"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