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent Music
• That's Why I'm Lonesome / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• Party For One / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Rainbow Of My Dreams / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass with Dudley Connell / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• My Mother's White Rose / High Fidelity / The Hills And Home / Rebel
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Walking With Joanna / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Don't Cross The River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Every Time You Say Goodbye / Alison Krauss / O Sister! / Rounder
• I Won't Be Far From Here / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• River Bottom / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel
• Next Train South / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Rounder
• Reason For Being / Fred Travers / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Under The Double Eagle / Five Mile Mountain Road / Five Mile Mountain Road / Patuxent Music
• Cannonball Yodel / Dede Wyland / Urge For Going / Patuxent Music
• I'll Never Grow Tired Of You / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Life To Go / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Stanley Family Records
• You're Drifting Away / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• Open Up Your Heart (And Let Jesus In) / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• I John Saw / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Never Go Back / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Jesus Made The Wine / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Starday King
• The Sons And Daughters Of God / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/17/2019

There were no UConn Basketball or Baseball preemptions on Sunday, so we shared a full three hours of the Bluegrass Music on the radio.  As it also happens to be St. Patrick's Day, we included several Irish-themed tunes performed in a Bluegrass style.  In addition, there was a bit of brand-new music, a tribute to a Country Music Hall of Famer (Carl Smith, born 3/15/1927), and a few of my personal favorites, as always.

Among the new music for this week were selections from the Tim O'Brien Band, Andy Statman, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, Christian Davis, and Rick Lang.  

A few days ago, I celebrated my own birthday, so I used that as a good excuse to share a few of my favorites, as well.  :)  Thanks for letting me indulge myself.  

Hope you enjoyed the show, and that you'll consider joining us once more next Sunday afternoon.

Have a fine week!

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Goin' To The Ceili / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Instrumentals / Skaggs Family Records
• My Wild Irish Rose / Larry Stephenson Band / On Fire / Pinecastle
• Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• Traditional Irish Medley / Bluegrass Etc. / Travelin' Band / Sierra Records
• Queen Anne's Lace / Del McCoury Band / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• Clinch Mountain Blues / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Yardbird / Larry Cordle / Tales From East Kentucky / Mighty Cord Records
• Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico / Bluegrass Etc. / Bluegrass Etc. / Sierra Records
• True Grass / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road with Junior Sisk & Dan Paisley / True Grass Again / PInecastle
• I'm On My Way To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• Eddie To The Rescue / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Breakin' New Ground / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• With Body And Soul / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I'm Not Over You / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• One Dime At A Time / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Fox On The Run / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Rosine, I Cry / Christian Davis with Rhonda Vincent / The Big Picture / Turnberry Records
• Monroe Bus / Andy Statman / Monroe Bus / Shefa Records
• Bend In The Road / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / The Choosing Road / Mountain Home
• Running For Glory / Rick Lang & Friends / A Tribute To The Boston Marathon / RLM Music
• Diggin' My Potatoes / Tim O'Brien Band / Tim O'Brien Band / Howdy Skies Records
• Last Train From Poor Valley / Tim O'Brien Band / Tim O'Brien Band / Howdy Skies Records
• Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / PInecastle [Remembering Carl Smith - born 3/15/1927]
• Are You Teasin' Me / Crowe Brothers / Brothers-n-Harmony / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Carl Smith - born 3/15/1927]
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Carl Smith - born 3/15/1927]
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records [Remembering Carl Smith - born 3/15/1927]
• Loose Talk / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler [Remembering Carl Smith - born 3/15/1927]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine [Remembering Carl Smith - born 3/15/1927]
• It's A Lovely, Lovely World / Carl Smith / Let's Live A Little / Living Era [Remembering Carl Smith - born 3/15/1927]
• Irish Spring / Country Gentlemen / The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• The Legend Of Jennie Wade / Lonesome River Band / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• My Honey Lou / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
• I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / High Fidelity / The Hills And Home / Rebel
• One More Ride / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Cold Wind A-Blowin' / Ronnie Bowman & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Living The Dream / Spinney Brothers / Living The Dream / Mountain Fever Records
• Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• When I Wake Up To Sleep No More / Mickey Harris / Kneel And Pray / MJH Records
• God Did Good / Junior Sisk with Marty Raybon / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• My Eyes Shall Be On Canaan's Land / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin' Praisin' & Singin' -- Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Talk It All Over With Him / Bluegrass Album Band / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• I'll Trade My Cross For A Crown / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Joy Bells / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rounder
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/10/2019

It was Bluegrass Cafe Express today, as the UConn Women's Basketball team are in the midst of a league tournament, and played a game today from 4-6PM, which happened to be broadcast on WHUS.  We may not get through the rest of March without another sports preemption, but as always, we will try to let you know when the showtime is going to be shortened.  Sunday just happened to be one of those days.

John Duffey giving Big Mon a few pointers?

In our 64 minute Sunday broadcast, we shared an eclectic mix of tunes new and not-as-new, and paid a belated Happy Birthday tribute to the late John Duffey (born March 4, 1934).  

Hope to join you for a full three-hour broadcast next Sunday.  That's the plan, anyway.

Have a good week!  

Amy O.



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Time Changes Everything / Nothin' Fancy / Time Changes Everything / Mountain Fever Records
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Blues Are Still The Blues / Traditional Grass / The Blues Are Still The Blues / Rebel
• By Now I Would Be Dead / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
• Let Me Love You One More Time / Peter Rowan / Carter Stanley's Eyes / Rebel
• Milwaukee Blues / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
• Ride Away / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
• I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [John Duffey birthday, 3/4/1934]
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill [John Duffey birthday, 3/4/1934]
• When I Wake Up To Sleep No More / Aaron "Frosty" Foster / single / Bee Hive Records
• The Lamb, The Lion, And The King / Volume Five / Milestones / Mountain Fever Records
• My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Waiting For The Boys To Come Home / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• I'm Working On A Building / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• Standing In The Need Of Prayer / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/3/2019

As we waited for an early March snowstorm in eastern Connecticut, we opened Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe with an hour's worth of music from the Mac Wiseman Songbook.  The two-time Hall of Famer may have died one week ago at the age of 93, but his music will live with us forever.  On Sunday, we shared songs from Mac's earliest recording days with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe, songs recorded with duet partners as varied as Merle Haggard, John Prine, and Bill Harrell, and selections from Mac's 2016 "autobiography in song" collection from Mountain Fever Records, "I Sang The Song."  

Want to learn more about "The Voice With A Heart?"  Mac's 2015 autobiography is titled, All My Memories Fit For Print.  

Hope you enjoyed the show.  Please consider joining us next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1953-1955 / Kipepeo Publishing
• I'll Be All Smiles Tonight / Merle Haggard & Mac Wiseman / Timeless / Cracker Barrel
• Love Letters In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / Eight Classic Albums / Real Gone
• Pistol Packin' Mama / John Prine & Mac Wiseman / Standard Songs For Average People / Oh Boy Records
• I Sang The Song / John Prine / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
• Crazy Blues / Eddie Adcock with Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass:  An American Tradition / Pinecastle
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell And Friends / Rebel
• Mother Knows Best / Mac Wiseman / The Lost Album / MME
• Crimora Church Of The Brethren / Junior Sisk & Ronnie Bowman / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• God Loves His Children / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Can't You Hear Me Calling / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Travelin' Down This Lonesome Road / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1953-1955 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Goin' Like Wildfire / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• The Ballad Of Davy Crockett / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1953-1955 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Hessletine Hill / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• My Dixie Darlin' / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Childish Love / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Roust-A-Bout / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• Miller's Cave / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• 20/20 Vision / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium Records
• Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• A Couple Beers More / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• If That's The Way You Feel / Amanda Smith / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Whole Lot More Living / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• Cowboys And Indians / Flashback / Denver Snow / Pinecastle
• I Might Take You Back / Roland White / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
• You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics--The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Singing My Troubles Away / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Stranger In My Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Love Letters In The Sand / Jerry Wicentowski / Thanks, Mac!:  Songs Of Mac Wiseman / Self-Produced
• When I Get The Money Made / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• No Vacancy / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• The Girl Who Invented The Wheel / Balsam Range / Aeonic / Mountain Home
• Back To The Mountains / Big Country Bluegrass / Mountains, Mamas, And Memories / Rebel
• Finger Pointin' Mama / Bill & the Belles / DreamSongs, Etc. / Jalopy Records
• Shady Grove / Doc Watson / Memories / Sugar Hill [Doc Watson birthday, 3/3/1923]
• Fill My Way With Love / Doc Watson / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill [Doc Watson birthday, 3/3/1923]
• House Of Gold / Kevin Prater Band / All I Ever Wanted / Patuxent Music
• Prayer Bells Of Heaven / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• I've Read The Book / Marty Raybon / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Hold Fast To The Right / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1956-1959 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Working On A Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Get In Line Brother / Marty Stuart / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder