"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/19/2020

Ah, mid-July!  In a normal year, lots of us would be thinking of doing some traveling right around now -- or maybe pondering a vacation from which we had just returned.  In this year of COVID-19, though, a lot of folks have had their travel plans cancelled and/or greatly modified, so instead of actually traveling, we opened Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe with songs that mention travel.  

Other "features" for Sunday's show included thirteen songs with the common theme of "letters" (inspired by a Facebook post by Eric Gibson where he was thinking about several great songs about letters), a look back at an old New England band, Thunder Mountain Bluegrass, and birthday songs to honor Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Bobby Hicks (born July 21, 1933), as well as future Hall of Famer, Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971).

Hope you were able to tune in to the show this week, but if not, we'll be back again next Sunday, 4-7PM.  If you have any questions about these COVID-19 shows, please feel free to send an email to me at bgcafe@gmail.com.  Kindly give our Facebook page a "like," too, if you are so inclined.

Have a good week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Traveler / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Roads Travelled / Edgar Loudermilk with Marty Raybon / Roads Travelled / Mountain Fever Records
• A Lonesome Road To Travel / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records
• The Traveling Kind / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• Travelin' Down This Lonesome Road / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Ridin' The Lines / The Travelers / Ridin' The Lines / Hay Holler
• See The Big Man Cry / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• Straight Drive / Terry McGill / Straight Drive / Cabinwood Music
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Cry Of The Catamount / Bob Amos / Sunrise Blues / Bristlecone 
• Ice Covered Birches / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• How Could I Love Her So Much / The Travelers / Ridin' The Lines / Hay Holler
• Big Spike Hammer / Thunder Mountain Bluegrass / Another Season / Self-Produced
• New Beginnings / Stephen Mougin / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• A Place For A Fool / Stephen Mougin with the Gibson Brothers / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / Thunder Mountain Bluegrass / Another Season / Self-Produced
• Dine-E-O / Terry McGill / Straight Drive / Cabinwood Music
• Love Letters In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1953-1955 / Kipepeo Publishing
• No Letter In The Mail / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Rambling Letters / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• Letters Have No Arms / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• I Got A Letter / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Soldier's Last Letter / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / The Cat Came Back / Rebel
• Letter From My Darlin' / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder
• The Letter Edged In Black / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• The Last Letter Home / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise
• Letter To Tom / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• Your Letter's Overdue / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Old Love Letters / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango
• Letter To Home / IIIrd Tyme Out / Letter To Home / Rounder
• A Beautiful Life / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Sawing On The Strings / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles Or More:  A Collection / Rounder [Alison Krauss birthday, 7/23/1971]
• Cheyenne / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album Band / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Maury River Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• The Future Remains / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Calling From Heaven / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• The Old Crossroads / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Children Go Where I Send Thee / Marshall Family / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Echoes From The Burning Bush / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Gusto
• I'll Cross Over Jordan Someday / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• Way Down Deep In My Soul / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume One / Hay Holler
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Cry Out / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Along The Way / Bluegrass 45 / Bluegrass 45 / Rebel
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• When The Sun Of Life Goes Down / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• Heaven's Bright Shore / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two HIghways / Rounder [Alison Krauss birthday, 7/23/1971]
• Take Me In A Lifeboat / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• I'm Going To Heaven / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Who Will Sing For Me / Earls Of Leiceister / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I'm Goin' That Way / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder
• Jesus Made The Wine / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Goodbye / Jimmy Martin / This World Is Not My Home / MME
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder