"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/8/2019

With my grandmother, Fannie Mae Butler Orlomoski Burgess

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was (almost) all about the birthdays, as we remembered everyone from Jimmie Rodgers to Bill Monroe.  Plus, today is National Grandparents Day, so how could we not play a couple of songs celebrating grandmothers and grandfathers?  And then, there was a bit of brand-new music to share, too, so the show was just plain ol' packed with music.  Fun.

While we didn't play any songs performed by Jimmie Rodgers, himself, the influence of the Singing Brakeman has been felt ever since this music was even known as Bluegrass.  Bill Monroe performed Jimmie Rodgers' "Mule Skinner Blues" on his first night performing at the Grand Ole Opry, so Monroe's tune was just one of the many songs from the Jimmie Rodgers Songbook that have been covered in Bluegrass music over the years.  

This is the time of year when many record labels are releasing new music, and so, we had quite a bit of brand-new music to share this week, including a live recording from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, as well as new studio recordings from several favorites including the Grascals, Audie Blaylock & Redline, and Johnny & Jeanette Williams.  Other 2019 music came from releases by Joe Hott, Connecticut's Grass Routes, Larry Sparks, and Hammertowne.

And, of course, we celebrated a few Bluegrass birthdays this week, with selections from Paul Adkins, James King, Lou Reid, Rick Pardue, Tim Stafford, and Bill Harrell.  Bill Monroe's birthday comes up this week, too, and while we didn't have time today to do a big, many-song tribute to the Father of Bluegrass, we will put together a full tribute for next week's show.

Thanks for listening!  

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rocky Grass / Blue Planet
• Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• Blue Yodel #7 / King Wilkie / Broke / Rounder [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• Blue Yodel #4 / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• In The Jailhouse Now / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• Dixie In My Eye / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• Snowflake Breakdown / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister! / Rounder
• Grandma's Gift / Dale Ann Bradley / East Kentucky Morning / Pinecastle [Grandparents Day]
• Grandpa's Mandolin / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel [Grandparents Day]
• Grandma's Hands / Tim O'Brien / Where The River Meets The Road / Howdy Skies Music [Grandparents Day]
• Arleigh / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Grandparents Day]
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Up This Hill And Down / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records
• Living In These Troubled Times / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• Julianne / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• How Long Has It Been / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• Callin' Your Name / The Grascals / Straighten The Curves / Mountain Home
• Love Is An Awful Thing / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• Loving You Too Well / Joe Hott / West Virginia Rail / Rural Rhythm
• (Is This) My Destiny? / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• My Virginia Mama / The Grascals / Straighten The Curves / Mountain Home
• Gone For So Long / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• Jealous / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Old Rusty Gate / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Old Rusty Gate / Rebel [Paul Adkins birthday, 9/9/1952]
• Indecision / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [James King birthday, 9/9/1959]
• You Better Hold On To Your Heart / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill [Lou Reid birthday, 9/13/1954]
• No Candy In My Bluegrass / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel [Rick Pardue birthday, 9/14/1952]
• Both Ends Of The Train / Blue Highway / Somewhere Far Away / Rounder [Tim Stafford birthday, 9/14/1960]
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Emerson with Bill Harrell / Reunion / Webco [Bill Harrell birthday, 9/14/1932]
• Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys / Uncle Pen / Bean Blossom / MCA [Bill Monroe birthday, 9/13/1911]
• I'm On My Way To Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Bill Monroe birthday, 9/13/1911]
• Blue Grass Ramble / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Bill Monroe birthday, 9/13/1911]
• Party For One / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Fiddle And Bow / Grass Routes / Buffalo Nickel Liberty Dime / Self-Produced
• The Story Of The Day That I Died / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day I Died / Rebel
• There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder / Larry Sparks / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Rebel
• Caney Fork River / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
• Little Bessie / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Boat Of Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Bill Monroe birthday, 9/13/1911]
• Some Day / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• Jesus On The Mainline / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Lord Help Me Find The Way / Stanley Family Records
• Will There Be Any Stars? / Alison Krauss & the Cox Family / O Sister! / Rounder
• My Eyes Shall Be On Canaan's Land / Hammertowne / Pictures / Mountain Fever Records
• You Better Wake Up / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• In His Arms / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• The Sons And Daughters Of God / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• On The Sea Of Life / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder