"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/28/2020

The Bluegrass Cafe Express/Special/Zephyr (choose your favorite name) rolled into the WHUS (radio) station today and featured thirty more songs about trains -- and with no repeats from our May 31st show, which also featured a whole bunch of tunes about trains.  As there are still plenty more train songs we haven't shared during these pre-recorded shows quite yet, we may put together another show featuring tunes about trains later on this summer.  

During Sunday's program, we also belatedly celebrated the birthdays of two members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame:  banjo legend Eddie Adcock (born June 21, 1938) and New England's only (so far) BGHoF member, the late Joe Val (born June 25, 1926).  No better way to celebrate these two than to share some fine music, so we did just that.

Even with all of the trains and the birthday celebrating, we still had time for just a few newer selections, too.  This time around we included music from Special Consensus, Amanda Cook, the duo of Boone & Foster, the Feinberg Brothers, and High Fidelity.

Hope you are enjoying our pre-recorded shows, as we will keep putting them together until we are allowed back into the radio station at the University of Connecticut.  In the meantime, if you would like to contact us, please send email and/or visit our Bluegrass Cafe Facebook page and give it a "like."  

Have a great week, and, of course, stay healthy!

Amy O.



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Wreck Of The Old 97 / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• The Train Song / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Last Train Done Gone Down / Beartracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• I Like Trains / Jim & Jesse / Y'All Come:  The Essential Jim & Jesse / Sony Legacy
• Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent / One Step Ahead / Rounder
• The Engineers Don't Wave From The Trains Anymore / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Rounder
• Fireball Mail / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• One More Ride / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Blue Train (Of The Heartbreak Railroad Line) / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Hard Game Of Love / Sugar Hill
• Blue Train / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• East Bound Train / Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• The Train's Ready / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• Last Train From Poor Valley / Seldom Scene / 35 Years Of The Best Of Bluegrass / Rebel
• Whistles On The Trains / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill
• Wreck Of The Number Nine / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Lonesome Train / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• The South Bound Train / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Train Medley / Bass Mountain Boys with Chubby Wise / Fiddlin' With Tradition / BMM Records
• Next Train South / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• On The Evening Train / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• I Hear A Choo Choo Coming / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Live! At McClure! / Rebel
• Old Train / Tony Rice / Hand-Picked:  Twenty-Five Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records / Rounder
• Reuben's Train / The Dillards / Pickin' & Fiddlin'/Back Porch Bluegrass / 
• Steel Rails / Alison Krauss / I've Got That Old Feeling / Rounder
• California Zephyr / Larry Sparks / Raised By The Railroad Line / Rebel
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Spell Of A Freight Train / Ricochet / Raised By The Railroad Line / Rebel
• Raised By The Railroad Line / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Collection / Sugar Hill
• The Passing Of The Train / Special Consensus / Roads And Rails / Shy Town Records
• Chicago Barn Dance / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records
• Bus Grease Monkey / Tom Feller / single / Self-Produced
• West Virginia Coal / Amanda Cook / Summer Singles 2020 / Mountain Fever Records
• County Fool / Boone & Foster / Summer Singles 2020 / Mountain Fever Records
• Nightwalk / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Let's / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Mary Dear / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Eddie To The Rescue / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Voice From On High / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Joe Val birthday, 6/25/1926]
• I Have Found The Way / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / What Will I Leave Behind / Rebel
• Enter The Gates / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• I'll Shout And Shine / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• River Of Jordan / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / King
• The Touch Of The Master's Hand / Laurie Lewis / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
• Do You Live What You Preach / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder [Joe Val birthday, 6/25/1926]
• God Guide Our Leaders Hand / Audie Blaylock / Tribute To The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Joe Val birthday, 6/25/1926]
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Lord Protect My Soul / IIIrd Tyme Out / Live At The MAC / Rounder
• Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia
• I Can Tell You The Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• Dear God / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I'm Rollin' Through This Unfriendly World / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Joy Bells / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Christopher Henry / I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Self-Produced
• I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/21/2020

Happy Father's Day! 

It's Father Day!  Hope all of you dads who might listen to our Bluegrass Cafe are having a wonderful day doing whatever it is that makes you happy!  

We celebrated a few Bluegrass dads who have enjoyed making some fine music with their sons and daughters over the years.  To that end, we enjoyed musical selections from families with the last names of McCoury, Paisley, Feinberg, McGee, Parmley, Mullins, Vincent, and, of course, the Father of Bluegrass Music -- Bill Monroe with son, James.  There are, of course, other fathers who have played music with their offspring over the years, and we'll try to include more of those in future weeks of our program.  In addition, there was a whole hour of songs about fathers -- some good, and some who could use a bit of improvement, to say the least.    

Stonewall Bluegrass
(Ed Vande Voorde, guitar; Pete Soukas, bass;
Tim Mowry, mandolin; Gary Filgate, banjo)

We also included a few songs from a cassette-burned-onto-CD from around 1994 featuring a New Hampshire band of the past, Stonewall Bluegrass -- "I Won't Be Troubled Anymore."  A few weeks back, I received an email from a gentleman in Austria who had also had a copy of this cassette that had been lost.  Reading his recollections of this band reminded me that they really were very good, and certainly worthy of a bit of listening time during our radio program.

Hope you all have a wonderful week.  Don't forget to check in via email (bgcafe@gmail.com) or take a look (and a "like") of our Facebook page.  Still no telling of when we might be able to return to broadcasting in a "normal" way (i.e. live from the Student Union at UConn), but we'll keep recording shows as long as necessary.

Thanks for listening, and stay healthy!

Amy O.



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Roll On Buddy / Bill & James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Big Blue Raindrops / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Me And The Jukebox / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC
• Long Haul Truckin' / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Crazy Arms / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Slidin' Delta / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Drinkin' At The Waterhole / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Richest Man / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Take My Ring From Your Finger / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I'm Lonesome And Blue / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• The South Bound Train / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• PIkearoo / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Ashes Of Love / Jimmy Gaudreau with Orrin Star / In Good Company / CMH
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• You're In My Heart / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Washington & Lee Fling / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• You Are My Sunshine / Tom Adams / Right Hand Man / Rebel
• Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / David Davis & Scott Brannon / Plum Pitiful / Time Life 
• Papa's Wagon / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Daddy For A Day / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Father Of The Bride / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road
• Daddy's Old Time Guitar / Fred Pike & Al Hawkes / single / Event Records
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• Old Hickory Cane / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Proud To Be Your Dad / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• Devil On The Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Papa Played The Dobro / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Little John I Am / IIIrd Tyme Out / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• The Old Pine Tree / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Don't Sell Daddy Anymore Whiskey / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• My Father's Son / Ricky Skaggs / My Father's Son / Epic
• Wildwood Flower / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Father's Table Grace / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• The Boat Of Love / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• I'll Shout And Shine / Bass Mountain Boys / A Beautiful Life / CMH
• I'll Live Again / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Rebel
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics (1946-1950) / Cattle
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I'm Going There / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Sinner You'd Better Get Ready / Louvin Brothers / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• Bring Him Your Talents / Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Bound For Gloryland / Rhonda Vincent & the Sally Mountain Show / Bound For Gloryland / Rebel
• John 3:16 / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best:  All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Federal
• Pray For The Boys / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• That Home Far Away / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I Heard The Angels Singing / Sugar Hill
• You Don't Knock / New Grass Revival / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill
• I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / King
• Power In The Blood / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill
• Little Community Church / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume One / Hay Holler 
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/14/2020

Lester Raymond Flatt
(June 19, 1914 - May 11, 1979)

Happy Flag Day!  Today's Bluegrass Cafe was full of birthday celebrations -- for Tony Rice (born June 8, 1951) and Lester Flatt (born June 19, 1914), and to a lesser extent for my mother, Eleanor, who just happens to celebrate her birthday on June 14th.  

We started the show with several songs featuring the vocals of Bluegrass Hall of Famer Tony Rice, but we spent even more time celebrating the birthday of Bluegrass and Country Music Hall of Fame member, Lester Flatt.  To that end, we shared more than twenty songs written and/or performed by Mr. Flatt.  We even included a few songs from one of the better-known Flatt impersonators, the late Keith Whitley.  

In addition to birthday celebrating, we played several songs from the just-released recording by High Fidelity:  "Banjo Player's Blues" on Rebel Records.  If you like traditional Bluegrass, this is a record for you to savor.  We also shared another song or two from 2020 releases, including music by Becky Buller, Junior Sisk, the Edgar Loudermilk Band, and the Feinberg Brothers.  

Hope you enjoyed the show, and that you will consider joining me once again for another COVID-19 edition of our Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday from 4-7PM.  If you have any questions, or would just like to check in, please feel free to send me an email or check out our Facebook page.

Have a great week, and stay healthy!  

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Tony Rice birthday, 6/8/1951]
• Cold On The Shoulder / Tony Rice / Hand-Picked / Rounder [Tony Rice birthday, 6/8/1951] 
• The Galveston Flood / Tony Rice / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder [Tony Rice birhtday, 6/8/1951]
• Old Home Place / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder [Tony Rice birthday, 6/8/1951]
• Little Mountain Road / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• The Barber's Fiddle / Becky Buller / Distance And Time / Dark Shadow Recording
• Lake Champlain / BearTracks / Rough Edges / AMT Records
• Going Back To Old Virginia / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Feudin' Banjos / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• The Dark Side Of Lonesome / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Rural Rhythm 
• Hey Baby / Feller & Hill / Here Come Feller & Hill / Blue Circle Records
• I'm Singing Harmony / The Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country Records
• Trail Of The Lonesome Pine / Bluegrass Patriots / When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Silence Or Tears / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Gusto
• Don't Wake Me / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• Lonesome Road Blues / Don Reno & Eddie Adcock / Sensational Twin Banjos / Rebel
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / How Many Roads / Rebel [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• My Darling's Last Goodbye / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• No Mother Or Dad / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio 1952-1953 / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• The Old Home Town / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / Hot Rize / In Concert / Flying Fish [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• I'll Just Stay Around / (Almost) Original New South / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• I Won't Care (A Hundred Years From Now) / Lester Flatt / Lester Raymond Flatt / Flying Fish [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Is It Too Late Now / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• The Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Martha White Theme / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• The Ballad Of Jed Clampett / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Bergold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Rude And Rambling Man / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Shelbyville Turnaround / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• God Loves His Children / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Reunion In Heaven / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Working On A Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Get In Line Brother / Marty Stuart / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1  / Hay Holler Harvest [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• That Home Above / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• The Heavenly Parade / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Gospel Parade / Sugar Hill
• When The Saviour Reached Down For Me / Jimmy Martin / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• How Can You Refuse Him Now / Rhonda Vincent / Bluegrass Legends Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Happy I'll Be / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Back On The Street Again / Sugar Hill
• Sailing On / Russell Moore / Look To The Light:  Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Goodnight, The Lord's Coming / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Country Church / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Over In The Gloryland / Reno & Smiley with the Stanley Brothers / Bluegrass 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• Crying Holy Unto The Lord / Rickey Wasson with Dan Tyminski / Croweology / Truegrass Entertainment
• Fill My Way With Love / Doc Watson / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/7/2020

During these days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a sad fact that many Bluegrass festivals have been forced to cancel this summer.  As of this writing, there are still a few festivals in the northeast that haven't formally cancelled their events, but we know for certain that several festivals of New England interest -- Strawberry Park, GreyFox, the Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival -- just will not happen in 2020.  This is very tough for everyone -- the promoters, the vendors, the fans, and, most especially, the performers -- as summer festivals are wickedly important to everyone's livelihood.

While we encourage you to still support your favorite performer(s) as best you can these days, we wanted to provide a sort of festival vibe with Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  To that end, I grabbed a few of the live CDs in my home collection, and mixed them up this week so that you might feel like you were witnessing (with your ears!) a live event.  Hope you enjoyed it.  Obviously, I couldn't play selections from every live Bluegrass recording ever made, as the fact of the matter is that I don't own every Bluegrass recording ever made.  :)  Still, I think we covered a pretty wide range of great performers.  Best of all, you didn't have to worry about rain!

We appreciate you listening to our program whenever you can.  If you want to say hello during these crazy times, feel free to email us or follow our Facebook page.

Have a wonderful week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Radio Boogie / Hot Rize / Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash / Ten In Hand Records
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• The Leaves That Are Green / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Bean Blossom / MCA
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• Jolene / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records
• Whoa Mule / Raymond Fairchild / Live At McClure! / Rebel
• Say You Lied / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• Country Boy / Lost & Found / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records
• With Body And Soul / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Ready For The Times To Get Better / Alecia Nugent / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records
• Your Old Standby / Reno & Smiley / On Stage / Copper Creek
• Redwood Hill / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Tennessee Blues / Whetstone Run / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country Records
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country Records
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / Bean Blossom / MCA
• I'm In Love All Over / Larry Stephenson / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records
• White Dove / Jimmy Martin with Ralph Stanley / Live At McClure! / Rebel
• Fire On The Mountain / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country Records
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Martha White Theme / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Out In The Cold World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• The Grass That I'm Playing Is Really Blue / Sally Berry / Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• At The End Of A Long, Lonely Day / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• The Turkey Buzzard / Joe Mullins & Aubrey Haynie / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Making Up Stories / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Stranger In My Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• I Don't Know What To Do / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live 1984-2014 / Self-Produced
• I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• Hard Times / The Grascals / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• My Favorite Memory/Beneath Still Waters/Windy City / Osborne Brothers with Rhonda Vincent / Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Eatin' Out Of Your Hand / Reno & Harrell / Live At McClure! / Rebel
• Settin' The Woods On Fire / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'n' Live / Sugar Hill
• Grandfather's Clock / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel
• Six Feet Under The Ground / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Struttin' To Ferrum / Lonesome River Band / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Swing Low Sweet Chariot / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS Music
• Springtime In Glory / Reno & Smiley / On Stage / Copper Creek
• Beyond The Sunset For Me / Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore, Jamie Dailey, Josh Swift / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Honey In The Rock / Lewis Family / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS Music
• Satan's Jewelled Crown / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Open Up The Window, Noah / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures / Larry Sparks / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Shouting Time In Heaven / Kenny & Amanda Smith with Rhonda Vincent / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Just Over In Heaven / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS Music
• The Mill / Laurie Lewis & Grant Street / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• That's The Way I Want To Go / Bluegrass Cardinals / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / Rural Rhythm
• On The Jericho Road / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live 1984-2014 / Self-Produced
• Something That The World Didn't Give Me / Marshall Family / Live At McClure! / Rebel
• Daniel Prayed / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• It's A Lonesome Road / IIIrd Tyme Out / Live At The MAC / Rounder
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder